Oct. 27, 2020 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
02:35:10
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| early voting is actually looking really good for Republicans right now, and that's probably a meaningless | ||
| statement because no one knows what's going on. | ||
| There's probably been a massive party realignment, but in battleground states for the Senate, Republicans are currently leading. | ||
| Also, that doesn't mean a whole lot because, individually, there's some states doing really well, some states where the Democrats are actually doing really well, and then when it comes to the battleground states for the presidency, Republicans are actually doing really well. | ||
| Now, they are losing, But everyone expected a more massive turnout for Democrats, so it's actually really close. | ||
| No one knows what's gonna happen. | ||
| The pollsters are convinced. | ||
| And I just gotta say, if it turns out that Donald Trump is actually on track to win, and he actually does win, each and every one of these pollsters, you're fired. | ||
| There's no way they have any credibility left after two separate elections where they just flubbed everything. | ||
| But we got a bunch to talk about. | ||
| We got, like, rappers endorsing Trump, and then, like, swearing at Trump, and it's just kinda weird. | ||
| So, uh, and then there's some breaking news. | ||
| Apparently they found a suspicious package outside of the confirmation hearing of Amy Coney Barrett, which is basically happening right now. | ||
| They're gonna vote her in at some point during this show, so we'll definitely pull that up when it happens. | ||
| But, uh, we're hanging out, so, uh, of course, you know, Ian's chillin'. | ||
| What up, guys? | ||
| He's got a little sloth coffee going on. | ||
| He does. | ||
| Slow down. | ||
| It's a slow down, guys, yeah. | ||
| Uh, Lydia, of course, is producing. | ||
| I'm back. | ||
| I'm back from Colorado. | ||
| And it is my displeasure to unfortunately say that Seamus is here again. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| You're no picnic either, Tim. | ||
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Oh wow. | |
| I know, I'm so awful. | ||
| This wasn't exactly my first choice for my Monday evening plan. | ||
| We forced him to come. | ||
| They literally forced me out here. | ||
| You look smoother in your new haircut. | ||
| Sorry to cut you off. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| I appreciate that. | ||
| It's funny, the first time I ever came out here to work with Tim, they flew me out first class. | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
| Did we? | ||
| He's spending my money! | ||
| I think after dealing with me, they're like, coach every time since. | ||
| They're like, there's no way. | ||
| Welcome to the crew. | ||
| So, Seamus' Freedom Tunes, I guess everybody knows that, right? | ||
| I think so. | ||
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Do they? | |
| I hope so. | ||
| You just did this thing about the New York Post censorship with Jack Dorsey and he's like standing guard at a club. | ||
| It's really, really funny. | ||
| I just got to give the synopsis because I love it. | ||
| There's this guy and he's basically like, I got this really big story about the vice president's son. | ||
| And Jack's all like, well, I can't just let anybody in. | ||
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We're very careful on Twitter.com about who we actually let post on our platform, because we want to be responsible. | |
| But my favorite part is when a guy in a straight jacket runs up screaming, the Russians are everywhere! | ||
| Trump is a Russian! | ||
| And he's like, right this way, sir, and he lets him in. | ||
| Could you imagine what it would be? | ||
| Oh, I don't want to spoil the whole thing. | ||
| People should check it out. | ||
| You guys should check it out. | ||
| YouTube.com slash Freedom Tunes. | ||
| Watch some of my videos. | ||
| It's a funny one. | ||
| A buddy of mine suggested the idea to me and I was like, yeah, let's do it. | ||
| I think it's a good way to tackle the issue. | ||
| Well, it was great. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| So, if you haven't already, smash that like button. | ||
| Subscribe to the show Monday through Friday, live at 8pm. | ||
| We're gonna have a huge election night party. | ||
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Yes! | |
| It was an accident. | ||
| I wasn't actually planning it. | ||
| I'm stoked. | ||
| But every time we have, like, a guest in the past two weeks, I've been like, what are you doing for election night? | ||
| You should just, like, come hang out. | ||
| And now we have, like, 20 of our past guests. | ||
| Are you kidding me? | ||
| I thought I was special. | ||
| They invited me. | ||
| Like, you should come out the week before the election. | ||
| So, like, you could, like, do the show for election night. | ||
| It'll be crazy. | ||
| We had to lie to everybody. | ||
| You're the special one. | ||
| People only want to hear you shame us. | ||
| I know, you had to lie to everyone and tell them I wasn't gonna be there or else there's no way to show up. | ||
| Dude, you could have just invited me and like, given me a week to just watch everyone's videos so I could just do impressions of them and you wouldn't have to fly them out. | ||
| And then what we'll do is we'll be like, oh no, oh no, it's a camera glitch, our microphones are still working, but Ben Shapiro is here and Jordan Peterson here. | ||
| It's like, I don't know if Donald Trump Isn't it interesting that Jordan Peterson came back right before the election? | ||
| How's that going to affect him? | ||
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What is he going to do? | |
| Do you think he's going to comment? | ||
| And he can't vote, right? | ||
| He's Canadian. | ||
| Canadians don't have any rights here. | ||
| They don't get to vote. | ||
| We don't let them do that, nor should they. | ||
| All Canada has is syrup mines. | ||
| That's their entire economy. | ||
| Did you know that they have a strategic maple syrup reserve? | ||
| They do. | ||
| I would believe that. | ||
| And there was a great maple syrup heist. | ||
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What? | |
| Not even kidding. | ||
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For real. | |
| What happened? | ||
| Like some dudes were like, for over a long period of time I guess, were siphoning off their strategic maple syrup reserves. | ||
| Like millions of dollars worth of maple syrup. | ||
| Sometimes you just lean into the stereotype. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Look man, stereotypes exist for a reason. | ||
| Isn't this saying? | ||
| And none of the Irish stereotypes are true, I find. | ||
| I don't think I have any family members who drink too much. | ||
| I don't think I've ever known any Irish Catholics or Irish people who had a lot of kids. | ||
| I'm kidding, I'm being facetious. | ||
| Irish Americans do probably drink and fight more than the average person. | ||
| Do you know what happened when these far left protesters went through the Irish neighborhood in Chicago? | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Go to the South Side. | ||
| South Side Irish. | ||
| So my entire family is from the South Side of Chicago and I love them to death, but we | ||
| moved out to the suburbs when I was a kid, but we'd be out there all the time and it's | ||
| where the entire extended family was. | ||
| Dude, dude, dude. | ||
| Yeah, Irish Catholic Chicagoans are an interesting... | ||
| Do you know what happened when these far left protesters went through the Irish neighborhood | ||
| in Chicago? | ||
| The Irish... | ||
| They got beat up. | ||
| I'm not even kidding. | ||
| It's not... | ||
| It was the NATO protest in 2012. | ||
| I was there and I knew once they started marching, I think it was like South Halstead, I was | ||
| like, oh no. | ||
| Like, this is not gonna go up. | ||
| Isn't that fantastic? | ||
| There was like some old dude who was like 60-something, like missing teeth, and he pulls his shirt off, and he was... Of course he does. | ||
| They were livid, they were like, get out of our neighborhood, and started just punching people, and they were like, why is he attacking us? | ||
| I'm like, dude, you're marching through his neighborhood at night screaming. | ||
| These people don't care about your politics, man. | ||
| He came out and whipped his butt with a can of Old Style in his hand. | ||
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That's awesome. | |
| These people don't realize, when it comes to actual lower-class white people, they won't stand for this privileged, upper-crust, far-left protest. | ||
| No, and no lower-class people at all. | ||
| If you talk to black people, the vast majority of black people I've met in Grand, I live in the South, I live in Georgia, but they tend not to have left-leaning political views. | ||
| Oh yeah, for sure. | ||
| Everyone has just totally adopted, or every group that the left claims to advocate for has adopted their socially progressive worldviews. | ||
| Completely insane. | ||
| I saw, I think Lauren Southern posted this on Instagram. | ||
| And it was like, I don't know, I think it was in the UK. | ||
| The proportion of political factions and how much they post, and the progressive left is more than half of all social posts. | ||
| And then each other faction was under 10%. | ||
| With like conservatives at like 7%. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, isn't it interesting how we define conservative, though, to be all of those other factions? | ||
| If you like anything other than progressive left, you're conservative. | ||
| This graph actually had a bunch of different things in it. | ||
| There was, like, pragmatic moderate, and there was, like, traditional liberal and stuff. | ||
| But then it was progressive left, 55%. | ||
| Everyone else was, like, 5%. | ||
| No, 100%. | ||
| I just think it's interesting that, in common parlance, conservative is usually used to refer to any of the groups that you mentioned, aside from the progressive left. | ||
| Like, moderate progressives are referred to as conservatives. | ||
| You know what I think is really funny about the U.S., though? | ||
| Is that, like, the left is defined by the most extreme of the left, by their choice. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| So, like, if you have me, and I'm like, I am pro-choice, and I believe in a progressive tax, then what? | ||
| Amy Coney Barrett has officially been confirmed. | ||
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Beautiful! | |
| My prayers have been answered. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| She's going to the Supreme Court. | ||
| Thank God. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| That is incredible. | ||
| I'm very happy to hear that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. | ||
| Should we talk about that? | ||
| Yeah, let's do it. | ||
| So actually, actually, this is a good segue. | ||
| We'll do this because we'll talk about the suspicious package, I guess. | ||
| Not that it matters all that much, but it goes into what I'm saying about this extremism from the left. | ||
| If a lot of these people on the left view the left and right as defined by status quo versus the revolution, like from a French revolution perspective. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Who's for the status quo. | ||
| So therefore, they're like, Tim Pool's obviously right-wing. | ||
| He likes the system. | ||
| He's a reformer liberal. | ||
| Well, I mean, that's correct. | ||
| I am a liberal and I'm for reforming. | ||
| But in terms of their view of having a revolution, yeah, it does. | ||
| Because I am not for their revolution. | ||
| They're weirdos. | ||
| So then what happens is, you get someone like Bernie Sanders who's like, We're gonna vote! | ||
| We're gonna change the system! | ||
| And they're like, Capitalist! | ||
| Nationalist! | ||
| You're not left-wing! | ||
| I kid you not, they've called Bernie Sanders right-wing. | ||
| Are they calling him that? | ||
| That's fascinating. | ||
| There was a post on the World Socialist website that called Bernie Sanders a nationalist capitalist. | ||
| I don't know if you know this, Tim, but Bernie Sanders is actually a moderate. | ||
| Listen, listen, listen. If left and right are defined by who's in favor of the revolution, | ||
| what happens if you're on the left but then you like demand a revolution of the left so | ||
| you're even further left? | ||
| Oh wow. | ||
| Now the far left is right to you? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's what they're doing. | ||
| Well I don't know if you know this Tim, but Bernie Sanders is actually a moderate. You | ||
| know that in Europe he would be considered right wing? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm so, dude, I cannot stand that. | ||
| It's like, yes, alright, yes, left and right are subjective. | ||
| There is not like a set definition that we've stuck with from the French Revolution with respect to policy positions that have carried over since then. | ||
| But, yeah, the left and right shift in your nation, and it happens to be the case that Bernie Sanders is pretty far to the left in the United States. | ||
| He's almost as far left as you can go on the economic scale. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's in favor of the worker controlling the means of production. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, this is also funny. | ||
| They do this thing where they'll look at European politics and say that if we want to be more objective, we should define our political spectrum in relationship to theirs. | ||
| And they'll be like, oh, well, like in Europe, this is actually a moderate policy X, Y, and Z. But nobody in Europe has any policies, or at least most countries in Europe do not have policies on abortion, which are as left-wing as the Democratic Party's is. | ||
| So there's this graph I like to show of the Democrats moving super far left and the Republicans staying where they are. | ||
| It comes from the New York Times, an article called, What Happened to Our Political Center of Gravity? | ||
| But they did this clever thing where you see the Democrats go super far left, but then they're just over a black line that says, median party. | ||
| And so when leftists see this, they're like, wow, so the Democrats are center-left? | ||
| That's funny. | ||
| And Republicans are far-right? | ||
| It's like, no, no, no, no. | ||
| They're left of the average European party, and Europe is very far left. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| So that means we are more far left than Europe. | ||
| Or the Democrats are. | ||
| I was thinking about the way an atom works with the heavy center and then the electron | ||
| and the proton is much heavier than the electron but they have equal magnetic charge. | ||
| So it's kind of like the right is like 90 plus percent of the population now because | ||
| this far left is so radical and all over the place. | ||
| They have relatively equal magnetic charge because of social media, like equal amounts | ||
| of influence it seems like even though there's so many, so much fewer. | ||
| I think it's the opposite. | ||
| I think that it's always been the case that most people have had pretty socially conservative or maybe even libertarian views, but the mainstream media has always been left-wing or center-left. | ||
| And so once social media came about and you actually had people who were voicing opinions | ||
| that didn't necessarily conform to the status quo of the dominant media culture, right-wing | ||
| views started getting more airtime. | ||
| And this is why they say things like social media is biased towards the right because | ||
| while on social media you can actually see a right-wing perspective. | ||
| Right, right, right, right. | ||
| They're surprised to see it. | ||
| But I think what you're talking about, that power that the left has, is because Wall Street is literally supporting it. | ||
| So I use Wall Street as kind of a catch-all term for the tech billionaires, the media billionaires, and literal big Wall Street cuts. | ||
| The kings of Saudi Arabia. | ||
| Who else is funding it? | ||
| So how is it, you know, Bernie Sanders is like, you gotta vote Biden! | ||
| Vote for the guy who's being funded by Wall Street. | ||
| Yes! | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| It's completely insane. | ||
| The fact that, like, Joe Biden was playing so friendly with all the people, I'm sorry, not Joe Biden, but Bernie Sanders would play so friendly with all the people who he said were part of the establishment. | ||
| It's like, alright, you're telling me that this establishment literally exists to screw the poor over and help the rich, and you're, like, calling Joe Biden your friend? | ||
| You're saying that you like Elizabeth Warren, that she's a decent person? | ||
| How do you expect anyone to take you seriously? | ||
| Dude, dude, dude, don't you get it? | ||
| Bernie was only complaining because it was sour grapes. | ||
| Elizabeth Warren was worth, what, $5 million? | ||
| The Bidens are worth, I think, like $16 million? | ||
| Pelosi, with her husband, worth like $200? | ||
| And so there's Bernie, with his humble $174k, and he was, you know, living in his little Vermont house. | ||
| And then, all of a sudden, people started saying, we like this guy. | ||
| They bought his book, he became a millionaire. | ||
| And all of a sudden, his millionaire buddies were like, come on. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| And he was like, okay, okay. | ||
| I'm in the club. | ||
| I'm in the club. | ||
| Tim, if you wrote a bestselling book, you could be a millionaire too. | ||
| That's what he said, right? | ||
| I don't think it's that. | ||
| I just, I still love Bernie. | ||
| He's hysterical. | ||
| I think that it's because he hates Trump and he's got TDS so hard, which is sad, but that's what I think it is. | ||
| No, because here's the thing. | ||
| This is a cliche. | ||
| I understand that this is sort of the conventional wisdom at this point and everyone's said this, but if there was a candidate who actually could stand a chance to go up against Trump, I do think it would be Bernie Sanders. | ||
| I think working class people actually like Bernie Sanders in a way that they don't most of the other candidates that the left is trying to put up. | ||
| Five years ago. | ||
| You think five years ago? | ||
| Five years ago. | ||
| I don't think Bernie would have won against Trump, but I think he would have stood a better chance than like Biden. | ||
| Five years ago, Bernie Sanders said in an interview with Vox, he was asked about open borders and he said, that is a Koch brothers proposal. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| We are not for open borders. | ||
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Now he's on the stage being like, we've got to decriminalize all border crossings, free healthcare. | |
| And then, dude, the billionaires are bad, but not the ones funding Joe Biden. | ||
| He's alright. | ||
| If Trump is a billionaire, he's bad. | ||
| Well, back then he was also saying millionaires are bad, because he wasn't one yet. | ||
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He was a millionaire, now it's just the billionaires. | |
| What happens when he becomes a billionaire? | ||
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He's gonna be like, trillionaires like Jeff Bezos cannot run this country. | |
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| It's funny because, so Joe Biden gets more donations from higher income zip codes than Donald Trump does. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| I read that the other day. | ||
| And he's raising tons of money from high, like very, very wealthy billionaire investors. | ||
| How are we in? | ||
| This is the craziest thing to me. | ||
| I'm talking to some of these leftists, sometimes I'll tweet them and stuff, and I'm like, I don't understand how you guys found yourselves on the side of the billionaires. | ||
| Like, Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg. | ||
| Literal billionaires. | ||
| And you're like, well, I think they're alright. | ||
| And I'm just like, I'm asking some of these people, do me a favor, like, you don't like Trump, right? | ||
| Okay? | ||
| That's fine, you don't have to like Trump. | ||
| Can you say, Trump is bad, Joe Biden is bad? | ||
| I'll do it first. | ||
| Trump is bad, Joe Biden is bad, your turn. | ||
| And they won't do it. | ||
| They won't do it. | ||
| How is the revolution on the side of the, like, conglomerates, the international interests, the corporations, the billionaires, the crony establishment politicians? | ||
| It's almost like it actually has nothing to do with helping the poor. | ||
| It's almost as if the Democratic Party has no interest in that at all, and it's just about getting their own radically left-wing political agenda across that just happens to be trendy with the intellectual elite, including most tech millionaires and billionaires. | ||
| This is the weird thing. | ||
| What are Republicans doing? | ||
| To be fair, this is what's interesting. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer were just ragging on Nancy Pelosi because the Republicans have conceded on the COVID relief bill. | ||
| This is the mind-blowing thing. | ||
| I used to say, you know what? | ||
| I don't know what the Republicans are doing. | ||
| I think they're trash the same. | ||
| It's rhinos and dinos. | ||
| It's people who want to get in office. | ||
| It's give me the power. | ||
| I'll do whatever I want. | ||
| I'm not a fan of that. | ||
| I'm not a big fan of Republican policy for the most part, even when they do actually meet it. | ||
| But I like principle. | ||
| Now I'm like, talking to my family, I'm like, they're like, what are the Republicans doing for us? | ||
| Well, actually the Republicans just like caved to the Democrats on all the COVID stuff to get the bill passed so that 25 million Americans can get their unemployment benefits in this crisis. | ||
| And Nancy Pelosi said no. | ||
| And it was so bad. | ||
| Wolf Blitzer called her out. | ||
| Members of her own party called her out. | ||
| I saw that. | ||
| Jake Tapper just called her out. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Jake Tapper said, it seems like the Republicans have moved your way on this and you could take yes for an answer. | ||
| And she was like, no, no. | ||
| No, they're moving the goalposts. | ||
| They say, we're doing it. | ||
| They're doing it. | ||
| And you've got actual Democrats. | ||
| I think it was Mark Rose. | ||
| He said, the Democrats need to learn how to declare victory and sort of walk away. | ||
| Walk away from this. | ||
| They've won. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi's like, here's the things we want. | ||
| And Trump was like, okay, you got it. | ||
| Well, I mean, we don't really want it. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. So now she's been holding up the whole time and it's really messed up because I see I see some some | ||
| resistance Democrats like really desperate. | ||
| They hate Trump so much and they're like it's actually Trump's fault this isn't getting passed. | ||
| And then CNN is like actually it's the Democrats and I'm like dude when CNN is on the side of the Republicans it | ||
| must be really bad. | ||
| 100%. Really bad. That's the weirdest thing to me. It's the Republicans who are trying to help the poor. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What? | ||
| I never thought I'd see that day. | ||
| Well, yeah, I mean, again and again, I'm no fan of the Republican Party. | ||
| I would tend to argue that at least like the principles behind conservative thought tend to be better for poor people because I think the government's just done an abysmal job attempting to help them. | ||
| But I totally get what you're saying. | ||
| It's really sad with the first COVID relief bill. | ||
| I'm not as familiar with the second one. | ||
| So if you'd like to break that down. | ||
| Same one, same one. | ||
| Okay, because the first one was literally... But the first ballot was literally just a handout to the richest people in the country. | ||
| For the first COVID relief bill? | ||
| I'm talking about the first ballot that they did several months ago. | ||
| It was the largest transfer of wealth which has occurred in all of human history and most of it went to the wealthiest people in the country and in the world, frankly. | ||
| Basically, they gave the Federal Reserve, I believe, $450 billion. | ||
| so that they could leverage that to give out about $4.25 trillion in low-interest loans. | ||
| They're the largest companies in the country. And then small businesses had to go through the | ||
| Small Business Administration, which got a total of $350 billion and usually deals with about $30 | ||
| billion over the course of a year, and now had to give out $350 billion over the course of several | ||
| weeks. And so what happened was there was an insane amount of fraud along | ||
| A lot of these small businesses didn't get the money. | ||
| 60% of the businesses that closed during this lockdown are never going to reopen. | ||
| But look what happened. | ||
| The richest people in the country got these interest-free loans from the government, and now they're going to be able to buy up all of the assets of the small businesses that went under during COVID, and it's just going to be a massive consolidation of corporate power. | ||
| And that's what the Democrats and Republicans gave to us in response to a pandemic. | ||
| And there's more. | ||
| And there's more. | ||
| The lockdowns destroyed the small businesses, and the big box stores and Amazon flourished, and their stock prices skyrocketed. | ||
| So if you were a mom-and-pop shop that sold, you know, bikes, you're done. | ||
| But Walmart? | ||
| They're good. | ||
| They can sell all the bikes in the world. | ||
| A million percent. | ||
| Now, we did see some stories where, like, in Michigan, they would put, like, plastic wrap up to block. | ||
| It's like, you can't buy this. | ||
| No one's allowed to buy these products. | ||
| It's the weirdest thing. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| But what's crazy to me is how... I mean, and this is mostly a phenomenon of Democrat states with Democratic governors. | ||
| The Republicans weren't really doing this, for the most part. | ||
| But you look at these movie theaters, they decided to just end the movie industry. | ||
| That's really weird to me. | ||
| It's really, really weird. | ||
| Like, even right now, movie theaters are shut down in some states for no reason. | ||
| None. | ||
| Why? | ||
| It's almost like they were like, oh yeah, movie theaters? | ||
| I hate those. | ||
| Just shut them down. | ||
