Feb. 25, 2021 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| Thank you. | ||
| The most concerning issue among Republicans was illegal immigration. | ||
| That's fairly typical. | ||
| That's been a big talking point for Republicans going back decades, so I'm not surprised there. | ||
| When Democrats were asked the same question, their biggest concern was Trump supporters. | ||
| That's new. | ||
| That's creepy. | ||
| That's actually really scary. | ||
| But it makes sense when you think about some of the data we've gone through on this show before, such as the New York Times data showing the Democrats have fired off far to the left while Republicans have kind of stayed where they are. | ||
| Or similar data from Pew Research, which has been highlighted by tons of organizations, including us here at TimCast IRL, as well as PragerU, that shows that the median Republican has moved slightly to the right, and the median Democrat has fired off super far to the left. | ||
| So when you ask a Republican, what are your concerns? | ||
| They say, same thing as always, illegal immigration, right? | ||
| And when you ask a Democrat, they say, the Trump supporters. | ||
| And as you know, what, 95% of Republicans supported Donald Trump, or 90 to 95. | ||
| It's probably gone down a bit. | ||
| But this is Democrats saying, for the most part, the other, the Republican. | ||
| The reason this is so worrying is we recently heard MSNBC, one of the MSNBC hosts, say, why don't we drone strike some of these people? | ||
| We saw an article from The Root, which, according to Newswhip, in 2018 was the most engaged with leftist news source, where they said it's time to treat Republicans like enemy combatants. | ||
| And if these people were in any other country, we would have droned them. | ||
| That's the kind of rhetoric that's coming. | ||
| I gotta tell you, man, it's getting scary. | ||
| Now we got the FBI investigating members of Congress over what happened at the Capitol, seizing congressional phone records. | ||
| Some people are saying it's a violation of the co-equal branches of government, the executive branch going after members of Congress. | ||
| Apparently Nancy Pelosi's okay with it. | ||
| So we're gonna talk all about this stuff. | ||
| Today we are joined by journalist and Marine Reservist Julio Rosas. | ||
| How's it going, man? | ||
| You wanna briefly just give us a really quick introduction? | ||
| Yeah, no, so I'm currently in the Marine Corps Reserves, part-time, and so my main job is I'm a senior writer at townhall.com, cover all sorts of stuff. | ||
| Riots have been kind of the mainstay, and then in between that, immigration, whole media bias. | ||
| Yeah, you were recently down at the border, I guess? | ||
| Yeah, Tijuana on Friday, yeah. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And you've also covered tons of Antifa stuff. | ||
| I've seen a ton of your videos. | ||
| I think people have even, like, some of these Antifa guys have threatened you. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| Of course you're a journalist. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Cool. | ||
| We also got Luke. | ||
| He's hanging out. | ||
| So I forgot to mention this, but last week I wasn't here Friday because of a family matter. | ||
| But I was looking at the comments and there was one guy saying, No Luke, I puke. | ||
| And he was spamming that in there. | ||
| And that made my day. | ||
| And I want to say thank you, guys. | ||
| I really enjoy engaging with you. | ||
| Hi, I'm an independent journalist that does independent media productions on the YouTube channel We Are Change. | ||
| I also have a backup channel called LukeWeAreChange. | ||
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| Saying hi. | ||
| Right on. | ||
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| Let's jump in to the first story. | ||
| So we have this post from Kristen Soltis Anderson. | ||
| She says, thread on the new echelon insights polling about voter priorities and what Republicans in particular are | ||
| looking for. | ||
| Unlike traditional top issues questions, here we ask people to rate each issue on how much it | ||
| concerns them. We tested these issues with everyone. | ||
| Let's just jump straight. Well, let's start with Republicans first. I want because | ||
| I want to build up to it, right? | ||
| You know what the title of the segment is. | ||
| You know what we're talking about. | ||
| So let me just show you the kind of, I guess, regular opinions of conservatives. | ||
| GOP most concerned about police support and illegal immigration. | ||
| The question was, how concerned are you, if at all, that the following are a problem for the country? | ||
| The top was illegal immigration. | ||
| 59% were extremely concerned. | ||
| Next, lack of support for the police. | ||
| 59... I'm sorry, I'm sorry. | ||
| It's 79% extremely concerned. | ||
| High taxes, 77% extremely concerned. | ||
| Fairly typical Republican things. | ||
| I'm concerned about taxes, and people don't like the police, and I wave my flag, and illegal immigrants. | ||
| They talk about liberal bias in mainstream media. | ||
| Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson have been ranting on liberal bias in the media forever, and so has Glenn Beck. | ||
| That's totally normal. | ||
| There's not a whole lot that's new in this socialism. | ||
| Of course, socialism. | ||
| Antifa violence. | ||
| Well, that's relatively new, but, you know, left-wing violence still is something that exists. | ||
| And then you have abortion, tech censorship, discrimination against Christians. | ||
| I swear, you could do the same poll 20 years ago and find the same answers. | ||
| What do you think the Democrats said? | ||
| The most concerning thing, with 82%, was Donald Trump's supporters, followed by White nationalism, 79%, followed by systemic racism at 77%, and then gun violence, and then healthcare, then domestic terror, then police brutality. | ||
| You'll see a lot of these same issues that, you know, Democrats have typically been concerned about. | ||
| But I think it's particularly worrying that at a time when we're seeing some of the most insane rhetoric pointed at Republicans and Trump supporters, saying drone strike them, saying treat them as enemies and combatants, You don't see the same thing from Republicans. | ||
| So before we throw it to everybody and get into this bigger conversation, I'll just point this out. | ||
| When I do my segments on this show, on my other channels, and I say, I may be biased, but I really do see the problem as being on the Democrat side of things, not Republican. | ||
| This is another data point that backs that up. | ||
| Republicans, once again, concerned about the things they've always been concerned about. | ||
| What am I going to complain about? | ||
| Republicans saying the same thing they said for 30 years? | ||
| Sure, I got criticisms. | ||
| The Democrats coming out and saying Trump supporters are the biggest threat? | ||
| That's scary. | ||
| Luke, you brought up last week when that lady from MSNBC said, why don't we just drone strike them? | ||
| We drone strike people in Afghanistan. | ||
| Yeah, I think it's fair to say that our language is becoming a little bit hyperbolic, to say the least, especially politically. | ||
| I for sure thought the top thing on that list was going to be masculinity, weights, trucks, and other inanimate objects that people are scared of and refuse to take personal responsibility on. | ||
| Firearms. | ||
| Defensive tools. | ||
| You know, if you're gonna put guns there, you gotta put forks on there, because forks are responsible for a lot of obesity, a lot of death, and a lot of horrible, horrible sicknesses that we need to be very responsible for by banning the tools that enable people to die of heart disease on such huge numbers. | ||
| 300,000 people died in 2019 of obesity. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| No one wants to talk about that. | ||
| That's what, like, almost a 9-11 every single day? | ||
| Yeah, where's the non-stop 24-7 news coverage of people stuffing McDonald's down their food and talking about how horrible it is and showing them in the hospitals as they're down their goblets down their throats? | ||
| Whatever, you know what I'm trying to say here? | ||
| But again, there's a lot of bigger issues out there. | ||
| And I don't know. | ||
| I don't like polls. | ||
| I always question the results of polls. | ||
| You can manipulate polls in so many different ways. | ||
| So I don't know. | ||
| I don't trust this because this proves that the mainstream media brainwashing is working. | ||
| Because again, when you look at relative threats to you, It's usually a lot of the stuff that a lot of elites are responsible for that they don't want you to know about. | ||
| As we were talking about obesity, cancer, and other health-related illnesses that, of course, are never truly addressed. | ||
| But now, again, we have a caring government that allegedly cares about our health and is willing to stop the economy and destroy everything in its doorsteps just to make us healthy? | ||
| Yeah, sure. | ||
| You know, Luke and I have definitely covered our share of riots and of various factions. | ||
| And Julio, you've been on the ground for a ton of this stuff. | ||
| Do you think that it is fair for Democrats to say, or do you think it's fair for them to be more concerned about Trump supporters than any other problem in the country? | ||
| Does that make sense? | ||
| No, it doesn't. | ||
| It's just, I would completely disagree with that mindset. | ||
| Do you think it should even be on the list? | ||
| I think I know what you're going to say. | ||
| That's why I'm asking. | ||
| I'm giving you the obvious questions. | ||
| Well, it's just, I mean, obviously, I think one of the factors, just because of what happened on January 6th, I was there, I covered it, but really, I mean, what we saw most of last year, and what I covered from Kenosha to Minneapolis and Seattle, those were all done by left-wing Well, but Kyle Reddenhaus! | ||
| Well, that was born out of a situation that was the result of the local and state government not getting a handle on riots that were, again, started by left-wing and BLM sympathizers. | ||
| And standing down. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So this is the point I keep making. | ||
| People are like, Tim, all your videos are about the Democrats. | ||
| And I'm like, listen. | ||
| When has there been a moment where a bunch of Trump supporters started smashing windows, breaking into a building, and, you know, being all around disruptive? | ||
| January 6th. | ||
| Can you tell me a time before that? | ||
| Because I'm sure they exist, you know, but anything off the top of your head? | ||
| Trump supporters came out, flags, marching through the street, chanting, and smashing windows, starting fires, or anything like that? | ||
| And that number? | ||
| No, not that I can recall. | ||
| You know, so what I've seen is leftist violence and extremism. | ||
| And even then, with all of the news coverage, look at Andy Ngo's book. | ||
| Andy Ngo put out that book on Antifa. | ||
| It's like a New York Times bestseller. | ||
| And Republicans are still like, yeah, we get Antifa's a problem, but illegal immigration is more concerning. | ||
| Because there's a lot of policy ramifications to illegal immigration, economic ramifications. | ||
| So Republicans, right where they've always been. | ||
| Antifa going on doing their thing. | ||
| Republicans know it, but they're not screaming about it like it's the end of the world. | ||
| Some are, for sure. | ||
| Their concerns are more practical, policy-driven. | ||
| Democrats are pointing at Republicans. | ||
| So this is what is worrying to me. | ||
| Let me show this article from The Root. | ||
| They say Democrats are stuck with a Republican party rife with conspiracy theorists, anarchists, and terror sympathizers. | ||
| The craziest thing about this, let me just try and pull up the most insane, look at this. | ||
| They say we have to view the GOP as enemy combatants because for years they have proven that Democrats are theirs. | ||
| Republicans might view Democrats as, like, political rivals who they don't like and will call names. | ||
| But Republicans aren't that concerned about general Democrats. | ||
| This is the crazy thing about this Echelon Insights thing. | ||
| On the list of things Republicans are concerned about, Biden supporters is not one of them. | ||
| They don't care about people who voted for Joe Biden. | ||
| They care about problems. | ||
| The Democrats literally care about Republicans. | ||
| I shouldn't even say Republicans, because the Republican Party is trash, but conservatives, Trump supporters. | ||
| Trump supporters are not Republicans. | ||
| There's a big difference, but there is an overlap, I guess. | ||
| I can say, you know, Republicans are trash, and most people will be like, you mean the politicians, right? | ||
| Yeah, oh, of course. | ||
| Like, everybody agrees. | ||
| So I'm worried about this rhetoric, man. | ||
| I'm worried about this. | ||
| We also have this article. | ||
| I'll pull this one up from FiveThirtyEight. | ||
| In America's uncivil war, Republicans are the aggressors. | ||
| Dude, they live in a paranoid, delusional state. | ||
| Would you agree with that? | ||
| Republicans are the aggressors in the uncivil war? | ||
| As a whole, no. | ||
| I mean, it's just, again, what I covered and what I saw firsthand, it wasn't people in MAGA hats. | ||
| It wasn't people waving Trump flags. | ||
| It was people that were definitely aligned with more of the radical elements of the left. | ||
| But, I mean, Antifa, as real as they are, right, they weren't everywhere in terms of all the riots. | ||
| They weren't responsible for every single one. | ||
| obviously they had a hand in places like Portland, Seattle, where they had their strongholds, | ||
| but really it was everyday people, especially when it started out on day one, because then | ||
| I can say in Kenosha there were Antifa types that came from Chicago and Milwaukee, but | ||
| that was day three, that was day two, that wasn't the first. | ||
| So everything kind of went bad in that town was everyday people, quote unquote. | ||
| Did you guys see what happened in New York where there was like an SUV with Trump flags? | ||
| And then regular New Yorker leftists started attacking it and some woman like pepper sprayed the family including some children. | ||
| Oh, when they had that little caravan? | ||
| No, no, I don't think it was... It might have been a little caravan. | ||
| I don't think it was, like, a big parade. | ||
| I think it was just, like, SUVs driving on the... What was it? | ||
| What's the highway? | ||
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BQE. | |
| Is that what it is? | ||
| The BQE? | ||
| The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so, you've got... These people are not Antifa. | ||
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| These leftists. | ||
| And that's crazy to me that you can have these videos, that Republicans, conservatives, Trump supporters can see a video of children being pepper-sprayed and still say, that's not my biggest concern. | ||
| Whereas on the left, you get one day where Trump supporters act a fool, and that's the biggest concern they have. | ||
| I think it's the fake news, the manipulation that's going to lead to something dramatically worse. | ||
| My concern is, as they kind of escalate this, and I'll just throw this next bit in because I covered this the other day, that the FBI is treating members of Congress, they say they're treating members of Congress as suspects in the Capitol riot. | ||
| What happens when you have this rhetoric where the Democrats think this is our biggest threat? | ||
| You're gonna get politicians on the Democrat side who say, vote for me and I will destroy Republicans. | ||
| Vote for me and I will come for them and I will arrest them and we will lock them up. | ||
| And the Trump supporters are like, can I get someone to deal with the immigration issue? | ||
| If the Democrats see that the biggest issue among their voter bloc is Trump supporters, they will use all the power they have to target them. | ||
| It's what they've been doing. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And it's probably creating like a downward spiral where it's gonna keep getting worse. | ||
| And that's why they have concerns about establishing a 9-11 style commission. | ||
| It's like, well, how truly neutral and independent is it going to be when you have people on their side saying that all 74 million Trump supporters are equal to three or four hundred or so that are at the Capitol? | ||
| Right. | ||
| T-S-D-S. | ||
| We also have to understand the larger kind of media conditioning that has been going on within the last four years that really was ratcheted up to levels that I haven't ever seen it before. | ||
| I always knew and talked about the divide-and-conquer agenda for about 15 years now, but really the last four years were absolutely insane. | ||
| If you look at left-wing media, they're always saying right-wing terror, right-wingers are going to kill you, right-wingers are horrible, and then just non-stop, 24-7 coverage. | ||
| And then there's also some criticism on right-wing coverage where they said Antifa is responsible for everything bad underneath the sun and sometimes they were also exaggerated sometimes they're also downplayed by the left-wing media but we have to understand this cycle is spinning out of control and when the Democrats are in power right now. | ||
| There are a legitimate amount of people asking, what do you got for us? | ||
| And the first thing they got is, we could punish more Trump supporters. | ||
| And according to this poll, that's allegedly what they want. | ||
| And again, I find it hard to believe, to be honest with you, because... You don't like the poll? | ||
| I want to deep dive into it to see exactly how it was done, to see exactly how the questions were, because I bet we're going to find some anomalies. | ||
| Because there's no way people who are suffering so much, people who have been screwed over by the establishment, who have been promised $2,000 and they're getting nothing but military-industrial complex, no-bid contracts for Raytheon right now, their $2,000 is out the door. | ||
| There's no way that their first thing is retribution. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You're wrong. | ||
| That's my opinion. | ||
| That's okay. | ||
| You have your opinion. | ||
| I have mine. | ||
| That's my own personal perspective because seeing the responses, yes, there's a lot of hyperbolic stuff on social media, but in reality, there's a lot of people saying, okay, Democrats, you're in charge. | ||
| What do you got for me? | ||
| What can you do for me? | ||
| I'm seeing people defend Joe Biden setting up child migrant detention facilities, okay? | ||
| So there was the one in Homestead, which is the Miami facility. | ||
| Kamala Harris literally protested there. | ||
| And all the Democrats, not the progressives, all of like the establishment, tribalists are going like, yay, Kamala! | ||
| And then Trump shut it down. | ||
| And they go, good, it's about time Trump. | ||
| And then Biden's administration reopened it. | ||
| And they're like, well, actually, you know, it does make sense that Biden is doing that. | ||
| You see what they do. | ||
| So I disagree. | ||
| I think you're right that there are regular Americans who are like, yo, where's my money, bro? | ||
| You said I get $2,000 where it where it's at and you're not getting it. | ||
| But I think too many And it makes sense. I mean, like what, 80, 80 some odd | ||
| percent are just like Trump is bad. | ||
| So there's two things. When the media for years kept screaming at the top of their lungs, | ||
