TikTok Communist Censorship & Everything Wrong With Leftists With Zachary Venable | OAP #60
Tiktok Communist Censorship policies are on a completely different level than what we have been facing on US based platforms. Conservative voices are continuing to see a disproportionate increase in the moderation, censorship, and banning of social media accounts across all platforms with a particular vulnerability on the CCP's app.
Zachary Venable joins Chase Geiser to discuss going viral, Trump action figures, woke culture, dating leftists, and communist censorship.
Hey, hey, hey, this is Chase Geiser with One American Podcast.
And today we have Zachary Venable on.
What's up, man?
Not much.
That was a nice little video.
Thanks, man.
I appreciate it.
So we found each other, I guess, on TikTok.
And I looked at your content, and it is absolutely awesome.
Very hysterical.
I can see why you've been banned so many times.
Not because anything you say is particularly offensive, but because it's particularly poignant, which seems to be enough of a reason for banning these days.
Yeah.
What they do is they, where they get you is in what the determination of certain things are.
So TikTok's especially worse compared to anywhere else.
I mean, I pretty much, I live in Facebook jail.
So I'm pretty much an everyday resident in Facebook jail.
I think my last, I just got off a 30-day stint for a comment I made that made no sense at all.
But TikTok is terrible.
Oh, God, yeah.
They're brutal at TikTok.
You post like last video I got flagged was a news clip of some Taliban activity and they claimed that I was promoting violence.
Yep.
Yep.
Well, they banned me for, I shared a clip of the Arizona audit hearings.
There was that really short moment of those Arizona audits where one of the auditors said that, you know, like 72,000 ballots had gone out without it having or had come in without it having had any record of being sent.
And they flagged that one for like election fraud, content that's banned.
And then obviously I told you they banned one of my videos because it had Goebbels in it, even though it was like an anti-goebles post.
And so it's just weird, man.
I guess it's the difference between the CCP and what we're used to in the United States in terms of freedom of speech, not to say that big tech is any friendlier stateside.
Yeah, and I'm assuming I know around the election time, there's a lot of talk about TikTok and the CCP.
I'm assuming they still got their hands in it because, well, it's essentially a communist platform.
Right.
Obviously.
I think I got my first account.
So I had an account that got banned on election day because I had posted something about, I believe it was Michigan.
I mean, everyone knows on Election Day, whenever it stopped, it was like, okay, something's kind of going on.
So I just posted a video that was like, you know, Michigan seems a little odd.
Something's fishy over there.
And someone on Media Matters put it in an article and then they had everyone go mass report it.
So I got that taken down.
And, you know, it's unfortunate.
I really don't care, thankfully, whether or not, you know, the accounts get banned, but it's just the amount of time you put into it.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, and the thing that's kind of nice about TikTok, and I was very reluctant to join TikTok because of its association with the CCP.
And then I just kind of determined that all of the platforms were communists.
So I might as well be on TikTok.
But the thing that's cool about it is the way the algorithm is set up is you can get a big following fairly quickly again on a new account in a way that you can't really on the other platforms.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
The distribution on that platform is just absurd.
Any little thing, I think it's because the way the interface is, people just swiping.
Yeah.
It tends to draw in a lot of, I don't know, the engagement on TikTok is outrageous compared to any other place I'm watching.
I do stuff on YouTube and you put in like five or 10 times the amount of work and the engagement just isn't there.
But on TikTok, it's fucking, I think I've had like 70 or 80,000 comments in the last seven days.
It's just absurd.
It really doesn't make any sense.
Well, I think the smart thing about what they did is I think they figured out that the key to growing a social media platform is to get people as much engagement as possible on the content that they create.
That's where the endorphins are.
That's where the addiction is, especially for kids.
And so if they can set up the algorithm so that new accounts are favored or videos get a massive amount of reach disproportionate to the number of followers that they have, then you're cultivating a rapid amount of engagement for your average user early on.
And that's kind of hooking them into the platform.
And so I think that's part of the advantage and what's so cool about the platform is that if you have no following or no base, you can still have a video that goes viral in a way that we haven't really seen since the early days of Twitter in terms of content virality.
And I know that fairly recently, probably within like the last two weeks, I think they actually surpassed YouTube in whatever stat you'd want to call it, like people watching video stat.
They passed YouTube.
So I don't know.
It's the internet.
It's destroying everything.
So I don't.
Yeah, but I'm optimistic about it.
I mean, with all the bad stuff that comes along with it, there's still so much good about it, too.
I mean, the fact that we can just hang meet on the internet and hang out is so cool.
That's been taken for granted.
Yeah, no, it's outrageous how because obviously no one wants to get rid of it.
And like, you know, don't change anything.
I just, we need to complain about it.
You know, that's kind of how it works.
I think.
So what's your background, Zachary?
You know, well, in terms of like how we met, obviously would have been through, you know, political stuff.
I went my entire life kind of not getting too much into it until fairly recently, probably within the last year and a half.
And it's, it literally was because I had, I was dating a girl.
I was in a relationship with a girl from California.
My wife's from California.
Oh, does she was she live there?
No, no, no, no, no.
We live in Austin, Texas, and she's not your stereotype.
But I just thought it was.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm from Louisiana.
I live in a small town of Louisiana.
So I've been able to steer clear of generally speaking most of the world.
And it wasn't until I got in a relationship with this woman from California that I started like, oh my God, people are actually like this.
And I noticed over a span of like two years, it was just ever evolving.
It was changing definitions of words.
It's just literally everything.
And then I started kind of, I think I came across many of Ben Shapiro podcasts and I was listening to it and I was like, Jesus Christ, this sounds incredibly familiar.
And the more I looked into it, I was like, oh my God, this is exactly what I've experienced over the last two years dealing with this, you know, my girlfriend from California is essentially what all these, you know, the Democrats are doing.
The media does.
It's the gaslighting and the changing, you know, the changing definitions of words, stuff like that that kind of drew me in.
So I was able to like, I guess, I was able to relate to it.
So it kind of so you were radicalized by a woman from California.
Yeah, yeah.
No, you know, everyone says bad things about California.
And generally speaking, a majority of people from California, you know, there's a there's a stereotype right now about them.
And it's 100% true.