| They're gone. | ||
| It's a weird arbitrary thing. | ||
| Recirculated air and dirty chairs? | ||
| I'm imagining like you know you got like what's what's a good state Phil Murphy in New Jersey the governor he's like they're like sir which businesses should we shut down and he remembers like when he was a little kid like eating popcorn in a movie theater watching you know Ninja Turtles or something or what I don't know Star Wars and then like some guy some like older kid bullied him and pushed him down and they all laughed at him and spilled his food and then he's like No movie theaters! | ||
| Shut them down! | ||
| None of the girls he asked to go to the movies went with him. | ||
| He's like, we're getting rid of the movie theaters! | ||
| There's no reason! | ||
| And that's what we got. | ||
| The big box stores made billions in stock value. | ||
| The wealth of these people skyrocketed. | ||
| Small mom and pop shops are gone. | ||
| And the craziest thing is, it's the Republicans who are saying that was a bad move. | ||
| This is what's scary about the Democrats winning. | ||
| Do you know about the Great Reset? | ||
| We've talked about this a little bit earlier. | ||
| I don't think we had an in-depth conversation. | ||
| Do you know about the Great Reset? | ||
| No, tell me. | ||
| Can you Google search Great Reset World Economic Forum? | ||
| Yeah, I have that article, I think, in the Time thing. | ||
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I've heard of this. | |
| I'll pull it up for you. | ||
| The World Economic Forum is basically saying that COVID is an opportunity to reset global capitalism. | ||
| Oh, wonderful. | ||
| Oh, fantastic. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| Under intersectional values. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| Good. | ||
| I'm really glad to hear that. | ||
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But I'm not. | |
| I'm just joshing around. | ||
| I'm very unhappy about that. | ||
| It's funny because if they didn't put it on their website and I said this, they'd be like, Tim Paul's a crazy conspiracy crack bot. | ||
| I'm still saying it. | ||
| It's literally just the Great Reset. | ||
| Here you go, check it out. | ||
| World Economic Forum, The Great Reset. | ||
| Let me check this. | ||
| And yeah, so there's an urgent need for global stakeholders to cooperate and simultaneously managing the direct | ||
| consequences of the COVID-19 crisis To improve the state of the world the world economic forum | ||
| is starting the great reset initiative. It's kind of like An ominous name for a second | ||
| That's unbelievably creepy. | ||
| Isn't there a fun irony in people associating capitalism, as it's referred to in this context, to free markets, and yet this is literally the definition of a planned economy? | ||
| You cannot reset a market. | ||
| That's not how it works. | ||
| Historically, the Greeks actually reset their economy when inflation got too crazy. | ||
| And so did Venezuela. | ||
| We're saying no to debt. | ||
| They reduced all the debt to zero and started over. | ||
| Could you imagine what Venezuela did? | ||
| They issued a new currency, it was called like the Bolivar Fuerte. | ||
| In Venezuela, oh. | ||
| The Bank of International Settlements releasing crypto, I mean they're basically going digital. | ||
| I think this, Bitcoin's gonna become astronomically valuable. | ||
| Like, you hear these people, I'm not gonna give a hard number because I'm not, I don't know, but listen. | ||
| I hear people saying like, Bitcoin's gonna hit 28k soon, and they're always giving these big numbers like, Bitcoin's going sky high. | ||
| Bitcoin is an international trade medium, a digital asset that can be transferred instantly, and it's the perfect tool for a store of value, considering we're in digital spaces, we're doing things remote, we've locked everything down, and it can travel instantly across borders. | ||
| And you can't print as much of it as you want. | ||
| So there's a finite amount. | ||
| It's the perfect medium for some kind of international store of value. | ||
| And I think with this great reset, whatever they end up doing with it, they're kind of vague, but they do talk about, you know, just like intersectionality. | ||
| They have a bunch of articles. | ||
| Here's a question I have for you, Tim, based on what I'm reading on the World Economic Forum, which I assume would just be a solid resource for learning about econ. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What is intersectionality and how can it help businesses tackle diversity and inclusion? | ||
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| Great question. | ||
| And here it is from the World Economic Forum website. | ||
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| And she's painting her eyelids with rainbows. | ||
| She's painting her eyelids with rainbows. | ||
| The diversity and inclusion battle will only be won when people are seen as multifaceted in their social identities. | ||
| Intersectionality is a way of understanding how and why every individual's view of the world is different. | ||
| But how different is it allowed to be? | ||
| Not very. | ||
| disability to race to age inclusivity none should be tackled in isolation. | ||
| Inclusion means everyone all the time not some people some of the time. | ||
| I think it would be really great if they talked to the American intersectionals about you | ||
| know white people because then they could hear this and be like oh wait we're not supposed | ||
| to treat people that way. | ||
| It's your own ideology man. | ||
| Yeah it's fantastic. | ||
| So the crazy thing is that we have these Democrats that are locking everything down, and I wonder to what extent you have Democratic governors who like this idea of intersectionality, Black Lives Matter, and the Great Reset. | ||
| And I wonder how much of what they're doing may be motivated by the World Economic Forum talking about wanting to do it. | ||
| And they mentioned age. | ||
| So you think this is a bunch of 90-year-old wealthy people that plan on living until they're 6,000, and they're like, now's the time to get it in their minds? | ||
| Speaking of age, though, people talk about income inequality as though we just have these fixed brackets in the United States, but the reality is it's unbelievably fluid, and one of the number one drivers of income inequality is age. | ||
| Like, if you correct for age, income inequality, I wouldn't say entirely evens out, but it's reduced greatly. | ||
| It's just people who work more and have worked for, you know, in their industry a longer amount of time and have more experience are just The average net worth of a millennial is $11,000, but the median is $75,000. | ||
| This is actually crazy, I was reading something about this. | ||
| It looks, I could be wrong, I was just reading some stats. | ||
| It seems like wealth inequality among millennials is insane. | ||
| I can see it. | ||
| How so? | ||
| Like there's a small tiny bit of millennials who are extremely wealthy, | ||
| and then the most are extremely poor. | ||
| Like the average, I think this is what I saw. | ||
| The average net worth of a, yeah, okay. | ||
| The average net worth of a millennial is $11,000, but the median is $75,000. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| What is the median exactly? | ||
| The median is just the middle, from the highest to the lowest. | ||
| Oh, okay, not accounting for how many there are. | ||
| Yeah, and then the average is the, like all of them together, divided. | ||
| So the average is really low, but the median is like seven times higher. | ||
| So there are millennials who are super wealthy. | ||
| Well off. | ||
| I mean, maybe it's a YouTube thing. | ||
| YouTubers. | ||
| It's just YouTubers. | ||
| The only millennials making any money are YouTubers and everyone else is just screwed. | ||
| Why is it that so many millennials are commies or socialists? | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Makes perfect sense. | ||
| And then the small percentage that are conservative are just the really rich ones who's like, oh, actually these principles make more sense. | ||
| Or just having a net worth higher than $11,000. | ||
| Yeah, that'll do it. | ||
| That'll make you not a communist, is having a net worth more than $11,000. | ||
| Well, think about if you inherit something from your parents, the family business, stake in the family business, you're already worth more. | ||
| That's something we should probably look up. | ||
| I wonder if conservatives have a higher net worth than liberal millennials. | ||
| I have no doubt. | ||
| I'd be very surprised if it wasn't that way. | ||
| There was a video I did on this a while ago for the Foundation for Economic Education, which, if you'd like, we started a new YouTube channel, the Foundation for Economic Education. | ||
| It's called Common Sense Soapbox with Seamus Coghlan. | ||
| But we did a video a while ago on income inequality, and we also did a video on inheritance taxes and the way it shakes out. | ||
| Inheritance taxes actually make income inequality worse because poor people are more likely to inherit their wealth, or they inherit a larger percentage of their wealth than do the rich. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| Because why is that? | ||
| Well, so a lot of, actually a lot of inherited wealth is like inherited businesses. | ||
| So like farmland and such. | ||
| And when you have an inheritance tax, like it really hurts farmers, the people producing our food who are exactly like who you don't want to hurt, but who, for whatever reason, Marxists just have this tendency to screw over, which is one of the reasons their economies never work. | ||
| But yeah, it just happens to be the case that poor people are more dependent upon intergenerational wealth than the rich are. | ||
| And that's because the rich parent will make their kids wealthy before they die? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm not sure exactly what the explanation is. | ||
| I just know it shakes out such that poor people inherit a larger percentage of their net worth than do the rich. | ||
| I think that makes sense. | ||
| Like, the poor parents won't be able to give their kids anything until they die. | ||
| Well, but think about what wealth is, right? | ||
| So, just because... Let me stop. | ||
| If a poor person owns a house worth $50,000 in the middle of nowhere, that means the wealth of the child is the $50,000. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Whereas somebody who earns their money is going to be worth way more than that if they | ||
| become wealthy. | ||
| So they're earning their income through industry, but the average person earns their value through | ||
| having it passed down generation to generation. | ||
| So I'm actually, this is why we have commies now. | ||
| This is why millennials are all for Bernie and whatever, even though he's in favor of | ||
| the billionaires, I guess. | ||
| I gotta say, I don't blame all of the millennials. | ||
| Some of them are more responsible than others. | ||
| But think about what happened to this generation. | ||
| I remember when I was growing up, they said, go to college. | ||
| And I said, why? | ||
| And they said, so you can get a good job. | ||
| And I said, why do I need a job? | ||
| To make money. | ||
| Can't I just make money? | ||
| So I remember I read this article from an economist who said it's a terrible investment. | ||
| Imagine going to an investor and saying, for $40,000 after four years you will owe $40,000 plus interest. | ||
| And they would laugh in your face. | ||
| Would I have to show for it, piece of paper? | ||
| That's ridiculous. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So I ultimately was like, I'm not gonna do it, but millennials all go to college because their parents are like, you have to. | ||
| And I've talked to a ton of my friends all throughout the years, and they keep saying, my parents are making me, and I'm like, dude, you're an adult. | ||
| Like, you're 19 years old, and like, I live at home with my parents, they'll kick me out. | ||
| So kick you- Go, go get a job. | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| This is interesting. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, I wouldn't say that this is intentional, but the way it shakes out the entire student loan crisis, as well as the fact that college education is as expensive as it is in the entire infrastructure we have built around higher education is a massive handout to the corporate world. | ||
| Because what a college degree allows you to do is, is determine whether or not somebody would be a suitable worker for your company. | ||
| So you don't really have to go through as much of a trial period with them. | ||
| If someone has a degree, they probably are a more promising worker. | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| I mean, this is what, they are more likely to hire people with degrees. | ||
| Sure, sure, but I disagree with you. | ||
| No, I 100% agree that that logic can be flawed, but for the most part, employers do find knowing | ||
| whether or not a person is college educated to be very useful in their desire to employ. | ||
| And so, they're almost like these litmus tests that people are paying for on their own to | ||
| pursue these careers. | ||
| And then on top of that, when you're massively in debt, you are more dependent upon your employer. | ||
| You're less likely to strike or go off on your own and work for another company. | ||
| So, even though, and it's funny because where did it all come from? | ||
| Well, it came from the desire to help poor people. | ||
| We should make sure that everyone can get an education, so what we're going to do is federally subsidize student loans, so that anyone can take out a loan, and then anyone can get a college education, and look what happened. | ||
| Look at the housing crisis. | ||
| Well, exactly, because according to the National Bureau for Economic Research, pretty straightforward conclusion they came to, but it's always good to actually cite A reputable think tank. | ||
| They said that colleges respond to federal subsidies by increasing their tuition. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's really straightforward. | ||
| And so, yeah, it started as, let's help poor people. | ||
| Let's help them get an education. | ||
| Education's a great thing. | ||
| And it resulted in this massive dystopian nightmare where almost everyone in our generation is unbelievably in debt. | ||
| And who is it helping? | ||
| It's helping the rich. | ||
| I used to have a lot of people hitting me up about traveling the world and covering news when I was doing it. | ||
| Now I get people hitting me up about YouTube and stuff. | ||
| So back in the day, when I was at Vice and everything, people would be like, I want to do what you do, man. | ||
| Like, oh, I want to travel around. | ||
| And I usually complain that millennials don't actually want to do the work. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yeah, I've seen your video on this. | ||
| So I've talked about how, like, I've had people say, well, I mean, I don't want to spend the money. | ||
| Like, I have a really nice apartment in Brooklyn. | ||
| And I'm like, what's more important? | ||
| Going to, you know, I don't know, Ukraine for this crisis and covering it and being there or having your nice apartment in Brooklyn? | ||
| But I like my apartment in Brooklyn. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| The other thing, though, is that a lot of people said, I can't have student loan debt. | ||
| I'm like, can you quit your job right now, take your savings and fly? | ||
| I mean, I could, but how am I going to pay my student loans back? | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Can you defer them? | ||
| Like, but then the interest is going to get really bad. | ||
| And it's like, okay, well then you, congratulations. | ||
| You signed your soul away for what? | ||
| This is exactly how they get you. | ||
| They put you in this cycle where you start out, where you owe this massive student loan and they keep you in your work. | ||
| Forever. | ||
| Just forever. | ||
| You just sign a contract for the rest of your life to just be like, okay, this is what I'm doing now. | ||
| They do, 100%. | ||
| I've deferred mine for 20 years. | ||
| I'm still in deferment. | ||
| I just never want to pay those back. | ||
| You can't do anything about it. | ||
| You can't bankruptcy. | ||
| He's just banking on the whole system collapsing before he has to pay that off. | ||
| Let's just wait until the election is over. | ||
| I gotta be honest. | ||
| I gotta be honest. | ||
| His investment is about to pay out in spades. | ||
| November 4th and I'm good! | ||
| That's the entire like we all think we're worried about the election. | ||
| Ian has his entire financial future riding on it. | ||
| My plan was to bankrupt. | ||
| I graduated in 2001 and I was gonna bankrupt my student loan debt. | ||
| You can't do that. | ||
| But George Bush in like 2003 made it illegal. | ||
| You cannot bankrupt your student loans. | ||
| You gotta keep them. | ||
| Well yeah and I guess like they can't repossess a degree so that's the brilliance of it. | ||
| You could never ever ever default on those loans. | ||
| I was in a unique It's a college situation where it was worth it, I think. | ||
| Even though I've been in debt, I've never really stressed too much about it. | ||
| It's always been a deferment. | ||
| I owe more than I borrowed 21 years ago. | ||
| But I had a phenomenal experience in college. | ||
| I went to become an actor, a journalist, and then I switched to become an actor. | ||
| I was acting, so I was kind of paying to be there to learn how to act. | ||
| I met a phenomenal friend, a beautiful girlfriend, and it launched my confidence. | ||
| And so it was a hands-on degree. | ||
| It wasn't like I went to study some business knowledge that I could have learned elsewhere. | ||
| It was actually like, Acting like it was I had a job to do one. | ||
| It gave me an opportunity 100 I don't doubt that good things came out of your college experience, but Great things have come out of a lot of people's college Experiences and the system just set up in a way where you ended up getting screwed cuz my dad my dad paid for his entire college It was like the typical boomer story, but my dad paid off his entire college education working at Juul over the summer What one tuitions way lower back then? | ||
| No, no, that's my- No, I'm not saying, like, go work at Juul, Ian, but I am saying that it was so unbelievably cheap back then that you could actually do that, which is- That's completely out the window now. | ||
| Do people know what Juul is? | ||
| Juul, Oscar, do they not have that? | ||
| Is this just a Chicago thing? | ||
| That's right, that's hilarious, they might actually not know. | ||
| I went down to the Juul area and got some old styles. | ||
| Savon, Safeway, Ralphs. | ||
| Is Dominic's Chicago thing? | ||
| Dominic's Chicago thing? | ||
| Is it really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's hilarious, dude. | ||
| Our whole audience says Tim and I are the only people who know any of this. | ||
| Safeway, is that New York? | ||
| Safeway, yeah. | ||
| Ralphs is California. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| What does New York have? | ||
| New York has COVID-19 and nothing else. | ||
| They've got those really thin aisles. | ||
| You know what, it's not good for social distancing. | ||
| That's why I got so bad there. | ||
| Did you go to college? | ||
| I did go to college. | ||
| What was your degree and set up and debt? | ||
| Yeah, so no, I was unbelievably privileged. | ||
| I mean, I did community college for two years, but yeah, I mean, my parents took care of the rest and I was not going to go to college, but... | ||
| My plan was just to keep working and enter the industry and continue to build my business. | ||
| And my parents said, no, we really want you to go. | ||
| And I said, that's an unbelievable gift that most people don't get. | ||
| So I'm going to do that. | ||
| And I'm forever grateful to them. | ||
| And I continued working on my business for the two years that I went away to the school I went to, which was the Savannah College of Art and Design. | ||
| And by the time I graduated, my enterprise was making enough money for me to just live off of. | ||
| Okay, so here's a question. | ||
| Do we forgive student loan debt? | ||
| Just forgive the interest to start off. | ||
| 100%, yeah. | ||
| It's insane to me that you could charge interest on loans that the government is guaranteeing. | ||
| Seriously? | ||
| Isn't the entire point of interest like, alright, I'm taking a risk by giving you this money. | ||
| I don't know if I'm going to get it back, so I should have something to show for it. | ||
| The federal government is just giving you the money. | ||
| It's guaranteed that you're going to get it back. | ||
| The idea that you'd be able to charge interest is criminal. | ||
| But they want you to be permanently locked in place. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Good little workers who can't leave. | ||
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| No, that's what it is. | ||
| That's why it works out for them. | ||
| So think about what's going on right now and how these urban millennials who went to college and have this massive debt are facing what's going on. | ||
| Their debt's getting worse. | ||
| The deferments, the interest rates piling up. | ||
| They can't find work. | ||
| And then along comes a Bernie Sanders. | ||
| I'll give you everything you've ever dreamed of. | ||
| I totally understand. | ||
| If this happened 20 years ago, if I was 20 years younger and I was 20 right now, I would be one of those people. | ||
| Bernie Sanders, collectivist, let's burn it all down and undo all that. | ||
| It would be crazy. | ||
| You know why it's young people? | ||
| Their net worth is $11,000. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| Their net worth is negative, probably. | ||
| Well, actually, millennial net worth under 30 is negative for college kids. | ||
| Yeah, but it makes sense. | ||
| I mean, part of the difficulty, though, is like if there was and this is part of my problem with the whole idea of like free education is I think you end up with the exact same problem that we have now. | ||
| It just exacerbates itself because the whole idea was, again, let's let poor people go to college. | ||
| We're going to do that by federally guaranteeing these student loans. | ||
| As soon as the consumer is removed from the pricing structure and you just have the government with these bottomless pockets paying for everything the price goes up and then if it's based on loans people end up with a lot more debt. | ||
| I think what we need to focus on in this country is improving the 12 years of education that we do give to everybody to ensure that they can be prepared for the workforce or better yet just Do away with that. | ||
| I'm actually a big advocate of homeschooling. | ||
| I think the public school system is completely broken, and I think we talked about this last time, but the idea that people are not prepared for the workforce after 12 years of state-funded education, and the solution is to give them another four? | ||
| To me, that's crazy. | ||
| Right. | ||
| High school should be what college is. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Completely agreed. | ||
| Teach me how to start a business. | ||
| Teach me how to vote. | ||
| They didn't teach me any of this stuff in high school. | ||
| Teach me how to write a check. | ||
| I didn't learn how to write a check until college. | ||
| I know what it is. | ||
| The aliens are conditioning us to be good workers. | ||
| That's also true. | ||
| The aliens are going to work for us. | ||
| They're going to build more pyramids. | ||
| That's the plan, yeah. | ||
| That makes sense. | ||
| They made us- I'm kidding. | ||
| Isn't that hilarious? | ||
| Why would they do that? | ||
| That would be such a rude thing for aliens to do. | ||
| Instead of giving us technology, they're going to build some stone triangles for us. | ||
| Well, what if they need gold? | ||
| But what if they need it? | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Did we talk about this? | ||
| Gold is their fuel? | ||
| This is like a really old conspiracy theory that's been on the internet for a long time. | ||
| That they need gold to replenish their atmosphere or something. | ||
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| Did you ever see those lights? | ||
| Neil deGrasse Tyson said that, I think. | ||
| Well, Neil deGrasse Tyson said a meteor is going to crash into Earth today on November 2nd. | ||
| So, you know, here's hoping! | ||
| Is there actually a meteor coming close or something? | ||
| But I think it's really small. | ||
| I think it's like six feet. | ||
| It's like super tiny. | ||
| Can I loop it back a little bit? | ||
| Yeah, please. | ||
| Because I know this is something we've talked about a little bit. | ||
| This is something that I'm very compassionate with Millennials on. | ||
| Because it makes a big difference to me that Millennials, I would like them to be happy and balanced and everything. | ||
| And I think that part of the reason that they're having so much problem is that they have been sold a false bill of goods. | ||
| I think they've been told that they can go to college and get whatever job they want, and it's not true. | ||
| It's nonsense. | ||
| It means a bunch of nothing. | ||
| You know what I think one of the biggest problems we have as a society? | ||
| First, I mean, it starts young. | ||
| What do American kids do from the ages of zero to five years old? | ||
| Watch Sesame Street. | ||
| Nothing! | ||
| Sit around, watch TV. | ||
| I think it depends on the household. | ||
| Well, for sure, but on average, a lot of kids are doing nothing, especially in cities. | ||
| I think there are a lot of parents who do just sit their kids in front of the TV. | ||
| Or the tablet or whatever. | ||
| What should you do? | ||
| I was being homeschooled. | ||
| I was too. | ||
| Before I went off to school, my mom did teach me to read. | ||
| And I'm really bad at it. | ||
| My mom taught me and all of my siblings to read before we ever went off to school and we were just ahead of the other kids in our class. | ||
| Because guess what? | ||
| No one's ever going to be able to teach your kid as well as you can. | ||
| I entered school knowing, like I'm in kindergarten, I knew multiplication and division and all this math that was like grades above everybody else. | ||
| My vocabulary was several years higher than the rest of the kids. | ||
| Did you skip grades? | ||
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| I bet if you did, you wouldn't have dropped out. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because you just would have finished when you were 12 or 13. | ||
