Dec. 24, 2020 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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you you | |
| you President Donald Trump has followed through on his threat | ||
| to veto the National Defense Authorization Act which is a massive I | ||
| think it's like 750 billion dollar bill that essentially authorizes national | ||
| defense There's a couple interesting things in it. | ||
| Most notably is an amendment that was added in July that curtails the president's power Uh, to invoke the Insurrection Act. | ||
| It would require some kind of certification through Congress, which essentially defeats the purpose of the Insurrection Act, I guess. | ||
| But Trump vetoed it not because of this. | ||
| He vetoed it because he said Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act must be repealed. | ||
| Now that would be a huge mistake. | ||
| It would likely result in... You know what? | ||
| I don't... I wonder if they would ban this show. | ||
| They probably would. | ||
| We'd probably be banned instantly. | ||
| You'd see the likes of, you know, Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro. | ||
| They'd be gone overnight. | ||
| Because what Section 30 does is it makes it so that YouTube can't be sued for the things said by me, Ben Shapiro, or Kyle Kalinske, or Steven Crowder, or anything like that. | ||
| That you'd have to actually sue those individuals for defamation if they defamed you. | ||
| If you get rid of Section 230, then you would just sue YouTube for YouTube, you know, is the one who published the content. | ||
| I certainly think Section 230 has its problems. | ||
| We need reform. | ||
| I don't think they're going to repeal it. | ||
| Mitch McConnell is saying he's going to come back in on the 29th and override Trump. | ||
| Which is a good sign that just before one of the most important elections for the Republican Party, the Republican Party has more than enough knives to place, figuratively, in Donald Trump's back. | ||
| Which means probably Trump supporters aren't gonna support the Republican Party in that capacity, but we'll see. | ||
| We got a lot to talk about. | ||
| We'll talk about Nancy Pelosi and this COVID stimulus package and stuff. | ||
| But we got a cool guest today. | ||
| You may be familiar with him from his congressional campaign. | ||
| Former congressional candidate Joey Salads has joined us. | ||
| I told you not to reference me like that. | ||
| I told you I was gonna do it. | ||
| Introduce yourself! | ||
| So yeah, I'm Joey Salads. | ||
| I do pranks and political stuff. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| I don't feel like I'm worthy to be on this show. | ||
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What do you mean? | |
| Oh, you're more than worthy. | ||
| Yeah, what are you talking about? | ||
| You have like millions of subscribers. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| It's all demonetized. | ||
| I don't even post pranks anymore on YouTube, so I don't know. | ||
| You get like tons and tons of views. | ||
| Dude, your prank stuff was pioneering, man. | ||
| It was. | ||
| I was pioneering that stuff, but... | ||
| Some controversial, for sure. | ||
| But then you ran for office, so now you're officially a former congressional candidate. | ||
| That's your official honorary title. | ||
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Forever. | |
| It's like, oh, I'm officially a loser. | ||
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No. | |
| Congrats. | ||
| But we can talk a lot about a lot of stuff, too. | ||
| It's interesting. | ||
| I think you're probably one of the best people to talk to about internet censorship, Section 230. | ||
| Not only are you one of the... When did you start on YouTube? | ||
| I started on, I've been doing YouTube since it came out. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| And that was like, as a kid, you know, fourth grade, that was my dream. | ||
| I want to be a YouTuber. | ||
| That's what I want to do. | ||
| And you did it. | ||
| And I ended up doing it. | ||
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There you go. | |
| You gotta do it every single day, kids. | ||
| If you're at home and you want to be a YouTuber, just do it every single day. | ||
| And eventually, if you make good stuff, Be smart, get better, right? | ||
| We're going to talk about this because the NDAA stuff overlaps with censorship and big tech, and it will be an interesting conversation. | ||
| Of course, Ian's chilling. | ||
| What up, Holmes? | ||
| And I've got the super male vitality. | ||
| That's Michael's. | ||
| Michael, thank you. | ||
| Mr. Malice, Dr. Menace. | ||
| He left it here. | ||
| It was so good that I put some in my coffee. | ||
| Does it taste good? | ||
| Yeah, I tasted it. | ||
| It's sweet. | ||
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Interesting. | |
| I liked it so much. | ||
| I don't even know what it is. | ||
| You should have some. | ||
| No, I'm good. | ||
| Just in case you change your mind. | ||
| Super... Michael Malice's Super Male Vitality Info Wars Life, it says. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| It's really amazing how supplements are like the go-to thing that people sell. | ||
| What's up with that? | ||
| You can't tell if they work? | ||
| I think I did like two or three ads for a supplement that was a collagen supplement. | ||
| That's good for you. | ||
| But it's because I'm like an old man and I skate. | ||
| I've been taking beetroot. | ||
| I've got like an array of like ten different bottles of fruit extracts and stuff and one is beetroot extract. | ||
| It is so good. | ||
| You will feel so much better after two of those. | ||
| Are you pitching a specific beetroot company? | ||
| I will let you know. | ||
| I got you a Christmas present. | ||
| Is it beetroot extract? | ||
| It is beetroot extract. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Lydia's hanging out. | ||
| I am here pushing buttons. | ||
| She's mashing all the buttons. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| But let's just jump in. | ||
| Let me just say something first. | ||
| We weren't actually going to do a show today. | ||
| This is interesting. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's Christmas Eve Eve. | ||
| Tomorrow's Christmas Eve, so I'll let you in. | ||
| Look, if I could work every day through every holiday, I would. | ||
| The problem is two things happen on holidays like Christmas Eve and Christmas. | ||
| Nobody is working, so very little happens. | ||
| The politicians are at home, they're not talking about anything, so there's no movement. | ||
| But everybody's home. | ||
| But nobody's watching this stuff. | ||
| So like, on holidays when people, for political content I can say, at least, my views go down, because people aren't gonna turn on a podcast, listen to politics, and hang out with their family. | ||
| What I do is... | ||
| Luckily, I have so much evergreen content throughout the years, I just repost Christmas or seasonal related content every single year. | ||
| So on Christmas, I'll put up, you know, for those three, four days, I'll just re-upload, you know, hey, this was kind of Christmas related, like a package. | ||
| That's a good idea. | ||
| I should do that. | ||
| I'll go back from like a year ago to find some news segment I did. | ||
| Put it on. | ||
| We're gonna hang out. | ||
| Merry Christmas, everybody. | ||
| We're chillin'. | ||
| We weren't really gonna do a show, but then, you know, Joey's in town. | ||
| Yeah, he invited me on, on Christmas Day. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Well, I got the day Friday, I'm like, that's Christmas, bro. | ||
| That was a mistake, that was a mistake. | ||
| I didn't realize what day Christmas was, and I was like, maybe you can come this day, and then I was like, oh wait, just come tomorrow, dude. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So we got Joey here, but let's talk some news, man. | ||
| This is big. | ||
| This is Trump Veto's major defense bill, citing Section 230. | ||
| This is significant because it's the authorization for national defense. | ||
| It is a massive spending bill. | ||
| It is a ridiculous spending bill. | ||
| One of the most famous instances of the NDAA was when Obama signed into law something called the Indefinite Detention Provision. | ||
| Which was included in it, and it allowed the U.S. | ||
| government basically to, like, rendition anyone anywhere, like, take you and blackbag you, like, you know, like V for Vendetta, where Creedy puts the bag over your head and then, like, zips it and they drag you out? | ||
| That's basically what it authorized, so... You know, seeing Trump veto this, I la- When I heard Trump was gonna do it, when he tweeted about it, I started laughing. | ||
| But let's read. | ||
| TechCrunch reports, following through on his previous threat, President Trump has vetoed the $740 million, okay, million, not billion, National Defense Authorization Act, a major bill that allocates military funds each year. | ||
| In tweets earlier this month, Trump said he would sink the NDAA if it wasn't altered to include language terminating Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, an essential and previously obscure Internet law that the President has had in his crosshairs for the better part of a year. | ||
| Quote, your failure to terminate the very dangerous national security risk of Section 230 will make our intelligence virtually impossible to conduct without everyone knowing what we are doing at every step. | ||
| Trump said in a statement on the veto, it's not clear what the president meant or what he was referring to in criticizing the military funding bill as a gift to China and Russia. | ||
| I just gotta say, I have no idea what he means by that Section 230 thing. | ||
| And I think Trump fundamentally misunderstands what Section 230 is, probably because his understanding of it is being filtered through, you know, one or two people. | ||
| So you'll get someone like me being like, yo, we need Section 230 reform. | ||
| Section 230 is a problem. | ||
| Someone will hear that and then be like, yeah, Section 230 is a problem. | ||
| And then Trump will be like, it's a problem? | ||
| All right, I'll get rid of it. | ||
| It's like, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| You get rid of it, we're all banned. | ||
| We don't want to do that. | ||
| So let's see, they say, Trump tweeted about it. | ||
| The president cited bipartisan calls for a Section 230 repeal in his decision in spite of the NDAA's overwhelming bipartisan support. | ||
| So basically what's going to happen now is Mitch McConnell says, December 29th, he's going to come back in, override Trump's vetoes to make sure every single Trump supporter knows The Republican Party hates you, hates your president. | ||
| I'm being a little hyperbolic here. | ||
| But yeah, come on. | ||
| Mitch McConnell doesn't like Trump. | ||
| It was a really great comic. | ||
| I don't know if you guys follow George Alexopoulos, who got his paintings up on the walls. | ||
| He just put one out where it basically looks like the Lion King, I guess. | ||
| Trump is hanging from a cliff and reaching out, and then Mitch McConnell jams his fingers into Trump's hands, and then Trump's falling to his death, like the Lion King in Scar. | ||
| Oh, I want that one. | ||
| Yeah, it's so good, man. | ||
| I'd love to get it. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| But, uh, look. | ||
| If Section 230 goes, our show's gone. | ||
| The reason why there's probably bipartisan calls to repeal Section 230 is because the Establishment hates us. | ||
| They hate you. | ||
| They do. | ||
| Now I'm not being hyperbolic. | ||
| They hate you, they hate me, they hate Joey, they hate Ian. | ||
| They especially hate Lydia. | ||
| The Establishment just really doesn't like you. | ||
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I know. | |
| What is it about Lydia? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| Because she's pushing the buttons, man. | ||
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That's true. | |
| They're like, ugh, Lydia. | ||
| Yeah, so look, the establishment Democrats would love it if the mainstream media were the only game in town. | ||
| And so you get rid of Section 230, and then overnight, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube are flooded with lawsuits, many of them probably meritless, and then they're just gonna be like, we're done, ban everybody. | ||
| We don't care. | ||
| You know what YouTube will do? | ||
| They would love this. | ||
| YouTube's been trying to get rid of everybody for a long time. | ||
| And so they're doing something like, uh, I don't know if you saw this, Joey, with what Pornhub just did recently. | ||
| I did see that. | ||
| Banned all non-verified content. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| If you're not a verified channel, you're gone. | ||
| I used to have a whole, uh, photo. | ||
| Pornhub channel? | ||
| Yeah, no, like, uh, bookmarked. | ||
| Like, my favorite porn. | ||
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I was like, mom, about ten years worth of stuff. | |
| I'm with you. | ||
| 70, 80% of it's gone. | ||
| I'm like, ah, this has been my library, you know? | ||
| Evergreen content, you know? | ||
| The livelihoods for some people, I mean, in all seriousness, a lot of people just lost their jobs when that happened. | ||
| I know there's a lot- I know there's, like, porn hub, like, creators, like, YouTube. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| And, like, they'll do, like, porn vlogs. | ||
| Am I allowed to say that word? | ||
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Oh, cool. | |
| I guess. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't- Probably not. | ||
| We'll probably demonetize. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| Merry Christmas, everybody! | ||
| Vlogs? | ||
| Vlogs? | ||
| But, yeah, but, like, it's- it's, like, people have their own channels, and, you know, they can make money, I guess. | ||
| I don't, I don't, I, I, uh, my understanding is now they're doing crypto because MasterCard and Visa cut them off. | ||
| But this is what's coming for everybody. | ||
| They start with Pornhub. | ||
| They always do it this way too, because they know regular people won't publicly fight for it for the most part. | ||
| Like nobody wants to get on a pedestal and be like, we must protect our porn! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They're going to be like, nah. | ||
| They go after the worst of society first. | ||
| Or just like the, the socially, the fringes. | ||
| And now I'll tell you what comes next. | ||
| They did this thing, we talked about it a little bit last week, where YouTube got rid of verification for tons of channels. | ||
| You remember that? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I remember they stripped... I wonder if I'm still verified. | ||
| Well, there was a backlash, and so they said, OK, we're not going to do that. | ||
| We're not going to do that. | ||
| I was actually one of the approved channels, where I got an email saying, you're all good, we love you, you're verified. | ||
| But eventually, I think what's going to happen is, they're going to start... So right now, they already said, we're going to put ads on content that isn't in the Partner Program. | ||
| Meaning, you upload videos, they'll make money off you. | ||
| Because YouTube's losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year. | ||
| Oh yeah, just non-stop. | ||
| I think what comes next is, they're going to be like, if you're not a verified account in the Partner Program, We are going to stop promoting you in the algorithm. | ||
| And they're going to say, you'll still be able, or they'll say like, we'll stop recommending you as much. | ||
| This is because, you know, we're trying to improve quality for all of our creators and make sure they can make money. | ||
| It'll be great news for all of the bigger creators who will now see bigger viewership and things like that. | ||
| And then they're going to start, they're going to tell, they're going to start getting rid of smaller channels, fringe channels, people with the wrong opinions. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Gone, gone, gone. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| It's, it's two things. | ||
| They're doing it one for business reasons and then two, because they have bias. | ||
| And the business reasons why they're doing it is because the whole adpocalypse situations, where, you know, CNN or the late night show, they can post whatever they want. | ||
| And they have reserve ads on the back end, where they're- What does that mean, reserve ads? | ||
| I'm assuming they're in the Google Preferred program where they're getting the most exclusive, highest paying ads. | ||
| And then also on the back end to fill the extra ad slots, they have direct deals with companies like Coca-Cola to fill that extra space and they pay a premium. | ||
| So obviously YouTube and Google, they get a cut of that. | ||
| So that's one of the reasons why they want to promote traditional media there because they have their own set of ads from direct deals. | ||
| Business-wise, it makes sense, but that's not what YouTube is. | ||
| And that content only gets views when they feature it on the homepage. | ||
| When you go to the front page of YouTube, and I'm sure all of you watching have seen this, there's like the COVID news bar and everything's thumbs down to oblivion. | ||
| It's like 10, 20% thumbs up. | ||
| It's all just obliterated because nobody wants to watch that garbage. | ||
| So YouTube's trying to be Netflix. | ||
| If we get rid of Section 230, YouTube's gonna start square dancing, all the CEOs are gonna be laughing, they're gonna be like, that's it, all the conservatives, all the moderates, independents, you're gone. | ||
| MSNBC guys, you know, progressives, all right, we'll give you a pass. | ||
| But if we keep Section 230, the track we're on right now is still really bad for independent voices, smaller channels, or anybody who's even big and wants to challenge the system. | ||
| Because you could have a million subs, but you give a wrong opinion, you're gone. | ||
| Yeah, and it's... With these social medias, the thing is, I'm more into the free market, where at first, when this was an issue like five years ago, I was like, eh, you know, they can do what they want, they're a business, you know, they can operate it however they want. | ||
| But then over time, realizing... | ||
| These social medias have been monopoly on free speech on the internet. | ||
| Like the World Wide Web, like if you make your own website, you can only generate traffic to your website is if you promote it on Twitter, promote it on YouTube, promote it on Facebook. | ||
| Buy ads, buy a billboard, I guess. | ||
| Yeah, a billboard on Sunset Boulevard. | ||
| Or a commercial on the Super Bowl for a million dollars. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| How much did that cost? | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| A million dollars a minute or something. | ||
| Are they more? | ||
| Probably way more than that. | ||
| Yeah, it's probably like $20,000. | ||
| But, like, you could make a YouTube video that's worth ten times a commercial on the Super Bowl. | ||
| I should buy a billboard somewhere. | ||
| Well, Super Bowl commercials are, like, notoriously bad for no ROI. | ||
| Like, if you're a new company and you're getting Super Bowl commercials, like, you're stocked tanks. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because they know it's a bad investment. | ||
| I think it was Pets.com is, like, one of the most famous stories. | ||
| I think it's pet one of the, it was like a pet type of website for adopting animals. | ||
| And they spent like tens of millions of dollars and, you know, six months later, a year later, they're out of business because they got no return on that investment. | ||
| And like the problem with billboards and commercials is that there's no click through. | ||
| You can't like see a commercial and click the button to go to the website. | ||
| Whereas on Twitter, you just click the link and you can target exactly who you want to target. | ||
| Everybody who loves pets and animals, anyone who's Googling how to buy a dog, you can target them. | ||
| Google set it up that way too. | ||
| They set up their algorithms to track what people like so that you could use their service to find people that like what you're looking for. | ||
| Yeah, and they're all sharing data. | ||
| So my girlfriend for for my birthday, she got me an air fryer, and she ordered it on Amazon. | ||
| And then we're watching TV, we're watching IMD. | ||
| I am BDTV, and we're watching Malcolm in the Middle. | ||
| And an ad for that exact thing that she bought pops on the TV. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| The exact product, the exact listing. | ||
| It happens all the time, man. | ||
| It's creepy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They know you better than you know yourself. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Facebook knows when you poop. | ||
| I'm not kidding. | ||
| I was reading an article about it. | ||
| Yeah, because people don't realize that there's things like your favorite color correlates to other things about you. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| So someone could ask you a bunch of questions that you think makes no sense. | ||
| They'll be like, what's your favorite color? | ||
| What's your favorite sport? | ||
| You know, where are you from? | ||
| And then all of a sudden they'll be like, your favorite pasta is, you know, linguine and pesto. | ||
| And you're like, what? | ||
| How did you know that? | ||
| They're making like a statistical analysis. | ||
| People who like this also like that. | ||
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Right. | |
| You know, if you like all three of these things, you're definitely liking this fourth one. | ||
| I'll tell you what. | ||
| If YouTube does the verification purge, it's going to be really, really good business-wise for channels like this. | ||
| So, right now, I remember when YouTube did that announcement about, what was it, what was it called, like the CP something, the Child Protection Act, CPG? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And everyone's freaking out. | ||
| All of the creators that do vlogs were really worried. | ||
| Because they were like, if we're deemed a channel for children, we don't get access to targeted ads and our revenue is going to drop by like 80%. | ||
| And I started laughing, I'm like, wow, this is great. | ||
| I do politics. | ||
| There's no way you're gonna argue this stuff for kids. | ||
| And that means we're gonna get all of those targeted ads and all that. | ||
| Everyone's gonna go more likely to us than them. | ||
| If YouTube purges, you know, over time from the partner program, a bunch of channels, that means, and they start promoting more verified and confirmed. | ||
| The viewers consolidate around the top 1% of the top 1%. | ||
| What did they say, it's like 40 million, what is it, how many views per month? | ||
| Does YouTube got a billion? | ||
| Shit. | ||
| Billion views. | ||
| But if you got a billion channels and there's a billion views, you know, you get one view per channel. | ||
| So get rid of all but ten channels and now everyone's getting, you know, a hundred million. | ||
| They're kind of doing it already. | ||
| They have their select group of favored creators. | ||
| They're the only ones that have access to the trending tab. | ||
| They're getting, you know, Google Premium ads. | ||
| You know, they're on all the VidCon billboards. | ||
| You know, I think Google, YouTube owns the VidCon event, which is like the creator type of thing. | ||
| Trash event, by the way. | ||
| That was made by, um, the Vlogbrothers. | ||
| Didn't they, didn't they Inceptualize? | ||
| Yeah, that was, uh, the Greens, right? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, John and... Those guys went crazy. | ||
| Hank and John, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Hank. | ||
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Hank. | |
| Yeah, those two. | ||
| They went, they went kind of crazy. | ||
| It's really, it's really, it's really weird how the social media drift created this class of people who were trying to outleft each other. | ||
| That's so weird. | ||
| It's like, bro, remember where Jon Stewart used to be? | ||
| That's where we were all at. | ||
| But you guys kept trying to one-up each other, I guess to like prove your value or virtue. | ||
| Yeah, that's what I was about to say. | ||
| So they went further and further left every single day. | ||
| That's how they make themselves feel morally superior. | ||
| So they're morally superior to you because they support Black Lives Matter. | ||
| They care about black people. | ||
| You don't. | ||
| Well, but I think like, you know, like the Vlogbrothers were doing it because it was popular marketing. | ||
| So, you know, you get social media and all of a sudden the craziest activists are screaming at their lungs. | ||
| And then you're like, how do I get attention? | ||
| Wow, everybody's talking about this. | ||
| I should talk about this too. | ||
| So you, look, it makes sense, man. | ||
| If you're trying to, if you're in the business of attention, where, this is what we are, this is Joe, like the goal of this show, not directly, is to keep people watching it as long as possible. | ||