You know, place just isn't good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I lived there for three years.
It's really tough.
What part of California was your girlfriend from?
Oh, she was from, I believe she was from San.
Well, okay, she was from San Francisco, born and raised, and then moved, I think, out to Los.
She moved out to Los Angeles later, later, I think, when she turned 18.
So literally the best of both worlds.
Yeah.
The best of both worst worlds.
Right, right.
Absolutely.
Well, I'm sorry that you had that experience, man, but hey, you're okay now.
Oh, yeah.
No, no, I mean, I didn't.
It was more, I was more mystified in the experience of it because it's unbelievable how some people can just completely live in a different reality.
And that reality also happens to be whatever, you know, whatever helps them in the actual, you know, in the moment, in the moment of a conversation, regardless.
And the comparisons that you can make between, for example, my ex-girlfriend and Jen Psaki would, I mean, the comparisons there are, you couldn't tell them apart.
And I, you know, I find that, uh, I find that kind of ironic.
So that, you know, there's got to be more there to it.
Yeah, it's crazy how the politics has seeped in.
Like growing up, I graduated from high school in 2010.
So growing up, you know, I always sort of had like a right-wing leaning just because I was a big fan of Ayn Rand.
I read The Fountainhead in High School, one of my favorite books.
But I never thought that politics would be a factor in terms of who I would wind up being with or who I would date.
Like, you know, there was a time, believe it or not, right?
10, 20 years ago, when you'd see Democrats and Republicans married to each other, and it wasn't really a problem.
They would vote differently, but it wasn't like cutthroat.
But now I can't imagine like sharing a home and raising a kid with somebody who is like a leftist and not like a Democrat, like, you know, traditional Democrats, like 90s Democrats or JFK Democrats.
That's not the problem.
But like a serious leftist.
It's so hard to imagine being in a relationship with a person like that.
Yeah, no, it's that liberal leftist sludge part.
Like, you know, There's really no good term for it because you know it's not, you know, it's not like necessarily a Democrat.
It's that leftist mentality.
So, you know, anyone, any type of liberal person that I've dated, I don't even think they were really into politics just in general, but it was the mindset of like, nothing's ever their fault for one thing.
And they're going to blame every single thing on you.
It's one thing about dating women that are liberal or have that leftist mentality is everything's going to be your fault.
And if it's not your fault, they're going to change whatever they have to to make it your fault.
Yeah, absolutely.
So I've seen your TikTok content.
You said that you've been making a lot of content on YouTube too.
Do you have like a podcast or what's sort of your deal?
I know that you have like a crazy amount of awesome toys and you seem to be a Star Wars fan.
Yeah, that actually is, that is my thing is I've done numerous podcasts regarding toys and I was real big into the YouTube toy game, the toy YouTube game.
So that's why I have all, you know, the equipment, all that to do podcasting and stuff.
And from there, I was like, okay, so none of these people, like, they're all idiots, you know, that are collecting toys.
They all have problems for the most part.
And, but I figured out a way it's like, okay, well, I can use that and kind of slip in occasionally like, you know, my political view because I started, it started taking things over.
Right.
So when you're like, when you're showing like Star Wars toys, you could be like, you know, the Empire actually had a point.
Exactly.
He was, you know, how close he was to solving death before they threw him over the edge.
No, yeah, exactly.
And, you know, what I find ironic, because I'm pretty, well, I was, I, fairly recently, I kind of got out of it.
I, I, I don't want to say I was like canceled out of the whole comic book toy culture, but uh, I pretty much was.
But everyone in that community, they, they relate so much to this, you know, certain groups of the people.
So like in Star Wars, they, you know, they look at the rebels and they're like, you know, those are the real heroes.
It's like, right, not realizing that what they're doing and, you know, they're actually the bad guys in real life, you know, the people.
Meaning like I had a friend that was really, you know, when the virus broke out, was really big into making sure everyone gets, you know, wears a mask and does all of that.
And, you know, I was like, you know, you say you hate the Empire, but I mean, you know, you're kind of acting like them to certain degree.
And they just can't, they don't understand that.
You know, maybe you've seen it.
I haven't seen it, but I can't believe that I haven't come across a Darth Vader meme yet of the take this mask off my face scene from the end of the Return of the Jedi.
Have you seen anything like that?
Oh, no.
I mean, that would be a great meme, right?
You can take the idea and run with it if you want, but like, take this father, you'll die.
I'm just going to steal that for sure.
Steal it.
Steal it.
It's fine.
Do your thing with it.
But then it can come back to actually, the chances that I die are, you know, like, I don't know.
No, that's fine.
I never even thought about that.
Never thought about that.
But so what do you think of the new, what do you think of the new Disney Star Wars movies?
Oh, I like I said, I got, I quit.
I'm done with all of that.
It's just, they've ruined all of it.
Star Wars isn't as bad as like Marvel.
I'm not sure how much of a fan you are of Marvel, but the way that they're.
I'm a big fan.
I never read the comics, but all the movies.
Every time there's a movie, I watch it.
I mean, who wants to reading comic books?
That's just, I'm just going to watch a movie.
I'd read the old ones.
I bet you they're probably pretty cool, some of them, but I haven't had them.
I don't think so.
It's just not, I mean, I'm one of those people, I'm one of the people that are like, you know, people tell me, well, oh, the book's way better.
I'm like, no.
Yeah.
I'm going to watch a movie.
I'm not going to sit down for it.
Have you tried to read The Fellowship of the Ring?
Come on.
Take some like 100 pages to get out of the Shire.
Yeah.
Not to mention, like, you don't even know how to pronounce half the words.
If that.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
No, that's.
I just, I never got into the comics either, but with Marvel, they had the Infinity saga that ended with Avengers Endgame.
Yeah.
And after that, they had pretty much a long pause and just so happened to correlate with the virus.
So that even like, you know, put a bigger pause in between what they were doing with Disney Plus.
So there was a gap of about probably like eight months where there wasn't like any new movies or anything like that.
And I know just in general, they lost a lot of like fans from that.
And then whenever they came back, they started with all the, you know, the little tidbits of wokeness in there.
And it just completely ruined it for me.
Yeah.
