Is Free Speech On Twitter A Threat To Democracy? | Adam Crigler
Adam in his own words:
"Hello, and welcome to my world. Life has taken me in a number of extraordinary directions and this site is about celebrating those experiences and paving the way for new ones. I am fascinated by the world around us and have always pursued endeavors that balance this curiosity with my passions. Whether it’s cutting up the concrete on a board, sharing a song with fans, old and new alike, or discovering the hidden gems in a new place while on location for a shoot, I’ve spent my life living by one simple rule: live authentically.
My current venture into the YouTube universe has presented me with a number of new challenges, both personally and professionally. Despite spending most of my life in the public eye, I’ve maintained a quiet demeanor in order to keep my personal life private. I wasn’t on Timcast IRL for long before all of that changed and in the process of researching politics, I also found a voice to support the new breadth of knowledge I acquired. Sharing my voice has precipitated a passion that will drive me for the rest of my life and I dedicate this site to sharing that passion with all of you.
The world is complicated but I’ve always believed that staying true to yourself is the best compass. My YouTube channel challenges me daily to keep my mind open and my convictions strong. That is the spirit of this site and I hope that energy invigorates all of you in your own endeavors. May fortune favor you all and stay tuned for more."
And but it's like impossible for me to get the YouTube traction that I want.
So I'm going to start experimenting with shorts to try to build up the traction.
But for some reason, you know, no matter how many classes I take online or tips I do or third-party tools that I use to help with keywords and titles and thumbnails and all that shit, like I just can't seem to bust through.
did you do i all right i didn't do anything but no i'm not joking i i i was they were suspecting me of selling drugs which i i was never a drug dealer i never sold drugs although technically i own a coffee it's one of us now and i sell caffeine which is coffee so technically i'm now a drug dealer um you just technically speak but anyway when i was 18 uh i had just moved back to chicago from
philadelphia i was going to go into a school in in west philly and uh not a not a good crowd i was in in philly and there's a reason i left the area and when i moved to chicago some of my old friends were also not in a good crowd and i instantly bonded and like we were you know they they had a crew and i kind of joined it i mean it wasn't like a drug selling crew it was just like you know we
all hung out and smoked blunts and just kind of you know did our thing but one of somebody we know in the school uh died of a heroin overdose and i i've never seen heroin just for the record like i don't even i've never seen it i heard i've heard about it all the time and uh i guess it was a pretty big deal in the area like a lot of people were getting um overdosing on it and uh somebody that we knew he wasn't even in our
circle had passed away from an overdose and you know the school was trying to crack down and somehow they got a hold of my cell phone and this is back in this is like 2000 right or two no it was 2002 yeah i was 18 in 2002 and they this was the day when there wasn't you know cell phones were very basic you know you'd have to like go through your phone list and tap down till you get
to like t9 yeah you know like those old the t9 stuff and to make it easy i put a little dollar sign in front of all of my friends so that they would be at the very top of the my my list of um you know different folks so they some i don't even know how they got my phone but they got my phone and they were they looked at it and they were like oh these are all the people we suspect and there's a dollar sign so he must be the drug dealer that we're looking for and they called me in and
they're like you're not welcome in this this school anymore and i'm like why they're like we think you're the drug dealer and i'm like that's ridiculous and then i was uh removed from school so i mean i i did finish high school i went i went and finished it at a night school because i was like i'm well that's a whole nother story but yeah that was an interesting time in my life i i was yeah and and i got further into the gang i i was shot at a couple months later i was in a it was in a pretty so it was a real gang
it wasn't just you know dudes hanging around listening to the dark side of the moon well not oh jeez my chair uh hold on this freaking chair likes to sink down um no i i we we weren't like into guns but we were in an area that was not safe that there was very obviously there was people with guns and one of my friends we were barbecuing right and one of his hats was like facing the wrong way or some something i don't know i guess if
you're in one crew you're not allowed to wear your hat in a certain right direction and these three um i don't know essays came up and they were like hey man like change your hat though dude you can't wear your hat like that and my friend was like f off like no wear my hat how i want to wear my hat and then you know they he was they like skulked off into the distance and then we just heard gunshots start ringing out and we freaking started running and i jumped i went ran to get behind
a dumpster i straight up saw a bullet hole appear in the dumpster like like shit whiz past my head into the dumpster that I was going to jump behind.
It was a crazy experience.
So, that me as an 18-year-old, I've looked back at those days.
Well, after I got out of that phase, um, and I went to finish school, one of my friends, uh, one of my best friends at the time, who kind of wasn't, he wasn't in this crew, he was just kind of a you know, he was more in the music scene.
He was in Battle of the Bands and actually won.
He was a guitar player.
And the singer quit and was like, Oh, I'm too good for you guys.
