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Dec. 18, 2020 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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Timcast IRL - CNN President Might QUIT, No Trump Means Media LAYOFFS, w/ Luke Rudkowski
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tim pool
what will the media do without Donald Trump I don't know.
Probably collapse into itself.
Tons of layoffs.
Desperate sell-offs.
And no one's going to want to buy it.
Maybe you guys heard the story from a little while ago.
CNN, apparently.
I believe AT&T owns it now.
I don't know who owns it.
Who cares?
Because it's worthless now that everyone is predicting Trump is going to be leaving office.
I would say, if there's one thing the people of CNN and MSNBC should be doing right now, it's praying that somehow, despite all of their efforts, Trump still wins, because they ain't about to lose their job.
And I'll tell you what was really surprising is that there's a story that came out from the New York Times saying that, you know, CNN and MSNBC are really worried about what's gonna happen.
And in it, they mention the president of CNN, Jeff Zucker, is weighing his options and may actually leave.
Now they say it's because he's fighting with his boss, but let's be real.
AT&T wants to sell CNN, they're in massive debt, the network is nothing but anti-Trump garbage, and if Trump ends up leaving on January 20th, that's it.
They're all done.
Even the Wall Street Journal wrote about this, saying, what do we do once Trump is gone?
And they're not talking about themselves, because the Wall Street Journal is fairly conservative.
No, they're talking about, I guess, all of this resistance media.
The venture capital funded news outs are going to turn out to be a washout for all these companies that dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into them.
And it's going to be kind of funny.
So we're going to talk about that.
We got this big old hack affecting the U.S.
You know, Trump apparently, there's been some invocation of some executive authority creating this like joint intelligence effort.
And, you know what?
You can't see anything with these hacks, so we don't even know what's really going on, other than they're telling us Russia is breaking into our systems, and essentially it's an act of war, and I'm like, oh yeah, here we go.
Joe Biden gets an office, and then we're back to the track we were on with Hillary Clinton of going to war with Russia, because they want to get that natural gas back up into Europe.
So we'll talk about this.
We also got some crazy culture stories we'll talk about.
Some huge influencer died.
It's really sad.
Look, I'm just telling a story with no disrespect.
She was trying to get a butt lift and she had like 12 million followers.
So we're going to talk about a bunch of stuff.
Hanging out today is, of course, Luke Woodkowski.
He lives in the parking lot.
luke rudkowski
Yep.
Tim, thank you so much for having me on.
Before we start, I would like to start off on a serious note.
And this is not easy, but I would like to publicly apologize to the viewing audience.
It seems that I've misled you and I was wrong and I hope you guys don't judge me for it.
I hope that you will acknowledge that at least I'm striving to be as honest and as open-minded as I am.
But I had a couple medical professionals contact me, and they shared some data, some charts, and some factoids.
And I have to say here, and I have to correct my previous stance, and I have to say that the coronavirus vaccine is in fact good, it is safe, and it will be ending the lockdowns.
I know my previous comments were skeptical, but after having these medical professionals come to me, I have no doubt, no doubt at all, and I would like to announce on the show that I will be joining our president-elect Joe Biden next week, right in my left arm.
I will be taking the coronavirus vaccine with him because Bill Gates can't lie.
And Bill, you want to come down here, jab me personally, one-on-one, mano-a-mano?
I'm here for you, and I volunteer for your scientists.
tim pool
You realize there's people listening who have no idea that you're joking?
unidentified
Well, I missed out.
And they're like, oh wow, that's really interesting that Luke said that.
ian crossland
You were joking?
tim pool
Luke right now, for those that are listening and can't see what he's doing, because Luke doesn't realize it's a podcast, he's holding up tiny plastic hands that you clearly can't give him a vaccine through.
luke rudkowski
I'm surprised people are selling these now with everything that's happening.
unidentified
Tim, do you forgive me for my indiscretion?
tim pool
Transgressions.
luke rudkowski
Do you forgive me?
tim pool
What did you really even say, though?
People should do their research and decide for themselves?
luke rudkowski
Yeah.
But that's wrong.
unidentified
That's wrong think.
luke rudkowski
That's wrong think right now.
I'll tell you what.
Twitter will ban you if you say the vaccines are bad.
So we have to change our stances.
tim pool
There's a video of a guy getting a vaccine, but the syringe is empty.
And it's going viral.
And I tweeted, WTF is this?
And some Democrat guy was like, you're so anti-vax.
unidentified
I'm like, there's literally no vaccine he's talking about.
tim pool
I'm complaining they didn't give him the vaccine.
unidentified
Why are you yelling at me?
luke rudkowski
And the hospital released the statement saying that they're giving him another vaccine again.
Because there was clearly some kind of mistake there.
And again, a lot of people are bringing up conspiracy theories, but I think this might highlight some incompetency.
And I think the nurse might have brought in the same one that was just used on someone else and injected him.
tim pool
It's the same guy.
Someone come in, sit down, get a shot.
I think he accidentally took the used syringe and jabbed the guy with the same one Oh, dude, could you imagine being the guy?
luke rudkowski
Needle stick.
Just getting injected with random needles.
tim pool
You know what I think is funny?
It's like a lot of people were like, it was a PR stunt, and they thought there was some kind of conspiracy or plan.
I'm like, dude, the nurse just reused the same needle.
Like, he gave him the shot, he probably put the cap back on, put it down, this guy walks in, he didn't realize he grabbed the same one, and it wasn't until... Because he had nerves.
Yeah, on camera.
luke rudkowski
And this is not the first time this happened.
There was an Australian politician that showed how she's taking the flu jab, and again, it was the same thing.
Orchestrated, no blue gloves.
tim pool
No, no, no, no.
That's different.
luke rudkowski
Did you see the video?
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
tim pool
What I'm saying is this guy, this nurse.
unidentified
Oh yeah.
luke rudkowski
It was totally different, but, but we're showing.
tim pool
He was giving multiple people vaccines.
unidentified
Exactly.
tim pool
Could you imagine like finding out later when people on the internet were watching the video that you'd probably be thinking like, wait a minute, he gave me that shot, but it wasn't anything in it.
Where did that come from?
And then the dude who did it's like, Oh man, I used a dirty needle on this guy.
unidentified
Absolutely.
luke rudkowski
Absolutely crazy.
And it's saying, Tim, I have to say, I have to give you a hand.
tim pool
There you go.
ian crossland
You should see the rest of the body.
unidentified
Oh my gosh.
luke rudkowski
Hold on, hold on.
We need to pull this back into the armory that we have.
unidentified
Oh, the armory!
tim pool
Let's give Tim a hand.
So this guy Luke is all like, Tim, you gotta get this scope for your M1.
It's gonna be great.
And then he doesn't know how to put it on.
luke rudkowski
Well, it's complicated, and I don't want to ruin the gun.
If I don't know anything, you don't want me messing with the trigger.
You have to take apart the whole... So what you're saying is your advice for getting this gun was bad.
No, we went to a professional, and we both got this advice.
You, for some reason, decided to get an M1A rifle for, I don't know, maybe some historical purposes?
Home defense!
No, that is not a home defense rifle, okay?
That's a broomstick.
That's first of all especially with modern rifles that are out there that actually do you work?
unidentified
Well, I'm with scopes and if you have a long-range rifle, you wanna know the truth.
tim pool
What's all the head?
unidentified
Jersey they were sold out of everything doing in Jersey move.
luke rudkowski
I told you I told you gonna Pennsylvania you went to Jersey No, no, no, that was years ago.
unidentified
Yes.
Yes.
luke rudkowski
Yes years ago.
tim pool
Did you know years ago?
You didn't say go to Pennsylvania years ago You're like why you leave in New York New York's the best.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, all right You lived in New York forever.
You were late to the party, bro.
I got out a long time ago.
and leaving that hellhole as much as I could.
But there was something to the city that was pretty amazing, especially as you're younger
and you get to meet a lot of people.
tim pool
You were late to the party, bro.
I got out a long time ago.
See, if you bought a house in the middle of nowhere, I'd be in your parking lot now.
But see, I got the house and you're like, yo, I gotta get out of New York.
unidentified
I was like, bro, I got a parking lot.
luke rudkowski
I know, you've been telling me to come down for a long time.
I've been in New Hampshire.
I was supposed to be in Florida two weeks ago or three weeks ago, but I'm somehow stuck here.
We, I mean, and, um, I, I, you know, we, we still don't have anything official.
tim pool
Well, the blizzard happened.
luke rudkowski
That wasn't nice.
Yeah, Tim came out and he was like, I'm going to skateboard the blizzard.
I'm like, I just started cursing at him because I'm on top of my RV, literally shoveling snow.
We got snowboards.
Lids won't give me a broom because he thinks I'm going to break it.
unidentified
I'm like, it broke my own broom.
luke rudkowski
I would buy you another broom.
tim pool
We have one of those big squeegees for shuffling the snow.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, it's not fun.
ian crossland
If you want to see Luke shoveling that snow, it's on my Instagram page.
I got about seven seconds of video.
Yeah, it's hot.
Hey, did you tell Adam to install the scope?
luke rudkowski
Adam said he's too busy.
He doesn't want to do it.
ian crossland
I want to build up his gunsmithing skill.
tim pool
Gunsmithing?
luke rudkowski
I mean, I could do it.
It's just going to take a long time and it's difficult to take out the whole.
It's difficult to take out the whole trigger sequence inside and then put it back together.
tim pool
Trigger mechanism?
luke rudkowski
Yeah, that's not easy to do.
And if you mess up.
tim pool
You bit off more than you could chew.
unidentified
Yes.
luke rudkowski
A little bit.
tim pool
Your eyes were bigger than the ball.
luke rudkowski
A little bit.
tim pool
Keep your eyes on the prize.
luke rudkowski
But now you have a pretty cool scope that you could put on an actual working good rifle.
tim pool
It's a camera.
ian crossland
So the M1's just like a hunting rifle?
tim pool
It's like historical.
ian crossland
It's like a World War II.
tim pool
Yeah.
ian crossland
That's the M1 Garand?
tim pool
Was M1A.
But it was all they had.
I'm not gonna, you know, name every single, you know, gun that I got, but that was one of them.
luke rudkowski
Yes.
There's much more practical ones.
I don't know.
I disagree.
We have our, you know, point of views.
tim pool
I just said there's much more practical ones.
You disagree with me?
That you just told me I shouldn't have got it.
luke rudkowski
More than the M1, yes.
tim pool
I know, I'm saying there's much more practical guns than the M1A.
What do you mean?
luke rudkowski
There needs to be more consideration.
But again, we are very limited.
tim pool
I walked into a store and they had squirt guns in this one.
luke rudkowski
Squirt guns?
tim pool
Because they were sold out!
luke rudkowski
Yes.
Yes, it's crazy what's going on out there, especially with so many new gun owners this year in the United States.
We're talking about tens of millions of people, finally, for the first time in their life, picking up and buying a rifle.
And that's a testament of the time, but also shows you how it's hard to get.
tim pool
You gotta think about the tactics of the left and the right.
And I keep seeing the left scream that healthcare is a human right.
And I'm like, bro, that's someone's labor, you know what I mean?
But I got it.
I got it.
I come up with a solution.
It's not even my solution.
Other people have said it.
How about we get universal health care?
We all agree to it.
And then we also get universal gun ownership.
Meaning you can walk in the government like you get one government gun and the government gives you a gun.
ian crossland
I'm not serious.
tim pool
I'm not being serious.
ian crossland
Do you have the gun?
tim pool
No.
What do you mean the gun?
ian crossland
You got to get the gun when you turn 18.
tim pool
You go to the you go to the Department of Gun Services.
ian crossland
I think we should be 3D printing our guns.
tim pool
There you go.
What if you had to get an airsoft rifle?
18th my birthday and they're like, well, you have to get a gun.
It's a human right.
ian crossland
What if you had to get an airsoft rifle?
tim pool
No, this is a really good argument.
And it is, hear me out.
When they say healthcare is a human right, what they're implying is that access to
good, affordable healthcare is the right that if it exists, you should have access
to it.
And I'm like, okay, well, self-defense is also a human right, the right to defend
yourself from harm.
So if you're saying we need universal health care to provide a labor and technology to individuals so they can have access to that, then basically what you're saying is this.
If the health care exists, it should be their right.
Okay, fine.
That means if the technology exists to help save your life, people should not be barred from getting it.
ian crossland
Okay?
tim pool
So that means if self-defense is a human right, which it is, we actually have, like, exemptions for killing other people if it's in self-defense, then you should be granted universal access to the best tools for your self-defense.
ian crossland
You should get a voucher.
Because not everyone needs a gun.
tim pool
One gun, free, paid for by the government.
ian crossland
Or like the value of one gun if you spend it on a gun or something like that.
luke rudkowski
A lot of people are going to be like, why do you need a firearm?
And to those people, I'm like, why do you need a fire extinguisher?
If you don't believe in having preventative tools, why would you want to have a fire extinguisher in your house?
So that to me is another argument.
tim pool
Ask someone where their fire extinguisher is.
ian crossland
Most people are gonna be like, ah, we've got like 17 of them in this house.
tim pool
We have a ton.
But if you ask a regular person, they might be like, um, it's, it's, I think it's under the stairs?
Where's your first aid kit?
I think it's in the bathroom.
luke rudkowski
Lots of people, especially in the city, are wildly unprepared.
Right now we're still in a time and period where everything is readily available, but after traveling the world and being in some conflict countries, you learn That a lot of the things that are around us right now, we're taking advantage of.
And a lot of people aren't as lucky as we are, especially in the world.
And when we look at the United States, we are a first world country that is extremely spoiled.
tim pool
We got it.
We got it.
Well, let's get into the first segment because we got a good segue for this.
Don't forget, you know, Ian's chilling.
Yeah.
We didn't do that.
ian crossland
Did you get paintball, airsoft paintball pellets?
tim pool
No.
ian crossland
No, they're not paintball.
They're just biodegradable.
tim pool
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
ian crossland
I want to get paintball pellets.
That'd be fun.
tim pool
So don't forget to smash that like button, comment, subscribe.
We're live at 8 p.m.
live and Lydia's producing.
But let's talk about this first story, because I think there's a lot to talk about with the media and the chaos and all that stuff.
So we had this story come out.
I covered this earlier on my main channel, youtube.com slash timcast.
CNN and MSNBC fret over post-Trump future, but I think one of the most significant portions of this article is where they say that CNN's president, Jeffrey A. Zucker, is weighing whether to exit the network amid some tension with his new boss, Jason Killer.
Killer?
ian crossland
Is that really it?
tim pool
Well, it's like Kylar, but it says K-I-L-L-R.
Killer!
Jason Kira, the Warner Media chief executive whose background is in tech, not journalism.
Mr. Zucker is mulling his options over the holidays.
No, no, no.
Hold on.
You can't criticize that guy because his background's in tech when Jeff Zucker is running a news organization.
I'm sorry.
I'll do air quotes.
News organization.
When his background is in reality TV.
Spare me your BS.
ian crossland
What was his reality show background?
tim pool
The Apprentice.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
luke rudkowski
I didn't know that.
tim pool
You didn't know that?
luke rudkowski
No.
tim pool
What if this is all just like one big hoax?
People think there's a conspiracy.
You know, like the government, the Illuminati.
What if the real conspiracy is that it's just like It's all scripted.
Zucker and Trump.
ian crossland
I'm gonna make you look bad, and you go crazy when I do it.
unidentified
It's gonna be awesome.
tim pool
So Jeff Zucker and Trump are sitting in a room, and it's like, for the next show, it's gonna be Trump as president.
We're gonna make so much money.
And Trump's like, it's a brilliant idea.
You're the best, Jeff.
I love you.
And he shakes his hand.
luke rudkowski
Well, if you remember, before Donald Trump, the mainstream media was on its way out.
A lot of people weren't taking them seriously.
Their viewership was going down.
And then out comes this orange, glorious man that gave him all the attention, that gave him the drama, that gave him the WWE kind of wrestling entertainment that people were striving for.
And there is an argument to make here that Donald Trump did save the mainstream media because... Oh, that's a fact.
tim pool
I'm not even kidding.
That is a hard fact.
All of these companies were collapsing.
There were layoffs every other day.
Between 2012 and 2016?
No, like 2014 to 2016.
ian crossland
What were they doing from 2011 to 2014?
in 2016? Were they just collapsing?
tim pool
No, like 2014 to 2016.
ian crossland
What were they doing from 2011 to 14?
tim pool
There was a mix of riding off of the Occupy and Ron Paul movements. And then they started
to realize that intersectionality and social justice was making people really angry. And
angry people share more.
So they started going nuts, ramping up videos of cops beating people, writing songs about it.
And there was one website, Mike.com, started as libertarian.
Ron Paul, pro-Ron.
ian crossland
That was a big influence on minds at the time.
tim pool
But then what they started doing, they started putting up police brutality videos and finding that it mixed with social justice narratives better.
And then the website just became a social justice media company.
Then we started seeing there was something called like ad rights traffic distribution or whatever, where these companies would be like, We get a million views, we'll sell the rights to those views to you to run ads on our content, and then companies like Vice would claim they were getting, you know, a hundred million views because they were actually buying the rights to other content.
So it was this big kind of, I wouldn't call it fraud or a scam or anything like that, but like, when you go to someone and claim- It was like scam-ish, fraudulent.
Imagine if I claimed my YouTube channel, like, so you go to Social Blade, you can see how many views my channels get.
You know, it's like, I think right now, I've reduced the amount of content I've been producing a little bit, so it's like 60, 70 million or whatever, maybe a little bit, I think it's around this.
Per month?
I think it's like 75 million.
It was at 100 a few months ago, way bigger with the election, but I've pulled some of the content, you know, I've done a little bit less content.
Imagine if I, like, went to a thousand channels that made videos of people drinking bottled water and nothing else.
And I said, sign the rights to your viewership to me, and then I found another 25 million views that were worthless, that make no money, and then I started telling everybody, I get 100 million views.
ian crossland
Oh yeah, my network has... Exactly.
tim pool
That's what they were doing.
So, at some point, before Trump, everything started falling apart, they started laying people off.
You know, Shane Smith, the CEO of Vice, was like, there's gonna be a bloodbath in digital media.
And we saw valuations tanking.
Then along comes Trump.
And then all of a sudden these media outlets realized, if we say the orange man is bad, people click that button.
luke rudkowski
And you brought up a very important point because there was even psychological studies that pointed about how if you make someone emotional, if you make someone angry, if you make them feel a very strong negative emotion, that leads to more sharing of articles, sharing of links, sharing of news stories.
And I remember watching a documentary about this new kind of online internet news business and seeing people in the newsroom with just, uh, you know, graphics about how many shares their articles get.
And it would be out of the 10 most shared articles per day.
Yeah.
And it was right in front of everyone.
And they were always trying to beat each other, who would get the most clicks, who would have the most outrageous headlines, who would get the most attention.
And when you To have a system like that, we have to understand, that's gonna have some significant consequences for the general public.
tim pool
Let me tell you guys a story.
When I was down in Ferguson, when the riots were breaking out, and there's cops, you know, lobbing gas and everything, I did one of the biggest streams ever.
This is really funny to think about, because we get more viewers on this show now than I would get, like, mobile streaming.
ian crossland
We get more likes on this show in one night than I get on my entire YouTube channel in a year.
