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Feb. 9, 2024 - The Culture War - Tim Pool
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The Culture War #50 Pro Skater CUT For Being White, Skateboarding GOES WOKE

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tim pool
- You got a lot of industries that are going woke.
And a lot of people, I know most people who watch the shows we do, they don't skateboard.
They don't know that much about it because it's not the biggest industry.
I mean, if we're talking about football, it'd be easy.
But we've got a couple of really interesting stories as it pertains to a major sporting event, an Olympic sporting event, and how it's pushing female skateboarders out, and also how it's becoming increasingly racist.
Quite literally telling people that you're white, you can't be involved in a certain campaign or something like that.
That's actually our lead story.
But I also think we'll definitely get into women's sports in general.
So this is kind of like a round two.
Skateboarding, of course, is kind of the sporting linchpin because I've been doing most of my life.
We got some skateboarders in the house, some pro skateboarders.
And we'll do our best for all of you who are listening to translate and try and tone down the esoteric nature of talking heavy sports.
But for those that are interested, I think this is not about skateboarding.
It's just about a major sport.
It's the Olympics.
And it's about how we're seeing female skateboarders be pushed out.
It's about how we're seeing the industry get taken over.
And what I find really fascinating about this... First, I'm biased because I skate.
I see this more than anybody else.
But I do think this matters because skateboarding is a small industry.
It's a big sport, it's an Olympic sport like I mentioned, but it is relatively small in terms of its market share.
And this means it was very easy to inject politics into, but also really fragile.
So my view, I honestly think that a lot of this woke expansion into skateboarding has destroyed it.
And I think one of the reasons we're seeing brands fail is because of it.
You know, when you've got people who are inspired to be the best athletes being shut out in favor of, say, a male wearing a dress doing a trick that is not even considered to be of good merit, well then no one actually cares about the sport.
It's just about...
Posing.
I'll say it just like this.
The history of the word poser.
You guys ever hear this one?
Maybe an urban legend, but it's somebody who took a skateboard, posed on it, took a picture, and it was fake.
They weren't actually doing the cool maneuver.
And so people was like, you're posing.
You're a poser.
And that's what we're seeing now.
Instead of seeing the coolest trick, get the big ad, get the news, and inspire people, or like, instead of seeing the best maneuver, the 10 out of 10, we're starting to see A random person who's not that good, but they have the right pronouns, or they're wearing the right clothes, or they fit the diversity narrative.
So, we got a couple homies hanging out.
Mike, do you want to introduce yourself first?
unidentified
What's up?
I'm Mike Poley.
Originally from Connecticut, live in New York City now.
Skating.
Just a regular human.
Gay white male.
tim pool
Gay white male.
It's not good enough anymore, though.
unidentified
Yeah, it's definitely not good enough anymore.
I'm not checking out boxes.
tim pool
I got your pro model here from Shutt.
This means he was.
I guess in skateboarding you have like the title of pro.
unidentified
I guess once you get one you're still considered pro, but I mean it's not in rotation anymore.
I think they dropped the whole team like a year ago, I'd say.
Just due to like financial woes.
tim pool
Plus you have, for those that aren't familiar, Probably the largest brand in core skateboarding.
So like the community, the barracks, which is a private skate park is just torn down.
They said they were moving, but they didn't announce where they're moving to.
I don't even know if they have a location.
Their website briefly drops.
unidentified
So yeah, they're like alluding that they're going to come back, but they, they, they discontinued their, their website or whatever.
tim pool
It's back up, but they haven't been posting, but we'll get into that too.
So, uh, we also got Taylor Silverman hanging out.
unidentified
What's up, guys?
I'm Taylor Silverman.
I work out here at TimCast on the show Boonies HQ.
And I think you could say I'm like the most hated woman in skateboarding at this point, right?
tim pool
I have a lot to say on that.
But Taylor, of course, for those that don't know, spoke out after male skateboarders competed in female sporting events and took the prize money From her, and then Colin Wright, I guess, found the story?
He saw your post?
unidentified
Well, it was originally Christina Buttons wrote the story, and he shared it.
tim pool
Oh, right on.
unidentified
And then I think that's how you saw it.
tim pool
Then I saw it, and I was like, I will give you the difference.
And I was like, I will give you the award for what you should have got for first place.
And then I think, like, we did the numbers wrong, I gave you extra or something, but whatever, we'll take it.
unidentified
I'm not complaining that you gave me a little extra, but... Then we got Dennis hanging out.
What's up?
Dennis.
What do you do?
I do photo video work and shoot the skating show, The Boonies, with Taylor and Richie Jackson.
Which, Richie fell off his e-bike last night and it hurt his shoulder.
Maybe broken, but that's why I'm here.
tim pool
It's funny because, you know, I was talking to him this morning.
He's like, dude, I think I broke my shoulder.
I can't come in.
I was like, how?
And he's like, I was just getting off my bike in the driveway and fell.
unidentified
I watched it happen.
It didn't look that bad.
If anything, I thought he hurt his leg more, but he looked like he was pretty rough.
I know, I was kind of excited to meet a unicorn of skateboarding.
tim pool
Well, we'll get him in here at some point later today, he just can't come in early to come on the show.
unidentified
What I don't understand is how he hit a deer on the bike going like 40, like what, less than a week ago and was fine, and then he like falls because he didn't put the kickstand down and now he's out.
tim pool
That's like a joke in skateboarding?
That you can try the hardest trick, everyone in the whole world's watching live, and then you'll try it 50 times and you'll slam, you'll slam, you'll land it, everyone claps and cheers, but then you hop off a curb, slip, fall, break your ankle.
unidentified
Yeah, always on the dumbest, easiest thing.
tim pool
Right.
So I think, you know, how this all started is because we did an episode with Richie.
And we were talking about what's happening with the industry and the community in terms of wokeness, the culture war, online fighting, which I think is really fascinating.
And I asked the audience, like I said early, we'll try and separate a lot of the esoteric out of this and focus just on like...
Being online, being in opposition to the woke culture stuff, and what it means as a professional industry, what they're doing and how they're doing it to people.
So this means like women's sports, racist policies, and I definitely want to get into the astro-turfing that I see going on in an attempt to try and steal what skateboarding is.
And so replace skateboarding with any pro sport and, you know, understand it that way because I understand it can get a little in the weeds, but let's start here.
Mike, tell your story about how you were too white.
unidentified
It's a cool thing for skateboarders to get little campaign gigs or whatever.
Some company is doing some ad campaign, you get a little bit of extra money on the side.
You're able to like not work as much and like skate.
I mean, I have a full-time job now.
I was just hyped to get a little bit of extra cash.
So one of my friends was asked to recruit some skateboarders for an LGBTQ Snipes campaign that I think happened a year, a year and a half ago.
tim pool
So what is Snipes?
unidentified
Snipes is like some...
Like, basically a footlocker.
Like, a new footlocker, like, shoe store.
I guess they were trying to be cool and, like, attach themselves to skateboarding or whatever.
tim pool
But, um... And so the first thing that I find funny here is they're like, yo, we wanna do an ad campaign, they gotta be gay.
unidentified
Exactly.
And I'm like, alright, I'm hyped, like, I don't necessarily, like, make that my whole entire personality, but yeah, like, that's who I am.
So I'm like, yeah, I'd love to do that.
I'd love to get a little bit of extra money.
He's like, all right, cool.
Like, let me tell him that you're down, blah, blah, blah.
Basically comes back like an hour later and is like, dude, they're like, why is he white?
And then he's like, maybe you could just like lie and say like you're Puerto Rican or something.
I'm like, well, I mean, like I'm kind of like a ginger, so I don't know how that's going to like,
really work and and so I just never ended up getting the campaign and then some kid that I actually know got in I don't know if he replaced me but he was one of the people in the campaign and I guess he identifies as LGBTQ but this dude like he like has a girlfriend has a kid like lives his life pretty much as like a straight human it's just he checked The race box or whatever you want to say.
tim pool
But he's not gay or LGBT or what?
unidentified
No, he identifies as LGBTQ.
Like, I guess he's like bi, but like, I know he has- Also not white.
Yeah, exactly.
tim pool
That's so wild.
unidentified
It's like- Is this ad like online somewhere?
Can we pull it up?
I'm sure it is.
I don't know if you could like... How long ago was it?
Maybe like a year or two ago.
I know like maybe Harold Hunter Foundation could have been partially involved in recruiting some people.
More than Pride Snipes?
Yeah, that's probably it.
tim pool
Oh, is that it?
unidentified
All right.
I don't know.
Was it a commercial or just like a photo shoot?
Do you know?
I think it was like an Instagram like ad campaign, probably.
Oh, like maybe the videos on Instagram?
Yeah, on their Instagram.
I probably should have just like investigated a little more.
tim pool
Why is he white?
unidentified
You're too white to be gay.
That threw me off.
Honestly, I thought Snipes was a cool store and then you come back and say that to me.
I will never spend a dollar at that place.
Are you kidding me?
tim pool
This is the way everything's been going though.
unidentified
Yeah, it's like go woke, go broke.
How many bridges are you going to burn to say that you're being inclusive when all you do is not include people?
tim pool
I'd like to give this opportunity to shout out Mark Cuban.
And how about anybody who's interested, take a clip of that and share it with them.
Because I don't know if you follow on X. I'm trying hard not to say Twitter, but it's like... You still type Twitter in and it goes... Right, right.
But Mark Cuban's saying this stuff doesn't happen.
No one is passing over, you know, the right person for it because they want to find diversity or whatever.
And it's like, They're quite literally happening all the time.
You have people who are, like, have the merit, have the worth, and are what they're looking for, but then behind the scenes, they'll be like, nah, we don't want white people.
unidentified
Yeah, and then, yeah, it's like a whole thing, too.
Like, my friend was telling, I don't want to, like, throw, I don't want to, like, burn bridges, but basically, I heard even, like, Supreme, like, the people at the top of, like, Supreme were like, don't hire any more white people for the store.
tim pool
It's wild because it's all illegal.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Like, actually, you might have a big lawsuit.
unidentified
I mean, if I wanted to go that route, I mean... That's the challenge, though.
tim pool
Nobody does.
unidentified
It's like, and then it's like, they have, like, I'm just like a regular person with, like, a regular job.
Like, they have, like, a whole corporation behind them, like, probably already have, like, lawyers on deck, like, ready to, like, shut anybody down.
tim pool
That's why we need Elon Musk.
unidentified
I'm like, you could have just gave me the 700 bucks and called it a day.
That's all you gave people anyway.
What I don't understand about the logic is it's all aimed to be inclusive and anti-racist, but it always ends up being racist.
There's no self-awareness of what they're actually doing.
You say all these things like we want to be included, we're being inclusive, we want to be included in these things, we're not racist, like we coexist with people and then like the moment that someone doesn't agree with you, you say all these like media hype terms that like oh you're a fascist, oh you're a white supremacist, oh you're this, oh you're that, like when in reality it's like Who's actually doing that?
You guys are.
You guys are exactly what you say you aren't.
I think what people have the problem with is no one actually cares how you live your life.
It's like when you start telling people they're this or that, when you're actually that, you have no self-awareness on it.
tim pool
Yeah, you've posted like rainbow flags and stuff haven't you?
Yeah, it was just like a wake-up call for you all of a sudden You're like if you're when when you go to it's all it's all one bug one big umbrella.
You know what I mean?
Yeah Like now you go to down on Frederick for instance and they've got the progress pride flag flying on a bunch of these different stores They got one with like the American Eagle in the middle of it.
That's that's creepy Like for you when this happened did that kind of like was like a smack in the face?
unidentified
Yeah I mean like I was like how you what like how you got me all hyped up just to tell me like I'm not good enough like you if if you they were just telling you to recruit LGBTQ people like well like I'm that like and then and then you go back and they're like no you're like why is he white it's like alright like so why didn't you just say that from the jump instead of like getting people involved like Isn't it kind of like the fact that they were looking for LGBTQ in the first place?
I guess they didn't tell their scout and he picked a white guy and got chewed out for it.
tim pool
But I mean it's kind of the same thing.
Imagine someone being like, oh, there's this new shoe campaign, and you're good at skating, you can get a trick in it, and they come back and they go, how come he's straight?
You know what I mean?
unidentified
That's what I'm wondering, if there was even any skating in the edit, because you would have actually done well, and I just, the way that, you know, most of these kids, they're not doing a whole lot.
I wonder if there's actually any skating in the edit.
It's just a great clip of somebody pushing down a sidewalk.
It probably is.
tim pool
That's what it is.
It's wild, I mean, You know, I was talking about this in, like, 2018, that we will come to the point where wokeness is not just in video games.
Alright, so this is the thing, like, back then we have, you know, you're coming off GamerGate in, like, 2013, wokeness in video games and stuff like this.
And then I said, just wait until this starts getting into major league sports, because they will, because the rules are arbitrary, like, in that we make them up.
Sooner or later, they're gonna come out and be like, why aren't basketball teams half women?
Look, we made the rules, right?
So let's just change the rules.
So that's inclusive and diverse.
Of course, I don't think they'll ever, you know, cause people are making fun of Mark Cuban.
Cause he's like diversity.
And they're like, how can your basketball team's not diverse?
You made this short Asian woman to play on your team.
He won't do it.
And so then he tries to like hem and haw and like make excuses.
But with people like Mark Cuban, I would not be surprised when the pressure campaign comes to him and they're like, oh, you really do believe in diversity, equity, and inclusivity?
Okay, then lead the way.
We want to change the rules of the NBA and make it so that all NBA teams have to be half men, half women.
And then what are they going to do?
Is Cuban going to come out and be like, no, I oppose this.
unidentified
Yeah, when it starts affecting, like, you personally, like, that's when, like, people, like, start changing their tone about it.
Like, same thing with, like, the Martha, like, different topic, but when they sent a bus to, like, Martha's Vineyard or whatever, and it's like... A plane, I think, right?
It's like they all probably had like or like they're talking like oh no one's legal no one's this no one's that Probably had like the little things the little flags on their thing like state like, you know, like the political No people are illegal until they're in my yard No, you guys got it like send them back like the same day it's like I think I think I Well, I'll stop, I'll stop.
tim pool
I think it's possible we go to a future where this kind of stuff starts happening, where it's like, the NFL has to have women now, you know, and they're gonna be like, we can just do it.
unidentified
But- It's like the UFC boxing too, it's like- But I do think- Man, that's, it's happening in boxing.
They just changed the rules for USA boxing to- Olympics?
Allow for men who identify as women to compete or to box women.
And then there was like in MMA, this was happening.
tim pool
Dude, it's like, do you want to watch a male beat a woman?
unidentified
I mean, if we could bet on it, I guess.
tim pool
That's crazy.
The, the, when that news came out, the joke on Twitter, everybody was like, you're going to get what?
Like minus one, minus 10,000 EV.
Like, do you guys know sports betting?
So like.
unidentified
Not really.
tim pool
For one, you'll, you'll bet for every $10,000 you bet, you win 10 cents.
