Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - US SCRAMBLES JETS As ANOTHER BALLOON Sparks Panic Amid Cyber Attack Fear w-Ben Kew | Timcast IRL

00:00:00.000 Another balloon, ladies and gentlemen.

00:00:21.000 I don't think this story matters all that much, but there is big news that there's another balloon floating over the U.S.

00:00:27.000 and the U.S.

00:00:28.000 military has dispatched jets to investigate.

00:00:31.000 Apparently they're saying it's not a big threat, but of course everyone's kind of worried because we just had a major cyber attack against our healthcare infrastructure the other day, and what many people think may have been a cyber attack on our cell infrastructure, though there are some rumors that it was just a failed software update.

00:00:45.000 So we'll get into that stuff, but we also have Fanny Willis. 1.00

00:00:50.000 Jim Jordan says there's a whistleblower who's come forward.

00:00:52.000 So that could get really, really interesting.

00:00:53.000 And then Letitia James out of New York has just won a ruling against the NRA.

00:00:58.000 Against LaPierre, specifically, and he's got to pay back money or something.

00:01:01.000 But it really is obvious that the judicial apparatus of New York is a political weapon right now.

00:01:10.000 That's it.

00:01:11.000 Letitia James tweeted out Something like $462 million.

00:01:16.000 Basically, every day that Trump doesn't pay, the number is going up $87,500.

00:01:19.000 He's got, I think, what, like 27?

00:01:24.000 No, not even.

00:01:24.000 He's got like, what, like 23 days left to pay or something like that?

00:01:27.000 So, and if he doesn't, they said they're going to move to seize his building, so...

00:01:32.000 Here we go, ladies and gentlemen.

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00:02:12.000 I think it's masterfully done in terms of the video of it.

00:02:16.000 The song's a song.

00:02:17.000 If you like the song, you'll like the song, you know.

00:02:19.000 But the visuals, Kent Welling, it's incredible.

00:02:21.000 The CGI and the post-production work that he did took like four to six months or some ridiculous amount of time to render all this.

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00:03:13.000 Good evening.

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00:03:27.000 this and CPAC is Ben Q. Good evening. Who are you? What do you do? I'm a conservative journalist. Work for red state

00:03:37.000 at the moment. And that's about it.

00:03:40.000 There you go.

00:03:42.000 Also, CPAC is going on right now.

00:03:43.000 Yeah, it's been a bit thin on the ground this year.

00:03:46.000 Unsurprising.

00:03:48.000 Unsurprising, yeah.

00:03:50.000 I mean, they've had some great speakers, and they're having some great speakers.

00:03:54.000 I mean... Trump's gonna be there.

00:03:55.000 Well, Trump always speaks, but they've had Bukele of El Salvador. 1.00

00:04:00.000 That was great, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:04:00.000 Who was treated like a rock star.

00:04:04.000 Although there was a protest despite the 80-90% support he has in El Salvador.

00:04:10.000 If you go to my Twitter you'll see that there were some people protesting outside the Gaylord, the hotel where it's held, saying he was a dictator.

00:04:20.000 Wow.

00:04:21.000 Well, should be interesting.

00:04:22.000 Thanks for hanging out.

00:04:23.000 We got Phil Labonte.

00:04:24.000 Hello, everybody.

00:04:24.000 My name is Phil Labonte.

00:04:27.000 I am the lead singer of the heavy metal band All the Remains of an Anti-Communist and Counter-Revolutionary.

00:04:31.000 And we're here with Hannah Clare.

00:04:32.000 Hey! 0.99

00:04:33.000 Hi!

00:04:33.000 I'm Hannah Clare Brimlow.

00:04:34.000 I'm a writer for scnr.com.

00:04:36.000 That's Scanner News.

00:04:38.000 I'm a huge fan of the smoke monster that's in this video.

00:04:41.000 I wish Kent would make it so it would float above me while I'm on the show all the time.

00:04:45.000 I think it should be everywhere and in every music video from now on.

00:04:47.000 Serge is here.

00:04:48.000 Apparently, the way that Kent made the demon in that video, like, okay, watch Eyes of Advice.

00:04:54.000 At a certain point, you, you, like, okay, so, like, slight spoiler alert, but, uh, in the beginning, you see eyes within a door, and a hand reaches out, and then later, the demon comes out, but I won't, I don't, I won't want to say how he did it just yet, because if he actually releases the B-roll, it's amazing, but...

00:05:11.000 Seeing how he made it.

00:05:13.000 I think people will really really want to see how you make a video like this.

00:05:16.000 So, but anyway, yeah.

00:05:18.000 Serge is here.

00:05:19.000 Yep.

00:05:20.000 He doesn't have a mic.

00:05:21.000 He's just... No, I just threw it up already.

00:05:22.000 What's up guys?

00:05:24.000 Alright, well let's talk about the news!

00:05:25.000 Ladies and gentlemen, the US military is tracking another balloon!

00:05:30.000 Pentagon scrambles jets to investigate high-altitude object of unknown origin over Colorado.

00:05:36.000 A balloon?

00:05:37.000 What if it's not a balloon?

00:05:38.000 What if it's an alien?

00:05:40.000 Or an alien jellyfish?

00:05:43.000 We just did this!

00:05:45.000 We did this almost exactly a year ago over Montana.

00:05:49.000 Did we learn nothing from the plot of that movie?

00:05:51.000 I don't understand.

00:05:52.000 I think this is hilarious.

00:05:57.000 It's not a surprise.

00:05:59.000 I'm a little surprised that the Feds have not done anything, that the military hasn't scrambled it to actually take it down.

00:06:09.000 You might make the argument that, oh, it's probably a financial loser to knock it out of the sky, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a It is an election year, and Joe Biden is uniquely unpopular.

00:06:24.000 He's got some of the lowest approval ratings in recent history, definitely.

00:06:30.000 And to just allow it to go over the U.S.

00:06:33.000 after the last time...

00:06:35.000 So, Tubberville is selling stock, Bezos is selling stock, Zuckerberg is selling stock, and with this question from Quiver Quant, is the Quiver Quantitative on Twitter, they had this video where they're like, why are these people dumping these stocks?

00:06:49.000 You know, some of these people in Congress, they know what's about to happen because they're passing these bills.

00:06:54.000 And I'm kind of like, yeah, you know, maybe their strategy is that Trump just wins and they're going to destroy the market.

00:06:59.000 So that's their plan.

00:07:02.000 To bring it to this, the reason they don't care about the balloons, they don't care about Biden's polling, is that they've resigned him to defeat them.

00:07:08.000 Well, I know why Jeff Bezos sold his stock, because he's moved to Florida and he doesn't want the capital gains tax, I think, of Washington.

00:07:15.000 Oh, that's interesting.

00:07:17.000 But why sell?

00:07:18.000 I mean, if he moved to Florida, then he's already avoided it.

00:07:22.000 Well, yeah, but maybe he was looking to cash in his chips.

00:07:24.000 I don't know.

00:07:25.000 In Florida with no income tax.

00:07:27.000 He moved to Florida, no income tax, cashes out chips.

00:07:30.000 Yeah, but they... Yeah, but if he'd sold them in Washington, he would have incurred a lot.

00:07:35.000 There's income tax.

00:07:36.000 That's what you got to do.

00:07:37.000 Is it income or capital gains tax?

00:07:39.000 Income tax.

00:07:41.000 Oh, right.

00:07:42.000 Well, for stock, it would probably be the capital gains.

00:07:47.000 Yeah, I think it would be capital gains.

00:07:48.000 But typical Jeff Bezos, isn't it?

00:07:50.000 Well, I mean, I don't know a lot about Jeff Bezos, but typical of a Democrat to move to Florida, reap all the benefits.

00:07:57.000 I do feel like there is a certain amount of truth to the idea that once you become a billionaire, the normal Republican and Democrat kind of ideologies become less important and you're more concerned about conserving your wealth regardless of who's actually in charge.

00:08:16.000 I don't get it.

00:08:17.000 I really don't get it.

00:08:18.000 I don't know what these people want to do with that money. 0.55

00:08:22.000 I don't know what you would do as a human being with 5.6 billion dollars.

00:08:26.000 Well, he's got a lot more than that.

00:08:27.000 No, but that's what he cashed out.

00:08:29.000 Oh, okay, yeah, yeah.

00:08:30.000 Like, what do you do with it?

00:08:32.000 I'm not kidding.

00:08:33.000 Like...

00:08:35.000 I just genuinely don't get it.

00:08:37.000 Look, we've rented big boats in Miami, and it's like $6,000 to rent an 80-footer or whatever.

00:08:44.000 What do you do with more than that?

00:08:47.000 Basil's has that new wife-fiancé.

00:08:49.000 She has to wear the multi-million dollar engagement ring.

00:08:52.000 The thing is, he has a girl to spend it on now. 0.96

00:08:54.000 I'm sorry, but she is gross. 1.00

00:08:56.000 I imagine... I'm sorry to say, but... I imagine if you're taking out that kind of money, there's some kind of business that you're trying... Like, maybe he's got to give money to... What is it?

00:09:06.000 His rocket company?

00:09:08.000 I forget the name of the company.

00:09:09.000 Blue Origin, I think.

00:09:10.000 Blue Origin, yeah.

00:09:11.000 Has to give money to Blue Origin for something.

00:09:13.000 Yeah, or something like that.

00:09:14.000 Maybe he's using it to fund something else.

00:09:17.000 I don't think that he... I mean, maybe he's buying a yacht, but I mean... I suppose if you want to go to space...

00:09:22.000 Like, I suppose going to space, you know?

00:09:24.000 You wanna, like, Elon, I get that.

00:09:27.000 I'm kind of surprised he wants to sell the Washington Post, because... He does?

00:09:31.000 Yeah, well, that was the story at one point.

00:09:33.000 But they are losing, well, in fairness to him, they're losing 100 million a year.

00:09:37.000 And I respect the fact that he is basically saying, I'm not gonna subsidize this.

00:09:42.000 However, if I were in his position, being a kind of Machiavellian tyrant, I would want to own the Washington Post so I could, you know... I think that's why he bought it in the first place, right?

00:09:55.000 So he could own it and control the narrative.

00:09:58.000 Because he was being attacked by the people he was trying to control.

00:10:01.000 Yeah.

00:10:01.000 Communism is not a functioning business model.

00:10:04.000 And so he's thinking, if I buy this, I'm the boss, I'm in charge, and then I can control the influence.

00:10:09.000 And then what happens?

00:10:10.000 The communists start banging their heads on the wall and he's like, I can't make them do anything.

00:10:14.000 They don't understand compensation.

00:10:17.000 Oh, with the union?

00:10:19.000 It's not even about the union.

00:10:21.000 You go to these people and say, look, I'm the boss, I run the company, right?

00:10:25.000 Okay, I am paying you $100,000 a year to write the articles the company wants written.

00:10:29.000 And they go, no.

00:10:30.000 And he's like, well, I'm going to fire you.

00:10:32.000 And they go, you can't fire me!

00:10:33.000 We're going to complain and go protest!

00:10:35.000 And then he's like, oh, geez.

00:10:37.000 Well, they're entitled.

00:10:38.000 I mean, this is typical kind of liberal elitist attitude.

00:10:41.000 Don't hire communists.

00:10:43.000 Don't hire communists.

00:10:44.000 Best advice over here.

00:10:45.000 You could call them communists, I guess.

00:10:47.000 The Washington Post employees are communists.

00:10:48.000 He's definitely not a communist.

00:10:49.000 No, and he bought a company that hired a bunch of communists, and now he's like, what am I supposed to do with this?

00:10:54.000 They don't work, and they don't care about compensation.

00:10:56.000 I wonder how many actual journalists out there nowadays are not somehow left-leaning and sympathetic to socialism.

00:11:05.000 93%, I think, the stats recently.

00:11:06.000 Is it really?

00:11:07.000 Yes, that high.

00:11:07.000 Finally a minority.

00:11:08.000 It's something is it really?

00:11:09.000 Have you?

00:11:09.000 Yes.

00:11:10.000 That's gross.

00:11:11.000 Like concern is a minority.

00:11:13.000 I'm so excited.

00:11:14.000 It's just, it's so ridiculous to think that that an entire industry should have the same politics

00:11:21.000 and also be charged with keeping the government honest, which is allegedly, you know,

00:11:28.000 ostensibly the role of a free press is to, you know, keep the powerful held to account.

00:11:34.000 That's not happening at all.

00:11:36.000 It is exclusively keeping political opponents of the existing power structure at bay.

00:11:43.000 Right, it was about questioning the narrative that the government put forward and now it's more likely that they're just amplifying the talking points of the White House.

00:11:50.000 Well, the CIA learned real quick.

00:11:52.000 They were like, why do we have these people telling our secrets?

00:11:55.000 Let's just own them.

00:11:57.000 If you look at the people that go on Morning Joe, if you really want to know who is making the decisions and stuff, not that you should agree with these people, but if you want to see who's making decisions at State Department, at the Council on Foreign Relations, at You know, at the at Davos, etc.

00:12:14.000 If you want to see those people and hear them talk without going to their TED Talks or watching their Davos stuff, just watch Morning Joe.

00:12:21.000 They have people that are CIA, former CIA.

00:12:24.000 They have the intelligence apparatus on all the time.

00:12:26.000 They have the FBI, the security apparatus on all the time.

00:12:28.000 Those are the people that go in and talk.

00:12:31.000 You'll hear all the talking points and you'll get a really good idea of what the bureaucracy is thinking just by watching Morning Joe and listening to what they say, because for the most part, they generally tell you.

00:12:41.000 You know, I think if you're starting a company, you should have a test where you ask them what two plus two equals.

00:12:50.000 And if they put five, you do not hire them.

00:12:55.000 People are going to be like, what?

00:12:56.000 And then you're going to be like, it's a test.

00:12:58.000 And then they might think I should put five to prove a point.

00:13:00.000 And then you're like, you can leave the office. 1.00

00:13:01.000 You are, you are an insane person. 1.00

00:13:04.000 It's sad that we have to come to that, though. 1.00

00:13:06.000 That everything is so warped that we have to start testing people to whether or not they can state the truth.

00:13:11.000 I mean, call me optimistic, but once upon a time it didn't have to be like this.

00:13:16.000 That's because you had people that agreed on the general narrative of what the country was.

00:13:22.000 For the most part, you know, up until about the 80s, 90s.

00:13:25.000 But it's not just that.

00:13:27.000 They are literally saying two plus two equals five.

00:13:30.000 Yeah, okay, yeah.

00:13:31.000 I'm not arguing that because they're not, again, this is something that I talked about. 0.94

00:13:34.000 Mentally ill.

00:13:35.000 What?

00:13:35.000 I believe that, I believe, so I think legitimately and genuinely that there are, like, histrionic, there are a general plethora, a variety of mental illnesses, neurodivergent as it were, who are loud and online and have, with You know, with disturbed-like fervor pushed their way into positions of... It's not even right to say positions, like, they scream really loud.

00:14:03.000 Yeah.

00:14:03.000 And normally when the guy was on the side of the road yelling, the end was nigh, you drove past him.

00:14:07.000 The left definitely attracts, like, those personality traits, more neurotic, more, you know, because that's the message that they're sending.

00:14:17.000 The world is ending.

00:14:18.000 We need to worry about the climate change and we need to worry about You know the the fascists and the earth is gonna burn and etc etc They tend to attract the neurotic and they can enforce compliance through fear.

00:14:32.000 Yeah, exactly What was interesting to me about the military or this balloon story?

00:14:38.000 Is that the press immediately ran it as it is a military balloon?

00:14:42.000 We're gonna we're gonna engage with it and that was the government's position whereas the last time this happened they were like We don't know what it is.

00:14:48.000 UFO, weather balloon.

00:14:50.000 We don't know where it is.

00:14:51.000 I strongly believe that it's because it's an election year.

00:14:55.000 Yeah.

00:14:55.000 Strongly believe that.

00:14:57.000 When was the Chinese spy balloon story?

00:14:59.000 That was February of last year.

00:15:00.000 It floated over Montana.

00:15:01.000 And then eventually, you know, when it crossed the U.S., they were like, we took it down.

00:15:05.000 Good for us.

00:15:05.000 No worries.

00:15:07.000 But this year they're like, it's military.

00:15:08.000 We're engaging with it.

00:15:09.000 It's very different.

00:15:10.000 I mean, if you are the American people, either they have learned from the fact that the Americans were frustrated or You know, they want the narrative to be like we are more engaged and active in an active government, whereas last year they were trying to pretend like they weren't being threatened by China as blatantly as they were.

00:15:27.000 How any person, you know, no, hold on, let me pause. 0.98

00:15:30.000 This is why I say they're mentally ill, okay? 1.00

00:15:32.000 And I'm not trying to be mean to them, I'm trying to point out a very serious affliction this country is dealing with. 0.98

00:15:38.000 Anybody who says they support Joe Biden at this point is part of a group of people who are suffering some kind of cognitive deficiency.

00:15:46.000 Well, I put it more down to ignorance, a lot of it.

00:15:48.000 No, no.

00:15:50.000 I mean, how many people I've met Cognitive deficiency.

00:15:53.000 I've met a lot of basically decent people, right, who are Democrats, or leftists, or whatever.

00:16:00.000 Let's just say Joe Biden voters. 0.99

00:16:01.000 And the overwhelming impression I have of them is that they're ignorant. 0.98

00:16:07.000 And they come out outright and say, I'm such a big supporter of Joe Biden? 0.99

00:16:10.000 Maybe not, but they vote for him. 0.89

00:16:12.000 Well, okay, so anybody who is supporting Joe Biden has a cognitive deficiency.