See, the thing with me is like, no matter how much they ruin Star Wars, just as an example, I can't not watch them.
And as much as I despised the Disney spin-offs and the Disney trilogy in terms of the writing and the plot, the production was amazing and it still gave me the Star Wars feels.
And so I sort of, I guess I compromised my values in terms of watching those movies.
But, you know, there were things about it that I found incredibly irritating.
But man, I can't just, I can't say no to a Star Wars movie.
I caught myself after I said that.
It's like Star Wars is one of the last things that I would ever just completely abandon.
Right.
I have like a complete distaste, hatred, resentful feeling towards Marvel and the entire thing.
But Star Wars, I still love Star Wars.
I love watching it.
I think they're milking it, trying to make as much money as possible out of it.
And it's diluting a little bit.
But I mean, I believe that the best Star Wars movie by far is Rogue One, I think.
And that's one of the newer ones.
Yeah, Rogue One is probably one of my favorite Star Wars movies of all time.
Even if you go back to the original trilogy, I just thought it was an awesome standalone story.
Yeah, I would say.
And plus that scene in the end with Darth Vader was just epic because we never really had a chance to see Darth Vader in full uniform actually doing anything intimidating because the old ones, he's just sort of stiff.
Yeah, I still occasionally go on YouTube and watch that scene just to get people off for work or something.
Did you see that YouTube channel where that guy remade the New Hope battle between Obi-Wan Kenobi?
Yeah, I think is that the Star Wars theory guy?
Is it Star Wars fan theory or something?
I don't know if it's the fan theory guy, but if some awesome videographer just basically cut it all up in Final Cut or something and did like a contemporary version of what that fight would look like if the movie had come out like two years ago.
And it's epic with Obi-Wan Kenobi flying around and jumping around and stuff.
You know what I'm talking about?
Like a more Revenge of the Sith style battle.
Yeah, yeah.
A little bit more.
I saw like I'll send you a link, dude.
It's awesome.
I saw like the Star Wars with the guy remade, or not remade, but he added on like a conversation with the Emperor and Darth Vader.
I think the channel is Star Wars Fan Theory, maybe.
I think that's the name.
Is that the guy that like reads the comics out loud and like the Canon comics, or is that a different channel?
That actually is a different channel.
That is, I can't think of that either.
I know the fan theory guy that you're talking about.
I saw one of his TikTok videos.
He had a really cool one where he had a video where he highlighted how Darth Vader said, Obi-Wan has taught you well when Luke Skywalker had the high ground on the Death Star or whatever shit that was in the Death Star.
Yeah, yeah.
And he cuts it back to Revenge of the Sith, where obviously Obi-Wan cut off Anakin's legs or Darth Vader's legs at the time because he had the high ground.
Yeah, that is actually, I think it's, I think the channel is Star Wars Fan Theory.
The person I'm thinking of is it's a channel.
The guy basically made a very, he produced like a very, very good Star Wars scene.
And I think YouTube actually ended up flagging it for, or they demonetized it because he didn't have Lucasfilms license to do it.
And it was a big thing about a year and a half, two years ago.
And Lucas Films actually went and allowed him to re-release it.
And then also gave him permission to continue doing what he does.
So he basically fan remakes of it.
It's a pretty big channel.
I think I got like a couple million followers on it.
Are you a Star Trek fan too, or are you a write or die Star Wars guy?
Yeah, I've never seen Star Trek.
Man, you got to watch the original 60s episodes.
Back then, the special effects were so bad that the writing had to be amazing.
And so the plots and the storyline are like really good, like philosophical stories about what it means to be a human being.
I started watching it because it was perfect for a workout to power through one, you know, like on a bike or something.
I could listen to one or watch one on the stationary bike.
And it's just some of the best science fiction writing I've ever seen.
I'm excited about Dune, though, speaking of sci-fi.
Yeah, oh, no, no, definitely.
I've been told that because I'll kind of, depending on what I'm talking to, I'll kind of go into like these, these, these theoretical rants about like what I think should happen.
And I've been told numerous times, like, well, you know, that's the plot of Star Trek.
And, you know, I'm like, well, I don't know.
I mean, they're seen it, but I don't know, but something like at some point later, humans get to a point where we've, you know, like kind of like an eliter race and stuff like that.
I mean, obviously, you've seen Star Trek, so you know the plot is, but yeah, I just have no desire to watch it.
It's just I understand.
I felt the same way for a long time.
It struck me as very boring, very dorky, very tired.
But when I went back and watched the originals from the 60s and Star Wars era, Star Trek Next Gen from the 90s, those two are worth the time.
Everything else is trash.
Movies are trash.
All the other series, in my opinion, are trash, but those are really good.
But yeah, I don't know.
That was with you talking about, are you talking about the one with what's his name?
Shatner.
Shatner.
Yep.
The original.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Those are good.
Those are very good.
So I highly recommend it.
But I've been thinking a lot about, I've been thinking a lot about how entertainment and pop culture reflect what's going on in society.
And like, I don't know, like I said this on another podcast that I had.
Like even if you look at like fashion from before the economic crash in 2008, it was all about like being as flashy as possible.
And then like after that, the hipster movement came in after everybody lost everything.
And when I look at a lot of the stuff that's coming out today, it's sort of alarming.
Like if you look at Handmaid's Tale and how that ends and all these other shows, because my wife watches a lot of shows because she's raising a little baby.
She takes care of her baby all day.
And so it's like basically the theme of all these popular shows that seem to be coming out is like take justice into your own hands.
So like in Handmaid's Tale, they just basically all these women that have been persecuted the whole series in the end, they just beat the hell out of and murder this guy without a trial, you know?
And he was a bad guy, don't get me wrong, but it's just bizarre how we're seeing this kind of reflected in our pop culture.
Yeah, it's it almost lends the question like, you know, because it's kind of ironic that all of that kind of comes out or, you know, around the time where, you know, you can see it.
And maybe it's because watching that show, you know, makes you notice things that you would have noticed before watching it.
That's what's going on in real life.
I've never seen the handmaid's tale, though.
I know it's a good difference.
It's good.
You know, you really only have to watch the first season.
The first season is the only one based on the book.
Everything else is just sort of conjecture by the writers.
I feel that way about a lot of shows.