Like because literally no one's gonna bet on the woman to beat the man.
unidentified
Oh yeah.
tim pool
So it's just like you know maybe it's a value bet you bet on the female to win it could happen and then you might win like a dollar wins you ten grand.
unidentified
I just picture Andy Kaufman in a onesie like I'm from Hollywood!
Just pinning women.
And people were mad when he did it as a joke and now it's happening for real and people are like this is great.
It's definitely like this whole world is like just turning into a South Park episode.
Yeah.
It's hard to differentiate satire from reality at this point.
tim pool
I do think we're winning though, right?
I've said it like 27 times this week, but Shane Gillis is hosting Saturday Night Live, and five years ago, SNL fired him because he had edgy jokes.
He did an Asian accent, and I think he said a slur for Asians or whatever, but he was making a joke, he was doing a bit, and they were like, okay, that's it, you're fired.
Now they don't care.
They, now they're like, okay, he's going to host the show, which is, wow.
And then a bunch of media outlets tried canceling him for, we've resurfaced all of his offensive jokes.
Nobody, they don't care.
He's still hosting.
unidentified
Yeah.
But that's like what makes comedy what comedy is.
It's like, you have to talk about the stuff that's ridiculous.
You got to like push like boundaries with things.
It's like, not that like I'm trying to like incite violence against people.
It's just like actually funny when you like break it down.
And like, just make it like a joke, like what it should be, you know?
tim pool
So there's a story that we talked about last night, but I wanna bring it up now and get, you know, everyone here's take on it, especially Taylor.
unidentified
Oh God, I've seen this.
tim pool
Yup.
Five transgender students dominate volleyball court at a women's college varsity game as biological females are kicked down the bench.
So I don't know how many people saw this one, but you've got, The females are the substitutes who didn't actually compete, according to the reports.
And the roster that was active on the court were biological males competing against females.
unidentified
It's literally Lady Ballers.
It literally is a movie.
That's so insane.
tim pool
But actually it looks like...
There was- there was two on one team and three on the other.
So it's like, not- it's not just like five trans women destroyed a female team, it was like both teams had males on the women's team.
unidentified
Yeah, so the team with more dudes won.
Have you guys seen the Rebel News coverage of this?
There's a guy who he goes and films on-site when this stuff is happening.
He goes like sticks the mic in people's face.
I think his name is David Menzies.
He is awesome.
Check him out if you haven't and he's hilarious.
Like he went to a rugby match where there's a guy just tackling women and starts asking people about it.
Did the guy pick the girl up and like slammed her?
And it was like a soccer match or something?
Rugby!
tim pool
This is South Park!
I'm not trying to be mean!
South Park did this!
This is wild.
unidentified
And what was crazy about this volleyball game is he's there trying to talk to coaches, trying to talk to anybody, and they're all just like pushing him away and they're like calling him a bigot.
And there are people who are like fans who are watching who are screaming at him like just calling him all sorts of crazy names like just fuming heads and they weren't even able to hear what he was saying they're just like seeing red because he's even brought up that this is silly.
It's just also insane.
There's five people on the volleyball team and they're all men identifying as women.
If you could replace the whole starting lineup, you obviously have enough people to do your own thing.
Why do you have to intrude on something that's supposed to be for women?
You can have a trans volleyball team and compete against other trans people.
It's like, maybe years ago when it wasn't in everyone's face or radar, it seemed like there wasn't that many people.
Oh, there's plenty.
That were trans, but now that you're seeing it more and more, there's enough people to do what you need to do.
It would defeat the point.
It would defeat the point if they just played against each other.
Well, yeah, they don't want to have a fair contest.
They want to dominate.
It's about dominance.
tim pool
I think it's really, really simple.
Women love this stuff.
unidentified
Hey, don't loop all of us into that.
I know a lot of them do.
tim pool
It's a generality, because we've got no issue in, I mean, Super Bowl, I'm so excited.
Super Bowl Sunday.
It's gonna be fun.
Although everybody who lives out here is super pissed that the Ravens didn't make it, so shout out to all the Maryland homies, because every time you bump into somebody, they're just like, I'm not watching that!
They're so mad.
But it's gonna be fun, and I got no issue.
I mean, the only issue we got going on at Super Bowl right now is that Taylor Swift is going to be there and everyone's complaining about it.
But this is never going to affect major... It's like, on the issue of... So are the Chiefs going to win?
Oh dude, I'm betting on the Chiefs.
unidentified
13, 13, 13, 13.
Or like whatever the conspiracy is.
33.
tim pool
What is that, 33?
unidentified
Just something about the Taylor Swift, like 13.
Like 13 hours to fly there.
There's a lot of 13s around here.
49ers is 13.
tim pool
I bet on Kelsey for a big game MVP.
I got him for a touchdown.
I got Moneyline to win.
Apparently you can bet on him to propose to Taylor Swift too, but I couldn't find that one.
I think it's in Vegas.
But anyway, here's my point.
We can sit here and there's no concern that there's going to be like a trans man in the NFL and we're going to be like, dude, the Chiefs are going to lose because they've got like on their roster as a player who's not reaching the same level as other players.
Not going to happen.
And so then you look at women's volleyball.
You know, like Family Guy made the joke about the WNBA.
When they were watching, I don't know if you guys ever saw this one, it's actually really great.
And they were like, you know, so-and-so is going down the court, makes the shot and misses, that's why she commands $10,000 a year.
And they're like, but is it really worth being so unattractive?
That's for the fan to decide.
And just one guy in the audience going, yay!
So like, you know, they get roasted.
But so when I'm watching all these videos, like you were mentioning of Rebel, It's a bunch of women and they're like, leave him alone.
unidentified
And it's like, it's oftentimes the women who are, who are backing this up and it's crazy.
And a lot of them are like, we're feminists and men are the best women who we must protect.
The logic is so twisted.
It's like, what are you going to do when all your spaces are taken?
And I think I think what women like it as in general a big downfall of a lot of women is that it is more important to them to be perceived as nice and likable and agreeable than it is to have self-respect you know I wonder I wonder if there's like.
tim pool
Maybe just evolutionary psychology, women are focused on men, and so this is why this stuff works for them.
Now, you know, women's sports starts getting dominated by males, and it is mostly women who are voting for this and in favor of this.
Like, if you look at voting demographics, guys don't vote for this stuff, but guys probably don't vote for women's sports for the most part because they're not watching it.
unidentified
Yeah, but I think that there are men who think they don't have a dog in this fight, but then think about fathers who have girls.
They're pissed about this.
There's a lot of men speaking up.
There's a lot of men who are athletes who know there's a huge difference between male and female in athletics.
Yeah, I think even Bruce Jenner, I mean Caitlyn Jenner has spoken out about that.
You can call him Bruce.
Yeah, has spoken out about that too.
They would never compete in the women's golf tournament.
I don't think they would even be allowed.
He did accept an award for woman of the year though.
Yeah, the first year he was a woman.
tim pool
Yeah, it's so weird.
unidentified
There are a lot of people who are like trans identifying who think this is all bullcrap and like they think that this is just dragging their names through the mud that there's a small group of people saying that everyone agrees with us.
That's also what I have a problem with with like the LGBTQ community and how I can't really fully like get on board with it and it's like I'm kind of embarrassed to be associated with it because it's all like a group think scenario.
It's like as soon as you come out as gay you have to like think, act, dress exactly how everyone else does.
It's like, why can't there just be a regular gay person like being represented in these spaces?
Like, why does it all have to be some fringe, someone wearing a dress or a skirt or like doing whatever it is to be like the most extreme.
It's like, there's plenty of regular just gay dudes or regular gay women that just go about their lives.
And they should be represented too.
It's not right to make assumptions about an entire group.
It's like Joe Biden saying, if you don't vote for Biden, you ain't black.
He does it with black people.
It happens with all groups and it's never accurate to put everyone in one category.
Thank you.
tim pool
I'll tell you the fastest way to actually make a big change in all this would be to start petitioning and getting everybody on board with demanding the NFL split their teams half-men half-women.
Like, you gotta have your team half-female on the field at all times.
How many players do that?
How many linebackers that are women?
How many players are on the field at any moment?
I'm not a big football guy.
unidentified
22?
tim pool
For the whole thing?
unidentified
Yeah, for the whole field.
It's 22, 11 on each side.
All these skateboarders just look to Calvin.
I was gonna just guess 20, but I don't know.
tim pool
So then, like, imagine if the rules were forced to change.
Imagine if you got all of the left to start demanding representation and diversity in the Super Bowl.
Like, could you imagine what it would be like if it was split 50-50?
unidentified
You know, I don't think that would happen because the second that it did impact men unfairly, people would be like, no, no, no.
But when it happens to women, they're like, eh, it's just women.
tim pool
I don't know, look at Mark Cuban.
Like, let's demand that the Mavericks have women on their team.
And look, Mark, you know, he's posted and he's like, I'm not saying you don't hire the best person for it.
You just find the best person who can also have these characteristics.
Ain't no rule in the NBA saying you can't be a woman.
This is true.
unidentified
I think most men's sports are technically, like, open.
Like, there's been female kickers in football.
tim pool
Well, they've never actually had one, but they've tried.
unidentified
Not in the NFL, but it's happened in college.
It's happened in high school.
tim pool
Did you see when the team lost?
You know the story, right?
unidentified
There's no women's football team here.
tim pool
They had a female kicker and they lost.
And the dudes were, like, crying.
unidentified
I remember there was a kicker that tried out for the...
tim pool
The NFL combine and hurt herself on the attempt and right only thing and now there's NFL There's women referees and that's been a big deal There was a there was a story where I was like a college team or might have been a high school team I think and they had like the first female player and they lost and the dudes are all like on the verge of tears because it's like Dude, you're you're you're look with all due respect major league sports All the big games, they do not have rules barring women.
Colleges, I believe, do.
Like, you know, college basketball, it's specifically like the men's division or whatever.
But, NBA.
Ain't nothing stopping Mark Cuban from finding the best person who happens to be a woman.
That's his logic, right?
This is how you know these people are full of it.
And that's why I say, we should get a petition going.
We gotta find our- I bet we could get a bunch of woke people and leftists to agree with us and actually campaign for this.
To make the point.
Alright Mark Cuban, I wanna see three women on your basketball- on the Mavericks.
Why not?
He can find women who are good at basketball, right?
How about the best in the WNBA could be on his team?
And put him out there on the court.
unidentified
Yeah, they should try it out.
tim pool
They should.
unidentified
See what his bottom line starts getting affected and then he's going to change his tune.
tim pool
No, he won't.
You know why?
Because he'll go to Vegas and he'll bet against his own team.
unidentified
That's true.
tim pool
Like the odds will be really bad, but it's free money, right?
unidentified
The crazy thing too about the whole diversity, equality and inclusion thing is like now, I mean, besides the fact that I've heard that it's starting to implode, but like they're starting to like reach even further, like where they're trying to like hire like airplane pilots that like where they're trying to like hire like airplane pilots that are like possibly like can't fly Hiring based on race rather than race.
No, like, even, like, even, like, disability.
Like, we just have to have, like, some crazy, like... We need blind pilots!
Exactly.
Be inclusive!
Somebody tweeted that, I can't remember.
tim pool
We just had a collision.
Two jet blue planes.
I love it, because one story is, like, collide, and the other story is, like, touched.
- Well, either way, I mean, those things are not taken off the ground.
And yeah, that's like a very scary story when you're starting to get a lot of this stuff, especially with the Max 9 planes that are built wrong.
unidentified
Dude, it's, you know what, man? - I've heard that they pretty much can fly themselves, but at the end of the day, like you don't, you want someone that like knows what they're doing is like very, very on top of what they're doing when they have like two, 300 passengers I've seen the commercial.
I think it's Virgin Air or something, and it's, like, you can tell the whole entire commercial is just, like, drag queens and stuff, like, or people cross-dressing or whatever you want to call it.
Right.
Oh, yeah.
And it's a horrible commercial.
It's, like, yeah, that's how I pick my flights is by the flight attendants being gay.
Like, that's why, that's how I pick my flights.
Even though they already were.
Like, all the males.
Yeah, right?
Exactly.
tim pool
But did you see the video?
unidentified
We already knew.
Yeah.
tim pool
You see the viral video where there's three women crying on a plane because it was an all-female flight deck?
Yeah.
unidentified
They were scared for their lives?
tim pool
No, they were crying with joy!
And then they went and got a picture with the female flight crew, and it's just like... First of all, dude, I gotta be honest.
I get on a plane, and I hear a woman's voice, and I don't think anything.
In fact, I don't even listen.
unidentified
I get off the plane.
tim pool
I don't care!
I don't care.
Here's what I do when I get on a plane.
unidentified
Can you fly the plane?
Okay, thank you.
tim pool
Whatever, I don't know.
unidentified
Will you get me there safe?
tim pool
Dude, when I was a little kid, You know, the first time I flew, it's kind of scary.
And I'm just thinking to myself, there's planes flying every day.
And your worst case scenario is, what is it, like a minute or two as the plane's going down?
And then you just, and then you're gone.
And you know, it's not your fault.
So my attitude is kind of just like, I'm on a plane.
It's to the wind, baby.
Like if this, it is what it is.
unidentified
I think you're more likely to get in like a car crash than you are a plane crash.
tim pool
But that question is like, is that true now?
unidentified
Yeah, if we just start hiring anybody to fly planes.
tim pool
I sit down on the plane, I put on my headphones, I turn on my steam deck, and I play Baldur's Gate, and all I hear in the background is... And I'm just like, I don't know orc hair, dude.
To the wind with ye.
Like, if the plane goes down, I'm just like... But, you know, at a certain point.
But I think it's funny because... Look, I assume if the pilot's female, she can fly the plane.
I don't know.
But it's starting to change, like we don't know if that's the case anymore.
unidentified
You know what, industry is really getting impacted by DEI with men taking women's positions.
That's really unfortunate.
Underwear and swimsuit modeling.
That's crazy.
tim pool
Well, Sports Illustrated basically just- Don't Google it.
unidentified
You're going to have to wash your eyes out.
I warned you.
tim pool
Well, Sports Illustrated is like gone.
unidentified
Of course there is.
tim pool
Yeah.
Well, it's just, it's, they're, they're, they're putting males in like female clothing.
unidentified
Victoria's Secret, I think.
tim pool
No, they, they backtracked.
That's why I'm saying we're winning.
And, you know, a few years ago I was like, man, if this goes to major league sports, you're going to get a riot.
Could you imagine if, like, the Chiefs announced right now, two days before the Super Bowl, to be inclusive, they were gonna bring on four women onto the team to make a point, and then said something like, it's not about winning, it's about being inclusive.
Yo, there'd be riots.
unidentified
Like, why did I back you guys this whole season?
tim pool
Oh, people pull their bets?
unidentified
That's exactly what they're telling women when a dude shows up to a contest and you're like, I worked pretty hard to be here and I would actually like a chance at earning this money and, you know, placing.
And they're like, no, it's more important that you be inclusive because this person's so oppressed that they get to do whatever they want all the time.
tim pool
Shout out to Family Guy again.