| The goal of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter is to keep you looking at that screen on their website as long as possible. | ||
| It's the attention economy. | ||
| And then, as we do, we sell ads. | ||
| So for us, it makes sense to talk about important political news and, you know, talk about what we believe in and stuff. | ||
| And naturally that generates an audience of like-minded people. | ||
| What they're doing is the inverse. | ||
| They see a big audience of crazy far leftists and they think, that's my path to make money. | ||
| Now it's funny as a leftist accused like us of doing that grifting of like, they're like, Tim pool used to be like super left and now he's conservative or whatever. | ||
| And it's like, well, first of all, like opinions change. | ||
| Like earlier this year, I was not pro I was not to a like hardcore as I am now. | ||
| Now I'm like very much to a. | ||
| It's between you kind of drifting a little bit more right and then also the spectrum of the left also shifting. | ||
| But I actually moved further left, actually. | ||
| So my political compass test, I'm actually further left libertarian. | ||
| I used to be pretty liberal, now it's like down and more left libertarian. | ||
| Leftists are not... A lot of conservatives don't get this. | ||
| The actual economic left, libertarian, they are pro-gun. | ||
| They're not anti-gun. | ||
| It's the establishment elites, the authoritarian groups that are pro-gun. | ||
| Even the authoritarian communist types are pro-gun. | ||
| How are they going to have the revolution? | ||
| So they're definitely pro-gun. | ||
| There's like a Reddit page for socialist gun rights and stuff like that. | ||
| So anyway, what happens is, you have people like the Vlogbrothers, who are, you know, look. | ||
| I'll leave them out of this, but I'll wrap them in the bigger picture. | ||
| Celebrity. | ||
| What are celebrities for? | ||
| They're marketing. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| They're people. | ||
| They are marketing. | ||
| The reason why they put Brad Pitt in the movie is because they put Brad Pitt's name on it and you go see the movie. | ||
| So, the same thing with these YouTubers. | ||
| The goal is they want to generate as much attention as possible. | ||
| When they see everyone's clamoring about social justice, they're like, ooh, I can do that too! | ||
| I can do that too! | ||
| The right has that. | ||
| You know, there are certainly people who are like, I've decided to support this or that because it's gonna make me money. | ||
| But I think that's a tendency of the left more so. | ||
| So it's like, it's disproportionate. | ||
| You have more leftists, or fake leftists who pretend to be left, doing that, than you have people supporting Trump. | ||
| The people who support Trump tend to REALLY support the guy. | ||
| Yeah, and it's, when Trump, you know, supposedly lost the election, I was just getting flooded with people saying, give it up already, stop crying, you crybaby, Trump lost, get over it. | ||
| I'm like, wait, first off, the election's not over, Trump didn't concede, whatever's happening's happening. | ||
| But I'm like, they don't understand the difference between having a passion for the country, a passion for actually liking the president. | ||
| They don't understand the difference between having a passion and then yelling and screaming and crying at the sky. | ||
| You know, when Trump lost election night, we, you know, we took, what's the legal process? | ||
| Let's investigate. | ||
| Let's do this. | ||
| Let's do that. | ||
| When the Democrats lost in 2016, it was just screaming and yelling at the sky. | ||
| They had their celebrity videos where they were like, the electors, you must not vote for Trump, you must be faithless and defy. | ||
| Right now in Iowa, there's a woman, her name is Rita Hart, she lost by six votes. | ||
| Guess what she's doing? | ||
| Suing to overturn the results. | ||
| Arguing that they should reinstate 22 mail-in ballots that were disqualified, because then she wins. | ||
| And I say, okay, well, you have the legal right to do it, by all means. | ||
| It's funny, though. | ||
| When these elections are that close, and even Trump lost by 10,000 votes in some states, states with 3 million, 4 million in population. | ||
| 10,000 votes is nothing comparatively to the population. | ||
| Well, you know Trump only won 2016 by like 77,000 votes. | ||
| He got a big electoral victory, but there were three states where he only got like 0.1%, like really thin margins. | ||
| But it's funny to see the Democrats are like, when we lose, it's okay for us to overturn the results. | ||
| And I don't see any of these news outlets saying, this is shaking confidence in our elections, and it's evil and wrong. | ||
| No, they're in support of it. | ||
| The person who's filing the suit on her behalf, or who's working with a lawyer, is one of the lead critics of Trump in his legal effort to overturn the results. | ||
| So it's like this guy goes on Twitter all day and he's like, Trump is, you know, what he's doing is wrong and he's going to lose. | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| How dare he? | ||
| And then I'm going to file the exact same lawsuit for my person. | ||
| Don't look over here, everybody. | ||
| The left, their ideology is like a sliding scale. | ||
| There's no consistency. | ||
| All about what benefits them at that particular moment at that point in time. | ||
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| Where one day, the left can be on Twitter praising the Constitution because something went their way. | ||
| And then the next day, say, the Constitution was founded by a bunch of racists. | ||
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Right, right, right. | |
| And now we need to destroy it. | ||
| So, wait, yesterday you just loved the Constitution because it helped you. | ||
| Now you want to rip it. | ||
| Of course, of course. | ||
| I was thinking that power, just kind of in general, that power, they say power corrupts people. | ||
| And that we get this social media uh view count is like a source of power when you have the ability to go click a button and tell someone something and a thousand people hear you say it that people are getting slowly driven insane and then when they get the likes and they're like oh when i did that complaint it got a bunch more likes from those creeps and then they get even crazier and so you've got people in politics going crazy that we call them the left or the people in social media like brad not brad pitts crazy but these cult you know these | ||
| These YouTubers that end up going too far. | ||
| And it happens on both sides too. | ||
| I mean, it happened with me at points on Twitter. | ||
| It's like, okay, let me keep saying this and it keeps getting more and more likes or let me make videos on this and just push the edge. | ||
| It drove me to insanity in the early days of YouTube. | ||
| I thought the only reason people liked me was because I was crazy. | ||
| Like I would smoke weed and talk about the craziest stuff. | ||
| People like, this guy's insane, this guy's insane, but those videos would get the most views. | ||
| And so I kept doing it and tried to out-insane myself, and I was getting depressed, and it drove me insane. | ||
| I almost killed myself. | ||
| That's why I went so controversial online with my pranks, because the algorithms were rewarding being controversial, being offensive, you know, doing crazy, crazy, just crazy and crazy, and you get to that point where you're realizing, oh wow, I took it kind of far. | ||
| And then you kind of take that step back. | ||
| There's people who don't realize they get caught in the algorithmic loop, and then they start producing more and more and more. | ||
| I think people need to recognize what this is, but I will tell you something. | ||
| These big tech companies will ban the right, so the wall is set, right? | ||
| So if you're on the right, and you start seeing, you'll tweet something, you'll get more likes, so you tweet more of it, you go crazy, you get more followers, you get more shares. | ||
| Then Twitter bans you. | ||
| You went too far, they say. | ||
| We see you go too far. | ||
| You should've stopped. | ||
| It's too bad. | ||
| You're out. | ||
| On the left, you can literally call for riots and terrorism and violence, and they won't remove it. | ||
| Yeah, listen to this. | ||
| When I got banned on Twitter, I made another account called NotJoeySalads or whatever, and it was not me. | ||
| Somebody else was running it for me. | ||
| And I did that. | ||
| Actually, I went through three different Twitter accounts. | ||
| So that account in particular got banned because I said, I replied to the L.A. | ||
| mayor saying, but sure, just let them burn the city down sarcastically because he was talking about Black Lives Matter or whatnot. | ||
| And I got banned for inciting violence immediately. | ||
| The very next day was when they were calling for riots. | ||
| Oh, because RBJ Ginsburg died. | ||
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| Wow. | ||
| very next day was trending, burn it down, or whatever. | ||
| Of course, of course, man. | ||
| And I got banned for being sarcastic. | ||
| When I was on the Joe Rogan show with the people from Twitter, | ||
| we pulled up a tweet that had been up for months that was calling, like, there was a, | ||
| I think the tweet itself was a felony. | ||
| And I was like, why is that tweet still there? | ||
| And they're like, uh, I don't know. | ||
| Oh, we can't monitor every single tweet. | ||
| And I was like, but you could see that replies to it were banned. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So you had this tweet from an Antifa account calling for overt violence, instructing people to commit violent, you know, felonious acts. | ||
| And it was fine. | ||
| Below it, it was like, this tweet has been removed for violation of policy. | ||
| This is removed, removed, removed, removed. | ||
| And so when they were like, well, you know, people have to report these things for us to notice. | ||
| And I was like, the replies are banned. | ||
| Clearly people are reporting this like crazy and each other. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm telling you right now, all these social medias, if they don't, they're stupid. | ||
| They definitely have certain key phrase algorithms that determine if you tweet saying, I want you to burn whatever down, whatever. | ||
| They know in their algorithm. | ||
| And I know TikTok does this a lot. | ||
| If they scan the video and they notice something that's questionable, they'll actually put the video on hold, send it to a review, to determine, okay, was this a violation? | ||
| Okay, it wasn't. | ||
| And then it gets cleared. | ||
| But you know what TikTok used to do? | ||
| It was really clever. | ||
| If on YouTube, somebody is getting cyberbullied, YouTube will ban the bullies. | ||
| On TikTok, if somebody was getting cyberbullied, they'd ban the victim. | ||
| Because think about it, it makes a lot of sense. | ||
| If you don't want bullying on your platform, do you ban the 300 bullies or the one victim? | ||
| Well, if you want your user numbers to be inflated, you don't want to ban 300 people. | ||
| Can't do that. | ||
| Ban the victim! | ||
| Now the bullying is gone. | ||
| Congratulations, only beautiful people get to be on our platform. | ||
| Yeah, TikTok's done a lot of sketchy stuff when it comes to, you know, favoring beautiful people in the algorithm. | ||
| It's China. | ||
| It's weird because when I'm on TikTok, even though it's owned by China or in bed with China, it's still, I think, more free speech than the other platforms. | ||
| I think, without getting too specific, some of these social networks Or fake. | ||
| Fake likes, fake views. | ||
| I mean, remember what Facebook was doing with inflating their view counts by like 90%? | ||
| Remember that? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Did they get sued? | ||
| I thought they got sued, like a bunch of- The advertisers, I think, got really mad. | ||
| Yeah, dude. | ||
| So Facebook would- you'd play a video, and it would say you had 100,000 views, when you actually only had like 10,000. | ||
| Now they count it, because I don't know if they were actually making it fake, but you know when you post a video or something on Facebook? | ||
| It's like you would scroll past it and it would tick it off. | ||
| Yeah, that counts. | ||
| So your videos will sometimes be like 100,000 reach, 20,000 views. | ||
| So it was on 100,000 people seen it as they were scrolling. | ||
| But they didn't actually watch it. | ||
| But now it only counts if you watch for three seconds or more. | ||
| Is that like a legal thing? | ||
| Is there like a law that it has to be three seconds? | ||
| No, but what was happening was, People were selling ads, and Facebook was selling ads, and then Facebook would be like, oh look, a million views! | ||
| Congratulations, that'll be, you know, X amount of dollars. | ||
| But then people found out, wait a minute, those views aren't real because they just scrolled past it and didn't actually watch it in any capacity. | ||
| So, dude, this was Facebook destroying the news industry. | ||
| No joke. | ||
| I, I, there's some companies I know that were very prominent mainstream networks that have gone bankrupt or shuttered the divisions that they had set up. | ||
| There's some companies that would do YouTube videos and they had millions of subscribers combined. | ||
| Maybe like 500,000 here, a million here, maybe, you know, 1.2 million. | ||
| And I had a meeting in San Francisco with some of these companies, because I was working for Fusion at the time, and they were telling me how Facebook was the key. | ||
| Facebook's where it's at. | ||
| You don't understand. | ||
| And I said, bro, what do you mean I don't understand? | ||
| YouTube is where it's at. | ||
| And they were like, no, no, no, man. | ||
| Like, we put up a video on YouTube, we'll get like 100,000 views. | ||
| We put it on Facebook, we'll get like 10 million. | ||
| And I was like, those aren't real, dude. | ||
| There's no way. | ||
| You put up your dumb video and got 10 million views. | ||
| The good thing about Facebook is everybody has a profile with hundreds of friends. | ||
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| So someone could easily share. | ||
| YouTube, you gotta get the algorithm. | ||
| But check it out, I was right. | ||
| And so what these guys were telling me, I remember I was at a lunch in San Francisco. | ||
| It was like the three video heads of like three different digital production companies that were on social media, with YouTube being their principal place for production. | ||
| And I was, I was like, YouTube all the way, man. | ||
| I was like, I can see the community, I can see the interaction, I can see the excitement, I can see the virality. | ||
| On Facebook, it's just like one day you put up a video and then, boop, it's got 10 million views, and I'm like, where'd that come from? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And they said, you're wrong, bro. | ||
| The industry is changing. | ||
| You don't want to be like Blockbuster Video, you want to be like Netflix. | ||
| And I said, no, it's smoke and mirrors. | ||
| These guys are out of jobs. | ||
| Those divisions all shut down because when they were putting in like, they'd have like a budget for like a million bucks or whatever for their production for the year. | ||
| And these are big companies. | ||
| And then when they said shift the production to favor Facebook, and then Facebook didn't turn anything back for them, didn't give them a return. | ||
| They just fizzled out, ran out of money, and then their bosses were like, we just lost a million bucks, made nothing, get out, you're fired. | ||
| Yeah, like the retention time difference between Facebook and YouTube, I can put up a video on Facebook, 30 to 50 second retention time. | ||
| Same video on YouTube, you know, 6-7 minutes. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| That's the difference. | ||
| And Facebook right now, they're making that algorithm push into the watch tab. | ||
| They made a whole nother section on Facebook now. | ||
| I guess they're trying to kind of compete with YouTube, and they're favoring the higher retention content to kind of keep you on the phone. | ||
| They want you to turn the phone sideways and watch a piece of content. | ||
| With Facebook, you can slide down. | ||
| You see it, you click it, but then there's this like sliding mentality you're in, so you keep going. | ||
| Whereas YouTube, you have to click a button to go there. | ||
| There's nowhere to slide to, unless you want to read the comments. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And you're invested. | ||
| You're actively engaging and clicking on a piece of content you want to watch. | ||
| It's a drug, bro. | ||
| It's like the worst drug of our time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So you're off Twitter now. | ||
| Off Twitter. | ||
| And how's that been? | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| My mental health is so much better. | ||
| Once you get off Twitter, you realize that's not reality. | ||
| That's not the world. | ||
| It's been harder to keep up on politics and what's going on. | ||
| I used to know everything and all the times. | ||
| Now, I know nothing about what happened today. | ||
| Absolutely nothing. | ||
| Trump did a backflip. | ||
| Yeah, Twitter is a disaster. | ||
| It's an addiction. | ||
| And they know that the likes and shares and retweets, those numbers are what drive people to keep doing it. | ||
| the back. No, I'm kidding. Yeah, Twitter is a disaster. It's an addiction and they know that | ||
| the likes and shares and retweets, those numbers are what drive people to keep doing it. It's | ||
| making the country go insane. They know it. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| They're trying to make money off. | ||
| They're trying to keep you going back to so a lot of social medias I mean have a theory that if you're not like going on the platform Like they'll kind of send a little engagement your way to keep you opening the app up again Keep you engaged and looking right you know you having the notifications on like oh, I got a new follower you click on it now You're exactly I think in the beginning of YouTube. | ||
| I don't know how it was for you guys, but oh For me, it was, I wanted to make videos and tell my friends about this book I read. | ||
| And MySpace wasn't fast enough. | ||
| So I would make, it wasn't about how many people saw it. | ||
| It was, did Eric see it? | ||
| YouTube had friends. | ||
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| I wanted to share it with my friends. | ||
| And then people could make video responses and you had these little communities of people. | ||
| And now that it's like, I don't know if they really want to just get people off the platform, these non-verified people, because they're taking up too much bandwidth and they're too much of a liability. | ||
| Especially if 230 goes down, then they're really alive. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And become more like a TV station like Netflix. | ||
| Yes, that's a fact. | ||
| But we need some website where any kid can start making YouTube videos and talk to another guy that's making videos. | ||
| It doesn't have to be YouTube videos. | ||
| I've just got that phrase stuck in my head from 2006. | ||
| YouTube employees have told me, and this is years ago, they want to be Netflix. | ||
| So in the early days of YouTube. | ||
| Well, look at the market cap of Netflix. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| $200 million. | ||
| And so YouTube's tried doing originals. | ||
| Disney's trying to be Netflix. | ||
| They're doing a good job. | ||
| It's gotta be a headache to deal with all the errant people that are saying like, burn it. | ||
| If they say crazy stuff, then you're, you're not responsible. | ||
| But if you don't do anything and it's illegal, then you become responsible. | ||
| No. | ||
| Well, if someone puts illegal content on YouTube, it's YouTube's job to take it down. | ||
| Or aren't they responsible for hosting illegal content? | ||
| Section 230 protects them. | ||
| Do you think it's illegal? | ||
| They're not liable for content posted by individuals. | ||
| So they will ban everybody if 230 gets repealed. | ||
| It'll be the end of the internet as we know it, man. | ||
| What if the plan is to repeal it and replace it immediately with something else? | ||
| That will never happen. | ||
| You don't think so? | ||
| The Democrats right now are probably sitting in a room with the Republican establishment are sitting in a room together, and because this is a family-friendly show, I will say they're sitting in a circle all patting each other on the back. | ||
| Going like, yes, yes, this is great, you know, we're having a good time. | ||
| They're all shaking hands. | ||
| A circle of jerks high-fiving each other. | ||
| What a bunch of jerks. | ||
| And when, right now, they're probably going, oh no, Trump, oh jeez, you want us to repeal Section 230? | ||
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| That is actually a good thing. | ||
| What if because they mass banned people like me, you, and the little guy, then now it forces us to go to an alternative platform. | ||
| Or to start our own platform. | ||
| YouTube is the platform, the place to be if you want to make long-form video content, and that's the only place you can go to get views. | ||
| But now what happens if the you of the YouTube gets completely taken out? | ||
| I'll tell you. | ||
| Now, oh, I guess I'll try Rumble or Netflix exists, but Netflix doesn't allow anyone to post. | ||
| They approve. | ||
| So what would end up happening is... Like Roku, the OTTs? | ||
| They just allow anything, right? | ||
| They allow people to... yeah. | ||
| So here's my bet. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I'm not gonna... I've had people telling me I'm wrong several times. | ||
| They super chat and they're like, you're wrong, Tim. | ||
| 2.30's gotta go. | ||
| You don't get it. | ||
| I'm like, alright, dude. | ||
| I know exactly what's gonna happen if 2.30 goes. | ||
| I am gonna make 10 times as much money. | ||
| It's gonna be great for me. | ||
| And it's gonna be bad for humanity and liberty and freedom. | ||
| But if people want it, if Trump's saying it and Trump supporters are for it, well, okay, I guess I'll just sit back and take the extra money. | ||
| Let me just say what's going to happen. | ||
| I'm not going to be banned if 230 goes. | ||
| I'm going to be one of their preferred verified accounts or whatever. | ||
| They like the milk toast, you know, harmless Tim Pool or whatever. | ||
| He's just edgy enough, but not edgy enough to get smears and cause any trouble because I'm not far enough in either direction. | ||
| So it works for them that people watch these shows and that they're controversial a little They actually monetized our Alex Jones episode. | ||
| So they're like, this is okay, we're okay with this. | ||
| So if you get rid of Section 230, YouTube's gonna go, we got it baby, we finally got what we needed. | ||
| The excuse to ban all these people without causing controversy, and we can blame Trump for it, it's great! | ||
| So who are we keeping? | ||
| We're gonna pick 500 channels to keep. | ||
| YouTube is now officially Netflix, this is fantastic. | ||
| Our bandwidth costs are gonna drop, but our audience stays the same. | ||
| If you get rid of Section 230 and YouTube bans all of the non-preferred accounts, they'd probably make me sign a contract or something about liability and whatever. | ||
| Then what you're left with is, YouTube still gets the billion views or whatever per month, whatever the number is, probably more than that, probably a hundred billion or something. | ||
| They keep that. | ||
| It'll go down a little bit because some channels and some creators will be gone and they'll go to other platforms. | ||
| But people will still go to YouTube out of habit. | ||
| And now there's only a small handful of channels to recommend. | ||
| So guess what? | ||
| The existing channels are going to go through the roof. | ||
| But what platform? | ||
| Because that platform could get taken down too, I think. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Well, let me tell you this. | ||
| Everyone's saying Rumble right now. | ||
| Like, oh, go to Rumble, go to Rumble. | ||
| Okay, just like any of these other platforms, I'm just gonna start counting the days until NBC, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times publish a story about, you know, the neo-Nazi website rumble and all this other garbage. | ||
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| And then what happens is, all they need as an excuse is one article that says it, and then you'll get Google going like, we will no longer, you know, serve, you know, the DNS or whatever. | ||
| What is that, anti-defamation? | ||
| They go hard on people for that stuff. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Google seized the DNS. | ||
| I think it was the Daily Stormer. | ||
| Like, literally just seized their domain. | ||
| So you couldn't go to it. | ||
| It was crazy. | ||
| Like, that's authoritarian beyond recognition. | ||
| I'm just obviously spitballing here. | ||
| I could be completely wrong. | ||
| But let's just say you have a billion watch minutes going to YouTube every day to watch independent creators. | ||
| And that's what you want to watch. | ||