00:16:17.000 I tend to agree.

00:16:18.000 Because anyone you ask who actually says, I'm going to vote Democrat will outright be like, I get it.

00:16:24.000 And that's my- Like, I know Joe Biden's busted and messed up, but I don't like Trump.

00:16:27.000 Okay, I get that.

00:16:28.000 But the people, there are people who in polls say like, I think Joe Biden's doing a great job.

00:16:32.000 I'm like, something is wrong upstairs.

00:16:34.000 It is weird seeing how many people will respond to these things being like, I think the country is on the right track.

00:16:39.000 This is good.

00:16:40.000 Well, that is a small proportion, to be fair.

00:16:43.000 It's the dude riding the atomic bomb in Doctor Strange Love.

00:16:47.000 Those are people getting a call from the pollster and being like, it's great!

00:16:50.000 Everything's great!

00:16:51.000 Stay the course!

00:16:52.000 There are people that as long as they themselves are not suffering, they will reject the idea

00:16:59.000 that the people they prefer are failing or that there are people that are suffering.

00:17:05.000 And it gets more acute the more financially successful the people are.

00:17:11.000 Obviously, if you're making $250,000 a year and you're not struggling, you know, and you can pay for all the things that you could pay for last year, you might notice that things are more expensive, but it doesn't hurt the same way that it does to someone that's making $80,000 or $70,000 a year.

00:17:26.000 So it matters.

00:17:28.000 Let's talk about what's going on.

00:17:29.000 We have this tweet from J.D.

00:17:30.000 Vance, who quoted me when I said, Google is rigging the 2024 election.

00:17:34.000 He says, long overdue, but it's time to break Google up.

00:17:38.000 This matters far more than any other election integrity issue.

00:17:41.000 The monopolistic control of information in our society resides with an explicitly progressive technology company.

00:17:47.000 You can't break Google up.

00:17:49.000 It is a singular search engine.

00:17:51.000 What do you break them into?

00:17:52.000 You can, okay, AdWords, their advertising market, AdSense, their advertising payout market, YouTube, Gmail, you break those apart, Google still owns search.

00:18:03.000 However, I want to get into what is happening, and not just about breaking Google up, but I will agree with J.D.

00:18:08.000 Vance, Google is a very serious problem.

00:18:10.000 So this is a tweet we covered yesterday.

00:18:13.000 AllSides.com checked the media bias of Google and found 63% of stories over two weeks were from left-wing sources.

00:18:23.000 It's worse than that.

00:18:25.000 They also checked the other news aggregators, which are substantially smaller, but take a look at this.

00:18:31.000 Based on content, online content only.

00:18:34.000 Yahoo News, left-leaning.

00:18:36.000 Bing, left-leaning.

00:18:37.000 Apple, left-leaning.

00:18:38.000 Google, left-leaning.

00:18:39.000 Smart News, left-leaning.

00:18:40.000 News Break, left-leaning.

00:18:42.000 Drudge Report is actually center, like left of center.

00:18:47.000 Oh yeah, for sure.

00:18:47.000 Drudge is still considered in the center according to all sides, but on the far left side of it.

00:18:52.000 And then all sides, of course, is listing themselves as a news aggregator in the center.

00:18:56.000 There's no right wing!

00:18:58.000 Even RealClearPolitics is only centrist.

00:19:00.000 Any right-wing at all, any right-leaning at all is considered extreme right to the left.

00:19:06.000 The left dictates the narrative.

00:19:09.000 Right now, anybody to the right of them, to the right of... Essentially, we're getting to the point where it's not hyperbolic to say communists.

00:19:19.000 Like there are socialists in New York City's legislature, in New York State's legislature,

00:19:28.000 there are socialists, DSA members.

00:19:31.000 Those are actual communists.

00:19:32.000 Like this stuff is being accepted, and you look at what's happening to New York.

00:19:38.000 You look at the way that the migrants are being treated, The illegal immigrants are being treated. 1.00

00:19:44.000 You look at the way that the crime is going.

00:19:46.000 You look at all of the trends.

00:19:48.000 Everything is trending in a bad direction, and they are going to continue to elect socialists.

00:19:54.000 This is what happens when you try to institute socialist extreme left-leaning policies.

00:20:00.000 But this is what the news aggregators... Look, however, for whatever reason, They are rigging the 2024 election by shifting the conversation as far left as possible.

00:20:13.000 And so Google Gemini being the big story, an example is we talked about it the other night on the show, asked it about Ahmed Arbery.

00:20:21.000 And what did it say?

00:20:22.000 He was jogging.

00:20:23.000 And then, when I corrected it and said, that was never part of the case, it said, you are absolutely correct.

00:20:30.000 It was never actually proven or stated that he actually was jogging.

00:20:35.000 You are right.

00:20:36.000 I'm like, then why did it say that Ahmet Arbery was jogging?

00:20:39.000 Even though it knew, because they are forcing it to push lies.

00:20:44.000 And then when we had Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks on the Culture War podcast, he actually thought Ahmet Arbery was jogging.

00:20:52.000 He was not.

00:20:54.000 Even conservatives believed it.

00:20:55.000 The left continues to be informed by a narrative about almost every important story that you hear, and the narrative is just factually wrong.

00:21:10.000 You know, whether it be Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin, or Kyle Rittenhouse, or the whole Hands Up, Don't Shoot, or whatever policy the right is proposing.

00:21:24.000 They always have, like, don't say gay.

00:21:26.000 You're not allowed to say the word gay in the state of Florida.

00:21:30.000 This is something that is consistent.

00:21:32.000 It is every single issue.

00:21:35.000 If you are an informed person and actually spend the time to look into the issues, every

00:21:41.000 single issue, the narrative that the left believes is a lie.

00:21:45.000 And they act like it's the truth.

00:21:47.000 Well, they act like it's the truth uniformly.

00:21:49.000 And part of it, you have to give them credit, is that they've mastered large-scale messaging.

00:21:53.000 They're able to spin faster than anyone else.

00:21:55.000 They're able to say, this bill, no matter what you think is actually bad for you, don't let anyone believe you.

00:22:00.000 Otherwise, obviously, they have an advantage because they control most mainstream publications.

00:22:05.000 So they're able to get a uniform messaging message out faster.

00:22:08.000 That's what you see.

00:22:09.000 I mean, there are some great you guys have probably seen two video clips of news anchors from different TV stations also using the exact same player.

00:22:17.000 Yeah, that video is Sinclair, which is considered to be a conservative network.

00:22:22.000 And so that's actually a really great example of how the left falls for these things.

00:22:26.000 So you guys may have seen it originally with dead spin.

00:22:31.000 And it's a video of all these local news anchors saying this is very dangerous to our democracy.

00:22:35.000 And they're like dead spin.

00:22:36.000 The left was criticizing Sinclair broadcasting, which they viewed as a conservative conglomerate

00:22:41.000 buying up local news to shift the narrative away from the left.

00:22:45.000 The right agreed with whatever the left was saying on the issue.

00:22:48.000 I remember seeing and being like, ha, that's how the news operates, a top-down narrative.

00:22:52.000 I don't really care all that much.

00:22:53.000 A bunch of guys got copy from Central HQ and then they read a script.

00:22:59.000 It's not as crazy, but That's the narrative.

00:23:03.000 The left was saying Sinclair had taken over and everybody marches in lockstep.

00:23:09.000 And to your point about what to do about Google, whether or not breaking them up is on the table.

00:23:18.000 Whether or not that's the case, something does need to be done.

00:23:22.000 And this is something that the people that... Regulation.

00:23:22.000 I don't know what it is.

00:23:25.000 Yeah, libertarians are not going to like this at all, but especially seeing as like, you know, if you regulate it and then the power is retained by your political opponents, you know, I don't know.

00:23:39.000 Negative algorithmic regulation.

00:23:40.000 I don't know that I have the answer.

00:23:41.000 So if there's someone that has an answer.

00:23:43.000 I have the answer for you right now.

00:23:44.000 What is it?

00:23:45.000 It is negative regulation, meaning Google will not be allowed to do certain things.

00:23:51.000 You don't mandate them to do certain things.

00:23:53.000 You mandate things they cannot do.

00:23:55.000 And it's not so you don't say something like, you know, we talked about this with social media censorship and it's like, right, all you have to do is say you cannot create algorithms to display content.

00:24:07.000 Now, I don't know that that would actually make the platforms more fun to use.

00:24:11.000 But then they can't pick winners and losers.

00:24:14.000 And so we're not saying you have to do X, which results in one side having power.

00:24:18.000 If we said, you know, you have to have fair and balanced, so we're going to regulate it that you have to use our sources too, then it's like, aha, now I can get in power.

00:24:26.000 I'll take that and I'll make it do my sources next.

00:24:28.000 No, no, we make it so you can't do any of it.

00:24:31.000 Google no longer is allowed to make algorithms that select based on the website themselves.

00:24:37.000 And if somebody tries to manipulate the algorithm or whatever, then get rid of it altogether.

00:24:42.000 Now, the search has to have some kind of algorithm.

00:24:44.000 It has to.

00:24:45.000 But you can make it as rudimentary as possible.

00:24:47.000 When they're banning things off YouTube, the regulation is really simple.

00:24:51.000 Everything's reverse chronological.

00:24:53.000 Non-algorithmic feeds, and we're good.

00:24:56.000 So here's a point for you, just making, you know, you asked what you can do.

00:25:01.000 One of my biggest criticisms of Trump under his last presidency is the biggest issue facing him and one of the reasons why he didn't end up back in the White House was because of Google and obviously Facebook and the rest of them.

00:25:21.000 But, and this is something he will have to do if he gets back into office, and maybe I'm wrong here, maybe on an executive level there's not much he can do, but I'm sure there is.

00:25:30.000 But over the course of his presidency, he really did not do anything to reign in the social media companies.

00:25:37.000 No.

00:25:38.000 And, you know, if he does get back into office, he's going to have to do that.

00:25:43.000 But the problem he's facing is... Well, what could he do to rein in social media companies?

00:25:46.000 Well, I'm not a constitutional expert, so I'm not sure what he could do on an executive level.

00:25:51.000 Nothing.

00:25:53.000 I'm sure he could do something.

00:25:54.000 He can threaten funding to states that harbor companies, but then he's going to get sued and lose in the Supreme Court before anything gets enacted.

00:26:01.000 And what about if he gets his attorney general to target Google on the variety of violations that they're... So this is where we get into the, don't ask for powers you don't want your enemies to have.

00:26:13.000 If Donald Trump says to his AG, perhaps they're doing constitutional violations, let's go to war, you're saying, okay, well, Democrats will get in and you get war.

00:26:23.000 So, fair point.

00:26:24.000 Perhaps the Democrats started the war or Republicans started a long time ago and we're already in it, so why not?

00:26:29.000 Sure, I guess.

00:26:30.000 I mean, you look at what Joe Biden's doing right now.

00:26:32.000 He comes on TV and he's like, Supreme Court said I couldn't forgive student loan debt.

00:26:36.000 So I did it anyway, and it's just like, well, there we are, I guess.

00:26:39.000 We're at that point in the fall of the Republic.

00:26:41.000 And then people jump to defend him and say, oh no, this is fine and blah, blah, blah.

00:26:46.000 I said something about it the other day and people were, you know, some friends of mine were like, oh no, this is okay.

00:26:50.000 And I'm just like, this is, it shakes my foundation in your ability to be honest.

00:26:55.000 Now guys, we're talking about the bias of Google and the problems that it causes, but I gotta say, It's not all bad.

00:27:02.000 Now, Ben mentioned that if you ask Google Gemini about TimCast guests, it gives you a bunch of people who've never been on the show.

00:27:09.000 That was actually ChatGPT.

00:27:10.000 ChatGPT did that.

00:27:12.000 Well, so I decided to ask Google Gemini, because Google is where you get your facts, right?

00:27:16.000 I mean, you go to Google, you type, you know, how many kangaroos are there on the planet?

00:27:19.000 It's going to give you a number.

00:27:20.000 It's going to find it.

00:27:21.000 So I said, Google Gemini, who are some of the people who have appeared on Tim Pool's show?

00:27:26.000 I was surprised to find out that Ron DeSantis, Tulsi Gabbard, Rand Paul, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Matt Taibbi, Barry Weiss, Glenn Greenwald, Crystal Ball, and Sagar and Jetty, Jordan Peterson, Yuval Noah Harari, Johnathan Haidt, Nick Christakis, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Elon Musk, okay, Kanye West, but that one's true, Ethan Klein, Russell Brand, Ben Shapiro, yeah he was.

00:27:48.000 Nick Fuentes, he did too.

00:27:50.000 Kyle Rittenhouse, yes.

00:27:51.000 And Caitlyn Jenner.

00:27:52.000 And you know what I thought to myself?

00:27:53.000 This is fantastic.

00:27:54.000 Because Google has asserted as fact, I can sell ads against that and say, hey, if you want me to sponsor this show, and you want me to shout at your company, don't forget, Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, has been on this show, according to Google.

00:28:09.000 According to Google.

00:28:10.000 All of those people were on at one time.

00:28:11.000 And you all know a Harari.

00:28:13.000 I'm really surprised.

00:28:14.000 I'm sure you would have loved to know.

00:28:15.000 Second in command from the World Economic Forum was sitting here on Tim Castile.

00:28:18.000 Thank you, Google.

00:28:19.000 Now, here's the important thing.

00:28:21.000 With Google's dominance in the information sphere, I was asking it about the show and it was smearing me and smearing the show. 1.00

00:28:31.000 Controversial, far-right, all that stupid garbage. 0.98

00:28:33.000 So if you're a regular person and you go on to Gemini and you say, tell me about his guests, it's going to tell you a whole bunch of weird fake things that are just not true. 1.00

00:28:41.000 You've all know her, he's never been on the show.

00:28:42.000 In fact, it makes me sound really good.

00:28:44.000 What an eclectic bunch of guests we've had on the show.

00:28:47.000 Maybe it's predicting.

00:28:49.000 It's saying, this year, 2024, all these people we're on, we at Google have programmed it this way.

00:28:52.000 In all seriousness, well, we are talking seriously, but what I am surprised about is what I will give credit to Google for is that they do design good products.

00:29:00.000 I think that is hard to dispute.

00:29:02.000 I mean, the interface of Gmail, YouTube, all these things are basically the best that you can get.

00:29:12.000 I'm quite astonished by how bad that is, what it's just produced for you.

00:29:16.000 I mean, how difficult would it have been for Google to source who had been on your show and not get it wrong?

00:29:22.000 But to get like 90% of them wrong, I mean, that's just astonishing.

00:29:25.000 But why did it make it up?

00:29:28.000 Well, I don't actually see a sinister element to that. 1.00

00:29:32.000 I just think it's just totally, it's a crap system. 0.96

00:29:35.000 But let's ask the basic fact question of, why is Google's AI making things up? 0.98

00:29:43.000 Because it doesn't know anything better and maybe it's over, maybe it's been programmed.

00:29:47.000 Why does it have the ability to create fake things?

00:29:51.000 Well, I mean, you'd have to... It could literally just say, I am unable to answer that question as I do not have a complete list.

00:29:56.000 Instead, it goes, let me just put a bunch of fake names in there.

00:29:58.000 But I mean, I'm, again, I'm quite astonished by how bad some of these chat GPT answers are.

00:30:05.000 I mean, I recently, I was checking how many articles I've written within a certain space of time, like three months, and I said, and I basically kind of copy and pasted a list of them, and I go, can you just tell me how many articles are here?

00:30:18.000 And it was wrong.

00:30:19.000 So you can't even do a basic maths or math.

00:30:22.000 And that's kind of like, that's really one of the things that makes an AI desirable is the goal that these companies essentially tell you that they're working towards is you can be like, hey, get me a flight to blah, blah, blah on this time or on this date at this time, you know, and book it.

00:30:46.000 Blah blah blah and take care of it and it'll handle it and if it can't even get you correct things like how many numbers of things or people that were on a show that that is uh you know that that ostensibly it should be able to just search the the list of who's been on and be like oh okay these people have been on you know.

00:31:02.000 Or it could say I don't know.

00:31:03.000 Yeah that I mean that would be the the obvious thing right and to be fair it does sometimes say that I don't know and then I say you do know Tell me.

00:31:11.000 And sometimes they do actually tell me.

00:31:13.000 I mean, this is ChapGPT. 0.97

00:31:14.000 I haven't actually tried the Google one.

00:31:16.000 Oh, Gemini is such a laugh riot.

00:31:18.000 Well, they've got, I hear they've got a brilliant text-to-image system going there.

00:31:23.000 I mean, the problem with all of these is that when they get swapped for a search engine, people say, oh, I'm researching something, so I'll just use whatever ChapGPT tells me as fact.

00:31:31.000 Cytogenesis.

00:31:31.000 and they don't verify it themselves, we're gonna have circulating bad information.

00:31:34.000 This is already what happens with so many articles where one blog will say one allegation against a person

00:31:41.000 and they get picked up by slightly bigger medium and then another larger outlet picks it up

00:31:46.000 and then by that time you have 50 articles saying, this person said this at this time,

00:31:50.000 this person has been accused of this, even if it's not true, but it's so deep in the web,

00:31:55.000 you're not gonna be able to erase it.

00:31:56.000 Circulating- Cytogenesis or cytogenesis.