| orange man bad. Some people just ate that up and now they're shaking in their homes, | ||
| terrified of Trump supporters. But I think people are realizing Trump's not in power. | ||
| The FBI is on top of all the grannies that walked into the Capitol that day. | ||
| There's no evil grannies that are going to come after them and walk into their private residency by accident. | ||
| So I think people are realizing that. | ||
| And there's also very interesting pushback with the Gravel Institute and AOC pushing back against Biden and this new kind of, you know, what are they calling it now? | ||
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Child Migrant Overflow Facility. | |
| Which are literally using storage containers to put children in. | ||
| Which have bars on the windows. | ||
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I heard there's air conditioning. | |
| I mean, that's good. | ||
| Listen, listen, listen. | ||
| I gotta defend Joe Biden. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| I gotta defend Joe Biden. | ||
| I do. | ||
| I absolutely do. | ||
| These facilities need to exist. | ||
| Separating families is awful. | ||
| But a lot of the separation occurs because they don't know who the families are. | ||
| Because it's just some random guy with a kid. | ||
| And then the other issue is the facility that Biden opened up, it's unaccompanied kids. | ||
| So like when a kid crosses the board and they pick them up, they're like, what do we do? | ||
| We're not going to put them in an adult jail with a bunch of old dudes. | ||
| They put them in a facility, a juvenile facility. | ||
| But just for me personally, because I am of Mexican descent, the thing that just really irritates me is, sure, AOC did a tweet saying, yeah, it's bad in any administration, but she's not going to go down there and do another photo op. | ||
| And just, I remember just the complete outrage at the child separation policy, which was, you know, well, the outrage at it was good. | ||
| I didn't agree with it at all. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| uh... but and then it is a bit of what the on that and talk about kids in cages | ||
| and and they were put they were putting photos that were taken there are a lot | ||
| of ministration yeah and saying that all the and went so basically | ||
| by and large the the mainstream media and democrats review latinos | ||
| as uh... as a a hammer to beat Republicans with when it suits them and so | ||
| it's just I really see I'm just I'm really upset at how there you know if you're | ||
| gonna be if you're gonna be as outraged as you were when Trump was in | ||
| office and you should be equally as outraged. Oh I just realized, Julio Rosas, | ||
| you're actually a Mexican yourself. I don't I don't I'm | ||
| I'm special in that I don't see these things that the Democrats... Completely colorblind. | ||
| Yeah, colorblind. | ||
| Totally colorblind. | ||
| Another thing to really kind of be blunt here about is, especially when it comes to new immigrants that come into this country, who do they serve? | ||
| They usually go to big cities and they serve a lot of these establishment limousine liberals. | ||
| And they're working in underappreciated, underpaid jobs, usually under the table. | ||
| In a position that predominantly helps them. | ||
| Yeah, it exploits human beings to the worst degree for the benefit of the people living in the cities. | ||
| Who lives in the cities? | ||
| Predominantly liberals benefiting off of it. | ||
| Here's the point I was gonna make with that, is that we recently saw, especially in South Texas, the Latino community went for Trump. | ||
| In Miami, a district that was considered safe Democrat, flipped Republican. | ||
| Because it seems like, first of all, this idea that Latinos in this country are one political body is just not true. | ||
| And you could probably speak to this better than I could. | ||
| But I know people, I lived in Miami, I know people who were from Cuba and Venezuela, and they're like, nah. | ||
| They were staunch capitalists, hated those systems that they view as destroying their country. | ||
| But when you look at, you know, what's going on at these facilities, I'm really curious about who AOC is actually speaking to when it's like, ah, in South Texas, they're actually kind of pro-Trump. | ||
| You know, they've gone pretty hard for the Republicans. | ||
| I can't imagine they're going to disagree with the same policies that Trump had, right? | ||
| Well, it's just the fact that they live at the, you know, they live there in terms of the border. | ||
| And so they are acutely aware of the issues that are plaguing the immigration system and obviously just the overall problems that we have at the southern border. | ||
| And so, I mean, and that's why you see a lot of border patrol officers. | ||
| They're Latino, but I think the majority of the officers are Latino because they often come from those communities because, again, they see the importance of border security. | ||
| They know that you just can't have just it be open and what have you. | ||
| So yeah, I think it really, I think the last election obviously didn't go Trump's way, but the fact that he was able to gain a lot within the Latino community and other minorities as well, but especially in the Latino community. | ||
| I mean, you'd think that, you know, after four years of talking about how Trump was just going to go after all the Latinos and, you know, it's just this really bad dictator. | ||
| Right, and then he's pretty pretty he's pretty bad at being a dictator in that in that regard if the people that he's supposed to Be victimizing is actually going for him. | ||
| The worst thing he did was post that photo taco bowl It was like how dare you? | ||
| You know, it's like cultural appropriates like taco bowls aren't even actually Mexican or whatever and and that looks good Objectively look good to me. | ||
| I Don't know why the image that just came to my head and it's very visceral is this kind of you know This kind of liberal sitting in a fancy restaurant tweeting that we need more immigration as they're of course at a very fancy restaurant and behind the doors are all the illegal immigrants working their butts off, you know, serving them and to me just seeing that kind of representation just kind of angers me to be honest with you. | ||
| One of my favorite tweets early in the Trump administration, I think it was 2018, it was from this actress, I forgot who it was, but it was in Los Angeles, and she tweeted out that, oh there's immigration checkpoints, and so she's tweeting to her followers, tell your gardeners to... | ||
| Tell your housemates, tell them to avoid this area. | ||
| And everyone's just like, wait, why are you just, why are you, why are you automatically assuming that to tell their, but, but it's true because that is, that is a majority of their set. | ||
| And so when they think about immigrants, it's, Oh, it's my, it's, it's the help. | ||
| And it's just, it's just, it's just so patronizing and it's just so fake and I'm tired of it. | ||
| So I just, I just pulled up the article cause I had to make sure I had it right. | ||
| Kelly Osborne. | ||
| She said, if you kick out Latinos, who's going to be cleaning your toilet? | ||
| What? | ||
| These people! | ||
| Again, they just see us as a political tool to hit Republicans with and to clean their toilets and cook their food. | ||
| I'm gonna read this quote and I'm gonna be very precise and annoying how I read this for political purposes because they're gonna call it out of context. | ||
| Kelly Osborne said if you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is, and this is what Kelly Osborne said, going to be cleaning your toilet. | ||
| Donald Trump, you know what I mean. | ||
| Osborne said in an attempt to call out the Republican presidential candidate who faced massive backlash. | ||
| No, that's not no, interrupted co-host Rosie Perez, continuing. | ||
| There's more jobs than that in the country for Latinos, and Latinos are not the only people who clean toilets. | ||
| And she immediately backtracked. | ||
| I didn't mean it like that. | ||
| Come on, I would never mean it like that. | ||
| Dude, you totally meant it like that. | ||
| And it was only when she got snapped back, she was like, oh, oh, is that wrong? | ||
| Am I not allowed to say that? | ||
| I thought we were on the same page here. | ||
| This is it. | ||
| Think about, it's not even about Latinos or Mexicans or people from Honduras. | ||
| It is about cheap immigrant labor. | ||
| And it used to be, who was it? | ||
| Bernie Sanders. | ||
| Bernie Sanders warned about how the Koch brothers supported open immigration because it would work great for their big corporations. | ||
| Yeah, you get some dude who comes in working below minimum wage, no benefits because they're off the books, under the table. | ||
| And then you basically have an underclass. | ||
| Then Vox.com, the progressive website, wrote in 2016 that Democratic Party is becoming the party of the wealthy elites. | ||
| So it's no surprise then the Democrats are the ones who are now saying, oh, we got to have more immigration and open borders. | ||
| It's remarkable. | ||
| Trump ran on the Republican ticket saying border security, no free trade. | ||
| And it worked because regular Americans were like, yeah, I like this idea of, you know, America first. | ||
| The big business special interest corporations and the ultra wealthy were like, how am I going to hire ultra cheap labor with no rights if the Republican is doing this? | ||
| All of a sudden, the Democrats were now like, yeah, open borders! | ||
| Even though, what, in 2008, 2010, you had Democrats who were like, we have to build a border security barrier. | ||
| That was the 2006, the Secure Fence Act. | ||
| Yeah, Joe Biden voted for that fence. | ||
| So you're calling Joe Biden a racist? | ||
| I think he called himself that. | ||
| And so even with all that, and that's why when they're saying, oh, you know, President Trump's not building any new fence, just replacing the old one. | ||
| Well, the one that was built in 2006 was basically just glorified chicken wire, and it can be easily cut into within minutes. | ||
| And so this new one that they're replacing, along with areas where there was no barrier, It takes hours and the whole point is to slow them down and to actually get border patrol agents to that area so that they can either stop them or arrest them and so it's just a lot of misinformation a lot of you know yeah rhetoric as it typically does but I've been there I've been all over El Paso, Laredo, San Diego and it's just it's just amazing when you like when you're actually there and you see it and you see the difference it's just it's just amazing. | ||
| It's remarkable how The Democrats really rely on you not knowing anything. | ||
| And so they'll be like, Donald Trump didn't build new border wall. | ||
| He only replaced existing wall. | ||
| If you've never seen it, you're imagining there's this giant wall and Trump comes in and just takes out a wall and puts in a wall and nothing changed. | ||
| And then when you actually look at it, the original wall was like some fence posts with a single like log across it that you could just like walk in limbo under. | ||
| And then Trump put triple reinforced barricades with CBP in between. | ||
| And it's like, yeah, those are very different things. | ||
| And then when they're like, yeah, but Trump should be building new wall. | ||
| It's like, but those are the hotspots that the Trump supporters wanted secured. | ||
| So like Trump wasn't giving his supporters a 30-foot big, beautiful concrete wall from | ||
| sea to shining sea paid for by Mexico. | ||
| But he was reinforcing areas with strong security and a border wall where it was most effective. | ||
| Also the conversation changed because previously before we had individuals like Bernie Sanders that were talking about how if we have a lot of people entering the labor force, wages are going to go down on the basic understanding of supply and demand economics. | ||
| That conversation's not happening anymore. | ||
| That conversation about the average worker, the average person trying to make a living wage, that's not factored in anymore, and it should be, and that should be a big part of the conversation. | ||
| I think it's just special interests. | ||
| They want to make a quick buck. | ||
| They've hijacked... It's really clever. | ||
| I'll put it this way. | ||
| You know, it's a lot easier to be on the side of social justice and have all these institutions supporting you. | ||
| But I gotta say, these people who think they're fighting for social justice and things like that... | ||
| You really think these billion-dollar corporations and these meatpacking plants care about their workers? | ||
| Look, when they slap a rainbow sticker over their logo, they're doing it so that you stop fighting against them. | ||
| And it works. | ||
| It does. | ||
| Not completely. | ||
| I'm not gonna be naive enough or, you know, stupid enough. | ||
| To try and argue that legitimate principled left-wing activists are going to stop arguing against corporations because they put a rainbow up. | ||
| But a lot of the establishment Democrat voters, the people who don't investigate news, who are not particularly active, stop being active when they're like, yay, we did it! | ||
| Coca-Cola agrees with us! | ||
| They told everyone to be less white. | ||
| The fight's over. | ||
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Oh, there you go. | |
| By the way, do you guys have any Coke? | ||
| Coca-Cola? | ||
| No, we probably do have a Coke product somewhere. | ||
| Why, do you want something to drink? | ||
| Oh, no, I just wanted to be less white. | ||
| Did you guys see the G Prime 85 comic? | ||
| Oh my gosh, yes. | ||
| The art we have on the walls is from George Alexopoulos, and he made one where it's a white woman being baptized in Coca-Cola. | ||
| That's messed up. | ||
| What was the tagline with that? | ||
| I forgot the tagline. | ||
| Power of diabetes. | ||
| Yes, the power of diabetes. | ||
| I grant you away from your whiteness or something like that. | ||
| I'm thinking about my time in L.A. | ||
| I worked at a restaurant for a long time and had a lot of friends there that were from Central America that came over illegally and were basically extracting wealth from the country because they would get paid in cash and then they would send the money to Mexico to their families. | ||
| And then they would work in the U.S. | ||
| for a couple years and then leave and go be super rich in Mexico. | ||
| Relatively rich, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, and they were super cool. | ||
| Great friends. | ||
| And it was a small business. | ||
| So they're basically, it's not just the big corporations, but if the small business can't survive, if they have to pay full wages, it's hard to pay taxes and rent and everything. | ||
| There was a big movement for a while about local currencies. | ||
| Do you guys know about this? | ||
| Like, Ithaca hours was a big thing where basically there was money that was only good in the town of Ithaca, New York. | ||
| So if you worked, they could be like, we could pay you in US dollars or Ithaca hours. | ||
| And this, this, it was like one hour of labor equaled a one hour note. | ||
| And you could trade it for food and goods in this place. | ||
| So it had real value among the community. | ||
| What this did was it ensured that the trade medium could not leave the city. | ||
| So if you've got a city like Detroit, and then the auto plants close down and leave, now there's no more dollars coming in. | ||
| People don't have anything to trade with. | ||
| So with local currencies, that currency is always there. | ||
| That's why I think it's relevant to bring up with what you're saying, Ian. | ||
| When people come to the US, work under the table, and don't pay taxes, I'm not saying none of them pay taxes, I'm saying, but when they specifically don't, they're not giving back to the system they're getting from, they're using our infrastructure, then that money is extracted from the system and sent overseas to whatever country their family is in, Their families can then use that because the standard of living will be lower, so it goes a lot further in those places. | ||
| But that means there is less currency in that town to circulate among the people who live there, ultimately an extraction of the labor value of that area. | ||
| So it's basically like the labor being brought in is being traded away to other countries and other places over time. | ||
| It's an extraction from the U.S. | ||
| You combine that with outsourcing, factories being sent overseas and open borders, and yeah, you're going to see seriously detrimental economic effects on this country. | ||
| And that's why you get a Donald Trump because regular Americans look at this. | ||
| When you look at the original thing we were talking about, the Democrats | ||
| saying Trump supporter bad and Trump supporters saying illegal immigration bad. | ||
| It sounds like the Trump supporters, the conservatives, the Republicans | ||
| are looking at the data and thinking what will make things better in this country? | ||
| Well, we've got a problem with illegal immigration for a variety of reasons. | ||
| The Democrats are like, Republicans are bad. | ||
| It's like, that's not a policy problem. | ||
| That doesn't mean anything. | ||
| Republicans are actually saying, this is an issue. | ||
| What do the Democrats do to combat the fact that Republicans are talking about a legitimate policy debate? | ||
| They say, they're racist. | ||
| They just hate brown people. | ||
| That's the only explanation. | ||
| They hate brown people. | ||
| They're xenophobic. | ||
| I hate myself. | ||
| Yeah, how dare you be conservative and not white. | ||
| That's not allowed. | ||
| I've been called a race traitor multiple times. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| But I love how they tell non-white people to be race traitors. | ||
| I'm sorry, not to be race traitors, but then they tell white people to be race traitors. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So like they have that whiteness chart that was like, we're not at that school. | ||
| And it said like, be a race traitor. | ||
| And it's like, okay, go tell it to anybody who's not white. | ||
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No. | |
| And then they say, but it's not about race. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That was a principal in New York city who sent a pamphlet to all the parents in that high school that, by the way, you know, there was, I think, I think 70%, uh, 17% of the kids were white. | ||
| That, that it's good to be a white traitor. | ||
| Yes, we could probably pull up the article New York City principal hands out woke pamphlet and then you could see the pamphlet in itself. | ||
| It was based off of some university professor that created a scale of whiteness asking white people to rate themselves and one of the better scales to be at is to be a white race traitor. | ||
| Oh, that's right, because you're either complicit in white supremacy or you're working against it. | ||
| I found it, yeah. | ||
| So we got this one from Syracuse.com. | ||
| New York principal asks students' parents to reflect on their whiteness. | ||
| And there's this tweet, Christopher Rufo, who we've had, he's great, is the one who, I think he broke the story, and it's the eight white identities. | ||
| I think we talked about this on the show the other day or whatever, but it's definitely worth bringing up, because it literally says to be a white traitor. | ||
| It's like, it's green. | ||
| You know, it's like white supremacist is red, bad, bad, red. | ||
| And then white privilege is like orange. | ||
| There's like a, there's like a wheel where it's like red to yellow to green. | ||
| What is that? | ||
| White voyeurism. | ||