In a lifetime, in ten years.
tim pool
When I was streaming in Ferguson and we, uh, so my live stream had like, we had, it was, it was, it was being displayed in three different pages for a total of like 70,000 concurrent viewers at the height of these riots.
When all was said and done and the riots lit up and the buildings were like a whole city block, West Florissant was engulfed in flames.
You drive down the street, you could feel the heat in your car from how big the flames were.
Viewership was insane.
It was massive.
There were bullets flying.
I'm hitting the ground.
The cops are like, run, run, run!
There's tear gas everywhere!
And you know what?
When everything wrapped up, and I got on the phone with the people back in the Vice newsroom, I would say the first thing they told me was, Bro, you just broke the record for concurrence!
The first time a sub channel surpassed the parent channel, bro!
unidentified
And I'm like, yes!
tim pool
That was it.
unidentified
They were like, we can't believe it!
tim pool
Because Vice News was not Vice, it was just like a sub-Chatterberry, but we got more concurrence, dude!
unidentified
Yeah!
tim pool
They weren't like, it's a sad day, man.
I can't believe it, these buildings.
Are you alright?
luke rudkowski
Are you okay?
I was gonna say, are you okay?
Did you get shot?
tim pool
No, but listen, we're all vultures.
So was I gonna be like, how dare you say that to me?
You should be asking me.
unidentified
No, I was like, wow, awesome.
tim pool
I can't believe how well we did.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, and that is kind of a sociopathic mentality, especially with everything that was happening in Ferguson.
And there used to be this kind of slogan in news.
If it bleeds, it leads.
tim pool
Used to be a slogan?
luke rudkowski
Now, I think the slogan is, let's butcher style.
We're gonna let everyone open in the nastiest and most disgusting way, and then we have ourselves a title.
tim pool
It used to be if it bleeds, it leads.
Now, it's if it bleeds orange, it leads.
luke rudkowski
For now, but that orange sweet elixir is coming to an end, and when it comes to an end, there's gonna be a big reckoning, and we're gonna see a lot of these media companies eat each other up.
It's gonna be disgusting.
There's gonna be a lot of fired Starbucks drinking flip-flop wearing yuppies.
in the city that won't have a job anymore and there's going to be a huge economic reckoning,
especially with, I think, a digital marketing media collapse, which, how can you say is not
coming when their evil villain is leaving and they won't have anyone else to fight?
tim pool
Let's talk about the serious ramifications of what the media has become. I'll put it this way.
I'd like you to imagine Donald Trump walking down the street with a smile on his face, waving to people, and there's a bunch of rats chasing him, nibbling at his coattails and his shoes, and he's constantly kicking them away.
That's what the media has become.
The Wall Street Journal writes, an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal says, what will we do without Trump?
A reckoning for resistance media.
But they make a very, very important point.
They're not just saying, oh no, without Trump, what do we write about?
They're pointing out that Eric Swalwell was caught banging a Chinese spy and the New York Times has not covered it.
unidentified
Good point.
tim pool
You'd think someone who sits on the Intelligence Oversight Committee in Congress who is sleeping with a Chinese spy would be front-page news, but it's not.
You know why?
Because passively in a meeting, one source says, Donald Trump entertained the idea of not leaving the White House, though the idea was quickly shot down and Trump agreed it was a bad idea.
Boom!
Headline!
So today I'm reading the news and it's like, Trump refuses to leave the White House!
And I'm like, wow, I wonder what the source is for this.
And it was a passive little sentence in the bottom of a CNN article, but someone saw it and they were like, Trump even suggested what, you know, asked his aides, what if he didn't leave the White House?
And the idea was quickly shot down and Trump agreed.
But someone sees that, they blow it up into this big headline, Trump refusing to leave the White House.
And I'm like...
luke rudkowski
I saw the headline and I didn't even want to read the article because I'm like, oh, it has Trump in it.
That means there's most likely some disinformation or bullcrap on it with someone just making something up just to get their headlines, just to get their clicks.
And it's so disingenuous, but it also is so hurtful for the political discourse that is happening in this country that has been bastardized, that has been destroyed, that has been savaged by these brutes who only want clicks, fame, attention, and ad revenue.
That has essentially destroyed any kind of understanding of media, and we're living in this bizarre world where there's going to be finally, finally a correction, and they're going to realize, holy cow, they are in utter trouble.
Look at the article that the Washington Post ran with today.
Let me read you the headline from the Washington Post.
Pete Buttigieg is right.
Airports are romantic.
That's it.
That's their headline.
Who's going to read that?
Who's gonna like want to read that?
Also it's important to note that the Washington Post is known as the kind of CIA deep state newspaper and of course Buttigieg does have ties to intelligence agencies as well.
tim pool
So I was once at an airport and I saw an old guy sneeze into his hand then look around and then wipe his hand on the seat.
ian crossland
Romantic.
Nothing screams romance like airport security and blue rubber gloves.
tim pool
Yeah, nothing, that's romance.
You know what?
We should do a short, you know, a short film about the love story of a TSA agent who has to, you know, get a good feel on somebody.
And they fall in love.
And he looks up and looks the guy in the eyes and it's romance.
Just boom, like that.
luke rudkowski
As he's patting him right into the little...
I could see that happening.
tim pool
Romance in an airport.
Now, more importantly, that headline, Pete Buttigieg is right.
Airports are romantic.
ian crossland
What?
luke rudkowski
Yes.
unidentified
It's an opinion, right?
tim pool
I don't care if it's an opinion.
unidentified
What?
luke rudkowski
Yes.
unidentified
Who cares?
tim pool
What's the news?
luke rudkowski
Yes.
Thank you.
ian crossland
They want people to fly.
They're trying to sell tickets for Christmas.
tim pool
Did Pete Buttigieg write a book about romantic airports or something?
luke rudkowski
You gotta click to find out.
The transport secretary.
Transportation secretary.
Oh, for Biden?
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
So yeah, he was like, I love the NPR wrote an article and it was like, he loves trains.
He's riding the Amtrak.
They decided to make him the transport.
Are you kidding me, dude?
luke rudkowski
Yeah.
What are they going to do now?
tim pool
I look about Pete Buttigieg being the transportation secretary or whatever.
I don't care what he's going to read some books.
He's going to say, sure, fine, whatever.
I don't care about that.
You know, Ben Carson was made what the head of urban housing and whatever.
I don't care.
I don't care.
ian crossland
You know what I do care about though?
tim pool
It's appointments.
ian crossland
Buttigieg saying he was the first gay guy to something something.
He didn't say that.
tim pool
Everyone else is saying it about him.
luke rudkowski
Another thing to really consider here, as the mainstream media numbers are going to go down, which they are of course going to go down, we're going to see another concerted effort to destroy people who take away views from them.
And who's that?
Independent content creators who are not a part of the establishment.
tim pool
Don't worry.
Don't worry, Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to help them.
luke rudkowski
What?
tim pool
By calling for the repealing of Section 230.
Which would destroy independent media.
ian crossland
And Google.
It could tear Google down.
tim pool
No, Google will be fine.
ian crossland
Or it could run them out of money.
tim pool
I'll tell you what happens.
ian crossland
My phone!
tim pool
I wouldn't be surprised if Donald Trump gets what he wants with repealing Section 230 And then all of a sudden, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook go, due to the repealing of this law, only verified users will be allowed to post.
Period.
luke rudkowski
Yep.
tim pool
And that's it.
Internet becomes cable TV.
luke rudkowski
I mean, already, if you are a verified user, your post goes in the algorithm and is promoted.
If you're not verified, it's not promoted and very few people will see that.
So again, they're creating this kind of inner circle of this speech is okay, this speech is not.
So I wouldn't be surprised if it happens like you're saying it will happen, where only in the future you could only have a voice if you're part of the inner blue check verified circle, which I think is happening.
I think it already is happening and I think it's going to happen on a bigger level.
tim pool
They just got to go about it slowly.
If they do it all overnight, it'll create uproar and outrage.
So Pornhub deleted 80% of their content.
Only verified accounts are now allowed to post.
If YouTube did that right now, there would be a massive revolt, it would destabilize a lot of the website, and users would flee the competitors.
ian crossland
And it would make news too.
luke rudkowski
And they're accepting cryptocurrencies, which could mean, could be why... No, Pornhub.
Pornhub is accepting cryptocurrencies as payments, which is probably why crypto is doing so well right now.
I mean, but there's also legislation being proposed right now that would limit people's sovereignty and freedom to be their own bank account as Barack Obama classified Bitcoin.
But most importantly, we have to understand this crackdown on independent speech It's just as much as it is about, quote, fact-checking as it is about destroying people's competition.
So, independent creators have shown to be a viable threat against the mainstream media.
They have shown to outbeat them when it comes to fact-checking, when it comes to telling stories accurately and telling stories from a more honest, legitimate place.
And because of that, there has been this entire agenda to squash their voices, squash the people who follow them, And it already affected me even today, as I was fact-checked officially by USA Today that said that my fake picture of President Xi and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as Time Person of the Year was, quote, incorrect.
Yeah, your meme.
Yeah, my meme.
They're fact-checking memes, which were clearly satirical.
tim pool
Bro, they fact-checked the Babylon Bee.
unidentified
Yes.
tim pool
Let me tell you what's happening.
Let me tell you a story.
I did a video segment about the GOP electoral candidates.
Okay, I'm getting it right this time.
So what happened was all these tweets emerged saying Republican electors have cast their votes for Donald Trump.
Colloquially, semantically, it's a fine thing to say, okay?
So I made a video, I said, GOP electors cast dueling, you know, votes for Trump.
I get flagged on Facebook, it says false information.
And then it links to an article that doesn't actually in any way refute anything I said.
So I was confused.
Why was it that there was an article, what it really said was, the Republican electors are unofficial and they weren't chosen to go to electoral college, therefore these votes don't matter.
And I was like, that's exactly what I said in my video.
I went into depth about, you know, human beings' confidence.
Perhaps, you know, like 1960 in Hawaii, we might see something change.
So why did I get a false rating?
Turns out, I emailed the dude, and I emailed the company that gave me the rating, and I laid out exactly what I said.
I said, first of all, the first thing, when you click the video, it says, the contested states have voted for Joe Biden!
And I'm like, so why are you giving me a bad rating?
And then I said, in the video I said, these are non-official, you know, they're unofficial procedural votes for this reason, which is exactly 100% correct.
And the guy was like, Yeah, upon viewing the video and seeing the context, I agree, you're right, and I'll be removing this flag.
So there's two things here.
For one, the person who flagged it, whatever, at this company, didn't even watch the video.
Just saw it and went, fake news!
With knowing nothing about it.
When in fact, everything in my video was correct and they even agreed.
So why do I have to email some small garbage company who, it's some random guy who doesn't know what he's talking about, who has written this organization.
I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna, you know, drag them right now.
We'll see how things play out.
But they've written fake news before.
They've written overt fake news, but Facebook has given them the ability to smear and defame individuals with libelous information.
luke rudkowski
USA Today, fact-checking me today about an altered image on my Instagram?
I mean, come on.
I mean, this is ridiculous.
It's crazy.
They don't have the best record themselves.
But most importantly, what you just said also kind of happened to me in a very similar way right after the election of U.S.
President Donald Trump.
When there is these rumors of Russian collusion there ... was allegedly all these intelligence agencies that ... Donald Trump colluded with the Russians I of course was ... asking for the evidence and was calling it out and I ... said there's no evidence showing Russian collusion ... Wikipedia literally.
Said that I was fake news never to mention me on their ... website again and if even they had a net editorial note in ... Wikipedia saying even if he does commit a new story that is ... something that we need to reference or talk about like ... Epstein Island never mention him mention another news ... organization that talks about him and literally the ... Washington Post put me in the database saying that we are ... change was a quote Russian asset organization that was ... literally working for the Kremlin.
Pushing out disinformation because I didn't believe the Russian collusion line right after Donald Trump was elected.
ian crossland
They went after you because of your Polish heritage?
luke rudkowski
I don't think my Polish heritage had anything to do with it.
It had to do with me asking legitimate questions, asking for the data and the evidence of this Russian collusion, which I said was not there.
That I haven't seen any direct influence, that I haven't seen any direct evidence, and I made those observations public in my videos.
They responded with, you're a Russian asset.
Here you are on this big database promoted by the Washington Post.
Wikipedia says you're fake news.
No one will ever mention you on Wikipedia.
And this is one of the reasons why I still don't have a Wikipedia.
And there's no Wikipedia entries for me because it's totally banned from even being discussed.
So I've been totally just, you know, what is it called?
Disappeared.
tim pool
Unpersoned.
luke rudkowski
Unpersoned on Wikipedia because I didn't believe Russian collusion, which came out to be absolutely true.
tim pool
Listen, when I see these stories about establishment policies and Joe Biden, the Electoral College, and they try to assert that these things are legitimate and official, I don't see it anymore.
I really don't.
Because when I look at what's going on with these policies, and when I look at what's going on with the lockdowns, all it's doing is destroying everything.
It's not creating, it's not protecting, it's not ensuring the rights of citizens, it's just destroying everything.
So I see this Electoral College vote, and what do they do in Michigan?
They did the, uh, what did they do?
They shut the Capitol building down, they wouldn't let the Republicans in, and they were singing the Black National Anthem.
All right, fine.
If Michigan wants to do whatever they want to do.
But, you know, I just find it really interesting that we're seeing dramatic, like, the cultural differences between where we were five years ago, ten years ago, is, it's night and day in different parts of this country.
Everything's different.
It's like there's no cohesive culture anymore.
I look at what Joe Biden has done, what he likely will start doing now.
I look at the mainstream media and the insane stories they write, like 80% of people believe Joe Biden is the president.
It's like, what, what, what is, what is this poll?
Now they're doing 60% of people approve of Joe Biden's job as the president elect.
What job?
That's a real article.
That's a real, that was a real poll they put out.
And now I see this.
Check this out.
Because we're talking about crypto and all that stuff.
You know what?
35% of all U.S.
dollars that have ever been printed were printed in the last 10 months.
luke rudkowski
Yep, I shared that when it first came out on the show.
ian crossland
You've got to show the graphic if you can find the graphic.
tim pool
We do, from the St.
ian crossland
Louis Fed.org.
tim pool
Look at this.
So, I saw this post.
Some lefties were posting about it on Facebook.
And they're showing this graph from, it's FRED, and it's Economic Research Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis.
And we can see 35% of all U.S.
dollars.
ian crossland
Dude, this is a huge warning sign to diversify out of the U.S.
dollar right now.
tim pool
So here's what the lefties were talking about.
Someone posted this on Facebook saying, y'all are talking about universal healthcare, this, that, and this.
Here's what I'm worried about.
And someone responded with, we can deficit spend forever!
And why would you be worried about that?
Because a lot of lefties, like, I think AOC even mentioned this, will just deficit spend into massive debt forever.
And then someone mentioned, the guy who posted it was like, I'm worried about Weimar Germany.
And then linked to a photo of people shoveling German marks into a gutter.
So I started reading about it.
I don't think it's the exact same thing.
But because there was a desperate need to pay back the, it was reparations from World War I, they just kept printing money to try and keep spending it and paying back, you know, to keep the machine going essentially.
It's not identical.
But right now all this money is being printed because nothing's being produced.
Now that's a serious problem.
Nothing is being produced, so they give people money to buy what's remaining.
That means, the things- I remember earlier in the year, when everyone's like, oh man, you know, what happens now with the lockdowns and everything?
And what did I do?
I went to the store, every so often, and I bought a normal supply of groceries.
We didn't go crazy.
We didn't run to the store and buy like 10 shopping carts of beans.
We did buy, you know, like 20 cans of beans.
And I was like, we'll get some beans.
We'll put them in the pantry, right?
And then I ordered these emergency food things.
Why?
The things you see on the shelf right now were made a while ago.
And so when you start seeing no one working, when the restaurants are now shut down in New York, you know what that means?
A lot of things are going to happen.
For one, we're not insulated.
We are to a certain degree on shows like this.
People who make digital content are gonna lose tons of money when they shut down indoor dining because small businesses and restaurants will stop spending money on ads to get customers.
More importantly, when people aren't going to work, they aren't making things.
So what's gonna happen eventually is you're gonna have a ridiculous amount of money from the US government being printed like crazy and nothing to buy with it.
So what happens?
You're gonna have big old stacks of dollars and you're gonna be like, I don't know.
I can't buy anything with it.
What do I need it for?
ian crossland
And if you wait too long, the prices of stuff is gonna skyrocket.
It's already up 20%.
It already is.
tim pool
Check this out.
ian crossland
Hold on.
tim pool
Check this out.
Skyrocket.
I put in my Amazon shopping cart a Galaxy tablet.
I was like, I could use a tablet so, you know, around the house I could be looking at news and doing stuff.
And then I forgot about it.
I got an alert when I went to Amazon the other day, and it said price change from $500 to $650.
Yo!
Yeah, for the same thing!
luke rudkowski
Most goods are going up dramatically.
ian crossland
That's modest.
luke rudkowski
Especially raw goods, especially things that are used to produce other goods that are becoming very limited in supply.
And it's absolutely terrifying the bigger economic ramifications that are coming our way, not only because of the lockdown, but because of the Federal Reserve.
You said, if they start printing money like crazy, they already are.
Most of that money.
tim pool
35%!
Yeah.
luke rudkowski
Think about how... So when I was on the show a couple weeks ago, the first time, I told you, what was it, 25%?
tim pool
I forgot the exact number.
unidentified
23.6.
tim pool
Yeah, 23.6.
luke rudkowski
That number has already risen.
It's going to continue to rise.
And most of that money is literally going towards companies like BlackRock, one of the biggest asset-owning companies in the entire world that is literally in the Chinese stock market.
So we are literally Yes, take a look at this.
From the street, and this is from October 15th, 23.6% of all U.S.
Chinese stock market of all places.
tim pool
Yes, take a look at this.
From the street, and this is from October 15th, 23.6% of all US dollars were created
in the last year.
In the last, 23.6.
Well, according to a bunch of posts that are going around, I don't know if that's the exact correct number, but they say 35.
Let's just assume that's correct.
From October, two months later, we went from 23.6 to 35.
Twelve more points up.
They are cranking out dollars.
They're spinning that money machine like crazy.
Now, some people have said that there's going to be rapid deflation because there's nothing to buy.
So, but I honestly, I don't know if that makes a whole lot of sense.
Who said that?
There's just been posts on the internet saying, no, no, we're facing serious- What's the logic?
I guess the logic is, if there's nothing to use a dollar on, and people aren't working, then they have very few dollars left, and they hold them very tightly.
Because all the money's being transferred to the Amazons, you know, Walmart, to BlackRock, etc.
Regular working class people don't have any money to spend, right?
So that means when you say, I've got a gallon of, you know, a gallon of water, would you like to buy it?
They go, I only got ten bucks.
Sorry, I'm not spending it.
I gotta hold on to this.
And then they go, okay, then how about for five bucks?
No way, dude.
Okay, fine, two bucks.
ian crossland
Yeah, that's not gonna happen.
tim pool
No, it's not gonna happen.
ian crossland
People value money over human life, unfortunately.
luke rudkowski
That's the way business works.
The United States is indebted.
We still don't have the official tallies from the Federal Reserve in their printing, but as of right now, $27.2 trillion.
That's an insurmountable amount that can't be paid back no matter what you do.