Like, I'm gonna go start my own solo thing.
And I, I knew some of their songs, and I liked a lot of the same music.
And they played a bunch of covers, and we were just kind of hanging out.
I started singing, and they're like, Oh, snaps, dude!
Like, you could, you could sing.
And I'm like, Yeah, yeah, play that other song, you know.
And then I like because I knew their stuff, and I started singing.
And then it just kind of we didn't start a band, we just kind of hung out a lot.
And I would just sing when they would play guitar because I didn't know how to play guitar, but I really enjoyed the singing part.
And uh, about a year later, I moved to New York.
And when I was in New York, I'm like, man, I really miss singing.
And I got myself guitar and just learned some basic stuff on the guitar so I could sing.
And then I, and then I just started really getting into it and started playing live.
I've played a bunch of different places in CBG, but I've played all over the world.
I would busk all over the place.
I really love busking, which is playing for money on the street.
Sure.
And there's something about that when you get a crowd or you get like people dancing.
And I don't know.
I really, I really enjoy it.
I like being on stage.
I really enjoy it, which kind of makes sense as to what I'm doing now.
Life sucks sometimes, but when you realize it's not so bad, just move along.
What choice do you have?
You choose where your mind spends all its time when it all comes free.
It's wonderful.
Let it all come crashing like the ocean tide.
Climb up to the top of the mountainside And scream it out, but don't hold it in sight When you find a smile, naturally That's the magic, don't forget it It'll help you see
In the dark, in the night When you're trying to find your way And you've lost your sight When it all comes, it's wonderful Let it all come, come tight
Climb up to the top of the mountainside And scream it out, don't hold it When it all comes, it's wonderful Let it all shine tight Climb up to the top
Well, for that song, it was getting fired from Timcast.
But musically, I grew up listening to Sublime And my first concert ever was Well, not Led Zeppelin But it was Page and Plant in 1997 in Philadelphia And I got to see one of the greatest rock bands ever Basically play in front of me And it was like an eye-opener As far as rock music So I really like Led Zeppelin a lot Jimi Hendrix is huge Although I am bewildered by the way
That he can sing and play The stuff he does on guitar Yeah, I like a lot of Like Hosea Gonzales Incubus is huge Hosea Gonzales Red Hot Chili Peppers I really like a lot Yeah, absolutely So how did you get into The sort of podcasting space?
Well, the podcast Well, let me Before I move to podcasting I just want to add You asked about skateboarding as well Yeah, yeah And that was kind of the in-between Between the music And then podcasting So living in New York I would walk around everywhere And I would take the subway And it ended up It sucked It just took forever to get everywhere And I got a longboard And I started longboarding Just to get to places, right?
And I left New York for a couple years Just kind of I needed a break from the New York life And when I came back Some of my friends That had tried longboarding For the first time on my longboard Ended up getting boards themselves And then became team riders For this New York skate company Called Bustin Boards And I got back And I was like You guys are like pro now?
What?
Like how did that happen?
And I just I started skating with them all the time And I realized I could do everything That they were doing And then more And I started like One-upping them And then I started creating my own tricks And then I Joined the team And started making videos For that company And then
One thing led to another And I actually got Onto a bigger team Arbor Skateboards And I started writing for them For a little while And that was a lot of fun And I Created my own board for them And I Kind of And I And at that time, actually, right around the like basically kind of teetering off of like me being in like the scene of skateboarding is I met Tim Poole and I met him at a Magic the Gathering store in Brooklyn.
And he came over that night to play Magic and we became friends.
And he was doing, I think he had just moved on from Vice at this time, or maybe I think he might have been working at Vice right when this happened.
And he got, he started, he got a job at Fusion.
Fusion.
Yeah.
And he wanted to, he was pitching to Fusion, like, hey, I got this, this friend of mine who's a professional model.
He's a skateboarder.
He's a musician.
Like, we're going to start a show together.
And invite, he was like, Adam, like, let's go meet the CEO of Fusion.
So he flew me down to Miami.
And this was seven years, six years ago.
Actually, maybe it was eight years ago now.
Time.
I don't know.
Middle of the teens, you know, something like that, 2014, 2015.
I think it was 2014.
But we met the CEO and they were all excited about it.
They were hyped about it.
And I, Tim's like, all right, let's do this.
And you got to move to Miami.
And I was like, all right, I guess I'm moving to Miami.
And Tim had this house down there.
And I moved and I was living there for a couple of months, like waiting.
You know, we were supposed to set up this.
We were basically waiting for the fusion department to like figure out money and like have us start our show.
But it never came to fruition.
I was actually in Europe visiting my wife's family and Tim moved out and like my stuff was still in this house.