| I don't know what that means. | ||
| Like you, you like people watching, you like watching white people. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Exhibitionism is when you like people watching you, right? | ||
| And voyeurism is when you like watching others. | ||
| Really weird. | ||
| You like watching white people? | ||
| I don't understand what that means. | ||
| And then there's white benefit, white confessional, white critical, white traitor, and white abolitionist. | ||
| White confessional. | ||
| Yeah, this is a cult, man. | ||
| It's a weird race cult. | ||
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Ugh. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Yuck. | ||
| I just want them to stop making Latinx a thing. | ||
| Oh my gosh, right? | ||
| Kleenex. | ||
| I forgot they tweeted it, but they tweeted a picture of an article. | ||
| I think it was like a food magazine, but it was Filipinx. | ||
| We're just like, I mean, it's just, it's just completely insulting. | ||
| I mean, well, one, it's like they're starting to realize that how machismo and how actually gendered the Spanish language is. | ||
| And I mean, there you go. | ||
| At the end of every Spanish word, it's either a male or female. | ||
| And so it goes against that orthodoxy of gender fluid. | ||
| Fluidity and all the stuff. | ||
| And so, it's just, they're trying to act like, well, we're saving you from yourselves of being sexist and oppressive towards people who don't identify as that. | ||
| It's just like, well, or maybe you're the ones being racist because you're literally destroying the foundation of the language of these minorities. | ||
| You speak Spanish, yeah? | ||
| Only speak a little bit. | ||
| I just love the idea of them saying Latinx, but they don't actually know how to speak the language. | ||
| Could you imagine trying to speak Spanish where you replaced the O's and A's with X's? | ||
| Well, one, they look at you weird. | ||
| Yo, kiddo. | ||
| Yo, kiddix. | ||
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No, no. | |
| Yix, comedix, comedix. | ||
| It's like Pig Latin! | ||
| It was like there was a Gallup poll, I believe it was Gallup, that showed it was like 90% of Hispanics had never even heard Of that. | ||
| How do you even describe Latinx? | ||
| What does it mean? | ||
| Where did it come from? | ||
| Because I don't even understand it. | ||
| It's just to denote that you're just trying to make it gender neutral to be sensitive to others, but the overall Latino community just rejects it. | ||
| I got it pulled up. | ||
| About one in four U.S. | ||
| Hispanics have heard of Latinx, but just 3% use it. | ||
| Read the next line. | ||
| Young Hispanic women among those most likely to use the term. | ||
| It's always the chicks. | ||
| College. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| How do you, how do you, how do you, so it's, it's not just Spanish though. | ||
| It's like romance languages have gendered words. | ||
| So like, bonjournix. | ||
| What is, what? | ||
| Mussolini changed the, uh, the gender of the, yeah, yeah. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| The river, the great Italian river, had the female gender and he made it male and was like, we are a masculine country. | ||
| So there is something dangerous about, you know, making something male or female dominating, I think. | ||
| You could oppress a gender that way, but I don't know if it necessarily does. | ||
| You know what the argument I made was? | ||
| So you do speak a little bit, you guys speak a little bit of Spanish. | ||
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What does niño mean? | |
| Little guys. | ||
| Little boys. | ||
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Little girls. | |
| What does niños mean? | ||
| Little boys. | ||
| What does niña mean? | ||
| Little girl. | ||
| What does niñas mean? | ||
| Little girls. | ||
| But what if I said los niños and pointed to a group of school children? | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| Boys and girls? | ||
| So the point I would always bring up is, the word that's supposed to be for boy could actually reference girls as well. | ||
| But women get an exclusive word just for themselves. | ||
| That's privilege. | ||
| So if you see a group of children, boys and girls, you would say, los niños. | ||
| But niño is masculine, yet women get included in the masculine as well, but men don't get included in the feminine. | ||
| So I'm not seriously complaining about the language, but I was actually talking, this was like 15 years ago, I was talking to a feminist who was complaining to this about me when I was a teenager in Chicago, and I was like, how is it fair that women get exclusive words to describe themselves, but the masculine words are used to describe both? | ||
| So women get both words? | ||
| I was being somewhat facetious to point out the language itself is not sexist. | ||
| It's just a way to describe things. | ||
| Look, man, you could make something up, and someone probably could do this. | ||
| Find something that could be presumably perceived as sexist, and then they'll latch onto it. | ||
| I don't know, start arguing that we should... Did you know that the modern banana was artificially selected? | ||
| So it did not evolve naturally. | ||
| Humans were picking the bananas that they liked and then only replanting the ones that were better and better. | ||
| Eventually, we end up with this big sugary wad that's not even got seeds in it. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Like, original bananas used to have all these different seeds. | ||
| It was very starchy and not sweet. | ||
| So what you gotta do now is you gotta tell them that's sexist. | ||
| It was the men choosing the dick-shaped fruit. | ||
| What? | ||
| Yeah, because of patriarchy. | ||
| It's about time we start artificially selecting bananas to not be shaped like... Wieners. | ||
| Wieners! | ||
| No, but it's the stupidest idea ever. | ||
| But you could make something like that up. | ||
| Oh, Spanish is sexist because there's gendered language? | ||
| Okay, well then like basically every romance language is sexist. | ||
| They're gonna get there. | ||
| They just want to focus on the brown people first. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, because it's the white progressives who know better for you, you know? | ||
| I mean, it's very condescending, like, honestly, like, I don't get, like, to actually, like, quote-unquote, like, triggered about stuff, but that actually upsets me just because, just, they, I understand what they're trying to do, but it just, it's just done in such a completely inconsiderate and not in a serious way, and it's self-defeating. | ||
| You mean taking the gender out of the language? | ||
| Well, right, yeah, because they're signaling that we don't know that we're being sexist and so they're coming to the rescue. | ||
| Why is comida, food, is feminine? | ||
| Is that fair? | ||
| It's sexist that food is for women. | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| It's just whatever. | ||
| I mean, that's why they don't give Arabic's interesting. | ||
| I don't want to mis-exemplify it, but I'm pretty sure in Arabic, if a woman is saying something or if a man is saying something, they use different language. | ||
| Or is it if you're talking to a woman, you use a different phrase than if you're talking to a man? | ||
| Yeah, sounds possible. | ||
| I would say very strange because I'm not used to it. | ||
| I grew up in a Polish area. | ||
| Chicago's got a very large Polish community. | ||
| Shoutouts to Kazimir Pulaski. | ||
| Saw a great tweet from Jack Posobiec about that. | ||
| But I didn't learn this until recently, and Luke confirmed, that they actually give women different last names. | ||
| So how does that work? | ||
| What is that? | ||
| What's that all about? | ||
| Well, it's feminine and male, so usually a Polish name is a ski for when it's for a man, and ska when it's for a woman. | ||
| So the patriarchy of Poland, they don't even give women the name of the men. | ||
| They say, no, no, you get a different one, you're a ska, not a ski. | ||
| Skis are only for men. | ||
| See, that's the patriarchy. | ||
| My dad likes ska music. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| The funny thing about it, though, is like, I don't know if that's sexist or not, but you could argue it is. | ||
| You can say it's not fair. | ||
| The men refuse to give the women their full name and give them the derivative, ska, instead of the true ski. | ||
| But then you could also argue like modern feminism in America, where it's like, I shouldn't have to take the last name of the man anyway. | ||
| There's always a way to frame the argument to make it seem like someone's being bigoted when it literally isn't. | ||
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Right. | |
| It's just so true. | ||
| The word men is in the word women, so that's sexist. | ||
| The word he is in the word she, so that's sexist. | ||
| They've tried doing that. | ||
| They've tried doing that. | ||
| Yeah, with the Y. His story. | ||
| Yeah, with the Y. Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Womxn. | ||
| W-O-M-X-N. | ||
| Her story. | ||
| Her story. | ||
| You know, there's a really funny meme where someone said, like, for a while, feminists were claiming that wo, W-O, means belong to. | ||
| So wo-men means property of men. | ||
| But that's actually not true. | ||
| The original etymology, I believe, of the word is wereman and whiffman. | ||
| And so that's where werewolf comes from. | ||
| So a wereman was a male human and a whiffman was a female human. | ||
| And then over time, probably because men were the ones engaging in political affairs, the patriarchy, the were dropped off and just became men. | ||
| And then women retained the whiffman suffix or prefix or whatever. | ||
| So, long story short, evolution of language happens, and it's really easy to make anything seem like a conspiracy, or bigoted, or racist, and they exploit that. | ||
| They exploit sophistry to convince unsuspecting people, who are of good faith and goodwill, into doing for them. | ||
| And for those that think critically, to the chagrin of the New York Times, they don't fall for this stuff. | ||
| They end up watching shows like this. You guys are great. | ||
| But a lot of people just fall for CNN. | ||
| They'll turn it on and they'll be like, you know, Latinx and they'll go, yes. | ||
| I saw Disney also, when they were celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, they... | ||
| And that's the other thing too. | ||
| You can just say Hispanic. | ||
| Or Latin American. | ||
| I mean, there's other options. | ||
| Why do you have to go after that? | ||
| And again, I don't want to seem like I'm just triggered over words, but it's just the deeper mindset that they have of like, we know better than you do. | ||
| And if you go against us, you're I love it. | ||
| It's an ideology derived mostly from white leftists to tell minorities how to speak. | ||
| And I'm like, how do you define white supremacy? | ||
| A bunch of white academics of privilege telling minorities what to say and think and do? | ||
| I mean, that sounds like you know better. | ||
| It sounds a bit like white supremacy to me. | ||
| You know, I'm not going to tell you. | ||
| You can say whatever you want. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't think it's about gender. | ||
| I don't think it's about sex or anything like that. | ||
| I don't think it's about gender roles. | ||
| I think it's about controlling the narrative. | ||
| And this is something we've talked about in the past. | ||
| We've talked about changing the language so you can change stuff like the laws. | ||
| I think this is a matter of sneaky trying to force the evolution of a language to suit your own power goals. | ||
| I honestly think that's true. | ||
| We talked about how if you can change the definition of the word gender, then every law on the books becomes a different law. | ||
| So when the law was written, like the 1964 Civil Rights Act, or derivative policies in various jurisdictions, when they say, you made it discriminant on the basis of gender. | ||
| Well, back then they specifically meant male or female. | ||
| Today, the activist left in all these institutions has changed the definition of gender. | ||
| Once people accept it, they say, look, the law says you can't discriminate on the basis of gender. | ||
| Well, I'm, you know, hydro-gender, so you can't discriminate. | ||
| And then they show up dressed up in a full-body, you know, jacuzzi suit. | ||
| Or something, you know, more absurd than that. | ||
| Actually, that'd be pretty sweet. | ||
| Have you seen those jacuzzi suits? | ||
| Oh, is it real? | ||
| I think they might be real. | ||
| Maybe it's something I saw. | ||
| Maybe I dreamed it up. | ||
| That's like a fever dream right there. | ||
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You sure you don't have COVID? | |
| No, I think I saw it on TV once. | ||
| I don't have COVID. | ||
| But you know what I mean? | ||
| I'm just trying to be absurd. | ||
| Like, if the law was originally intended to address males and females, And now that we've changed language, you're going to argue the law is different. | ||
| That's a way to exploit the system, to change laws without actually having the votes to change the laws. | ||
| It seems to be a lot of what they're doing. | ||
| I didn't think of it that way. | ||
| I do think a lot of it is just random though. | ||
| Like when they say Wimxn, do you guys know what Wimxn is? | ||
| No. | ||
| W-O-M-X-N. | ||
| Or Flux, instead of Folks. | ||
| Oh, folks with an X. Yeah, it's folks with an X. Why? | ||
| I don't know how that's... For no reason! | ||
| I saw that pop up like a month ago. | ||
| I was like, where did that come from? | ||
| Because they like putting X's on things. | ||
| It's like a little kid being like, I'm gonna call myself the Thunder Smasher. | ||
| That's my new name. | ||
| And the mom is like... | ||
| Billy, that's not your name. | ||
| Your name is William. | ||
| Stop calling yourself Thunder Smasher. | ||
| And you can't write on your exam at school Thunder Smasher anymore because your name is William. | ||
| It's like, no, I'm Thunder Smasher. | ||
| It's like a little kid just trying to be cool. | ||
| I'm going to put an X at the end of my word because X's are cool. | ||
| You want to know what's really funny about the letter X? | ||
| X means Christ in Christianity. | ||
| So I want everybody to think about that. | ||
| Every time they see the word Wemmickson or folks, think about the word Christ. | ||
| I've been thinking about religion because the people that want to crush the patriarchy or undo this, there's something to it. | ||
| Because like, if you look at the way the Bible is written, Eve came from Adam's rib in the story, like the man. | ||
| Everyone knows that humans are born from women. | ||
| That's just the way things are. | ||
| Wasn't Lilith first? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| She was Satan's wife? | ||
| Oh. | ||
| Wasn't there a woman before Eve? | ||
| No. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Are you sure? | ||
| What was I reading? | ||
| Yeah, they wrote the book for this mystical woman who was created from a dude's rib. | ||
| Like, look, the man came first. | ||
| The man is the center in the beginning. | ||
| He's the protector. | ||
| No, he was born from a woman. | ||
| They just didn't write her into the story. | ||
| I was right. | ||
| And so these people want to kind of trash that. | ||
| I mean, it's really a bunch of old white dudes wrote the Bible and like had the Council of Nicaea and rewrote, took out what they wanted to make it tell a story to give men power. | ||
| But the women are the most powerful, like the women are the center of the family. | ||
| They are the creator of the human. | ||
| And so I see these people wanting to kind of bend or break things back to the way, a different way. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I just have to, you know, interject. | ||
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| Lilith appears as Adam's first wife, who was created at the same time and from the same clay as Adam. | ||
| This contrasts with Eve, who was created from one of Adam's ribs. | ||
| Lilith is the legend of the first woman, is a 19th century rendition of the old rabbinical legend of Lilith, the first woman, whose life story was dropped, unrecorded from the early world, and whose home, hope, and Eden were passed to another woman. | ||
| So it's not in the Bible. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well it does. | ||
| It's non-biblical. | ||
| So maybe it's an old rabbinical legend. | ||
| Interesting tale. | ||
| How did we get here? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| We're talking about like gender language and like is it male dominated? | ||
| Did they build those languages? | ||
| I don't really know the history of romance languages. | ||
| We've got another story in the similar vein of the creepy school. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| We've got, from the Daily Mail, Buffalo Public School claims, all white people perpetuate systemic racism and force kindergartners to watch video of dead black children to warn them about racist police and state-sanctioned violence. | ||
| Fatima Morel is Associate Superintendent for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Initiatives at Buffalo Public Schools in New York. | ||
| Morale has introduced a new curriculum, lesson plans, and teacher training. | ||
| The teachers are encouraged to be more woke in their efforts at anti-racism. | ||
| Morale suggests teaching kindergartner classes about children killed by police, with videos featuring Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, and others. | ||
| Older pupils learn all white people play a part in perpetuating systemic racism. | ||
| A whistleblower told City Journal about the new lesson plans. | ||
| Morel has yet to comment on the controversial new teaching programs. | ||
| I wonder if they have some photos. | ||
| So, there's one post where it says, I am Ayanna, I was sleeping. | ||
| I am Trayvon, I was walking. | ||
| Anti-racism, a powerful collection of anti-racist policies that lead to racial equity and are substantiated by anti-racist ideas. | ||
| They're indoctrinating kids. | ||
| They're teaching kids, this is illegal. | ||
| The 1964 Civil Rights Act says you can't discriminate on the basis of race. | ||
| These people, they're being referred to as neo-racist. | ||
| I just consider them like... Good old-fashioned racism. | ||
| Yes, good old-fashioned racist. | ||
| It's just, it's the same thing. | ||
| It didn't change. | ||
| It's still racism. | ||
| They're literally like, that race is bad. | ||
| Okay, well, then you're a racist. | ||
| They're doing it in schools. | ||
| Imagine the psychology of a small child hearing this and seeing just the traumatic imagery of death and then that being pushed along with of course the big propaganda. | ||
| We have to also understand they use a lot of graphic images to push this because when you're emotionally shocked, when you're in a constant state of fear, you don't critically think. | ||
| And for for kids to see something traumatic and then be told, hey, if you're white, you're perpetrating systemic racism, no matter who you are, what you do, because of the way you were born. | ||
| That is just absolutely absurd, sickening and crazy and destroying the youth of this nation. | ||
| So there's this image that we've talked about a bit before, and I'm sure most of you are familiar with. | ||
| It's the equity fence, which is this meme. | ||
| It's fairly viral, and it looks like this one got a graphical update. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| Very nice. | ||
| On the left, it says, equality. | ||
