Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - WE ARE TAKING CUBA | Timcast IRL #1459 w- Priya Patel

00:01:59.000 Donald Trump has floated the idea of a friendly takeover of Cuba.

00:02:03.000 Now, I'm not exactly sure what a friendly takeover of Cuba would look like, but apparently it's going to mean a lot of cigars for everybody and a whole lot more vacations for people in Florida.

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00:06:42.000 So starting off tonight, from the hill, Trump floats friendly takeover of Cuba.

00:06:42.000 All right.

00:06:48.000 President Trump on Friday suggested the U.S. could carry out a friendly takeover of Cuba as the president has used a fuel blockade to increase the pressure on the communist regime in Havana.

00:06:57.000 The Cuban government is talking with us.

00:06:59.000 They're in a big deal of trouble, as you know.

00:07:01.000 They have no money, no anything right now, Trump told reporters.

00:07:04.000 Maybe we'll have a friendly takeover of Cuba.

00:07:06.000 We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba.

00:07:09.000 Trump imposed a fuel blockade on the island in an executive order at the end of January in a push to collapse the regime, which relies heavily on energy and food imports.

00:07:18.000 The United Nations top official for Cuba warned on Wednesday that daily life on the island is becoming fragile with increased strains on health care, water services, and food distribution.

00:07:28.000 U.S. officials reportedly met Thursday with the grandson of 94-year-old former President Raul Castro, considered the de facto leader of the totalitarian regime, on the sidelines of a conference in the Caribbean attended by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

00:07:41.000 Marco Rubio has got to be excited about this.

00:07:44.000 You know, with his Cuban heritage, he's had pretty critical words for Cuba.

00:07:50.000 I think most presidents generally are fairly critical, except for maybe Barack Obama.

00:07:56.000 But, you know, considering the history that the United States and Cuba has, what do you guys think the chances of Cuba becoming a territory are?

00:08:07.000 I think they're relatively high and growing.

00:08:09.000 And I know a lot of Cubans are in large favor of this, whether they fled Cuba to come here or whether they're still in Cuba.

00:08:17.000 I know that this is a very popular position among a lot of them.

00:08:20.000 It's an interesting aspect of the immigration debate because we've talked pretty heavily about the idea of moratorium on immigration.

00:08:28.000 We can't have, yeah, well, you know what I'm saying, right?

00:08:30.000 But the people who still do hold that kind of overly romanticized idea of immigration to the United States, the Cuban immigrants are the ones that they hold that for because so many of them risked so much to come here and kind of take in and really portray American values.

00:08:47.000 But I somehow don't see this happening.

00:08:49.000 But I'm also team nothing ever changes.

00:08:51.000 So it's possible.

00:08:52.000 Would Cuba becoming a territory of the United States has changed?

00:08:57.000 I wasn't sure how.

00:08:57.000 Yes.

00:08:57.000 All right.

00:08:57.000 Yeah.

00:08:58.000 We have Greenland yet.

00:08:59.000 You guys paid more attention to politics.

00:09:01.000 We don't have Greenland, but there is an agreement that is alleged to have been drawn up where the U.S. will have an increased military presence to defend against Russia and the Golden Dome is going to happen. 0.73

00:09:13.000 So I think the whole Greenland thing was like the big ask that Donald Trump does.

00:09:17.000 We're just going to take the whole thing.

00:09:19.000 And really what they wanted was to be able to have more influence on things like the military situation and there's a lot of natural resources there.

00:09:30.000 They wanted companies to be able to get in there.

00:09:31.000 Yeah, the president does a lot of these, for lack of a better word, scare tactics where he just kind of threatens something really, really big.

00:09:37.000 But we actually want a diplomatic issue or diplomatic solution for these things.

00:09:42.000 We don't want all-out war or anything of this sort.

00:09:46.000 Like we want something to come together relatively peaceful and something that benefits both sides.

00:09:51.000 So you think he's just looking to get McDonald's into Cuba?

00:09:54.000 Absolutely.

00:09:54.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:09:55.000 So what's the big ask here then?

00:09:56.000 Is just to get the Cuban cigars out and get them to.

00:09:58.000 I mean, look.

00:10:00.000 Or he wants all the cars.

00:10:03.000 You might want to look at the climate down there means that all those cars from the 50s are still in generally good condition.

00:10:08.000 But I do think that I think that Donald Trump would, if he could actually make it happen, I think he would like to see Cuba become a U.S. territory.

00:10:17.000 I think he probably conceives of it as something like, well, we've got Puerto Rico as a U.S. territory.

00:10:22.000 It's right in the same area.

00:10:23.000 Why not kind of a deal?

00:10:25.000 And also the fact that the Cuban government has been so inept because of their socialist policies, like the Cuban people seem to be pretty interested in getting out of there, getting on a raft made of two-liter bottles of Coke or whatever to go the 90 miles from Cuba to Miami. 0.82

00:10:44.000 Yeah.

00:10:44.000 So what is it?

00:10:46.000 The Castro regime really, really seized and stole that country for 60 years. 0.95

00:10:51.000 And it sounds like what Raul, did you say, was it 93 years old, Raul Castro?

00:10:55.000 No.

00:10:56.000 He's old.

00:10:56.000 Raul.

00:10:56.000 I think so.

00:10:57.000 Yeah, Royal Castro's like war. 0.86

00:10:59.000 The late great Fidel Castro's brother is in charge.

00:11:02.000 So I think it's crazy.

00:11:04.000 Just like, yeah.

00:11:05.000 You want like great in scope, not necessarily in like ethics, but sure, sure, sure.

00:11:09.000 Just like we want to take Greenland to secure the Northwest Passage and we want Panama Canal to secure trade.

00:11:14.000 We want Middle Eastern security to pass through the Suez, all these things.

00:11:18.000 The Russians would, during the Cold War, that was where their nukes were in Cuba.

00:11:22.000 I was just thinking that, yeah.

00:11:23.000 And so that's a huge liability if we do erupt into some global cataclysmic war.

00:11:28.000 We need to secure Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, all those islands, I think, should be American.

00:11:34.000 It's a very hegemonic, aggressive way to look.

00:11:37.000 But when we got Cuba freed from the Spanish Empire, late 1800s, 1898, I think it was a Spanish-American War.

00:11:43.000 And after that, instead of taking Cuba, we decided we're going to make Cuba a free state.

00:11:48.000 They can do what they want.

00:11:49.000 And then some communist dictator took it.

00:11:51.000 So like at some point, you kind of got to protect your own, you know, your assets and your localities.

00:11:55.000 Maybe it's what I said before.

00:11:56.000 Maybe he just really wants Pitbull to do the Super Bowl halftime show.

00:12:00.000 And if we're going to have an American do it, we're going to have to take Cuba so that Pitbull can do it. 1.00

00:12:00.000 I'm so here. 1.00

00:12:05.000 Mr. Worldwide.

00:12:05.000 Yeah.

00:12:06.000 It does make sense with the whole Monroe doctrine, the focus on the Monroe Doctrine.

00:12:11.000 If you're unaware, the U.S. is kind of looking at Europe and the demographic changes over there.

00:12:15.000 And they're saying in 30, 40 years, Europe's going to be a very different place because of the influx of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa. 1.00

00:12:25.000 They're not really even sure that they share the same values that they used to.

00:12:29.000 There's a lot of the stuff that's going on with free speech over there.

00:12:32.000 So the U.S. has decided they're going to focus more on South America and North America and kind of enforce the Monroe Doctrine.

00:12:39.000 And I mean, this does fall kind of in line with that.

00:12:43.000 What I'm wondering is that, sorry if I cut you off.

00:12:46.000 No, it's not anymore.

00:12:47.000 I almost want to call it a false flag when these Americans got killed by Cubans like four days ago or something. 1.00

00:12:52.000 And I'm like overloaded with information with the news.

00:12:55.000 So I didn't really look into it.

00:12:56.000 I'm like, is this another false flag, a Bay of Pigs, you know, the Bay of Pigs invasion?

00:13:00.000 Bay of Pigs wasn't a false flag.

00:13:01.000 They tried a failure.

00:13:02.000 They tried to get Kennedy to set up a false flag to get an invasion of Cuba in the 60s and he wouldn't sign off on it.

00:13:07.000 The Joyce Chiefs wanted him.

00:13:08.000 It was called Operation Northwoods.

00:13:10.000 And Kennedy refused.

00:13:12.000 That wasn't a false flag, though, wasn't it? 0.98

00:13:13.000 They wanted him to stage a false flag where they would take, what was it, Americans or take Cubans, dress them up as Americans, and then kill them.

00:13:19.000 And they would be like, look, they attacked Americans. 0.83

00:13:21.000 Kennedy wouldn't do it.

00:13:23.000 So I'm like, that's where my head goes to when I hear about Cubans killed Americans. 0.96

00:13:27.000 And now all of a sudden, four days later, it's like, yeah, we want Cuba.

00:13:30.000 I'm like, bro, what are they doing?

00:13:31.000 Are they psyopping?

00:13:32.000 And I'm on Team America here, bro.

00:13:34.000 I want to stabilize the region, you know, unnecessary conflict down with that.

00:13:39.000 I mean, I'm pretty hardlined about, you know, Alberta can't become part of the United States.

00:13:44.000 We don't want any more, we don't want voting from countries that are generally not conservative and not, you know, not friendly to our system and stuff.

00:13:55.000 I do think that Cubans probably would be better voters than Quebecois, you know. 0.84

00:14:03.000 I am an American people top hat.

00:14:05.000 Miami would indicate that, right?

00:14:07.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:14:08.000 For the most part, I think, though, they did vote blue in the last mayor, but they flipped, right?

00:14:14.000 They flipped red in 2024, I believe.

00:14:16.000 And then, yeah, they voted a Democrat mayor into office this last November.

00:14:22.000 Well, I mean, does that count as flipping back blue because they voted a Democrat mayor?

00:14:26.000 Or what's their vote?

00:14:28.000 What's their representative?

00:14:29.000 They had a relatively conservative mayor prior to this.

00:14:33.000 So, I mean.

00:14:34.000 It's Broward County?

00:14:35.000 Yeah.

00:14:36.000 Is it?

00:14:37.000 I don't know who they're representing in Congress is, though, is what I'm saying.

00:14:37.000 I don't know.

00:14:42.000 I think that kind of matters, too.

00:14:44.000 I do think that it would usher in kind of a, because depending on how hardline you are on immigration, like I was saying earlier, if you're an American who's not necessarily in the space that we're in, where you talk about immigration the way we have, which is like caravans, what it's done to the economy, all of that.

00:15:00.000 If you still have that kind of romanticized ideal, and people have been, we've been dealing with so many people coming here and hating to be here, flying the Mexican flag while protesting, you know, last summer.

00:15:14.000 And so with that going on, you know, they're protesting with Mexican flags to not be kicked out of America.

00:15:14.000 Yeah.

00:15:20.000 The idea of people who actually want to come here and want to share the same values that we do, that's going to be very inviting to a lot of Americans who also will be scared of being told that they're racist or they're sexist because they want to clamp down on immigration.

00:15:33.000 I got a lot of crap because I said Anna DiArmis is a brown girl when she's, because she's Cuban and people, there are a lot of people like, she's white, she's white. 1.00

00:15:41.000 So I'm not sure the racist thing is. 0.98

00:15:42.000 You point out to say it doesn't matter.

00:15:44.000 Like, I don't want somebody coming from Eastern Europe either at this point. 1.00

00:15:47.000 Like, nobody should be coming in.

00:15:49.000 Honestly, I don't really want anybody coming.

00:15:50.000 Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

00:15:53.000 A hardcore immigration restrictionist, at least right now.

00:15:56.000 10 years got a 10-year moratorium so we can get off.

00:16:00.000 Dude, we did this as recently as the 1950s.

00:16:04.000 Like, I don't understand why it's such a novel concept for most people.

00:16:08.000 And this isn't to say that I hate all immigrants, obviously. 0.96

00:16:10.000 It's like the brains of goldfish. 0.98

00:16:12.000 No, it's not that.

00:16:13.000 It's literally, well, I mean, it's partially that, but it's also the hatred of America.

00:16:16.000 So you saw the video.

00:16:17.000 You guys had to have talked about it the other day, but the lady who, her and her, her partner fled to Canada, found out that the cost of living was too high.

00:16:25.000 Yeah, and she's and then said, Oh, but we respect the immigration laws here completely.

00:16:30.000 And I was like, Look, this could be the one rare example where she's far left on literally everything except immigration, which would have been hilarious.

00:16:36.000 But we can assume what her views are on immigration based on the rest of her beliefs.

00:16:41.000 You can infer.

00:16:42.000 And the idea that you would respect the Canadian immigration rules, but not hold the same truth for your own country is absurd.

00:16:49.000 But you can blatantly ask the large majority of liberals on the street, like, okay, if I were to go and move into Germany uninvited without proper documentation, should I be allowed to stay?

00:17:01.000 And all of them will say no.

00:17:02.000 They basically exactly.

00:17:04.000 They basically confirm that you should abide by the laws of every other country when it comes to immigration, except for here. 0.86

00:17:10.000 That's also their own, that's their own weird white supremacy where they believe that other people are somehow inferior to us because of what we have as a country.

00:17:21.000 So they would believe that because you're an American, that you have a privilege.

00:17:25.000 So therefore, you don't have the right to do that.

00:17:27.000 Somebody coming from a poorer nation does have that right because they're just higher on the oppression. 0.98

00:17:32.000 Well, they're just coming here for a better life, always.

00:17:35.000 They're always seeking a better life.

00:17:36.000 And we owe it to them as the most prosperous country in the world to just hand it to them.

00:17:41.000 Even though pretty much for the rest of this country's history, we've had certain immigration laws and customs that we've required everyone to go through so that we retain that status. 0.74

00:17:52.000 Yeah.

00:17:52.000 Retain the quality.

00:17:53.000 Like, bro, I'm searching for a better life.

00:17:56.000 There's supposed to be like, there's supposed to be, you know, certain criteria that you meet to be able to come to the United States and become a citizen.

00:18:04.000 It shouldn't just be that you can get to a port of entry and oh, I'm going to claim asylum.

00:18:08.000 Well, you came through other countries to get here.

00:18:10.000 You should be in the first safe country.

00:18:12.000 And we used to have to, we used to be like, look, you know, are you a communist?

00:18:16.000 Do you have affiliation with communists?

00:18:19.000 And look, man, I'm all for reinstating the Communist Control Act of 1953. 0.64

00:18:23.000 I know there's a couple parts that the Supreme Court said were unconstitutional.

00:18:27.000 They didn't say the whole thing was.

00:18:29.000 So let's get on that, man, because we got problems here.

00:18:33.000 Well, but like, also, look, we used to literally kick people out, even if they did come here legally, we used to kick them out of the country for not assimilating. 0.83

00:18:41.000 We wouldn't employ them and then we'd kick them out.

00:18:43.000 And honestly, we should get back to that because guess what? 0.98

00:18:45.000 You shouldn't come here and bring your garbage third world culture and erode our culture because that's exactly what you fled from. 1.00

00:18:52.000 Like, I just don't understand why this is such a novel concept for so many people. 0.95

00:18:56.000 Well, can I, sorry, let me just ask this really quick.

00:18:58.000 Puerto Ricans, can they freely travel through the United States? 0.94

00:19:01.000 They're in American territory, yes.

00:19:03.000 So if we'd made Cuba territory, you talk about immigration, like it's just de facto immigration.

00:19:03.000 Okay.

00:19:08.000 You immigrate. 0.94

00:19:09.000 Well, I don't necessarily know that we should make Cuba an American territory.

00:19:13.000 Like, would I be in favor of doing something similar to what we just did in Venezuela?

00:19:18.000 Maybe.

00:19:19.000 But like, I think it's important that we secure the region, but I don't know that I want to just invite a whole new country of people to just come here freely.

00:19:29.000 We could just get rid of Puerto Rico and take Cuba. 0.91

00:19:32.000 I would actually be in favor of swap.

00:19:34.000 I would trade.

00:19:35.000 I would trade.

00:19:36.000 Want all the islands.

00:19:38.000 I want all the cigars.

00:19:39.000 Yeah, all that bananas they grow down there and sugar and whatever else.

00:19:43.000 Yeah.

00:19:43.000 They got coffee beans down there.

00:19:43.000 The coffee.

00:19:45.000 So, so are we thumbs up or thumbs down on Cuba?

00:19:47.000 Well, yes.

00:19:48.000 I've been waiting for Cuba to become American my whole life.

00:19:51.000 I'm just surprised it hasn't happened yet. 0.99

00:19:53.000 I'm going to wait for the Castros to die, I think. 0.98

00:19:55.000 I'm actually really interested in what process Donald Trump is thinking about. 0.74

00:20:00.000 Because it's one thing for Donald Trump to talk about it.

00:20:02.000 Oh, yeah.

00:20:02.000 You know, but like, how exactly is he?

00:20:04.000 What's what does a friendly takeover look like?

00:20:06.000 And obviously, he didn't expand on it, so I don't think anyone really knows.

00:20:09.000 It's just Donald Trump kind of bloviating.

00:20:11.000 I always joke about this.

00:20:12.000 I'm like, I think the president sometimes doesn't even know what he's thinking.

00:20:16.000 No, he has no idea what he's going to say.

00:20:19.000 But it always works out.

00:20:20.000 I mean, as far as track records go, I trust him more than any president in my lifetime when it comes to foreign policy by a long, long shot.

00:20:28.000 But I think sometimes the president says things and he surprises himself.

00:20:32.000 He surprises himself.

00:20:33.000 He's like, I never said that.

00:20:34.000 He's always in a good way.

00:20:35.000 And I'm like, I'm here for it.

00:20:37.000 I trust you relatively.

00:20:38.000 Yes, I did say that.

00:20:39.000 Someone shows him the video.

00:20:40.000 He's like, oh, well, I was right, you know.

00:20:42.000 Exactly.

00:20:43.000 Does he get back to Air Force One and ask one of his staffers?

00:20:46.000 Like, could you figure out what a friendly takeover would look like so I can actually have the answer next time I have to?

00:20:51.000 Dude, Marco Rubio's sweating constantly.

00:20:54.000 As soon as Donald Trump gets to the podium, Marco Rubio's just like, oh, God, I'm going to get him another governor of Cuba.

00:21:00.000 Marco Rubio realizing he has to become Fidel Castro.

00:21:05.000 At least he's got a nice role.

