Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - August 13, 2026


WNBA Emergency Meeting FAILS To Define "Woman" | Timcast IRL

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00:02:40 So, the WNBA had their emergency meeting where they couldn't conclude what a woman was. 0.93
00:02:46 They said, you know, there are no eligibility issues.
00:02:49 So, we don't take kindly to these bad faith attempts to besmirch the league because it's all they could do.
00:02:57 And, you know, this is exactly what we predicted.
00:02:59 They weren't going to be able to come out with a definition of woman because these are the games they want to play.
00:03:04 Now, the next step.
00:03:05 I predict they're not going to entertain the draft paperwork for Ennis Cantor and Royce White.
00:03:12 I hope Addison Royce sues citing discrimination if they are ignored because they formally submitted, so they can't be ignored.
00:03:21 So, we're going to talk about that.
00:03:22 We got a bunch of crazy stories that we're going to go through.
00:03:25 Admittedly, guys, it's one of those news days.
00:03:27 The big news everyone's talking about is like Trump's names in the Kennedy Center again.
00:03:31 And I'm like, yeah, okay, I guess.
00:03:32 And then all the big news networks, they're just leading with stories from earlier in the week.
00:03:37 So, we do have a bunch of stories that are interesting, some smaller.
00:03:39 We released our new video game on Timcast.com, it is The Legend of Hassan.
00:03:45 Where Hassan must face down wave after wave of his own dog using his electrical powers to put them in line.
00:03:51 That's fun.
00:03:52 But then we've got Tucker Carlson's Hunter Biden interview, which people have discussed, where Tucker says Israel made him smear Hunter Biden.
00:04:00 And then we've got Minnesota.
00:04:02 They are planning on an 11% tax hike, property tax hike.
00:04:06 It's getting pretty crazy out there.
00:04:07 And then we'll just talk about what's going on in the news.
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00:04:09 We got another funny story that apparently Trump is charging $100,000 for early access to his posts, which would basically give you a leg up on the stock market.
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00:06:14 Joining us tonight to talk about this and everything else, we have Max Garley.
00:06:17 Thank you so much for having me.
00:06:18 It's a pleasure to be here.
00:06:19 What do you do?
00:06:19 Who are you?
00:06:20 My name's Max.
00:06:21 I write for The Spectator.
00:06:21 I'm a writer.
00:06:23 I talk mostly about geopolitics, political economy.
00:06:26 US politics in general.
00:06:27 I also make content on social media, Instagram.
00:06:31 I'm trying to get more into X right now, but mostly I make reels and short videos on Instagram.
00:06:36 Right on.
00:06:36 And then Libby's here too.
00:06:38 Yeah, I'm here.
00:06:38 I'm Libby Ammons.
00:06:40 I'm glad to be here with you guys.
00:06:41 I'm the editor for the Post Millennial and host of the Pod Millennial.
00:06:46 We got the boys hanging out.
00:06:47 Chris is here.
00:06:48 Chris Carr.
00:06:48 What's up?
00:06:48 I'm a writer and editor and happy to be with the team tonight, guys.
00:06:51 What's going on?
00:06:52 Everybody knows who I am.
00:06:53 I'm Phil.
00:06:53 What's up, Carter?
00:06:54 Everyone knows who I am.
00:06:55 I'm Carter.
00:06:56 So let's get into it.
00:06:57 We got a full stack tonight.
00:06:59 I love how all of the news outs are handling this story.
00:06:59 Let's go.
00:07:02 ABC7 says WNBA denounces bad faith transgender debate and says league has no eligibility issues.
00:07:10 I think that's transphobic.
00:07:11 That's such a transphobic headline.
00:07:13 It's unbelievable.
00:07:14 Well, what they're saying is that Royce White's experience, where he said that he was afraid of flying, was a manifestation of his gender dysphoria. 0.58
00:07:21 They're basically saying this is the double edged sword of the whole DEI trans stuff.
00:07:26 Actually, quite simple.
00:07:27 If you're allowed to insult one, you're allowed to insult all.
00:07:31 And if you're going to argue that Royce White is lying, then I can argue that, you know, give me a name of somebody.
00:07:37 Who's that congressperson?
00:07:39 Sarah McBride. 1.00
00:07:40 Lying. 1.00
00:07:41 Bad faith effort.
00:07:41 Tremaine McBride.
00:07:42 Sarah McBride is a liar, faking it for brownie points among the Democrats. 1.00
00:07:47 That proves it. 1.00
00:07:48 Tremaine Carroll, the California alleged racist who's trying to go into a woman's prison.
00:07:48 Yeah.
00:07:53 Well, that one might be fake, right?
00:07:55 I think.
00:07:56 Are they all fake?
00:07:58 I think that's really the point here.
00:07:59 All of it is bad faith.
00:07:59 That's the point.
00:08:02 We live in a society in which we can accommodate people.
00:08:07 Well, we have the choice to accommodate people.
00:08:10 Some people are going to say, no, I reject the fact that you're presenting yourself as a woman and I know you're a man.
00:08:16 Some people are not and they're going to use the preferred pronouns.
00:08:20 But that's an individual choice.
00:08:23 These people making demands for access to gender, and I don't even like to use the word gender because I don't believe gender is a thing. 0.78
00:08:30 I think it's just sex. 1.00
00:08:31 But women's spaces, right? 1.00
00:08:33 Like the fact that they're making a demand for access to women's spaces, that's bad faith because you're supposed to just take their word for it and play along with what amounts to their disorder, right? 1.00
00:08:48 And again, we say this kind of stuff all the time, but there is no other disorder that people have. 0.97
00:08:53 Where we entertain the disorder.
00:08:55 Right.
00:08:56 If someone says, my arm is not my arm, we don't say, well, that bad boy's got to go.
00:09:00 Right.
00:09:01 Like, we just don't do that.
00:09:02 Well, there is a doctor in the UK who did do that.
00:09:05 He said that he had some kind of dysphoria and he was actually meant to be disabled.
00:09:11 So he went through this whole thing and had his leg removed.
00:09:15 Yeah.
00:09:16 That's crazy.
00:09:17 Well, it's all crazy.
00:09:18 And the, but the, the, the broader point is like, you're supposed, the, the, The medical establishment is supposed to help people that deal with this.
00:09:27 If you're schizophrenic, you don't say, you know what, the voices are probably right.
00:09:32 You just don't do that.
00:09:34 In no other context, only crazy outliers where they say, okay, maybe you should remove a body part or, hey, maybe those voices you're hearing, maybe they actually got a point.
00:09:45 That doesn't happen.
00:09:47 So the fact that we entertain this stuff, it's all bad faith.
00:09:50 Well, the real bad faith, though, I think, is on the part of the WNBA who all of a sudden.
00:09:56 Does not recognize gender self ID after decades of us hearing that gender self ID is the way to go.
00:10:03 That if you are a trans woman, all you have to do is announce, I am a woman, I feel female, and we're supposed to all believe that you are female.
00:10:14 So, what's really bad faith is telling Royce White and Ennis Cantor Freedom, and I think another, you know, be femaled, be penis person, be male, who has said that he.
00:10:28 He too, he, she too is eligible for the WNBA draft.
00:10:32 Telling these people that they are not sincerely felt real women, that is in bad faith given all of the rhetoric that we've had over the years.
00:10:43 And I think that it is, this is the perfect thing that happened that these men came out.
00:10:47 God bless them.
00:10:48 And basically, women, these women came out. 1.00
00:10:50 Yes, well, first with this massive dong. 1.00
00:10:53 I'm glad they're living their truth. 0.66
00:10:54 They're living their truth.
00:10:55 You know what I mean? 1.00
00:10:56 And then you also had some trans activists being like, well, if you really feel it, then, you know, take some hormones and cut your dick off. 1.00
00:11:04 And it's like, you know what? 1.00
00:11:06 We were told that it's gender self ID, that if a rapist identifies as a woman, he can get transferred into California Women's Correctional in Chowchilla, and that's nobody's business.
00:11:19 The ACLU has told us.
00:11:21 We don't even get to know how many, right?
00:11:24 There's one guy in California who literally murdered a bunch of children and is now in prison with those children's mother, right?
00:11:34 Same prison.
00:11:35 I think the cult has abandoned these people.
00:11:37 Has abandoned who? 1.00
00:11:39 The trans stuff. 0.99
00:11:40 The trans.
00:11:40 I think.
00:11:41 Look at AOC.
00:11:41 She's like, woke one was crazy.
00:11:43 And it's, I think the cult is the cult. 0.52
00:11:45 The cult doesn't care what they're attached to.
00:11:48 Their activism, their logic makes no sense. 0.93
00:11:50 Well, we're a couple of things past trans at this point, right? 0.71
00:11:53 Because it was BLM, then trans, then Palestine, like pro Gaza. 0.98
00:11:59 This is why it's all Israel right now. 0.99
00:12:00 Right. 0.79
00:12:01 And now we're at ICE. 0.98
00:12:02 So we're like two things past trans.
00:12:05 I think if you look at the left wing channels, they're not talking about trans stuff anymore.
00:12:08 They don't care. 0.99
00:12:08 They don't want it. 0.99
00:12:10 Yeah, no, they're like, we lost. 1.00
00:12:11 So they're like, Israel. 0.94
00:12:12 And then you get Tucker and a bunch of other people being like, Israel.
00:12:15 And now they've got their coalition.
00:12:16 And now it's a nice thing, too.
00:12:17 I'm going to say this.
00:12:20 Seeing this stuff from Tucker, I would not be surprised if in two years Tucker is a Democrat.
00:12:28 Because look at the stuff he's advocating for on his show.
00:12:30 It's prices are too high, and this country is not about capitalism.
00:12:34 This is unfair. 0.63
00:12:35 And Israel, he may as well be Anna Kasparian at this point. 0.90
00:12:40 I'm not even kidding.
00:12:40 The thing, too, though, is like, All of these people identify problems, but that does not mean that they know what the solutions are.
00:12:47 You know, sure, prices, yes, prices are too high.
00:12:50 I think that's true too, but that doesn't mean government controls and price controls are the answer.
00:12:56 I don't think Tucker believes in anything.
00:12:57 I think he just tells his audience what they want to hear exactly.
00:13:00 Yeah, of course.
00:13:01 He's making way more money now than he did when he was at Fox News. 0.97
00:13:01 He's just a grifter. 0.97
00:13:04 You know, that's crazy. 0.99
00:13:05 Wait.
00:13:06 And it's not all just on the little nicotine things?
00:13:09 Well, I mean, he's.
00:13:10 So the estimate from, what was it, like Hollywood Reporter or Forbes, I'm sorry, was that he's doing 20 million a year, but then you add his nicotine.
00:13:16 Stuff.
00:13:17 And I just, you know what I really love about the nicotine is how anti conservative these products are.
00:13:22 Selling addictive degeneracy to conservatives. 0.99
00:13:24 Like, look, look, look, I'm being a dick. 0.99
00:13:26 I really don't care if you, what's his company called? 0.98
00:13:28 Alp.
00:13:29 Those are his?
00:13:29 Yeah, those are his.
00:13:30 I see them on the TV.
00:13:31 Yeah, I see them in the show.
00:13:32 I don't care if it's better than smoking.
00:13:33 And I don't care if you want to do drugs.
00:13:34 I'm fairly libertarian in that regard.
00:13:36 I'm not a conservative, you know?
00:13:37 But it's funny that you've got people who are like, we've got a problem with degeneracy in this country.
00:13:41 And then, you know, he's all like, you want some drugs?
00:13:44 And they're like, yeah.
00:13:45 Depends on the drug, but yeah. 0.98
00:13:46 Well, he's all for freedom, but he'll be Putin's lapdog, you know. 1.00
00:13:49 Just shit with Russia. 1.00
00:13:51 Yeah, I just want to make one point. 1.00
00:13:53 Nicotine patches or the Zins and stuff like that, they're not better than smoking.
00:13:58 Oh, they're not?
00:13:59 Smoking rules, dude.
00:14:00 Terrible for you.
00:14:02 It messes your lungs up, bro.
00:14:04 Look, man, when they come out with the cigarettes that give you vitamins and minerals, I am back on it, man.
00:14:10 Sorry for hitting the table.
00:14:12 That's all right.
00:14:13 But yeah, look, Tucker is.
00:14:18 He's got to be just going for the money, right?
00:14:21 It's fairly clear.
00:14:23 He kind of seems like he wants back in the fold.
00:14:27 How do you say that?
00:14:27 What makes you say that?
00:14:29 Oh, he's budding up with Hunter Biden?
00:14:31 It's really the buddying up with Hunter Biden, the not holding him to account for Burisma, not asking him any questions about that, not asking questions about, you know, the Ukraine loan withholders.
00:14:42 Do you think this is a play for the Democratic establishment people?
00:14:45 No, I think he's just, you know, wants his friends back.
00:14:49 Back to CNN, maybe?
00:14:50 Yeah, back to that whole thing where, I mean, you see, like, it seems like it'd be nice to be warm and fuzzy in the fold, just believing and telling the lies you're told.
00:14:58 It is weird because I watched like half of that Tucker interview with Hunter Biden and I. Couldn't watch the rest of it.
00:15:03 He was kind of like insufferable.
00:15:05 It's the best way I can describe it.
00:15:06 Did you see what Seamus did for Freedom Tunes?
00:15:08 But he did say that, like, he grew up on the same street as Hunter, something like that.
00:15:12 They were like, we grew up in the same town.
00:15:14 Yeah, right.
00:15:15 Right.
00:15:15 Actually, we knew a lot of the same people.
00:15:19 Yeah, I thought that was all very weird.
00:15:21 Yeah.
00:15:23 I mean, look, why he sat down with Hunter Biden, I mean, I don't know.
00:15:29 Maybe the Biden, maybe Hunter paid him to sit down and give him a.
00:15:33 A softball interview because Hunter's looking to run or.
00:15:37 But the Bidens are broke, haven't you heard?
00:15:40 I doubt it.
00:15:42 That's what they're saying.
00:15:43 Yeah, well, they made a lot of money in Ukraine, if I understand correctly.
00:15:46 So, 80,000 a month for a while.
00:15:49 I mean, that's nothing to sneeze at. 0.66
00:15:52 But when it comes to, you know, back to the trans issue stuff, like the WNBA is not going to let these guys play, and no one on the left is going to make a stink about it, right?
00:16:02 Like, it's just not going to happen. 0.77
00:16:05 And I do think that the trans stuff is over. 1.00
00:16:07 I think that that was the thing that killed, that really took the steam out of the left and the whole woke movement. 0.94
00:16:14 The trans people saying, look, you have to recognize my identity when your average person that was just like, well, you know, maybe there are too many black people getting killed by cops.
00:16:29 Maybe the police are too aggressive. 1.00
00:16:31 Maybe that's actually true.
00:16:33 Maybe that didn't really look into it and they're like, you know, You know, generally they want to think of themselves as nice people and like maybe they got a point.
00:16:40 And then the whole LGBT stuff, you hear trans people saying, well, you know, if you don't S my D, you're a bigot.
00:16:46 Dudes are like, whoa, hold on here.
00:16:49 You know, because that wasn't, it wasn't very long until that was going to become a thing.
00:16:54 There were already a lot of trans people that were making those remarks.
00:16:57 There's still trans people on trans women on the internet that say, look, if you won't date a trans woman, you're a bigot.
00:17:04 And dudes are like, I do not care. 0.77
00:17:06 Call me a bigot.
00:17:08 What did they say? 1.00
00:17:09 Or no, no, the girl penis. 1.00
00:17:11 Like, come on, come on. 1.00
00:17:13 Ballad shaped object.
00:17:15 Yeah.
00:17:15 You know, that's.
00:17:16 They were talking about the cotton ceiling. 1.00
00:17:18 You know, the lesbians that would not date a trans woman. 0.99
00:17:21 Oh, yeah, that's another thing. 0.96
00:17:22 Yeah.
00:17:22 I mean, they pissed everybody off.
00:17:24 What does that mean?
00:17:25 You know, panties, basically.
00:17:28 Like, underwear.
00:17:30 That's so weird.
00:17:30 Cotton ceiling.
00:17:31 So I want to jump to this next story, but I got to make an announcement.
00:17:33 So for those that saw, I tweeted out at 738 that the Legend of Hassan video game is available at timcast.com to play it.
00:17:42 Go to read in the top bar, or just click the link in my ex post.
00:17:47 And you can play The Legend of Hassan in the long ago of seven months ago.
00:17:51 Hassan faced down wave after wave of his own dog, using the power of electrocution to get them to fall in line. 0.51
00:17:56 This is your quest. 0.90
00:17:57 You are Hassan.
00:17:58 The power is yours.
00:18:00 And I do have to most ever driven off 2400.
00:18:05 Is that it?
00:18:06 So here's the game.
00:18:07 You know, it's a side scrolling arcade shooter where all these dogs.
00:18:12 Or, you know, wave after wave of your own dog are coming up.
00:18:15 You can earn experience points and then level up and choose.
00:18:18 I'm gonna go with quick fire.
00:18:19 There we go. 0.80
00:18:20 So I can electrocute my dog faster.
00:18:22 And then you'll notice the top right, my viewers, instead of getting points that go up, every time you electrocute your dog, your viewer count goes down.
00:18:31 There are a bunch of Easter eggs.
00:18:33 So, this was a joke that I made in three minutes on Claude.
00:18:36 So, I'll just tell you all the jokes.
00:18:37 Once your viewer count gets to zero, it switches to kick and your viewer count starts going up.
00:18:42 Because on kick, they want you to electrocute the dog.
00:18:45 And then I do have to announce that we have a winner.
00:18:48 I said that I would pay one person $100 for winning.
00:18:54 And I did not think it would happen this fast, but it did.
00:18:58 And we got a winner here.
00:19:00 I believe his name is Neil Williams.
00:19:02 He said, Don't hurt the dogs.
00:19:04 And indeed.
00:19:05 In fact, if in the game, let's refresh it.
00:19:09 If you don't electrocute your dog, they won't bite you.
00:19:14 That's it.
00:19:15 It's an important lesson for everybody.
00:19:17 Oh, wow, there.
00:19:18 Don't electrocute your dog.
00:19:19 So I sent Neil $100, and it says, Congratulations, you didn't electrocute your dog.
00:19:26 You win.
00:19:27 After three waves of not electrocuting your dog, you win the game.
00:19:30 So that's it.
00:19:30 That's the joke.
00:19:33 It's pretty hilarious that you can make games in three minutes and put it on your website that quickly.
00:19:37 Let's jump to the next story, though.
00:19:38 We got this one from Middle East Eye.
00:19:41 Tucker Carlson says Israel pushed him to report false allegations against Hunter Biden.
00:19:46 Former U.S. President Sun says Netanyahu Operations Center was involved in disseminating alleged drugs and sex leaks.
00:19:54 The claim that there was material involving the abuse of minors on the computer came from the Israelis, Carlson said in an interview aired on Monday. 0.84
00:19:59 I'm just telling you that they came to me with it and that's how I know it.
00:20:04 Everything's fake.
00:20:05 I mean, bro, this is not true.
00:20:07 Okay.
00:20:09 Guys, I can't tell you how many people came to me and offered the hard drive.
00:20:14 How many people offered you as a hard drive?
00:20:15 A couple.
00:20:16 Yeah.
00:20:17 It was everywhere.
00:20:19 And Hunter Biden signed off on dropping it off.
00:20:21 Now, maybe that's all fabricated, but Hunter didn't even deny it.
00:20:24 He was like, I have no recollection of dropping that off.
00:20:27 And like, that's a legal answer you give in court when you know you did, but you don't want to perjure yourself.
00:20:33 And on the interview, I listened to probably as much of it as Carter did.
00:20:33 Right.
00:20:38 They got into about how the laptop was probably misinformation from Ukraine.
00:20:46 What?
00:20:46 Yeah.
00:20:47 Yeah.
00:20:47 Yeah.
00:20:48 The pictures were all misinformation.
00:20:48 Yeah.
00:20:51 Was it Ukraine?
00:20:52 Wasn't it?
00:20:52 I don't know.
00:20:53 I watched his soccer run, too.
00:20:55 But in both of them, he said, like, yeah, it was totally like it came from Rudy Giuliani, made it all up, got it somewhere else.
00:21:02 Somebody else dropped it off.
00:21:03 Right.
00:21:04 But I thought they were, maybe it wasn't Ukraine.
00:21:05 Maybe it was Russia.
00:21:06 I'm tired, you guys. 1.00
00:21:07 But I'll defer to you.
00:21:07 Sorry.
00:21:08 But it was definitely, they were definitely talking about how it was misinformation.
00:21:12 And it sounded like a repetition of the Jen Psaki talking points and the 51 CIA agents who all said that it had hallmarks of Russian disinformation.
00:21:22 He denied everything.
00:21:22 Seamus Coughlin.
00:21:24 And he wasn't pressed.
00:21:25 I mean, Tucker did not press him.
00:21:27 That's the thing.
00:21:27 You remember that interview he did with Ted Cruz?
00:21:30 Like, you know, he basically held him up against the wall by his neck and his feet were dangling.
00:21:34 And in this case, there was nothing.
00:21:36 There was no.
00:21:37 Pushback, no in depth questioning.
00:21:40 It was just like, well, yeah.
00:21:43 Let me tell everybody something, right?
00:21:45 Right now, on this episode, we have on YouTube 11,375 concurrent viewers.
00:21:52 On Rumble, we have about 9,000.
00:21:54 That's low.
00:21:55 That's low.
00:21:56 This time last year, we would have been at 50,000 combined.
00:21:59 But you know what?
00:22:00 Look, we're in the summer.
00:22:03 Election cycle's not yet started.
00:22:05 And look, Trump's got a trifecta.
00:22:08 There's no great political conflict right now, for the most part.
00:22:12 Now, for me, I've run this business for a really long time.
00:22:15 Tucker actually is relatively new.
00:22:16 How long has Tucker been doing this thing?
00:22:18 A couple of years now?
00:22:19 Yeah, like a couple of years.
00:22:20 It's been a couple of years.
00:22:21 I think the thing for Tucker is that, you know, he worked at Fox News for a long time.
00:22:26 There's a couple arguments you can make.
00:22:27 One, that Fox constrains him.
00:22:29 Basically, when he's at Fox, he's like, he's got producers and he says, What do I say?
00:22:34 And so, those famous monologues he had, you guys all know that those were written for him.
00:22:39 And the dude who wrote it, who does he work for now?
00:22:44 Matt Walsh.
00:22:44 He works for Matt?
00:22:46 Wow.
00:22:47 Matt's great monologues.
00:22:48 He's killing it.
00:22:48 Yeah.
00:22:50 So, there were a couple of writers, there was one principal writer.
00:22:53 And really talented.
00:22:54 Yes.
00:22:55 And that was who was writing the monologues for Tucker.
00:22:57 Tucker was just a guy to go on TV and sit there and read about it.
00:23:00 So, what's going to happen?
00:23:01 Well, Tucker does his own show and he's chasing the views.
00:23:05 Here's the reality Trump's got a trifecta.
00:23:07 He's got Congress.
00:23:08 He's got the House.
00:23:09 He's got the Senate.
00:23:10 So, he's got the legislative branch.
00:23:11 He's got the Supreme Court.
00:23:12 He's got the executive branch.
00:23:13 Not that it's perfect or a strong trifecta, but this means that any issue we face in this country, everyone's pointing at him.
00:23:20 Inflation is high.
00:23:21 Gas prices are up.
00:23:22 Burritos are 20 bucks.
00:23:24 Well, Republicans got everything.
00:23:26 They're the issue.
00:23:28 So, for the most part, regular Americans aren't hyper focused on politics right now because there's no great political battle.
00:23:34 You did it, you got Trump, and you're still unhappy.
00:23:36 So, people are kind of checking out.
00:23:38 Not to mention, there's very few young people.
00:23:41 So, if you want to maintain viewership, and we talk about this every political cycle, guys.
00:23:46 I was hanging out at Luke Rodkowski's house in 2012 in the winter.
00:23:51 Obama's about to get elected.
00:23:53 And I was only doing a little bit of YouTube stuff.
00:23:55 I wasn't really.
00:23:56 I was doing live stream stuff at the time with Ustream.
00:23:58 Luke had been on YouTube for at that point six, seven years.
00:24:02 And so he said, after Obama's elected, all the views on our content is going to go to zero because nobody cares about politics right after the election.
