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May 24, 2021 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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Timcast IRL - Don Lemon FAKES Quitting CNN In Failed Stunt As Ratings TANK 77% w/Chris Barron
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unidentified
Ladies and gentlemen, we have very serious news tonight.
tim pool
Dr. Fauci has come out and essentially lit a fire under lab leak hypothesis.
This is very important news we must talk about!
Instead, we're gonna lead with Don Lemon did a failed publicity stunt Pretending he was quitting CNN because his ratings are down 77%.
And we talked about it.
I was like, I don't know, this Fauci thing is really serious news.
And we're all like, we should make fun of Don Lemon.
Yeah, we should make fun of Don Lemon.
So joining us to make fun of Don Lemon is Chris Barron, not of The Spin Doctors.
chris barron
Not of The Spin Doctors.
I'm not that guy.
tim pool
No, but introduce yourself.
Yeah.
chris barron
I'm Chris Barron.
I'm the president of Right Turn Strategies.
I'm a contributor to Human Events and The Political Insider.
tim pool
And apparently the Spin Doctors guy isn't a fan.
chris barron
No, he's not, because people jump into his timeline on Twitter and bring up Trump and stuff.
He's like, I'm not that guy!
I'm not that Chris Barron!
Which I point out to him, that's never happened to me.
No Spin Doctors fans have ever jumped into my timeline.
tim pool
Do people really tweet at him, though?
chris barron
No, they really do.
tim pool
Really?
chris barron
I'll follow the tweet chain back up.
tim pool
Is it because his Twitter is like, at Chris Barron or something?
unidentified
It is.
chris barron
That's why I'm at Chris R. Barron, because he stole Chris Barron.
tim pool
There can be only one.
chris barron
Right!
Jetman!
unidentified
That's it.
tim pool
Highlander.
Alright, Rhino Man, thanks for hanging out.
What's up everybody?
ian crossland
Good to be here.
Thank you.
lydia smith
Oh yeah, I'm here as well.
I'm pushing buttons in the corner.
It's gonna be a really fun night.
I cannot wait to make fun of Don Lemon.
unidentified
Let's go.
tim pool
We have other, you know, really important news.
I mean, a federal judge ruled that Joe Biden's policies are basically racist.
unidentified
Don Lemon.
chris barron
Make him put a Don Lemon.
Don Lemon, come on.
tim pool
Well, as much as I'll say it's making fun of Don Lemon, I really do think the media is one of the biggest, it's like the biggest root of the problem, or at least one large root, providing nutrients to this corrupted political ecosystem and infrastructure, so we definitely gotta talk about how desperate they are.
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It's a bit more optimistic than all the bad news.
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Now, without further ado, making fun of Don Lemon.
unidentified
Yes.
tim pool
Here's the story from Fox News.
Don Lemon continues to lose viewers even after rebranding CNN show, Desperate Publicity Stunt.
The CNN anchor has lost a whopping 77% of viewers since the first week in January.
Now, when I heard the story, you may have heard this, Don Lemon apparently made some announcement that he was grateful for all his years at CNN, and he was gonna be, you know, changes were coming, and everybody was tweeting, I saw everybody tweeting, Don Lemon's quitting, it's over, the show's done, his ratings have dropped so dramatically, surely they have fired the man.
Turns out it was a publicity stunt where he's like, here's what he, look there's a quote, I appreciate all the years of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, but changes are coming and I will fill you in.
And then all they did was they changed the name of his show from CNN Tonight with Don Lemon to Don Lemon Tonight.
That's it.
ian crossland
Same time slot?
tim pool
Same time slot.
chris barron
Same everything.
tim pool
Same everything.
chris barron
Honestly, isn't there a point where CNN just recognizes that they're basically parody at this point?
This is something that someone on our... This is like a Babylon Bee article.
This is something someone on our side would spoof, saying, you know, this is how ridiculous CNN... We don't have to worry about that, because CNN is actually... They're doing it themselves.
tim pool
Didn't Babylon Bee write an article saying that, like, CNN was beating them at their own game?
There was something like that.
What's really funny about the satirical articles like Babylon Bee, The Onion writes really over-the-top nonsense, like one of my favorites is, uh, Stress of the Presidency Ages Joe Biden 10 Years, and it's a corpse, just like a mummified corpse, because he's already almost 80 years old.
That's brutal dark humor, but it's very silly, right?
Babylon Bee has their silly articles, but they'll also write things like, CNN, you know, wins award to beat Babylon Bee at parody or something.
And the funny thing about Babylon Bee is, it's a higher brow humor.
unidentified
Oh yeah.
tim pool
And people fall for it.
I think, I want to try and find it.
If there's that, let's see if I can find the Babylon Bee CNN competition.
I don't even know what to look for, but I'm pretty sure they did that.
chris barron
Well, and, you know, there's been all of this, like, pushback against Babylon B. People saying, like, oh, you know, PolitiFact rating that, oh, this is not true, and, oh, this is a debunked thing.
I mean, it should speak about the state of the modern Democratic Party and the left that people easily confuse obvious parody with the actual policies of the left.
tim pool
To be fair, I've seen people confuse The Onion for Real News too, but Babylon B is very political, and there are a lot of people who fall for it.
So here's the article.
In major deal, the Babylon Bee purchases competing satire site, CNN.