00:21:06.000 I think a friendly takeover would be like a purchase.

00:21:08.000 That would be a purchase.

00:21:09.000 What other.

00:21:09.000 Yeah.

00:21:10.000 I mean, a friendly takeover kind of sounds like a polite theft almost.

00:21:14.000 Well, and like, yeah, I don't know.

00:21:17.000 I mean, that's what a hostile takeover is in business.

00:21:19.000 I mean, just you just open the doors of Guantanamo Bay and all the U.S. military just rolls out and says, okay, we're in charge now.

00:21:26.000 Well, see, what I think is going to happen, I think this is the president kind of teasing something.

00:21:30.000 And then the next time it's talked about, or if tensions rise between us and Cuba, it's going to be like, oh, no, we'll come kidnap your president like we did with Venezuela.

00:21:38.000 Like, we'll be easier with Cuba. 0.99

00:21:40.000 But it's just going to like the message that the president is going to portray to Cuba is just going to ramp up, ramp up, ramp up.

00:21:40.000 Exactly.

00:21:48.000 And then it's probably the actual solution is going to be somewhere in the middle.

00:21:53.000 Do you guys think that Trump is hoping that this kind of rhetoric would kind of get the Cuban people to apply pressure to the government?

00:22:01.000 I'm not sure how much pressure they can put on the government.

00:22:04.000 I don't know how heavy-handed the Cuban government is against the Cuban people, but I imagine if they start to be like, hey, you know.

00:22:11.000 Yeah.

00:22:13.000 Yeah.

00:22:14.000 It seems like a reverse big ask.

00:22:16.000 This one, instead of being like, we're going to invade Greenland and we're going to take it.

00:22:19.000 And then he scales it back.

00:22:20.000 We're like, we just want bases.

00:22:21.000 This one, he's like, I just want to be friends.

00:22:23.000 And then later he'll be like, come on, I already, I offered you the peaceful way.

00:22:26.000 Are you sure you're not going to take peace?

00:22:27.000 So he's going like the other angle.

00:22:29.000 Yeah.

00:22:30.000 And yeah, I think the people.

00:22:31.000 I really do think the president plays 5D chess most of the time.

00:22:34.000 Like, truly.

00:22:36.000 I mean, when we look at especially a lot of the negotiations when it comes to like a lot of these foreign conflicts, it always ends up being perfectly fine.

00:22:45.000 Like everyone that just fear mongers about the worst possible scenario, it never ends up being that way.

00:22:49.000 And I'm not saying that like it couldn't happen, obviously.

00:22:52.000 It very well could.

00:22:53.000 We could fall into ball-out war with some of these nations, but obviously, well, not Cuba particularly, but just in the sense of, you know, talking about a lot of these foreign policy issues.

00:23:05.000 And there's a lot of excitement surrounding a good amount of them.

00:23:11.000 Okay.

00:23:12.000 That's a very simple way to put it.

00:23:13.000 Yes.

00:23:15.000 Build a new hotel there.

00:23:16.000 Like Maragaza, except for out in Cuba.

00:23:16.000 Yeah.

00:23:19.000 Maragaza.

00:23:20.000 It's closer to home though.

00:23:21.000 It has been.

00:23:22.000 I'd rather go to Cuba than I'm.

00:23:23.000 Since the liberal economic order took over after World War II, they prevented total war.

00:23:28.000 We haven't had World War III, and that's really promising that it will never happen again doesn't mean it can't. 1.00

00:23:32.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:23:33.000 So limited, you know, limited conflict all over anyway. 0.98

00:23:38.000 What about I'm effervescently concerned with shit spiraling into totalitarian, like total war? 0.96

00:23:45.000 I mean, I understand your concern, but with Cuba, they don't have the backing that they, you know, this isn't, this isn't, you know, the 60s. 0.99

00:23:51.000 There's no Soviet Union, the Soviet Union.

00:23:53.000 China's not interested.

00:23:55.000 Russia has got their hands fast. 0.85

00:23:57.000 Yeah, this isn't going to be like a missile crisis 2.0 by any means necessary.

00:24:02.000 It's really just like essentially applying pressure to the government.

00:24:06.000 Look, like you either fix things or we're going to come in and fix it for you.

00:24:10.000 And that might look a little nicer depending on how.

00:24:14.000 compliant you are with us.

00:24:16.000 Yeah, you'll want to take our offers.

00:24:18.000 Our package, yeah.

00:24:19.000 I think he just wants this.

00:24:20.000 I think he wants Burger Kings.

00:24:22.000 He wants to put, or he wants to put McDonald's in there.

00:24:24.000 Put McDonald's there.

00:24:24.000 What he wants.

00:24:25.000 Bring the cigars here. 0.59

00:24:26.000 Yeah.

00:24:28.000 This is the exchange we're looking at.

00:24:29.000 Real free trade.

00:24:30.000 It's really free trade because Donald Trump's threatening with a military invasion.

00:24:34.000 Let McDonald's in.

00:24:35.000 Let McDonald's in.

00:24:37.000 Frankly invasion.

00:24:38.000 A gentle, nice invasion.

00:24:41.000 We're going to jump to this story here from the New York Times.

00:24:43.000 The birth rate is plunging.

00:24:45.000 Why some say that's a good thing?

00:24:47.000 Because they're anti-human.

00:24:48.000 The political class is worried about the historic drop, but the biggest change is among the youngest women who are the least ready to have children.

00:24:54.000 We can blame it on the girls. 1.00

00:24:56.000 That's fine with me.

00:24:56.000 The U.S. birth rate is declining.

00:24:58.000 Rose Paz's choice is help explain why. 1.00

00:25:03.000 Ms. Paz, 22, grew up in Salt Lake City, the eldest of three children, born when her mother, an immigrant from Mexico, was 16.

00:25:09.000 Her parents, a waitress and a cook, worked a lot, leaving her responsible for her younger siblings.

00:25:13.000 She remembers having to sleep, having to skip sleepovers and birthday parties to care for them.

00:25:19.000 Ms. Paz is studying for a bachelor's degree in marketing.

00:25:22.000 She has a serious boyfriend, but does not want to have children now.

00:25:25.000 I want to be financially stable and in a place I can call my own, she said.

00:25:28.000 I saw my parents get stressed over money, and I don't want my kid to experience that.

00:25:32.000 Not so long ago, women like Ms. Paz in their early 20s from backgrounds that are far from privileged would have been among the most likely to have children.

00:25:38.000 Now this group is a key contributor to the country's declining birth rate, which is at an all-time low, down by over 25% since 2007, the year the fall began.

00:25:46.000 Priya, do you have kids?

00:25:48.000 I don't.

00:25:48.000 I would love to have shame on you.

00:25:50.000 Shame on you.

00:25:50.000 I don't.

00:25:51.000 Why don't you have children?

00:25:52.000 I haven't found my husband yet.

00:25:54.000 But once I do, we'll get right on it.

00:25:55.000 Don't you worry.

00:25:57.000 So the way that they frame this as, you know, young women are deciding not to, that's strictly because of birth control and because of abortion.

00:26:09.000 I wouldn't say strictly, but those definitely.

00:26:11.000 Largely?

00:26:13.000 You know, I think they all play into each other.

00:26:16.000 Like those with the overall overarching idea or ideology behind feminism is largely a key factor in that. 1.00

00:26:26.000 I think that forcing women into the workforce was essentially the start of this downfall. 1.00

00:26:33.000 Yeah.

00:26:33.000 There's also a nihilistic view of the way the American economy is right now.

00:26:38.000 Now, you can't say that's not a part of it because that's affecting the men too, especially men who are still trying to hold on to the idea that they're going to have to be a provider, even if both of them are going to be working, which is what most relationships are these days.

00:26:50.000 Somebody's going to have to be the main provider in that family.

00:26:53.000 And there's a lot of nihilism around the idea that you're not going to own a home.

00:26:57.000 Who wants to raise a child if you don't actually own a home to live in?

00:27:00.000 Do you want to raise your kid in an apartment?

00:27:02.000 Do you want to own a home as a renter where the rent can be jacked up at any point in time?

00:27:07.000 They can evict you pretty easily.

00:27:08.000 Well, these days, not really with squatters' rules and such like that.

00:27:13.000 But the point is, is like it's putting the blame.

00:27:15.000 I did like the part where she's like, it kind of made her seem like unserious. 0.92

00:27:18.000 Like she had to skip sleepovers to make sure her brothers and sisters don't die.

00:27:22.000 Yeah, but that is, I mean, that's an ode to American narcissism.

00:27:27.000 That can be men or women, but in this case, they're framing it as a problem unique to women.

00:27:31.000 The piece goes on.

00:27:32.000 It says, the decline has prompted hand-wringing among portions of the political class, with some conservatives calling it the triumph of selfishness over sacrifice.

00:27:39.000 A report last month by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank titled Saving America by Saving the Family, warned that when a nation fails to preserve the family, the state soon fails to preserve itself.

00:27:51.000 Lord, I can't read tonight.

00:27:53.000 And I think that that actually is an important point, right?

00:27:56.000 Like your society is made up of the people.

00:28:00.000 And if you're not making more people, then you're actually allowing your society to age, decay, and you lose that vigor that comes from young people. 0.98

00:28:10.000 You lose a lot of the industriousness that comes from young people. 1.00

00:28:13.000 Old people or older people tend to be kind of stuck in their ways. 1.00

00:28:17.000 Young people tend to be the ones that are looking to try new things. 0.88

00:28:22.000 And if you don't have that vitality in your society, your society ends up turning into, you know, it loses that kind of edge, especially in a, you know, a time where things are changing so fast.

00:28:34.000 Yeah, well, look, I think that the big problem here is you're exactly right.

00:28:39.000 I mean, when people are super nihilistic when it comes to the country and the future of the country, they're less inclined to have children, yes.

00:28:46.000 But the problem is, is that every single aspect of society and the government is literally rigged against the people, but specifically my generation.

00:28:55.000 Like it's incredibly, job scarcity is a real thing.

00:28:59.000 Affordability is a real thing.

00:29:00.000 I mean, I live in Los Angeles and it's incredibly unobtainable to even think about owning a home.

00:29:07.000 I mean, the medium house price in California, not just Los Angeles, California is like $997,000.

00:29:16.000 I've got a friend that lives in Lakewood and he's got like, he's got a small house.

00:29:19.000 It's not some big thing, but it does have an upstairs and it's over a million dollars for his home.

00:29:23.000 Yeah.

00:29:23.000 Well, and like, look, California is not a representation of the rest of the country, obviously.

00:29:28.000 We're seeing that a lot in, you know, the affordability gas prices, things like that.

00:29:32.000 It's very much on the state and local level in that sense.

00:29:35.000 But I mean, it really is.

00:29:37.000 But, you know, wages reflect how the location looks.

00:29:41.000 And I mean, our wages are incredibly high compared to most of the country in California.

00:29:45.000 But, you know, that's not reflected in, you know, how people can't find homes.

00:29:50.000 Like, I mean, there's so many things that have, that have contributed to these issues, but virtually every aspect of society is just rigged against people being able to own their lives.

00:29:59.000 Like, we're all kind of slaves to debt at this point because we don't own anything.

00:30:05.000 Why would I ever think long-term if I don't have anything for myself?

00:30:08.000 I think that's the biggest issue with people of my generation.

00:30:11.000 They have no stake in the game.

00:30:12.000 So this is a bit of a sidetrack, but do you think that the Trump savings plans for babies that are born, right?

00:30:20.000 The goal of that is to give people like, you know, when you're 18, they have a stake because they own something.

00:30:26.000 Yeah.

00:30:26.000 Do you think that that's going to be something that younger generations are going to, do you think they'll, because I understand your point about Gen Z, they don't own anything, so they don't feel, and this goes to the talk about socialism and capitalism.

00:30:36.000 Like they don't feel like they own any property.

00:30:38.000 So why do they care about property rights or things like that?

00:30:42.000 Whereas if you have a bank account that has money in it, that when you turn 18, you know, do you think that's something that is going to actually affect the opinions of the young, like people being born now?

00:30:54.000 Yeah, I do think it will.

00:30:55.000 And I think it's going to affect people of my generation thinking about having kids now because people that do have that mindset maybe are a little bit more optimistic.

00:31:03.000 If, you know, if my kid is born between 2025 and 2028, or yeah, it was 2025 and 2028, that they're going to have X amount in a bank the second that they turn 18, even if I don't put a cent into it.

00:31:17.000 That's very hopeful for people when a lot of it is that reasoning.

00:31:22.000 Like I'm setting my kid up for a worse life than I currently have because prior generations, you work essentially to make your kids have a better life than you do.

00:31:33.000 But that's becoming not impossible, but that's becoming harder and harder.

00:31:37.000 We're seeing a little bit of that change with this new administration.

00:31:39.000 But like prior, it's just been getting worse.

00:31:42.000 The outcome just looks even more bleak.

00:31:45.000 So I do think that that is a massive factor.

00:31:47.000 And I mean, for me, I've, again, like, I don't have kids and I'm not married, but I've said, I'm like, I really want to have kids during this administration, like simply for that, you know?

00:31:54.000 I do believe that marriage, like, isn't the divorce rate declining slightly because people that are getting married are getting married later and they're being more, they're being choosier about who they actually settle down with.

00:32:04.000 Like my generation, the millennials were the product of your parents got divorced.

00:32:08.000 And that was kind of the song of that entire time period, right?

00:32:12.000 Was the romanticization of divorce and how you get through that?

00:32:17.000 So the way that it's kind of peaked into nihilism isn't surprising to me in any way, shape, or form.

00:32:22.000 And I've me and you have talked about this on the show before.

00:32:24.000 I said, look, they're not going to go to capitalism, at least not in my opinion.

00:32:28.000 They will go to ask the government for help because life has become too difficult to figure out for most people, anyways, these days.

00:32:35.000 Have you seen the things where it's like you go to apply for a job at a gas station, you have to do like a personality survey and stuff like that?

00:32:43.000 It's like it is unbelievably difficult just to do the base level things to survive now.

00:32:50.000 So they're nihilistic in the extreme in a lot of ways and they're attached to social media, which is giving them the worst that humanity has to offer day in and day out.

00:32:59.000 And I don't necessarily agree with the idea that you should fall into that type of nihilistic view of the future.

00:33:04.000 If anything, being here, working here has kind of shown me what the other side of that coin is.

00:33:09.000 And I was never a nihilistic person, but I get like our influences here aren't the norm.

00:33:15.000 Like, like the conservative influences aren't the majority of the country necessarily, maybe half, whatever.

00:33:20.000 But, you know, that's there's still a lot of influence from the rest of the culture that tells them don't do it.

00:33:25.000 It's not worth your time.

00:33:25.000 It's not worth it.

00:33:27.000 Go ahead.

00:33:27.000 No, I was just going to say, I think that I agree with you, but I think there is a clear split between the sexes in my generation.

00:33:35.000 You're seeing young men go really, really hard to the right and young women go really, really hard to the left.

00:33:41.000 And this is a trend that's been happening for a long time, but it's, it's, it's culturally because, again, like each side perceives the other side as rejecting them, but they're also splitting up for economic reasons for the same reason.

00:33:54.000 They're just going different directions.

00:33:55.000 Like young men are going to like hardcore on free market capitalism a lot of the times.

00:34:01.000 And then young women are really going hardcore towards socialism.

00:34:04.000 Well, the women for the exact same reason. 0.92

00:34:06.000 It's just different, different goals and outcomes.

00:34:09.000 I think, I mean, I think you mentioned it, but feminism has a lot to do with massively. 1.00

00:34:13.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:34:14.000 The idea that you can, that women should not aspire to be mothers, that women should not aspire to have a family. 0.96

00:34:22.000 Yeah.

00:34:23.000 And I understand that, like, you know, the fact that it takes dual income to just make ends meet now, like, that's definitely true.

00:34:31.000 But we got to this, or part of the reason we got to this point was because society has been telling young women that either you can have everything, you can do both of them, or you shouldn't even want to.

00:34:43.000 I think Murphy Brown in the 90s, when she was like, you know, a CEO and had a kid, and it was like, oh, well, I can do whatever, I can do all of it.

00:34:51.000 And you know what?

00:34:51.000 You can't do all of it.

00:34:52.000 And that's exactly, there are people that are capable of doing all of it, but everyone thinks they're the exception.

00:34:58.000 That's the problem.

00:34:59.000 They're not capable of doing it.

00:35:00.000 They have someone else raising the kid.

00:35:03.000 No, that is true.

00:35:04.000 You've got your kid in daycare all day, and a mother should be with the kid as much as possible.

00:35:09.000 I agree.

00:35:10.000 So the idea that they can do it all, no, you can't.

00:35:14.000 You hire someone to do it for you.

00:35:15.000 Yeah, it depends on what your idea of do-it-all, obviously, is.

00:35:19.000 But if you, yeah, want to be the boss, babe, CEO of a company and then have four kids, you're never going to be able to do it.

00:35:24.000 Someone else is going to raise it.

00:35:25.000 Exactly.

00:35:26.000 Somebody, or largely, you're going to be outsourcing things on a massive scale.

00:35:30.000 But the problem is, is that everyone has this like dream idealistic situation for their home life or their family life or how they want to raise their kids.

00:35:38.000 And most of the time, it's really unobtainable, especially now in today's society with, again, like costs of everything and, you know, just cultural norms at this point.

00:35:47.000 But really, feminism largely, but a lot of the other aspects of society, when we look at the economy, everything's just rigged against the nuclear family. 1.00

00:35:54.000 It's just the whole goal of all of this.

00:35:57.000 I'm going to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but like the whole goal of basically everything from, I mean, the last 178 years since like the birth of feminism, basically, has been to rig people against having the conventional nuclear family.

00:36:12.000 Well, yeah, I mean, not to get back into the socialism conversation, but that is the whole point.

00:36:17.000 One of the tenets of Marxism was to destroy the nuclear family and get rid of that because the things that make people not want to be obedient to the state is a good family, community.

00:36:29.000 And if they're both working, it doubles the amount of money the government.

00:36:32.000 Also, there are tax the government.

00:36:35.000 There's a messaging issue on the right, too, because a lot of times people will call into question.

00:36:39.000 They're like, look, it will be women on the right that are talking about the nuclear family and doing all of these things. 0.98

00:36:44.000 And they're like, well, you're working at a big media company.

00:36:48.000 You're Megan Kelly.

00:36:49.000 You're like, are you doing everything or is somebody helping you do it?