00:24:12 Well, the truth is, you'll get the first 100 days news cycle.
00:24:15 And then that tracks basically, you get that first year of what's going to happen next.
00:24:20 And with Trump's first year of his second term, there's a lot happening.
00:24:23 USAID getting shut down.
00:24:25 Now, not a whole lot.
00:24:27 I mean, we had big viewership when the war started.
00:24:30 When we get big primary elections, then we can see viewership spikes, the Supreme Court rulings, our viewership spikes.
00:24:37 We had one like three or four weeks ago.
00:24:39 I can't remember what it was, but we ended up with like 60, I think we had 70,000 concurrent viewers.
00:24:43 When there's political action, our views are through the roof.
00:24:46 And we know it because we're a news show.
00:24:49 Now, what if you're, you know, Tucker and you're watching your views go down or some other, there's a bunch of other podcasters doing this.
00:24:57 Well, you make a video about Israel.
00:25:00 And then you notice you get a little bit more views.
00:25:03 So you make another video about Israel.
00:25:04 And eventually you're like, hey, man, we're ragging on Israel.
00:25:06 We're getting a lot of views.
00:25:07 Doing amazing.
00:25:08 I wonder where those views are from, though, because Americans don't really care all that much.
00:25:13 I imagine if Americans don't care about politics, you got a big audience with all these other Muslim countries that don't like Jews in Israel.
00:25:18 So it's not surprising. 0.92
00:25:18 Indeed. 0.92
00:25:20 Maybe Dearborn.
00:25:21 That we're seeing things like this.
00:25:22 But I would also add for this guys, I said it before, I'll say it again.
00:25:27 I reported in February that there were rumors in the Beltway that.
00:25:31 There was going to be, like with Tucker and with a bunch of these people, a breakaway coalition that would align left, try and pull Trump derangement moderates from the left.
00:25:42 So the establishment is worried about socialism.
00:25:45 They might have even just stolen the election in Wisconsin.
00:25:47 I don't know. 0.61
00:25:49 But the pitch was Tulsi Gabbard was going to resign.
00:25:51 We were going to see a bunch of people break from Trump to form this, like, anti war, anti Israel, but respectful and not woke anti Trump.
00:26:00 The idea was that.
00:26:02 A lot of neocons and moderates joined the Democratic Party because they hate Trump. 0.73
00:26:06 And this empowered socialists and like trans kid stuff. 0.55
00:26:11 Well, when these elites are like, well, we don't want any of that. 0.86
00:26:13 That's bad.
00:26:14 We're losing because of that.
00:26:15 How do we maintain the anti Trump but attract more people?
00:26:21 The rumor was that you were going to get this breakaway thing.
00:26:23 And people asked me, like, oh, you think like Tucker or Tulsi is going to be a Democrat?
00:26:27 And three, four months ago, I was like, I don't know, that seems like a long shot.
00:26:30 Not anymore.
00:26:32 No.
00:26:32 Not with Tucker apologizing to Hunter, saying, you're a good dude and Israel made me do it.
00:26:38 Now there's a perfect lineup for the Krasensteins to come out and be like, Tucker may be a bad dude, but he's doing the right thing now.
00:26:46 How much do you want to bet?
00:26:47 In the next several months, following the primaries or whatever, probably sooner than that, you are going to see mainstream libs, not like Kyle Kalinske, but like David Pacman say, you know, Tucker Carlson did some bad things, but he's owning up to it.
00:26:59 That's all we ask.
00:27:00 And then I actually think there's a decent probability following a Hunter Biden interview that Tucker Carlson becomes a Democrat and actually advocates for moderate, sane Democrats in the 28th cycle.
00:27:11 Do you think Marjorie Taylor Greene will join him?
00:27:13 Yep.
00:27:14 Yeah.
00:27:14 Yep.
00:27:14 I don't think he's that principled.
00:27:16 I mean, I think Tucker's kind of just like a bullied kid.
00:27:18 If you remember, he used to wear bow ties.
00:27:20 Until he got bullied into not wearing bow ties.
00:27:22 I mean, I don't think Tucker really is that.
00:27:24 I think he's really just about two things, and that's about being liked and then using that to make money.
00:27:28 And maybe going fishing.
00:27:30 Maybe.
00:27:31 Yeah.
00:27:32 Hawking his nicotine pouch.
00:27:33 Right.
00:27:33 Yeah.
00:27:33 That's part of it.
00:27:34 You can do that while you're fishing.
00:27:36 Film a great ad.
00:27:36 Oh, certainly.
00:27:37 That's a good ad, actually.
00:27:37 Yeah.
00:27:39 Does he have one like that?
00:27:40 I'm sure he does.
00:27:40 He must.
00:27:41 Yeah.
00:27:41 What do you think if he were to go to like, you know, to become a Democrat, right?
00:27:47 And say, we're the normal Democrats, because everyone knows there's a civil war going on in the Democrat Party right now between the progressives and the.
00:27:54 And the normal Democrats.
00:27:56 It looks like the normal Democrats are going to fall in line behind the progressives because they're the ones with the energy.
00:28:01 They're the ones that are going to do the canceling if you step out of line, et cetera.
00:28:04 What do you think the chances of quote unquote normal Democrats abandoning the progressives and falling in line?
00:28:10 100%.
00:28:11 All the polling shows this.
00:28:13 We had, I think, two polls now showing that it's nearly four to one when a Democratic socialist is up against a Republican, the Republican wins.
00:28:22 So there was, what was that?
00:28:26 We pulled this up like three days ago.
00:28:27 There was one that was published by Washington Post at a poll, and they said that party favorability for Democratic Socialists is like 20%.
00:28:37 Party favorability for Republicans is like 55%.
00:28:40 When people are given the option to vote between a Democratic Socialist and a Republican, they vote Republican four to one.
00:28:47 So, what I see is a strong probability.
00:28:49 The rumors all make sense.
00:28:50 I'm going to say it again.
00:28:51 I was told earlier this year Tulsi would resign.
00:28:54 And I question this stuff.
00:28:56 Do you think that moves are made over resignations over a weekend?
00:29:00 When I reached out to some people, they were like, there's absolutely no way Tulsi's going to resign.
00:29:05 I said on my show, like, the claim is like, Tulsi's going to, there's going to be like this Tulsi, you know, she's a moderate.
00:29:10 She joined Trump, but now she'll break away.
00:29:12 Maybe RFK Jr., obviously with Joe Kent.
00:29:15 Everybody says, yeah, there's no way Tulsi's breaking away. 0.55
00:29:18 And then a few months later, she resigns.
00:29:20 And then I'm like, wait a minute.
00:29:23 Then Hunter, Biden, Tucker do this show, and Tucker's like, I was completely wrong.
00:29:27 I should never have supported Donald Trump.
00:29:29 I mean, it's actually really bad. 0.98
00:29:31 And it was Israel that made me report these things. 0.99
00:29:34 Actually, and I'm like, well, here you go.
00:29:37 Hunter Biden represents non woke Democrats.
00:29:40 So, what may happen, Phil?
00:29:41 I think there's a potential there.
00:29:43 I think they're planning for these contingencies.
00:29:45 If in 2028, the Democratic Socialists have stolen the gas from the Democratic Party and they're going to win these primaries, they're going to send in their spoilers to pull as many moderates as possible from the Democratic Party to ensure a Rubio Vance ticket.
00:30:00 So, let's say that Vance and Rubio, because Trumpism right now is not particularly popular.
00:30:05 Economy is bad.
00:30:06 War is very unpopular.
00:30:08 Trump's now selling this access to his account.
00:30:10 Like Joe Rogan's going, What is happening?
00:30:12 That's nuts.
00:30:13 So, yeah, it's crazy.
00:30:14 We'll get to that in a second.
00:30:16 But let's say you get a JD Vance who is fairly vanilla pudding, like, you know, but people are going to be like, no, we don't want more of this.
00:30:23 Let's say that JD Vance can only muster up 43, 44%.
00:30:27 The Democratic Socialists conquer the Democratic Party, use anti Trumpism to get the plurality.
00:30:33 That's when you dispatch the Tucker ticket.
00:30:38 He may not be a Democrat.
00:30:39 They may be that third party he's talking about.
00:30:42 It could be a Tulsi Gabbard, Joe Kent ticket. 0.96
00:30:44 But if that pulls 5%, From the Democrats, because there's going to be a bunch of Dems who are like, I hate Trump, but the socialists are crazy.
00:30:53 I'm voting Tulsi.
00:30:54 Vance wins.
00:30:56 I mean, that would be, you know, the best outcome that I could think of, whether it be Vance or Rubio or whoever, whoever the most likely, whoever the conservative or the Republican candidate is, they're probably going to be better than basically anything the Democrats have to offer, including, you know, Tucker Carlson.
00:31:15 I mean, you went and I went and watched the whole hour and a half of him talking about his point by point thing.
00:31:21 There's only a handful of things in it that I found that I wasn't particularly interested in.
00:31:28 And most of it was his delivery.
00:31:31 But it really, I don't feel like that plan is going to resonate with regular, quote unquote, regular Democrats.
00:31:40 Well, I was not going to watch an hour and a half of Tucker talking.
00:31:42 He's never been my guy.
00:31:43 I don't really keep up with him that much.
00:31:45 But I read the bullet points that he put out.
00:31:49 They're grievances.
00:31:49 I mean, there's not a plan there.
00:31:52 They're just grievances.
00:31:52 Some of them are good.
00:31:53 Some of them are good.
00:31:54 Some of them are fine.
00:31:55 You know?
00:31:56 Yeah, well, of course.
00:31:57 People shouldn't live through debt.
00:31:58 You know what I mean?
00:31:59 But I got to be honest, the stuff that he's preaching is very aligned with left populism.
00:32:04 So he had this whole thing today about Ben Shapiro being a psyop, which is crazy.
00:32:11 He's basically saying, he kept saying they created Ben Shapiro over and over again.
00:32:14 They.
00:32:16 Elites and special interests.
00:32:17 He said, Ben Shapiro is Boomer's vision of what a young person thinks.
00:32:22 And they're using Ben Shapiro to send this messaging, this political ideology to young people. 0.79
00:32:28 And he's like, and it worked because of the trans stuff, which we all think they probably created anyway. 0.97
00:32:32 And it's again, it's just like, who is they, though? 1.00
00:32:34 The Jew. 0.99
00:32:35 Who is they, though?
00:32:36 He then mentions Israel a couple of times, but he doesn't explicitly say it.
00:32:39 Yeah.
00:32:40 So he talks about, he was complaining because Ben Shapiro said burritos don't cost $20.
00:32:46 Good burritos cost $20.
00:32:48 And he said, if you can't afford a $20 burrito, too bad, save up, split rent with your buddies.
00:32:54 And I would just say, like, everybody's wrong.
00:32:57 I think everybody's wrong.
00:32:58 Usually the right answer.
00:32:59 Yeah, no, I mean, like burritos, a good high quality burrito shouldn't be $20.
00:33:04 Like a Chipotle burrito is $16.
00:33:05 I don't know.
00:33:06 I went to the, during Burrito Gate, I went to the Chipotle menu because I don't typically order Chipotle and I looked at a burrito and it was $19.50 on the menu.
00:33:17 And that's high quality.
00:33:18 Yeah, I mean, you know, I tend to get extra snakes.
00:33:21 And it's awesome and good and not $20 because like the whole piece of meat is $20.
00:33:27 Taco Bell burrito is like $3.50.
00:33:29 Sure.
00:33:30 I used to get California burritos all the time from this place in Philly when I was much younger.
00:33:35 And they were $8.50.
00:33:37 And I got one every single day for lunch.
00:33:39 And it was like as big as my head.
00:33:40 Yeah, but dude, there are some spots in LA, like just outside of Koreatown.
00:33:45 What's that street that Larchmont is on?
00:33:47 Not Larchmont, the Cross Street.
00:33:48 I can't remember the name.
00:33:49 I love LA too, well.
00:33:49 I used to live there.
00:33:50 And if you walk down that, if you go from Larchmont and you head east, there's a Mexican restaurant with like dirt, cheap, massive burritos.
00:33:58 And they do that panini grill thing on them. 1.00
00:34:00 Man, those were the days.
00:34:01 My son still talks about it.
00:34:02 We went to.
00:34:03 We went to LA a couple years ago, decided to do a thing with Prager.
00:34:07 And we ate all the Mexican food in LA.
00:34:10 We ate so much Mexican food.
00:34:12 And there was this one burrito that we got, and it was 12 bucks and it was giant.
00:34:16 And he still talks about it as like the absolute best burrito he's ever had.
00:34:20 It's the reason I started.
00:34:22 I like learned how to make birria and like burritos and stuff, other than just like here's some taco meat, put it in the thing.
00:34:29 So it might be Beverly.
00:34:31 I'm not sure if it was Beverly.
00:34:33 But yeah, burritos, burrito, like a high quality burrito.
00:34:36 I don't think it should be 20 bucks.
00:34:36 I don't know.
00:34:38 But then again, you know, there's a lot of things that are way too expensive.
00:34:43 I'm tired of going to the grocery store and having like every steak I pick up be $35.
00:34:47 This is all because of the inflation that we saw after COVID.
00:34:50 Like it takes, this is why inflation is so pernicious, right?
00:34:55 A nasty bout of inflation is so pernicious and it hurts so bad, is because it takes forever for wages to catch up.
00:35:01 Oh, yeah.
00:35:02 No one, like, honestly, in 10 years, if there's no big economic shocks and wages catch up, people aren't going to think, oh, the $20 burrito is so terrible.
00:35:11 They're going to be like, well, $20 isn't what it used to be, right?
00:35:14 And it's true.
00:35:15 But, you know, $20 now.
00:35:18 Isn't what it was in 2005, but that's because of the inflation that we have.
00:35:23 And you can lay that directly at the feet of bad policy during COVID, right?
00:35:27 Like they shouldn't have printed up all that money.
00:35:29 In fact, to be honest with you, I would even go so far as to say that it was bad policy through the teens, right?
00:35:34 They shouldn't have kept interest rates at zero just to keep the stock market afloat.
00:35:38 You know, every time they tried to lower or to raise interest rates, the stock market took a tank and whoever was president, Trump, Obama, didn't matter.
00:35:44 They all chickened out.
00:35:46 What do you make of this?
00:35:47 What do you guys make of this El Sayed thing where he's like the blues clues thing?
00:35:52 No, there was the Blues Clues thing, but then also how he. 0.99
00:35:55 He's gay. 0.93
00:35:57 How banks helped him have a Sharia mortgage, which means no interest. 0.92
00:36:02 Yeah. 0.98
00:36:03 Oh, Sharia. 1.00
00:36:03 I like that. 1.00
00:36:04 I'm sorry.
00:36:06 No interest mortgage, right?
00:36:07 It was a no interest mortgage.
00:36:08 So, banking institutions have been working to create financial products specifically for Muslims that adhere to Sharia law. 0.98
00:36:17 Well, hold on. 1.00
00:36:18 I want one. 0.68
00:36:19 Who doesn't want a fork and.
00:36:21 I ain't going to complain.
00:36:22 You still have to pay interest.
00:36:23 So, I actually just wrote a piece about this.
00:36:25 It should be coming out soon. 0.54
00:36:27 Basically, the Sharia compliant finance stuff, instead of charging you interest, they just buy the house, then charge you more for the house, and split that into 50 easy installments. 0.92
00:36:38 So you're essentially paying interest. 0.79
00:36:40 It's literally just a loophole to get around saying it's only interest.
00:36:44 And usually the rates are crappier because for the service that they provide, they want to make some money.
00:36:48 So, yeah, not great.
00:36:51 Oh, I'm mad.
00:36:51 Oh, that's terrible.
00:36:53 I would have been wrong.
00:36:55 That's a trick.
00:36:57 Somebody was getting a no interest mortgage.
00:36:58 I want one.
00:37:00 Yeah.
00:37:01 Abdul El Sayed has a bunch of really weird videos.
00:37:03 The Blues Clues thing is weird.
00:37:05 Should we pull that one up?
00:37:06 Oh, man.
00:37:06 Yes.
00:37:08 Listen, I'm trying really hard because, like, right now, like, let me pull this up.
00:37:15 Politics is really divided.
00:37:17 And I'm like, I'm going to give this guy a fair shake.
00:37:20 You know what I mean?
00:37:21 I'm going to give this, I want to give, you know, if he's going to come out and say he's not a socialist, but the DSA is campaigning for him, I'm going to say it like it is.
00:37:21 I'm not.
00:37:29 DSA was campaigning on his behalf.
00:37:31 He's claiming he's not a socialist.
00:37:33 I don't believe it.
00:37:35 But come on, guys.
00:37:36 You ready for this one?
00:37:37 This is gonna be real.
00:37:40 It was way better than when Steve did it.
00:37:48 Yeah, I agree. 1.00
00:37:49 Thanks, mailbox.
00:37:52 We just got a letter.
00:37:54 We just got a letter.
00:37:56 We just got a letter.
00:37:58 I wonder who it's from.
00:38:00 Oh, it looks like my ballot.
00:38:03 Brought to me by my Secretary of State.
00:38:06 I thought this was AI.
00:38:08 Oh my god, this is a.
00:38:10 That I can turn this in is June 25th.
00:38:13 It has to be postmarked by July 21st.
00:38:16 Star Wars Adults.
00:38:17 Or I can drop it off up until Election Day, which is August 4th. 0.54
00:38:22 Give me the 30 year olds that buy Funko Pops.
00:38:26 It's like he wants kids to vote.
00:38:26 Yeah.
00:38:32 I think this is going to cost him the election.
00:38:34 That is so.
00:38:36 I don't really want to wag my tail.
00:38:36 It should!
00:38:38 When it comes, I want to whale.
00:38:40 No!
00:38:43 The most offensive part to me was this right here.
00:38:43 No!
00:38:46 We just got a letter.
00:38:48 We just got a letter.
00:38:49 Because he's flat.
00:38:50 He is flat.
00:38:51 Yeah, no, I was just.
00:38:53 You guys remember?
00:38:54 I mean, that's.
00:38:54 What's up?
00:38:54 That's from Blues Clues.
00:38:55 That's the.
00:38:56 Well, I mean, I was.
00:38:57 I mean, Blues Clues was weird enough.
00:38:58 I didn't watch it.
00:38:59 My kid will not be watching any of this weird psychobabble nonsense.
00:39:03 We'll be watching El Said commercials either.
00:39:04 I ain't going anywhere near that psychobabble nonsense. 0.99
00:39:06 That's a crack for kids.
00:39:08 But it's like.
00:39:10 It's like.
00:39:11 It's.
00:39:11 It's.
00:39:12 It's.
00:39:13 Retardational.
00:39:15 So is Peppa Pig. 1.00
00:39:15 It is. 1.00
00:39:17 No, no, no, but the dopamine isn't the question.
00:39:19 The question is like, you can trigger kids' dopamine through video games that are, or movies or content that is real in a sense.
00:39:29 Like, you can put on a show that's exciting with loud music, but it's real people doing real things.
00:39:36 Like, a guy is playing rock music in a band and everyone's screaming and cheering and then he's pointing and everyone's laughing.
00:39:42 But those are things real humans do.
00:39:45 But this children's stuff is like, It's like, this is what Ian sees.
00:39:50 Like, when I go to get my mail, I go and I grab the letters and I walk upstairs and I'm like, Phil, I think someone sent you fan mail or something.
00:39:59 And Phil will be like, oh, okay.
00:40:00 And then I'll be like, oh, it's got a bill, some tax thing.
00:40:03 Oh, here, Chris, someone sent a letter to you.
00:40:05 Ian is sitting there watching me, and I'm the blues clues guy going, we just got a letter.
00:40:10 Hey, Phil, it's fan mail.
00:40:12 And Ian's sitting there with his eyes all big, like, whoa.
00:40:14 That's what kids are doing watching this stuff.
00:40:17 You are inducing that in their brains.
00:40:19 That being said, back to the main point. 0.57
00:40:21 Abdul Al Sayyid, Lord have mercy, what are you doing?
00:40:24 There's more.
00:40:25 Should I pull up the other stuff?
00:40:26 He thinks he's appealing to his own voters too.
00:40:31 Infantilizing them.
00:40:32 Well, I mean, the Democrats do want to lower the voting age to 16, but even still, this seems.
00:40:37 Yeah, this is way below that.
00:40:38 I have no idea who this is talking about.
00:40:40 Wait, what is this?
00:40:42 No, this is not real.
00:40:43 Is this real?
00:40:44 Right?
00:40:44 Yeah, for real.
00:40:46 Is this real?
00:40:47 I can't tell if it's AI anymore.
00:40:49 Is this real?
00:40:52 Oh, man.
00:40:54 I fear it might be.
00:40:58 That doesn't look like AI. 1.00
00:41:04 We're going to get a strike for that stupid song. 1.00
00:41:04 I know. 1.00
00:41:06 Look, I love that song, so I'm not going to talk.
00:41:12 This is real?
00:41:13 Yeah, that's totally real.
00:41:15 You know what?
00:41:15 It's not more outlandish than the blues clues.
00:41:18 Guys, I figured it out.
00:41:19 I'm going to run as a Democrat.
00:41:21 And you know what I'm going to do?
00:41:22 I'm going to wear Harry Potter robes and the debate, literally, you know, during the debate, I'm just going to stand there with like in the robes and the wand.
00:41:31 And then whenever someone says something, I'm going to cast a Harry Potter spell.
00:41:37 He's going to be like, your tax policy, confund us.
00:41:40 And then the crowd's going to go, they're all going to be screaming like, Harry Potter.
00:41:44 And then I'll be like, guys, what he just said, it's what Darth Vader would say.
00:41:49 And then they're all, like, my point is, this works.
00:41:53 He won.
00:41:55 Yeah, he did.
00:41:56 He actually won the primary.
00:41:57 Yeah, he did.
00:41:58 But Francesca Hong didn't.
00:42:00 You think they stole it from her?
00:42:02 She was up by less than a point for five years.
00:42:06 I think it's the other way around.
00:42:08 The dude from Milwaukee, Milwaukee has an error, and the dude from Milwaukee wins, and he was behind.
00:42:15 Like, my question is Well, Crowley was behind in the polls, but he was never behind on election night.
00:42:19 Like, I was watching that thing back in 2018.
00:42:22 Oh, no, I thought you meant Tuesday.
00:42:24 Oh, no, no, yeah, Because other Crowley was the AOC Crowley, remember?
00:42:27 Yeah, wasn't that the guy's name, David Crowley?
00:42:29 I think so.
00:42:30 I wasn't even paying any attention to him.
00:42:32 Well, so she was up in the polls by double digits.
00:42:35 So either the prediction markets had her at 99.9 to win, bro.
00:42:40 If on election day, You went on one of these prediction markets and put $100 down, which is at 0.1.
00:42:46 10 hours later, you'd have cleared $13,000.
00:42:48 It's crazy.
00:42:49 Yeah, that is crazy.
00:42:50 Because they were all wrong.
00:42:52 First thing I did when I saw her lose, I was like, I'm looking up all the primaries now where the Democratic Socialists are favored to win heavy in the polls.
00:43:00 There's a couple coming up, there's one in Florida.
00:43:02 And I'm just like, they're all switching now.
00:43:06 Basically, everyone's like, the polls are wrong, bet against them.
00:43:08 The polling has been screwed up for years and years.
00:43:10 Yes, but has it?
00:43:11 That's the question.
00:43:12 The dude from Milwaukee who was behind in the polls, there's an accidental error benefiting him in Milwaukee.
00:43:20 Right, with the like five USB drives or whatever.
00:43:22 We got the wrong data on it.
00:43:23 We have to go and check.
00:43:25 So, the argument people are making is that the checking was that they needed to know the exact tally numbers at the end of the night so they knew how many fake bouts to add.
00:43:34 I'm not saying that's true.
00:43:35 I'm just saying maybe the socialists actually are doing really well and Syed was supposed to lose, but they didn't cheat enough.
00:43:43 Do you think they're that organized?
00:43:45 Like, I feel like the.
00:43:46 What do you mean?
00:43:47 They're pretty organized.
00:43:48 Are you saying if, like, one woman in Milwaukee County could flub five USBs?
00:43:53 Absolutely. 0.85
00:43:54 Fair enough.
00:43:56 You don't.