| As we were saying before, whenever CNN's recommended, just spammed with dislikes. | ||
| I'm sure their retention time's dirt low as well. | ||
| But obviously they want to work to kind of replace cable and TV. | ||
| That's why they have YouTube TV, they tried YouTube Premium, and they tried original shows. | ||
| All those original shows have been a major flop, even the influencer ones. | ||
| Which ones did good? | ||
| Cobra Kai. | ||
| Well, that was awesome. | ||
| It did good because it was on Netflix. | ||
| Well, no, no, it did really well on YouTube. | ||
| And then they sold it to Netflix. | ||
| Yeah, that was the only one that people watched. | ||
| I don't know what the numbers were on that, if it's even comparable to how much it got on Netflix. | ||
| I never watched it on YouTube. | ||
| I watched it on Netflix and it was great. | ||
| YouTube works on meritocracy. | ||
| So it's a combination of algorithmic promotion for videos that do well and the hands-off approach from YouTube. | ||
| When YouTube tried to do originals, yeah, it mostly did not work. | ||
| A lot of the shows are just trash. | ||
| So what they do is, what works for them, let people make content and then when they identify content that's doing well and is brand safe and advertiser friendly, they promote it in the algorithm. | ||
| But I'll tell you this. | ||
| How many, let me ask you, what do you think the average amount of recommended views to subscriber views? | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I'll just say it because it's probably hard to make an analogy or question out of it. | ||
| The amount of people who watch this content who aren't subscribed. | ||
| I'm not subscribed to you. | ||
| I watch you every day. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I have 10 accounts. | ||
| That's why I don't know what account I'm on. | ||
| I just subscribe with all of them. | ||
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| No, no. | ||
| Maybe not. | ||
| Because you don't want to inflate the subscriber count. | ||
| Because then if the view to subscribers is ratioed. | ||
| Then they punish you for it. | ||
| So here's what happens. | ||
| It's like, depending on the video, it could be between 60 and 70% not subscribed. | ||
| That means YouTube's recommending the video. | ||
| So you go to YouTube.com, and then my video appears, and you click it and you watch it, and YouTube keeps serving it to people, because subscriber counts really don't matter anymore. | ||
| I mean, we do this show, we have almost 900,000 subs on this channel, and we're averaging like half a million per podcast episode. | ||
| So that means like, More than, you know, it's like 60% of the audience watches, you know, every day or whatever. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| Or you can say that most people watch, you know, a couple times a week. | ||
| And the way the algorithm works to my understanding is, because I know people who have zero growth on YouTube, but they'll have a million subs and every video they post gets a quarter million, half a million views, but they don't have any growth because what YouTube sees, okay, this piece, it's mostly vlog content. | ||
| This vlog is getting very high retention time with its subscriber base. | ||
| So they'll push it out to more of the subscribers and then they do kind of testing and the algorithm for some like lookalike audiences and then they check the retention time from those algorithmic viewers and then usually those algorithmic viewers don't come back good because it's the fans that want that content and they pull it back and it doesn't get the expanded growth but it has a high percentage of watch time from subscribers. | ||
| My page is the complete opposite, my prank page. | ||
| Where I'll get like 10% of my subs watching and then like randomly like 2-3 months later I'll have a video pop off with like 5 million views. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because it's just like the algorithm, since it's all evergreen, the algorithm will be like, okay well this content does good with random people clicking on it. | ||
| Well it'll find that audience, it'll fall into the hole. | ||
| So here's what I'm saying. | ||
| If you get rid of the independent creators, they're not going to leave YouTube. | ||
| Most views come from people who are told what to watch. | ||
| No joke. | ||
| Now, it's a mix between the interests of the individual and what YouTube recommends. | ||
| If there's somebody who likes watching videos titled, Democrats are awful, and they send a video saying Democrats are great, they're going to be like, I ain't clicking that. | ||
| And so it's ignored. | ||
| So there's a balance there. | ||
| YouTube would probably lose a decent amount of their users if they banned everybody, and if Section 230 got repealed, but most of the people would probably stay. | ||
| Then the activists would just target other social networks and call them racist. | ||
| Yeah, there are two types of people that use YouTube. | ||
| Maybe three. | ||
| There's one, the group of people that want to see independent creators and the group that just go to YouTube to just probably don't even have accounts that are just like, Oh, I'm going to just Google this, look it up. | ||
| Or I remember watching this funny viral video. | ||
| Let me look it up and show my friends. | ||
| Or they're just typing in funny cats, you know, the casual users, maybe they're going on it to see the news. | ||
| Um, they're like less engaged, but those types of people, YouTube is the go-to. | ||
| So you, you, you, you give us section two 30 and I'll be, I'll be doing great. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, in the short term. | ||
| But I mean, I don't think any of us will be doing... Well, I don't know, actually. | ||
| Bro, you know how much money... You know how much money, like, Sean Hannity gets? | ||
| And, like, what his viewership is? | ||
| From his YouTube stuff? | ||
| So, his viewership, I think, was at, like, you know, $4 or $5 million a night at its peak, and then people abandoned Fox. | ||
| But even without him getting $4 or $5 million a night, and then you include YouTube, when... So, I recently cut down the amount of segments I was producing, but I was getting, like, $3, $3.5 million a day. | ||
| Sean Hannity was getting, you know, $4 or $5 million. | ||
| The problem is you would be like the golden child, and your ad revenue would go up, but you'd be stuck under their terms of service still, which could get more strict. | ||
| The difference between, I guess, traditional media hosts and new media hosts is in the traditional media, the ad rates pay way higher. | ||
| That's what YouTube wants, though. | ||
| Yeah, and they play way more ads, mainly because there's no skipping around, there's no jump. | ||
| I guess you could change channels, but if you're watching Sun Hannity and Yeah, and you get like five, six commercials. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Minutes go by. | ||
| Yeah, maybe we need our own network. | ||
| Each individual has their own network where they can post all their videos. | ||
| So you don't have to worry about 230 of anyone else's content. | ||
| And then you can respond other content through like an RSS where you can see if they responded to one of yours. | ||
| I don't know if you could watch your videos on my network because that might make me... It's kind of like what Roku is doing. | ||
| So I just signed with a company and they're like, hey, we want to put your prank content into its own channel on the Roku devices. | ||
| I'm like, yeah, just go ahead and do it. | ||
| Cool. | ||
| Is Roku responsible for your content under 230? | ||
| and they link it with like an RSS feed. | ||
| So whenever I post, it automatically gets posted into that. | ||
| Is Roku responsible for your content under 230? | ||
| I wouldn't know about any of that. | ||
| That's interesting. | ||
| If they weren't, that'd be really cool. | ||
| If just some tech. | ||
| It's cool because it comes off like an actual shot. | ||
| I was telling you to do it because people watch that stuff on the TV. | ||
| Retention time's higher, the ad rate CPM is higher. | ||
| I'm sure tons of you viewerships would love to watch your podcast and just click it on the TV. | ||
| You know man, I could do a million things to make my business run better. | ||
| We don't do any ad reads. | ||
| You know, like people listen to this podcast and we have no ad reads at all. | ||
| Like for, for, for instance, we don't talk about super male vitality. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Get a kickback. | ||
| Give me some money. | ||
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Cause we mentioned your, how many did you sell Alex? | |
| We want to cut numbers. | ||
| No, but like almost every single podcast, they open the show with some kind of ad. | ||
| So I'm talking to people about doing some kind of ads because I'm like, we're not being particularly efficient with how we do things. | ||
| We kind of just turn the cameras on and just hang out. | ||
| You know, we probably do a lot better job. | ||
| But, you know, man, times are getting crazy. | ||
| It's Christmas. | ||
| We're chillin'. | ||
| I'm into the Roku. | ||
| So this Roku thing sounds pretty promising. | ||
| I feel like that's gonna be the new wave of next year. | ||
| You're gonna see a lot of creators. | ||
| So the earlier you get on it. | ||
| Now that I'm saying it on such a big show, I bet every creator watching is like, how do I sign up? | ||
| People need to realize You know, I think there's a lot of people who look for quick gimmicks to try and get big quick. | ||
| They look at Vine. | ||
| For those who aren't familiar with Vine, man, how many people remember what Vine was? | ||
| Oh yeah, they were huge. | ||
| You have a Vine tattoo? | ||
| Do you regret getting it? | ||
| Were you like a huge Vine star? | ||
| Did you start on Vine? | ||
| Yeah, that's how I got my big break. | ||
| Look at that! | ||
| Vine getting bashed. | ||
| I can't zoom in. | ||
| Oh, when they destroyed it? | ||
| I did a series called It's Bashin' Time. | ||
| You got started on Vine, huh? | ||
| Yeah, that's how I got my big break. | ||
| Then I got Facebook and YouTube. | ||
| Hey, if any YouTube reps are watching, re-monetize my pages or something. | ||
| Yeah, do it. | ||
| What happens if they change their logo and then you got like, what's that company? | ||
| It's like YouTube. | ||
| Oh, that's it. | ||
| It's like imagine getting- Remember YouTube? | ||
| I was gonna get the Instagram one and then like, I didn't end up getting it. | ||
| And then like, yeah, then like two weeks later they did a new Instagram logo. | ||
| So you were big on YouTube and then you started doing Vine. | ||
| You were huge on YouTube in like 2010, right? | ||
| 11 or something? | ||
| I did YouTube since I was a kid. | ||
| Never got any views. | ||
| You know, hundreds, maybe a thousand views if I was lucky. | ||
| Then I took like a two-year hiatus because I was like, eh, this is not working out. | ||
| This is not going to be a career. | ||
| Let me go to school. | ||
| Went to college for like a year, failed everything, but during that time, I downloaded Vine, because an ex-girlfriend of mine made me download it, because she was like recording videos of me, and I'm like, this is such a stupid app, six seconds, like how can you? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Downloaded it, ended up making a bunch of videos, ended up going viral, got, you know, a million followers on there. | ||
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Wow. | |
| I'm like, damn, Vine's gonna go under. | ||
| I'm like, I saw how the market was going, it's all about like retention time, and this must have been like 2011 or whatever. | ||
| And then I started moving all my audience to YouTube, stopped posting on Vine, and then a year later, Vine went out of business. | ||
| How could you tell Vine was going? | ||
| Well, Vine got bought by Twitter, and then they were basically like, you know, Periscope's gone, right? | ||
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Oh. | |
| Oh, really? | ||
| Yeah, Periscope's gone. | ||
| That just went on? | ||
|
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When? | |
| Wow. | ||
| I saw something about it. | ||
| I don't know exactly what's going on. | ||
| Geez, too much bandwidth cost? | ||
| Well, no, because what Twitter does is they buy a company, and then once people are used to using it on the Twitter app, they axe the other company. | ||
| They just melt them into Twitter? | ||
| They don't want the competition. | ||
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What? | |
| Yeah, buy and destroy. | ||
| That's called hostile takeover, isn't it? | ||
| Vine was unique because it was the first, like, app to have video format on. | ||
| And then, you know, Instagram came out with it. | ||
| Yeah, because Instagram was just photos. | ||
| Since the bandwidth on phones also started to increase, you know, YouTube became more accessible on the apps, you know. | ||
| So it's just, you know, Vine was like the first of its time and just never innovated past that point. | ||
| And they didn't, did they have ads? | ||
| Got bought by Twitter and then blown up. | ||
| Yeah, that was the biggest mistake. | ||
| They never got ads. | ||
| They sold the company instead. | ||
| Yeah I was hearing stories that they were going to put an ad program in place but then like a bunch of influencers were like spreading the word and then everybody wanted a piece of the cut and then they just can't. | ||
| Hyperinflated their value and sold probably a hundred thousand times. | ||
| I think influencer value is it's tough because I think influencer value is overrated but at the same time it is that power. | ||
| Yeah, money can't buy the value of communication. | ||
| The thing is, like, I use Ninja, for example. | ||
| What's Ninja? | ||
| Ninja the streamer. | ||
| Oh, Ninja the guy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He was the biggest Twitch streamer. | ||
| He was, you know, favored, so they put him on. | ||
| But for Fortnite, right? | ||
| Yeah, for Fortnite. | ||
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On all the talk shows. | |
| Remember when he did the dance on New Year's and no one knew who he was? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It was cringey. | ||
| Maybe that's why you guys might know him. | ||
| He did the floss dance in Times Square in New York. | ||
| Nobody there knew who he was. | ||
| I think they might've knew who he was. | ||
| No, come on, man. | ||
| His audience is 12-year-olds. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| I have a friend who's like, he was in a band that was like decently famous and toured around. | ||
| And when I met him, I was at this venue for like, you know, it's a big venue in Chicago called the Metro. | ||
| Some band was playing, everyone there was like in their 20s and 30s. | ||
| And I saw him and I was like, whoa, dude, aren't you so-and-so? | ||
| And he's like, yeah. | ||
| I was like, wow, man, nice to meet you. | ||
| I'm a fan. | ||
| He's like, cool, man. | ||
| And then I was like, anybody here recognize you? | ||
| And he goes, how old is everybody here? | ||
| Are they over 18? | ||
| No, probably not. | ||
| And I laughed and I was like, what did he say about me? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But yeah, like his audience wasn't there, you know? | ||
| Yeah, back to what I was saying about Ninja is Mixer bought him for like tens of millions of dollars, whatever they paid him. | ||
| I think some people were saying it was close to a hundred million. | ||
| And that's Microsoft, right? | ||
| Yeah, Microsoft bought Mixer, Mixer bought Ninja, then they started getting other influencers too. | ||
| But they thought, you know, Ninja, the biggest Twitch streamer, we're going to get him on Mixer and that's going to help out Mixer. | ||
| His viewership went from hundreds of thousands of live viewers to like a thousand, two thousand. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Not at first. | ||
| When he first went on, it was big numbers. | ||
| And then it just died off. | ||
| And then it just died off. | ||
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Bro. | |
| Joe Rogan. | ||
| Many influencers are only as strong as the platform they're on. | ||
| Yeah, dude. | ||
| And I saw that same exact thing happen with Joe Rogan. | ||
| I listen to Joe Rogan, but only on YouTube. | ||
| I'll watch his viral clips. | ||
| I'll listen to it here and there. | ||
| Maybe then I'll go over to a full show, but it's always on YouTube. | ||
| I haven't been to Spotify yet. | ||
| It's kind of like I don't want to. | ||
| I'm just like angry that he went to Spotify still. | ||
| I got no beef. | ||
| Hey, good for him. | ||
| I mean, I would take the bag too. | ||
| I mean, yeah, it's a lot of money. | ||
| I wonder, we were talking about before, it's almost like a retirement, you know, not to be disrespectful because I know Joey's a friend, but you know, when someone offers that much money, I'm sure Joey, he's a good businessman. | ||
| He knows exactly. | ||
| But he probably knew exactly what it meant by going exclusive with Spotify. | ||
| And there was a big backlash where people were commenting. | ||
| So his main YouTube channel now has become a clip channel. | ||
| I guess a clip channel is nothing now, I have no idea. | ||
| That's million, that's 10 million subscribers. | ||
| And he recently got the Diamond Award on YouTube. | ||
| All those subscribers subscribed to watch the long form show, not the clips. | ||
| And so now, there's comments of people who are like, I don't even watch anymore. | ||
| But here's what you gotta realize too, by going to Spotify, he lost the comment section. | ||
| So people were having conversations. | ||
| That's gone. | ||
| And the discoverability on YouTube was what's really driving the traffic. | ||
| I mean, Spotify is its own platform, but it's not something really people go there to discover stuff. | ||
| But if you, but the good news is for him now is that, you know, you go open up Spotify podcasts and Joe Rogan Experience is right there. | ||
| You're paying the guy a hundred million dollars. | ||
| And the devs are pretty much at his beck and call. | ||
| He wants them to build a comment section. | ||
| But he loses iTunes. | ||
| So he's not even on, you open up iTunes, gone. | ||
| Exclusive contracts are freaky. | ||
| His audience size, like, potential has literally been limited by like, what, one-tenth of the size. | ||
| This is why people keep saying, like, Tim, why aren't you on Rumble or whatever? | ||
| There's two reasons. | ||
| Two reasons. | ||
| The first is that someone already got the username Timcast, and I'm not gonna be bothered. | ||
| Maybe they'll give it to you. | ||
| I'm not gonna ask him. | ||
| Well, now I guess I just said it on the show. | ||
| Yeah, they'll email you. | ||
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Yeah, exactly. | |
| Please, Tim, please come. | ||
| I have so many companies, like every day we get like 10 people being like, you know, 10 different companies. | ||
| We started a new social media company, sign up, we reserve your name. | ||
| I'm like, dude, I keep telling everybody, man, YouTube is a money pit that loses money. | ||
| Like Uber, this is what Silicon Valley does to destroy this country and business in this country. | ||
| Uber loses money like crazy. | ||
| Like, dude, Uber loses money. | ||
| But here's the plan. | ||
| You subsidize the cost through investors until you strangle out all the competition, undercutting local cabs. | ||
| Cab drivers go nuts. | ||
| There were, like, cab driver riots in France. | ||
| I went to, I was in New York a couple years ago and there were cab drivers protesting outside of City Hall saying that Uber destroyed their business and in order to drive a cab in New York you need like a cab token and they cost like a million bucks. | ||
| It's like you gotta pay it off with a loan. | ||
| And so they were like, we were told Uber would only be allowed to drive so many cars. | ||
| So we buy these things, and then once they brought in 30,000 Uber cars allowing them, then all of a sudden these tokens are worthless and no one drives in our cars anymore. | ||
| So what happens is, cabs cost more money. | ||
| That's right, you know why? | ||
| Because you gotta pay for everything, the gas, the maintenance repair, and the person's wage. | ||
| With Uber, same thing applies, but it's cheaper because they eat the cost, take a huge loss. | ||
| YouTube does that. | ||
| YouTube sinks, money's on fire. | ||
| Netflix does that too. | ||
| They lose money like crazy. | ||
| But they make money off of investors. | ||
| They take money from investors or through subsidies. | ||
| So, YouTube is subsidized by the parent companies. | ||
| The parent companies make sure YouTube functions. | ||
| And then, so the cost is ridiculous. | ||
| But this makes it so that no one goes anywhere else. | ||
| And all they have to do now is wait until everything withers and is strangled. | ||
| I'll tell you, it's simple this. | ||
| It's simple as principle, really. | ||
| You got a mom-and-pop cafe. | ||
| This was happening in Seattle. | ||
| At least this was a story as I was told when I lived in Seattle a long time ago. | ||
| This was like 14 years ago. | ||
| You'd have a mom-and-pop local family small business cafe. | ||
| One day, a Starbucks would open next door, and it would offer discounts, super cheap drinks, and then people would- it would split their business. | ||
| Because there are some people who are big fans of the local cafe. | ||
| It's the best cafe you gotta go to. | ||
| They make a great French roast. | ||
| But then there are a lot of people who are just like, I just want a coffee. | ||
| Starbucks, they got milkshakes or whatever, you know? | ||
| Yeah, and so they see the Starbucks sign, and they know it's coffee, and they see the mom-and-pop's, you know, whiz-bang cafe, and they're like, I don't know what that is. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| There's a difference between, I would say, I agree with you, but I think there is a difference between Starbucks and Uber. | ||
| Uber kind of innovated an industry. | ||
| Starbucks is just like a big corporation that goes for better prices. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| But I just mean the principle. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| People were telling me that in Seattle they were doing this. | ||
| I just want to make sure that's clear. | ||
| It's like what I was told. | ||
| I don't know if it's true. | ||
| But they would say like Starbucks would open up right across the street, then the small business would not be able to compete with Starbucks. | ||
| But you got, bro, in San Francisco, just off of Market Street, I can't remember exactly what street this is, there's like three Starbucks Three Starbucks locations. | ||
| In Hollywood, there's four of them a mile away. | ||
| I went, not even within a mile, no. | ||
| In one point, they're right across the street from each other. | ||
| So I was walking down the street looking for a Starbucks. | ||
| I pull up on my phone and it's like two dots appear on my Google Maps or whatever. | ||
| And I'm like, what? | ||
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Which one? | |
| What? | ||
| There's two of them. | ||
| And so I walk and I look. | ||
| I'm like, oh, there's Starbucks. | ||
| And then I walk inside. | ||
| I grab, you know, like a water or whatever. | ||
| And I grab like a thing of Madeline's or some cookies, whatever they sell at Starbucks. | ||
| And when I'm waiting in line, I look across the street and I see a Starbucks logo on the other side of the street. | ||
| And I was like, No. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| Do it. | ||
| I use that similar analogy when I'm talking to people who like support minimum wage increases. | ||
| And I brought up to one guy, I'm like, hey, I'm like, what do you think about restaurant owners paying their employees $15 an hour? | ||
| He's like, oh, you mean a livable wage? | ||
| I'm like, one, a livable wage is different depending on where you are and who you are. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But I'm like, I'm like, you want to increase minimum wage. | ||
| I'm like, do you not understand like the overhead that goes into running? | ||
| I used a pizzeria as analogy. | ||
| You increase minimum wage, now that cashier needs to earn money. | ||
| The phone girl needs to earn more money. | ||
| Now it costs more money for raw materials. | ||
| Now your pizza prices go up. | ||
| And people get pissed off. | ||
| Now you're selling more expensive pizzas because the minimum wage increased. | ||
| Or they start skimping on materials. | ||
| They start skimping. | ||
| The quality goes down. | ||
| Bromate. | ||
| Potassium bromate in their bread. | ||
| But then a Domino's opens up across it. | ||
| This wouldn't fly in New York, or at least not in Staten Island. | ||
| But anywhere else, a Pizza Hut or a Domino's opens up across the street, and they can give you a pizza for one-tenth the price, and they can afford to pay their employees $15 an hour, because they have that massive infrastructure to get you cheap prices, also if they subsidize it with shareholders. | ||
| So I'm like, so you want $15 an hour? | ||
| That's just gonna destroy small businesses. | ||
| And then you're gonna have to go work for a corporation, and now you're stuck making $15 an hour for the rest of your life because you're working for Pizza Hut. | ||