He turned the electricity off and I like got back to this house and I was just like, I had to take a cab from the airport to this house in the middle of nowhere.
And like I walk in and it's like a swamp and all my stuff's everywhere.
I'm like, what is going on?
Like, what?
Like, Tim, you didn't tell me you were going to move out.
Like, what, what the hell's going on?
And he was just like, yeah, I gave up on that.
I live in, I think he moved to Connecticut or something.
I don't remember where he moved, but I was like, great.
So I had to get a U-Haul and I drove from Miami all the way to Arizona with all of my stuff because I didn't have a place in New York.
So I just drove it to my mom's house.
And so that kind of whiffed.
And then a couple years later, four years later or something like that, Tim called me and said, Hey, I want to start a show with you now.
Like we tried long before.
I think it's, I'm going to, I'm going to do it myself this time.
I'm not going to, I have the funding myself.
I've been doing well.
So you got to move to New Jersey now.
And I'm like, all right, I guess I'm moving to New Jersey.
Cause I wasn't really doing anything worthwhile.
So I was kind of looking for an opportunity to come my way.
And it's interesting too, the day before, I'm not joking.
The day before Tim called me, I told my wife, I said, I'm going to, I'm going to take any opportunity that comes my way and not let it like fall to the side.
And then Tim called me the next day.
I'm like, there it is.
There it is.
All right.
I'm going to start this podcast with him.
And that's how Timcast IRL started.
I mean, technically, it started long before, years before.
And then, yeah, I started the show with him and it went viral.
Like we were absolutely crushing it.
And then some things happened and I was fired from the Timcast show in August of 2020.
And I really love being on stage.
I love the people that followed me.
I mean, there was a lot of people that supported me immediately after I, after it all happened.
And I have a pretty successful daily show.
I mean, I am not getting the numbers that I used to.
And I also know that YouTube, like we talked about algorithms and how it pushes you down.
And it's like, I think I'm doing as well as I am because of the people that support me because they show up for me and they look, they look for me because they know I'm going to be live without with or without notifications.
They're like, all right, I know Adam's going to be live.
I'm going to his page.
So I don't know.
I'm very grateful for the people that follow me and I really love what I do.
It's a lot of fun.
I get to read about a lot of stuff.
Sometimes I'm frustrated by what I'm reading, but then I get to talk about it.
And yeah, I've Just cranking up, cranking it out now, you know.
He basically made it clear to me that uh, we are not friends, so I'm not, I don't, um, I'm not a victim, you know, I don't have a victim mentality.
I absolutely love my life, I love where I am.
I have my own house now, I have my own show, I have my own audience that supports me.
Um, I have people reaching out to do interviews with me, which is really cool, you know, you know, I couldn't be happier.
I, I, yeah, I didn't want to stop the show.
Um, I think that him and I together offered a really good balance between um of opinions, right?
You know, we didn't often agree, and that's what created such a good dynamic between the two of us.
I enjoyed it, thank you.
And I don't know, it's it's not what he wanted clearly.
You know, I think that um well, I think that um I made him uncomfortable alive, and it's not what he wanted.
I think he wanted to be surrounded by he wanted to be the smartest person in the room.
Well, good, good for him, you know, he has that now.
And I never want to be the smartest person in the room.
I think that's that's such an arrogant style of being, you know, to require that and surround yourself with people that are less than, you know, it's like I want to be surrounded by people that are that that make me better, you know.
Tim, I owe a lot to Tim because I didn't know anything when I started that show with him.
I mean, I know that a lot has changed on these platforms the last since basically since 2016.
It seems like after Cambridge Analytica, all the social media platforms just went like buck wild in terms of updating terms and monitoring content.
Um, and I don't know if it's if it's you know, it was caused by Cambridge Analytica or it's just sort of a coincidence that there was that sort of correlation.
It appears that it catalyzed that behavior from these platforms.
But how was it that, you know, Tim Poole and you were able to just start doing a fucking podcast and blow up?
Because, you know, a million people have tried and failed.
And obviously, the content's great, but there's a lot of people with great content that don't get the exposure.
Well, it was a, it was a combination of multiple things.
Tim is obsessed with understanding the algorithms, like obsessed.
You know, things needed to be perfect.
Things needed to go out on the correct time.
Things needed to be, you know, I know his, I know the style or I know what he does to like, I don't want to say manipulate the algorithm, but use it to his advantage.
And the, you know, and he'd been working YouTube for almost a decade at that point.
And that coupled with the fact that I didn't agree with him, you know, that that because Tim Poole was already well known, right?
And then finally, we have, you have a live show where you can communicate with him where there's someone else there that's actually actively dunking on him.
And like the chat's like, finally, someone to tell him no, right?
Someone to like say the things that other people have been wanting to say.