And it shows the Babylon Bee logo next to the CNN logo.
chris barron
So good.
tim pool
This is beyond parody.
I don't know if we can... Maybe I can play this.
Let's try and play it.
There we go.
unidentified
So earlier, I told you I had an announcement.
And I do.
It's been really, really great.
This is the last night that we'll be CNN Tonight with Don Lemon.
So I appreciate all the years of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon.
But changes are coming.
And I will fill you in.
But until then, I'm very proud of my CNN special about Marvin Gaye's groundbreaking... Alright, alright, alright.
tim pool
You get it.
The dude was very obviously trying to make it seem like he was quitting.
chris barron
Right.
unidentified
Wow.
tim pool
Well, it's good news.
chris barron
And by the way, was anybody more disappointed that Trump lost than the executives at CNN?
tim pool
Yeah, they were hurt the worst.
Absolutely.
chris barron
They built their entire brand around, we hate Trump more than anybody else.
tim pool
MSNBC did as well.
So I just watched Deep Impact.
Did you ever see that movie?
chris barron
No.
unidentified
What?
tim pool
Ian's laughing.
unidentified
No, no.
ian crossland
I've seen the clips from it.
tim pool
Armageddon was clearly the better movie.
Do you know what Twin Films is?
So, like, there's this weird thing that happens where they keep, they make two movies of the same movie at the same time.
So, like, a good example would be A Bug's Life and, like, Ants.
chris barron
Is this kind of like when in R&B or hip-hop in the 90s where they did Woomp, There It Is, and then, like, Hoot, There It Is, like, the same song?
tim pool
Yeah, something like that.
So they made Armageddon, you know, a bunch of guys gotta go to an asteroid and blow it up.
Then they made Deep Impact, everyone's gotta go to a comet and then blow it up.
In that movie, because I don't want to lose my train of thought, the main character works for MSNBC and she's trying to do a legitimate story.
Like the movie starts, spoiler alerts for those that haven't seen a 20, 23 year old movie.
So she works for MSNBC.
She thinks she's got a story about the president having an affair with a woman named Ellie.
MSNBC.
Investigative reporting.
In the same story.
Amazing.
chris barron
Is that right?
tim pool
Yeah, today!
lydia smith
Unreal.
tim pool
So, but it was interesting because I watched Armageddon, which is this really silly movie where these, like, oil rig guys go to an asteroid.
Makes no sense, but it's ridiculous silliness.
Deep Impact tries to be much more serious.
We're like, we gotta go to this comet and blow it up.
And I'm like, I'm watching the beginning and I see this woman, she's like, I work for MSNBC and a camera guy comes out and they're like, we're gonna get this report on the president and expose him.
I'm like, wow, is that what MSNBC used to be?
Were they like, real news at some point?
I don't remember them being real news.
chris barron
No, there was a time where MSNBC was kind of positioned as almost a right-of-center news organization.
Way back in the day.
unidentified
Wow.
chris barron
Yeah, I know.
Like, that's, it seems amazing.
By the way, the reason why CNN's been hurt more than MSNBC is because, I hate both of them equally, but MSNBC has leaned into actually some kind of entertaining personalities.
Like, I mean, I think Rachel Maddow's a buffoon, but she's good at her job.
tim pool
When she cried, when the Mueller report, she almost cried when the Mueller report was, like, was bunk.
chris barron
Right.
tim pool
Like, Trump wasn't a Russian asset.
You could see her, like, welling up, like, well.
chris barron
They've got, you know, Rachel Maddow, they've got Joy Reid.
I can't believe that woman still has a job.
They've leaned into these kind of like bigger personalities, whereas CNN's got Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon and Brian Stelter and S.E.
Cupp.
I mean, obviously if you're a left-winger and it's post-Trump, if you're gonna watch anything, it seems like MSNBC's gonna be a little more entertaining to watch than CNN.
tim pool
You know what it feels like?
Like, could you imagine going to a circus?
Like, imagine there's two circuses, and in one there's a bunch of clowns going, WE ARE NOT CLOWNS!
DO NOT LAUGH AT US!
And you go in the other one and they're like, WE'RE TOTALLY CLOWNS, HAVE A GOOD TIME!
chris barron
Yeah.
tim pool
That's MSNBC.
chris barron
Yes!
tim pool
Like, they're totally- 100%.
Yeah.
CNN is trying to make you think- like, imagine a bunch of clowns wearing, like, suits, but they're still in their clown makeup, and they're trying to act like they're doing reporting.
You're like, guys, guys, this doesn't work.
chris barron
Well, and it's like the contrast doesn't work either.
Like, you know, they've got those people like Wolf Blitzer and John King who are supposed to be like these hard news people, and they're on a, I mean, essentially like a crazy conspiracy, hoax-filled television show.
You know what I mean?
Like, it's like, it doesn't work.
Meanwhile, like, MSNBC's going with Joy Reid.
Like, she's nuts.
Everybody knows she's nuts.
Like, they're not even trying.
tim pool
You look at what Don Lemon did with that audio clip very clearly, making it seem like he was quitting in a desperate bid.
You know what I bet happened.
I bet they were like, Don, your ratings are down 77%!
Like, nobody's watching!
And he was like, well, maybe people don't know it's my show.
Maybe people need to know it's Don Lemon.
You're right, let's change the name from CNN Tonight with Don Lemon to Don Lemon Tonight.
