The Culture War - Tim Pool - Man ARRESTED In Armed Stalking Plot Of Benny Johnson, Matt Walsh, Laura Loomer

Dec. 8, 2025 - The Culture War - Tim Pool

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Man ARRESTED In Armed Stalking Plot Of Benny Johnson, Matt Walsh, Laura Loomer

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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Over the weekend, Benny Johnson reported that a man went door to door looking for him and his family.
		They believed he was armed.
		He threatened the lives of Matt Walsh and his family.
		He's reportedly stalking Benny, Matt Walsh, Laura Loomer, and showed up at the homes of several other individuals, prominent conservative personalities.
		The man has been arrested.
		We have more information on this story, though it hasn't been picked up by many news agencies.
		Political violence in this country is getting worse.
		Of course, you guys saw the post Saturday morning about the shots that were fired outside of our property.
		A vehicle had approached.
		Three shots were fired.
		Obviously, we're still investigating, but there's really not much more that can be done.
		We've got some footage.
		We are reviewing it.
		I can't say too much more because I don't want to compromise our security.
		And ideally, we do figure out what this was, why it happened.
		But we also got a threat in October.
		We didn't talk about too much of the details because it is being investigated, but the threat was to come here and shoot up the studio and kill us.
		We are in contact with the FBI.
		But this story is not about me.
		That story, my address, I did that in the morning.
		This story here is about Benny.
		It's about Matt Walsh, about Laura Loomer.
		It's about the state of this country and the escalation of political violence.
		And this, my friends, we are entering into a political year, a midterm year.
		And the tensions are getting worse.
		The mental state of the average American is getting worse.
		And, you know, I'll be honest with you guys.
		I'm not built for this.
		Many are.
		They're much stronger.
		They knew the route they were taking in this space.
		And they stand firm.
		They stand brave.
		They go on public.
		Steven Crowder doing his Change My Mind shows, despite all of the threats of violence against him and the security measures he takes.
		Now with bulletproof glass in front of him as he sets up these conversations.
		Benny Johnson, of course, has already talked about how, in one instance, his home was set on fire.
		Matt Walsh, now suffering this fate.
		The Daily Wire crew, of course, the assassination of Charlie Kirk only so recently.
		Political violence is absolutely escalating.
		It's getting worse.
		And it kind of blew my mind that, you know, I come, I get this news about, you know, again, for those that aren't familiar, I'm assuming it must be war because it was a big story, I guess.
		I didn't think it was going to blow up so much, but between midnight and 1 a.m. on Saturday morning, just, you know, Friday night, we were leaving the studio.
		We had left.
		A vehicle slowly approaching our property.
		Once it was about aligned with one of the structures, fires a shot, speeds up a little bit.
		Once it lines with their studio, fires two more shots.
		We don't know why.
		That's all.
		That's all I said.
		We could only assume, based on the threat assessment, that with the death threats and everything going on, it was an act of intimidation.
		I just, I want to believe it's just random.
		I think that's wishful thinking.
		Again, this isn't to make this another segment about what happened to us and me.
		This is about Benny.
		It's about others.
		It's about all of us.
		But imagine my surprise when after this happens, Benny puts out this tweet where he says a man came to his home.
		We live in a big rural area.
		We have a gate.
		We have a security perimeter.
		We have armed guards.
		Almost every night, vehicles lurk in front of our property.
		Security flashes the lights.
	They speed off.
	Maybe it could be just some fans.
	Really excited to try and figure out where we're at.
	I don't know.
	Kind of weird.
	At our old property, we call it the castle.
	There were people almost on a daily basis who would pull their vehicles up to the bottom of the hill, the driveway, and just sit there, just stare.
	And it's terrifying and creepy.
	We don't live there anymore.
	We don't work there anymore.
	People still show up years later.
	So let's talk about what's happening in this country and what's happening to people like Benny, Matt Walsh, and happening to all of us and the fears that even you have.
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		Here's a tweet from Betty Johnson.
		He says, this man showed up at my home where my wife and children live.
		He was ranting about me and went door to door in my neighborhood, trying to find me, terrifying my neighbors.
		We believe he was armed and fled before the cops arrived.
		He then explicitly and publicly threatened the lives of Matt Walsh and his wife and children.
		He recently showed up at Cat Turd's home, ranting and raving about me, Matt Walsh, and Laura Loomer.
		Thank you to the FBI and DOJ for investigating these threats and swiftly arresting stalker Andrew IR.
		He was clearly spiraling in a very dangerous way.