Like, I don't agree with you, Tim.
And I often didn't agree with Tim.
I, I, I have a very strong standpoint on whatever I think about, right?
I always take a stance and I'm okay with that.
Whereas, you know, he's famously a fence sitter and wants to be like thread the needle.
And it's like, it's very hard to be non-biased nowadays.
It's almost no such thing.
Like no news is really non-biased, right?
I mean, it's there is some very rarely do you find a site just specifically tell you the truth of what's happening without adding some sort of racial bias or skewing it in a certain way.
And sometimes Tim can handle that or do that sometimes.
When it comes to certain aspects of politics, for example, I was very pro-Trump, right?
I was like, he's the only answer.
Like, we need, like, he has been doing a great job.
After I, like, I did a deep dive on Trump and I learned a lot about like his family life, but also his policies.
And I'm like, damn, he's actually like a stellar president.
Like, imagine if the entire government wasn't actively trying to ruin him.
Imagine how much better America would have been then, right?
And I, I don't know.
It was just kind of people were thirsty for knowledge as well.
And Tim is very knowledgeable about a lot of things.
You know, his facts, not his opinion.
I'm talking about like what he factually knows.
So a lot of people came to him for that.
And then, so the podcast, you know, the dynamic that we brought to the board made it more explosive because not only were people getting that knowledge from Tim, they were getting, you know, we had a friendship.
You know, we laughed a lot.
I made fun of him all the time.
You know, he would poke fun at me and it didn't matter because we were friends and we disagreed a lot and we were still friends, right?
That was like, that was, I think, and I actually told him after he fired me, I was like, you know, the shittiest part about this is you're proving everyone that you can't have civil discourse.
You can't disagree with people because you're firing me.
It's basically disproving that.
Like we've been showing everyone that we can disagree.
And at the end of the day, it's, we're still good.
And he basically shit on that.
Right.
And I have actually never said that about what happened, but it's true.
You know, that's that's one of the biggest things that why I didn't want it to end because we were showing people what civil discourse looked like.
Hey, we disagreed all the time, but then we still jammed out every Friday.
You know, we had like some jam nights where we would, he would play some songs, I would play some songs, and it was, uh, it was, it was cool, right?
So, so I'm, I'm going to ask this question, and obviously, you don't have to answer it, but I'd be remiss not to ask.
It makes sense to me that, you know, if someone's trying to build a personal brand and scale a podcast, it makes sense that to me why they would be particular about who they have co-host their show and how it makes them look and whether or not they're, I don't know, it's a conflict of interest to have somebody that's disagreeable, not disagreeable, but you know, disagreeing with you all the time.
But that doesn't explain to me, like, like you said, like why the friendship was extinguished.
You know, why wasn't why wasn't the conversation just, hey, this isn't working out for where I'm trying to take the show, but I'd still love to be friends.
Like, why did it just, why was cold turkey just kind of out of your life?
Yeah, I, I, there, there was, there's a lot that has happened behind the scenes.
Um, and I, it wouldn't benefit me.
You know, I wouldn't be vindicated.
I, I, I feel like a lot of people who followed the entirety of what happened between me and Tim, they kind of already suspect what has happened.
No one knows because a lot more happened than people realize.
Uh, and at the risk of exposing some stuff, like I don't really want to get into the details, but you know, it I, you know, I, I was, I, I was slighted and I don't know.
I don't want to expose it.
I don't want to talk about it.
I mean, it's been so long.
And like for me to, if I am ever going to like explain what happened, I'm going to do it in, I don't know, maybe.
I mean, if, if, you know, going to interview somebody, you know, that's, that is something that a lot of people want to know.
Of course, I wouldn't blame you for asking.
So, um, and I, you can, yeah, I don't want anyone to feel like they can't ask me anything because I'm in control of what I want to say.
So, you know, it's, it's, uh, I'll just say that it's a shame that it happened the way that it happened because I didn't want it to have, I didn't want it to happen.
Um, and I think that I mean, I don't, we, I, we don't follow each other anymore, and I, I really don't care.
I don't need Timpool.
I am very strongly in the Adam Krigler boots.
You know, I'm happy being me.
I'm not trying to beat Tim Pool.
A lot of people have said that, like, oh, he replaced you with Ian and like Ian's like wish.com version of Adam.
And it's like, I lived with Ian.
I mean, I lived with all of them.
So I know that crew.
It's like, you know, Ian is not, we're not the same person at all.
So I, you know, it's, it's demeaning to Ian when people, you know, compare that.
Cause like the dynamic that Tim and I, Tim and I had was very unrivaled.
Like it was a, it was a different show.
It was something it was Tim and Adam, not Timcast.
Right.