Like, that's their big play.
I forgot where I was going before, but clearly the strategy makes no sense.
The ratings are in the gutter, and that was what they thought was going to attract people?
chris barron
But again, they built an entire brand around Trump.
I mean, no one was watching CNN before Trump.
You go back and you look at the ratings pre-Trump, CNN's ratings were absolutely in the garbage.
I mean, they were absolutely terrible.
Because, to their credit, for a few years, CNN tried to be this place somewhere in between Fox News and MSNBC.
And they realized in an increasingly polarized society, there was no room to kind of be the middle guy.
tim pool
So instead, they just went, dove all in, you know, into You mentioned this when we were talking about satire that it says something when Snopes needs to constantly debunk the Babylon Bee about CNN's type, you know, audience.
Here's what happens.
Tucker Carlson, his ratings went down for sure.
It still isn't like 3 million or whatever.
In the key demo he's still, I think he's in the high, you know, six figures.
So, everybody's ratings took a hit.
Literally everybody's.
For obvious reasons.
I mean, you had this massive election.
Everybody's gonna go down.
But MSNBC and CNN went down more than, like, all the other networks.
More than all the YouTube channels.
I mean, a lot of people on YouTube and in podcasts are doing better.
Ratings are going up.
So, what happened was...
Tucker, for instance, he's the highest rated because, for one, I think he's a smart guy.
I think he does a really good job.
And as for the other CNN personalities, Fox is like an oasis in a desert.
You can go to any one of these networks, NBC, ABC, whatever, and hear the same garbled nonsense.
One of my favorite examples of how garbled the nonsense was is during the Mueller... No, no, this is the Ukraine stuff.
Gordon Sondland, that's his name, right?
Sondland?
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
He had said that Trump said no quid pro quo, but he thinks Trump wanted it.
What did Fox News say?
Quote.
Sondland.
Quote.
No quid pro quo.
Literally a quote.
I can accept that.
Whether you infer something else from it.
Every other network.
Sondland confirms quid pro quo.
So Fox is this oasis in the desert for people.
They want to watch something they know.
CNN and MSNBC leaned in as hard as they could into building a network off of people who hate Trump.
That won't last once Trump is gone.
It says a lot about the two different culture war, you know, parent bubbles, whatever their, you know, smaller bubbles are, libertarian, conservative, whatever, versus like leftist liberal.
The liberal voters only cared about hating Trump.
chris barron
And that's the only thing that kept them together as a voting block.
And that's why this honeymoon is going to be so quick for Joe Biden, because the sad reality for him is there's no cohesive policy group behind him.
Whether you love Trump or hated Trump, Trump in 2017, when he got inaugurated, people knew what it was Trump for.
He was for building a wall.
He was for negotiating new trade deals.
He was for making America great again.
All of these things he was for.
Biden voters only cared about one thing.
I hate I'm getting some feedback that the audio is very low.
We're having some problems with audio.
with the Democratic Party over actual policy stuff and realizing they have no cohesive argument
because their entire election was predicated on simply hating Trump.
tim pool
Now let's talk about the leftists.
ian crossland
Hey, I'm getting some feedback that the audio is very low.
tim pool
Very low.
ian crossland
We're having some problems with audio.
Guys, we just had an audio technician in today, so we're kind of working with the new setup.
Some people are saying that you're coming in too quiet, maybe to turn the gain up.
Other people are suggesting to refresh your stream, and that might fix it on your end.
tim pool
Yeah, because on our end, the mixer shows that it's coming in normally.
ian crossland
Yeah, I'm seeing a flood of comments in the chat talking about the audio.
lydia smith
I'm seeing about 50-50 people saying it's fine, and people saying it's low.
It could be one of those things you just need to get used to as well.
Or refresh it.
tim pool
Yeah, refresh it for sure.
You can turn the master up.
ian crossland
Or the gain.
Someone suggested turning up the gain.
tim pool
How's that?
lydia smith
Oh, that's louder.
Is that too loud?
unidentified
I got a lot louder.
lydia smith
Yeah, I can turn everybody down a little bit in their headphones.
tim pool
There we go.
Actually, we should turn that way down.
ian crossland
That might help.
lydia smith
Yeah, there we go.
Alright, we'll get there.
We'll get there.
tim pool
Well, we'll have to.
Apologies for everybody.
We'll have to sort it because we are trying to get the audio fixed and I don't know.
It's just, uh, you have to do it in order to hear the audio and then get the feedback to fix it.
So everybody was, everyone was complaining before that we had like, uh, our audio levels would, you would like fluctuate.
And so we're like, we got to get someone to come in and standardize it.
And so now people are probably like noticing the audio is different.
ian crossland
It looks like you fixed it.
Wow, and the comments are coming in.
tim pool
Yeah, it sounds better.
I didn't really do anything.
lydia smith
Just tweaked it a little bit, yeah.
Such a minor thing.
ian crossland
I did what I could.
lydia smith
Well, we appreciate it.
ian crossland
Hope this works for you guys.
lydia smith
We got it.
ian crossland
Type one if it sounds great in chat.
lydia smith
There you go.
Perfect.
tim pool
Anyway, back to what we were talking about.
Let's talk about the leftists, because believe it or not, there's a difference between liberals and leftists.
And a lot of people don't really differentiate, and I think it's because liberals and leftists voted together.