I felt that way about House of Cards that as soon as Underwood became president, they should have just ended the show.
But a lot of shows make the mistake of just keep they just keep getting content because it's popular.
You got to pay the bills and ride the train as long as you can.
Now, is the Handmaid's Tale a bad thing or a good thing?
In terms of a lot of people compare it.
Like, for example, Texas had that abortion law a couple weeks ago.
And a lot of people were saying it was straight out of the handmaid's tale.
I saw some people saying that.
Yeah, so that's sort of an unfair comparison, but I see what they mean.
So basically, the whole plot of Handmaid's Tale is a remarkably small number of women are able to bear children.
And as a result of this, a radical Christian militant group gains power and overthrows the United States government and creates a new nation.
And as part of that nation, they basically kidnap and indoctrinate these women who are fertile.
And they force them to have children with these men that they don't want to have children with.
Right.
In order to keep the population active.
That's the whole plot.
So it's basically like the Christian version of Sharia law, but the reason it's not a fair comparison is because the whole premise of that story in Handmaid's Tale is that no one can have children, which is not the case in Texas.
Like everybody can have kids.
It makes sense hearing you say that.
I'm just thinking it's like, okay, yeah, no, that is exactly what's happening in Texas right now.
Right.
God, it's unbelievable.
So it sounds like it's like if the hardcore conservatives were to have the mentality of like the hardcore liberals in taking over the world, right?
Exactly.
Exactly.
It's Christian Sharia law.
So think like Radical Islam only Christian brand.
And in radical circumstances, too.
So the circumstances are post-apocalyptic in that story in that no one can have kids.
So there's only like these group of handmaids that can have kids.
That's the, they're called handmaids.
And so, yeah, it's a great story.
I mean, it was written way before all this social justice shit.
You know, it was written, I think, in the 70s by Margaret Atwood, I think, brought it.
And she, you know, she's left for sure, but this is not something that was written, you know, out of the Me Too movement.
It's something that was, you know, an old story.
So it's good stuff, but it's definitely got like a left lean.
But I wouldn't say that it's like a hyper-feminist show.
It's honestly just a great post-apocalyptic scenario.
Yeah.
I like post-anything post-apocalyptic.
I love it.
You sold it.
I kind of want to go watch it now.
Yeah, it's worth it.
I think.
And, you know, I don't know what you think, man, but between all of the platforms, I honestly think HBO is one of the best in terms of combating the woke stuff.
Like they made that show Chernobyl, which is one of my favorite shows of all time.
And I couldn't believe that a major streaming platform made an explicitly anti-communist series at least labeled it like that.
Like me, they didn't, you know, take example the remake of Red Dawn.
I never saw the remake.
Probably good.
What happened?
Well, in the original, if I'm not in the original one with Charlie Sheen and Patrick Swayze, R.I.P. Patrick Swayze.
Yeah, R.I.P. It was Dampatrias.
Yeah, man.
It's been a minute since he's been here, too.
That's unfortunate.
I know.
I believe that the invading country was Korea.
In the new one?
Or in the original?
In the original one.
I thought it was Russia.
Wasn't it?
I'm going to look it up right now.
We're going to get to the bottom of it.
Yeah, because I think it was.
They were.
I think it was.
No, it was from Mexico, right?
South American?
Yeah, that's how they got in.
It was two countries working together.
Long story short, though, is in the new one, they basically, instead of like putting it on North Korea or China, or, you know, instead of labeling them like, oh, you know, it's the China, the CCP is coming in, they made up their own organization of a, you know, a mixed mash of different countries, but they didn't actually say the countries.
And they did all that so that the movie would be able to play in China and they wouldn't lose out in that movie.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
So in the original one, it was the Soviet Union and Cuba and Nicaraguan allies.
Okay.
Yeah.
But, you know, that makes sense because the Soviet Union actually existed when they made it and they were communist and there was a real threat.
I mean, it's a Cold War movie.
And it would be like if you had to go back in time and remake that movie, but not call them the USSR or the Soviets.
Right.
Because you didn't want, you know, you didn't want to miss out on that market.
Right.
Well, we saw a little bit of that with like, I believe that China refused to screen Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino because of the Bruce Lee depiction.
And he wouldn't cut it because it's his movie.
Fuck you.
Right.
And, you know, that's great.
But then when you look at like Disney, who really cares about the Chinese market, they have parks in China.
It's very important to them that all their major releases air in China.
They really, they really cater toward those narratives.
And even like small things, like in the movie Gravity, I believe with Sandra Bullock.
Was Sandra Bullock in Gravity?
They had compatibility between the U.S. space station and the Chinese space station, where in reality, there's no compatibility there.
All our compatibility, I believe, is with in actuality with the Russian stations and the Russian tech.
I'm not sure, but they switched it.
Top gun.
They took the anti-CCP shit off the uniforms, apparently, in the new one that's coming out.
And it's just a bunch of bullshit because these production companies want to make money off the Chinese market.
You know, you're making too much money whenever you can hire someone to look for stuff like that.
I think the CCP tells you.
Yeah.
You show them the first pass and they're like, change this, change that, change this.
Which that right there shows you how corrupt that it's like, like if the CCP are going in and monitoring and screening those movies ahead of time, that means that they have someone doing it.
And you know, that person's getting paid a lot of money, chances are.
And it's like, that's a waste of money, I think.
So, you know, that's a good example as to how corrupt that country is.
Yeah, I know someone personally who works for Disney.
And this person's job in part has been to go through and identify what content needs to be changed in the parks.
So they're changing like what songs play, what the names of the rides are, because some of the rides are named after old movies that may or may not have insensitive content.
And this person absolutely hates that they have to do it because they don't hold that political perspective, the same view.
But that's this person's job is to go through and wokeify Disney in the park.
And I know that Disney's making a huge push to totally change its target demographic toward minority communities from its traditional base, which is fine if that's what they want to do from a business standpoint.
I don't blame them, but it's just a shame that they're compromising content that's authentic and there's nothing actually offensive about it.
It's just perceived that way.
And it's just too bad that we're compromising based on how things are perceived versus standing up for how things actually are.