| The idea that you can artificially inflate the wages for people is just wrong, man. | ||
| I talked to... I told this story before. | ||
| I was talking to an accountant who was a... He's a Democrat guy. | ||
| He's like, you know, urban Democrat, not super political, but, you know, he votes Dem. | ||
| And I asked him about it because New Jersey was passing a wage increase and he said, oh, I lost 30% of my clients already. | ||
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Wow. | |
| They just went... They shut their businesses down overnight. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because what you gotta realize... He's still a Democrat? | ||
| He did? | ||
| Does he still vote Democrat? | ||
| Oh no, no, no, no, dude. | ||
| And that's why I'm like, it's so crazy that I lived in a blue area, | ||
| everybody was Democrat, and then within a couple of years, they were all Trump supporters. | ||
| Our whole lives we were riding the bubble of the boomers. | ||
| Is that what it was? | ||
| Boomers? | ||
| They were just printing money in the white picket fence to get a house. | ||
| The American dream was just a big bubble. | ||
| They just kept printing more and more and more money. | ||
| Now there's $27 trillion of it. | ||
| That's not the issue. | ||
| Our whole lives we were riding that bubble. | ||
| We didn't realize it. | ||
| There's a lot of different issues as to why the boomers retain so much wealth and young people don't. | ||
| That oil money. | ||
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OPEC, man. | |
| The CIA in 1945. | ||
| I think it has to do with boomers being bad parents. | ||
| I think it has to do with boomers being some of the worst. | ||
| Ignorant for sure. | ||
| They didn't realize they were riding that bubble too, I don't think. | ||
| It's not about riding a bubble. | ||
| The American military bubble. | ||
| Yeah, so World War II, we decimated the industries of our, you know, rival foreign countries. | ||
| And then, that's annoying. | ||
| And then you have, you know, American industry picks up the slack, and our factories were fine, nobody came here. | ||
| There's a lot of reasons why things were doing well, and there's a lot of arguments about it, but there's a lot to be said. | ||
| Everybody wants to blame Ronald Reagan for trickle-down economics as to why it happened, but they overlook the fact that Republicans were, and this is true, the fact that the Republicans wanted to start importing a lot of cheap labor. | ||
| and outsourcing to get cheap labor. | ||
| If you were in a factory, you know, it's like the 70s and 80s, | ||
| you're like, man, why do I gotta pay, you know, four bucks an hour, five bucks an hour to this employee | ||
| when I can have this stuff produced in Mexico for dirt and then shipped up here? | ||
| And so that's where the trend comes in. | ||
| The jobs get destroyed, and that's ultimately what leads us to Trump. | ||
| I think the reason I brought up the bubble that we're in is because | ||
| my whole life I thought, if you need to raise the minimum wage, raise the minimum wage. | ||
| Print, make the short-term value, and then later we can recoup the loss as a short-term investment, but I didn't realize that it was like a Ponzi scheme. | ||
| It's so easy to explain why minimum wage increases do not work. | ||
| What you need is the value of time to go up, and how you do that is very complicated. | ||
| But it's really easy to explain to somebody. | ||
| If I'm growing apples, and I gotta hire someone at 10 bucks an hour to pick the apples, and he can pick 10 apples per hour, just these are ridiculous numbers, he can obviously pick more than that, then the cost of an apple has to be over a dollar. | ||
| Because then I gotta pay for overhead, the machinery, the planting. | ||
| So an apple costs two bucks. | ||
| Well, now you double the guy's wage, right? | ||
| Let's say you give him 20 bucks an hour now. | ||
| Because why not? | ||
| Rashida Tlaib was already saying, you know, 15's not enough, 20 bucks. | ||
| Okay, so now each apple has to cost at least two dollars. | ||
| Now, all of a sudden, apples go up in price. | ||
| But guess what? | ||
| The people who pick the apples also need to eat. | ||
| So now, I'm giving them 20 bucks an hour, and then they're going to the supermarket and going, I can't even buy apples anymore because the price just doubled. | ||
| So you're not giving them buying power. | ||
| Increasing the minimum wage does not give anyone buying power. | ||
| It's like a short-term buying power. | ||
| No, it's a trick to make them think. | ||
| Well, it's a short-term. | ||
| As the inflation catches up, it takes like eight months. | ||
| It destroys the savings of retirees Because now, you still can't buy the apple, because you have the same buying power, but now everybody who's saved can only buy half the apples they originally could have bought. | ||
| It does so much. | ||
| One, it helps out the bigger business. | ||
| It hurts the little guy. | ||
| It causes inflation. | ||
| It allows the government to tax you more as well. | ||
| And also, it spits in the face of the people who maybe are trying to work their way up at Walmart. | ||
| You know, maybe, hey, I put in 10 years at Walmart, I want to work my way up. | ||
| You started at $5 an hour, now you're making $20. | ||
| I gotta tell you what I'm really sick of. | ||
| I am sick of the fact that you are left-wing or right-wing based on whether you are stupid. | ||
| And so when I go to a Democrat accountant and he tells me, look what happened on paper to all of these businesses when they raised minimum wage, the buying power did not go up. | ||
| It stayed the same and it destroyed these small businesses that didn't have the savings to maintain this. | ||
| And then everyone says, because I'm not in favor of minimum wage, it's a right-wing position. | ||
| So what, the left is stupid? | ||
| It's just an incomplete concept to raise the wage. | ||
| You need to raise, like, savings account interest as well, I think, if you're going to do something like that. | ||
| So the banks take a hit, and the consumer can maintain buying power. | ||
| But interest, that's not going to do anything for somebody who makes $10 an hour. | ||
| They don't have a savings to see any increase in their interest. | ||
| Ideally, it would help them grow a savings account. | ||
| Not only does it hurt business-wise, inflation-wise, all that stuff, It also hurts the culture because if you had a lower minimum wage, you know, someone's first job at the age of 13, 14, his $5 an hour worked the cashier. | ||
| I was making $4.25, I think. | ||
| I've been working. | ||
| I worked my first job when I was like 13, 14 years old for like $5 an hour. | ||
| And you know, that's a growing experience. | ||
| Everybody should have that experience. | ||
| Now, what kid is going to get a job when the minimum wage is $15 an hour? | ||
| You're going to want to hire the best of the best to make up for that price. | ||
| And the left always uses this argument. | ||
| Oh, you go to In-N-Out, they pay their employees above minimum wage, and look how good the service is versus McDonald's. | ||
| It's like, no, they're not doing better because they're getting a higher wage. | ||
| They're doing better because they're literally just picking the best of the best fast food workers. | ||
| And that's why they're getting paid more because they're the best of the best. | ||
| And because McDonald's pays less, they're less concerned. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because the good, the good, you know, burger employees and cashiers are going to be like, I'm going to work for In-N-Out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't want to work for McDonald's. | ||
| So the minimum wage really pinned people like me when I worked in the hospital because I was a tech and I went to school for it. | ||
| It didn't take very long, but I was making more than the minimum wage because I had a little bit of extra education. | ||
| So one of the things I found was when my state was raising the minimum wage was that my wage would go up as well a little bit at a time along kind of the same lines, and I wouldn't be able to buy or do anything more. | ||
| It made absolutely no difference. | ||
| Everything, the price of everything stayed exactly the same. | ||
| Why are we doing this? | ||
| There's one benefit. | ||
| Imports. | ||
| And so that's why you see people like Joe Biden tie multiple policies together with the left. | ||
| Free trade agreements, increased minimum wage, higher corporate taxes, drive the industry to foreign countries, give everybody in the U.S. | ||
| an increased wage, but not the slave labor in China. | ||
| So the people in China who are living under a communist boot, who live in squalor to such a degree that they've walked off of the Foxconn buildings in mass suicide incidents, and the Foxconn lab had to put up nets to catch people to stop them from killing themselves, they don't get a wage increase. | ||
| So what happens with a minimum wage increase that helps Americans is that if you're making $10 an hour, And then they increase your wage to 15. | ||
| Congratulations. | ||
| You can now buy. | ||
| It's now easier for you. | ||
| Your buying power, in terms of import goods, has gone up. | ||
| But you need to maintain your slaves. | ||
| That's the only way. | ||
| It's a slave economy. | ||
| Yeah, we live in a slave economy. | ||
| China has to maintain the slavery. | ||
| Yay, Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, but there's a lot more slaves that were... Oh, there's literal... | ||
| Dude, what the heck? | ||
| I mean, listen, first of all, slavery is never there's more slaves alive today than there's | ||
| ever been. | ||
| What the heck? | ||
| And it's it's you know, the Obama's involvement in Libya resulted in the return of the North | ||
| African slave trade. | ||
| It's it's it's it's insane. | ||
| I can imagine using robots as manufacturers because, you know, like a computer slave. | ||
| You got it. | ||
| For now, you still need people to do the finer manipulation of, you know, like, you know, you can use your hands to do better than we didn't even talk about the increase in automation, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, McDonald's, they have like one, sometimes I'll go into like a newer McDonald's. | ||
| It'll be like one person at the register and five machines that you do well beyond that. | ||
| You go to like travel stops when you're driving around the country and they have a robot robot ice cream, man. | ||
| You ever see these things? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it's like, there's a little guy, it's like a creepy like cylinder with little arms and its arm will spin and then grab the cup and then go and then it'll pull the lever down, fills the ice cream up and it's like, it's like staring at you with its like creepy robotic gaze. | ||
| And then like the sprinkles come down and it goes, I love it. | ||
| I think the automation economy is inevitable and that the whole job economy thing is probably going to be a thing of the past. | ||
| Somebody's got to build the robots. | ||
| Somebody's got to design the robots. | ||
| Somebody's got to maintain the robots. | ||
| Electricity has to power the robots. | ||
| This has happened all throughout history. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know, one industry goes, you know, and people, I mean, it's not like it used to be where you can work a job for 20, 30 years. | ||
| You need to constantly evolve your brain and how you work and your work ethic and your skills and your knowledge constantly. | ||
| You can't get comfortable and work a job for 30, 40 years. | ||
| Obviously, there's some jobs you can, but for the most part, Your job right now is going to be obsolete in 20 years. | ||
| Did I ever tell you a story about the homeless guy I met in Chicago? | ||
| No. | ||
| This is a story I tell a lot of people, and I probably told it on this show, but there was a homeless guy. | ||
| I was skating in downtown Chicago when I was like 18 or 19, and he looked like he was like 60. | ||
| He was some old black dude, and I had some leftover pizza, so I was like, I was like, hey man, I was like, you want some pizza? | ||
| I was just leaving a restaurant, and he was like, yeah, for sure, man. | ||
| I think he called me youngblood or something, and I was like, you got it, bro, and you know, fist bump, and then I was like, can I ask you a question, a personal question? | ||
| And I was like, are you homeless? | ||
| And he says, yes sir, I am. | ||
| And I was like, how did that happen? | ||
| Long story short, he said, listen man, he's like, you know, I worked, I think he said he worked for the post office or something, or he worked, he worked for some company for years. | ||
| And then eventually when the company started downsizing and they didn't, they didn't need whatever the company produced anymore, you know, one day someone comes up to him and says, sorry man, like company's going under, nobody buys this product for whatever reason. | ||
| So, you know, we're gonna have to let you go. | ||
| You got about one more month. | ||
| So he loses his job, and then he says the first thing he did was he went to go find more jobs. | ||
| But when you're an expert working at this factory that produces a specific product, what job are you going to find to maintain yourself? | ||
| He's like, I got an apartment, I got bills, and I need a certain amount of money. | ||
| But because my skill is in this area, once I lose that job, I go to any other company. | ||
| He's like, I go to McDonald's. | ||
| I go to Wendy's. | ||
| And they're like, we'd love to hire you. | ||
| You seem great. | ||
| Some places say, you're overqualified. | ||
| You were a manager? | ||
| Oh, sorry, we can't hire you. | ||
| But even if they do, you go from making $20 to $10. | ||
| He's like, I got a job, but I still couldn't afford my bills. | ||
| Eventually, my car gets taken. | ||
| I can't afford my rent anymore. | ||
| And eventually the landlord comes and he says, if you don't pay your rent by this time, I'm kicking you out. | ||
| And he's like, listen, man, he's like, I'm old, man. | ||
| He's like, my friends and my family, they're gone. | ||
| Many people have passed. | ||
| And then one day they come to me and say, you can't pay your rent. | ||
| You're gone. | ||
| He's like, I exhausted unemployment benefits. | ||
| I had nothing left. | ||
| And now here I am. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We're going to see a lot of that happen now because of the lockdowns. | ||
| We're going to see ex-business restaurant owners being managers at McDonald's, if they're lucky. | ||
| Oh, get under the boot of the corporate machine, man. | ||
| And you know what really bothers me? | ||
| I want to go back to this. | ||
| The minimum wage is stupid, and I will assert myself as left on economic policy. | ||
| Everything I just explained about this guy losing his job and becoming homeless is a problem brought up by economic leftists. | ||
| But I'm not stupid enough to think the minimum wage solves that problem. | ||
| And you know who's for the lockdowns right now? | ||
| Bill Gates. | ||
| It's the left! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The leftists, you know, who are destroying, like, listen, there are Republicans who are ignoring it. | ||
| Like I said, you know, the Democrats in these cities and states have destroyed the economy, and they've turned people from small business owners with their own little, you know, private space and fiefdom and ownership that made them happy, and they've pushed them down into the poverty class, and they want them to live under the boot of corporations, and it is the left in this country that is doing it. | ||
| The left is supposed to be saying that government is good. | ||
| Government is good. | ||
| We all work together. | ||
| We do socialism and the people are in this together. | ||
| Yet they're using the power of government to force people to work for McDonald's. | ||
| That's the left. | ||
| 10, 20, 30 big trillion dollar corporations and the rest of the country just works for them. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| That's the democrat socialist future. | ||
| And it's so crazy because they have the voters totally fooled. | ||
| They have the voters fooled that that's fighting for the people. | ||
| They hate these big corporations. | ||
| They hate the billionaires. | ||
| But everything that they're supporting is funded and supported by the same people they say they hate. | ||
| They're being so duped. | ||
| Yeah, I was making the most in any like menial job, the most money ever made. | ||
| I wasn't making minimum wage. | ||
| I was making $2.13 an hour as a waiter, and I was getting tips based on percentages of sales. | ||
| So I was making percentages of what the company was making, and that was the best living I could make. | ||
| So maybe we don't need minimum wage. | ||
| Maybe we need like... | ||
| A guaranteed percent of profits earned. | ||
| The Democrats in some areas, I know they were doing this with Uber, they were fighting for waiters and waitresses to make minimum wage. | ||
| Yes, no more tip economy. | ||
| If you were a waiter and a waitress, you don't want to make minimum wage. | ||
| No, you get taxed. | ||
| If you work at a good bar, you can come home with a couple thousand in it. | ||
| And if it's cash, it's not. | ||
| I mean, they say to declare all your tips, but every waiter I know. | ||
| Unless it's credit card. | ||
| That's why you always make sure you... Yeah, all your credit card. | ||
| Tip with cash so that it's on the waiter's back. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Pay your taxes. | ||
| And pay your taxes. | ||
| I know people who do waitering and people who do it full time as a full time job, they'll claim like half. | ||
| But also, how is it that if you help me move some boxes and I give you 50 bucks that you need to go tell the government? | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| That's probably another reason why the Democrats want corporate America because everything goes through the tax system. | ||
| That's why they want digital currencies too. | ||
| They want everything to be tracked and everything. | ||
| So look, I'll try and keep as vague as possible because I don't want to reveal people's private information, but I have friends When I was growing up where one dude goes to college gets a | ||
| degree and then he gets out and the job he gets with That degree pays him like 15 bucks an hour and he's happy. | ||
| He's like, yeah, I got a degree It's an entry-level position, you know, I'm 22 and then I | ||
| have friends who go and serve, you know Like at a restaurant, you know like a steakhouse and they | ||
| make 50 bucks an hour Yeah, they don't want minimum wage. I opened up my own | ||
| small business a few years ago. I opened up a grilled cheese | ||
| Oh, you're a fascist. Yeah, I open up a grilled cheese joint called get grilled. Really? Yeah, and | ||
| No, no, we wanted to turn it into a brand it was like a Subway for grilled cheeses | ||
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It was awesome the good but subway can do grilled cheese. I mean, you don't go there really, right? | |
| Right good bread good cheese. Yeah, and It was a really good idea. | ||
| It was awesome. | ||
| Everybody that visited was like, wow, this is going to be big. | ||
| This is awesome. | ||
| They're so good. | ||
| The grilled cheeses. | ||
| We made the process as similar to that streamlined process to make things easier. | ||
| Like Chipotle? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And the thing is, after doing that, realizing all the regulations of coming in, how expensive it was because of the taxes. | ||
| My employees made way more money than me. | ||
| And I had to end up paying them out of the pocket because it wasn't profitable and um one of the reasons was one the mall that we were in was really bad and then two just like the regulations of them coming in all this useless stuff that we don't need and then some like idiot who's coming there and like you know making sure everything's up to code made us put like this six foot What you see now when you go into a store and there's that glass shield, they made us put that over the food. | ||
| And when we're talking to the customers, we gotta lean over because they can't hear us because the wall is curved. | ||
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That's just unnecessary. | |
| There's a correlation between the strength of a country's economy and the ease at which an individual has to start a business. | ||
| The harder it is to start a business, the worse economies do. | ||
| And I'll tell you, we talked about this, you know, last week or whatever, in Tunisia. | ||
| I'm sorry, real quick, and also in that same mall, all the similar businesses were all owned and ran by the business owner. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| They would work 12-hour shifts, and that was the only way they could be profitable. | ||
| Sorry to cut you off. | ||
| In Tunisia, the Arab Spring started because a guy was trying to sell fruit from a cart, and the government kept blocking him and wouldn't let him, so eventually he just went in front of a building and set himself on fire. | ||
| But I'll tell you this. | ||
| You think grilled cheese is a good idea? | ||
| You wanna know the best idea ever for a fast-casual restaurant? | ||
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What? | |
| You go in, alright? | ||
| And there's three key food items. | ||
| three food items. | ||
| That's what we saw. | ||
| And then sides, and you know what it is? | ||
| It's chicken tikka masala, it's pod thai, and it's orange chicken. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So those are actually like the top. | ||
| That's kind of like what internet does. | ||
| The top. | ||
| It's fries and burgers, and that's why they're able to. | ||
| I'm half kidding though, but like I had this idea because I was reading about the top things ordered | ||
| from you know, Grubhub or whatever. | ||
| It's like pod thai, chicken tikka masala, and orange chicken, and I was like, | ||
| put them all in one fast casual place. | ||
| You know, call it super. | ||
| You know what you could do? | ||
| I'm going to reveal this idea online. | ||
| Maybe someone will build it. | ||
| You make combinations where they can go in and they can decide what oil they want. | ||
| Do they want coconut, olive, you know, sesame oil? | ||
| And then what vinegar they want. | ||
| Do they want rice wine? | ||
| What you just depict the oil and the vinegar that goes into the food changes the flavor completely. | ||
| There's a place in, there's a chain in New York that does that. | ||
| And you'll be like, I'd like a white wine vinegar with coconut oil. | ||
| And they have a fridge full of all the different kinds of lettuce. | ||
| They'll have like spinach, spring greens, romaine, iceberg. | ||
| And then they have the different meats. | ||
| And then they have different fish. | ||
| Yeah, different fish. | ||
| And you walk and you'll say, I'll do spring greens with grilled chicken. | ||
| And I'll do, you know, the white wine vinegar with crispy onions and mushrooms. | ||
| And then they take it all and they cook it in front of you as you walk down the line. | ||
| Really good place. | ||
| It's all about that oil and that vinegar, man. | ||
| I forgot what it's called, though. | ||
| I forgot what it's called. | ||
| Is that the one where they cook it on, like, a thing with, like, sticks? | ||
| That's hibachi. | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| No, that's the one where, like, they cook it with sticks. | ||
| It's kind of like Chipotle. | ||
| You walk in, you get in line, and then you walk up to say, what do you want? | ||
| And you're like, spring greens, you know, steak. | ||
| And they cook the steak and they cut it in front of you. | ||
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It's amazing. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| So the thing is like with the restaurant industry, the more you add to the menu, the more options you give, it just adds more to the start to the cost of running things. | ||
| Cause then, you know, if you have more items, you need more space. | ||
| Cause obviously at first to just keep your base ingredients, like, yeah. | ||
| You want a salmon, you want like a steak and like, I don't know. | ||
| That's why Chipotle is so streamlined. | ||
| It's like, you know, four different types of meats, three different, two different types of rice, two different types of beans. | ||
| And you can make all these different types of combinations. | ||
| Same thing with In-N-Out. | ||
| It's just burgers and fries. | ||
| So it's like they can handle a hundred customers every 10 minutes because it's only burgers and fries. | ||
| They're just mass cooking it and getting it out the door. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, if they had to make to order at In-N-Out. | ||
| You'll be online for six hours. | ||
| And then you have in Seattle, you have Dick's. | ||
| Do you know Dick's in Seattle? | ||
| Last resort? | ||
| No, it's just called Dick's. | ||
| It's a hamburger joint called Dick's. | ||
| And so the reason why they do really well, though, is not because they just sell burgers and fries and milkshakes, I think. | ||
| But you want to know why that business does really well? | ||
| Because when I'm in Seattle, my friends go, you want to eat a bag of Dick's? | ||