00:43:56 You don't need it.
00:43:57 For a primary, you don't.
00:44:00 I mean, this is the thing.
00:44:02 Milwaukee is a dense urban population.
00:44:05 That's where you're going to get your biggest density of votes per USB stick.
00:44:09 So when they go missing, again, I don't know.
00:44:12 I don't want to speculate.
00:44:13 I'm just saying the rumors online are that.
00:44:15 They wait until 3 or 3 50 a.m. or whatever to see what the vote count was so they knew no more likely come in.
00:44:21 That way, okay, we're going to need 20,000 votes so he can't lose.
00:44:27 If you do it early on and your margins are off, he loses.
00:44:30 So that's why the ballot dumps are always at two or three in the morning.
00:44:33 I don't know, though.
00:44:34 Don't look at me.
00:44:36 I guess the challenge is if the machine, I don't know, it's kind of weird to see the dude Cornacki on NBC just be completely dumbfounded.
00:44:45 You guys saw that?
00:44:46 Yeah.
00:44:46 Yeah.
00:44:47 That was wild.
00:44:48 And then he, I can't remember what the quote was, but he was like, how do I say this?
00:44:53 I, and everyone's like, he wants to say they stole the election, but he can't because he's on NBC.
00:44:59 So I just wonder, maybe I got, you know, knowing the libs that I know, I think what he's doing is going to work for him.
00:45:07 Like, I'm not even kidding, guys.
00:45:08 I'm pretty sure that if Syed showed up to a debate dressed as a Harry Potter character and literally did what I explained, he'd do well.
00:45:14 They'd be like, he won the debate because he spoke to his audience.
00:45:17 Yeah. 0.98
00:45:18 I mean, it's a clown show. 0.87
00:45:21 We're like two elections away from Alondo. 0.82
00:45:25 What's his name?
00:45:26 Elizondo. 0.84
00:45:27 The guy from the president from Idiocracy.
00:45:31 Oh, yeah.
00:45:32 Is it Alondo Elizondo?
00:45:34 It was Elizondo Camacho, something.
00:45:34 Camacho.
00:45:37 They had Mountain Dew Herbert or something like that.
00:45:39 I forget what his name is.
00:45:40 All they drink is Gatorade.
00:45:42 No, Brondo.
00:45:42 Yeah.
00:45:43 And they water the crops with it and they can't figure out why things aren't growing.
00:45:46 But I mean, not kidding around.
00:45:48 We're just a couple of elections away from that.
00:45:50 Right.
00:45:51 Personally, I think that it started with, like, you know, President Obama wanted to slow jam the news and, and because, you know, he was kind of the first social media president and stuff.
00:46:02 And Donald Trump.
00:46:04 Maybe Bill Clinton playing Saxon.
00:46:05 Well, yeah.
00:46:06 Yeah, maybe Brooklyn.
00:46:08 I mean, MTV, the MTV generation, the whole Rock the Vote thing, that might have actually been the beginning, so fair enough.
00:46:14 But then, you know, Barack Obama wanting to do all the appearances on late night TV and stuff.
00:46:20 Donald Trump being a TV personality before he was even a president obviously turned it up.
00:46:27 Like, seriously, there's going to be some, you know, like Shawn Michaels is going to run and you're going to have, like, he's going to walk out to do the State of the Union with the Sexy Boy song.
00:46:36 Right.
00:46:36 You know?
00:46:37 Yeah.
00:46:38 Shawn Michaels is a wrestler for sure.
00:46:39 Bro, it's like Idiocracy was not wrong.
00:46:42 You know, Mike Judge was.
00:46:44 He's always right.
00:46:45 Office Space was perfect.
00:46:47 Yeah.
00:46:48 And there's more videos.
00:46:49 Should I pull up the rest of them?
00:46:51 Let's see them.
00:46:52 I guess.
00:46:53 Everyone's like, yes, I'd like to see that.
00:46:56 I don't even know how to find it.
00:46:57 Was it singing?
00:47:00 There was.
00:47:00 Yeah, there's definitely been singing.
00:47:02 The Blues Clues one is the one that's really taking off.
00:47:04 It's like disturbing.
00:47:06 Yeah.
00:47:07 I didn't know what to think of that.
00:47:09 Still don't.
00:47:10 Well, it's not the democracy that we need, but I think it's the democracy that we deserve.
00:47:15 Yeah.
00:47:16 Yeah.
00:47:16 That's terrible.
00:47:17 We let too many people vote.
00:47:19 Well, I mean, it is what it is.
00:47:21 I mean, we picked our bed and we lay in it.
00:47:23 This is the quality of candidates that we're looking at.
00:47:25 We allow too many people to vote, so you have to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
00:47:29 We're really close on that, Phil.
00:47:30 How about nobody votes?
00:47:32 I mean, I am being swayed.
00:47:35 I am being swayed.
00:47:37 Like, the whole democracy thing.
00:47:40 Yeah.
00:47:41 I can't actually find the other ones.
00:47:42 He's got a bunch of these, though.
00:47:43 I saw a great meme.
00:47:44 Like, someone had, it was George Washington saying, You let women vote.
00:47:49 And then there was a guy behind him saying, You let people vote.
00:47:54 The joke is like, people always say, The founding fathers, if they saw what was going on today, they'd be busting camps already.
00:48:01 And it's like, bro, if you went to the founding fathers, they'd be like, Things went wrong in 1830, not 1999.
00:48:10 Things went wrong in.
00:48:11 They'd be like, Blasphemy's legal?
00:48:13 Yeah.
00:48:14 You'd be like, yeah, you'd be surprised, boys.
00:48:16 Things went wrong in the 17th century.
00:48:21 Well, this is one of the arguments some of the more reactionary Democrats make is that they say that Thomas Jefferson anticipated the Constitution being rewritten every couple generations.
00:48:32 It's true.
00:48:33 Yeah.
00:48:34 And the issue, how do I say this?
00:48:42 Thomas Jefferson was wrong about a lot.
00:48:44 He was right about a lot, but he was wrong about a lot.
00:48:46 Cool house, though.
00:48:47 Cool house, right?
00:48:48 He was right about the founding of this country, and I think he was wrong about religion, and I think he was wrong about the rewriting of the constitution.
00:48:55 I'm glad some of his ideas didn't get implemented.
00:48:57 He was wrong about the French Revolution.
00:48:58 He was very pro French Revolution in the beginning, and then he's like, Whoa, wait a second. 0.99
00:49:02 The Jacobins, you guys are nuts. 1.00
00:49:04 Yeah. 1.00
00:49:05 You know?
00:49:05 And that's the point, because he said something about a constitution would need to be rewritten because he made a point about.
00:49:13 Was it every 40 years?
00:49:14 Because that's the generational.
00:49:15 I don't think he said 40, but it might have been.
00:49:17 But his point was that.
00:49:18 It would be absurd in 200 years for dead men to be, you know, making the laws for a wholly different people.
00:49:24 The problem is, Thomas Jefferson's life, the way he lived technologically, was functionally identical to 200 years before.
00:49:35 The technological advancements were so dramatically minimal.
00:49:38 Like, they had muskets for hundreds of years, muzzle loading muskets for hundreds of years, and no one thought to rifle or make cartridges until the 1800s.
00:49:49 To get more people involved in the way that your society is organized, right?
00:49:55 Just because Jefferson said, oh, you know, we should, you know, you should rewrite the Constitution every 40 years or whatever he said, doesn't mean that, oh, every Tom, Dick, and Harry should be allowed to vote and have a say, and we should have a democracy where every single person gets to vote and that matter and every vote counts.
00:50:12 That shouldn't be the way that society is organized.
00:50:15 Like, that's the reason why we have representatives, right?
00:50:19 That's the reason why the federal government is supposed to be limited because Congress people can't be expected to know.
00:50:27 To know the ins and outs of every vote that they're taking, the government is supposed to have very few, the federal government is supposed to have very few powers, and then the states are supposed to have more power to affect the daily lives of the people that live in those states.
00:50:43 And your municipalities are really where you're going to actually have the biggest effect.
00:50:48 You can go down the street and look for your selectman and yell at him if he passes a bill that you don't like.
00:50:54 You got a whole lot more chance of affecting your life if you're dealing with your local legislator.
00:50:59 somehow than if you're dealing with your congressperson who represents however many people they represent.
00:51:05 400,000 or something like that.
00:51:05 Yeah.
00:51:07 So the argument that the left makes, they say, oh, they wanted, the founders wanted to rewrite the Constitution.
00:51:07 Yeah.
00:51:14 That doesn't mean that they wanted to have like you deciding how I get to live.
00:51:20 Did you want to know something crazy?
00:51:22 There was a shooting in my neighborhood in Chicago recently.
00:51:27 And it was like, I don't know the story though, because it's only, I'm just hearing it from like friends, but like I got sent a video about the news report from my neighborhood. 0.72
00:51:34 And it was like old people.
00:51:35 It wasn't, it was right outside of a school. 0.98
00:51:38 So I pop open this video on YouTube and I'm watching and I hear the lady saying, like, you know, the shooting happened and they're showing shots of the streets and the shots of the school.
00:51:45 And it shows all the locals like standing outside of their houses watching because the squad cars have blocked the road off.
00:51:51 And this is the neighbor that I'm from.
00:51:53 Everybody was Indian.
00:51:55 Really? 0.98
00:51:55 All the people? 0.98
00:51:56 I mean, there was like a handful of people.
00:51:58 It's not like there were 10,000 people in the street, but like people standing on there.
00:52:01 So like Chicago houses on the south side to give a small lawn.
00:52:06 And so people are standing on their porches and standing on the sidewalk, and I'm like, it's like seven or eight Indian people in front of the houses.
00:52:12 And I was like, wow.
00:52:14 Like, no beef.
00:52:15 I'm just pointing out that my neighborhood where I grew up, this area of Chicago was all Polish and white, I guess, I don't want to say redneck.
00:52:26 Yeah. 0.91
00:52:26 Because it's Chicago. 0.91
00:52:28 Like, reclass?
00:52:30 Somewhere in between.
00:52:31 I mean, they were City Billies, you know what I mean?
00:52:34 That's nice.
00:52:34 City Billies.
00:52:35 City Williams.
00:52:36 I like city billies.
00:52:37 We give them respect.
00:52:37 City billies.
00:52:38 And not hill billies.
00:52:40 But that's where I grew up.
00:52:41 So it's like we were on the border of the south suburbs.
00:52:45 There's a suburb of Summit.
00:52:47 We called it Scummit.
00:52:48 Some people probably live there right now.
00:52:49 They're mad at me for calling it that.
00:52:51 Or they're going, no, he's right. 0.70
00:52:51 Yeah, we call it Scummit. 0.70
00:52:52 You know what I mean? 1.00
00:52:53 But now it's like what was once a Polish migrant neighborhood and largely just like white working class cops and firefighters.
00:53:02 My friends are like, it's all Latino, Indian, and some Asian now.
00:53:06 Right.
00:53:07 And it's like the point I bring up is one, you know, the demographics are absolutely changing.
00:53:11 There's a desperation because there's no young people, nobody had kids.
00:53:14 But also, what does this mean for our constitution?
00:53:17 If we were to rewrite it every time, oh, bro, we're in for a storm, I'll tell you what.
00:53:23 Because it doesn't matter if you do or don't rewrite the constitution.
00:53:26 If we all here are raised on the American tradition and believe in free speech and gun rights, and now we're all going to get a bunch of suppressors for every single gun we own, and we're going to get stocks for our pistols, which I guess technically makes them SBRs according to the ATF, but that won't matter anymore.
00:53:40 We're all smiling as we do.
00:53:42 And then, when the police have a problem with it, we say you can't search our stuff and we have a right to confront our accusers.
00:53:48 What happens when it's not all of us here raised in the American tradition, but two or three of us and then 17 dudes from China who are like, in China, you get arrested first.
00:53:57 And then you get beaten and told to shut up.
00:54:00 And then, what happens when we're debating? 0.90
00:54:03 What happens when our Supreme Court in 50 to 70 years has seven justices that are the children of Chinese migrants?
00:54:14 And they're on the court, and they say the First Amendment clearly doesn't mean you can say anything you want. 0.65
00:54:20 The First Amendment just meant that if you were going to be polite in public and adhere to the party's wishes, you could express your opinion.
00:54:27 Free speech means you're allowed to agree with us.
00:54:30 Because what the Founding Fathers really were worried about is that when you wanted to express your dear love for the Little Red Book, they would tell you to be quiet while the leader is speaking.
00:54:38 Right.
00:54:38 What happens when they start doing things like that?
00:54:41 The right to keep and bear arms meant literal bear arms.
00:54:43 The Founding Fathers are talking about going hunting.
00:54:45 And when you hunt a bear, you put his arms in your office.
00:54:48 And then, when we say that's not what the founding fathers meant, they go, it doesn't matter because we're the Supreme Court and we say it's so.
00:54:54 The answer for that should be saved for the after show.
00:54:59 My point is Thomas Jefferson did claim, like, you'll need a new constitution for a new people.
00:55:05 And I'm like, nah, you have to amend the constitution.
00:55:10 And we haven't been doing that.
00:55:11 We've been legislating the constitution through the Supreme Court. 0.88
00:55:14 And it's resulted in this wackaloon world where we don't have a constitution anymore.
00:55:17 Sorry, guys, we just don't.
00:55:19 If you think the Constitution, as written, is what the founding fathers wanted it to be, you are wrong.
00:55:23 And it's funny how conservatives and progressives both simultaneously agree and disagree with me when I say this.
00:55:28 There are some progressives who are like, you're absolutely incorrect.
00:55:30 It's Trump.
00:55:30 He's destroying the Constitution.
00:55:31 Then there are progressives that I meet that are like, no, yeah, you're right.
00:55:34 That's never the, you know, I get these like far lefties and they say, you are completely correct, Tim.
00:55:38 The founding fathers were white nationalists, white supremacists, and they wanted more.
00:55:42 They wanted blasphemy laws and they had them.
00:55:44 Then you can, I talk to conservatives and they're like, no, we are adhering to the Constitution's initial intent.
00:55:50 The founding fathers did not think that a state had no right to ban you from owning guns.
00:55:53 The founding fathers thought that if Virginia wanted to pass a law banning guns, that's their problem.
00:55:57 The federal government wouldn't be allowed to do it, but Virginia can do it, Virginia does.
00:56:00 The founding fathers thought that free speech did not mean you could blaspheme the name of Jesus Christ.
00:56:05 In fact, when you're making that joke about, he's like, you let women vote, they'd actually be like, you let Catholics vote? 0.91
00:56:11 Right.
00:56:13 That would be shocking to them.
00:56:14 Yeah, it was a big deal when JFK was elected as the first Catholic because, I mean, you know, he might have allegiance to the Vatican, you know, as opposed to the United States.
00:56:23 So. 0.58
00:56:24 Indeed.
00:56:25 Imagine where our constitution is going to be, as I described it, in 50 years as these demographics change.
00:56:31 We're going to get, it's going to be fascinating.
00:56:34 I guarantee you this. 1.00
00:56:36 If Islam continues to expand in the United States as it is, and hold on, guys, there are variables. 0.99
00:56:43 I don't know that it will, but if you can envision a 20 or 30% Islamic faction in the United States, I guarantee you, you will get Supreme Court rulings on the question of free speech where they will say things like, you will get. 0.98
00:57:00 I guarantee you this as long as the density of Islam is high enough, a legitimate argument setting precedent on free speech, where the sitting justice Abdul Muhammad Syed says the founding fathers would arrest you for blasphemy. 0.92
00:57:17 You could not blaspheme. 0.98
00:57:21 That law only later on were these issues challenged.
00:57:26 It is entirely constitutional to make it illegal to besmirch the good name of the Prophet, peace be upon him.
00:57:34 Yeah, I mean, they could make changes whatever they want, really, at the Supreme Court.
00:57:38 They seem to not be entirely concerned with precedent.
00:57:42 I actually.
00:57:43 Real quick, my argument is there is historical precedent for the banning of blasphemy.
00:57:48 So if you were to ask a Supreme Court justice right now, can we ban blasphemy?
00:57:55 A justice could say, yes, the founding fathers' full intention was that blasphemy was not covered by the First Amendment.
00:58:02 They won't because of the ideology of the justices.
00:58:05 Well, but they've also heard cases on blasphemy since.
00:58:08 And they can overturn them.
00:58:09 They can, but they're not going to. 1.00
00:58:11 And Islamic courts. 1.00
00:58:12 There is precedent that says that they'd have to go against. 0.93
00:58:16 Indeed, and they overturn precedent all the time.
00:58:18 They generally avoid doing that. 0.72
00:58:20 But that's not the point because I guarantee you an Islamic Supreme Court would be like no problem. 0.97
00:58:23 Well, an Islamic Supreme Court. 0.83
00:58:24 And the point I'm making is not that any immediate Supreme Court justices would, but that I guarantee you if you got at least a soft majority of religious Islamists on the Supreme Court, they're going to say the United States has a strong tradition when it was founded. 0.78
00:58:41 The founding fathers' intention on the First Amendment was that blasphemy would not be covered by free speech. 0.64
00:58:46 It is only because of an attempted reinterpretation by progressive groups that this was ever allowed.
00:58:51 And if the American people want blasphemy to be free speech, you need to amend the Constitution.
00:58:57 Thus, it is so ordered, reversed.
00:58:59 And then they're going to be like, it's going to be a case involving someone drawing a picture of Muhammad or something. 0.95
00:59:04 I am not saying Islam will take over. 0.92
00:59:05 I'm not saying they will get on the Supreme Court.
00:59:07 I'm saying Islam is a strong religion.
00:59:11 Muslims. 1.00
00:59:12 Do not have the same issues Christians do. 1.00
00:59:15 Christians stand back and say, you know, live and let live. 0.98
00:59:18 I'm not trying to, you know, Muslims do not do this.
00:59:20 Well, Christians extend their values to those who disagree with their values and they extend that grace.
00:59:28 And that can turn into a problem.
00:59:32 And it lacks a certain measure of self preservation.
00:59:37 Yeah.
00:59:37 And I mean, that's, I think that's kind of the argument that I'm summing up when I say that liberalism can't deal with authoritarianism.
00:59:45 Well, I guess if you listen to Tucker, Islam's not that bad, actually. 0.96
00:59:51 And Israel made me say that they were. 1.00
00:59:52 We're not going to listen to Tucker, though. 0.92
00:59:56 Just saying.
00:59:57 You know what's really funny, though, is like there's a lot of irony and paradoxes within the conservative arguments against Islam and all that stuff.
01:00:05 I was watching this video on Instagram, and it was a dude who was like out on the street holding a sign saying, Islam is a threat to this country.
01:00:12 And then two LGBT people were like, that's offensive Islamophobia.
01:00:17 And then he was like, What's wrong?
01:00:20 Like, why do you think it's not a threat?
01:00:21 And they were like, You're being a bigot to like an entire people.
01:00:24 And he was like, Would you want to live in Saudi Arabia?
01:00:27 And they were like, That's not what we're saying. 0.94
01:00:28 And he was like, If they came here and implemented their government, they're going to force women to wear burqas.
01:00:34 Women won't be allowed to vote. 0.99
01:00:35 And they're going to throw gay people off roofs. 0.99
01:00:37 And then the LGBT, he's like a trans guy and a woman, they were like, We're done. 1.00
01:00:41 Yeah. 1.00
01:00:41 We're leaving. 1.00
01:00:42 And he's like, I'm saying this for you.
01:00:44 I don't understand.
01:00:45 It's fascinating to me that it's progressives that would suffer the most under Islamic law or Sharia.
01:00:51 And it's conservatives.
01:00:52 That recognizes that it goes too far in one direction.
01:00:57 But there's a lot of things conservatives would absolutely like that that's in these countries.
01:01:01 That's such an interesting thing.
01:01:03 I was thinking about that with regard to the Mahmood Supreme Court case, which I think, actually, oddly enough, I think Sotomayor was right in her argument that it goes against the West Virginia case from like 18, whatever.
01:01:16 So West Virginia had this Supreme Court case ages ago.
01:01:20 I think it was 18 something, whatever.
01:01:22 I don't remember.
01:01:23 But West Virginia schools said that Jehovah's Witnesses had to do the Pledge of Allegiance.
01:01:23 Sorry, guys.
01:01:30 And the Jehovah's Witness family was like, no, we don't believe in that.
01:01:33 And so West Virginia said, okay, then don't come into school.
01:01:37 And the Jehovah's Witnesses said, we still get to go to school.
01:01:39 We just don't have to do the Pledge of Allegiance.
01:01:41 And eventually, what the Supreme Court decided was you can't tell them they can't come to school if they don't want to do the Pledge of Allegiance, but they don't have to do the Pledge, but they do have to sit there through it, right?
01:01:53 Because you're not free from exposure to ideas that you disagree with.
01:01:59 And then in the Mahmood ruling with Montgomery County, Maryland, we had a situation where kids were getting like, Weird LGBTQ books read to them.
01:02:10 And the parents, Mahmood, and like, you know, it was like a coalition, like it was Muslim parents, Christian parents, I don't know, like Jewish parents, some other kind of parents, whatever.
01:02:20 They all were like, hey, we don't want our kids to have to be subjected to this, which I agree. 0.97
01:02:25 I don't want my kid to be subjected to that trash either. 0.87
01:02:27 And I do want him to say the Pledge of Allegiance, right? 0.98
01:02:29 Okay.
01:02:30 So in the Mahmood ruling, the Supreme Court said you allow opt outs for other things like sports activities.
01:02:37 So, you have to allow advance notice opt outs for these things.
01:02:41 And if you don't allow the opt outs, then it's a violation against the religious liberty rights of these families because it's an undue burden to make them have to, you know, send their kids to religious schools.
01:02:54 Well, so my question for everybody is should women vote? 0.96
01:02:59 Well, I mean, I think women should vote.
01:02:59 Yeah.
01:03:00 What do you think? 1.00
01:03:01 I think women should vote. 1.00
01:03:02 Nobody should vote. 1.00
01:03:02 What do you think? 1.00
01:03:04 No voting.
01:03:06 I'll say it till I'm dead.
01:03:07 No voting at all.
01:03:08 I'm sympathetic to Chris's perspective.
01:03:10 So, should everybody vote?
01:03:13 I think, you know, everybody who's of legal age to vote should vote. 0.96
01:03:16 Wrong age.
01:03:17 You're a communist.
01:03:19 You're a communist.
01:03:20 What do you think?
01:03:20 Okay.
01:03:21 Should everyone vote? 1.00
01:03:22 I mean, if you look at people with, like, for example, intellectual disabilities, like, we can't let somebody who has, like, profound intellectual disabilities vote because they just don't understand what's going on. 1.00
01:03:22 Absolutely not. 1.00
01:03:31 It would be, like, almost inhumane to, like, stand them up in a line and try and make them force them to their conclusions.
01:03:38 I think if you have any kind of disorder that would, um, Be defined as a perception misaligned with reality, you should be allowed to vote.
01:03:48 So that would be like all of the people who are like, I'm neurodivergent and that's interesting.
01:03:53 No voting for them.
01:03:54 No voting for you.
01:03:55 Okay.
01:03:56 Yeah.
01:03:56 No vote for you.
01:03:57 Look, if there's like a thing that is and you don't think it is, you can't vote.
01:04:03 You know what I mean?
01:04:04 Like, I'm being very specific.
01:04:05 If you think you can change the weather with your mind, you don't believe in objective reality.
01:04:12 I'm saying that if I stand before you and.
01:04:17 You know, I show you a car and you're like, that's a giraffe.
01:04:21 I'll be like, can you define what a giraffe is?
01:04:22 And like, it's a large mammal with many, with a large neck.
01:04:25 And you're like, okay, that's not correct.
01:04:28 You can't see functionally.
01:04:30 So the problem, the reason why you shouldn't be allowed to vote is because if I asked you to drive the car and then you ran off in the wrong direction, you know, let's say somebody is dying and I'm like, quick, get in the car and drive it.
01:04:39 And then they run up and jump on a bike and then slam into a wall.
01:04:42 You're like, that person shouldn't be dictating how this country functions. 0.99
01:04:45 But blind people could vote, deaf people.
01:04:47 Yes, well, what about disabilities? 1.00
01:04:49 I'm talking about a mental disorder by which.
01:04:51 Your perception of reality is incongruous with reality.