| There is a tall man, a medium-sized man, and a short... well, I don't know if they're men or women. | ||
| They are! | ||
| and they're all standing on a crate. The short person can't see the fence is in | ||
| the way. The medium person can see over the fence and the tall person can | ||
| clearly see. The next panel on the right says equity. Now the tall person has no | ||
| crate so he but he can still see he's tall. The person in the middle still has | ||
| one crate but the short person now has two and now the short person can see the | ||
| baseball game as well. My favorite response to this is from Libertarians | ||
| where they say they're all stealing. They are. They're all stealing because there's | ||
| you can pay for tickets but I want to point something out. | ||
| When they're teaching kids about this stuff and they show this image | ||
| what they're not explaining to the kids because all the people here are our | ||
| brown skin they're all of the same race. What they're not telling you is in on | ||
| the side that says equity where you have the three people standing up. | ||
| Imagine the tall person is of one particular race. | ||
| Then imagine someone from the government taking away from that person and giving it to someone else based on their race. | ||
| Now imagine that the person who is tall is actually a black person and the person who is short is a white person. | ||
| Would you justify the government coming and taking from the black community to give to the white community? | ||
| Their argument is, well, we just know who is quantifiably privileged or underprivileged. | ||
| But you don't know. | ||
| Would it make sense for the government to take away from, like, a working-class, you know, white family where the dad is a carpenter and the mom is a car salesperson, and they take money from them and give it to Oprah's family? | ||
| Well, this is the thing. | ||
| We even had one of the head board members of the New York City Education Organization publicly come out and say if there's a rich or middle class black person and a poor white kid, resources have to go to the middle class rich black person because of systemic historic racism. | ||
| So we have Literal heads of education in New York City arguing for this and there's a third meme that's related to the meme that you have up there and it's a third panel and it says when government gets involved and it shows the tall person and the middle person getting their legs chopped off. | ||
| As a representation of whenever the government gets involved that I tweeted a long time ago, which I think is also perfectly representative of what actually happens when the government tries to solve a problem that usually they're the ones that perpetrated it and created it. | ||
| They usually make it a lot worse. | ||
| I can't find it. | ||
| I'm trying to find it. | ||
| There's a bunch of silly versions of this, though. | ||
| There's, like, Liberation. | ||
| There's no fence anymore. | ||
| I like that one because it makes no sense. | ||
| Because there's, like, so does the outfield go forever? | ||
| So it's like the outfielders can keep running and there's no home run. | ||
| It's all in RBI. | ||
| Yeah, the rules don't matter. | ||
| They're teaching kids this stuff. | ||
| And they're not teaching kids enough to explain anything to them about what it really means. | ||
| It's just indoctrination. | ||
| These kids are going to grow up as dogmatic tribalists. | ||
| I'll tell you what's funny. | ||
| Many on the left had similar things about religion, you know, back in the day. | ||
| Kids growing up with religious indoctrination. | ||
| Oh, it's a problem. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| Sure, fine. | ||
| I'll tell you what. | ||
| It doesn't justify you becoming the dogmatic religious lunatics. | ||
| But I tell you, it's really crazy watching this cult spread. | ||
| There's an organization called Free Press. | ||
| The Free Press is what it's called. | ||
| FreePress.net. | ||
| I used to know these guys. | ||
| I actually only a few years ago was sitting down with one of the guys from the Free Press talking about freedom of speech, freedom of the press, our ability to communicate. | ||
| And then in the past year, two years, the organization has called for banning and censoring misinformation and the far-right and political ideas they don't like. | ||
| And I'm like, How have you gone so insane with this cult that an organization called The Free Press would launch a campaign to censor people based on their opinions? | ||
| Well, we saw Democrats in Congress recently write that letter talking about banning Fox News and One America. | ||
| It's just, it's really, really concerning. | ||
| And Senator Carlson, he's been Yeah. | ||
| one of the main targets from Media Matters and what have you. | ||
| And so he's really been sounding the alarm on that. | ||
| And it really is becoming a big problem in terms of rhetoric that we're seeing from people | ||
| in power. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so it's just it's it's completely absurd just because it's CNN and MSNBC. | ||
| They do. | ||
| How do you how do you fight this kind of thing? | ||
| It's like a religion. | ||
| Homeschool. | ||
| This, I mean, reading this article really, really made me proud of understanding the | ||
| larger homeschool network in New Hampshire that happens in that particular state. | ||
| It's one of the largest homeschooling states and also the smartest state compared to, of | ||
| course, IQs of other states, which tells you a lot. | ||
| Because when you give up your child to the institution of the state for, quote, education, | ||
| you're not really getting educated. | ||
| You're getting indoctrinated into the propaganda. | ||
| This is the newest level of propaganda that they're introducing people so they could go along with their bigger agenda, the newer agenda, but of course there was an older agenda. | ||
| The school system has failed our Children, it has failed me. | ||
| It has failed a large number of individuals, and it's not there to uplift people. | ||
| It's not there to help people find their skills, their passions, their loves. | ||
| It's not there to help people in their journeys in life. | ||
| It's there to keep them in institutions so they could be good factory workers, and that's what school systems were built on by the Rockefeller Institute, trying to, of course, rinse and repeat, create good factory workers. | ||
| Was it Michael Malice who said that one of the only places a child will experience violence will be in a school? | ||
| Yes, that was Michael, yeah. | ||
| And I'm not sure if it was Michael who said this, but someone said they're effectively prisons. | ||
| Yeah, that's what he said, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, Michael said that. | ||
| And I agree. | ||
| I mean, I think schools, public schools particularly. | ||
| I've been to private school. | ||
| Private school, I went to Catholic school for the first, you know, up until fifth grade, and then sixth grade I transferred to public school. | ||
| Public school is just awful. | ||
| There's, like, limited supervision. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| The kids are not really learning things. | ||
| It was just really, really bad. | ||
| I mean, I saw extreme amounts of violence in New York City. | ||
| There was a kid that got shot in my classroom. | ||
| Like, I can't even go into just some of the graphic details of what I saw growing up there, but essentially, when you really look at it, it's run like a prison. | ||
| The same companies that build the schools are the same companies that also build the prisons. | ||
| I remember visiting my friend in prison just a few months ago and being like, This looks a lot like my school! | ||
| And then I remember like, oh yeah, they work for the same kind of contracting organizations that build these larger institutions. | ||
| And it's not just the construction of these buildings, it's also the way that they're run. | ||
| It's also the way that teachers bark orders at students, scream at them, tell them to stay in line, tell them to regurgitate whatever they say, and if they don't have the same opinions as they do, they get punished. | ||
| And essentially, even in college, if you have an opinion that a professor doesn't like, they're going to give you a worse grade than if you had an opinion that actually disagreed with them. | ||
| Think about where this school stuff leads to, right? | ||
| Check it out. | ||
| You're going to have, right now, you got all these teacher unions saying, we're not reopening. | ||
| We're not going to go back to work. | ||
| We don't want to go back to school, but pay us. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| They say, but we want to make sure the schools are safe. | ||
| I really just don't believe you. | ||
| Fine. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| They don't want to reopen schools. | ||
| Wealthier families are just homeschooling their kids and they're putting them in learning pods where they hire tutors. | ||
| The tutor gets 20 to 30 kids. | ||
| That tutor is probably making bank, to be honest, because all these parents are now like, well, pay a hundred bucks a week or something. | ||
| And they got 30 kids. | ||
| So these tutors are just raking in the dough, teaching a various group of kids throughout the day. | ||
| These kids are getting one-on-one education in a small classroom with a professional, you know, educator to some degree. | ||
| These kids, when they get older, they're gonna be smarter, better, faster, stronger, all of these things because they're getting, well, they're getting invested in. | ||
| These other kids who are going to these schools and are being indoctrinated are going to be, well, they're being kept out of school. | ||
| They're being given very awful education. | ||
| They're getting these Zoom classes. | ||
| Most of the kids don't even pay attention. | ||
| They're not going to school. | ||
| The teachers don't care. | ||
| The teachers don't want to be there. | ||
| The teachers are arguing, keeping the school shut down. | ||
| And then when they are there, they're getting indoctrinated with garbage. | ||
| So what happens? | ||
| You're going to end up with two 20-year-olds. | ||
| One 20-year-old from the pods. | ||
| From the learning pods. | ||
| Not the dystopian pods. | ||
| And they're going to be sitting there, and they're going to be socially savvy. | ||
| They'll have grown up around adults. | ||
| They'll have learned the intricacies of, you know, normal human living. | ||
| And they're going to have a conversation with an employer and say, you know, I work very hard. | ||
| I was, you know, I ran my family's business when I was 18. | ||
| I did this. | ||
| I was educated at these institutions. | ||
| I did homeschool for these years. | ||
| And they're going to be like, oh, this person's articulate, well thought out. | ||
| I think they can bring a lot to my company. | ||
| And they're gonna look at the next resume, and the person's gonna be like, well, I am a person of color, and that means you have to hire me, and I didn't go to school because the teachers didn't want to show up, but I did learn about equity from watching MTV videos on YouTube, and they're gonna be like, uh, I'm not gonna hire you. | ||
| Like, you don't bring value. | ||
| Now the one thing that could change that of course is if we get really extreme leftist | ||
| draconian woke policy where the companies like in California are forced to bring on | ||
| you know women and minorities to their board. | ||
| So that's like if your companies have a certain size you have to fire a white guy and then | ||
| hire a woman of color or something. | ||
| So then maybe that will actually happen where you're gonna have people show up and they're | ||
| gonna be like well you have to hire me so there you go and then you end up like Venezuela. | ||
| I mean I know Venezuela is kind of the go-to example but in Venezuela man they make jobs | ||
| for the sake of making jobs. | ||
| You know they don't need a job well we'll just make it and just there could be a job | ||
| for one person. | ||
| Let's say the job the example I often give is when I was trying to buy a cell phone in | ||
| in Venezuela. | ||
| Venezuela. | ||
| It was like five different people I had to talk to to buy a cell phone. | ||
| Because they just created the jobs, because they need to have jobs. | ||
| In the U.S., you walk into a T-Mobile or an AT&T or a Sprint, there's one person, you're like, yo, I want a phone. | ||
| I'm like, okay. | ||
| They pop, pop the phone, they sign you up, you give them the credit card, they say bye-bye. | ||
| The amount of mandatory signage that businesses need in Venezuela is absolutely ridiculous. | ||
| At least they have to dedicate an entire wall to all the permits, to all the regulations, to all the rules, and also a huge no-smoking sign and a huge no-guns-are-welcome-here sign in Caracas, Venezuela, at one time the murder capital of the world. | ||
| It's not anymore? | ||
| It fluctuates between other Latin American countries, but when I went there, it was the | ||
| number one murder capital in the entire world. | ||
| They outlawed people having firearms, and guess what? | ||
| Homicides through firearms skyrocketed because all the people were disarmed, and only the | ||
| criminals had the firearms. | ||
| Even private security, in some instances, wasn't allowed to have firearms, and the police | ||
| officers were working with, of course, politically motivated institutions and groups that protected | ||
| Meanwhile, other people were left to, of course, the gangs. | ||
| And I forgot the exact name of this one motorcycle gang that was wrecking havoc on a whole bunch of communities. | ||
| But but again, when you go to Venezuela, it's been wrecked by absolute violence to the point where police officers and other authorities were literally telling me, hey, if you're driving at night and there's a red light, Don't worry. | ||
| Don't stop. | ||
| Just go right up ahead. | ||
| I was a dirty smoker at the time too and the hotel was like, no, no, no, no, no smoke here. | ||
| I'm like, okay, I'll go over there. | ||
| They're like, no, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| You're going to get killed there. | ||
| I'm like, what do you want me to do? | ||
| I'm going to smoke too now. | ||
| Screw you, man. | ||
| Like call the cops. | ||
| Now I'm all nervous. | ||
| I'm even more nervous. | ||
| I don't smoke anymore. | ||
| That was a bad phase that I had. | ||
| Don't smoke. | ||
| It's really bad for you. | ||
| But again, it just shows you the utter lunacy of more government. | ||
| I gotta do this. | ||
| I gotta do this. | ||
| It is more government, but it's also how the left has become the moral authoritarian. | ||
| So let me start this segment by asking you guys a question. | ||
| Which political party, pop quiz everybody, was trying to get content and music banned in the 90s? | ||
| Which political faction? | ||
| The Republicans. | ||
| It was the Republicans! | ||
| I was born in 96, so I don't remember. | ||
| Well, late 90s. | ||
| I remember, so Magic the Gathering, for instance, we actually have this card downstairs called Unholy Strength. | ||
| Magic the Gathering, of course, is a strategic card game with fantasy themes. | ||
| And there's an image of a guy with a pentagram behind him. | ||
| And it was conservative religious families who complained and forced the company to remove the image of the pentagram because it was satanic. | ||
| Check out this story. | ||
| Illinois lawmaker seeks ban of grand theft auto game following rise in carjackings. | ||
| And which political party does this Illinois lawmaker who is trying to ban a video game belong to? | ||
| What would you guess? | ||
| Well, the party affiliation is not in the title, so... I know. | ||
| So the rule is Democrat. | ||
| That's the rule. | ||
| I think he's a statist. | ||
| Is he a statist? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| He's a Democrat. | ||
| A Democrat is trying to get a video game ban. | ||
| This is it. | ||
| I'm sorry, everybody. | ||
| First of all, when was the last Grand Theft Auto game made? 2013? | ||
| No, no, more recent than that. | ||
| GTA 5, 2016? | ||
| But I remember seeing so many Republicans when one of the Grand Theft Autos had a scene with a working woman. | ||
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| Is it really? | ||
| They ported it to PC later. | ||
| Yeah, but I remember the outcry. | ||
| Wait, wait, wait. | ||
| GTA 5 came out for PS3? | ||
| Is that really the latest Grand Theft Auto? | ||
| It's been a hot minute. | ||
| Yeah, it's been a while. | ||
| It's been a hot minute. | ||
| So listen, listen, listen. | ||
| You got a guy, a Democrat, trying to ban a video game that's, what, going on like eight years old because carjackings went up? | ||
| I blame you, Ian. | ||
| I see the leader. | ||
| Because you're the one It doesn't make people want to carjack cars, it just makes it easier to do. | ||
| That's what the evidence points to. | ||
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I think he watched a video with Ian describing what he said and came to that conclusion. | |
| But the one super chatter said, like, video game violence. | ||
| I was like, do video games make people commit more violence? | ||
| He was like, no, it doesn't make people want to do it, it just makes it easier to pull the trigger. | ||
| That's why they train soldiers. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yeah, we talked to somebody about that. | ||
| They say the military will use these... The guy from The Ranch. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| It doesn't make people more likely to. | ||
| It makes it easier for those, too. | ||
| So that I understand. | ||
| Family Guy did a whole cutaway about that. | ||
| About video games? | ||
| Well, specifically Grand Theft Auto, where Pierre loses his memory, and it's like, oh, just here, play this game so you can remember how to drive, and then you see him carjacking somewhere. | ||
| Stealing money. | ||
| So this Illinois guy, Rep. | ||
| Marcus Evans Jr., has introduced a bill that would amend a pre-existing law banning certain video games from being sold to minors. | ||
| His amendment would ban the sale of games with subject matter including motor vehicle theft with a driver or passenger present. | ||
| The amendment has yet to be voted on. | ||
| There have been renewed debates around the ban after carjackings among young people have gone up recently. | ||
| The bill would prohibit the sale of some of these games that promote the activities that we're suffering from in our communities. | ||
| A 16-year-old was arrested and charged with carjacking on Monday. | ||
| Days ago, there were two 15-year-olds arrested. | ||
| I gotta just say, I really don't think these kids are playing GTA and being like, dude I got an idea! | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| We live in a generation of Tide Pods. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Nobody was eating Tide Pods. | ||
| That was not real. | ||
| But when it comes to intelligence by and large, and it comes to our education system, we are failing. | ||
| That's the bigger point I'm making here. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| But also, most importantly, especially with this Grand Theft Auto thing, I believe it was Republicans that made it so you needed to show an ID card to show that you're old enough to buy certain video games just a few years ago. | ||
| I remember there was such a massive outcry against GTA. | ||
| There was one particular scene with a working woman that everyone was screaming about, and they actually came pretty close in banning the video game a couple years ago. | ||
| So it's just absolutely absurd to still see this nonsensical argument being made right now, but it's the perfect representation of what government is. | ||