They did this joke where, what is it?
It's Quagmire's dad is a trans woman.
unidentified
He's like, no watching porn at the bar.
He's like, oh, I'm trans.
I go, okay, just do whatever you want all the time.
tim pool
Just do whatever you want all the time.
And then walks away.
unidentified
Wow.
That's basically how it is.
It's like, and then like, you know, and they come and like try and shut you down for like thinking differently.
tim pool
So I want to pull up this story.
This is from them.us.
Leo Baker left the Olympics behind.
Now he's making a space for trans skateboarders.
I've talked about Leo.
I got no beef, but I think it's important to bring up because this is a like a serious issue that affects a lot of people.
And I think it's negative for female skateboarders.
And so the issue here is that Leo was born lacy.
Female skater.
One of the best.
One of the best in the world.
And at some point, Lazy decided that they were trans and would go by he-him and be called Leo.
But kept competing in female leagues.
And so the question is, when it comes to women's sports, If they're saying like, oh, a trans woman is a woman, therefore they can compete in the Women's League, then how come a trans man was competing in the Women's League too?
It doesn't make sense.
unidentified
Well, didn't she stop competing at one point?
tim pool
And then Leo stops.
At first, stops saying he, him, and said, no, no, no, I'm non-binary, it's they, them.
unidentified
Yeah, let's switch it up.
He, him's not cool anymore.
Gotta take it a step further.
tim pool
I know it's gonna piss off a lot of people, I know.
Because I know there's a lot of mutual friends.
But I believe that Leo only did that to justify competing in the women's league as someone who is trans.
Because you can't call yourself a man and compete against women.
And so, okay, you got a problem here.
They-them.
I'm non-binary now.
Okay, still, I would argue this.
Nah.
Women's and men's.
He, him, she, her.
You can call yourself whatever you want, but you've excluded yourself based on your own ideology.
unidentified
Exactly.
tim pool
Now, what's happened is Leo quit the Olympics.
Which is crazy.
One of the top female skaters in the world, trans or otherwise, quitting the Olympics.
You know why?
You can't have a male identifying individual, someone identifying as a man, competing against women.
It doesn't fit the ideology because if trans men are men, then you gotta compete in the men's division.
Yeah, but there there is no reality where Leo Baker has the skills to compete against a 13 I'm gonna say a 13 year old boy Yeah, as an adult top like peaked out female skater will never compete at the skill level Especially how good like kids are nowadays at skating.
unidentified
It's like ridiculous like oh We pulled up Jinwoo.
I was gonna say.
I was just thinking about Jinwoo, because I always thought it was a girl.
Me too.
And it's a little boy.
The first time I saw a video of him, for a second, I was like, holy shit.
Yeah, I was like, it's a little girl R.I.P.S.
And I was like, oh, of course.
Every time I think some girl R.I.P.S., it's not a girl.
That's no hate on him.
It's just when you're little, it's hard to tell.
Yeah, sure.
But this is... Well, I don't know.
It might be his mom, you know, doing stuff too.
tim pool
No, but it's... Jinwoo's... Japanese?
unidentified
Yeah, but we got the Nyjah fit.
It's like hard to like tell.
Yeah, practically skate pantyhose.
tim pool
They're pre-pubescent!
No beard!
unidentified
You got the hair and the ponytail.
You know how many little boys I know who skate around the parks around here and they got long hair and someone will go up to them and be like, oh, what a cute girl.
I've been called a woman like three times this year by accident.
Just someone like, hey, ma'am, can you grab that?
I'm like, oh, sorry.
I don't care.
tim pool
You're misgendered!
unidentified
Yeah, I know, and I say that too, but I don't care.
It's just funny as hell every time.
It's sir!
It is sir!
tim pool
The end result of all of this is that females are just out of sports.
unidentified
Yeah, it's always women who take the end of it that they get screwed.
tim pool
Leo Baker identifies not as female, so Leo's out of the Olympics, out of pro sports, and gone.
And still one of the best female skateboarders in the world, but nope.
unidentified
Is Baker on, like, testosterone and stuff that would be considered performance-enhancing drugs in a contest like the Olympics?
I don't think so.
I mean, he has a mustache, so it comes from somewhere.
Some women have mustaches naturally.
Yeah, I never did before, though.
I, uh, I just sent you the Snipes thing to your Instagram.
Oh, you found it?
Yes, I had my friend that was in the campaign send it to me.
I was trying to, like, scroll through.
The homie looking out, watching live.
I should tell him I'm live right now.
tim pool
But is this even, oh, it is.
Wow, dude, I'm gonna pull this one up.
Hit that Instagram.
Let me do this.
What is going on?
Oh, that's super annoying.
All right, let's see if I can pull up.
unidentified
I guess it was like skateboarding involved with other different.
tim pool
I don't even know how to pull up messages on this thing.
How do we even do that?
I have no idea.
unidentified
It's the little message bubble with the number three.
tim pool
Oh, is that it?
unidentified
It's Facebook combined with Instagram DMs.
tim pool
Oh, it's so dumb.
All right, let's pull this thing up and it's gone.
What are you doing?
Okay, hold on.
There's no like direct link to it.
unidentified
What's going on?
tim pool
Is that it?
I think I got it.
Don't let it go to your head.
unidentified
Yeah, don't let it go to your head.
Nothing's stopping you.
Your pride, your joy.
Oh, here we go.
get the crust out of your eyes, and go outside and get it. - I could have been there.
No, you would have done something.
You would have landed it.
Told you three times already!
About to take it to the next level.
Uh-uh.
I know you're not thinking about stopping.
You ain't come this far just to come this far.
Why don't you just bleach your eyebrows and put on a crop top?
Then you might work out.
There's actually a few kids like that that are doing that in New York.
Some of them I don't even think are gay.
They just associate with the... Yo, there's no white people in this.
Not a lot.
tim pool
No, there's none.
unidentified
There's no white people in this edit.
I wish I saved or screenshotted the conversation I was having with the dude that was helping me trying to get the gig.
Yeah, there's no white people.
There's a dude absolutely just... Oh, the security guard yelling!
tim pool
The only white person is a security guard yelling at him.
unidentified
He's the bad guy.
- I got the villain. - I know you're not thinking about stopping.
You ain't come this far, just stop this far.
Stop on that.
We gonna take five. - All right, so, I mean, either way, I just don't understand it's like, Everyone wears shoes.
What does being gay have to do with buying sneakers?
No shoes for white people anymore.
tim pool
No, but I have a question.
I got no beef with the guy who got the gig.
unidentified
Me either.
I'm actually friends with him.
I'm happy that someone I'm friends with got the money.
tim pool
But did he choose that for the shoot?
unidentified
You think he picked that spot, that little four-stair rail?
I don't know, that's in Brooklyn though.
Yeah, I know, that's the Marcy Projects.
It used to be a big rail, now it's a little four-stair.
tim pool
But I'm just wondering if, like, he was thinking, I'm gonna do the easiest stupid thing I can think of, because I'm just gonna get paid and get out of here.
unidentified
Exactly.
tim pool
Because that was not good.
unidentified
Didn't actually land it, it was just an ollie, too.
tim pool
He ollied it.
unidentified
Carlos, no disrespect, but...
tim pool
That's what I'm asking.
unidentified
He probably may have landed.
It's probably also somebody who doesn't skate editing the footage and using all the wrong clips, editing it wrong.
That happens when someone who doesn't skate is like, I want to make something with skateboarding, even though I know nothing about it.
tim pool
He probably did like a switch hardflip over it.
But then they were just like, this one looks good.
unidentified
And they use them like messing up.
tim pool
Let me translate.
He probably did a super hard trick, but they can't tell the difference.
So they just use the stupidest one.
unidentified
It happens.
Let's show the struggle.
tim pool
Yeah, that was the point of it.
But then the crazy thing is that ad has no white people except for the bad guy.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
The security guard walking up.
In fact, no, to be fair, the security guard might have been, like, Latino or something.
unidentified
It's true.
He might've had to lie and say he was Latino to get in the act.
They did that with baseball back in the day.
So I wouldn't be surprised.
Yeah.
tim pool
That's the crazy thing.
Cause when I, when I was growing up, like my, my, my dad was like, don't tell anybody you're Asian.
Like when you're applying for jobs, just put Hispanic, if you're going to put anything or don't put anything at all.
Cause they're allowed to discriminate against you.
And it was funny.
Cause I remember I'm a little kid and I was like, how come that's allowed?
And he goes, cause Asians aren't a voting block.
unidentified
I actually dated a black dude and he's like the best thing my mom ever did for me was name me Chris because when I fill out an application they don't see like some some diverse name and like automatically like throw my application to the side like they'll actually give me a chance just because I sound like a white name or whatever it might be.
tim pool
Yeah but now it's the opposite.
unidentified
Yeah exactly.
tim pool
Now it's the exact opposite.
unidentified
People see my name and they're like Jew.
tim pool
- Jew. - Silver man.
The, Cal Penn, the actor, his first name I think is Cal Penn.
And so he couldn't get any callbacks 'cause his last name is Indian or whatever.
unidentified
So he just started saying his name was Cal Penn and then he started getting callbacks. - I know a girl who started going by Miles just so she could get jobs.
Like, I don't even think her name is Miles, but she started going by it.
As a tattoo artist, it's like, oh, guys want to see Miles on the thing.
It's like, they don't want to see whatever her real name is or first name is or whatever it is.
Not to get too controversial either.
It's like, I don't ever feel like as a white man, like I ever been given just an opportunity based on that.
Like, obviously, it even came down to the point where I got an opportunity taken away for that.
So it's like, In America, don't let them lie to you.
Anything is possible with hard work.
It doesn't matter who you are, you just have to work hard.
A lot of people that don't want to work hard just make excuses for things.
I think that's what it really comes down to.
tim pool
Yeah, I've always felt like the saying goes, you play the hand you're dealt.
You may not have the best hand, but it's how you play the cards, not which cards you get.
unidentified
Exactly.
tim pool
Like, look at Hunter Biden, for instance.
You know what I mean?
Like, he's given pocket aces being the son of a wealthy senator, and look what he did with it!
Yikes!
unidentified
I mean, he ain't doing... But he gets incentivized, too, because he gets away with it, so... He's not gonna starve, but his teeth did fall out of his head.
tim pool
Right?
I'm glad he's recovering.
unidentified
- Good thing all the money he's getting from the CCP The money he's getting from the CCP could probably give him veneers.
I'm pretty sure that did.
tim pool
Or whatever that was.
Maybe that was unfair, Mike.
I gotta say, maybe it's unfair.
It might have been Ukraine.
unidentified
Yeah, that's true.
tim pool
We can't just blame the Chinese yet, but maybe.
unidentified
Either way, he's getting his pockets lined.
When I was looking up last night, kind of a joke and kind of not a joke was writing these wars off on your taxes.
I was like, how much?
How much money have they sent Israel and Ukraine?
It's like, how much would you even get if you broke it down by like, how many people are in the country?
Oh, let's do that.
It's like 150 bucks.
I'm like, I'm actually like there's like 340 million people in the country or something and it's like if you break down some of those are babies I'm actually annoyed when I don't get my money in New York in New York like I Always owe the state but like now you're like literally just like giving people that cross the border with like no checks and bounds like you're literally giving them like credit card stipends where you're gonna fill it up every month and
You're giving them, like, all these benefits and then leaving, like, homeless people on the streets that, like, probably fought for our country, probably went to Ukraine, probably went to wherever it might be, and, like, you're, like, just shitting on them.
I've always wondered that.
I'm always like, how do these people end up on the street?
And, like, you feel bad and then, you know, maybe someone goes, Well, they did that to themselves, or their own drugs.
It's like, not really, dude.
Not half the time, probably.
Bro, I- It's just like, oh yeah, like, if I beat up a cop, like, I'd go to jail for, like, ten years, but like, instead, you just, like, let these people off, and they're like, oh, you know what, like, maybe we'll just... send them to California, like, get rid of the problem, but like... Bro, I got bad news for you.
Oh, I probably did horrible math.
tim pool
So I just did the current amount sent to Ukraine plus the $60 billion they're sending now.
And I'm going to be very broad with it because it really depends on how you calculate working adult population, but it'd probably be closer to like between $500 to $1,000.
unidentified
Still not a lot when you think about it, but I guess.
tim pool
No, but I mean, oh, come on, dude.
Imagine if right now they said, okay, here's what we're going to do.
We're going to send all this money to Ukraine or we're going to divide it up amongst the American population to spend how they see fit.
It's like, it's like 600 bucks.
unidentified
Yeah.
Fair enough.
Done.
tim pool
What do you mean?
unidentified
That'd be like life-changing for some people.
I mean, that's how it was when they were giving out the stimmies.
tim pool
Catch you up on your.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Right.
unidentified
Everyone was living like a king off five or 600 bucks.
I saved that dude.
People just like went out and spent it.
I'm like, no, I'm saving this.
For what?
10?
tim pool
Like, it was like, what was that?
Like 10 or no, that was like 14 years ago or whatever.
unidentified
No, I'm talking about pandemic COVID.
Trump checks.
I definitely got 600.
I don't know if I got the 1400, but.
I missed out on a lot of it, but I just was trying to stay off the radar.
I didn't even want you guys to know.
tim pool
How old are you?
unidentified
I'm 35.
tim pool
And then what about you guys?
unidentified
I'm 34.
I'm 28.
tim pool
Do you guys remember the recession stimulus?
unidentified
No, 2008.
tim pool
When Obama was just like, I'm sending everybody a check, and then one day... I never got one.
unidentified
Here's $600.
I don't know when I got one.
Really?
Was I in high school?
My parents probably got it, yeah.
tim pool
Really?
unidentified
No.
2008, I was fresh out of high school.
I was 18.
I graduated high school in 2007.
tim pool
Yeah, Obama sent everybody a check?
I got a check in the mail from the treasury.
And I was like, sweet.
I was like, I have no idea what's going on, but I got money.
unidentified
Right.
tim pool
And I think I bought a skateboard or something.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
I don't know what I did with it.
I can't remember.
unidentified
As long as you don't find a way to get it back through taxes though.
tim pool
You know what's really crazy is during COVID, I didn't, I didn't get any stimulus and we didn't take any of that PPP stuff, but it was kind of creepy how people were trying to make me take that money.
unidentified
That's what I said.
I was like, I'm not taking this money.
You're going to come hunt me down for it later.
I don't want it.
tim pool
There's a ton of people getting charged with fraud.
unidentified
Yeah, I've seen that.
Like buying Lamborghinis and shit.
tim pool
Yeah, but some of these stories are like, you get an account with your COVID payment in it, and then somebody would spend their own money on something like a luxury, and then the government would be like, aha, that proves you weren't going through hardship, and you lied, you committed fraud, you're getting criminally charged for the loan.
And you had a bunch of people now ripping through the database of all the loans of who got them.
unidentified
Was it considered a loan?
Yes.
Business loans though.
Like people were getting business loans for big businesses that they were making up on the spot.
Oh.