| I'm not kidding. | ||
| I'm not kidding. | ||
| And so, and then, and then the first time I heard that, I was like, haha, very funny. | ||
| Like, no, no, no, no. | ||
| Dick's burger joint. | ||
| And I'm like, wait, what? | ||
| And they're like, yeah, it's a burger joint. | ||
| I was like, hell yeah. | ||
| Oh, burgers. | ||
| But think about it. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| All of a sudden you're like someone like, what do you want to do tonight? | ||
| Let's go out. | ||
| Let, you know, let's go eat a bag of dicks. | ||
| And you're like. | ||
| And then everyone's laughing. | ||
| So somebody gets the joke and then you actually go and buy the burgers. | ||
| Right? | ||
| So it's like, it's clever marketing. | ||
| Clever marketing. | ||
| But you know, anyway, we were talking about... Dick's a funny word. | ||
| Let's be honest. | ||
| It's a guy's name. | ||
| You know what really creeped me out? | ||
| I saw a billboard runs on Seattle and it was a pig grilling bacon or something. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It was like a billboard for like a smokehouse or like, like barbecue. | ||
| And it was like a smiling pig with a chef's hat. | ||
| And he was like frying bacon. | ||
| And I was like, geez. | ||
| Yeah, pigs will eat each other, I believe. | ||
| Yeah, they will. | ||
| Luke was telling us about that. | ||
| Luke was saying that, you know, he was on a farm with a bunch of pigs, and the pigs will, like, bite you because they're trying to eat you, and you gotta, like, kick them back and stop them. | ||
| Dang, they're hungry. | ||
| And then he was saying that what they do when you're on a farm and there's no food and you're, like, struggling or starving, they'll cripple one of the pigs, and then the other pigs will just eat it. | ||
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Ooh! | |
| Crazy, dude! | ||
| Pigs are nuts! | ||
| I'm gonna go to the bathroom. | ||
| I'll be back. | ||
| Anyway, regulation, Joey. | ||
| Regulation destroys small businesses. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| I mean, I've seen it firsthand. | ||
| And it's, you know, I was at this one place yesterday. | ||
| Damn, what was the name of it? | ||
| It was in Staten Island, and the guy got arrested. | ||
| Oh, yeah, yeah. | ||
| You went to that bar? | ||
| Max Pub House. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| You went there? | ||
| Yeah, I went there. | ||
| We were just all hanging out. | ||
| Oh, that's right, because you're a former congressional candidate from Staten Island. | ||
| That's right, yeah. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| No former loser. | ||
| So. | ||
| Well, former loser, you did lose. | ||
| I did lose, yeah. | ||
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So you're a loser. | |
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Ongoing loser. | ||
| Ongoing loser. | ||
| So what they did was they did all the legal loopholes to get past lockdowns. | ||
| They're in autonomous zone. | ||
| They're in chapel now. | ||
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I told them, I'm like, just put a Black Lives Matter sign on the front | |
| because de Blasio says that's okay. | ||
| But even though they're doing all the legal loopholes to open up, it does not matter | ||
| because the Democrats' agenda, like their law is a sliding scale. | ||
| Even though you're following it, eh, I don't like it. | ||
| We're gonna shut you down. | ||
| And those people in particular, they're broke. | ||
| It's the cops, bro. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There'd be no shut down. | ||
| This guy would not be shut down if the cops weren't enforcing it. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| I heard that people were telling me that it's not so much the NYPD, but the sheriff and the state troopers. | ||
| The NYPD, they came to my family's restaurant multiple times. | ||
| They don't give a damn. | ||
| They come, whatever. | ||
| Although, I never told you this story. | ||
| So my family's restaurant opened up in the summer when they allowed some of the outdoor dining. | ||
| And then the health official came. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| and analyze the place or whatever. | ||
| Everybody was wearing masks. | ||
| They were all up to code. | ||
| Some people were wearing masks that weren't like mask masks, but they were like a face visor, | ||
| like a see-through plastic visor. | ||
| I guess that wasn't okay. | ||
| Yeah, it's gotta be cloth. | ||
| Yeah, and the guy comes in, he looks around, and he takes the liquor license away. | ||
| Just what, right like that? | ||
| Right then and there. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And then it goes to, I guess, the liquor department. | ||
| Can you give the booze away if you have no liquor license? | ||
| That's another loophole that I think Max was doing. | ||
| They were giving the food away and then just had a donation joint. | ||
| But, you know, the loopholes don't matter. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| Then I went online and I found the Liquor Authority, their livestream of them all talking and declaring for every business, OK, we're going to fine them $50,000. | ||
| OK, we're going to fine them $30,000, but they have to shut the music off at 10 o'clock. | ||
| Like, all these rules trying to punish businesses, and these are unelected people sitting in a position of power, And trust me, they're the stupidest looking people. | ||
| You look at them, you're like, these people should be bums on the street. | ||
| And they're the ones, like dictators, deciding what businesses are allowed to do and the fines that they have. | ||
| You've got to get out of New York City, man. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I saw them. | ||
| They did the whole thing on my family's restaurant. | ||
| It was completely wrong. | ||
| They were looking at photos. | ||
| They had drone footage. | ||
| And they said, yeah, we see people not wearing masks by the pool. | ||
| They listed off a bunch of other things. | ||
| I forgot what it was, but everything they listed, there's no pool. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's what I'm trying to say. | ||
| There's no pool. | ||
| I was like, that's kind of weird. | ||
| Everything they were listing off was not even true and was not even like, they must've had the information from the wrong place. | ||
| Or they don't care, man. | ||
| Or they don't care. | ||
| And there's no appeal process. | ||
| You can't state your case. | ||
| It's just whatever they say, they bang the gavel and you're done. | ||
| I'm sorry, Joey. | ||
| You're actually wrong on all counts. | ||
| Just because some random person says it doesn't make it true. | ||
| Like, if a random person is like, we're, you know, we're shutting you down, be like, who are you? | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| I'm the health inspector. | ||
| Says who? | ||
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Says my badge. | |
| What badge? | ||
| Who's that from? | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| Then they send the state troopers over, and then they arrest you. | ||
| Come back with a warrant. | ||
| I told my mom. | ||
| Then get arrested. | ||
| I told my mom. | ||
| I'm like, next time they come, next time they come, you take your phone out, you start recording, you tell them they have no legal constitutional rights to come here and do what they're doing, and you kick them out. | ||
| And you tell them to come back. | ||
| Never. | ||
| Like, you kick them out. | ||
| You say, you're banned from the premises. | ||
| Do not come back here. | ||
| You know what, man? | ||
| I guess this isn't true for Staten Island. | ||
| You guys elected Max Rose, alright? | ||
| He's out now. | ||
| Yeah, he's out now, but look. | ||
| Am I supposed to have sympathy for New Yorkers who keep voting for these people? | ||
| See, Staten Island does not vote for any of those. | ||
| We want to secede from the city. | ||
| The city won't let us because the city knows, okay, if we let Staten Island be their own thing. | ||
| What's the city gonna do to stop you? | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| Why aren't we just doing it? | ||
| File a claim with the state or the Supreme Court. | ||
| There's New York City taxes, and then there's state taxes. | ||
| And the city will not let us leave because everybody in Manhattan would immediately move to Staten Island. | ||
| All the big businesses will move over there to avoid the taxes. | ||
| Nah, they'd move to Jersey City, man. | ||
| They'd do that too, but I'm saying Staten Island. | ||
| You still gotta pay taxes if you live in Jersey City. | ||
| Yeah, Staten Island will, like, there'll be a mass exodus from Manhattan over this, and it'll make the Democrats look bad because everyone's fleeing. | ||
| Just like they're fleeing now. | ||
| Everyone from Staten Island, kind of a banded ship. | ||
| Hey man, Ulysses S. Grant says anybody who feels like they're oppressed by their government has a right to revolution. | ||
| That was, that's Ulysses, man. | ||
| He, that's the North, you know? | ||
| I love Staten, I've been there a couple times. | ||
| I was there for Hurricane Sandy, I did, with Occupy Sandy, I did clean up in Staten Island. | ||
| There's a lot of wooded areas, but everything's starting to be torn down from more houses. | ||
| That is crazy dude. | ||
| What's the middle of the island like? | ||
| I've only ever been to the, you know how like roads will go around | ||
| and in the middle it looks like just like wilderness and mountain houses? | ||
| There's a lot of wooded areas, but everything's starting to be torn down | ||
| from more houses. | ||
| The property value I heard from a realtor was actually going up, | ||
| because it's one of the places people are leaving Manhattan for. | ||
| Even though you're still part of New York City, it's just less crime. | ||
| It's a very clean town. | ||
| You know that people in New York City don't consider Staten Island New York City. | ||
| That's the thing. | ||
| Every liberal leftist Democrat in New York City is like, F Staten Island. | ||
| It's an asshole. | ||
| It's not New York City. | ||
| They tell me that Brooklyn wasn't New York City. | ||
| We do not want to even be a part of you. | ||
| Just let us leave. | ||
| No, they want your money, dude! | ||
| They just want our money. | ||
| You hate us. | ||
| The leaders hate us. | ||
| The voters hate us. | ||
| We don't want to be a part of you. | ||
| The Staten Island Fair is fun, though. | ||
| That would be interesting to break up the boroughs. | ||
| It is, man. | ||
| Going from what's like Battery Park or whatever, and then you take the boat to Staten Island. | ||
| Brooklyn and Queens are kind of connected. | ||
| They're so interwoven, it'd be tough to break those into two cities. | ||
| Queens is huge, man. | ||
| Queens is massive. | ||
| People don't realize how big it is. | ||
| It's the biggest borough, isn't it? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| It's ridiculously big. | ||
| Yeah, but Staten Island, I think I've been there three times, and I lived in New York for five years. | ||
| Three times I've been to Staten Island. | ||
| But I would go to the Bronx, Harlem, Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, all the time, like a couple times a day, you're bouncing around. | ||
| You got a friend in the Upper West Side that'll come over across the bridge, come to the Bronx or whatever. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And all the Democrats, they like to say Staten Island's a big pile, a big dump. | ||
| Hey, it's the only, like, borough you can have a clean, nice backyard, not tripled with homeless people in the streets. | ||
| I'm like, you hate on it because you ain't it. | ||
| Is the city of New York extracting the wealth from the boroughs and then centralizing it in Manhattan? | ||
| I don't really know. | ||
| Well, yes, but if we replace the word Manhattan with, like, de Blasio's pockets. | ||
| Mansion. | ||
| Yeah, like his wife getting two million dollars for her staff or whatever. | ||
| Or a billion dollars went missing or something. | ||
| New York! | ||
| Gotta love it. | ||
| You know, I think New York, if you live in New York City, you have the second highest taxes in the country because of the city tax. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's city income tax. | ||
| You gotta pay the city, state, and federal. | ||
| California's the highest income tax. | ||
| People are flinging. | ||
| You hear what California wants to do? | ||
| What? | ||
| If you spend at least 60 days in California, non-consecutive, they'll tax you for 10 years. | ||
| Wow. | ||
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Good luck! | |
| That's why I'm moving to Vegas. | ||
| Zero state taxes. | ||
| Oh, but they got you already, bro. | ||
| They got you. | ||
| They got you. | ||
| I'm moving at the beginning of the year. | ||
| Don't matter. | ||
| If they pass this bill, they pass this law or whatever, they're gonna come after you. | ||
| Now, let's be real. | ||
| What are they gonna do? | ||
| California state trooper gonna show up in Vegas? | ||
| Right. | ||
| No. | ||
| They'll just shut my bank accounts down. | ||
| If they're California based. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh no, I'm doing everything. | ||
| Dude, California, California has, uh, this year, I think they lost 140,000 people. | ||
| Net negative migration over the past several years. | ||
| Dude, California has collapsed. | ||
| I want to give a shout out to Vegas. | ||
| I love that city. | ||
| If you go to the outskirts where it's like, it's, there'll be houses and then there's desert. | ||
| Like your front yard is desert and you can see mountains and then behind you is the city lights of Vegas. | ||
| Yeah, but you know that Vegas is being, they're reversing, what's it called, reverse desertification or whatever? | ||
| A desert reclamation. | ||
| So because people who move to Vegas want lawns, they import water. | ||
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Where? | |
| From? | ||
| Let people move to Vegas, and then they want lawns. | ||
| Because they don't want desert, they don't want sand, right? | ||
| What if they'll start seeding, you know how they're in Abu Dhabi, they're rain seeding? | ||
| They don't need to do that. | ||
| There's already clouds popping up all over Vegas. | ||
| Oh, because of the lawns. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Also pools, too. | ||
| because the lawns are holding moisture and people are watering them and the | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| water is cycling back and so the more people move in also pool and the more | ||
| pools in the more grass dude I noticed all the houses that I looked at when I | ||
| went on my search I don't think I saw maybe one house with a lawn good but a | ||
| lot of the houses had fake grass and then obviously desert shrubbery | ||
| That's what I've noticed. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| Maybe in Summerlin I could see more of that. | ||
| I'll tell you something really crazy. | ||
| People go to Vegas to vacation, right? | ||
| So you get on a plane, and while you're on the plane, you use the bathroom. | ||
| There's a lot of water in your poop, in your urine, right? | ||
| The plane dumps all that off in Vegas when they clean out the system. | ||
| We are importing fluids from human beings. | ||
| Not only that, they got to import soda and water and drinks for all of the tourists who keep coming in. | ||
| Exhale water. | ||
| Yes, exactly. | ||
| You exhale water. | ||
| So people, every time people come to Vegas, it's getting like, I remember I was there and it was partly cloudy. | ||
| And I'd been to Vegas like a decade ago, and it was like... They have some man-made lakes there, too. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| We're importing water like crazy, and then the grass is really what's retaining it. | ||
| So we're turning the Vegas into, you know, green, like we're terraforming it. | ||
| Yeah, it's crazy. | ||
| I wonder if that Mojave... that's the Mojave Desert? | ||
| Is that that desert? | ||
| I think it's Mojave. | ||
| If that's sediment deposit left over from the flood 12,800 years ago, that North American glacial flood that just dumped It scathes the landscape and then dropped, it's all sand. | ||
| Like I know the Sahara is ocean sand. | ||
| If you look at, it just got pushed up onto the continent. | ||
| And I wonder if this is also like, if we could remove that sand, if there would be fresh dirt underneath. | ||
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That's interesting. | |
| I don't think it matters. | ||
| I think humans are inadvertently terraforming vases. | ||
| Just raining on top of it. | ||
| Because that grass is gonna turn into dirt eventually. | ||
| Dude, that's awesome! | ||
| And then we're gonna grow more grass and we just keep bringing it in. | ||
| Import dirt. | ||
| No, for real, people are. | ||
| So we are, like, that's crazy. | ||
| I wonder what we could do to the Sahara, too. | ||
| Because what they've been doing with the Sahara is they've been planting trees along the desert line to stop the desert from growing. | ||
| Because it's killing and, you know, it expands. | ||
| So they keep planting trees and trying to, you know, big ones, and so it blocks the spread of the desert. | ||
| We could, you know, turn more places green, man. | ||
| Yeah, I'd like to put all that ocean sand back into the ocean at some point. | ||
| Yeah, just get a shovel and start. | ||
| One at a time. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Or maybe we could use drones to start carting it now and get it done in 20 years. | ||
| Drones can't carry that much weight. | ||
| One by one. | ||
| If you have 100 million drones and they each carry 20 minutes, 10 ounces, that's all you need. | ||
| One cup at a time. | ||
| Let's do this. | ||
| Let's talk about aliens. | ||
| Let's talk about this, let's talk about aliens. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| This will be the last we can talk about. | ||
| We'll go to Super Chats afterwards. | ||
| But check this out. | ||
| Huge ball of fire falls from the sky and crashes into a Chinese county, leaving locals stunned. | ||
| Giant fireball was spotted flashing across the sky over Nankan, China. | ||
| Footage shows the burning sphere exploding and plumbing into the country. | ||
| Let me play this video for you guys, alright? | ||
| Let me play this video. | ||
| Wait, what? | ||
| What is this? | ||
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What? | |
| Okay, no, that's a video of a mob attack for some reason. | ||
| What is this? | ||
| Yeah, that little plays. | ||
| That's so adorable. | ||
| Alright, let's refresh Daily Mail. | ||
| And let's play the... Look at this. | ||
| This is crazy. | ||
| It's like the sun. | ||
| What is it? | ||
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Is it a comet? | |
| You can hear people yelling in Chinese and it crashed into the ground apparently. What was that? Was that at night? | ||
| That was at night. Oh, it looks like daytime Look at watch once it goes over the ridge you see it get | ||
| dark Holy cow. | ||
| Satellite? | ||
| Is that a satellite coming back? | ||
| Come on, Ian, Ian, Ian. | ||
| It could have been anything. | ||
| Well, I mean, I know it's aliens. | ||
| I'm just thinking outside the box. | ||
| Thinking outside the, exactly. | ||
| We know it's aliens. | ||
| It could be a conspiratorial. | ||
| Could it be a satellite? | ||
| We know it's aliens. | ||
| A rock? | ||
| Aliens, that sells clothes. | ||
| Unidentified object exploding into a blazing sphere, plunging. | ||
| You know, I feel bad for the aliens. | ||
| They were probably doing routine surveillance and then it malfunctioned, burst into flames, and now we're sitting here watching. | ||
| Out of all the places, China. | ||
| I want, it was probably, I mean... Now 20 new religions? | ||
| Satellite, probably, to 20, right? | ||
| Satellite does make the most sense. | ||
| But, uh, let's entertain the idea, because we were supposed to get aliens this year, right? | ||
| Remember that dude from Israel said aliens are real? | ||
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Yes! | |
| You see that joke? | ||
| Yeah, I saw that. | ||
| In Canada. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| A guy, we had a guy in Canada like 10 years ago, former, like, defense minister or whatever, said, yep, aliens are real, and he basically said we need a one world government or something like that, you know. | ||
| Hey, could be a false flag for globalism. | ||
| I need aliens. | ||
| You need them. | ||
| I'm desensitized by Twitter, and now I need aliens. | ||
| We gotta have aliens. | ||
| You know what, man? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| We need aliens. | ||
| I'm bored. | ||
| I'm so ready. | ||
| Dude, listen, listen, listen. | ||
| Donald Trump filed some, like, lawsuit or whatever in Pennsylvania to, like, overturn the results. | ||
| And I was like, I don't want to do another segment talking about it, because he just did it again, like, a couple days ago. | ||
| And it's like, here we go. | ||
| Another claim challenging it for many of the same reasons. | ||
| And I'm like, really, man? | ||
| Can an alien just, like, come with a jetpack and land so we can change the subject? | ||
| That'd be cool. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Talk about something else. | ||
| We'll throw them in cages. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, probably. | ||
| Illegal aliens? | ||
| Illegal aliens, yeah. | ||
| Maybe meditation, but aliens. | ||
| Definitely aliens. | ||
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I prefer it. | |
| Aliens would be fun. | ||
| So I'm gonna ask the obvious question. | ||
| Maybe I'm playing too many video games. | ||
| Ian, let me ask you the obvious question. | ||
| Why didn't they go and scoop up this thing that crashed? | ||
| Like, it landed across the mountains, right? | ||
| It's definitely a satellite. | ||
| Dude, what is it? | ||
| There's multiple videos of this. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| It's like, look at this, look at this video. | ||
| It's like, it's night out. | ||
| And it looks like daylight, whatever this is. | ||
| That's big. | ||
| Yeah, dude. | ||
| It's a bunch of illegal aliens. | ||
| It looked like a bolide, a very bright meteor. | ||
| Very convenient. | ||
| Or it was aliens firing off their test weapon. | ||
| If that was a meteor, wouldn't there be a little bit more of an explosion on the ground? | ||
| When it hits the ground? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Yeah, wouldn't something happen? | ||
| I don't know if it would explode. | ||
| Let's see, the Nansiang County government told Red Star News that it had heard the matter but was unclear of the details. | ||
| That must be scary. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| And then Daily Mail gives us this really great breakdown of what an asteroid, comet, meteor, meteorite, meteorite is. | ||
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That's helpful. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Yeah, what's the difference? | ||
| An asteroid is a chunk of rock left over from collisions of the early solar system, mostly located between Mars and Jupiter. | ||
| A comet is a rock covered in ice, methane, and other compounds. | ||
| It orbits take them further in the solar system. | ||
| A meteor is what astronomers call a flash of light in the atmosphere when debris burns up. | ||
| A meteoroid is the debris itself. | ||
| Most are so small, they vaporize the atmosphere. | ||
| And if any of this meteoroid makes it to Earth, it's called a meteorite. | ||
| That's so dumb. | ||
| That's why you see comments, like Haley's comment, that like comes back, because it's like stuck in the atmosphere. | ||
| And it's ice. | ||
| So when asteroids rock, comet is ice. | ||
| And a meteor is when it enters the Earth's atmosphere. | ||
| Dude, when I saw this, I thought it was day out. | ||
| And then I just watched the video and I realized it was actually night time. | ||
| What if it was the exposure of the camera got messed up? | ||
| And that's all it is? | ||
| Not because there's multiple videos of it? | ||
| No, no. | ||
| Oh, I mean, uh, for the daylights. | ||
| It could have been the exposure of the camera. | ||
| But I think because the, uh, the other video where it shows it's really dark out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then you see it light up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like in this video, it's like really dark out. | ||
| There's no sun. | ||
| It could be some new military equipment that went wrong. | ||
| Yeah, maybe. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| China could be testing some kind of crazy weapons and that's it. | ||
| Do you think aliens are real, Joe? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| You think they're here? | ||
| I mean, if they're real, they would be here. | ||
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Why? | |
| Why would they be here? | ||
| I don't know, because they probably... Do you go and hang out and, like, watch anthills? | ||
| I guess some people do, you know what I mean? | ||
| What if, like, aliens are just, like, little kids watching stupid humans do dumb human stuff, and we think they're, like, this intelligent race that can't come here? | ||