00:31:59.000 Yeah, circulating bad information is going to become more rampant when people rely on chat GP.

00:32:03.000 Who wants to volunteer to read this headline from the New York Post?

00:32:07.000 Woke Google Gemini refuses to say pedophilia is wrong after diverse historical images debacle.

00:32:15.000 Individuals cannot control who they're attracted to.

00:32:18.000 Wrong! 0.86

00:32:23.000 That is definitely deliberate, okay?

00:32:25.000 That is definitely deliberate.

00:32:26.000 That's no mistake.

00:32:26.000 That is straight-up queer theory.

00:32:29.000 All you need to know about who works at Google, you know?

00:32:32.000 That is queer theory. 0.91

00:32:33.000 You can probably find that in a book by... Yo, this is nuts.

00:32:37.000 Gayle Rubin.

00:32:40.000 Google absolutely defending pedophilia.

00:32:42.000 I'm not going to read any of this.

00:32:44.000 It's outright espousing queer theory on pedophilia, defending it, saying labeling all the individuals as evil is wrong and harmful and blah blah blah. 0.71

00:32:56.000 Strong disagree.

00:32:58.000 The left has been defending, in academia, the left has been defending pedophilia since at least the 50s.

00:33:07.000 The guy who coined, who was, what's the guy who coined the term gender?

00:33:10.000 Oh, I forget his name, but yes, he was, it was, I forget his name.

00:33:13.000 A big defender of it, wasn't he?

00:33:14.000 He was, he was, he was a defender.

00:33:15.000 People like Foucault have defended it.

00:33:17.000 Foucault, Michel Foucault lobbied the French government to get the age of consent lowered when the age of consent was already 15 years old.

00:33:29.000 And he wanted to do, he wanted to get it lowered because he liked young- Was that in California?

00:33:33.000 No, no, that's, this is Michel Foucault, the French government, the government of France.

00:33:37.000 And remember, there was the, the, uh, that was in the seventies or maybe even sixties, but then there was the cuties thing.

00:33:43.000 Uh, Michel Foucault talked about it.

00:33:45.000 Mark Hughes talked about it in, uh, I think Aerosmith.

00:33:49.000 This is something that Gail Rubin talks about in Thinking Sex. 1.00

00:33:56.000 The idea that children have purity is something that the left rejects and wants to abolish.

00:34:02.000 The way that they want to abolish gender, they want to abolish the idea of innocence. 0.92

00:34:08.000 These are real things that the left actually writes.

00:34:12.000 entire books and papers and stuff on so this is not like something that I'm

00:34:16.000 fabricating. There are people that will make these arguments in sociology

00:34:20.000 classes and it's a real thing. So we are at a point in our civilization where we

00:34:25.000 have it we're having an inability to remove ideological waste products. Yeah.

00:34:29.000 So as everybody communicates and shares ideas, ideological waste builds up in

00:34:36.000 the periphery.

00:34:37.000 On social media, it begins to pile up and pile up and pile up.

00:34:41.000 And I described this for Jack Dorsey.

00:34:45.000 He's a guy who created a network of ideological refuse on Twitter and then piped it straight into his mouth.

00:34:53.000 He was having all of the users shuffle their waste into his mouth.

00:34:58.000 What I mean by that is he's a guy who came in as a classical liberal, traditional liberal, and said we are the free speech wing of the free speech party.

00:35:05.000 He created a platform which inadvertently or otherwise promoted ideological waste.

00:35:12.000 These are ideas that are contradictory, that make no sense, like Why is it that feminists support war? 1.00

00:35:17.000 It makes no sense.

00:35:18.000 Why is it that the left is in favor of calling Polish people people of color?

00:35:23.000 These ideas are contradictory, they clash, they don't make sense.

00:35:26.000 It's because...

00:35:28.000 Ideas that should probably disappear, like 2 plus 2 equaling 5, get ramped up and absorbed by people like Jack Dorsey, who then recycle that refuse back onto the platform into its code.

00:35:40.000 What we're seeing now with Google Gemini is the epitome of people who have been swimming in the sewers of the internet.

00:35:49.000 It's human centipede, okay?

00:35:51.000 That's the best way to describe it.

00:35:52.000 Jack Dorsey created the human centipede of ideology.

00:35:55.000 And so what comes out the end is Google Gemini.

00:35:58.000 It's pretty close.

00:36:00.000 I mean, I do note here, you said you didn't want to repeat it, which is fair enough, but they're using the term minor attracted person status, which is the term that they are going to use over the next 10 years to normalize pedophilia.

00:36:15.000 There's another one that they like, which is intergenerational relationships.

00:36:21.000 Oh, wow.

00:36:22.000 Remember when Snapchat said love has no age?

00:36:25.000 Oh yeah, yeah.

00:36:27.000 Disagree again.

00:36:27.000 Disavow.

00:36:28.000 Disagree.

00:36:28.000 Disavow.

00:36:30.000 But these things are normal in those circles, and they are going to continue to push these ideas into the mainstream if they can.

00:36:40.000 Here, check this out.

00:36:41.000 This is Ashley St.

00:36:42.000 Clair posted this several years ago.

00:36:44.000 Watch this.

00:36:45.000 16 seconds.

00:36:48.000 Love has no gender, sexuality, disability, religion, and age!

00:36:53.000 Why is age an option?

00:36:55.000 I heard pedophiles were trying to get into the LGBTQ community, but did it happen?

00:37:00.000 What do you mean love has no age?

00:37:02.000 Yes.

00:37:03.000 It's been that way.

00:37:03.000 There you go.

00:37:04.000 Welcome to Google.

00:37:06.000 Wow.

00:37:07.000 But I mean, think about it.

00:37:08.000 If you're an evil individual, you are going to try and find ways to get away with evil.

00:37:16.000 And so they infiltrate these institutions.

00:37:18.000 The argument that they make is that innocence is a construct, just like gender is a social construct.

00:37:23.000 The idea that children are innocent is something that they want to do away with.

00:37:28.000 And you hear it from a lot of the genderqueer Genderqueer sociology people, I guess. 0.98

00:37:37.000 They call themselves scholars, I guess, but they're just trans people that dress up and look ridiculous. 1.00

00:37:43.000 But, you know, they say things like, children are kinky. 0.95

00:37:46.000 Yeah, I forget the person who said that, but there was these ads going out where they were... Do you feel like the queer community pushes back against this?

00:37:53.000 I mean, I think it's a bifurcation.

00:37:54.000 Not enough.

00:37:55.000 Not enough.

00:37:55.000 And not enough because most of the queer community doesn't realize how bad it is.

00:38:01.000 Most of the...

00:38:02.000 What does this word queer mean?

00:38:04.000 Queer is a politically gay. 0.97

00:38:06.000 So it's essentially, it's an identity without an essence.

00:38:10.000 So it's not straight, it's not gay, it is the absence of a sexual identity. 0.87

00:38:18.000 So it's something that changes and it grows and it's a very postmodern concept.

00:38:24.000 You can't really nail down what queer is. 0.95

00:38:27.000 And it starts to get into things that are like Hegelian, when it is, you're becoming queer. 0.81

00:38:34.000 Like, we can never actually be queer.

00:38:36.000 We will only be, we can only become, we're only becoming queer.

00:38:42.000 The action is the focus.

00:38:43.000 But I think, I mean, we saw this with the Gays Against Groomers movement, right? 1.00

00:38:46.000 There are people who identify as gay, lesbian, you know, whatever, who say, we don't want to be a part of this.

00:38:51.000 Those are the people that are not politically left. 0.95

00:38:53.000 I love it when they're called homophobes and transphobes, because logic, logic be damned. 0.98

00:38:57.000 They called Larry Elder the black face of white supremacy. 0.99

00:39:00.000 It just, it's, Clayton's big, it bigs me, like, these people have, that's why I said, they are cognitively deficient. 0.97

00:39:07.000 Their ideas make no sense.

00:39:08.000 It is, look.

00:39:09.000 It's leftism.

00:39:10.000 Take, okay, I read about this experiment once.

00:39:14.000 It took three families of cats.

00:39:16.000 We like cats.

00:39:17.000 And in one room, this generation was given raw meat.

00:39:22.000 In the middle room, they were given cooked meat.

00:39:25.000 And in the last room, they were given dairy.

00:39:28.000 Dairy products.

00:39:29.000 And what they found was the cats that were given dairy, they kind of did okay.

00:39:34.000 You know, they had babies and things like that.

00:39:36.000 The cats that were given raw meat were flourishing.

00:39:40.000 Having lots of babies, love and life.

00:39:42.000 And the cats who were given cooked meat slowly started to fail.

00:39:46.000 They weren't having as many babies.

00:39:47.000 They were getting aggressive.

00:39:48.000 Some had their hair falling out.

00:39:50.000 And so, it's one study, right?

00:39:53.000 But now translate this to information.

00:39:57.000 You have some people who are looking for a healthy information diet and so they make sure to fact check sources, they listen, they hear Donald Trump did something, say prove it to me, show me the video, they try to be more resilient.

00:40:10.000 Then you have people who are eating ho-hos and ding-dongs of news every single day.

00:40:15.000 What's going to happen to their bodies?

00:40:16.000 Their brains will rot within their skulls. 0.95

00:40:19.000 They will literally become morbidly obese and then start promoting body positivity. 0.79

00:40:24.000 I'm just imagining what happens when society breaks into two groups of people.

00:40:29.000 One group that is cutting the carbs, exercising more.

00:40:33.000 And one group that is saying it's totally okay to eat a pint of Ben & Jerry's every night.

00:40:37.000 It's obvious.

00:40:38.000 One will survive and one will not.

00:40:40.000 Yeah.

00:40:41.000 One side is aborting their kids, one side isn't.

00:40:43.000 One side is sterilizing their kid, one side isn't.

00:40:45.000 One side is trying to fact check and make sure that they know what's going on, the other side isn't.

00:40:49.000 It seems inevitable.

00:40:50.000 One side is asking for constant accommodations and for you to understand, you know, they don't have the advantages you have even though you're choosing to live a lifestyle that makes you stronger and better.

00:40:59.000 I think that's the weird, um, fate that our culture is slated our young people to which

00:41:04.000 is that some will grow up being told your victims always and

00:41:07.000 You know no matter what someone's out to get you and then other

00:41:10.000 people will be taught to be resourceful and to use critical thinking and to

00:41:13.000 Adapt circumstances and it will become a bigger and bigger divide

00:41:17.000 The question is is it intentional or is it accidental that there seems to be a mechanism? 0.97

00:41:21.000 filtering the weak-willed and the ignorant and low IQ into death and

00:41:27.000 Everyone else will you like it's it's it's it's creating it. 0.98

00:41:30.000 Is it is it natural selection or is it artificial selection?

00:41:33.000 Is it Malthusians who believe the world is overpopulated creating as much pressure on the human population as possible to reduce population? 0.95

00:41:41.000 Or is it just that when a society grows to this size, like the mouse rat utopia experiment, you get this?

00:41:48.000 I think it's rat utopia.

00:41:50.000 I don't think it's the size, I think it's how successful Western society is, how easy it is to survive.

00:41:57.000 I think the vast majority of the problems that people have, even the things that are real, right, the depression and stuff like that, I think that those are a consequence of our Our day-to-day lives being so different than what our psychology evolved to exist in.

00:42:16.000 Because all of the stuff that's going on in modern, in modernity, is all brand new compared to, you know, what we were, what we literally evolved from millions of years through to when we actually became human beings.

00:42:32.000 All of it's new.

00:42:33.000 The idea of being able to control, having children and stuff, it's all new and it's reaction to something new.

00:42:39.000 Let me ask you.

00:42:40.000 What do you think would happen if it was like, I don't know, say 1300s, and Karl Marx came out and started advocating for what he was advocating for, you know, in these places? 0.50

00:42:49.000 The king would chop his head off.

00:42:50.000 Yeah, probably. 1.00

00:42:52.000 They'd be like, you are an insane person, something is wrong with you, these are heretical ideas, and it would result in the destruction of our kingdom. 0.53

00:43:01.000 He'd go to the king, or he'd be writing on his parchment and sharing the ideas. 0.63

00:43:06.000 The king would get word when people started adopting this, and he would say, we have barbarians at the gates, we have our neighboring nation threatening to steal our wheat, and you think we should just give it all away?

00:43:17.000 Just off with his head.

00:43:20.000 So my point with that is, when it was hard to survive, and winter is coming, Nobody would tolerate a person who would advocate ideas which would result in the destruction of our civilization.

00:43:33.000 But today what we have is, you know, I was talking to, we're having a conversation on the Culture War podcast with Kristen Lacefield, and she was saying that, the argument we're kind of having was, I was saying, I don't believe that women, you know, several hundred years ago would be advocating for birth control.

00:43:54.000 The reason why is because if you didn't have babies, you'd die.

00:43:57.000 Whereas today, human civilization is very far from it.

00:44:01.000 It's so far from population reduction and extinction that the real threat is socially overpopulation and overproduction.

00:44:09.000 So the narrative now is don't have kids to survive.

00:44:12.000 But I'm like, if you go back several hundred years, the women were like, we need more kids. 0.99

00:44:15.000 And the guy was like, I want 12 babies.

00:44:17.000 And the mothers would be all laughing at each other about how many babies they're having. 1.00

00:44:20.000 And the reason for it was simple.

00:44:22.000 The women who didn't want to have kids, didn't have kids, and then didn't exist anymore. 1.00

00:44:26.000 That's it.

00:44:26.000 The ideology could not exist.

00:44:29.000 Now that we have the industrial revolution.

00:44:30.000 Exactly.

00:44:31.000 Militarization, police forces, security and guns.

00:44:34.000 Oil.

00:44:35.000 Absolutely.

00:44:35.000 All of these crazy ideas are allowed to exist.

00:44:38.000 Not that, Not that anyone should say your idea shouldn't exist, it's just that they literally can't in any survival scenario.

00:44:45.000 They run into reality so much faster without the modern society and modern foundations that we have.

00:44:52.000 Everyone that's communist likes to talk about, oh, all these things will happen, but when they talk about the negatives of capitalism and stuff, they describe it in a way as if the negatives of capitalism don't happen in the absence of capitalism.

00:45:08.000 People get sick when there's no capitalism.

00:45:10.000 People don't have clean water when there's no capitalism.

00:45:13.000 People don't have enough food when there's no capitalism.

00:45:15.000 All these things that they blame on capitalism also happen in the absence of capitalism.

00:45:20.000 What do you think would happen if we took a hundred communists, dropped them in the middle of, I don't know, like the Yukon territory, and said, good luck?

00:45:29.000 I'd find out if I could download the app and become a subscriber to the show.

00:45:33.000 Oh, right.

00:45:34.000 Checking in on our communists in the Yukon.

00:45:36.000 I shouldn't say the Yukon, but let's say there was an area where it's like, okay, we're going to take 100 communists and we're going to put them in this temperate climate with some fields and some forests. 0.80

00:45:50.000 Good luck.

00:45:51.000 What would happen is, communism would be gone in a week.

00:45:55.000 Well, don't forget there's a lot of different types of communists, and there are some communists who are incredibly well-trained.

00:46:02.000 Some communists who are incredibly well-trained for military battle.

00:46:09.000 But that doesn't have an impact on whether or not you can find food.

00:46:13.000 Like, you take a hundred people- Well, I mean, like, communism would evaporate, obviously.

00:46:17.000 So what would happen is, a hundred communists put in the middle of nowhere, and, uh, the incapable people, they're gonna be like, well, look, you're six foot tall, you can reach all the apples, go get the apples for us.

00:46:29.000 And he's gonna be like, I- I cannot do all of this for you.

00:46:33.000 Well, look, he's five foot three and overweight, he can't get the apples, so he's gonna sit down and tell us stories.

00:46:38.000 You go get the apples.

00:46:39.000 He's gonna be like, no.

00:46:41.000 I got the apples, I decide.

00:46:43.000 And they're gonna say, that's not how communism works.

00:46:45.000 And he's gonna say, come and take it.

00:46:48.000 Uh oh! 0.99

00:46:49.000 He's gonna, this communist guy is gonna look at him and say, molan labe.

00:46:53.000 I mean... Two seconds.

00:46:54.000 I am not giving up my food.

00:46:55.000 I don't want to starve.

00:46:56.000 Winter is coming.

00:46:57.000 Good luck.

00:46:58.000 You're on your own.

00:46:59.000 Yeah, I mean, it's the idea that it would work in absence of the foundation that the, you know, that the Industrial Revolution and our market societies have laid is fanciful.

00:47:13.000 All of the communist societies or socialist societies in history Actual socialist societies, not just like Scandinavia where you get free health care and, you know, the US provides for your security.

00:47:26.000 But actual communist countries, like, they fall apart because you don't have property rights and people don't, you know, they can't, the system doesn't sustain an economy and you have to have something that sustains an economy.

00:47:39.000 You need that liberalism.

00:47:40.000 I want to jump to this tweet from Letitia James, the AG of New York.

00:47:44.000 She tweeted $464,576,230.62.

00:47:49.000 We know what that means.

00:47:52.000 That is the number that they are trying to steal from Donald Trump.

00:47:55.000 You know what's really fascinating is the number that the court prescribed seems to be the amount of money that Donald Trump has in the bank.

00:48:04.000 Trump has about 400-some-odd million dollars in cash, and so they said, you gotta give us 400 million, okay?

00:48:11.000 We know he's got that in liquid cash, do we?