		I don't like to speak publicly about this kind of stuff because it involves my family and their security.
		I'm sick over it.
		But I have an obligation to amplify this case as it is one of the multiple ongoing criminal prosecutions for threats against my family.
		Over the past year, I've watched my president get shot in the head, my friend get assassinated.
		Things are spiraling wildly out of control.
		There are real-world consequences for psychotic rhetoric and lies amplified online enough.
		If you're threatening my family, expect me to fight back with full force.
		There's nothing I wouldn't do to protect my family.
		I would gladly die for them.
		This is good versus evil, darkness versus light.
		The battle is spiritual.
		With Christ, we will win.
		And he posted this image of an arrest record of this man.
		And it looks like he either lives in or is in Tampa, Florida.
		Andrew IR is his name.
		Now we have this from Primetimer.
		What is Andrew IR accused of?
		Laura Loomer claims this man was allegedly targeting her, her next, after Matt Walsh, Cat Turd, and Betty Johnson.
		For those that aren't familiar, Cat Turd is an online personality who goes by the silly name, Cat Turd.
		After stalker Andrew IR has been arrested, Laura Loomer puts forward a new theory that she was his next target.
		Late on Sunday, November 30th, political activist Laura Loomer shared a tweet about Andrew IR, the Florida-based man who was charged for stalking podcaster Matt Walsh and Cat Turd last month.
		Retweeting a post containing IR's arrest information, Loomer wrote the stalker was allegedly planning to pay her a visit next.
		Laura also wrote that Andrew was reported as a dangerous individual on the run after his license plate was flagged by authorities.
		Per document attached to a blue sky post uploaded by Courtwatch.
		The criminal complaint against Andrew Nikhil Iyer was filed in Florida in a Florida district court in which he was accused of threatening Matt Walsh's wife.
		My Lord.
		Here's Laura Loomer's tweet.
		When Andrew Iyer was at Cat Turd's home, this individual who has been arrested was heard talking about how he's going to come to my house next.
		He said he was going to come to my house and Benny Johnson's house.
		When this happened, I immediately called Benny to let him know.
		At the time, IR's license plate had been flagged for authorities as he was reported as a dangerous individual on the run and possibly armed.
		I'm glad he's locked up.
		Zero hour on X says, these are just a few threats made by Andrew Iyer.
		This was during the time he was seen on cameras at Matt Walsh's home.
		He then showed up at Cat Turd's home.
		Also seen on Betty Johnson's camera as well, I believe.
		Matt's wife and children were very targeted.
		So as you can read, this was not a joke or to be taken lightly.
		People are being hunted over free speech and it's real.
		After Charlie Kirk, you have to take these threats seriously.
		I want to believe, I'm desperate to believe, that what happened outside of our house, outside of our property, on Friday, was just a random yokel like Yosemite Sam for no reason, just yee-ha, firing shots in the air outside our property.
		It doesn't really make sense.
		And I've asked people over and over.
		I've passed people, asked people in law enforcement.
	They say, Tim, rural drive-bys aren't all that common.
	And that's the sad reality.
	The wake-up call.
	We've been here for years.
	It's never happened.
	Now, there was an incident we had three years ago.
	I believe I talked about it.
	I'm not sure to the extent that we did talk about it, but this is before we had actually moved to the new studio.
	So this property that we're in, we had been building for some time.
	Three men broke onto the property, and our security opened fire on them, and it left a bullet in one of our cabinets.
	The men smashed through a window, got in a car, and fled.
	We don't know what that was.
	And I've never claimed that this was an attempt on my life or anything like that.
	For all I know, it's just people lurk around rural areas trying to steal stuff or something.
	This was back in, I believe, 2022.
	I think I even posted the photo of it, to be honest.
	Let me see if I can find that actually.
unidentified		I think I put it on X. Let's see.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Hard to find.
		Hard to find.
		But this was a few years ago, and I took a picture of it and I posted it.
		I believe there might have been two.
		That I don't know.
		We just kind of talked up to like, maybe it's a break-in because we weren't actually relocated yet.
		We had an incident, and I never talk about these things.
		Like, same thing as Benny is saying, like, we don't usually talk about it.
		We had an incident where a vehicle stormed under the property, and we don't know why.
		It was a pickup truck.
		We're armed.
		Let's just say, I'll keep it light.
		People came out.
		There was yelling.
		The car spun around and sped off quickly.
		This was before we had set up our perimeter, and it's why.
		We immediately told our security team, we need a six-foot security perimeter gate.