| Like, think about you staring at an anthill and just watching them do their thing and being, like, it's crazy. | ||
| It's, like, so irrelevant, too. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So you're just like looking at it because you're like, I don't know, or like imagine watching pigeons and you're like wondering where the baby pigeons are because you never see them, you only ever see full-grown pigeons. | ||
| What if that's what it is? | ||
| It's like the aliens who come here are just driving by and it's like rubbernecking, they're like driving by Earth and they're like, oh look at all those people down there, what are they doing? | ||
| And then people are like, the aliens are here! | ||
| They're gonna kill us all! | ||
| And the aliens are like, I gotta go to Jim's house. | ||
| We're definitely an irrelevant speck to them. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| We got nuclear weapons. | ||
| I guess that's concerning. | ||
| It just depends on where the aliens are in terms of ability and technology. | ||
| You gotta think. | ||
| All of existence, what, billions or trillions of years? | ||
| I don't know how long of existence and how long have we existed. | ||
| And then there's all that time before. | ||
| So who knows? | ||
| They can be a hundred million years civilization. | ||
| Which could be infinite amounts of time. | ||
| The big bang is just one of many rubber banding explosions of coalescence of matter and then propulsion. | ||
| What if we're the first? | ||
| That's statistically impossible. | ||
| No, it's not. | ||
| I mean, it is possible statistically, but I mean, it's actually one of the answers to Fermi's paradox. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You're familiar with Fermi's Paradox, or no? | ||
| No. | ||
| It's this idea, like, if the universe is this big, and it's existed for this long, and life is produced at this rate, shouldn't we have seen aliens at some point, or some evidence of them? | ||
| And there's a bunch of different... It's a question, basically. | ||
| And there's a bunch of different answers as to why we haven't. | ||
| One of the scariest ones is called the Great Filter. | ||
| The Great Filter is this idea that all civilizations, intelligent civilizations, come to a point where they destroy themselves. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's the idea that the globalists have. | ||
| The climate change people. | ||
| That's why they want the authoritarian lockdown, because they feel like humanity will wipe itself out with war, with famine, with death, with pollution and destruction, unless we control every aspect of their lives. | ||
| I don't believe that's true. | ||
| What if they destroyed themselves and then rebuilt? | ||
| And then that's... | ||
| You know? | ||
| Or they kept destroying themselves multiple times. | ||
| Well, the idea is, like, if we fired off every nuke and every arsenal in a mutually assured destruction, this planet would be a smoldering rock. | ||
| They'd just be unmanageable. | ||
| Well, honestly, I think these other... We're humans. | ||
| They could have evolved differently. | ||
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Right. | |
| They could be giant floating sacks of gas. | ||
| Or wolf people. | ||
| Or, like, what if they're... Big, giant ants that just work together like a hive mind. | ||
| Insects. | ||
| With tentacles for arms, and they don't care about... Like, our idea of emotions and everything might not exist on whatever these aliens are. | ||
| They could breathe methane. | ||
| There's so many... | ||
| But okay, so our universe was formed, it looks like it was mitosis that formed our moon. | ||
| Planet Theia, after the cataclysm of the solar system's creation 3.6 billion years ago, 24 planetoid bodies all colliding, one of them smashed into Earth, they call it Theia, and then it came out the other side like this form of mitosis, this molten ball that slowly cooled into the moon, this perfect magnetic shape that blocks out the sun exactly when you have it between the Earth and the sun. | ||
| No, no, no, not at the time. | ||
| Yeah, and it looks like it's magnetically all kind of held in place. | ||
| But gravitally, that's the reason why we grew up on this planet is because we had that moon pulling the tides and like evolving our bodies. | ||
| It's possible that that is a chemical reaction that's common throughout the universe that that planetoid mitosis. | ||
| So maybe, but I haven't, I don't think we've ever located another solar system where we can condemn that that has happened. | ||
| Didn't they find water on Mars? | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| Water particles, I think, in the soil. | ||
| Well, they're not sure. | ||
| I think they recanted that or whatever. | ||
| But there's a ton of Earth-like planets. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, I guess the issue, though, is, you know, going back to Fermi's paradox, the Great Filter is one of the problems. | ||
| The other is we might be the first. | ||
| We might be the first intelligent species. | ||
| It's possible. | ||
| I think it's unlikely. | ||
| But define intelligent. | ||
| Capable of manipulating their environment and you think that's like a planet of little dinosaurs running around? | ||
| Probably. | ||
| They were here before. | ||
| If that's there, eventually they would evolve into something like us. | ||
| Not necessarily. | ||
| Evolution isn't linear. | ||
| Intelligence isn't necessarily going to guarantee your survival. | ||
| So we eventually, I think it was like 40,000 years ago, humans got to the point where they were like, hey, I realized something. | ||
| I can use this rock to do a thing. | ||
| You ever see that video of the orangutan spearfishing? | ||
| Yeah, so that they're saying like orangutans are reaching like some kind of like caveman state where they're like using tools and that's why I think the aliens spliced our DNA Wow, well, that's like one of the famous conspiracy theories that aliens took primates and spliced their DNA and we don't have a missing link We do have the missing link though I heard that there's like millions of year gap. | ||
| We murdered them all off, all those other hominins. | ||
| 20 years ago there was the missing link that people would cite for evolution, that's why they didn't believe it. | ||
| And then we found the missing link. | ||
| And they say, well what about the missing link between this and the next one? | ||
| Yeah, there's always a missing link. | ||
| Then we found it, then we found it, and we've actually gone way back. | ||
| And then we found, I think it's called Lucy, the oldest human ancestor, like a skull. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| So you found evidence of this stuff. | ||
| And people back then were smaller, too. | ||
| Well, I don't know if it went bigger than smaller. | ||
| Dude, in like 1900, people were like five foot six. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Now they got all tall and now they're getting shorter. | ||
| Bovine hormones. | ||
| That's why apparently, I heard that the Napoleon complex, like of him being short and whatever, he was just normal size back then. | ||
| Right, exactly. | ||
| And the reason people think he was short is because his guards were big, because he would clearly pick the big, strong dudes to guard him. | ||
| And the British intentionally ran with it to make fun of him and spread that rumor. | ||
| That makes sense. | ||
| You ever hear of the stoned ape theory? | ||
| What's that? | ||
| Apes, that we evolve from apes, but it was because they started eating marijuana and mushrooms. | ||
| Psilocybin. | ||
| And started to, their brain chemistry started to change, they gave them intelligence. | ||
| Is this a Joe Rogan thing? | ||
| Yeah, I think Joe's talked about it a lot. | ||
| Yeah, it's a Joe Rogan thing. | ||
| And I'm all about like animal, I'm not into animal cruelty, but I would love to corral a bunch of apes and feed them mushrooms and just watch them. | ||
| See if they want to eat it. | ||
| Yeah, and just let them kind of watch. | ||
| So maybe that's what we are for another species. | ||
| Here's a thought. | ||
| Experimenting. | ||
| So I guess, you know, a lot of religious people believe that, you know, us humans were the only ones with a soul. | ||
| And then, like, I guess animals have life forces. | ||
| But then obviously we know evolution is a real thing. | ||
| We know we evolved from something. | ||
| And let's just say we evolved from apes. | ||
| At what point in that evolutionary... Or the common ancestor. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I'm like, at what point in that evolutionary process does one have a soul and one doesn't? | ||
| If you do believe in all that. | ||
| You know, is there, like, the mo- like, where is that one point? | ||
| Well, there are interesting things. | ||
| We talked about this on the show with Michael and Alex, Alex Jones, the Precambrian Explosion. | ||
| There's a period in the fossil record where all of a sudden there's just a ton of different species. | ||
| And there's a bunch of different explanations for why it is, but people often look at that and say, like, you had very limited life, then you had a bunch of different species all around the same time something happened. | ||
| And, uh, you know, there's weird stuff we can't answer. | ||
| You know what I think people need to realize, too? | ||
| If we look back, scientifically, with carbon dating, with fossil records, with, you know, looking at the sedimentary layers of, like, you know, when things happened, you can see, like, volcanic ash, you can see, like, radiation. | ||
| It's all really well and good, because the logic is there, but you wouldn't be able to look back and find a spaceship. | ||
| So like, the point I'm making is, while I don't think- There's a lot of weird stuff in the Egyptian stuff. | ||
| Like the helicopters, and spotlights, but here's the point I'm saying- Even in the Bible, I mean- Yeah, spaceships. | ||
| Moses followed a beaming light in the sky for seven days, went behind a rock, and God gave him a tablet. | ||
| Yeah, electricity is not that hard to make with vinegar and iron. | ||
| There's some, there's some like, there's like some book where a dude goes up to heaven and meets God or something like that. | ||
| Oh, uh, Mary was thrown up into heaven, body and soul. | ||
| There's Moses. | ||
| Moses went up a mountain and spoke with God. | ||
| No, it was a guy who got beamed up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Hot air balloons are super simple contraptions. | ||
| You might be thinking of John. | ||
| With a little bit of propulsion, like electromagnetic heat on a hot air balloon. | ||
| Um, hang gliders, super easy to make. | ||
| I wonder if they got into the orbit though, because then you need... No, I'm talking about the Book of Enoch. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Okay. | ||
| So that's not in the Bible. | ||
| Just so you know. | ||
| Right, right, right, right. | ||
| It's, it's, it's the Hebrew thing. | ||
| It's apocalyptic religious text. | ||
| It was removed from the Bible. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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Apocryphal. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| It's outside the Bible. | ||
| It was removed from the Bible. | ||
| By who? | ||
| Lots of books were. | ||
| Who has the authority to do that? | ||
| All the different councils. | ||
| Yeah, they had councils about this. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| This is the Council of Nicaea? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| The first one? | ||
| I don't think it was the first one. | ||
| I'm pretty sure this is a story of the guy who, like, was brought to heaven. | ||
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Oh? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Dude, I want a copy of the OG Bible before Nicaea got their hands on it. | ||
| I'm sure it'd be interesting. | ||
| Talking about drugs, talking about how much acid they all dropped. | ||
| Or ergot, at the time. | ||
| I don't think you'd find it. | ||
| Yeah, there's so many, like, theories of what the Bible could be about. | ||
| Could it be drugs? | ||
| Could it be aliens? | ||
| Could it be really, you know, God and everything? | ||
| Or it could just be, like, All of the above. | ||
| It could be a collection of stories to help guide people. | ||
| That's what I tell people all the time. | ||
| Whether you believe in God or not, or Jesus or not, the Bible is a book of how to live your life. | ||
| It's a good person. | ||
| The don't eat shellfish and don't eat pork thing? | ||
| It's a safety thing. | ||
| It was telling people, here's the things you should live by. | ||
| It was bronze age individuals doing the best of their abilities. | ||
| And it was an attempt at explaining a lot of things. | ||
| And with limited knowledge, they created the book, man. | ||
| It's called The Book. | ||
| It's what the Bible means. | ||
| Put it all together. | ||
| Oh, interesting. | ||
| What language is that? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| It means The Book. | ||
| Dude, I'm into the miracles. | ||
| The dude... Bibliotheca? | ||
| Like, if you've ever done Reiki, have you ever practiced Reiki? | ||
| Where you use, like, your magnetic field to put energy, heat into other people or withdraw? | ||
| I don't know about all that stuff. | ||
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I'm crazy, man. | |
| So did Jesus, trust me. | ||
| And, uh, he was apparently a healer, like an energy healer, so I think he went and learned Reiki in, like, India, and then came back and had all this, like, reused Reiki on people. | ||
| He was only 33, and that's not recorded. | ||
| He disappeared in his 20s, and no one knows where he went. | ||
| You know, wasn't it, like, 13 to 30? | ||
| He was gone. | ||
| He was, like, in the East, practicing or meditating with, like, yogis and stuff, I don't know. | ||
| Kung fu and stuff. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Not Kung Fu, like martial arts. | ||
| No, I feel like people think that he went and trained, you know, and I don't know if that's true because it's not in the Bible, but there's a lot of people, there's like different cultures have depictions of Jesus and all of these depictions are of their particular ethnicity. | ||
| It's interesting. | ||
| There's like a drawing of Jesus in like East Asia and he's like Asian. | ||
| It's definitely an idea. | ||
| 21 Jump Street. | ||
| And apparently that's all related to aliens and other weird drugs and whatever. | ||
| Let's read superchats! | ||
| If you have not already, smash that like button, throw in your superchats. | ||
| We're going to read your comments now, everybody. | ||
| Merry Christmas again. | ||
| Benjamin says, who is John Galt? | ||
| I don't know, who is that? | ||
| He's a guy. | ||
| Who is John Galt? | ||
| I'm just going to shrug that one off. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| Well, that's a good question to ask when we have Joey saying that he's leaving California and we're talking about leaving Philly. | ||
| Who is John Galt is a reference to Atlas Shrugged, I believe, an Ayn Rand novel and a group of capitalists that has decided they've had it with society's overbearing arches and want to go create their own magical community on Staten Island. | ||
| Just kidding about the Staten Island. | ||
| Where do they make it in the book? | ||
| Is it like a fictitious... Yeah, it's in like West Virginia, I think, or something. | ||
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Is it? | |
| That's where we're going. | ||
| gemcast says hey what do you think about a new executive power so the president can do a super veto where congress can't overrule of course he would get a set amount of these but this would stop the omnibus packages I don't know about that. | ||
| I think the Founding Fathers were pretty clever with how they set everything up. | ||
| And the fact that they're trying to curtail the President's power to invoke the Insurrection Act, like, negates the point of the Executive Branch. | ||
| The Executive is supposed to be able to act quickly and decisively in the face of a threat. | ||
| Congress being like, well, you gotta get our approval, kind of just takes that power away, which is kind of ridiculous. | ||
| So, that's a bad thing in my opinion. | ||
| Dr. Certifiable says, if Biden is compromised, can't the U.S. | ||
| just out-bribe China so he works for us? | ||
| That's it. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Oh. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| GTR35 says, Ethereum is down. | ||
| Time to buy. | ||
| I just bought some Bitcoin. | ||
| Ethereum. | ||
| Ari Halbrin says, Merry Christmas, Tim and crew. | ||
| Thank you for all you do, keeping me informed and entertained at work. | ||
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Both. | |
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Merry Christmas. | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| Max Lang says, Tim, you are dead wrong about what would happen as fallout of repealing Section 230. | ||
| It would not be a mass exodus the way you make it out to be. | ||
| It would be an instant barrage of lawsuits against Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and then they would have to shut down the services to stop this from happening, and they'd probably do it before the repeal went into effect. | ||
| There's just, I just don't see a way around that. | ||
| They have no liability protection, and they have hundreds of millions of users. | ||
| And you know Trump will immediately sue, like, to Twitter for every fake news story. | ||
| And there would be no protection. | ||
| Now, theoretically, Twitter could try and claim anti-slap defense, but then Twitter has to pay for all of this. | ||
| For each user? | ||
| defense for these filings. | ||
| For each user, that's crazy. | ||
| No, for each suit, for each lawsuit. | ||
| So if Trump said, I'm suing Twitter 3,578 times for all of the fake news put out by | ||
| these lists of journalists, all these individual defamation suits targeting Twitter. | ||
| Now I'm not saying he'd actually do that, because that's obscene, but it would probably | ||
| be rolled up into one suit listing all of these as infractions. | ||
| Everyone would start doing it. | ||
| Maybe not everybody, but it would be enough for these big companies to be like, we cannot assume that liability. | ||
| So we are going to put a pause on everything, and then only verified people. | ||
| I don't know how Twitter would function. | ||
| Twitter literally is a machine that generates fake news and defamation. | ||
| That's all it does. | ||
| Twitter is not telling you any secrets. | ||
| Twitter is not informing you as to the true realities and nature of this world. | ||
| Twitter is a place where political activists go and talk crap about each other. | ||
| It's the source of cancel culture. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| That's the direct source. | ||
| Twitter is terrible. | ||
| Ban Twitter. | ||
| And all you need is a thousand, two thousand people. | ||
| Maybe section 230 should be gone. | ||
| No, because you need... Internet video is good. | ||
| Internet tax is risky. | ||
| No, but you'll have your own website. | ||
| You make your own website. | ||
| That's what we need. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Make your own website. | ||
| Do it anyway. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And then there could theoretically be a workaround for new platforms that could arise without 230 that would bypass this by not restricting in any capacity, any publishing capabilities. | ||
| There's probably interesting workarounds like a mesh network RSS style feed. | ||
| They could be like, we didn't publish this. | ||
| It's on his server, not on ours. | ||
| It's just, all we do is aggregate links. | ||
| You can view it for, you can portal into it from ours, but it's on their server. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| We didn't publish this. | ||
| We're just, you know, showing other people our posting. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So that might be a good thing, actually. | ||
| And then people would still have to sue you, but it would strip away the powers of these big corporations. | ||
| So that could theoretically work. | ||
| You could have your own ads that way. | ||
| And building an ad integration thing would be key to making that function. | ||
| Gregory Horton says, Stephen Crowder has Mug Club, BlazeTV, Ben Shapiro has Daily Wire, Alex Jones has Infowars, you have SCNR. | ||
| Don't fear the 2.30 repeal. | ||
| I think if they repeal 2.30, they're going to let me keep doing my thing because they like me as a... What's the right word? | ||
| Tepid, milquetoast fencer? | ||
| Could you give them retention time? | ||
| But yes, combined with the fact that I don't swear, I don't insult, I for the most part don't insult people. | ||
| I sometimes, I think we did a couple times on this show, I call people morons. | ||
| But I don't like single out individuals and say this person is dumb. | ||
| In fact, even when I'm criticizing people on the left, I usually throw in a couple compliments. | ||
| Like, I did a video recently about Cenk Uygur's op-ed where he was talking about the three different realities in America, and I said he was wrong, but he's got a few of these things right, so my respect, you know, because he did make some good points. | ||
| I won't make a video where I just attack somebody and insult them. | ||
| I always try to keep it, you know, that's why they like me. | ||
| Your YouTube guy is Lawful Good, and you're forced to talk about, like, chaotic evil things, but you do it from a Lawful Good perspective, so they're really happy. | ||
| It's hard to argue why my content shouldn't be allowed. | ||
| It's opinions people don't like, but I don't insult and target or anything like that, you know? | ||
| Daniel Maxwell says Section 230 needs to be amended to require all companies claiming their protections from it to abide by court interpretations of First Amendment protections and all laws regarding the First Amendment protections. | ||
| It's actually simple. | ||
| They need to change the phrase otherwise objectionable into illegal. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Case closed. | ||
| Okay, not really. | ||
| There's probably a bunch of other nuance. | ||
| But they have a provision that allows them to moderate and remove content so long as it's deemed lewd, lascivious, filthy, obscene, or otherwise objectionable. | ||
| The otherwise objectionable part is where they ban anyone and everyone because they go, well, in my opinion, saying orange man good is offensive because the orange man is in fact bad. | ||
| Misgendering. | ||
| Yeah, misgendering, right? | ||
| Not objectionable to any conservative, but to them it is, so they ban it. | ||
| Get rid of otherwise objectionable to illegal, and then all of a sudden people can say things like they're only two genders or whatever. | ||
| Dan Saw says, Hey Tim, just wanted to let you know that the jerky will be sent within the next five or so days. | ||
| I forgot to ask where. | ||
| I forgot to ask before if there was anything you or anyone was allergic to. | ||
| Email me so I know. | ||
| I didn't realize you were sending us jerky. | ||
| I did not realize this either. | ||
| Trent Lamalino says, If you get nuked, I'm done with YouTube and I'll follow you and the gang wherever. | ||
| I'll donate whatever needed that I can. | ||
| Your crew is needed. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| And I think the one thing we really need to step up on Uh, I mentioned this before, but there are a lot of podcasts that are not top podcasts. | ||
| We are a top podcast. | ||
| This is crazy. | ||
| Uh, this show and my Tim Pool Daily show, we have Tim Pool Daily and Timcast IRL and iTunes and stuff. | ||
| And these are top little podcasts. | ||
| Not like number 10 or anything. | ||
| It's like number 230 and like number 170. | ||
| So it's still pretty good. | ||
| But there are shows that are like ranked 500 or 1000, not even the top charts. | ||
| They don't even register. | ||
| And these people make millions of dollars. | ||
| It's really simple. | ||
| They just have proprietary websites where they say, come to our site, you pay X to hang out, and we give you premium stuff. | ||
| That's something we don't do. | ||
| You know, our show relies just on like the YouTube system, and we probably should start producing stuff directly for people who want and like the content. | ||
| So that's what I just started to do. | ||
| Cause I was so, when I got demonetized on YouTube all around, I got so scared that they were just going to cut me off completely. | ||
| What am I going to do? | ||
| I'm done. | ||
| So I, I've been working on like my own individual app for just all my content. | ||
| So I'm going to start promoting that. | ||
| Um, so this way, like anything I want, I just post it there and I'm going to post like all the uncensored versions. | ||
| So when I want to talk about, you know, the vaccines and stuff, Hey, that's going to be on the app. | ||
| What's the app? | ||
| Do you have a name for it or anything? | ||
| But you realize, you'll get banned for off-site behavior, right? | ||
| That's a new thing they're adding? | ||
| Yeah, I don't know if YouTube does that yet, but I know Twitch does that. | ||