00:36:52.000 And, you know, unless you're already enamored with right-wing politics where you're willing to look that, you know, look over that and kind of not really take it for what it is.

00:36:59.000 But if you're somebody who's a lefty or you're more, I guess, undecided, you're like, eh, really?

00:37:06.000 Like, that job looks like you can be at the office a lot.

00:37:09.000 Like, it rings untrue, I think.

00:37:11.000 But I think a lot of the times, and not so much the Megan Kellys, but a lot of the newer social media influences kind of in my basket of things in the industry, they like wholeheartedly reject women working while at the same time having a social media job or something of that sort. 0.86

00:37:29.000 And it's like, well, you're just a hypocrite if you're telling me that I should be the most trad wife in the world. 0.85

00:37:35.000 And maybe you placate like that on the internet, but you're clearly not. 0.99

00:37:39.000 You're clearly working.

00:37:40.000 You're clearly, I mean, as much as people hate it, like a lot of these women, they dress up for men on the internet. 0.99

00:37:48.000 Like they're not, like, you might be wearing somewhat trad-looking clothing, but it's really not.

00:37:53.000 It's not costume.

00:37:54.000 It's cause, it's cosplay, and you're telling you're basically putting on the internet the message that men want to hear a lot of the times.

00:38:00.000 And you're, you're selling yourself in one way or the other on the internet.

00:38:03.000 So annoying when people wear costumes.

00:38:09.000 Right to the person.

00:38:10.000 Wait, what message are you trying to convey?

00:38:12.000 Exactly.

00:38:13.000 That's what I want to know.

00:38:15.000 He wants people to know that he wants to take them down to the Paradise City.

00:38:17.000 Yes, yes.

00:38:19.000 And the girls are pretty. 1.00

00:38:20.000 So, okay, I think they said that you want to leave the world better for your children than it was for your grandparents.

00:38:24.000 You know, like the world, it gets better every generation.

00:38:26.000 Of course, like, yeah, you want to make your kids' life better than yours.

00:38:29.000 Until Boomers still, that's people that will argue that Boomer's. 1.00

00:38:34.000 Boomers are like, sucks to me. 1.00

00:38:36.000 Like, you're going to have to pull yourself up by success. 1.00

00:38:37.000 Yeah, but they're the ones that screwed everything over for us.

00:38:40.000 I like the philosophy, and it's a good thing to aim at.

00:38:42.000 But like World War I, it got way worse for that generation than the generation before.

00:38:46.000 Like, they had probably the worst of anybody in the last few hundred years, maybe.

00:38:50.000 One of the worst industrial slaughter of humankind.

00:38:53.000 And the men coming back shell-shocked and unable to stand up straight from their trench foot warfare.

00:38:58.000 Okay, anyway, Hitler's a result of that. 0.96

00:39:00.000 You get people like that come out of that.

00:39:02.000 And then after that, the next generation, World War II, they probably were a little bit better off than the silent generation. 0.91

00:39:07.000 The World War I trench warfare was the most grotesque abuse.

00:39:11.000 So ever since then, it's gotten better every generation until maybe people are saying this generation is the first time when things are starting to fall off.

00:39:18.000 Well, yeah, obviously all of this is going to be in a somewhat way idealistic, but it's more on a practical sense.

00:39:26.000 Like, sure, yes, there could be some worldwide event that really screws everybody over.

00:39:30.000 That's kind of something that you can't really account for on that level.

00:39:33.000 But like, I think the basic principle of this is, is that I don't want to raise my kids while I'm in debt and poverty.

00:39:41.000 And I don't want to die and leave my kids with a million dollars of debt because I tried to provide them a good life and I wasn't able to.

00:39:48.000 You think there's like an actual, you brought up conspiracies earlier, and I wonder about like, what are these people, World Economic Forum?

00:39:52.000 They say you want to live in the pod and eat bugs and be happy.

00:39:55.000 Are they literally trying to destroy families, put your body in a vat, we'll extract the semen and the egg, we'll make, we'll find which one of you has the best genetics and extract that Peter Teals of the world, maybe.

00:40:05.000 And then make the best humans under control.

00:40:08.000 So it's, it's, because otherwise you've got these, these rogue individuals getting married and having guns and protecting their borders.

00:40:15.000 And like, how can you, how can you make sure they don't go crazy and start a world war if you, if they have their own property and families and things.

00:40:23.000 Well, the population's not the ones that start the war.

00:40:27.000 That's the governments that the Soviets, like Lenin was, he was like a, you know, the population can rise up and cause a.

00:40:35.000 That's a revolution, though.

00:40:36.000 That's not a world war.

00:40:38.000 I mean, you mentioned a world war.

00:40:39.000 No, but it's just like the danger of a population like getting unruly.

00:40:43.000 I think that's part of why weed got made illegal because it makes people question authority.

00:40:47.000 And that, you know.

00:40:49.000 But they're relaxing marijuana laws.

00:40:51.000 Oh my God.

00:40:51.000 But I think that's why they saw all of us.

00:40:56.000 I, for one, am shocked.

00:40:57.000 But that's like Nixon used it as a weapon to like create order, like tamp down on the hippies and the Black Panthers. 0.53

00:41:05.000 They're creating too much of, you know, murmur that there might be a revolt.

00:41:07.000 They could have, you know, who knows?

00:41:09.000 They were communists.

00:41:10.000 Yeah.

00:41:11.000 He was right.

00:41:12.000 They were all communists.

00:41:14.000 I don't know about that.

00:41:15.000 I mean, Black Panthers definitely were.

00:41:16.000 And a lot of the hippies, you know, the hippies that went to communists.

00:41:19.000 They're all communists as they were.

00:41:20.000 They were communists.

00:41:22.000 I know, but you said they were all communists.

00:41:23.000 It's not true.

00:41:24.000 They were using that to stop a potential revolution.

00:41:27.000 Like the Vietnam War was so bad. 0.91

00:41:29.000 Who would have been a revolution, Ian?

00:41:31.000 It could have been.

00:41:32.000 It could have got, could have got, could have got turned into that.

00:41:32.000 Yeah.

00:41:34.000 Because they were communists. 0.98

00:41:35.000 Regardless of their ethos, people that are smoking pot and having families don't give a fuck about your government. 0.98

00:41:41.000 Like they are very much, I am the government. 0.97

00:41:43.000 You understand?

00:41:44.000 We the people control our reality together.

00:41:46.000 And when you take those things away from that.

00:41:48.000 That's an idealistic version of communism.

00:41:50.000 No, I don't think, well, maybe that's what we got going on right now.

00:41:53.000 The reality of like, we the people control our government.

00:41:56.000 I'm pretty sure.

00:41:58.000 We the people vote in elected representatives.

00:42:01.000 But the idea that we are all the government is pretty.

00:42:07.000 I mean, our system is like specifically not a direct democracy because we are not the government.

00:42:15.000 We are the government.

00:42:15.000 We the people control this country.

00:42:17.000 That's why we select people to go represent us in the moment and they'll be gone soon.

00:42:21.000 Correct, but there's a reason that we don't have a direct democracy.

00:42:21.000 That's the right thing.

00:42:24.000 We were talking about this yesterday.

00:42:25.000 It was the last time they got anything done anyways.

00:42:27.000 Congress can't get anything.

00:42:28.000 They got a dog shell the other day.

00:42:30.000 As opposed to voting on the SAVE Act.

00:42:32.000 But I think, I mean, like, look, to your point, right?

00:42:35.000 The SAVE Act has like, or at least voter ID has something like 85% approval among the American people, right?

00:42:42.000 Like everybody thinks that there should be, you know, that you should have to have an ID.

00:42:48.000 That's something that if the American people really were in control the way that you say, then that should be a no-brainer.

00:42:55.000 Yeah, the government has been co-opted.

00:42:57.000 Sorry to interrupt by banks.

00:42:58.000 And yeah, for sure.

00:43:00.000 The liberal economic order is a banking cartel, basically.

00:43:03.000 But you were just saying that we are the government.

00:43:05.000 And the point that I'm making is if it was really like that, if it was really the way that you laid it out earlier, then it would be a no-brainer that this would get passed very easily.

00:43:14.000 I will never not say that we are not.

00:43:16.000 I will always say we are the government.

00:43:18.000 Even if they have their boot on my neck, even if they have a gun on my head and a boot on my neck, I will still claim that we are the government of this country.

00:43:24.000 And that's how it's always going to be.

00:43:25.000 That's the point of this country.

00:43:26.000 You might want to change what the country is for a moment and pretend like you're in control or that you're the government and I'm not, but welcome to the United States.

00:43:32.000 I'm the government too.

00:43:34.000 Well, I mean, yeah, I agree with, or I understand your framing in the sense of you're going to die on the hill, but we are the government in the United States.

00:43:42.000 I mean, we're not, we're not the government.

00:43:45.000 We elect people to represent us in the government.

00:43:47.000 But in this version, do I get a pension?

00:43:49.000 No.

00:43:50.000 Because that would be cool.

00:43:51.000 No, some boomer is going to take it. 0.95

00:43:53.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:43:54.000 They're going to live forever, too.

00:43:56.000 That's why we're never going to see a dying social situation.

00:43:59.000 The thing is, it's crazy because it kind of is impossible to have kids right now and not have you and your wife both working full-time.

00:44:10.000 I mean, it's unless you have an insane job.

00:44:14.000 But that was the goal in my parents' generation.

00:44:14.000 Right.

00:44:17.000 It's kind of unrealistic now.

00:44:19.000 You just had a kid.

00:44:20.000 Yes.

00:44:21.000 And we both work.

00:44:22.000 Oh, okay.

00:44:23.000 I didn't realize it anyway.

00:44:24.000 Full-time, dude.

00:44:25.000 Yeah.

00:44:26.000 So, yeah, I mean, I just had a kid, too.

00:44:29.000 And my friend stays home and he takes care of the stuff.

00:44:32.000 But I mean, I have, I'm not.

00:44:34.000 I'm the exception to the rule, apparently.

00:44:36.000 So, but yeah, I mean, look, I do think that the problems that Gen Z is facing are largely creations of the not just the government, but of also the boomers. 0.94

00:44:50.000 Like, you know, the boomers that own multiple homes and everyone looking at their house is their biggest investment and that's going to make them a million dollars or whatever. 0.66

00:44:57.000 I don't blame them too much because they didn't know.

00:45:00.000 They got snowed, man.

00:45:01.000 This order really tricked and hoodwinked the Americans to think it's normal to have $1.75 gallon gas.

00:45:07.000 It's normal to have all these foods from all over the world.

00:45:10.000 In the background, they're like taking over countries and overthrowing governments.

00:45:13.000 In 2008, when the government just started printing money like mad, we're taking loans out at 0% interest and buying stocks.

00:45:20.000 The reason that we have like, people talk about income inequality is so terrible right now, and it is really, really bad.

00:45:26.000 A big part of the reason is because after 2008, when the government brought interest rates down to zero and kept them at zero for 10 years, people that had money, people that had assets would take loans out with their assets as the collateral.

00:45:38.000 They would take a loan out at like 1% or 2% or whatever.

00:45:41.000 They put that money in the stock market.

00:45:43.000 And as the stock market goes up by 10, 15% a year, they're making that money.

00:45:48.000 So they were literally getting money for almost free, putting that money in the stock market just for it to grow.

00:45:53.000 So people that had assets and have wealth and stuff like that, they had a huge advantage.

00:45:57.000 And it's because the government decided that they were going to have that policy.

00:46:00.000 And every time the government talked about raising interest rates, the stock market would take a tumble a bit.

00:46:05.000 And then the government would get, oh, no, we can't do that.

00:46:07.000 Blah, I think that like interest rates were zero or around zero for almost a decade.

00:46:14.000 Quantitative easing was the worst policy they ever had.

00:46:16.000 They should have let the banks fail.

00:46:17.000 There's my little reason.

00:46:18.000 Yeah, well, and like the other thing is, is that, I mean, even though we have a massive affordability crisis and all these things, like obtaining wealth in this country is perceivably very hard, but it's actually easier to obtain wealth in this country than any other country in the world.

00:46:34.000 We're just not taught how to.

00:46:35.000 Like the financial illiteracy in this country is beyond ridiculous for how sophisticated of a society was.

00:46:41.000 Klarna for your burrito. 0.84

00:46:42.000 Yeah.

00:46:42.000 I was thinking about like someone who told me.

00:46:44.000 That's exactly right.

00:46:45.000 It's like we're literally taught to take on debt, but not how to take on debt.

00:46:50.000 Like that's the problem.

00:46:51.000 There's this thing, opportunity cost in economics, which is fascinating.

00:46:54.000 Like, okay, I'll go make $1,000 doing this job, but if I have to turn down a million-dollar project, then I'm actually going to lose $990,000 doing this work because the cost of opportunity is lost.

00:47:04.000 And with – oh, that's all I got.

00:47:08.000 I have more.

00:47:10.000 Let's address the fact that no article that ends with, and this is why it could be a good thing, has ever been good in the history.

00:47:18.000 No article starts with that.

00:47:19.000 I remember no article that starts with from the New York Times.

00:47:22.000 Well, no, Maybe there's one good one, but nothing that ends with, and here's why that's a good thing is ever good.

00:47:27.000 I mean, they're telling you right off the bat what you're supposed to think.

00:47:29.000 They're poisoning.

00:47:30.000 There's this thing that's clearly bad.

00:47:31.000 Here's why it might not.

00:47:32.000 I remember my point.

00:47:33.000 I just, let me, financial literacy.

00:47:37.000 Like, I was picturing my parents being like, well, did you go return that thing for $20 to Amazon?

00:47:42.000 Did you go spend an hour of your day to go return that item?

00:47:45.000 I'm like, well, I could have, if you understand economics, I can make $900 in that time period and just eat the $30 loss.

00:47:52.000 And that's the opportunity cost of how you really make money in reality.

00:47:56.000 Don't chase these $20, $30 penny pinch.

00:47:58.000 Like, it's so distracting, requires so much energy when there is other ways to accrue massive amounts of wealth in the background.

00:48:04.000 Well, penny-wise and pound foolish, I think, is like a term for that.

00:48:08.000 Yeah, but I mean, look, if you look at all the, not all, but if you look at most people that have a lot of money, they're pinching their pennies all the time.

00:48:17.000 You know, like you're not going to.

00:48:17.000 Yeah.

00:48:19.000 They don't let go of them.

00:48:20.000 And that's the difference is that you're wasting time like funneling money back and forth when you legitimately should be kind of penny pinching, when you should be on a budget.

00:48:27.000 You're like, oh, I need to return that thing for $10 at Target or whatever.

00:48:32.000 And that's going to take an hour or whatever of my time.

00:48:36.000 But people that have wealth don't even let go of that wealth for little exactly little dumb things at Target anyways.

00:48:47.000 It was the cane, by the way, is what I was going to return.

00:48:49.000 I don't know.

00:48:50.000 I'm glad that you didn't, honestly.

00:48:52.000 I know.

00:48:53.000 You've been using it to like stretch your back and everything.

00:48:53.000 Yeah, me neither.

00:48:55.000 Oh, yeah, it's really good.

00:48:56.000 On the back of the neck, you can roll the spine with it.

00:48:58.000 Oh, God.

00:49:00.000 All right, we're going to jump to this story here.

00:49:04.000 From the U.S. Sun, Fly Casual, Major American Airport, bans passengers from wearing everyday outfit.

00:49:12.000 And it's not everyday outfit.

00:49:12.000 We've had enough.

00:49:14.000 It's literally pajamas.

00:49:15.000 Like, it's the same stuff that people just mope around their house in.

00:49:19.000 Unless they are giving me the absolute best flight experience in human history, the audacity of this company to do this is shocking.

00:49:28.000 What he was always told you shouldn't wear pajamas on a plane.

00:49:31.000 No, you shouldn't.

00:49:33.000 You shouldn't wear pajamas on a plane, but flying shouldn't be a horrible experience.

00:49:37.000 Yet it is.

00:49:38.000 I agree.

00:49:39.000 But if you look at like dudes that like wear track suits, right?

00:49:43.000 Like, bright orange ones.

00:49:46.000 They're not the best attire, but usually they look clean.

00:49:50.000 They look kind of put together and stuff like that.

00:49:53.000 You can wear comfortable clothes and not look like people in this picture here.

00:49:57.000 Look at that.

00:49:58.000 Come on.

00:49:59.000 Come on.

00:50:00.000 This is the free market.

00:50:01.000 They're paying the money.

00:50:02.000 Let them decide where they're going to spend their money.

00:50:04.000 So from the U.S. Sun, travelers are now banned from wearing pajamas at Tampa International Airport in Florida, according to the latest social media posts from the hub.

00:50:12.000 The Expost shared a graphic that plainly states, it's time to ban pajamas at Tampa International Airport.

00:50:17.000 The post references the airport's previous successful banning of Crocs while calling to that.

00:50:24.000 Honestly, we should have a nationwide ban on Crocs.

00:50:27.000 I wear Crocs.

00:50:28.000 They are cup house.

00:50:29.000 There's nothing wrong with Crocs to let anybody tell you otherwise.

00:50:32.000 Look, everyone knows the story about Crocs, right?

00:50:35.000 The idiocracy story.

00:50:36.000 Actually, are you familiar with the movie Idiocracy?

00:50:38.000 Yeah.

00:50:39.000 Okay, so when they were making that movie, they were looking for shoes to have the people walking around wear. 0.86

00:50:45.000 And they were like, they have to be ridiculous. 0.78

00:50:48.000 And so the set designer, the wardrobe designer found these shoes and they looked ridiculous. 0.82

00:50:54.000 And they were like, okay, well, we're going to use these.

00:50:56.000 And they're like, well, it's a small company.

00:50:58.000 What if they become popular in the future?

00:51:00.000 And the director was like, are you kidding?

00:51:02.000 Look at these things.

00:51:03.000 Those were Crocs.

00:51:05.000 If you look, if you watch idiocracy, everybody's wearing Crocs.

00:51:08.000 And now it's happened in reality.

00:51:10.000 It's the official shoe of the men and women saving your life at the hospital, okay?

00:51:15.000 It actually is.

00:51:17.000 Look, like I said, I own it.

00:51:18.000 Are they really saving your life, though?

00:51:20.000 I mean, maybe.

00:51:22.000 Doing CPR, you know?

00:51:24.000 What?

00:51:24.000 Guns don't kill people.

00:51:25.000 Crocs don't save people. 1.00

00:51:26.000 It's the people save people.