And, but this is the thing, like Tim knew exactly what, why he wanted me on his show.
You know, he knew who I was.
We had, we'd known each other for many years before we started that show.
There's a reason he reached out to me.
There's a reason he wanted me to join him because he knows that we had a good dynamic and it, we proved it.
And yeah, you know, it's like we were, we were crushing it.
We were having like 60, 70,000 viewers on a regular day on average.
You know, 500,000 people a day would show up throughout the night of throughout the, throughout the show.
And that was just me and him talking about the news, right?
And it's like, I don't watch the show and I don't really care about the analytics, but people have come up to me and they're like, yeah, like they've only beat your last number, the numbers of your last show with him.
We had 80,000 people that were watching concurrently.
And that's nuts.
80,000 people concurrent.
And it was like almost 600,000 people.
Yeah, you know, and that was just me and Tim chatting about news.
You know, that was it.
It was nothing special.
And it was like Alex Jones came on and they beat that.
And then it was, there was like a Joe Rogan, Alex Jones meetup or something that beat that.
You know, there's like maybe 10 shows since I was fired that beat our best day, just him and I, right?
And it's just like, that sucks, Tim.
Like you've freaking, you know, shot your own show down, you know, but like, hey, man, you're the smartest guy in the room.
You know, I'm hoping, I hope you have a good time.
Now I get to chat with awesome people.
I get to, you know, I get to interview people myself, which I love it.
I get to like hang out and talk to people and find out who they really are.
Tim stole Ian.
Someone in chat said that.
It's actually true.
You know, Tim told me to not have Ian on as a co-host, that he, that he was a threat to my show because he might say something crazy.
And I was like, screw you, dude.
I like Ian.
Like, I'm going to have him as my co-host.
And then I had him on as my co-host for two weeks.
And then one day Ian doesn't show up to my show.
And I'm like, I wonder where Ian's at.
Like, whatever.
I'm just doing my show.
And then I like go upstairs and he's on the fucking Tim show.
And it's like, dude, Tim changed his mind about Ian, I guess.
Yeah, real quick.
So, you know, it's one of the things that's been crazy about these last few years.
And just hearing you talk about what happened with you just sort of reminded me of it is I had a number of incredibly close friends, small number, two or three.
And one even being somebody who I consider to be a really serious mentor of mine, a former high school teacher of mine that I was really close with, high school English teacher, taught me a lot of what I know about how to write and how to use critical thinking.
And he's a big time lefty, you know, but in 2008, when I was in high school, those sort of political differences were less important than today.
And, you know, I texted him 2018 and I was like, hey, I'm going to be back in town.
You want to get together and have a beer?
Because we would do that when I would come back in town.
I moved away as soon as I graduated from high school.
And he's like, I'm not sure.
I'm like, what do you mean?
And basically, he's like, listen, you know, you support Trump and Trump's a white supremacist.
Therefore, you're a white supremacist and wrote me off.
And I'm like, this is like somebody, like, this is somebody who I spent hours.
He was like, he was a lot like Robin Williams in the Dead Poet Society.
So imagine, like, you know, you're endeared to this teacher.
He's a great mentor.
He's a little controversial with the establishment, but just totally enriching.
And then imagine Robin Williams from the Dead Poet Society sending you a text and being like, you know what, I don't think we should talk anymore.
And it's like out of the blue, right?
And I don't even bring up politics necessarily when I'm hanging out with personal friends, especially if I know it's mixed company.
And I just can't believe how we've gotten to a place in our culture where I think maybe for the first time in a substantial way, politics is actually ending relationships.
I mean, like, maybe I'm sure it happened in the Civil War, but politics is ending friendships for the first time in maybe 100 years.
But I, some friends of my one of my best friends' older sister, right?
They're considered family because they were always there.
She was baby.
She was my babysitter when I was a kid.
And like she had some kids and I was Uncle Adam to them for many years.
Like I lived with them.
And, you know, I one day after this, the Tim thing, you know, we're the Magabini, whatever.
And I was like openly stating like, you know, I'm voting for Trump, like proudly going to vote for Trump.
And her brother told me, or, you know, that she had said that I'm not welcome around her kids anymore.
And I'm like, what the hell did how, like, do you, do you think my morals suddenly changed because I'm voting for Trump?
Like, do you think I'm a different person now?
Do because I'm voting for a Republican that I think is doing well for the country.
You know, it's like, yeah, that there was like a switch in her head that suddenly I'm a threat.
Like I'm going to be even talking politics to freaking eight-year-olds, right?
You know, it's like, well, let me tell you kids about Donald Trump.
He's amazing.
You should worship Donald Trump.
Like, you know, like, I don't think I've ever talked politics to even her, let alone her children, right?