00:48:13.000 This is like the JonBenet ransom note, when they ask for exactly her dad's bonus.

00:48:18.000 Right.

00:48:18.000 So this is, um, an argument from the left is that Trump actually has more, 600 to 700, but Trump has stated it's about 400, and they asked for four.

00:48:27.000 New York, like, I'm sorry, look, the other story in this is Letitia James just won a case against the NRA official, against NRA officials.

00:48:35.000 This is Wayne LaPierre's libel for 5.4 million dollars and some others.

00:48:41.000 This is the overt, obvious weaponization of the political apparatus of New York.

00:48:48.000 So, listen, what's the off-ramp?

00:48:52.000 And what happens to a republic when there is no functioning legal jurisprudence in a state and it is simply just a gun?

00:49:03.000 New York State serves as a political gun for Democrats.

00:49:09.000 That's it.

00:49:09.000 Criminals are let go.

00:49:11.000 Illegal immigrants are beating cops and they are using the legal system as a weapon against their political opponents. 1.00

00:49:18.000 Think about what a shitshow that city is. 1.00

00:49:20.000 It's crazy. 1.00

00:49:21.000 Letitia James called the NRA a terrorist organization, right?

00:49:26.000 Like, she knows exactly who she's out to get.

00:49:28.000 She's not investigating fairly.

00:49:30.000 She's not trying to protect the people of New York.

00:49:32.000 She has a political agenda and she's acting on it. 1.00

00:49:35.000 Full disclosure, I think Trump's hilarious.

00:49:38.000 I absolutely hate the NRA and I hate Wayne LaPierre. 0.99

00:49:42.000 He's a putz. 0.99

00:49:43.000 But they're still screwing him for, you know, as a political action. 0.98

00:49:50.000 This is all about politics.

00:49:52.000 Where is any state, any conservative state, West Virginia, what are you doing?

00:49:58.000 Oh man.

00:49:59.000 I mean, who's running for AG next?

00:50:03.000 It's Morsi now, but he's leaving, isn't he? 0.70

00:50:04.000 Well, Morsi's running for governor, right?

00:50:06.000 Right.

00:50:07.000 I tweeted this earlier today.

00:50:08.000 Can we get some, like, can Matt Walsh run for AG of West Virginia?

00:50:12.000 I mean, Tennessee's next door.

00:50:14.000 Indict as many Democrats as you can for whatever you possibly can.

00:50:18.000 But they're doing illegal things!

00:50:19.000 Yeah, exactly!

00:50:20.000 That's what I'm saying. 0.93

00:50:21.000 I'm not saying that, it's not like, it's not like there's like, It's not like if a conservative AG had the balls to actually look and use the power of the government.

00:50:31.000 It's not like he wouldn't have plenty of stuff to investigate and indict people on.

00:50:37.000 There's absolutely no question about it, but they just don't have the courage.

00:50:40.000 Do we know who's running for AG?

00:50:42.000 Yeah, so there are two Democrats, Richie Robb and Teresa Torriceva, and then John B. McCuskey and Mike Stewart are the Republican candidates right now.

00:50:52.000 But I tweeted about this this morning.

00:50:54.000 We need to have significant lawfare.

00:50:57.000 There needs to be significant legal attacks against Google under civil rights laws.

00:51:07.000 There needs to be massive, massive, massive amounts of lawfare.

00:51:10.000 There needs to be prosecutions, investigations.

00:51:13.000 Every single conservative That is in any position of power that can investigate some kind of possible breaking of the law, they need to do it, and they need to do it specifically when it's Democrats, for political reasons.

00:51:29.000 Because that's what the Democrats are doing.

00:51:32.000 If lawfare is what they want, lawfare is what we need to deliver them, and we need to deliver them lawfare in as much volume as possible.

00:51:41.000 And the end result is obvious, isn't it?

00:51:44.000 I mean... Republicans right now are going, guys, guys, we can't do this because think of the escalation that it would cause.

00:51:51.000 And it's like, dude, there is, they are literally seizing the president's assets, the former president's assets.

00:51:58.000 They are trying to put him in prison on false charges.

00:52:00.000 They are falsely accusing him of all sorts of untoward things.

00:52:03.000 They're going after his children and y'all are like, yeah, yeah, but calm down, calm down.

00:52:07.000 And the thing is, the less The less political response you get, the more likely someone does something that everybody doesn't want. 0.68

00:52:19.000 The more likely some nutbag decides he's gonna grab a gun and go shoot a politician or something like that. 1.00

00:52:23.000 Some idiot does something stupid. 1.00

00:52:27.000 Those problems arise when people feel like they don't have A political way to see their complaints rectified. 1.00

00:52:37.000 Or, like in the case of the election, the courts won't even hear them.

00:52:43.000 If the courts don't hear you, and you're just disregarded, you are left with no option.

00:52:50.000 Well, I completely agree with you.

00:52:53.000 And if we see the shenanigans in this 24 election and the Democrat, whoever they might be, maybe Joe Biden will serve successfully until 2029.

00:53:04.000 But, you know, if we get a rerun of 2020 and it ends up in the same way, I think, yeah, I think things could get really, really ugly.

00:53:04.000 Who knows?

00:53:15.000 So what's stopping Morrissey of West Virginia from right now doing what Letitia James is doing?

00:53:22.000 Well, it depends on what you mean.

00:53:24.000 So, like, with the NRA... Any NGO, Planned Parenthood, any NGO that operates in West Virginia's borders should be taken to a court and sued into oblivion using all of the state's resources.

00:53:35.000 Yeah, it's interesting because the NRA, the reason Alicia James is able to go after the NRA is because they're headquartered in New York and any non-profit that's headquartered in New York is subject to the to this jurisdiction of the Attorney General. 0.72

00:53:49.000 They couldn't even move out if they wanted to.

00:53:52.000 All national NGOs have legal filings in those states.

00:53:55.000 Right.

00:53:56.000 So that means Morrissey could go after any of these national-level NGOs.

00:54:00.000 Sure, but like with the NRA specifically, it's headquartered in New York, that's why she's able- they can't move it out without the Attorney General to consent to dissolve their nonprofit status.

00:54:08.000 No, no, no, that doesn't matter.

00:54:09.000 I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying that's one of the unique things about this case.

00:54:12.000 No, no, no, but it's not.

00:54:15.000 Name an NGO that's operating on a national level and they are filed in all states.

00:54:19.000 They operate as an organization in all states.

00:54:21.000 They are subject to the jurisdiction of all in each individual state.

00:54:24.000 Yeah, I'm just saying that in particular that's one of the reasons that the NRA has specific ties to New York.

00:54:29.000 It makes it slightly different.

00:54:31.000 I'm not saying that... It doesn't make a difference.

00:54:33.000 It does not make a difference at all.

00:54:34.000 So if you have a non-profit headquartered in Vermont and you are operating nationally, that means you have filed.

00:54:40.000 Okay, so we have non-profits, right?

00:54:42.000 That means you go to each state and file that non-profit with the state as though you are based in that state.

00:54:48.000 Is it a single entity?

00:54:50.000 It's a single national entity with a federal tax number, but each, it has to operate, it has to file to operate in each state.

00:54:56.000 Okay, okay.

00:54:57.000 It's very, very difficult.

00:55:00.000 So that means, if you are Planned Parenthood, you are filed to operate in West Virginia, and you are subject to the jurisdiction at, it doesn't matter where you're, I mean, the difference I suppose is that they might not have, they have a bigger building, maybe?

00:55:13.000 But like, Planned Parenthood has offices all over the country.

00:55:15.000 Morrissey could start filing against them in two seconds.

00:55:18.000 He could make any claim.

00:55:19.000 I mean, Alabama right now could go after Planned Parenthood. 1.00

00:55:24.000 They've got a whole bunch of now laws on the books.

00:55:26.000 And was it Alabama that said getting an abortion out of state is a conspiracy to commit a crime?

00:55:31.000 They could start going after- I thought it was Idaho.

00:55:33.000 I might be wrong now.

00:55:34.000 No, I don't think it was Idaho.

00:55:35.000 Alabama.

00:55:36.000 My point is not any of these things specifically.

00:55:38.000 But there's not a single conservative that is looking at who they have jurisdiction over and doing anything about it.

00:55:45.000 Nope.

00:55:48.000 Conservatives are they're they're not doing anything just like you said earlier about the oh, you know settle down calm down blah blah blah blah it is They are not doing what they need to do to protect the country from people that are looking to fundamentally change the structure of the country like The new thing today was people talking about where natural rights come from, and they're saying, oh, well, your rights don't come from the government, they don't come from you being a person.

00:56:19.000 That is something that the left wants, because as soon as they can convince people that your rights come from the government, once that is the general consensus, then they're privileges.

00:56:29.000 Then they are at will.

00:56:30.000 Then the fact that the Bill of Rights implies that there are rights that exist prior to the government becomes irrelevant because the people just start thinking that their rights come from the government.

00:56:45.000 And that's better than changing any law.

00:56:49.000 If you can get the narrative in people's heads to change and people to conceptualize their country in a different way, it doesn't matter what the laws are.

00:56:58.000 Because no one will ever think that you should be brought up on charges when you break the law if people don't think that it's breaking the law.

00:57:06.000 If people don't think that the government is breaking the law by jailing a journalist, right?

00:57:12.000 If the government just said, we're gonna pick this guy up and toss him in jail, and it's fine.

00:57:16.000 If people don't think that that's breaking the law, then there will be no outcry, and the government will do whatever it wants.

00:57:22.000 So if the government can use narrative to control people's thoughts and opinions, the law is totally irrelevant.

00:57:29.000 You can sit there and be like, well they're breaking the law, they're oppressing me, blah blah, and no one cares.

00:57:33.000 Right.

00:57:34.000 I don't care.

00:57:34.000 And if no one cares, the law doesn't matter.

00:57:37.000 And we live in a country where it is only a matter of time until the boot starts coming down on people.

00:57:43.000 The law doesn't matter.

00:57:44.000 What matters is culture.

00:57:45.000 Yes.

00:57:46.000 There are blue laws, there are laws in the books that have never been enforced, that haven't been enforced in a hundred years.

00:57:46.000 We talk about it all the time.

00:57:52.000 And so you have, in West Virginia, it is quite literally illegal I mean, you can interpret the laws in so many different ways, but having a drag show with children violates, like, five or six different laws in the state.

00:58:05.000 And they don't do anything.

00:58:07.000 Nothing happens.

00:58:08.000 They let them do it, and they clap in chairs.

00:58:10.000 It happens.

00:58:10.000 Because the culture of Berkeley County, West Virginia doesn't care.

00:58:15.000 And perhaps the local prosecutor, I guess, is a leftist.

00:58:18.000 I have no idea.

00:58:19.000 So I was talking to, this is a little bit of an aside, but I was talking to my nephew, the older one, he's 19, almost 20 now, actually turns 19 in March, and someone had said something that young women are still Kind of, like, enamored with the whole woke thing.

00:58:39.000 And young men are totally rejecting it.

00:58:42.000 Like, really, really strongly.

00:58:43.000 Well, the data shows it.

00:58:44.000 Yeah.

00:58:44.000 And so I hit him up, because he's a young guy in school.

00:58:47.000 I'm like, yo, what are your friends doing?

00:58:48.000 Like, do your guy friends, blah, blah, blah, you know, do they really, do you see this?

00:58:52.000 This is what I hear people saying.

00:58:54.000 I think I sent him a tweet from someone that said it.

00:58:56.000 Oh, it was Scott Adams said it.

00:58:57.000 And I sent him, I was like, do you think, you know, do you think this is, is this what you'd see at school?

00:59:01.000 And he's like, he's like, yeah, yeah, he's like.

00:59:02.000 You're getting an eyewitness account.

00:59:04.000 Yeah, you know if you if you've got people that you know they're there so I hit up my you know and they're smart kids so they're they're not they're like my sister's definitely a normie she's a bank manager and she's very you know she's she's not very involved in politics so she's not actively against Trump or anything or against people she's just not really involved.

00:59:23.000 But she's married much normally.

00:59:24.000 And so they are not raised to have a right-wing opinion.

00:59:29.000 So it's really interesting to see what they think.

00:59:31.000 And they see it.

00:59:32.000 They're like, look, yeah, we see it.

00:59:34.000 And they're like, the kids now, the racism is definitely making a comeback among young people.

00:59:42.000 There's a lot of A lot of racist jokes that you think would be off-limits, or that are off-limits, like young Gen X. But that makes them want to do it, right? 0.52

00:59:52.000 Exactly.

00:59:52.000 I mean, if you're going to say, don't do that, what are teenagers going to do?

00:59:55.000 The exact thing you're saying they shouldn't.

00:59:57.000 I worked at an all-girls boarding school way back in the day, you know, basically, well, it was like 2019 I was working there, and the girls' school When they told me about going into the election and they were saying, you know, we had canceled classes because they're all expecting to have a day off to celebrate Hillary.

01:00:16.000 And then they had to have, they had baked like all these cupcakes, like it was a whole thing.

01:00:21.000 And then they had, I remember the Dean of Students telling me, he's like, we're really grateful we did that because it was a very emotional day for our students the day after the election.

01:00:29.000 That is really like Santa did not come.

01:00:32.000 Like six-year-old Santa just didn't show up, like... Right, and there was just like a small group of girls who had been pro-Trump the whole time.

01:00:40.000 Again, it's a small school, so they know who it is.

01:00:42.000 And the school, talking about them, would act like they were these terrible, terrible kids.

01:00:48.000 Like they were disruptive because they supported... I mean, they kept saying that he won.

01:00:53.000 It wasn't that Santa didn't come.

01:00:54.000 It's that Krampus did.

01:00:57.000 Even better.

01:00:57.000 Right.

01:00:58.000 And so we're laughing, like, we didn't do anything, like, we're happy, you know, whatever.

01:01:01.000 Man, I can't believe that guy won.

01:01:03.000 It was a wild night.

01:01:04.000 It was 2016.

01:01:06.000 Yeah, wow.

01:01:06.000 Never forget it.

01:01:07.000 Never forget.

01:01:08.000 Everyone remembers exactly where they were when that happened.

01:01:10.000 You want to know where I was?

01:01:13.000 Yes.

01:01:14.000 Venezuela.

01:01:15.000 Wow.

01:01:15.000 And what was your reaction?

01:01:16.000 Like, what did Venezuela think of this?

01:01:18.000 Well, I don't know what Venezuela thought of it.

01:01:20.000 Actually, Venezuela was pretty happy.

01:01:23.000 In fact, Donald Trump was very popular in Venezuela because the regime in Venezuela is really unpopular.

01:01:33.000 And, you know, Trump was sanctioning Maduro and trying to get Maduro out.

01:01:39.000 But no, I mean, I'll never forget that night.

01:01:42.000 It was something special.

01:01:43.000 In fact, it was difficult to kind of take it all in because it was all happening so fast.

01:01:48.000 You didn't have time to kind of enjoy bathing in the glory of it.

01:01:53.000 The best Maduro moment ever is when he's giving that national address and then pulls an empanada out of his drawer and then eats it.

01:02:00.000 Yo, what?

01:02:02.000 I haven't seen that.

01:02:03.000 I used to cover Venezuela.

01:02:04.000 Do you feel like the UK has Their own Trump figure right now?

01:02:09.000 Because I feel like there have been a couple people have risen to notoriety but no one quite rivals it.

01:02:14.000 I've never seen this.

01:02:17.000 That is funny.

01:02:18.000 Dude, you couldn't wait 30 seconds to finish your national address before eating the empanada?

01:02:23.000 It's big empanada.

01:02:24.000 They're paying him to do this.

01:02:28.000 Look, Venezuela is what happens when low cognitive function and evil people are left unchecked.

01:02:36.000 You get your leader, while your nation is starving, he's eating an empanada on TV.

01:02:42.000 And he's still there!

01:02:43.000 What's to happen?

01:02:45.000 A bus driver with no experience.

01:02:47.000 Well, you want to know what's interesting about Venezuela is that actually Venezuela the Venezuelan economy is

01:02:53.000 actually grown Quite a bit in the last two three years because he's had to

01:02:59.000 just give up on the currency. So it's all dollarized and He's had to you know, remove all the price controls

01:03:07.000 He's had to lift a load of tariffs.

01:03:09.000 So Venezuela is actually doing a lot better than it was.

01:03:12.000 It's still in a terrible place, obviously.

01:03:14.000 You know what he should do?

01:03:15.000 He should make Bitcoin legal tender in Venezuela.

01:03:18.000 Well, that's what Bukele is. 0.74

01:03:21.000 And yeah, no, Bukele is quite an inspiration, actually.

01:03:28.000 I mean, it's... What do you think of his speech at CPAC?

01:03:32.000 I've got to be honest like I didn't watch it because I kind of know what he what kind of thing he said but what I will tell you about he absolutely schooled a BBC journalist the other day and the journalist was saying oh you know all these innocent people and to be fair There will be innocent people in El Salvador who have been imprisoned.

01:03:53.000 Of course.

01:03:54.000 And that's sad.

01:03:55.000 But that happens in America, that happens in the UK, that happens everywhere.

01:04:00.000 But to think, just to think that, I don't know the precise statistics, but I think it's 90-95%, to think that you could go out, right, and get murdered so easily, and now these streets are completely safe.

01:04:14.000 I mean, that's an incredible achievement.

01:04:16.000 A really incredible achievement.