00:51:30.000 So I'm of two minds, right?

00:51:32.000 Like, I don't fly wearing pajamas, right?

00:51:34.000 I don't get dressed up in a suit, but I don't wear, like, I, what?

00:51:38.000 The argument for men is like, you shouldn't wear pajamas just because you're going to get pickpocketed if you've got your wallet in your pocket.

00:51:43.000 Wear something that you can actually conceal.

00:51:46.000 I just like getting through security clothes.

00:51:47.000 Why start wearing pajamas?

00:51:48.000 I mean, look, you can wear, it's fine to wear vans, vans are slip on and stuff like that.

00:51:51.000 You can get away with that.

00:51:53.000 But I wear jeans.

00:51:54.000 Like, I basically wear the same stuff that I wear all the time.

00:51:57.000 But I totally understand.

00:51:59.000 Like, unless you're doing like a long international flight, you know, if you're going, like, you're flying to Hawaii, I can, maybe I can understand like wearing something a little more comfortable or whatever.

00:52:08.000 But for the most part, do you need to wear pajamas?

00:52:12.000 And I understand your argument about, oh, you know, the seats are not comfortable.

00:52:16.000 You don't have very much service.

00:52:18.000 You used to get a meal with your flight.

00:52:20.000 You don't get the meal anymore.

00:52:22.000 Again, that depends on the flight.

00:52:23.000 If you're on an international flight or if you're on a long flight.

00:52:25.000 So as long as you get the meal, then you can wear pajamas or look, I mean, look, if you're going from Boston to Orlando, do you really need to be like, oh man, I got to make sure that I wear this.

00:52:35.000 This is just such a hassle.

00:52:36.000 Come on.

00:52:37.000 Service for almost every aspect of American culture has gotten nothing but worse over the last 10 days.

00:52:42.000 Oh, I agree with that.

00:52:43.000 But flies are way cheaper now than they ever have been.

00:52:46.000 What?

00:52:47.000 You got internet for like $300,040, $500 for like a, you can probably fly from Boston down to Orlando for like $400.

00:52:56.000 Your $72 peanuts that you have to buy.

00:53:02.000 You just got to hack it.

00:53:03.000 You got to bring your own food.

00:53:04.000 That's why Fannie Pack brings some meat sticks and then they get free internet.

00:53:08.000 Only drink water.

00:53:09.000 Don't drink any of that garbage they hand you because then you're more exhausted when you get off the plane.

00:53:12.000 Don't eat the paper. 0.90

00:53:14.000 Never drink the coffee on a plane.

00:53:15.000 Oh, why not?

00:53:16.000 Because they're using it from the tanks that they never clean. 1.00

00:53:19.000 Damn. 0.99

00:53:21.000 Okay, so you want me to drink coffee from a tank that's never cleaned. 0.99

00:53:25.000 I'm the one who needs to fix up.

00:53:26.000 I told you never to drink.

00:53:28.000 But the thing is, they're offering it.

00:53:30.000 So they're offering me coffee from a tank that's never cleaned, and I'm supposed to dress up.

00:53:36.000 You shouldn't dress up, just wear normal clothes.

00:53:38.000 You wear what you have on right now.

00:53:40.000 Do you wear pajamas?

00:53:41.000 It looks good, by the way.

00:53:42.000 I just dress like this.

00:53:43.000 Okay.

00:53:44.000 That's exactly what I'm saying.

00:53:45.000 I don't begrudge them.

00:53:46.000 They're fun.

00:53:47.000 I do begrudge them.

00:53:48.000 They look homeless.

00:53:49.000 That's my question.

00:53:50.000 Is this more about don't be slovenly?

00:53:51.000 Yeah, or is it wear those plaid pajamas?

00:53:54.000 Yeah, because look, again, I have some pictures.

00:53:56.000 Look at the picture.

00:53:57.000 Like those.

00:53:58.000 And they need to meet us halfway.

00:53:59.000 Look, look normal for polite society.

00:54:02.000 Like, you wouldn't go to the store.

00:54:03.000 Oh, I mean, some bums probably would, but they should be ostracized for doing so. 1.00

00:54:07.000 Don't look like you're going to Walmart.

00:54:09.000 Yeah, honestly.

00:54:10.000 Look, there is a certain like methadone clinic chic that I see.

00:54:15.000 You know what?

00:54:16.000 You know, the flying is not much better.

00:54:18.000 So, you know what?

00:54:19.000 I say that they're wrong. 1.00

00:54:21.000 You can wear whatever you want because the airlines are garbage. 0.94

00:54:23.000 You're traveling through the air at 500 miles an hour.

00:54:29.000 It's like a luxurious experience in and of itself.

00:54:29.000 I thought of that.

00:54:32.000 Exactly.

00:54:33.000 Like, no, I mean, I think this is all right.

00:54:33.000 Yeah.

00:54:36.000 I think it's awesome.

00:54:37.000 I'm trying to test it.

00:54:38.000 Next time I'm in Tampa, I'm going to wear my plaid pajama pants, but I'm just going to make it look real nice.

00:54:43.000 I'll be like, oh, that guy's iron them. 0.85

00:54:43.000 You won't even know. 0.85

00:54:45.000 The thing is, for iron, you do that as a suit, kind of sometimes.

00:54:48.000 You used to come on the show in pajamas because that was like your thing.

00:54:51.000 And then Tim's mom was like, yes, because he just woke up.

00:54:55.000 She came to you and was like, why is it?

00:54:56.000 She told him, and then he told me.

00:54:58.000 My mom wants you to be in the middle of the job.

00:54:59.000 He's like, you're an adult.

00:55:00.000 Where's my beer?

00:55:02.000 That was my idea.

00:55:02.000 Who cares what people wear?

00:55:04.000 I do.

00:55:05.000 It's the same reason I don't really.

00:55:07.000 Like, look, I don't want to see fat people walking around all the time.

00:55:10.000 Amen.

00:55:11.000 I don't want to see people looking at you.

00:55:13.000 Bring back aspiration.

00:55:14.000 Well, like I said, they're aspirational too.

00:55:17.000 It's not Sharia. 0.56

00:55:19.000 It's having norms for polite society.

00:55:22.000 That's what it is.

00:55:23.000 Here's my thought process.

00:55:25.000 I brought it up.

00:55:26.000 Who cares what people wear?

00:55:27.000 And I was like, well, if I really don't care what people wear, then why don't I just wear what they're asking me to wear?

00:55:32.000 So I use my own logic to then begin yourself against myself.

00:55:36.000 But legitimately, like there, there should be a certain standard for polite society.

00:55:42.000 Men didn't used to be able to have B-shirtless until the 20s, 1920s, free the nip, you know? 0.99

00:55:47.000 So should women be able to go shirtless now? 1.00

00:55:49.000 No, but I also don't.

00:55:51.000 We're the ones that are arguing, or at least Priya and I are the ones that are arguing for standards, not against standards.

00:55:56.000 Yeah, I don't think that menu standards are a bad thing.

00:55:58.000 I think standards are a good thing.

00:56:00.000 I'm saying that they should be held to standards too.

00:56:02.000 And if they're not going to meet us at the same level, then they are.

00:56:05.000 You don't, the planes don't crash.

00:56:07.000 Okay, then what about bikini bottoms?

00:56:09.000 That's literally the bare minimum.

00:56:11.000 No, I have a lot of fun.

00:56:11.000 The bare minimum is that the flight doesn't fall out of the air.

00:56:15.000 It doesn't matter.

00:56:16.000 My wife hates flying anyways. 1.00

00:56:17.000 We drive everywhere.

00:56:18.000 I don't think any of us love commercial flying.

00:56:21.000 It is an unpleasant experience.

00:56:23.000 Although the fact that we're able to get into a, I don't know, we're able to transport ourselves.

00:56:30.000 Yeah, going 500 miles an hour through the air is actually an incredible thing to think about in and of itself, obviously.

00:56:37.000 I mean, the large majority of the world doesn't have access to this type of thing.

00:56:40.000 And to be honest with you, market pressures are what have made flights the way they are.

00:56:45.000 Yeah.

00:56:46.000 People want to fly for the smallest amount of money possible.

00:56:51.000 And to be honest with you, I know that they're not, maybe Florence flights aren't the cheapest they've ever been, but I remember a time because I'm old when it was like every flight was like $900.

00:57:01.000 And this is $900 in 1910 money, you know?

00:57:04.000 So like it used to be way more money 2010, right?

00:57:09.000 Well, I was making a joke about how old I am because I'm old.

00:57:09.000 You said 1910 money.

00:57:11.000 I didn't get the joke. 1.00

00:57:12.000 I'm the idiot. 0.99

00:57:14.000 But yeah, like it used to be like back when they had when you could smoke on planes, like they were really expensive. 0.99

00:57:22.000 It was really expensive to fly.

00:57:24.000 You did have more room.

00:57:26.000 But the reason that they've constricted the stuff or limited the things that they give you is because of the price.

00:57:34.000 If you want to fly for $1,500 or $2,000, you can sit in first class and you'll get a meal.

00:57:41.000 You'll have more room.

00:57:42.000 I understand that it's expensive.

00:57:44.000 But the thing is, nowadays, coach flights are actually pretty reasonable.

00:57:50.000 Did you see the article the other day about the, she's like a Vogue, she was a former Vogue editor, I think, who's like the stylist for Zora and Mamdani, who like left first class for business because they said that the flight attendant was microaggressing her. 0.69

00:58:06.000 I will volunteer as tribute to swap seats with her.

00:58:09.000 No. 0.91

00:58:09.000 Like, what the hell? 0.91

00:58:11.000 People are so something I do on airplanes, just letting everybody know out there: when you see me at the airport, get ready for this.

00:58:16.000 I'll get on the plane, I'll sit in my seat, and then I'll like, when everyone's boarded, I'll look around for like an empty aisle because sometimes there are, and I'll just get up and go sit in the three-seat aisle.

00:58:24.000 Yeah, no one's ever bothered me.

00:58:25.000 No one cares.

00:58:26.000 Well, if the seats are open, nobody cares.

00:58:29.000 Normally, okay.

00:58:30.000 Anyway, this story is awesome.

00:58:33.000 How far is too far with violating these social norms?

00:58:35.000 Because it used to be men literally could not go outside in public with their shirts off, and that was normal. 0.99

00:58:40.000 And now it's normal that they can.

00:58:41.000 And it would be, in my opinion, crazy to make them shirts.

00:58:44.000 If you have your shirt off and you're walking around the mall, that's weird.

00:58:46.000 Yeah.

00:58:47.000 Like you're going into establishments.

00:58:48.000 Yeah, I don't think you should be able to do that.

00:58:50.000 No shirts, no shoes, no service.

00:58:52.000 Yeah.

00:58:53.000 I think most places do still abide by that.

00:58:55.000 I think, unless you're maybe at like in a beach town, they're probably going to be like, dude, put a shirt on.

00:59:01.000 So it's like up to the private establishment what their dress code is, basically.

00:59:04.000 Well, yeah, I mean, I think there should be a general sense of what you should do in polite society, not simply just in private establishments.

00:59:12.000 But yeah, ultimately. 0.97

00:59:14.000 Do you think bikini bottoms, like those dental floss strings up the ass, are too like just basically public nudity? 0.73

00:59:20.000 Because I guess you don't wear them again, you don't wear them at the mall if you're like on a beach in Florida and you want to wear a string bikini, you know, that's something that that's you know, it's personal preference.

00:59:28.000 But again, it kind of depends on the beach, but also like you know, because if you're in if you're in New England, if you're at like Mesquamicot, whatever up there, you're not going to see a lot of people rolling around with string bikinis.

00:59:39.000 But if you're down in Fort Lauderdale, that's normal.

00:59:42.000 Yeah.

00:59:42.000 You know, so it kind of depends on the content.

00:59:44.000 You want to tan ass. 0.99

00:59:45.000 I get it. 1.00

00:59:46.000 Like you're full.

00:59:47.000 I mean, I mean, I would advise against it, but yeah. 0.99

00:59:50.000 Full ass tan? 1.00

00:59:51.000 Or just bikini, those bikini stars? 0.99

00:59:54.000 Yeah, this, the like G-strings.

00:59:55.000 I saw it when I was like 12 and I thought it was porn. 0.91

00:59:57.000 It looked like porn.

00:59:58.000 It does look like it basically is porn. 0.91

01:00:01.000 I mean, like, also, it's like you go to the air, you go to the airport, you're going to get either groped or have a photo taken of you where they're, you know, basically looking at your insides.

01:00:09.000 People feel violated.

01:00:10.000 You have to take your shoes off, though.

01:00:11.000 I think they've removed that restriction.

01:00:13.000 But the point being, like, you're like, look, I have to go through all this and dress up.

01:00:17.000 No, thanks.

01:00:18.000 Well, no, okay.

01:00:19.000 I mean, I argue that we should get back to a point in society where we do dress up for these types of occasions.

01:00:26.000 However, this isn't arguing for you dressing up.

01:00:28.000 It's just arguing for you wearing what you're wearing now.

01:00:30.000 You're wearing wet joggers or black denim and a t-shirt and tennis shoes.

01:00:36.000 The other side of this is like form, like going out in public, right?

01:00:40.000 Like it definitely is true.

01:00:41.000 Like you go out to a store and it does seem like nobody's trying anymore.

01:00:45.000 It's like, does nobody even like, and that's more, we could take that back to like the birth crisis discussion where it's like, is nobody even signaling to the world that they're like, that they take care of themselves well enough to want to actually get together with somebody and maybe start life together.

01:00:59.000 But I'm speaking purely from like an angry stance.

01:01:03.000 It is revolting against the airlines.

01:01:05.000 When I lived in LA, I was an actor in LA and I stopped wanting to present myself as beautiful because it was so, it felt so fake. 0.52

01:01:13.000 I was like, I just would dress in garbage.

01:01:16.000 It's not even doing anything to the extent that you need to present yourself as beautiful, but like just bare minimum aesthetically pleasing. 0.50

01:01:23.000 Like take a shower and put normal clothes on.

01:01:27.000 Don't wear sweatpants and pajamas to go to the grocery store.

01:01:30.000 There's like a revolt against make people wanting me to look beautiful all the time.

01:01:33.000 And I wonder if social media is making people revolt in their private lives.

01:01:37.000 Probably.

01:01:38.000 No, this is this is this is not, I don't think this is because of social media.

01:01:41.000 No, I think social media makes people want to fake what they look like and they want to compete with the people that are that they see on Instagram and stuff like that.

01:01:49.000 CEOs wear jeans and a t-shirt.

01:01:51.000 They do.

01:01:52.000 It is actually true that most of the CEOs, there was this photo of like the Netflix CEOs touring Warner, like the Warner Brothers lot, and they just are so badly dressed.

01:02:01.000 It's kind of awesome.

01:02:02.000 A lot of them like the faded blue jeans and the jacket.

01:02:05.000 Yeah, they probably paid $300 for those faded blue jeans.

01:02:08.000 But the fact remains, like people that are in, people that are wealthy nowadays, because it's so kind of in vogue to hide your wealth for a lot of people, particularly people that are super, super rich.

01:02:20.000 Like, you know, Bill Gates was always walking around in like, you know, it looks like he shopped at Target.

01:02:25.000 Mark Zuckerberg wears the same shirt every day to cut down on making decisions.

01:02:29.000 And, you know, there's a little bit of eccentricity with that, but also like those people or that kind of kind of idea of like, don't show off your wealth, don't flaunt it.

01:02:29.000 Yeah.

01:02:44.000 I think that that's actually kind of going away.

01:02:46.000 You look at the way that Bezos dresses and the way that he behaves and stuff, and he's kind of not really ashamed of his wealth, you know?

01:02:53.000 He's got the inferiority complex from being like a nerd when he was younger.

01:02:57.000 They were all nerds.

01:02:58.000 They were all nerds.

01:02:59.000 The rest of them stayed nerds.

01:03:00.000 He has now tried to shed that stuff.

01:03:02.000 Yeah, he's jacked now.

01:03:03.000 He's like, I'm going to go lift away.

01:03:04.000 It was like, that was the meme five years ago, right?

01:03:06.000 It was like the meme of him when he first launched his company and he's got like the sweater vest on and the glasses.

01:03:11.000 He's like, nice on looks.

01:03:13.000 I mean, it's like, I sell whatever the guy wants.

01:03:16.000 I think there's a balance to all this, though.

01:03:18.000 Like you can look classy and tasteful without flaunching wealth or even needing wealth in all reality.

01:03:25.000 Yeah. 0.71

01:03:26.000 Just don't look like a bum.

01:03:27.000 That's all I ask.

01:03:28.000 There was a time in my, there was a time in my life when like we were touring a lot, right?

01:03:32.000 Like and I was just like, I do not care.

01:03:34.000 You know, you're constantly on planes, constantly on the bus, constantly traveling.

01:03:38.000 And I was definitely guilty of being like, I don't care.

01:03:41.000 I'm wearing what's comfortable.

01:03:43.000 And I think that as the band stopped kind of going as hard because we kind of, we, you know, made our career and we didn't have to take every tour that was out there.

01:03:52.000 Like, I was just like, all right, you know what?

01:03:54.000 I kind of, and also I probably, it probably had something to do with the fact that I stopped drinking.

01:03:57.000 But like, I was like, you know what?

01:03:59.000 I kind of don't want to look like a slob anymore. 0.59

01:04:01.000 And I, I don't know if that's maturity or what, but like the idea of going to a plane or going, even going to Walmart.

01:04:10.000 Yeah, I'm not looking.

01:04:10.000 I'm ashamed if I, I mean, I don't even own pajamas that look as horrendous as that.

01:04:14.000 It's more about like offending other people at this point.

01:04:17.000 Well, yeah, that was my point about not really wanting to have to look at obese people too.

01:04:22.000 Like, and the point is, like, I don't necessarily agree in practice because I wouldn't dress that way going anywhere.

01:04:27.000 You're just like F the airport.

01:04:29.000 But I don't have a problem with people doing it because F those airlines.

01:04:32.000 Yeah, I mean, I get it, but I'm actually rather fond of Delta.

01:04:36.000 So the people that run the airlines or that would control this don't actually come in contact with you.

01:04:42.000 So you're not, you're not giving.

01:04:44.000 This isn't even the airlines that are doing it.

01:04:46.000 This is Tampa Airport.

01:04:47.000 Yeah.

01:04:47.000 So, you know.

01:04:49.000 You're 0.5% over your baggage weights.