You could steal the wealth of all the billionaires, and it won't even come close to running the U.S.
government for one year.
tim pool
27.4 trillion dollars!
luke rudkowski
Oh, it was 27.2 yesterday.
ian crossland
How much of that is interest?
luke rudkowski
It was 27.2 yesterday, Tim.
ian crossland
Like, how much of that is compounded interest?
Do you know what the principle is and how much of it is interest?
tim pool
Check this out.
From usdebtclock.org, they say the U.S.
federal debt to GDP in 1980 was 34%, in 2000 was 55%, and now it's 128.6%.
1980 was 34% in 2000 was 55% and now it's 128.6% Alright, sounds like inflection has been reached
Yeah, we are producing more debt than goods That's what I'm saying
People aren't making things anymore and they're cranking out money to pay off debts
They can't pay off Weimar Germany, dude
And then all of a sudden people don't realize this It was in like the span of one year
The German mark went from like 20 marks to the dollar to like
Like 200 billion or two.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
I think 200 billion marks to the dollar.
It was just people shoveling money into dumpsters.
ian crossland
That's the way compound interest works is it compounds on itself and it's like a J curve and then it just goes straight up all of a sudden.
luke rudkowski
And these people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez don't have any basic understanding of any math or logic or any common sense because if you look at her kind of larger plan of tax the billionaires, if you would right now confiscate all the wealth of all the billionaires in the United States, you would still not have enough money to run the US government for one year.
So people need to realize the amount of debt, the amount of money that this government is spending is absolutely insane.
I remember going down to Venezuela.
I remember going down to Zimbabwe.
If you're lucky you might be able to still find some of my reports.
I remember also going to India when they had a currency reset and seeing the actual pain that the government caused people By again just manipulating the financial system.
In India they banned particular rupee notes that they just said didn't matter anymore.
So I landed in India and they literally the next day had a currency reset.
The government announced if you have these very prominent bills They don't matter anymore, and they did it because they wanted more people to pay taxes, because they knew a lot of people were keeping their money either in shoeboxes underneath their bed.
So after getting rid of all of these bills, the Indian people literally just had a few days to turn in all of their money to the government, to the banks, that of course would keep a record and tax them accordingly on it.
And then those notes became useless afterwards.
tim pool
It's why they love Bitcoin.
luke rudkowski
I don't know if they love Bitcoin, but the U.S.
Treasury Department wants to restrict your access to Bitcoin and you being able to transact in a way that doesn't involve KYC, the big banks, and the U.S.
unidentified
government.
tim pool
They love it, but they want control of it.
And they love it because the ledger is public and they can see everything you've bought transferred to every single person forever.
luke rudkowski
Well, you can't hyperinflate Bitcoin.
That's the thing.
There's a set amount.
tim pool
That's true.
luke rudkowski
And you can't manipulate it.
You can't print it out of thin air.
And if you look at the dollar, the dollar is as strong as it is mainly because of the US military-industrial complex and its use of force all around the world to make sure that the world trades in the dollar.
Now, when the dollar hyperinflates and when the dollar hits the fan, this is not only going to affect the United States, this is going to affect the entire world.
And that's why I've been looking at countries like Chile, that their currency is not actually backed by the dollar.
I've been looking at other kind of alternatives as well, but I think, you know, we really need to start paying attention to the alternatives out there because, I'm telling you, I mean, it's insurmountable.
tim pool
Bro, I bought Bitcoin a month ago.
I've been periodically buying Bitcoin.
ian crossland
Yeah, me too.
tim pool
Not like crazy or anything like that.
It's up, what, $23-something thousand dollars?
And, you know, I'm talking to, you know, like, if you guys know Max Keiser, He's the one that told me about Bitcoin when it was still, I think, a dollar or a few cents, and I told him to bug off.
ian crossland
Dude's a prophet.
luke rudkowski
I had to fight the globalists.
ian crossland
Talk about the word prophet.
tim pool
Isn't Max super rich and successful off of trading and stocks and stuff?
luke rudkowski
He's a financial market guy.
And you told him to screw off?
Yeah.
tim pool
No, when I was hanging out with Max, and his buddy told me to buy SquareStock, I did, and it skyrocketed up like 200, no, like 2,000%.
ian crossland
Dude, I own so much Bitcoin, and I'm still sad when I see that it's up 27% in the last week.
tim pool
You know what's really funny?
ian crossland
It's a sign that the dollar's failing.
tim pool
I sold 21 Bitcoin in like 2012, and I was excited.
luke rudkowski
And I remember, I was like, what are you doing?
Not then, another time.
No, no, no.
Not that time.
Another time you sold it again.
tim pool
That's not true.
That's not true.
I sold once, and I think I probably sold it to you.
ian crossland
Hell yeah.
tim pool
I think I sold it to you.
unidentified
Get rich!
luke rudkowski
I might or might not have some.
tim pool
It skyrocketed up to $20, and it was this huge boom.
ian crossland
You can actually donate Bitcoin to Tim on TeamCast.net I think you actually did.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, I sold it to you.
tim pool
It was a couple hundred bucks.
I was like, dude, somebody just gave it to me.
I don't care.
It's $400.
I can pay my rent.
I was like, you want them?
And you were like, okay.
I'm like, here you go, buddy.
ian crossland
So you think they're going to do a reset loop?
The reset is already happening.
luke rudkowski
That's another thing people need to realize.
The reset is now.
It's happening now.
John Kerry, who was a part of the Biden administration, said it's going to come faster than people realize.
And it's definitely going to come under the Biden administration.
And we have to remember what's happening right now with the destruction of small and independent businesses, with people being thrown into poverty.
There's a new report.
That says that 8 million people have been thrown into poverty since June.
The reset is here, it's happening, and it's the largest transfer of wealth in recorded human history.
The rich have never been richer than they are right now, and they're only going to become more powerful than ever.
tim pool
There's a threshold that I call it breaking the barrier.
That you make a certain amount of money in your life, you will never be poor again.
and so it's actually we're not talking was in the rich people
i'm not talking about just jeff bezos was worth what like a hundred eight
billion or whatever i'm talking about people a couple mil
right now if you've got money to float on for the next couple of
years you're not going to be thrown into poverty and unless you're
ian crossland
sitting on pure cash with no assets that i think you're in trouble
because i mean i was there going to say i was a promise You're making a good point here.
You're talking about assets, not money.
tim pool
No, if you somehow came into a windfall of cash randomly, then sure, fine.
But any regular person who's got a couple million dollars certainly has hard assets.
ian crossland
You're talking about assets, not just dollars.
It's different.
tim pool
The reason that's kind of a moot point is someone didn't just wake up and have two million dollars in cash.
ian crossland
That doesn't Well, a lot of people are storing cash right now.
tim pool
I think what's going to happen is the government's... Regular people's assets are tied up in their homes, as it's always been.
Their equity's in their homes.
ian crossland
In the Great Depression, people that had buried cash in their backyard ended up being okay after the Depression because they still had their cash.
They couldn't get it out of the banks.
What's going to happen now, the government is going to recall the Federal Reserve promissory notes, and they're going to start issuing new dollars from the banks, and all the people are going to have to give their promissory notes back, and they'll have a certain amount of time to do it, and then they'll get taxed on it.
tim pool
That's what he said happened in which country?
luke rudkowski
What is the reference again?
India.
unidentified
The currency reset, where they made notes illegal.
tim pool
The point I was making.
Is that there are people who are not that rich, but are rich, and they're sitting back right now with their feet up, as everything burns down around them.
Because what happens is, they go to the restaurants, and they say, you can't open your restaurant anymore, and they say, but dude, I've got like a three month buffer.
Too bad!
Six months goes by, and now their business is gone.
But you've got a ton of people who work for certain jobs that don't feel that, either they're insulated, like it's a job that is essential and can never go away, Maybe a supermarket or something, or it's a Walmart or something like that.
And you have people who work certain jobs, day trading or some kind of financial service, and they can just sit back.
And there are certainly people who, let's say they own a bunch of chain restaurants.
Maybe there's a guy who owns, you know, 50, I don't know, Little Caesars or Wendy's's.
Well, all of his employees are out of work, all of his managers are out of work, and they're all done.
They can't pay their rent and they're starving.
But this guy's got a net worth of like 7 million.
So he sits back and says, we shut all the buildings down, we sold them off, I'm rich forever.
I got nothing to worry about.
ian crossland
That's what the Native American chiefs did.
luke rudkowski
I mean, just look at Bill Gates.
Bill Gates, 10 years ago, promised to donate all of his wealth to charity.
He had 53 billion dollars then?
Today, after he said he was going to donate all of his money, he has $115 billion.
tim pool
You know why he said that, though?
When did he say that?
2010.
2010.
You had all these ultra-rich people being like, we're gonna do the right thing and donate our money.
Why?
We just had a massive economic collapse, and people were starting to yell, rabble, rabble, rabble.
And then he announces things like this, you know, we saw...
luke rudkowski
After the 2008 financial crisis.
tim pool
When people were really mad and that sentiment was bubbling up, which ultimately became Occupy Wall Street.
When people were like, the fat cats are super rich.
And so what happens with Warren Buffett?
Remember when Warren Buffett was like, we got to give our money away?
It's not because they're like, I know deep down in my heart.
It's because they're like, if it hits the fan, they're coming to my house with pitchforks.
So, remember when Mark Zuckerberg announced he was giving his money away?
And they reported, like, Mark Zuckerberg to donate all his money?
He was giving it to an LLC to hold to bypass the death tax or the estate tax.
luke rudkowski
And many people don't realize most charities are utter scams, and they're a way for rich people just to launder their money.
And that's exactly what happens in many instances.
Not all of them, of course.
There are some good legitimate charities.
tim pool
There are some good ones, like the one that the Bidens ran, where 95% of the money went to salaries.
luke rudkowski
Or the Clinton Global Initiative.
That was a great charity endeavor that Jeffrey Epstein even donated to a large sum of money.
Who would have thought?
But also, you know, the best investment according to Bill Gates is, of course, vaccines, which he says you get a 20 to 1 return on.
ian crossland
He said that?
luke rudkowski
Bill Gates said that, yes, on CNBC.
tim pool
Hold on, I did watch this and he didn't say the best investment is vaccines BECAUSE of a 20-21.
What he said was, the best investment has been in vaccine research because I've saved many lives.
He then later said, I also got a 20-1 return on my investment.
luke rudkowski
It should be noteworthy.
That should be questioned there.
But I appreciate the full context because you need the full context.
I just warned it.
tim pool
The reason I tell that context is because the fact checks all say false.
And it's like false.
Bill Gates did not say he got rich off vaccines.
ian crossland
It's like a mathematical proof.
The APNF if you don't show the entire proof.
tim pool
When I pull up the actual fact checks, They're claiming what you said isn't true using a false framing.
So when you know what the actual truth is and say, yes, he said the best investment was helping people and save their lives, and I happen to have made a 21 return.
That's the full context.
You can't fact check that because that's the fact check truth.
luke rudkowski
Yep.
Another thing to really think about with this kind of financial reckoning that's happening right now, a lot of people are talking about the stock market's great, the stock market is strong, all of that is just artificially inflated fake numbers.
And just to kind of test it out, I invested $100 into the stock market in September, and I also invested $100 into Bitcoin in September.
So as far as my stock market investment, which was just a kind of general exchange, I got $100 $100, I'm left with $100 and around $12, $13.
With Bitcoin, I already have $204.
Yeah, but here's what you gotta understand about Bitcoin.
tim pool
Bitcoin's value, people don't get it.
luke rudkowski
Of course, they don't.
tim pool
Let me tell you something very, very simple.
Right now, when people are dead set on fiat currencies, the value of Bitcoin is just a currency protocol.
Meaning if I want to send someone money very quickly, I buy the Bitcoin, send it to Luke, Luke sells the Bitcoin.
U.S.
dollars to U.S.
dollars transacted immediately using Bitcoin as a form of protocol.
So I don't care what the value of Bitcoin is.
I just care that the immediate $100 value transfers to somebody who asked for it and transfers out.
Luke gets $100 cash, I get $100 cash, and there's a small fee in between.
But the people who are trading on it and buying more and more of it are controlling that protocol.
Which means, in the future, as Bitcoin becomes more and more scarce, people who want to use it for its rapid transaction technology are going to have to buy it from people who are holding onto it and saying, only for, you know, $10,000 per coin.
They're like, I don't care.
I'm buying it and then selling it in 10 seconds.
What do I care what you're selling it for?
luke rudkowski
Well, that's why more and more people are seeing it as a store of value.
They're kind of seeing it as gold.
And there's other cryptocurrencies that they kind of use in order to have these faster kind of transactions.
I don't want to name any because I don't want to be accused of pummeling them.
ian crossland
I was just thinking the same thing, man.
tim pool
Can I say the craziest thing anyone's ever said about Bitcoin?
luke rudkowski
Go ahead.
tim pool
What is Max Keiser saying right now about the price of Bitcoin?
Do you know?
luke rudkowski
That it's gonna go hyperbolic even higher from here?
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28,000.
tim pool
28?
By when?
I think this year.
I think he's saying this year.
You know what I think?
I don't have a timeline prediction, but I would not be surprised to see Bitcoin at a million bucks per coin.
I'm not kidding.
And I'm not saying in a year or two or three, five, ten.
ian crossland
I'm just saying... If the Weimar Germany is any, you know, any historical impact on, or what would you say, any reference to what's going on?
Yeah!
luke rudkowski
Another thing we have to understand here.
tim pool
I mean buying power right now.
ian crossland
It's relative to the dollar.
tim pool
I'm saying buying power I mean, maybe.
ian crossland
So if the dollar goes down 10,000%, Bitcoin goes up 10,000%, just like in the blink of an eye, because we're relating it to the value of the dollar.
tim pool
I'm saying consider the buying power of the dollar right now, and I would think a Bitcoin at some point would be comparable to a million bucks.
And the reason is because Bitcoin can only—it's entropy.
luke rudkowski
It's a scarce entity.
tim pool
It's not just that.
It can only be destroyed.
So if people need to use Bitcoin for transactions, and it has the most confidence, look, these other coins, they come and they go, then over the next several years, we're going to see a decreasing amount of Bitcoins, but an increase in the utility and the need for it.
More and more people will adopt it, and more and more people, and less and less coins will exist.
That means the only thing Bitcoin can do is go up, but people don't realize it.
You hear these financial people saying things like, It makes no sense that the price of Bitcoin is so high.
I don't understand, because they don't get it.
Most people, I shouldn't say most people, but a lot of people who are transacting Bitcoins, it's like I mentioned, how can I get some quick cash to Luke?
I go to a website, I buy Bitcoin, transfer to Luke, Luke sells it to me.
ian crossland
It takes a few days for you to get it though.
Like if you go to Coinbase and buy it, it takes like three days.
luke rudkowski
If you go through the KYC official establishment kind of ways.
ian crossland
Which is know your customer, KYC.
luke rudkowski
But this is the crazy thing about Bitcoin.
I could have a million dollars, two million dollars, ten million dollars all in a passcode in my head and I could go anywhere and open that wallet anytime without anyone stopping me or taking it away from me.
And that's a huge threat because the government can't regulate it, it can't tax it.
Of course with Bitcoin they could see all the transactions, they could see where it goes.
But Monero they can't.
ian crossland
Monero is a good one.
luke rudkowski
There are very vague and weird rules about it that still have it's just it's just an utter mess with how the
government's treating this But more importantly Bitcoin is the first of its kind, but
there's other coins out there privacy coins Whether Monero or zero that allow people to have their
coins Right.
privately with them and privately transact with them without a middle person being able to see every little
transaction like you can with Bitcoin. And another important
aspect to really understand here is that Bitcoin is a first of
its kind. It's not perfect, right? But it shows you that there's a new technological revolution like the printing
press that is here that is right now that's going to revolutionize how we transact with each other. And there's
a huge element of it trying to make it a statist, corporatist,
government nightmare that's going to track trace and database you.
We have to understand there's a big element of that, especially with Venezuela, Russia, and other countries.
Even the Federal Reserve and these big banks talking about creating their own coins when they know every little thing about you.
And then there's another big battle happening right now with individuals with, I think it's Dash, Monero, Zcash, and other institutions that are trying to make it more of a privacy freedom liberty oriented technology that will liberate and free people but it could go either way and it could be a tool that could enslave us or it could be a tool that could free us but right now that battle is raging i know i know a lot of people who are just douche flutes that want to drive lamborghinis and have little
E-girls surrounding them because they made a bunch of money on the... And the market has been filled with a lot of those douche flutes, but there's also another element that is very important that came from this kind of Ron Paul, Liberty, and the Fed movement that is still there, that is still integral, that is still fighting for this basic human right of privacy that I think is extremely important.
And stop looking at the numbers, stop looking at the gains, stop trying to get rich, Look at the possibility here of actually having a technology that could be incredible for humanity.
Sure, sure, sure.
tim pool
Yes, but look at what's happening around us.
When we look at the printing of 35% of all U.S.
dollars in 10 months, and people are posting... Listen, I brought this up because I saw leftists, Bernie Sanders, progressive socialist types, mocking capitalism.
And they were like, look at this, it's going to be like Weimar Germany.
You know what else was like Weimar Germany?
Antifa.
In the streets.
Fighting with people on the right.
We see the Proud Boys going out, burning things, fighting people, Antifa.
Four Proud Boys apparently get stabbed, put in critical condition, have to go to the hospital.
Proud Boy in, or I'm sorry, not a Proud Boy, Patriot Prayer in Portland gets two bolts to the chest.
ian crossland
I think you're right on that.
tim pool
Listen, it's extremely destabilizing.
Printing this money like crazy.
Telling people they can't work.
And what are we seeing right now?
In New York, they're saying, we're going into full lockdown.
New York said, full lockdown.
Indoor dining, gone.
luke rudkowski
And how are they doing during the winter storm?
There were some photos that came out that showed people literally with a mask on, full winter gear on, just trying to eat in this huge snow flurry because of these insane government protocols.
tim pool
Could you imagine ordering spaghetti, and it comes out, and it's a blizzard, and then you're sitting there eating, and then after five minutes, it's just an ice block, and you're like, frozen again.
luke rudkowski
As undercover New York City police officers are walking around, trying to catch you, to destroy you, and put you in jail for having a Stasipo.
tim pool
I want to tell you.
ian crossland
Secret police.
tim pool
Now we've said some crazy things.
This printing of money is nuts.
The federal debt to GDP is 128.6%.
How insane is that?
But there's one thing that's gonna break the camel's back.
George Clooney calls for movie theaters to receive federal bailout amid pandemic.
George Clooney calls for movie theaters to receive federal bailout money.
Well, he's an actor, so... No, but these are movie theaters, okay?
ian crossland
It's a difference between... It's a dead art form.
tim pool
Movie theaters?
ian crossland
Hell wants to pay a bunch of money to go sit in a building to watch something you could spin up on Netflix now with a giant monitor in your house.
tim pool
I love movie theaters.
What is it, like a 50, 60-foot screen?
ian crossland
I feel like it's nostalgia, but they're so expensive to run.
tim pool
Yeah.
And in New Jersey, they're being all shut down.
So the segue, the point is, I think it's interesting to see what I think is really happening with George Clooney calling for federal bailout money.
You know where that money goes from movie theaters?
It gets paid to the movie industry.
He's talking about giving himself a paycheck without saying, give me a paycheck.