Yeah.
tim pool
But like even a lot of people on the right took out these PPP loans because they're forgivable if they're used for your employees or whatever.
unidentified
Okay.
tim pool
And we, I had, let's just say people advising me and I had like an accountant saying, you definitely should take this.
And I was like, why?
And they're like, because it's free money.
And I was like, I don't need it.
And they were like, well, hold on.
unidentified
There's a catch.
tim pool
They're like, hold on.
What do you mean you don't need it?
And I was like.
When COVID hit, our revenue dropped to slightly below break even, but I saved money.
So I was just like, we can withstand this.
And they were like, oh, but I mean, and I was like, I'll take a pay cut and I can pay for a thing.
This was like, we didn't even have that many people working here.
It was a couple of people.
And so I'm like, I'm not super worried.
My savings can handle.
And if it's the end of the world, it's the end of the world.
And so the dude was like, look, trust me.
Take it, pay your employees with it.
You don't want to end up in a bad spot.
And so I was like, all right, I guess if you say so, and then a day later I hit him back like, no, stop.
I don't want it.
Keep me away from this, this stuff, dude.
I don't, I don't trust any of these people.
And then sure enough, it's come back to bite a lot of people in the ass.
unidentified
Yeah.
I don't know like who they're coming for at first, but I'm sure it's people they consider on the right or whatever it would be.
Yup.
tim pool
Although they went after, what's her face?
Mosby in Baltimore.
The DA or whatever, she's like pro Black Lives Matter.
And then she bought a couple houses.
unidentified
Yeah, I think I saw that one.
tim pool
So they're calling me, it was like loan fraud or something.
unidentified
Buy large mansions.
I stopped following it, but did the Black Lives Matter people, did that all implode on them?
You mean the woman who bought six mansions with all the money and didn't give it to anyone?
Yeah, whatever happened with that?
I don't know.
They never gave any money to anyone, as far as I can tell, or have looked up.
There's no paper trail where they actually helped the black community.
They just bought mansions.
Even if you investigated on their website, you could track it down to something blue, but it was just going to all Democratic nominees.
tim pool
But define help.
unidentified
Geez, I don't know.
Anything.
Literally anything.
tim pool
Define the word help.
unidentified
Give people money?
I don't know, like, build a rec center?
Like, I don't know.
No, no, no.
tim pool
Define, like, just the word help in general.
What does that mean?
What does that word mean?
unidentified
Like, aid and assist in some way.
tim pool
Okay, well, you know, like... She's black.
And her family is.
And she gave them money.
unidentified
I guess you're right.
tim pool
That's helping black people, you know?
So who are you, you know, over here?
unidentified
Yeah, you're right.
tim pool
Saying she didn't help anybody.
unidentified
That's a false- I guess she helped her family.
That's all we can hope for.
She like gave a contract to- She screwed a bunch of people out of a bunch of money and helped her family.
Yeah.
If I was part of that community, I would be upset.
I mean, I guess a lot of the chapters did actually get pretty upset about it.
That's what I'm saying.
That's what I kept seeing.
Like the people that were on the ground.
Speaking of giving money to these, you know, like or whatever to the left or whatever it is.
You didn't hear, you didn't know the other day when I mentioned that Thrasher has been given the Biden campaign like thousands and thousands of dollars?
tim pool
Is that true?
unidentified
Yeah, no.
tim pool
How do I find it?
unidentified
A couple people have sent me the website.
I forget what it is, but it's basically you can look up.
Are we allowed to say that Instagram?
Didn't that one page?
Yeah, maybe.
I think we can.
Can we say that?
What?
The Instagram page that, I don't know, write it down and hand it to them.
It starts with K. You're not supposed to say it online, but it's the name of the skateboard company.
It's not that word.
tim pool
Then just don't.
I don't know what you're saying.
unidentified
It's not that K word.
It's like murder, but a different word.
Yeah.
I've seen you shut down the show when people talk about hurting people for the K. What?
Kill?
Yeah.
It's just a company.
Kill Skateboards Instagram or whatever.
I've seen the show get shut down.
I thought it'd be fine, but then he was like, maybe it's not.
tim pool
You can't just tell someone to kill someone else.
unidentified
Well, obviously.
That's kind of what the brand is.
Apparently it's not obvious to everybody.
Wait, wait, wait.
But yeah, there's this Instagram page, Killskateboards, and he makes absolutely hilarious videos talking about wokeness and skateboarding.
tim pool
But wait, so how do I find this thing where Thrasher's giving Democrats money?
unidentified
He had posted it on his story, but I don't know if it's actually on his page.
It's basically a website we could see where LLCs donate to political organizations.
And Thrasher, I forget what the woman's name is, but it's the wife of the guy who started Thrasher.
It's not Phillips, I forget what the guy's name is.
tim pool
But, um... But it's not the company itself, it's like, her.
unidentified
It's their LOC.
It's whatever Thrasher's LOC is.
It's like Skateboard LOC, whatever the hell it's called.
Bruh.
Is it like a hard post on his page?
I don't know what just happened, but my Instagram, like, now won't go online.
Like, I can't get to my profile.
tim pool
Did they ban you?
unidentified
Oh, whoa.
Let me see.
tim pool
Did they ban you?
unidentified
I don't know what that means.
I've never seen it.
It could just be you don't have service or something.
Or maybe it's because you're too white to be gay.
Look, because it's like popping up and then it's doing... I don't know.
I don't know if it's because of that.
I don't know how they would have known it was my Instagram anyway.
tim pool
I wanna try and find this.
Thought that was weird.
unidentified
And I wish I had looked it up before I came in, but yeah.
I'm looking.
Multiple people sent it to me.
Someone from Atlanta and someone from Pennsylvania.
tim pool
So we were talking about this yesterday.
We were hanging out down in the green room, and I can't remember who... It was like Richie was talking to somebody or something about skateboarding being counterculture.
And then I said, no way, dude.
Skateboarding, my whole life, has been the most bootlicking-est community ever.
It's an isolated community where they only care about each other, they only care about skateboarding, but like, going pro in skateboarding basically meant figuratively fellating the rich guys who owned the big companies, and if they said you're pro, you're pro.
unidentified
Yeah, you had to be a part of the circle, and to be a part of that circle you had to basically... You had to lick the boot!
I just messaged that page, I'm gonna see if he sees it and sends it to me.
tim pool
So basically, you've got...
You know, since I started skateboarding, if you want to be pro, if you want to be a professional, it only counts if one of the top millionaires who owns one of these companies who doesn't skate decides you are.
And if you do anything through an independent company or whatever, oh, you're a kook.
That one doesn't count.
unidentified
But it used to be like you actually had, like, besides the fact that you had to play your cards right and play by their rules, like, you actually had to be, like, phenomenally good at skating.
Like, now it's just not like that.
tim pool
I would say 70-30.
You had to be good at skating to a degree, but you mostly had to sell product.
unidentified
Yeah, that's true.
tim pool
And so there was a balance where now it's just like, do you fit the woke mold?
unidentified
Do you have enough Instagram followers?
Do you have whatever it is?
tim pool
But real quick, the reason I brought this up is because what Dennis is saying is, The people behind Thrasher Magazine, which is one of the premier skateboarding magazines, have become major Democrat donors.
unidentified
To the Biden campaign, for sure.
I've seen a couple of people.
It's a far cry from where they started.
It all started going downhill since Jake Phelps.
Yeah.
tim pool
And so what, like Phelps' wife?
unidentified
No, it's not Phelps.
It's the other guy.
I forget what his name is.
tim pool
Michael Burnett?
unidentified
Bosto.
Bosto?
His wife.
tim pool
Oh, Fosto Vitello.
unidentified
Vitello, yeah.
Her name is something.
Fosto Vitello's like the guy that started... Oh, dude, he's the guy... Tony Vitello's the son.
tim pool
...who started Independent Trucks.
unidentified
Yeah, exactly.
tim pool
And for those that don't know... Alright, let's break it down.
Trucks are the metal part on the bottom of a skateboard which you attach your wheels to and you screw to the wood.
This company is the company that used to have their company logo looked like it looked like a Maltese cross and they got rid of their logo because they were accused of being racist.
A logo they had used for 50 years they abandoned and so it's mine now.
unidentified
It's on a skateboard.
tim pool
And we do.
I'm gonna grab it right now.
unidentified
They should have just held.
I don't know.
Like, like, dude, I never thought of independent as a racist company.
I mean, I mean, it's not.
tim pool
No, it's just a truck.
unidentified
Now that that board was kind of a joke, but we actually did.
tim pool
Hold on.
You hold your tongue.
unidentified
Sorry.
Sorry.
tim pool
This is look at this.
unidentified
And then and then not only that, this is our logo now.
Well, they never came after it trying to reclaim it.
And then all the LGBTQ people that did ride for Independent, they had to crumble to the woke mob too and start skating different trucks, like go to Ace or Crux or whatever it might be.
That sucks.
But hasn't Independent... Brian Anderson was like... Dude, Independent is arguably one of the best truck companies you could ride for.
It's a good product.
tim pool
They're the best trucks.
unidentified
They, um, I think they've kind of gone a little bit woke.
I see them, like, in the comments section, uh, some of, like, the trans skaters with, like, hearts and... Yeah, because they're trying to get, like, their, their, I don't know, their... whatever, like, crumbling to the woke mob or whatever.
It's happening with a bunch of companies.
I do have a theory about when...
skateboarding started to become like we like as soon as we started allowing like the nike the converse and the like vans was always a part of skateboarding but they are a corporately uh publicly traded company or whatever it's like once we started allowing them to dictate and pay the riders more than what board companies were like they start now they control the narrative Now they're the ones injecting the ideology into the skateboard community or whatever.
Like Vans?
Like Vanity Fair?
I mean, I'll still take a Nike box, so just... Or... Nike?
tim pool
We gotta find... What's Thrasher's parent company so I can look this up?
unidentified
I'm looking it up too.
What is Safe Mode?
I'm hoping that this guy messages me back in the next few minutes.
I know it's Juxtapose, Thrasher... I don't know what the parent company is, but... Is it just Thrasher?
It's not Thrasher though, it's called something else.
I saw the graphs that he was posting, though.
I know what you're talking about.
It's barely a gra- I mean, I guess it's like a graph, but yeah, it just shows the amounts.
It shows all the many times that- and whatever, like, it's just whack.
Like, why are you even- why are you even affiliating with that stuff?
Like, if it was- even if they were giving it to Trump, it would still be like, what is- what is- what do you get?
Like, but of course they're not.
They're doing the woke thing.
Like, the super woke thing.
I don't think it helps that they're literally in, like, the gayest city in America, so...
tim pool
Thrasher.
We'll look up donor lookup.
I mean, there's a lot of different companies called Thrasher.
unidentified
Right.
tim pool
Oh, there's people who have the name Thrasher.
So don't, don't, yeah, let's not show this.
I'm doing the donor lookup you can do through open secrets.
And there are people whose names like Bill Thrasher.
And I'm like, Oh, trying to find the skate company.
But anyway, I think it's going to be interesting as, uh, Like this year kicks off and we're seeing wokeness kind of fail?
unidentified
High-speed productions.
That's it.
tim pool
High-speed productions?
unidentified
High-speed productions, yes.
It's listed as the publisher on Wikipedia.
Yeah, that's what I just Googled, yeah.
tim pool
No results found.
I don't know, I'll have to look it up.
But right now, this is where things are getting really interesting.
We got this from The Hill.
unidentified
But that's what their headquarters says on their website.
tim pool
I'll see if I can find it.
Tuberville, some Republicans have filed a bill to ban trans women from U.S.
Olympic teams.
And so, hold on there.
I take offense to this.
This is Greg Stube, Tommy Tuberville.
Uh, they want to, uh, ban trans women from competing, but not trans men?
This is shockingly offensive.
I mean, certainly, the bill should be, uh, inclusive, and if they want to ban transgender individuals, they should include trans men, right?
For what reason would they not?
Oh, perhaps it's because trans men will never compete against men in the Olympics.
The other interesting thing, but here's- here's the big takeaway from this.
I don't- I don't see why Russia would care, or North Korea.
Like, do you guys remember the doping scandals in the 90s?
Like all the story was like the Soviet women were just like super ripped and hopped up on testosterone.
unidentified
They did a joke like that in dodgeball where they had this little buck woman and it was funny as hell.
Well, they were gonna do whatever it took to win.
Oh, the little Girl Scouts and one of them was like a giant Russian dude or something?
Oh, I forgot about that part.
And they're like, when have you tested positive for high testosterone?
And you look at them, it's like one giant dude.
These little, like, Girl Scouts.
Funny movie.
Are they doing that now in certain sports, where you have to test your testosterone level?
To some extent.
I think that's why that dude Ricky is trying to be in the Women's Olympics, because if he comes under a certain threshold of testosterone, they might let him do it.
Yeah, so they didn't let him in because testosterone levels, which is ridiculous to be like, Oh, the only reason is because the testosterone.
It's like, what about the whole full-blown man?
What about the 30 years of skateboarding as a man and a marine?
Like, this is, it's not like you just change your hormones and boom, you're a woman.
Yeah, what about the balls?
What about the dick?
tim pool
So, so, I looked it up and it doesn't seem like they gave that much money.
unidentified
Still, though.
I mean, a lot of people were freaking out about it, sending it to me like it was some big scandal.
Oh, wow, wait.
tim pool
Hold on.
Actually, it is a lot of money.
Wait.
unidentified
People couldn't believe it.
They were like, look at this crap.
And they were sending it.
I actually was surprised that they even, like, donate to, like, political... Exactly.
What do you gain?
You get your RSG score or whatever.
What is that called?
ESG.
Yeah, I mean, that's probably what they get out of it.
tim pool
So this is High Speed Productions.
On OpenSecrets.org.
And $25,390 to Democrats.
$22,873 to incumbents versus $2,500 to non-incumbents.
But then you have, uh... What is this?
Democrat House members only a couple hundred bucks?
Or no, $1,000 to three... $335 to three different members of the House.
But then when you go down, it actually looks like a ton of money was given.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee got $47,000.
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee got $17,000.
Dianne Feinstein got $11,000.
Fund for the Majority, $5,000.
These are all Democrat-aligned.
Elizabeth Warren... That's where your Thrasher money's going.
unidentified
You imagine being a politician on the left and being like, I'm sponsored by Thrasher.
Yeah, you kind of are.
They got the Zoomies money now.
They're gonna... They hoard their t-shirts out into Zoomies and now they got the bread to just send it out to political campaigning.
tim pool
High-speed productions.
But I wonder what that means because, like, a corporation can't just give.
So I'm wondering, I think what this actually means is it's not that the company is doing it, it's that people at the company are doing it.
unidentified
The woman, Vitello, I think her name is Amy.
tim pool
No, but one person can't give this much money unless it's, like, over a long period of time.
unidentified
I don't know.
Everyone keeps throwing their name into it, so...
tim pool
That's it, man.
Skateboarding is the establishment.
unidentified
Whatever it is, it's weird.