01:04:54 So, we used to have these rules, right?
01:04:55 There used to be like rules in the South where you had to pass certain tests to be able to vote.
01:05:00 Yes, yes, yes.
01:05:00 But those tests were insane.
01:05:02 They were really rigged.
01:05:02 I was rigged.
01:05:04 Well, the Supreme Court said you can't do this.
01:05:06 And now, Louisiana, anytime you're.
01:05:08 Have you ever seen these tests?
01:05:09 You have to clear it with us.
01:05:11 No, I didn't. 0.99
01:05:12 They're ridiculous. 1.00
01:05:14 So. 0.98
01:05:14 Should there be some kind of tests? 0.98
01:05:17 Maybe, but the problem is.
01:05:17 Maybe wrong.
01:05:18 You're alive, you can't vote.
01:05:19 No, no, no, no.
01:05:20 Okay, listen.
01:05:21 The problem is so, this is an example of a literacy test from Louisiana, is that.
01:05:26 The people in power can create a question with multiple answers and then say, oh no, we meant the other one.
01:05:33 No.
01:05:33 Right.
01:05:34 You got it wrong.
01:05:35 Chris, do me a favor and unpack your perspective on voting and what your worldview is about voting and stuff like that. 0.95
01:05:44 Well, I'm coming at it from an anarcho Christian point of view.
01:05:47 We think about the political spectrum between right and left, Democrat, Republican, liberal, libertarian, commie, whatever.
01:05:54 They all agree that there has to be some sort of an elected or appointed leadership.
01:05:59 The anarchic spectrum is totally different, it's on a different, narrower portion of the inverted triangle.
01:06:04 And we all anarchists agree that you don't need a leader.
01:06:08 Look at this question.
01:06:10 Draw a line from circle two to circle five that will pass below circle two and above circle four.
01:06:17 So, what?
01:06:18 You have to go through it from two under two.
01:06:21 So, you're going to start at the bottom and go under and then come up here and then go to five?
01:06:25 Yep.
01:06:26 In the line below, cross out each number that is more than 20 but less than 30.
01:06:30 Okay.
01:06:32 So, see, I think that above the letter X, make a small cross.
01:06:36 And then, so it's questions like this that often get people bring up because what if you did a plus sign?
01:06:41 They go, that's not a cross, it's a plus.
01:06:42 Yeah, they need multiple.
01:06:43 What if you do an X?
01:06:43 They'll be like, that's not a cross.
01:06:45 A cross is like a small T. Like, it's ill defined.
01:06:48 They might just be like, look, this is upon which you crucified my Lord.
01:06:51 It's a cross. 0.97
01:06:53 That's actually true.
01:06:54 I mean, that's probably what they were saying.
01:06:57 I mean, look, I'm in.
01:06:58 Circle the first.
01:06:59 Look at this.
01:07:00 Circle the first, first letter of the alphabet in this line.
01:07:04 The first, first letter of the alphabet.
01:07:06 No, no, no, hold on.
01:07:06 So the first.
01:07:07 Circle the first, comma.
01:07:09 First letter of the alphabet in this line.
01:07:11 What does that mean?
01:07:11 I think it's the first, first letter.
01:07:13 Yes, it would be the A in alphabet.
01:07:14 Yeah.
01:07:14 Well, and it could be, I mean, if there's the first, first letter of the alphabet in this line.
01:07:19 The first, first time the A appears.
01:07:20 Or it could be.
01:07:21 It could be the first time the A appears.
01:07:23 If it's a B, that's how I am.
01:07:24 If it's a B, that's how I am.
01:07:25 If it's a B, that's how I am.
01:07:26 If it's a B, that's how I am.
01:07:27 Nope.
01:07:28 What are you saying?
01:07:28 Nope.
01:07:29 It says circle the first, comma, first letter of the alphabet in this line, meaning they want you to circle the first.
01:07:34 So you'd circle first.
01:07:36 Huh.
01:07:37 I could interpret this however I want.
01:07:38 Well, I think that's probably the point. 1.00
01:07:40 The point was to stop black people from voting. 1.00
01:07:42 That's why these. 1.00
01:07:43 Right.
01:07:43 That's why they said you can't do this.
01:07:44 Right.
01:07:46 Draw a line under the last word in this line so that it wasn't racist.
01:07:50 Draw a line under the last word in this line.
01:07:54 Draw a line around the number or letter of this sentence.
01:07:58 There's a.
01:07:58 It's funny.
01:08:00 What?
01:08:01 The number or letter, which would be one.
01:08:03 Yeah.
01:08:05 There's Canadian staffers at the post millennial, and we have midterms this year, and they're like, you guys are always voting.
01:08:12 What is this?
01:08:13 How is it more voting?
01:08:14 Wasn't there elections last Tuesday?
01:08:16 Yes, there's elections every Tuesday until midterms.
01:08:19 I got it.
01:08:20 Have you guys ever seen the speed reading videos where the word just flashes on the screen?
01:08:27 You ever see these?
01:08:27 Yeah.
01:08:28 It'll do like a thousand words and they flash on the screen for a fraction of a second. 0.99
01:08:31 And it's like, yeah, if you can read this, you're not stupid.
01:08:34 So, how about we do 600 words per minute, giving you the instructions on how and where to vote? 1.00
01:08:38 And if you couldn't follow it, that's stupid. 0.99
01:08:40 I have a much simpler solution. 1.00
01:08:41 You just allow people to sell their votes, and then kind of the dumbest contingent of society would just. 0.76
01:08:46 I mean, I guess you could say it discriminates against poor people because we already have people selling their votes, right? 0.95
01:08:46 Sell their votes. 0.95
01:08:52 In California on Skid Row.
01:08:53 Allegedly.
01:08:55 $2 for a signature on a petition.
01:08:57 I like the net taxpayers can vote.
01:09:00 And I know that does favor libs because they live in cities and they pay more taxes typically, but I'm fine with it because then the people in the cities who have the money are going to be like, I ain't voting for more taxes.
01:09:11 That would be a good thing.
01:09:12 Yeah.
01:09:13 Look, I'm an agnostic, but I would actually, I think I haven't fleshed this idea out, but.
01:09:20 The idea of having like a federal government that's based on Christian, the Christian religion that doesn't change, and then your states can vote, just don't have any federal voting.
01:09:34 Nothing federal level.
01:09:36 So, how do we get federal stuff?
01:09:38 Well, you could have, I don't know, maybe it would be something like the state legislatures.
01:09:43 You can vote for your state legislatures, the state legislatures decide who's going to be running the federal government.
01:09:48 Some states are like that.
01:09:49 Like the state legislature decides who's going to be running the federal government.
01:09:52 Used to be for the Senate.
01:09:53 Yeah, the Senate is. 1.00
01:09:53 Let them elect the president. 1.00
01:09:55 Let them elect the Senate. 0.99
01:09:56 No more House of Representatives.
01:09:57 Your representatives are in the state.
01:10:00 And then they just stay there.
01:10:01 The House of Representatives is my favorite body of government. 0.98
01:10:04 That's because it's a clown show. 0.95
01:10:06 It's funny. 0.99
01:10:07 But also, do you notice everybody always likes their representative and they still think Congress is trash? 0.98
01:10:12 Yeah. 0.84
01:10:13 Yeah, because this is literally an argument.
01:10:15 This is true in Brooklyn, too.
01:10:16 I like the representative.
01:10:17 This is an argument against voting.
01:10:20 Everybody likes their own representative.
01:10:23 Nobody likes Congress.
01:10:24 Well, Maybe we should.
01:10:25 None of those representatives can get along with each other and come up with anything worthwhile.
01:10:29 I don't know, but the whole idea of like everybody should vote, I hate MTV for the rest of my life because of the whole rock the vote.
01:10:36 Paris Hilton looks so cute.
01:10:38 Paris Hilton did look cute.
01:10:39 Agreed.
01:10:39 But it doesn't change the fact that like everybody shouldn't be voting.
01:10:45 Nobody votes.
01:10:46 I'm with Chris.
01:10:46 All right.
01:10:47 Here we go.
01:10:47 It's cleaner.
01:10:48 What do you think?
01:10:50 Just King Trump?
01:10:52 Well, no, no king.
01:10:53 No monarch, no king.
01:10:55 No appointed ruler or leader.
01:10:57 That's where we differ.
01:10:58 I think that we unify.
01:10:59 And how do you run things?
01:11:01 Well, listen, we're always going to be subjects to the state.
01:11:03 And there's no place on earth that I can go where, and Malice talks about this, but there's no place on earth I can go where I'm not going to be a subject of the state and subject to its many abuses.
01:11:13 I disagree, but continue.
01:11:14 You don't think so?
01:11:15 Yeah, I disagree.
01:11:16 You don't think that the state is going to abuse its citizens in any way that it can in the long run?
01:11:18 No, no, you said there's no place I can go where I wouldn't be subject to the state.
01:11:21 Where would you go?
01:11:23 Middle of the woods, Pennsylvania.
01:11:25 It's like a wild state.
01:11:26 I mean, you're going to have to pay taxes.
01:11:28 There's still going to be a state.
01:11:29 You could go to a collapse of the state.
01:11:30 You can go to places like that.
01:11:30 Huh?
01:11:31 No, no, no, no.
01:11:32 My question is at what point in human history ever was there a place you could go that you would be subject to some person claiming, you know, authority?
01:11:40 It doesn't exist.
01:11:41 It's never existed.
01:11:41 It's always been that way.
01:11:42 In which case, I argue that the claim that there's nowhere you can go has an implication that there perhaps could have been, but not for the existence of the state.
01:11:54 But in fact, if you go back to any point in human history, no matter where you went, someone claimed authority.
01:12:00 So you could have been literally in the Western front.
01:12:03 You know, in the early 1800s, and the U.S. government, the Mexican government, Canadians, Native Americans, someone was going to say, it's ours.
01:12:11 There was nowhere you could go at any point in history.
01:12:14 It's just a difference in population density, in which case, go up to the Yukon, you can do whatever you want.
01:12:18 And the fact that nature abhors a vacuum, like if you don't have some kind of authority, whether we like the idea or not, very few people are going to say, well, you know, actually, we all agree with Chris.
01:12:28 And so it's blah, blah, blah.
01:12:30 There's going to be people that are going to be in positions of authority.
01:12:33 Human beings are hierarchical.
01:12:34 You're going to go, there's an island in the middle of nowhere, and you're going to be like, this is the one place where I will be free from the authority, right?
01:12:40 And I imagine you're going to have tools and a gun, and you bring your family, and you build a little house, and you got a little fishing area with some nets.
01:12:40 Yeah.
01:12:47 And then one day, three random people show up, and they say, We're going to take all your stuff.
01:12:51 What are you going to say to them?
01:12:52 You give it to them.
01:12:53 You're going to give away your stuff.
01:12:54 Because you're an anarcho Christian, and you're not attached to your life or your things. 1.00
01:12:57 So they come and they take all your stuff. 0.88
01:12:58 They're not attached to your life.
01:12:59 They murder your family, and then just leave.
01:13:01 He said, If you love your life, you'll lose it.
01:13:01 Jesus said that.
01:13:03 So when they show up on the island.
01:13:05 They slaughter your family and you just go on.
01:13:07 Well, it's always about, everybody else talks about slaughter.
01:13:10 That's like the extreme example.
01:13:12 And I get that. 0.68
01:13:13 They tie you up, take all your stuff, and leave you to die.
01:13:15 And you participate in the suffering of Christ.
01:13:17 So you just watch your family die?
01:13:18 You just give up?
01:13:19 I think that's also called Quaker.
01:13:21 But no, no, no, hold on.
01:13:22 Like, I have no problem with that if that's your worldview. 0.99
01:13:25 And I think that's why Christianity is being crushed by Islam. 1.00
01:13:28 Well, because nature abhors a vacuum, and someone that has the opinion of, I'm going to take this, I'm going to make this mine, I'm going to exert my will on the people that don't want to stand up for themselves, that's going to happen. 0.99
01:13:43 Of course.
01:13:44 I mean, yeah, you're not going to be in a situation where you're not going to encounter violence, but the question is, do you respond to violence with violence and hope that that solves everything?
01:13:52 Well, it will certainly solve someone not killing your family.
01:13:55 Well, not necessarily.
01:13:58 Well, yes, you may not succeed, but I guarantee if you do nothing, then your family dies. 0.99
01:14:03 So you have the choice of I'll try to have my family live or I'll give up and let them kill my family. 0.77
01:14:08 Well, the math on this is actually quite simple. 0.98
01:14:12 If Christians hold this view of I will let the Islam do what they want, then Christianity will cease to exist in a couple hundred years. 0.99
01:14:19 And that's fine, I guess. 1.00
01:14:21 Sooner.
01:14:22 I mean, I share a different view.
01:14:24 I mean, people that are truly animated by the Holy Spirit and their love of Christ and their determination to live as He lived do actually affect lots of change. 0.74
01:14:32 Do you think that Islam is expanding? 1.00
01:14:36 Oh, yeah, of course.
01:14:37 And in the United States as well. 0.70
01:14:38 Do you think that they will impose their religion by force? 0.90
01:14:38 Yes. 0.90
01:14:42 They couldn't do otherwise. 1.00
01:14:43 Will Christians let them? 1.00
01:14:45 Yeah, we'd be martyrs. 1.00
01:14:46 And then in 100 years, when there's no Christians left, then what?
01:14:50 Well, that's not how the book ends.
01:14:53 That's not how the book ends.
01:14:54 I mean, I have a glimpse of what eternity is going to be on this earth, and Christ wins in the end.
01:15:00 I think that there's an argument that Revelation is there's three, it's predictive, descriptive, and I always forget the three.
01:15:11 Predictive, descriptive, and what's the other one?
01:15:16 Look for it.
01:15:17 There's three.
01:15:18 The predictive is here's what is going to happen, here's how the book ends.
01:15:22 The descriptive is.
01:15:24 Here is what has happened.
01:15:26 And the third one, I forgot the word, is here's what you must do.
01:15:29 It's kind of all prescriptive.
01:15:31 Yeah.
01:15:31 Yeah.
01:15:32 There's predictive of here's how the book ends.
01:15:34 The people who believe in the predictive message of the Bible are the ones who will sit back and let these things happen.
01:15:41 I believe that's incorrect.
01:15:43 Prescriptive is that, descriptive, I'll start with that one, is these things have happened before and they inform us as to the future.
01:15:50 There are some people who believe that Revelation was actually a description of historical events and it was essentially a warning of these, this is what happened to us.
01:15:57 And this is why you can't do bad things.
01:15:59 And the prescriptive is here's what you must do for this to come about.
01:16:04 There are many people, and this has to do with the red heifer, the Temple Mount, everything that's going on in Israel, because a lot of these people are prescriptivist.
01:16:11 They believe that they must take the actions of Revelation in order for the Messiah to come.
01:16:16 And there are Jews who believe this, and there are Christians who believe this.
01:16:19 I would simply argue that God helps those who help themselves.
01:16:23 And the people, or you, if your argument is, I will sit back and be a martyr because the book will end another way.
01:16:32 Nope, you'll get crushed and wiped out.
01:16:34 Well, you're talking about an extreme scenario, obviously, but there is.
01:16:37 I disagree.
01:16:38 I think we're watching it happen.
01:16:39 I think we're watching it happen too.
01:16:40 And I also think that there's something to be said for, given the Quaker perspective, right?
01:16:44 I had this, I went to a Quaker school and one of my friends was Quaker.
01:16:48 And we talked about this, this whole pacifism thing, you know, like if somebody's coming at you, you let them kill you because that's the pacifist way to go.
01:16:57 And he turned it around and he said, why is their life more valuable than mine?
01:17:02 You know, like, why is anybody's life more valuable than mine if my life is not more valuable than others?
01:17:09 So, so you participate in the cycle of violence.
01:17:11 Well, or you know, if it's a choice between killing you and someone else, why not just let them kill someone else? 0.91
01:17:17 Do you know what I mean? 0.98
01:17:17 Like, you can twist it into any perspective you want. 0.98
01:17:21 I think people misunderstand the Crusades.
01:17:23 I got to say that, you know.
01:17:25 There's also a lot, things are a lot worse than death.
01:17:28 There are things a lot worse than death.
01:17:29 That they can do to your family that I just couldn't let happen.
01:17:31 Yeah.
01:17:32 I don't think that.
01:17:35 And they do. 1.00
01:17:36 I think it would be almost the antithesis of being a good Christian to stand by as a Muslim slaughtered your family. 1.00
01:17:43 Yeah, I think the right thing to do would be to slaughter the people trying to slaughter your family. 1.00
01:17:47 Yep. 0.99
01:17:47 Well, let's hope it doesn't come to that. 0.99
01:17:49 In our lifetime.
01:17:50 But for many people, it happens every day.
01:17:53 I'm not saying Islam, I'm saying where evil people seek to do us harm.
01:17:57 And what did Jesus say? 0.64
01:17:59 He said, Buy a sword, sell your cloak if you don't have one.
01:18:02 And that wasn't a direct statement about the general concept of people should be armed and defend themselves.
01:18:07 It was particularly about he was in trouble and they were like, Conflict is coming.
01:18:11 And he said, Buy a sword or sell your cloak to buy a sword.
01:18:14 I don't know the exact quote.
01:18:15 I'm not going to pretend to be a biblical scholar.
01:18:17 But I've had a lot of conversations with many different denominations of Christian about this. 0.88
01:18:22 Typically, I hear from most of them, I think you're the only one I've ever heard say, sit back and let them slaughter your family.
01:18:27 Well, I had to really do a lot of research on Michael Dukakis.
01:18:31 Michael Dukakis.
01:18:32 Is that what he said?
01:18:32 No, he kind of had that thing, though, with the revolving door prisons, the furlough, weekend furlough programs.
01:18:39 He got slammed for this whole thing where he was like, what if the guy raped your daughter? 0.82
01:18:43 Wasn't it him? 0.90
01:18:43 Wasn't that Michael Dukakis? 0.90
01:18:45 I'm not sure.
01:18:46 I don't remember that reference.
01:18:47 Was that like the 86 election or something?
01:18:49 Yeah, it was something like that.
01:18:50 He was there in a tank. 1.00
01:18:52 He looked dumb in a tank. 1.00
01:18:52 Oh, yeah. 1.00
01:18:53 Well, I was too.
01:18:54 That was the end of the helmets.
01:18:55 Yeah.
01:18:57 You never wear a helmet when you're running for president.
01:19:00 No, you can't do that.
01:19:02 You can do the helmet hair, but not the actual.
01:19:05 There was one of Ted Cruz's kids trying to put a hat on his head, and he was like, No, Why?
01:19:13 People were like, Whoa, whoa, that's weird.
01:19:14 But then someone pointed out, Look, ever since Michael Dukakis was wearing that helmet in the tank, I think he actually had the chin strap.
01:19:21 He did.
01:19:21 He did.
01:19:22 Oh, wow.
01:19:23 That was the thing that Ted Cruz was avoiding.
01:19:25 He didn't want to have a picture.
01:19:27 Because you look what happened to Dean, right?
01:19:29 Howard Dean.
01:19:30 Howard Dean.
01:19:31 That ruined his career.
01:19:33 That was his whole thing.
01:19:34 There he is.
01:19:35 Look at him. 1.00
01:19:35 He looks ridiculous. 1.00
01:19:36 Oh my God. 0.99
01:19:38 But that's something that presidents need to avoid.
01:19:42 They have to worry about that kind of stuff.
01:19:44 You can't be yourself and run for president.
01:19:46 It's going to be wild in 2036 when it's Ocasio Cortez v. Fuentes.
01:19:53 That's going to be a thing.
01:19:54 And we're going to be like, well, who are you voting for?
01:19:56 And it's like, well, I'm not a big fan of Fuentes, but I can't vote for a communist.
01:19:59 And she's on the campaign trail with her surrogates carrying her embryos. 0.79
01:20:02 Flying communist flags. 0.80
01:20:04 And her surrogates are literal Chinese citizens. 0.73
01:20:04 Yeah. 0.73
01:20:06 Yeah, that's right.
01:20:07 And she bought them because they were prisoners. 0.99
01:20:09 And, you know, she just paid for that. 0.98
01:20:13 You.
01:20:14 Anyway.
01:20:14 You.
01:20:15 Yeah.
01:20:16 What were we talking about before I got religious?
01:20:17 We were talking about being on an island.
01:20:19 Oh, you were saying there's nowhere you can go where you wouldn't be subject.
01:20:21 You had another point that you didn't finish, though, because I interrupted you.
01:20:25 My arguments are basically they trace back to Tolstoy.
01:20:27 He's kind of considered to be the cornerstone for anarcho Christian thought.
01:20:31 And in his book, The Kingdom of God is Within You, he crystallizes what that looks like, but from both a Christian perspective and a negation of the state and rejection. 1.00
01:20:40 It kind of sounds like something a Muslim wrote to trick Christians. 0.99
01:20:44 Like, did you know that to be a good Christian, you should not fight me when I kill your family? 1.00
01:20:49 Really? 1.00
01:20:50 I'm going to kill your family. 1.00
01:20:51 And if you want to be a good Christian, let me. 1.00
01:20:53 Listen.
01:20:53 Well, okay.
01:20:54 Makes sense, I guess.
01:20:55 There's a lot of ambiguity in the Bible, but Jesus' directive to turn the other cheek, somebody tries to take your shirt, give them your coat too, those are not ambiguous.
01:21:03 They're very clear.
01:21:05 I mean, like almost impossible to misinterpret.
01:21:07 I don't know.
01:21:08 I don't think Jesus would want you to sit there and watch your babies get murdered.
01:21:11 I wonder if he ever said that.
01:21:13 I don't know, but I think otherwise we'd all be cool with abortion, too.
01:21:17 That was my point.
01:21:18 You know, like, what's the difference?
01:21:20 Babies get slaughtered, babies get slaughtered.
01:21:22 Same.
01:21:23 Well, I mean, it's essentially a conversation about salvation.
01:21:28 There are people that are not saved, and there are people that are saved.
01:21:31 And I mean, I don't think I would be more saved.
01:21:34 I mean, I got to say, if watching my child be slaughtered is what it takes to get to heaven, then I'm going to hell.
01:21:41 You know what I'm saying?
01:21:43 If Luke 6 29 30, if someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them.
01:21:47 Give to everyone who asks you.
01:21:48 And if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.
01:21:52 But your family doesn't belong to you.
01:21:55 You're supposed to protect them.
01:21:56 Yes, but the food they need to survive, the water they need to drink as they traverse the desert.
01:22:03 And I go to them and say, Actually, Luke says, You got to give me your water.
01:22:07 And I'm taking it.
01:22:09 And then the man says, But surely my children will die of dehydration.
01:22:12 I'll be like, Well, you have to do it.
01:22:14 And I've taken it.
01:22:14 You can't ask for it back.
01:22:15 And he goes, Good point.
01:22:17 We're resorting to extreme scenarios that could be easily applied in daily life.
01:22:17 Guess I'll die.
01:22:22 Extreme?
01:22:23 This happens all the time.
01:22:23 Yes.
01:22:25 I know, but we're talking about worldwide events.
01:22:28 I mean, just locally, locally, if one can apply these principles to their daily life and their day to day interactions with people in their community and their family, then I think you would see a massive change.
01:22:37 I think this message has more to do with, like, if your neighbor came to you and said, I need this, you'd share it with them.
01:22:45 I don't think it means that when the barbarians are at the gates, you go, All right, everybody, lay down. 0.63
01:22:49 They're going to rape and kidnap our women and children, and then the men are all dead. 0.98
01:22:53 So, you love your enemies. 0.99
01:22:54 What's your take on your enemies?
01:22:55 That doesn't mean let them murder your children. 1.00
01:22:58 No, you can love them and then cry as you kill them because they're going to kill your family. 0.99
01:23:03 So, what's your take on just like self defense, right? 0.99
01:23:06 Like, so someone is going to attack you or whatever.
01:23:09 Do you defend yourself? 0.88
01:23:10 The anarcho Christian believes in absolute non resistance to evil by force. 1.00
01:23:13 Oh, okay. 1.00
01:23:14 Quaker.
01:23:14 Absolute non resistance to evil by force.
01:23:15 What's the difference between anarcho Christian and Quaker? 0.93
01:23:18 I don't know.
01:23:18 I'm not familiar with Quakers, quite frankly.