These hoity-toity, say-whatever celebrities love espousing all of the Democrat messages, and now the people they support have destroyed the economy, and in New Jersey, where AMC is suing, I guess, and completely destroyed, he's like, oh, you gotta bail out the movie theaters and give them some money, yeah, yeah, yeah.
ian crossland
And then, you know, when the movies can come back... Let's talk about Nazism for a minute, because that's National Socialism, and he's trying to use Socialism to fund these businesses.
It sounds like pre-World War II Germany.
All these people talking about using more government money... That's been overused.
Let's talk about National Socialism.
What do you want to use America money for again, guys?
Come on, that's Socialism.
tim pool
Hollywood actors are the people who have pushed us into this mess, not entirely on their own, but they've been supporting lunatics like Newsom and these people like Cuomo, defending them doing PSAs.
luke rudkowski
At the same time as they tell you to protest Black Lives Matter in cringey little videos where they self-righteously tell you...
How about how we need to apologize?
tim pool
Let's play it two ways.
Let's say they have all these massive protests for Black Lives Matter, and then we get a COVID pandemic.
Okay, that's your fault.
You're the one telling people to go outside.
Then the people they've supported politically destroy all these businesses, and then he goes, just print us some money, why don't ya?
Just print us some money, huh?
How about that?
Yeah, you know what, man?
These people are something else.
ian crossland
I guess the Nazis didn't have crypto.
We need to look at this like pre-World War II Germany.
Because we're in a situation where if a strongman came in, Trump, if he had gone psycho, probably could have done a Hitler thing.
But he didn't.
tim pool
Well, we're talking about Hollywood, Luke.
So what do you think about George Clooney?
luke rudkowski
I mean, I pulled up the article here and it's absolutely just flabbergasted to see so many low information idiots out there always thinking that we could just print more money and then everything is solved.
Everything just magically comes back together.
tim pool
It's about doing it for themselves.
Well, exactly.
luke rudkowski
What else is their entire career about?
What else is their entire virtual signaling about?
What else is their entire kind of life about other than, give me enough money and I'll read the scripts and I'll do it and I'll perform it in a better way than anyone else in the face of the world.
That's exactly what acting is.
tim pool
But these people are advertisements.
luke rudkowski
Yeah.
tim pool
That's what they've always been.
And so, when it comes to the Democrats, they've always gone to these personalities and these celebrities to use them to, you know, essentially gain power, to manipulate It's marketing, I don't want to make it seem like it's all that nefarious.
They find people that are popular, they pay them to say the message, these people get elected, and now that these people are saying, oh no, our industry has gone belly up, well that's what you supported!
luke rudkowski
Exactly, and if there's enough money, they'll do anything.
For that money and it's kind of sad when you look at Hollywood.
It's it's truly an industry that is extremely seedy Extremely disgusting that you see so many horror stories come out of and when you look at a lot of these celebrities I mean we even saw you know, dr. Fauci.
I think he's kind of considered a celebrity He came out today and he said, you know people shouldn't really spend Christmas with their family members together Gretchen Whitmore the governor of Michigan released an In a horrible video with her and Santa and children, with Santa telling the little kids, remember, listen to the governor.
And Whitmer saying, you know, it's best if you don't spend Christmas with your family members.
But hold on, let me just make a little point here, because I think it's important to understand here that these same individuals are abusing this entire situation for their own personal gain.
And if and if let's say there was an actual real threat say there actually was a big huge serious illness sickness going around if they were taking it seriously and they were saying hey maybe we shouldn't protest hey maybe we shouldn't have you know Best Buy open for Black Friday everyone lined up and outside.
Maybe we shouldn't be celebrating a presidential ... victory and drinking booze and sharing it with everyone ... maybe if they were taking it seriously themselves maybe I ... would but I will never be lectured by these fat cat ... plutocrats who don't listen to their own orders telling me ... what to do I'm sorry they don't take it seriously I'm not ... going to take it seriously either and it's disgusting to ... see them and this larger establishment always push out ... these dumb ideas that bring down our national IQ to this ...
We're right now, we literally have Santa Claus being used and abused to make sure that little children love and worship a governor.
tim pool
It's an extraction.
It's an extraction.
These people don't think about the better future for everybody.
These people aren't the ones saying a rising tide raises all ships.
What they're saying is, there's only so much water in this bay, I better take it for myself.
Not realizing, what are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do?
So, when we see people like Clooney in Hollywood, he's like, well, what he's basically saying is, we're one of the biggest exporters, so we must be subsidized.
Bro.
Printing money and giving it to you won't produce product to send over the world.
That's a BS excuse.
You're an ultra-wealthy individual, mad your industry's in trouble just like everybody else's, but you think they should bail you out.
Well, maybe you shouldn't support the people who shut down your industry, and that's what you did.
And at the same time, these Democrat governors, who got the support from these celebrities, are the ones who are basically saying, how much can I extract from the working class before the system goes belly-up?
That's what we see with Gretchen Whitmer.
She's burning it all down, and as it all crumbles, she's looting the burning homes of the townspeople.
luke rudkowski
And then George Clooney and all these other celebritards are seeing this as a massive opportunity, saying, give me some, give me some of the money before, of course, it all goes bust.
I'll say whatever you want me to say.
Exactly, and that's exactly what it is.
tim pool
Remember the Panama Papers?
How many of these celebrities popped up in this having money overseas?
A whole lot of them.
I can't remember who it was, but there was some woman, And I can't remember exactly.
It was some female celebrity.
She's like, I had no idea.
Oh, it's just my advisors.
We're putting my money in Panama.
And then wasn't it the person who leaked like the like one of the journalists covering the Panama Papers turned up dead?
luke rudkowski
Yes, there was.
Yeah, that that did happen.
I don't know the exact parameters behind that.
But the story hasn't been covered as widely as it should.
tim pool
But I disappeared one day.
luke rudkowski
Yep.
Well, I think it was more of a blatant kind of attack and assassination.
I would have to look into it more to give you more exact details, but I remember hearing a lot about that.
But I think the Mexican president pretty much accurately depicts what's going on.
He recently came out and he said the lockdowns are just the form of dictatorship.
So he's not locking down Mexico.
Life in Mexico is a lot different than it is in the United States, and who would have ever thought that, you know, Mexico is doing a lot better than the United States?
tim pool
How much do you want to bet the peso is going to start going up?
luke rudkowski
Well, it depends.
The peso is also very closely tied into the U.S.
dollar.
A lot of foreign currencies are tied into the U.S.
dollar.
So if we see the dollar go, we're going to see the whole world currency be affected by it very severely, as the U.S.
dollar is the world reserve currency.
tim pool
See, listen, listen.
This is the benefit of the military-industrial complex and the petrodollar.
This is the benefit of the U.S.
saying, we'll blow you up if you don't agree to our dollar.
Like, you know, Gaddafi or Saddam Hussein, right?
luke rudkowski
Exactly.
And again, we have to understand here, with these extreme times, governments are just using this as an opportunity. The ship is sinking.
They're trying to take as much as they can as it goes down. And I think that's really exemplified.
There was a recent report that studied the lockdowns and the COVID responses from
governments and they ruled that freedom is the biggest casualty of COVID-19. Not just in the United
unidentified
States.
tim pool
They ruled or they found?
luke rudkowski
Well, I think it also ruled.
tim pool
Determined.
luke rudkowski
Determined, ruled, found out, concluded, whatever word you want to use here.
But this was a pretty stunning report by an international group that looked into all the government's responses from Africa to Asia.
And they outlined how, you know, in Nigeria, there was massive crackdowns on protest.
And, you know, the restrictions were set in place to make sure that there wasn't anyone challenging the political status quo there.
In Bolivia, they postponed the general elections.
In Sri Lanka, the government accelerated its authoritarian agenda, stepping up efforts to control independent reporting.
Quote, unfavorable speech by ordering the arrest of anyone who criticized the government.
And we're seeing this not just done in democratically heavy states and cities in the United States, but we're seeing this done all over the world, using this pandemic, using COVID-19 as an excuse to ravage our civil liberties, to ravage our freedoms, and to take whatever they want for themselves.
tim pool
And it's working.
And they're getting away with it.
luke rudkowski
It is working for now.
ian crossland
The mail-in voting thing was another example of that.
tim pool
Changing the twenty, what is it, Rand Paul said two dozen states change their election rules without approval from their state legislatures.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Two dozen.
Cuomo is banning symbols he doesn't like.
ian crossland
I'm concerned that this will be used as a premise to war.
I told my friend that we were talking about Trump's drone strikes.
And I was like, well, what if my fear is that the drones get hacked, and then they're flown back over?
tim pool
Or that Iran did that?
ian crossland
Yeah, or that there's like an unknown assailant from orbit that torches a bunch of US cities, and we don't know who did it.
And he was like, it's China.
If something happens, it's China.
And I realized that that brainwashing hatred towards China could be used as a false flag.
luke rudkowski
It's more likely it's Russia.
ian crossland
Yeah, or something like that.
And this assumption that it's another country, it could be a privateer, you know, a corporation.
luke rudkowski
I mean, me and Tim were talking about this before the show, and Tim brought up an important fact that when Trump came in... Well, let's start with the breaking news first.
tim pool
So this is what's being reported now.
Multiple outlets have carried the story.
Russian hackers breached Microsoft as part of their campaign that infiltrated the U.S.
nuclear weapons stockpile network.
The Los Alamos Lab and the Energy Department officials reveal.
So this is the latest update on what they're saying is the biggest cyber attack in history.
I know that's not a lot to say because cyber infrastructure is new, relatively, in the past couple of decades, but this is an act of war.
I mean, that's basically what they're getting at.
They broke into our nuclear weapons stockpile.
Now, here's the important fact in all this.
How do we know it was Russia?
How do we know we even got hacked?
See, remember when they said the Gulf of Tonkin incident was legitimate?
Then when people questioned it, they said you're a conspiracy theorist?
And then they finally came out and they're like, we actually faked that whole thing to enter the Vietnam War.
ian crossland
Do you know what it was exactly?
They blew up a ship of theirs?
The United States?
tim pool
Oh, they didn't blow it up at all.
ian crossland
What happened exactly?
tim pool
My understanding is that the initial report was, I think the Viet Cong fired on a U.S.
destroyer, I believe.
I can pull it up.
But the general idea was that one of our vessels was attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin.
And this was used as a rallying cry, like, oh, they've attacked us, we must enter the war.
Everybody who said it never happened was called a conspiracy theorist, and it was absurd to believe the media was lying about it.
And then, I think it was like, what, ten years ago or whatever, they were like, oh, that whole thing?
Yeah, we faked it.
We wanted to go to war, so we just made it up.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, but the documents were released and people found out that the government absolutely lied to start a pointless war that wasn't about anything that they were telling the people was actually about and because of that tens of thousands of Americans died and then hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people died that led to tremendous human suffering and just the United States again losing a
war that it was in for what reason?
tim pool
Check this out, check this out.
This is what the Wikipedia, so Wikipedia is pretty, you know, like pretty biased.
luke rudkowski
They hate me.
tim pool
Yeah, check this out.
Here's what they wrote.
On Sunday, August 2nd, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing signals intelligence
patrol as part of the DeSoto operations, was falsely claimed to have been approached by
three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron.
Maddox fired three warning shots, and it was claimed the North Vietnamese boats attacked with torpedoes and machine gun fire.
Maddox expended over 283-inch, 76-millimeter, and 5-inch, 130-millimeter shells.
Wow!
In a sea battle, according to the false report, one U.S.
aircraft was damaged, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats were damaged, and four North Vietnamese sailors were killed, with six more wounded.
There were no U.S.
casualties.
Maddox was, quote, unscathed, except for a single bullet hole from a Vietnamese machine gun round.
It was originally claimed by the NSA that a second Gulf of Tonkin incident occurred, etc, etc.
So, initially the reports were all that, you know, we got attacked.
Oh, isn't this hilarious?
The original American report blamed North Vietnam for both incidents, but the Pentagon Papers, the memoirs of Robert McNamara, and NSA publications from 05 proved the U.S.
government lied to justify a war against Vietnam.
Does that name sound familiar?
Robert McNamara.
luke rudkowski
And we have to understand this history of starting false flags in order to get a country into war is something that's common and it happens a lot.
Whether it's the Reichstag fire, whether it's even the conversation with the U.S.
Joint Chiefs of Staff in the 60s talking about Operation Northwoods, faking of course... But JFK said get out of here with that stuff.
Well yeah, but Operation Northwoods literally talked about having fake hijackings.
There was of course the baby in incubators in Iraq.
9-11.
And there's many other instances that happened all throughout world history that showed how very powerful people conspired in order to lie to their people to think that they were under attack.
tim pool
We cite things on this show, so instead of just moving on, we stop and we pull it up.
Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government that originated with the U.S.
Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the U.S.
in 1962.
The proposals called for the CIA and or other US government operations to stage or actually commit acts of terror against American military and civilian targets and blaming them on the Cuban government.
This is on Wikipedia and you don't got to trust me, but whatever.
It's there.
It exists.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, so again, what I was trying to say here, there's a lot of instances of this happening, so to think that there wouldn't be a digital false flag is something that is very naive, especially when we look at the revelations from Edward Snowden that revealed how intelligence agencies in the United States have the capability to launch false flag internet hacking attacks to make it look like another country is attacking us. So the United States
intelligence agencies have that capability. Are they using it? Who actually hacked us? What
actually happened here? Good luck trying to find any evidence. Well, so here's trying to find any
information regarding to exactly what happened with this latest hack. Here's the important thing
tim pool
I'll add, I'll say to this.
Did Russia hack the US and in one of the most sophisticated and consequential cyberattacks in history?
ian crossland
Unknown.
tim pool
Unknown.
Possibly.
That's what their report, that's what they're saying.
It's going to be really, really hard to prove that.
When it comes to something like the Gulf of Tonkin, you can show a ship with smoke coming out of it.
ian crossland
You should look up the burning of the Reichstag.
tim pool
Right.
When it comes to digital hacks, We only have official reports and statements.
You know, the problem I have with it is, I seem to remember a guy named, I think it was Clapper, when he lied and claimed there was no mass surveillance.
ian crossland
Oh, James Clapper, yeah.
tim pool
No, no mass surveillance.
ian crossland
He lied to Congress under oath.
tim pool
Yeah.
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U.S.
luke rudkowski
General Hayden, and that said there was no spying program at all when I confronted him about the, you know, a family-friendly show.
The guys in the NSA who were caught, uh... Having fun.
ian crossland
Masturbating?
unidentified
Having, uh, yeah, uh, you know... Super family guy.
ian crossland
I love that word, by the way.
tim pool
Of course they're lying.
luke rudkowski
They're lying all the time.
And Edward Snowden and Julian Assange exposed a lot of that lying.
playing video games. Sorry, Ian. I don't know the story.
What happened?
The guy lied to me and told me, no, there's no spying program. Doesn't exist.
tim pool
Of course they're lying. They're lying all the time. And Edward Snowden and Julian Assange
exposed a lot of that lying. Trump should pardon Julian Assange.
ian crossland
Just like Ellsberg exposed the Gulf of Tonkin in the Pentagon papers, you know, these guys
like Snowden and Assange exposed this stuff with, what got exposed by it?
Any false flags get exposed by these guys?
tim pool
By what, Snowden?
ian crossland
Yeah, Snowden and Assange.
tim pool
No, Snowden exposed that they were lying to the American people about warrantless and mass surveillance.
ian crossland
Just didn't really lie.
tim pool
Stealing your information, and they lie.
And that's what they do, that's what they've done.
And it's because they're not beholden to anybody.
They're an entity unto themselves.
ian crossland
The term false flag is so basic.
Back in the day, thousands of years ago, a king would go and take A flag of his enemy and put it on a bunch of troops and then go burn down one of his own cities and be like, they did it, let's go to war.
And everyone would be like, okay.
tim pool
Yep, to get the people.
But morale, when it comes to going way back in history, you see, the point of the false flag was, you could make people go to war, but if there's no morale and there's no energy and zeal in that war, people don't fight very well.
But if you show them, look, look, they're flying the flag of Gilder!
They kidnapped Princess Buttercup!
unidentified
Indeed.
tim pool
Yes.
Then people will be like, how dare you?
They'll be really angry and they'll feel it and they'll want to fight, fight hard.
luke rudkowski
They have yellow cake and they have weapons of mass destruction.
And, you know, the first Gulf War was really something extremely eye-opening since they literally hired a PR firm to talk about how babies and incubators were ripped out by
the Iraqi military and thrown to the ground and brutally assassinated by the Iraqis
and of course all of that came out to be an Absolute lie. Yeah, and the media really didn't go hard
that was a lie Yes, and then people need to understand that was the first
justification to get into the first Gulf War which was again
ian crossland
absolutely You brought up the burning of the Reichstag earlier, and this is when Hitler... well, this is what Hitler used as an impetus to create the Appeasement Act, and he said that when the Reichstag, the capital of... Or wasn't it the Enabling Act?
The Enabling Act, thank you.
It was called the Enabling Act.
That when the Reichstag was burned down, he blamed the communists and said, the communists burned down our parliamentary capital.
We do need to take away everyone's civil liberties and establish martial law.
And that was 1933.
That was the beginning of Hitler's reign of terror, more or less.
luke rudkowski
He also launched a false flag attack on the Polish border at a radio station saying that the Poles were attacking.
He dressed up some prisoners.
tim pool
He blamed the Polish guy for burning the Reichstag.
luke rudkowski
I don't know if the guy who burned the Reichstag was Polish, but there was a separate false flag incident on the Polish-German border saying the Polish invaded and they are attacking our radio stations and it was literally just a bunch of, you know, criminals that they got put in Polish uniforms and then shot up and murdered.
tim pool
Dutch, that's wrong.
ian crossland
So they did some tests on the Reichstag and were like, could what Hitler said happened, happen?
Could one guy have burned down this entire building as quickly as it did?
tim pool
They blamed a communist for burning it down.
luke rudkowski
Yes, that's how they did it.
So we have to be more attentive than ever with The possibility of a false flag happening right now, and if it does, we have to understand the people who question it or ask for evidence or any kind of information regarding it will be automatically wiped off from the internet.
So I think this is a major concern of mine.
Because this ability to be able to communicate rightful information, I mean, especially during 9-11, a lot of people had very serious questions about what happened then.
A lot of family members, a lot of rescue workers, a lot of survivors that I personally met and knew that were there had very serious questions.
And a lot of their voices, a lot of their concerns was able to go out there to the general public because of the internet.
Now we're living in such a tightly controlled space where I really doubt that they would even have a voice in today's modern day and age.
ian crossland
I worked at 9-11.
I worked at the Trade Center.
I worked at the American Express building across the street and I would work with the firemen and they would come in and I would ask like, well, where are the bodies?
And they say, well, when we find A fireman we know, because we don't find bodies, but we find the jacket, which is heat-resistant.
We find this white, twizzlery substance inside of it, which is the bone.
Everything else is melted away.
And they would fold it up and they would take it.
And he said, we don't find bodies.
The bodies are in the liquid under our feet, running down into the East River.
They're all melted.
And I didn't know why.
I didn't know at the time.
I just thought, okay, underneath the glass building is hot.
tim pool
I have to mention that the Reichstag fire is not officially a false flag.
ian crossland
They don't know.
tim pool
They think that Hitler was using it as pretext, but the official history is that they had a trial and they blamed this guy and that was it.
ian crossland
But they've done tests to see if the guy could have burned down the entire building as quickly as it happened, and they think it's impossible, that it would have taken multiple people in multiple areas of the building to set the fires and to have it all go up like it did.
tim pool
It could go either way.