I mean, but I suddenly wasn't welcome around her kids anymore.
And it was like, that was a big slap in my face because like I considered her a sister to me.
And it's like, to say that about me without even talking to me, without even, you know, and I, I, as I said, I like, I lived with her, you know, I like, I helped, I babysat her kids, like, I cooked dinner for them.
Like, and it was like a, it was, it was so close.
It was like much closer than, you know, and I even understand your situation, but like to have someone who I considered family cut me off from like seeing, you can't see my kids anymore.
Like I'm protecting my kids from you.
Like I'm some sort of a like a monster now.
You know, and it's like, that's so ridiculous because like all the arguments they have about Trump too have all been debunked.
You know, the racists, the fine people, the Mexican rapists, like all these different like things that they bitch about Trump about, you know, it's like they love his vaccine, though.
All of it.
Okay.
That's true.
And that's one of the things I don't like about Trump.
You know, there, there are things about Trump I don't like, you know?
Man, yeah, you know, I don't know too much about the Snowden thing.
I do, I know a lot more about Assange, but, you know, that's, you know, he pardoned Roger Stone instead of Assange.
And it's like, not that I had any issues with that, but really, though, like, you, Assange, as top of the list right now for me, as far as like who should be released.
But then, you know, the jab, it's like, you know, he's still touting it.
Like, he's so proud of it.
And I'm like, bro, like, I don't think you understand.
Well, I can't say what I want to say because we're on YouTube.
That was always his stance, just in drugs in general, right?
Cancer, whatever.
And I even mentioned it pretty explicitly in one of his State of the Union addresses about some right to try initiatives that he'd been pushed through.
And so I think he could have easily said, listen, Operation Warp Speed was about creating an experimental and quick response to the, you know, to the pandemic.
And it was never intended to be mandated.
It was supposed to just be an option for people who were willing to, you know, try anything to, you know, alleviate their anxiety or mitigate their perceived risk of this pandemic.
Right.
So I'm trying to be very politically correct in the way that I express myself here.
You can't keep it if you can't keep it if you're not worthy of it kind of thing, if you haven't developed the skills and discipline around handling money and business, whatever.
And, you know, I just, even, even though he came up privileged financially, small loan of a million dollars.
Like, you can't keep it if you're not worthy of it.
Like, if my dad would have given me a million bucks, I would not have become a, you know, a multi-billionaire with that.
You know, I'd like to think that I would have made some money off of it and done well, but there's a certain level of intelligence and acumen that's there that is really undeniable.
Now, you can say that he's foolish and he surrounds himself with people that he's a little bit too naive in terms of how he trusts and some of their special interests or incentives may be questionable.
And he may overlook that, but I attribute that to foolishness rather than stupidity.
It's a true story about those early 20-year-old kids that got like a major arms deal during the Iraq war and sold like 100,000 rounds of ammunition to the military that were actually Russian and they are Chinese made and they repackaged them and they got caught.
It's a crazy movie.
It's a crazy movie.
But anyway, there's a scene at the end where Bradley Cooper's character, the main character asks Bradley Cooper's character, hey, like what happened to our chauffeur that disappeared?
And Bradley Cooper's character is like, I'm not a bad man, but sometimes I have to ask myself, what would a bad man do?
And it's like one of my favorite lines in a movie because he's this character that's sort of the bad guy, but also kind of just not a bad guy.
And, you know, I kind of think of that when I think of Trump, like if you're trying to negotiate tax breaks for a building in New York City in the 1970s, like you're going to have to work with the mob and you don't have to be the mob.
You don't have to be a bad person, but you might have to think, what would a bad man do?
I think the leftists on Twitter are finding out what happens when it's an even playing field.
You know, that they're not, they don't have bot support anymore.
They don't have insider support anymore.
I heard a story about how there were some paying 15 grand for blue check marks just to be verified.
And, you know, I've tried to be verified before.
I've had been in articles.
Washington Post wrote an article about my show calling me an extremist, my show, like an extremist haven where people can get together and like, I don't know, vent about, you know, things that have happened in 2020.
We'll just put it that way.
And, you know, I have almost 150,000 followers on Twitter.
And, you know, it's like, all right, well, what does it take to be verified?
You know, I'm a, I'm a public speaker.
You know, I have 180 something subscriber, 180K subscriber base on YouTube.
And, you know, I was, I've been denied many, many times over.
And, but people who are, you know, a thousand followers somehow get verified.
So I'm going to pay the $8 a month.
I'm going to be verified on Twitter because these check marks can go screw themselves.
You know, do you, I'm talking about this tonight on my show.
He's like, these conservatives are acting like leftists on this, these, this banning.
And it's like, except the fact that he's holding the terms of service to everyone's standards.