		Nobody can get in.
		And I'm glad we did.
		Our security has told us that, you know, I never talk about this stuff, but I mean, we're at the, with the Apex, my friends.
		Something's going to change, right?
		They've been telling us that people have been pulling up in the wee hours of the morning and they just lurk.
		They pull up to our driveway, they sit there, and then the security will flicker lights, then they'll back out and speed off.
		Cars will drive by, then slow down.
		What we believe happened on Friday was a vehicle is slowly passing, and then one shot is fired.
		It slowly starts speeding up, and then two more shots are fired.
		I don't know.
		The Wall Street Journal.
		We're in an era of political violence.
		Trump has been a target, but he speaks so carelessly that he could end up becoming an instigator.
		All this stuff just makes me sick to my stomach.
		I can't believe where we're at, but we're here.
		I was telling my friends and family, and we are in a period of civil strife bordering on civil war.
		And I've been the one screaming that for some time.
		I don't think I'm wrong.
		So when we got reporting about this latest incident, where now we have shots being fired just outside our property, I try to be specific, you know what I mean?
		Like so you get an understanding of what happened.
		If I did not take my own show seriously, like if I do I believe what I am telling you, the answer is yes.
		Okay, if what I'm saying is true, I may not be the top of the list of targets, but I'm there.
		What am I doing to prepare for what I've been saying is happening?
		Now we have security and all that, but that's like standard, you're famous, you know what I mean?
		You get security when this happens.
		I don't have good answers.
		And that's why the conversation we've been having is, guys, if we're taking this seriously and we're coming into a midterm year, which is it's going to get crazy.
		You know, I was talking to a friend recently about World War II and how people were constantly saying, like, ah, it's things are getting better.
		The conflict, the street violence is kind of abating, and then boom, explodes.
		What then?
		We've got more.
		From the New Yorker, our political violence problem.
		From The Guardian, alarm as U.S. far-right extremists eye drones for used in domestic attacks.
		Experts say extremists openly talking of how home-built drones will be a critical tool in so-called second civil war.
		Man.
		Taking their cues from modern warfare, the far-right American terrorist movement sees off-the-shelf or home-built first-person viewer FPV drones as a critical weapon in their own future war against the U.S. government.
		You see, here's the important thing to understand.
		The far right, I thought the far right was in control of the U.S. government.
		Why would they fight themselves?
		You can't have it both ways.
		They want to claim that wingnut lunatics who live in the mountains and want to fight the government are the same thing as Charlie Kirk was.
		Well, Charlie Kirk's guy is the president, and Republicans control everything.
		So I don't know why any of these people are going to fight themselves.
		This story's from three months ago.
		Here's from Gallup just a few days ago.
		Youth, loneliness, and political violence in the United States.
		Well, most Americans say it's never okay to use violence to achieve a political goal.
	16% say it's sometimes okay.
	Age is the strongest predictor of attitudes towards political violence, with young adults aged 18 to 29 more likely than other age groups to say that it is sometimes okay to use violence to achieve a political goal.
	This attitude is more prevalent among heavy social media users than those who use social media less frequently or not at all, and among men, more so than women.
	Differences in views by political affiliation and educational attainment are smaller, and no differences are observed based on income or other socioeconomic factor.
	Americans' acceptability of political violence by subgroup, sometimes okay.
	18 to 29-year-olds, 30%.
	30 to 44, 21.
	45 to 59, 13.
	60 and older, 4%.
	Men, 19%, women, 11%.
	Those who are more likely to be educated, higher rates.
	Postgraduates, 20%.
	Interesting.
	Four-year college, 17, and less than four years, 14.
	Democrats are the most likely at 18%, followed by Independents at 17 and Republicans at 12.
	And those who use social media five or more hours per day, 22%.
	Three to four, 21%.
	Those who don't really use it, 8%.
	What do we find?
	The internet is making people insane.
	They're going crazy.
	These results are from the inaugural administration of the Kettering Foundation Gout Democracy for All project, a five-year project designed to measure Americans' views of democracy.
	Data are based on a multimodal web and mail survey of over 20,000 U.S. adults conducted July 7th to August 25th.
	Some attitudes toward democracy are associated with views on the use of political violence.
	People who agree that democracy is the best form of government are less likely than those who disagree to say political violence is sometimes okay.
	Perceptions of others' commitment to democracy also matter.
	Americans who agree that most people in the U.S. are committed to having a strong democracy are less likely to say political violence is sometimes okay compared with those who disagree with this statement.
	Democracy is the best form of government.