| Absurd and stupid. | ||
| I don't know about that Republican ID thing. | ||
| I just tried to Google it. | ||
| I couldn't find it. | ||
| But I do have this story where The Verge writes, Trump and Republicans continue to blame video games for their failures on gun control. | ||
| They say there's no evidence, but it's a talking point that has been repeated since Columbine. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| Following two, uh, we'll call them mass tragic events, they say lawmakers and government officials offers thought and prayers to take no action. | ||
| House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Fox and Friends that video games dehumanize individuals. | ||
| In a speech today, President Trump pointed at video games specifically as the root cause of these events. | ||
| We must stop the glorification of violence in our society, he said. | ||
| This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace. | ||
| Sounds like, Ian, when you said before that, you know, video games were leading this, you were far right. | ||
| I would like to ask Julio about this, because you're actually in the military. | ||
| You're in the Reserves. | ||
| What branch of the military are you in? | ||
| Marine Corps. | ||
| And what do you think about violence in video games and how it associates? | ||
| I mean, there's... I don't think that's true, in the sense that that's the cause for it. | ||
| I mean, you have to look at just the whole environment and obviously who the person is. | ||
| I mean, I think in terms of desensitizing, maybe, but in terms of it being the trigger behind it, no. | ||
| More like encouraging it. | ||
| Encouraging it, yeah, because you separate the two. | ||
| Well, it is an interesting point that Trump and Republicans were then bringing up, dehumanizing, essentially. | ||
| Like, we learned from, it was the fellow from Fortitude, is that what you were saying? | ||
| Yeah, Fortitude Ranch. | ||
| He was saying the military So, actually, I brought this up because there's this movie called The Men Who Stare at Goats. | ||
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| And it was this, like, project where they tried doing psychic spies. | ||
| It's a real thing, apparently. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And in the movie, you've got, uh, what's the guy's name? | ||
| Is it Jeff Bridges, the actor? | ||
| Is that his name? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Which one? | ||
| The actor in the movie, The Men Who Stare at Goats. | ||
| They're talking about how he was in Vietnam, and this, like, Vietnamese woman runs out into a field, and all of the American soldiers They don't shoot, and then he's like, what are you doing? | ||
| Start shooting! | ||
| And they shoot up, to purposefully miss. | ||
| And so the dude who was here said, the way they combat that is using active targets, like, they used to just do like a target, now they do a shape like a person, and they do first-person video games. | ||
| So that now it's in the people's minds of what a person looks like. | ||
| So the general idea is that video games don't make people more violent. | ||
| But a violent person would... This would help them, essentially, if they were going to commit an act. | ||
| They would not be averse to shooting a person. | ||
| Right? | ||
| I mean, I don't know. | ||
| I mean, again, I just have a hard time believing that that's the main factor that's going to drive somebody. | ||
| I mean, you look at the history, I mean, you don't want to talk about, be careful when talking about mental illness, but Adam Lanza from the Newtown. | ||
| I mean, there's just so many other things, although I think he did play video games, though. | ||
| Well, I think everybody plays video games. | ||
| Well, right, right. | ||
| They used to claim Dungeons and Dragons was going to make kids go crazy. | ||
| It's violence. | ||
| I mean, I will say, because from the riots that I covered a lot, I mean, it was just back to back to back, and I found myself being very bored. | ||
| And so I think there's an adrenaline aspect for certain high-stress events and not necessarily school shootings but I can see that because there were some stuff that would happen that I would see and report on and it would be sad and be tragic but I'd have a hard time finding emotion behind it just because I had seen it over and over and over personally. | ||
| That'd be kind of the desensitization aspect and so like I would recognize that it would like okay like this is bad and this is sad but It didn't have the same effect the very first they do this to many police departments They play very violent riot footage and officers getting hurt right before they go out I've seen the many reports of this before they go out cover many protests or a lot of them are jacked up a lot of them are you know ready to To, you know, prepare to defend themselves. | ||
| And most protests, you know, usually don't get violent. | ||
| They're becoming more and more violent. | ||
| But again, psychologically, the video is such an important component in making people realize that there's something else bigger out there. | ||
| It plays on the imagination, but it also plays on your visceral senses, where you get to see it and you get inundated in it in such a way where you believe you're actually in it. | ||
| So video is one of the biggest forms of propaganda that we should be, of course, made aware of, and especially questioned when certain traumatic videos are being played over and over and over again, especially on mainstream media. | ||
| Dude, I was watching, you were watching a movie yesterday or something, and it was like a guy just hitting another guy, just beating on his face. | ||
| Oh, Taken! | ||
| Taken. | ||
| Taken 3. | ||
| Yet another violent movie. | ||
| I mean, we're talking about so much violence in the movie industry. | ||
| It is punching, even all the Marvel movies, just punching and beating and throwing and blasting. | ||
| Listen, listen, listen. | ||
| Everything, like 90, I'm just giving an exaggerated number, but the overwhelming majority of content is violence. | ||
| Guns, guns, guns. | ||
| Every Marvel movie, every Marvel, these are some of the biggest movies ever made, literally all of them violence. | ||
| The Mandalorian. | ||
| Mandalorian, also all violence. | ||
| It was great. | ||
| Game of Thrones, violence, war, video games, violence, conflict, the biggest games. | ||
| Look, even Minecraft has violence in it to a certain degree. | ||
| It's not the worst. | ||
| I shouldn't rag on Minecraft. | ||
| But you look at some of the biggest games. | ||
| Fortnite. | ||
| Violence. | ||
| I don't know if people are still playing Fortnite. | ||
| Grand Theft Auto. | ||
| The game where you drive around, run people over, and do crazy things. | ||
| There is this component of video games that conflict is One of the big components of our entertainment. | ||
| I wonder why that is. | ||
| I'd love to talk to a psychologist or, you know, a psychologist about this. | ||
| What about violence is, like, such an entertaining value for us? | ||
| Is it because it's conflict? | ||
| Is it because it's risk? | ||
| It's a threat? | ||
| It scares you and then you overcome it? | ||
| What we've seen from this is there have been feminists who want to create what people call walking sims, walking simulators. | ||
| Video games where it's like your mission is to go and hold hands with someone and earn points because they want to get away from that. | ||
| But people don't like it. | ||
| People like, even if you go back to Mario, like the original Mario NES, you play a dude who runs around punching bricks and stomping turtles and then kicking them. | ||
| It's like, it's fast-paced geometric competition, kind of like throwing baseballs at each other, like dodgeball. | ||
| But it doesn't have to be shooting someone and killing them, it just is in the visage of that. | ||
| So, like, I think why people like it is because it's fast-paced geometry. | ||
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Splatoon. | |
| And you're learning how, like, what's that? | ||
| Splatoon. | ||
| What's Splatoon? | ||
| You are a bunch of, like, squid critter people and you sprayed paint on them. | ||
| Yeah, same fast-paced geometry. | ||
| So that's what we're really learning is how to interact. | ||
| Hand-eye coordination. | ||
| We're challenging each other to see who's got faster reflexes. | ||
| But it's in the guise of a violent gun. | ||
| You know, it's the AR. | ||
| It's all these realistic guns. | ||
| The graphics are getting so realistic that if you're in it in VR, you'll really maybe start to believe you're killing someone. | ||
| It's possible. | ||
| I got it. | ||
| Right now, the big problem is not the Republicans for the most part. | ||
| It's a Democrat who wants to ban these video games. | ||
| The only thing we have to do to make sure that nobody comes and bans our video games is make all of the bad guys have Donald Trump's face. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| Because think about it. | ||
| Republicans might actually complain and say, I demand this game banned, but who's going to listen to the Republicans? | ||
| They can't get anything done. | ||
| They'll be like, I am upset about the, you know, these games got to get banned. | ||
| I'll say, get out of here. | ||
| Shut up. | ||
| And then if you make all the, all, all of the NPCs, any character that could die has Donald Trump's face. | ||
| The left will be like, I see nothing wrong with this. | ||
| All violent. | ||
| You made the most gruesome and brutal, violent video game. | ||
| Like Doom was legit, like super violent, but just, you know, make it Trump and they'll, they'll allow it. | ||
| They'll stop complaining, but they'll immediately come to the defense. | ||
| Someone should make a mod for GTA where everyone's face is Donald Trump and show it to that Democrat and he'll go. | ||
| Oh, you know what? | ||
| I think this game is actually okay. | ||
| I withdraw my bill. | ||
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I'm a huge video game nerd, as you probably know. | |
| If you don't know, I'm a huge video game nerd. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| I got really mixed feelings about video game violence. | ||
| Like, I wasn't allowed to watch violent movies growing up. | ||
| Yes, I'm here. | ||
| Because they didn't want to twist my mind, my parents. | ||
| I saw Nightmare on Elm Street 2 when I was like 10, and I remember the veins getting sucked out of that guy. | ||
| Stuck in my brain for months for years still to this day I can see it his skin turning white as his veins were getting it was so gross like just messed me up and that was one thing that I saw as a kid I was like I wasn't allowed to watch Tom and Jerry or the Three Stooges or Married with Children like I was And so I'm aware, like, the violence, man, how it can brainwash you, but I don't want to ban it. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It is interesting. | ||
| I think, you know, we do have to be careful about what kids are watching and are doing, but that's not incumbent upon government. | ||
| It's the parents. | ||
| It's a family role thing. | ||
| We were just talking about, there's a video of Ron Paul that went viral, and it is one of the most glorious videos of Ron Paul ever. | ||
| Luke was like, I've seen that video a million times. | ||
| I just retweeted it. | ||
| I said, Ron Paul is a legend. | ||
| It's basically a bunch of people who are like, ban drugs! | ||
| Say no! | ||
| And Ron Paul's like, government shouldn't be the one deciding what you do with your life. | ||
| But there's this really glorious moment where he's arguing with a guy. | ||
| And he goes, you're not going to get morality from the government. | ||
| The government can't make you a better person. | ||
| Why don't they put you on a diet? | ||
| You're a little overweight. | ||
| And everyone's like, oh boy. | ||
| And I was just like, yes, Ron Paul! | ||
| He's right! | ||
| Look, if you're like, the government should tell us what we can or can't do, it's like, okay, well, they should tell you to put down the fork. | ||
| No, that's not the way it works. | ||
| So when it comes to video games, when it comes to South Park, when it comes to Beavis and Butthead, whatever these shows are, because, you know, Beavis and Butthead, believe it or not, is coming back, all right? | ||
| And parents have complained about it. | ||
| It's your fault. | ||
| I'm sick and tired of this. | ||
| And this is this really, for the most part, become endemic on the left? | ||
| I mean, I know the right used to be about banning things. | ||
| They're like, oh, these things are bad for kids. | ||
| And, you know, we got to ban this art. | ||
| Now it's really the left. | ||
| It's like, yo, the left are the ones coming out and saying I should have no responsibility. | ||
| It is a kaba too. | ||
| What you said about Adam Lanza was pretty enlightening. | ||
| Like, I think it goes deeper into the psychoactive drug system and how it's making people crazy and then We're talking about parents taking responsibility for what their kids are consuming. | ||
| But like, you can be inundated with violence, but if you're on psychotropics, that's gonna be a different inundation. | ||
| Sure, right. | ||
| And what I'm trying to bring up specifically and focus on is, you've got too many people in this country, whether it's people who have kids, or somebody who just eats terrible food, who says, you should pay for my healthcare, even though I lay around eating double, you know, Big Macs with extra sauce, and don't exercise. | ||
| Or, this video game made someone crazy, so we should have the government take it away from everybody else. | ||
| Or, a crazy person with a gun, therefore, no one should be allowed to have guns. | ||
| It's meaningless. | ||
| And so that's why I'm adverse to when it comes to video games, because it's the same line of argument when it comes to gun control. | ||
| And one of the reasons why I became conservative was looking at the various gun control arguments made by Republicans and Democrats, and I was thinking, well, the Democrats' one doesn't make any sense, and, you know, what else are they being misleading about? | ||
| And so that's kind of how I went down the route. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| And it's remarkable how, if you're being logical and you hear the conservative argument on guns, you're going to hear something typically. | ||
| They're going to say, This, like, the first memes I saw was, why is this gun banned and this gun not banned, and they're the same gun? | ||
| So one meme is the Ruger 10-22 I saw. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| There's a wooden stock Ruger 10-22, and then there's a, like, polymer stock with a pistol grip Ruger 10-22. | ||
| Literally the same gun, same capacity, same firing and everything, you just hold it a little bit different. | ||
| One's under risk of being banned as an assault weapon and one isn't. | ||
| It's, it's meaningless. | ||
| So when I would actually go to, you know, the left, the traditional liberal people and say, why is this gun banned? | ||
| They'd say, oh, assault weapons got to be banned. | ||
| And I'm like, they're the same gun. | ||
| It makes no sense. | ||
| And you can't get a logical answer out of these people because they don't know what they're talking about. | ||
| And so I'm just like, listen, If you can't be responsible for your own life, why should I have to pay the price? | ||
| And that is a serious challenge. | ||
| I am actually fairly left on a ton of policies. | ||
| I totally believe in cooperative economics and systems of government. | ||
| But there is a limit. | ||
| We have to be liberty-oriented, not authority-oriented. | ||
| And so what you have with these traditional liberals is they actually... I love this meme from leftists. | ||
| They're like, Democrats are actually authoritarian right. | ||
| And I'm like, yes, that's correct. | ||
| That is absolutely true. | ||
| The Democratic establishment are somewhat, they're not super far right, all at the top, but they are in the authoritarian right spectrum. | ||
| They want to take away from you, they want to dictate what you do, and they are not overtly far left, but they're close to the left. | ||
| So they're like, I'm sorry, they're more authoritarian right. | ||
| And there's a difference between libertarian right, where it's like, hey man, do your thing, be free, and freely trade. | ||
| Authoritarian right are crony Democrat, corporatist Democrats, who have revolving door policies, prop up international corporations and big tech firms, empowering the corporations, and then also telling you what you can or can't do with your life. | ||
| So I actually think the Democrats and Republicans, the Demoplicans, are fairly in the same place. | ||
| You do have progressive Democrats who I think too much indulge in the woke cult stuff, and then you have a lot of good libertarian Republican candidates, black politicians, people like, well Rand Paul obviously, Ron Paul, he's retired now, Thomas Massey, and a few others. | ||
| You have very few actual good principled Democrats at all, but I would say it's a tiny fraction that are actually on the libertarian spectrum. | ||
| So I tell you, if you believe in freedom, I don't care if you're an anarcho-communist, far-left, you know, critical, race, woke, whatever. | ||
| If you're on the libertarian spectrum and your whole thing is, well, I disagree with you but I don't believe in being violent and hurting others or forcing people to do things, I'll bet we get along, man. | ||
| Come over, have a beer, let's grab a slice of pizza or vegan pizza, if that's what you're into. | ||
| And then the laissez-faire capitalist can come and, you know, and then sell us his great pizza and we can all hang out together as long as we all agree not to oppress and beat and harm each other. | ||
| But that's not what we're getting. | ||
| We're getting tons of moral authoritarians who want to use the power of government because they think other people shouldn't do things, or they want to extract the value and labor from other people because they're not responsible for themselves. | ||
| There is sometimes it's valuable, like you want to stop people from pooping in the river. | ||
| That's a metaphor that's come up before. | ||
| Yeah, but that's not what we're talking about here. | ||
| Well, like giving people addictive drugs. | ||
| You kind of want to stop that. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because it's like pooping in their soul. | ||
| No, absolutely not. | ||
| It's making people crazy. | ||
| No, that's authoritarian. | ||
| You think that it's authoritarian to stop shoving opioids into the schools? | ||
| Shoving? | ||
| Telling someone they can't put something in their body is authoritarian, yes. | ||
| But I mean, they're giving people prescriptions for these new drugs that they didn't used to do. | ||
| I know what's better for you, therefore you shouldn't be allowed to do it. | ||
| Yes, that's authoritarianism. | ||
| Well, that's how the family works. | ||
| A family is not a government. | ||
| I know, but in some way it is. | ||
| House economy means household management. | ||
| But we also have to understand, with the party in charge right now, this larger authority of censorship is intoxicating for a lot of these individuals. | ||
| And just like I said on this show, they're going to go after people in politics, and soon it's going to translate into art, books, entertainment. | ||
| And I think it slowly and surely is. | ||
| There's a lot of pushback against this particular video game thing because how absurd it is. | ||
| But we also have to understand any form of censorship is absolutely absurd. | ||
| It deserves to be pushed back. | ||