01:23:21 So, is the idea like. 0.98
01:23:23 Islam wipes out all the Christians and then Jesus comes back? 0.57
01:23:26 There's no scenario where that's going to happen according to my beliefs. 0.98
01:23:29 What stops Muslims from taking over?
01:23:29 I could be mistaken.
01:23:32 People that are not anarcho Christians. 0.99
01:23:34 Ah, the anarcho Christians sit there and watch it. 0.99
01:23:37 No, no, no. 1.00
01:23:38 They killed Tim Carter.
01:23:39 I mean, listen, listen.
01:23:42 There's Christianity in general in this country has been very submissive for 100 plus years. 0.95
01:23:48 It's been ridiculously submissive. 0.89
01:23:49 It was submissive in Europe even.
01:23:51 What, two or three crusades and like a thousand years of jihad?
01:23:55 Yeah, I mean, and even now, like the torching of Notre Dame, yeah, all the churches getting burnt down.
01:23:59 So, I don't think it's anarcho Christians, uh, Phil. 0.98
01:24:03 And I don't think there's enough secular people because they're they like Islam, uh, liberals could be the Jews who stop them. 0.98
01:24:10 The Jews are good at self defense, that's what I'm saying. 1.00
01:24:13 They're great at the Jews. 0.99
01:24:14 This is like it's like Ukraine, basically. 0.99
01:24:16 They're basically preparing for war against Islamic invaders and people who, you know, use tactics that are kind of unknown to us here in the West.
01:24:26 I mean.
01:24:27 They're operating actively in this kind of like guerrilla warfare.
01:24:30 Obviously, it's wound down, but over the last few years, they have way more experience than we do in this kind of like tight knit urban environment, fighting people who have no problems killing.
01:24:40 There's like using them as.
01:24:42 Hold on, hold on, hold on.
01:24:44 There's a couple million GWAT vets that have spent the better part of the last 20 years fighting, whether it be in Iraq or Afghanistan.
01:24:53 So I don't disagree with you about there's plenty of.
01:24:57 You know, Jews that have been fighting, whether it be Hamas or Hezbollah or what have you, but like the idea that there's not a lot of Americans.
01:25:08 We've got an entire generation of young men that grew up in combat.
01:25:18 There are more people in America that have experienced combat now between, even though the boomers are old, the Vietnam vets and Gulf War I and then Iraq and Afghanistan.
01:25:30 There are a lot of combat vets in the United States.
01:25:33 You have a good point.
01:25:34 I should have specified that this is just kind of like the latest iteration.
01:25:37 They are the newest to do it.
01:25:39 Sure.
01:25:40 And they are defending.
01:25:41 Christendom, in a lot of ways.
01:25:43 I think so.
01:25:44 Yeah.
01:25:45 I mean, I don't know that they're.
01:25:47 I don't know.
01:25:48 Maybe they're doing it like.
01:25:49 Indirectly.
01:25:50 Yeah, exactly.
01:25:51 Yeah, because I don't think that they're thinking, you know.
01:25:51 Indirectly.
01:25:53 I don't think that's the primary culture.
01:25:54 St. Michael, you know.
01:25:56 They're not praying to St. Michael before they go into the tunnels in Gaza.
01:26:03 But yeah, I mean, I guess that does, you know, the. 0.56
01:26:07 But there's probably Christians in the IDF. 0.93
01:26:09 Talk to you, for sure. 0.86
01:26:11 There's probably Christians in the IDF.
01:26:13 Yeah, I mean, I imagine there are fewer.
01:26:16 But, you know, if you're making the argument, look, it's better for the Israelis to control Jerusalem than for, you know, Hamas to control Jerusalem, you know, when it comes to Christians at least, it would be better for, you know, Israelis to control Jerusalem than Hamas. 0.81
01:26:32 I think that that is probably the obvious. 0.84
01:26:35 The DSA has the DSA's plan is to make the whole thing Palestine with Jerusalem at the center. 1.00
01:26:40 Their plan is to die because the Muslims are just going to kill them. 0.97
01:26:43 I mean, you know, Hamas leaders have said that they're just. 1.00
01:26:47 These useful idiots. 1.00
01:26:49 All you have to do is look at the Iranian revolution. 1.00
01:26:51 So, you're not saying it's going to be a free secular state with equal rights for all, where everybody can be gay and trans openly and Muslim?
01:26:59 You know, something tells me that's not going to be the reality.
01:27:03 I think. 0.99
01:27:05 I've said this before, and this is kind of like a meme for a while, but conservatives need to just fully embrace the Islam thing for a while.
01:27:11 Yeah, I disagree entirely.
01:27:13 No, because you go to all the woke people, and then when they're like, you know, we defend Islam, you'd be like, Yes. 0.96
01:27:19 And then you bring Islamic protesters to like pride events. 0.67
01:27:23 Right. 0.99
01:27:23 And then they're going to be like, maybe we don't like this. 0.99
01:27:26 I mean, in terms of like the, from what I understand, which is of course limited and based on one of our writers who used to write for us at Human Events, Madeline Martin, may she rest in peace.
01:27:37 But she was working on a piece that she ran and it was about how there are different stages of jihad. 0.78
01:27:43 And one of the first stages is about how if you are Muslims and you are minorities in the culture where you are, you know, make friends with the For lack of a better word, Gentiles don't bring them into your heart. 0.92
01:27:56 And it's a slow takeover of the society. 1.00
01:28:01 Let me ask for the Christians in the room. 0.99
01:28:03 Obviously, you don't agree with the general, like, what's the right, like, spiritual overarching belief system. 0.80
01:28:12 So it's like you believe in a different God.
01:28:15 Of the political system that is Sharia and Islamic law, what don't you like about it? 0.56
01:28:20 I don't like the treatment of women, the eradication of education. 0.94
01:28:24 Uh, for women specifically, I don't like the notion of jihad or the thing where you, um, you know, what the when you're allowed to lie to, yeah, I don't like that.
01:28:35 That's part of the whole jihad thing, yeah.
01:28:37 I don't like the uh, forcing people to convert or making them pay a tax. 0.91
01:28:42 Oh, yeah, what's that? 0.71
01:28:43 Jizya, Jizya, yeah.
01:28:46 There's a lot of different what about what about what about you're a Christian, yeah.
01:28:48 I'm not a Christian now.
01:28:49 Oh, not a Christian, like an atheist, yeah.
01:28:51 My dad's Jewish, my mom's Christian, you're atheist, yeah.
01:28:53 Okay, so you're atheist agnostic.
01:28:54 I know you. 0.99
01:28:57 It very well might be.
01:28:58 No.
01:28:59 You all know way more about Sharia law than I do. 1.00
01:29:01 Everything that you said, I agree with, and it's a theocracy, which I'm opposed to for obvious reasons. 1.00
01:29:07 Also, genital mutilation.
01:29:07 Yeah.
01:29:09 That's a bad one.
01:29:10 And everything Libby said, also, it's an authoritarian.
01:29:15 Wait, hold on a minute.
01:29:16 Dude, they don't.
01:29:19 I'm just thinking, it's kind of weird, right? 1.00
01:29:21 Islam, they cut up girls. 1.00
01:29:24 And the Jews cut up boys. 1.00
01:29:25 Yeah. 0.95
01:29:26 What's going on?
01:29:28 These are questions I'm asking myself.
01:29:30 Is that how the conflict started?
01:29:30 Was that like.
01:29:32 The Muslims came in and they're like, what are you doing to that little boy? 0.93
01:29:34 I'm like, what are you doing to those girls? 1.00
01:29:36 And they're like, ah! Fighting each other? 0.99
01:29:37 I was under the impression that that didn't happen. 1.00
01:29:39 Like in the Middle East, they don't do that, but they do that kind of in Africa.
01:29:43 I think it's like in the Sahel, it's pretty big.
01:29:46 But also Michigan.
01:29:47 Wow.
01:29:48 Yeah, that. 1.00
01:29:48 Michigan, Africa. 1.00
01:29:51 There's been some cases where the judge has decided, I believe in Michigan, might have been Minnesota. 0.92
01:29:58 Also, honor killings.
01:29:59 Honor killings, totally bad plan.
01:30:01 I don't like the thing where if someone shows a cartoon of Muhammad, you torch their entire office. 0.95
01:30:07 Like in Saudi Arabia, they're doing these things? 1.00
01:30:09 I don't know.
01:30:10 I think Saudi Arabia is the last Summer Ops Square where they go into. 0.91
01:30:14 In Saudi Arabia, women are allowed to drive now. 0.97
01:30:16 So that's new.
01:30:17 That's been for a few years, though.
01:30:18 Yeah.
01:30:18 Yeah.
01:30:19 Still relatively new.
01:30:20 We're 1,000.
01:30:21 Yeah, but in Saudi Arabia, you can take like a wad of a stack of $100 bills and put it just outside on your Lampa?
01:30:29 No, on the ground and no one will touch it. 0.74
01:30:31 That's because they cut the ends off.
01:30:32 Yeah, exactly.
01:30:33 It's Hammurabi.
01:30:34 It's the whole Hammurabi thing. 0.87
01:30:35 Eye for an eye. 1.00
01:30:36 Well, Sharia would destroy the economy, it would destroy capitalism in the West because. 1.00
01:30:41 Our whole economic system is ultimately built upon interest. 0.99
01:30:44 And so if you can't loan money or borrow money, we're kind of screwed.
01:30:47 That's my biggest issue.
01:30:48 That's my biggest issue.
01:30:49 That's my biggest issue.
01:30:51 Yeah, I mean, they kind of, their economies are.
01:30:51 Oil.
01:30:53 Instead of little silver pellets, it's not a lot of money. 1.00
01:30:55 If you look at the Islamic countries that are sitting on oil, those are the ones that are advanced and blah, blah, blah. 0.98
01:31:01 You look at Afghanistan, you look at the Islamic countries in Africa that don't have oil. 1.00
01:31:07 They're all basket cases. 1.00
01:31:09 Yeah, it's all just because of oil. 0.99
01:31:11 Well, and Yemen is a disaster. 1.00
01:31:13 All those places.
01:31:14 Yeah, I think that has a lot to do with all the warring between them and Saudi Arabia.
01:31:18 It has a lot to do with the massive death.
01:31:20 Yeah.
01:31:21 The creation of a population that's mostly under 30. 0.58
01:31:25 Never going to do well.
01:31:26 No.
01:31:27 But yeah, it's not that they have good economies or whatever.
01:31:30 It's they're sitting on liquid gold.
01:31:32 You know what?
01:31:33 I'll throw this out there to the chatters if you want to throw in some super chats.
01:31:37 I'm genuinely asking of the political system, throw in your concerns and criticisms of it.
01:31:42 The reason I bring that up is because. 0.97
01:31:45 The thing they promote that you'll see a lot of Muslims promote about Sharia law are the things that conservatives do like. 0.98
01:31:51 Like, no crime is like the easy example. 0.98
01:31:54 So, I'm interested in the finer arguments of why don't they like it.
01:31:57 I wonder would conservatives like chopping off hands for stealing?
01:32:02 Well, my whole thing is like in the United States, our ethos is that we trade safety for liberty.
01:32:07 And so, we're willing to accept a slightly less safe society, and let's say the case of gun rights.
01:32:12 So, are we willing to go all the way and make our society super safe?
01:32:16 By enforcing these like extremely harsh consequences on it, I don't think our society is that way.
01:32:21 I think the fact that every year the surveillance state expands and new laws are put on the books, we give up our liberty every single day.
01:32:30 And by demand, we do so.
01:32:31 People are screaming and demanding it.
01:32:33 Keep giving more of it up.
01:32:34 Yeah.
01:32:35 Fly cameras.
01:32:36 We give it up for convenience generally.
01:32:38 Like the people that have, you know, it's not a conscious choice, right?
01:32:42 Well, I mean, it probably not.
01:32:44 Because all of the, like, they're obviously the cameras and stuff like that.
01:32:48 That's something that's bad.
01:32:49 But we had someone that was in here yesterday arguing for them, saying, look, you can find missing kids, you can find people that have actually committed crimes faster, et cetera.
01:32:57 And while he was making good points, I still don't, I am not convinced by the argument for clock cameras.
01:33:04 But at the same time, I'm walking around with a microphone and a camera that could be turned on at any time.
01:33:11 And I would have no idea that someone just has to know how to actually access it.
01:33:15 And most of us do.
01:33:17 The vast majority, I think 95% of Americans have a smartphone nowadays.
01:33:22 So the idea that Americans are actually really concerned about their privacy or they're really concerned about, you know, Being anonymous and stuff like that, they're not.
01:33:32 And you can tell they're not because they have these tools.
01:33:35 You can opt out if you want to, right?
01:33:39 You can say, I don't need a cell phone, or I don't go out of the house with a cell phone.
01:33:44 I think it's probably pretty hard to find landlines now, but you could have a cell phone and just leave it at home.
01:33:50 And when you go out and leave, you can have an old vehicle that doesn't have computer chips in it.
01:33:55 Now, obviously, this is not an easy thing.
01:33:57 You can print out your MapQuest because you can't even buy a map at the gas station anymore.
01:34:00 Yeah.
01:34:01 I mean, so it is possible.
01:34:03 My mom hoards her maps.
01:34:05 Good for her.
01:34:06 I know.
01:34:07 It's cute.
01:34:08 But, you know, the idea that people are strongly against these things, they're against them when they first hear about them.
01:34:15 Like when the Xbox 360 first came out, it was always connected to the internet.
01:34:20 That camera.
01:34:21 And I was like, I'm not buying that.
01:34:23 I'm never blah, Three years later, I was like, all right, whatever.
01:34:27 You know, because I had, by that time, I had an iPhone.
01:34:30 And I was like, well, you know, whatever.
01:34:32 You know?
01:34:32 It's fine.
01:34:34 It becomes a situation where the convenience outweighs the intrusion.
01:34:39 And Gen Z and Gen Alpha don't have the same concept of privacy that someone my age does, right?
01:34:45 I'm 51.
01:34:46 And so, like, the idea of privacy when I was a kid, I would get on my bike and leave.
01:34:52 Nobody knew where I was.
01:34:54 It was, that was good stuff.
01:34:55 It was like literally like there was no tracking system, none of that stuff.
01:34:55 Yeah.
01:35:01 The cameras weren't everywhere.
01:35:02 So, like, I understand.
01:35:04 In college, we had a hall phone.
01:35:06 What?
01:35:07 In college, we had a hall phone.
01:35:09 Oh, yeah.
01:35:09 Like a phone down the hall with no answering machine.
01:35:12 I remember what payphones were like, you know?
01:35:14 In fact, I think when I started touring, payphones still existed.
01:35:17 My first apartment, our phone was the payphone outside.
01:35:22 But, but, Jen, like in Spider Man.
01:35:24 I mean, I don't know.
01:35:26 I don't know.
01:35:27 I've never used the payphone in my life.
01:35:29 My girlfriend's.
01:35:30 No.
01:35:30 You never used the payphone?
01:35:31 So back in the day, there was this trick.
01:35:33 It was called 511ing a phone.
01:35:35 Yeah.
01:35:35 You guys know this one?
01:35:36 If you dialed 511 and then the phone number, it would click and then click.
01:35:39 If you hung up, the phone would ring.
01:35:41 Oh, and so we just put the phone down and then walk away, and then the phone would ring, and some guy would like, Hello, and there's like nothing there. 0.69
01:35:50 It's like the most, it's like the stupidest prank imaginable because it literally did nothing, and we didn't even know what it was or why it was.
01:35:55 We used to, I used to do the thing where I'd call my family collect, and they would pick up the phone. 0.93
01:36:01 Oh, yeah, and the message would like it would say, Say your name after the beep, and it would be like, This is Libby, I'll be home with Jelly.
01:36:06 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:36:08 You'd want 100 collect, and it would be like, Would you like to receive a collect call from?
01:36:11 I'm at the park, I need a ride home, bye.
01:36:16 You know, and Pete, like, you know, Gen Z and Gen Alpha, like, it's normal to have the location service on for you and all your friends.
01:36:25 So you can, I know people that are just like, oh, like, they look at their phone and they're like, where is this person?
01:36:30 And my brother has that.
01:36:31 And actually, my brother and I have, we have shared location.
01:36:35 And I can tell you a story.
01:36:37 Let me tell you a story.
01:36:37 I'm where my parents are, and they are elderly.
01:36:39 Always turn on location on your device, shared location.
01:36:43 Because when we were in Vegas, I think it was Brandon.
01:36:49 I think he forgot, he left his phone at a machine or something, and someone found it.
01:36:53 And so then he's like, he went to go look for it, it was gone.
01:36:56 But our security guy was like, We have shared location on.
01:36:58 So he turned on his phone and an arrow points in the direction of his phone.
01:37:01 And then we walked up and there was a door and it stops and we're like, It's in this room.
01:37:05 And it was a security room.
01:37:06 The security guys picked it up and put it in the room.
01:37:07 And then they're like, Ah, here you go.
01:37:09 That's why shared location is amazing.
01:37:10 Yeah.
01:37:11 How old are you, by the way?
01:37:12 21.
01:37:13 Man.
01:37:13 Yeah.
01:37:14 I don't share my location with anyone. 0.98
01:37:15 No, no, I'm just saying it sucks because when I was a kid, it sucks for you. 0.93
01:37:20 You missed the golden age. 0.96
01:37:21 Like my parents and like the Gen X people and the older people were like, Nobody was talking about how the 80s were technologically better. 0.99
01:37:21 I know. 0.99
01:37:28 They were like, oh, cool new thing, cool new thing.
01:37:30 The new video game counts, so amazing.
01:37:32 Now it's the future, and everyone's like, the 90s were so good.
01:37:36 So, in the 90s, everybody was excited for new stuff.
01:37:38 And then in the 2000s, people were like, it's okay.
01:37:40 Now everybody wants to go back to the 90s.
01:37:42 Mostly once we got laptops and I was good.
01:37:45 Like, all I wanted when I was a kid, like, my mom always had this collection of cigar boxes.
01:37:49 And me and my friend Julia would turn them into like fake laptops because it was before laptops.
01:37:53 And we'd pretend we were on a spaceship.
01:37:55 We'd like put tin foil in and we'd make like little levers and everything.
01:37:59 And so, all I ever really wanted was a laptop.
01:38:02 And so then, once I got a laptop in 1993, I got an Acer Anywhere computer.
01:38:08 My dad bought it for me, or 94, whenever I got it.
01:38:10 Who knows?
01:38:11 It was awesome.
01:38:12 And then I was happy.
01:38:13 What did you do in 94?
01:38:14 And I was very happy.
01:38:15 Yeah, it was good.
01:38:16 Awesome.
01:38:17 2008 is when it all fell apart.
01:38:20 2008 everything.
01:38:20 That was the ubiquity of internet.
01:38:22 Yeah, internet and the housing bubble.
01:38:25 2008 was when everybody had the internet in their pocket.
01:38:29 So before 2008, I didn't get mine until 2000.
01:38:32 It was 07, the iPhone comes out, and it was pretty crummy.
01:38:35 Like it worked, and you could go on Facebook.
01:38:37 And I remember being on a train in Chicago.
01:38:38 I was on an L, and my friend had just gotten one, like the very first iPhone.
01:38:42 And they were like, dude, look, Facebook.
01:38:43 And they were scrolling, and I was like, wow, that's crazy.
01:38:46 Because it used to be before this, I had a singular rocker.
01:38:51 I don't know if you guys know what the rocker is.
01:38:52 It had speakers in it, it was a candy bar phone, and you could send texts.
01:38:56 I had AIM, AOL Instant Message around there, and it was 10 cents per message.
01:39:00 So I remember we racked up an $8,000 bill once.
01:39:03 Well, because it told us it had unlimited messages.
01:39:06 In our plan?
01:39:07 It was a good lie.
01:39:08 But then they said, no, no, because AIM doesn't count as messages.
01:39:10 And we were like, what?
01:39:11 And it was a really weird web app.
01:39:13 But for the most part, you couldn't really stop, sit down, load the app, and then, like, you didn't do it.
01:39:19 So what would happen is I'd go out, I had a moped, and I'd go ride to my friend's house, and then I'd be like, knock on the door, not there, eh, try calling him, where are you at?
01:39:31 Nah.
01:39:31 Was this in New York?
01:39:32 No, Chicago.
01:39:33 And there's no internet.
01:39:35 So I'd wake up, I'd go online, check my email, see what's going on.
01:39:35 So you were in New York?
01:39:39 Then I'd go outside and I'd go do stuff all day, having no idea what's happening in the world.
01:39:43 None's the wiser.
01:39:44 No anxiety.
01:39:45 Then you'd get home, you'd check the internet, see your messages, talk to people, and go to bed.
01:39:49 Sometimes you'd get home and then you'd pull up A1 as a messenger and somebody'd be like, I got five messages from a friend.
01:39:55 They'd be like, yo, party, party, party, where you at?
01:39:57 And I'd be like, oh man, am I too late?
01:39:59 And then I'd message him back and I'd be like, well, I'm going to show up anyway.
01:40:01 And then you make it.
01:40:02 Today, everything, everywhere, all at once, all the time.
01:40:05 I don't know.
01:40:06 I still miss parties.
01:40:07 Like just yesterday, I checked my signal and I'd been invited to something and I was like, Oh, that was two weeks ago.
01:40:12 I just had an idea. 1.00
01:40:12 Old people parties are whack. 1.00
01:40:14 I don't want to go to an old person party. 1.00
01:40:15 I don't even know what it was. 1.00
01:40:16 Let me tell you something.
01:40:19 We have parties, and parties for us, it's like, oh, we're going to do a big event.
01:40:23 You should come.
01:40:24 And it's like people in suits, and there's a bar, and there's like hors d'oeuvres, and everyone just talks.
01:40:28 And the music's really loud, and you can't really talk.
01:40:31 Parties when you're like 20, it's like you walk into someone's house, and there's someone doing a keg stand, and everyone's just jumping in the floors, moving up and down with you, and you're just pumping kegger into your red cup, playing flip, flip, flip You know what I'm talking about?
01:40:45 Yeah.
01:40:45 Yeah.
01:40:46 See, that's a fun party.
01:40:47 I used to throw some killer parties.
01:40:49 Those were good people.
01:40:49 Yeah.
01:40:50 You need a party with us. 1.00
01:40:51 We only hang out with old people. 1.00
01:40:53 Yeah.
01:40:53 Everybody.
01:40:54 Everybody's retired, old. 0.96
01:40:55 We go to a party, we're playing bingo and playing trivia. 0.99
01:40:57 It's the best.
01:40:59 I'm telling you, I'm a big proponent of that.
01:41:02 I'm saying, you go to parties in my 20s, you walk in, everybody's jumping to like a song, the whole floor.
01:41:09 That was gonna break.
01:41:10 And then there's like, you know, in my day, everyone in Chicago, so everyone's singing Alkaline Trio every song.
01:41:10 Press parties were good.
01:41:16 You walk in, run from the front door, and then all of a sudden you'll hear like Goodbye Forever come on.
01:41:21 And then all of a sudden, everyone in the party is screaming and singing, they're holding beers, everyone's getting drunk.
01:41:26 Now, I go to a party and there's like a guy in a suit and he's got like his wife and she's well dressed.
01:41:30 And they're like, a guy walks by and he's got little, like, deep fried little rice patties, little tuna tartar.
01:41:35 I'm not knocking the paste hors d'oeuvres.
01:41:36 Those are great.
01:41:37 They're delicious.
01:41:38 I'm just saying it's different.
01:41:39 No, I mean, when I used to go to like the art openings or whatever, there'd be paste hors d'oeuvres.
01:41:42 I would, I would like go to the art openings to eat a free dinner.
01:41:47 You know, I'd be like, I gotta be honest though, like, at the same time, stand by the kids.
01:41:51 The reality is there was a time and a place for those kinds of parties.
01:41:54 I'm more like, everything I do has a purpose, whereas back then it didn't.
01:41:58 So it didn't matter if you went to one of those parties.
01:42:00 Like, so when I'm 22, I'm like, I'm going to go to a party and just, you know, slime a bunch of beer and then party, sing.
01:42:07 And then tomorrow, who knows?
01:42:08 Today, it's like, nah, we're filming a vlog tomorrow.
01:42:11 So I've got my gear, it's set up.
01:42:13 Like, I got stuff to do that I want to do.