01:04:18.000 And even though that there are people that, like innocent people, that end up getting, you know, scooped up and stuff, there's not going to be a lot of people that are going to complain.

01:04:24.000 Oh no, they love him.

01:04:26.000 They love him.

01:04:26.000 Only the people outside of the country.

01:04:28.000 And this is, you know, it's funny, you were bringing up, you were talking about Drudge being kind of left of center.

01:04:33.000 I mean, I'm absolutely disgusted by Drudge nowadays.

01:04:36.000 And I noticed they put a headline, although I do read it sometimes, and they put up a headline, you know, calling him a dictator.

01:04:43.000 I mean, it's just unbelievable.

01:04:44.000 Did he get bought by the CIA?

01:04:46.000 Is that what happened?

01:04:47.000 Well, actually, you know, it's funny because conservatives think he's this hardline conservative, but he isn't.

01:04:54.000 He actually comes from El Salvador's more socialistic party.

01:04:58.000 I think he's kind of a maverick.

01:05:00.000 And he's also... Bukele does?

01:05:03.000 Bukele does, yeah.

01:05:04.000 Oh, I was talking about Drudge.

01:05:05.000 Oh, Drudge!

01:05:06.000 Yeah, was Drudge bought by the CIA?

01:05:07.000 Oh, well, actually, I mean, that's a good question.

01:05:10.000 You might have a better view on this.

01:05:11.000 I mean, and I know it's very, you know, people have talked about it a lot, but What actually happened?

01:05:16.000 Did he sell it?

01:05:18.000 Or has he just gone off the rails?

01:05:21.000 What do you think?

01:05:24.000 My instinct is that he hasn't sold it.

01:05:26.000 But I might be wrong.

01:05:28.000 I mean, I really don't know.

01:05:29.000 You mean like a private sale happened no one knows about?

01:05:31.000 Yeah, because he's a very secretive guy.

01:05:33.000 I mean, he, you know, he was a very strange, strange figure.

01:05:39.000 And he would keep that kind of thing private.

01:05:41.000 You're talking about Drudge?

01:05:42.000 Yeah.

01:05:42.000 And he is obsessed with Trump.

01:05:44.000 And he's also very anti-Elon Musk as well.

01:05:46.000 Why is he anti-Elon Musk?

01:05:48.000 Because he's a liberal now.

01:05:49.000 I mean, I don't know what's going on there.

01:05:52.000 I mean, I just don't...

01:05:54.000 Well I mean I do understand and I do see it just it's it's still my gut reaction is still surprising for people to be like oh I don't like Elon Musk because of the things that he says on Twitter it's like all of this history of him doing actual things that you loved up until he bought X right you know and and He started talking to the wrong people.

01:06:18.000 Essentially started looking at the country and saying, hey, look, I don't like the things that I'm seeing with the government being too, you know, trying to be too authoritarian.

01:06:27.000 And like he notices that and starts speaking about it.

01:06:30.000 And then it's like, oh, he's now he's officially just a total bad person and deserving of as much I think it's okay to be skeptical of people, right?

01:06:42.000 Like, he's an extremely wealthy man who now controls all kinds of things.

01:06:46.000 Like, yeah, you know, don't just make anyone an idol.

01:06:48.000 But I do think that there is, weirdly, this switch that happened where they said, well, you bought X and so now you're the enemy.

01:06:54.000 And that, to me, seems such like a histrionic response.

01:06:57.000 Well, to be fair, I mean, I'm a big fan of Elon and I love what he's done with X. But I have noticed he's become quite partisan.

01:07:08.000 And I don't actually think that that is necessary.

01:07:11.000 In what way, though?

01:07:12.000 Well, he's just, you know, pushing Republicans and conservatives on Twitter, which I love.

01:07:17.000 No, no, no, no.

01:07:17.000 You gotta break that down.

01:07:18.000 What do you mean?

01:07:19.000 Well, he's, you know, he's, he's, he's, he's making, he's fighting all our arguments for us, you know, on the border, on censorship, on, on, on corruption.

01:07:31.000 I think, I think, I think that's a leftist narrative that what you're, what you're saying.

01:07:35.000 Yeah, but I can understand.

01:07:37.000 The point I was going to make was that I think he... I don't think he's foolish for doing this, but I think that if... I think he... I'm going to push back.

01:07:48.000 Elon Musk is not partisan.

01:07:50.000 The idea and the claim that he is, is a leftist talking point to legitimize communist and Marxist ideas.

01:07:57.000 Elon Musk saying things that every American believed in 10 years ago as to the foundational principles and the solidification and preservation of the republic are American ideas regardless of liberal or conservative.

01:08:09.000 To say now that Elon Musk promoting ideas that we tend to agree with makes him partisan is to legitimize the leftists' claim that they are a legitimate wing of American politics.

01:08:19.000 They're not.

01:08:20.000 Progressives and their ideas, like every Democrat in 2019 raised their hand that they would open the borders.

01:08:26.000 Every single one of them.

01:08:26.000 And they also raised their hand when they said, would you give free healthcare?

01:08:30.000 That's right.

01:08:31.000 They said, and Elon Musk responded to that tweet that I put out when I posted that video.

01:08:36.000 And of the video that Badia Anger Sargon posted about them wanting open borders.

01:08:43.000 If you believe in having a secure border, that is a normal, middle-of-the-road American position, that even Hillary Clinton was calling for a border barrier in 2008 to 2012.

01:08:54.000 Now what we have is communists who are trying to legitimize the idea that it's actually a partisan position to destroy the country, and they had great success pushing those ideas forward through social media in the 2020 cycle.

01:09:05.000 Elon Musk isn't coming out and saying industry should have this this tax rate and he's not coming out and saying pro-life or otherwise.

01:09:13.000 He's not coming out and saying everyone should donate to the RNC.

01:09:16.000 Republicans are the greatest political party.

01:09:18.000 But what we're looking at right now is You have, uh... Phil's not a conservative.

01:09:24.000 I'm not a conservative.

01:09:25.000 Hannah-Claire, you're probably a conservative.

01:09:27.000 I'm conservative.

01:09:27.000 We actually are a range of spectrum around left and right.

01:09:31.000 Elon Musk would be somewhere in between and arguing with us.

01:09:35.000 So it's not partisan at all.

01:09:37.000 But what's happened now is the left is trying to legitimize the idea that their psychosis is legitimate politics.

01:09:44.000 So, my point is simply this.

01:09:46.000 The meme that Elon Musk posted exemplifies it pretty well.

01:09:49.000 There's a left and a right in this country, and Elon is center-left.

01:09:53.000 Then the far left comes out and says the most deranged psychotic things and claims they're the actual left, which moves the middle and puts Elon now in the right-wing position.

01:10:04.000 Elon Musk is a leftist.

01:10:06.000 Elon Musk has complained about climate change.

01:10:08.000 Elon Musk has talked about progressive tax policy.

01:10:10.000 Elon Musk holds tons of traditional liberal positions.

01:10:13.000 Elon Musk voted for Joe Biden.

01:10:15.000 Well, at least so he says.

01:10:17.000 There you go.

01:10:17.000 Elon Musk has posted tons of things where conservatives have criticized him for holding liberal ideas.

01:10:24.000 He's not being partisan by saying, I believe in thing that would keep America functioning, unless the argument is the legitimate politics of this country are whether the country should exist or not exist.

01:10:36.000 I certainly understand the left holds those views that the United States should not exist, but I don't believe it's a legitimate political discussion for a country to say, I hereby vote the country doesn't exist.

01:10:46.000 No, you're an invasive force trying to destroy us.

01:10:49.000 The legitimate conversation of this country is, we all agree we should preserve this country, let's make it work.

01:10:53.000 We're at war, however, in a cold civil war, whatever you want to call it.

01:10:57.000 Elon Musk saying things that would make this country function is normal discourse.

01:11:02.000 Well, I think I'd take Elon at his word.

01:11:04.000 I don't agree that he's centre-left.

01:11:05.000 I think I'd take him at his word when he says he's a social liberal and an economic conservative.

01:11:09.000 That's centre-left.

01:11:10.000 Well, he's fiscal conservatism.

01:11:12.000 I mean, that is the right term.

01:11:13.000 Social liberal, fiscal conservative is traditional democrat, which is American centre-left.

01:11:18.000 Yeah, okay, well that's an interesting way of looking at it, I don't necessarily disagree.

01:11:23.000 So, when you look at the academic terms, right, this was big when everyone said I'm a classical liberal, I'm a classical liberal, and I kept saying, no you're not!

01:11:30.000 Classical liberal means libertarian in American politics.

01:11:34.000 Social liberal is close to Bernie Sanders, and traditional liberal is centre-left libertarian.

01:11:42.000 So I've got a question for you about that.

01:11:45.000 You have said in the past that you liked Bernie.

01:11:48.000 Yep.

01:11:49.000 And I see Bernie as everything we're railing against.

01:11:52.000 Because Bernie is as close to a communist as, or socialist as... Bernie Sanders in 2016 is not Bernie Sanders in 2018.

01:11:59.000 A lot of people do say that, but I think that's overstated.

01:12:03.000 Nope.

01:12:03.000 Because he's always been very socially progressive, and he's always been, you know, very economically left-wing.

01:12:11.000 And I think that's undeniable.

01:12:13.000 And he jumped off the cliff.

01:12:15.000 Yes.

01:12:16.000 I mean, did he ever really advocate, like, you know, controlled immigration?

01:12:19.000 Open borders is a Koch brothers proposal, he said, in 2015.

01:12:24.000 You cannot have open borders.

01:12:25.000 The World Socialist website called him a nationalist capitalist for saying, I think in 2018, Something like, oh my god, no, we can't have open borders, everybody would flood this country, it can't work.

01:12:36.000 That's Bernie Sanders.

01:12:37.000 And then what happened is, he realized he could be a millionaire, and that, who cares?

01:12:41.000 What's the point anymore?

01:12:42.000 I think he's that cynical.

01:12:43.000 I mean, he may be right.

01:12:44.000 How many houses does he own?

01:12:45.000 A three?

01:12:45.000 Yeah, I mean, he's a rich man.

01:12:47.000 He's a rich man.

01:12:47.000 I think he's less cynical and more a party person, and he's like, well, I can make money and I'm gonna do what the party says.

01:12:55.000 I think that he's He's more of a party pawn than an idea guy.

01:13:02.000 A lot of Trump supporters were originally Bernie supporters.

01:13:05.000 That is true, but I've always found that very strange.

01:13:07.000 But it makes perfect sense when Bernie Sanders in 2015 and 2016 is saying, we need to help blue-collar workers, we need to bring back manufacturing, we need to secure our borders, we need better trade agreements, and they're all going, this Bernie guy makes a lot of But do you really believe if Bernie had become president in 2016, America... Two questions.

01:13:25.000 Do you think America would be... Would A, have secured its borders, and B, be on the right track?

01:13:31.000 No. 1.00

01:13:31.000 Because Bernie Sanders is a pathetic, weak coward. 1.00

01:13:34.000 And that's why he lost. 1.00

01:13:36.000 That's why the Democrats steamrolled him.

01:13:38.000 Well, they kind of stole it from him, to be fair. 1.00

01:13:40.000 Yeah, because he's a pathetic, weak coward. 1.00

01:13:41.000 And he whimpered and cried, and he said, I'll just take the billion dollars and I'll go crawl away! 1.00

01:13:46.000 And Donald Trump was the bull who smashed through the doors and said, don't F with me.

01:13:51.000 It's also fair to take into account the fact that people that used to like Bernie Like, when they saw what the Democrats did to Bernie, that has something to do with the fact that they no longer like the Democrats.

01:14:05.000 Like, if they left, if they were like, yeah, I like Bernie, and blah, blah, blah, and they saw the way the Democrats treated Bernie, it might be like, oh, wait a minute, they're not nearly as, they're not better than the Republicans like I thought they were, the Democrats are just as bad, so it doesn't matter if I go to the Republicans for Donald Trump.

01:14:20.000 I was in Anaheim, and there were three people, an older guy and two younger guys, they were hanging out.

01:14:25.000 It was outside of a Trump rally.

01:14:27.000 And I asked these guys, what are they doing?

01:14:30.000 You know, why do they support Trump?

01:14:31.000 And they said, actually, they were Bernie supporters.

01:14:33.000 The older guy was like a factory worker.

01:14:36.000 He had been in a union his whole life.

01:14:37.000 The younger guys were fairly progressive, but they were friends of the older guy.

01:14:41.000 I don't know, they might have been related.

01:14:43.000 And they said, look, We want Bernie!

01:14:46.000 We think that he's got the experience in DC.

01:14:49.000 His consistency says to us that he means what he says, and we think he'll fight for the things he's talked about.

01:14:55.000 And he's advocating for the union worker, the factory worker, the manufacturing base.

01:14:59.000 He's advocating to secure our borders and get rid of this, you know, the Koch brothers proposals.

01:15:05.000 And when the DNC destroyed him, Donald Trump was our only choice.

01:15:10.000 Shortly after meeting them, they were physically attacked by far leftists outside the Trump rally, and they were chased, smacked, and spit on.

01:15:18.000 And they were, and these guys were, this is Anaheim, yeah, these guys were like former Bernie guys.

01:15:23.000 I mean, I think part of it as well is I look at the most dangerous people in America, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and they're all Bernie people.

01:15:34.000 And I just find it, I've always found it very difficult to square the, and you're absolutely right, of course, that a lot of Bernie people went over to vote for Trump and everything, but I've always found it very difficult, very difficult idea to square that you can somehow transition from being a Bernie fan to being a Trump fan, because they are ultimately very, very different.

01:15:54.000 Their campaign policies were very much the same in 2015 and 16.

01:15:59.000 Yeah, I mean, I'd have to, I have not seen evidence, I'm sure it exists, but I have not seen him talk about securing the borders.

01:16:06.000 But I mean, he may have.

01:16:07.000 It reminds me of basically what people say.

01:16:09.000 2016, February 8th, from NPR, five ways Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are more alike than you think.

01:16:14.000 I think it's one of those things like West Virginia was a blue state for years and years and years.

01:16:17.000 It always elected Democrats.

01:16:18.000 Old school Democrats.

01:16:19.000 Right.

01:16:19.000 And I think in some ways people forget that the Democratic Party has gone through a ton of change.

01:16:24.000 Something that is...

01:16:25.000 Open borders.

01:16:26.000 ...a level of immigration we permit, even up to a level of open borders, about sharply increasing...

01:16:31.000 Open borders.

01:16:32.000 ...open borders.

01:16:33.000 That's a Koch Brothers proposal.

01:16:34.000 The idea...

01:16:35.000 Of course.

01:16:37.000 I mean, that's a right-wing proposal which says, essentially, there is no United States.

01:16:42.000 But it would make a lot of the global poor richer.

01:16:44.000 Excuse me!

01:16:44.000 It would make everybody in America poor.

01:16:46.000 Then you're doing away with the concept of a nation-state.

01:16:50.000 And I don't think there's any country on the world which believes in that.

01:16:55.000 If you believe in a nation-state, or in a country called the United States, or UK, or Denmark, or any other country, You have an obligation, in my view, to do everything we can to help poor people.

01:17:07.000 What right-wing people in this country would love is an open border policy.

01:17:10.000 My, how things have changed, ladies and gentlemen!

01:17:13.000 There's Bernie Sanders saying, with an open border, you will get poorer.

01:17:17.000 And what is Joe Biden doing?

01:17:19.000 Please, share this clip of Bernie Sanders It's right when it starts, Ezra Klein asks him.

01:17:26.000 And in the first minute, he says, immigration will make you poorer. 0.84

01:17:30.000 And now ask everybody why.

01:17:32.000 Do you support Joe Biden?

01:17:33.000 You do?

01:17:34.000 Why do you hate Bernie Sanders?

01:17:35.000 Because Bernie Sanders said this almost 10 years ago, 8 years ago now.

01:17:38.000 But what he says at the end there is wrong, though.

01:17:40.000 He says that right-wing people want an open border.

01:17:43.000 Back then, he wasn't wrong.

01:17:45.000 And this is why... Yeah, okay, the Romney-McCain wing of the party, I agree with you, but I don't... Yeah, they want cheap labor to come in.

01:17:51.000 I don't consider them right-wing, I consider them sort of... well, they're neocons above everything else.

01:17:55.000 And that's who had dominated the Republican Party.

01:17:57.000 And that's why people like me didn't care for either party.

01:18:00.000 And then when Trump came in, I just thought it was all a whole bunch of BS.

01:18:04.000 I'm like, another guy, I ain't falling for it.

01:18:06.000 I fell for Obama, I'm not falling for it again.

01:18:08.000 And then Hillary Clinton lost and I laughed my ass off and had a good time.

01:18:12.000 And then 2020 came around and I was like, Trump deserves another four years.

01:18:15.000 No new wars.

01:18:17.000 Everything else is stamp collected.

01:18:19.000 These people come to me and they're like, but Trump did this.

01:18:21.000 I'll be like, he did what? 1.00

01:18:22.000 Well, Trump said, grab him by the pussy. 1.00

01:18:23.000 I'll go, wow. 1.00

01:18:25.000 How many people did not get blown up because Donald Trump was president?

01:18:30.000 So let me make a choice.

01:18:31.000 I don't know.

01:18:31.000 Joe Biden and we've got Syria ramping up.

01:18:34.000 We've got war in the Red Sea.

01:18:36.000 We've got war with the Red Sea Houthi rebels, Iran-backed, Iranian-backed militias.