Yep.
And now that Trump's gone, they're not going to.
But here's yeah, you hate to see it all these poor young 20-something DSA types A lot of these people who are democratic socialists, this is their first foray into politics.
They're in their early 20s.
We've had some people here on the show, and I'll be talking to them, these leftists, and I'll say, you know, look, during the Obama era you had with Occupy Wall Street, blah, blah, blah, and I'll say a bunch of things, and they'll go, I was 10.
unidentified
And I'm like, oh, you were 10 years old, huh?
tim pool
Yeah, so I have no idea what that is.
I'm like, OK.
So they come into this thinking Joe Biden is their path towards getting what they want, not realizing that's not true.
It's never been true.
It's been 50 years, but they have no political experience, but they can vote.
So what do we get now?
Over on CNBC, student debt forgiveness isn't in Biden's annual budget.
Here's why experts say that's not surprising.
Well, This expert says that's not surprising because Biden is duplicitous and the Democrats lie in order to get elected.
Not like Republicans don't, but Democrats do it.
So all of these young DSA people thought they were going to get student loan forgiveness.
They were like, we want $50,000.
And then Biden was like, yeah, okay, we'll do it.
And then they voted for him.
And then he's like, well, we'll probably just do $10,000.
And then he's like, nah, we're getting you nothing.
chris barron
By the way, do these young DSA types think that like Cindy McCain and all the establishment Republicans who couldn't vote for Trump and were voting for Biden, do you think they were voting for that agenda?
No.
No, absolutely not.
This is not surprising to anybody who's been paying attention.
tim pool
Well, we all know that Bill Kristol is a huge fan of student debt forgiveness.
chris barron
Oh, absolutely.
It's his number one issue.
tim pool
And Joe Walsh and Adam Kinzinger and all of these other rhinos, they vote Democrat all the time because conservatives became socialists?
Or is it because the establishment is the party of the ultra-wealthy and they're going to sell you out to gain political power?
And hey, you don't gotta like Trump, but at least Trump was like a Molotov cocktail in the system.
chris barron
By the way, look, I'm no fan of Bernie Sanders and I'm no fan of Bernie Sanders' policies, but the one thing I'll appreciate about Bernie Sanders is I actually think he believes in what he says.
Now, I think most of that stuff is completely insane, but I respect the fact that he actually will walk the walk.
tim pool
I don't think so.
I used to think that.
I used to be a fan of Bernie back in 2015-16, and then he just started flip-flopping.
You know, so he went up on stage, one of the most famous moments, and he said, if you're white, you don't know what it's like to be poor.
I'm like, okay, that's a weird departure from where Bernie used to be, when he was, like, fighting for unions and the working class.
Now he's espousing woke garbage that makes no sense?
And he endorsed Hillary Clinton.
And I'm like, ah, okay.
He's got no spine.
You know, Bernie might, you know, believe these things, but a jellyfish with good ideas is still a jellyfish, and I'm not gonna vote for it.
chris barron
No, and look, I'm not saying the DSA types would have been disappointed with Bernie, because Bernie would have run a campaign that would have been trying to attract those suburban women voters who just couldn't bring themselves to voting for Donald Trump.
Which, by the way, I'm proposing a constitutional amendment that suburban women can no longer vote.
unidentified
Yes.
tim pool
Only suburban women.
chris barron
Only suburban women.
It would fix both.
Both parties would be fixed immediately.
tim pool
So it's not as, what is it, the 19th?
Yeah, it's not quite.
Yeah, it's not as extreme as when people say Republican.
chris barron
No, but if you're getting your political opinions by watching Bravo, fine, fine, watch Bravo, but if that's where you're getting your political opinions from, I think you really shouldn't be voting.
tim pool
I mean, you know, I've been thinking about it quite a bit.
Are you familiar with the Starship Troopers?
So we've brought that up a lot.
Service, guarantees, citizenship.
And I used to be like, no, people need to vote, but the Democrats go too far with it, right?
They want everyone to be able to like sit in their chairs, eyes half open, and then a guy drops a letter on their chest and they go, just stamp and then they hand it back.
Like, there's got to be some effort involved.
But now the more that I think about it, I'm like, there's got to be some skin in the game for voting.
Because what happens is people will move into, you know, a city.
They'll live in New York, New York falls to crap, so they'll move somewhere where it's nice, vote for crap, it falls to crap, and then they leave again.
You effectively have a group of people that act like, you know, they go from place to place, destroying it, and then leaving, and then it's really difficult to repair things politically.
Like most machines, it's really easy to break, it's really hard to fix.
chris barron
Well, fundamentally, you'd think this would be easy.
I mean, if you're leaving New Jersey and New York because you hate New Jersey and New York, I mean, it's not because you suddenly decided that you can't stand the weather anymore or that you don't like the corner deli.
It's because you hate the way that the state's been run into the ground.
So yeah, move to Texas if you want, but don't vote for the same kind of politicians who ruined New York.
And that's what we're seeing all across the country.
Every one of these censuses where they're showing like, oh well, North Carolina's adding people, Florida's adding people, Georgia's adding people, it makes me nervous.
Because they're not moving from West Virginia.
tim pool
Well, people are leaving West Virginia.
chris barron
Right.
They lost a ton of... Is that a good thing?
tim pool
I think it might be a good thing.