01:42:15 In hindsight, if I had this mentality when I was 20, I'd probably be a billionaire, you know?
01:42:19 I used to, I had that mindset, and I'm not a billionaire.
01:42:23 I don't think I'm ever going to be a billionaire.
01:42:25 But like, I would go to parties.
01:42:26 No, I don't know what I'm saying.
01:42:27 I would stay up all night, and then I would make it to work on time.
01:42:29 But that's what I'm saying right now is the reason why I don't go to those parties is because I'm like, You're doing other stuff.
01:42:34 What am I going to do tomorrow that adds another brick to the, another layer?
01:42:37 You know what I mean?
01:42:38 Back then it was like, yeah, the party's the party, man, you know?
01:42:38 Yeah, yeah.
01:42:40 And then tomorrow we'll wake up, we'll figure it out.
01:42:42 Today it's like, no, no, I got my plan set up for the next several months.
01:42:42 Sure.
01:42:45 Like we have a calendar of all the shows we're doing.
01:42:47 Nice.
01:42:48 I'm not going to a little party. 0.85
01:42:49 I get invited to a party on the weekend and I'm like, are you nuts?
01:42:51 Sunday I'm waking up and I'm going to have breakfast and that's my day to relax, to recharge for the week because I have stuff to do.
01:42:57 Back then it was like, if I go to a party, I'll just call in sick.
01:43:00 I never would call in sick after party.
01:43:01 I would always make sure that I was ready for the morning.
01:43:04 Well, I worked at Jamba Juice, so.
01:43:05 Take full advantage of your 20s.
01:43:07 I' I'm trying.
01:43:09 My advice to you is to be as arrogant as you can, but professionally. 0.58
01:43:13 I'll tell you a story. 0.92
01:43:13 Why do you say that? 0.92
01:43:14 What's that?
01:43:15 Why do you say that?
01:43:16 Man, the 20 year olds I meet in this industry, I don't want to say unimpressed, but I'm worried.
01:43:25 Well, I'm worried if you're a 20 year old in this industry.
01:43:27 No offense.
01:43:28 I'll tell you a couple of stories.
01:43:30 So I worked at a Jamba Juice, and I also play music.
01:43:34 And so I think I was 20 going on 21 when I lived in Lakeview.
01:43:39 So, I make smoothies all day and I go to my bass and I'm like, hey, in two weeks, I'm playing a show at the Ashbury.
01:43:47 I didn't actually say the Ashbury, but it's for everybody who's listening.
01:43:49 That's where I was playing the show.
01:43:50 I was like, in two weeks, I'm playing a show on Saturday.
01:43:53 So, I'm not going to be able to work Saturday.
01:43:56 I can work the morning, but then I got to leave because I got to be there by six.
01:43:59 And so, I'm going to do the shows until like 3 a.m.
01:44:01 So, I'm out.
01:44:02 And she's like, okay, no problem.
01:44:04 When they put the schedule for that week, I went and checked and it had me opening on Sunday.
01:44:10 That means I got to get there at 5 a.m.
01:44:12 And so I immediately, like, the manager wasn't in when I get there.
01:44:15 And I'm like, yo, what?
01:44:16 I already said I can't do this.
01:44:18 So then, you know, this is when I was, yeah, I was like 20.
01:44:22 So then, when I finally, a couple of days later, we're on the same shift.
01:44:25 And I was like, hey, you scheduled me for Sunday morning.
01:44:27 I told you I was playing a show that until like 3 a.m., I can't do it.
01:44:30 And she goes, well, you're scheduled, so you have to come.
01:44:33 And I said, I don't think you understand.
01:44:35 I told you I cannot come.
01:44:37 I won't be here.
01:44:37 Okay.
01:44:38 And she's like, you're scheduled to be here.
01:44:40 And if you don't want this job, let me know.
01:44:42 I was like, okay.
01:44:43 I took my apron.
01:44:43 I was like, no, stop, stop.
01:44:44 And I'm like, my life, what I'm planning is more important than what you're trying to do to me.
01:44:49 Have a nice day.
01:44:49 I appreciate everything.
01:44:50 And I walked out and I quit on the spot.
01:44:52 And that was a Wednesday.
01:44:53 I was like, later.
01:44:54 I didn't have a job.
01:44:55 I quit on the spot one time too.
01:44:57 I was interning for this theater company and I was doing all this work.
01:45:00 And then they had me, I gave notice and then they had me train someone who was getting paid.
01:45:04 And I was just interning.
01:45:05 I wasn't getting paid.
01:45:06 And I realized they were getting paid.
01:45:08 And I was like, oh, okay.
01:45:10 So at the lunch break, I dropped a hit of acid and walked out.
01:45:15 That's how we do it.
01:45:16 That's how we roll.
01:45:17 I guess what I mean about the arrogance is so I worked at Vice in 2013.
01:45:22 And I was then 20, I was 26 going on 27, I think.
01:45:25 Actually, no, I think I started when I was 27.
01:45:27 I would have been 27.
01:45:28 I don't actually know.
01:45:29 I think so.
01:45:30 And I had no problem walking up to any of the executives.
01:45:35 Like, it's just crazy to me.
01:45:37 At the time, there were people that I remember this one dude was like, I got this really great idea I want to do, but I don't know how to do it.
01:45:44 And I was like, Why don't you just ask Shane?
01:45:47 And he's like, What?
01:45:48 Shane was a CEO.
01:45:49 And I'm like, There's like 300 people in this building, bro.
01:45:52 Shane walks through every single day.
01:45:53 Just walk up to him.
01:45:54 Just tell him you want to do this project.
01:45:56 And he's like, Oh, I can't do that.
01:45:57 I was like, Huh?
01:45:58 Did you read that article from Mitchell?
01:46:00 It's amazing.
01:46:01 He nailed it completely.
01:46:02 Everything he said was, it's like, I've never seen a better article outlining exactly how things went down and why they went down.
01:46:08 That dude, well written too.
01:46:09 He knows it all.
01:46:10 I read that and I was like, so he was an intern when I got hired and then he stayed after I had left.
01:46:16 So he had been there before me as an intern and he was there after me as a staffer.
01:46:20 And this is an article about advice.
01:46:21 I tweeted about it and he just perfectly nailed it.
01:46:23 This is really important.
01:46:26 What he wrote Joe Rogan.
01:46:29 Is a bro.
01:46:30 Barstool, they're bros.
01:46:31 Outkick, they're bros.
01:46:33 And Vice, they're bros.
01:46:34 And Shane Smith was the king of the space.
01:46:38 And they got really big.
01:46:39 And when the corporate interests came, they said, You have to be woke.
01:46:44 And it wasn't about him going woke.
01:46:45 That's what Mitchell said.
01:46:46 It's about him wanting to please people and be what the media wanted him to be.
01:46:50 He was jealous of teen Vogue.
01:46:52 So he changed chasing after this and he smashed the multi billion dollar brand in desperation to look good to corporate interests who didn't understand the space.
01:47:03 And Mitchell said, and Joe Rogan and Portnoy and Travis, they stayed true and sold and cashed out.
01:47:09 But anyway, my point is when I worked at Vice, I'd walk into the boss's office, sit down, put my feet up, and be like, what's going on?
01:47:15 Like, what you're working on?
01:47:16 And who am I?
01:47:18 Right.
01:47:18 But all these other people at the company were like terrified to talk to the bosses.
01:47:23 So I'm like, young people got to be more arrogant. 0.92
01:47:25 I mean, maybe it's more confidence than arrogance.
01:47:30 I think you don't want to be unprofessionally arrogant, but more than confidence, more than confidence.
01:47:37 Because the thing is, although confidence does sound often like the more professional, like it sounds like the professional of arrogance, you gotta be a little. 0.82
01:47:52 If you go up to one of the bosses and you tell him he's a dumb POS, and if I was in charge of this company, we'd have doubled our profit.
01:47:59 You'd think, yeah, he's gonna be like, you can leave. 0.94
01:48:02 But if you go to the boss and say, listen, with all due respect, I know what I'm talking about, okay?
01:48:06 Right?
01:48:07 I know you know your space, you've built something tremendous.
01:48:10 What I'm doing is going to make millions of dollars.
01:48:12 Now, you can be involved in my project.
01:48:14 Then they're going to be like, all right, all right, tell me what you got going on.
01:48:16 Confident is, hey, I want to make this pitch to you.
01:48:18 I know it's going to work.
01:48:19 They're going to be like, yeah, yeah, listen, buddy, I hear this all the time. 0.68
01:48:22 Arrogant is where you're getting their attention, just as long as you're not condescending or insultingly arrogant. 0.55
01:48:26 Understood.
01:48:27 But I say this when I worked at Vice, everything we're doing right here, I pitched to the executives. 0.51
01:48:31 Well, and of course, you have to remember too that this is something one of my friends in grad school told me the thing you're doing is better than 95% of the other crap out there.
01:48:40 So just go with it. 0.93
01:48:40 Yeah. 0.93
01:48:42 It's better.
01:48:44 I was at Vice and I explained exactly this show to them.
01:48:49 And they said, Yeah, I mean, that'd be great.
01:48:51 And then they just didn't want to do it.
01:48:53 And then when I quit, everybody was shocked because I quit mid 2014 when Vice was at their peak.
01:48:53 And I said, yeah, whatever.
01:49:01 And everybody in my age was like, are you insane? 0.98
01:49:04 You were a correspondent for Vice. 0.98
01:49:07 And I was like, yeah.
01:49:09 I have numerous Vice stocks with millions of views.
01:49:12 At the time, this was the dream of every millennial.
01:49:14 Sure.
01:49:14 I was getting emails from people be like, I want to work with you.
01:49:16 How do I do it?
01:49:18 I did the Kim.com thing.
01:49:19 It got like 5 million views overnight.
01:49:21 And people were like, man, it's so cool.
01:49:23 And then I quit.
01:49:24 And then people asked me why.
01:49:26 And I said, well, I hired Vice to do a job for me in exchange for my value and labor.
01:49:31 And they didn't do the job.
01:49:32 So I fired them.
01:49:34 And the mentality of the millennial was like, but you worked for them.
01:49:39 No, I went to the executives before I started there and said, here's what I want.
01:49:43 And in exchange for what I want, I will give you something in return.
01:49:46 And then when they didn't deliver within three months, I had a meeting with the boss.
01:49:49 And I said, performance review.
01:49:51 I said, listen, I have been holding up my end of the bargain.
01:49:54 Y'all haven't been holding up your end of the bargain.
01:49:57 I expect these things.
01:49:59 And I think I have delivered on my end.
01:50:01 And so they said, okay, okay, give me more money.
01:50:04 So, in a sign of good faith, we're going to give you a raise.
01:50:07 Go talk to the producer.
01:50:08 We're going to get these things done.
01:50:10 Then we had some movement and it was like half-assed.
01:50:12 Another meeting.
01:50:14 We're sorry.
01:50:15 Bring in Jim.
01:50:16 We'll get it done.
01:50:17 And then finally, the third instance, I just said, you're fired.
01:50:20 And then I get a call from one of the bosses and he's like, what do you mean you quit?
01:50:23 And I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, I appreciate everything you guys did for me.
01:50:26 It's not working out.
01:50:27 So, You know, I'll be moving on.
01:50:29 And then he was like, No, no, no, no, you don't quit.
01:50:32 You don't quit.
01:50:33 And I was like, No, I quit and I actually cashed the check already.
01:50:35 So I'm working for Fusion.
01:50:37 And then he was like, No, this isn't over.
01:50:40 And I said, It's over, brother.
01:50:42 Thank you.
01:50:43 Have a nice day.
01:50:43 And he's like, I'm going to call you back.
01:50:44 And then he never did.
01:50:47 You got to go out there and you got to know what you're doing, man.
01:50:47 Yep.
01:50:50 But pretend that you do.
01:50:52 You can also fake it.
01:50:53 Well, faking is a lot of it for the most part.
01:50:55 Yeah.
01:50:55 But you know, the thing is, I actually had the inverse of that.
01:50:58 In that there are people who fake it till they make it.
01:51:01 My thing was that I actually was wrong a lot, but I was just so damn sure of myself.
01:51:06 The truth is, this show that we have, everything that we did, I pitched directly to the executives of Vice and to Fusion, and they did not do it.
01:51:15 And I just think, like, I'm so grateful that they had such a myopic view of the media space because if Shane or Eddie or whoever at Vice was like, you know what, Tim, we're going to do your podcasting idea, I wouldn't own this company.
01:51:29 I would be making, I'd probably be living in a two bedroom bungalow.
01:51:33 With a very, very small net worth, and they'd be making bank off of my ideas and all the work that I did.
01:51:38 But you know what?
01:51:39 At the time, I was more than happy.
01:51:40 I was like, let's make some cool stuff happen.
01:51:43 And then they told me no.
01:51:44 And then I went to Fusion, and Fusion was like, no.
01:51:45 And then I was like, fine, I'll do it myself.
01:51:49 And I, you know, put on the podcasting gauntlet, collected all the podcast stones, you know, and then here we are.
01:51:57 Managed to not electrocute any dogs?
01:52:00 Well, actually, there was this one time where, no.
01:52:03 Nope.
01:52:04 It was cats.
01:52:05 Yeah, we would juggle cats.
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01:53:48 It is a glorious day.
01:53:51 I got two silencers on the way to my.
01:53:51 Big day.
01:53:54 You got what?
01:53:55 Two cans, two suppressors.
01:53:57 The Maxim Silencer, which was the first patented suppressor, was called the Maxim Silencer.
01:54:05 But yeah, I've got two cans heading to my local FFL to fill out the 4473 and nothing else.
01:54:13 AK Storm says What started all this with Sophie Cunningham saying men shouldn't play women's sports? 0.66
01:54:17 I wonder what would happen if she thanks the NBA for doing just that. 0.96
01:54:21 That's the play.
01:54:22 If, like, this is the double edged sword.
01:54:24 If they keep Royce White and Dennis Cantor out, then everyone's going to be like, we won.
01:54:30 But I got to be honest, I think the progressives are going to avoid this issue.
01:54:33 Yep.
01:54:34 The Democratic PAC did an analysis on Trump's they them ad and found a three to five point voter swing.
01:54:43 And I think GLAAD found a drop in support for trans issues by like 8%.
01:54:48 Oh, yeah.
01:54:49 And they found a huge drop in support in Hollywood.
01:54:52 In fact, there were no.
01:54:54 Children's shows with trans or LGBTQ themes last year.
01:55:01 How horrible.
01:55:02 I know.
01:55:02 They were super disappointed.
01:55:04 And I was glad, just like Glad wasn't.
01:55:08 General 45K says, I'm sorry the views are down.
01:55:10 So I'll do what I can to help you guys out in addition to the Discord.
01:55:13 Love the show.
01:55:14 Well, I will just say this it's not a bad thing.
01:55:18 It's every four years.
01:55:19 Benny Johnson made a great point.
01:55:20 He's like, so the New York Times and a bunch of outlets copied the story where they're trying to smear.
01:55:25 All of the people in the space, like, look how down their views are.
01:55:29 And it's like, he said, that's like saying football viewer, soccer viewership is down following the World Cup.
01:55:34 Like, we had a presidential election, everybody had massive views.
01:55:38 Now we're moving into the off cycle, and views go down.
01:55:43 Where our viewership right now is comparable to where it was in 2022.
01:55:46 So it's just kind of like, this is what happens.
01:55:48 However, overall, our viewership is up.
01:55:52 So Tim Cast IRL, of course, its viewership is down from where it was a year ago.
01:55:56 It's comparable to where it was four years ago in the off cycle, which I would argue is a little bad because there's always supposed to be a little bit of growth.
01:56:02 But I do think Trump having a trifecta coming out of the COVID era, we're going to see a little bit of a dip here.
01:56:07 The expectation is that with a billion dollars being pumped into the midterm elections coming up very soon, you're going to see the algorithms start blasting off a lot of this content.
01:56:14 What I will say is when live stream viewership goes down, we don't just go, oh no, we've planned for this and reprioritized a bunch of things.
01:56:23 So our viewership across the board has been massive.
01:56:25 We've got clips on Facebook now with millions of views.
01:56:29 So that's just our Facebook's been getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
01:56:32 And people might say, yeah, but Facebook is, well, look, man, it is what it is.
01:56:37 The demographics are largely similar.
01:56:37 The views are there.
01:56:39 They're only a little bit older.
01:56:41 So it's like late 30s on Facebook where YouTube is low 30s, early 30s.
01:56:46 But we're making more and more money across the board.
01:56:48 Facebook just launched this new creator program where if you have at least a million followers, they guarantee you $3K a month just because.
01:56:55 Really?
01:56:56 Free money.
01:56:57 Yeah, it's called like the Creator Fast Track program or something.
01:56:59 And then X just announced that they're doing the new creator program starting in September, which I fully expect.
01:57:06 You heard it here.
01:57:08 X creators are probably going to get massive viewership and make insane money.
01:57:13 Actually, I should just say it straight to Elon.
01:57:13 I'm going to say this.
01:57:16 You're only going to make money on X if you produce original content, articles, videos.
01:57:21 If you're just reposting someone else's content, you don't get money off it anymore.
01:57:25 So, this was like, you know, Nikita was beer.
01:57:28 Yeah, beer.
01:57:29 He was removing all these accounts for doing it.
01:57:31 They formalized it.
01:57:32 Now, a lot of accounts will just quote tweet, generate a lot of engagement, and then they're like, that's not enough.
01:57:38 You got to do a little bit more than that.
01:57:40 If they algorithmically prioritize video, then like the amount of like, so what's going to happen is all of the ad revenue for X is being consolidated into a very small group because very few people make.
01:57:52 Original content.
01:57:53 The reposters are eliminated from that.
01:57:55 That concentration of ad revenue is going to be spread out amongst those producing, and there's very few who do.
01:58:01 And we're one of the biggest ones.
01:58:03 We post a lot of my clips from Timcast, they are posted on X like three or four times a day.
01:58:07 And then this show is live on X. If they algorithmically prioritize that, two things happen monetary consolidation.
01:58:13 So that means that the money we would normally get is going to be 10X because fewer people get it.
01:58:18 And with an algorithmic push, our viewership is going to go way up, and then our share of the money is going to be even greater.
01:58:23 The best thing X can do right now, I think, is to promote original content.
01:58:29 What is killing the platform, and they've already noticed this, is all the regurgitated garbage content.
01:58:33 I pointed this out earlier in this year.
01:58:36 All these conservatives turn into aggregation channels.
01:58:38 There are individuals.
01:58:40 You know what?
01:58:40 I'm just going to say this with all due respect, but Brandon Strzok, his Twitter account turned into an editor just reposting clips from the news.
01:58:49 And it was like a clip every 10 minutes of just some random news thing.
01:58:53 That is boring.
01:58:54 And I'm uninterested in that. 1.00
01:58:56 Well, not only are they just aggregating, but a lot of times it's just some guy in his mom's basement in Pakistan who's just not even an American.
01:59:02 There's no original commentary whatsoever.
01:59:04 And this is another thing, another component of the new thing is that you have to be producing content for the region you're in or something that affects, like.
01:59:11 Did they make that change?
01:59:12 Because I thought they walked that back.
01:59:14 The new creator change?
01:59:16 I already signed up for it.
01:59:17 No, not the creator change.
01:59:18 The change about original.
01:59:19 No, no, no.
01:59:19 So that's in the new terms of service for starting September 10th, I think it is.
01:59:24 Okay.
01:59:25 So in the app, actually, let me pull this up.
01:59:28 I got a notification.
01:59:30 So, what do you go to?
01:59:31 You go to Creator Studio, and it says original content rewards coming soon.
01:59:35 Let me see what it says.
01:59:37 Subscribe to Premium, be at least 18, have at least 500 verified followers, have at least 500,000 verified home timeline impressions in the last 90 days, not including replies.
01:59:47 Interesting.
01:59:49 And it says check back later.
01:59:52 Okay, yeah, here we go.
01:59:53 Let's see.
01:59:54 It's in here the rules.
01:59:56 Impressions from the same account created more than once per.
02:00:00 The following are excluded.
02:00:01 Paid, promoted, artificial, fraudulent, Let's see.
02:00:07 The following content types are not considered original copied content, minimally modified content, aggregated content, cross platform reposts.
02:00:16 Interesting.
02:00:17 Oh, no, no.
02:00:18 Okay, if it's other than the original creator.
02:00:19 Interesting.
02:00:21 Let's see.
02:00:23 It says somewhere that you have to be based in a country where the original content rewards program is available.
02:00:28 Okay, so maybe you're right.
02:00:30 I thought I got to read through it again.
02:00:30 Maybe I'm wrong.
02:00:32 I'm pretty sure it said something about. 0.94
02:00:34 The content you produce, the revenue generated is based on the region that you're in, which would make sense because otherwise, an Indian guy would be selling ads and an Indian guy's content to Indians. 0.90
02:00:43 That makes no sense.
02:00:44 So, but if he's producing content on American politics in an Indian language, then I suppose it'd be fine. 0.96
02:00:44 Right. 0.96
02:00:50 If the ads are for Indian people, yes, of course.
02:00:52 Yeah, in an Indian language, right.
02:00:53 Yeah.
02:00:53 The issue is if you're following, if you have a million followers in, you know, Pakistan, why would, you know, an American company want to run those ads?
02:00:53 Yeah.
02:01:03 All right.
02:01:04 Same old man says we need to reintroduce the McCarran Walters Act.
02:01:04 Let's see.
02:01:07 Islam was banned from the USA in 1952 because it was a threat to the Constitution. 1.00
02:01:11 We need to just ban Islam and Islamists from the United States. 1.00
02:01:16 What happened? 1.00
02:01:17 Was it challenging?
02:01:18 No, communism was.
02:01:19 1964 happened.
02:01:21 Oh, yep.
02:01:22 Yeah, there you go. 0.89
02:01:22 You know, Civil Rights Act. 0.89
02:01:24 Dos Woods says The verse you're looking for, Tim, is Luke 22 36. 0.61
02:01:28 Look it up.
02:01:29 No way I let my family die and just watch. 1.00
02:01:30 That's not Christian. 1.00
02:01:31 That's cowardice. 0.99
02:01:33 Well, you don't have to be mean about it.
02:01:36 Tiffany says The instruction about your swords.
02:01:37 But now, if you have a purse, take it and also a bag.
02:01:40 And if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.
02:01:43 The disciples said.
02:01:45 Interesting.
02:01:48 All right.
02:01:50 What does this one say?
02:01:50 Mason says the Jews actively collaborated with Muslim invaders into Europe pre Crusades.
02:01:55 Counting on them to save Christians is folly. 0.77
02:01:58 Well, the Muslims in the Middle East teamed up with Hitler and promised Hitler that they would finish the job. 1.00
02:02:05 Yeah. 0.95
02:02:05 This guy probably thinks that there's a reason Mein Kampf's all over Gaza. 0.95
02:02:09 Is it really?
02:02:09 Yeah.
02:02:10 Everywhere.
02:02:10 Oh, yeah.
02:02:12 Find it in schools.
02:02:14 Arthur Palmer says turning the other cheek is about forcing the Roman to disrespect you when he strikes you, i.e., if someone is going to hit you, make them mean it.
02:02:24 I've heard that before too, that there's all these different interpretations. 0.99
02:02:27 The interpretation was that turning to their cheek was basically to insult them, as if to say that this means nothing to me, that you are pathetic, you know? 0.98
02:02:35 Kind of like how tipping is offensive in certain Asian cultures. 0.98
02:02:38 Like giving them money is seen as like an insult.
02:02:41 But I'm not saying I believe it.
02:02:42 It's just.
02:02:43 All right, let's grab a couple more here.
02:02:46 We got Carl Mango.
02:02:49 Is that what it says?
02:02:50 Magno.
02:02:51 Carlo Magno.
02:02:52 Tim invites Sam Shamoon.
02:02:54 Or David Wood to talk about Islam and Sharia law, preferably not at the same time since they're having a beef right now.
02:03:00 They'll probably do it at the same time. 0.78
02:03:03 Yeah.
02:03:03 It's awesome.
02:03:04 Raymond G. Stanley Jr. says, I nominate Chris for a culture war religion show.
02:03:08 Okay.
02:03:10 We'll get Michael Malice.
02:03:11 You know what we'll do?