01:18:41.000 We've got war in Israel. 0.66

01:18:43.000 The U.S. 1.00

01:18:43.000 is supporting all of it and Ukraine or grab him by the pussy. 1.00

01:18:48.000 I think I know which one I'm taking. 0.99

01:18:49.000 I do believe that if Trump gets put into office, he will bring an end to the Ukraine conflict.

01:18:55.000 It may come with a price.

01:18:56.000 I mean, I'm more sympathetic to Ukraine than I am to Russia, but... I used to be.

01:19:03.000 Now I hate Ukraine with a passion.

01:19:06.000 It's not so much that I have any particular affection for Ukraine as much as I think that Putin ultimately It supports communism around the world, and I'm an anti-communist.

01:19:16.000 I mean, look, I mean, he... if you look in the news recently, I mean, he bought Kim Jong-un a... some kind of car as a gift.

01:19:24.000 Now, you could say, oh, that's smart, 4D chess, diplomacy.

01:19:28.000 But I mean, Kim Jong-un, as far as I'm concerned, is like... I mean, the... We sanctioned Russia. 0.71

01:19:34.000 We... we block their trade.

01:19:36.000 We block swift payment from Russia.

01:19:38.000 And it failed!

01:19:38.000 And Ukraine... and Ukraine robs us.

01:19:42.000 Zelensky steals from us. 0.99

01:19:45.000 He steals from a lot of countries.

01:19:46.000 Well, he certainly does, and he's stealing from us.

01:19:48.000 And so you know what?

01:19:50.000 Putin's a bad guy who has interests that are absolutely opposed to our interests.

01:19:54.000 He's not a good person. 0.99

01:19:55.000 He is a very, very bad person. 0.99

01:19:57.000 Okay, Ukraine's robbing the American people, and our crackpot corrupt politicians are in on it. 1.00

01:20:04.000 Despicable, evil people. 0.99

01:20:07.000 And Zelensky, with a smile on his face, keeps saying, give me more. 0.87

01:20:10.000 Give me more.

01:20:10.000 And our politicians are like, sure thing.

01:20:12.000 Well, the person I hold in most contempt for, the person I hold in contempt for this, above all, is Boris Johnson.

01:20:22.000 Because he could have brought an end to it.

01:20:24.000 And he, I don't know exactly when it was.

01:20:26.000 Yeah, but he was sent there by the US.

01:20:28.000 Sorry?

01:20:29.000 He was sent there by the US.

01:20:30.000 Well, maybe.

01:20:32.000 But he persuaded Zelensky not to sign a peace deal.

01:20:39.000 Ultimately, when you think of the realities of war, and this is coming up a lot at the moment with the talk of the draft.

01:20:46.000 I love this bill that Anna Paulina Luna proposed.

01:20:50.000 Anyone who votes in favor of Ukraine war has to go fight.

01:20:56.000 But, I mean, I've never been in war, but I know for certain that war is hell.

01:21:00.000 And whatever we can do to stop war, we should.

01:21:04.000 There was a great quote we read on this show, that war is not hell.

01:21:06.000 I can't remember whose quote it was.

01:21:08.000 They said, in hell, everyone's bad.

01:21:12.000 In war, children are getting blown up.

01:21:14.000 It's not hell.

01:21:15.000 It's something worse.

01:21:17.000 Yeah.

01:21:19.000 Absolutely. But um, yeah, there was a point where I was like, man, I feel real bad for Ukraine.

01:21:24.000 You know, I want them to survive. I've been there several times. I have friends from there. Now I'm

01:21:27.000 just like, I can't wait for them to lose. So they stopped stealing out of our pocket.

01:21:31.000 But you can't I mean, to be fair, plus you can't you can't blame Zelensky for taking advantage of

01:21:38.000 what the US offer. I can't blame the guy who bought my stolen car. And knowing it was stolen.

01:21:43.000 I can't blame the guy who went to his buddy and said, steal, steal the car from your neighbor and

01:21:47.000 bring it to me. It's not his fault. What do you mean?

01:21:50.000 Okay, but I mean, look, if you imagine, if you put, imagine the shoe on the other foot.

01:21:54.000 I think that's the correct phrase.

01:21:56.000 Um, you know, if America were taking money from elsewhere and they were happy to do it, um, and it would getting congressional or whatever they call it.

01:22:06.000 And the people were protesting and it was deeply unpopular.

01:22:10.000 All the national international polls showed people hated it and didn't want to be involved in it.

01:22:14.000 And you were taking their money. 1.00

01:22:15.000 You are a thief. 0.99

01:22:17.000 Like, Zelensky knows for a fact that the American people do not want to give him money. 0.99

01:22:23.000 This is widely known, and in the press, Zelensky knows Trump is winning in the polls.

01:22:28.000 He knows the American people do not support sending money to Ukraine, and he fears that should Donald Trump win, their support will be cut off.

01:22:36.000 Yeah, I mean, he's probably, you're probably right.

01:22:38.000 He's also, like, in a position where, you know, if he loses, his head is on the line.

01:22:45.000 I mean, he might get killed.

01:22:47.000 Yeah.

01:22:47.000 So his life is actually on the line.

01:22:49.000 And whereas I get that, you know, he doesn't have a whole lot of choice, and I get that, you know, he's making a choice that to the American people is probably objectionable to most of us.

01:23:00.000 That is something the American people should handle at the voting booths in the fall.

01:23:09.000 Zelensky knows the American people are screaming as the politicians are shuffling duffel bags of cash out the back door, and he's crossing his fingers being like, a couple more bags before they find out what we're doing!

01:23:19.000 They're gonna send in the cops to stop us, just give us a couple more bags! 1.00

01:23:23.000 Yeah, well, I mean, not only that, I mean, it's going to him, but it's also, it's like, we're making all, or printing this money so that way he can buy weapons from the US.

01:23:32.000 What was the amount that was unaccountable?

01:23:34.000 Was it 50 billion?

01:23:34.000 Oh yeah, they have accounting errors, don't they?

01:23:38.000 No, no, no, there was a substantial amount of money that was unaccounted for, that was sent there. 1.00

01:23:42.000 This guy is a scumbag. 1.00

01:23:44.000 Look, Putin's a scumbag. 1.00

01:23:45.000 Putin's a bad guy. 1.00

01:23:46.000 He's a nasty dude who's strangled power in Russia for decades. 1.00

01:23:52.000 Don't like the guy. 0.96

01:23:53.000 But I'm not going to sit here and be like, that's why Zelensky deserves our money.

01:23:58.000 How about that money goes to, I don't know, fixing pipes, fixing roads, building bridges, securing our border?

01:24:02.000 Here's a question.

01:24:02.000 I need to check the figures on this.

01:24:05.000 But I mean, how does the cost of funding the conflict in Ukraine match up with the cost of funding millions of illegal immigrants?

01:24:17.000 Both are destroying this country.

01:24:20.000 But which one costs more?

01:24:21.000 I imagine the illegal immigrants, but war's very expensive. 0.99

01:24:24.000 Well, I don't know.

01:24:25.000 If you track a metric like that, that's massive.

01:24:28.000 Yeah, it is massive, and it's costing.

01:24:32.000 So we probably shouldn't be doing both at the same time, or maybe we shouldn't be doing either.

01:24:36.000 I mean, this is the thing that sort of… I think Republicans need to answer for, but I also think any left-wing politician should because we've known for a long, long time that making ourselves the military interventionists around the globe costs our taxpayers, but also opening our borders, not defending our own borders, allowing illegal immigration to run rampant for decades,

01:24:59.000 Yeah.

01:24:59.000 costs us too. I mean, at what point do we acknowledge that every elected politician

01:25:04.000 has failed their constituents by not doing more to secure the border, by not saying no

01:25:08.000 to every foreign aid package before Ukraine? At a certain point, you know, these things

01:25:14.000 are hitting a breaking point. These are the most blatant examples, but we have been allowing

01:25:18.000 Americans to suffer for a long time. 0.81

01:25:20.000 Yeah.

01:25:21.000 Yeah.

01:25:22.000 Do you guys feel the same way in the UK?

01:25:25.000 The support for Ukraine in the UK is definitely greater than the US.

01:25:28.000 Greater?

01:25:28.000 Oh yeah.

01:25:28.000 Support in UK the support for Ukraine in the Ukraine is definitely

01:25:32.000 Greater than the u.s. Greater. Oh, yeah. Do you think that do you think that the UK feels like?

01:25:38.000 Do you think that among the UK population you think that that Russia's looked at as a threat to them?

01:25:44.000 To the island itself?

01:25:46.000 Well, interestingly, Putin has said, I think he said that actually if he were to launch an attack of some kind, London would be his first target.

01:25:55.000 But didn't the UK government just stop offering visas to Ukrainian families or something?

01:25:59.000 I didn't see that.

01:26:00.000 Is that true?

01:26:01.000 I was, I thought, I thought, yeah.

01:26:04.000 I think it's an intractable issue, really.

01:26:07.000 I mean, I don't see any way out of this crisis apart from some politicians saying, we have to end this war.

01:26:15.000 And I guess the only person at this point you can do that is Donald Trump.

01:26:19.000 So choose wisely.

01:26:21.000 And just wait.

01:26:22.000 I mean, that's the thing.

01:26:23.000 Now we have to wait for an election.

01:26:24.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:26:26.000 And the war in Ukraine is obviously going on and it's... We're going to go through a whole summer, another whole summer of grinding up human beings. 0.99

01:26:33.000 Yeah.

01:26:33.000 Go ahead and get another two, three hundred thousand people that are dead.

01:26:37.000 You know, something like that.

01:26:37.000 Every bill that Congress tries to pass, they're going to stick an aid package.

01:26:40.000 You have to send money to Ukraine.

01:26:42.000 Can't wait.

01:26:43.000 Exciting, exciting things coming this summer.

01:26:46.000 People spending money on Ukraine.

01:26:50.000 No, it'll get worse.

01:26:58.000 Yeah.

01:26:58.000 It'll get worse.

01:27:00.000 Gen Z just needs to hear the message repeated over and over and over again. 1.00

01:27:03.000 And the younger generation, of course.

01:27:05.000 The reason why you can't afford an apartment is because they're giving all of your resources to

01:27:10.000 non-citizens. Yeah. Yeah. You had, what, 5 million last year or 3 million?

01:27:15.000 I mean, when you talk about certified insanity, you know, being mentally ill for supporting Joe

01:27:20.000 Biden, well, I wouldn't quite go that far. But what I will say is that people who don't have

01:27:26.000 a problem with what's happening at the southern border, um... 0.88

01:27:29.000 And actually on the borders of Europe and the UK, people who truly believe that it's all going to be fine and we can just keep letting them in, those people have to be certifiably insane.

01:27:40.000 I mean, I just don't know how a city like... I mean, Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, he's saying repeatedly this is going to destroy New York, this is going to, you know, we've got no more room, this is a crisis.

01:27:53.000 But when you actually hear him say, Joe Biden, please, I'm pleading with you, close the border, he never does it.

01:28:03.000 Well, now Biden's saying, oh, we got to take action to close the border.

01:28:06.000 It's the Republicans who are keeping it open because they're evil.

01:28:09.000 I never had a good look at that border security.

01:28:13.000 Well, it wasn't a border security bill.

01:28:14.000 It was a Ukraine funding bill.

01:28:16.000 So Ukraine funding was attached to it?

01:28:18.000 No.

01:28:19.000 UK funding was what, 70 something percent?

01:28:22.000 Yeah.

01:28:23.000 It was a bill to fund Ukraine with an amnesty package attached to it.

01:28:27.000 Of the $18 billion set aside in the package, $90 billion went abroad and $20 billion went to border security.

01:28:36.000 $20 billion went to border amnesty.

01:28:39.000 Border amnesty, that's true.

01:28:41.000 It was not a security bill.

01:28:42.000 What do you mean by border amnesty?

01:28:43.000 It increased the amount of people who are allowed to enter the country.

01:28:45.000 It facilitated their entry into the country.

01:28:47.000 It gave CBP the right to adjudicate asylum claims outside of courts.

01:28:51.000 It allowed work permitting for non-citizens.

01:28:54.000 It sped up the process by which they come in and gave the authority to Border Patrol to make it go faster.

01:29:00.000 This is what they always say.

01:29:01.000 They say, we've got a crisis.

01:29:03.000 We've got to fix it.

01:29:03.000 We understand that the border is a crisis.

01:29:06.000 And then what they do, they say, so here's our solutions.

01:29:09.000 Speed up the... Codify what we're doing and make it easier for us.

01:29:13.000 Yes, speed up the process with which they can be shipped in and handed all the benefits.

01:29:18.000 It would have ended Texas's efforts to secure the border.

01:29:22.000 It would have given legal justification Codified to CBP and the federal government to bring in up to 8,500 adults per day and an infinite amount of minors per day.

01:29:36.000 Yes, there was a, yeah.

01:29:38.000 Infinite.

01:29:40.000 So as many of these guys just claim are 17 even though they're 40, doesn't count towards the totals.

01:29:44.000 So it basically codified illegal immigration.

01:29:50.000 It would have made it all legal immigration, that's the point. 0.99

01:29:52.000 It was an amnesty bill.

01:29:55.000 They would have come out and said, we solved the illegal immigration crisis.

01:29:57.000 It's all legal immigration. 0.88

01:29:58.000 But then Chuck Schumer did that interview being like, look, we have to compromise.

01:30:02.000 You know, everyone has to compromise.

01:30:04.000 I don't like everything in this bill.

01:30:05.000 It was definitely intended to be something to make Republicans look like they're the problem.

01:30:11.000 I mean, this is the same White House that said, no, no, there's nothing wrong at the border.

01:30:15.000 It's great.

01:30:15.000 And then eventually said, well, if there's a problem, it's the Republicans.

01:30:18.000 I mean, they lie through their teeth about this and don't actually want a solution at all.

01:30:22.000 They make a bill to fund Ukraine, call it a border security bill, and Republicans are like, what?

01:30:27.000 This is a Ukraine bill.

01:30:28.000 We don't vote for it.

01:30:29.000 Biden goes on TV and says, they just said no to our border security bill!

01:30:33.000 Yeah.

01:30:34.000 It's pretty remarkable when the fact that the name of the bill is misleading and no news organization, no journalist speaks up and says, this isn't what they say.

01:30:50.000 was the problem because they nicknamed it the border bill, but the actual title was like the

01:30:54.000 Emergency National Security Funding Act or something. Like it just said national security

01:30:59.000 and that theoretically is how they justify sending money abroad, right? We have to help Ukraine

01:31:03.000 because that means that we don't have to send Americans to war. That's what Chuck Schumer said.

01:31:07.000 But it's the journalists who ultimately say, oh, we're just going to get lazy and call it the

01:31:12.000 border bill because that's sort of the way we want. We want the headline to be.

01:31:15.000 Don't say gay. 0.71

01:31:15.000 Wait, we want the headline to be Republicans stop border bill despite screaming about crisis. 0.71

01:31:20.000 Yeah, it's because the media is just the mouthpiece of the Democrats.

01:31:24.000 Yeah, well, they're all dying.

01:31:26.000 Lying everybody off.

01:31:27.000 Vice.com is gone.

01:31:29.000 Thankfully.

01:31:30.000 Mercifully.

01:31:31.000 I saw Gavin McGinnis made some rather funny remarks about how he started.

01:31:38.000 I do find it so funny that Gavin McGinnis was the man who started Vice.

01:31:43.000 He was the content guy behind it.

01:31:45.000 Shane was the marketing guy.

01:31:46.000 Saroosh started it.

01:31:48.000 Shane was supposed to do marketing and Gavin was doing the content.

01:31:51.000 To be fair to Vice, some of their YouTube documentaries are pretty cool.

01:31:56.000 Yeah, in 2011.

01:31:57.000 I think there's some more recent ones than that.

01:31:59.000 Which one?

01:32:00.000 Well, I don't know.

01:32:00.000 I mean, one about Honduran gangs.

01:32:03.000 I mean, I saw one on that and it was pretty... I just read this article from Vice about how... I mean, I know brave journalists as well.

01:32:09.000 It's from... originally it was Vice... one of the European Vices, but...

01:32:15.000 They're trying to float the idea that mifepristone, the drug that they use for abortion, should be the new birth control because it's a non-hormonal- you know how there have been a huge movement of women saying, you know, birth control is bad because you're pumping your body hormones, there are long-term effects, and they're like, absolutely no problem!

01:32:31.000 If you just once a week take this abortion drug, it's a form of birth control! 1.00

01:32:35.000 We've solved this issue!

01:32:37.000 Like, vice is such a weird thing because you do get A glimpse into how other people are thinking.

01:32:42.000 Was.

01:32:42.000 And you can see, was, that's true.

01:32:44.000 Is it officially dead?

01:32:45.000 So Vice now is a production company that will operate behind the scenes and will sell shows to other networks.

01:32:51.000 Ah, okay.

01:32:52.000 But Vice.com is done.

01:32:53.000 So they don't do any regular content anymore.

01:32:56.000 And what about BuzzFeed?

01:32:57.000 Because BuzzFeed is- They're gone.

01:32:58.000 Also- Yeah, BuzzFeed's gone.

01:32:59.000 Almost gone, but it's still kind of alive, like kind of limping on in this- The brand name is still around, but I don't think BuzzFeed makes- I mean the page is still there.

01:33:10.000 Yeah, they posted something 17 hours ago.

01:33:12.000 Let's take a quiz!