Again, if it was for Trump, it would still be equally weird to me.
It's like, what do you get?
You get something, dude.
You definitely get something.
For it to be political at all is weird.
That's what I mean.
If it was Trump, it would be equally as weird to me.
They get to go to all the parties that they're having in San Francisco, the secret parties.
tim pool
That's probably it.
You guys think the Olympics is in a few months, isn't it?
unidentified
In Paris?
tim pool
Yeah.
And no one cares, isn't that weird?
unidentified
Yeah, I don't even know.
Wasn't it last year they made everyone sleep on cardboard boxes?
tim pool
Oh, Mr. Bogus is going for it.
unidentified
You've been chosen.
My dog's gonna be upset.
tim pool
He's got bad kidneys, so he's like, he's dying.
unidentified
My dog's gonna be upset.
He's been doing well, though.
I mean, they told you, what, over a year ago that he was on his way out, and he's still here.
tim pool
Yeah, we've rebuilt him.
We gave him stem cells.
But yeah, so Olympics coming up and no one cares.
And I kind of think that's really weird because usually up to the Olympics everyone's going crazy and there's ads everywhere and like McDonald's is doing their thing.
unidentified
I think the only people that care are the ones that are like actually trying to be in it.
That's the thing, is like, people were hating on me being in the Olympics so much, but I was like, if one of your homies was in the Olympics, you'd be hyped.
I got like two or three people who were in the Olympics that I know, and I'm like, good for them.
I don't care, I don't think it's whack.
Are there any dudes competing in women's Olympics this time around?
Because it's happened before.
Some non-binary chick was in the women's, but they are a woman.
I'm talking about not just skateboarding, but who's the non-binary skateboarder?
tim pool
When is North Korea just gonna say, like, we wanna win?
unidentified
It's all men.
tim pool
Why not?
Like, why would they not do that?
unidentified
Look, man, you can talk about- Wait, does North Korea participate in the Olympics?
tim pool
Yes.
unidentified
They do?
tim pool
Yes.
unidentified
I didn't know that.
What, is this in reference?
What are you saying, that they would dress up as women?
tim pool
What's the- Yeah, of course.
They'd be like, here- North Korea?
unidentified
I don't know.
tim pool
North Korea has- They have skateboarders?
Like, dude, it's nuts.
And I don't know if you can say it's a good thing, but imagine, like, you're a teenager, and then your, like, proctorate comes to you and says, your career will be skateboarder!
Here's your board, here are your shoes, you'll get a new one every month, go to the skate park and get good.
unidentified
That's what they do.
I didn't know there were, like, skaters coming out of North Korea.
It's mandated.
tim pool
The government forces them to skate.
unidentified
It's like the parent that has like a kid that like forces them to like skate like in... Like denies your dad or whatever.
tim pool
They, uh, I don't know who, uh, they got a skate park in Pyongyang, look at that.
North Korea skate park.
unidentified
I bet you need a chauffeur.
tim pool
Oh, but, like, I think this is rollerblading or something.
unidentified
Yeah, probably not worth taking the trip there.
tim pool
No, grind rails, ramps, yep, it's got a half pipe.
unidentified
Wonder what it looks like.
tim pool
Yeah, I watched, uh, yeah.
unidentified
Who, which skate, which skate park company built the skate park in North Korea?
I wanna know.
There's no coping.
tim pool
I mean, you know, you could- I gotta see this.
There's no coping on this wave.
unidentified
I don't know what you call it.
They call it noping.
tim pool
Rowland?
unidentified
Rowland?
Yeah, that's a Rowland.
They could have just Googled him.
tim pool
But not even- not even that China!
Dude, it's like, you want to win the Olympics, who cares?
That's why the Soviet Union was like, take a woman, inject her with a ton of crazy drugs and hormones, And go with it!
unidentified
It's not like anybody actually believes this.
It's not like people are like, oh wow, they won fair and square.
This is great.
They really trained so hard.
People see this and they're like, that's a man.
Yeah.
This is stupid.
But it's happened to like not just you, it's happened to like that other like 13 year old like Chloe, or no, not Chloe Cavell.
Shiloh?
Yeah, Shiloh.
She just had like an interview at the back of like one of the Thrasher magazines or whatever.
There's like a young girl this happened to, I think it was the New York contest.
Yeah, that's when Reggie beat her.
Actually... Recy or whatever their name is.
It was her, so she was previously, when she was younger, coached by Rodney Meade.
tim pool
Hold on, we gotta be careful because for people who don't know what we're talking about, if you say Ricky and her, they don't understand you're talking about a guy.
unidentified
Oh, sure.
Yeah, is this a guy who identifies as a lady?
tim pool
A male who competed against females and won.
Because if you just say, you know, she beat her, people don't understand what you're saying.
unidentified
Yeah, if you're a skater, you've seen this guy.
You know.
I mean, I wasn't there.
I was out of town for whatever reason, but my friends were like, we were there and it was weird.
Well, I posted about it and it blew up in the news.
But, um, yeah, he did an interview talking about how, like, he didn't do anything wrong.
And this young girl, it was actually sad.
I met her, like, very briefly.
I think I ran into her once at Tampa.
I met her and her mom and she's like, oh, it's okay.
Nice family.
But yeah, the video of it's Okay, I'm just worried about how Ricky feels and it felt like this coached weird thing But she felt like her like if she was against it like everything probably would yeah there there goes your sponsors There goes your future in skateboarding, but um it's gone because of him
She was I believe she was coached when she was younger by Rodney Meade who is a old vert pro he's an awesome dude he's like this crazy invert guy on vert ramp and I don't know he's like got a place in Florida I think he calls it the Mountain Dew Manor or something.
He's coached kids for a long time.
He's an awesome guy, old friend of mine.
And right when I spoke up, he was like, yeah, this is crazy.
I run the Florida Amp Skate League.
We're not going to allow this.
And I was like, well, at least her coach is standing up for her.
Even if her mother won't and honestly I cannot imagine being a parent and watching this happen to your kid and sitting back and acting like it's okay because if I had a child and this happened to them I would raise even more hell than I did when it happened to me.
tim pool
You know I want to say this too.
unidentified
People are so scared of being canceled but it's like the more people that speak up the more it's it's gonna be people are gonna be better off like everyone's yeah.
tim pool
So Ben Shapiro had said a while back talking about the issue of pronouns that in public for the purpose of like a small you know incident he would use a person's you know perceived pronouns like Blair White for instance Blair White to like the average person looks like a woman and so.
Ben Shapiro made the point.
If you go to a restaurant and you said, yeah, we have a table over by him, they'd be like, where?
You'd be like, by him?
You can't point to someone with breasts and long hair and say him and have the average person understand what you're talking about.
So Ben Shapiro said, I would just say by her because it's easier.
However, in writing, I would say him.
And I'm actually coming to agree much, much more with Ben Shapiro on this one for this reason.
And with all due respect, I'm not trying to pick on Leo Baker, because I have no beef.
But this matters, because this is something that happened when Leo, who was born Lacey, changed their name, came out as trans.
If I were to say, Leo Baker won X Games Gold.
He has secured three X Games, or one X Games Gold, or X Games Gold, and he has secured two LA World Championship Street Medals.
You're imagining a man competing against the world's best men.
unidentified
It's confusing.
tim pool
And so, on Wikipedia, on Wikipedia it says, he won best athlete, he won, you know, it's crazy to see, like, When someone writes, he won great skater of the year or like greatest skater for like this, whatever, you don't realize that they've created a special women's category.
And that if you said she won the top skater, you in your mind picture a woman and what that might mean.
They change language on purpose to erase merit, accolades, et cetera.
If I told you, Somebody, you know, John, won the X Games gold three times.
He's considered one of the best skateboarders in the world.
You're thinking...
Like, Jinwoo level, like that kid's crazy.
But then if I said she, you instantly know in your mind several degrees less than the male skateboarders and what that might be.
unidentified
You know when it's the worst?
When, uh, there's like a news story or any sort of coverage about someone who identifies as trans is when it's someone who murders or rapes somebody and they say, this woman committed this terrible murder this woman raped this other woman like no this was a man well hold on i gotta tell you what the future is going to be and that's what happened with that recent story and there's like a few sorry there was like a few trans identifying people that like did like
Mass shootings or whatever.
And then as soon as they found out the person was trans, like they don't report on it anymore.
tim pool
The media is not interested in telling that story.
But I'll tell you the future.
If we actually get into designer babies, which we are.
Do you know what that is?
A designer baby?
unidentified
It's like the embryo thing.
It's where they... The pods or whatever.
tim pool
A designer baby is when they can alter the DNA of the baby in like... In the womb.
In fertilization and in the womb.
unidentified
So they can be like... Oh, like what color eyes do you want?
tim pool
And do you want a boy or a girl?
And so what's gonna happen is...
They've already created these bags where they grow goats.
Have you seen this?
unidentified
That's what I was thinking.
tim pool
Once the pod technology for growing life happens, it's over.
Women are over.
Women will become an absolute minority.
This is just like a dystopian view of what may happen.
It starts with they invent the pods and they made a movie about this where like these busy business women on their way to a business meeting have to decide whether they're going to have a baby themselves or get the pod.
And so they get the pod and the pod is like holding the baby and they put it in a closet.
unidentified
That's a new movie?
tim pool
Yeah, it's got a terrible ending.
But this will start happening.
And then as it starts happening, people are then going to start asking questions, privately among themselves, do we want a boy or a girl?
And the families are going to keep saying boys, more and more, not 100%.
There's going to be a man and woman, they're going to be like, no, we want a girl, like, you know, we'd like to have a boy and a girl.
But for a variety of reasons, because of the, because of wokeness, if this persists, You're going to get a man and a woman and they're going to say, look, I know, you know, you really wanted a daughter, but do we really want to create someone who's so disadvantaged in this patriarchy?
And she's going to go, you're right.
A son would be better.
We'll have a son.
And the other issue is there's going to be And then you can reproduce and then they have- No, we make them in bags.
So it's gonna be like two to one, guys to women.
Sports is all gonna be men.
There's gonna be very few women.
unidentified
The ultimate state control over- Yup, corporations control the ability to reproduce.
Exactly.
tim pool
And I mean, I gotta be honest, there's some powerful billionaires in the world who would love for that to be the case.
unidentified
I think they're going for it, trying to sterilize people all the ways they can or whatever.
I remember literally hearing those words, designer baby, on the radio in Atlanta.
And I was with my girlfriend at the time, and I was like, this is stuff I'm always talking about.
Do you hear them say designer baby?
I told you about this, and now they're saying it openly on the radio like it's nothing.
tim pool
Do you know what's funny?
Do It's all just going to be the same people being designed.
unidentified
You're going to notice pod babies?
Because they all look the same?
tim pool
Yeah, but then eventually everyone's a pod baby.
That's what I mean.
I mean, we're talking like 60 years.
And everyone's- it's gonna be a bunch of dudes, and they're all pod babies.
unidentified
You were born from a real person?
No one's gonna be complaining about toxic masculinity then.
Yep.
tim pool
That's just it.
unidentified
Everyone's the same.
tim pool
Everyone's the same.
And, uh, there you go.
It's like- it's like, uh, what was it?
Gattaca?
Was that- was that the movie?
Everyone's genetically engineered when they're born or something like that.
But then Ethan Hawke's character was a natural birth, so he's got like- he's considered inferior and a second-class citizen.
That's where we're going.
unidentified
I hope we don't get there, but I'm not convinced that we won't.
I think though, even like surrogacy, it kind of weirds me out, the whole like, women are this object that are selling themselves to make babies for people.
Baby machine.
Like baby machine, yeah.
tim pool
There you go.
And once we can, look, once we can create a baby machine that has no rights, now it's, who knows what's going to happen.
unidentified
Well, a lot of times they have to sign crazy contracts that do take away a bunch of their rights, if they're even doing surrogacy.
tim pool
Well, there was that crazy story where the two gay guys hired a surrogate, and when they found out she had cancer or whatever, they were like, kill the baby, kill it, and she was like, no, I don't wanna.
And they were like, no, get rid of it, and they made her abort the baby.
unidentified
Holy crap.
That's terrible.
tim pool
Well, she's a baby machine.
That's what she's being treated as.
unidentified
Yeah.
but we're going to get to a point women don't even need to be baby machines they'll press flush they'll go like flush I changed my mind I'm just going to use the pod they even did something to some parents recently where the state took the kid away basically kidnapped the kid because the parents wouldn't go along with identifying I've heard multiple stories of this yeah
So now you don't have rights as a parent?
That's my child.
tim pool
Have you seen MSNBC say that we need to stop thinking about our kids like your kids?
It's now our kids?
unidentified
Yeah, it's the government's kids.
tim pool
The children belong to the community, not to you.
We need to get rid of the idea that parents own their kids.
No, the children are owned by everyone.
unidentified
That's insane.
Communism!
tim pool
Communism.
Yup, and then once everyone gets the Neuralink, and everyone just, like Twitter is almost to that point, but once everyone's brains are wired into it, you're the, it's the Borg.
unidentified
Yeah, the Apple, the Apple headset.
tim pool
Apple Vision Pro, I bought one.
unidentified
Do you even think we'll make it to that point before just like, the world ends?
That one.
Before end times really come?
That one Instagram where the dude's like coming out of the Cybertruck and he's like, Oh yeah.
That shit was so funny to me.
With the Google Glasses and he's just like... The Apple Vision Pro.
Yeah, whatever.
Same thing.
I saw one where there's a guy like sitting in a coffee shop.
He's like, I was wearing the headset and nobody even seemed to notice.
tim pool
Dude, it looks so... Look, I don't think the Apple Vision Pro thing's gonna happen.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Like, I ordered one.
unidentified
It's expensive.
tim pool
Yeah, it's four grand and it's creepy and stupid, but you know, we buy a bunch of new tech and we tried a bunch of toys.
We bought drones before and we're going to try this one out.
unidentified
I mean, it does seem cool, but like when you start thinking about the black mirror aspect of it, where they actually just want you to be like living in, in the headset, like you have to be able to like disconnect from it.
tim pool
There's no, there's no purpose to it though.
unidentified
There are people who want to disconnect from real life.
I wish I could.
I would want to delete my Instagram, but I'm like, why does everything skateboarding have to be on Instagram?
Like, why can't we just go back to, like, having, like, blogs?
Videos and blogs, yeah.
tim pool
But you look at the heroin, opium epidemic, they're going to replace that with Oculus or something or Apple Vision Pro or who knows.
And then people are going to live in their fake little worlds because it feels good.
Already, have you seen like the AI girlfriends?
No.
I think it should be illegal right now.
I'm not even kidding.
Like we should ban AI companion programs right now, the way we regulate other things.
Shuwan had did this video about it when it's when it first started a few like it was like a year ago all it was was like a very short animation of a female or male but I think mostly female and then text.
Now it's actually the most dis- aw dude I hate I hate the CG like- And then you buy the doll and then you implement the- Yeah.
unidentified
Yup.
tim pool
They already have that.