| And Patreon does that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The app actually just came out today, but it's not ready yet. | ||
| But I'm going to call it America Now News, so this way I can grow it beyond me. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| Because I want to bring in new hosts, new writers and stuff. | ||
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Nice. | |
| Right on, man. | ||
| Ed Caron says the $10 million to Pakistani gender studies is infuriating and all, but what about the $500 million to Israel? | ||
| First and foremost, why are we giving any money to anyone else when our country is locked down and in full-on panic mode? | ||
| That makes no sense. | ||
| But I will say, you can justify military aid to a place like Israel. | ||
| You can justify it. | ||
| I'm not saying it's correct. | ||
| I'm saying there's a legitimate argument and you'll argue with someone. | ||
| There's no argument for $10 million to package any gender studies. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| Like, that can wait, okay? | ||
| I don't know what their gender studies thing is. | ||
| You don't need the money. | ||
| Someone's like, I'll vote yes if you put this in. | ||
| And then like four other people are like, yeah, we support that. | ||
| We'll all vote yes if you put that in. | ||
| Why didn't a Republican just put in Donald Trump on the election? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Nobody read it! | ||
| AOC was railing against how long the bill was, how they don't have time to read it all, it's all long, and then she votes in favor of it. | ||
| Meanwhile, her and Ted Cruz are agreeing on a lot of points on that bill. | ||
| Ted Cruz voted no. | ||
| Ted Cruz voted no, AOC voted yes, and that's the problem. | ||
| Josh Hawley, Republican, also complained on Twitter, and then voted for it anyway. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| Yeah, it was an excuse, but people need the money for the holidays, you know? | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Nicholas Bowling Show says 100% disagree, Tim. | ||
| They are already unfairly banning conservatives. | ||
| 230 doesn't protect us. | ||
| Hey, Joey, I interviewed you for my site, remember? | ||
| Nicholas Bowling Show. | ||
| Yeah, I remember. | ||
| So, uh, that's actually a good point, you know? | ||
| I guess conservatives who have already been banned and can't have channels are like, why would I care? | ||
| Nuke the whole thing. | ||
| Well, you got to think outside yourself. | ||
| You know, there's a greater good. | ||
| You know, I know that. | ||
| The argument is, if they can't be on it, shut it down because it's unfair. | ||
| Vengeance is a real feeling. | ||
| It's not vengeance. | ||
| It's if you get rid of it, it levels the playing field. | ||
| Screw them. | ||
| Level the playing field. | ||
| I understand the one and two. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But the most powerful person tends to dominate a level playing field. | ||
| Rational Redneck says, what would the repeal of Section 230 mean for sites like BitChute? | ||
| It would mean that BitChute is personally responsible for all content posted on its site because they would now be treated like a newspaper making the statement themselves. | ||
| Do they host content, or is it all torrented between... How does that... How does BitChute function? | ||
| Well, I think it's torrented. | ||
| So maybe they would argue we don't actually host it. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Maybe they would be fine. | ||
| Mr. Stantastic says, Ian, don't get enough credit. | ||
| Lids is great as well. | ||
| As you, Tim, first super chat, but I've had a beer and need to listen to y'all later. | ||
| Thanks for what you do. | ||
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Appreciate it. | |
| Homie, what up? | ||
| Don't forget Joey Salads while we're at it. | ||
| Joey Saladino. | ||
| Joey Saladino. | ||
| Lorenzo Garcia says CNN apparently just released Trump's budget demands, and they're similar to the original proposal. | ||
| Yeah, I saw that. | ||
| I don't know a whole lot about it, but I think the issue is budget demands are different from using the COVID stimulus as a hostage. | ||
| Like, you know, using the American people as a hostage, basically. | ||
| You have to vote for this, otherwise the people won't get their $600, which they can't do anything with because it's a pittance. | ||
| Is it taxable, too? | ||
| No, probably not. | ||
| Unemployment insurance is taxed. | ||
| I told my girlfriend, my girlfriend, she never collected and she's like unemployed because of lockdown. | ||
| So she's going to get a fat check from all the backup from California, then from this. | ||
| And I told her like, you know, since she doesn't really need it like urgently, I'm going to help her like invest it to like flip it. | ||
| Smart. | ||
| Investments have been popping off lately. | ||
| I'm investing in all the companies that support lockdowns. | ||
| I'm investing in all the companies that support Biden, because those are the ones that are going to survive. | ||
| Yeah, I'm invested in some military tech. | ||
| I got into BlackRock because of you. | ||
| They're super cheap. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| Cause I heard him talk about it. | ||
| They're investing in China. | ||
| Oh, you were saying, well, yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Investing in, in what, like things that you think are going to go up because of the current politics. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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| So how were you talking about corporate America pretty much taken over? | ||
| Like, Hey, just fight Palantir. | ||
| As much as we, I don't want it to happen as much as I don't want McDonald's and you know, Apple and Amazon to take over the world. | ||
| Like it's a way I can't do anything to stop it. | ||
| So if it's going to happen, I might as well ride the wave. | ||
| No, I disagree, dude. | ||
| I was like, I want to invest in people I believe in. | ||
| Who do I invest in when I'm already in Tesla? | ||
| You buy stock in it, you'll get some say. | ||
| I was like, maybe if everybody did, you could be like, shut her down. | ||
| I was like, I want to invest in people I believe in. | ||
| Who do I invest in? | ||
| I'm already in Tesla. | ||
| I was like, I want to invest in Tim, but I am with my energy. | ||
| Like we're creating a network. | ||
| Wait, hold on, hold on. | ||
| I just got an idea. | ||
| Like, do you think enough Americans could come together and buy enough shares and pool | ||
| their shares to actually like shut down a company like Amazon? | ||
| I thought about doing that with Google. | ||
| I'm like, maybe if I get enough money one day, I can just buy enough shares of Google to the point where I tell them they have to remonetize my pages. | ||
| I think that's a hostile takeover. | ||
| It's a tech. | ||
| They used to do that a lot. | ||
| Imagine if like everybody bought one share of a big company and then collectively voted. | ||
| You'd have like a massive portion of this company publicly controlled and they'd have to do what the shareholders wanted. | ||
| Maybe that's like a way to make change, you know? | ||
| Yeah, you start like a collective firm that does it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's really cool. | ||
| MRT Fortune says, with the steel tariffs, it doubled the price of materials for a small manufacturing company I worked at. | ||
| It seems similar to the minimum wage debate. | ||
| This is interesting because I'm talking to a steel building company. | ||
| It's actually not that expensive to get a big steel building and we want to do it so that we can have a place to film and have different sets. | ||
| And they told me today that they're like, we can't give you a quote right now because the price of steel is about to go way up. | ||
| Maybe we should just look into graphene. | ||
| It's lighter. | ||
| You can't build a graphene building. | ||
| You might be able to now. | ||
| It's lighter than steel, too. | ||
| You know what's interesting? | ||
| We have these graphene composite batteries I bought for everybody. | ||
| Because, like, Ian, you talk about graphene all the time. | ||
| So, I was like, Christmas is coming up, and I looked up graphene products, and they have these batteries. | ||
| This is crazy stuff, dude. | ||
| They hold, like, two and a half cell phone charges, and they charge in about 15 minutes. | ||
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Wow. | |
| You can... So, like, let's say you forget to charge your phone. | ||
| You're like, oh man, you take the battery, you plug it in, 15 minutes later you grab it, walk out the door, and it's got two full charges in it. | ||
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That's nuts. | |
| That's crazy. | ||
| That's graphene, dude. | ||
| So, that's where we're at so far. | ||
| I tried looking up how the battery works and it's like too new, I guess. | ||
| It's a super capacitor and a... It's a conductor and a capacitor. | ||
| So it can send current and store current. | ||
| So it's like a battery and a wire at the same time. | ||
| PM says, they hate us because they ain't us. | ||
| Marissa says, thanks Tim, I meant to give $10, so I'm adding this to the other super chat. | ||
| I hate the Dems, love Staten Island. | ||
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There you go. | |
| Shout out to Staten Island. | ||
| Love Staten Island. | ||
| Charlotte Jerd, or Jerday, says, my daughter applied to McD's for her first job. | ||
| They told her she will start at $10 an hour for the first three months. | ||
| After that, her pay will be performance-based. | ||
| That's their loophole to get out of $10 an hour. | ||
| Really? | ||
| But they're paying her $10 an hour. | ||
| Let's see, Daniel J. Korica says, Long Island for statehood. | ||
| I, too, am sick of my taxes going to New York City. | ||
| Would Long Island be Republican? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You think so? | ||
| I think all of Long Island, I'm pretty sure, voted Republican. | ||
| Besides, like, maybe one part. | ||
| The Hamptons. | ||
| Is that Republican? | ||
| Seems like a lot of race Democrats. | ||
| I think so. | ||
| You can definitely pull up the map. | ||
| I'm pretty sure it was, like, all red when I looked at the map. | ||
| That's including Brooklyn and Queens? | ||
| That part was blue. | ||
| But they didn't outweigh the rest? | ||
| I'm sure that population probably does outweigh Long Island. | ||
| That's the problem with Staten Island. | ||
| Staten Island's a very small borough population, comparatively. | ||
| So we have no say, basically, in the mayor. | ||
| Zero say. | ||
| Neon Light says, I currently live in New York and it's getting insane here. | ||
| So far. | ||
| I live around the Finger Lakes, yet every rural area around me is forced to live by NYC rules. | ||
| NYC should not be a part of Upstate. | ||
| And that's what I remember you saying on one of your episodes, which I agree with and I've been saying forever. | ||
| It's that, you know, I got the rural areas and you know. | ||
| You know, like New York City has all the voting power, and then you go to some other area, and they operate completely differently. | ||
| But now they're forced to follow those rules. | ||
| Think about how insane it is. | ||
| Look, I get it if a city like Baltimore is like, we got a problem with guns, so we're gonna have some strict laws. | ||
| And not having those laws apply to people who live in Western Maryland, who live in the middle of the woods. | ||
| And what happens when 30 to 50 feral hogs come crashing on your property, but the state doesn't allow you to have guns because of what's happening in Baltimore? | ||
| These kind of things don't make sense. | ||
| It doesn't make sense. | ||
| We gotta break up New York. | ||
| We should break up the country. | ||
| L.A. | ||
| has got multiple governors for their borough areas, like the different counties. | ||
| I don't mean the different countries, by the way. | ||
| I mean different areas broken up into different areas. | ||
| Beverly Hills has their own thing. | ||
| I don't think they have a mayor, but they don't follow L.A. | ||
| They kind of do their own thing. | ||
| L.A. | ||
| County, and then there's a bunch of counties within Los Angeles proper. | ||
| Cities should be- these big cities should be separated from the states they're in. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Watch the rules change overnight. | ||
| Illinois becomes a red state. | ||
| Well, they wouldn't let it happen because everybody would leave the cities. | ||
| Like, we gotta get- They'd live in the red areas and work in the blue areas. | ||
| There's no reason for one guy to have the power that Blasio's got. | ||
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| It's just too many people. | ||
| 18 million people? | ||
| Well, no, the issue is he doesn't have the power. | ||
| People just give it to him. | ||
| He's just given ridiculous edicts. | ||
| He's not given the power to do this. | ||
| The cops just obey him. | ||
| Because they don't know what else they want. | ||
| They need their money. | ||
| No, no, it's because the officers that obey the unconstitutional orders of de Blasio are obsessed with suckling his teats. | ||
| So they love... And they hate each other at the same time. | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| The officers that follow the unconstitutional edicts, like when de Blasio painted Black Lives Matter illegally in the street, those cops that went down to guard it are just in love with de Blasio. | ||
| They're just doing it for the money. | ||
| And they love licking his feet. | ||
| You should have arrested de Blasio for vandalism right then and there. | ||
| Well, he stole taxpayer money to do it, and then 27 cops came out and they were like- During a pandemic. | ||
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During a pandemic. | |
| Everyone has to wear a mask and shut their businesses down. | ||
| And then 27 NYPD cops were like, the smart thing for me to do is to obey this man. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Instead of saying, I'm not gonna guard that, are you nuts? | ||
| It's like we, we did, we bent over back for the police. | ||
| You know what, you know what? | ||
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| So, the important point you brought up is that the cops who are screwing with this bar, there was NYPD there, but now de Blasio's like, I'm gonna bring in the sheriffs because the NYPD doesn't want to do it. | ||
| And I am not saying all cops. | ||
| I'm saying clearly there are cops in big cities run by Democrats who don't care. | ||
| And you know why? | ||
| It's really obvious. | ||
| Everybody lost their jobs. | ||
| Honestly, the NYPD should arrest the sheriffs for violating the Constitution. | ||
| But listen, listen. | ||
| Just do it. | ||
| You have people, cops in New York, and they're going around seeing everyone destitute, like suffering, and losing their money, and they're like, I have a job. | ||
| At least I'm safe. | ||
| And then de Blasio's basically like, I want you to oppress people and destroy their lives. | ||
| And the cop goes, better them than me. | ||
| And so they just give him- Now put on this white armor. | ||
| Now bow to the emperor. | ||
| It's like how a lot of, I don't want to say the N-word, not the bad N-word, but the German N-word, German N-word? | ||
| National Socialist! | ||
| Stormtrooper, that's what I was gonna say. | ||
| I think I already said Nazi on the show. | ||
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As long as you don't call people Nazis, you can talk about it. | |
| But, I mean, there was a lot of Nazis that were just doing it, just because they don't want to be on the other end. | ||
| I read that there were Jewish Nazis, like Jewish guards, who were like, if they find out, so I'll just go along with it, because they were scared. | ||
| Dang. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| People have been telling me that because I made a post on my personal Facebook and I talked to my, you know, just my Staten Island friends and I would say like, dear law enforcement, we bent over back for you. | ||
| Please do not enforce these orders. | ||
| And some people are like, oh, they're just following orders. | ||
| It's not their fault. | ||
| That's even worse. | ||
| That's even worse. | ||
| I'm like, they took an oath to uphold the Constitution. | ||
| We're the ones paying them. | ||
| We're the ones that defended them. | ||
| You don't want to see it. | ||
| De Blasio and Cuomo only have the power that they are given. | ||
| By, I guess, us and then the police. | ||
| No, no, no, by the police. | ||
| Michael Malice said this on the show. | ||
| That all of these illegal acts, all of these unconstitutional laws, | ||
| are letters to Santa without the men and women in uniform | ||
| willing to enforce against the Constitution. | ||
| You know what I'd love to see? | ||
| NYPD walking up to these sheriffs at that bar, Max's or whatever, | ||
| and just taking the, like, three NYPD guys, grab the sheriff, | ||
| and put your hands behind your back, you're under arrest. | ||
| That's what needs to happen. | ||
| You don't live here. | ||
| We live here. | ||
| These cops live in Staten Island. | ||
| Why would they let them come to their home? | ||
| I'll tell you this, man. | ||
| Could you imagine these NYPD cops who are either sitting back and doing nothing, or enforcing this? | ||
| Imagine if that was the caliber of young man we had during World War II. | ||
| They'd be like, they'd land on the beaches of Normandy and be like, look, man, you know, I'm just going to side with the people who are here because they're the ones in power. | ||
| I'm not going to fight to free people. | ||
| What we need people to stand up and say, I live here. | ||
| Get the out of my home. | ||
| What we need to do is publicly, I guess, privately fund the good officers. | ||
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| Because if they're worried about losing their job, that's illegal crowdfunding. | ||
| But yeah, if they're worried about losing their job and getting their pay cut, it's like, hey, you know, let's all build up this fund. | ||
| If you're worried about that, if you lose your pension, if you lose this, let's take it out of this fund. | ||
| Like, you're good. | ||
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You're secure. | |
| We're creating a new police department. | ||
| Like a charity fund? | ||
| We could do a global charity fund. | ||
| We're creating our own government. | ||
| Here's what I'm advocating for. | ||
| Here's what I'm saying. | ||
| The police should arrest criminals. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Does that sound crazy? | ||
| Well, if it's a bad law, yeah, you don't want them arresting people that are defying bad laws. | ||
| I didn't say people defying bad laws. | ||
| I said criminals. | ||
| Crime doesn't make you bad. | ||
| Like, if it's a bad law, you want to become a criminal to fight against the bad law. | ||
| You're misunderstanding. | ||
| I didn't say cops should arrest people who break the law. | ||
| I said cops should arrest Well, if you say everyone has to go out and punch people and I say I'm not gonna do it, then I become a criminal on that law. | ||
| No, you're reading too much into it for no reason. | ||
| I'm saying that law and count— What I'm saying is when the sheriff shows up and illegally detains someone, that's called kidnapping. | ||
| And they have no constitutional authority or statutory authority to do it just because de Blasio said so. | ||
| It is then incumbent upon NYPD to say, you are under arrest for kidnapping. | ||
| For some crime, yeah. | ||
| I think they should uphold that kind of crime. | ||
| That's literal crime. | ||
| The law says they can't do it, and they're doing it anyway. | ||
| They need to be arrested. | ||
| But if you make a law that says that you can't do something you need to do, then you have to become a criminal. | ||
| We're not talking about made-up laws. | ||
| You just said police should go arrest criminals. | ||
| We're not talking about some new law that was just made because de Blasio didn't pass any laws. | ||
| I'm just saying crime isn't the benchmark of whether or not you should be destroyed. | ||
| I get what both of you guys are saying. | ||
| Because you're saying that criminality is based on the laws that were made, right? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So, like, being a criminal is defined by the law. | ||
| But I get what you're saying at the same exact time, where de Blasio and these sheriffs are also breaking the law. | ||
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Yes. | |
| The police should go and arrest criminals. | ||
| And I agree with you. | ||
| You're both right at the same time. | ||
| Well, they should arrest those criminals. | ||
| They should arrest criminals. | ||
| Not all criminals. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Because some laws are bad, and those people shouldn't be criminals. | ||
| How about this? | ||
| Constitutional law. | ||
| I mean, I don't think non-violent drug offenders should be arrested personally. | ||
| Not marijuana. | ||
| I mean, you know, just because you say marijuana is illegal doesn't mean that you should go arrest them all. | ||
| It's a bad law. | ||
| It shouldn't have been made. | ||
| It is a bad law. | ||
| They should be arrested. | ||
| They should sue and the law should be overturned. | ||
| But it destroys people's lives to get arrested and waste their time. | ||
| Dude, having an argument about what you think is morally correct is not the point. | ||
| The point is, the sheriffs are coming in and breaking the law. | ||
| There's statutory law being broken by these sheriffs and by some NYPD, and there's spineless, pathetic, and terrified whiny baby cops who won't do anything about it. | ||
| I agree, but it's dangerous to say cops should arrest anyone that's breaking the law. | ||
| That's- Cops should arrest people who break the law. | ||
| Because some laws are not right. | ||
| So we gotta be careful about encouraging- Yeah, that's what courts are for. | ||
| Yeah, but you don't want to go disrupt everybody- And then you go to a Democrat court and they like, go for like- Bro, you can't- you can't argue that some cops have the discretion not to arrest people breaking the law because then you're gonna have a cop who- who helps and protects his friends. | ||
| The law has to be upheld. | ||
| We're a nation of laws. | ||
| If laws are not enforced, then what do we have? | ||
| I'm getting this because I told him he was lawful good. | ||
| Okay, you're neutral good. | ||
| It's a Dungeons & Dragons thing. | ||
| Think about all the Democrats who are like, we should- we should decriminalize border crossings. | ||
| They shouldn't arrest these people. | ||
| They literally committed a crime. | ||
| And just because you don't agree doesn't mean I have to live by your rules. | ||
| If we vote for people and laws are passed, we deal with ramifications of that. | ||
| If eventually we find out the laws are bad, we change those. | ||
| Marijuana is now slowly being legalized as people start to realize. | ||
| And yes, Trump should pardon non-violent drug offenders. | ||
| Those who are literally non-violent, not anybody who pled down, pleaded down. | ||
| The point is in New York City, when an NYPD cop or a sheriff breaks the law, they need to be arrested. | ||
| Or they fail to uphold their constitutional oath. | ||
| No, they get fired for. That's not a crime. | ||
| But I mean, who's going to fire them? The mayor's not going to fire them. | ||
| And who's going to arrest the cops committing crimes? | ||
| Should be the good cops. | ||
| I don't care who you are, if you commit a crime, you get arrested. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And that includes activists who are protesting peacefully in the state all the time. | ||
| Non-violent civil disobedience is the best, most effective way to get change. | ||
| It works. | ||
| We've seen it work. | ||
| It worked with civil rights. | ||
| And riots sour people to your cause, but you get arrested and you deal with the results of challenging the system. | ||
| There is a cost to challenging the system. | ||
| So should the FBI be the ones that are arresting cops that are violating the Constitution? | ||
| The FBI doesn't do that. | ||
| FBI handles federal crimes. | ||
| I saw a video online of a cop arresting another cop. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Right then and there. | ||
| Maybe the cop was doing a little too much. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I just saw the quick clip. | ||
| They immediately took him and they arrested the cop. | ||
| Were they both on duty? | ||
| Yeah, they were both on duty cops, and I think they might have been working the same exact thing. | ||
| Let me put it this way. | ||
| If I'm in New York, and some guy walks up to me, and grabs me, and throws me to the ground, and pins my arm behind my back, for no reason, that's assault and battery. | ||
| So, a cop should come and arrest that person. | ||
| I don't care what they're wearing. | ||
| I don't care if they're wearing a badge. | ||
| Now, the issue with a cop arresting you is different, because we as a community bestow authority upon people under the ideal that they're going to be stopping criminals. | ||
| Now, a lot of police forces have citations and fines and quota systems, and that's all bunk BS, for sure. | ||