As long as it keeps- I mean, I don't- Who are the con- So, so I read this story from, I think it was the AP and it was like, West Virginia saw the biggest exodus of any state.
chris barron
Yes.
tim pool
And I was reading it and people were saying like, I'm sick of being in this place where they just want guns and bomb- I'm like, ooh, those people are leaving?
That's good news.
chris barron
I'll say this about West Virginia, and I told you I live a mile from West Virginia.
I walk into West Virginia from my backyard.
I think it's interesting when you find these enclaves of, like, progressivism in a place like West Virginia.
They realize they have to live with their neighbors.
They realize that they're vastly outnumbered.
Like, conservatives are tolerant of liberals that they disagree with.
You know, you go to Harpers Ferry, you go to Berkeley Springs, you go to Thomas West Virginia or Davis, there's all kinds of little enclaves of progressivism, and it's completely and totally accepted by the conservatives who run the state.
Go to places like D.C.
and try to walk around with a Make America Great Again hat on.
It ain't gonna happen.
tim pool
Well, this is actually a problem conservatives have.
They're unfortunately too tolerant.
And that's true.
The Democrats will try and claim that the Republicans are fascists and racist and I'm like...
I don't know what you're talking about.
Like, I see these memes from the left where they're like, Republicans, they all lie, cheat, and steal to gain power.
And I'm like, they haven't had any power in how long?
And they just don't do anything.
chris barron
And they won't do those things.
Look, Nancy Pelosi will use whatever tools are available to her, even if they cross the line.
even if they're an abuse of power. I mean, look, her deciding to strip the committee assignments
from Marjorie Taylor Greene for things that she said not since she was in Congress, but things
that she said before she got elected, the voters who elected her knew what she said, and the
Democrats decided to take, you know, to strip her of her committee assignments. If a Republican did
that, people would be up in arms. No Republican would ever do that. What if a Democrat said
tim pool
offensive things while they were in Congress?
Like, I don't know, Ilhan Omar!
chris barron
Ilhan Omar!
Or Maxine Waters!
She's been pushing crazy conspiracy theories for decades!
tim pool
Republicans are too weak, man.
The Republican politicians, they're... I don't remember who said this, but they're more concerned about the opinion of the New York Times than they are of their own constituents.
chris barron
Absolutely.
tim pool
So what happens is Nancy Pelosi shrieks and her hair stands on end like she's like floating around like a banshee and everyone's just like, you know, terrified.
And then when Ilhan Omar does something, she calms down and, well, you know, let's be reasonable and the Republicans are like, that's not fair.
Anyway, is that it?
There's no screeching banshees on the Republican side who are going to float around and scream?
chris barron
I love President Trump, but this was a Trump fault.
You hit the nail on the head.
Too many Republicans care about what the New York Times says about him.
Trump would be talking to Maggie Haberman at the New York Times, and I'm like, why are you talking to Maggie Haberman?
She hates you pathologically.
She despises you.
She will never write a good story about you, and yet he still would because he wanted to see that good story.
tim pool
It's like sad cringe.
It is.
It's like these Republicans are desperate to be accepted by the establishment political class.
So they beg the New York Times, I know you're woke, but I'll pretend to be woke a little bit.
Not all of them.
There's a handful of good ones.
So we recently saw Thomas Massey, Marjorie Taylor Greene, they refused to wear masks.
Nancy Pelosi fined Marjorie Taylor Greene $500, then $2,500, yet she's on video in the White House with no mask on, hugging people and everyone, nobody's wearing masks, they're all partying.
This is the problem.
The Democrats have double standards.
If they didn't have double standards, they'd have none at all.
And the Republicans don't do anything.
chris barron
No.
No, absolutely not.
tim pool
There's speed bumps for Democrats.
chris barron
Absolutely.
And by the way, look, when I heard Pelosi give her explanation for why that she was not going to remove the mask mandate, she said it's, you know, a question of the honor system.
And am I just going to trust that these people have gotten vaccinated?
Here's the thing.
You don't have to worry.
The CDC said if you've gotten vaccinated, you don't have to worry about unvaccinated people.
So here's Nancy Pelosi standing there saying something that contradicts her, you know... The science.
The science.
All these people talking about, like, we have to follow the science.
Follow the science.
Again, if Trump had said something like that, it would be non-stop coverage for three days about how Trump is ignoring the science.
Nancy Pelosi says it and the media just brushes it off.
tim pool
There was a study done in France, and TechCrunch wrote about it.
It was this little-known drug called hydroxychloroquine.
And Trump just passively said, this study's looking very great, you know, it's looking good, maybe we'll see something.
And the media went nuts!
Donald Trump is recommending medicine!
Oh no, people are gonna die!
Bro, there's people outside of 7-Elevens giving vaccines, and I'm like, hold on, man.
If you're gonna undergo any kind of medical procedure, albeit a minor one, like a vaccine, go to your doctor first, because, you know, I was reading about some kid who had an allergic reaction or something, or was like, you know, was told by his doctor, he'd be like, be careful, I forgot what it was, something to do with eggs?
I don't know.
And, uh...
There's a video where, like, these army guys walk into a 7-Eleven, and then just, like, give the guy behind the counter a vaccine, and I'm like, you're complaining about Donald Trump, talking about news from TechCrunch, and now this is going on, can't you just say, vaccines are great, go talk to your doctor to figure out what's best for you?