It could be Antifa.
It could be Proud Boys.
know anti-fud does something in washington dc and then trump is like
on any calls in the direction act like a supporters want it could go either way
luke rudkowski
it could be anti-fud it could be proud boys whatever the excuses we have to
understand that the political establishment doesn't care who's going
to be around under the bus so it most likely could be probably but it also could be
anti-fud because i could see a lot of anti-fud
Right now, they're not doing anything.
They're kind of dormant, especially with the lockdowns, especially with the quasi-martial laws that are happening, which is especially perplexing.
It should be perplexing for a lot of people, unless you're paying attention.
tim pool
You'd think anti-fascists would be coming out against government.
luke rudkowski
Exactly, they're not.
But I think there's going to be a resurgence protest, and I think Donald Trump's words of saying that Antifa's going to have Biden for breakfast, I think he said something similar to that.
tim pool
Oh, they're excited.
luke rudkowski
I think they're going to have a heyday under his administration.
tim pool
Already, there is Newsweek publishing one of the craziest fake news stories I've ever seen, where they claimed the Proud Boys were wearing a shirt that basically glorified the Holocaust.
And that's just the lightest way I can put it, because I can't tell you what they're claiming the Proud Boys were, but this is just absolutely insane.
There's no way that's true.
And there was this image they posted of a shirt of an eagle holding the fascists, the symbol of fascism, and I'm like, that's insane.
ian crossland
Isn't that on the back of the US dollar?
tim pool
No.
ian crossland
That eagle with its talons holding the arrows in one foot.
tim pool
They're not holding the fascists.
ian crossland
It's kind of like a bundle of sticks.
It's a bunch of arrows.
luke rudkowski
Well, we have to understand covering many protests and demonstrations, you know this too, there's always some crazy, insane person.
And if you want to cover a protest, if you want to make someone look bad, you always cover the crazy, insane person there.
and you selectively choose how you highlight a story.
tim pool
But they didn't have any photos of this guy.
There's no photos, there's no videos.
luke rudkowski
And again, it's very hard to believe anything they say right now
since they're literally making stuff up out of thin air just to generate headlines, just to generate clicks,
just to generate revenue for themselves as they're a part of a dying, fleeting industry that's
becoming obsolete.
ian crossland
We've got to be careful about blaming any political party for any of this violence
because that's what Hitler did. He blamed the communists.
luke rudkowski
Well, that's why I'm saying...
tim pool
Well, that's not a political party.
ian crossland
I know, but Antifa or Proud Boys.
luke rudkowski
I'm saying with the history of false flags, it could go either way.
It could be blamed on Antifa.
It could be blamed on Proud Boys.
It could be blamed on a totally new group of people that are meant to take the blame.
There's a lot of possibilities here that we have to understand are possible here.
Because the realm of possibility is very wide.
And we have to understand at the end of the day, it's always their objective that matters the most, that we have to be careful of.
tim pool
Let me tell you.
It's only a matter of time before we get nuked.
Before this channel is gone, this channel is deranked.
ian crossland
Geez, I thought you meant a real nuke.
That was terrifying.
luke rudkowski
I was about to bring up the aliens.
tim pool
It's only a matter of time before we're suspended.
Because, I mean, think about the things we're talking about right now.
This is good stuff.
These are dangerous conversations the establishment does not want people to know about.
ian crossland
Yeah, but Google's not the establishment.
That's what's cool.
tim pool
It's the most powerful corporation on the planet.
ian crossland
I know, but the establishment is competing with them.
tim pool
Bro, did you see the video of the Google employees crying when they announced Trump won?
And the CEO and the President, all the people being like, we know, we know, we're gonna resist and make sure it doesn't happen again.
They're the establishment.
They call me and they tell me I can't talk about certain things.
They tell me this, like, we're letting you know because we like you and we want you to play ball.
And I have my limits, because I think getting the message out to the best of my abilities is better than just giving up.
But there's a line, and we're getting dangerously close to it.
We got big news right here that we gotta talk about.
From Fox News, Twitter to expand COVID-19 vaccines policy to combat harmful, misleading tweets.
Twitter will begin enforcing their updated policy on misleading tweets surrounding COVID-19 vaccines on December 21st.
So now, as we're getting stories about, say, anaphylaxis out of Alaska, and I've got Democrats accusing me of being an anti-vaxxer for pointing out a health warning issued by the government.
So even talking about what's true is considered a threat to these tribalists.
We know that Twitter is basically ideologically tribalist left as well.
So how long until I see a story that says Bell's Palsy, you know, people got Bell's Palsy after getting the vaccine.
They don't think it's significant because the same amount of people who get it get it normally or whatever and whatever the point is.
What happens if I'm like, wow, there's something people should know.
And then someone at Twitter says, that's anti-vax.
Delete.
ian crossland
We will use the fervor to start a new network.
luke rudkowski
Well, we have to understand if they really were to enforce this rule
They would have to take down the British government's ability to publish information. They would have to be real
I know I'm being I'm being they won't they'll allow the British
Of course they won't.
tim pool
They'll ban you when you bring it up.
luke rudkowski
I'm saying on the merits of what actually should happen, there's a big difference between what actually does happen because again we have to understand with the bigger point that I'm trying to make here that this is a bigger disguise in order to limit more speech, in order to control people, in order to have just an excuse to destroy the competition of the mainstream media.
And to destroy the voice of anyone questioning the establishment narrative, which they are desperately trying to hold on to, because the only thing these people have is their propaganda, and it only works if it goes unchallenged.
And challenging it, questioning it, is becoming more and more outlawed, more and more dangerous to even speak about, and that's why earlier, you saw the way I started the show.
There's a reason I gave you a hand.
tim pool
I'm gonna let y'all in on an open secret.
The only reason this show exists is because YouTube allows it to.
And because you do it?
It's not just about us getting banned.
It's about the fact that 80% of views for all of my channels come from YouTube's recommendations.
That's it.
My views would probably be in the tens of thousands based off of people who actually want to seek out and watch my content.
But most people, it's between 60 and 80 depending on what the content is, are not subscribed.
And when they see it, they'll go to YouTube.com and YouTube will say, watch this video.
If YouTube at any point decided this conversation is over, it is.
Because regular people are only getting it because they're seeing it in their recommendations.
luke rudkowski
And this is absolutely wild, because if you look at our conversations, we are trying to be careful.
We're trying to tell you both sides of the story.
We're trying to be as fair and as honest as we can.
And I think, you know, I don't want to, you know, I don't think we could even compare ourselves to the mainstream media, which is Bloodthirsty for power.
ian crossland
This is mainstream now.
tim pool
Dude, this channel gets like 20 million views per month and CNN gets 210 million.
ian crossland
They're both mainstream.
luke rudkowski
A lot of those are airport views though.
tim pool
No, no, CNN's YouTube view.
ian crossland
This is like a six-man operation.
This is insane.
unidentified
It's awesome.
luke rudkowski
But also we have to understand the tables are tilted towards YouTube's, playing favoritism towards YouTube because everything you search always comes up CNN and Fox News.
tim pool
So let me just say, everybody listening right now, if you really do think we're doing a good job and what we talk about is important, please consider sharing the link whenever you can.
Because, you know, I bring up the recommendation thing, and I see it.
There have been periods where YouTube had these glitches, glitches, I'll do air quotes, where people were like, Tim, your video isn't appearing on your channel.
People just couldn't watch it at all.
And it happens.
And it was funny, because I can't remember what the video was, but it was very much like, I think it had to do with the CIA and Trump or something, and it just didn't appear!
How strange was that?
And I had no idea why.
And so I deleted it and re-uploaded it and then it was there an hour later.
Very, very strange.
ian crossland
Could be a bug.
luke rudkowski
There's a lot of strange things going on.
tim pool
Could be a bug.
But I think it's like, listen, if I put up content and randomly one day something weird happens, eh, you know, maybe it's a bug.
When it's the one video talking about some Serious political CIA... Still might be a bug.
I know from personal... It still might be a bug.
But it's a question of, you know, not to be too conspiratorial.
We know for a fact YouTube throttles.
They tell us they do.
They have deranking mechanisms.
It was NerdCity, I believe, he's a YouTuber, you guys should check him out, he's really great.
He found, I guess, these codes embedded in YouTube's... If you search the source, the inspect source on the page, you would find these codes that would pop up.
And they were able to find out that there were, like, de-rank mechanisms.
So we know it exists.
We do.
If YouTube wants, they can make it so that people don't get notifications, and oftentimes they don't.
And then when people don't get notifications, they eventually start to forget, they stop watching the content.
ian crossland
When we start doing our own network that's like shortwave radio slash mesh network bypassing, it's gonna be so awesome.
tim pool
We've got the proprietary website coming soon.
Very, very soon.
It's being built right now.
And that's gonna be where we do our best to make sure, like, if you really are a big fan of the show, you come in and you can watch there, and you can get stuff there, and even if we get nuked, we'll still exist.
But I'll tell you this, man.
YouTube is the town hall, the city square, all that stuff.
And people are going to YouTube.com, they're walking in and looking at this field, and what's happening is there's people everywhere, yelling and talking about a bunch of stuff, and YouTube is going, check out these ones.
These are big.
These are cool.
And that helps us.
That helps this show.
But at any point, they could be like, you guys, get out.
But then we're relegated to, you know, our little wacky shack a couple miles away, and we're holding up signs saying, guys, guys, we're still over here!
Viewership will be dramatically decreased.
Revenue will be, I mean, look what, you know.
But Jones gets a ton of views on Bandot Video.
unidentified
It's a lot.
luke rudkowski
He's one of the few exceptions, but I've been telling my audience, you know, I love you guys, thank you so much for sharing my videos, because if you didn't, No one else would be watching them, and we would be foolish to think that the algorithm isn't used in a way that benefits a lot of the special interests.
tim pool
YouTube's got us in a trap.
It's a trick.
Let me tell you the trick.
When I look at some of these podcasts... So let me tell you, we are ranked on iTunes on this show.
TeamCast.RL is ranked, I think, like...
Right now I think it's like 1 or like 2.11 or maybe 1.76.
It changes every single day.
And then my main podcast is like, was ranked 34 top iTunes charts at one point.
Now it's down to like 1.30 something.
Based on the amount of traffic we're getting to these shows, we should be some of the wealthiest podcasters.
But we're not doing what all of these other podcasts are doing.
What's really interesting is that there are podcasts that have a tenth of the viewership.
But everybody pays $5 a month.
So you get somebody on Twitch, one of these high-profile lefties, and they have 100,000 followers, but half of them are giving $5 a month.
These people are millionaires.
ian crossland
That's pretty badass, because that's like $0.10 per show, or $0.15 per show.
tim pool
That's when I was thinking, like, YouTube's got us in this trick where they're like, stay on this platform, we do the YouTube rev for you, but don't you say the wrong thing!
And I'm like, okay, we need both.
We need a proprietary platform.
That's what we're going to build.
That way people can support directly and then we can start to rival some of these bigger networks and do better productions and get bigger.
And then we can avoid the bans and stuff like that.
luke rudkowski
Well, I think right now that's why YouTube just instituted a new policy.
Even if you're not in the partner program or have been kicked out of the partner program, they could still run ads on your channel without sharing any other revenue.
I mean, my channel's fully out of the program, fully demonetized.
They were supposed to review me in a month.
It's been, I think, over eight months now.
Of course, it's making me scramble and think of other ways to make ends meet.
But, you know, that's why I did t-shirts and did other things.
Essentially, down the line, we have to understand that this is something that's affecting everyone, because they enticed everyone with this amazing utility, this amazing tool.
They were like, you know, very smart drug dealers that give you just a sample of that crack for free when you're down and out, and then the crackhead takes a little bit of crack, and then essentially they become a full-blown crackhead, and they become addicted to it, and then they have no other way, no other avenue to express themselves or do anything without that constant hint of validation that YouTube provides.
tim pool
I've got a very, very important super chat as we now go to super chats that just came in and it's very, very important and convenient.
And this is from 8 o'clock.
It's from an hour and a half ago.
Morgan H. said, I think Tim is being shadow banned.
I normally get a notice as soon as the event is announced, but tonight I had to come look for it.
That's what I'm saying.
So there's a lot of people who watch simply because they got recommended this and they're like, oh, what's this?
And I'll come and click it.
And there's a lot of people who are like, I like to watch the show every night.
But if YouTube decides it, we just don't exist on the platform anymore.
Viewership is gone.
And I'll tell you this, we are in a position right now, it's rather dangerous, that without that recommendation, the show doesn't generate enough revenue to actually exist.
That's why we got to do this proprietary website where, you know, There are some podcasts that are, like, ranked 7,000 in the world or 10,000 in the world.
And I'll let you in on the secret.
These are podcasts that get, like, 10,000 downloads per episode.
That sounds like very, very little to a lot of people, especially people who watch YouTube videos.
My YouTube videos get half a million.
So to look at a podcast on iTunes getting 10,000, these people are millionaires.
No joke.
They're millionaires.
So I tell you, like, the YouTube is a trick.
You know, the real key is to make sure you're actually running a business.
ian crossland
Totally.
tim pool
And getting customers and fans and working with them and producing content for them directly.
ian crossland
And you can pay, like, extra to get behind this.
Or, like, we're going to set up GoPros in the skate shop.
tim pool
We're building a skate shop.
ian crossland
So cool.
tim pool
We're building a skate shop.
ian crossland
We've got so many rooms to put GoPros in.
tim pool
We're going to have events.
And we're going to do, one of the things we're going to do is we're going to have bonus member segments for the website.
So that way, you know, like everything we do now, we do super chats, but we've got a couple more stories we never get into, right?
We got some creepy ones we mentioned early on we might not get to.
And that's something we'll be like, okay, if we didn't get to it, then we're going to put it on the site for, you know, the people who want to be members and we'll have merchandise and discounts and all that stuff.
Because that's the way we got to do it if we want to make this a big network and survive beyond what YouTube is.
But more importantly, once we get this site up, here's the best part.
We're going to have segments for members only where we get spicy.
Where we can say the things YouTube will not let us say.
Where Luke can go off the rails and scream about the aliens and the Nordics.
luke rudkowski
All the false flags.
I like spice.
I have a lot to say.
I've been stopping myself from expressing it.
ian crossland
I'll be swearing.
tim pool
But there's names we can't say.
luke rudkowski
Just for no reason.
ian crossland
Just as much as I can.
tim pool
But think about this too.
The risk we were put under for simply wanting to have Alex Jones on the show.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
And they took his show?
ian crossland
That was so sad.
tim pool
And that was like one, that was like two million views.
ian crossland
Go to Bitchute and find it, you guys, because that show was epic.
tim pool
Millions, it was crazy.
ian crossland
And we can re-upload it on our new platform.
tim pool
Once we get, uh, yep.
ian crossland
We can probably translate all the episodes onto the new platform, have everything there.
But we're going to start doing... And put clips on YouTube.
tim pool
The ultimate spicy segments, you know, and then the silly segments too.
And really just say whatever we want and laugh and...
It's crazy because you can't even make jokes on YouTube.
unidentified
I know, dude.
ian crossland
I'm like straining my mind as we sit here.
tim pool
Yep.
So this is what YouTube wants.
And I told them this.
I was like, you guys are forcing us, all the creators, to make something of our own.
Now, I know a lot of people point out other platforms are like, why don't you go on Patreon?
Why don't you go on Locals?
ian crossland
Why don't you go on Mines?
tim pool
Locals is a million times better than Patreon, no doubt.
But you still don't want to be under someone else's control.
ian crossland
This is a bit concerning, but they're not as hardcore.
You really gotta go and do crazy stuff to get the ISPs involved.
tim pool
But we're heading in that direction.
unidentified
Maybe.
ian crossland
That's why I like mesh networking.
tim pool
We need something like the Fediverse.
We need decentralized social media.
That's what we really need.
luke rudkowski
And people have tried to do it for a long time, but... We need a free and open internet like the original internet before it was squeegee cleaned by the corporate globalists.
tim pool
The original internet was Wild West, man.
luke rudkowski
I loved it.
tim pool
People were doing crazy nonsense.
You know, somewhere on the deep on the dark web, the deep web, there's a there's an animation of, you know, Macho Man Randy Savage doing the banana dance on a geocity somewhere.
ian crossland
The dark web is something crazy.
I've never gone to the dark web and I don't Uh, maybe I would.
But apparently it's in another internet.
It's underneath the internet.
tim pool
Yeah, but that just means non-indexed websites.
No, no, no, no, no.
It just means non-indexed websites.
ian crossland
The Darknet?
I'm thinking of the Darknet.
tim pool
The Darknet and the Deep Web are the same thing.
And it's a reference to non-indexed websites.
ian crossland
That's where the Silk Road was?
tim pool
That was the Onion Network.
ian crossland
Yeah, Tor.
The Onion Router.
Tor's a browser that you use to access that stuff without being found out.
tim pool
I hope so.
luke rudkowski
There was a Daily Beast article, according to two of their sources, allegedly anonymous sources, but they say that they're inside of the White House.
is considering parted in Ross Ulbricht and is favorable to that idea.
And if that's true, I mean, that would be huge.
I know Ross's mother.
Ross's mother gave me the first interview ever publicly speaking about what actually happened to Ross,
and her story's absolutely incredible.
Her name's Lynn Ulbricht.
The way that everything the government said was happening with Ross
turned out to be absolutely not true.
The amount of lying, the amount of disinformation surrounding this case will make your head spin.
unidentified
Wow.
luke rudkowski
And yeah, check out Lynn Albrecht and maybe if you put in WeAreChange you'll be able to see our interview.
I interview her at least once a year.
She gives us updates about this case.
But she's been trying to get Ross's name out there to the general public for a while.
Because if you essentially look at that case, the main legal argument against him is that he ran a website that other people did something bad on.
Which if that's the case, then Mark Zuckerberg should definitely be in jail too.
tim pool
Right on.
Well, let's go to Super Chats.
If you haven't already, smash the like button and, you know I mean it, we should probably do better promotion on the show of like, you know, telling people to share the link, share it with your friends.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, I did and I told everyone that there's going to be a very special guest today.
ian crossland
Share the video, I mean.
tim pool
I retweeted it.
Everybody listening right now, assuming that you actually like the show, maybe you hate our guts and you hate watch, okay fine, then ignore this.
But if you really do like the show, think about it this way.
We have, right now, concurrent viewership is 42,546.
If every single person shared this, and that was what everyone did every day, we would be bigger than CNN in a month.
ian crossland
We could start a political movement in two days.
tim pool
But I think that's the thing is a lot of people are, no disrespect, it's more passive.
Like they'll see the link, they'll click it, they'll turn it on, they'll go about playing their video games while listening to a podcast or something.
And so they may not be at their computer.
That's why it's like, you know, we get 40, you know, 40 to 50,000 concurrents on average about, sometimes we get bigger.
Like with Alex, we had 112 and, you know, before that 160k.
So it was really big shows, but not everybody likes shares or comments or anything like that.
So that's the kind of stuff you need to actually grow and start some kind of change in the media landscape.
ian crossland
Madison Square Garden seats 20,000.
We've got more than double the size of Madison Square Garden here.
tim pool
Every day.
So think about that, though.