Like everyone has to hold up to it or they get banned.
And it's like, before it was only one side was getting banned for stuff where the other side could easily get away with everything.
Now the other side is getting hit with it.
And it's like, good, good.
I'm 100% on board with it.
Like, fine.
They were breaking the terms of service, multiple terms of service because blue check marks, if you're a parody account, you're not eligible to even get a blue check mark.
Blue check marks aren't allowed to be parody.
You know, that's stated in the terms of service.
So like the fact that these people were changing to, because it wasn't, it was Ethan Klein.
It was Kathy, Kathy Gifford, Griffin, whatever the hell her name is.
And then a couple other people I saw, but those were kind of like the two big, big accounts that got.
He did this clip because apparently he had like death threats or something after the Jordan Peterson thing.
And there was this clip of him.
He's like, every night when I go to bed, I just fantasize about somebody breaking into my house, going to the closet, unlocking the gun safe, pulling out the gun, loading it, racking it.
And, you know, basically saying that he like fantasized about taking matters into his own hands if someone were to actually try to actualize a death threat.
And it was just like, what the hell is wrong with you, dude?
And he's got his like wife in the background feeding, like feeding a baby.
And this, this guy's just like ranting about how he wishes he could kill somebody breaking into his house.
And I was like, man, this is, there's something wrong with this guy.
Well, because there have been people who were banned purpose, like on with reason that they should have been banned, right?
I mean, there are people that dox others.
There are people that have actually broke the rules, actually called for violence.
And it's like, that's not free speech.
You know, calling for violence and doxing someone and this kind of stuff is shouldn't you shouldn't be let back on you know in that case because that's that's actually causing harm uh where words don't cause harm but when you actually are um doing things that can cause harm then you know you shouldn't be allowed back and i think there was some some way something he said that alluded to me that that's the reason why you know it's like he can't just let everyone back and
and you know have a free for all but like certain people personally i know savannah hernandez she needs to be she needs to have her account back asap um nick ricada needs his account back i mean both of them have been falsely banned for ban evasion which is like none of them did neither of them did you know their first accounts how how do you evade a ban on your first and only account that doesn't make any sense but
these people there's no there's no rules for them they need to get rid of someone they just get rid of them you know um of course trump i although he's got truth now and he has stated that he's not going to return to twitter um which i actually am surprised because you know say what you will about trump he loves the attention he loves attention he is kind of a narcissist and you know i i would be shocked if he chose not to if his account was released
i don't know so i think he'll be making a big mistake but he knows that if you might not go on twitter by not coming back yeah big mistake but he knows that if he comes back dead yeah exactly He knows truth.
But that being said, you know, one of my criticisms of our republic is obviously it wasn't, and I don't know the solution to this or how it could have been done differently, but obviously the way it was set up was too vulnerable to erosion because we should never have gotten to this place now where we have a federal government the size that it is.
We have the government, you know, spying on us, recording our phone calls, text messages, emails.
You know, people like Alex Jones getting sued for GDP for the like equivalent of the GDP for, you know, just because he was wrong about something.
And so obviously it wasn't set up to be impermeable to erosion, like I said.
And I don't know what could have been done differently, but that's my concern is that the nature of the universe, there's like a law of physics of entropy or something where there is no system that has like a recursive healing process that just can't be broken.
Like I don't know if there is such a, I don't know if there is a way for human beings to fathom a form of government that doesn't eventually erode.
Well, I blame Abraham Lincoln a little bit because he to be able to win the civil war and do what he wanted to do, you know, with the emancipation, he needed to give the government power to take, to force essentially his will, which luckily his will was to free everybody, you know, and that's what which is great.
But that power that he gave the government never went away.
It stayed.
And suddenly the federal government was stronger than the states.
And we have to, we, we basically, we just need to realize that actually state government is very powerful and can give the big middle finger to the federal government.
And if they, if enough states started doing that, that's why watching DeSantis basically give an FU to Biden is like, hell yeah, like that's, we can do that.
You know, states' rights is actually important.
It's called United States for a reason, not the America or the government of America.
You know, it's called the United States.
Like we are 50 states united.
And we have to remember that.
We have to.
You know, like I have become rather libertarian over the past year.
I guess two years.
I never really claimed to be Republican, though I voted for Trump.
You know, I always was like, I'm an American who just wants to live my best life.
And I think, I think both sides, Democrat and Republicans, feel like they're morally superior.
And I don't like the attitude of thinking you're morally superior.
It's just a gross taste for me.
Like, that's not a good look.
I don't, I don't like that.
You know, that's an instant turnoff for me.
And I know a lot of people like that.
And, you know, I don't want to be that.
I just will give you my opinion on things.
But the libertarian view of government is have almost no government.
And I'm like, I'm all about that.