02:03:12 We'll get a Christian, anarcho Christian, and anarchist.
02:03:15 Yeah, I love it.
02:03:16 And then we'll go at it.
02:03:16 All right, let's grab one more here.
02:03:20 Let's see. 0.99
02:03:21 Clank, Clank, I'm a tank says, Justice Barris is so scared she would wear a hijab if Islam got to 15% of the population. 0.92
02:03:27 Yikes.
02:03:29 You know, I don't know. 0.99
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02:06:21 Phil's got to get back in here, but he had a comment about what were we talking about? 0.97
02:06:25 Islam taking over? 1.00
02:06:26 Yeah, yeah. 1.00
02:06:28 And then the solution to that, I suppose.
02:06:34 Doing a vlog.
02:06:36 Probably shouldn't say why, because then we'll have to get security.
02:06:40 Oh, and be careful.
02:06:42 No, just because I'll be at a place filming a thing in public.
02:06:46 That sounds really exciting.
02:06:47 I don't know.
02:06:48 It's not the most exciting thing.
02:06:49 It's fun.
02:06:50 Place, public.
02:06:50 We're going to do some filming.
02:06:52 I was trying to set it all up right now.
02:06:54 So, how many, what would, at what point would you have an armed revolution against the government? 0.87
02:07:01 30% Islamic? 0.86
02:07:02 Revolution against the government. 0.99
02:07:04 Well, is the government Islamic? 1.00
02:07:05 Yeah. 1.00
02:07:12 You know, I'm really, I'm not such a great fighter.
02:07:16 No, no, I just mean like supportive one.
02:07:17 I'm not saying like you literally support an armed revolution against an Islamic government.
02:07:21 Like if the entire Supreme Court was like, let's say that five of the nine were Islamists. 0.55
02:07:26 Yeah, we're done. 0.96
02:07:28 I'm out.
02:07:28 Like every ruling is just like, we're shooting.
02:07:32 Yeah.
02:07:32 The Quran says, so therefore.
02:07:34 Yeah, no, I think that would be a problem.
02:07:36 What would happen?
02:07:36 This is an interesting thing.
02:07:38 I'm not actually, I mean, you know, I'm not actually crazy about.
02:07:41 Here's a question.
02:07:42 Here's a question. 0.93
02:07:43 Let's say there are five Islamist judges, and then someone's like, I believe I have free speech rights to say I don't like Islam. 0.97
02:07:51 And then they all just go, We literally don't care. 0.92
02:07:54 The Quran is the supreme holy book.
02:07:57 Blasphemy against Islam is illegal and punishable by death.
02:08:00 And then there's no other court to go to.
02:08:02 If they say it, who's going to challenge it?
02:08:04 No, I certainly would hope that before that point, we would take up arms against the Supreme Court before we got there.
02:08:13 I mean, we got Katanji Brown Jackson.
02:08:14 Who appointed these justices?
02:08:16 That's my request.
02:08:17 President Momdani after he got rid of the birthright requirement.
02:08:20 Yeah, of course.
02:08:21 That's the one.
02:08:23 Or President Syed.
02:08:24 Yeah.
02:08:25 I mean, honestly, if they get rid of the birthright president thing, like now we're burning stuff.
02:08:33 I would be burning stuff.
02:08:36 They will if we get liberal justices. 0.98
02:08:39 Liberal justices will.
02:08:40 The promise is that it's an amendment.
02:08:42 Right.
02:08:43 Is the challenge.
02:08:44 Or I'm sorry, it's in the Constitution.
02:08:46 It's not an amendment.
02:08:46 It's in the Constitution, yeah.
02:08:48 So, I mean, you'd have to get the states to ratify it.
02:08:51 Phil was saying if even one of the justices even mentioned considering potentially reading the Quran, he would call for an armed revolution.
02:09:00 Just if one of them could read it?
02:09:00 Really?
02:09:02 If they even just tried to read it, they just got to die! 1.00
02:09:07 You know, most of them, they can't read Arabic, any of them. 1.00
02:09:10 You'd be surprised.
02:09:11 Sorry, David.
02:09:12 That was the question. 1.00
02:09:12 Like, at what point do you support armed revolution when Islam is taking over? 1.00
02:09:18 I mean, I honestly think that's like a local thing, right? 0.98
02:09:23 Like, if there's a point where armed revolution becomes an option, the idea of it being.
02:09:35 You know, big army versus big army.
02:09:37 It's not.
02:09:37 It'll be like a civil war it was in Syria, and you're going to have regional powers and stuff like that.
02:09:43 So I suppose it would depend on your locality and the infrastructure your like minded friends have, what kind of preparations you've taken to support that stuff, you know?
02:10:01 So, I don't know that I can say exactly when, but I mean, you know, if you're walking around your town and there are people looking to, you know, prevent you, prevent your wife from, you know, walking around without something on her head, something has to be done. 0.97
02:10:25 Well, I think you should shoot people in that case. 0.97
02:10:28 That's what I said. 1.00
02:10:29 Something has to be done.
02:10:29 Yeah, because that's a problem.
02:10:31 The, they're the, yeah, like it doesn't have to be like stand up fights and, and, and like, look, the way that, the way that, what about those taser gloves that ISIS, no, no, no, what I'm, no, no, I'm talking about if it's violence, like, you look at the, right?
02:10:48 Look at the way that ISIS took over in Iraq, right?
02:10:51 They got police clothes and then they went around and shot everybody in their sleep. 0.96
02:10:57 That's typically how it happened.
02:10:58 Yeah, but how do you think they got people to join ISIS?
02:11:00 It's like a bunch of guys. 1.00
02:11:01 They got police clothes and then they went and shot everybody in their sleep and then everyone's like, oh shit. 1.00
02:11:06 These guys aren't fucking around. 1.00
02:11:07 Yeah, it was kind of like join or die. 1.00
02:11:09 Yeah, that's typically how it is with Islam. 0.90
02:11:11 But I think a lot of these guys are actually, it wasn't just join or die.
02:11:14 They weren't forced to join.
02:11:15 I think a lot of these guys joined because on some level they actually believed in the movement.
02:11:19 You're talking about like the dudes that were like the committed fighters, right?
02:11:23 They're the ones that were like, we're going to go and do this. 0.98
02:11:27 Once you go and you take out the legal infrastructure, the police or what have you, then everyone else is like, well, shit, I guess those guys are in charge now. 0.97
02:11:36 And that's literally what happens. 0.97
02:11:36 Yeah. 0.97
02:11:38 So, like, you look at Al Shara in Syria, like, he was in Al Qaeda, he was very high up in Al Qaeda.
02:11:44 Now he's the president of Syria.
02:11:46 Like, was he just a victim of his circumstances?
02:11:48 I'd argue he probably had a little bit more say in it.
02:11:51 Yeah, right.
02:11:52 Yeah, he definitely had more say.
02:11:53 I mean, he was a committed Al Qaeda fighter, but like, look at him now, like, he was in the White House.
02:11:58 Yeah, I'm not sure what point you're making, though.
02:12:01 Because if the question that was asked to me was, at what point do you stand up and fight these people?
02:12:05 And it's like, well.
02:12:07 You know, when things start getting hairy around your town, they start saying, okay, we're going to do a call to prayer.
02:12:12 And yeah, when they start falling around women in the streets in a group of five with a stick and hitting them for not wearing a hijab.
02:12:19 Yeah, then you know, then you find out where they live and you go to their house at night.
02:12:22 What about so?
02:12:23 Okay, so what about like Brooklyn, right?
02:12:27 So I lived in Bay Ridge, which used to be called Little Beirut.
02:12:30 Now they're calling it Little Palestine.
02:12:32 This is where Linda Sarsour is from.
02:12:34 This is where Osama bin Laden's family hung out when they were in town.
02:12:38 This is where they departed from on 9 11, one of the few planes that was allowed to leave airspace, right?
02:12:45 Like, had Osama bin Laden's family on it. 0.52
02:12:47 I'm pretty sure I remember that correctly.
02:12:50 And I would be in my apartment on Fifth Avenue in Ovington in Bay Ridge, and I could hear the Islamic calls to prayer.
02:13:00 And there were, you know, women at the grocery store, you couldn't see their eyes, they were like fully covered, and it was weird. 0.99
02:13:09 And I was like, this is very creepy. 1.00
02:13:12 And it was very, like, very Muslim, very Islamic. 1.00
02:13:15 And there were.
02:13:16 So, what's your question?
02:13:17 There were anti Israel protests outside my apartment most weekends.
02:13:22 My question is Should there be armed revolt in Brooklyn?
02:13:28 So, in New York, there is still the infrastructure that has always been there, right?
02:13:34 So, this is an enclave, but you still had the police that were there that are not Islamic police and what have you. 0.90
02:13:41 10 years ago, I disagree with it. 0.87
02:13:44 Eventually, they believe.
02:13:45 The police cater to whatever the dominant culture is in the area.
02:13:49 They have the community relations in New York. 0.99
02:13:52 Literally, if you're in an Islamic neighborhood, they're going to be like, no, no, no, like, we're not. 1.00
02:13:57 If they're going out and doing this stuff, we don't fuck with them. 1.00
02:13:59 Well, and that's exactly right. 0.99
02:14:00 You would see, like, there would be pro Gaza marches down Fifth Avenue and stuff, and the police would just kind of keep it reined in, but they wouldn't do anything. 1.00
02:14:10 It was really funny. 1.00
02:14:10 The Jews and the black people were shooting each other all the time. 1.00
02:14:12 Because I lived in Crown Heights. 1.00
02:14:15 And there's, like, this one street where north of it, all the Jews were selling drugs, and south of it, all the black people were selling drugs. 0.98
02:14:15 Yeah. 0.98
02:14:21 So near this block, there were territorial disputes, and you'd see, like, a Hasidic dude walking down the street, and then, like, a black dude would start going like this, and then the Hasidic guy would pull out a gun, and then they'd all run. 0.52
02:14:30 It was like, Outside my house, you know? 0.61
02:14:32 Yeah.
02:14:33 I mean, so that, I think that's partly why I said it depends on your locality and depends on where you are.
02:14:38 But I mean, it's, you know, if that was happening where I live now, I would have a much different reaction.
02:14:42 Yeah.
02:14:43 I mean, because I live in a much smaller place.
02:14:44 In a city with that many people that are stacked on top of each other, like that's not where things tend to touch on.
02:14:53 There were 72 apartments in my building.
02:14:55 To your point about the police in New York, because I live very close to the city, I grew up in the city.
02:15:01 There are parts of the police force that are actually basically entirely Muslim already. 0.98
02:15:04 Like the meter maids in New York City, it's like a Bangladeshi mafia. 1.00
02:15:08 They're all Bangladeshi and it's. 1.00
02:15:10 They're able to keep jobs under the little hats. 1.00
02:15:12 Yeah, because. 0.99
02:15:12 And it's like they're only meter maids. 0.99
02:15:14 They don't really have much power yet, but like you keep hiring people of a certain religion or ethnicity or nationality and then you eventually get promoted.
02:15:22 Because what you're talking about is exactly what happened how woke took over.
02:15:22 Or ideology.
02:15:26 Exactly.
02:15:27 You know, woke took over basically corporate America.
02:15:29 People in HR were like, well, this guy had.
02:15:33 This guy said something that was off, and so we have to make an example of him.
02:15:38 And then the guy that replaced the guy that said something off, or the person that replaced the guy, that person was aligned with the ideology.
02:15:45 But again, this is why I said, you know, it all depends on where you are.
02:15:49 It wouldn't be like a national kind of thing.
02:15:51 It would be, all right, that's not happening here, you know, and it would be smaller places where that kind of thing could be done.
02:16:00 But you're also, I'm also talking about like this is something that would be, you know, Considerably more than just, oh, there's an enclave in this city.
02:16:09 You know, it would have to be like, okay, they're starting to exert a type of theocratic domination on them.
02:16:18 Like Linda Sarsour, perhaps.
02:16:20 Right.
02:16:21 Well, I don't know that Linda Sarsour is out there telling people you have to go out and pray.
02:16:24 No, but she was, she's a big part of the reason Mamdani got elected.
02:16:28 Yeah.
02:16:29 But well, she's still active.
02:16:30 Oh, yeah.
02:16:31 I didn't know that.
02:16:32 She's like one of his little advisors.
02:16:33 Yeah.
02:16:34 So, I mean, look, man, you know, You're talking about, you know, anytime you're talking about things getting kinetic, like getting into actual violence or whatever, or people defending themselves or whatever, you're always running the risk of getting, you know, brought up on charges. 0.68
02:16:54 You think the guys that, you know, rolled into, like I said, using Iraq when ISIS came in, you think that they didn't think that they might die doing it?
02:17:02 Do you think that they didn't have the possibility of what if the Iraqi, you know, security forces are on to us and we have to get into a gunfight? 0.68
02:17:11 And, Like, there's the idea of this kind of stuff happening, and you're just going to waltz in and everything's going to be fine, and you guys are going to win. 0.99
02:17:18 That's not how shit works. 0.99
02:17:19 Like, there's, if you're going to stand up for yourself, there is a strong possibility that you're going to get smashed in the face and either thrown in jail or you could get killed. 0.99
02:17:19 Yeah. 0.99
02:17:28 Like, that's just the way that it goes.
02:17:30 Anytime people like to talk about, like, you know, revolution or civil war, whatever, right?
02:17:36 Like, they talk about it like, like it's like, oh, it's going to be us and we're going to win, and that's it.
02:17:41 Well, you, you, people forget that, like, The framers of the guys that signed the Declaration of Independence, like a bunch of them died.
02:17:49 They lost their houses.
02:17:51 They lost their families. 1.00
02:17:52 Like, this kind of shit has repercussions. 1.00
02:17:54 So, to your point, in what's it called, right? 1.00
02:17:57 Like in New York, like if 100 people were like, okay, we're going to go out there and we're going to fucking stop this, well, you might go to jail. 0.99
02:18:06 You might get killed. 0.99
02:18:07 Right.
02:18:08 But that's part of the idea of if things have to get to that level, you could lose.
02:18:16 Sure.
02:18:17 And people, like these discussions, very rarely does that kind of come into the equation.
02:18:23 You know, you could die, you might lose.
02:18:26 You know, there's a reason why I said, Oh, go to their house at night, right?
02:18:31 Like going out in the daytime, that's a whole different story, right?
02:18:35 You know, there's a reason why you know, crime syndicates, you know, they don't do stuff out in public much, you know, they try to keep things as hush hush as possible.
02:18:46 So, I mean, that's why it's always so shocking when it's like a daylight murder, yeah, yeah, you know, so, so, or a daycare in Minnesota, yeah, right, right, yeah, like the anytime this, like, like I said, anytime this kind of stuff comes up.
02:19:00 The conversation is always like, it's almost as if, you know, well, how do you do it without getting in trouble?
02:19:06 Well, you don't.
02:19:08 Like, you don't.
02:19:08 Right?
02:19:09 Like, you don't at all.
02:19:10 When you go to, like, when dudes are like, we're going to roll in there and do what the fuck we want and we're going to pick a fight. 0.98
02:19:19 Well, the other team gets a fucking say. 0.99
02:19:21 You know? 1.00
02:19:21 Right. 1.00
02:19:22 So maybe you're taking on the local police.
02:19:25 Maybe you're taking on the local militia, whatever.
02:19:27 But, like, you know, you could get smoked too.
02:19:30 I'm just going to add one thing to the mix for everyone who calls us.
02:19:35 I have never encountered a single person in public who is a Zijuz person.
02:19:42 Zijuz. 1.00
02:19:42 A what? 1.00
02:19:43 Like all the Tucker, all the Israel, all that stuff.
02:19:47 I'm just thinking about it because, like, I get recognized a lot.
02:19:52 I go to a lot of casinos, play a lot of poker rooms, a lot of poker tournaments, a lot of regular people. 0.96
02:19:57 I had one guy at the World Series call me a fucking Russian asset trader or some weird nonsense. 0.99
02:20:03 But. 0.98
02:20:04 Almost every single person in Vegas at the games who knew who I was were really excited. 0.99
02:20:09 Dealers were like, Whoa, oh shit, like we know who you are. 1.00
02:20:12 Never once had I run to someone who's like, You're a fucking Jew, shill, like we see on the internet. 1.00
02:20:17 That's why I think Tucker and Candace are largely getting foreign fans. 0.99
02:20:24 I think that's true too.
02:20:25 Also, their fans just don't leave their homes.
02:20:28 I just don't think that's real.
02:20:30 I mean, I've heard this, but come on, people go to the grocery store, people go to the movies, people go out. 1.00
02:20:36 Time to bring up the Jews when you're checking out at the grocery store. 0.96
02:20:38 Somebody at the self checkout, too. 1.00
02:20:40 You're ranting to yourself.
02:20:43 19 out of 20 times someone recognizes me. 1.00
02:20:45 It's a, oh shit, are you Tim Poole? 0.99
02:20:47 Yeah. 1.00
02:20:48 Then let's do this. 0.98
02:20:50 Out of the hundred times I get recognized, about 90 of them are like, oh shit, you're Tim Poole. 1.00
02:20:54 I watch your shit, bro. 1.00
02:20:56 Amazing. 1.00
02:20:57 We were hanging out at King's Chicken nearby for the studio, and there was a guy, and he was like, hey, wait, are you Tim Poole?
02:21:02 And I was like, yeah.
02:21:03 And he's like, I thought that was you.
02:21:04 Oh, cool, man, I can watch your stuff.
02:21:06 Then, about eight out of 100, it'll be a guy who'll be like, hey, you're that guy.
02:21:13 You do the podcast, Tim.
02:21:15 I don't really watch your stuff, but I've heard of you.
02:21:15 Hold on.
02:21:17 And then one is a leftist.
02:21:20 Most leftists don't even know what I look like.
02:21:23 Not one time has there ever been a negative interaction.
02:21:25 So, of the extremely rare negative interactions that I get, it's leftist stuff. 1.00
02:21:30 Like, fuck you, you fucking bigot, or fucking Russian, but I've never gotten, you're a Jew. 1.00
02:21:37 All of this stuff we see online never even saw. 1.00
02:21:40 Not a single person has been like, you fucking love Israel, you motherfucker. 1.00
02:21:43 Never happened. 1.00
02:21:45 I think it's all fake.
02:21:45 Let's get some.
02:21:47 We'll get the monster mangler in here.
02:21:50 What is up?
02:21:51 What's up, mangler? 1.00
02:21:52 Hello. 0.95
02:21:53 Hi.
02:21:54 Hello.
02:21:54 Howdy.
02:21:56 Hi.
02:21:57 Hope you're having a good evening.
02:21:59 Yep.
02:21:59 We are.
02:21:59 We are.
02:22:00 Thank you.
02:22:00 All right.
02:22:02 I have a question for Chris.
02:22:05 And forgive me for not having the exact examples right there.
02:22:09 I didn't write them down as you said them, but it seems like you're misapplying scripture meant for individuals to use on an everyday basis in personal settings.
02:22:17 Okay.
02:22:18 With how you might govern a nation instead.
02:22:21 So, for example, turning the other cheek is in regard to personal interactions, not public or international policy or whatever.
02:22:29 And I was wondering why exactly it seems like that feeds into your anarchism angle, I suppose.
02:22:35 So I was wondering how exactly you square that circle.
02:22:39 If I'm understanding you correctly, I don't think I'm misapplying it.
02:22:43 It's just there's no scriptural guidance for what a government looks like other than the one under Jesus Christ.
02:22:50 So I view it as how a person conducts himself in a daily life.
02:22:54 There's really no guidance for governance in the scriptures except for the secular governments that persecuted our Lord.
02:23:02 Am I understanding that right?
02:23:04 I would argue that there is some guidance in that in the Old Testament in terms of the law.
02:23:09 And I'm not saying we should be under the law, but what I'm saying is that God never changes.
02:23:15 So the principles, his general approach to various sins or whatever, right, would be the same then as it was now, even if he doesn't have us as Christians under the law.
02:23:31 Well, the law was a shadow that preceded Christ.
02:23:34 And basically, every component.
02:23:36 So, instituting that as a guidance for law, I would disagree with that.
02:23:43 It's out there.
02:23:43 All right.
02:23:43 Well, so I would ask, okay, about the.
02:23:49 Some people mentioned, you know, if someone's attacking your family, would you, you know, violently stop them or whatever, right?
02:23:57 And I would argue that it is right to violently stop them under the circumstances that we are as Christians.
02:24:07 To be good stewards of all that is under our care, that including spouse, kids, parents, et cetera, and extending out to neighborhood and local, city, state, nation, even.
02:24:24 I understand what you're saying.
02:24:25 And of course, it's all like I was saying earlier, it's always the extreme example.
02:24:28 We can't start with like the simple applications.
02:24:30 It's always, what about rape?
02:24:31 What about murder?
02:24:32 Somebody breaks in.
02:24:33 Well, first of all, you lock your door. 0.99
02:24:34 I mean, I'm not advocating for idiocy. 0.97
02:24:36 At least I don't think I am. 0.98
02:24:37 Correct me if I'm wrong.
02:24:39 But I just hope and pray it doesn't come to that.
02:24:44 Okay, we can lock our doors, but what happens if someone breaks in, picks a lock, breaks a window?
02:24:50 Well, I mean, everybody's going to handle that situation the way that they see fit.
02:24:53 And I'd like to think that I'd have the discernment to do the same at the same time that I'm hoping that that doesn't happen.
02:25:03 Okay.
02:25:05 Oh, and somebody mentioned earlier, I think it was in a super chat, the thing about turning the other cheek.
02:25:11 I think they may have mistyped it.
02:25:12 But initially, it was like a backhanded slap would be the way someone might slap you to say, Hey, I don't think very much of you.
02:25:19 You only get the back of my hand.
02:25:21 And turning the other cheek was basically saying, Okay, now you have to slap me with the palm of your hand, which is essentially saying we're on the same level.
02:25:28 I'm not, I can no longer denigrate you.
02:25:31 So I think they just misspoke that.
02:25:33 But yeah, that's about it.
02:25:35 Okay.
02:25:36 Thanks for calling.
02:25:38 Sure.
02:25:38 I'll do my shout out real quick.
02:25:40 Please.
02:25:42 All right.
02:25:42 So, first, I have to shout out my dad.
02:25:44 Because today is his 73rd birthday.
02:25:46 Happy birthday.
02:25:47 I love you.
02:25:47 Happy birthday.
02:25:48 Happy birthday.
02:25:50 Also, please buy my book, Sanguine Servant.
02:25:52 That's S A N G U I N E, Servant, by Monster Mangler on Amazon, Kindle.
02:25:59 And you can look forward to the sequel, which I should be publishing in the next month or so. 1.00
02:26:03 And we should also find a way to ban Sharia so we can ban Islam. 1.00
02:26:07 God bless. 1.00
02:26:07 Thanks for calling in. 1.00
02:26:07 All right. 1.00
02:26:09 Cheers.
02:26:11 All right.
02:26:12 Next up, we've got Lyle Seven Mile.
02:26:15 What's up, Lyle?
02:26:17 What up, dude?
02:26:18 Thanks for taking my call.
02:26:18 Hey, y'all.
02:26:19 Thanks for calling.
02:26:22 So, this question is for everybody.
02:26:25 Is the delivery app model broken with sky high fees squeezing customers and poverty wages forcing drivers to survive on tips?
02:26:33 Who is really profiting and why has no one in Congress taken a hard look at these practices?
02:26:40 Are we missing something? 0.87
02:26:41 And how could a grassroots campaign actually force real oversight, especially on financing burritos?
02:26:48 Yeah, man.
02:26:49 I'm going to not use DoorDash except for if they don't have delivery at all.
02:26:55 But I hate DoorDash so much. 1.00
02:26:57 It is a scumbag company. 0.99
02:26:58 I'll tell you an example, right? 1.00
02:27:00 So I'm ordering Mexican food, okay?
02:27:02 I don't eat gluten, no flour for me.
02:27:04 It gives me weird arthritis.
02:27:05 And so I look up this Mexican joint, and they got this beautiful picture of a taco with a corn tortilla.
02:27:12 And it had, you know, all the fixings on it, some little onions.
02:27:15 And so I said, I'm going to give me three of those things.
02:27:18 And guess what happens when it arrives? 0.98
02:27:20 The motherfucking tortillas were made of flour. 0.99
02:27:22 I did not fucking click on that image. 1.00
02:27:25 They did not say anything other than. 0.97
02:27:27 So I complained to DoorDash, and they did.