| No, it was trash. | ||
| I'm like, I was 14. | ||
| I went to high school and they were like, okay, now open the book because you're all morons and read the passage about how you're all morons. | ||
| By the time you were 14. | ||
| I probably could have just skipped it. | ||
| I probably could have just... It's a waste of time. | ||
| You would have been like a 10-year-old in high school probably. | ||
| It's all stupid. | ||
| It's a waste of time. | ||
| What we did in Colorado is that we had people go straight into college. | ||
| In high school. | ||
| You'd go into high school and come out with a college degree. | ||
| Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| We had stuff like that. | ||
| Like you'd spend a certain amount of time. | ||
| Or you'd do like AP classes. | ||
| Is that kind of what you're talking about? | ||
| Kind of like that. | ||
| So anyway, look. | ||
| Here's the point I'm getting to. | ||
| Not only was I homeschooled before I was five years old, I was like, as early as I could possibly communicate, my mom was teaching me and my siblings. | ||
| My family started a business, and I worked for the family business when I was like nine years old. | ||
| So my mom started a cafe, and so I was helping prepare drinks, she was showing me like management and stuff. | ||
| So I'm like 10 years old, I'm learning from the real world, I'm sitting next to adults as they complain about politics, and I was immersed in all of it. | ||
| So by the time I was 17, and they were like, it's time for college, I was like, why? | ||
| So what happens now is, you've got 18-year-old kids, and they're kids, they're not adults, they're not 18-year-old men, 18-year-old women, they're 18-year-old kids, and they're like, here, sign this paper where you can never have this debt cleared for bankruptcy or anything, it's attached to you forever, the interest rates are psychotic, and you have no idea how this works because we've never taught you, sign it, sign it. | ||
| They don't teach compound interest either. | ||
| Yeah, why not? | ||
| That makes perfect sense. | ||
| So we forgive the interest, is that what we're saying? | ||
| No, no, it's true. So so crazy and there are workarounds, but we so we forgive the interest is that we're saying | ||
| I would say forgive the interest I would You're coming | ||
| I am a commie. | ||
| Well, no, you're right. | ||
| You got me. | ||
| I'm a commie. | ||
| Well, no, I think that it's insane. | ||
| I think it's insane for corporations to be able to profit off of public money. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, as someone who believes in a free market, I think that's just, like, antithetical to my principles in general. | ||
| But even so, I believe in a free market, but I'm okay. | ||
| I believe it's alright to have some exceptions here and there. | ||
| I'm not completely dogmatic on it. | ||
| When it comes to student loan forgiveness in general, I'm not sure. | ||
| If we could work it out in a way where... My fear is if we did it, we would push the problem off further into the future and perpetuate the same system of college becoming more and more expensive, and then people who didn't go to college because they wanted to save the money are going to end up with the tax burden of forgiving those debts for people who did go to college. | ||
| And so it's not... If it was just like we could wave away All of the debt, I would say absolutely yes. | ||
| And I certainly believe that we should prevent these banks from being able to collect any more interest on them. | ||
| Didn't Trump suspend the interest rates during COVID? | ||
| And I was saying that earlier in the year, and then Trump didn't. | ||
| And I'm like, once again, how is it the Republicans are doing the things that help the poor in these situations? | ||
| A couple of things. | ||
| One, I fully agree with you guys about homeschooling from zero to five, teaching kids mathematics, multiplication and division. | ||
| Do it! | ||
| Because kids can learn math at the age of three. | ||
| That's where we're at. | ||
| Humanity is a genius. | ||
| We have the internet. | ||
| You can do it. | ||
| Secondly, do you agree with defaulting on the debt to the Federal Reserve? | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know enough about it. | ||
| I've heard a little bit, and the Federal Reserve has been a topic of interest for me for a while, but when it comes to defaulting on the loan to them... Wouldn't that crash the global economy? | ||
| Well, then, if yes, then I'm in favor of it. | ||
| No. | ||
| I'm in. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Let's do it. | ||
| Let's get crazy, kids. | ||
| Yeah, I'm not sure. | ||
| If we defaulted on the interest only, is what I'm talking about. | ||
| What would that do? | ||
| It'd be rad. | ||
| country like $20 trillion. | ||
| It'd be super cool. | ||
| But what is it? | ||
| I could put that money into other things. | ||
| Yeah, I guess it's it's a I think it's a purposefully complicated system so that no one really has any idea and | ||
| then everyone spends their time arguing about one section of it over here and then no one really knows. | ||
| But I can tell you the system as we have it set up right now, it's very difficult for people to save unless you go | ||
| into a market or make some kind of investment account or whatever. | ||
| But now that interest rates are in the gutter because of COVID, it's like, what do you do? | ||
| You just got to spend money and build something. | ||
| So ultimately, the best thing you can do, start a business, make money for yourself. | ||
| The problem is, going back to what I was saying before, we have a bunch of young people. | ||
| They spend, listen, let me ask you a question. | ||
| What were you doing when you were 13 years old? | ||
| When I was 13 years old, I was actually starting to teach myself to animate, and I was also buying broken computers and fixing them so I could resell them. | ||
| And now here you are, you have a show, you animate, you've got a couple hundred... How many subscribers do you have? | ||
| 460,000. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| Very successful YouTube channel. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Very blessed. | ||
| So when I was 13, I was playing music, I was skateboarding, I was doing Flash animation, I was doing Flash websites, video games, I was working on all this stuff, and You know, generally hanging out with people and learning how the computers worked and all this stuff. | ||
| A bunch of other people I know who ended up going to college, getting a degree they didn't need, because they didn't know what they were doing, with massive debt. | ||
| I said, what were you doing when you were 13? | ||
| They were like, nothing. | ||
| Riding bikes. | ||
| Just, that's it. | ||
| They would go out and play with their friends. | ||
| They would go to school and do the bare minimum. | ||
| And so we have young people who are being raised by a system that does not teach them to do anything. | ||
| And now we have a generation of millennials who can't do anything. | ||
| And their net worth is really low and they're in massive debt and they can't find jobs. | ||
| Then COVID hits and now, Now you got communism. | ||
| The only way out is if I don't got stuff and you do, I get your stuff. | ||
| I used to tell my parents, they were like, what do you want to do? | ||
| And I said, I want to be an actor. | ||
| And then they said, well, then you should start acting. | ||
| I want to be a communist and take people's stuff. | ||
| They said start acting like it. | ||
| I auditioned for a play when I was 16. | ||
| I was a little later to the table. | ||
| I was 16 when I started. | ||
| Before that, I was working at a job playing magic cards, but I had my own job since I was 12. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I remember in high school working this really, really lame job. | ||
| I had, it was a friend of ours. | ||
| I don't want to say the name of the company because they will get hashtag canceled for hiring me in high school. | ||
| But it was just, it was literally like an ushering slash security business where you, you would just stand there for between like a 12 and 16 hour shift and just tell people, no, like either let me see your ticket or no, you can't use that door. | ||
| And then people would like yell at you for things that were clearly not your fault, which happens to low level workers constantly. | ||
| Like people, this is the thing, man. | ||
| People will go to McDonald's and think that the kid behind the counter is stupid, but like I guarantee you he thinks you're a moron because he gets asked such dumb questions by all the customers all day. | ||
| Dude, we were just, I was just at a fast food place. | ||
| I was thinking about the same thing. | ||
| We were just at a fast food place. | ||
| It was a Nathan's Hot Dogs. | ||
| The guy was such a jerk. | ||
| Some guy walked up, and he started yelling at the workers there. | ||
| It's horrible. | ||
| He's like, look at this. | ||
| And he opens the hot dog thing, and they were just like, well done. | ||
| I don't want to say they were burned. | ||
| He was like, look at those hot dogs and look at this. | ||
| Why would you give me this? | ||
| And then she's like, I don't know. | ||
| She's like, because I don't like you. | ||
| Yeah, I did it. | ||
| It was personal. | ||
| Well, the crazy thing is I'm like, dude, if you went up and you were like, Hey, I'm sorry to bug you, but like these, these hot dogs kind of suck. | ||
| Can I get the good ones? | ||
| She might be like, I don't care. | ||
| It's not my money. | ||
| Like you got it. | ||
| You don't got to be mean. | ||
| Not only that, like she might hook it up. | ||
| She might be like, dude, I'm not the manager here. | ||
| Let me give you the best ones possible. | ||
| I'm sorry about that. | ||
| It's like, why be mean to people? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| People just good or something. | ||
| Well, people just have a tendency of taking their anger out on whoever they can get away with taking their anger out on. | ||
| It's not necessarily personal. | ||
| It's horrible though. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| So here's the other thing. | ||
| So, there was an article recently, recently, I mean it's like the other day, it's in The Atlantic, saying that voting for Joe Biden is the right thing to do if you are worried about the woke left or the illiberal left. | ||
| What a great plan, yeah. | ||
| That's like blackmail, like don't, if you're afraid of getting your throat cut, vote for the guy that's threatening you with a knife. | ||
| Hold on, hold on. | ||
| That's what they say. | ||
| They're like, if someone tries taking your stuff, just give it to them, just give up. | ||
| That's what they tell you to do. | ||
| So so is not letting the terrorists win. | ||
| Isn't that like the whole thing we've talked about for 20 years? | ||
| So here's the thing. | ||
| They're saying that Donald Trump fans the flames of the illiberal left or whatever. | ||
| And I'm like, Joe Biden's negotiating with them. | ||
| I'd rather have the guy fighting against them. | ||
| But anyway, I digress. | ||
| So there's another article by Helen Pluckrose that made a similar argument, and I don't want to put words in her mouth, but basically when I responded with, you know, why would I vote for the guy? | ||
| Like, it would just justify their tactics, the violence and the extremism. | ||
| And her response was, I wouldn't vote for Antifa either. | ||
| I felt like, I'm not trying to put words in her mouth, but to me, that she was arguing Joe Biden is not Antifa. | ||
| Okay, well, of course Joe Biden isn't. | ||
| Of course Joe Biden is not a socialist. | ||
| He's just the guy on bent knee begging them for their votes because he doesn't have a coalition to defeat Donald Trump. | ||
| So he's already done the Bernie Sanders pact, he's already negotiating with them, he won't call them out. | ||
| But more importantly, in New York, just the other day, a bunch of people were throwing eggs and rocks at Trump supporters in their cars. | ||
| And apparently, I think it was a woman, ran up to an SUV and pepper sprayed everyone, including the children. | ||
| That's not Antifa. | ||
| Listen, it was just some Brooklyn leftist. | ||
| These are the people saying Drumpf is bad. | ||
| I'm not gonna give them what they want. | ||
| They pepper sprayed kids because a guy had a Trump flag. | ||
| So I'm not voting for this guy, you know what I mean? | ||
| You remember when John Oliver said Orange Man bad and then pepper sprayed his audience? | ||
| I don't. | ||
| I should be less dry. | ||
| I was just thinking of like a very, I was thinking of like a very establishment guy. | ||
| So here's what, here's where I bring this up. | ||
| You get all of these young people who have been pushed into this grinder. | ||
| They have massive debt. | ||
| They can't pay it off. | ||
| The interest is piling up. | ||
| COVID happens and now they go insane. | ||
| And so I'm in favor of forgiving that interest, but these people have snapped. | ||
| Now they're throwing eggs at people, pepper spraying kids. | ||
| Not all of them, not every single one, but how often do you hear about these stories where a Trump supporter gets attacked? | ||
| There's like several thousand stories like this over the past four years where they're getting harassed, attacked, threatened in the street. | ||
| These people have snapped. | ||
| And what it is, many of them need a symbol of what they hate to attack, to damage, right? | ||
| Why did the far leftists throw a brick through the Starbucks window, right? | ||
| Because Starbucks is a massive corporation that symbolizes their hatred and their anger. | ||
| And you oppress me. | ||
| So they throw a brick through the window. | ||
| It does nothing. | ||
| It does nothing to help their cause. | ||
| It hurts their cause. | ||
| But it feels good. | ||
| Now people have replaced that symbol of the big corporations with Trump. | ||
| So now they see a Trump supporter, and they're like, YOU! | ||
| And they're taking all of that anger, and they're directing it towards random people who are waving flags. | ||
| That's... Yeah, no, I totally get where you're coming from, and I'm sympathetic to a lot of the struggles that people discuss younger people going through right now. | ||
| I've said this in the past, I mean, I'm unbelievably blessed. | ||
| I came from a two-parent home. | ||
| I was raised with, like, really solid Catholic values. | ||
| I was just set up, and A lot of the, really the best possible ways to be set up. | ||
| So I absolutely don't look down on anybody because their circumstances are harder. | ||
| I just think that the solutions being proposed by the left are horrible and I think they're taking advantage of people who are going through extremely difficult times. | ||
| And I would also say this, there was a time when like instead of telling people to check their privileges, we'd tell them to like count their blessings. | ||
| Because we wanted people to be grateful instead of feeling guilty. | ||
| And that's more or less where I'm at. | ||
| Yeah, I got a lot of great things out of life. | ||
| I've been tremendously blessed. | ||
| I don't feel guilty about that. | ||
| I feel grateful for that. | ||
| I thank God every day for the life that I've gotten because I've gotten so much that I | ||
| don't deserve. | ||
| But to say that the solution to that is to bend over and have this white guilt and tell | ||
| people, take whatever you want from me, implement whatever system makes you happier that you | ||
| think in the moment might be best for this country despite all of the evidence saying | ||
| it will never work is completely insane. | ||
| But that's exactly what they want. | ||
| That's exactly why they want people to feel guilt. | ||
| This is the interesting thing about wealth inequality arguments and Andrew Yang saying, like, abolish poverty or whatever. | ||
| I don't know exactly what his hat said, but something to that effect. | ||
| Because we are. | ||
| Actively abolishing poverty. | ||
| Capitalism is doing that. | ||
| Like, the curve is, like, going way down. | ||
| Like, poor people in this country are poor, but many of them have air conditioning. | ||
| Well, that's the thing, right? | ||
| So about 99% of the world population subsists off of less than $30,000 per year, or makes less than $30,000 per year. | ||
| So if you make $30,000 a year or more, you are in the top 1% of the global economy. | ||
| Oh, totally, yeah. | ||
| And also, global poverty has been decreasing for decades. | ||
| Unfortunately, until these lockdowns, which shut down our production chain, now there are more people, for the first time in decades, or I believe two decades, there are more people at risk for starvation this year than there were last year. | ||
| And it's a massive swarth. | ||
| So, yeah, things are going in the opposite direction. | ||
| But that also shows you, and that can help inform us, on people making claims like, oh, how could you put economics above human life? | ||
| Because they don't know what economics means. | ||
| Exactly, they don't know what economics means. | ||
| They think it's just some abstraction that I think it means you make money. | ||
| Yes, exactly. | ||
| But all economics is about is like promoting human well-being and flourishing. | ||
| And when you shut down the entire economy, guess what happens? | ||
| People starve to death. | ||
| And it's hilarious because the left was arguing for so long that if you even want to cut a penny of welfare spending, then poor people are just going to die. | ||
| Because when people don't have money, they don't have access to resources. | ||
| And when they don't have access to resources, they die. | ||
| But we can shut down the entire global economy for three months and no one's going to die because of that. | ||
| We're actually going to save lives. | ||
| So here's the interesting thing about wealth inequality. | ||
| I always hear they're like, Jeff Bezos is worth a hundred and whatever billion dollars and there are people sleeping in the streets. | ||
| That's a huge problem for our country. | ||
| And those are two completely separate things that are completely unrelated. | ||
| If you took away Jeff Bezos' money, you're not going to get people not living on the streets. | ||
| These people fundamentally don't understand how wealth works or how homelessness works. | ||
| No. | ||
| They just think. | ||
| I love it when people say things like, think about how many empty homes we have. | ||
| We could put homeless people in them. | ||
| And it's like, you can't just do that. | ||
| People who say that clearly have never owned a home. | ||
| Understanding how much work goes into it. | ||
| What happens if you put a homeless guy in a house, and then the plumbing breaks? | ||
| Or the house burns down because of faulty wiring and the dude dies? | ||
| Well, what happens to the real estate market and all the people who actually have a mortgage and a home that they spend all this money on? | ||
| What happens to their property value or their home? | ||
| And then what happens to people who make their business or make their money renting? | ||
| I mean, you would actually have to radically restructure the entire economy to do something like that. | ||
| It's not just a question of putting homeless people in homes. | ||
| That said, there are solutions. | ||
| There are ways on the table and things that we can discuss to get homeless people housing, 100%. | ||
| That's not the issue, though. | ||
| Yeah, no, I agree. | ||
| The issue is homelessness is driven mostly by mental health. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So for these people to come out and say, people shouldn't be homeless, we should tax the wealthy, it's not right. | ||
| It's like, those are two entirely different universes. | ||
| You know what one of my favorite sayings is? | ||
| From people? | ||
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What? | |
| Feed the homeless. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Have you heard that? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We want to go out and feed the homeless. | ||
| I'm like, bro. | ||
| Why? | ||
| They're not foodless. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| They're homeless. | ||
| There's a difference. | ||
| Just because they don't live anywhere doesn't mean they're hungry. | ||
| You want to feed the hungry, that's what you want to do. | ||
| But there's like these weird things, and these people, they have good intentions and I respect it. | ||
| But I actually worked as a director at a homeless shelter. | ||
| I actually worked for many non-profits. | ||
| And the problem is mental health and choices people make. | ||
| No amount of money. | ||
| Because some of the shelters were empty. | ||
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Why? | |
| Homeless people didn't want to be in them. | ||
| A lot of shelters are empty now because of COVID. | ||
| You talk to homeless people, they will tell you, like, I can't get anywhere to stay right now because the shelters in my city are closed down because of COVID-19. | ||
| Another thing that's interesting is, of course, it's good to feed homeless people. | ||
| I firmly believe that. | ||
| But a lot of it is, again, this problem of them not having housing. | ||
| As opposed to not having food, though again, I believe we should feed them. | ||
| That said, so many homeless people have said to me, um, don't mess with drugs, don't mess with alcohol. | ||
| Which is an interesting thing to say, like they'll start sort of explaining some of the things that ruin their lives and encouraging you not to do it. | ||
| Now, I'm not saying because they ruin their lives in these ways that we just let them hang there, absolutely not. | ||
| Uh, but... | ||
| It's a horrible tragedy and a big part of it was the deinstitutionalization movement that we had in the 1970s. | ||
| So without even adjusting for changes in our population size, there are less people in mental health facilities today than there were before the 70s, which is completely insane. | ||
| Uh, and I think that's part of why we're seeing more massacres. | ||
| I think it's part of a- I mean, mental illness has become a much more serious issue in this country because we don't take it as seriously as we used to. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And I think that's also why homelessness is such a problem. | ||
| Because there are people who should be in the hospital, they should be in a mental health facility, but they're not. | ||
| They're out on the streets instead. | ||
| So, going back to the wealth inequality thing, where you have Jeff Bezos with all this money, I'll tell you what the real problem is with the billionaires. | ||
| It's what Bernie Sanders used to say, their influence over our political structure is for self-interest, and the best example is Joe Biden being funded by billionaires and Wall Street, substantially more, Park Street. | ||
| And Wall Street colloquially. | ||
| The Congress people getting bribed with, like, campaign contributions and dinners and lunches and stuff. | ||
| Do your air quotes when you say bribed. | ||
| Bribed. | ||
| Lobbied, we'll call it. | ||
| I don't need quotes for that. | ||
| Fancy steak dinners. | ||
| Promises of, once you leave, we're going to hire you. | ||
| Wink, wink. | ||
| Or, if you're, say, in a high position of power and you want to make money off your office, so you just have your kids sign the paperwork. | ||
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| But that's not what happened, right? | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| That's just Russian disinformation. | ||
| That's just strange fake news. | ||
| There's no quid pro quo. | ||
| So here's my issue, right? | ||
| A lot of people like to complain about George Soros, and I'm like, you know, George Soros is funding this and funding that and the protesters, and it's like, okay, well, first, let's break it down. | ||
| Who's he funding? | ||
| He's funding the Open Society Foundation, I believe, and then they provide grants to a bunch of different leftist organizations. | ||
| So, short answer, yes, but it's a bit more than that. | ||
| He gives out money and then they send it out in these areas. | ||
| And then he turns his back and closes his eyes. | ||
| Well, I mean, he's just some bumbly old dude who's got a ton of money, and he's putting it into leftist programs. | ||
| But the thing is, I'm like, can you name the other billionaires who are doing literally the same thing? | ||
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| So this is why I'm like, I get it, man. | ||
| You're mad about it. | ||
| When you say Soros, what you're saying is, billionaires. | ||
| Give me the Bernie Sanders line, okay? | ||
| The billionaires. | ||
| Because you've got the Mercers, you had the Koch brothers. | ||
| I don't know how active the Koch brothers are now, though, because I think they were doing some of that with some leftists. | ||
| I don't care if they're left or right, I really don't. | ||
| the base of mackenzie bezos what two billion dollars and to get a foundation | ||
| right right right it's always fun all over the world the gates foundation | ||
| always oh yeah the lawns i don't care if they're left or right i really don't | ||
| okay if they're if they're in if they're if they have more power over | ||
| what we say in our own country it's a serious problem because then when all these politicians have to | ||
| worry about raising money for re-election then they then they're | ||
| gonna go and figure out a way to get massive cash from uh from the rich | ||
| people because It is easier to convince a billionaire to give you a million dollars than a million people to give you a dollar each. | ||
| So the other night I was talking to Tim about when we had Ryan on the show. | ||
| Ryan Long? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| His name's Ryan Hartwig. | ||
| Oh, Ryan Hartwig, yeah. | ||
| Facebook whistleblower. | ||
| I was talking about like a more of a direct democracy, but really it was more of a direct republic in that if you have | ||
| Your Congress people ABCD and E and they're all voting yay or nay on a bill rather than that. They can all be bribed | ||
| lobbied Have their constituents vote | ||
| 700,000 people vote and then for a The majority will be yay or nay and then for B their | ||
| constituents vote the majority would be yay or nay And so instead of these billionaires being able to bribe | ||
| ABC and D they've got to have to target the 700,000 people so it's like | ||
| That's easy. Do you have those? | ||
| Yeah, you totally can, though. | ||
| You can totally bribe voters with the public treasury. | ||
| The public treasury, but not private money? | ||
| That doesn't matter. | ||
| Either way, they're being bribed. | ||