And it seems like, I mean, they're just essentially catering to, you know, they're changing, you know, for example, I'm waiting for them to go change the Lion King or something iconic like that to cater to like five people on Twitter.
And you got to stop and think, like, you know, this is just not a good business strategy.
This is not, it's not smart.
It's not smart to, you know, make radical changes like this.
Essentially, it puts your entire brand in jeopardy, you know, to cater to smaller markets and stuff.
And what it comes down to is having one or two people at Disney in the right position with a certain view that can go and say, yep, we're going to listen to these three people on Twitter.
Yeah.
Well, we've seen the same thing happen at big tech.
And I know you wanted to talk about the Facebook whistleblower, but like you have these aggravated employees that raise a stink and throw a fuss.
And it spooks these corporations because they see a liability issue.
Like, what if our employees sue us?
And so they bring in diversity, equity, inclusion training programs and all this bullshit so that in the event that they're sued, they can say, hey, we did XYZ to make sure we mitigated any sort of discomfort among our staff.
And we've seen that.
And I don't know what you think about this Facebook whistleblower, but it seems to me like it's just total horseshit what she's doing.
Oh, yeah.
No, no, I'm assuming that she's still, and this is totally me just my opinion.
I think she's still an employee of Facebook, probably getting paid even more.
You think they specifically tasked her with doing the whistleblowing?
Oh, yeah.
No, I don't think that there's anyone.
I can't imagine someone putting together an argument to say that this is an authentic whistleblowing situation.
I mean, first of all, you can't like go and express your whistleblowing on a platform that you're essentially blowing the whistle on.
Like, you know, 60 Minutes isn't going to air an actual whistleblower.
Simple as that.
Right.
Right.
And they did.
And then literally the next day.
She's already Twitter verified.
Yeah.
The next day they're in the Senate.
I mean, it doesn't work that way.
I believe that she was on the team that actually made the call to censor the Hunter Biden story, his laptop story before the election.
They've uncovered a lot of things.
They've uncovered, like they said, she's donated to like 35 different Democratic candidates, one being like AOC.
She was on some committee having to do with something having to do with the internet.
She was on some committee.
And basically, she's just really entrenched in the political swamp.
It's not like if I worked at Facebook and was a whistleblower and had no ties to any politicians or anything, that's just not the case.
A lot of people are labeling her a Democratic operative.
Yeah.
Well, it makes perfect sense, too, of what they're doing.
I think it's brilliant.
Not like what they're doing, but I think the plan is brilliant.
Yeah, exactly.
Never underestimate the ability for the political elite to get something done in a very manipulative, sort of Machiavellian way.
But what I fail to see is I fail to see the incentive for Facebook to push that whistleblower.
But I do understand her personal incentive in that she gets all this press.
She could certainly get a book deal.
Congress obviously wants this to happen because they're looking for any excuse to have more oversight and control over big tech platforms, especially with elections coming up.
So I'm not sure that she's like a Facebook plant.
Maybe she is, but it seems to me that she certainly is an operative for the Democratic Party.
So I think they might have paid her off to do this sort of like Jase Ford thing.
Oh, yeah.
No, without a doubt.
I'm sure that I'm sure that Facebook is working in conjecture with it to some degree.
Their motives behind it.
I mean, I could possibly think of a couple given time.
I think it's, I would say like 80%, you know, the Congress and Democratic Party, 20% Facebook.
Facebook's not going to, you know, Facebook isn't coming out and being like, you know, someone's going, if someone was to go and, you know, start spewing all of my information about my company, I'd be pissed off.
Right.
Right.
But if I, you know, knew that she was doing it and knew what she was going to be doing and helped hire a press firm for her and all that, which is absurd.
I think the motivation is just, I mean, if you think about it, like Facebook company is not actually, I mean, a company's not really owned by Mark Zuckerberg to a certain extent.
You know, it's a publicly traded company.
So he's got to, he's got to listen to people.
And essentially, all these people are playing with everyone else's money to a certain degree.
So, I mean, getting tied in with the government like that, it wouldn't be the worst thing for them.
Right.
You know, a business standpoint.
So, and it would take a lot of liability off of them.
I know that, because if they, you know, if they didn't have to, if they were to like take something down, they don't have to be like, you know, it's, you know, our decision.
They just put it on the government.
So it, they probably want to, I think.
So here, here's what's really bizarre to me about the whole thing.
So with this, I think her name's Hagen, Hagen, whatever.
I just always think of Hagen Doss whenever I see her name.
The whistleblower?
The whistleblower.
Yeah.
So basically what she's saying is that Facebook has conducted internal research that has determined that its platform is psychologically harmful to children or young adults, like under like 18 and under, right?
And she is blowing the whistle because she claims that Facebook is hiding this evidence or being dishonest about the nature of it.
And she, as a result, is calling for Congress to intervene and regulate Facebook in order to correct the issue because she no longer believes that Facebook will correct it itself because she claims that Facebook is concerned with as much engagement as possible regardless of whether or not it's healthy or unhealthy for children, right?
And when I hear something like that, I'm thinking, all right, well, if you think Facebook or Instagram is psychologically harmful to children, to your child, just don't let your kid on Facebook or Instagram.
Yeah.
Like, you want Congress to come in and decide what's good for your kid?
I mean, that's one of the things that bothers me about like Bernie Sanders, whenever he posts about, you know, we need to have free preschool for children before kindergarten so that parents can work or whatever.
And so that kids can have a better education and be more well prepared.
And I was a lobbyist in Tennessee for a little while.
I know for a fact that all the data shows that the pre-K shit doesn't really have a long-term impact on success for kids.
It doesn't have an impact on higher graduation rates.
The pre-kindergarten stuff is basically negligible.
You're basically just babysitting at that five and underage group, right?
And really what concerns me about this is that if we're handing our kids over for nine hours a day to a state-run organization from the age of three on or four on, then who's actually raising your kids?
And catching them that young, they got them at that point.
Like, you know, you catch someone like, you catch a kid at three.
I mean, look at, look at Tiger Woods' dad, made him start golfing at two.
And look at, look at, look at what, you know, so it's like when they get them young like that, they're going to, they'll, they'll indoctrinate him in whatever they want.