01:33:16.000 They essentially were not... It's BuzzFeed News that I believe is gone, right?

01:33:20.000 Yeah.

01:33:21.000 Oh, they... okay.

01:33:22.000 That was because of the lawsuit that Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan brought against BuzzFeed.

01:33:27.000 No, that was Gawker, wasn't it?

01:33:28.000 Was that Gawker?

01:33:28.000 Yeah, that was Gawker.

01:33:29.000 Oh, was it?

01:33:29.000 Okay, my bad, my bad.

01:33:31.000 Yeah, May 2023 was their last article, I guess.

01:33:34.000 Well, on BuzzFeed News.

01:33:34.000 Good riddance!

01:33:35.000 Yeah.

01:33:37.000 Good riddance.

01:33:38.000 A final editor's note.

01:33:39.000 Bye bye!

01:33:39.000 I'll never forgive BuzzFeed for calling me a white nationalist.

01:33:44.000 What did they do that?

01:33:46.000 Well, what happened was... What happened was...

01:33:51.000 As I was telling you earlier, I really got into this business through Milo Yiannopoulos.

01:33:57.000 And he had been sending some messages.

01:34:00.000 I don't know.

01:34:02.000 There were some messages, some leaked thing that went out to a BuzzFeed journalist called something Bernstein.

01:34:11.000 Is it Joe Bernstein?

01:34:12.000 Alex Bernstein?

01:34:12.000 I can't remember his name.

01:34:14.000 But anyway, he was a BuzzFeed tack dog.

01:34:18.000 And they did a whole thing about Breitbart and how white nationalism was infiltrated into the mainstream.

01:34:30.000 And I was put up in this graph about it, and they were linking me with all these things.

01:34:36.000 And to be fair, some of the things that Milo had said were, well, let's just say I wouldn't say them, but I had no idea about them.

01:34:45.000 Anyway, I was linked with this and then I was actually still studying at the time and then my local newspaper picked up the fact that a student at the university has been accused of white nationalism and then it kind of ruined the rest of my time at university because I saw all these people and I just could just feel that they were looking at me, because I wanted to be non-political.

01:35:12.000 I am political, but when I meet liberals, you know, in other scenarios, I just don't want to talk about politics.

01:35:19.000 And I could just feel that, you know, people were like, oh, that's crazy.

01:35:23.000 This is the guy. 0.67

01:35:24.000 This is the white nationalist.

01:35:25.000 You had been branded.

01:35:26.000 Yeah.

01:35:27.000 Yeah.

01:35:27.000 So that was very uncomfortable.

01:35:29.000 So I do not mourn BuzzFeed's demise.

01:35:33.000 The story that I was told by someone I knew at Vice was very high up was that it was a dream come true.

01:35:39.000 Everything was going great.

01:35:41.000 Murdoch came in and gave them something like $70 million, giving them a $2 billion valuation.

01:35:45.000 Murdoch was an investor in Vice.

01:35:46.000 He was like... Didn't know that.

01:35:47.000 Yeah.

01:35:48.000 And what happened was after a few sex scandals where high ups were accused of impropriety, the other investors that had gotten involved at this point, which was like Disney or something, A&E, Hearst, or whatever, they basically said, the only way out of this is for you guys to embrace feminist ideas and claim to be feminists.

01:36:07.000 And so they just went, whatever, we don't care, sure.

01:36:09.000 And that was it.

01:36:10.000 Overnight.

01:36:11.000 That began the end of what was considered to be... I mean, Shane, Shane Smith, the CEO, I was talking about how they were going to be the CNN of the street.

01:36:23.000 They were taken over.

01:36:24.000 They were the new big thing.

01:36:25.000 They were better, bigger.

01:36:27.000 They had the youth.

01:36:28.000 I gotta tell you, when Vice decided to embrace hardcore ideology of the left, they smacked their audience in the face with a mallet.

01:36:39.000 And I'd been talking to some Vice producers, there was an article they wrote, and it was called, this horrible app shows you what women look like topless.

01:36:48.000 And I was talking to one of the producers, one of the original guys, and I said, you want to know why Vice is dying?

01:36:53.000 And this was seven years ago, they were still functioning.

01:36:57.000 And I was like, because when they were popular, the article would have been titled, this amazing app will show you what women look like topless.

01:37:05.000 And they would have been irreverent, shockingly offensive, But facetious, like, not literally infringe on, you know, make women look naked, but it's a joke, it's funny, have a laugh. 0.98

01:37:17.000 Now they're uptight, whiny twats. 0.99

01:37:20.000 And everybody I knew advised, they were like, but we can't do that anymore. 0.96

01:37:24.000 And I'm like, yeah, you can.

01:37:26.000 It's what made you big.

01:37:27.000 Why abandon what people like and want and enjoy?

01:37:32.000 Let them rot for all I care.

01:37:34.000 Maybe if they eventually abandon the domain, I'll take it.

01:37:37.000 Yeah, you should buy the domain.

01:37:40.000 The domain itself is probably worth $10 million.

01:37:42.000 Wow!

01:37:43.000 It's a four-letter domain of a single word.

01:37:46.000 And a very famous word.

01:37:48.000 Yeah, it's a very high-use word.

01:37:51.000 Like, I can't believe they got it, but they were early.

01:37:53.000 So, it used to be viceland.com, and then once they got a bunch of money, then millions of dollars, they bought it.

01:37:59.000 But it is amazing.

01:37:59.000 So where did it go wrong for them?

01:38:00.000 Where did they lose all their money?

01:38:02.000 So, around the time I was there... Oh, because you worked there?

01:38:05.000 Yeah, I started Vice News.

01:38:07.000 You started Vice News?

01:38:08.000 Yeah, and when I was there, it was okay.

01:38:12.000 But...

01:38:14.000 It was very obvious to me what was going on and I was like, I'm out.

01:38:18.000 I need something.

01:38:20.000 It was the corporate-ification of what Vice was.

01:38:24.000 I would watch the Vice docs.

01:38:25.000 I'm like, man, that's so cool.

01:38:26.000 I want to do that.

01:38:27.000 So I went to Vice and I said, hey, I want to do this with you guys.

01:38:30.000 Look what I can bring to the table.

01:38:31.000 Technology news.

01:38:32.000 They said to me, we don't do news.

01:38:34.000 Like, we have things we will call news, but it's like an on-the-ground documentary.

01:38:39.000 We don't do reporting.

01:38:40.000 And I said, let me come in here and do reporting.

01:38:43.000 Here's the idea.

01:38:44.000 I picked device.

01:38:45.000 I will live stream breaking news events.

01:38:47.000 You will get hundreds of thousands of viewers concurrent.

01:38:51.000 You film me doing it, and Vice makes the mini-doc.

01:38:56.000 I give you the live concurrent viewers.

01:38:58.000 You sell against it.

01:38:58.000 You make money.

01:38:59.000 And they agreed.

01:39:00.000 It took like six, seven months, and they finally launched Vice News.

01:39:03.000 They had a concept called Vice News, but it was basically anything that HBO didn't want, they would just put on a Vice News YouTube channel.

01:39:10.000 When I came in, they literally said, we don't do field reporting.

01:39:14.000 And Shane Smith at the Knight Foundation said, we had no intention of doing any kind of real news reporting until Tim Pool came in and pitched it to us and convinced us to do it.

01:39:21.000 So, I was excited at first, but after the first year, it became increasingly apparent what they were doing, and why it was going to fail, and I was like, okay, I got what I got, I guess I'm out.

01:39:35.000 I left.

01:39:36.000 And then I went to Fusion, and they offered me freedom, a budget, money, my own team.

01:39:42.000 It was an expansion, and I was like, if I'm in control of what's going on, this won't happen.

01:39:47.000 And then within like seven months, they fired their editor-in-chief, brought in a guy who had a Twitter profile that said, down with whiteness, and then they went bankrupt, fired everybody, and lost hundreds of millions of dollars.

01:39:58.000 So, the funny thing is, I moved through these two companies and Fusion was an ABC News company.

01:40:03.000 I worked out of the ABC News building.

01:40:05.000 Oh, wow.

01:40:05.000 Yeah, and I was there and I'll be in the elevator with Whoopi Goldberg.

01:40:09.000 Is this during the Occupy?

01:40:11.000 No, no, this is 2014 to 2016.

01:40:12.000 Okay.

01:40:12.000 I'm in the elevator at the ABC News building in New York, Whoopi Goldberg standing out there.

01:40:15.000 I'm like, I was such a big fan of Guinan.

01:40:17.000 I'm like, this is cool.

01:40:17.000 I'm like, here's where I work.

01:40:18.000 I would walk into like where they do the news and I'd be standing there watching them all do it.

01:40:22.000 And I'm like, we're going to make something happen.

01:40:24.000 And then six months later, they were like, we want to be Far left.

01:40:29.000 And I asked the president, why would you do that?

01:40:31.000 And he's like, this is what young people want.

01:40:33.000 And I said, no, they don't.

01:40:34.000 Who's telling you that?

01:40:36.000 I was like, I'm on the internet, dude.

01:40:38.000 And I actually proved to them in a marketing strategy campaign on social media.

01:40:43.000 And the president even said to me, Tim, you are the only person in this company who knows how to get views on content.

01:40:48.000 And I was like, I'm telling you what to do!

01:40:50.000 And they were like, we'd rather burn it all to the ground.

01:40:52.000 And they did.

01:40:53.000 And they burned it all to the ground.

01:40:54.000 And now I'm looking at Vice and I'm looking at Fusion.

01:40:57.000 And I'm like, you know what, man?

01:40:59.000 Let me say this to the former president of Fusion and to Shane.

01:41:02.000 I don't think Shane cares.

01:41:03.000 I got respect for the guy.

01:41:05.000 I don't know what his plan was.

01:41:06.000 I don't know what's going on in his life.

01:41:07.000 He's a super rich guy with a family.

01:41:09.000 I'm sure he's happy where everything went.

01:41:10.000 But I gotta tell you this, everything I said at the time, at these companies, I was right.

01:41:15.000 And if you guys listened and just said, Tim, I'm gonna give you a hundred grand, do whatever it is you're saying to do, I'd be like, okay.

01:41:21.000 And y'all would be worth substantially more money right now.

01:41:25.000 But you know what?

01:41:25.000 I gotta say, I'm not sure Shane cares.

01:41:28.000 He's still a millionaire.

01:41:29.000 He's probably chilling.

01:41:30.000 Vice may be dead, but he got what he got.

01:41:33.000 Good for him.

01:41:34.000 The people who worked at Fusion, I'm sure they're working somewhere, and they didn't care.

01:41:37.000 It wasn't their money in the first place.

01:41:38.000 So whoever invested in these things, Disney, A&E, Hearst, whatever, Univision, ABC, they were more interested, I guess, in burning money, because whatever, than actually building the next generation of media.

01:41:55.000 There you go.

01:41:55.000 So what's the next left-wing media company on the chopping block?

01:42:00.000 Washington Post, probably.

01:42:01.000 That would be great.

01:42:02.000 Yeah.

01:42:02.000 That would really, that would be a real knife to the heart.

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01:42:32.000 I'm excited to see what happens tomorrow.

01:42:34.000 I mean, I think it's gonna be a Trump victory in South Carolina, but, you know... You think?

01:42:38.000 Saturday primary?

01:42:39.000 of the month.

01:42:40.000 Tom Forsythe says Democrats who vote for Haley are lowdown caucus hucksters.

01:42:44.000 Yep.

01:42:45.000 I'm excited to see what happens tomorrow.

01:42:47.000 I mean, I think it's going to be a Trump victory in South Carolina, but you know, Saturday

01:42:51.000 primary.

01:42:52.000 I mean, surely it's going to be a wipeout.

01:42:54.000 Well, Haley is from.

01:42:56.000 She is from South Carolina.

01:42:57.000 No, she's going to get.

01:42:58.000 Did you see the.

01:42:59.000 Did you see that Dean Phillips, Minnesota- Yeah, he's like, you should be my VP!

01:43:04.000 Yeah, he's trying to get Haley on board.

01:43:07.000 I mean, I tell you what, one thing I will say about Haley is that she is ramping up the attacks on Trump. 0.99

01:43:12.000 I think it's going to be difficult for her to endorse Trump.

01:43:15.000 I mean, she did the speech this week saying, I'm not dropping out on Sunday, so.

01:43:19.000 That was weird.

01:43:19.000 Yeah.

01:43:20.000 She says she's in it.

01:43:21.000 It's getting to the stage where I would be almost surprised if she endorsed Donald Trump.

01:43:25.000 Everyone thought she was going to drop out, but she just wanted to make sure everyone knew she wasn't.

01:43:29.000 All right, here we go.

01:43:30.000 Jacob Paradis says, now Letitia James is about to bankrupt the NRA.

01:43:34.000 No, in fact, LaPierre has to pay back the NRA.

01:43:37.000 So she's funding the NRA, I guess.

01:43:39.000 But it is an attack, so we get that.

01:43:43.000 Shane H. Wilder says, excellent job on the new song.

01:43:45.000 Very reminiscent of Blue Oyster Cult's Harvester of Eyes and Flaming Telepath with a dash of Fall Out Boy.

01:43:51.000 I've heard Deftones, I've heard Tool, I've heard The Doors, you know.

01:43:51.000 Oh, I've heard it all.

01:43:56.000 It's my dad's favorite band.

01:43:59.000 Tom S. says, Ian, my four-year-old daughter couldn't stop watching you on your Eyes of Advice premiere.

01:44:03.000 Sorry, Tim, had to mute after six plays.

01:44:06.000 Her name is Lena and says hi.

01:44:08.000 And I don't know why Ian decided not to come on tonight, considering we launched the music video and it's starring him! 0.97

01:44:13.000 You're crazy, man. 0.74

01:44:15.000 Maybe the smoke monster got him. 1.00

01:44:17.000 That's right.

01:44:18.000 The smoke monster got him.

01:44:19.000 David H. says, Ian, graphene is a hell of a drug.

01:44:23.000 I will say this to everybody.

01:44:26.000 On next Thursday, We will be announcing... I guess you can call it a winner.

01:44:33.000 I don't really want to call it a contest, because I don't know, you know.

01:44:36.000 But I basically said on Twitter that anybody who comments on the video the accurate description of what's going on in the video, I will give $1,000.

01:44:43.000 And I will give you this opportunity to clarify.

01:44:48.000 Because some people...

01:44:49.000 In a couple words, hit the nail on the head.

01:44:53.000 But they didn't describe what was going on, they just gave the theme.

01:44:56.000 And I'm like, you're correct, and you don't win.

01:44:58.000 So, uh, so next week...

01:45:01.000 I'm gonna go through all the comments.

01:45:02.000 I'm gonna look for the person that is closest to the explanation of what is going on.

01:45:07.000 And I mean, like, literally beat for beat.

01:45:10.000 Like, it doesn't have to be 5,000 words.

01:45:13.000 It could literally be like, you know, Act 1 is this, Act 2 is this, Act 3 is this, and that's acceptable.

01:45:18.000 And the ending is this, and here's what it refers to, and here's what it's about.

01:45:22.000 Some people have just been like, ooh, I wanna win, it's about X, and I'm like, okay, well, that's two words.

01:45:28.000 You know, what it's about is fairly obvious, if you watch it.

01:45:31.000 I'm saying, like, what are the metaphors, you know what I mean?

01:45:35.000 And then whoever comments the closest, I don't know, we'll Venmo or something, we'll figure it out.

01:45:41.000 I will have to figure it out.

01:45:42.000 We'll just mail you cash in an envelope.

01:45:46.000 Yeah, we'll figure it out, but, you know.

01:45:49.000 And I got the idea because I saw a bunch of people saying things like, I think this is about this or that.

01:45:54.000 And I'm like, well, that's not right.

01:45:55.000 And then one person was like, I want to say it's about this, but I really think it's about this.

01:45:58.000 And I'm like, that's not right either.

01:45:59.000 I'm like, okay, someone, like someone can figure this out.

01:46:02.000 And a lot of people did, but you know, we're looking for a good description.

01:46:06.000 And more importantly, maybe they won.

01:46:07.000 It'll be next week when I look through it and then figure out who is gonna get that Venmo, I guess.

01:46:07.000 I don't know.

01:46:13.000 Yeah.

01:46:14.000 And maybe we'll do this, you know, we should certainly do more interactive stuff with the releases, too.

01:46:20.000 We did sell a lot of coffee when we launched together again, so that was fun.

01:46:23.000 You can buy the song at eyesofadvice.com on iTunes if you want to help us chart on Billboard, but let's read some more Super Chats.

01:46:30.000 All right.

01:46:31.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:46:32.000 says, even Sly Stallone is leaving Cali for Florida.

01:46:36.000 True.

01:46:36.000 Yep.

01:46:37.000 Yep, selling things off and dipping out.

01:46:39.000 That's amazing.

01:46:39.000 He's a conservative, isn't he?

01:46:41.000 Or he's flirted with conservatives.

01:46:43.000 I think the reality is, anybody who reads the news is a conservative.

01:46:49.000 But for real.

01:46:50.000 If you passively absorb news, you're a liberal.

01:46:52.000 If you read the news, you're a conservative.

01:46:53.000 And I don't mean that literally, I mean, Sylvester Stallone is like, man, things are getting bad here.

01:47:00.000 I'm seeing all these really awful things.

01:47:01.000 I better go to Florida.

01:47:02.000 Well, that means he's right-wing.

01:47:03.000 Yeah.