But at the same time, I'm a realist and I understand that what's true in America isn't going to be true in China.
It's not going to be true in India.
It's not going to be true in Russia.
There's people all over the planet.
You know, we still need some sort of governing body to communicate with other governing bodies on the planet because we can't just say, well, we're going to like lower government.
So, hey, China, you need to lower your government too.
Like, you know, like we, who are we to say that?
You know, it's like, I don't want to be the world police.
We've been the world police for a long time.
I'm very much against that.
And that's essentially doing the same thing, you know?
Like you can't, you have you're, I mean, we are, we're paying, we're paying taxes on everything.
You get paid, you pay taxes.
You pay, you buy something, you pay taxes on it.
Someone gives you money, you give money away.
It's a taxes, taxes, taxes.
Like it is.
It's theft.
We're living to pay the government.
It's like, that's, that's messed up.
You know, they just, they just switched it all to make it seem like we're free.
Right.
You know, we have the right to go somewhere if we wanted to and not work and not get paid and like, of course, then starve and become homeless or whatnot.
But I don't know.
I agree with that.
But do I think that it would still be around?
I don't know.
I don't know because I feel like it's hard to say because there's a lot of people that are against it and realizing that it's not a good, not good.
I don't think there's a lot of people in America today that would say, you know, slavery, slavery is, you know, a moral and just system.
And that could, that could be because the South lost the war.
And so that had a cultural impact.
Like there was like a shame of it or something.
I don't know.
But I just, I find it hard to believe that slavery would have made it, you know, more than maybe a couple of decades had the South actually won the war.
I'm just disappointed that secession is inextricably linked to slavery and racism in the minds of all Americans because it's just, I don't know, it's unfortunate that we were put in a position as a nation to rule on secession in conjunction with the slavery debate.
Because we sort of ruined secession in the minds of people.
Now it's like, it's just, it comes off evil to want to secede because the only time any states have seceded was, you know, to protect the system of slavery.
Cause, you know, it's, it's, they're sick of, you know, Portland basically making all the decisions for all of the state and the people in the, like, pretty much you leave any city.
I could say this probably on all of America.
You leave any city and it becomes red.
Like it's only people in cities that live, you know, spoiled lives that don't understand what it's like to actually work hard.
Not saying that people in cities don't work hard.
Some people do, but for the most part, you're spoiled when you live in a city.
Well, I have a show on YouTube and Rumble and Odyssey.
You can also find my stuff there, but I only go live on YouTube and Rumble.
And I have been streaming on YouTube and Rumble at the same time, but then I'll cut my show off on YouTube and continue the conversation if I want to talk about specific things that I am not allowed to be fully honest about, which has been very nice.
I can't express how nice it is to be able to fully just speak my mind.
So you could just, if you just follow me on Rumble, you could just watch my full show and not have to change anywhere.
You can also check out my coffee company.
I have my own coffee company.
It's called Kriggler Coffee.
I started it in 2020 and it is the freshest roasted coffee you can get.
It's roasted after you order it.
It's got a roasted on date, not a Best Buy date because you don't know when that was roasted.
Check it out, KriglerCoffee.com.
And I also, I feel like there's something else that, oh, and just Adam Krigler at everywhere.
You can follow me on Instagram, which is very non-politics.
I only actually, it's turned out to just be pictures of my backyard and my cat now.
Although, you know, I post pictures of my adventures, but it's very just like little snippets of things of my life.
So it's not really connected to my Twitter profile.
My Twitter, I'm very spicy on Twitter.
I get very political on Twitter.
But I am going to try to build my locals channel up.
And that's adamkrigler.locals.com.
In fact, I ask like, what do you want me to talk about tonight?
Stuff like that.
You don't have to pay, but you can, of course, support me on locals.
I really like locals and rumble.
They have a rumble actually bought locals, I think, recently.
Yeah, you know, recently.
And I actually had a meeting with them.
And they've got big plans for locals and rumble.
It's really cool.
So yeah, yeah, check me out tonight on my show, every Monday night, actually.
It's called Baystaff Mondays.
I have an awesome group of guys, Andreas Exerdas, Georgia Giantslater, Quarter Black Garrett, Darth Call, and Flawedzilla join me every Monday.
And we just, it's called Baystaff Monday, and we have a lot of fun.
We just kind of rant about stuff.
We're obviously going to talk about this whole Twitter banning stuff.
And I'm actually going to talk about this Oregon seceding to Idaho, which is kind of just awesome because I love to see it.
They're sick of the politics, the Democratic politics.
And yeah, we're going to talk a little bit.
Tomorrow, I'm joining Sticks Hex and Hammer on his channel after my show for the live breakdown of the election because it's election day tomorrow.