	22% disagree and strongly disagree.
	Most people in the U.S. are committed to having a strong democracy regardless of their positions.
	I hate this.
	I hate these people.
	Democracy.
	They are not saying anything.
	This country has never been a democracy.
	It's got democratic processes.
	So what are they really describing when they say democracy?
	That we share power, perhaps?
	I don't know what they even mean by that.
	I don't know if the people answering this even understand what they're being asked.
	Some measures of social isolation and belonging are so closely related to views on political violence, people who regularly feel lonely, feel they or someone in their household has been targeted or excluded in the past year due to a personal characteristic, or do not strongly identify as an American are more likely to say political violence is sometimes okay.
	Feel lonely always, 26% think it's sometimes okay.
	Feel targeted and excluded, 25% say yes.
	Identify as an American, not at all strongly, 35%.
	If you very strongly identify as American, you're less likely to think political violence is okay.
	That's insane.
	That's absolutely insane.
	Gender differences in the attitude that political violence is sometimes okay are smaller among older Americans and virtually disappear among those aged 60.
	The impact of social disconnection shows a similar trend.
	For example, among adults age 60 and older, who are often or always lonely compared with those who are never, rarely, or sometimes lonely, there is a very little difference in rates of saying that political violence is sometimes okay.
	18 to 29 year olds, high loneliness.
	Wow.
	Among men, it's massive.
	Over 40%.
	Seeing how different segments of U.S. society view violence as a way to achieve political goals in 2025 is revealing.
	But historical trends provide context for how such views have evolved over time.
	Gallup asked similar questions on whether violence is justified to achieve social or societal or political change in December of 1970, December of 1970, and September of 95.
	While response patterns can vary based on questions, question warding, response scale, and data collection mode, these historical points offer suggestive evidence on continuity and change.
	Despite significant differences in the political climate across the three times Gallup has asked variations of this question, the overall trend is stable, with around 15% of Americans agreeing that violence is sometimes justified to bring about change.
	This continuity masks two notable shifts in subgroup trends.
	First, younger Americans aged 18 to 29 are more likely today than in the past to view political violence as a legitimate tool to effective change.
	Second, a gender gap in attitudes towards political violence has emerged in which younger men aged 18 to 44 are now more likely to say violence is justified to achieve societal or political change.
	Whereas older men and women of all ages hold roughly similar views as they did in the past.
	I have Pew Research.
	Americans say politically motivated violence is increasing, and they see many reasons why.
	85% say increasing, 12 say the same, and 3 say decreasing, because that's 3%.
	They live under a rock.
	So what is the reason?
	Large majorities of both Republicans and Democrats say left-wing and right-wing extremism, as well as extremism from those without clear political views, are at least a minor problem for the country.
	Americans are equally likely to see extremism from each end of the political spectrum as a major problem, but partisans see bigger problems on the other side.
	If you are on the left, what does this say?
	If Republicans and lean Republicans see a major left-wing violence problem, Democrats see a major right-wing violence problem.
	Objectively, the problem's on the left.
	It just is.
	And the left is in a bubble and they don't see these worlds.
	They don't see this stuff.
	Americans see rhetoric from the other side.
	Polarization, lack of understanding among the main reasons for politically motivated violence in the United States.
	Sort of.
	You know, I do agree with that.
	What I would say is, I think the danger is the grifting.
	The people who don't care if what they're saying is true and just say insane things.
	I take issues with a lot of the Pizzagate stuff.
	I've complained about them incessantly back in the day.
	A guy shows up to a pizza place and shoots the ground.
	He thought there was a basement.
	There wasn't.
	Because the internet is full of lies.
	And people of weak will believe the lies.
	And what can you do?
	It's easy to manipulate people.
	It's hard to tell them the truth.
	If you tell someone coldly and plainly the truth, they'll reject it.
	If you lie to them.
	There's an old story that I've heard.
	It's gone around quite a bit.
	And it's that, I think it's supposed to be like a racist trope.
	So it might be.
	But the story is that a wise man is traveling when he comes across a field where a bunch of people are surrounding a watermelon with spears.
	And they're shaking and panicking.
	And the wise man's confused.
	Why are they freaked out about this watermelon?
	And he says, what's going on?
	They say, look, a monster.
	A monster?
	Are you nuts to watermelon?
	So he walks up and he picks it up and they all run screaming.
	He's in league with the monster.
	Later, another wise man is traveling and he comes upon these people surrounding a watermelon, pointing at it, screaming.
	And he says to them, what's going on?