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I'm just trying to think of how to get money out of politics. | |
| I don't think you can. | ||
| It's not possible. | ||
| It's literally not possible. | ||
| You've just got to get the votes out of those single persons. | ||
| Money is politics. | ||
| You cannot get it. | ||
| The whole idea of representatives is kind of funky in that system. | ||
| Well, with digital technology now, I'm trying to keep up with you guys. | ||
| You're all over it. | ||
| With digital technology right now, the instant transfer of information and money, yeah, it's becoming really, really difficult. | ||
| There's no billionaire who says, here's a check for a million dollars, Trump. | ||
| What he does is, he says, I like this guy, Trump, have a nice day. | ||
| Write the check for a million dollars to the Trump super PAC that is no way connected to Donald Trump, and then runs the commercials to get him elected into office. | ||
| That's basically how it happens. | ||
| So there's a limit on how much an individual can give to a candidate. | ||
| I am not a fan of unrestricted super PAC mass spending. | ||
| I've never been. | ||
| And I've had people argue about it saying like, it's your money. | ||
| You can spend it how you want. | ||
| And I'm like, I don't like the idea of Mackenzie Bezos or George Soros or the Mercers or the Kochs or anybody saying I'm going to dedicate or Mike Bloomberg put what like $500 million, some ridiculous number into the primaries to just like boot out Bernie and do whatever. | ||
| And he couldn't. | ||
| He spent all that money just getting himself on stage. | ||
| He just got roasted. | ||
| It was great. | ||
| Didn't work. | ||
| I love that. | ||
| I may have Bloomberg. | ||
| And he was up there and everyone's just scorching him the entire time. | ||
| But I will, I will tell you what I enjoyed about it is, you know, he was making it, making it rain on YouTube. | ||
| You know, all those Biden ads. | ||
| So we did a video about that a while ago. | ||
| You guys should check this one out. | ||
| Another shameless plug. | ||
| We did a Bloomberg for America and he, it was just based on like, it felt like, and I almost forgot about this until you mentioned it, but for like a solid week or two. | ||
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Everywhere you turned, there was a Mike Bloomberg ad. | |
| And it was this weird kind of... YouTube ad revenue spiking. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| It was this very strange moment where it was something that a totalitarian dictator would admire. | ||
| Like Kim Jong-un wishes his face was plastered as many places as Bloomberg's was for that one week. | ||
| But it only works if you have a face worth looking at. | ||
| You don't. | ||
| He did not. | ||
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Michael Bloomberg was just, you know, a really annoying guy. | |
| He's all right. | ||
| He's cute. | ||
| He's, I think he's very handsome. | ||
| And then Tom Steyer too, just dumping money. | ||
| So listen, my point is, sure. | ||
| I remember, uh, it was, it was almost 10 years ago. | ||
| I was at CPAC, I think. | ||
| And it was like, when, when was, when was the citizen united ruling? | ||
| That was, that was like 10, 12 years ago. | ||
| Was that or something? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't remember exactly when it was, but I was talking to conservatives and they were like, if you have money and you want to spend it how you see fit, you should be allowed to do it if that supports a candidate. | ||
| And I'm like, yeah, but you're creating a loophole for the ultra wealthy people to guarantee, essentially, essentially guarantee, because Trump won with half the cash of Hillary Clinton. | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| Isn't that the first time that's happened too? | ||
| Hasn't campaign spending been like the number one predictor of who's gonna get elected and kill Trump? | ||
| Yep, whoever spends most. | ||
| And then Trump. | ||
| So maybe we'll see something again. | ||
| But I don't want these people to be like... Listen, here's what people don't understand about politics anyway. | ||
| Even with campaign limits on how much I or anyone else could donate, the more money you have, you can just donate to a hundred people. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So imagine you're like... | ||
| The average person says, I can afford to give $20 to my candidate. | ||
| And then the average rich person says, I'm legally obligated not to spend more than $2,800. | ||
| So here's what I'll do. | ||
| I'll give $2,800 to every single Democrat. | ||
| That's just like blanketing the whole thing. | ||
| Or more importantly, they'll just be like, I'll just make the commercial myself. | ||
| Exactly, yes. | ||
| You can give people's campaign money in that way, and this is what Ben Shapiro said. | ||
| Okay, that's when he was debating Cenk Uygur, but he makes this point. | ||
| I mean, what really is the difference between you donating X amount of million dollars to Bernie Sanders versus you dedicating your entire YouTube channel to promoting his campaign throughout the entirety of the primaries? | ||
| Why is one okay and the other isn't? | ||
| Either way, you're just using your power and influence to change the political system in some way. | ||
| And therein lies... And that's something we cannot stop. | ||
| You can't change that. | ||
| That will always be the case. | ||
| There's no way around it. | ||
| And I'm not saying it's a good thing, but the fact that being rich gives you power and influence is not some quirk of capitalism or the American system. | ||
| This is always the case. | ||
| Powerful people are powerful. | ||
| I agree, and I think that Michael Bloomberg gave me a lot of hope because I was like, he's not making it big. | ||
| I really thought he was going to get in there and smash it up. | ||
| I'm like, nobody liked this guy. | ||
| Everyone wanted him to go away. | ||
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What are we talking about now, Tim? | |
| In that line of thinking with Republicans are not raising nearly as much as Democrats, the Congressional Democrats have been raising tons of money, and Donald Trump has raised a lot less. | ||
| Joe Biden is getting all that sweet, sweet green from Wall Street and Park Street and the billionaires. | ||
| Uh, it's actually looking really good in the battleground. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| That's cool. | ||
| 2020 general election early and absentee vote report. | ||
| This is from Target Smart. | ||
| And right now for battleground states, Republican turnout is 2.4% higher than Democrats. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Now, here's the important data. | ||
| In 2018, in these same states, at this time, there was 4.5 million Republican votes, 3.7 million Democrat votes. | ||
| Now there's 8.6 million Democrat votes to 9 million Republican votes, and 1.8 million unaffiliated for a total of 19 million. | ||
| 10 million more than in 2018, and around 10 million more in 2016. | ||
| The first thing I'll say is, High voter turnout in early voting does not mean more voting. | ||
| A lot of people keep saying, like, wow, look how many people voted early. | ||
| That means it must be really big because election day. | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| That means people already voted. | ||
| Early voting means the one person voted. | ||
| So we're probably going to see massive voter turnout for sure on the third. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Take a look at this. | ||
| If in battleground states, on average, Republicans are winning, and they are saying, Nate Silver says this, 538, that Republicans are going to be heavily favored for in-person day of voting, then Republicans are dominating. | ||
| So, Democrats were expected to have a seriously large advantage with early mail-in voting, absentee, and early voting in person, and in many states they haven't. | ||
| Like, Philadelphia's really bad. | ||
| It's like apocalyptic for Republicans. | ||
| We'll see how this plays out. | ||
| But then there's the voter registration, you know, thing that Republicans have. | ||
| But in Battleground Senate, they're saying, you know, several people think that the Republicans are going to lose. | ||
| At least on average, it's looking really good. | ||
| Now, the interesting thing is for Battleground President, Republicans are down only, what is that? | ||
| Two points. | ||
| Two percent to Democrats. | ||
| They were up last election in 2018, and now they're down about 600 or so thousand votes in 2020. | ||
| Democrats are being encouraged to vote early in huge numbers, so they should have an advantage because they're going to be doing absentee as well. | ||
| They're not seeing that huge advantage. | ||
| Nate Silver said something like it was supposed to be D plus 17 for mail-in voting. | ||
| They're up two points. | ||
| Early voting is a really bad thing to base predictions off of because a lot of counties haven't opened yet. | ||
| Like, New York is just now opening. | ||
| But things are starting to look good for Donald Trump in a lot of ways. | ||
| And the only— This is the thing. | ||
| The media has created this narrative space where I can actually say this. | ||
| Donald Trump, it's looking really good for him, even though he's losing by double digits in the polling. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because he's supposed to be down, what, like nine points on average from Joe Biden? | ||
| And we're seeing two. | ||
| Two percent. | ||
| That is really fascinating. | ||
| Does that mean he's going to win? | ||
| No, no. | ||
| And we're not even sure what's explaining that, but it's definitely not what I expected. | ||
| That's for sure. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's all the Republicans from 2016 plus a bunch of new people that used to be Democrat | ||
| that switched. | ||
| Johnny Rotten. | ||
| Like none of those Republicans, almost none, have turned Democrat. | ||
| I doubt. | ||
| I would be very, very surprised to find out. | ||
| I'd like to find out the numbers. | ||
| Do you see that viral story of the woman, like, doing the cards and she slowly pulls them? | ||
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Yes. | |
| And she's like, my dad was on his deathbed and we demanded he vote for Biden. | ||
| He said, okay. | ||
| Dude, that made me so mad. | ||
| That was really horrible. | ||
| That's brutal. | ||
| You're up against an incumbent president. | ||
| Incumbents rarely lose. | ||
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Right. | |
| That's also true. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Presidents, they'll almost always get two terms. | ||
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Dude, dude, dude. | |
| But, think about it. | ||
| You know, so Michael Tracy tweeted this thing out earlier. | ||
| It was this guy, in 2016, saying, in order for Trump to win at this point, every major national poll would have to be wrong. | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| When did that happen? | ||
| Is it possible? | ||
| Would I bet on it? | ||
| No. | ||
| I was like, is it possible? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Would I bet on it? | ||
| No. | ||
| I'm not an idiot. | ||
| And then every single poll, it's not so much that they were wrong, it's that this far out they were wrong, and they started to shift. | ||
| A lot of October surprises really hurt Hillary, and then they missed one or two points of Trump's voters. | ||
| For Trump to win right now, every single pollster would go out of business. | ||
| Every single one. | ||
| I don't know, because they didn't go out of business last time. | ||
| Yeah, but last time they were off by a point or two. | ||
| And it was like, it was within the margin of error, and our forecasts were wrong. | ||
| So they were like, the Real Clear Politics shows all of these different polls, and they're like, Hillary Clinton plus three, she was plus two. | ||
| Didn't Frank Lund say just the other day, he's like, if we get this all wrong, we all deserve to go out of business? | ||
| Yes. | ||
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He did. | |
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| Let's screenshot that. | ||
| Let's archive that. | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| He said people like me will have to find a new profession. | ||
| I think the point he was making, though, is we're not wrong. | ||
| Can you explain how polls are actually models? | ||
| That was an interesting conversation earlier. | ||
| So yeah, people don't know this. | ||
| Polls aren't just like they call random people. | ||
| They're all weighted. | ||
| Weighted. | ||
| That means We have to guarantee X amount of Republicans, Democrats, and unaffiliated to match the national average. | ||
| We have to match demographics, so we have X number of 18 to 29-year-olds, X number of 80 to 29-year-old Latinos. | ||
| Then we have to figure out how demographics have changed and model based on that. | ||
| People don't realize polls are not just, we called 1,000 random people, and here's what they said. | ||
| Because if you called 1,000 people in New York, they're going to be like, Biden, you're going to be like, So when you've got a poll that says D plus 3, that's just based on the 2016 model? | ||
| Plus the demographics that have entered that area, the population growth they've seen with certain groups that tend to vote in a specific way. | ||
| So, first, it depends on the model. | ||
| All these different organizations have different modeling. | ||
| They're not straight poles. | ||
| Like, if you went outside and walked around a person and said, which do you prefer, chocolate or vanilla? | ||
| You'd be like, I asked a hundred people, here's what I got. | ||
| They have to model all the different places, all the different political affiliations, different demographics, and try and get representative samples. | ||
| What ends up happening is a lot of these polls are sampling Democrats based on the projected Democrat turnout because of what we saw in 2016 and 2018. | ||
| So in 2018, we saw X many Democrats. | ||
| Therefore, we're going to ask, for every 100 people, we want 36 to be Democrats, we want 29 to be Republican, and then the rest to be third party or unaffiliated. | ||
| Then they say, based off of that, here's what we saw. | ||
| The issue is that Gallup does party affiliation tracking, which fluctuates. | ||
| Right now, in September, the September 14th tracking for party affiliation for Gallup was D plus 5. | ||
| It fluctuates wildly, and as of the latest, it's R plus 1. | ||
| So if right now polling is being based off of party affiliation numbers from, you know, last week, last month, or whatever, the party affiliations fluctuate dramatically. | ||
| Do the polls have 27% Democrat? | ||
| No, they're like 35. | ||
| So they're oversampling Democrats. | ||
| They try to account for this. | ||
| The polls say, like, our margin of error is this. | ||
| We believe we have a mean bias in this direction for this reason. | ||
| But what people need to understand about the polls is that I respect the experts. | ||
| I do. | ||
| I'm not a pollster. | ||
| But when they come out with a poll and they say, we believe we have a bias in this direction and a margin of error of this size for these reasons, they're telling you they don't know. | ||
| They're just giving us professional expert opinions on what they think is going to happen based on what they've collected. | ||
| What ends up happening then is you've now got Rasmussen, which is favorable to Trump very often. | ||
| Trafalgar Group says Trump's going to win. | ||
| Trafalgar Group straight up came out and they were like, Trump's gonna win re-election. | ||
| Hands down. | ||
| You've got the Democracy Institute saying Trump is up by one point. | ||
| But then when you look at all these other polls, they're like, Biden's up 16. | ||
| Then what ends up happening is, news outlets that want to favor their candidate will highlight only that poll. | ||
| In a new CBS News poll, Joe Biden is leading Trump by 12 points. | ||
| And then people say the polls are wrong. | ||
| Well, sure, if we go off Trafalgar and Rasmussen and Democracy Institute, Trump's winning. | ||
| So we don't know what's going to happen. | ||
| And that's why the polls are wrong simply because all of the polls disagree with each other. | ||
| My favorite thing about polling is that when you look at the real clear politics average, it's like Trump minus 2, Trump minus 12, Trump minus 4, Trump minus 20. | ||
| And I'm like, what is this? | ||
| Like none of these things, they're all random gibberish. | ||
| What is the real politics average? | ||
| The RealClearPolitics average? | ||
| Yeah, what is that? | ||
| They take a bunch of different polls from, like, the past several weeks and then average out the total approval. | ||
| Like, the two-week-ago one, the seven-days-ago one. | ||
| It's the best way to do it, in my opinion, because they'll put Rasmussen up against, say, like, YouGov or CBS or something. | ||
| So you'll see Rasmussen typically leaning in favor of Trump, but Rasmussen was right | ||
| Wow. | ||
| in their national polling predictions for 2016. | ||
| They said Hillary Clinton was going to win by two points or whatever she did. | ||
| Everyone else was wrong by another point or so. | ||
| So when Rasmussen right now is saying that Trump's support approval from the black voters | ||
| at 46 percent, the argument is they were right last time. | ||
| The other thing is, Emerson, earlier this year, saw the same thing. | ||
| They said Trump's approval among black voters was at 30%. | ||
| If that's true, Trump cannot lose. | ||
| Period. | ||
| Period. | ||
| It's a long-standing trope, I guess. | ||
| That if a Republican ever gets 20% of the black vote, the Democrats will never win again. | ||
| That's fascinating. | ||
| I was unfamiliar. | ||
| Yeah, we'll see. | ||
| I will. | ||
| I'm going to quit all the votes. | ||
| I love this story! | ||
| Of course he did. | ||
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I'm going to quit all the vote. | |
| We got this story. | ||
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Go do it. | |
| We got to do it. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| I love this story. | ||
| $0.50. | ||
| Oh, boy. | ||
| Endorse Donald Trump. | ||
| Oh, boy. | ||
| Now, they're saying he's backtracking. | ||
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Of course he did. | |
| They're saying he's backtracking. | ||
| I don't think he backtracked. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| Who was that lady who was like, I need to remind him he's black? | ||
| Chelsea Handler. | ||
| Chelsea Handler. | ||
| That was the worst thing ever. | ||
| Hold on, hold on. | ||
| That was the most white liberal woman statement I've heard in my entire life. | ||
| Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. | ||
| That wasn't the only thing she said. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| I'm taking my headphone. | ||
| I don't even want to hear it. | ||
| She not only agreed. | ||
| Now you can hear me better. | ||
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Oh, right. | |
| That's nice. | ||
| Blackmail. | ||
| Oh, for you! | ||
| No, I don't even... It's horrible. | ||
| It's horrible. | ||
| if he reconsiders his support for Trump, which I'm pretty sure is illegal. | ||
| She also agreed to sleep with him. | ||
| Well, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. | ||
| She said, she said, she said, go another round. | ||
| That's what she said. | ||
| Yeah, terrible. | ||
| I'm pretty sure that's illegal. | ||
| That's disgusting. | ||
| Anyway, I'm sure she's doing a bit, but that's still a horrible thing to say. | ||
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Oh, we're not going to put her in jail. | |
| She's just joking. | ||
| She's just joshing around, kids. | ||
| The judicial system's a joke. | ||
| I'm not an authoritarian, but at some point you've got to lock somebody up. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think she was joking, but it's still a horrible thing to say. | ||
| What do you think, Tim? | ||
| 50 Cent said, 62% tax under Joe Biden. | ||
| F that. | ||
| Vote Trump. | ||
| I don't care if Trump doesn't like black people. | ||
| I don't want to be 20 cent. | ||
| And then Chelsea Handler was like, you know, she said all these things. | ||
| Then 50 Cent posted again, F Donald Trump. | ||
| I never liked him anyway. | ||
| I don't think that's a backtrack. | ||
| I don't think he likes Trump in the first place. | ||
| I don't care if Trump doesn't like black people. | ||
| 50 Cent doesn't want to pay all those taxes. | ||
| Of course not. | ||
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I don't want to be 20 Cent. | |
| I still love it. | ||
| Is this the first candidate to ever run on raising people's taxes? | ||
| I heard that. | ||
| I don't know if that's true though. | ||
| Oh man. | ||
| Like a president being like, read my lips. | ||
| I'm going to tax people. | ||
| Many new taxes. | ||
| If you're like me, your taxes are going to go up. | ||
| He's like saying he would raise our taxes, which is great. | ||
| Voters love hearing that. | ||
| Doesn't he realize that's one of those things you're supposed to lie about as a politician? | ||
| You are saying the quiet part loud, Mr. Biden. | ||
| I love how the media and Twitter have been lying for him. | ||
| It's the funniest thing. | ||
| And then I hear people say it to me and I'm like, sit down, my child. | ||
| They're like, Joe Biden's not raising taxes on people. | ||
| You're so dumb. | ||
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He's only going to raise taxes on people who make more than $400,000 a year. | |
| God, you're so dumb. | ||
| I have a question, my friend. | ||
| Is removing a tax cut raising people's taxes? | ||
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Yes. | |
| What do you mean? | ||
| Well, so Joe Biden said he's going to repeal Trump's tax cuts on day one. | ||
| Does that mean that people's taxes will go up? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So Joe Biden is going to take an action that results in your taxes going up? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So Joe Biden is going to raise your taxes? | ||
| No, he's only raising taxes on people. | ||
| He's gonna raise taxes on everybody, dude. | ||
| What's funny is with the Trump tax cuts, as typically happens with the Trump tax cuts, | ||
| we actually saw an increase in revenue, but they say that there's a decrease in revenue | ||
| because they spent more than the increase was after we pulled it in, which is a ridiculous | ||
| way to argue that position. | ||
| this time this year yeah also so tax cuts are good for the country ladies and | ||
| gentlemen in good for individual people and i'm a middle class person you know i | ||
| i i am i'm like pretty firmly in the middle class making an average living in the | ||
| trump tax cuts saved me a good amount of money on my taxes i'm gonna i'm | ||
| good i'm gonna let you on a big secret did you know that cutting taxes can | ||
| actually increase tax revenue no yes i | ||
| No, yeah, that's what I just said. | ||
| It does. | ||
| Yeah, it does. | ||
| Well, every single time. | ||
| I mean, the Trump tax cuts did increase revenue, but what happened was they spent the surplus so that, yeah, and so they used that to argue that we actually have less money than we did before, therefore his tax cuts decreased our revenue. | ||
| That's not true. | ||
| Sorry for the ignorance, but revenue is the incoming money minus the outgoing money? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Revenue is just the incoming money. | ||
| Then how can they say that the expenditures lower the revenue? | ||
| Because I think that they spent more than they had. | ||
| A, lying, but also they spent more than they had, so they were under budget, I think. | ||
| So then they're saying, oh, that means revenue decrease. | ||
| But raw revenue actually did increase. | ||
| The amount that the government pulled in was higher. | ||
| Here's what happens. | ||
| I probably told the story on the show before, but there was a friend of mine, this was maybe like 15, 16 years ago, a friend of mine, her dad was a contractor. | ||
| Apparently there was, like, a Home Depot or something in Cook County, Chicago, and they shut down and then moved, like, five or six miles away into DuPage County and reopened. | ||
| And I, like, we were talking about it, and he said this is a really good example of raising taxes not working, because when they raised the sales tax in Cook County by, like, 0.02% or some really small number, The people who are like, the contractors say, I go to Home Depot, I order my wood, .2% over the year averages out, I'm going to lose $20,000. | ||
| I will drive an extra 30 miles for my orders and for my deliveries if it means I'm saving 20 grand. | ||
| So the Home Depot was like, we're losing business because of this. | ||
| We're going to reopen a few miles down the road and we're going to save our business. | ||
| So what ends up happening is Cook County lost all tax revenue trying to get a little bit more because jurisdictions are competing with each other. | ||
| So long as we don't have a nationwide uniform sales tax, the competition will exist. | ||
| And then someone in Cook County will be like, I'm going to go buy my expensive electronics in DuPage where the sales tax is lower and I'm going to save myself 20 bucks. | ||
| It's worth driving a few extra miles. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because business people can still do math, even though politicians cannot. | ||
| I just wanted to bring the receipts on what I was saying earlier. | ||
| According to the Congressional Budget Office data, in the 2019 fiscal year, federal revenues increased by 4%, but spending increased by 8%. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So they said the deficit spiked, therefore Trump's tax cuts didn't work. | ||
| No, his tax cuts did work. | ||
| The American people got more money in their own pockets, and it was also better for the government because they actually made more revenue, or pulled in more revenue, but they can't get money, they can't take money in without spending more than they took in because they have no self-control. | ||
| And so the deficit did increase, but that's not a problem with the tax cuts, that's a problem with our spending problem. | ||
| Now here's how it works federally with federal tax cuts, because there's no external jurisdiction. | ||
| It's simple. | ||
| If I give $1 to Seamus, he's gotta pay $0.20 to the government. | ||
| He now has $0.80. | ||
| He then uses that $0.80 to buy a widget from you. | ||
| You gotta pay $0.16 on your $0.80. | ||