| We can argue that. | ||
| But if I am doing everything legally, and I'm running my business, and some random guy comes in, and blocks the door, and won't let anybody in, or takes my customers, and, like, detains them, kidnaps them, takes them in their car, you gotta arrest that person. | ||
| Could you imagine if someone went to your business, and then just, like, grabbed the clerk, and threw him in a car, and drove off? | ||
| You'd be like, whoa! | ||
| Under no statutory or constitutional authority did that person do that. | ||
| I don't care if they're wearing a badge. | ||
| Here's another takeaway from everything going on right now. | ||
| There's no constitutional enforcement from the federal government to the states. | ||
| Trump can invoke the Insurrection Act because of this. | ||
| He should have done this six months ago. | ||
| Specifically, in the Insurrection Act, it says if people's constitutional rights are being deprived, he can send in the military to protect their rights. | ||
| I think he should. | ||
| I mean, he's not running for re-election anymore. | ||
| I was hoping that Trump was going to win and then immediately do the insurrection act and arrest Cuomo, arrest de Blasio. | ||
| He doesn't even need to arrest him. | ||
| He could send in the military to New York and reinstate people's lives. | ||
| That's what needs that. | ||
| He should just do that right now. | ||
| Just political willpower. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Trump could do it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's what America needs right now. | ||
| You know, it's funny because people are calling for Trump to invoke martial law and you've got like his most ardent supporters and the left is saying, you know, he can't do that or whatever. | ||
| We're already under martial law. | ||
| Martial law means military law, so not literally, but we are under totalitarian... Listen, there's constitutional authority and there's statutory law. | ||
| Statutory law are things that are passed by a legislative body. | ||
| Constitutional authority is based on what the constitution of your state or the federal government gives you. | ||
| Under neither of these, Cuomo, Wolf, Newsom, Whitmer have done things they're not allowed to do. | ||
| And the Supreme Court has said of the United States, you can't do that. So you know what they do? | ||
| Okay, this executive order has been disturbed by the Supreme Court. I'll issue the exact same one now. | ||
| Literally the exact same? | ||
| Like they'll change some words or use some alternate arguments to do the exact same thing. | ||
| That sounds felonious. | ||
| It sounds dictatorial, despotic, psychotic, and in violation of law. | ||
| And Trump could invoke the Insurrection Act because they keep doing it. | ||
| The one thing I learned from all of this, there's a reason why we have the Constitution and there's a reason why the founding fathers put the number two in there. | ||
| I don't like to say it. | ||
| I don't like to think it. | ||
| I don't want it to happen. | ||
| But you don't need to bring it up. | ||
| Trump's the president. | ||
| The problem isn't what the people are doing. | ||
| Right now, they elected Trump. | ||
| They elected Trump to solve these problems, and the people who are stomping on the rights of individuals could be stopped by the president right now. | ||
| They could also be stopped by us. | ||
| That's a whole other conversation. I don't want like that to happen, but it just seems like | ||
| That would be at right now this point in time. There seems to be nothing happening from the federal government or from | ||
| trump And that I mean, yeah, it could be up to us. They're | ||
| destroying economics They're not like stealing people's children at night | ||
| If the cops were coming in and taking people's kids in the middle of the night, you'd probably see people | ||
| Enforcing their their second amendment. I don't know. I don't think so. You don't | ||
| The James Younger case. | ||
| The James Younger case. | ||
| A man's son has been essentially taken from him and the courts ruled that the child will undergo gender reassignment therapy. | ||
| If a father wouldn't rise up in defiance of the government after his son was taken in that way, then I really don't see the political... The problem is Republicans were way more peaceful than the left. | ||
| If we were as violent as the left, none of this would be happening. | ||
| That's a scary thing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And, you know, the lockdown protests against Whitmer from months ago. | ||
| We had tens of thousands of Americans show up peacefully with guns, and what happened? | ||
| She extended the lockdowns. | ||
| People with guns. | ||
| And that's it. | ||
| And people just went home. | ||
| That was it. | ||
| Then they went home. | ||
| It's like, oh, because Republicans, we want to do everything legally in the courts. | ||
| Because Republicans want to be left alone. | ||
| Yeah, we just want to be left alone. | ||
| I appeal to the president, Donald, please enforce. | ||
| You think you should invoke the insurrection act? | ||
| I think you should protect our economy at all costs from these psychotic rogues. | ||
| Especially at the rate things are going right now. | ||
| If you're not going to win the election, what do you got to lose? | ||
| It's kind of crazy that it's a slow boil, we're frogs in a pot, the economy is destroyed, these leftists have no idea how debt-to-GDP works, how money printing works, how modern monetary policy works, anything like this! | ||
| And they advocate for things that make no sense, like deficit spending to pay for healthcare. | ||
| It's like, all you're doing is stripping away the savings of people. | ||
| Like, it makes it so that nobody should save anything ever, but then of course they use that and say, well, you have no savings, we should have government, you know, mandated spending, you know, and buying of the resources you need. | ||
| With these Democrat states destroying the economy, we get this $600 COVID package. | ||
| That $900 billion deal attached to a total of $2.3 billion omnibus spending for ridiculous things like Pakistani gender studies shows you the system is corrupt, and Trump isn't fixing it. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Trump apparently submitted a budget request that was similar to the omnibus. | ||
| So people are mentioning in the super chat whether it's true or not. | ||
| What does Trump come out and do? | ||
| What does Trump come out and do? | ||
| He says triple it. | ||
| Trump didn't say, re-open the economy now. | ||
| I will not sign this relief bill until there's a mandate for the states to re-open their economies and protect small businesses. | ||
| Throw more money at it. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| He said, triple it. | ||
| And Democrats, see what they said? | ||
| They said, much obliged. | ||
| Absolutely, Trump. | ||
| Being a Republican, in one way, is kind of a double-edged sword versus being a Democrat. | ||
| And the Democrats' worldview of fixing it They can just come in and, like what the dictators are doing, these governors. | ||
| Oh, I want this done. | ||
| Oh, here's an order. | ||
| Blink, it's done. | ||
| Even though it's unconstitutional, it's tyrannical, it's illegal. | ||
| With Republicans, on the other hand, if they want to fix something, we don't act like, for the most part, we don't act like dictators to get something done and fix it. | ||
| We don't have to go this process, that process, and this pushback, and that, then you got to play the game and do all this. | ||
| Whereas if it was a Democrat, here's a bill, sign it, tyrannical, done. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Legislating what you want. | ||
| I think about that with gun control. | ||
| Like just saying it's illegal all of a sudden while people are at home printing their guns. | ||
| Like you can't enforce that law. | ||
| You look like a mockery. | ||
| Donald Trump vetoed the NDAA. | ||
| In it is an amendment that would take away his ability to, it would curtail his ability to invoke the Insurrection Act. | ||
| He would require the Secretary of Defense and himself to sign off and provide reasonable certification to Congress to approve. | ||
| Otherwise, he would not be able to invoke the Insurrection Act. | ||
| So think about it this way. | ||
| One of the provisions of the Insurrection Act is to enforce the constitutional rights of the citizens of the state. | ||
| New York is in violation of that, numerous times, blocking people from going to churches and things of that nature. | ||
| Los Angeles is shutting off people's water and electricity for exercising their First Amendment right. | ||
| Mitch McConnell on the 29th is going to convene the Senate to override Trump's veto. | ||
| When that happens, Trump will lose the ability to invoke the Insurrection Act. | ||
| If Trump would do it, he has five more days. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Four more days, probably, to do it before they override his veto. | ||
| Who do you have to send in? | ||
| The National Guard? | ||
| Military or National Guard. | ||
| Federalized, National Guard or the military. | ||
| I worry that if this sets a precedent, and that gets done, and what if Biden comes in and wants to ban guns nationwide? | ||
| No, the Second Amendment, that would be in defiance of the Constitution. | ||
| But, I mean, what we're seeing is these police officers don't care. | ||
| They're doing it. | ||
| But with the military, I think it's a little bit different. | ||
| The military, I don't think would, well, we'll see. | ||
| You know, like, I never thought I would see Law enforcement arrest people for not wearing a mask. | ||
| I never did. | ||
| I've had experience with it. | ||
| Not here. | ||
| That's what they used to say. | ||
| It'll never happen here. | ||
| It makes us think the military is not going to go door to door. | ||
| They will. | ||
| Right before lockdown started, I did an interview with an NYPD officer, and I was telling him about the whole lockdowns. | ||
| I'm like, I was saying, there's no way in hell that this will ever be enforced. | ||
| And this was before all this happened. | ||
| And he said to me, You'll be surprised. | ||
| I did not believe him. | ||
| I refused to believe him. | ||
| And then a month later... I've been to enough countries, I've been to enough protests, and I've seen enough action from police to know that many of these people just don't care. | ||
| Now, I don't think all cops are bad. | ||
| You know, the left uses a worse word than that. | ||
| 1312 or whatever. | ||
| ACAB. | ||
| I think there are a lot of bad cops, and I think we need police reform. | ||
| And I think there are a lot of good cops. | ||
| And they tend to be smaller cities, they tend to be more rural, and they tend to be conservative. | ||
| It's the big city cops who will, you know, beat you over the head and say, I don't care. | ||
| You're right, we need to fund them. | ||
| The people that are violating the orders. | ||
| Because if they lose their job, that's it, you know, for them. | ||
| But if we have a charity that's making sure they're going to get paid regardless, then there's incentive to do the right thing. | ||
| You should start it, Tim. | ||
| Nah, I don't know about that. | ||
| Hire someone to start it. | ||
| You know, people get mad at me because they think I'm gonna be some, like, leader. | ||
| I'll start it. | ||
| I'll start it, and then I'll pay you to promote it as a sponsorship. | ||
| People, like, Trump supporters are mad, saying, like, everyone's gotta be on the front lines of this fight, and going out, showing up in D.C. | ||
| on the 6th, and I'm like, I might go to D.C. | ||
| I don't know if I'm gonna. | ||
| I think people got tired of all these lockdown protests now. | ||
| Well, the 6th isn't a lockdown protest. | ||
| The sixth is the overturning the election for Trump protest. | ||
| So they're saying everyone has to go there. | ||
| And I'm like, bro, I'm not a leader. | ||
| I'm not a part of your tribe. | ||
| I'm a dude who complains on the internet. | ||
| And I will always be that. | ||
| And I'm not going to rally or rabble or tell anybody what they should or shouldn't do. | ||
| I'll tell you what I think, what I want to happen. | ||
| And you do your thing. | ||
| You make your own opinions. | ||
| His drone war and escalation and his lack of leadership on Assange has really kind of soured me to Donald. | ||
| What's his lack of leadership on Assange? | ||
| He's just not doing anything about it. | ||
| He keeps saying like, um, I'm considering, that was like last week and now this week he's announced he's still, he's considering it again. | ||
| He instructed the, uh, Ecuadorian embassy, the raid on the Ecuadorian embassy. | ||
| That's, that's leadership. | ||
| Not, not what we want though. | ||
| Not the right leadership. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So he certainly made a decision, pull Assange out of the embassy and now we've yet to see him pardon Assange. | ||
| It's all about pardoning the guy. | ||
| Like Daniel Ellsberg. | ||
| He revealed the war atrocities. | ||
| Julian Assange didn't commit any crime. | ||
| He's just being effectively detained for a decade, nearly. | ||
| It's like eight years now. | ||
| And now he's facing charges because they just don't like that he's effective. | ||
| He exposed the intelligence agencies and some of the messed up stuff the U.S. | ||
| was doing, and it really helped Trump. | ||
| It showed a lot of Trump supporters exactly what they were doing and why, you know, a lot of these arguments against them, against like deep state, you know, people were correct. | ||
| And for a long time, like a good example is Sarah Palin. | ||
| She spoke out against WikiLeaks. | ||
| WikiLeaks published her emails. | ||
| Sarah Palin just came out defending Assange, because what we got out of WikiLeaks was good, and then you realize, you're gonna get, with WikiLeaks, you're gonna get stuff that you probably don't like, you don't want leaked, and you're gonna get stuff that you're probably grateful was leaked. | ||
| We learn these things from people like Assange. | ||
| But Assange isn't even the leaker or the whistleblower, he's the publisher, he's the journalist. | ||
| And they're doing this to him. | ||
| Trump needs to pardon that guy, ASAP. | ||
| The concern is if Trump pardons him right now, the UK will find an excuse to keep him. | ||
| And that Trump, his best bet would be to get Assange to the US before pardoning him. | ||
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| Don't think it's possible. | ||
| Like a secret raid to get him out of there? | ||
| He already did that. | ||
| They raided the Ecuadorian embassy and arrested Assange and now the British authorities have him. | ||
| But I mean, a raid on the British authorities. | ||
| Well, that's not gonna happen. | ||
| That'd be crazy. | ||
| No, they're trying to extradite him. | ||
| But he has the legal right to block the extradition. | ||
| And they don't trust the US government, so they're not going to allow it. | ||
| So, I think Trump should just pardon him. | ||
| I don't think there's any point in waiting. | ||
| And if Sanjuan wants to stay in the UK and doesn't want to come here, then just pardon him and be done with it. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| Now how do we deal with the fact that people have their rights completely stomped on in a bunch of these states? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Because do we just sit back as the water slowly boils and we sit in and we know for a fact because of Supreme Court rulings in like several states already they are actively violating constitutional rights of these people? | ||
| Or do we say, something must be done, and Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act, and, you know, hypothetically go in and enforce constitutional order? | ||
| I thought he should have done it on day two of the riots. | ||
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| But it's like there's the riots, and then there's the shutdown, and it's like they're two different psychotics. | ||
| No, listen, the Insurrection Act has been invoked numerous times, like a couple dozen times, and the most recent was for riots, 1992 LA riots. | ||
| Then you also had the Baltimore riots. | ||
| Then you had the Chicago riots in 1968. | ||
| These were nowhere near as crazy as what we saw. | ||
| Because of the Insurrection Act problem. | ||
| Well, I'm sorry. | ||
| Actually, the L.A. | ||
| riots were pretty nuts. | ||
| But I think nationwide riots and then a hundred days in the Pacific Northwest and Trump didn't do it. | ||
| There were like five days where they were just watching and then no one responded federally. | ||
| He doesn't have to worry about that right now. | ||
| I probably didn't really happen over the summer and that stuff because I it's all politics at that point | ||
| It's like what move will help him win re-election will letting them destroy themselves | ||
| He doesn't have to worry about that right now. He doesn't need to worry or but at the end of the day | ||
| We also don't know what's going on behind the scenes with this election stuff | ||
| Maybe he knows some stuff that we don't know that maybe he knows I'm gonna win this | ||
| Did we I like that and the other thing we don't know that I like this this super check I read it | ||
| Monty M says Ian pay your college loans then talk about cops | ||
| I was a cop for 13 years. The NYPD is a bunch of punks. | ||
| Well, right now my loans are on a temporary deferment because of COVID, but it's my, you know, probably number three concern with debts. | ||
| I pay off my credit card debts and my taxes first, and then... IamPanda says, I agree with Joey Salads. | ||
| Everyone here put money where mouth is and show up on Jan 6th in D.C. | ||
| That's the big question. | ||
| Trump won't make a move unless he knows he has popular support. | ||
| If people don't show up on the 6th, I'll tell you this, if 10 million people show up in D.C. | ||
| on the 6th and it's just endless waves, Trump will do whatever. | ||
| Trump will be like, okay, done. | ||
| I think I'm gonna go, because my flight is on the 6th. | ||
| I might just reschedule it so I can get there. | ||
| Go to D.C.? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm hearing from people that aren't super political telling me they're going. | ||
| Yeah, well that's the thing is people who aren't political are forced into being political because of the lockdowns. | ||
| Like, a normal business owner, a normal worker that doesn't care about politics, I just want to live my life. | ||
| They want Trump to win. | ||
| Yeah, now you're thrusted into it where when a Black Lives Matter throws a garbage can through your window, now you're in the political game. | ||
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D.C. | |
| is a great city to congregate into. | ||
| There's all this wide open space and like plazas and roads to shut, easy to shut down roads. | ||
| Cool landmarks. | ||
| Oh, interesting. | ||
| Jon Stewart says, the provision curtailing the Insurrection Act was only in the earlier H.R. | ||
| bill, not the final Senate draft that he vetoed. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| I thought it was in the, it was added as an amendment. | ||
| There was a fact check on it that said it was included in the bill, but I guess, you know, they took it off. | ||
| Anyway, I'll say it again. | ||
| If, I think, if you had 10 million people in DC, I think Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act, he'd overturn the elections, he'd just do whatever he wants because he has the people right there. | ||
| He would literally just be like, say something. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| The people are here, they support me, I'm gonna do it. | ||
| And they would cheer for it. | ||
| But if people don't show up, Trump's just gonna be like, thanks everybody, have a nice day. | ||
| Trump, like, in any political move, won't do anything unless they feel like they have their truth. | ||
| Yeah, Obama was the same way. | ||
| He didn't have any support, so he just capitulated. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| Let's just do one more. | ||
| Josh Branson says, the military has already gone door-to-door for guns before. | ||
| Look at post-Katrina New Orleans. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Well then, if you haven't already, smash the like button. | ||
| Thanks for hanging out on this Christmas Eve Eve show. | ||
| We're off tomorrow and for Christmas, and then we'll be back Monday. | ||
| And I'll be doing my show next on Saturday. | ||
| So check out my other channels at youtube.com slash TimCast and youtube.com slash TimCastNews. | ||
| You can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, Parler, at TimCast. | ||
| Joey, do you have anything you want to mention? | ||
| Your Twitter? | ||
| My Twitter. | ||
| Oh yeah, that's right. | ||
| Your Instagram. | ||
| I guess like my podcast, The Joey Saladino Show or the app America Now News. | ||
| You got any merchandise? | ||
| I got them wearing canceled. | ||
| Where can we buy that? | ||
| Merch link in bio.com. | ||
| Very cool. | ||
| I got that URL. | ||
| Oh, that's awesome! | ||
| And your YouTube channel's pretty huge, right? | ||
| It's just not monetized right now? | ||
| It's big. | ||
| I haven't posted in like six months because it's demonetized. | ||
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YouTube reps, if you're watching, just throw me a bone. | |
| Yeah, man. | ||
| Get this guy back on the market. | ||
| I have a whole catalog of content I'm ready to post that I was filming. | ||
| I was like, Joey Sal's 2.0. | ||
| I'm going to come in hard. | ||
| I got highly produced content, and I'm right about to post it. | ||
| Can't you do sponsors, though? | ||
| Uh, my viewership plummeted after the demonetization. | ||
| Plus, the sponsorships don't really pay me much because it's hard for me to decide my price because my viewership fluctuation. | ||
| It's like, I'll get 50,000 views on a video, 2 million on this one, so it's like, how do I charge them? | ||
| Do you have a Mines account? | ||
| No. | ||
| I co-founded that with Bill. | ||
| You should get started on there, because I know Bill loves your work. | ||
| Yeah, I'll check it out. | ||
| He's the CEO. | ||
| I bet he'd push your stuff really hard. | ||
| Yeah, definitely. | ||
| Definitely mines. | ||
| Yeah, I'll check that out. | ||
| Because they actually have a pro partner program now, too. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| It's not as good as YouTube, but at least it's something to compete with. | ||
| Because, you know, with all due respect to, say, BitChute, Mine's actually, you get paid, like, a part of the program. | ||
| That's the key. | ||
| But it's not as good as Facebook or YouTube, but it's the only way to make it happen is to use it. | ||
| I've been just distributing my content on, like, all the alt platforms. | ||
| You know, it's like, little bit here, little bit there, but it adds up, you know, it's something significant altogether. | ||
| Mine's just doing this new technology where they can, you can link it with your YouTube channel, so any new YouTube uploads will upload to Mine's automatically. | ||
| That's cool. | ||
| I'm gonna check that and write this down. | ||
| It's, uh, free software, which is nice. | ||
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And I think that was, was there something else I was going to say about minds? | |
| I don't know. | ||
| Were you going to mention your minds? | ||
| Oh, I have a minds channel at Ian Crossland, along with all my other social media accounts at Ian Crossland throughout the internet. | ||
| Right on, and of course you can follow at Sour Patch Lids. | ||
| You can, I'm on Twitter. | ||
| Pushing all the buttons. | ||
| Yep, L-I-D-S. | ||
| Posting spicy memes. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| And we're back Monday, right? | ||
| Um, yeah. | ||
| Maybe? | ||
| Well, I don't have anyone lined up yet. | ||
| Oh, well we're super excited for like the second week of January is gonna be spicy. | ||
| It's getting, yeah, it's awesome. | ||
| I'll just put it this way, there are people who are in Congress who are planning on coming. | ||
| You know their names. | ||
| But I'm not gonna- I think I know. | ||
| I don't announce guests because when they cancel I'm gonna get disappointed. | ||
| Not if, but when, because they do. | ||
| Well, especially people who are really busy and people like in Congress. | ||
| Am I allowed to say my guess, or would that, like, give it away? | ||
| Nah, don't say anything, just in case. | ||
| You know, Congress is a verb. | ||
| It means to move together. | ||
| Ian, let me ask you a question. | ||
| What does pro and con, in that context, what does pro mean? | ||
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Forward. | |
| What does con mean? | ||
| Against. | ||
| What is progress? | ||
| To move forward. | ||
| What is Congress? | ||
| To move against. | ||
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Boom! | |
| That's their job. | ||
| Say no to the president when he gets crazy. | ||
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It's true. | |
| All right, everybody. | ||
| Thanks for hanging out. | ||
| Merry Christmas. | ||
| Happy New Year. | ||
| We'll be back at some point. | ||
| We'll see you then. | ||
| Thanks for hanging out. |
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