01:04:52.000 You now have to pay $80 extra.

01:04:55.000 How did that combo come about? 0.60

01:04:57.000 They're like, dude, these slobs are pissing me. 1.00

01:04:59.000 Did you smell those people? 0.91

01:05:00.000 Was it the smell?

01:05:01.000 Probably the smell.

01:05:02.000 Oh, it probably was a smell too.

01:05:03.000 I mean, just like fairly recently, I didn't see a whole lot of this.

01:05:08.000 Like these hordes of animals.

01:05:10.000 I've seen a lot of stuff.

01:05:11.000 It's the last pair of cookie monster pajamas I'm letting in here.

01:05:15.000 Get out of here.

01:05:16.000 But also I find that it is in like the big international airports.

01:05:20.000 Like I tweeted out on my way here that I hate flying out of LAX just because I have to deal with so many foreign nationals and it's just really daunting to me. 1.00

01:05:29.000 But I think there are like things like this are worse in airports like that.

01:05:33.000 Isn't there another airport you can fly out of other than LAX?

01:05:36.000 Yeah, it's just small.

01:05:37.000 Yeah, they're just regional, so I'd have to have a layover or something.

01:05:40.000 So it's, you know, give and take in that sense.

01:05:41.000 Foreign nationals, like where?

01:05:43.000 Just hanging out, like walking around, getting planes and stuff?

01:05:45.000 Yeah, well, like, I mean, tourists and things like that.

01:05:47.000 People that just don't speak English.

01:05:48.000 And it's like en masse.

01:05:49.000 I mean, DCA is a really bad one too, you know?

01:05:52.000 Like, I'm partial to DCA.

01:05:54.000 There was, you mentioned earlier in the show how it was uncomfortable to be around people that were speaking Spanish or speaking other languages all the time.

01:06:00.000 And I didn't respond or you said something about that.

01:06:02.000 No, it's not, it's not uncomfortable necessarily, but the fact that I can, that I essentially have to go to establishments in America, an English-speaking country, and I go to establishments that don't speak English and don't even have menus in the English language, that is a problem.

01:06:19.000 I suppose you're a bigot.

01:06:20.000 Yeah, exactly. 0.94

01:06:21.000 I am a bigot, a racist, all those.

01:06:23.000 I was living in Chile for a while, and it was exhausting not knowing the language.

01:06:26.000 Just the cultural difference was exhausting, literally physically exhausting, because I couldn't communicate my ideas properly.

01:06:32.000 And I fled.

01:06:34.000 I ran away from Chile.

01:06:36.000 I was like, I'm doing it in America.

01:06:37.000 I can't take it because it was a billion, you know, Chile's got the money.

01:06:39.000 But so I understand.

01:06:41.000 I highly identify with being surrounded by, I wonder if people are feeling like cultural fatigue just because it's like the internet.

01:06:46.000 You know, you see Indians. 0.96

01:06:47.000 We were talking about Indians earlier today. 0.96

01:06:49.000 Like there's all the Indian hate on the internet. 0.68

01:06:51.000 And like, I get all of it.

01:06:52.000 What?

01:06:54.000 Without being, you know, it's like we're surrounded by it without being surrounded by it.

01:06:57.000 Well, but I think the problem is, is that people seriously have been so brainwashed with this idea that we have to just accept everything here.

01:07:06.000 Like there, and we shouldn't because guess what?

01:07:09.000 We have the, to be honest with you, in my personal opinion, we have the most superior country and culture in the entire world.

01:07:17.000 And we should be able to preserve that, as does every other country in the world.

01:07:22.000 I wouldn't be able to walk into most countries as an American and not be able to, or not have to abide by their cultures and customs.

01:07:30.000 I would be forced to learn the language if I was there long term.

01:07:32.000 I would be shamed if I didn't.

01:07:34.000 So, why exactly is it something that we are forced to embrace here is that people bringing their cultures here, eroding ours, not abiding by our basic immigration laws. 1.00

01:07:46.000 And I could make a list that goes on and on about things that people do that blatantly disrespect the country when they aspire to come here.

01:07:53.000 I don't understand that.

01:07:54.000 Suicidal empathy.

01:07:55.000 That's exactly what it is.

01:07:56.000 I think it's a they're planning to globalize and get all these people with like one world government and they're trying to shatter the rights.

01:08:02.000 I agree that that's what it is up here, but it's not down here.

01:08:05.000 They're preying on the empathetic nature of the voters and the people, and they're brainwashing them to think that if I don't want, look, if I go to India, I want to and I want to and I expect to experience the Indian culture.

01:08:20.000 I don't want to have to go to an American city and experience New Delhi.

01:08:25.000 Like, I don't, and I shouldn't have to, and that's not how it should be.

01:08:28.000 But to say that is now racist and bigoted.

01:08:31.000 And everyone's been brainwashed to think that no, I have to accept these immigrant communities coming and taking over our American cities. 1.00

01:08:38.000 And if I don't embrace that, then I am whatever word.

01:08:42.000 Yeah, xenophobic.

01:08:42.000 Xenophobic.

01:08:43.000 Yeah, exactly. 0.58

01:08:43.000 Xenophobic, racist, whatever you want to call it. 0.58

01:08:46.000 Your point, the whole brainwashing thing is actually a really succinct point because the idea that having an opinion about your own country, the idea that that makes you a bigot because you say, I like my own country, that's something that's actually prevalent on the left nowadays.

01:09:00.000 Oh, yeah, for a long time.

01:09:01.000 Yeah, for a long time.

01:09:02.000 Yeah.

01:09:02.000 Like, I was, it was one of the, I think that might have been one of the first things.

01:09:04.000 Like, I considered myself vastly apolitical for a very long time.

01:09:08.000 Still, in a lot of ways, am.

01:09:09.000 Like, I, you know, begrudgingly have to follow it because of work.

01:09:12.000 But in general, I always thought it was weird how in the, you know, even in the early 2010s, maybe even earlier, where I saw this good amount of people that I knew who just seemed to dislike America, despite the fact that they were born into immense levels of privilege.

01:09:27.000 Like, I grew up in, I grew up in like Woodbury, Minnesota.

01:09:31.000 So where I grew up in the city was like the first development built in that town, which is right next to like a jail.

01:09:36.000 And then there was the rich side of the town, which was built after the fact because 3M opened down there and 3M has a lot of, you know, wealthy people at that time.

01:09:45.000 And whether it was the people that I went to, some of the people I went to school with and then more that I met along the way through skating, there just seemed to be this tinge of almost embarrassment.

01:09:53.000 Yeah.

01:09:54.000 And I was like, I don't, like, it didn't, I didn't get it.

01:09:56.000 Like, it didn't make sense to me.

01:09:57.000 I said, people come from all over the world to, you know, to live here.

01:10:02.000 And when we travel, like, there's like, there does seem to be a certain disdain for Americans.

01:10:02.000 Yeah.

01:10:08.000 There was a time where people came to the United States where they wanted to become American.

01:10:12.000 That was real.

01:10:13.000 And I think nowadays there's a significant amount of people that come to the United States looking to extract.

01:10:17.000 Yes.

01:10:18.000 So you talk about all the remittance payments that leave the country from illegal aliens or whatever.

01:10:23.000 They don't come here because they want to share the American dream.

01:10:26.000 They're here to defraud the country.

01:10:27.000 I mean, we can talk about even just, I mean, I know that the Somali communities in Minnesota have been such a hot topic for the last handful of months, but they're like some of some journalist friends of mine uncovered, I think it was $88 million that had gone through the Minneapolis airport and flown out of the country.

01:10:42.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, we'll talk about that, yeah.

01:10:44.000 Yeah, and it's like they have to be moving a million dollars in cash every single day.

01:10:49.000 And guess what?

01:10:50.000 The entire airport is run by Somalis.

01:10:52.000 So it's largely flying under the radar.

01:10:55.000 And that's how much they had to declare.

01:10:57.000 Imagine what they didn't have to declare that was that was just funneled out of the country.

01:11:01.000 So yeah, the idea that people want to come to the United States and become American, that's something that's actually novel.

01:11:07.000 No, it's not.

01:11:07.000 Yeah, it's novel.

01:11:08.000 It's not the majority of people, which is, again, the reason why I want to shut down all immigration for at least a decade and then let us just bounce back from it. 1.00

01:11:18.000 Let us get the people that are here legally in either either if they end up being essentially forfeiting their allegiance to the United States, which I argue a lot of them already have.

01:11:29.000 They've gone against their oath that they take when they become naturalized.

01:11:33.000 If you have an allegiance to a foreign nation, you should have your citizenship right.

01:11:37.000 You go to a protest and you're flying a foreign flag, that should be immediate immediate deportation. 1.00

01:11:42.000 I could not agree more.

01:11:44.000 Aside from that, we need to get those type of people out of the country or force them to assimilate. 1.00

01:11:49.000 And that's only going to happen if we have a large population.

01:11:52.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:11:53.000 You're talking about non-citizens waving foreign flags. 0.56

01:11:55.000 Yeah.

01:11:55.000 You weren't talking about citizens.

01:11:58.000 I'm not talking about citizens.

01:11:59.000 Do you want to deport me if I go out and wave a Mexican flag?

01:12:01.000 Were you born in the United States?

01:12:02.000 Then no, I don't have a right to deport you.

01:12:03.000 But when you take an oath of citizenship to this country, you essentially say that your allegiance is to America, not a foreign nation.

01:12:11.000 But there are people in Congress right now that say that their allegiance is to a foreign nation.

01:12:17.000 That goes against your oath of citizenship.

01:12:19.000 Well, sometimes it's, I have an oath to the ethos of the United States, the nation itself, but if someone co-ops the nation, I have an obligation to take it back.

01:12:27.000 That's a different story.

01:12:29.000 That's totally different.

01:12:30.000 Okay, maybe, but if it's my, you know, I have to justify, is it too far?

01:12:32.000 People think Trump has seized the country.

01:12:34.000 Some people think that.

01:12:36.000 Trump's not flying a foreign flag.

01:12:38.000 Trump doesn't have an allegiance.

01:12:39.000 Yeah, they do it with a suit and a smile, but they think it's like foreign.

01:12:42.000 This is a totally different topic.

01:12:43.000 I know it's a different topic.

01:12:45.000 But I understand your point, but this is a, it's a, it's a very specific topic and not relative to that specific point.

01:12:52.000 If you come to the United States and you become a citizen and you're naturalized, right?

01:12:56.000 You're not, you're not born here. 0.99

01:12:57.000 You're not a born citizen.

01:13:00.000 And you're flying a flag of a foreign nation at a protest and you're like, you know, like you saw in LA, there was a lot of people that were flying the Mexican flag.

01:13:08.000 I don't care if they're illegal or if they came here and became a citizen, you should be stripped of your citizenship and deported. 1.00

01:13:17.000 If you have an allegiance to another country, like the Somalis in Michigan or Minneapolis, if they have an allegiance to Somalia, go back to Somalia. 0.98

01:13:26.000 Yeah, well, and I would argue if you are, if you're an immigrant to this country, whether you're legal or not, you should be stripped of your citizenship if you're defrauding the country on that large of a scale. 1.00

01:13:34.000 Like those Somalis that are literally funneling money out of the country and into Africa, then yeah, you know what? 1.00

01:13:40.000 You should be denaturalized and shipped back to your country of origin. 1.00

01:13:45.000 The argument that you get from the left all the time is, oh, well, you know, they bring such economic act such economic activity.

01:13:50.000 They don't.

01:13:51.000 They're literally taking the money that they make and they're sending it out.

01:13:53.000 They're not paying taxes on it.

01:13:54.000 They're just sending it out of the United States.

01:13:56.000 So it's literally just extracting wealth from the United States.

01:13:59.000 Those people should have to go.

01:14:00.000 Well, and on like on top of that, the argument that they actually are producers when it comes to the economy or stimulants to the economy, they're not.

01:14:08.000 Somalis specifically pay like something a tenth of the taxes that the average white person in Minnesota does. 0.88

01:14:14.000 So it's like they're not paying taxes.

01:14:16.000 They're largely on like government benefits.

01:14:20.000 They're all on like subsidized.

01:14:23.000 You shouldn't have to, you shouldn't be allowed to take any kind of, like if you come to the United States, you shouldn't be allowed to sign up for any kind of government support or anything like that.

01:14:29.000 If you come to the United States and you are allowed to stay, the reason that you're allowed to stay is because you're a benefit to the United States economically, because you bring something to the country.

01:14:38.000 You shouldn't be able to come to the country and be like, you know, let me get on to some kind of benefits and stuff like that.

01:14:43.000 You should have to be second generation. 1.00

01:14:45.000 People that are fleeing oppression.

01:14:48.000 So that's talking about asylum, and the only people that actually can get asylum are Canadians or Mexicans.

01:14:53.000 Because the way that asylum works is as soon as you get to a country that is safe for you, if you're fleeing political oppression, if you go to your neighboring country and it's safe for you there, that's where you stop.

01:15:02.000 Where you take a boat to New York.

01:15:05.000 Who's taking a boat?

01:15:06.000 Who's taking a boat to New York?

01:15:07.000 Someone fleeing like Nigeria. 1.00

01:15:09.000 I don't know what country is in trouble right now, but someone fleeing there, they take a boat to New York.

01:15:12.000 Well, they shouldn't be allowed in.

01:15:14.000 Can go to another country that's bordering, that doesn't border.

01:15:16.000 You're saying the only way to claim asylum is to walk over the land to get to the United States?

01:15:21.000 That's essentially what stay in Mexico is.

01:15:23.000 Yeah, the asylum claim, the way the asylum laws work is if you can go to a bordering country that's safe for you, and an ocean is not a border, an ocean is an ocean.

01:15:32.000 So if you can go to it.

01:15:34.000 If you're on an island, you go to Mexico.

01:15:39.000 There were people who were flying into Mexico so that they could then walk up.

01:15:43.000 Like over the border.

01:15:44.000 Yeah.

01:15:45.000 Which is a whole I mean, which ties into it, but that's a different story.

01:15:47.000 So we're saying if someone's on an island and then the genocidal dictator kills, they flee the island.

01:15:52.000 They have to go to Mexico before they can come to the U.S. 0.99

01:15:54.000 They can't just flee to New York.

01:15:56.000 So the only islands that I can think of that you'd be talking about would be Cuba.

01:15:59.000 Right.

01:15:59.000 Something like that.

01:16:00.000 And Cubans have been, I think that I would say, okay, we could make an exception for Cuba to entertain your argument, but otherwise. 1.00

01:16:08.000 But don't they already do that with wet foot dry foot policy?

01:16:10.000 Yes.

01:16:11.000 So basically they get here.

01:16:13.000 If they catch them out in the ocean, they send them back.

01:16:15.000 But if they make it to dry land, then they get sent for, what is it?

01:16:19.000 Like Miami.

01:16:20.000 Miami.

01:16:22.000 But I mean, but so yeah, to your point, fine.

01:16:25.000 But also, for the sake of argument, Cuba.

01:16:27.000 But other than that, the only countries that actually have legitimate claim to asylum are Canada and Mexico.

01:16:34.000 Anyone else from anywhere else, they have to stop at the first country that they come to save.

01:16:38.000 England is an island, and they don't border the United States.

01:16:44.000 And you've got Wales, you've got Scotland, you've got Ireland.

01:16:46.000 And also, you can go to France on the tube.

01:16:49.000 Plus, they've got their own problems.

01:16:50.000 Let them pick up.

01:16:51.000 The other problem is that when you make that specific argument, we're not even talking about just bordering nations.

01:16:57.000 Everyone on the left at least ties in like these Middle Eastern countries, these African countries.

01:17:03.000 And guess what?

01:17:03.000 We don't have an obligation to take them in.

01:17:05.000 There are hundreds of nations that are much closer to them that should be obligated to take those refugees in way before we get that. 0.68

01:17:14.000 That's exactly right.

01:17:15.000 And like, look, I can only think of maybe a maybe one country that is under actual political persecution that we should allow refugees in from because they're compatible.

01:17:25.000 Yes, exactly.

01:17:25.000 The whites in South Africa.

01:17:26.000 Like, they would be highly compatible with our culture.

01:17:29.000 But the large majority of nations on that side of the world would absolutely not be.

01:17:33.000 And there are plenty of countries that they could go to to claim asylum that would be much more compatible for them and their culture.

01:17:39.000 That's where the suicidal empathy discussion comes in.

01:17:42.000 Yep.

01:17:43.000 It's, oh, you know, we can't let these poor people there, poor people suffering.

01:17:46.000 The meme is, oh, you know, poor child's crying.

01:17:49.000 We have to tear up the Constitution and throw it away.

01:17:51.000 And Instagram does that on their feed.

01:17:51.000 Yep.

01:17:52.000 They'll give you a dog suffering and like someone's saving a cat, and then they'll give you an ad to buy something next because it gets your emotions up.

01:17:59.000 It's literally a tactic. 0.94

01:18:01.000 Punch the monkey. 1.00

01:18:02.000 Yeah, punch the monkey. 1.00

01:18:03.000 This is such a dangerous tune. 0.96

01:18:04.000 I did say that punch could probably basically cause more.

01:18:10.000 Punches, honestly.

01:18:11.000 Oh, punch could be growing.

01:18:12.000 I was going to say everyone's uniting over just like save little punch.

01:18:15.000 I think punch.

01:18:16.000 Punch is the one. 0.98

01:18:16.000 Punch the monkey. 0.98

01:18:17.000 Punch is the new mu dang, except for more depressing. 0.98

01:18:19.000 Yeah.

01:18:20.000 Yeah.

01:18:20.000 Well, punch, the story has a happy ending.

01:18:22.000 Punch hasn't.

01:18:23.000 No, we talked about it today.

01:18:25.000 Punch is a psyop.

01:18:26.000 Yeah, he punches. 0.95

01:18:27.000 There's a lot of people to say punch the monkey over. 0.64

01:18:29.000 I'm not even kidding you. 0.80

01:18:30.000 People are saying it's a distraction from Epstein.

01:18:32.000 He's in South Korea, isn't he?

01:18:34.000 No, he's in Asia.

01:18:34.000 I don't know.

01:18:38.000 It wasn't Japan, was it?

01:18:39.000 He's in China.

01:18:41.000 I'm going to look up.

01:18:42.000 Is he in China?

01:18:42.000 Well, if it's China, then it's definitely a psyop.

01:18:44.000 Somebody can look up.

01:18:46.000 People look up.