They already have chat GPT sex dolls.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
But the new AI girlfriends, it looks like a Pixar character and you press talk and you just talk and it talks to you.
And I'm like, make that illegal.
Like this is the end of the world right now.
Humans are going to go into AI universes and just like wither away and die.
unidentified
Yeah, like atrophy.
tim pool
Yep.
unidentified
There's no reason to- You can't eat megabytes.
I don't know.
I don't understand how people find those dolls appealing or attractive.
It's like some uncanny valley scary looking stuff.
Like multiple thousands of dollars.
I would want one of those in my house.
I'd be paranoid it was gonna start doing its own stuff and taking over.
I started seeing the Apple Vision memes immediately the day after.
Everyone was like laughing about them and it was like $3,000 and you can't watch VR porn or something.
I don't know.
tim pool
- I don't know why they would think that's not the case.
I mean, there's a browser in it, isn't there? - I don't know. - They said VR porn. - We'll find out.
unidentified
First thing we'll do when the Apple Vision Pro gets here is we'll try to open up some porn. - Twitter is basically a porn website anyway. - Oh, I hate how much porn is on there.
Like I'll see it in comments on my post, just like bots and stuff.
I don't know if they're all bots, but you'd think that that would be filtered out.
Because is Twitter X like 18 and up?
Nope.
So younger people can get on there and this stuff is just available.
It won't show it, but all you have to do is hit like the button and it shows.
tim pool
I think that should be criminal.
unidentified
It should be.
tim pool
I think they should, anybody who posts porn should be criminally charged the same way anybody who walks into downtown waving a big porn sign should be.
unidentified
Yeah, you're posting it in a place that minors can access it.
tim pool
If a dude took a big poster board and put porn on it and walked around, they'd take it from you, destroy it, then you'd get arrested.
I mean, cops might just be like, stop, what are you doing?
But they'd probably get arrested for, like, serious sex offenses.
unidentified
Yeah.
It's definitely very blatant on the internet.
And I mean, I guess any, like, a minor could go on the internet and search that up, so perhaps porn sites should have more, like, safeguarding to have to prove your age to get onto it.
tim pool
And they're trying to do this, but Pornhub is freaking out, they don't want to do it.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
They want kids to be able to go on the site.
And they're like, when you put the ID requirements, then nobody wants to go.
Then I'm like, oh, that sucks for you, I guess.
unidentified
Then you have to put your identity and everything out there.
Isn't Pornhub and all those porn sites, they're definitely involved in sex trafficking?
Oh yeah, there's been cases of that.
tim pool
A big story about how they knew they were profiting off of trafficking.
Actually, we talked about it last week with some journalists who Got some undercover footage from employees who are like, they know what they're doing, they know what's going on, and they don't care.
And now there's like some criminal charges, but for the most part, the company gets away with it.
I mean, OnlyFans, for sure.
Like, OnlyFans requires you to have an ID and to prove your age.
unidentified
Yeah, and there's a paywall and... Doesn't matter though, because... Dude.
tim pool
There was one instance where a woman, right when she turned 18, like at midnight, had a bunch of posts up.
And everyone immediately was like, that's her when she was a minor.
Nobody cares.
unidentified
Yep.
Speaking of grooming and back to skateboarding, you ever see those posts about the skate camp and stories?
Would we?
Yeah.
Lately?
I'm not trying to burn bridges but they put me on the do not rehire list anyway.
Did we?
Yeah.
About what?
It was like 15 years ago but like I was a camper and a counselor but I like rolled my ankle and I didn't want to stay for like the last week and I just left the last week and I'm like one day like I showed up one weekend with my because my friend's girlfriend was working there like this was after that happened or I left whatever like a different year and then I uh went there showed up they're like oh yeah like I remember you like you can't really be here because you
You weren't, like, announced?
Like, your friend JJ was announced, like, he could be here.
His girlfriend said he was gonna be here.
There's too many kids here, blah, blah, blah.
But, like, if you want to come back next week, we'll hire you.
So I didn't get the call.
And I'm like, call them back.
And they're like, yeah, I don't know.
Like, you were, like, on the do not rehire list.
Wow.
But then they're over here, like, knowing that someone, like, had sexual relationships with a minor.
Now, is that true?
Because I heard the story, but I didn't know all the details.
tim pool
Wait, wait, wait.
We have to start from the beginning.
What's the story?
unidentified
Woodward Camp has some sexual allegations going on.
Since 2016 or something.
People are talking about it, Woodward Camp, but I didn't look into it too much.
I'm like, oh.
tim pool
So this is like a famous camp where people send their kids to skateboard and bike and stuff.
unidentified
And cheerlead apparently is one of the things that you can go to Woodward Forest cheerleading.
They canceled that whole entire program this year or something like that.
It's like a $10 million a year program or something.
Weird.
I don't know all the details, I've just seen enough posts and stories about it.
They were trying to cover it up.
They were trying to cover it up.
They paid people off to not talk about it.
And basically, they rehired the guy multiple times, even knowing that this was the case.
So this was... So I just thought it was funny I left it there.
tim pool
It was gymnastics.
Woodward Gymnastics Camp, is that what they're calling it?
That is not correct, but I guess technically.
So this is from July.
Yeah, the judge allowed it to continue.
I don't know what's going on there, but I'm not surprised when someone says Summer Camp had a counselor who was like abusing people.
unidentified
Wasn't there allegations with the skateboarding camp specifically?
I think he was a skateboard counselor.
I don't know if it was with the gymnastics.
Okay, okay.
Camper.
Gross.
Leave the kids alone, people.
tim pool
I think it was gymnastics.
They're cutting all their gymnastics.
Accused of abuse or whatever.
unidentified
You'd think that as a business, the first thing you would do is get rid of that person, distance yourself, and make it clear that this was a horrific thing that happened.
It will not happen again.
But to pay people off not to talk about it.
I guess the original owners don't own it anymore.
It's owned by some other company.
tim pool
Did this world ever exist where you could, like, send your kids to summer camp with smiles on their faces and not have to worry about someone, like, you know, raping them or something?
unidentified
I went to summer camp as a kid, and it was chill.
I definitely went to Woodward as a camper.
I didn't go to Woodward, I just went to a regular overnight camp, but they never had anything like this happening.
Man.
It was a Christian camp.
I was the only Jew at Christian camp.
It was still fun.
tim pool
Yeah, there was like a couple articles written about me because I said some Christians, the woke and some Christians got mad because a bunch of, I said that if everyone on the planet was like devout Christian, you would have no need for police or military or anything.
And then immediately a bunch of these leftists were like, oh, as if the Christians didn't kill people and blah, blah, blah.
And it's just like, dude, I'm talking about if they actually all agreed on all of the morals, why?
Yeah, that's it.
You wouldn't need any of it because everyone's like marching in lockstep with each other.
It's when people start challenging each other's ideals and ideologies and way of life.
So if someone doesn't actually follow a moral ideology and they believe they have a right to steal, Well then they're going to be in conflict with the people they steal from.
But if people actually were devout and followed, thou shalt not steal, there'd be no stealing.
unidentified
Exactly.
tim pool
But the issue is most people don't.
So that got all the woke people mad.
But then I blamed Christians for what's happening right now with all of this bad stuff.
Because I said that it's tolerant Christians, because this country was 100% Christian.
And they were all like, we will accept that.
Okay, fine, we'll accept that.
And they kept tolerating people they thought... It's a slippery slope, right?
Yeah, they were like, you know, we're going to be nice, good people.
And we're going to tolerate this man who's a little different from us.
And then they opened the gates that have inch by inch now, you get communists in your institutions.
unidentified
Yeah.
It is a slippery slope because it's completely different to live amongst, be friends with, and be able to work with or do things with people you disagree with on certain things, but you're doing your own thing, living your own lives.
And then tolerance has gotten to a point that we're actually just standing by while evil is happening in front of us.
And I think that the people who know it's wrong and have these values really have to stand up against it.
There's more of us than there are of them.
Yeah, it's just like when they see the one person that does speak up and then they get, like, canceled or, like, ostracized or, like, things taken away from them and they're like, dang, like, I don't want that to happen to me.
But it's like, if enough people start talking about it, like, they're out there.
They're rooting for you silently.
It's just like the more people that do it, it's like, The less it's gonna happen.
And we've gotten to a point now that people actually get a lot of support for speaking out.
Exactly.
Like, Tim, when you first talked to me, you told me how, like, you wanted me to come out here, possibly start working here, and you wanted to help out whistleblowers.
And I was thinking, like, man, that was, like, unheard of at the time.
I'd only heard of people losing their jobs and, like, having their lives almost ruined.
So it's flip-flopped.
tim pool
Well, now Shane Gillis is hosting SNL.
Now, apparently, it's like, okay, he's funny again.
unidentified
We're back!
You can't cancel people anymore, and usually when you do, they end up getting positive things that come from it.
tim pool
This is why we gotta sue Mark Cuban.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Because it's, it's, it's, we're on, we're on the legal offensive on this one.
Mark Cuban publicly stated that he uses sex and gender in his hiring practices.
That's illegal.
unidentified
That and, like, didn't, uh, what's that, what's that dude, James O'Keefe, like, he, like, confronted him or whatever.
Oh, James O'Keefe.
And then, like, the dude that, like, His, like, bodyguard or whatever, like, basically attacked James O'Keefe.
And then, like, I happen to... Just O'Keefe.
I kind of like O'Keefe, though.
O'Keefe, my bad.
The extra E. But, uh, basically, like, the bodyguard, like, on his story was talking about his, like, anti-bullying and, like, how he helps with all these anti-bullying, like, campaigns or, like, whatever it might be.
And then on his story, simultaneously, he's bullying James O'Keefe.
Yeah.
I'm like, dude.
tim pool
I'll give respect to Mark Cuban for talking.
Like, when he was confronted, he actually started talking.
He's like, and he told the guy, like, hold on, like, I'll talk to him.
unidentified
Oh, and Cuban was talking to O'Keefe?
Yeah.
tim pool
And he's like, where are you filming?
Where's your camera?
And it's like, of course he's being filmed.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
But Cuban is like, it sucks.
This guy, this guy will shatter in two seconds.
He is, he is made of glass.
He is brittle.
You, he's got a bunch of companies and every single employee for all these companies now have grounds to sue him if they perceive any discrimination because he admitted he discriminates.
So let's, like, the floodgates are open, baby.
This is it.
unidentified
It sucks because I like Shark Tank and it's just, you know, all these people end up sucking.
Yeah.
tim pool
But Elon's now funding all these Disney lawsuits.
You hear that one?
unidentified
How do we get into that?
I mean, I vaguely heard about that.
tim pool
Are you discriminated against by Disney?
unidentified
I don't know.
They piss me off.
I want some of that class action.
Let's go.
I don't know.
tim pool
Class action's a bad idea.
unidentified
Watching the cartoons I used to watch back in the day definitely opened my eyes a little bit.
I'm like, ooh, I didn't remember that part.
That was kind of crazy.
tim pool
The crazy thing about what's going on now with these streaming services is that they've been editing shows.
unidentified
Oh, they're editing chemtrails into Disney movies, supposedly.
tim pool
Chemtrails?
unidentified
Yes.
What?
I've heard of that.
Yeah, because they're gonna act like this is how clouds always looked.
tim pool
What are you talking about?
unidentified
You're literally having artists go in.
They're paying an X amount of money, supposedly.
Definitely fact check me, but apparently they've got artists that they're going to have paint or draw or whatever, animate, like, line clouds.
tim pool
The chemtrails?
unidentified
And the old Disney movies.
And I may be wrong, but dude.
Into old ones?
Into old ones, like 101 Dalmatians, anything.
So if you get...
tim pool
Chemtrails, I'm sorry, is like, it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
unidentified
What's that?
tim pool
Chemtrails?
unidentified
I don't know.
tim pool
Like you're talking about when a plane flies by and a street comes up the back?
unidentified
Yeah, you have like the grid.
tim pool
Yeah, it's called a contrail.
unidentified
Oh, sure, you say that.
Alright!
tim pool
Yeah, it's condensation because the jet is pulling in air, which condenses.
unidentified
But it doesn't do it every time, or all the time, or even most of the time.
tim pool
Yeah, it's called the humidity level.
unidentified
But it's not cloud seeding, or aluminum?
tim pool
Cloud's real.
That's super real.
What is it, silver, iodide?
unidentified
Aluminum, iodide?
Actually, it's ball.
It's barium.
It's B-A and then A-L.
B-A and A-L, exactly.
Barium and aluminum.
Yes.
tim pool
But you can do, I think it's silver iodide.
Is that what they use?
Cloud seeding.
You can use lasers too.
It's so funny.
unidentified
They don't believe in chemtrails.
It's like weather manipulation is a conspiracy and they're blatantly like, yeah, chemtrails are real.
tim pool
Oh dude, you know my favorite thing is?
I was thinking about this.
You've got these people who are like, the climate change activists are saying, If the government goes, if we tax you enough, we can change the weather.
And then they're like, ah, the government thinks that paying, people think paying the government money will make the government change the weather.
Then many of these same people go, the government controls the weather with HAARP up in Alaska.
And I'm like, which is it?
Can you pay them to change the weather?
Or are they taking your taxpayer dollars and literally changing the weather?
unidentified
It's like, they're not self-aware of their own contradictions.
That's what I have.
tim pool
Pick your conspiracy.
Yeah, but when a jet pulls in air, if there's enough humidity, it condenses it and you can see vapor.
unidentified
It doesn't last all day.
tim pool
Sometimes it does, what do you mean?
unidentified
Sometimes it does because it's not vapor.
tim pool
It is.
unidentified
I don't know.
But then it rains the next day.
What's your, what's your other conspiracy theory?
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, don't say that.
Okay, sorry, sorry.
What's your other, uh, the knowledge that you have that nobody else knows?
I don't know, what?
The, the thing, what's it called?
Oh, the firmament is in every religious book.
I mean, I don't actually care or believe in it.
I'm just telling people about their own religion.
It's like, it's on the first page, it says firmament.
I don't know.
And the rockets just get shot into the Bermuda Triangle or something?
No, no, no.
tim pool
The rockets that explode, so they crash into the firmament.
It shatters.
unidentified
I don't believe in the space station, I'll tell you that, but that's just me.
tim pool
The funny thing is, the idea is that on the other side of the firmament is water.
unidentified
Sure, the water's above.
Yeah, water is above us and below us.
tim pool
Or in a bubble.
That proves it.
unidentified
I don't care one way or the other, but it is funny.
And it's funny to piss people off, that's for sure.
The Nine Club, like, posted, like, uh... What's the Nine Club?
It's like that Chris Roberts and, like, uh... It's like a skateboard podcast.
For all the non-skaters listening.
So it's like a skateboard podcast or whatever, but they're like, what would you, like, want to be?
Like, they had, like, something on their, like, posted a question and, like, who would you want to be sponsored by?
And I'm like, I want to be sponsored by, like, NASA and the Antarctic Treaty so I can, like, find out, like, what He doesn't believe in that either.