They don't do that.
They will smear Trump and attack him in the most extreme ways, and claim Trump said to inject bleach in your veins, and then they'll come out and, like, do the exact opposite.
We don't got fighters, though, man.
chris barron
No, we don't.
And by the way, we never have.
And the only good side of that is that's how we ended up with Trump.
We ended up with Trump because after decades of not having fighters, the base said, OK, who's the one candidate that they don't want us to vote for?
Trump.
That's the guy they all hate.
So we're going to give them the one guy they say we can't vote for.
tim pool
Do you remember the Michael Moore speech from 2016?
Which one was that?
So, Michael Moore's speech.
He said that, you know, Donald Trump walks into these auto manufacturers and he says, if you move your cars overseas, I will tax you 30% and no one will ever buy your car again.
And the people of Michigan heard that, and that's the first time anyone ever stood up to these companies.
And so people, they saw Trump, you know, now I'm paraphrasing, that people saw Trump as the biggest FU to the establishment, a human Molotov cocktail to be thrown in the system, and he was.
And the system, boy did they react.
They flipped out.
chris barron
Look, I always tell people, I voted for Trump, there's a lot of policy things that I voted for Trump based on.
But even bigger than that, I voted for him to be the wrecking ball taken to the system, and he accomplished it in spades.
He completely and totally exposed the media, he exposed the establishment of the Republican Party, he exposed the dirty way that politics has been played in this country for decades and decades and decades, and we're never going to go back.
Like, the base of the Republican Party that voted for Trump, Trump let all the monkeys out of our cages, and they're never gonna be able to put us back again.
tim pool
Let's talk about the establishment.
Let's talk about this story from The Hill.
So The Hill is described by NewsGuard as an 80 out of 100 in terms of credibility.
They don't regularly correct their errors, and they don't disclose their financing, but for the most part, they're a very, very reputable outlet.
Fauci bombshell.
Not convinced COVID-19 developed naturally outside Wuhan lab.
Interesting.
I seem to recall a president.
What was his name?
He was orange.
He had the weird hair.
Donald Trump, who said they were investigating this theory.
And then it was this one paper of merit and repute.
That says democracy dies in darkness, that claimed over and over again it was a conspiracy theory, and CNN, and Reuters, and a bunch of all these other outlets alluded to, or insinuated, or outright said, lab leak is a conspiracy theory.
Right-wing media sites, blah blah blah.
Why?
Because Donald Trump said it.
It was a story in the Washington Post I remember reading, that actually said, questions rise about a potential lab leak.
There was a story in the Daily Mail which said something similar.
And then, Donald Trump had to open his mouth, and the media, as we were talking about with Don Lemon, they built themselves off of... I can just imagine it.
You're sitting in the editorial meeting.
It's like, so it's 9 a.m.
and you walk in and there's President Zucker.
Alright guys, what's in the news today?
Well, we got this interesting story about a potential lab leak that COVID may have come from a lab.
Really?
Wow!
Now, run with it.
That's a huge story.
What else we got?
Donald Trump said the lab leak.
unidentified
Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop.
tim pool
He runs out, catches the guy.
No, no, no, no, no, don't run that story, don't run that story.
Come back, come back to the meeting.
They go back in.
Okay, Donald Trump pushed unhinged conspiracy theory.
Roll it.
So all of a sudden, stories that were either based in fact... This is the craziest thing.
Donald Trump would read the news.
You know, Ian Crosland does backflip.
Then he'd go out and be like, this guy, Ian, you see him?
This Ian does a backflip, it's amazing!
And they'll be like, Ian does frontflip, Trump lies.
And you're just like, what is this?
That's what they built themselves off of.
So now we have Fauci.
I think this is his, what, his 10th or 12th flipflop?
Fowchee has, you could make a video, someone should do this if you're listening, someone do this.
Take all the video clips of Fowchee advocating a position and then put it next to Fowchee advocating the opposite position and have him debate himself.
lydia smith
So, um, Latter Earth Crowder actually did that.
chris barron
Oh, he did it!
lydia smith
Yeah, he put it into a clip.
They beat us to it, I know.
tim pool
There you go.
lydia smith
Yeah.
chris barron
Well, what's so amazing is that it hasn't just been Fauci.
I mean, Kamala Harris was talking about how she wasn't sure whether she would take the vaccine that was developed under Trump, and then they have the audacity to be talking about, we've got these These vaccine skeptic people.
Oh really?
Really?
You spent the last year telling people it would be 5-10 years before we got a vaccine.
If it was before then, then it probably wasn't going to be trustworthy because Trump can't be trusted.
Now they want people to completely and totally forget about that.
You gotta go out and you gotta get your vaccine.
tim pool
Now they want people to be drunk.
unidentified
Go to the bar and give them free beer or it's out in front of a 7-Eleven.
tim pool
It's like, okay.
I do find it funny that a lot of the people who are opposing the vaccine were Trump supporters
or are Trump supporters and then a lot of people who are getting it won't give Trump
credit for doing the job.
To be fair, a lot of people always bring up you can support them producing a vaccine but
still think it should be a choice, like the doctor should decide.
chris barron
Yeah, but that's not what they were saying during the campaign.
They were saying that Trump was lying to people about getting a vaccine.
We were never going to have a vaccine by January of 2021.