01:18:47.000 What's the term long and short of this? 0.96

01:18:49.000 Punch the monkey. 1.00

01:18:50.000 He's a very cute monkey.

01:18:51.000 I don't trust him.

01:18:52.000 He got rejected by his.

01:18:53.000 Like those laboo boo dolls. 0.99

01:18:56.000 I'm sorry, Japan. 0.60

01:18:57.000 Japan.

01:18:58.000 Japan's fine.

01:18:59.000 Yeah.

01:18:59.000 Japan's fine.

01:19:00.000 Japan's fine.

01:19:00.000 No psychopath from them.

01:19:02.000 I largely trust Japan.

01:19:04.000 We're going to jump to this story here.

01:19:05.000 What time is it?

01:19:06.000 Oh, yeah.

01:19:06.000 We're going to jump to this story.

01:19:08.000 From the post-millennial, CNN staffers crash out over Paramount wins bid after Paramount wins bid to take over parent company Warner Brothers.

01:19:17.000 In the wake of Warner Brothers Discovery saying that Paramount's counteroffer to Netflix's takeover bid was the Superior offer.

01:19:23.000 CNN employees have expressed concern that layoffs are coming.

01:19:27.000 CNN is a division of Warner Brothers Discovery, meaning Paramount and its head, David Ellison, will soon be overseeing the left-wing news outlet.

01:19:34.000 One CNN staffer told status, we are doomed.

01:19:36.000 Another one said we are effed.

01:19:38.000 Yet another staffer said, everybody is reeling about the obvious things.

01:19:41.000 An insider told the outlet of the mood at the news outlet the panic at CNN right now is off the charts.

01:19:48.000 They were already panicking because they hate David Zazlav, even though they work for him.

01:19:52.000 I mean, the tears are delicious, but there was also to the point earlier, there was things being said where filmmakers are like, I don't know how I feel about, you know, them being so cozy to Trump.

01:20:04.000 And I said the same thing you did.

01:20:05.000 I said, well, Ted Sarandos from Netflix has been an Obama donor.

01:20:09.000 He was a Hillary donor.

01:20:11.000 I'm sorry, he wasn't an Obama donor.

01:20:12.000 He was a Hillary donor.

01:20:13.000 He was a Biden donor.

01:20:15.000 And of course, he hosts Obama through Obama's production company, which has an exclusive deal with Netflix.

01:20:21.000 Were they too cozy then?

01:20:22.000 Yeah.

01:20:23.000 Like, there was a great post that was like, they will never understand their own hypocrisy at the fact that they've controlled every institution for so long that they can't imagine anything not going.

01:20:36.000 To your point about hypocrisy, it is not hypocrisy.

01:20:38.000 It is hierarchy.

01:20:39.000 It is okay when we do it.

01:20:41.000 It is not okay when they do it.

01:20:42.000 Yeah, rules for thee, but not for me.

01:20:44.000 Look, there are reasons to be generally distrustful of any level of consolidation.

01:20:49.000 I do think speaking purely from the entertainment perspective, because that's my, you know, my genre or whatever, is like that them going to Paramount is the far superior deal because they're going to focus on theatrical releases for the movies and maybe giving more, you know, space to the television shows because they're going to focus on putting entertainment first rather than the level of political influence that goes into Netflix productions and stuff like that.

01:21:15.000 But like the amount of money that they've spent on this, it's $111 billion all cash offer, $31 a share, $47 billion of it coming from the Ellison's private trust.

01:21:28.000 The rest of it's all debt financing.

01:21:30.000 So they also take on all of Warner Brothers' debt, which is like $33 billion.

01:21:36.000 And they pay the $2.8 billion breakup fee that's basically saying they have to pay Netflix for basically pulling Warner Brothers away from there.

01:21:44.000 That's impressive how you get all the numbers down.

01:21:46.000 Well, I just did a video on it earlier.

01:21:46.000 One-on-one.

01:21:49.000 But the point being is like, it doesn't necessarily mean it's a good thing because the best option here would be that Warner Brothers operates independently and gets to live and die on their own.

01:21:58.000 But it was very clear two years ago when they started canceling projects, basically signing things off to debt so that they could get tax, you know, tax breaks on projects that were already being made at that time.

01:22:10.000 That what David Zazlov wanted to do was sell the company off.

01:22:14.000 But, you know, some people don't believe that they would have passed regulatory approval.

01:22:19.000 A lot of people believe that if Netflix had gotten the deal, that Trump's, you know, cabinet wouldn't have allowed it to go through, not to mention that part of the deal for Paramount is there's like a $7 billion insurance on there that if it doesn't pass regulatory approval, that will go to the Warner Brothers shareholders.

01:22:37.000 So, I mean, consolidation is bad, but watching people at CNN worry about whether Barry Weiss is going to be their boss is actually kind of hilarious.

01:22:46.000 That's one of the best parts about it.

01:22:48.000 The post-millennial goes on, Netflix CEO Greg Peters said on Thursday that the company was no longer pursuing Warner Brothers Discovery.

01:22:56.000 The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder value with a clear path to regulatory approval.

01:23:01.000 However, we've always been disciplined, and at the price required to match Paramount Skydance, Skydance's latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive.

01:23:09.000 So we are declining to match the Paramount Skydance bid.

01:23:12.000 Under Netflix deal, the streaming giant was seeking only streaming.

01:23:16.000 HBO and their film studio, Paramount, sought to acquire Warner Brothers' entire company.

01:23:20.000 The whole thing.

01:23:22.000 Status said that CNN staffers are also panicking over the suddenly very real prospect that they could be working for Barry Weiss before the end of the year.

01:23:30.000 In October, Paramount bought Weiss's outlet, the free press, for $150 million, and Weiss was made editor-in-chief of Paramount-owned CBS News.

01:23:38.000 I love the fact that they're freaking out.

01:23:41.000 The fact that in their mind, Barry Weiss is some like right-ring wing radical is just so funny to me.

01:23:48.000 you think that this is going to have an impact on their programming and their actual on-air personalities?

01:23:55.000 I mean, like, I've already seen Are they going to bring Don Lemon back?

01:23:58.000 That would be hilarious.

01:23:59.000 Oh, my gosh.

01:24:01.000 The other funny thing about this, you'll love this, is now James Gunn has to worry about working with David Ellison, which means that maybe you'll get the Snyder-verse back.

01:24:09.000 I would love that.

01:24:09.000 I don't want that to happen.

01:24:10.000 I want that to happen.

01:24:12.000 The point being that he's a family.

01:24:15.000 I want to see Ben Affleck as old Batman.

01:24:18.000 That's what I want.

01:24:20.000 This is the Fiat Age of Fiat.

01:24:22.000 They're liquidating our assets.

01:24:23.000 They're printing billions, trillions of dollars.

01:24:25.000 They're corporately colluding.

01:24:27.000 Now they're consolidating the corporate power as the AI is growing underneath.

01:24:31.000 And I understand it is sometimes it's fun to laugh at your enemy's pain, but that shouldn't distract you from what's actually happening, that this is a corporate, a gigantic, because entertainment and information flow are one and the same in a lot of ways.

01:24:44.000 Like information, entertainment is a type of information flow.

01:24:47.000 It can be a very subversive type of information.

01:24:51.000 I don't know what to do about it.

01:24:51.000 I'm so nervous, dude.

01:24:52.000 It's like I'm watching it happen.

01:24:53.000 I'm like, what do you do?

01:24:54.000 Paramount, look, Paramount isn't all good.

01:24:56.000 They made Starfleet Academy.

01:24:57.000 And from what I understand, everybody hates Starfleet Academy.

01:25:01.000 But of course, that's from before Ellison's tenure there.

01:25:04.000 And it's very interesting.

01:25:06.000 Apparently, what we've learned is that no doesn't always mean no if you've got enough money.

01:25:10.000 Well, no never means no if you've got enough money.

01:25:12.000 But to your point, you're talking about AI being the underlying kind of foundation.

01:25:18.000 If AI is going to make people that are creative able to create things with less friction, with less difficulty, how is it that the media is still going to be the giant that you say it's?

01:25:30.000 Because they're going to siphon off percentages of everything that you make.

01:25:35.000 5%.

01:25:36.000 You can use like Disney World, the VR realm where you get to create all the different movies of Disney with yourself as activities.

01:25:42.000 Licensing.

01:25:42.000 You're talking about licensing?

01:25:43.000 They'll be licensing you percentage of this.

01:25:45.000 It'll be $9,000 an hour or a second if you want to use Harrison Ford in this movie or whatever.

01:25:50.000 $9,000 a second.

01:25:52.000 Yeah, you'll be able to set your fee as an actor.

01:25:54.000 Harrison Ford's probably worth about $9,000 a second.

01:25:56.000 If you want him for a cameo in your movie, I think $150,000 would be reasonable.

01:26:00.000 You mean they're going to be paying Harrison Ford though?

01:26:02.000 It would be like subscription fees go to Ford, and then they'd take a cut of that, and that's where the AI starts clipping off bits, and you get this like siphon class, you know, like bankers collecting interest and stuff.

01:26:11.000 When these actors sign contracts with these studios now, they sign the right-of-way to like most of the time to their likeness.

01:26:17.000 They're already being used.

01:26:19.000 The same thing is happening to the animators in the industry, where basically if you're getting hired to do animation in Hollywood right now, you're being hired to do work that is going to be used to train your replacement, which is AI.

01:26:30.000 I think it should be a human right to control your likeness.

01:26:33.000 Matthew McConney has been talking about it lately, specifically.

01:26:36.000 I kind of went the other route.

01:26:37.000 I'm like, you know what?

01:26:38.000 I'm going to make my persona free for everyone to use, like Public Commons and see how that goes.

01:26:42.000 But the reality is no one else, unless you opt in, should have access to using your likeness for anything, no matter what you sign.

01:26:49.000 What they're actually getting is the character.

01:26:51.000 That's what's safe to give us.

01:26:52.000 Yeah, because if they're like, oh, you know, we're doing, like, for instance, you mentioned Harrison Ford, right?

01:26:56.000 Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones.

01:26:58.000 Harrison Ford is Han Solo.

01:27:00.000 If someone's like, I want to put Han Solo in this thing, well, the character is the property of now Disney, right?

01:27:07.000 Well, and you can blame the capitalism for that, right?

01:27:10.000 Which is that back in the day, the actor reaped the benefits of this by making massive amounts of money with off the backs of these things being made.

01:27:19.000 So, like you said, for Harrison Ford, whether it's Indiana Jones or whether it's Han Solo, now Disney, you know, they sign before James Earl Jones died, they have the right to his voice in perpetuity forever.

01:27:30.000 They can use that voice and the companies will eventually hit a point where they're not going to need the actors anymore.

01:27:35.000 First of all, like you're not going to see a rise of new franchises that are going to be that way, be the size of an Indiana Jones or a Star Wars anyways.

01:27:44.000 We don't live in a monoculture anymore.

01:27:45.000 Yeah.

01:27:46.000 Like that's done.

01:27:47.000 Like it's going to be niche stuff online.

01:27:49.000 They're already doing, they're already planning to set up, it might even be on there right now for AI uploads on Disney Plus where you're going to be able to make your own movies and stuff on there with various programs.

01:28:00.000 Tim was ahead of the curve on that.

01:28:02.000 I thought we were five years away from that.

01:28:03.000 It was way sooner than that.

01:28:05.000 Everything is going to happen so much faster.

01:28:06.000 Disney is in a, if I, if I know, if I remember correctly, Disney has entered into an agreement with Open AI anyways to give their employees access to AI software to do their job better.

01:28:17.000 So, you know, whatever that means at Disney, they're not good at their jobs anyways.

01:28:20.000 But yeah, this story is actually in a lot of ways.

01:28:24.000 It's not actually a good thing.

01:28:26.000 We only think it is because we like laughing at the people who are going to be stuck working for David Ellison.

01:28:31.000 Yeah, I mean, look, that's the part that's delicious about this, right?

01:28:35.000 Is they're they're freaking out about, oh, no, we're going to be, you know, we're going to be taken into the right-wing echo chamber and blah, blah, blah.

01:28:43.000 And that's why I asked if you thought that the programming is.

01:28:45.000 It's possible that, yeah, that there will be a change in the way the programming looks.

01:28:51.000 But at the same time, Trump, like Trump said, he didn't, like when they did the, what was it, 60 Minutes with Marjorie Taylor Greene, I think it was.

01:28:57.000 And Trump's like, oh, this new administration is just as bad as the old one, even though it was, you know, Ellison in 60 Minutes.

01:29:04.000 Well, I mean, anytime you talk to Donald Trump and it's not, you know, glazing him, he's like, no, it wasn't blah, blah, blah.

01:29:10.000 So, I mean, I understand that that's kind of par for the course when it comes to Donald Trump.

01:29:14.000 But when you're talking about more broadly, just the way that they treat the right, right?

01:29:17.000 Because obviously anyone on the right, they're not just on the right.

01:29:21.000 They're a right-wing extremist.

01:29:23.000 That's been something that's been coming out of not just Congress.

01:29:26.000 You hear Congresspeople and senators saying that.

01:29:29.000 They've been saying it for a decade.

01:29:30.000 Anything that's to the left of or to the right of Hillary Clinton is a far-right extremist.

01:29:35.000 But I wonder if they're actually going to start being a little more fair and at the very least their portrayal.

01:29:42.000 It's possible that purely for financial reasons.

01:29:45.000 I don't think it really matters anyways.

01:29:46.000 I think these institutions are dying for the most part.

01:29:49.000 Like legacy media as it isn't the isn't the cash cow that it would that it would have been 20 or 30 years ago.

01:29:56.000 Well, yeah, go ahead.

01:29:57.000 No, I was going to say it's not.

01:29:59.000 And the ones that are prospering are largely taking all of the eyeballs from the other ones.

01:30:04.000 So yeah, I mean, the the way that technology is kind of actually manifest, it doesn't actually democratize everything.

01:30:13.000 It hollows it out.

01:30:14.000 So it's, it's basically all the big names just get super huge.

01:30:19.000 And then like the smaller guys find it, you know, kind of struggling over the, you know, fighting for the pieces and crumbs that are left over.

01:30:27.000 Yeah.

01:30:27.000 Well, and the cycle moves so quickly, too.

01:30:29.000 It's like, I mean, we saw the rise of, for example, like Sidney Sweeney so quickly, and it's kind of dying, you know, and it's going to continue to die.

01:30:36.000 Like that's, that's how it's all going to be.

01:30:38.000 And that's why we don't have the, like you said, like the legacy franchises aren't going to mean anything anymore because everything's so fast-paced nowadays.

01:30:45.000 People don't have the like the tension span for it.

01:30:49.000 I do wonder what I do look forward to seeing what kind of changes come to CNN.

01:30:54.000 I do think that they're going to, they're going to make adjustments because they're not just, I mean, no one's going to.

01:30:59.000 Yeah.

01:30:59.000 They're dying.

01:30:59.000 Well, I mean, I understand that, but the point that I'm making is like no one's just going to be like, well, give it up, guys.

01:31:04.000 You know, let's go ahead and just pack it in.

01:31:06.000 You know, I mean, they just spent all this money on the whole thing.

01:31:10.000 They're going to be trying to cap and do what they can to make their money back and make it a profitable deal.

01:31:16.000 The furthest left people already, I'm not even kidding you, they already consider CNN far right because David Zaslav was in charge of them.

01:31:23.000 So it's like that level of delusion is not tenable.

01:31:26.000 You can't actually live in that world and expect people to like live in your reality.

01:31:32.000 It's not the real world.

01:31:33.000 And this is going to be, and I don't know.

01:31:36.000 Like you were talking earlier about the possibility that some of these companies get broken up.

01:31:39.000 Like this is the only other deal that I can think of when I think of like the amount of money that was moved here was like the debt financing that Disney had to acquire to buy Fox back in, what was that, 2018 or 2019?

01:31:52.000 I forget what year it was that they ended up purchasing Fox, but they haven't even made their money back on that really.

01:31:57.000 Not really.

01:31:57.000 Like all they've used it for is to make a bunch of movies that nobody watches because they didn't actually put any effort into marketing the Fox movies.

01:32:04.000 They become avant-garde things like Searchlight Pictures, and the rest of it is like basically Deadpool laughing at 20th century X-Men characters.

01:32:13.000 But they're not making their money back on it just the way Disney hasn't made their money back on Star Wars.

01:32:17.000 Disney hasn't made their money back on Star Wars.

01:32:19.000 They blew that that bad.

01:32:21.000 Can you imagine like one of the biggest franchises in film history and they literally destroyed it?

01:32:27.000 They got it for a song too.

01:32:28.000 They got it for $4 billion.

01:32:29.000 That's nothing in that world.

01:32:32.000 Unreal.

01:32:33.000 Yeah, well, really, I mean, every single production they've had when it comes to Star Wars has been a complete train wreck.

01:32:39.000 Other than maybe the first two seasons of Mandalorian, everything's just been botched.

01:32:44.000 Well, a lot of people liked Rogue One.

01:32:46.000 Yeah, I was just going to say Rogue Run was actually good.

01:32:48.000 But I think, honestly, Rogue One, Rogue One was good.

01:32:50.000 And I think that the reason that people think that Rogue One was as good as it was was the last, what, minute when Darth Vader is going.

01:32:59.000 The same people liked Andor.

01:33:00.000 I mean, nobody watched it.

01:33:01.000 I haven't seen anyone liked it.

01:33:03.000 The ones that did watch it, like I didn't watch it, but from what I know, people really liked it.

01:33:07.000 It just cost a fortune.

01:33:07.000 It's like $700 million to make it.

01:33:09.000 Did it make its money back?

01:33:11.000 I don't even know.

01:33:12.000 I don't know how you calculate that with stuff that goes to streaming because there's no true because there's no direct revenue that's sourced towards that specific piece of production.

01:33:21.000 Interesting.

01:33:22.000 I was thinking earlier, now it's kind of pressured again.

01:33:24.000 It's like the whole world, they want to be American. 0.69

01:33:27.000 They want to come to, maybe they just want to siphon off what they think we got.

01:33:30.000 But like, we kind of have a duty now to impress the world.

01:33:34.000 Like, yo, we are the best.

01:33:36.000 And it's not like an ego thing.

01:33:37.000 It's like our system is the best.

01:33:38.000 I just happen to be lucky enough to be born here and continue to support it.

01:33:42.000 And show that through movies and TV because that big business has been bought out by foreign entities, it seems like.