| And we are already seeing and have seen a lot of comedians hit and cancelled and attacked for telling jokes and trying to make people laugh. | ||
| Which again, on its own level is absolutely absurd and it needs to be pushed back immediately. | ||
| Well, I'll tell you this. | ||
| I feel bad for Lydia and Ian right now because I can see, obviously, Julio, you're a person of color, and I am as well with my Asian background. | ||
| And Luke, as a Slav, is granted that. | ||
| Born and raised. | ||
| Did you know this? | ||
| The Coalition of Communities of Color said that Slavs are people of color. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Slavic people, please pronounce it right, Tim. | ||
| Is that the right way? | ||
| I'm sorry, I'm sorry. | ||
| I didn't mean to be offensive. | ||
| Slav-ex? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
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Slav-ex. | |
| I think I'm gonna make a t-shirt like that. | ||
| Dirty blonde blue-eyed Luke, white skin, is not in fact white. | ||
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No. | |
| And he does not have that privilege. | ||
| So we're allowed to make offensive jokes. | ||
| And Ian is- Lydia and I got the raw into the deal. | ||
| I know, right? | ||
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Seriously. | |
| Not only do he sunburn. | ||
| No, no, you have white privilege. | ||
| Scottish? | ||
| Are you Scottish? | ||
| I'm Irish and Scottish. | ||
| White privilege, I guess. | ||
| Not Slavic. | ||
| You have white privilege. | ||
| I'm still, like, reeling from finding out that Luke is considered a person of color. | ||
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I know, me too. | |
| Shocking. | ||
| No, we did a whole thing. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| I couldn't believe it. | ||
| But, you know, I take that back. | ||
| I actually could believe it because I've made the point before. | ||
| I actually would talk to these people who are, like, white privilege, and I'm like, you mean to tell me that you think Ukrainians have white privilege? | ||
| And they would go, well... | ||
| People who live in Syria? | ||
| No. | ||
| Yeah, come on. | ||
| No. | ||
| Like, these people are not living the wealthy American. | ||
| Like, they struggle to come to America. | ||
| It's actually easier for a Mexican to come to America than a Ukrainian. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Like, I have privilege, but my parents stayed together. | ||
| That's a big part of why. | ||
| And I had to get a job when I was 12, so that I wasn't like, they wouldn't buy me anything. | ||
| You know, I was very lucky that we got a Nintendo when I was young. | ||
| We should all take the privilege test. | ||
| Have you ever seen it? | ||
| I think so, yeah. | ||
| I think it was from BuzzFeed, I'm not sure. | ||
| It's probably from BuzzFeed. | ||
| Yeah, it was like a slider bar and it was like, are you Christian or not? | ||
| How Christian are you? | ||
| And it's like a slider bar for your gender. | ||
| Did you see the guy in California who took a DNA test and came back 4% black and now he wants to qualify as a minority business owner? | ||
| He gets all the privileges and all the special promotions. | ||
| They just don't know the Pandora's box that they open. | ||
| Obviously, racism is bad. | ||
| Maybe what they're doing is actually this really clever play where all of a sudden there will be like Luke who's like, I mean, come on. | ||
| If you were to describe a white person, you got dirty blonde, blue eyes, Luke Rutkowski. | ||
| Like, Luke, I'm sorry. | ||
| They can claim that you have your blonde hair, blue eyes. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Listen, they said what they said. | ||
| It's been determined. | ||
| Stop trying to oppress me with your designations of me as you are clearly an Asian person that has triple white classification. | ||
| I mean, there's a reason Asians are lumped in with the whites, especially when it comes to the university discussion that's been happening in the country as well. | ||
| No, you're correct, because I'm German-Irish, Korean, and Japanese. | ||
| Triple white, I said. | ||
| Yeah, so it's triple white. | ||
| And Luke, I'm sorry for oppressing you. | ||
| You better be. | ||
| I will check my triple white privilege. | ||
| But the point I'm saying is, it's this securitist plan towards actually, you know, doing away with racism by making it so that a bunch of white men can identify as women of color. | ||
| If this dude is 4% black, who is white as they... They say he looks white, you can't tell. | ||
| He got a DNA test, and he could identify as a woman. | ||
| He is now a female. | ||
| It reminds me of that South Park episode where everyone gets their DNA test to check out their privilege. | ||
| I hear South Park is coming back, right? | ||
| They predicted this! | ||
| But listen, listen, are they gonna deny it now? | ||
| One of my favorite moments, you guys ever see this? | ||
| There was a scholarship program for African-Americans, and a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, white kid showed up, and when they were like, this is for African-Americans, he was like, I'm from South Africa. | ||
| And they were like, no, you have to leave. | ||
| And he was like, but I'm literally from Africa. | ||
| And they were like, no, get out of here. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| South Park also predicted Chaz. | ||
| Did they really? | ||
| Yeah, remember that episode where the hippies take over the town? | ||
| That's what I compare. | ||
| And Cartman goes on the rampage. | ||
| He's trying to stop them. | ||
| Cartman's my spirit animal. | ||
| I love how they arrest him because he was targeting the hippies. | ||
| And then they were like, you don't understand Cartman, this festival is bringing a lot of money for us. | ||
| And he goes, hippies don't have money! | ||
| Yep, but that's how that's how I described Chaz and like really it was it was so surreal seeing cuz like again talking about we saw racial segregation In that and it was just wait, but it was being done Like with the right intentions in the right way So therefore it was allowed and it was just so weird and it was one of the really funny things about that well one they had a sign that said social distancing is anti-racism and What? | ||
| It's like anti-racist, which is like... Huh? | ||
| I'm already confused by that statement. | ||
| Which, by the way, they were very racist because there was not a lot of social distancing at the height of when, like, a lot of people were, so apparently they were all being racist. | ||
| But then on top of that, they had a garden plot in their little chasm. | ||
| And they killed black children! | ||
| They shot them! | ||
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For ten minutes! | |
| That's what I read. | ||
| 10 minutes where they were just unloading. | ||
| What was the size of their magazines and how many were they carrying? | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| Were they firing 5.56? | ||
| I believe it was 5.56. | ||
| That's a thousand dollars these days. | ||
| So they're rich too? | ||
| Yeah, they have a lot of money. | ||
| Back then it was probably a lot cheaper. | ||
| There was a white SUV with two black teenagers and it was just apparently some kids joyriding. | ||
| These security guards walking around with rifles panicked when they heard they saw a vehicle and someone said it was white supremacists. | ||
| But just think about this for a second. | ||
| There was a white SUV with two black teenagers, and it was just apparently some kids joyriding. | ||
| These security guards, who are, you know, they call themselves, walking around with rifles, | ||
| panicked when they heard they saw a vehicle and someone said it was white supremacists. | ||
| So they just started unloading. | ||
| I read one article that said hundreds of rounds for about 10 minutes, just firing at this vehicle. | ||
| I'm wondering, like, 10 minutes? | ||
| How many magazines were they carrying? | ||
| Because if they were just unloading, like, boom, boom, boom. | ||
| Like, I'm not saying they're gonna, like, bump, fire, or go boom, boom, boom as fast as they can. | ||
| If they were all unloading, they had to be carrying, what, multiple 60-round mags or something? | ||
| It was just absurd seeing it all happen. | ||
| And they raided the vehicle and stole evidence and stripped it and took off? | ||
| And the cops couldn't get in. | ||
| They couldn't even rescue the kids. | ||
| The EMTs couldn't get in. | ||
| It's just so unfortunate what happens when Because that was only allowed to happen because the Seattle mayor and the city council were just like, oh, we'll just have a summer of love and we'll try to placate that. | ||
| And it's just like, no, like I was there the first night and I could already tell like, this is going to end. | ||
| This is going to end in a very, very bad way. | ||
| A 16 year old black child was killed. | ||
| A 14 year old was left in critical condition after being shot. | ||
| And this is supposed to be a safe haven for minorities. | ||
| And it's just like, no, that's just not the case. | ||
| And then they want all these fencing and these barriers up because they wanted to keep out white supremacists. | ||
| It's like, right, because Seattle is very white. | ||
| I'll give them that. | ||
| But it was just, again, the mindset that these people operate in. | ||
| And they see no irony in the fact that the people that died in CHAZ were African-Americans. | ||
| How could you tell right away that it was going to go bad? | ||
| So I met Raz Simone, he was kind of the first warlord. | ||
| So that first night he was harassing people for graffiting on the buildings. | ||
| And there was graffiti everywhere, so it's not like he was the only person doing that. | ||
| But he was harassing him. | ||
| I was threatening him, and then there was a punch thrown. | ||
| And so that was problem number one. | ||
| Problem number two was when, this was the second night, where there was this group of basically self-declared vigilantes armed with baseball bats, and they surrounded this one kid, and they were accusing him of stealing a cell phone from like a street medic. | ||
| And the kid's saying, no, I didn't steal it, I didn't do this, and they're like, well why'd you run away from us? | ||
| And one of the guys, he shoved the baseball bat in his face, and he's like, if you keep this up, I'm gonna beat you up. | ||
| And it was just... It was going bad quick. | ||
| It was going bad really quick, and then he was able to escape from the group, and they started chasing after him. | ||
| And then they realized, oh, he didn't, they found the phone somewhere else. | ||
| He didn't actually, he didn't steal the phone. | ||
| So that was literally the second night, uh, when, when all this. | ||
| And so I just knew it was going to end. | ||
| I know that there was like some more crimes cause there was a, it was kind of like Occupy Wall Street with all the tents and kind of the crimes that happened within the tents. | ||
| It was literally almost the exact same thing. | ||
| And I just knew it was going to escalate further and further because again, It was just a free for all. | ||
| And I mean, there was, there was different groups in a different, I mean, the safest part was during the day, because as typically these things go, right? | ||
| It's generally safe when it's daytime. | ||
| But then when it became night, it was just kind of who had the most kind of power, whether it's through numbers or through weapons. | ||
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| And so it just, and I'm curious, it just, it just resulted, it just ended in tears and people got, people got hurt and people got killed and it didn't need to happen. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I wonder what we can expect in, you know, in this kind of area in the coming years. | ||
| I mean, Joe Biden brought back the migrant child facilities. | ||
| I can't imagine Antifa is going to be like, we're cool. | ||
| No, they're going to go nuts. | ||
| They were protesting in Rochester just the other day. | ||
| And I was in Portland on Inauguration Day, and they attacked, and I got video of them attacking the Democratic headquarters in Portland. | ||
| And it was just, they just hate everybody. | ||
| I mean, they're anti-American. | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| I mean, so it doesn't matter who really is in office. | ||
| They just kind of see it as an excuse to do that. | ||
| But right, yeah, they're not, it's just really weird. | ||
| I just don't understand why Democrats, you had Jerry Nadler say, oh, the Portland riots being done by Antifa was a myth. | ||
| It's like, they hate you too. | ||
| Well, he doesn't want them to come beat him up and go to his office. | ||
| Andy Phelan went to CNN's offices and raised the ruckus, to say the least. | ||
| Oh yeah, in Atlanta. | ||
| So it's just, these people are not your friends. | ||
| I mean, sure, they might vote for you begrudgingly because it was better than Trump, but I mean, they will just attack you just as easily as they will attack any conservative or Republican. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, that being said, let's jump over to Super Chats, my friends. | ||
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| It's the only real way to grow. | ||
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| But go to TimCast.com, become a member, and get access to exclusive bonus episodes. | ||
| We just did one with Mike Cernovich on the Epstein files, and it is kind of a crazy story, like what we talk about. | ||
| It's kind of creepy stuff, because there's something deep beneath the surface that's never been uncovered about what was going on with that guy. | ||
| We got an episode up at TimCast.com, but let's read some of these super chats. | ||
| We got a super chat here. | ||
| Fortunately, I don't think YouTube for some reason blocks the name of the first person. | ||
| Let me see if I can try and read it. | ||
| I can't. | ||
| They said, Hey Tim, can you give a shout out to Wall Street bets and remind them to hold the effing line? | ||
| We need to make our wives' boyfriends proud when we make it to the moon with AMC and GameStop stocks. | ||
| All right. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| GameStop jumped, what, like 30%? | ||
| It jumped up again. | ||
| It said 100%. | ||
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100%?! | |
| I read that. | ||
| Did you see Robinhood say, we're gonna make some upgrades tomorrow, so there might be some disruptions. | ||
| I heard there's already disruptions. | ||
| According to the Cartering, they already stopped trading in some instances. | ||
| I'm not going to buy any of these. | ||
| I'm not going to buy the AMC or the GameStop stuff. | ||
| People can buy whatever they want. | ||
| I am not a financial advisor. | ||
| We always say that. | ||
| But if people want to buy that stuff, you know, you do your thing. | ||
| A lot of people bought in when it was really high because they're like, we're going to keep buying. | ||
| And then it dropped and now they're holding the bag. | ||
| And that's probably why it's going to go back up again. | ||
| Because, dude, if I bought in a stock at like $300 and it dropped to $90, I'd just keep it. | ||
| I'd just keep it. | ||
| I'd be like, whatever. | ||
| I bought it. | ||
| You know, I'm not going to lose it, I guess. | ||
| You only lose the money when you sell. | ||
| I don't know if it's gonna go back up to 300 bucks, but, you know. | ||
| Alessio De Monte says, did anyone hear what the Dems are trying to do with the U.S. | ||
| nuclear arsenal? | ||
| What, are they trying to launch it? | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
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No? | |
| Well, keep Eric Swalwell away from it. | ||
| Yeah, definitely. | ||
| Ian Reichard says, hi, libertarian computer scientist and fan of your work. | ||
| Saw your episode earlier about wanting to build out new social media and I'm so upset with the current state of things and want to help. | ||
| Let me know if I can help in any way. | ||
| Send an email over to jobs at TimCast.com and we'll go through pitches and ideas and stuff. | ||
| Yeah, I'm talking with some devs about creating open source tools that people can use to get the core functionality of some of the biggest big tech companies. | ||
| So like live streaming functionality, super chat functionality, tweet like micro blogging stuff, sharing groups. | ||
| That way it's like your website, your deal, and they can network between each other. | ||
| So we'll see how that stuff works out. | ||
| Dylan Elm says, every dollar in the chat netted you a dollar before the live show. | ||
| Out of the hundreds of people, I only got 10. | ||
| Oh well, it was fun. | ||
| I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. | ||
| NeverSummer160 says, Julio, get Mattis' drinking buddy here. | ||
| Glad to see you finally made it to the top TCIRL. | ||
| Semper Fi. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Wojciech Zapotoczny. | ||
| I'm probably pronouncing your name wrong. | ||
| Tim, please get Adam Curry on the show to talk about his decentralized social media. | ||
| We will, we will. | ||
| We will, absolutely. | ||
| Mr. Slytrip says, how do you feel about Cenk Uygur naming his podcast after the group that committed the Armenian genocide? | ||
| I have said, I mean, based on his own ideal, he should change the name. | ||
| Should have changed it a long time ago. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| The Young Turks is a really messed up name. | ||
| No joke. | ||
| I understand they're trying, like they're claiming that the Young Turks is just a reference to like young upstarts who are challenging the system. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| But it's literally a reference to. | ||
| It's the same thing as these group of people. | ||
| Imagine if they started a podcast network called the Hitler Youth, and they were like, oh, but we don't actually, you know, like what they said, but it's like, I don't care, dude. | ||
| I went to Politicon, and there were people, there were Armenians protesting the Young Turks. | ||
| And they were saying like, dude, we don't hate you. | ||
| We just think you should change the name. | ||
| And you can even change it a little bit. | ||
| And he won't do it! | ||
| That, to me, is weird. | ||
| Listen, I don't care if he changes his name or not. | ||
| I'm saying if he's gonna be true to progressive principles, and you've got people protesting saying it's, like, really messed up, how are you, like, going to tell marginalized people to shove off? | ||
| That's weird. | ||
| I just think it's wrong. | ||
| Look into Enver Pasha. | ||
| He was the head of the Young Turks in Turkey that established the Armenian Genocide. | ||
| Man. | ||
| Tammy says, Tim, re-diabetes, please distinguish between type 1 and type 2. | ||
| Type 2 can be avoided through healthy lifestyle choices. | ||
| Type 1 is lifelong autoimmune disease. | ||
| Virus attacks pancreas. | ||
| Insulate needed lifelong. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| I have read evidence that fasting can help reverse the symptoms of type 1 as well. | ||
| I would suggest reading into it. | ||
| I would also suggest reading into for people with type 2 ketosis. | ||
| I don't know a lot about it. | ||
| I've only read certain like medical websites. | ||
| That's why I say read it, because I know there's a lot of fad dieting around keto and people don't know what keto actually is, but look at this stuff, because I knew a guy whose kid had epilepsy, and he got put on a ketogenic diet, cured it right up. | ||
| So they tried everything, all these medications, and he said the doctor told them, have your kid on a ketogenic diet, and then that was it. | ||