If, look, if you are a fan of the show and you think what we're doing as well, and, you know, Luke and what Ian has to say.
And Lydia, who's awesome at her job.
ian crossland
Some of the best camera switching I've ever seen.
unidentified
Let's beat CNN.
tim pool
Let's beat CNN.
Let's beat Fox News.
Let's beat MSNBC.
But they've got millions of dollars to throw into commercials, advertising, network buys, airport plays.
ian crossland
Let's prove that you don't need money to run for office.
tim pool
I'll tell you what, we need a movement for better media.
That's what we really need.
We need people who's like, if you're only going to do one kind of activism, it's, I want good legit media.
That's it.
So it's not just about us and our pockets about other podcasts, other YouTubers as well.
unidentified
Yeah.
ian crossland
Let's bring them along, man.
tim pool
Let's read.
Let's read some more of these super chats.
Sam Meehan says it's official.
Luke has squatters rights.
unidentified
Yep.
luke rudkowski
So I've seen a lot of comments talking about Luke is squatting.
I am Slavic.
I was born in Poland, so I am technically Polish squatting.
Me and Tim still haven't figured out what we're doing here.
This is kind of just happening through happenstance.
I literally came over, what was it, two weeks ago, and I'm like, I'm only gonna be here for a week.
That was my plan.
I was supposed to be in Florida.
Again, I'm demonetized.
And again, I'm thinking about doing survival trainings to make sure I have more income.
unidentified
But we still, I mean, I was like, do you want to come on one show Friday?
tim pool
And you're like, sure.
luke rudkowski
No, first I was like, no, I don't want to do this.
And you're like, and you're like, come on, do it.
It's fun.
I'm like, and then like, I did it once.
And then the other time that a couple guests canceled, a couple guests canceled.
I know what happened.
tim pool
People started commenting about how much like Luke is great.
It was awesome.
luke rudkowski
I gotta say, I'm trying to make sure the comments don't go to my head, but the commenter... I mean, I'm even getting like $2 cash apps and Venmo's from people.
I don't know if people want to be shouted out here, but my Venmo and cash app is LukeWeAreChange, just for maybe a happenstance.
Support independent media.
But the support, and especially getting the t-shirts out, has helped me out tremendously.
But also, most importantly, We have to understand we're living through one of the most important times in American history.
It is more crucial than ever to share legitimate real information with people because that is essential right now.
And this is an opportunity to reach people.
And, as you can see, I mean, I've been taking it seriously.
I'm doing a lot of research.
I've been studying.
I've been making sure everything I say is correct.
Sometimes I make some mistakes, but this is crucial, what we're doing right now.
And I think it's working, and a lot of people are happy, and it's kind of fun debating and arguing with a lot of people here on the show as well.
tim pool
We have an important super chat in that, you know, for you, Luke.
DemonKingLamb says, installing a Picatinny rail mount onto an M1A is very easy, so easy a FUD like Luke can do it.
Apparently not!
He couldn't do it!
luke rudkowski
We're gonna be figuring that out after the show.
I was typically doing research, but it seems like a complicated process.
I will get to it.
tim pool
There's a little thing with like step one, step two, step three, step four.
luke rudkowski
Do you want to do it, Tim?
tim pool
Now, I'm not the one who's claiming to be, you know, the gun guy, you know.
luke rudkowski
I'm not claiming to be the gun guy in the video.
tim pool
It was unrealistic.
luke rudkowski
Well, you know, there's more.
tim pool
I'm going to record you.
I went in and they had like two guns.
luke rudkowski
But as you could see, Tim is trying to fatten me up.
First of all, he's providing a lot of steaks.
He's providing a lot.
tim pool
We had filet mignon.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
luke rudkowski
He's like, yeah.
He's literally trying to fatten me up so I stay here.
It might work, it might not.
We don't know what we're doing yet, but I think so far, I don't know, you guys are giving me a lot of good feedback.
I think it's a crucial time.
I think it's working out pretty good.
ian crossland
Keep making comments about how you love Luke because I want to keep him around.
You know, along with what you were saying about sharing and how cool and how independent, I keep thinking about like, it's so easy to click that button, like the share button.
I'm like, Oh, an article.
I like, I'll just click the button, but it has such a resounding impact.
So it's so easy to do, but it's not like equal reward.
It's a greater reward than the amount of energy that goes into it.
tim pool
So one of the things that makes sure a channel grows when you hit the like button, it really does result in YouTube being like, recommend it, you know?
So I think we need to get like a little graphic that like pops up and says like smash that SmallSC says Jesus Tim, an M1A is not a home defense rifle.
unidentified
Yes it is.
luke rudkowski
a facetious one that you're gonna smash. I gotta read this.
Just go. I know. Go. Go ahead. I know.
It's gonna be something I already know. Just go. No, you don't. Just go. SmallSC says,
tim pool
Jesus, Tim, an M1A is not a home defense rifle. Yes, it is.
No, it's not. It's like a turret.
For what reason would anyone have an M1A other than defend their home? A broom. What, what, what, what?
Hunting?
ian crossland
Am I wrong?
tim pool
Is it a hunting rifle?
luke rudkowski
It's a, it's a long distance, old school kind of rifle that like an antique.
tim pool
All I know is I went into the gun store and I said, I want to defend my home.
And he said, do you have a reason to, do you have a reason to be worried about intruders that are 500 yards away?
And I said, my property is very large, sir.
And he says, maybe you might have some wild animals.
You need something.
ian crossland
I know just what you need.
tim pool
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And Dan Orlowski says, Tim, you have to use special ammo with your M1.
Standard .30-06 ammo has too much pressure.
It can damage your rifle.
So I was given .308 by the man at the store, and I was told online, and by you, 7.62x51 could work for it as well.
luke rudkowski
Yeah.
Well, there's special grains, and I haven't looked at the specifications for the M1.
tim pool
Wait, wait, wait.
Why have an M1A?
All I know is in the division, my guy had it, and I went to the store and they had no rifles, I was like, I'll take that one.
It was that and like a .22.
ian crossland
We should mount it over the fireplace.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, both very unpractical, what you're doing.
If you're looking for target practice and you're looking to get good with iron sights, yes, especially if you're doing medium to long range, you could definitely practice with those, but Essentially, there's a lot more practical firearms that you
tim pool
could use to protect your household.
This I completely understand, and they had very few weapons at the store.
luke rudkowski
I understand.
tim pool
It's fine.
luke rudkowski
So I went in and I was like...
tim pool
I'm just busting your balls.
You know what it was really?
It was about ammo too.
luke rudkowski
It was about what kind of ammo they had left.
.308 is somewhat available, which is surprising from what I've seen in West Virginia and New
Hampshire.
7.62 as well.
5.56 had a very big premium, but a lot of other ammo.
I mean, even some 5.56 is hard to come by.
If you do, you're very lucky.
tim pool
This is really funny.
I love this conversation.
TheBuzzCJC says, ironically, while the AR-15 is not a weapon of war and is not fielded by any military, the M1A is technically a weapon of war or assault weapon.
What was it, World War I and II?
Yeah, World War II.
ian crossland
Uh, the M1 Garand.
The A is a civilian version of the M14.
A civilian version.
So it's not military, apparently.
tim pool
So what's it for, like, long-range hunting?
luke rudkowski
Well, like, medium, long-range, uh, you know, hunting?
Yeah.
ian crossland
They're heavy, right?
tim pool
They're really heavy.
I wouldn't say really heavy, because I wouldn't know.
ian crossland
They were, I think they were better in the mud than the M16.
The M16 would jam up, but they were so much lighter that they didn't care in Vietnam.
tim pool
I want a Smith & Wesson 500.
Have you seen those?
luke rudkowski
Well, um, yes, of course I've seen those.
There's a lot of firearms, but there's, uh, you know, a lot of them that are not available as you said.
tim pool
Remember the Joker in the Batman from the 90s movie where he pulls the revolver out and the barrel's like four feet long?
ian crossland
That's what I'm talking about.
tim pool
All right, let's see.
Let's see.
What's this?
Lazy Murder Hobo says, look up the ATF letter on pistol braces.
ATF is trying to push the goalposts by changing definitions and banning the most common firearm types.
What's that?
luke rudkowski
Yeah, it's absolutely insane that you could have something that looks like a rifle, but it's classified as a pistol because of the back end of it.
And it's just utterly ridiculous to see the ATF go after particular companies.
The Honey Badger Was also one particular gun and model that was also just officially taken down by the ATF and they're looking at making sure that these kind of smaller barrel rifles which they're classifying as pistols that they're going to be deemed illegal.
So, overnight, there's a proposal by the ATF that would literally make millions of Americans felons overnight automatically because of these mid-range rifles, which they're calling pistols for some reasons.
The definitions are absolutely backwards, which just shows you how idiotic government is.
tim pool
We got Mike here.
Mike here with the Super Chat.
He knows what's up.
He said, M1A is a home defense weapon if you defend your home with it.
These categories we apply to weapons are rhetorical and stupid, e.g., weapon of war.
Thank you, Mike.
That's exactly it.
luke rudkowski
To me, it's more practical.
tim pool
What if way, way down, you know, a couple hundred yards away, I see some, like, super ripped six-foot-five with Antifa guy, and he's got, like, ripped sleeves, and he's just hulking, super soldier, hulking up the driveway, and he's waving a sign saying, I'm literally coming, and he's holding a sign that says, I'm going to kill all of you once I get up.
What am I gonna do?
luke rudkowski
Could you use your iron sights to track them down and get one down?
tim pool
I'm kidding.
ian crossland
Does it have a clip or is it just a single shot?
tim pool
It's a magazine.
ian crossland
Okay.
tim pool
Yeah.
unidentified
Wow.
tim pool
Clips.
They used to have clips.
That's crazy.
You'd like clip the bullets in and just like, that's funny.
They did have antiques, though.
They had muskets at the store.
It was really cool.
luke rudkowski
I'm surprised you didn't get that.
tim pool
The musket?
They didn't have powder, wadding, and balls.
ian crossland
A clip and a magazine are different.
I'm learning.
How are they different?
tim pool
A clip is literally a clip that you clip the bullets to and then put it in.
And a magazine is spring-loaded and you push the bullets down.
I kept saying clip before and people kept yelling at me in the super chat.
unidentified
They're like, stop saying clip Tim, it's a magazine.
tim pool
And I'm like, okay.
We got a bunch of airsoft too.
We got a bunch of airsoft too.
luke rudkowski
The airsoft is going to be really fun to train with.
ian crossland
I really want to, I want to get paintball.
If we can find a lot of airsoft.
Like paintball airsoft pellets that'll degrade into the dirt?
luke rudkowski
Well, a lot of the airsoft are replicas of actual existing firearms that you could train with and not get the exact training as with a real firearm, but especially if you're a newbie, I strongly recommend you do that rather than shooting your balls off.
ian crossland
So I was thinking of us in the woods hunting each other with like, would we wear protective goggles?
We do have night vision.
tim pool
It's called playing airsoft.
ian crossland
And we would just shoot at each other and be like, ow!
tim pool
Well, we have armor, so I bought Airsoft is a sport.
ian crossland
Can we use flashlights to blind each other?
tim pool
I don't know.
ian crossland
That'll be fun.
luke rudkowski
We could do a tactical drill game this weekend if you guys want.
We could do a 5v5 kind of game.
ian crossland
We're equipped for it.
luke rudkowski
We could set up some rules and I'll teach you some basic CQB.
ian crossland
We'll wear GoPros on our foreheads or something.
tim pool
And then what we'll do is our team will kidnap Luke and we'll put him like With like a low light, like a light hanging from the ceiling, a lamp, so he can only see like our waists, and then we'll have like Russian accents.
ian crossland
And then there'll be like a buzzsaw that's coming down slowly.
tim pool
We'll grab him by the back of the head and slam his head on the table and be like, where is your team at?
ian crossland
Dude, I was looking at this Russian laser tag tactical company that makes all this cool laser tag equipment, like flags and medkits and stuff.
Oh, the laser tag?
Yeah, the laser.
Some of that stuff wouldn't work with airsoft, but we could have like certain things like flags.
We should do like capture the flag.
luke rudkowski
Yeah.
tim pool
Daniel Maxwell says conspiracy theory.
Ooh, spicy.
The Galactic Federation wants Joe Biden to be president so they can bring Earth into the Galactic Federation since they're democratic socialists with an authoritarian government.
If you laugh, you owe me an appearance on the show.
Joking.
I don't think I laughed enough.
unidentified
Sorry.
ian crossland
But Luke and Lydia did, but there you go.
Do you think because the Earth, the Earthans got inducted into the Galactic Federation Star Trek, they didn't start it.
So it's already out there.
And then they eventually what they hit warp drive, right?
luke rudkowski
There's allegedly some kind of contract out there between aliens and us, according to some government officials.
ian crossland
I don't think I ever told you my story about when I sensed the Wolfman.
Across the universe.
I was meditating on my roof and just let my electromagnetic field down and gazed out into the star system to see what was out there and something sensed me.
It was this wolf creature that had taken mushrooms and like evolved as we had from apes, but it was a wolf creature that had evolved and it sensed me and wanted to eat me.
tim pool
Bro, he's on a podcast right now going, I never told you about that monkey guy!
unidentified
I swear I was taking mushrooms and this monkey guy like, he evolved like we did but he was a monkey and he comes to me and I want to eat him!
tim pool
Alright, let's see what we got.
Well, I will say that we are heavily criticizing and calling out YouTube for all of this right now, and talking about leaving the platform and starting something proprietary.
Not leaving the platform, but taking a portion of the business off of the platform because of how bad it is.
The difference is, I'm actually helping people know about what's going on to the best of my abilities, and the police that I'm criticizing are not all cops.
It's the cops who are destroying the lives of people because the governor decided, on a whim, to do something without any legal authority.
Big difference.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, I kind of agree.
I think there's a bit of a difference between just talking and looking at information and ruining people's lives.
tim pool
Listen, the cops aren't just making a living.
They're violating the Constitution, And they're enforcing edict, not laws.
No legislature or council passed these rulings and the Supreme Court ruled against them and cops are still showing up saying, I don't care.
I don't care.
I want that money more.
luke rudkowski
And they're using violent force and coercion with the threat of violence.
ian crossland
And they're being coerced to do it with their paycheck.
tim pool
Partly, yes.
Yep.
But at a certain point, you have to say no.
So us being on this platform is actually kind of the opposite.
Imagine if one of the cops in the department kept stopping them from doing these things.
And every time they went out, that cop would be like, yo, we're not letting you not, you're not doing this.
Guy, you can run your business.
luke rudkowski
Yeah.
tim pool
That's the difference between us and say like, you know, Jimmy Kimmel.
luke rudkowski
And also there's accountability.
So if I was saying something that was baldly face, you guys would correct me on it.
If Tim was saying something that was incorrect, I would challenge him on that stance.
So having the free flow of our conversation and ideas is a lot different than using force.
tim pool
You want to know something crazy?
ian crossland
Yeah.
tim pool
The reason why the Weimar Republic had hyperinflation is rooted in the strategies of France and Germany in World War I. France's strategy for paying the war was income tax.
They said, we're going to get enough money to pay for this by taxing the citizens.
Germany said, Let's borrow money, because once we win, we can steal everything from the countries and loot their countries.
They thought they were gonna win, and then take everything of value from the other countries and pay off their debts.
It was basically like, give us the money to fund this war, because when we win, you're gonna get paid back.
But they lost.
And they couldn't pay it back.
And so they started just printing money like crazy.
But I bring that up because...
A. Blinken says, For Ian, the income tax was introduced solely to pay the interest on the debt to the Federal Reserve.
Why both were enacted in 1913, they were done in tandem for a reason.
ian crossland
The income tax came in April, and then the Federal Reserve was formed in December of 13, but I imagine they were calculated around for the same reason.
But there was also an income tax for the Civil War in 1861.
A. Blinken instituted one to pay for the war.
So it's not...
Yeah, it wasn't the first time that we came up with it.
I don't think we really need it.
Do you guys think we need income tax right now?
unidentified
Nope.
tim pool
It depends.
I don't know, man.
I think it's kind of a moot point right now because of like...
You know, I was thinking about this when we were doing a couple shows, and I'm just like, I don't care about the anti-autonomous zones anymore.
I used to look at what was going on in this country as our country, and then I realized, when I saw the autonomous zone, I was like, I don't care.
And then I thought about, why is it that I don't care anymore?
Oh, because I don't view Portland as the same place as where I am now.
I don't think that we have anything in common, for the most part.
So they can do their thing.
Why would I complain?
They voted for it.
They want it.
Just don't mess with me, I guess.
ian crossland
I've been teasing the idea of defaulting on the Federal Reserve interest.
Not necessarily the entire debt to the thing, but just the interest itself.
And maybe the income tax is used to pay for the interest.
So if we got rid of income tax, we could just stop paying interest on our loans.
tim pool
We got a super chat here, it's a big one, from EmpReb.
He says, I want answer two things, Tim.
Will you ever have Nick Fuentes on your show, yes or no?
And why did Lisa block him?
I don't know who Lisa is.
ian crossland
Lisa!
tim pool
And the answer is, yes I will.
The problem is, this is the only person where people are non-stop emailing, messaging, and I will tell you what I absolutely won't do.
I will not invite someone on the show because people keep messaging me demanding that I do it.
ian crossland
It will not bend the knee.
tim pool
It's not about bending the knee.
It's about, I'm like, I really don't want people making a habit of just flooding our comments with names.
ian crossland
Oh, Peter Schiff.
That's another one.
unidentified
Some people recommend him.
ian crossland
Yeah, he's an economist.
I think he could help us talk about the Federal Reserve.
luke rudkowski
That would be hilarious now to have him on.
ian crossland
Him and Max Keiser together.
tim pool
So I'll tell you this.
I want to point something out.
EmpReb gave a $150 super chat to ask this question.
Thank you very much for that super chat.
I really do appreciate it.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
But you have to understand like someone giving that amount of money to get a comment read again, asking the same thing we get asked probably like 50 times every single day, every, every day.
Every time I see the, see the comments, I'm just like, I don't know when we're gonna be able to book this guy.
I just really don't.
Cause we had, we had one moment where, um, when he showed up in DC, when he, he gave, uh, Nick Fuentes gave his speech where he said, sacrifice Senate.
I was like, oh, that's good.
We got to talk to this guy.
And then we have the show and it's just, we'll get spammed.
And I'm like, I can't, I guess we should have him on.
No, I can't book him if people are spamming us.
ian crossland
The collective consciousness is telling us, do it.
unidentified
Not my collective conscious.
tim pool
I'm not booking anybody based on getting spammed.
ian crossland
That's why it's happening.
Because if he came on, it would just be like another anticlimactic awesome show.
tim pool
I think if we book people who we, you know, we get people flooding the comments and sending in massive superchats demanding we do it, I'm not setting that precedent.
So it's no disrespect to Nick.
I actually have, you know, some good friends who want us to have this conversation, but I'm literally being put in this position where he's the only person where people are dumping money and demanding it.
ian crossland
But for all we know, the guy that superchatted never heard you say that before and didn't know it was a big deal and he just really cares.
tim pool
That's why I read it and I'm gonna say it again.
But it's a difficult precedent.
I've already got people finding my phone number and blowing my phone up for other people now.
ian crossland
You should get a new number.
Joe gets one like every two weeks.
tim pool
That's smart.
That's right.