| So, the more money you guys have, the more opportunity for trade, so more tidbits keep getting stripped away and given to the government. | ||
| The simple way to put it is, If you tax at 30%, then Seamus only has $0.70. | ||
| He can't afford your $0.80 widget anymore. | ||
| He doesn't buy it. | ||
| They don't get any tax revenue after the first exchange until later on. | ||
| So it can slow down or stagnate the market, resulting in less revenue making its way to the government for expenses. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Or my business grows. | ||
| We're actually making much more. | ||
| I hire more people. | ||
| Now there's more payroll taxes being paid to the government. | ||
| I'm sure there are economists listening right now screaming about all the little things in this world. | ||
| I know, I know, I know. | ||
| But I know that, I mean, the healthier the economy, if you have a healthy enough economy, even if tax rates are lower, revenue is higher because everyone is earning more. | ||
| And so even though they're giving a lower percentage of their income to the government, it's actually a larger amount in total. | ||
| I gotta say, I love how academic we brought this conversation, considering we started with 50 Cent saying F Trump and Chelsea Handler being like, Well, he doesn't want to be 20 Cent. | ||
| I'm looping it back because of Lil Pump. | ||
| What happened with Lil Pump? | ||
| Now, 50 Cent wasn't quite able to sway me, but I want to hear what Lil Pump had to say. | ||
| Lil Pump posted an Instagram photo of him shaking hands with Donald Trump. | ||
| I don't know if it's real. | ||
| Is it a real photo? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Here's the thing. | ||
| Lil Pump is one thing. | ||
| If Lil Yachty endorses Donald Trump, then there's no way that he's losing. | ||
| Lil Pump made a video where he was like, It's something like I think I don't know exactly what he said. | ||
| I thought he said something like F Joe Biden No way, I'm paying another 30-something percent in taxes Trump 2020 this this matters to all of these artists because Cardi B's to did something similar She's like I'm looking at my taxes. | ||
| This is insanity. | ||
| How are y'all paying this much in taxes? | ||
| Pardon my French. | ||
| Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. | ||
| She was talking about how Bernie is her guy. | ||
| I don't understand it. | ||
| Everyone wants the government to pay for everything while still not having to pay more in taxes. | ||
| Dude, it's really simple. | ||
| Listen, all of us are sitting right here. | ||
| I would like to vote to take Seamus' tie. | ||
| All in favor? | ||
| Yep. | ||
| I'm not voting this time. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And it is your fault. | ||
| We did it last time. | ||
| I was tricked twice. | ||
| No longer. | ||
| I'm going to vote in favor of Seamus because of Keepa's tie. | ||
| Can we get... No, I'm not voting for that either. | ||
| Ian, what are you doing? | ||
| I'm staging a protest. | ||
| Ian, hold on. | ||
| Stop, stop. | ||
| Evil happens when good men fail to act. | ||
| Fortunately, you didn't vote so negatively. | ||
| I would say it's a tie. | ||
| I have a solution. | ||
| I would say it's a tie. | ||
| I have a solution. | ||
| I vote in favor of taking Ian's shirt. | ||
| Oh, all in favor. | ||
| All in favor. | ||
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Sorry Ian. | |
| Ian, you lose. | ||
| I remembered. | ||
| I remember it was there for me. | ||
| Is this your shirt, Tim? | ||
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It's your shirt. | |
| No, it's not. | ||
| I took it from you. | ||
| Well, I want it back. | ||
| So, how do you guys feel about repealing or paring down income tax? | ||
| Oh yeah, abolish the income tax. | ||
| You think abolish the income tax? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, I mean, like, that's not something we could do today, but eventually. | ||
| I mean, again, theoretically I'm okay with some level of taxation because there are certain government services that need to be paid for, but historically we mostly paid for that with tariffs or, God forbid, sales taxes, but it's not as if an income tax is an absolute necessity for running a government, and you essentially fine people. | ||
| I mean, you actually alter people's time preference based on whether or not They have the assurance that they'll be able to keep the money that they're working for, so you can make the economy, and I would argue do make the economy, less productive just by having an income tax. | ||
| Okay, okay, but haven't the people of Earth already proven they lack the cognitive ability of self-management? | ||
| Therefore, we must tax 100% of their income and dictate on their behalf with the AI controlling all of their actions? | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
| How could I forget? | ||
| No, we should just hook everyone's brain into a computer and let Mark Zuckerberg run this whole thing. | ||
| Jack Dorsey's already running it. | ||
| Twitter is the interface for the simulation. | ||
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We're trying to make the simulation more fair for everyone, and the only way to do that is if conservatives aren't allowed to speak. | |
| So we have this image of Jack Dorsey as this, like, hippie guy with a beard who's talking really slow, but I'm just, I'm loving the idea that, like, after, you know, so I sat down with him, we talked, we talked for a little bit before the Rogan podcast, we talked a little bit afterwards, and he very much, you know, is very similar. | ||
| I'm just imagining, as soon as he got in the car, he, like, the beard, the beard, no, the beard's fake, and he pulls it off, and he's like, now back to Twitter to take over the world! | ||
| He's got like a freaky fake movie accent and like I can do it I imagine Twitter headquarters inside everything's like all of the walls are black metal paneling with red lights everywhere and they all wear these like uniforms and it's just Jack saying like Manipulating people choosing political opinions picking the winners and losers what stories are allowed what aren't? | ||
| What if what if? | ||
| What if you mentioned Jack Dorsey is already controlling everything? | ||
| Yeah he is. | ||
| What if it's literally him? | ||
| I kind of love Twitter. | ||
| What's wrong with you? | ||
| You're sick humans. | ||
| I got my account in 2008 when I was doing YouTube. | ||
| A bunch of us YouTubers were like Twitter, hey, the next new big thing, I was like, I just got Facebook. | ||
| I don't want to get a third thing that's the exact same as Facebook. | ||
| It's the exact same. | ||
| If I'm going to do a text message to my followers, I'll use Facebook. | ||
| Don't bother me with the new stuff. | ||
| I'll do a group chat. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| But I just recently started using Twitter, like a couple months ago, and I love it. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| You know what the best thing about Twitter is? | ||
| I hate it, but I feel like I can use it. | ||
| I've learned to love it. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| I do. | ||
| Because you're a masochist. | ||
| That's called Stockholm Syndrome, Tim. | ||
| You like Twitter because you're identifying with your captor. | ||
| You're emotionally enslaved. | ||
| I started paying a bit more attention to Michael Malice's Twitter account. | ||
| Oh, he's alright. | ||
| That's fair. | ||
| And I've learned from him, because he is the king. | ||
| He's literally the king of Twitter. | ||
| When he responds to Donald Trump with, we don't deserve him, I'm like, that's it. | ||
| He's figured it out. | ||
| So now I don't capitalize letters. | ||
| I just tweet. | ||
| You don't put commas. | ||
| I just, I just, I just stopped caring completely. | ||
| And I want them like, I figured there's nothing you can tweet without someone's like someone's head exploding. | ||
| So I'm like, I'll just, just don't care. | ||
| I just, like I tweeted, I tweeted, it'll be really funny if Joe Biden wins. | ||
| Cause actually it'll be Kamala. | ||
| Like I just don't, I just, whatever. | ||
| I just thought of something. | ||
| And now I tweeted basically like my shower thoughts. | ||
| He does. | ||
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I have a theory about why you get shower thoughts. | |
| I know why it is. | ||
| There's information in water. | ||
| I already don't agree with you, Ian. | ||
| Hypothetically, if I was crazy, I would say there's information in water. | ||
| So toilet thoughts. | ||
| Yeah, so when you're getting bombarded with all this water, you're getting the information of ages past, seeping into your DNA. | ||
| We don't live in Breath of the Wild, where the liquid information lands on your tablet. | ||
| If that's true, then Jack Dorsey's doing a crazy job running this simulation. | ||
| Dude, yeah, it's amazing. | ||
| I have thought about it, and I know why it is. | ||
| It's because we're isolated from tech. | ||
| That's all it is. | ||
| We're not allowed to hold our own thoughts. | ||
| Well, people had shower thoughts all the time. | ||
| Shower thoughts didn't originate with technology. | ||
| No, no, no, but she's saying, like, I think that you're removed from distractions. | ||
| I'm distracted. | ||
| Look, I'm sitting there at my computer all day, and I'll be reading the news, and I'll just, like, think of something and just tweet it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, he gave up. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Maybe he'll try it. | ||
| Because he doesn't like capitalism. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| That's horrible. | ||
| You know why? Because it used to be like, I remember... | ||
| Because he doesn't like capitalism. | ||
| I made a joke. | ||
| That's horrible. | ||
| No, no, you guys are going to love this. | ||
| I made a joke, something about, they said, Greta Thunberg endorses Joe Biden. | ||
| And I thought my tweet was very clearly meant to be like, sarcastic or satirical. | ||
| I said, no, I think it was. | ||
| I think most people got it, but some people didn't. | ||
| I said, this is collusion of the highest order. | ||
| We must not allow Sweden to get away with this. | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| And I'm like, Greta Thunberg saying she likes Joe Biden is clearly not. | ||
| But I got a bunch of leftists all high-fiving each other and laughing, being like, Tim's so dumb! | ||
| He really thinks she's colluding! | ||
| Oh, he's so stupid. | ||
| And I'm like, I'm, I'm, I'm into it. | ||
| I'm like, it's hilarious. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I just, you go for it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I've tweeted. | ||
| I stopped even trying to explain jokes because it's not smart enough to edit. | ||
| I have a really similar story. | ||
| Uh, I tweeted that on the topic of Twitter. | ||
| I tweeted Twitter has been utterly destructive for society and Jack refuses to shut it down. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because he's made upward of $15,000 running it. | ||
| Like as a joke, just like a vast underestimation. | ||
| And then I was like, and I was like, actually, I think it might even be twice that, like more than twice that. | ||
| And there were one or two people who commented like, I think it's more than $15,000. | ||
| That's how I learned to love it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Cause I remember I made a joke a year or so ago and everyone was like, you're so dumb. | ||
| And I was like, guys, I'm joking. | ||
| No, no, you can't do anything. | ||
| It's like joshing around. | ||
| No, it's like you put out a tweet and people can't tell it's a joke because sometimes these things don't read through. | ||
| There's no point trying to explain it. | ||
| No. | ||
| Just roll with it. | ||
| Just go into it. | ||
| So my response to people then was like, I just went with it. | ||
| I was like, it's collusion! | ||
| And then I started accusing Biden of colluding with Kazakhstan because of Borat. | ||
| And people were like, these people, they're just like, who? | ||
| He's doing it again. | ||
| He's so dumb. | ||
| And I'm like, I'm into this. | ||
| I mean, it's a good tactic in some ways because you make some certain number of your opponents look very stupid when they take the bait. | ||
| That's not it. | ||
| If I have a joke, I'll make a joke. | ||
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No, no. | |
| I'm not saying that that's the reason you're doing it, but that is like an added benefit. | ||
| Like, wow, these people actually genuinely believe this. | ||
| I think most of them probably know it's a joke, but my favorite is when something is obviously a joke. | ||
| Because I've seen this happen to other public figures where they'll say something ridiculous intentionally and people will go, Whoa, you really believe that? | ||
| And then when they make it clear that they were joking, the response is like, oh, he's playing it off as a joke now. | ||
| It's clearly something he meant. | ||
| Did you see that coyote thing? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| When Donald Trump was like, the kids are being brought over by the coyotes. | ||
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We need a wall with fake tunnels painted at it so the coyotes will run into it and be flattened. | |
| And then you get all these blue checks. | ||
| I'm just imagining they're all sitting around high-fiving each other. | ||
| They're like, it's the craziest thing. | ||
| I was talking to this guy I know and I was like, dude, he's like a leftist. | ||
| And I said, you got to realize, man, all of these people, you understand they're dumb, right? | ||
| But they think they're smart. | ||
| So they're midwits. | ||
| Michael Malice talks about this. | ||
| Yeah, 100%. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| They think they're smart, and they're like, Trump's so dumb, he thinks dogs are carrying babies. | ||
| What a moron. | ||
| It's like, do you have Google? | ||
| The coyotes are not dogs. | ||
| No, no, no, the crazy thing is- I saw that. | ||
| I saw someone saying dogs. | ||
| It's not the first time that's happened. | ||
| In 2018, Vox.com had to write a whole article because their audience is too stupid to know what a coyote is. | ||
| So they were like, no, Trump didn't mean dogs. | ||
| But because they were trying to defend their audience, they're like, but maybe he kind of did. | ||
| No, he never meant canines or whatever. | ||
| What's the Latin family? | ||
| Lupus. | ||
| And I'm too embarrassed to ask Tim, but what's a coyote? | ||
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A coyote is a child trafficker. | |
| No, no, no. | ||
| A coyote is a brown creature that walks on two legs and purchases explosives from the Acme Corporation. | ||
| Stupid! | ||
| He thought that they were bringing babies over. | ||
| Can you believe that Trump thought Wild E. Coyote was like chasing a roadrunner with babies? | ||
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Trump is so dumb. | |
| He's so dumb. | ||
| Andy Kaufman is one of my idols. | ||
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We need to fit, we need a bunch of sticks of dynamite to start the cannon. | |
| We need to get me a giant helmet and put me in a cannon to launch me at the coyote. | ||
| My problem with satire is that if you're someone in the news or that people trust, if you do satire, I am afraid that it draws your entire body of work into question. | ||
| But you're funny as hell. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| There's something to humor. | ||
| Like, if you weren't funny, you'd be one-sided. | ||
| I'm willing to bet many of my jokes on Twitter are not funny. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| Twitter is my place for shower thoughts. | ||
| I'm not a comedian, but I do commentary. | ||
| So if I make commentary that's potentially humorous or whatever, I'm doing commentary. | ||
| So a lot of people have fallen into this. | ||
| So you've got a lot of actual journalists whose job is to be a journalist, but they go on Twitter and they post activism and snarky humor all day. | ||
| Now, I understand they shouldn't be doing that. | ||
| I do political commentary analysis, and I make jokes in my analysis. | ||
| I would say it's a small percentage, a very, very small, where there's, like, sometimes people tell me, like, I watch your video, it's really funny, and I'm like, I'm not doing a bit. | ||
| Like, I don't have jokes, I don't script anything, I just give my, like, take on things, and sometimes I'll say something. | ||
| That's the same thing with Twitter. | ||
| Sometimes I'll just be like, here's a point, and, like, I'm being sarcastic. | ||
| People, yeah. | ||
| I get like that when I would see news anchors in movies, and I'm like, wait, are they a news anchor or are they an actor? | ||
| And then I wonder if they're like Anderson Cooper. | ||
| You know what really freaked me out was when John McCain was on Saturday Night Live, because he was really good. | ||
| He was funny. | ||
| I was like, wow. | ||
| He's actually a good actor. | ||
| I remember that. | ||
| That was right before the election. | ||
| That was his October surprise. | ||
| I'm hoping Trump's October surprise is he brings Corn Pop out. | ||
| It's too late! | ||
| And Corn Pop, Corn Pop tells his half of the story. | ||
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I need Corn Pop. | |
| And it turns out it's completely different. | ||
| You watch him, such a bad guy. | ||
| Like Joe Biden was sniffing his hair and just being like, just all horribly unprofessional | ||
| lifeguard. | ||
| Wait, that's Trump's October surprise. | ||
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That's Trump's day, he's like, we have the great, we're bringing out the great man who | |
| needs no introduction, the great Corn Pop. | ||
| The final piece of Hunter Biden's laptop. | ||
| We like Corn Pop. | ||
| Then the final piece of Hunter Biden's laptop is like Corn Pop's contact information and they're able to reach out to him and bring him on stage. | ||
| Oh man, I love that. | ||
| You know, to be completely honest, like the weirdest thing about the Corn Pop story is that it's really obvious Joe Biden was terrified of these guys. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, yeah, they got the rusty razor, put it in the barrel, bang him on the cement. | ||
| Why is Joe Biden telling us a story about the one time a guy threatened him with a knife and he got scared and apologized? | ||
| A razor. | ||
| Well, because he stood out there with a chain, because Bill Wright told him, the mechanic who showed him where all the pool filter is. | ||
| Dude, do people like... I took him in and he said, he said, if you don't, you tell, you get that chain that goes across the deep end and say, if you don't get out, I'm going to wrap this around your head. | ||
| And if you don't do it, then you can't come back. | ||
| And he was right. | ||
| And so Joe Biden went out there and he threatened Corn Pop. | ||
| He threatened him, but also apologized at the same time. | ||
| He's like, if you, I should, I shouldn't have called you Esther Williams, but I'm sorry. | ||
| I called you. | ||
| Is Tucker Carlson doing the Bob Ulinski thing tonight? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| What if the whole big reveal is that the secret documents they got was not Hunter Biden collusion. | ||
| It was just corn pop photos of him. | ||
| He's a friend of the Biden family. | ||
| The whole thing was fake. | ||
| It was a false flag, dude. | ||
| Biden made the whole story up. | ||
| We have got to find Corn Pop. | ||
| Dude, he just... Corn Pop was... Searching for Corn Pop. | ||
| Corn Pop was a good family friend who Biden just threw under the bus. | ||
| He was! | ||
| And just, like, completely destroyed his reputation. | ||
| Oh, another Joe Biden lie. | ||
| And now Joe Biden, like, now Corn Pop's life is over. | ||
| It's ruined. | ||
| He, like, can't get a job doing anything. | ||
| It's because of Joe. | ||
| You wanna be real, though? | ||
| I'm willing to bet the Corn Pop story wasn't his story. | ||
| For real though, for real though. | ||
| He's a plagiarist. | ||
| He's a plagiarist. | ||
| Yeah, I'm willing to bet it happened to his friend. | ||
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But why is that the story you'd plagiarize? | |
| Like, I don't get it. | ||
| Because he was like, why am I the first Biden to ever not work in coal mines and go to college? | ||
| That's kind of a noble thing to discuss. | ||
| That's not even true, is it? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| That didn't happen. | ||
| There was a British politician. | ||
| There was a British politician who was like, why is it that I am the first in my family to be college educated? | ||
| My ancestors are working the coal mines. | ||
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And Joe's like, why did my family work in the coal mines, Jack? | |
| And then came up and did. | ||
| And I was the first one to get to go to the pool filter. | ||
| And it was almost word for word. | ||
| This wasn't like Joe Biden plagiarizing some pro-democracy, pro-freedom banality you could hear any politician say. | ||
| He was drawing from this man's life experience and family history. | ||
| But I could understand why, because it was kind of an inspiring story. | ||
| Why would you make the corn... I just don't get it. | ||
| I hear what you're saying, but it's... You see the Johnny Carson bit? | ||
| Why would he lie about corn pop? | ||
| You see the Johnny Carson bit from where that went? | ||
| We did mention this on the show a couple days ago, whatever. | ||
| But it was a big scandal that he was plagiarizing, and so Johnny Carson was like, you know, Joe Biden's had to drop out of the race because he's been caught plagiarizing. | ||
| And to calm his staff down, he said, don't worry, there's nothing to fear but fear itself. | ||
| Yeah, I remember that. | ||
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That's fantastic. | |
| Hold on, hold on, hold on. | ||
| That was fourscore and seven years ago, right? | ||
| Yeah, something like that. | ||
| Wait, wait, wait, wait. | ||
| You ask why did he tell this story, and I agree. | ||
| Why did he tell us this story? | ||
| But why did he tell the story about the kids playing with his hair in the pool? | ||
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Oh, that's so gross. | |
| What is wrong with that? | ||
| That was the same day. | ||
| That was actually the same day. | ||
| It was the same day. | ||
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He's like, I got hairy legs. | |
| And the one thing. | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
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And like the mad shantz come up and mat him down. | |
| Did you ever actually like listen to the full thing? | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| I animated the corn pop story. | ||
| You did, yeah. | ||
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Oh, you did? | |
| So I did. | ||
| We had like two and a half minutes. | ||
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It's amazing. | |
| It's like. | ||
| I can't take all the credit. | ||
| When grandpa is out of it, and you know he's out of it, and he's rambling, and you're just like, what do we do? | ||
| And your parents are like, just let him tell us. | ||
| He's Abe Simpson. | ||
| Yeah, he really is. | ||
| He's Abe Simpson. | ||
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That's true. | |
| Wow. | ||
| He's plagiarizing Abe Simpson. | ||
| It's like his entire persona was lifted off of a Simpsons character. | ||
| Gosh, this makes sense. | ||
| Did you see he accidentally called Trump George? | ||
| We're going to do four more years of George! | ||
| Hold on, hold on. | ||
| Apparently people are saying that George Lopez, I guess, was hosting it. | ||
| And so he just mixed up George and Trump. | ||
| You're saying it meant George Bush. | ||
| He didn't say George Bush. | ||
| He said George. | ||
| Because George Lopez was the host. | ||
| So he thought George Lopez was president. | ||
| I'm kidding. | ||
| He mixed up the names. | ||
| But the point is, Jill was sitting next to him going, Oh my gosh, was she really? | ||
| Dude, behind every great man is a woman. | ||
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No, no, no, no. | |
| Listen, listen. | ||
| You watch these videos, and you see Jill Biden and Joe, and it's very obvious that we are, we are, like, on the line between a, like, you've got Real Candidate here, and you've got Weekend at Biden's here, and you've got that thin line where Jill is standing next to it. | ||
| You see that spoof commercial they did? | ||
| where it's like a movie trailer where a guy and this woman come downstairs and she's like, | ||
| wait a minute, that's our candidate and the election's a week away and it's a dead Joe Biden. | ||
| And then they're like, they weekend at Bernie's him, you know. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| I would love to see Jill Biden break down in tears about how sad she is for Joe's. | ||
| I would feel horrible if that happened, but here's the thing with Jill Biden, | ||
| just Joe Biden specifically. | ||
| Let's say he is actually in perfect mental health, and it just happens to be the case that he makes these gaps really often. | ||
| Let's just say that that is a possibility. | ||
| That is still not the person you want leading the free world. | ||
| You don't want that person negotiating with foreign leaders. | ||
| You don't want that person giving speeches that need to be given in order to inspire the American people. | ||
| He's got to be able to string Some number of words together without making a serious error. | ||
| Could you imagine if he's sitting like, so Trump is negotiating these historic peace deals. | ||
| And he's not like, he just, I guess he challenges Putin to a push-up contest, calls him fat. | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| But he's talking to Putin and he goes, Uh, Vlad, we gotta, uh, do a deal with the 700, uh, trillion, billion, seven, uh, thousand, uh, uh, you know, uh, you know, uh, he's gonna, if, if this dude can't speak and he gets names wrongs, imagine if Putin sitting there and then instead of saying like, we're going to give the U.S., you know, we want you to give the U.S. | ||
| X amount of dollars, he accidentally says North Korea. | ||
| and then they do it, they give North Korea the money and then, and then, no but then Biden signs a deal and they're | ||
| like, yeah sign it I don't think that could happen, there's gotta be fail safes | ||
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there but that's still really funny, that's still hysterical, | |