We had Kamala Harris out there talking about how, who knows if it'd be safe.
I'm not sure whether I would trust that.
tim pool
And wasn't it Biden too?
Like Biden, Kamala, like Cuomo?
They had all been like, I don't know.
You got to wait for the science.
I think, I think a bunch of Democrats came out and said it.
chris barron
Oh, absolutely.
tim pool
Because I started tweeting that they were anti-vaxxers.
chris barron
But this is essentially their entire, all of their positions were dictated by, as you pointed out, what Trump said.
If Trump had actually come out and said, you want to know what?
Vaccines are going to be bad.
They would have been telling us we're going to have a vaccine tomorrow.
It's going to be the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Like everything that they, all of their positions were premised on whatever Donald Trump was for.
It's by the way, it's why the Democratic Party has had this bizarre flip-flop on suddenly becoming the party of foreign intervention all over the world.
Because Trump was against foreign interventionism, so now Bill Kristol feels at home in the new Democratic Party.
tim pool
I gotta give a shout out to the Babylon Bee again, because we have this satirical article.
Ingenious move. Trump supports impeachment, forcing Democrats to oppose.
unidentified
Isn't that really what it was?
chris barron
Again, that seems like insane, but it also hits so close to home.
tim pool
So this Fauci thing about the lab leak is, in my opinion, it shouldn't be news.
Fauci is a very dumb and dangerous person.
He was the one who... Hold on, let me slow down.
Fauci lied about masks.
This is a fact that Fauci has admitted to.
That early on, he told people not to wear masks.
I love this.
He then came out later and said, Well, you know, we wanted people to not buy the masks so that the medical professionals could have them.
Why do medical professionals need masks?
Why do the medical professionals need those masks?
Anybody?
ian crossland
So they don't breathe pathogens into open wounds while they're doing surgery?
tim pool
So because of COVID, right?
ian crossland
They don't want to pass disease.
tim pool
But why do they need more than they already have?
Why was it so important that we get all of these masks, not to the people, but to the medical professionals?
The insinuation is the medical professionals needed more masks than usual.
What was happening that was alarming everybody that made us think doctors needed more masks?
lydia smith
This is why I didn't like Fauci in the beginning.
tim pool
There was a pandemic going on.
Now, how do you prevent the pandemic?
You get regular people to wear masks.
So if Fauci came out and said, you should all be wearing your masks right away, Then the doctors would not have needed so many, because people wouldn't be dying in hospitals because they didn't have masks.
Fauci admitted he wanted the doctors to have them, because he's a moron, because he doesn't understand cause and effect.
And now all of these people line up as though his word is gospel.
Let me just reiterate that.
If from the beginning Fauci said, just wear a mask, the doctors would not have needed as many, because there would be less sick people in hospitals.
He lied, people died, and it contributed to the overwhelming of the system.
This guy is a moron who thinks he's smart, and all he does is he repeats what the news said, but two days later.
I've made that point since the mask thing reversal happened.
I was like, is this guy just coming out and repeating what he saw on CNN two days ago?
And now here we are again.
We have this story about Fauci saying, you know, I'm not convinced the virus, you know, originated naturally.
Oh, is it because the news broke in the past few months that lab leak was a real potential?
And now Fauci flip-flops again?
My favorite.
My favorite.
My absolute favorite.
Fauci is on its show and he gets asked, should people wear double masks, two masks?
And he goes, it's just common sense that if you want to layer and you have to, it would provide more protection.
Then he goes on another show, there's no data suggesting two masks is better and it is not being recommended.
And then a few days, like 10 days later, the CDC recommends two masks.
The dude is so dumb.
He is on every side of the debate and he is responsible for many people in cities being dead because he said, don't wear masks.
For a stupid reason.
chris barron
Well, and by the way, look, it's not just around masks that people ignore the science, that Fauci and our overlords ignored the science.
I mean, from the very beginning, we knew that the survivability rate from COVID was incredibly high, that people who were the most at risk were the elderly and people who had multiple comorbidities.
From the very beginning, our effort should have been to protect those people.
What did Cuomo do?
He put those people in the worst situation possible.
Said, hey, sick, let's shove them back into rest homes and we'll get other people sick and more people will die.
tim pool
We had Janice Dean on.
chris barron
She's so good.
tim pool
But you know about her in-laws.
chris barron
Yeah, she lost both of her in-laws.
tim pool
Because, I'm just gonna say, Cuomo murdered those people.
He was advised this would kill people.
He had the option to use the Jevitt Center or was it the Mercy?
He didn't do it.
Because he didn't want to help Trump.
chris barron
Of course, absolutely.
Absolutely.
New York was struggling and Trump being the executive sent things to New York at the Javits
Center with the mercy that they never used.
And again, because politics was more important than people's lives.
tim pool
Doesn't this constitute, you know, there was this Princeton professor years ago who said
we're in a cold civil war.
We refer to it as the culture war, but we refer to it as war because people have, well there's cold war and there's hot war and people have been killed and there has been a lot of violence.
But we're not at a point where it's like a traditional hot war where there's like armed factions or anything.
But maybe it's because we're becoming too blind to what conflict actually looks like.
Maybe conflict looks like a governor knowingly putting sick people in nursing homes, killing 15,000 people.
Maybe warfare looks like Democrats advocating for the secession of the West Coast.