| No more seizures. | ||
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Yes. | |
| For whatever reason. | ||
| Keto was used to control epilepsy in children, and it was also used by, I believe, the Navy SEALs to train their divers. | ||
| There's a condition called diabetic ketoacidosis that is very bad. | ||
| You do not want that at all, so watch out. | ||
| Watch your blood sugar. | ||
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| AG on RTS Gaming says, be advised, GME stock is going up. | ||
| Well, you know, if people want to buy it and they like the stock, they should, but you should recognize, you know, what was going on with that news. | ||
| Going up. | ||
| Mr. Brownstone says Luke is my meme Lord and T Hustler watched gray state and good to see your contribution to the documentary good times What was that? | ||
| A lot of me gray state was was a was there's a big story behind that Crazy story behind that to say the least but I don't know if they actually went forward with the movie or not I think they did in some ways. | ||
| I have to check in on it. | ||
| It's been a long time. | ||
| Whoa Ooh, Ian Hall says, sharing my GameStop tendies with Lydia's cat and Luke's worthless puppy. | ||
| Diamond hands, rocket to the moon, I'm up 20k today. | ||
| He says, whoopee, worthless puppy. | ||
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I can't believe Atlas is so big. | |
| It's only been a few weeks. | ||
| The second ear flopped up. | ||
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Oh! | |
| She's great. | ||
| Second ear flopped up. | ||
| I'm gonna make a post soon about it on Instagram. | ||
| That's a huge moment. | ||
| In the German Shepherd. | ||
| Have the second ear flopped up. | ||
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She's great. | |
| Lamont Cranston IV says, ban assault cutlery. | ||
| They're doing that in the UK. | ||
| Yes, they are. | ||
| Actually, yes. | ||
| El Diablo says, WTF? | ||
| Luke doesn't like poles? | ||
| WTF? | ||
| Oh, Luke doesn't like poles. | ||
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Oh, yeah, different poles. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Badum tch. | ||
| This pole never lies. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| Sean Rufus said, Jim Dock. | ||
| I gotta read this one first. | ||
| He says, I got hairy legs! | ||
| It's a Biden quote, mind you. | ||
| Sean Rufus says, I'd like to support Luke, but Jason blocked me from commenting as I commented, Jason was a crazy conspiracy nut. | ||
| Thought you didn't block people, Luke. | ||
| Jason? | ||
| I don't block people. | ||
| I block people. | ||
| You reach out to me on Twitter, LukeWeAreChange, and let me know your username and I'll make sure you're not blocked. | ||
| I don't like blocking at all. | ||
| I mute people. | ||
| Yeah, I mute people. | ||
| TyrantasaurusHuntingClub says, Luke reminds me of bartender from Boondock Saints. | ||
| Semper Fidelis to Julio keep it the great work everyone rah, you're looking up now. Yeah, I | ||
| Remember well, I'll just read some more M.H. | ||
| says, Kelly Osborne may have said that, but I think the tweet you are looking for was from Amber Heard. | ||
| Yes, that one. | ||
| She was the one who was like, protect your gardeners. | ||
| Yeah, protect your gardeners and your maids. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Thank you for... These are the worst people. | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| That's what I was saying. | ||
| Like, they don't really care. | ||
| They only care when it affects them personally. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Adam Gynes? | ||
| Gynes? | ||
| Guinness? | ||
| I didn't pronounce it right. | ||
| Politics is downstream of culture, but culture is downstream of media. | ||
| People jump, but the establishment still steers the ship. | ||
| MSM has to go. | ||
| I think it's, I think it's happening. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| Newtonian says check the M1 money supply. | ||
| It's about to hit 20 trillion. | ||
| I'm going to buy Bitcoin. | ||
| You know, like Bitcoin went down and everyone's like, I saw the media saying, Oh no, Bitcoin's going down. | ||
| I'm like, Oh, thank God. | ||
| I can buy more now. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| But every time it goes up, it's crazy. | ||
| Because I remember when it hit 200 bucks, I'm like, oh, I can't buy now. | ||
| It's at 200. | ||
| Then it went to 1,000. | ||
| And I was like, I should have bought at 200. | ||
| I remember looking at it when it was like 1,000. | ||
| I'm like, I can't do this. | ||
| This is a lot of money. | ||
| But what about Dogecoin? | ||
| Nah, I'm not going near those. | ||
| Listen, listen. | ||
| I couldn't find my computer where I had my old Doge wallet. | ||
| And I know I had some Doge on there. | ||
| And it was back in the day. | ||
| Listen, listen. | ||
| Back in the day. | ||
| In November, what, Bitcoin was $13,000? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So it's like up three and a half times or whatever. | ||
| You put $1,000, you'd have $3,500. | ||
| Man, crazy. | ||
| But it went to $56K. | ||
| It's gonna go back up. | ||
| It's gonna keep going up because more and more corporations are putting some of their balance sheets on Bitcoin, especially with the mass printing of U.S. | ||
| dollars. | ||
| You know what's really funny? | ||
| I was reading something from Peter Schiff and man, that guy really hates Bitcoin. | ||
| And he was like, okay, so even if I did buy in now, what's my exit strategy? | ||
| And I saw one person say, what's your gold exit strategy? | ||
| Like people buy gold to not sell it. | ||
| It's a store of value. | ||
| You don't do it. | ||
| You buy it and you just leave it. | ||
| You put in your closet. | ||
| So you buy Bitcoin, you put in cold storage, put in your closet, you walk away. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And there's other currencies meant for smaller transactions that have quicker transactions and smaller fees that are, you know, used for cash or, you know, or like a silver comparison. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All right, we got Javi J says, stop telling people to move. | ||
| I run a custom plant. | ||
| And if one more jack wagon asks, if I buy the whole cow, can you do half ribeyes and half tri tips? | ||
| I'm going to cancel my subscription to the Beanie Broadcasting Network. | ||
| Love, love what y'all do. | ||
| Understandable. | ||
| I apologize. | ||
| Can you do what? | ||
| Half tri-tip and half... Yeah, tri-tips. | ||
| BlackLionGrunt says, Tim, walls have worked since 130,000 years ago in Theopetra, and they will continue to work even when humanity is so advanced. | ||
| Our walls are made of energy. | ||
| Walls are forever. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The Death Star was protected by a wall. | ||
| Did that stop the Rebels from destroying it a second time? | ||
| No. | ||
| I didn't think so. | ||
| The first one wasn't protected by a wall. | ||
| So, hey, they learned, right? | ||
| That was like a Mary Williamson quote. | ||
| We'll have a wall of energy. | ||
| Acoustic vibration. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Matthew Sage says, if you want to grow some banana-like fruit and work towards the shape you want, I'll ship you some pawpaws. | ||
| They grow natively in Pennsylvania. | ||
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Oh, cool. | |
| We actually have pawpaw trees. | ||
| Yeah, we do. | ||
| Yes, we have many. | ||
| We didn't find one, did we? | ||
| No, they're just babies, so they're not producing fruit. | ||
| But yeah, so, I mean, it's like East Coast, Appalachia, there's pawpaws all over the place, I think, right? | ||
| Never heard of them. | ||
| They're cool. | ||
| Yeah, a lot of people. | ||
| Until someone was like, oh hey, you got pawpaw trees. | ||
| I was like, what? | ||
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And they're like, it's a fruit, you know? | |
| Alexander Thomas says, Ian is right. | ||
| Arabic has gender in the second person, you. | ||
| Also in Semitic languages, Hebrew and Arabic, male is unmarked and female is marked. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Dad teaches says in Russian some names like Mitchka can be a woman and man's nickname. | ||
| So the last name makes it easy to see what gender they are. | ||
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Oh, interesting. | |
| So you could have Mitch cut and with with like last name, you know ski they know it's a guy. | ||
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Mm-hmm. | |
| Interesting I always thought that was those that was kind of crazy when I heard because Like what would happen if they come to America? | ||
| Like do they have different last names? | ||
| Yeah, it's on it's on your documents Wow crazy Archangel says Semper Fi always good to see a fellow jarhead on tin cast IRL. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Yeah a lot of Marines great Yeah Boosted300 says, if you think the romance languages are bad, Arabic is an extremely gendered language, and the gender of nouns are determined by if it is able to reason. | ||
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| What, really? | ||
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| Wow. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Bold. | ||
| Yeah, some people do some things. | ||
| Zach2007 says, Sour Patch is beautiful. | ||
| Tim, thoughts on SACDAF requiring military to address extremism in the military. | ||
| Great work, y'all. | ||
| Lydia, you are gorgeous. | ||
| Well then, I'll ask you, Julio, this vetting they're doing of the military to weed out extremism. | ||
| What do you think about it? | ||
| Because we've talked about it. | ||
| I mean, from what I can say from my personal experience, it is against the UCMJ to be part of extremists. | ||
| I believe it's the UCMJ or Marine Corps policy. | ||
| I can't remember. | ||
| It's been a while. | ||
| But you can't be part of these groups, and obviously you shouldn't, because the whole point of these units are to be cohesive and work together. | ||
| So with that being said, I do have some of my friends who are in the active duty side, and really it's just kind of... They're just very concerned about how, yes, it's just under the guise of, yes, extremism bad, but then it's like, well, what is extremism? | ||
| And we've seen on the political stage, well, extremism is just simply as, oh, you wear a MAGA hat, or you're a Trump supporter. | ||
| Yeah, XYZ, right. | ||
| Come and take it, right. | ||
| It's like, well, no, that's not extremism. | ||
| That's actually pretty normal. | ||
| And so there are some concerns, and I would have some concerns as well, on whether or not it is legitimate to actually weed out extremists, whatever side it is, or if it's to specifically target conservatives, which would be obviously concerning. | ||
| So I'll just ask real quick. | ||
| So you mentioned you have active duty friends. | ||
| How does it work being in the Reserves? | ||
| Uh, so, so, uh, the reserves is basically you do one weekend a month, you show up to drill, show up to your duty station for your job or whatever for one week in a month, and then two weeks out of the year is when you... and then two weeks out of the year you do that instead of one weekend. | ||
| That actually sounds kind of fun. | ||
| It is, it is nice. | ||
| I enjoy it for what it is. | ||
| What's your job, if you don't mind me asking? | ||
| Yes, so I am a 0511 Marine Corps, or Marine Air Ground Task Force Planning Specialist. | ||
| Mouthful. | ||
| What is that? | ||
| So basically it's large-scale logistics. | ||
| They say you don't call it the travel agent of a Marine Corps, but that's... | ||
| That's kind of what we are. | ||
| It's not a very big MOS, and actually the unit that I'm attached to, because I enlisted out of Illinois, and when you're signing up for the reserves, you pick your job necessarily on your ASVAB score, but based on what the units are around local, because you're going to live there. | ||
| But so when I moved out here, I kind of assumed, because that is kind of like a big level job, I figured with all the units out here with the Pentagon, like there has to be a slot for me. | ||
| Turns out there wasn't. | ||
| And so the unit that I'm attached to now is a DET PRP, Personnel Retrieval and Processing. | ||
| So it is the body baggers of the Marine Corps. | ||
| And so actually during the early days of the pandemic, we were put on standby. | ||
| And actually this was the closest I was to actually being deployed in any sense. | ||
| Because basically we were looking at going at New York City when they were Oh, wow. | ||
| And a crazy governor that was sending sick people to Mexico. | ||
| National Guard unit that's their mortuary affairs. | ||
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| No wonder that they probably needed us because Governor Cuomo wanted to get rid of all the | ||
| graft. | ||
| The same governor who's in very hot water and has very serious allegations against him | ||
| right now that the mainstream media by and large is ignoring. | ||
| So it's good for what it is, although it became a bit of an impairment. | ||
| It hamstrung me a little bit in terms of my civilian career, just because, like I said, the riots were happening almost every other week. | ||
| So my annual training those two weeks was going to be in July, and I knew I was going to miss something. | ||
| And I was like, okay, well, it's just a matter of what am I going to miss? | ||
| And lo and behold, Portland, At the federal courthouse, that was the national story. | ||
| And so I missed the beginning of it, but after, as soon as I was done with training, I hopped on a flight to Portland. | ||
| And so I covered that last week, uh, before they finally were able to have the Oregon State Police provide the security so that they could pull the actual federal officers out there. | ||
| So I was able to see kind of like how it was before and after that. | ||
| So it was, so, uh, I'm not reenlisting just because my civilian career is obviously taken kind of a little bit. | ||
| Upward trend, and so I like having the freedom and flexibility of being able to just leave at a moment's notice to cover whatever it is, but I very much enjoy it. | ||
| I'm gonna miss it, obviously, but it's great. | ||
| You make it for what it is. | ||
| You enlisted? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, so I'm a corporal. | ||
| So when you enlist, do you go through basic training? | ||
| Yeah, and this is for any reserve component. | ||
| So you go through the same initial training. | ||
| The only difference is that as soon as I was done, once I became a MACTAF planner, everyone else then left for their duty station. | ||
| And then I went home. | ||
| And so it's funny because kind of the joke is, you know, all reservists are, you know, they're weekend warriors and stuff like that. | ||
| He's like, okay, that's fine. | ||
| You can insult me. | ||
| You can call me whatever you want, but when you do, make sure to call me at home. | ||
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| Burn! | ||
| And so it's fine. | ||
| I enjoy it for what it is. | ||
| But it's also kind of weird because when people do find out I'm a Marine, they're like, oh, thank you for your service. | ||
| And it's like, I haven't done anything. | ||
| And so I don't try to like make, you know, I don't make it out more than what it is. | ||
| And there is a little bit of a kind of a, I don't know, inferiority complex, but it's just kind of like, yeah, because a lot of my sergeants and staff sergeants and gunnies Oh cool. | ||
| that are in the reserves, they were active duty, and they've been in some crazy, | ||
| one of my gunnies was in Fallujah, and so he actually met Mattis briefly during that time. | ||
| But so it's just kind of like, all right, yeah, and I'm a corporal now, but like, it doesn't, | ||
| I mean, I didn't do anything, and so it's kind of a weird stage, | ||
| but again, you make it what it is. | ||
| I enjoy it. | ||
| I like it a lot. | ||
| I'm gonna miss it, but I obviously gotta focus on the thing that's actually making me money. | ||
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| So we're getting a lot of people correcting us. | ||
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Like I said, I don't remember. | |
| I was barely walking. | ||
| they say Tipper Gore was her name and she was a Democrat. | ||
| So, uh, Robert says Tipper Gore was a Republican? Wow, news to me. | ||
| So yeah, I guess, I guess the reality is it was never just the Republicans. | ||
| It was, it was Democrats. And it's still Democrats. | ||
| There you go, moral authoritarianism. How about that? | ||
| Like I said, I don't remember. I don't remember. I was, I was barely walking. | ||
| Spring chick. | ||
| Elaine Benes says Federal Reserve Payment System crashed today. | ||
| Yeah, did you guys see that? | ||
| It's like three trillion dollars in payments did not move. | ||
| They said it was like a clerical error, but it was kind of unclear. | ||
| Yeah, what happened? | ||
| Uncultured Barbarian says GTA 5 and GTA Online are still incredibly popular and receive regular updates even seven years later. | ||
| Actually, the reason GTA 6 is taking so long to come out is because they still make insane amount of money off 5. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Yeah, I know people who have been playing GTA 5 non-stop. | ||
| I mean, it's a great game. | ||
| It is. | ||
| It really, really is. | ||
| It's fun. | ||
| But here's the thing, like, do we just rest on our laurels now, or do we, like, can we just get a VR game that's, like, better than ever? | ||
| You know? | ||
| It's great that we reach this point where the game's just so good, we stop. | ||
| No, we gotta make even better games! | ||
| We gotta make GTA 10, where you can actually feel the objects that pick them up. | ||
| The haptic feedback's gonna be nice. | ||
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| Mark Dello Russo says, question for Tim and Luke. | ||
| What books and or digital news magazines do you recommend? | ||
| Digital news magazines? | ||
| Are those a thing? | ||
| Digital news magazines. | ||
| Yeah, I mean. | ||
| Jacobin. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You sure about that? | ||
| Well, I would say Jacobin for the sake of understanding what your political rivals think. | ||
| I'm not a fan of socialism, but I did get a subscription to Jacobin for one reason. | ||
| Their defense of free speech on more than one occasion I respect, and they hate the Democrats, so I want to see their perspective on why they hate the Democrats. | ||
| It was what happened. | ||
| They wrote an article saying everybody hates the Democrats, and I was like, yes! | ||
| Correct. | ||
| Yes, this is true! | ||
| And I wanted to read it. | ||
| It was a scripture member only, but I thought, You know what? | ||
| I shouldn't enter looking at that magazine as though I'm going to be completely at odds with everything they say. | ||
| I should read it and try and figure out what we disagree on, and why they think those things, and what we do agree on. | ||
| So, I mean, for that matter, I don't know what conservative magazine- I don't subscribe to any other magazine, to be honest. | ||
| I just saw that and I was like, they're the actual non-establishment political faction that I typically disagree with, but we agree on a lot of things. | ||
| I should probably see what they're talking about because if there's something they're saying about hating Democrats, I'm like, I wonder where we can agree and like go against the establishment political class. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I don't really like magazines, but just to kind of answer your question a little bit, I do like John Pilger, even though I don't always agree with him. | ||