| Biden gets I will say that I think | ||
| that would be a great movie that would be a fantastic film, like Joe Biden | ||
| I think the corn pop thing is a press, is like a decisive like what will happen if Joe Biden gets elected | ||
| He's gonna be like, yeah, I'm just gonna make a big stink and then whoa, wait a minute. | ||
| I gotta be honest Yeah, wouldn't it be awesome to get some of these by like he's like addressing the nation's I guess it's like an Oval Office address and he's sitting there He's like all confused his eyes half closed and then we just get a rambling grandpa story just like randomly that'd be kind of fun It's like you're sitting there you're stressed out from work and all sudden they're like ladies and gentlemen the president of the United States of America and he's like You know one time I was going down to get a loaf of bread and and then sure enough as corn Bob he comes back And I you know he's got his knife, and I guess what's rambling grandpa story. | ||
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I was 20 cents. | |
| I remember before They never sliced bread But corn Bob had his knife and so you know I had the bread and and he sliced it for me in the rusty razor He used to put in a rain barrel I don't even know what that means. | ||
| Don't you remember, Tim? | ||
| That's what everyone does on the south side of Chicago, puts razors in a rain barrel. | ||
| Was this like one of those switch razors or something? | ||
| I think it was a straight razor, like you shave with. | ||
| And you'd bang it on the rain barrel, put it in the rain barrel, bang it on the curb. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| You'd get it rusty. | ||
| Joe Biden, I love how he was discussing this. | ||
| As if this was something we should just all remember doing He's like, oh yeah, remember you used to put the razor in | ||
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the water barrel? | |
| No, I never did that, Jill. Actually, I don't think anyone listening did that either | ||
| Can you imagine as he progresses and starts losing his filter and then regresses back to the 1960s? | ||
| I feel really bad He didn't at first. | ||
| He does have a stutter though. | ||
| Or he used to when he was a kid. | ||
| Like if it actually is so part of me thought like he just had a stutter because that's what the media is not saying | ||
| So I was like, no, I'm totally kidding. I'm totally kidding. | ||
| I'm totally kidding. Not well He's not all right now | ||
| They're saying he has a stutter when he was a kid Biden was famous for making gaffes for a tire political career | ||
| He there was this weird thing that we saw we saw with Clinton | ||
| We also saw with Obama where you'd have this like really articulate | ||
| Presidential candidate and then their VP was just kind of a bumbling guy who couldn't say things about guys like that | ||
| was kind of Al Gore and and I remember my perception even as a kid was that Joe | ||
| Biden was just the Al Gore to Barack Obama's Bill Clinton | ||
| He's just clumsy and he misspoke quite frequently. | ||
| Not that he had some kind of stutter, and the media never said he had a stutter. | ||
| And now that he's making these ridiculous gaffes, and, you know, telling stories about a corn pop in his leg hair, I guess they think that's some kind of impediment, some kind of speech impediment, like that's how they're trying to play it off. | ||
| There was a woman who said something about this, and some reporter, I'm blanking on who it was, but it was on one of the mainstream media outlets, they're like, you're making fun of him? | ||
| How do children in this country feel when they see you making fun of him for his lisp? | ||
| The issue that concerns me is when Joe Biden called Donald Trump Abraham Lincoln. | ||
| It was the weirdest thing to me because he goes, Abraham Lincoln, here's the most racist president we've ever had! | ||
| I was like, wait, wait, wait, let me stop. | ||
| That could have been funny. | ||
| My brain tried to very quickly decipher this because the first thing was like, okay, my immediate assumption is Abraham Lincoln over here. | ||
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He beat George! | |
| No, no, no, hold on. | ||
| I was like, he said Abraham Lincoln here is the most racist president we've ever had. | ||
| But then I'm like, there's no way he would call Trump Abraham Lincoln on stage. | ||
| Is he saying Abraham Lincoln is the most racist, like the actual Lincoln? | ||
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No. | |
| No, no, no, that can't be either. | ||
| So, wait, hold on. | ||
| He called Trump Abraham Lincoln? | ||
| He meant to say this guy talking about Abraham Lincoln is the most racist president we've ever had. | ||
| Was Trump talking about Abraham Lincoln? | ||
| Yes. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Okay, then it makes a little more sense. | ||
| No, no, stop, stop, stop. | ||
| Early on, Trump said, I have done more for the black community than perhaps Abraham Lincoln. | ||
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Which was also a hilarious moment. | |
| it's a very good book for the black community except perhaps it would have | ||
| taken i've got a lot of the way that which was which was also a whole | ||
| larry's moment like i was that i was not a bad so what for joe biden i think he | ||
| is getting trump by calling him abraham lincoln was not the craziest thing i'd | ||
| Did Obama get sworn in on the Lincoln Bible? | ||
| His whole thing is he wanted to be just like Abe Lincoln? | ||
| Yeah, at first. | ||
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But then he realized he was selling out. | |
| He was preceded over the beginnings of a civil war, so I guess they weren't so different. | ||
| I wish Obama had gone full Abe Lincoln. | ||
| I bring this up because of Trump's response to being called Abraham Lincoln. | ||
| He loved it. | ||
| He was just like... He said something like, you just called me Abraham Lincoln. | ||
| Where did that come from? | ||
| And Biden was like... It's like he had nothing to say. | ||
| Like he didn't understand. | ||
| And Trump was like, you just called me Abraham Lincoln. | ||
| What is this? | ||
| What is that? | ||
| And like Biden looked crazy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You look nuts. | ||
| I want to pull that up. | ||
| I wish we could pull up clips and show them on the show. | ||
| Can you pull that up, Jamie? | ||
| Give me all the show to do that. | ||
| I can look at it, but yeah. | ||
| Eventually, I would love to have full stuff up and show them while we're talking about it. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| Oh yeah, we normally can, but we're in super chat mode. | ||
| We are technically in super chats, guys. | ||
| Oh, I want to watch that. | ||
| We should switch. | ||
| Yeah, let's switch over. | ||
| I know, I actually really want to see that. | ||
| It was so good. | ||
| I couldn't believe it. | ||
| He called Trump Abram Lincoln. | ||
| And I called you Jamie. | ||
| I'm a horrible friend. | ||
| I thought that was like, did he just, is Trump going to bump up? | ||
| Trump should run a commercial like of Joe Biden calling him Lincoln. | ||
| Joe Biden posted it to Twitter. | ||
| He clipped it and then he posted Twitter like he's trying to reclaim it. | ||
| That's right, I saw that. | ||
| No, um, yes, actually my girlfriend was just talking about that, how like the clips that Biden was posting on his Twitter still had gaffes in them. | ||
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Yes. | |
| I was like, this is the best you could do? | ||
| There's no way to avoid it. | ||
| There's not. | ||
| He called, nobody tweeted out. | ||
| Abraham Lincoln over here and I was like, did he think posting a clip of him calling to make sure everybody sees it was a good idea? | ||
| Is this guy trying to lose? | ||
| No, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on. | ||
| Joe Biden's traveling around the country, right? | ||
| He's going to like three states in the next week. | ||
| But he's... But why? | ||
| He's trying to secede. | ||
| He wants to fight. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| Answer me this. | ||
| Why is Joe Biden going to any of these states? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's a session. | ||
| A presidential campaign. | ||
| But no one shows up and he doesn't speak to anybody. | ||
| There's no crowds. | ||
| Dude, he's in like a Popemobile. | ||
| Have you seen these things? | ||
| Completely insulated from everything. | ||
| He's not speaking. | ||
| Did you see that weird video of Cher? | ||
| That really weird video? | ||
| There's no one in the audience. | ||
| And she goes, who do we want to win? | ||
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And they go, uhhhhhh. | |
| They just groan like that. | ||
| I'm not kidding. | ||
| If she had said, who do we want to beat? | ||
| They would have been like, Trump! | ||
| But they're like, who do we want to win? | ||
| They're like, well, technically no one. | ||
| But like, we'll take Biden. | ||
| No, dude, you got to hear it because it's one of the craziest political videos. | ||
| Should we pull it up? | ||
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I want it. | |
| Dude, pull the Abe Lincoln thing up, please. | ||
| Let me see if I can find it. | ||
| The Abe Lincoln thing is on my Twitter. | ||
| But no, no, seriously, this Cher thing. | ||
| Shameless plug tip. | ||
| And then she goes, OK, I guess I'll sing and then I'll go. | ||
| And the music starts playing and she's singing, but she's standing there like, And then, like, her lip sync was off. | ||
| But I kid you not, and she goes, who do we want to win? | ||
| And she's stuttering. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| Are they saying Joe? | ||
| Is it like Joe? | ||
| No, they're just groaning. | ||
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They're like, are they going on? | |
| No, they're saying Joe. | ||
| I think you gotta find the tweet. | ||
|
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I was saying Boo Ernst. | |
| Boo Ernst. | ||
| Look, look up the... No, no, no, not this, not this. | ||
| Google, Google search, um, what is going on here or something. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And, like, Twitter. | ||
| If I can find it in, like, two seconds, we can look at it. | ||
| Yeah, it was just tweet, like, someone posted a clip. | ||
| It was so weird. | ||
| What is going on here? | ||
| On here. | ||
| Twitter. | ||
| Yeah, that's fantastic. | ||
| His base is energized. | ||
| This has been the most entertaining month of the year for me. | ||
| I don't know about you guys. | ||
| Well, Biden's base was energized, but then they had to put a lid on it. | ||
| So now they're doing... We had to slow it down. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Too much. | ||
| I've seen some of the weirdest political videos coming out of the Biden campaign. | ||
| I have to wonder if they're really trying to lose. | ||
| That's why I asked about why is Biden going to Georgia or whatever. | ||
| He's not campaigning to anybody. | ||
| Why is he going? | ||
| He walks into a closed room. | ||
| There's no one there but a few reporters. | ||
| He gives a speech and then he leaves. | ||
| He's not firing anybody up. | ||
| Either they're trying to lose, or they're so confident in their cheating, they don't need to actually do anything to win. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, that's the same thing that happened last time, right? | ||
| They just assumed they were gonna get the vote, so they didn't actually do the proper campaigning, like Hillary didn't visit the states she needed to visit because she just assumed she was gonna win. | ||
| I would like to think that they're smarter than to make that mistake again, but they did nominate Joe Biden, right? | ||
| Dude, why were they thinking? | ||
| Did we talk about this last time I was on? | ||
| I remember having this conversation with somebody, but basically, I think we did talk about this, but for my entire life, the Democrats and left-wing people just found it hilarious that Reagan's mind started to go towards the end of his presidency, and how ridiculous and incompetent Republicans were for having a president who was starting to lose his mind. | ||
| It's like, okay, you guys chose Joe Biden to be your candidate when there were other options, when he was clearly not in a place to make any real decisions for himself, let alone the country. | ||
| It's a bunch of people with mental problems that put him in that position, I think. | ||
| I think a lot of these 60, 70, 80-year-olds that are like, still relevant. | ||
| Do you think that's it? | ||
| They remember Corn Pop too? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Do you think it's just that they're like, dude, I do remember putting razors in the rain barrel. | ||
| Like, I did that. | ||
| These millennials. | ||
| I mean, I thought Bernie Sanders was going to get the nom. | ||
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Did you really? | |
| You are so optimistic. | ||
| He had the fire. | ||
| I don't like Bernie, but that is an optimistic take and I appreciate that about you. | ||
| It seemed like he had the voter base and all of a sudden Biden got all this news attention and then they were like, and it's Biden. | ||
| But Bernie blew it because Bernie basically begged them to not nominate him. | ||
| He didn't fight hard enough. | ||
| Look what Trump did. | ||
| Trump was like, these people are horrible. | ||
| They're part of the swamp. | ||
| They're monsters. | ||
| We're going to drain it. | ||
| Get rid of them. | ||
| They're screwing you and your family over. | ||
| Bernie Sanders would talk about his narrow area where he's very proficient at speaking, which is basically about income inequality and what conditions are like for the working class and how we can help them through his model. | ||
| Whenever it came to the other candidates who are actually responsible, in large part, for the problems that working-class people in this country are facing, you'd say, like, oh, well, like, I like this person. | ||
| I know they're a decent human. | ||
| Like, Trump didn't play that game at all. | ||
| He didn't pretend to be friends with them. | ||
| And he also said, and this is important, he did not say that he would endorse whoever they nominated. | ||
| If they stole it from you last time, And then this time they're asking you if you will endorse the candidate. | ||
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Nah. | |
| If you're not nominated. | ||
| You are literally begging them. | ||
| You are saying to them, please take this from me. | ||
| Steal it from me. | ||
| I will endorse whoever you pick instead of me. | ||
| And that's what Bernie Sanders did. | ||
| So it's his own fault. | ||
| Bernie sold out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We got the tweet. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I don't know if we can hear it though. | ||
| I'm the least racist person. | ||
| I can't even see the audience because it's so dark. | ||
| I don't care who's in the audience. | ||
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I'm the least racist person in this room. | |
| Okay, Vice President Biden, let me ask you very quickly and then I have a follow-up question for you. | ||
| Abraham Lincoln here is one of the most racist presidents we've had in modern history. | ||
| He pours fuel on every single racist fire. | ||
| That's hysterical! | ||
| He started off his campaign coming down the escalator saying he's gonna get rid of those Mexican rapists. | ||
| He's banned Muslims because they're Muslims. | ||
| He has moved around and made everything worse across the board. | ||
| Last time we were on stage here, he said, I told him to stand down and stand ready. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| This guy is adorable. | ||
| The poor boys. | ||
| Dude, that's hysterical. | ||
| Also, the poor boys. | ||
| I didn't watch the entire debate, but I watched the part where Trump said that he was the least racist, and I didn't catch Biden calling him Abe Lincoln. | ||
| I must have only been half a minute. | ||
| That's hysterical. | ||
| Why did I miss that? | ||
| And I also love that Trump says he's the least racist person in the room, implying that the people in the audience are more racist than him. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| 100% more racist than he is. | ||
| Dude, I love it. | ||
| But no, it's hysterical, and Biden's response was fantastic, and Trump did a much better job this time because he just let Biden talk. | ||
| He kept interrupting him the first the first time. It's like, no, you just gotta let Biden go. | ||
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Give him enough rope. Seriously. | |
| I didn't watch it the night of. I watched it the next day and I put the YouTube video | ||
|
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on 1.25 speed. So much better. I think what happened with Biden, I just enjoyed watching | |
| Trump's face. I really enjoyed it. | ||
| The reactions? | ||
| That's the least racist. | ||
| Oh, the end? | ||
| No, no, the part where they're banning the fossil fuels and Trump goes, oh? | ||
| Dude, you know what? | ||
| Dude, this would just break the internet and the world, dare I say. | ||
| If Trump just did like a, just got a Twitch channel and did a stream. | ||
| He's banned. | ||
| He's banned from Twitch. | ||
| Are you serious? | ||
| Dude, if he just got like, if he just did like the Twitch stream thing with his face as an icon in the corner, just like watching and reacting to like a Joe Biden rally, he's like, Just making his face like, what is he talking about? | ||
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What is this man? | |
| He's been in government forever. | ||
| He's done nothing. | ||
| He's used it. | ||
| 47 years. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| 47 years, he's done nothing. | ||
| That would be beautiful. | ||
| Dude, you know how many superchats he would get? | ||
| He would raise enough money to run his campaign. | ||
| He would rake in so much money to win reelection. | ||
| If you are listening, make a YouTube channel. | ||
| You don't get it. | ||
| A Twitch. | ||
| He could use a fake name, like Bonald Brump, and then he'll just use Drumpf. | ||
| Yeah, use Drumpf, and then make a Twitch channel, and they won't know, and he'll just delete. | ||
| What do you think AOC is going to do for her presidential run? | ||
| She's gonna be on Twitch taking, you know, bits from Amazon, and she's gonna be doing super chat. | ||
| What's the one thing you can't say? | ||
| I mean, she's good at marketing herself. | ||
| I disagree with her on basically everything, but she knows what she's doing. | ||
| She's got 10 million followers now. | ||
| She has a good crew, too. | ||
| I think her crew is really the good marketing. | ||
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Yeah, I think so. | |
| I agree. | ||
| I think she's just good at generating press, like being a spectacle. | ||
| And, you know, what was it? | ||
| She recently complained that Trump called her AOC. | ||
| She got all offended. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's things like that where, you know, I'll tell you this. | ||
| One really important way to get press attention in this political world is to purposefully gaffe. | ||
| So AOC says something that's absurd, like, how dare Trump call me AOC? | ||
| And then her opponents are like, woo! | ||
| Free media. | ||
| Well, that's the same thing. | ||
| People will appreciate a likable idiot over an unlikable genius. | ||
| So if you go out there, I'm not necessarily saying AOC's an idiot, right? | ||
| She says a lot of stupid stuff. | ||
| But if you go out there and you say something really dumb, but you are likable, and AOC, for as much as I disagree with her, she is indeed very likable. | ||
| She is, yeah. | ||
| And so, getting eyes on herself is really good for her brand. | ||
| She doesn't have to hide away. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And she's, again, that's why she's doing this, she was doing a Twitch stream where she was playing, what game was it? | ||
| I forget. | ||
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Among Us. | |
| Among Us, yeah. | ||
| And so, even if she makes these gaffes, people, you know, it's only human, everyone makes mistakes, but she has this factor of likability that I don't see in other politicians, so maybe I'm a little more friendly to her, even if she's clearly wrong about X, Y, and Z. | ||
| Whereas, I mean, there have been political leaders in the past who, frankly, I mean, usually they don't get very far, who don't make quite as many mistakes, but they're just like... Ron Paul. | ||
| They're boring. | ||
| I love Ron Paul. | ||
| See, I disagree. | ||
| I think Ron Paul was unbelievably charismatic. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, the fact that he was able to get young people as invested in the issues that he got them invested in is really unbelievable. | ||
| Like, how do you get college students interested in monetary policy? | ||
| And like high school students? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All those movies, man, they made people crazy. | ||
| That's true, but Ron Paul was also, and here's what's great about him, Ron Paul was the most donated to candidate by combat veterans in all of American history. | ||
| And this is also part of why the only real anti-war movement we could ever have in this country would have to be a conservative anti-war movement or a libertarian anti-war movement. | ||
| Why is that? | ||
| I think there are a number of reasons. | ||
| I think that one thing conservatives have an advantage at when it comes to helping people who have been involved in wars see the error of it or want to adopt a more dovish foreign policy is they can say, look, I agree that all of the things that you believed you were fighting for and were told you were fighting for are good things. | ||
| I think it's noble that you believed you were doing the right thing, that you went over there, but like, let me lay out why I think that you were being lied to and why these wars were not actually good for the American people, right? | ||
| The right wing can do that. | ||
| The right wing can say, you thought you were fighting for our country, you thought you were fighting for our flag, you thought you were fighting for God. | ||
| Those are good things to fight for. | ||
| But I don't think you were actually fighting for them, I think you were lied to, let me explain that. | ||
| Whereas with the left, they're like, the flag and this country and Christianity, these are all stupid things and it's dumb to ever want to fight for them. | ||
| Like, their movement is so unwelcoming to veterans who might reject the wars, Later on, which many of them do, I mean, one of my best friends, he fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he's the most anti-war person I've ever met in my entire life. | ||
| But he's extremely conservative, and that's one thing he would always complain about, is that every single anti-war movement he would try to get involved with was explicitly left-wing. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And so, if we want an anti-war movement, it has to be an anti-war movement that's welcoming to veterans. | ||
| And even if the left wants to claim that they are, they're not. | ||
| They just aren't, because their values conflict so heavily with theirs. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Well, there we go. | ||
| Should we do the super chat? | ||
| Yeah, sure, sure, sure. | ||
| We've got a lot of super chats. | ||
| But for those that don't know, this is Seamus of Freedom Tunes. | ||
| Yeah, there he is. | ||
| Freedom Tunes on YouTube. | ||
| It's funny. | ||
| How do you describe it? | ||
| Political satire? | ||
| Yeah, I just do like little short political cartoons, punchy political cartoons, sometimes educational stuff, but just mostly goofy. | ||
| Yeah, that Jack Dorsey one, banning the New York Post story is really great. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Please check it out, folks. | ||
| Freedom Tunes. | ||
| That's O-O-N-S. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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All right. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| So Super Chats. | ||
| We got Matthew Hammond. | ||
| It says Trump 2020 on a bullhorn. | ||
| Well, it's taxed when I'm a bullhorn. | ||
| So unfortunately. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| About time you or a YouTube moderator unshadow banned me from your chat. | ||
| What was that all about anyway? | ||
| Couldn't even send Super Chats. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| we have any moderator right? Who was it that said that? | ||
| This is uh, Rosananti. So much for free speech Tim. I know I would never. Oh we're | ||
| explicitly anti-free speech here in the superchats. Sorry guys. No YouTube is. Like you can't | ||
| say certain words. Sorry Do you have Patreon or something? | ||
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No. | |
| Do you have Patreon? | ||
| Venmo money on there to donate. | ||
| Oh, that's I wouldn't have a train or something. | ||
| No, I do have a patron. | ||
| Yeah, I've got I've a try on why? | ||
| Well, the reason I have patreon is because we tried using subscribe star, but it just was not raising enough money | ||
| for us to realistically keep turning a cartoon on out every | ||
| month and also all of the other tech platforms like YouTube and | ||
| Facebook are in Twitter are just as bad as patreon, but we still use those because it's how we can get our message out. | ||
| So yeah patreon.com freedom tunes or paypal.me freedom tunes if you want to donate to what we're making | ||
| I do have a Venmo. It's it's like my personal Venmo. I don't think it would hurt if I threw it out there | ||
| I don't remember the name of the account. Well, I got a quick question. Mr. Sparky says it's from 8 o'clock | ||
| ACB got confirmed 52 to 46 Who who didn't vote? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Is it AOC? | ||
| You mean ACB? | ||
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Did you say? | |
| I see AOC. | ||
| Oh, I'm just stupid as it turns out. | ||
| Okay, all right. | ||
| So my Venmo is at Seamus. | ||
| My name is horribly difficult to pronounce and spell. | ||
| So it's S-E-A-M-U-S-C-O-U-G-H-L-I-N. | ||
| If you want to support the cartoons. | ||
| Seamus Coughlin. | ||
| Yeah, it's based out of Seamus Dash Coughlin. | ||
| Actually, right now we are doing decent on ad revenue, which is really uncommon. | ||
| We've had a great past couple of months, but the ad revenue is really unreliable and it'll go up and down, so crowdfunding is mostly what we can depend upon for something sturdy. | ||