Super smart.
Some people are calling me living with voicemails and it's like...
I'm not playing that game.
I can't do it.
And so I guess the challenge is nothing personal against Nick specifically.
He's much higher profile.
I've even read comments from him that appeared in news stories.
But it's the smaller people that are spamming me like crazy demanding it.
I can't set that precedent.
ian crossland
What does Nick do?
I watched a little bit of his YouTube stuff before.
tim pool
Commentator.
America First commentator.
Yeah.
But that's, you know, and so I read comments all the time and I say the same thing every time.
Like, you know, I had someone, I have someone who keeps calling me, I had to block probably like 10 numbers already.
People demanding to come on the show.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
Oh, no, no.
tim pool
Right, never gonna happen.
The one way to make sure we never book you is to call my phone somehow, find the number.
luke rudkowski
I remember a couple months ago, I had someone show up to my house and literally be like, hey, can I be on your YouTube channel?
I'm like, how did you get my freaking house address?
What are you doing here?
I'm like, yeah, that was pretty uncomfortable.
unidentified
That's not cool.
tim pool
So I'll mention specifically too, my understanding of Nick Fuentes is that he got banned from, I think it was from YouTube, right?
unidentified
I think so, yeah.
tim pool
Because they were taking clips out of context.
ian crossland
Oh, he's off YouTube right now?
tim pool
I guess he was reading Super Chats and they claimed it was his statement.
ian crossland
They got him to say, my Mike Roch.
tim pool
No, he emailed something and it was used as a viral thing to get him banned.
And so, there's a lot of interesting things that I think we could talk about, but it's, you know, I guess... I can't do it if people keep spamming us.
You know, if we get inundated with non-stop comments demanding... But it's nice that you read that guy's Super Chat.
I'll definitely read it, because look, it's not an issue of me avoiding comments from people.
I'm not going to ignore people bringing it up, but I just want to let you know, like, it's bad enough I get people who are like random people calling my phone, Saying like, you know, I have nothing to do with anything.
I just, you know, I live somewhere and I want to be on the show.
And I'm like, dude, I get it.
I respect.
I appreciate.
But it's like, there's security issues, a bunch of things.
So anyway, that's the gist of it.
I don't want to harp too long, but let's read some more.
R Bracewell says, I got banned on Facebook for drug-related, for drug-related for screenshotting the PS5 queue and saying the page doesn't refresh for two hours.
unidentified
What?
tim pool
Flagged for calling someone lazy for not looking up info about what's happening in election.
Crazy.
Let's see.
Matt Wesley says, Tim, I have never heard you mention where you are located.
I understand not giving out your exact location for safety, but would you ever be interested in a meet and greet for local fans?
Uh, we're going to do semi-private, semi-public kind of events, but it was Alex Jones who came on the show and looked me in the eyes and laughed in my face and said, Missouri, huh?
And I was like, uh huh.
And then he kept doing it because he thought it was funny.
He was going like, I'll do it for the camera.
He was like, Missouri, Missouri, right?
And I'm like, I get it, Alex.
You're telling people where I am.
I thought he was waiting for me to laugh and be like, you got me.
Rude.
ian crossland
We're in the woods.
unidentified
We're in the woods in the middle of nowhere.
In Missouri, apparently.
tim pool
We're gonna do events.
And I'll also let you guys know, we're not in Missouri.
That was like the joke.
ian crossland
I have the documents.
tim pool
We're not in Missouri.
Let's see.
XD Interactive says $85,000 per person in the U.S.
to pay off the U.S.
debt.
Most of that debt is owed to the people of the U.S., though.
That's true, that's true.
A lot of people don't realize is the U.S.
debt is like the government borrowing money to people.
The issue, though, is the U.S.
does have foreign debt, and also, if the U.S.
can't pay those people back, then people lose confidence in the government, and then, oof, lots of things happen.
Let's see, James Passarelli says, if you do the math, you can paper mache the habitable landmass of the earth with dollar bills equal to the U.S.
unidentified
debt.
Wow.
Great.
tim pool
Most of it's digital, though.
Most of it's digital.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, it's just zeros on computers.
tim pool
Yeah.
ian crossland
That's so weird.
tim pool
Connor Murphy says, Luke, have you read Ian Smith's memoir, Bitter Harvest?
It's about the fall of Rhodesia and the creation of Zimbabwe.
The timelines are sadly similar.
luke rudkowski
I have not, but that sounds like a very interesting read.
I did spend some time in Zimbabwe and the history there is absolutely fascinating.
I did look into a little bit about Rhodesia, but I'll definitely check out the book recommendation when I have more time.
ian crossland
What were you doing in Zimbabwe?
luke rudkowski
Well, we went in there to talk about the hyperinflation that happened there and it was absolutely surreal to talk to individuals that were sharing their experiences of them being in grocery stores and things literally multiplying in prices right in front of them as their currency was hyperinflating.
And yeah, I got chased away by a couple police officers trying to detain me for filming one of their banks because there was another bank run there.
I interviewed a couple Bitcoin entrepreneurs there that are trying to bring cryptocurrencies to Africa to bring more accountability.
That was an interesting video that I produced there.
And they had a new currency that was backed by the dollar, but it was already inflating eight times when I was there a couple years ago.
ian crossland
Is that stuff on your YouTube channel?
luke rudkowski
Yeah, yep.
All on WeAreChange on YouTube.
tim pool
Freddy says, M1A fires 308 and 7.62 NATO.
Bought one for the same reason as you.
The rounds will punch through multiple walls easy.
Will penetrate body armor level 3A and under.
Not a ton of people wear what stops 7.62.
Well, I guess you get one good shot to the plate if you're wearing a plate.
luke rudkowski
It's a very strong bullet, but you also have to worry about the bullet going through walls and hitting your neighbors or hitting other people that you live with.
unidentified
It's an issue.
luke rudkowski
Home defense, that's why I always recommended a shotgun.
I personally have a shotgun with double barrels that I could flip on easily.
One is lethal, one is less lethal.
One are rubber bullets, because even if I'm somewhere like in New Hampshire, if there's a bear, I don't want to kill a bear.
tim pool
No, no, no.
luke rudkowski
I'm just going to use a rubber bullet in the butt.
tim pool
Dave Chappelle broke it down for us.
You got to put the birdshot, birdshot, buckshot, birdshot, buckshot.
Because the first one is a warning.
The first one peppers him up a little bit.
But then the next one is the serious one.
luke rudkowski
I have slugs and I have rubber bullets.
Yeah, I have a firearm that I could switch easily.
tim pool
Yo Daddy says, is Ian stoned?
unidentified
Nope.
ian crossland
I did smoke weed for about 14 years though.
And I think maybe it still is in my fat cells.
unidentified
Probably.
tim pool
Matthew Recamp says Repubs are control of one state legislator away from being able to use Article 5 Convention of States to pass constitutional amendments without Democrat support.
If you could make any proposal at the convention, what would it be?
Oh, man.
A constitutional convention for an amendment with two-thirds of the states?
unidentified
Really?
tim pool
Is that Article 5?
They need one more?
30 states?
Is that all they need?
What's a constitutional amendment we need?
ian crossland
Repeal the Federal Reserve Act?
tim pool
Well, that's bold.
Get rid of the slavery-if-you're-in-prison thing.
So the 13th abolishes slavery unless you've been convicted of a crime.
So how about no matter what, if you're convicted of a crime, you can't be used for cheap labor like Hamel Harris would like to.
luke rudkowski
Or just the decentralization of the federal government so states have the rights to choose what they want to do themselves without the federal government intervening.
tim pool
There's a fine line, though.
luke rudkowski
Of course.
But I think decentralization is the way to go.
tim pool
I got it.
What if we added... I think I have a proposal for probably two.
If we had a constitutional convention, if the Republicans get one more, I have two serious proposals.
The first is that the right to freedom of speech shall not be infringed by the government.
And the second should be that the people of this country have a right to keep and bear arms.
That needs to be added because apparently just one of each isn't enough.
ian crossland
Yep, that's a good start.
luke rudkowski
That's a great idea there.
I like that idea a lot.
ian crossland
It could be our first and second one.
tim pool
No, no, it would be, uh, what are we on?
unidentified
27?
tim pool
27 amendments?
Is that how many we have?
luke rudkowski
I'm not sure.
tim pool
I'm saying we need it written twice so you can be like, just so you get it.
I wasn't this big on 2A a couple years ago, but I'll tell you, when you watch the insanity and the chaos over this past year, I'm basically like, yeah, universal guns, whatever.
ian crossland
Dude, if we lose our free speech, we're led like lambs dumb to the slaughter that George Washington said.
tim pool
No, no, no, listen, listen.
Dave Chappelle is not a conservative, but when he said the second amendment is just in case the first one doesn't work out, I was like, man, that's Dave Chappelle.
luke rudkowski
Historically, when you look at gun control, what happens afterwards?
Total totalitarian government takeover.
History doesn't lie.
It keeps repeating.
tim pool
And you know what the left is wrong about every step of the way?
Two big things.
They say, what are you going to do?
Rise up against the government?
First of all, no.
The idea isn't that people go out and start fighting the government.
The idea is the government doesn't even try.
The government knows.
unidentified
It's a deterrent.
tim pool
But more importantly, the next thing I love so much is when they say, the Founding Fathers didn't intend for you to have a semi-automatic, you know, 60 mag rifle or whatever.
I'm like, bro, they had their own warships with cannons.
They had 60 cannons on a man-of-war, and it would go bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bum, and it would blow up whole towns.
Private individuals owned these things.
And they were like, yep.
ian crossland
Like, you don't want, they wouldn't have wanted us to have, like, portable nuclear bombs.
tim pool
I don't think they were differentiating between weapons at all.
ian crossland
You could have, like, explosives.
tim pool
You could have artillery on your property!
ian crossland
Like, now there's little things that can blow up entire city blocks.
Like, one guy can walk in with a crazy bomb and blow up a city.
tim pool
At the time, you on your property could have cannons all over the place.
ian crossland
That was military nuclear weapons at the time.
So nuclear weapons is another, another realm of explosive.
tim pool
Maybe there are certain questions that need to be asked about the advancement of technology as it pertains to what the founding fathers could not have seen.
Like should everybody have a nuclear weapon in their house?
Yeah, probably a bad idea.
You know?
ian crossland
Yeah.
Cause if someone makes, falls down and accidentally sets it off, that could be a problem.
tim pool
Newt could wipe out the Eastern, you know, some big Eastern city.
So it's tough.
Let's see.
Daniel Maxwell says, glad you guys were able to get some laughs from that.
Some humor is needed to reduce the stress from dealing with MSMBS.
That's right.
Absolutely.
luke rudkowski
Laughs from... I don't know.
tim pool
That was Daniel.
He made the joke before.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Zach Sommer says, Tim, the ATF just raided the offices of Polymer 80.
They took the sales records and ended up yesterday.
Tim of the Military Arms Channel on YouTube said he has sources.
They're going door to door confiscating all firearms if they find out you have one.
Wait.
unidentified
What?
That's insanity.
luke rudkowski
Well, the specific regulation that the ATF is trying to pass is they're trying to ban pistol braces and short barrel kind of rifles, which they personally classified as pistols.
Incorrectly, obviously.
So I haven't heard of that particular story.
I mean, obviously, we're going to look into it, but I don't think it got that severe yet.
We just hear some of the protocols, but even with the bump stock law, I mean, that was another big egregious move by the federal government that turned innocent Americans into felons overnight.
And we didn't see government going house to house with that incident.
So I don't see them doing it with this one either yet.
But who knows in 2020, especially under a Biden presidency.
tim pool
Derek says judge or governor for home defense.
luke rudkowski
I don't like both of them either.
tim pool
They're basically the same thing for the most part.
ian crossland
Or the Judge is the really long barrel one.
tim pool
No, no, no.
They're both essentially the same, but they're the revolvers that can take 45 long ACP and a 410 shotgun.
Luke's got a video from the range where he fires.
You can hear me laughing.
luke rudkowski
Yes, there's a big laugh.
unidentified
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
luke rudkowski
That thing's hard to fire, but it was fun.
tim pool
I had the, uh, we went, we went to the range and I told the guy, I was like, I want to fire a 410 shotgun.
I was like, you got the governor.
And he goes, I do, but we don't get any bullets for it.
And I was like, you have 410, right?
And he goes, you want to fire the 410 out of the governor?
And I was like, why should I not do it?
All right.
And I was like, come on, what are you trying to do?
You trying to freak me out?
It wasn't that bad.
unidentified
It's not that bad.
ian crossland
No, it's not that bad.
tim pool
Yeah, we all ended up firing it.
ian crossland
I hit the target dead center with it.
Yeah, you got a huge chunk straight through.
I'll take a picture of it.
I'll put it on Instagram, that's a good idea.
tim pool
That's awesome.
Everybody fired, and it's like, so it's the 410's got four buck shot, the ones we were, I think we were using four buck shot 410.
I think so, yeah.
And so it was spraying, right?
But Ian took a shot that did a big hole right through the center of the target.
ian crossland
And I didn't have my glasses on, it was just like Luke, the Death Star.
Computer off.
tim pool
Computer off. Oh, here we go. What is this?
Chad Caneco says skip the SNW Smith & Wesson 500 get a BFR revolver from Magnum Research
The same people that brought you the Desert Eagle pistol. I was half kidding. It's just a ridiculous gun. It's massive
It's like the Joker, you know, and he pulls out the giant revolver. That was hilarious
I am NOT a fan of revolvers to be honest, but yeah Chameleon DX says I own a four. What does that say four
inch Smith & Wesson 500 and it's fantastic You'll love it.
Once we get this big open... So you know what's interesting?
I actually looked up property in Wyoming.
The prices are comparable to West Virginia.
ian crossland
People are telling me Wyoming.
tim pool
It's good, big and empty, but the prices are comparable.
So it's like, at least in West Virginia, you can drive west or east and find a big city.
Maybe you don't want that.
Maybe you want to be in, you know, Wyoming.
unidentified
Maybe.
ian crossland
I don't know.
The corporation laws in Wyoming are incredible.
That's like the forefront of crypto.
tim pool
Because of that, right?
ian crossland
But you don't need to live there.
They can set you up with an address there and then you can run your corporation from other places.
tim pool
Dubber says, really have gotten obsessed with the show lately.
Love the addition of Luke.
Thank you for all you guys do.
Heart.
Thank you.
Really appreciate it.
luke rudkowski
Thank you so much.
tim pool
Yeah.
See, see, originally it was like, I think someone canceled and we were like, yo, Luke, we need you to come on.
And you were like, I don't know, man.
luke rudkowski
I'm not prepared or whatever.
No, no, no.
The first time someone didn't come, I'm like, fine, I'll do it.
And then it happened, I think, one more time.
And then there was a chance of co-hosting.
And I was like, no.
You're like, do it.
No.
And then you said no.
And then you said no.
I'm like, fine.
And then last minute, you're like, OK, come back in again.
I'm like, fine, whatever.
I came back in.
And then another time you said no.
tim pool
Because you know what we were doing?
We were actually at a point where we were just going to do guests.
And if we didn't have a guest, we wouldn't do a show.
But I was like, but then Luke was here.
And I was like, what?
Just do the show with Luke, I guess, you know.
luke rudkowski
There's always a lot to talk about.
tim pool
I know, dude.
luke rudkowski
Surprisingly.
ian crossland
I feel like we still, we only get in like one-tenth of 1% of what we have to.
tim pool
This is, look at this.
Waterdancer says the M1A is effective up to 500 meters of irons, according to Jet Car.
But if you're good, right?
luke rudkowski
You have to be good at iron sights to make sure that happens.
tim pool
So give that guy a scope.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, you're shooting a .308, so yeah.
Or a 7.62.
tim pool
All right, let's scroll down, see what we got.
Neon Extasia says this show became perfect with Luke.
He's essential.
See, I'm reading these because now Luke can't leave.
He's got to stay in the- Luke has the data.
ian crossland
Luke's got the old school- I'm a wildflower.
luke rudkowski
I'm a wildflower.
ian crossland
I like to- You've got the info, man, from like 2006, like the deep stuff.
luke rudkowski
I've been doing this for way too long.
unidentified
Yeah, man, we need to reveal.
luke rudkowski
Well, thank you so much.
tim pool
Integrity Media says, please search 2020 police quitting.
This is another point I want to make sure I bring up when I talk about these bad cops.
Someone brought up a really good point the other day.
I don't think we read the Super Chat, but they said, it's no wonder, like, don't you realize the reason the bad cops are, like, are in New York, they're doing this?
It's because the good cops all quit.
unidentified
That makes sense.
luke rudkowski
There's a lot of cops walking out.
There's a lot of cops quitting.
tim pool
The cops who are staying are the scabs, basically.
ian crossland
Oh, that's awful.
tim pool
The ones who are like, they're watching all the bad stuff happening, like, I'm not doing this, man.
And then the scabs are like, I don't care.
I'll trample over someone's rights if I get paid.
Mm-hmm.
ian crossland
Oh, that's a problem.
Yeah.
tim pool
Oh, we just gotta jump.
Let's see.
What is this?
Baseplayer2011iffy says, M14 was used in Korea in the start of Vietnam.
It's still used today as a designated marksman rifle and a mid-range sniper rifle in the military.
Oh, that's cool.
Luke told me to order this like crazy scope system, like the scope is a camera.
luke rudkowski
It's the best for the particular situation that we're in right now, especially with the rangefinder and especially as a cool toy to play with and to figure out as well.
Can it take video?
tim pool
Dude, this is crazy.
Sam Finley says, Polymer 80 buy and build kits are under scrutiny big time.
They've been going to homes of customers.
unidentified
That's what the other person said.
tim pool
Wow, dude.
Well, so someone comments.
luke rudkowski
Whoa, that's crazy.
tim pool
Someone comments non-serbia mar says the story about agents raiding homes is not totally true
They are seizing weapon kits for unserialized guns that can be put together and be fully functional in 20 minutes. Whoa,
that's crazy That's crazy
luke rudkowski
Well in the United States you can make your own firearm But you are supposed to put a serial number on it and then
call the government and know the fire notify them that you do
So that's specifically the law, depending on also your state and the jurisdiction that you're in.
ian crossland
That's just on the lower receiver?
luke rudkowski
That's on a functioning firearm, yeah.
tim pool
The Kraken says, I hate listening to people that know nothing about guns try to explain something about guns.
I wish they would ask someone that knows first.
ian crossland
That's what I do.
tim pool
I mean, I straight up don't know anything about guns.
I say it all the time.
ian crossland
That's why Luke's here.
tim pool
I was like, no guns, and I went and bought a bunch of guns.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, I'm learning about it, and there's, you know, no one that's perfect.
ian crossland
Would you consider yourself an expert?
luke rudkowski
I don't consider myself an expert in anything.
unidentified
So, novice, amateur... I'm always learning, and I'm always... Journeyman, novice, amateur?
ian crossland
Is that what it would be?
tim pool
Shooter says, please stop repeating tired FUD lines about shotguns, like Elmer FUD, about shotguns being best home defense.
Please do actual research on firearms and all related fields and talk to actual professionals in the firearm and self-defense industry.
unidentified
Yeah.
luke rudkowski
Well, yeah, of course.
Yeah.
Always seek professional assistance.
Don't base off your decisions off of a podcast that you randomly heard.
tim pool
From a dude who literally just bought guns for the first time this year and has plastic doll arms.