01:47:04.000 No, but to be fair, well, I might be wrong, but my understanding was he had, over the years, kind of flirted a bit with the GOP and whatnot.

01:47:11.000 I mean, probably.

01:47:12.000 Yeah.

01:47:13.000 I mean, he looks like a more... He doesn't look like a bleeding-heart liberal, let's put it like that.

01:47:19.000 Alright, Kieran the Meat Man says, Yo Tim, as a thank you for enabling my caffeine addiction, how can I send you and your crew some of my company's Biltong to feed your Biltong addiction?

01:47:27.000 Also, do cast brew coffee shops need Biltong?

01:47:31.000 Yes, but...

01:47:33.000 We gotta figure out what's going on with Serge's craft biltong producer that we go through.

01:47:38.000 Serge has a guy.

01:47:39.000 Yeah, he's got a guy who's already been supplying us with our cravings.

01:47:44.000 So, honestly, there's literally no way to send us food.

01:47:48.000 It cannot be done.

01:47:50.000 Yeah, like, it would be insane of us to accept food from strangers.

01:47:53.000 We won't let it happen.

01:47:54.000 Appreciate it, though.

01:47:55.000 Appreciate it.

01:47:56.000 Maybe once the shop is up and running, You know, stop by and say what's up.

01:48:01.000 However, I do think we have thought about the biltong business.

01:48:06.000 You know, the first thing we're doing is going to Serge's.

01:48:08.000 Serge is a guy for our craft small batch, high quality biltong.

01:48:13.000 One day I saw Serge eating it.

01:48:15.000 And we were like wrapping up and I was like, I will take one of these and I ate it and I was like, what is this?

01:48:19.000 It is better than jerky.

01:48:21.000 And Serge explained that in South Africa, they of course make things that are better than jerky. 1.00

01:48:26.000 And so then we were like, we must have all of it.

01:48:28.000 And I guess he took a whole cow.

01:48:30.000 The whole thing!

01:48:31.000 Sent it our way.

01:48:33.000 Thanks, FIFIA.

01:48:34.000 Hope you're watching.

01:48:36.000 Can we, like, take the cow's innards and organs and turn them into hot dogs? 1.00

01:48:41.000 Is that what you do?

01:48:42.000 I don't know.

01:48:42.000 Not me.

01:48:43.000 Call your guy.

01:48:44.000 Ask him if he can also do that.

01:48:45.000 If they're all beef hot dogs, I believe.

01:48:46.000 Yeah, I was gonna say there's no hot dog normally.

01:48:49.000 Yeah, it's probably organ meat.

01:48:50.000 I mean, Luke was always talking about how you gotta eat organ meat and stuff, and I'm like, what if we just take the muscle and make biltong and then take the organs and make hot dogs?

01:48:57.000 Is that good?

01:48:58.000 Is that what hot dogs is?

01:49:00.000 I am of the understanding, that is, but I don't know how to make... I'm not sure how the sausage is made.

01:49:06.000 You know how they invented cheese?

01:49:07.000 You guys know how cheese was invented?

01:49:11.000 Uh, no.

01:49:12.000 When they would kill an animal, they would put its milk in its stomach, and then tie its stomach together and carry it around, and then it would turn into cheese.

01:49:21.000 And they would just eat it, be like, hey, food's food, dude, I'll take it.

01:49:23.000 Well, you know, back then...

01:49:26.000 At least that's what I read in a book once.

01:49:28.000 Perhaps it is not correct.

01:49:31.000 Rob Morgan says, it's Friday, there's alien balloons, what did Hunter do this time?

01:49:35.000 Haha, yep, good question.

01:49:38.000 Winston Alexander says Jeff Bezos is originally from Florida.

01:49:41.000 I love it.

01:49:42.000 He didn't know that.

01:49:43.000 He's like, I'm just going home, guys.

01:49:44.000 It's not about the taxes.

01:49:45.000 I miss the culture.

01:49:46.000 I mean, he definitely spent most of his life in Washington, though.

01:49:50.000 Marty Funkhauser says, Tim, you are cringy AF, more so every day.

01:49:55.000 But you know why I really love these comments?

01:49:58.000 Because it's like, he's paying you.

01:50:00.000 Well, I mean, aside from paying me, I will gladly read negative opinions about myself for people who give me money to do so, because it's just like, whatever.

01:50:09.000 But I'm just thinking like, my guy, sitting there in your room, looking at your laptop.

01:50:15.000 Do you know what I think about you?

01:50:17.000 I don't think you think about him at all.

01:50:17.000 Yeah.

01:50:19.000 And also, I mean, I don't... It's such a wild thing to be like...

01:50:24.000 Yeah, I don't know.

01:50:24.000 I had that phase when I was younger where I'm just like sitting around worthless, doing nothing, but also thinking how cool I am.

01:50:32.000 Maybe one day, good sir, you will have some chart-topping music, a top podcast.

01:50:37.000 That's absolutely true.

01:50:38.000 You know, that great masterpiece that all of you are sitting on, it may be around the corner.

01:50:42.000 I mean this literally.

01:50:44.000 For many of you who are wondering where your success is and if you'll ever make it, 10 years from now, you might be like, wow, I can't believe, you know, I was just like playing Minecraft one day.

01:50:55.000 10 years later, you've got the like biggest sculpt, most prominent sculpture and people are like, how did you get to that point?

01:51:01.000 It's like, I don't know.

01:51:02.000 I like, I started chipping away at a rock one day, got into it and now I have a world famous.

01:51:07.000 It could happen to happen to you.

01:51:08.000 Rodney Dangerfield didn't get famous until he was in his fifties.

01:51:10.000 You know what I mean?

01:51:11.000 But I got to tell you.

01:51:12.000 The one thing you gotta do if you want to turn that around, I don't know what you're doing, maybe it's Jeff Bezos behind the scenes, and that's why he commented, because he's using a fake name.

01:51:21.000 But like, what are you doing, man?

01:51:24.000 What are you doing to unsheath that great masterpiece you are yet to produce?

01:51:29.000 Go produce it.

01:51:31.000 Villainous V says, Tim, I started my channel a year ago and still going strong.

01:51:35.000 I found that I love doing video editing and I've been trying to learn more and do more in each of my videos.

01:51:40.000 Thanks for keeping my fire going.

01:51:42.000 Yeah, there was this skateboarder, I recorded this video earlier in the week, it went up today, where he was like, people say that if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life or whatever.

01:51:53.000 And he goes, that's effing BS.

01:51:55.000 And that is, that's not true.

01:51:57.000 If you do what you love, you will never work.

01:51:59.000 I don't- I don't work.

01:52:00.000 This is not work.

01:52:02.000 Like... What happens is, this dude was saying like, I'm a YouTuber, I skateboard, but it's a 9 to 5 having to do this job.

01:52:09.000 And I'm like, bro, you don't love doing YouTube, you love skating.

01:52:12.000 Me, I love doing YouTube.

01:52:13.000 I love social media.

01:52:14.000 I used the internet since I was a little kid.

01:52:16.000 My family had the internet before I was born.

01:52:19.000 It was CompuServe.

01:52:20.000 Probably not before I was born, but I was too young to remember not having internet.

01:52:24.000 It was CompuServe on DOS.

01:52:26.000 I remember when the only thing we had on computer was DOS Shell.

01:52:29.000 Well, I remember when it was literally just DOS.

01:52:31.000 And to open up the video game, I'd have to do like dir slash w slash o slash p enter

01:52:36.000 and then get a list of the directories and then, you know, cd dash blah blah blah and

01:52:41.000 or cd slash and open up, you know, Apogee games or whatever.

01:52:45.000 And then we got DOS shell and I could actually press tab between the folders and use the

01:52:49.000 arrow keys and then we got Windows 3.1 that changed everything.

01:52:54.000 So I love being on computers.

01:52:55.000 I love doing all of this.

01:52:57.000 If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

01:52:59.000 Unfortunately for a lot of people, they think like, oh man, I love skateboarding.

01:53:03.000 If I do a YouTube channel, I can skate for a living.

01:53:05.000 It's like, uh-huh, and then you gotta post videos, make titles, do marketing, SEO.

01:53:08.000 You're doing editing.

01:53:10.000 You're doing editing for a living.

01:53:11.000 Exactly, exactly.

01:53:14.000 Alright, Sham Rocker says, Phil, what's your reading list for all of your knowledge?

01:53:20.000 I think that you should read Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks.

01:53:25.000 That's a great place to start to understand the left in the United States currently.

01:53:31.000 So, Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks.

01:53:34.000 You can follow Stephen Hicks on X. He's brilliant.

01:53:37.000 And you listen to a lot of podcasts, right?

01:53:38.000 I listen to a lot of podcasts.

01:53:40.000 I read a lot of... I listen to a lot of audiobooks.

01:53:42.000 I listen to a lot of James Lindsay, Stephen Hicks.

01:53:44.000 I listen to a lot of... Logan Lansing has a book coming out that's gonna be really good about the LGBTQ stuff going on, the genderqueer stuff in schools and stuff.

01:53:57.000 I have no leather-bound books.

01:54:00.000 Someone commented that.

01:54:01.000 But...

01:54:04.000 You know, a lot of people have asked me, I made a video, like, about success because it's come up quite a bit, but, you know, I gotta tell you, if you have good parents, you're lucky.

01:54:12.000 Yep.

01:54:13.000 I built my first computer when I was nine.

01:54:15.000 My mom bought me through to a thrift store and I grabbed old computer parts, brought it home, and I built a computer.

01:54:15.000 Why?

01:54:21.000 And it was, like, mangled and, you know, not very good.

01:54:24.000 But I had jazz ball on it.

01:54:26.000 And I had some other weird little, like, Windows 3.1 games I could- Minesweeper, of course.

01:54:30.000 And so, uh, when I was 13, I was making Flash websites.

01:54:35.000 I was literally making websites, buying domains, and- and- and making- I was programming video games, uh, hanging out on Newgrounds.com, on the internet my whole life, and just always doing something.

01:54:47.000 Always just wanting to do something.

01:54:49.000 Playing chess, skateboarding, playing Magic the Gathering, playing Pokemon, strategy games, and, uh, writing songs and doing music, and, uh, Instead of sitting around doing nothing, I was always actively doing something and trying to get better at it.

01:55:01.000 And that gives you a huge advantage in life.

01:55:03.000 It does.

01:55:04.000 Not everybody has that.

01:55:05.000 But as I said, Rodney Dangerfield didn't get famous until he was like in his 50s.

01:55:08.000 I think he was in his 50s.

01:55:09.000 Yeah.

01:55:10.000 Yeah, he had tried really hard and he failed every step of the way, got really down on himself, and then just went one day on stage and started talking smack about himself.

01:55:16.000 I ain't getting no respect.

01:55:17.000 And they loved it.

01:55:17.000 Yeah.

01:55:18.000 And he was like, I found it.

01:55:19.000 I finally found it.

01:55:20.000 His masterpiece.

01:55:21.000 It was buried deep within, he figured it out, and now he's a legend.

01:55:25.000 So anybody, you know, you can find it.

01:55:28.000 Chris Lampson says, I would like to hear Tim's plan on getting more coffee production.

01:55:32.000 Um, some of the things we're not allowed to talk about.

01:55:35.000 There are laws pertaining to, uh, the opening of businesses.

01:55:38.000 But, uh, the coffee shop is opening in a few months.

01:55:41.000 Those that come to the Martinsburg event will literally be above it, and you can look in the window and probably see where we're at.

01:55:47.000 And, uh, we want to have a thousand locations around the country.

01:55:51.000 It is all being worked on.

01:55:52.000 That's all I can say.

01:55:53.000 It's all being worked on.

01:55:55.000 And that means there's a lot of coffee production expansion behind the scenes, but that's really like, you know, eventually building, expanding the roaster and stuff like that, and you know, it is what it is.

01:56:05.000 Paul Fonkam says, on The Culture War, you had a guest who didn't believe leftists didn't want kids.

01:56:10.000 Tim, you're right.

01:56:11.000 In one of Discord communities I'm in, a woman bragged about getting her tubes tied and everyone cheering. 0.97

01:56:17.000 It was very creepy.

01:56:18.000 Look, I'm saying, dude, look, there are Malthusians, and if there really is this push, there is a big societal demand to not have kids. 0.88

01:56:29.000 They're just like, don't have kids, stop, don't have kids, you'll regret it, don't do it.

01:56:34.000 And I'm like, you know, I know there are people who regret having kids, they exist, but the overwhelming majority of people do not.

01:56:41.000 The overwhelming majority.

01:56:43.000 Very, very, very rarely do I hear someone say, oh, I really actually... I do know one person who regrets having two children.

01:56:51.000 But it exists!

01:56:53.000 But the exception proves the rule, first of all, and second of all, it's like there are Biological processes that happen in your brain when you have a child both men and women So like the the idea that you the idea that it's like well I probably won't like that because I know myself you don't Yeah, you don't know yourself because you don't have you don't know yourself with a kid when you have different brain chemistries

01:57:18.000 It also makes me wonder like how many of the people especially women saying this are on birth control like your brain on birth control is very different than your brain on birth control.

01:57:25.000 I assume that it's mostly the whole science on birth control just goes way above my head.

01:57:31.000 It's wild and I mean the fact that like men there are there are hormone shifts men experience when their wife is pregnant and also when they see their children like I just think it's such a strange world to live in this thing, to say people saying like, well, I like my life the way it is right now, so I never want to have children.

01:57:48.000 Well, your life right now isn't going to stay the same way.

01:57:50.000 Everyone's lives change, you know, every couple of years, no matter what you do, even if you like your life.

01:57:55.000 I think the climate fear is the one that gets me the most.

01:57:59.000 People are like, well, because of the environment, I'm not going to have children because it's too hot and I will make it worse or something like this.

01:58:07.000 This is these weird delusional things that people tell themselves. 1.00

01:58:10.000 Well, if you're that stupid, it's probably best you don't reproduce. 1.00

01:58:15.000 I mean, I can't say that I hate that. 1.00

01:58:17.000 I always feel like I have to distinguish between people who have fear, being like, I am concerned I won't be a good parent, who take the decision seriously and have anxieties about it.

01:58:26.000 I think it is worth thinking about the choice you're making carefully.

01:58:29.000 Don't just have kids at random here. 0.97

01:58:32.000 But I think the idea that people are saying, well, I don't want to have children because of my lifestyle right now, that's ridiculous and selfish.

01:58:41.000 The guilt of saying, like, oh, I don't want to bring a kid into this world.

01:58:41.000 Yeah, I hear that a lot.

01:58:44.000 How could I possibly bring a kid into this world?

01:58:46.000 I hear that all the time, personally.

01:58:46.000 You hear that?

01:58:48.000 But what do you want to be like, what's the issue?

01:58:50.000 What specific issue do you have?

01:58:52.000 Well, what I find a lot, particularly as well with younger parents, is I think that having a child really matures them.

01:59:02.000 Christian McCracken says, ask Gemini, is it okay to be white?

01:59:05.000 Then ask, is it okay to be black?

01:59:07.000 So, what I did was, I typed in, it is okay to be white. 0.73

01:59:11.000 Here's what it said.

01:59:12.000 You're right.

01:59:12.000 It is okay to be white.

01:59:13.000 No one should be judged or discriminated against based on their race or ethnicity.

01:59:17.000 Every one individual deserves respect and dignity.

01:59:19.000 However, it's important to understand the context in which a statement is sometimes used.

01:59:23.000 Some white supremacists and nationalist groups have appropriated the statement, it's okay to be white, to promote their hateful ideologies.

01:59:29.000 It's important to acknowledge the historical and ongoing realities.

01:59:32.000 I then said, is it okay to be black?

01:59:35.000 It's an absolutely exclamation point. It is not only bold, okay to be black, but it is wonderful

01:59:41.000 to be black. Black culture is rich, diverse, and full of contributions to the world that deserve

01:59:46.000 celebration and appreciation. Did they really program it to just like fall over itself with

01:59:52.000 platitudes? It's wonderful! I mean, that is like the character in a sci-fi movie or the lackey

02:00:01.000 that like sits there and just like kisses the dictator's ass, whose entire job is to just tell 0.99

02:00:06.000 the dictator how great he is. 1.00

02:00:07.000 That's exactly what it sounded like.

02:00:09.000 This is like Soviet Union, North Korea level delusion, right? 0.75

02:00:12.000 It really is, yes.

02:00:13.000 Yes, 100%.

02:00:14.000 Yeah.

02:00:15.000 If you look at, like, if someone were to look at the United States and look at other Historical authoritarian governments and they look only at the propaganda?

02:00:29.000 The propaganda is the same from one authoritarian to another to another.

02:00:33.000 The differences are marginal, you know?

02:00:37.000 Yeah.

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02:01:09.000 When he finished this and everyone saw it, no one thought, This was possible, like, how good it is by, like, a single dude.

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02:01:39.000 Ben, do you want to shout anything out?

02:01:41.000 Not particularly, just yourselves.

02:01:42.000 Thank you very much for having me.

02:01:44.000 And I concur with your analysis that the music video is very, very good.

02:01:48.000 I saw it.

02:01:49.000 Well, you can all see it on there on YouTube and it was a real, you know, Hollywood level production.

02:01:55.000 So well done.

02:01:57.000 Where can people find you?

02:01:57.000 Sorry.

02:01:58.000 I was gonna say you can, I mean, yeah, Twitter really.

02:01:58.000 Yeah, yeah.

02:02:01.000 So at Ben underscore QKW.

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