| I really love his documentaries, and I think they're very thought-provoking. | ||
| Dr. Doctor tries to make a South Park reference. | ||
| I'll read it anyway. | ||
| So you guys being into the Magic of the Gathering, are you guys into the hardcore cock magic scene? | ||
| Some pretty intense stuff from what I hear. | ||
| Supposedly there's this one rooster named Gadnok, Breaker of Worlds, who is undefeated. | ||
| South Park's great. | ||
| These guys are funny. | ||
| They did a really... I don't know why they did an episode of Magic the Gathering, but it was really funny. | ||
| And it didn't make sense. | ||
| Because it was just like... I get it, they didn't want to actually learn the rules of the game. | ||
| But it was like, there were roosters playing Magic the Gathering, and it was like, you know, cockfighting, and so the cops were involved. | ||
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Yeah, it was funny. | |
| Yeah, a lot of people mentioning Tipper Gore was this moral authoritarian, so we stand corrected. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Tipper Gore was the founder of the PMRC, the Parental Advisory Tags. | ||
| Luke, booing at the Australian Open. | ||
| The crowd allegedly was predominantly Serb and Russian because of the lurgy. | ||
| Got the indomitable Slavs. | ||
| I'm sorry, go the indomitable Slavs. | ||
| There you go, they were booing, that's great. | ||
| We like to express our opinions. | ||
| I like that, yeah. | ||
| Stoned Krampus says Ian constantly conflates his own mental experience and status with everyone else | ||
| I've been watching non-horror violent movies and playing violent video games since I was four | ||
| I learned to shoot at four started martial arts at five not once violent in 30 years | ||
| There you go DJ Madero says Tim Lydia Ian Luke you should read Arthur C. | ||
| Clarke's 3001 especially the sources and acknowledgments at the back | ||
| of the book It will blow your mind, the part about vacuum energy. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| I recently learned something really crazy today about a new communications technology that is confidential and I can't talk about, that made me say, no way, and they're like, yup. | ||
| Something revolutionary on the horizon. | ||
| So it's like Einstein-level stuff. | ||
| I wonder if aliens are real. | ||
| And you know, the reason I say that is because normally I'm like, eh, it's probably military technology. | ||
| And then I had a conversation earlier with a confidential source, and I'm like, I don't believe this. | ||
| I don't believe the stuff they're talking about. | ||
| But we saw, we covered these segments where the UFO technology stuff, the warp drive stuff, I think we're getting close to a breakthrough in some kind of technological component. | ||
| I'm not really saying it's aliens. | ||
| But you have to imagine like at the turn of the century of the 1800s and 1900s | ||
| You had like the invention of the telephone coming out you had photographs | ||
| You like could you imagine what it must have been like? | ||
| To have to communicate by carrier pigeon and then all of a sudden some dude's got a piece of metal wire and you can | ||
| hear his voice | ||
| From the other side of the building you'd be like, whoa And then they lay the transatlantic cable and then all of a | ||
| sudden one day you wake up you could talk to people in london Boom, like that? | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| I think, I think, you know, we're due for some kind of major expansion of technology. | ||
| It's been gradual, but we'll see. | ||
| Coach J says, much love IRL crew. | ||
| Rosa, speakin' truth. | ||
| Luke, get new curtains, not plaid. | ||
| Ian, couldn't seem to fit graphene into conversation yesterday. | ||
| Lids on fire. | ||
| Owen, Tim, old in... Skate years. | ||
| Skate years, that's right. | ||
| Awesome work, IRL. | ||
| Oh, I'm a senile old fumbling bum. | ||
| I'd like my plaid background when I make my videos. | ||
| I'm a real fan. | ||
| Oh, I see, yeah. | ||
| Tovin Benson says, AMP for life. | ||
| Join the AMP-pire. | ||
| Look at the Flexa network and collateral altcoins. | ||
| Is AMP, is that a coin? | ||
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What? | |
| Sounds right. | ||
| I did not understand that. | ||
| Yeah, I missed all of that. | ||
| Dblaze25 says, hey Tim, first time Super Chatter. | ||
| I am an up and coming Luthier and would love to build a free guitar for you. | ||
| What I'm specializing in is video game replica guitars. | ||
| I've built a Zelda Zora replica guitar. | ||
| Let me know. | ||
| Dude, I would love a custom built guitar. | ||
| What's a good video game? | ||
| You already said you did Zelda. | ||
| I'm not entirely sure what video game, but feel free to... I don't know what the easiest way to communicate with me is, honestly. | ||
| Send an email to... Which email is... You do Spin the UFO. | ||
| I talked about one. | ||
| Spintheufo at gmail.com. | ||
| Mention the guitar and we'll... That'd be awesome. | ||
| Because then we could actually have it. | ||
| We could use it for shows and stuff. | ||
| That is so cool. | ||
| Maybe we can get a... | ||
| I don't know, an IRL-themed guitar of some sort. | ||
| Oh yeah, like a UFO or something? | ||
| Yeah, like color scheme and... I have no idea, you know? | ||
| Like the Zeppelin? | ||
| The Harump Zeppelin? | ||
| Yeah, that was cool, that was cool stuff. | ||
| Or something like that. | ||
| It's kind of steampunk. | ||
| Chris Logan says, Julio, I was in the USMCR too. | ||
| I remember my command specifically not wanting us to get involved in anything political. | ||
| How do you get away with it in this political environment? | ||
| Also, boot. | ||
| Yes, I am a boot. | ||
| Boot pogue reservist. | ||
| It's just the worst of all. | ||
| So if you're active duty, there is a lot more restrictions on you as a person. | ||
| You have Senator Dan Sullivan from Alaska. | ||
| He's still in the Marine Corps Reserves and he's a colonel. | ||
| So, basically, there is a little bit more... Tulsi Gabbard, right? | ||
| Tulsi Gabbard, yeah, she was, I mean, she... Adam Kinzinger, I mean, he's making news all the time now these days, but he's still in the Air National Guard, so there are ways to do it. | ||
| Just for me, personally, I obviously, the main thing is, I was actually telling you guys earlier, just don't, you can't do obvious political endorsements of any particular candidate. | ||
| Unless yourself. | ||
| I guess so, yeah. | ||
| Tulsi was a major in the National Guard. | ||
| Yeah, that's you. | ||
| Even though she really didn't have much of a chance, but there was that discussion. | ||
| If she did become president, she would be the commander-in-chief, but what would happen to her rank? | ||
| She gets a promotion. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Couldn't she appoint herself as a general? | ||
| That was a little bit of an interesting discussion. | ||
| But yeah, so that's why I stick to when it comes to really hot topics. | ||
| That's why when I cover riots and on the ground coverage, it's just neutral. | ||
| It's just record what I see. | ||
| Because not only just because I think that's just what journalism should be. | ||
| Um, but obviously when, you know, when you have all these detractors and all these people in the media that want to discredit your work, you don't want to give them an excuse because they say, oh, well, he's an audio log. | ||
| He's just there to, and you're like, yes, I work for a conservative website, but I specifically make it a point to do just neutral coverage. | ||
| And, and, and really that's what, cause that's what people want. | ||
| Number one. | ||
| And so I'm serving the readers. | ||
| And also, too, when it comes to those types of events, I don't need to inject my opinion as it's happening. | ||
| No, I do provide, like, analysis and opinion after the fact, after I've had time to actually, like, digest what I've seen, what I reported on, and that really came in handy with the Britten House shooting, because I saw the second half of that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| At the time, I had no idea what this guy did. | ||
| I didn't know the context of what led to the first set of shootings, because I'm really good friends with Richie, and he was there. | ||
| I don't know, you guys had him on? | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
| That really came in handy, because then, when I was able to look further into the evidence and seeing that, I could have a bigger picture, so then when I was interviewed, I could give a clearer image on what I saw and what my friends saw. | ||
| It's just very important, in my view, to have it that way. | ||
| Now, I do have opinions, I do have facts, but I make sure I kind of fall within the line of the regulations. | ||
| I have a question. | ||
| I don't know if you know the answer to. | ||
| Can the president choose any... Does he appoint generals? | ||
| He does, right? | ||
| Yeah, he does nominations, yeah. | ||
| So he nominates and then they get confirmed. | ||
| Excuse me. | ||
| Well, they kind of go through it. | ||
| Well, I'm not entirely sure, but he does appoint generals. | ||
| I'm wondering if he could just pick a random person? | ||
| Do they have to be in the armed forces or something? | ||
| Well, yeah, they would have to be. | ||
| He's like the commander-in-chief, you know? | ||
| But they have to be in the military. | ||
| Well, I was thinking this because I saw this tweet from Jack Posobiec about Kazimir Pulaski, who was like this amazing dude. | ||
| And people from Chicago know the name Pulaski. | ||
| It's like a name of one of our biggest streets, and we've got train stations named after him. | ||
| and he founded the American Revolutionary Cavalry. | ||
| Came from Poland, I think it was like the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the time, I'm not sure. | ||
| And then they like lost some conflict and then he came here and aided the Americans and he's honored. | ||
| He's one of only eight people who are honorary American citizens. | ||
| He was awarded it posthumously. | ||
| But I think about the American Revolution, and there were many circumstances where somebody was just given a | ||
| commission. | ||
| Like, some ranking officer was like, congratulations, sir, you now have rank over all these men. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's like, does that happen in the modern military? | ||
| No. | ||
| Yeah, I didn't think so. | ||
| Yeah, no, that was back in the ye olden days. | ||
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| It was when anything goes back. | ||
| Now it's like, if you want to, now they'll just contract someone, but you can't have any command or anything like that, right? | ||
| Or how would that work? | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| Like, so let's say they hire a private military contractor. | ||
| Oh, oh, a contractor, oh, okay. | ||
| Yeah, so like, you know, what is Blackwater called these days? | ||
| Aegis or Academy or Z? | ||
| Well, let's say you've got paramilitaries hired by the U.S. | ||
| government and they're operating in, say, Iraq, and there are American military units also in a similar position. | ||
| How does that work? | ||
| You know, does the contractor who's being paid by the government to complete a task, are they able to tell the American, you know, combat, you know, infantry or whatever to back off or to move in or anything like that? | ||
| I don't know if you know the answer. | ||
| No, that I don't know. | ||
| Like I said, I haven't deployed or haven't had to deal with any of that. | ||
| I'm sure someone else can provide some more context to that. | ||
| I mean, I'm sure there's like rules of engagement and chain of command stuff, but I mean, I just don't have experience in that. | ||
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| All right, we got Kristen Larson says, Matt Larson, quote, the father of modern combatives is awesome and you try to have him on your show, the left tried to cancel him. | ||
| Your name is Kristen Larson and you're promoting someone named Matt Larson. | ||
| Are you related to this individual? | ||
| Trying to promote them. | ||
| Conflict of interest. | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| Politically Defiant says, Tim, in your 10am video you spoke of Trump and Musk, questioning why they themselves don't create a social network, banking along with digital and physical infrastructure, required to be free of big tech. | ||
| Answer is simple, they themselves are insulated. | ||
| Yup. | ||
| Daedalus62 says, Adam gave his rib for Eve. | ||
| When they come together to, uh, they become one. | ||
| They complete each other. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Very nice. | ||
| Well, let's, uh, let's, let's just read one more super chat here. | ||
| Well, we're gonna read two, because someone, just for some reason, Nombot says, Chrono Trigger. | ||
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Oh! | |
| Oh, Chrono Trigger. | ||
| For a guitar. | ||
| That's a cool, cool one. | ||
| Chrono Trigger is one of the best games ever made. | ||
| I don't know if I'd be super into it, but I, I, maybe. | ||
| It's a good game. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Elka Zawarudo says, Tim, what's your favorite anime slash manga? | ||
| I love when you talk about One Punch Man and no one else knew what you were talking about, but I can appreciate a man of culture. | ||
| Have you watched JoJo's Bizarre Adventure? | ||
| I haven't, but man have I seen the memes. | ||
| My favorite anime manga? | ||
| Man, I don't know. | ||
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None. | |
| That's tough. | ||
| You guys say none? | ||
| No anime. | ||
| No anime? | ||
| No. | ||
| You guys aren't cultured and refined? | ||
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Elon Musk posted pictures of anime cat girls. | |
| Don't care. | ||
| That's weird. | ||
| I liked, what was the one about where they go into the video game? | ||
| There's a bunch. | ||
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There's a ton of them. | |
| Sword Art Online? | ||
| Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down? | ||
| I liked Sword Art in the first season, but then it just got repetitive, I thought. | ||
| I was a big fan for a really long time of Bleach and Naruto, but those are obvious picks. | ||
| Those are like the top tier anime. | ||
| I never watched one piece. | ||
| There isn't technically a Pokemon anime, too. | ||
| Yeah, and when I was a kid, I really liked it, but man, was that show not good. | ||
| Like, wow. | ||
| That's just... I look back, I'm like, what is it about this where I was excited to watch it? | ||
| I was a little kid, I guess. | ||
| A theme song. | ||
| Pokemon! | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| I'll admit, the theme song's good. | ||
| Yeah, right now there's a couple that are really well. | ||
| Black Clover's really good. | ||
| What's the one about the doctor? | ||
| Dr. Stone? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Dr. Stone's cool. | ||
| My Hero Academia is probably my favorite right now. | ||
| That was good, yeah. | ||
| But I don't really keep up with a lot of these shows as much as I used to when I was younger because I don't really watch TV anymore. | ||
| What would you pick if you had to pick one? | ||
| Right now, if I was gonna turn on Crunchyroll... If you're gonna be like, for all the humans to come here, let me throw one at you guys so you have it forever. | ||
| If I had to, like, give someone a historical anime to watch, I have no idea, man. | ||
| Dragon Ball. | ||
| The whole Dragon Ball arc. | ||
| I mean, just because it's the classic and it laid the foundation for a lot of these elements. | ||
| Yu Yu Hakusho, probably. | ||
| I would say that. | ||
| If I was telling someone, like, I would say watch Yu Yu Hakusho for sure. | ||
| But I would say right now, if I was going to turn on Crunchyroll and watch an anime, it would probably be My Hero Academia. | ||
| Um, maybe... I don't know. | ||
| There's another one, I can't remember what it's called, but that, you know, Black Clover, and probably My Hero Academia. | ||
| They're very similar. | ||
| Maybe you want to watch Dragon Ball. | ||
| It's just classic. | ||
| The original Dragon Ball, then Dragon Ball Z, are just like the classic elements of a lot of the anime that, you know, that are now really popular these days, so. | ||
| I thought, um... | ||
| Cowboy Bebop's pretty spectacular. | ||
| Oh, man, I can't believe I missed that. | ||
| The music, especially. | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| There's just so much about it. | ||
| If I had to tell someone, like, the one anime you had to watch for, like, the historical record, if I was gonna put on a golden disc and blast off into outer space, Cowboy Bebop. | ||
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Really? | |
| That would be it? | ||
| Over Dragon Ball? | ||
| Oh, definitely. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Well, if you want to explain, like, anime tropes, you want to do Dragon Ball, but if you want to show, like, the best people, like, people like Luke, he's got this look on his face. | ||
| Me and Julio. | ||
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He's like the main guy. | |
| I'm spaced out for the past five minutes. | ||
| Cowboy Bebop is about, it's like sci-fi bounty hunters, and the main character is like, he knows Jeet Kune Do, and he's a big fan of Bruce Lee, and it's like gangster. | ||
| It's like, Like almost 1930s style gangster, but in sci-fi space it is one of the best shows ever. | ||
| Like Firefly, you ever see that movie? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| And the jazz music is just incredible stuff. | ||
| I'll leave it at that. | ||
| We're gonna go over to the TimCast.com exclusive members only segment coming up. | ||
| So make sure you check that out. | ||
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| But leave us a good review if you're listening on podcast platforms and of course share this. | ||
| But Julio, is there anything you want to mention? | ||
| Yeah, no, I mean, so if you appreciate the work that I do for Town Hall, you can become a VIP subscriber because that money not only saved us during the coronavirus lockdowns and all that, but that money goes towards funding for all the trips that I do. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| And get exclusive access to the articles on my travels as well, so. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Very cool. | ||
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| You guys on Clubhouse? | ||
| No, not that cool. | ||
| I don't have an iPhone. | ||
| Oh, that's right. | ||
| I forgot. | ||
| I forgot. | ||
| If you invite me, I will be. | ||
| No, you have an iPhone, Luke? | ||
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Yeah, it's only invite only. | |
| Are you willing to base your reputation on me? | ||
| No. | ||
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| I just met you. | ||
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Yeah, that's fair. | |
| What are you trying to say here? | ||
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All right. | |
| All right. | ||
| I'm a person of color. | ||
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Don't you discriminate against me. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, go over to TimCast.com, check out the exclusive members only segment, which will be coming up in just about an hour or so, maybe a little longer. | ||
| Sometimes we just really get into it. | ||
| We do a full bonus episode, but we'll see you all then. | ||
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