01:33:48.000 I don't think they really care about Americanism.

01:33:50.000 Like Captain America was America.

01:33:52.000 Like that was the guy who fought Nazis.

01:33:55.000 You know, they tried to, we just did a story the other day that basically China tried to get Marvel or to get Sony, excuse me, to take the Statue of Liberty scene out of far from No Way Home.

01:34:06.000 You couldn't do it because it's like the whole last 20 minutes of the movie.

01:34:09.000 Oh, really?

01:34:10.000 But yeah, I mean, there's no way the movie wouldn't have made any sense.

01:34:13.000 I guess they could have like digitally changed it somehow, but they were never going to do that.

01:34:16.000 Really in America.

01:34:17.000 But now no Statue of Liberty and Brand New Day coming out because they want the China release. 0.97

01:34:21.000 That's insane.

01:34:24.000 We were talking about, you were mentioning this, like the fact that China even has that kind of leverage over American companies is a billion people, right?

01:34:31.000 Yeah, I mean, you keep like China keeps 75% of the box office, so you're getting scraps compared to what you get when you domestically.

01:34:39.000 It's not worth it to bastardize American properties and American culture like that either.

01:34:45.000 It destroys a lot of goodwill that people have towards them.

01:34:47.000 People got really upset when they released Black Panther in China and they put the helmet on Chad Boseman so that they could hide the fact that he was black to the Chinese audience.

01:34:57.000 He's getting, they get inside, they sit down with their popcorn, they're like, oh, they all just get up and run and they see black people. 0.99

01:35:04.000 Well, you know, it's um, but the point was, is like they would hear the Americans here virtue signaling about, you know, racism and all the things that they do here, but then they're like going to kowtow to China just to make a couple extra bucks.

01:35:16.000 Yeah.

01:35:16.000 Of course.

01:35:16.000 And see Sea Dance?

01:35:19.000 Have you seen Sea Dance, this new AI?

01:35:20.000 It's a Chinese AI that you might have seen the Brad Pitt fight scene with Tom Cruise on the film. 0.94

01:35:24.000 Yes, I did.

01:35:25.000 The one that looks like actually quite good.

01:35:26.000 So they don't really care about copyright. 0.96

01:35:27.000 It seems like they're just like fucked a copyright. 0.53

01:35:30.000 No, they got a bunch of like requests from the companies to stop that. 0.69

01:35:37.000 I mean, I don't really like none of that.

01:35:39.000 All those fights were the same, though.

01:35:40.000 Like every single, it was just different people, and it was pretty much the same camera angles.

01:35:45.000 And it wasn't like the Brad Pitt one was funny just because it was like him talking about Epstein to Tom Cruise.

01:35:52.000 Good lord.

01:35:52.000 But otherwise, the rest of it was like, it's novel because you can see John Wick fighting, I guess, Captain America or something like that.

01:35:59.000 Yeah, but I mean, that's, you know, again, when it comes to AI, it's like every time something comes out and people are like, oh man, that's cool.

01:36:05.000 And then someone says, well, you know, criticize it or whatever.

01:36:08.000 It's still worth remembering.

01:36:09.000 This is the worst it's ever going to be.

01:36:12.000 That's exactly right.

01:36:13.000 It's only getting better.

01:36:15.000 I don't have to go home and prompt a movie.

01:36:17.000 Apparently, if we get five more super chats that are $5, Ian has to sing a song before.

01:36:24.000 I can do that.

01:36:25.000 No more super chat.

01:36:26.000 Have your guitar right here.

01:36:28.000 Oh.

01:36:28.000 Five more.

01:36:29.000 Sorry, Andrew.

01:36:30.000 Five more five bucks.

01:36:30.000 You want a rich?

01:36:31.000 You got to wait.

01:36:32.000 Then you're giving it away for free.

01:36:32.000 You can't do it yet.

01:36:34.000 Yeah, you got to wait.

01:36:35.000 You got to force me to do it.

01:36:37.000 Or were you going to start my hand?

01:36:38.000 Or were you going to say?

01:36:39.000 I don't even remember.

01:36:41.000 It was so good.

01:36:42.000 What I was going to say is the fights were so good.

01:36:44.000 You were saying they were repetitively just different actions.

01:36:46.000 Yeah, they just kind of all looked the same.

01:36:47.000 It was so good that, like, why would you ever make another movie?

01:36:50.000 Oh, yeah.

01:36:51.000 You don't even need cameras.

01:36:52.000 So you can go 360 in a room.

01:36:54.000 You don't need to worry about where the cameras are positioned.

01:36:56.000 Yeah, what you were talking about, how like I don't want to make a movie.

01:37:01.000 Like, I don't want to make a movie either.

01:37:02.000 And there is, I understand that people are going to be able to prompt it and stuff, but to make a coherent movie that people are going to watch.

01:37:08.000 That's going to take a lot of work.

01:37:09.000 That will still take, even doing it with AI, it's going to take a decent amount of work.

01:37:14.000 I mean, you can tell Chat GPD, give me a script.

01:37:17.000 And then, you know, if you just plug it in and say, okay, make this, you're going to get those weird kind of AI.

01:37:24.000 You're going to still have to train the AI to.

01:37:27.000 I'm still partial to, like, one of the arguments they make now is that there's no such thing as the bankable action hero or the bankable actor anymore, that directors are more bankable than actors are.

01:37:37.000 Because people will go to see a Sam Raimi movie.

01:37:39.000 People will go to see a Quentin Tarantino movie.

01:37:41.000 I don't want to go online and find you're going to get the examples, right?

01:37:45.000 Where somebody that you've never heard of makes a great AI movie, but that's like just two steps too far.

01:37:52.000 Like, I just, I don't.

01:37:53.000 Like, I'd rather go to the theaters anyways.

01:37:56.000 It's kind of like subscribe to their YouTube channel.

01:37:58.000 Like, they pump out good content on the weekly.

01:38:01.000 You don't think that's what it's going to become?

01:38:02.000 Is it like director is a creative?

01:38:04.000 Content is different than movies to me.

01:38:06.000 Like, there's a lot of people that are, you know, that you've never heard of that I love watching their YouTube videos or listening to their podcast.

01:38:13.000 But that's not the same thing as sitting down in a movie theater and actually watching somebody tell a story.

01:38:18.000 And like, so now that, you know, Claude can do such a good job, or well, not just Claude, but AI can do such a good job at coding.

01:38:18.000 Yeah.

01:38:26.000 You can go ahead and make your own apps.

01:38:28.000 You can say, well, I want, you know, do this.

01:38:30.000 They call it vibe coding.

01:38:31.000 You just tell the AI what you want and tell it to do this and do that.

01:38:35.000 But most people, I think, aren't interested in sitting down with a computer and saying, hey, make me an app for this.

01:38:41.000 And one of the things that I think will still happen is people don't, I heard this on the Naval podcast.

01:38:47.000 People don't want second best, right?

01:38:50.000 So when you go and you search for something, you're not going to say, find me an app that does this.

01:38:56.000 You're going to say, find me the best app that does this.

01:38:59.000 So, the idea that everyone's going to make a bunch of stuff and everyone's just going to watch it and stuff.

01:39:04.000 No, I don't think that's true.

01:39:05.000 And the reason I don't is because people are going to say, find me the best.

01:39:08.000 And so you're still going to have a situation where kind of the cream rises to the top.

01:39:12.000 Marketing matters.

01:39:13.000 Yeah, marketing matters, absolutely.

01:39:14.000 But even if, even if you're, you know, just doing searches and stuff, and that's why I mentioned apps because there's not really the marketing with that.

01:39:21.000 You're just people that are looking to do things.

01:39:23.000 They're going to say, make me the, you know, get me the best of this.

01:39:26.000 That's what people will use AI for.

01:39:27.000 They won't say, you know, make me this app.

01:39:30.000 They'll just say, hey, you know, get me the best one of these.

01:39:34.000 And then you'll end up with a situation where there's one that's the best, and that one gets spread around, and that's the one that people use.

01:39:39.000 And there'll be some people that don't like the interface or whatever.

01:39:43.000 So there'll be a second one that's way down.

01:39:45.000 And then after that, there's going to be a thousand apps that people were trying, but they didn't really hit the spot the way that the best did.

01:39:52.000 And so it's not the best.

01:39:53.000 And I think that that's going to be more, I think that's going to be more prevalent than the idea that there's this just chaos of different movies that you could watch and stuff.

01:40:03.000 And it's something that even Tim mentioned.

01:40:05.000 He was like, you know, people are going to say, oh, you know, did you see blah, blah, blah's movie?

01:40:09.000 Well, that's kind of talking about my point.

01:40:11.000 It's, it's people are, word of mouth will get around and people will say, get me the best of this.

01:40:16.000 And I want to watch the best stuff.

01:40:17.000 And it's not going to be a situation where there's just a bajillion of slop AI movies that people are watching.

01:40:24.000 There will still be a situation where people are like, oh, I want to see, did you hear about this one?

01:40:28.000 I want to see it because everyone says it's good.

01:40:31.000 That makes me, I want to get rid of copyright.

01:40:34.000 I don't like, I think copyright has been used insidiously to control data.

01:40:39.000 Like, like your dad had a lot of money and bought a cartoon.

01:40:43.000 Now no one else can ever use it because somebody paid money.

01:40:46.000 Like it got invented by the British, from what I learned, Queen Elizabeth, I think, to control the printing of the Bibles because they wanted to make sure they owned the flow of the Bibles going out.

01:40:55.000 So if you want the best, you need access to the best data set.

01:40:59.000 And if it's copywritten, you can't get it.

01:41:02.000 And then some secret society will be using it.

01:41:04.000 So I feel like we're like, as you see with Sea Dance, they don't care about copyright.

01:41:08.000 And why would we hamstring ourselves if they're not?

01:41:12.000 But the point that I'm making is it would be an organic thing.

01:41:15.000 It wouldn't matter about copyright where people are just like, oh, I want to see this one because I heard it was really good.

01:41:22.000 Sorry, I interrupted.

01:41:23.000 What I would mean is like, okay, AI, build me an app like the YouTube app, but change these things.

01:41:28.000 And it'll be, I cannot build an iteration of that copywritten app.

01:41:32.000 But that's the point.

01:41:34.000 When you're talking to an AI about coding, you wouldn't have to mention YouTube.

01:41:38.000 Make me a video player that'll do this, this, and this, and this.

01:41:41.000 And I want this and this and this.

01:41:43.000 You don't have to mention someone else's app.

01:41:45.000 And the idea of a video player isn't something that's copywritten.

01:41:49.000 So there might be proprietary stuff that says YouTube has.

01:41:53.000 That wouldn't give you access to the content on YouTube, though.

01:41:55.000 That's true.

01:41:57.000 The point he's saying is to have a version of it that could let you watch YouTube.

01:42:01.000 No, no, no, just a version of the data.

01:42:03.000 If I want the code, not like everyone has to give me all their code.

01:42:06.000 I'm not saying that, but we're up against people that don't care about your code, privacy rules, and laws, and they don't care if you're Tom Cruise.

01:42:14.000 They're going to use you in movies anyway. 0.99

01:42:15.000 The thing that I'm, when you go to like, when you are actually writing code or you're talking to an AI that can code for you, like it's writing the code.

01:42:23.000 So you're not actually getting someone else's code.

01:42:24.000 It's writing code.

01:42:25.000 Well, have you ever used Suno?

01:42:27.000 This is exactly where I thought this was going.

01:42:28.000 And that's why I'm laughing so hard.

01:42:30.000 I'll be like, hey, Suno, make me a song like The Beach Boys, but techno.

01:42:33.000 And it'll be like, can't be copyrighted.

01:42:35.000 They're songs.

01:42:36.000 Make me song that's like beat surfer rock.

01:42:39.000 And it's like you say everything about them.

01:42:41.000 And you can't just hit the nail on the head.

01:42:43.000 You can't say make me a song like All That Remains, but you can say make me a Metal Core song.

01:42:47.000 Right.

01:42:48.000 And there's a bunch of stuff that.

01:42:50.000 But if we want the best, we got to be able to bounce off the backs of our four fathers.

01:42:54.000 Why?

01:42:55.000 Well, I mean, that's how evolution works.

01:42:57.000 No, but the thing, no, the thing is, it's not that the AI is deciding what's best.

01:43:02.000 When I say that people are going to be looking for the best, people are going to decide what is.

01:43:07.000 They're going to essentially just tweak things until it is, quote unquote, the best.

01:43:11.000 Well, Brett's point about marketing, too.

01:43:13.000 Like, if you don't know it exists, then it wouldn't be on the ranking for the best, even if it was the best.

01:43:17.000 That's more about advertising than anything.

01:43:19.000 I was going to say, it's like easy, it's easier than ever to advertise.

01:43:21.000 I mean, you have the whole internet, your favorite tips.

01:43:24.000 The downside is everyone's advertising, so the pool is saturated also.

01:43:27.000 Correct.

01:43:27.000 So, again, the creamery.

01:43:28.000 I mean, look, you know, from my perspective.

01:43:31.000 Sorry.

01:43:31.000 You can't.

01:43:32.000 Well, just from my perspective, like, advertising is super important.

01:43:35.000 I mean, we released our most recent record and it was all self-finance.

01:43:40.000 We did it all.

01:43:40.000 And the advertising, it was like was as expensive as the production of the record.

01:43:45.000 Which is why the music industry is the way that it is, right?

01:43:48.000 Because a lot of the artists, you know, for all the artists that complain about, you know, the hold that the label has on them or the movie makers who complain about the studio wanting it to look this way.

01:43:59.000 It's like, look, unless you're footing the bill to market it to the public and they never acknowledge that part of it.

01:44:05.000 They're never willing to admit that, look, I want them to take a risk on my piece of avant-garde art, but I want to take none of the risk to make it.

01:44:14.000 Yeah.

01:44:15.000 If you want to say, look, I'll license this, that's one thing, right?

01:44:18.000 They have the license for five or seven years or whatever.

01:44:21.000 So they make the lion's share of the money, but then you get ownership back.

01:44:24.000 That's kind of the way that the music industry has become nowadays.

01:44:28.000 If you have, especially if you're a band that has a fan base and you have a history, it's easy to be like, we want a license for this long.

01:44:36.000 Whereas when you're trying to start out and you're an unproven product, you have no history, you have no track record, you have no catalog, the label's not going to be like, yeah, we'll totally give it to you, give you, you know, here's 100 grand to do your record.

01:44:50.000 And we don't know if you're going to, if you're even going to stay together for the next six months.

01:44:54.000 What was the example?

01:44:55.000 Was JoJo signed like the world's worst contract?

01:44:58.000 It took like 20 years for her to get her song.

01:45:00.000 Yeah.

01:45:00.000 I mean, and that's, you know, labels do that kind of stuff all the time.

01:45:03.000 They're like, we sign a band for the life of the band is kind of the way that they say it.

01:45:08.000 Because they want to say, we're putting all this money in up front and you've got X amount of records.

01:45:15.000 So, you know, or for whatever the life of the band is, every time we invest money in you and every time we spend money on marketing, you know, this, we want to make sure that we get our investment back.

01:45:24.000 And a label will sign 10 bands and maybe one of them will go and do, just be able to break even.

01:45:31.000 Never mind, make a lot of money.

01:45:33.000 So it's like if a label signs 50 bands, maybe one of them will become big enough to cover the loss on all the other bands.

01:45:38.000 You were the one who told me that was like one ends up subsidizing pretty much all the other artists.

01:45:42.000 And so I and I understand artists that, you know, when they're like, oh, you know, I don't own this and I don't own and blah, blah, blah.

01:45:42.000 Yeah.

01:45:49.000 Like, I get it.

01:45:49.000 You know, we've got like tons of stuff that we don't own that we'll never own.

01:45:53.000 But like at the same time, like the reason we have a career, the reason we can still go and go on tour and know that people are going to come, the reason that people are still listening to our Spotify millions of times a month is because of the effort that was put in by us writing, but also the label, putting effort in and putting us into video games and getting our stuff on the radio and making sure that people were listening to our stuff.

01:46:17.000 It's true of the people who end up doing a lot of genre sci-fi, right?

01:46:20.000 Like they don't end up getting residuals on a lot of the shows that they do, but they've got convention spots for life and they will be able to make money off that.

01:46:26.000 For as long as they're alive, their face is going to make the money.

01:46:29.000 Yeah, the label really does do a lot of legwork in helping you build a career.

01:46:35.000 And once you've built that career, once your name is out there, they can't take that from you.

01:46:41.000 I mean, I suppose if you sign a bad contract and they own the name, that's a terrible idea.

01:46:46.000 But labels don't usually own the name of an artist.

01:46:50.000 They're like, okay, we'll sign you.

01:46:51.000 We'll own the music that you do for us.

01:46:52.000 The music that we pay to produce, we pay for this time in the studio.

01:46:56.000 We own the master tapes, but otherwise, you still have a career if you get off the label.

01:47:00.000 You know that WWE owns John Cena's real name to get a piece of everything he does, even though it's his actual real name.

01:47:08.000 Yeah, I mean, he loves it.

01:47:09.000 He's like, he's the quintessential company dude.

01:47:12.000 He's the face of WWE, essentially, and he probably will be forever.

01:47:16.000 All right.

01:47:17.000 I think we're about time we go to super chats.

01:47:19.000 Before we get into it, I must say we have some news.

01:47:23.000 Ian, we've got your goal met.

01:47:26.000 So if you stay until the end, Ian's going to play at 9:55.

01:47:32.000 We'll do our outros and then you will have the Encore Take It Away story. 0.76

01:47:36.000 All right.

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01:47:48.000 We spend an hour after the show talking.

01:47:50.000 We have people call in from the Discord.

01:47:53.000 We have an uncensored version because, well, an uncensored show because YouTube is still kind of, you know, finicky about what you can or can't say.

01:47:59.000 But Rumble doesn't care.

01:48:00.000 So censorship can be good sometimes.

01:48:03.000 No.

01:48:04.000 But anyways.

01:48:06.000 No, norms can be good.

01:48:07.000 Yeah.

01:48:09.000 Censorship if it's censoring what you're wearing.

01:48:11.000 Won't you think of the kids?

01:48:14.000 We're going to go to, where's the super chats button here?

01:48:14.000 All right.

01:48:17.000 Oh, I'm so pumped for this.

01:48:19.000 I just saw those super chats.

01:48:21.000 I saw someone.

01:48:22.000 You were flying it.