Yes.
luke rudkowski
Well, the plastic doll arms are good for training as well.
ian crossland
I don't want to dog the plastic.
tim pool
Michael Hunt says, Luke is a DLC to Timcast.
unidentified
That's right.
DLC?
luke rudkowski
What's a DLC?
ian crossland
Uh, downloadable content.
It's like an expansion.
Like when you get a video game, you get an expansion pack.
tim pool
Spend $7.99, get the Luke.
Daniel Smith says, Tim, just break down and buy a tank.
You can get one for about $40,000.
You can't have a functional main gun, but just replace it with a flamethrower.
I've seen people do that.
luke rudkowski
I have a flamethrower.
tim pool
But what if you replace the main gun with like, it's more cosmetic and you actually have just like a smaller caliber gun.
You know what I mean?
luke rudkowski
Well, you just have that on you anyway.
tim pool
Yeah.
Very nice.
luke rudkowski
Well, especially if you have a lot of people around you and a lot of people living in one space, I think shotguns are definitely the most appropriate for home defense, depending on the circumstance, depending on the situation, depending on the person who would handle it.
There's so many different variables, but for this one, for personally, our ones that I kind of examined here, I thought that was the best.
ian crossland
Why is that?
luke rudkowski
Uh, well, you want to make sure that you don't, uh, accidentally hurt someone.
You want to make sure that you could also have something that's, uh, you know, has a big shot that actually stops whatever threat you have coming at you.
And you could use a different number of calibers and a different number of bullets that do a lot of different things.
tim pool
I can make an, I can, I can per, I personally know how to make an active denial system using a magnetron.
Because I've built some crazy stuff with my friends back in the day.
You want to talk about home defense.
Imagine having a 2x4 with a magnetron on it and a can of soup to direct the beam.
And a guy breaks in and he's like, what's that?
unidentified
Aaaaaaaah!
tim pool
And then he goes running screaming because he feels like he's on fire.
luke rudkowski
We probably could make a Home Alone version self-defense training video.
tim pool
You ever see these videos?
luke rudkowski
It would be interesting.
tim pool
Where people take the magnetron from a microwave and they direct it and you can like point at it like halogen lights and they light up.
Yeah, it's crazy.
It's actually not that complicated to build.
So I used to hang out with all the hackers that did crazy stuff.
I made a remote control can of green tea once.
ian crossland
How's that work?
tim pool
So it was, it used, we vibrated the can so that the, I guess the way to describe it is the vibrations caused the friction between the can and the table to become essentially zero.
And then the, what generated the friction was a wheel on the front that spun that was slightly off-center.
That created a weight and a vibration.
So the can would be weighted forward while vibrating.
So you could control it forward.
And then in the back of it was a gyroscopic stabilizer of some plastic 3d printed heart that would spin and allow you to, if you, if you reduced the spin of the front weight, it would start spinning in circles.
ian crossland
Cool.
tim pool
And then if you sped it up, it would start going straight again.
So you could only go, it was a can of green tea that you could remote control across the table.
ian crossland
Would you fill it with water and send it over to your friend?
tim pool
No, he just drove it around because it was hilarious.
Because we used weird principles to make something that could move that shouldn't be able to move.
And it was really just me screwing around.
Like, we didn't plan it.
I was like, I'm gonna make a can!
I was like, I duct-taped the motors to it, and I was like, oh, look what it's doing, let's do this, and we just built it.
ian crossland
And it's always moving in a curve.
unidentified
No.
ian crossland
You're just directing the curve.
curve to make it look straight.
tim pool
It'll if you go about half power, it, the, the, there's a front motor that'll spin.
And then it'll, the whole camel starts spinning in circles.
And then if you go full power, it'll go straight.
ian crossland
But then you release it.
It'll spin when it goes straight.
It's still moving at a curve.
That's mitigated.
It was my point.
tim pool
It's it moves.
ian crossland
The entire universe is a curve.
There's no such thing as a straight line.
unidentified
Sure.
tim pool
Right.
So you put on the table and you want it to go straight.
You can make it go straight.
We can make it stop and spin and then change directions.
ian crossland
Two curves canceling each other.
tim pool
Yeah, that's crazy.
Let's see.
What do we got?
There was a- wasn't there one big super chat I think I just had here?
Yes.
Zach Sommer says, sorry, but incorrect.
You only have to serialize a firearm if you plan to sell it- sell, or if it's an NFA item.
I am not an expert, but I have studied firearm law for six years.
ian crossland
What's NFA?
tim pool
National- National Firearms Act?
Is that what it is?
luke rudkowski
Yeah, yes, yes.
tim pool
Let's see.
Lee Quessenberry says, Tim, I have the ATN scope that's night vision and records in 4K.
Federally, you don't have to register a homemade firearm as long as it's no NFA item.
Interesting.
I've seen a bunch of crazy videos of people who have made their own weapons.
I won't talk about exactly what they are, but there's really simple mechanisms for making homemade weapons.
ian crossland
Yeah, you told me once about a dude that went into an airport and made a bomb with all the stuff in the airport.
tim pool
Easy.
ian crossland
That's crazy!
tim pool
It's amazing.
a video for Vice. We saw the guy, it went viral, so we met up with him in North Carolina,
and the dude was a hacker and he was like, there's things in airports, like he made a
grenade. He made a legit firebomb that burst into flames and sprayed, I was like, wow dude.
ian crossland
It's so easy to do.
There's this guy Colin.
He's like a YouTube engineer.
He makes like magnetic shoes where you can walk on the ceiling.
I don't know about that.
luke rudkowski
I remember the video that you're talking about because this was right after the TSA started banning water bottles and they started throwing everyone's water away.
tim pool
The dude's name is Evan Booth, he's on Twitter, you can follow him, check it out.
This was a long time ago, this was like 8 years ago?
unidentified
Or 7?
luke rudkowski
And he proved how security is just a big illusion.
tim pool
But he didn't just make bombs, he made a bunch of, he made a crossbow.
He made a crossbow, he's like, I'm gonna make a whole bunch of weapons that, like, only using things you can get in airports.
ian crossland
Inside, past the security.
tim pool
Like, you go into the airport, you go through security, you go to like a Hudson News, and you buy everything you need.
luke rudkowski
And well, I guess I was wrong about you having to register your firearm if you only plan on selling it.
I don't know exactly, but I'm gonna look into that more.
tim pool
I'll let you in on the big secret.
They sell Axe body spray in airports.
So this video is all public, so I'll just give you the gist of it, but when lithium comes into contact with water, it bursts into flames.
unidentified
Yes.
tim pool
You know, not too much water, otherwise it'll just sizzle and dance around on the top of it.
But if you get lithium, which is in batteries, and you can literally just crack them open and pull out a sheet of lithium, you put a little water on it, and it'll burst.
Fire will come out.
So he found a way to combine these things with thermoses, seal them, and then created a mechanism by which, on contact, water breaks.
ian crossland
Oh, so like pressurized lithium in the water, and it would cause explosions?
tim pool
And it would cause the, the fuel cartridge was the X-Body Spray.
Yeah, I think it's, I think, isn't body spray, is it usually like butane for... Hmm.
Or does it not?
I don't know.
luke rudkowski
I have no idea.
tim pool
But it's all, I wouldn't normally explain how he did it, because it's like, I think it's a bad idea, but the videos are all publicly on YouTube, and there's more than one.
And I think one of his videos got taken down when he explained how to do it, because they were like, you're showing people how to make... It's too much!
unidentified
Yeah!
ian crossland
Too much knowledge!
tim pool
But you know what's really funny?
He made a club, and the club I think was just rolled up magazines.
He took a bunch of rolled up magazines, and then wrapped packing tape around it, and was like smashing things with it.
ian crossland
It's the most basic weapon.
unidentified
But it worked.
luke rudkowski
It works.
tim pool
Yeah.
ian crossland
Anyone can use one in DND.
tim pool
Let's see.
Oh yeah.
Rolly A. Murray says, home defense, get yourself a PSDFK BRNO 7.5.
Also look at John Lovell and the Warrior Poet Society Network on how they created their own network.
Interesting.
Let's see.
Justin Smith says, land, gold, bitcoin, deposit on the new home purchase, best use of nest egg before the great reset.
ian crossland
Land.
tim pool
You know, it's really funny because I looked at an RV, I just bought an RV, but people got to realize, man, like financing is everything.
You know, most things financed.
You don't got to spend a lot of money to get a piece of property together.
unidentified
Is that true?
ian crossland
Because if the economy went nuclear, you know, times a thousand, would you still only have to pay off that what you had financed?
Yes.
tim pool
I mean, I don't see why that would be not the case.
So, like, China does currency manipulation for this reason.
They'll be like, hey, I'll lend you, you know, a hundred bucks.
And you're like, I know that with a hundred bucks I can buy a phone, right?
Then they start manipulating their currency so you can't buy a phone with a hundred bucks anymore.
They double the price.
Now, you know, I owe him less by manipulating the currency.
luke rudkowski
I have to look into this because, I mean, I would think they would put something in the contract that it's adjusted to inflation or some kind of clause.
tim pool
Nah, that's what interest is.
So if you're locked in at an interest rate, then you're good.
And so I'm like, bro, if you buy something right now, I don't know.
I could be totally wrong about this.
luke rudkowski
I don't want to be giving advice like that.
tim pool
I'm not giving anybody advice, but I'm like, what would happen if you had like 50k in debt from buying something and then the economy tanked and now everyone's getting paid a million dollars an hour at McDonald's?
You'd pay off the debt like that.
It'd be worthless.
ian crossland
Yeah, the time we're raising the minimum wage.
And if you're in Bitcoin and that goes up times a thousand, then you still only owe the same financed amount.
I'm not an expert.
tim pool
LuckyCastIRL says, Luke is a must.
What a serious asset to have on the squad.
Always full of great info.
His channel needs a boost.
YouTube is after him.
That's true.
That's absolutely true.
luke rudkowski
You've been after me for a while.
ian crossland
I was thinking if this was a movie, like this life, it would be like when Luke's character got there is when I got really good.
I was thinking about that the other day.
luke rudkowski
You guys are being too nice to me.
ian crossland
This is a trap.
luke rudkowski
I'm running away.
ian crossland
He's like the weapons guy.
unidentified
He's embarrassed.
tim pool
Russell Stallman says, Yo Tim, I have a Picatinny scope mount for a M1A with your name on it.
Hit me up.
If you go to timcast.com slash donate, there is a PO box.
You can send whatever you'd like to if you want to send stuff to the show.
Actually, I'll tell you this.
If you guys are listening and you want to send Luke some stuff, make it funny.
Make it as funny as you can.
luke rudkowski
I do have a P.O.
box as well, if people want to send me stuff as well.
Send them weird stuff.
On wearechange.org forward slash donate, I have my public P.O.
box on there, so if you want to send me some weird stuff... Then they'll show it off.
tim pool
We'll shut off on that.
We're going to do a vlog, and when we do the vlog, we're going to do weird mail time.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, I mean, I'm not afraid of the weird stuff here, so, you know, feel free to send whatever you guys want.
ian crossland
I think that guy made a good point that buying land is the key right now.
tim pool
Yeah.
Well, I'll tell you this right now.
If the apocalypse happens and you own land.
ian crossland
Oh, right.
Unless you're on it.
Yeah, exactly.
unidentified
Yeah.
ian crossland
Point.
tim pool
Can you defend it?
unidentified
No.
tim pool
Cause you can even be on it.
And let's say you own a hundred acres, right?
And you're like, this is my land.
The apocalypse happens.
Some hippies are going to show up and be like, bro, you can't like own land, man.
And you're going to be like, the hell I can't.
And he's going to go.
Yeah, you want to talk about it?
luke rudkowski
That's why we're working on a nice scope for the M1 just to, you know.
ian crossland
I don't think if you hire guards, they could just be like, it's our land now.
tim pool
We're gonna get this land.
We're gonna build dirt jumps.
We're gonna make a shooting range and stuff and have this like space where we can do fun videos.
ian crossland
Hadron Collider.
tim pool
Hacking, lasers, just like, you know, so we can do fun.
luke rudkowski
Airsoft games.
tim pool
Right, right, right, right.
ian crossland
Laser tag arena.
Yeah.
tim pool
And build big dome housing.
Like, is it Kanye doing that?
ian crossland
Kanye West is going to help us build domes.
tim pool
He's going to help us build domes.
unidentified
Uh-huh.
tim pool
Sure, sure.
But isn't he doing that?
ian crossland
Yeah, he's building domes for the homeless right now.
unidentified
Easy.
tim pool
Yeah.
ian crossland
He is on the pulse.
tim pool
Bruce A. II says, Tim Pool.
Guys, we're wandering into dangerous territory.
Also Tim Pool.
Hey guys, wanna make bombs out of household items?
It's easy.
No.
ian crossland
Disclaimer.
tim pool
I'm saying, that was a video I did like seven years ago for Vice.
But when we go out into the middle of nowhere, we're gonna be doing a bunch of like, special effects, hacking.
I'm not, you know, I gotta be honest.
I think bombs are, like, lowbrow.
People like making videos, and they're like, you know, so they had Mythbusters, right?
And the Mythbusters episodes that did really well were the ones with explosions.
So they made some, like, show that was just people making explosions, and I'm like, nah, nah, nah.
You gotta do something fun, like lasers.
Here's what I wanna do.
Can we make some kind of, like, flying device that can be powered by pointing a laser at it?
Things like that.
ian crossland
Yeah, probably.
Like a super lightweight aluminum craft.
tim pool
With some kind of, you know, energy conversion of sorts.
ian crossland
Like ionic lift or something.
tim pool
Photovoltaic or whatever.
ian crossland
I should get Jeremy Rist, the alien scientist, to help us build it.
They're about to do like a million watt giga- some massive energy power source at their office.
tim pool
You know what I want to do?
Remember in Super Mario Bros.
the movie they had those things they put on their legs that were like hydraulic and they could jump super high and then when they landed it compressed again?
Will that blow your legs apart?
luke rudkowski
Maybe.
tim pool
Yeah.
I was reading something about a metal frame suit that you can get that allows you to lift things.
luke rudkowski
There's like a video I watched where... DARPA has that, that developing the super soldier exoskeleton.
tim pool
But I'm not talking about, but not powered, like totally mechanical pulleys, like it springs in a metal frame and you have hooks and you hook it to something and then it makes it, it's like hydraulics, you can lift it really easily.
There's a bunch of cool stuff we can do like that.
luke rudkowski
Oh yeah.
tim pool
That being said everybody, Let's do one more we got here, the best one.
Willy Billy the Hillbilly says you should have Coleen Noir on the show, a firearm and firearm law expert, or James from TFBTV, another gun expert.
Yes, I'd love to have Coleen Noir.
He's awesome.
unidentified
Standing invite.
tim pool
Yes, standing invite.
And I think it's just an issue of travel and COVID for most people, so we'll see.
Uh, and you know, but I look forward to having, uh, ooh, what is this?
T-Pain says, Tim, I own an ammo company, Impact Ammo.
I cannot send ammo to a PO box.
Um, send me an email.
If you go to timcast.com, there's a contact section, send an email and, uh, we'll, uh, you know, just send me the information.
We'll figure it out.
ian crossland
Regarding Jeremy's power source, it's a 1 million volt Marx generator, and he's ready to make some plasma.
tim pool
I got an idea for a show I wanted to do where we do a live stream and then we take some kind of like electrodes or whatever and hook it to random objects and then the voltage or whatever the right word is, I don't know because I'm not an electrician or an engineer, the power going into the thing we hook up to it will be based on how many live viewers we have.
So what happens is you'll have like 10,000 people watching, and it'll be like 10,000 volts and nothing will be happening.
ian crossland
You could use smart contracts for that, like cryptocurrency.
tim pool
No, you just tell people to come and watch the show.
ian crossland
Just by being there, it could mine a crypto that causes the generator to click.
tim pool
Way too complicated.
ian crossland
But that's how you could automate the system.
tim pool
We wouldn't need to do that.
We would just have it.
ian crossland
So we turn it up as they showed up.
luke rudkowski
Yes.
tim pool
No, you, it's, it's, it's probably like one line of code to be like voltage equal view count.
That's just that simple.
unidentified
Yeah.
ian crossland
I just want to make crypto.
tim pool
Yeah.
We can make the crypto people can have it.
And it would be, I don't know, whatever tokens, you know, it wasn't ERC 20 tokens, but that's the idea.
So then people are like, share with your friends.
Cause if you don't, then you're not going to get that.
ian crossland
That's a great idea.
tim pool
Yeah, it'd be fun.
We're gonna get a big open crazy land and do it.
And I got the idea because watching that hydraulic press channel where they were crushing things.
unidentified
I love that.
tim pool
And I was like, what would happen if you like took a teddy bear, got it soaking wet, and then hooked it up?
What would happen?
Nothing?
I don't know.
What if the teddy bear didn't have any water on it?
Would it just nothing because there's no contact?
ian crossland
You have to test.
tim pool
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
ian crossland
And we got to get a super slow-mo camera because I want to watch the electricity arc.
unidentified
Yes.
tim pool
Wow, that's ridiculous.
Those rigs are massive to see electricity arc.
ian crossland
Let's fund it.
Let's get a funded electricity.
tim pool
You're talking about a gigantic rig.
We can maybe get one of those like, you know, couple thousand frames per second cameras.
ian crossland
Yeah, I want the state of the art.
tim pool
Where you can see bullets come out in slow motion.
Yeah, that's way too expensive.
And you got to be in like super bright rooms.
It's crazy.
ian crossland
It's all for the art.
tim pool
Right on.
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unidentified
Luke!
tim pool
I hear you're a person with social medias.
luke rudkowski
Yes, yes, yes.
You can follow me on LukeWeAreChange on Twitter and Instagram.
And coincidentally, I'm also wearing another We Are Change t-shirt.
This one saying Gibbs Me Dat by a homeless person.
Extra points if you could guess who this is.
And check out more information on my YouTube channel, We Are Change.
Thanks again so much for having me.
tim pool
But there are people who are only listening.
So it's Karl Marx.
unidentified
Gibbs Me Dat Gibbs.
tim pool
Ian?
ian crossland
Hi everyone, I'm Ian Crossland.
You can follow me on many and most social networks at Ian Crossland, including my Instagram, where you can see Luke shoveling snow off the roof of his RV, and Twitter, where I usually interact with people the most.
Also, Minds.
I co-founded Minds with Bill Ottman in 2010, and I think it's a great potential to use as a fresh new source code for a new social network.
If we're going to expand to use free software, so follow me on Minds.
tim pool
Right on.
And of course, you can follow at Sour Patch Lids, who's pushing all the buttons.
unidentified
I am on Twitter.
I talk to people on Twitter.
It's very fun.
Join me there.
tim pool
Ladies and gentlemen, we'll be back tomorrow, 8 p.m.
We're going to have a really, really interesting big show.
Yeah, I'm excited.
luke rudkowski
I want to confront him on something.
It's going to be very big.
It's going to be a little controversial, but very funny.
tim pool
It's going to cause trouble.
luke rudkowski
Yes, there's going to be trouble tomorrow.
tim pool
Right on.
Thanks for hanging out, everybody.
We will see you tomorrow.
And we were talking about foreign interference, the election, crazy conspiracies, all that good stuff.
Thanks for hanging out, everybody.
We'll see you tomorrow.
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