He thinks anyone could just go to Alaska.
tim pool
You can.
unidentified
I mean, or Antarctica.
tim pool
I have friends who went there.
unidentified
Yeah, but how deep?
tim pool
As deep as they could go before dying.
unidentified
Maybe.
tim pool
They were just walking around, like there's no one telling them they couldn't walk around.
unidentified
Yeah, like maybe in this small section where they let you off the boat.
I mean, I'm not fully knowledgeable of everything that goes on, but I just thought you could only go to a certain section of Antarctica.
Yeah, that's what it seems to be.
tim pool
But see, this is what people misunderstand.
That is true.
You can only go there because you don't have a boat and equipment and food and shelter.
So it's like, if you hire, you go to like Chile, you hire, you pay one of these cargo ships, they'll drop, they'll go there.
And then if they leave, you will die.
So it's like, if you go further than three miles.
unidentified
Why can't you go into Antarctica and do whatever the hell you want?
tim pool
You can!
unidentified
For the boonies, we should take a trip to Antarctica.
See if we really can do it.
tim pool
There's two things to consider.
One is, Apparently there's pyramids there.
Antarctica is split up between I think it's like 11 countries and so there are reasons why you can't go in certain areas and it's because it's like saying, why can't I just walk into Russia?
Why won't Russia let me just walk in?
What's up with that?
Conspiracy.
unidentified
The Antarctic Treaty is a group of countries that are all...
tim pool
And the way it's divided, it's like pie slices.
So, you can literally get all of the work done and do an expedition in Antarctica.
unidentified
So, by pie slices, do you mean that it's a 360 wall?
Like a pizza, like a circle, like a flat thing?
We don't have to get too deep.
tim pool
I'll pull up the map.
Territorial claims in Antarctica.
unidentified
Look at that, it looks flat to me.
What?
tim pool
Yes, that's the whole planet right there.
It's like, it was Antarctica the whole time.
Nothing else is this.
unidentified
It's the Earth's hat.
tim pool
Dude, it's just crazy to me because it was like, I don't know, it was like 10 or 15 years ago, I had a friend who was like, oh, I'm getting on a cargo ship to go to Antarctica.
I'm like, cool.
And they walked around and they, like, no one told them what to do, but then they had to leave to get back on the boat before the boat left.
Otherwise they die.
Like, you can't just like stay in a barren wasteland unless you're eating penguin, I guess.
unidentified
I don't totally want to discredit myself right now, but like, I don't know if the earth is round or flat because I can't see it.
Like, I can't go into space and see it for myself.
tim pool
You don't need to go to space to see it.
unidentified
You can set up like... You can see it in NASA's Photoshops.
tim pool
You can, you can, uh... Uh, Eratosthenes was back in, like, what?
Like, 3 BC or whatever?
Actually, 150 maybe?
I don't know.
Calculated the circumference of the Earth by measuring shadows, the angle of a shadow, on two different, uh, structures of the same height.
unidentified
Like an Earth dial type shit.
I think two things can be true at once.
Two guys.
NASA could be photoshopping, and the Earth could not be flat.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't, you know, again, I'm not literally here to talk about that at all, but they Photoshop everything.
I just do think it's interesting.
tim pool
Now it's getting interesting.
The earth is flat apparently.
unidentified
I didn't say that.
I'm just saying that NASA definitely photoshopped everything.
Yeah.
And then, uh, like all the space things are just graphic designers.
Yes.
tim pool
Graphic designers making fake spaceships and fake rockets.
unidentified
Yes.
And they shoot them into the ocean and get billions of dollars every year.
tim pool
I told Alex Stein I will fund his Antarctic expedition.
Sweet, I wanna go.
So it's like, so take a look at this map.
You've got Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom.
The challenge people have usually is that they'll go to like McMurdo and that's where like ships will- Who's got the orange?
Yeah, who's got that?
unidentified
China?
tim pool
That's Australia.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
tim pool
They got a big... Makes sense, though.
unidentified
They got a big slice.
tim pool
But, uh, and then this is interesting, too.
Like, this split right here.
Like, what is this?
unidentified
Wait, where's the South Pole?
Is it just split from the pole, or...?
tim pool
Where is it?
It's, like, up here, actually.
Oh, okay.
We have a map of it.
It's right here.
unidentified
There you go.
That's a Photoshop, too.
tim pool
That's right.
unidentified
It's all fake.
tim pool
Fake maps!
But, uh... Portuguese... What is this?
It's from 1539 to 1555.
unidentified
That's crazy.
They owned half of it?
tim pool
So you have to negotiate travel with all these other countries if you want to just like freely walk around the whole thing.
But it's like, it's the craziest thing that people are like, oh, you can't go there.
unidentified
And I'm like... Get your passport stamped.
tim pool
What do you mean?
France has people there.
Australia has people there.
They're like, I'll try and pull up a map of all the different military bases.
See if I can find it.
unidentified
Was it on your show the other day where someone showed you a pyramid in Antarctica or something?
Yeah, it's called an igloo, Dennis.
Just kidding. - Military base is probably not the right. - Does cold hair taste good?
tim pool
McMurdo Station I guess doesn't count as a base.
unidentified
You know penguin tastes good, it has to.
Didn't you eat some reindeer on your trip to Alaska?
tim pool
I ate nothing but reindeer, it was crazy.
unidentified
What does it taste like?
tim pool
What would you compare it to?
Oh, this is so cool.
unidentified
Uh, it tastes... Venison?
tim pool
Like its own thing.
No.
It tastes like reindeer.
unidentified
Is it tough?
Like, it's like gamey?
tim pool
No, they're farmed.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
tim pool
Yeah, no, it's good.
Reindeer sausage?
Very common thing.
Like, everybody who's up in Alaska is like, oh yeah, it's like normal.
What do we got?
Here we go.
Look at this.
Actually... Poll of inaccessibility.
That's cool.
Princess Elizabeth Haley Research Station.
You got a ton here.
This one makes sense because... See, this is... And they're all on the edge.
unidentified
Scientists.
tim pool
Well, I mean, bro, this is, this is, this is a two-dimensional projection.
I mean, like, Antarctic Kunlun Station is not on the edge.
unidentified
Sure.
tim pool
And, you know, but this one make, it makes sense right here with all these base general, uh, where's, I don't know where McMurdo is, because it's close to, to Argentina and Chile.
So that's obvious.
It's just, it's the craziest thing that like all these people believe you can't go there and never even tried to go there.
They just, you just read it on the internet.
So you believe you can't go there.
And then meanwhile, I was like 19.
My friend's like, Oh, I'm going to Antarctica.
I was like, Oh, how are you doing?
And like, you can charter one of the cargo ships that goes down for deliveries.
You ride their boat, you land there, they're there all day unloading.
And then when they're done, you got to come back.
Otherwise you're like, you're going to die.
And, and people are like, why, why won't they let you stay there?
Why, why can't you go to Mount Everest?
Because there's corpses everywhere.
You need to get special permission to go to Everest.
And when you do climb it, there's corpses just everywhere.
And then someone's got to clean that corpse up.
unidentified
You probably got to like condition yourself too to even like survive in that type of condition.
tim pool
So Antarctica could be like 60 degrees in the summer.
It's like, you know, you can look up the videos and stuff.
But people make up these crazy conspiracies as to why it's hard to go there.
And it's because it's like, dude, my friend, we're doing research here, right?
Y'all want to show up and die?
We got to take care of your corpse.
So, get your permits, get your travel affairs in order, and ultra-wealthy people have done a bunch of Antarctic expeditions.
But for some reason, people read on the internet, you can't do it, and then they just keep saying the same thing over and over again.
I'm like, bro, have you tried?
unidentified
Well, if you see it on TikTok, it must be true.
That's the logic of a lot of people now.
tim pool
I'll tell you what really grinds my gears.
I have a friend.
And he goes, one day, he's saying to me, he's like, man, you're so lucky, Tim.
You get to travel all the world.
This is years ago.
And I was like, just go travel.
What are you talking about?
And he's like, I can't travel.
I can't afford it.
And then I was like, where do you want to go?
He's like, Bali.
And I grabbed my phone.
I was like, when?
I was like, OK, let's say in two months, you're going to go to Bali.
$800 round trip.
And he was like, what?
I was like, bro, did you never even Google how much it costs to go there?
People just believe without ever checking, it's impossible and you can't do it.
And then I'm like, bro, do you have 800 bucks?
Like, yeah.
I was like, disposable?
unidentified
Like, yeah.
tim pool
I'm like, you could buy your ticket right now for March and go to Bali.
I was like, I thought it was going to be- And it's probably cheap there to eat and it's probably cheap there to- And you thought it was going to be thousands of dollars and cost them like 10 grand or whatever.
And I was like, you never even Googled it, dude.
unidentified
So, like, how bad did you even really want to go?
You just want to feel bad for yourself and pretend that it's impossible for you.
tim pool
Here's what I love, too, because, like, I told Alex Stein, I will fund your expedition.
Like, let's go, baby!
And he said, they only ever go on one specific route or whatever.
And I'm like, dude.
It is not a government conspiracy to cover up the firmament or aliens or hollow earth.
It is that it costs an insane amount of money to do something that doesn't really matter to the individual and you have to get permits from all of these countries to travel within all of their territory.
And the question then becomes, for what purpose do you want to fly just straight over Antarctica?
Okay, contact all of them to fly in their airspace where they're doing research and get permission and do it.
unidentified
Alex just doesn't want to go out in the cold, he likes that Texas heat.
tim pool
I want to send him, it's going to be really funny because I'll send him down there.
But the funny thing is, it's not hard to get to Antarctica.
I was just talking to somebody recently, I can't remember who it was, they were just there.
And who was it?
They were over here and they were saying that the funny thing is, most people don't realize that penguins are living in like two inches of their own shit.
unidentified
Lovely.
tim pool
Well, like anybody who knows chickens, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Chickens just shit where they stand.
And so they're just, it's just everywhere and they're walking and they don't care.
Penguins, same thing.
They're all just standing in it.
And who was it who told me this?
When they're walking, their little flipper feet are flicking it all in the air.
unidentified
Yeah.
They don't show in like the movies, the little skid marks down the snow.
tim pool
That's probably true.
It streaks of brown.
I don't know.
But yeah, I don't know.
Let's uh, let's go.
How about the boonies as an Antarctica trip and skates in Antarctica?
unidentified
Can we?
Oh dude, I actually saw a video.
We'll bring those snowskates.
There was a video.
There's a place to use them.
They made like ice mini ramp stuff.
Oh, I sent you that.
Well, there's that, but there's one like on a beach.
I forget.
Maybe it was in like...
Sweden or something, I don't remember.
That looks hard to skate.
He wasn't skating it on a snowskate, he was skating it on a regular board.
No, it was a miniramp made out of sand that was frozen.
It was like that cold out there.
Oh, did you see the ice miniramp though too?
tim pool
I watched a video of someone skating, Instagram sent me, someone was skating a miniramp made of ice.
unidentified
That's what we're talking about.
I've seen one where it was on a beach, it was like frozen ice, I mean frozen sand.
tim pool
Did you see Duffy skating the skateboard with four little snowboards instead of wheels?
unidentified
The little ice skates on it?
tim pool
No, no, snowboards.
unidentified
No, I haven't seen that.
I didn't see that.
A lot of people see the one where they put, like, ice skates on the trucks.
It's like special design.
Those are cool.
That dude just turned 50 and he's still doing some stuff.
tim pool
What's his, uh... Is this his account?
unidentified
Plan B Duffy or something.
tim pool
Oh, it's Plan B Duffy.
unidentified
The ice skate skateboard looks like a lot of fun.
Yeah, kind of.
He was just, like, not tic-tac-ing, but, like, weaving around on it.
tim pool
We are, we are, here we go.
Here, watch.
It's a skateboard, but it's got four little snowboards on it.
unidentified
Oh, no, that's just, that's just another type of snowskate.
I think some of them have like the raised up ski things.
You guys ever see John Shanahan?
tim pool
P Duff Plan B, shout out.
unidentified
John Shanahan is really good on the snowskate.
tim pool
Dude, how did, can you, I've, this is crazy.
It's got four little snowboards.
That doesn't make sense.
unidentified
Why?
Yeah, like some snowskates are just a deck and some of them are raised up like that with the like skis underneath them.
tim pool
That's so funny.
That would, uh... Alright, so we'll go to Antarctica.
Little snowboards.
unidentified
Wouldn't want to land primo.
Don't get my hopes up, dude.
I'm trying to go see the edge of the planet.
Yes, send us with Alex Stein.
tim pool
I think, I think the whole thing could be done for probably 50 grand, like sending a couple of people, just go on a boat.
Like they have documentary crews that go down there all the time.
They fly helicopters and stuff.
It's just like, how much money is it going to cost to like traverse the entirety of it?
And what's the point of spending the money?
Because, because people don't believe you can, and it's like, I'll prove them wrong and do it.
It's like, what do you get out of it?
Why?
unidentified
You're going to spend that money to prove everyone wrong.
Just to prove to Dennis that he can go.
Maybe if you get some Boonies content and generate some money back or something.
The world's most hated woman skater goes to Antarctica.
tim pool
Yep.
Alright, well start googling it and then we'll see what happens.
And then I'll tell you this, if for some reason When you get down there, a bunch of soldiers come and turn you around.
We'll get it on video and... Because that's what they're saying.
That's what Alex was saying.
It's like, you get to a certain point and then like... A giant ship?
No, like secret alien... I don't know what the idea is.
Like government agents from the global, you know, order or whatever will stop you from going into their Antarctic base or something?
unidentified
I've just seen videos where they're like, oh this giant ship gets on the announcer and they're like, turn around, you can't come here, but um, that could be fake.
tim pool
I don't know, I don't care.
But hold on.
What do you think happens if you were to get in a car and like, drive up to say, NORAD?
There would be a loud megaphone saying, turn your vehicle around now.
I knew, uh, when I was over at, uh, do you guys know North American Aerospace Defense?
I don't think they use, I don't know if they use it anymore as much as they used to.
But, story I heard when I was at Fort Carson in Colorado, which is Colorado Springs, which is basically base housing for NORAD, is that one of the, like, enlisted guys, I think he might have been like a non-commissioned officer or something, Took a wrong turn towards NORAD, and he's in the army.
And then, like, a bunch of guys with rifles came out, pointed at the car, saying, stop, turn around now.
And he was like, wrong turn!
Sorry, guys!
And turned around and left.
unidentified
Where's NORAD at?
tim pool
Uh, Colorado Springs-ish.
unidentified
Okay.
Yeah.
tim pool
So, like, you see these videos where a boat's coming up to a military research station, and someone says, turn around.
Uh-huh.
unidentified
Yeah, that could be anything.
I mean, of course, I mean, I'm not validating it, but, uh, that's the only thing that I've seen that's even remotely- Yeah, it's like, you wanna- you wanna go to a military base, you gotta get permission.
Yeah.
tim pool
I do think for the most part- I could be wrong, but I think you could just drive on to the military base.
I don't, like, I don't think you need anything for that.