And yeah, I think there's an argument to be made against the fact that obviously Bernie Sanders wants your kids to go to school as early as possible so that you can go out and work and pay taxes so that he can take that money from you.
Right.
Right.
Because the more people.
That's pretty straightforward.
Yeah.
The more people that work, the more taxes they're going to get.
And guys like Bernie Sanders.
See, but like, how, how effective do you think that public education is at actually manipulating children?
Because I don't know about you and I don't know what it's like to go to school now, but I know that when I was in school, and maybe this is just my personality type, I was very antagonistic toward what I was being taught or told.
I was sort of like a, you know, another brick in the wall type kid, you know, like, what the fuck do you know?
I had that kind of idea mentality.
It was true in a lot.
I was skipping.
You know what I mean, though?
Like, like, nobody taught me anything in high school that like brainwashed me to love the state.
Yeah, no, no.
And if they would have tried, I would have been like, fuck off.
Yeah, like I look back at my high school days and, you know, you want me to say the Pledge of Allegiance?
I'm going to say that when I want to, you know?
Right.
Like, like, no, it was literally like the complete opposite of whatever it is they did.
If someone would have came in, like, you know, they're trying to push a lot of the CRT stuff.
If someone would have came in with all of that, I would have reacted the exact same way.
I would have, you know, fallen asleep probably and not did the homework.
I mean, that's kind of what school is about.
I think there's a lot of, I think a lot of it goes on in colleges.
Yeah, I agree with you.
I think the professors have a lot more weight.
Yeah.
And I think it's that and because of that, it creates social circles, which I think social circles is one of the major factors in how people behave now in society.
And also what's now considered work culture.
I think that is one of the worst.
I think that's one of the most destructive things in this country, especially in California, all these big tech companies.
Everyone wants that work culture where you got to think the same thing.
You got to eat the same thing at the same time.
You got to live on the work campus and all of that.
And it creates these type of people that identify as like, you know, they take on that identity.
Like, you know, oh, I'm a Facebook employee.
That's their identity.
And it's simply because they're engaged in that whole life pretty much 24-7.
Their friends work there.
They eat there probably every day during lunch for dinner.
And what happens is they'll get fired and their world just falls apart, which is one of the downsides of it.
But I think a lot of what they do online with all these tech companies stems from just a toxic work culture that they're all in.
Everyone trying to abuse power.
You know, and one of the things too that concerns me is just the nature of the algorithms and how these platforms have garnered so much engagement is the echo chamber aspect of it.
And I'm not just concerned about, I'm not just concerned about echo chambers for the left, okay?
I'm concerned about echo chambers for myself because I know that of all the things that I believe, there must be some things that I am totally full of shit on.
But I have no way to see alternative views unless I really dig.
Right.
So like, when I'm scrolling through TikTok, I see pro-capitalist shit.
I see anti-Federal Reserve stuff.
I see pro-block blockchain stuff.
Like, and I know that there's got to be some, there's got to be Bizarro Chase out there somewhere seeing equally stimulating, equally, you know, well thought out, opposing viewpoints.
Like, and I just don't have a way to access that content because these algorithms have determined that I'm more likely to engage with my echo chamber, right?
And so like, what can what can we do as like just individual Americans or just individual people to make sure that we're not full of shit in light of these echo chambers we're stuck in?
Over the last three years, I've fallen victim or prey to a lot of people that were, you know, indulged themselves in echo chambers where they forgot that there's a possibility that they can be wrong.
And humans can easily do that.
I mean, if you got a bunch of yes men around, it kind of distorts your reality and it distorts how you, you know, it makes you, lack of a better word, makes you a fucking terrible person.
Yeah.
You ever met a flat earther?
I don't know.
I don't think so.
I have met a flat earther that was so well researched that I had to go look shit up in order to figure out why he was wrong.
Yeah.
Well.
And it's the echo chamber thing.
It's like if all you do is watch flat earth videos, you're eventually going to switch teams.
For me personally, I have, because of things that I'm into, a lot of my hobbies tend to be more softer liberal people.
So all of my friends are liberal.
Like, what do you mean, like toys and shit or what?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I don't know what your hobbies are.
Yeah, yeah, toys and shit.
I'm sorry.
That's cool.
All the toy collectors I know from the internet, everywhere, they're all big time, you know, liberal.
Sure.
I lost like, I think three or four thousand subscribers on YouTube because I did a review of a Donald Trump toy.
And I saw the TikTok of that.
Or one of your TikToks on that toy.
Yeah.
No, it's one of the greatest toys I think I have.
One of my favorite for sure.
But everyone was like just blown away.
Like, oh my God, what's he, you know, he did this.
You know, I've been watching his videos for two years.
Dude, do you have that?
Do you have that toy laying around?
I want to see it.
Yeah, let me give me one second.
I think it's right here.
Okay, cool.
Sorry, man.
I didn't mean to interrupt you.
I just got to see this thing.
Yeah.
So for those of you who haven't had a chance to follow Zachary, his TikTok is absolutely hilarious.
I'll make sure to link everything in the show description.
But I believe he's on TikTok.
I'm going to find his handle while he's away just to make sure that he can get the plug.
Some of his content has just made me laugh so hard that I've practically cried.
What's your TikTok handle, Zachary?
Oh, I think it's the sweetest.
That baby gang.
That boy MRC.
No, that's not you.
No.
Yeah, the sweet baby gang.
You got to follow him.
He's absolutely hilarious.
So, yeah, what's the deal with this toy, man?
Okay, so this right here is, obviously, it's Donald Trump.
Comes with...
Wearing the blue tie.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I have, it came with two ties.
You got the red and the blue tie.
The hat is currently, I don't know that.
I think the hat's like in a bin somewheres, but it sure would, I mean, you know, it comes with like a standard like his jacket.
This is the 2020 version of them.
So this is like the, you know, I think they made three versions of this company, but they, it comes with a second head sculpt, this right here.
And they leave the hair long so that you can style it however you want.
Nice.
Yeah.
So let me let me try and get this closer to the camera.
Oh, that's amazing.
So is that what you think his hair actually looks like when it's not done up?
It's possible.
I mean, look, I spent a good like three weeks researching his hair to try and get it, and I just couldn't do it.
Yeah.
So when you posted about this toy on YouTube, what happened?