	They say, the monster, look.
	And he says, you're right.
	Quick, run with me and I will show you the way out of here.
	They follow him.
	A year later, they've cultivated watermelon.
	They have great farms.
	The point is, when you approach them as an outsider and do something scared, they freak out and they run.
	When you approach them and deceive them to build a connection and a rapport, you can guide them in the right direction.
	I believe that is immoral.
	I believe it is antithetical to a better world that you believe you must use deception for what you want people to do.
	But I do get it.
	All is fair in love and war, they say.
	And so here we are.
	I ask you guys to comment if there, and this is a conversation I had with Milo on Friday.
	If there was no other means, if you know that telling the truth isn't working and people are doing bad things, would you lie to them to correct their behavior?
	My argument is if you use deception because you are upset with the way they are living in this world, you create a world of deception.
	And, you know, Milo Green said, well, that is the Catholic belief.
	And I said, you must refrain from sin, lest you create a world of sin.
	Maybe that means I'm naive and we are doomed.
	But I think the best thing you can do is to the best of your ability is just tell the truth.
	And people must come to understand it.
	I believe it's largely the liberal and democratic view that people are stupid, so you must control them.
	Well, the sad reality is evil has an easy go of things.
	They'll kill you.
	And then they'll claim you are the criminal.
	Isn't that fascinating?
	Nomi Saiped said something on the show so succinctly that I said, wow.
	She said, Charlie Kirk was murdered by a leftist, and Candace Owens has turned Turning Point into perpetrator.
	And I went, wow, that's scary.
	We should have been rallying around Turning Point.
	Not that they're perfect or I like everything they do, but we should have been rallying against the left and the violence as it's escalated.
	And we did briefly.
	But now, people online, they actually believe Turning Point, the literal victim, is the perpetrator.
	Man, that's Darvo if I've ever heard one.
	What did Candace say?
	We don't care about your midterms.
	Who's we?
	But here's where we are.
	Turning point is in trouble.
	It's just true.
	Charlie was the leader.
	He built it.
	He fundraised.
	People believed in him.
	Now, by all means, Turning Point may do just fine.
	But really, just think about that.
	A leftist killed Charlie Kirk.
	And now Turning Point is accused of being the perpetrator.
	They're the victims.
	It's so remarkable.
	The manipulation and the violence.
	That's where we are.
	And I don't know.
	What do we do?
	Honest question.
	What do we do?
	Because right now, the right is fracturing.
	The left and the right have been fractured and hyperpolarized, but now the right is even fracturing.
	And there are people on the right who are starting to threaten, threaten us.
	You know, they unsubscribe, unfollow.
	I don't care.
	If you can't handle the truth, get out of the kitchen, as it were.
	I'm not here to play any kind of these silly manipulative games.
	I'm just going to tell you what's going on.
	And I get things wrong.
	I do.
	But I try to make sure things are clear and easily understood and people know what's going on, but that's not enough.
	Manipulation is easy.
	Let me explain.
	There are people online that are saying, Tim, post the footage, prove it.
	Prove that someone, you know, approached your house and opened fire.
	Were I to do that, then people know where our cameras are.
	They know what our property looks like.
	They'll be able to get a lot of information.
	So I'm not interested in having to prove to people who hate me.
	That being said, so long as I'm not, you know, there's no leaks, we are absolutely showing, you know, it's like, if you see me in person, I'll show you.
	The issue is that it's an impossible position.
	Expose how your security operates, or you're a liar.
	I'm not interested in any of this.
	I'm really not.
	I'm not here to lie, cheat, steal, or justify anything to anybody.
	I'm telling you what's going on, what I think, and what I see and what's happening.
	And this may mean, you know, the other thing too is the people saying that it's for ratings.
	Actually, I think the outcome of this is the end of everything.
	We are working on solutions, as I mentioned in my earlier morning segment, where we may have one.
	I don't know that we, the people here, can handle the stress.
	I just don't know if it's possible.
	The stress has been cranked up to 11 for months now.
	And then it's a question of do you really want to be in this space?
	People on the right attacking me since Charlie's death, saying I'm a coward for not going to his memorial because we were warned of a legitimate threat, high cost of security.
	And I said it's probably safer not to do it.
	I don't care about ratings.
	If I did, I'd have signed a deal with a major network.
	It'd be Fox News' Timcast, or it'd be the Daily Wire, or it'd be The Blaze, or any one of these companies.
	If I wanted ratings, have a producer take everything over and tell me when and when not to say things.