| So yeah, if you want to help us make more, please donate, especially because we do really short videos. | ||
| Often times. | ||
| And YouTube, the two things that YouTube doesn't like are like conservative content and animated content. | ||
| And I do both. | ||
| And short content. | ||
| And short content, yeah. | ||
| And I do, I do, that's what I do. | ||
| I have, I have, I have good news that'll cheer you up. | ||
| On election night, we're going to be serving Jill Biden's famous, famous chicken parmesan. | ||
| I'm there. | ||
| I was debating showing up. | ||
| Do it. | ||
| We're gonna make it. | ||
| So she put out this tweet. | ||
| She's like, her famous recipe for chicken parmesan or whatever. | ||
| It's basically just chicken parmesan. | ||
| We're gonna make it. | ||
| And it works. | ||
| It works no matter who wins the night. | ||
| I know we're not gonna know who the winner is, but if Biden wins, then you have to eat it unhappily. | ||
| Like, we're eating Biden's. | ||
| But if Trump wins, you get to gloatingly eat the chicken parmesan. | ||
| It's like eating out of your Jeb guacamole bowl. | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
| Let me make sure I'm not being fake news. | ||
| Hashtag fake news right now because I but I remember seeing this and I'm pretty sure I would not have said it unless I was I'll buy a bunch of them. | ||
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We're gonna we'll serve guacamole out of those jeb balls, man Yeah, yeah, Jeb Guacamole Bowl. | |
| Weird menu, but okay. | ||
| Jeb Guacamole Bowl. | ||
| This is from Amazon.com. | ||
| I think they're in short supply because I don't know if you guys know, Jeb's campaign has been suspended. | ||
| But I know, I know. | ||
| Here's how Jeb can still win. | ||
| At Amazon, we have official Jeb Bush 2016 Guac Bowl Guacamole. | ||
| Yeah, so you can... They're gonna sell out. | ||
| Everyone's buying them right now. | ||
| Everyone's buying them right now. | ||
| Isn't it interesting though, I just pulled up this article, how even left-wing platforms and publications will still sometimes promote a conservative if they're establishment enough. | ||
| That's the beauty of capitalism. | ||
| Wait, wait, wait. | ||
| This is an NPR article on revealing Jeb's secret guacamole recipe. | ||
| I need to stop you. | ||
| I think you may have just made a terrible mistake, Seamus. | ||
| What did I do? | ||
| You see, now we've got 40,000 or so people watching. | ||
| And they're all gonna go buy these guacamole balls. | ||
| All done. | ||
| And Jeb is going to resurrect at the very last minute. | ||
| That was the real October surprise. | ||
| That's the 2020 election. | ||
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He sells 40,000 guacamole balls. | |
| I know the 2024 candidates. | ||
| He buys a billboard, you don't want Biden, you don't want Trump, you want Jeb. | ||
| And then people are just like, I'll take it. | ||
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I want it. | |
| And that's how you get Jeb. | ||
| Dude, I honestly, I'm about, look, if that happened, so be it. | ||
| If Jeb wins because of me, just at the last moment, he's like, you know what, maybe I'm going to do this. | ||
| I sold so many guacamole bowls, I was able to buy all the ad space, the YouTube masthead, just the most expensive real estate and advertising. | ||
| And it's all, all of it is is that meme of him going like, ah, the country is all Jeb. | ||
| PR for Jeb for the next X amount of years going forward, a banner out of him eating that guac. | ||
| That's all I need. | ||
| Just happily eating guac. | ||
| Am I legally, like, can I, can I, can I post a Jeb ad? | ||
| Like, am I allowed to do that? | ||
| Yeah, well, I'm pretty sure you are, right? | ||
| Didn't we just discuss this earlier? | ||
| Can I just waste money and get a billboard of Jeb? | ||
| Just like, Jeb! | ||
| Jeb Guacamole Bowls. | ||
| This is not legal advice, right? | ||
| But we were just discussing this earlier, how when it comes to campaign finance laws, there's really no law, as far as I'm aware, against using your platform to promote a particular candidate. | ||
| There aren't any hoops you have to jump through to do that, so maybe, Tim. | ||
| I mean, frankly, I think we just did a great job promoting Jeb Bush right now. | ||
| I would say so. | ||
| I really do hope that by the time we finish I can still pick up some of those guacamole bowls. | ||
| Yeah, I'm looking right now like anxiously. | ||
| I should have got one. | ||
| Dude, I just created a Jeb Bush guacamole bowl bubble. | ||
| Right before the election. | ||
| There's gonna be a BuzzFeed article. | ||
| Why is the price of the Jeb Bull guacamole bowl spiking? | ||
| It's at $3,000. | ||
| I have bad news. | ||
| Like Bitcoin? | ||
| Right now I'm mostly seeing on Redbubble, I'm seeing things like t-shirts. | ||
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No! | |
| I'm seeing like stickers. | ||
| So I don't see the actual bulls. | ||
| I saw one on Amazon. | ||
| Maybe you're just not looking hard enough. | ||
| Maybe someone bought it. | ||
| Possibly. | ||
| That's possible. | ||
| Maybe there was one left. | ||
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Oh! | |
| And now it's worth a million dollars. | ||
| No! | ||
| Customer oh these this is customer review, so I don't know if these are actually and these reviews are not that great There's one five star review that says fantastic bowl, and there's a two star that says man low energy Gosh, I love it! | ||
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Alright, alright. | |
| Now that we've gotten our guacamole bowl fixed, let's read some Super Chats. | ||
| Yeah, you're right. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| David Nash says, Hey Tim, you need to get Maura Moynihan on. | ||
| She's a journalist with the Epoch Times. | ||
| She has an astonishing body of expert knowledge, especially China's global strategy history read. | ||
| Tibet Uyghurs would be superb guests and I've made her aware of you. | ||
| Stay frosty, brother. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| We'll definitely look into it. | ||
| Is it Epoch or Epic? | ||
| Epic. | ||
| Epic Times? | ||
| Epic Times. | ||
| They always talk about China, right? | ||
| They're the people who do the ads before every single YouTube video. | ||
| They're like, look at this! | ||
| Let me show you this newspaper about what China's doing. | ||
| It's like, look, this is really sick! | ||
| And then he pulls out his very hip. | ||
| They used to be considered credible by NewsGuard, and then NewsGuard changed because they said, it was really funny, there was one story they did about a Trump rally, and they said they didn't include any negative information about it, therefore they're pro-Trump, and not disclosing that they're pro-Trump, therefore they're not credible. | ||
| I kid you not. | ||
| Sounds pretty logical to me. | ||
| Just reported on the rally that it existed. | ||
| That's crazy, man. | ||
| Oh, I'd love to have a China person on. | ||
| What are you saying right now? | ||
| You know what I was going to say. | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| Cancel him! | ||
| I was going to say, this is... Just to talk about it, because I need more information. | ||
|
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You mean a pro-China, pro-Chinese human expert? | |
| Oh my gosh. | ||
|
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All right, all right. | |
| Let's survive super chats here. | ||
| Samuel Eddie says, time-traveling Tim Poole visits his younger self, telling him he's voting for Trump. | ||
| Young Tim's reaction? | ||
| Young Tim's reaction, present Tim's reason and response, then an older Tim Pool from farther in the future and he sounds like Alex Jones. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| We're now in the Alex Jones phase. | ||
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There's always something to look forward to, Tim. | |
| Kid Truck says, just voted Saturday. | ||
| I know you might not relate, Tim, but it felt good to press the button for Trump. | ||
| I was too young to vote in 2016. | ||
| Also, have you seen the DonaldTrump.watch website? | ||
| Very scary. | ||
| I did. | ||
| That's a good idea. | ||
| That's probably really safe. | ||
| Did it to Biden? | ||
| That would be harassment, Tim. | ||
| That's wrong. | ||
| all Trump's donors and plotted on a map so you can see where they all live. | ||
| Yeah I don't like that. | ||
| That's a good idea. | ||
| That's probably really safe. | ||
| So what if someone did it to Biden? | ||
| You could do the same thing. | ||
| Did it to Biden? | ||
| I think... | ||
| That would be harassment Tim. | ||
| That's wrong. | ||
| But hold on. | ||
| That would be wrong. | ||
| But, right? | ||
| Think about what would happen if someone made Biden watch, Biden dot watch. | ||
| The media would go insane, right? | ||
| And then wouldn't it be weird that the media would be like, oh, how could they do this? | ||
| It's like, Donald Trump watch exists too. | ||
| How is that any different? | ||
| The media would clearly freak out over the Biden thing. | ||
| I used to watch CNN all the time. | ||
| Trump thinks, staring everyone in the face. | ||
| I think a lot of that double standard has slapped people in the face since 2016. | ||
| Like the obvious lies, just ridiculously obvious lies. | ||
| I had a friend tell me recently that people in their family, you don't even watch mainstream news anymore because it's | ||
| all just obvious lies. | ||
| Good for them. | ||
| I know a lot of people like that in the Chicagoland area. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| The weirdest thing is, you know, I used to watch, I used to watch CNN all the time. | ||
| I used to have CNN on all the time about a year and a half ago, and it started getting worse and worse. | ||
| And I think it was around the time that there was like a storm was coming. | ||
| There were like riots happening in some country. | ||
| And then CNN was just like, well, Donald Trump. | ||
| And I was like, okay, this is getting weird. | ||
| Like I can't turn on Fox and Fox actually had the news. | ||
| And so then I was like, the CNN challenge, you know, turn on news and see if you can find it. | ||
| Yeah, well it's interesting how biases really manifest. | ||
| Fox News will give you a very conservative spin, not like a super conservative spin, but like an establishment conservative spin on a story. | ||
| CNN will just straight up not tell you the story. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So, uh, Karma and Kerosene says, Tim, come check out our band on YouTube. | ||
| We're called Karma and Kerosene. | ||
| We write heavy guitar music with pro-liberty, anti-authoritarian themes. | ||
| We're trying to make American music great again. | ||
| Very cool. | ||
| Well, I have, uh, I have some, some big news. | ||
| I think we're like less than a, we're, yeah, I think I'm like five days away from releasing my music video. | ||
| Oh man, I'm so excited. | ||
| I can't believe how good it sounds because I did not think I was that good at music, but once the producers go through it and like, you know, so I did the guitar, the vocals, and I wrote the story and the lyrics and everything. | ||
| The video is incredible. | ||
| I'm so excited for this. | ||
| And I actually, I asked to help with the video and Tim slapped me in the head. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| I watched. | ||
| Just square across the face. | ||
| He called me several, several expletives. | ||
| And racial slurs. | ||
| And it was just horrible things. | ||
| Yeah, just all these anti-Irish slurs. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| And I've never asked to work with Tim again. | ||
| Frankly, I didn't even want to be here. | ||
| The way I see it is you're way more Irish than I am, so it's kind of like I take some damage in using the slurs, but you take more, so it's like acceptable losses. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| I'm used to it. | ||
| All right, here we go. | ||
| Mr. Sparky says Clarence Thomas is going to swear in Amy Coney Barrett tonight. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Yeah, I saw that. | ||
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Wow! | |
| Talk about owning libs, baby! | ||
| Oh, beautiful! | ||
| That's hysterical. | ||
| Good ol' Clarence Thomas. | ||
| He was educated by Catholic nuns in Savannah, Georgia. | ||
| That's my kind of man. | ||
| Both of the theocrats of the papal states of America are getting together to strip us of our religious freedom and turn this country into a Handmaid's Tale is what's happening right now, Timothy. | ||
| Have you noticed the people who think that originalism means they want us to live in the 18th century? | ||
| That is an Amish thing. | ||
| No, they think originalism, like there's people tweeting like, if perhaps if you think we should live, you know, according to the Constitution, you think that we should all, you know, wear powdered wigs. | ||
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Exactly. | |
| Well, no, that's why 50 Cent is supporting Trump, because 50 Cent was worth a lot more back then. | ||
| Right. | ||
| He has much more purchasing power and he likes ACB. | ||
| Alright, alright. | ||
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Alright, alright. | |
| Keckman says, Tim, ACB has been confirmed. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I feel calmer now that she is in, just in case the election is contested now. | ||
| Now I know you might not be so open to this, but please, if you can, can you tweet at Trump and have him for a podcast or Shapiro or Peterson? | ||
| I would love to have any one of the three. | ||
| I could do all three of those voices. | ||
| Trump's not coming in. | ||
| I have already said that I want Donald Trump on for dinner. | ||
| You should, why not? | ||
| You're the biggest political YouTuber, or biggest explicitly political YouTuber. | ||
| I think, I don't know exactly who is, but I had over a hundred million views in one month. | ||
| Well we talked about this, like Joe Rogan is the biggest, but he's not like, he talks about everything. | ||
| Like in terms of people just focusing on politics, you probably do have the largest presence on YouTube. | ||
| I don't know who is the biggest, but I don't know very many who get over 100 million. | ||
| Dude, you're one of the hugest in the world. | ||
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First of all, I could just upload a YouTube channel with my cell phone and it would be better. | |
| I'm bigger than Vice News. | ||
| One of my channels is bigger than Vice. | ||
|
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That's crazy. | |
| And Donald Trump Jr. | ||
| follows you. | ||
| Does he follow you on Twitter? | ||
| Yeah, you could probably hit him up. | ||
| It'd be awesome to get him on the show. | ||
| You should just tweet my videos at him. | ||
| Oh, maybe Don Jr., for sure. | ||
| Maybe Don Jr. | ||
| would be down to come and hang out. | ||
| That would be fun. | ||
| Yeah, why not? | ||
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I bet he would. | |
| We're gonna do a really big show on election night where we're gonna have the cameras turned in just like an open format, and we're gonna have like 20 or 30 past guests and different people just showing up. | ||
| I need to get in shape. | ||
| Yeah, we gotta start working out how that happens. | ||
| And we're gonna serve, we really are going to be serving Jill Biden's chicken parmesan. | ||
|
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I'm not kidding. | |
| I'm gonna make pizza. | ||
| Who's cooking that? | ||
| Is it gonna be vegan, Lydia? | ||
| We are gonna make a vegan version. | ||
| A couple of vegan pizzas. | ||
| You're mad. | ||
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I'm angry. | |
| What's happened to this country? | ||
| Whoever eats the vegan stuff, I know they're voting for Biden. | ||
| No, Adam's voting for Trump. | ||
| I know, I'm just joshing around. | ||
| We got vegans out here. | ||
| We got vegans here for Trump. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| You know it's bad when the vegans are voting for Trump, man. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Trump's the real deal. | ||
| I thought it was bad when the skateboarders were voting for Trump. | ||
| I was deep down, like, I was worried. | ||
| I'm like, oh, man, are all these skateboarders going to be super anti-Trump? | ||
| Because I want to invite them out to skate my mini-rant. | ||
| No, they're all pro-Trump. | ||
| That's really funny. | ||
| It's creepy how pro-Trump they are. | ||
| I was talking to this girl a while ago, and she's talking about, like, her neighborhood in Georgia, in Savannah. | ||
| And she's like, she's kind of lamenting. | ||
| She's like, yeah, we're not like, Favorites change and like all these like vegans are moving in and I was like, I was like is vegan a dog whistle for white people? | ||
| Like is that what you're saying? | ||
| She's like, yes, she said yes. | ||
| She's like, yeah, you caught me. | ||
| Alright, I got a super chat. | ||
| The other white nerd says, hey Tim, I can't cover the full $500 Seamus owes you for the Freedom Tomb, but hope this helps. | ||
| Also check out Adam Lichman's 13 keys. | ||
| He predicted Biden. | ||
| But after the peace deals, let me see. | ||
| There's a one out of two here. | ||
| Where's the other half of that? | ||
| I like that. | ||
| I don't know where the other half is. | ||
| Make Seamus mine. | ||
| Anyway, I will say, that's right Seamus, you've never paid me that money you owe me. | ||
| Hold on, here's the thing. | ||
| I've given you more than that value back in terms of my presence in your life. | ||
| I'm a good friend. | ||
| I'm a ray of sunshine that you're privileged to deal with. | ||
| I'm gonna need to see receipts for that. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know about that. | ||
| That's fair. | ||
| Literally all I've done is just sponge off of Tim. | ||
| I come here, I crash on his couch, I eat his vegan pizza. | ||
| We did have a vegan pizza earlier. | ||
| Why would you tell people I did that? | ||
| I straight up ate vegan pizza and I'm sorry mom and dad. | ||
| I know you didn't want my life to become this. | ||
| We bought these things from the store that are called Diarritos. | ||
| And I said, is that Olestra? | ||
| Is that those Olestra chips? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| That's disgusting. | ||
| Stop. | ||
| Stop being rude. | ||
| Don't be rude. | ||
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Be rude. | |
| It's a vegan cheese called Daiya cheese. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And they sell Daiya cheese burritos. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So we call them Daiya-ritos. | ||
| Terribly named. | ||
| Really poorly named. | ||
| Daiya-ritos. | ||
| They're delicious. | ||
| It's very good. | ||
| I hate the name so much. | ||
| I make the joke every time, you guys. | ||
| Don't worry. | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| What are these people in the super chat talking about now? | ||
| Oh, we got a ton of super chats. | ||
| This is crazy. | ||
| Thank you guys so much. | ||
| There's your 50 bucks, Tim. | ||
| Yeah, there you go. | ||
| I love you. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Judge Wade says, we know that universities are incredibly corrupt and have bloated administration and social justice programs. | ||
| I support student loan forgiveness whereby the schools has to pay the wasted tuition back to the lenders. | ||
| Yes! | ||
| And aren't a lot of these universities really just hedge funds disguised as colleges? | ||
| Like they invest all of this extra money and then they sort of have an academic infrastructure | ||
| on top of it but they mostly just fill all their positions with, like they create a bunch | ||
| of administrative positions and none of it goes towards educating the students. | ||
| So they probably, a lot of those institutions probably have the money. | ||
| That's all I'm saying. | ||
| Maybe, no, I know I can't actually say that with certainty. | ||
| I haven't seen the figures, but I'm still fine with it. | ||
| If anyone suffers, it should be them. | ||
| Someone has said Ian is incorrect. | ||
| I don't think I'm going to pronounce your name correctly. | ||
| Dee Zochitl. | ||
| Did I pronounce it? | ||
| Oh, Dee Zochitl, okay. | ||
| Uh, Ian is incorrect. | ||
| President Clinton signed the 1998 HEA where students cannot discharge student loans in bankruptcy. | ||
| Ian? | ||
| Yeah, Ian. | ||
| How dare you disparage the good name of George W. Bush? | ||
| I told you I didn't sign that bill. | ||
| I never did that. | ||
| That wasn't true. | ||
| That was a guy before me. | ||
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I wouldn't do that. | |
| That's ridiculous. | ||
| Okay, but now do Bill Clinton laughing about it. | ||
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Oh my gosh. | |
| Like gloating that he did it. | ||
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Maybe I did shine it. | |
| You know what I love about Family Guy? | ||
| When they made Clinton like a sexual deviant. | ||
| Yeah, they just made him weird. | ||
| Yeah, they made him one. | ||
| They made him weird. | ||
| Yeah, that wasn't him at all. | ||
| They really pushed into it. | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
| So there was the one episode the other day... Oh man, I don't even wanna... I can't even go there. | ||
| I'm gonna say what happened. | ||
| So it's the one where it's Halloween and it's Meg and Chris are in costumes where you can't see their faces. | ||
| So they're doing Seven Minutes in Heaven. | ||
| And then they're like, what are they doing? | ||
| And then, you know, it turns out Meg and Chris, brother and sister, are hooking up in the closet because they couldn't see. | ||
| And then they're all screaming like, what have we done? | ||
| And then Bill Clinton runs in and goes, oh, I guess we're all getting it on this one. | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| Oh no. | ||
| Okay, next thing. | ||
| Next thing. | ||
| Next big super chat. | ||
| Graphon Tyrell says, here's to a bountiful salt harvest. | ||
| Hashtag spin the UFO. | ||
| Well, I've got bad news. | ||
| But I've got good news. | ||
| There's no UFO. | ||
| But on the way are floating potted plants. | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| What? | ||
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For real? | |
| On the way to what? | ||
| On the way here. | ||
| We have multiple air blowers so we can all spin. | ||
| I'm so stupid. | ||
| I'm so stupid that when he said on the way are spinning plants I was like, you know, like I didn't see anyone I was on the way here They'll be here soon. | ||
| You didn't tell me I'm crushed. | ||
| I'm so excited. | ||
| I want to get one for my mom That looks pretty dark. | ||
| Yeah, and like I guess you put you know, like wheat grass in it or something Oh, maybe we can put like a big flower and it just spins I wonder what the plant like goes through when you're spinning it around like crazy. | ||
| They say that's good for plants spinning them Yeah, because that's what they do in nature I was gonna say, this is true. | ||
| I once see a rose going about a thousand RPMs once. | ||
| It's like took off. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| That's how they pollinate, dude. | ||
| Oh yeah, it's true, yeah. | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| Could you imagine if flowers did that? | ||
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Just walking around outside and they're spinning and then shooting in the air. | |
| You have to watch out because they launch. | ||
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Oh! | |
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| I need to live in this world. | ||
| I can't imagine that. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Darth Starbucks says, maybe the solution to money in politics is educating people to be smart about basic political manipulation and the age-old P.T. | ||
| Barnum tricks that still work today. | ||
| Here's the thing, I don't know if we need a population where everyone is really well-educated, we just need a population of people who are virtuous, can work for themselves and provide for themselves and their families and want to. | ||
| And that's a form of education. | ||
| You gotta teach them when they're young. | ||
| That's true, you have to learn early. | ||
| What if we had a culture of people who took whatever they wanted whenever they wanted and didn't have any morals, so they were totally willing to just kill and steal? | ||
| That's actually a good idea. | ||
| Everyone just went around, maybe everybody would go around wearing leathers with battle axes and just take from whoever. | ||
| That would make me very mad. | ||
| And then all that would be left are, like, super ultra-ripped, seven-foot-tall dudes roaming the earth, taking what they want. | ||
| Oh, make you pretty mad? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Maximally angry. | ||
| Yeah, maximally angry. | ||
| Correct. | ||
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Hungry. | |
| Alright, here we go. | ||
| Right, okay. | ||
| Brawny. | ||
| Justin W. says, Hey Tim, my first baby daughter is due in December. | ||
| God bless him. | ||
| And the top recommended baby book on Amazon for my baby registry was Anti-Racist Baby. | ||
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Good! | |
| Good! | ||
| Even better. | ||
| I won't be buying any baby books from Amazon. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Do you want to have a racist baby? | ||
| Well, come on, man. | ||
| First of all, it is not enough for your baby to not be racist. | ||
| Your baby needs to be anti-racist. | ||
| Actively anti-racist. | ||
| Actively anti-racist baby. | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
| Joe Jorgensen for the win. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| True libertarianism. | ||
| Wiggles says, removing student loan interest removes any incentive to pay off the loan. | ||
| How about applying all of your federal income tax towards the student loan? | ||
| That lowers the debt burden and lowers the government incentive to subsidize colleges. | ||
| No, I don't think I will. | ||
| I'll fine them for being late on their payments and not undo that. | ||
| Yes, and you can also just garnish their wages if they're not paying. | ||
| So your interest is gone, and if you can't pay when you get a job, we garnish your wages. | ||
| What was the second part that he said as the other option? | ||