02:27:29 On my $30 order, they gave me $2.
02:27:33 And then they asked me, did that help?
02:27:35 And I said, no.
02:27:36 And he goes, sorry.
02:27:37 And that was it. 0.98
02:27:39 I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? 0.99
02:27:40 Yep. 1.00
02:27:41 Fuck that. 1.00
02:27:42 Yep. 1.00
02:27:43 That's how Uber treats drivers when they have complaints, too.
02:27:46 But Uber is not a money making venture.
02:27:48 And people don't realize this.
02:27:49 It costs more money to drive your car around like that.
02:27:53 And so for the more expensive Ubers, where they have like leased vehicles, they're going to make money.
02:27:58 But for the regular Ubers, the wear and tear in their car is greater than the money they make. 0.99
02:28:01 It's a, I hate, I fucking hate Uber. 0.98
02:28:04 I was, we were in DC for a shoot last weekend. 0.99
02:28:09 We're leaving the hotel and we couldn't get an Uber. 0.99
02:28:12 And I was like, well, the fuck, I don't even want an Uber anyway. 0.98
02:28:15 As we're like trying to use one of these apps, a taxi pulls up and we're like, let's roll. 0.99
02:28:19 And the guy, of course, he's a cab driver. 0.99
02:28:21 He was shit talking the Ubers. 0.99
02:28:23 And he was basically saying, Uber comes in dirt cheap. 0.99
02:28:28 It's cheaper to get an Uber than a cab because Uber is subsidizing the cost of service.
02:28:33 Once they put all the cabbies out of business, they cranked the prices up.
02:28:37 Now it's extremely hard to get a cab.
02:28:39 They're underpaying everybody.
02:28:40 He was saying that there are certain trips in the DC area to like landmark areas like the airport where if you pick up a ride, you get a flat fee.
02:28:49 So I don't know the exact number, but it could be like you're downtown DC, it's a 30 minute ride to the airport.
02:28:53 And if you choose it, it'll say you'll get paid $30 and nothing else.
02:28:56 And it's like, whoa, like, what if the trip is long?
02:28:59 Right.
02:28:59 Nope.
02:29:00 It's a flat fee for this trip, $30.
02:29:01 And they're like, so what they do is the Uber drivers reject them, they refuse to do it because it's not worth it.
02:29:06 Right.
02:29:06 Cab drivers are like, you get paid by the meter.
02:29:09 So, anyway, fuck all of these services. 1.00
02:29:09 Right. 1.00
02:29:11 But the plan is they're going to make Tesla's going to have this.
02:29:16 Right. 0.99
02:29:17 If there's a fucking investment, man, it's Elon Musk. 0.99
02:29:19 Tesla's going to roll out their taxis. 0.99
02:29:21 They just did a demo of it.
02:29:21 They already got one on the street.
02:29:23 And you're going to get on your X app, ride order, and a golden Tesla is going to pull up and you're going to jump right in and take it where you want to go with no driver.
02:29:32 So, Uber is done.
02:29:33 Delivery drivers are going to be the same.
02:29:34 We already got the robots in the cities.
02:29:35 Right.
02:29:36 So, humans are being cut out.
02:29:38 We didn't even talk about this.
02:29:39 We have a story about these robots.
02:29:41 In San Francisco, you can order a robot cleaning service. 1.00
02:29:45 It's the dumbest thing you can do because these motherfuckers can't clean for shit, but it's already available. 1.00
02:29:49 So AI is going to destroy everything. 1.00
02:29:52 We're cooked.
02:29:53 There's no reality where we live.
02:29:55 They want to make this argument where they're like, no, no, everything will get better because everything will be cheaper.
02:29:59 It's not true.
02:30:00 Our economy is based on individuals generating economic value amongst each other. 0.99
02:30:06 So what's going to happen is the single company that has all the robots will make billions of dollars and everyone else will have shit. 0.99
02:30:12 That's right. 0.99
02:30:12 That is what's going to happen. 0.99
02:30:14 Yeah. 0.98
02:30:14 That's why we all need to buy land. 0.98
02:30:17 No, land's over.
02:30:18 Land is over?
02:30:19 Land is over.
02:30:20 Where are we supposed to live?
02:30:21 Land made sense in the 90s when we were growing up because of population growth.
02:30:24 But now the population is retracting.
02:30:26 Land is going to go to zero.
02:30:27 Well, land is going to go to zero, but we still need somewhere to live.
02:30:30 And then you can still live on it.
02:30:31 You don't need to buy any land.
02:30:32 You buy land right now, in 15 years, that land will be worth nothing.
02:30:36 And you'll look at the Ikeas in Japan.
02:30:38 But where are we supposed to live?
02:30:40 You will walk onto a plot of land and it will be yours.
02:30:43 Why?
02:30:44 Because there will be no demand for it because there's no people.
02:30:47 There's no people.
02:30:48 In Japan, You get a house for free. 0.98
02:30:50 Yeah.
02:30:50 Three houses.
02:30:50 I've seen that.
02:30:51 Yeah, but you have to live in Italy nowhere, right?
02:30:53 Yeah.
02:30:54 You want a house for free?
02:30:55 I'm obviously.
02:30:56 You know, Italy is doing houses for one euro.
02:30:58 Same thing, though.
02:30:58 Yeah.
02:30:59 Ghost towns.
02:31:00 Exactly.
02:31:01 And that's why they're doing it.
02:31:02 The point is this if you buy land now, population is collapsing.
02:31:09 Even in the cities, the veil is going to drop because demand is being erased.
02:31:13 The literal human existence that creates demand for housing and land is going away.
02:31:20 So, your demand is a look, short the housing market now because the property value is guaranteed to drop unless we bring in more people. 1.00
02:31:27 Unless we flood the country with a bunch of illegal Honduran farmers. 1.00
02:31:31 Yeah. 1.00
02:31:32 Well, I'd rather the Honduran farmers than the North African Muslim slaughterers. 1.00
02:31:37 Wow, good luck. 1.00
02:31:40 Got anything you want to add or follow up?
02:31:44 Well, what are your guys' thoughts on any kind of grassroots campaign?
02:31:50 I mean, it sounds like a grassroots campaign to try and do something about it. 0.99
02:31:54 I was thinking like contacting congressmen or something, but you know, after that black pill, it kind of seems like a moot point. 0.99
02:31:59 Like it's all fucked, anyways. 0.99
02:32:02 That does seem to be the Tim point over here. 0.98
02:32:04 No, I'm just saying if you don't adapt to it, like what do you expect to happen?
02:32:04 Yeah.
02:32:10 What's the adaptation?
02:32:11 Yeah, what's the adaptation?
02:32:11 I've never been to it before.
02:32:13 Well, there's shorting the housing market.
02:32:15 If you want to go to Michael Burry, I'll figure that one out.
02:32:18 But it also means we've talked about it quite a bit.
02:32:20 What are the investments?
02:32:22 Human civilization is never going to cease to exist, it's going to change.
02:32:25 And this is the big change happening right now.
02:32:27 Old systems will die off and something new will emerge.
02:32:30 We know what's going to happen.
02:32:32 AI is coming and displacing jobs.
02:32:34 It's already displaced the music industry for creative works like background music and films and things of that nature.
02:32:41 Now, video gaming and vibe coding.
02:32:43 It's not erasing the essential core developers, it's getting rid of the low level stuff.
02:32:49 All of this was predicted two years ago where this guy, there's a great documentary where he's got a pyramid and he's like, the first thing to go is going to be the low skill assistants on creative works.
02:32:59 Next is going to be the mid level.
02:33:01 As AI advances, it will eventually get to the point where it will erase the top level dev.
02:33:07 Knowing these things are happening, think about what society will look like.
02:33:13 Think about what you can start right now as a company that will generate revenue in that future.
02:33:19 So, if there's going to be very few young people, like Gen Alpha is only 40 to 45 million, what is it going to look like for older people?
02:33:26 What services are they going to need?
02:33:27 They're going to need a lot of Optimus bots. 1.00
02:33:30 We're going to need to supplement the elderly's requirement of labor. 1.00
02:33:33 With these robots, that's why they're doing it. 0.99
02:33:35 That's why Elon's doing it because he can see what's happening.
02:33:37 So he's like, okay, no people, then we need humanoid type laborers that can do certain tasks befitting a human.
02:33:45 So that's why he's building this.
02:33:47 That's why so many companies are building this.
02:33:49 Invest in those companies.
02:33:50 One of the smartest things I heard is invest heavily in actuator companies. 0.50
02:33:54 That's what the robots need to move around the joints.
02:33:58 That's rudimentary.
02:33:59 If you are really smart, and I wish I was smart enough, you'd be like, if I start a company right now that does things, I'll be a billionaire in 20 years because.
02:34:10 Lack of people, automation of jobs is going to result in a high demand for these things.
02:34:14 If you can figure out what the future we can all see, what demands will be of that society, start today.
02:34:20 You're a billionaire in five, 10 years.
02:34:26 Yeah.
02:34:27 But that relies on the premise that the current capital raising environment and all that that you think is going to go away survives.
02:34:33 So, if the stock market plummets, as you predicted earlier, it has before, and there's a few things that could happen.
02:34:42 There could be intervention.
02:34:44 So they attempt to prop up the market through surreptitious means or the Federal Reserve, make sure that it just doesn't collapse so hard.
02:34:51 But houses have to come down.
02:34:53 I agree.
02:34:53 They just banned institutional investors.
02:34:56 So this means a large supply of demand that was artificially injected is now being eliminated.
02:35:00 And Trump is deporting.
02:35:01 We're deporting the Haitian migrants.
02:35:02 They closed the southern border. 1.00
02:35:04 We are already seeing this right now.
02:35:06 Anybody who works in real estate is watching this happen.
02:35:09 If you go to any of the hottest markets, Nashville's a great example.
02:35:13 Nashville is a boomtown.
02:35:14 Oracle and Starbucks just moved there.
02:35:17 And the houses are collapsing in price, which seems to make no sense.
02:35:21 You got 2,000 Oracle employees, high level, they're going to move in.
02:35:24 In and out, too.
02:35:26 In and out, tons of companies.
02:35:27 And for some reason, property values are collapsing in Nashville, despite the fact they're moving a bunch of people in.
02:35:32 It's happening everywhere.
02:35:34 Anyone paying attention?
02:35:35 We just saw the largest retraction of sales contracts, offers, since the 2008.
02:35:43 This is on Business Insider.
02:35:45 Sellers have pulled their houses off the market because they've been sitting for so long and they can't sell, they've given up.
02:35:50 Mm hmm.
02:35:51 Which means prices are going to start collapsing rapidly.
02:35:56 I think this is another big component. 0.98
02:35:56 Boomers are dying. 0.98
02:35:58 When I mentioned my neighborhood in Chicago was a lot of Indian people, my buddies were like, man, what happened? 1.00
02:36:03 And I said, bro, the people who lived in those houses when we were kids were 50, 60 years old.
02:36:08 Now we're in our 40s.
02:36:10 So they're all dead.
02:36:11 Nobody inherited those homes.
02:36:13 Their kids moved somewhere else. 0.99
02:36:15 So now you got vacant houses held by nobody or their kids inherit it and say, just fucking sell it. 1.00
02:36:20 I don't give a shit. 0.99
02:36:21 So they dump it on, they put it on the market for 180, 200. 0.99
02:36:24 That's how much they're worth on the sell side.
02:36:25 Now they're up to like three. 1.00
02:36:26 And then an Indian family comes and takes it. 1.00
02:36:29 That's why they're trying to. 1.00
02:36:30 The reason why they want to do H 1Bs is because they know that Honduran farmers can't replace mid skilled laborers. 0.99
02:36:36 They want Indian H 1Bs to replace bank tellers. 0.96
02:36:39 They want Honduran farmers to replace American farmers. 0.99
02:36:42 They're not getting high skilled labor. 0.99
02:36:44 That we're just fucked on. 0.97
02:36:45 So I don't know. 0.99
02:36:48 Anyway, to your point about all the apps and everything, yes.
02:36:54 I think what we need to do here is I need to sit down with the boys.
02:36:57 And we need to do a brainstorming session on what the future will look like based on what we're seeing already.
02:37:03 I'm just going to say it right now.
02:37:04 I'm literally sitting with Seamus a few weeks ago saying, Seamus, what you need to do is buy 50 Optimus bots and lease them out to companies at $10 per hour because it's cheaper than the cost of a human worker.
02:37:16 They're going to spend $15, $20 on the person.
02:37:18 They're going to spend $10 on the robot.
02:37:19 Best part is, robot never takes time off.
02:37:21 It's there when you get there, it's there when you leave, it's there when no one's there.
02:37:25 And if it breaks down, we will be there in 15 minutes to swap it out with the new one and we'll deal with the replacement.
02:37:32 Subscription service, we're making bank.
02:37:34 They're going to start selling.
02:37:35 They're already doing it.
02:37:36 They're going to start selling the Tesla taxis when the Tesla taxis go live.
02:37:39 They're not going to be just Tesla owning them.
02:37:41 People are going to be able to buy them so you can buy a fleet of those.
02:37:43 Yep.
02:37:45 People are already doing this right now.
02:37:47 There are people who have bought 15 Teslas and they lease them out to Uber drivers.
02:37:51 Why?
02:37:51 Because the Uber driver says it's $100 a day for the lease, but I'm going to make $200.
02:37:57 I keep $100 and I don't worry about charge or wear and tear.
02:37:59 When the battery dies, I drop it off and get into another one while that one charges.
02:38:04 Then you back at your fleet, you're doing $15,000 to $2,000 per day, depending on the size of your fleet.
02:38:09 And you're just sitting there making sure the tires are fixed and ready to go.
02:38:12 You're paying off, you know, $2,000 a day.
02:38:14 You're paying a couple thousand bucks per month for all the cars, or you bought them out right on a loan.
02:38:19 This is where we're going.
02:38:21 And it's your opportunity now, I guess.
02:38:24 Good luck.
02:38:25 When these products become available, because as of right now, neither the Optimus or the Tesla taxis are actually available yet.
02:38:32 But the buying a fleet of Teslas, and then you have Uber drivers lease them.
02:38:32 No, no, no.
02:38:38 Oh, yeah, yeah.
02:38:38 And then the human driver walks onto the lot.
02:38:41 Picks the car and goes around and drives it.
02:38:43 If someone barfs in it, he brings it back, you clean it.
02:38:46 But that's why he's giving you half his money every day.
02:38:50 They're all filming all the time.
02:38:50 And then guess what?
02:38:52 It's fucking perfect. 0.98
02:38:54 Well, that's not going to last. 0.97
02:38:55 I wouldn't invest in that business because we are a couple of years out from full.
02:38:59 So they just launched Zooms in Vegas.
02:39:01 That is fully autonomous taxis now in Vegas from Amazon.
02:39:04 And they're free, aren't they?
02:39:05 They were some free.
02:39:06 They were free before.
02:39:07 I don't know if they're still free.
02:39:08 They might be.
02:39:09 And when I was there, they had trials of them and they were extremely hard to get.
02:39:13 Because there were just like seven.
02:39:13 Really?
02:39:15 And everybody wanted to ride in them.
02:39:17 I had that in Austin.
02:39:18 I had trouble a couple years ago getting a Waymo when it first launched.
02:39:23 Have you guys seen the Zooms?
02:39:25 I'm going to be there next week.
02:39:26 There's big rectangles with radars on each side.
02:39:30 No driver, no steering wheel.
02:39:31 You get in.
02:39:32 There's two seats facing each other.
02:39:34 It's like a trolley?
02:39:34 You sit down and have them.
02:39:36 I've never seen this.
02:39:37 Yeah, me neither.
02:39:37 Yeah.
02:39:40 Oh, wow.
02:39:42 Yes, yes.
02:39:42 Oh, yes.
02:39:43 We were just.
02:39:44 Wait, are they like golf carts?
02:39:46 No, they're not golf carts, but they're.
02:39:48 They're definitely just shoe boxes.
02:39:53 All over Vegas.
02:39:55 All over.
02:39:56 Really hard to get, but now they've launched them formally.
02:40:05 Yeah, download the app now.
02:40:07 X-O-O-M.
02:40:09 Oh, no, it's Zooks. 1.00
02:40:10 Z-O-O-X?
02:40:10 Is that what it is?
02:40:11 Oh, yeah, it is Zooks.
02:40:12 I was wrong.
02:40:13 Look at that.
02:40:15 No steering wheels.
02:40:17 It's like a train car.
02:40:18 Like a gondola that doesn't go up.
02:40:20 A little trolley?
02:40:22 Yeah.
02:40:22 It's claustrophobic.
02:40:24 Looks like the Metro North.
02:40:28 Touch screen.
02:40:29 This was predicted 10 years ago.
02:40:34 I think it was longer than that actually.
02:40:36 There was a viral video where they were like, the future of autonomous driving, and it explained all of this.
02:40:39 No more traffic jams.
02:40:41 All of the different car companies will network.
02:40:43 And so when you're about to enter the highway, the cars will slowly start making space.
02:40:49 You might notice in your car you're going less, you slow down a mile an hour.
02:40:52 Not a big deal.
02:40:53 You make enough room for the car to merge in perfectly, you never stop.
02:41:04 Touching there.
02:41:04 Yep.
02:41:05 The feature is crazy.
02:41:10 Here's the best part.
02:41:12 You're going to be in one of these, and it's going to be going in circles, and you're going to be like, Stop.
02:41:17 I can't get out.
02:41:17 Stop.
02:41:18 And it'll be like, Just a moment.
02:41:20 But it'll just keep going in circles.
02:41:20 Let me pull over.
02:41:22 Because that literally happened to a guy.
02:41:23 Really?
02:41:24 In a Waymo. 0.92
02:41:25 And it was his black dude, and he called, and he's like, It won't stop. 0.61
02:41:28 It keeps going in circles. 0.97
02:41:30 It was funny.
02:41:32 How did he get out?
02:41:34 The company commandeered the car, I guess.
02:41:36 Because what was happening was it would turn left and then the GPS would update and they would turn left again and then go back around and it kept updating.
02:41:42 Happened to Luke.
02:41:43 Luke said he was in the car and it kept going, like it kept going on the highway, exiting and then like looping around because the GPS kept fucking up. 0.90
02:41:50 I'm pretty sure there's like a call center in the Philippines where guys have just like Xbox controllers and worst case, I'm serious. 0.89
02:41:56 No, they do.
02:41:56 Like, I'm not even.
02:41:57 It's as Indian dudes. 0.99
02:41:58 Yeah, I think they do. 1.00
02:41:59 They dial in when you do something they don't like.
02:42:01 Like, I tried to sit in the worst seat of one because Surge had a broken leg at the time.
02:42:07 In Phoenix, and they like stopped the car and they called and were like, You got to get out now.
02:42:12 So, anyway, do you want to add anything or shout anything out, brother?
02:42:18 No, I'm good for adding a shout out.
02:42:22 I have a friend, Nathan Murr.
02:42:25 He's a fellow Marine and has a company called Frontier Resolve.
02:42:30 He sells like adventure gear equipment.
02:42:34 Specifically, he's got a modular pack frame that you can put into any pack that has a As a needs a frame, um, his uh, his website is uh, frontier resolve.com.
02:42:47 If anybody's interested, go check him out, support a veteran owned company.
02:42:51 Um, and Phil, if you ever do a show in Billings, Montana, okay, you should stop on by before you leave, and I can teach you how to sword fight or how to knife and tomahawk fight if you want.
02:43:04 Okay, that sounds great, man.
02:43:05 Thanks.
02:43:06 I was in Billings one time, I had a great trip.
02:43:09 Well, it was okay.
02:43:10 Billings is cool, it's all right.
02:43:12 Billings was okay, yeah.
02:43:13 All right, cheers, man.
02:43:15 All right, thanks for calling.
02:43:17 I was in Fortress through Billings.
02:43:20 All right, and last but not least, we got Alex.
02:43:22 What is up?
02:43:23 What's up, Alex?
02:43:24 What up, dude?
02:43:29 Hello, Alex.
02:43:30 You are muted.
02:43:34 Can you hear me now?
02:43:35 Yes.
02:43:35 Yes.
02:43:36 Okay, perfect.
02:43:38 So, hello, everyone.
02:43:39 Thanks for taking my call.
02:43:40 Your resident syrup here again.
02:43:42 So, I have a question for the panel.
02:43:45 It's related to, well, I guess, secularization.
02:43:48 So, I wanted to ask you, do you think secularization was a historical solution that bore the problems of today?
02:43:55 Do you think the collective West should revert partially or in full?
02:43:59 And how would you do that today?
02:44:01 And I mean, at least education and science would benefit from some form of moral foundation.
02:44:07 And I guess it's better that it be Christianity than atheism slash Islam or whatever, Buddhism.
02:44:12 I think the liberal economic order was like, we have to create a unified global culture.
02:44:17 And so religion's a barrier to that.
02:44:19 So, the problem is, they started dismantling American culture and religion. 0.62
02:44:23 But the rest of the world didn't. 0.87
02:44:25 So, you know, it's kind of fucked everything up.
02:44:28 Yeah, I think that even though people that are, that consider themselves secular, agnostic, atheist, in the West, they base their morality on Christianity.
02:44:43 So I think that a society without a religion is doomed.
02:44:51 I think that's part of the reason why you saw such terrible results in. 0.59
02:44:55 In the Soviet Union and stuff.
02:44:59 And I think that if you don't have, you know, in our case, if you don't have a Christian foundation or if you didn't have the Christian foundation, you know, you wouldn't have the society that we have.
02:45:14 So I do think that, like, even though I consider myself agnostic, I would much rather live in a Christian society than any other society that I've seen. 0.81
02:45:24 If I was Japanese, I think that I'd probably be partial to Japan, but I'm not. 0.95
02:45:28 You know, it's a Japanese society, but I'm not Japanese.
02:45:30 So, um, so yeah, I think that a revival, a real revival of Christianity in the U.S. would be good, um, for most Americans, the vast majority of Americans.
02:45:45 Um, but I don't think you can force it.
02:45:47 I, I agree.
02:45:48 And as somebody who spent a lot of time in Poland and I've, you know, spent time in Serbia, actually, I have family in Czajak.
02:45:54 Um, oh, nice.
02:45:55 Yeah, there you go.
02:45:57 Um, I think that a secular, like, Legally secular, but religiously underpinned society is probably like my preference.
02:46:07 And, you know, now that I think about it, you know, I'm also agnostic, atheist. 0.52
02:46:10 I would pretty much never live in a society that isn't a Christian society.
02:46:15 Like, I can't think of a single place I'd live in that wasn't kind of operating under that Christian ethos.
02:46:20 And so, if I had it my way, it would be legally secular, do what you want, but kind of everyone operates under the, I guess, principles outlined in the Bible.
02:46:31 Yeah.
02:46:35 I understand what you mean.
02:46:36 I understand what you mean.
02:46:37 So, I don't know.
02:46:39 I mean, in the East, at least, we've been kind of reviving it a little bit through education to some degree.
02:46:47 It's been added more into the teaching and everything.
02:46:50 So, it's been doing good for us, at least in the Balkans here. 0.85
02:46:54 The birth rate is still kind of up.
02:46:56 So, we're doing good there, I guess.
02:46:59 And we're not going crazy with science.
02:47:00 So, I don't know.
02:47:05 That's basically it when it comes to my question, Phil.
02:47:07 I just wanted in the tradition of teaching you something.
02:47:09 I thought I'd teach you how to counter Ian's claim that he could change the weather.
02:47:13 So instead of telling him he couldn't, you should ask him, Do you think the weather is changing you, Ian?
02:47:23 No, I might actually take that up.
02:47:24 You know what he's going to do?
02:47:26 He's going to go, Oh, maybe.
02:47:29 Yeah.
02:47:29 He's going to, he's going to, that's going to, yeah, it's going to reset the wiring pretty quick.
02:47:37 Is he going to be here tomorrow?
02:47:37 I don't know.
02:47:38 Yeah, he is.
02:47:39 I'll ask him tomorrow if it comes up.
02:47:41 But yeah, that's great.
02:47:43 Appreciate it.
02:47:44 And just want to shout out the Discord and the mods there.
02:47:47 They've been really helpful recently, especially with one of our members' health episodes.