	Show could be a lot bigger, but that's never been the main goal.
	It's largely just, you know, I'm passionate about what's going on in the world, but can we really make it through all of this?
	The reality is that what's happening with Benny, Matt, and many others, I've warned you guys, I said this months ago.
	People are going into hiding.
	Now their shows still exist because they can go online and they can post a video.
	They don't got to drive anywhere.
	People are retreating, getting away from cities, isolating themselves.
	Some producers have already gone into hiding.
	There are rumors of prominent personalities.
	I'm not going to drag anybody, but they're saying they're getting out.
	And they're getting out now before it's too late because this year is going to get very crazy.
	So I don't know.
unidentified		I can tell you this.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		As the violence escalated, the swattings at my own house, like I would have preferred to have left this a long time ago.
		And I've mentioned this before.
		I can do the morning recording shows like this for you guys by myself from an undisclosed location and feel safe and be less stressed.
		Sooner or later, the bubble bursts.
		There are people saying, Tim, if you give up, the terrorists win.
		And I said, well, if I die, the terrorists win.
		I'm not going to advocate for anybody running full speed into a battlefield and just getting blown up by the enemy.
		We have to figure out how we do this effectively.
		And with these stories and what Benny's saying with this report and Laura and Matt and Katzer, guys, we don't win by sacrificing prominent pieces on the chessboard for no reason.
		We have to move them properly.
		So we'll see what this means.
		I mentioned it in an early morning show.
		The 19th may be the last episode of Timcast IRO.
		If we do any shows following this, probably will not be in the studio any longer.
		There's a lot of things that I can't say.
		What I will say is this.
		You live in a city.
		See what happens to Benny Johnson.
		He's in Florida of all places.
		What are you going to do?
		Your property is not as big.
		You've got neighbors and people show up and everyone's pissed off.
		The police can respond very quickly.
		We are out in the middle of nowhere.
		Harder to find, but people find us.
		We have to have armed security.
		It's expensive.
		And police don't respond as quickly.
		I'm not trying to disrespect them.
		I'm just saying this is the reality.
		Things like that to consider.
		There's a lot more that I can't say because it compromises our security.
		The threat of a second civil war, I think, is legitimate.
		And I think it's getting worse.
		And this year, it's going to get a lot worse.
		And I don't think my stress levels could be any higher.
		Someone called me.
		They asked me how I was doing.
		I think it was Viva.
		Viva Frye was like, how are you doing, buddy?
		And I said, you know, I sound like everything's okay.
		You know what I mean?
		And I have to.
		I have to go eat with my family.
		Like, we have to buy groceries.
		We have to eat food.
		We can order it.
		We do things like that.
		We have to live our lives.
		We don't want to live in hiding.
		We have security.
		We have plans.
		And so it's funny because anybody who sees me talk is going to be like, Tim looks fine.
		And it feels like there's a vice in my chest squeezing my organs from the stress.
		But what am I supposed to do?
		Go in the corner and just start crying, shut down, never work again?
		So people say that Erica Kirk isn't acting properly.
		And I'm like, listen, I've got my issues at turning point.
		We're not like, we get along.
		I'm not trying to get seem like there's a beef or anything like that.
		There is the issue.
		We're not going.
		It's disappointing.
		It's the D plus of any kind of beef.
	It's like, not really.
	It's kind of annoying.
	They invite me back.
	But, you know, I'm not here to just chill for a turning point.
	I don't know.
	But I'm just thinking like, my stress levels are through the roof.
	There's no solution to this other than just stopping and getting the F out.
	Imagine what Erica's going through.
	And people are saying she's not acting appropriately.
	Should I be crying and freaking out right now?
	Should I be shutting my show down on the spot?
	Just getting like, what am I supposed to do?
	So yeah, freaked out, stressed.
	It's miserable.
	Surprisingly, slept well.
	Beam dream.
	That's kind of crazy.
	That's the best commercial ever.
	Beam dream.
	When your life is under threat, you still sleep well.
	And then I wake up, I come here and I do these shows and it is, whew.
	So I don't know what comes next, my friends.
	But I highlight all these stories to tell you, we are not joking.
	It is not a grift.
	It is serious and it is scary.
	So I hope you're all paying attention.
	I'm going to leave it there.
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	Thank you so much for watching.
	Thank you for being members of the Timcast Discord community at Timcast.com and for those watching on Rumble Premium.
	We are working on solutions to see how we continue.
	I think we have a good option and I think there is a strong possibility we do.
	So we'll see.
	Thank you so much for hanging out.

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