They just stop you and check you and ask you what you're doing.
unidentified
Uh, in Virginia, where I'm from, there's like a skate park on the military base you could just go to.
Yeah.
Yeah.
tim pool
Oh, yeah.
Where is that?
Is that Hampton Roads?
unidentified
Uh, probably so.
Yeah.
Cause you... Fort Eustis.
Okay.
tim pool
Was that it?
unidentified
I don't remember the name, man.
It's been a long time.
But Hampton sounds right.
tim pool
But it was like a really bad skate park, wasn't it?
unidentified
Yeah, it was crummy, but... No, it was in South Side of Richmond, actually.
So it wasn't Hampton.
tim pool
Yeah, it's farther away.
Richmond.
unidentified
I think it's Fort Lee.
That sounds about right.
tim pool
I don't know.
Let's find out.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Fort Lee Skate Park.
unidentified
Yeah, actually, it's Fort Lee, because there was a handrail there, too, that people used to skate.
I don't know.
Yeah, whatever.
tim pool
Fort Lee?
That's not so bad.
unidentified
That ain't it.
tim pool
That's not it?
unidentified
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
tim pool
Maybe Fort Lee's just a city.
unidentified
It's not bad.
tim pool
I mean... I don't think that's it.
unidentified
I was expecting it to be worse.
No, no, that's not what it was, though.
tim pool
It was, like, metal, like... I watched a video of a guy, like, in uniform doing a tre flip in a skate park on a military base.
But yeah, anyway, Antarctica it is!
Uh, how about the North Pole?
North Pole's easy.
I went up to Utqiagvik over the holidays.
unidentified
You mean Hyperborea.
tim pool
Hyperborea?
What is that?
unidentified
Cosmic stone.
tim pool
Hyperborea is that the name of the secret?
unidentified
She loves me.
A hyperborea is a boy.
It's a mister bocus.
tim pool
Yeah, it's mister.
You misgendered him.
Yeah, come on, bro.
After everything we've explained to you and now you're going to do that?
That's so offensive.
unidentified
It's not a non-binary cat, is it?
tim pool
Well, I mean, he's a eunuch.
His testicles were removed.
unidentified
So, yes.
You know, we didn't get into that story that you sent me, that I think you sent him, about the murder.
Yeah, my boyfriend told me not to, just because it's one of his good friends.
Oh, sorry for bringing it up.
Like, I wouldn't care, but he just out of respect for him, like, I don't want to face it.
It was on the news, to be fair.
Yeah, it's in the news, but um...
tim pool
Everybody wants to know.
What are we supposed to do?
Talk about Antarctica again?
Alright, so what do you think's going on?
You think aliens are down there?
unidentified
I'm sorry.
You're good, you're good.
My bad.
tim pool
You think aliens are down there?
Is that what it is?
unidentified
No, I don't really care.
tim pool
The firmament?
unidentified
Sure, the edge.
The edge and the little cracks where you slip through to the other continents.
tim pool
I do love where it's like, because of the way a 2D map projection looks, Antarctica looks like an ice wall on the bottom of the planet.
So everyone thinks it's like a wall of ice surrounding, not everyone, but like the conspiracy people think.
unidentified
Now I feel dumb though, because where is the North Pole in relation to Antarctica?
Well, Antarctica is South and North is North.
Wait, so what's the Arctic Circle?
That's what they claim.
tim pool
There's the Antarctic and the Arctic.
unidentified
Okay, dude, I'm sorry.
My geography.
tim pool
Let's pull up a map of Flat Earth.
Wait, what?
unidentified
That is Flat Earth.
Look at Google Photoshop.
tim pool
Right.
unidentified
Google Maps.
tim pool
This is so much fun.
unidentified
Tell you whatever they want you to see.
Here you go.
tim pool
So here's Antarctica.
unidentified
What's the Flat Earth theory say?
That one is in the middle and the other one is just surrounding everything?
tim pool
This is it.
This is the map right here.
It's right there.
There is no South Pole.
It's an ice wall surrounding the planet, holding all the water in.
And then in the middle of the planet is the North Pole.
unidentified
Hyperborea.
tim pool
What's Hyperborea?
unidentified
I mean, it's a place that's just a rumored place like Atlantis or something.
They say it's Hyperborea is in the center of the North.
Well, yeah, there's a giant magnetic rock or something, but there's a hole in there.
Sure.
tim pool
You can go down into the core.
I much prefer that there's no molten core.
unidentified
They never got into a molten core.
They never drilled deep enough to get to a molten core.
They presume.
Do people live inside the earth?
tim pool
No, the moon.
unidentified
They live inside the moon.
Made of cheese?
No, it's hollow.
It's made of cheese, but yeah, it's like some alien, what do people say?
It's an alien spy ship?
tim pool
No, no, it's the spaceship that ancient civilizations built to terraform the earth.
unidentified
Sure.
It beats better than a comet went through the earth and made the moon or whatever the hell they tell you.
That's what Richie says.
tim pool
That's why the moon is the perfect distance from the earth to cover the sun during an eclipse.
It was put there on purpose.
unidentified
Because it wasn't always there.
It's the black sun.
There is no eclipse.
tim pool
Have you guys seen that movie Moonfall?
unidentified
Probably not.
tim pool
It's about the moon starts falling.
unidentified
Haha.
tim pool
And it's going to destroy the earth.
Whoa, Mr. Bocas, you cannot press the buttons.
He's pressing all the buttons.
Come on.
Go play.
Go do Bocas stuff.
The moon starts falling and then they have to figure out how to like make it not fall, but it turns out the moon is a spaceship.
And that an ancient civilization created an A.I.
that was killing them.
So they built a whole bunch of moons.
Which is really funny.
Like, it's a bunch of moons!
And then sent them off, but the A.I.
destroyed most of them, except for the one that came to Earth.
And humans got locked out of it or something.
unidentified
No, I have to watch it.
tim pool
And so, like, they get inside the moon.
And there's, like, crazy technology.
It's like metal.
unidentified
Who knows?
Death Star.
tim pool
The Death Star.
It'd be great.
Because I don't know.
Everyone else is kind of bored.
Something's got to happen.
We thought aliens were coming last year.
They didn't come.
Now it's 2024.
unidentified
We got that little, what is it, like papier-mâché alien.
Oh yeah.
The cake?
Yeah.
tim pool
Cake?
unidentified
Cake alien.
I mean the one in Mexico or Peru they said they got.
tim pool
Oh right, right, right.
unidentified
Looks exactly like E.T.
but worse.
tim pool
I feel like people are just bored, you know?
Like, there's no mission.
Like, culture is fractured and people are just looking for things to do and to believe in.
unidentified
Maybe I'm boring, but I kind of like it when just things are going smooth and nothing crazy is happening.
When's the last time that happened before 2016?
There's no aliens.
There's no, like, just insane news and UFOs.
I don't believe anything they say about UFOs anymore.
That's the funny thing, conspiracy theorists have gone backwards.
They're like, now that they're telling us about aliens, I don't believe them anymore.
tim pool
That's a good one.
unidentified
Yeah, I don't know.
I'm not going to believe most of what they say.
Don't they call UFOs something else now?
AUPs maybe?
UAPs.
tim pool
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
unidentified
I feel like that was an attempt at making people stop paying attention to them.
I don't know, I think it's because Like call him something else so when you hear it, you don't connect it.
tim pool
No, because things in the sky aren't necessarily flying.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
So saying something is an unidentified flying object, but then calling it a weather event, it's not a flying object.
unidentified
Also, sometimes people see like a balloon and they'll be like, it's a UFO.
Well, that's what happens when all the satellites are on balloons and not in space.
tim pool
I mean, Google did that.
unidentified
That's what I'm hearing.
Was it, uh... Google Loon was the thing they did?
No, they all do it.
Yeah, and all the internet is under the sea, and cable is like... That's what I heard, too.
It's not floating around in outer space, probably.
tim pool
The undersea cables are how they do it.
What do you mean?
unidentified
Yeah, the cable's underground.
Everyone assumes that you send a text message, it goes into a satellite in outer space.
It's like it all goes to a tower into these cables.
But most people don't know that, that like 90% of the internet is under the ocean.
tim pool
Not for long, Starlink.
unidentified
Iran was talking about chopping that one cable, right?
tim pool
Houthis.
unidentified
Houthis.
tim pool
Technically.
But Starlink cell technology is almost here.
Meaning like basic texting and phone calls will be done by satellite and you could be anywhere on the planet.
unidentified
Within the firmament.
tim pool
There is nowhere to escape anymore.
Soon you'll be tracked everywhere you are.
unidentified
That's crazy.
Me too.
It's fun to say.
I like to say it.
Just a word.
tim pool
But it is funny when people who are, like, uh, religious don't believe it.
unidentified
It's like- Yeah, I'm like, it's the first page of your book.
Like, I shouldn't be telling you this.
tim pool
What is it?
It's, uh, what cha- what was it?
unidentified
Genesis, right?
Like, says- Well, that's the beginning.
Yeah.
tim pool
The firmament.
unidentified
And also it's like Jewish, too.
It's like part of the Old Testament, isn't it?
That's the same book.
Sure.
tim pool
What if this is, like, all true?
You know what I mean?
Biblical cosmology.
The vast solid dome created by God during Genesis.
unidentified
But it's also in the Veda.
It's also in the, um... You know, it's Christian.
It's Veda.
It's Hebrew.
Like, how many people need to say that that's what it is?
Like, again, I'm not even religious, but... Have you talked to Wesley about it?
Yeah, I'm sure he believes in it.
If he believes in the Bible, why would you pick and choose?
No, I just feel like you guys would have an interesting conversation.
We have a lot of interesting conversations.
He's very well-versed in the Bible.
tim pool
I just assume everyone thinks I'm fucking with him, but... So the argument is like, if you go into the ocean, you can go around the firmament, or what?
unidentified
That's Sheol, though.
That's the Hebrew hell.
tim pool
No, no, look.
See the water here?
unidentified
Yeah, that's where the water always comes up.
Like, we're never gonna run out of it.
tim pool
Yeah, no, but look, you go down into it, and you swim outside of the firmament, and then you go and... I don't know if you could swim through it.
unidentified
Haven't you seen those videos where there's oceans under oceans where they're so dense they can't get, like, a...
Sub to it.
What?
They like bounce off of it.
It was in Blue Planet or Planet Earth.
tim pool
Oceans Under Oceans?
unidentified
Yeah, it's like a super saline dense and even that's the plot of the Meg movie is that like nobody this Megalodon is like behind this like super dense water that you can't really get through but it breaks through this like whatever barrier giant shark gets through the super saline.
tim pool
A brine pool?
unidentified
Brine pool, sure.
Yeah, there it is.
tim pool
It won't let me read it.
unidentified
Oh, there's a video of a guy and it's like a DVD bonus footage from like Planet Earth or Blue Planet or something.
tim pool
This is the plot to Spongebob, actually.
unidentified
Maybe.
tim pool
When they go to the beach in Spongebob, but they're underwater already, but then there's water at the beach, you know?
unidentified
There you go.
tim pool
I think we've just about padded our way through the flowers here.
Do you guys have any final thoughts before we stop talking about Antarctica and everything starts to break down?
Is there anything you want to say before we wrap it up?
unidentified
I just wanna say thank you guys for having me on this podcast and letting me talk some shit.
tim pool
We'll see, man.
unidentified
I think my homie got bummed that I missed whatever, but sorry, Carlos.
He's pansexual, not bisexual or whatever, so I'll just correct myself.
I got yelled at.
tim pool
You got yelled at.
But I'm just gonna say it.
That's not a thing.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
You can be mad at me, I don't care.
Like, they had to create pansexual because bisexual implies two sexes.
unidentified
Yeah, I personally don't know what it is.
When you become non-binary, you put yourself in a binary of binary or non-binary.
tim pool
Well, so, LGBT, bisexual is in there, because originally it was like, if you're a lesbian, you're the one who likes women, if you're gay, you're a guy who likes guys, and if you're bi, you're either who likes both.
But then when they started saying there's infinite genders, they had to create a new word because bi means two.
unidentified
Well, wouldn't saying you're bisexual make you like transphobic or non-binary phobic in that case?
I guess.
Because there's two?
tim pool
But I mean, it's a thing if you think it's a thing.
unidentified
New identity made.
Pansexual.
tim pool
But if we're really going to the point where you can just make anything you want up, then I can say, I can redefine whatever I want to define if people want to make words up.
You know what I mean?
So anyway, any final thoughts?
unidentified
Just live your life.
Stop bothering people.
No one cares how you live your life.
Just stop forcing people to believe what you believe.
Let people just live their lives too.
Live and let live.
And then people could just coexist.
Stop forcing shit down people's throat.
And then when they don't, Believe what you believe trying to like cancel them and be the person that you say that you like you hate.
Well put.
Um, you posted about the boards today.
Should we talk about that at all?
tim pool
I mean, just shout out, yeah.
unidentified
We're working on some boards that we are gonna put out with Boonies HQ.
They're not available yet, but they will be soon.
tim pool
That means I'm pro?
unidentified
It means you're pro.
I think we're about to skate after this.
Yeah, we're gonna do some skating after this.
I think it means... on?
Pro.
tim pool
That's right.
unidentified
It's weird to say.
Well that was the thing we were talking about Shredder News or whatever and you were like oh they always post and they seem to you know be on the kinder side.
When will they be online?
Sorry.
Yeah the boards maybe a couple months.
No idea.
Yeah.
It's probably gonna be a couple months.
They're in production right now and as soon as they're finished we can get them online and for sale.
But like the next day after they posted the good thing about you, the next day they posted some super old Wecking ball thing that's like, Weck says that you're not pro if you... No, no, that was a good one.
If you sell a board, you're pro.
Yeah, he said if you sell any.
tim pool
They were saying he was supporting me.
unidentified
Yeah, I saw that.
tim pool
So I'm like, I think it's AI.
I think it just grabs Instagram.
unidentified
But they grabbed some old thing from like the Nine Club.
It must have been only years ago.
tim pool
No, no, no.
It was a comment on my post.
unidentified
Well, they use damage from nine club, maybe I was mistaken.
Right.
tim pool
Weck used, uh, he, uh, Wreck?
unidentified
Or Weck?
Weck, yeah.
tim pool
He commented on my post saying, if you sell one, you're pro.
unidentified
Yeah, sure.
Yeah.
tim pool
So they wrote an article saying- They missed the rules.
That's how it goes.
Anyway, uh, you want to shout anything out before we go?
You got Instagram or something?
unidentified
Shout out Hardbody, the homie's little board company, and he's just like a Tompkins local doing his thing.
tim pool
Right on.
unidentified
Boonies HQ.
Yeah, Boonies HQ.
Check it out.
Boonies HQ on Instagram and YouTube.
I've got Twitter, TM Silverman.
Instagram, Taylor May Silverman.
Shout out Richie Jackson, who couldn't be here today.
He's the feech.
tim pool
Right on.
unidentified
Shout out to him.
He missed out.
tim pool
All right, everybody.
That'll about do it for today.
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