| Having your federal income tax go to the student loan, lowering the debt burden, and lowers government incentive to subsidize colleges. | ||
| No, because then what happens is a bunch of people who decided not to go to college or went to trade school or went to community college so that they could save money are going to be burdened with a higher income tax because they have to pay off other people's debt. | ||
| That actually wouldn't be the right solution. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Stevie B says, Target smart and RCP useless. | ||
| Dem versus Republican cancel each other out. | ||
| Look at independent section in poll. | ||
| Trump to lose, Wisconsin and Michigan. | ||
| Trump barely wins, Florida and North Carolina. | ||
| PA unclear. | ||
| That's fascinating. | ||
| Look, man, the polls are insanely pro-Biden. | ||
| But could you imagine a Biden presidency? | ||
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Kind of. | |
| It would be great. | ||
| He would end racism. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He would forget where he was. | ||
| He'd be funny. | ||
| He'd be really funny. | ||
| Forward thinking. | ||
| Then Cenk Uygur would start freaking out. | ||
| He would find another excuse used to go to war. | ||
| I gotta say though, isn't Joe Biden disqualified because he announced he was running for the | ||
| Senate? | ||
| Twice? | ||
| Oh. | ||
| Yeah, he did. | ||
| I wonder if there's like, could you imagine if, like hold on, could you imagine Joe Biden | ||
| wins but then Trump finds some obscure loophole where because Joe Biden accidentally said | ||
| he was running for Senate, he disqualified himself from running for President and then | ||
| Trump wins by default. | ||
| By the way, I'm a Scottish Lord. | ||
| I might've told you, I just mentioned, I bought some land in Scotland. | ||
| You can buy like 10, 10 square feet or a hundred square feet of land. | ||
| And then maybe you can be an official Lord of Scotland. | ||
| You can get one square foot and become a Scottish Lord. | ||
| But I think if you hold a title in a foreign country, you can't run for office in the US. | ||
| So I might have to give away the land at some point. | ||
| Or give it to, just, just annex it for the United States. | ||
| And then you'll get elected. | ||
| You've already gained more land for this country. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Here we go, Tom M. says, I think polls are off for two reasons. | ||
| Definition of likely voter no longer valid. | ||
| Models aren't correct, i.e. | ||
| Trump voters crawling over glass. | ||
| Remember the sliding bar model you covered? | ||
| A couple percent can cause landslides. | ||
| I'm gonna tell you something. | ||
| I voted. | ||
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Me too! | |
| I voted. | ||
| I wanted to. | ||
| I voted Republican, Republican Congress, President, Senate. | ||
| For the first time in my life. | ||
| And then for, there was like something on it about like teachers, I guess. | ||
| I just wrote in Ron Paul, Rand Paul, and I wrote in Ian. | ||
| I don't know what it is, so I'm not voting for people I don't know them. | ||
| And I did know the Republican. | ||
| And I'll tell you this, man. | ||
| I have friends and family members who grew up Chicago, Chicago Democrat, hate the Republicans, voting Republican. | ||
| Me too. | ||
| And if you have gotten me to the point where I could make a video complaining about Democrats and still be like, but I'm not voting for Trump, to finally be like, okay, fine, I'll vote for Trump, and you got Johnny Rotten doing it? | ||
| And you see these videos of like this young green haired woman who gets in her car and she's like, F it, why not? | ||
| I voted Trump. | ||
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Wow. | |
| on viral thinking about her yesterday i think that's the green hair vote | ||
| uh... yet the green hair vote will know and this is something i noticed myself | ||
| i mean back in twenty sixteen i wasn't a big fan of trump he kinda scared me i | ||
| thought i don't know if he's actually gonna be good pro-life president but | ||
| look it was him or hillary the supreme court's really important so i very | ||
| reluctantly voted for him. But it's funny because so often I remember hearing from | ||
| left-wing people, I voted enthusiastically for Obama the first | ||
| time and reluctantly the second time. I feel the exact opposite. I voted | ||
| reluctantly for Trump the first time. I am voting enthusiastically for him the | ||
| second time. John Marafa says Walter Mondale promised to raise taxes in 1984 | ||
| and lost in a 49 state landslide to Ronald Reagan. | ||
| That's right, and all of the polls said that Reagan was going to lose. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| The entirety, I don't know about all the polls, but I know that the mainstream media was basically painting it to suggest that Donald, or I'm sorry, that Ronald Reagan was going to lose the election. | ||
| And then he won. | ||
| It was a landslide. | ||
| Could you imagine, they're both populist actors. | ||
| Trump uses Reagan's slogan. | ||
| It's the make America great again. | ||
| And then Biden tried to do like a basically the same slogan but more clunky build back | ||
| back, which is the same thing. | ||
| And I saw one I saw one sign for Biden and I'm not sure if it's one of his campaign's | ||
| official slogans or if it was just the one that the artist made, but it was like, restore | ||
| the soul of our nation. | ||
| I was like, yeah, make America great again. | ||
| Like, it's literally the exact same thing. | ||
| Could you imagine if we see, like, the polls being all wrong? | ||
| Dude, look, I tell you what, there's one reason I want Trump to win in the media capacity. | ||
| I want comeuppance. | ||
| I want the American people to be like, what is wrong with these people? | ||
| Because the first time, it's Fool Me Once, we say, well the media got it wrong, they made a mistake, we're gonna watch them. | ||
| Then they got Russia wrong, they got Ukraine wrong. | ||
| They apologized for that though, Tim. | ||
| No, listen. | ||
| I'm kidding. | ||
| I want the polls to be like Biden up 20, and then Donald Trump wins 49 states. | ||
| That'd be awesome. | ||
| And then everyone looks at the media and screams, what is wrong with you? | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| And we had a smaller version of that in 2016. | ||
| We did. | ||
| I'd like to see a reboot on a much larger scale. | ||
| A lot of people forgive the media for this. | ||
| Now you got Nate Silver who's like... They've forgiven worse. | ||
| Nate Silver tweets, it's really bad that I already know what Trafalgar Group is going to say before I even click the link. | ||
| Because Trafalgar predicted a Trump victory. | ||
| He's like, I don't know what they're doing, but I know what they're going to say. | ||
| And it's funny, because I'm like, I already know what you're going to say when I click your link, 538. | ||
| You're like, Trump is losing by 50 billion points. | ||
| And then I open Rasmussen, and it could go either way. | ||
| Rasmussen, some days, like, he's doing good. | ||
| He's nice. | ||
| You know, they do the daily tracking thing, and it goes up and down. | ||
| I don't trust 538, because everything they say is entirely predictable. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| It's like, I know exactly. | ||
| You know what's really funny? | ||
| There was an article. | ||
| Apparently FiveThirtyEight has one of their forecast models showing Trump winning California, but losing the Electoral College. | ||
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It's like their models are insane. | |
| Here's the thing. | ||
| I made this decision in 2016 that I was just totally out of the business of making any prediction about anything relevant to Donald Trump. | ||
| But had you asked me a year and a half ago I would have said like yeah I think Trump's gonna win like I think he's got has in the bag this I'm actually not sure you know think things have changed so much it's kind of I feel like it's kind of close right now yeah I'm actually excited like I don't it's there's actually like this is not in the bag for either of them I'd be Yeah, I would be very sad if Biden won, but it's hard for me to say that I would be entirely shocked. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| And they could steal it too. | ||
| Because most people I know, most people in my circles, and most people who I just deal with... | ||
| online yeah are are voting for trump but that could just be my own very biased | ||
| circle i don't really know like outside of that a lot of people are really | ||
| anger is trump and fed up with them and they've been convinced that all the | ||
| social instability were experiencing right now as a result of his presidency | ||
| which i disagree with but they see it that way so i could actually see him | ||
| losing because of that but i don't agree but it's a possibility | ||
| it's hard for me to believe all the polls are in the wrong to be honest | ||
| Like, these are serious. | ||
| These are seven points off. | ||
| Like, this is insane for all these polls to be wrong. | ||
| But we have several polls saying Trump's winning. | ||
| Democracy Institute, Trafalgar Group, Rasmussen. | ||
| And these are not, like, pro-Trump organizations, or are they? | ||
| So Trafalgar Group got Trump right in 2016. | ||
| And now they're saying these polls are missing the shy Trump voter, which is going to swing it for Trump. | ||
| Democracy Institute Sunday Express was British. | ||
| So it's like if we've got some poll saying he's going to win, is it stupid to just pick the polls you like? | ||
| That's what people are doing. | ||
| I'll tell you, man. | ||
| It's the economy, stupid. | ||
| Trump is still winning the polling on the economy. | ||
| And you mean to tell me that for all of... Listen. | ||
| If I told you, you go to the average person and say, we're gonna put a guy across the street from you, who whenever you walk out your door he yells random insults, like moron, fatty, fat pig. | ||
| But, we're also gonna give you 500 bucks a month in cash money. | ||
| Yeah, I'll take that. | ||
| Exactly, they're gonna be like... And he doesn't challenge you to do push-ups and sniff your kid. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| I mean, like, would you be willing to have a guy screaming at you every time you leave | ||
| your house if it meant you got cash every month? | ||
| Well, here's the thing. | ||
| I'd laugh. | ||
| He's not screaming at me. | ||
| He's screaming at people who don't like me. | ||
| Well, he's like screaming at the media for the most part. | ||
| He's like yelling at people who view us with contempt. | ||
| Would you accept? | ||
| Wouldn't bother me all that much. | ||
| Imagine your toilet breaks. | ||
| And it's been broken for a long time. | ||
| You're really upset. | ||
| And the plumbers you hired aren't fixing it. | ||
| And you're like, okay, I'm hiring a different guy. | ||
| So you hire a different guy. | ||
| He comes in. | ||
| He's overweight. | ||
| He smells bad. | ||
| His butt crack's popping out. | ||
| And he keeps swearing and insulting you like, your dog is so dumb! | ||
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What an ugly dog. | |
| And then he fixes your toilet. | ||
| And he's fixing it and you're like, wow, he's doing a great job. | ||
| It's like it's starting to work. | ||
| Our plumbing's never been this good ever. | ||
| And then the other plumbers are outside screaming at you, insulting you, saying you're stupid for hiring this guy. | ||
| Don't hire him. | ||
| Fire him. | ||
| Hire us again. | ||
| And you're like, listen, man, this guy's in my house. | ||
| He won't shut up. | ||
| It's really annoying me. | ||
| But those people didn't fix anything. | ||
| The truth is, I would look for a third plumber. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know. | ||
| But if, like, we had the best economy in generations. | ||
| It was the best numbers of our lives. | ||
| I don't agree. | ||
| I'm the best plumber. | ||
| And I'm not even going to charge. | ||
| I'll give you a discount. | ||
| Actually, now we're talking. | ||
| A jerk plumber that's good that gives me a discount? | ||
| Yeah, I'll rehire him. | ||
| Trump gave us some of the best economic numbers of our lives. | ||
| And everybody was saying it. Except for the Democrats, they don't want to admit it. | ||
| But Jim Cramer on CNBC said it. | ||
| Well, this is also the other thing with the plumber analogy, part of where it breaks down is | ||
| with what I mentioned earlier, the people he insults are people who have contempt for us, | ||
| and also people who politicians have not stood up to in the past. | ||
| Like, Republicans have always played ball at the media. | ||
| It's really disgusting. | ||
| Desperate. | ||
| Humiliating. | ||
| I wanna be cool. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Please call me cool. | ||
| Don't call me mean names. | ||
| And, uh, look where that got him. | ||
| You know? | ||
| Trump doesn't care. | ||
| Peter Bemis says, Biden, truth over lies. | ||
| Funniest yards I've ever seen. | ||
| Truth over lies. | ||
| ReSeth says, Tim, Robert Barnstein said that he thinks that Nate Silver is purposefully, purposely telling pollsters to pump the poll numbers up for Biden so they can say Trump stole the election. | ||
| That's funny. | ||
| I don't buy it. | ||
| Yeah, I don't buy it. | ||
| I'm not into all the theories, but... Nate Silver doesn't control the University of Texas polling. | ||
| Like, that's ridiculous. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, there's something to be said for the fact that people pick polls, and especially people in the media pick polls that make it look like their candidate's going to win, because they want to, and they want to discourage people who would vote for the opposing candidate. | ||
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| So, like, there's something nefarious there, but that's a little much. | ||
| Hollowed by the Be Thy Game says, take some China sanctions and pay towards student debt. | ||
| Love the show. | ||
| Yeah, there you go. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Makai Bree says, breaking now. | ||
| ATF to redefine AR-AK style pistols as falling under NFA. | ||
| Follow military arms channel. | ||
| This puts millions of owners at criminal risk. | ||
| Massive political move to derail Trump. | ||
| Why would that derail Trump? | ||
| Trump would come out and be like, we're going to stop that. | ||
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Trump would say, no, you can't do that, stupid. | |
| He would actually come out and be like, we're going to ban bump stocks. | ||
| Exactly, yeah, that was sad. | ||
| I don't like that very much. | ||
| She's very rough. | ||
| I used to think about George Washington. | ||
| I like presidents who didn't cut down a cherry tree. | ||
| Okay, yeah, that's fair. | ||
| company that occasionally gives out diplomas. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Here's the thing about George Washington. | ||
| I like presidents who didn't cut down a cherry tree. | ||
| Okay, yeah, that's fair. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| Didn't Abraham Lincoln do the same thing? | ||
| I think it was the same story, cut down his dad's cherry tree. | ||
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He was like, I planted more of them. | |
| Kalanchoe goes on to say, also, Seamus is in fact a ray of sunshine. | ||
| This is true! | ||
| I'm glad somebody thinks so. | ||
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| Thank you guys, all of you, you're very kind. | ||
| I'm gonna tear up a little. | ||
| Don't do it. | ||
| Truthseeker says, I'm in Wisconsin, left lib, voting red. | ||
| I bet Wisconsin is closer than they think. | ||
| I think their models are broken because information exchange is too rapid. | ||
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| And I also don't think, I don't think they understand how COVID affected predict polling. | ||
| Like, how do you predict what COVID did? | ||
| Yeah, totally. | ||
| Listen, listen, listen. | ||
| That's fair. | ||
| If in March, when they announced the lockdowns were coming, some 26-year-old dude went to, you know, his parents' place. | ||
| He's like in New York City for college, and he goes back to, you know, rural PA. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then registers there and stays there. | ||
| Oh, that's a good point. | ||
| I was just thinking about mindset being changed. | ||
| Listen, people have moved around so much across the country, we have no idea who registered who's voting where. | ||
| It's gonna be weird, man. | ||
| They're saying that Biden's up in Texas. | ||
| For real, that Biden's polling higher than Trump in Texas. | ||
| That's really weird. | ||
| The first time in 44 years Democrats would win Texas if they win Texas. | ||
| So anyway, look, there's a lot at stake there. | ||
| If Democrats start winning Texas, we got problems. | ||
| This has troubled Ted Cruz for a while. | ||
| The polls could be wrong because people, mostly the rich people, moved first. | ||
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Hmm. | |
| Rich people in New York flee, right? | ||
| Makes sense. | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
| They spread out in random directions. | ||
| And then they write op-eds from their mansions in other cities and states about how New York isn't actually dead. | ||
| But how many... No, but the people who stayed are saying that. | ||
| The people who fled are probably more likely to be conservative. | ||
| Or more conservative, at least. | ||
| No, I was making fun of Seinfeld. | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| So I'm wondering if the wealthier people Flee. | ||
| I mean, actually, you know what? | ||
| I take that back, though. | ||
| Other people are funding Biden. | ||
| This could be bad for Trump. | ||
| But I think it's fair to say the polls are really- are probably off simply because throughout this whole past year, people have been moving to different locations. | ||
| That is so wild. | ||
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| We have no idea what's gonna happen. | ||
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Dang. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| No clue. | ||
| I do think- I do think- No predictions for me. | ||
| I'll tell you, I don't know what's gonna happen, but I'll give you my gut feeling. | ||
| Trump is gonna win. | ||
| I hope you're right. | ||
| But there's going to be a bunch of weird things happening with lawsuits and polls, and they're gonna say Trump stole it. | ||
| Um, everyone just go out, vote for Trump, pray the rosary. | ||
| Yep, there you go. | ||
| That's my advice. | ||
| Boom, done, nailed it. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Excellent. | ||
| Well, anyway, it's about 1030. | ||
| Seamus, thanks for hanging out. | ||
| Thanks so much for having me. | ||
| But you're, but we're gonna, you're hanging out for quite a bit, so we're gonna see, we're gonna see a bit more of you. | ||
| Yeah, you guys are gonna have to keep putting up with me. | ||
| And we're having, on the third, there's gonna be a really big party, so we're having people come out, and it's gonna be, it's gonna, we're gonna get weird with it. | ||
| No, we're not. | ||
| I think I need to catch my flight back. | ||
| We are going to have a dance party. | ||
| I'm not trying to get weird. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know. | ||
| We are going to have cameras. | ||
| Me and Lydia will go to church. | ||
| We're going to have a wide shot. | ||
| We're going to have random people. | ||
| It's going to be like, I don't know exactly who's coming, but you're going to see a famous YouTuber to walk up and sit down and start talking to Shayna or whatever. | ||
| And cussing me out for the impression I did of them. | ||
| No one there is going to like me. | ||
| No one anywhere likes me. | ||
| And you are going to get to watch The reaction when the when the final results of the night come in we won't know who exactly won But perhaps perhaps you'll see someone drop to their knees and scream. | ||
| No I was thinking I was like if I predict that Trump wins then like a couple weeks from now I'm gonna be in like cringe comps going Screaming at the sky is Biden sworn in. | ||
| If Biden wins, I'm putting my feet up and I'm laughing, man. | ||
| I'm along for the ride, baby. | ||
| Yeah, like, what do you do? | ||
| Do your best. | ||
| I would be very upset, but yeah, that's also something. | ||
| That would be out of my hands, right? | ||
| Again, should just pray, live my life, but it would not thrill me. | ||
| The big difference, I think. | ||
| More children would die. | ||
| More unborn children murdered. | ||
| I was like the big difference between, I guess like people like me and these people is that when Trump lost, I'm sorry, when Trump won, when Hillary lost, they dropped to their knees and they scream and they cry. | ||
| And I'm just like, you ever see that, that, that, that Jeff, the meme of the two women going, Oh my God. | ||
| And the guy's going, yeah. | ||
| Oh, I love that. | ||
| That's kind of what it's like. | ||
| It's like if Biden won, I would just laugh because like the absurdity of life. | ||
| First of all, you can't do anything if he wins. | ||
| What are we going to do? | ||
| Scream? | ||
| No, what's the point? | ||
| I'm going to be like, well, we'll figure it out. | ||
| We'll have to have a good time. | ||
| And you know, I mean, if he defeats Abe Lincoln, I think it's civil war. | ||
| I'll go kayaking. | ||
| This is one of the issues that actually moderates and conservatives have, is they go with the flow too often. | ||
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Yep, that's the problem. | |
| And the left goes and burns down buildings. | ||
| And we laugh at them, but they are winning the culture. | ||
| So listen, listen. | ||
| In New York, a cop got suspended for saying MAGA 2020 over Trump 2020 over his bullhorn because people were screaming at him. | ||
| They suspended him without pay. | ||
| But when the top-ranking guys took a knee for Black Lives Matter, they got clapped and cheered for and all that stuff. | ||
| So what happens is the left's willingness to burn down their cities means that the pathetic, spineless, whiny losers of the NYPD will give them whatever they want. | ||
| Yeah, but Antifa's got to be careful. | ||
| Any rebellion, it burns for a little while, and then if it gets to be too much, the feds come in and annihilate it. | ||
| So they've got to be careful. | ||
| Well, and also the revolution eats its own children, right? | ||
| I mean, all of the people who are out in the front cheering for this are going to be the first to go. | ||
| And then the intelligentsia, those that fomented the revolution and rallied them. | ||
| And then people think it's counter-revolutionaries. | ||
| It's like... No, it's not. | ||
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It's the revolution itself. | |
| I mean, they're on the list, but yeah, the people who started the revolution are the biggest threat to those who seize power. | ||
| So, you know, you can complain... Actually... There's some... No one wants... Even the subversive do not want subverters in their system. | ||
| But think about this. | ||
| If there was a revolution, they would actually entertain a show like this to prove they're actually not that bad. | ||
| So, no, we allow them to speak because we don't do anything. | ||
| We don't go out. | ||
| We don't march. | ||
| We don't riot. | ||
| It's no threat to them. | ||
| It's just us talking and complaining and then going and, I don't know, eating Cheetos or something. | ||
| Then they're going out with torches. | ||
| Eating diuretos. | ||
| Diuretos. | ||
| Anyway, I guess we'll see what happens on election day. | ||
| So tune in. | ||
| It's going to be a fun kind of open format thing. | ||
| You know, I'll probably be just skating, hanging out because we got the, well, I got the TV downstairs in the skate park now. | ||
| It's going to be epic. | ||
| It's going to be awesome. | ||
| But yeah, thanks for hanging out, Seamus. | ||
| Yeah, thanks for having me. | ||
| We have you scheduled for another show at some time this week, so he's gonna be here. | ||
| But you can follow Seamus, FreedomTunes, on YouTube, and Twitter, Seamus Coughlin. | ||
| Check me out, FreedomTunes, on Twitter, yeah. | ||
| Spelled Seamus Coughlin, pronounced Seamus Coughlin, at Seamus Coughlin on Twitter, or just look up FreedomTunes on Twitter, and I should be the first person that comes up. | ||
| Bucko came in because, you know, he usually comes... We're way over his head. | ||
| Yeah, we're way over his head. | ||
| So you can also follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Parler at TimCast. | ||
| And you can check out my other YouTube channels, YouTube.com slash TimCast and YouTube.com slash TimCastNews. | ||
| And don't forget, we are on all of the podcast platforms. | ||
| That's correct. | ||
| So you can go subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, whatever it is you kids are listening to today. | ||
| And of course, Ian Crossland has things you can follow. | ||
| Everybody, I love you. | ||
| You can follow me, Ian Crossland, on... I like Twitter, so get me there. | ||
| And all the other social networks I'm on. | ||
| Pretty much. | ||
| Is Bucko going to be on camera? | ||
| He is! | ||
| He's over here with me. | ||
| I took a scratch so I could get him on the screen. | ||
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You guys are welcome. | |
| You can follow Sour Patch Lids. | ||
| O-I-D-S. | ||
| I have pictures of the cat sometimes. | ||
| Go to Tim! | ||
| Oh snap! | ||
| There he is! | ||
| Get ready to come to me! | ||
| He's putting his butt on it. | ||
| I love this cat. | ||
| He's looking for water. | ||
| So he tries to find people's glasses and he can see and drink from them. | ||
| He just wants something to knock off the table, dude. | ||
| Yeah, that's what they do. | ||
| All right, everybody. | ||
| Thanks for hanging out We're gonna have clips up tomorrow shows live Monday through Friday at 8 p.m. | ||
| Smash that like button on your way out. | ||
| Send us your loves, comments. | ||
| Maybe I can get him to walk close enough to me. | ||
| He just ditched me. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| No, but it's him. | ||
| Okay, alright. | ||
| Wait, wait, maybe I can get him to walk close enough to me. | ||
| Oh, there's his butt. | ||
| On camera. | ||
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| Oh no. | ||
| We will see you all tomorrow. | ||
| So we're scheduled to have on a leftist YouTuber, Vosh, I think it's pronounced. | ||
| I think it'll be an interesting conversation. |
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