A lot of people that I've met through like them watching my videos and stuff, they were appalled that I was a, you know, I was just a racist, terrible person because I did a video reviewing him, which the company I made this sent it to me to do a review.
So it's not like I even bought it, which I, you know, I would have bought, I would have bought it still.
But yeah, so, you know, that's just an example of how everyone in that in that atmosphere is liberal.
So all of my friends are liberal.
And I see, when I get on my personal Facebook, everyone's, you know, telling everyone that, you know, mask up, you know, all these liberal talking points.
So I don't know.
I get the point you're making.
I just, I feel like I know enough to where I can sit and say, generally speaking, you're probably right about most things that you think because I've seen the other side of it and it makes no sense.
But everybody feels that way about what they think.
That's what scares me.
Like, I feel the same way, man.
I feel like I'm right about most of the things that I think.
Like, of course I do.
Otherwise, I would think something else.
But that's what scares me is, you know, am I so self-righteous or so arrogant to think that I just happen to be right about everything and they're full of shit?
Because there's a lot of smart people on the left too, man.
You know?
No, they are.
There is.
There's just a lot of dumb people that think they're smart.
Or you say a lot of people that think that they're so smart that they don't need to actually learn.
They don't need to, you know, consider that they might be wrong.
And I've seen a lot of, if you were to like name 10 things, 10 topics, you know, be it political or whatever.
And I could go in and be like, yeah, no, you're right there because I've seen like how the other, you know, all of my friends think the complete opposite of what I do.
But their way of thinking, it just makes no sense because it can easily be destroyed.
It can easily be broken up.
It's like, well, if you think that, then how is this possible?
If you want this, then how is it that we can have that?
And it, you know, it just doesn't make any sense at all for the most part.
So how do you think this is going to pan out?
Because I was talking to my wife the other day and we both voted for Trump.
And, you know, if he runs in 2024, which I think he will, I'll vote for him again.
But I kind of didn't want him to run.
I wanted him to run for Congress and be Speaker of the House.
But if he's going to run, I'm going to support him.
Okay.
And my wife was like, man, my wife, you know, she came up in the, she was a ballet dancer and a professional one.
And so all of her friends growing up, the vast majority of them in college, close friends, like dear friends, roommates, stuff like that, people that you think that you would be friends with the rest of your life.
You know, most of them, of course, are left-leaning.
It's a very artistic specific community.
And she said to me, she's like, if Trump wins in 2024, that's it for our friends.
Like, there's no way they're going to hang.
Like, they're going to be so pissed off that they will just cut us off.
And do you think that's how this is going to play out in the event of a 100%?
I think we needed to get the other, I say the other side.
Biden, in order, in order for things to actually change, we needed Biden to win.
I think that actually was part of the process because now we're starting to see the amount of hypocrisy that we've seen.
Anyone with a brain can look back at the past four years and say, okay, like it was chaos.
It was awful.
President Trump did this.
President Trump did that.
And looking at what's actually going on now and everyone, no one's saying anything, people are starting to acknowledge that.
They're starting to realize that.
I mean, it doesn't.
Biden taking the booster shot on a freaking movie set.
If Donald Trump would have done that, I mean.
Game over.
Yeah, they would have accused him of being an Auschwitz or something.
Who knows?
But a lot of people are taking notice of that.
And a lot of people are starting to see.
So I think you got to, I think after we're done with this cycle, then things hopefully will start going back.
But I don't know.
Some people legitimately believe that anyone that supports or is associated with Donald Trump is just a racist, horrible person.
It's unbelievable.
I mean, my last girlfriend that we broke up.
California gal?
No, no, no, no.
This is a different one.
I don't know.
Just running through them, man.
Well, they always, I always go towards the liberal people, the liberal ones.
And three weeks ago, so we were together for a couple of months.
And about three or four weeks ago, I jokingly put on a Make America Great again hat because I bought one to make a video with.
It's just kind of a joke.
I mean, not like I'm going to wear that to the store.
And look, she straight just left.
Like, she was appalled that I put that on.
She told me it offended her.
She said some incredibly mean things to me, called me a racist, called me a white supremacist.
Yeah, put on mega as a joke.
And I knew it would have upset her because obviously I knew she was liberal.
But she started going off on me, saying how appalled she was, how offended, and calling me racist.
She literally, she said, like, I mean, did you see what happened on January 6th and what those people were doing?
They were wearing a hat.
And then she left.
And, you know, that was, generally speaking, that was it.
Man, I'm sorry that you had to experience that.
No, I thought it was phenomenal, I think.
I loved it because it's like...
Yeah, you rated yourself for something you didn't need in your life, but still, it's taxing emotionally to deal with that.
Well, the California one, I had to, I went through a lot.
So it's like, that was just, you know, that's a Tuesday afternoon.
So I don't really get hung.
I don't get hung up too much on it.
And I chalked it up.
So it's like, okay, you know, I was with this, you know, we were together for like six or seven months and she left and told me I was an awful person because of a hat I wore, essentially.
Yeah.
And, you know, good writtens.
But then obviously she apologized and tried coming back.
And I was like, you know.
Maybe not.
Maybe this isn't a good fit.
Frankly, you're my worst girlfriend ever.
You know, just one of the things, too, that seems to be different between the left and the right is if you were to ask me as someone, and I'm very right-wing.
I mean, I'm so right-wing that I think the Republican Party is socialist.
And if you were to ask me, you know, things that Trump did that I disagreed with, I could go on a tirade about things that he did that I did not like, despite the fact that I'm a big supporter, right?
Yeah.
And I don't feel like anyone on the left could really go into a tirade about like what Biden's done wrong.
I mean, these people are even defending the way that he left Afghanistan.
And that's just like blatant.
And so I think there's a little bit of a difference there in terms of tolerance.
Like, and I'm not, I don't think I'm special.
I think if you asked a Republican, hey, what are three things that Trump did that you disagreed with?
They'd be like, oh, well, I didn't like the way that he allowed the mask mandates to go as long as he did nationwide.
I didn't like the way he overspent or I didn't like the way that everything that he got done, he got done with the executive order.
So as soon as Biden got elected, he was able to undo everything because none of it was passed with Congress.