01:48:23.000 Yeah.

01:48:24.000 It's like super chat, chat, chat, chat.

01:48:26.000 Someone chatted $4.99.

01:48:28.000 I don't think it counted towards the $5.

01:48:30.000 Oh, that's tough.

01:48:32.000 They intentionally left that one cent out so that you wouldn't play.

01:48:35.000 It was like that girl that left me a nickel tip when I was waiting tables.

01:48:39.000 Just let me know she didn't forget.

01:48:40.000 There we go.

01:48:40.000 All right.

01:48:42.000 Let's see here.

01:48:43.000 What do we got?

01:48:44.000 We got Carlo Mangione Kyle says, Ian, are you Slash or Gary Oldman's Dracula?

01:48:44.000 What do we got?

01:48:50.000 Oh, that's awesome.

01:48:51.000 Yeah, Gary Oldman did that.

01:48:53.000 I was like going the Ozzy Osborne route, but Phil was like, what's up, Slash?

01:48:56.000 Yeah, that's definitely Ozzy didn't really wasn't really known for a top hat.

01:49:00.000 Not that he hasn't worn a top hat, but that whole sunglasses and top hat's signature.

01:49:07.000 I think I'm slashed.

01:49:08.000 Did Slash wear a trench coat on stage?

01:49:11.000 Again, I don't think that it was a constant thing, but I'm sure that he has.

01:49:15.000 You know, I mean, look, Axel Rose wore a kilt and a catcher's chest protector from one show, I remember.

01:49:22.000 So the craziest slash is the answer.

01:49:25.000 There you go.

01:49:25.000 All right.

01:49:26.000 Let's see.

01:49:28.000 Doo doo175 says it was missed before. 1.00

01:49:32.000 If this calling was never your ringtone, you suck. 1.00

01:49:35.000 ATR. 1.00

01:49:35.000 Thank you very much. 1.00

01:49:36.000 I appreciate that.

01:49:38.000 Cerebral Bagamon says, I'm a combat vet trying to leave a bad situation.

01:49:42.000 Please need to relocate as quick as possible.

01:49:44.000 Please view my give send go page.

01:49:47.000 God bless Go Trump.

01:49:48.000 There we go.

01:49:49.000 Someone else says, James35124 says, is Ian channeling Slash from Guns N' Roses tonight?

01:49:55.000 Yeah.

01:49:56.000 Oh, it's too slashy, isn't it?

01:49:58.000 It's very slashy.

01:49:59.000 I mean, it's definitely slash.

01:50:01.000 I just haven't seen him lately.

01:50:02.000 Circle glasses and the top hat is that is exactly what Slash wore like from 1996 to like 1990.

01:50:10.000 It's immediately what I thought about when I saw you.

01:50:12.000 That's why I asked if there was a goal with it.

01:50:14.000 As a Gen Z, as a member of Gen Z, knowing Slash is actually fairly impressive.

01:50:18.000 Is it?

01:50:19.000 A lot of Gen Z people don't know Guns Ross Ross.

01:50:19.000 Yeah.

01:50:21.000 What's your favorite Guns N' Roses song?

01:50:23.000 Oh, that's tough.

01:50:23.000 I don't know.

01:50:25.000 Mine's November, Ryan.

01:50:27.000 That's what you should play when we go out there.

01:50:29.000 I don't know what it's going to be.

01:50:29.000 It's really long, too.

01:50:31.000 Probably shouldn't play that because it might get us copied.

01:50:34.000 Mr. Brownstone's good, too.

01:50:35.000 That whole appetite for destruction album is so good.

01:50:37.000 I like one in a million.

01:50:39.000 All right.

01:50:40.000 What's this?

01:50:41.000 S. Federali says, hold up.

01:50:43.000 Is she the CUN Valhalla brother brand of Patel? 0.95

01:50:47.000 I feel like I feel like that name got glossed over.

01:50:51.000 No, no relation to the director of the FBI.

01:50:54.000 Okay.

01:50:55.000 Do you get that a lot?

01:50:56.000 You know what?

01:50:56.000 I do.

01:50:57.000 It's so funny.

01:50:58.000 I'm like, I don't know that anyone's ever been to a hospital before or a liquor store, but the name Patel is incredibly popular.

01:51:05.000 Or a liquor stable.

01:51:07.000 Or a hotel, motel.

01:51:09.000 Yeah, no.

01:51:11.000 Every single day, I get, are you Kash Patel's wife?

01:51:14.000 Are you Kash Patel's cousin?

01:51:16.000 Are you Kash Patel's daughter?

01:51:18.000 I'm like, nope, no relation.

01:51:20.000 I've met the man one time in passing at a restaurant.

01:51:24.000 Other than that, I can safely say no relation, at least to my knowledge.

01:51:28.000 Ian.

01:51:28.000 Did you make a comment about how you had the same name?

01:51:31.000 I don't think so we were no I don't think so I think I I think whoever introduced us very briefly might have said something, but I definitely.

01:51:38.000 Two Smiths aren't like, hey, Smith.

01:51:40.000 Yeah.

01:51:41.000 Well, right.

01:51:42.000 Like, have you ever encountered anybody else with a common name that does that?

01:51:46.000 No, us Patels don't.

01:51:48.000 Like, we, I don't, I don't know.

01:51:50.000 We don't care.

01:51:51.000 It's not novel in any way, shape, or form.

01:51:54.000 I'm pretty sure that I saw someone with an announcement of having a baby, and I'm trying to.

01:52:00.000 I think I saw that one too.

01:52:01.000 There's a lot of people that want to see you sing tonight, Ian.

01:52:04.000 Oh, good.

01:52:04.000 Try to figure out what you should sing.

01:52:06.000 You define me with words unless you're going to be able to do it.

01:52:07.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:52:08.000 Okay, here we go.

01:52:09.000 From Tay Adams, 7049.

01:52:12.000 He says, proud to announce the birth of my.

01:52:15.000 Wait a minute.

01:52:16.000 Your wife has verbatim. 0.99

01:52:20.000 Proud to announce the birth of my wife and my third child.

01:52:24.000 Victoria Lucelle Baptiste.

01:52:27.000 I think he meant proud to announce the birth of his third child.

01:52:31.000 But anyways, congratulations.

01:52:33.000 That's what we love to hear.

01:52:35.000 Don't worry about that, man.

01:52:36.000 Like, I'm already bad enough at reading.

01:52:38.000 And when I'm trying to read the super chats on our show, it's just.

01:52:41.000 He legitimately says, proud to announce the birth of my wife and my third child.

01:52:46.000 That is so awesome.

01:52:47.000 I think that, you know, sometimes YouTube is a little, or yeah, the YouTube app is a little funky when you're actually putting in super chats.

01:52:52.000 That's the thing about life extension is you're going to be like hanging out with your great, great, great, great granddaughter's best friends, and they're all going to look like you're 30.

01:52:59.000 It's going to be wild.

01:53:02.000 Ziggurat says, dating as Gen Z, especially an average-looking guy, is a hellscape, especially if you were conservative, stuck in a libtard state. 1.00

01:53:11.000 I would love to find a good woman and have kids with, but I'm about to give up, to be honest.

01:53:16.000 Well, don't give up and definitely don't settle for an AI chat bot because you'll never get a kid out of that.

01:53:22.000 You can always do what I do or what I did.

01:53:25.000 I sent my wife a Joseph Stalin meme.

01:53:28.000 There you go.

01:53:28.000 Take a recorded her.

01:53:29.000 Great way to break the ice.

01:53:32.000 Dark humor is like food.

01:53:33.000 Not everybody gets it.

01:53:35.000 There you go.

01:53:36.000 It's pretty good.

01:53:37.000 Corey Richmond says, my biggest pet peeve is a grown man wearing Crocs, pajama pants, an anime hoodie with unkempt beard and hair in public.

01:53:47.000 Have some dignity.

01:53:48.000 I completely understand that.

01:53:51.000 Like, if you are a grown man and you're wearing an outfit like that, particularly if you have a gigantic belly, because they always, they always seem to have a gigantic belly.

01:54:00.000 That pops out a little bit.

01:54:01.000 Yeah, and the shirt doesn't quite cover it, and everyone has to look at their underbelly. 0.87

01:54:05.000 It's disgusting. 0.89

01:54:06.000 I completely agree. 0.77

01:54:08.000 You should have some dignity and respect for yourself.

01:54:10.000 Unless you're at the airport, then wear whatever you want.

01:54:12.000 No, no, don't listen to him.

01:54:14.000 Don't listen to him.

01:54:15.000 Anything.

01:54:16.000 No.

01:54:17.000 Let's see.

01:54:18.000 Less obesity and less pajamas in public.

01:54:20.000 That's right.

01:54:21.000 Go to the gym.

01:54:22.000 Put the fork down.

01:54:24.000 Andre says, Phil, what do you make of people like me?

01:54:27.000 Millennial Christian conservative grew up with 4chan.

01:54:30.000 Well, there's your problem.

01:54:32.000 Stuck in Quebecistan. 1.00

01:54:33.000 All I want is to be a hillbilly in the woods with my dog, chickens and guns.

01:54:37.000 Don't care about voting.

01:54:39.000 I mean, look, man, I'm still of the opinion that we should shut the border down.

01:54:43.000 But if you snuck in and you lived in the woods in like Vermont or in New Hampshire, yeah, you get deported less.

01:54:50.000 I mean, look, if you stay in the woods, I might never find you.

01:54:54.000 Just completely off-grid.

01:54:56.000 Off-grid.

01:54:56.000 If you get yourself some chickens, go into town once a month.

01:55:01.000 If you're up in the hills up in northern New Hampshire or in Maine, Maine's got a lot of woods up there.

01:55:06.000 Unabomber was doing.

01:55:08.000 I don't think he was.

01:55:09.000 Yeah.

01:55:09.000 It's a great comparison.

01:55:10.000 Yeah.

01:55:11.000 So you'd probably fly under the radar if you do that.

01:55:14.000 So, you know, stay out of the cities.

01:55:17.000 You know, let's see.

01:55:20.000 There's a lot of people that are like, someone please give Ian a guitar.

01:55:24.000 How much for Ian not to sing?

01:55:26.000 No, That's the goal.

01:55:29.000 10 more $10 super chats and Ian won't.

01:55:32.000 It's like one large $1,000 super chat just to silence you forever.

01:55:37.000 That'd be tough.

01:55:37.000 That'd be a good one.

01:55:39.000 Omega Ratsu says, sorry, but feminism existed since the French Revolution and Marx plagiarized Flora Tristan and she got her cues from the French. 0.99

01:55:47.000 Flora Tristan, 1843, Workers of the World Unite.

01:55:51.000 Marx copied in 1848.

01:55:53.000 Look, man, there is socialism that is not Marxist socialism.

01:55:56.000 And I completely understand that the French Revolution was kind of really where socialism kind of started off.

01:56:03.000 There were people that influenced Rousseau, but Rousseau kind of really made it popular with the whole like man is actually separated from his work and we need to make men closer to what they were when they were not living in cities and stuff.

01:56:16.000 So I understand what you're saying.

01:56:18.000 Your point is well taken.

01:56:19.000 You're completely right.

01:56:21.000 But I do think that it makes sense to kind of attribute Marx when it comes to talking about communism.

01:56:27.000 Most of your socialists nowadays are Marxists of some kind. 0.91

01:56:32.000 But again, you know, even modern socialism, modern communists, they're the gay race communists. 1.00

01:56:37.000 They're more influenced by Mark Hughes and Foucault and the postmodernist school.

01:56:43.000 But again, like I said, I'm not hating on your comment.

01:56:46.000 You're right.

01:56:48.000 Cabbage Rolls says, communism is a lie.

01:56:50.000 There's never been a political system in the world where people had more power than in the USA.

01:56:54.000 Communism is worse than a monarchy.

01:56:56.000 I agree generally.

01:56:59.000 Let's see.

01:57:01.000 St. Truther.

01:57:03.000 Ian, I have made an NPC for a D ⁇ D campaign inspired by you using an AI tool called Quest Portal.

01:57:10.000 He is a wood elf bard named Ian of the Crosslands. 1.00

01:57:13.000 Take care and rock on Ian.

01:57:15.000 That is awesome, dude.

01:57:15.000 Love you, bro.

01:57:18.000 Yeah, follow up.

01:57:19.000 Let me know later how accurate it is.

01:57:21.000 What is it?

01:57:23.000 Poppin's Patch video says, seems like broken window theory.

01:57:26.000 If you dress well, you ideally behave better and encourage others to do so.

01:57:30.000 If you allow your environment to be trashy, more trashy behavior will be seen as acceptable.

01:57:34.000 I agree with that too.

01:57:36.000 Like if you take pride in yourself, then other people will treat you that way.

01:57:36.000 Yeah.

01:57:41.000 And that's also another thing.

01:57:43.000 If you're out in public, and I understand, Brett, I know you're giving me a lot of people.

01:57:46.000 If your airport is a tenement.

01:57:48.000 But if you're in public and you look put together and you look well-dressed, you are going to have people have people, you are going to have people respond to you differently than if you look unkempt and if you look like you're kind of a pile of dirty clothes.

01:58:01.000 Absolutely.

01:58:02.000 Well, it is five, four minutes of Ian.

01:58:02.000 All right.

01:58:07.000 You want to do the let's do outro.

01:58:09.000 So Priya, do you have anything you want to shout out or anything where tell people where they can find you?

01:58:09.000 Yeah, okay.

01:58:15.000 You can find me on pretty much all the social media apps.

01:58:18.000 It's always my first name followed by two E's, P-R-I-Y-A-E-E. 0.99

01:58:22.000 And yeah, thanks for having me.

01:58:23.000 Thank you very much.

01:58:24.000 Guys, if you want to follow me, I am on Instagram and on X at Brett Daseovic on both of those platforms.

01:58:30.000 And what you should do is check out Pop Culture Crisis.

01:58:32.000 We are live Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, which is, of course, noon Pacific, YouTube and Rumble.

01:58:37.000 And you can listen to it on Spotify and all audio platforms as well.

01:58:41.000 Thanks, guys.

01:58:42.000 Ian Crossland.

01:58:43.000 Oh, Carter.

01:58:43.000 Sorry.

01:58:44.000 No, no, no.

01:58:47.000 For today, I'll just go first and then I'll go in a circle and then who gets to go Phil and then Tim. 0.98

01:58:51.000 Yeah, let me plug my crap. 0.92

01:58:53.000 So, yeah, I am Carter Banks. 0.99

01:58:55.000 You can follow me everywhere at Carter Banks on Instagram.

01:58:58.000 No, except for Instagram, where someone's been sitting on my URL name, and there's a 4-L at the end of it.

01:59:05.000 And follow Trash House Records on YouTube at Trash House Records.

01:59:09.000 Phil.

01:59:10.000 I am PhilTheRemains on Twix.

01:59:12.000 You can check out my Patreon where I've been writing little op-ed pieces lately.

01:59:16.000 That's patreon.com slash PhilTheRemains.

01:59:18.000 The band is all that remains.

01:59:19.000 We're going on tour this spring.

01:59:21.000 We're going out with Born of Osiris and Dead Eyes.

01:59:23.000 You can go to All The Remains Online to get VIP tickets.

01:59:26.000 They're available.

01:59:27.000 You can get tickets.

01:59:28.000 Actually, you can get tickets at alltheremainsonline.com as well.

01:59:31.000 You can check out the music on Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, YouTube, Deezer.

01:59:35.000 Don't forget the left lane is for crime.

01:59:37.000 Ian, sing us out, my man.

01:59:38.000 Thank you very much.

01:59:40.000 Thank you very much.

01:59:41.000 Song's called Hi.

01:59:46.000 Fitting.

01:59:58.000 Music is alive.

02:00:04.000 And you've been running through my mind.

02:00:11.000 Your eyes are telling me it's right.

02:00:18.000 And we got nothing left to hide.

02:00:24.000 We can go higher and higher.

02:00:27.000 We're high.

02:00:32.000 The world is ours and we are light.

02:00:39.000 Don't look back.

02:00:41.000 We've crossed all lines.

02:00:46.000 We are free.

02:00:48.000 We are divine.

02:00:52.000 You're saying this life.

02:00:54.000 I know it's alright to go where we come and leave when we might.

02:00:59.000 It's endless fate.

02:01:01.000 Just hang on tight and we both let go when the feeling's right.

02:01:06.000 I won't pretend not to think it's the end when the music is playing.

02:01:11.000 Now ain't it nice?

02:01:13.000 We got love and we got each other.

02:01:17.000 got now and we got forever we can go higher and higher we're high is ours and we are light

02:01:49.000 Don't look back.

02:01:50.000 We've crossed all lines.

02:01:55.000 Yeah, we are free.

02:01:57.000 We are divine.

02:02:01.000 I say in this life, I know it's all right to go where we come and leave where we say when we might less fate just hang on tight and we both let go when the feeling's right.

02:02:15.000 I won't pretend not to think it's the end when music is playing.

02:02:21.000 Ain't it nice?

02:02:23.000 We got love and we got each other.

02:02:26.000 We got it now, and we got forever. 1.00

02:02:30.000 Oh, fuck yeah. 0.99

02:02:40.000 Yeah, that was fun. 1.00

02:02:44.000 We're going to the moon in a big balloon that floats upright.

02:02:51.000 It's shaped like candy shells and taco bells and an octopus in flight.

02:02:58.000 We'll catch the drift wind calling.

02:03:00.000 Weather with falling's relative in sight.

02:03:04.000 So I will grab a net or jump the fences, planetary light.

02:03:11.000 I give you everything I can.

02:03:15.000 I'm only a human.

02:03:18.000 I give you up. 0.70

02:03:19.000 I'm going down.

02:03:21.000 He said this now with a frown, as with a bang-tast explode of energy.

02:03:28.000 Giving up ain't for free.

02:03:32.000 I said, enough ain't for free.

02:03:34.000 Oh, in this life, I know it's alright.

02:03:37.000 To go where we come and leave when we might.

02:03:41.000 It's endless faith, just hang on tight.

02:03:44.000 And we both let go when the feeling's right.

02:03:48.000 I won't pretend not to think it's the end.

02:03:51.000 When the music's playing, I ain't that nice.

02:03:55.000 We got love and we got each other.

02:03:58.000 We got now and we got river.

02:04:04.000 And I said, oh, I said, oh, oh, yeah.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - February 28, 2026

WE ARE TAKING CUBA | Timcast IRL #1459 w- Priya Patel

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