Like that's just off the top of my head things that I could say that are critical of Trump, Trump's presidency.
I still love the guy.
I still support him.
I still like way more of what he did than I dislike.
But it's easy for me to identify things that he did that I abhor.
Right.
And I don't think you could go to someone on the left and say, listen, what are some things Biden is doing that are really pissing you off?
Like they just, oh no, I think he's pretty much doing a good job.
And they don't even know a single thing that he is doing or he isn't doing.
All they know is that he's just, he's not Donald Trump.
That's what he's doing.
And meanwhile, he's actually doing a bunch of damage.
It's very, it's upsetting to watch happen.
And seeing people that think that they know what's going on.
I came across a guy on Twitter actually earlier.
And I think he, you know, I mean, I'm sure you've heard of Media Matters, right?
Yeah.
You might actually have this guy.
You might have heard of him.
Let me pull it up here.
Jason Campbell.
Sounds familiar.
Yeah, he's apparently like one of the head guys at Media Matters.
And he tweeted: the notion of a national debt limit is so almost almost metaphysically absurd that debate around it is the political equivalent of counting angels on pins.
And it's aside from being able to break all that down into a bunch of things that would be like, it makes no sense, but it's like, how do you even, what do you say to that?
You know, you almost can't say anything to that because it's just that, you know?
Not to mention, essentially, you know, money, money in a way is metaphysical.
And by, you know, because it's metaphysical, we need a debt ceiling to keep us from just acting more and more like it's metaphysical.
We just keep printing money, printing money.
You know, the debt limit is a deterrent, you know, which is essentially what most of the democratic systems we have are.
They're deterrents.
I mean, when you start breaking it down like that, it just makes no sense at all.
Like, you can't just take something and then, you know, say it's something else and that be the case.
It's ridiculous.
Yep.
Yep.
You just gave me an idea of a tweet.
tweeted uh raising the debt ceiling to i don't know if i i lost you there so So, oh, it looks like I'm by myself here.
Welcome.
Hey, I don't know.
I don't know what's happening with my internet here.
It keeps cutting out.
Yeah.
No, I just took your show over for a second there.
Yeah, yeah.
That's right.
You basically broke like all of YouTube's terms of service while I was gone for 30 seconds.
No, no, I assumed, you know, I had a plug sheet.
I just read off.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I basically tweeted, you gave me the idea for a tweet where I just said raising the debt ceiling to avoid defaulting on debt is the equivalent of taking out a personal loan in order to pay off a credit card.
You're not solving the problem.
And so, yeah, I mean, this whole debt ceiling.
And that's the problem with fractional reserve banking, right?
Is when the Federal Reserve, when the central bank gives money to these banks, they're allowed to lend out 10 times the amount of money that they have in deposits.
And actually, they decrease the minimum requirements, I think, to 0% during COVID.
And so what you do is you create more debt than there actually is money to pay off.
And so what we have is this cycle in the United States where we always have to raise the debt ceiling in order to avoid defaulting on debt.
And that's not sustainable.
That's just why we were supposed to be on a gold standard.
No, and to go further into that is so before we enacted, I don't know exactly when, before we enacted the, you know, essentially the debt ceiling, we used to, back in the day, we used to have to pass legislation.
It used to have to go through the system anytime we wanted to take out debt.
And it should be like that.
Being able to take out debt should be as hard as possible.
They should make it as hard as possible because that's the only thing that keeps us from just, well, let's just print money.
Let's just do, you know, let's just keep taking out debt.
You know, who cares?
Yeah.
I mean, I get the idea and the point that as long as America continues to be America, the bill isn't going to come.
But it has just certain side effects that ultimately will cause America to crash.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're just kicking the can.
It's inevitable.
And the longer they kick the can, the worse the problem gets.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's, you know, I get, you know, you got to, it's like you got to take today's problem and you push it back because you almost have no other choice.
But for every day you push it further, it's going to be harder and harder.
So when it does blow up, and it most likely will, it's going to be bad.
I mean, most people, it blows my mind how many people don't understand the 2008 financial crisis, how close we almost came to just a global economic collapse.
And when that happens, you can kiss society goodbye.
Yeah.
So what are you doing to prepare for the pending total economic collapse?
I got three months worth of Alex Jones food.
Yeah.
Well, I, what is it?
I can't think of the name of it.
It's a Patriot Meals or something like that.
So I subscribe to that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, I live in a very rural area.
So, you know, I have kind of some couple of plans.
But, you know, we're going to have chickens and goats and do this whole thing.
And I'm not worried about it.
My wife and I will come move in with you when she hits.
Yeah, yeah.
It's really not that far.
I mean, I think Austin's maybe about five hours away.
Okay.
Oh, man.
Yeah, we can wake up, feed the goats and the chickens and stuff because essentially that's how we're going to survive.
Sounds awesome.
Well, my last name's Geyser, which means goat herder in German, allegedly.
Yeah, I got it in my bones.
Yeah.
So where can people find you?
I guess on Twitter.
That's perfect.
Yeah, are you trying to push your Twitter account, push your Twitter account, get some followers?
Yeah, well, I got 35.
It's a lot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I remember.
I've been there.
Yeah.
35.
How many subscribers do you have on YouTube these days?
Do you lose them all because you're not a leftist?
My YouTube toy channel, but yeah, no, I quit making content on it.
Yeah.
I had, I think, 280,000.
Wow.
Yeah.
In the toy, you know, in the toy world, you know, you could talk to someone, they would probably know my name, maybe.
They'd be like, yeah, I hate that.
So controversial.
Well, your TikTok's got tens of thousands of followers too.
And I tell you, man, that's where you should be pushing your content because it's absolutely hysterical.
You really have a knack for it, dude.
Yeah, it's, you know, it's that overlooking because it's happened multiple times.
It's like you log in and poop, it's gone.
And it's just, it's disheartening.
And I'm luckily, luckily, I have an actual, like I have a real life outside of the internet.
And I don't put too much value and focus on that.
And some people do, and they get crushed whenever their shit gets deleted.
Yeah.
Well, thank you so much for coming on, dude.
I've really enjoyed hanging out with you.
And let's be sure to stay in touch.
And if you ever need anything from me, just let me know, man.