This is John Podesta, reported by the Boston Globe, if Donald Trump wins.
Maybe this is the media Lying.
Maybe this is Fauci flip-flopping.
Maybe it is your political leaders willing to let you die for political power.
And it's two different factions.
There's a bunch of smaller sub-factions within the parent factions.
Unfortunately for those that oppose the Democrats, the Republicans are mostly a bunch of jellyfish flopping around doing nothing.
So instead, we sit here and watch.
As Cuomo literally, knowingly, puts sick people in nursing homes, resulting in 15,000 dead, and the dude gets a book deal.
chris barron
And an Emmy.
tim pool
And an Emmy.
chris barron
He won an Emmy.
tim pool
For showing justice.
chris barron
No.
And by the way, like, look, this guy is still, like, first off, what he did with the nursing home scandal is absolutely unbelievable.
You'd think that any decent governor would resign.
How many women now have come out and claimed- Glenn Newsom and Wolf.
Yeah, look, there's no accountability.
And Democrats learned a long time ago, they don't have to be accountable.
The media's not going to hold them accountable.
So if the media's not going to hold them accountable, why should they bother?
Ralph Northam's still the governor of Virginia.
Terry McAuliffe's out there touting his endorsement.
And this is the guy who is either in blackface or in the KKK outfit.
tim pool
Yeah, which one?
I don't think it matters.
I think either way the guy's got to get out of there, but they don't care.
Yeah, Donald Trump.
No, he's the racist.
chris barron
Right, yes.
Not the guy, not the governor who, you know, his nickname in undergrad was Coon Man.
That was his nickname, Coon Man.
And then by the way, you remember, after he admitted that it was him, then 24 hours later, he came out and said, actually, I thought about it some more, I don't think it actually was me.
But there was this other time that I did blackface, but that was just for a party, and I'm like, is this for real?
I was like, man, this guy's done, like 24 hours.
tim pool
No, no, no, no, no.
It's tribalism.
chris barron
Yeah.
tim pool
It is so deeply tribal that socialists have aligned themselves with the 1%, the wealthy elites, because they hate Donald Trump.
It is the most insane thing.
I mean, think about it.
The Occupy Wall Street people, not all of them because it kind of split, but many of those activists are voting for Joe Biden.
I'm like, yo, you guys protested that dude.
I was there.
I watched you protest that dude.
Now you're voting for him.
chris barron
Yep.
tim pool
Well, because Trump is worse.
What?
Didn't you want to, like, shake the system up and challenge the establishment?
Donald Trump is a bull in a china shop.
No, no, no.
Trump is bad.
He's a fascist.
Whatever, man.
It's been absolutely ridiculous for me to see these old activists who protested the 1% supporting, like, the Lincoln Project, David Frum, Bill Kristol.
Like, these Republicans are getting support from socialists?
chris barron
Well, and by the way, George W. Bush is now adored by the left and the media.
This was Chimpy McHitler, remember?
All these innocent children died in the Middle East because Bush wanted a war for oil.
Apparently, all is forgiven now.
As long as you hate Trump, all is forgiven.
tim pool
And now we're going to get from...
You know, I said something about Democrats being dumb on Twitter.
There was a story from MSNBC that said the GOP, you know, pushes Bill to make teaching the history of slavery, you know, illegal, or to ban the teaching of slavery, and I'm like, clearly, That's not real.
chris barron
Of course.
tim pool
The actual story is critical race theory, which is an ideology, which is not fact.
And these people watch MSNBC, and they believe it.
And that's like... You know, the QAnon people believe insane things.
Like, I'll tell you, man.
chris barron
Yeah, absolutely.
tim pool
Every... I remember, like, every day after the election, I'd have people being like, dude, I'm telling you, it's tomorrow.
Tomorrow, I'll come up, like, where are you at, bro?
I'm like, no, no, no, it's actually tomorrow.
I'm like, oh, yeah, right, it's tomorrow, permanently.
But they're not institutional.
They don't have massive power.
They're not holding up infrastructure.
MSNBC is mainstream.
They're pumping these people full of insane lies.
So it's a good thing their ratings are collapsing.
But it still leaves us holding this bag.
We got this story from Human Events, breaking from Jack Posobiec.
Leaked State Department memo indicates official support for Black Lives Matter agenda.
Do you want to know what one of their agenda items is?
Disrupting the nuclear family.
Is that part of the Biden administration?
I mean, the dude's already a racist, according to federal courts.
unidentified
This is the craziest thing.
tim pool
The Biden administration has implemented relief funds for restaurants.
Only if you're not white, though.
If you're white, back of the line.
So what happened is this one guy sues.
The problem?
They already gave out billions of dollars.
So they have decided, illegally, violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and unconstitutionally, to give money on the basis of race.
And you can sue them, and you can stop them, but they already did it.
chris barron
So what?
Biden is the greatest Trojan horse ever, and here's why.
They got the oldest, whitest guy in the entire world to be the one who's out there pushing critical race theory and official support for Black Lives Matter because Joe Biden's not running this show.
Yeah.
And the scary thing to me is, and this sounds like such a crazy conspiracy theorist, the crazy thing to me is, I know that Joe Biden's not running this show, and I know Kamala Harris isn't running this show.
So I'm always stuck with, who's actually making decisions in this?
Because there's really insidious stuff that's happening.
Somebody is being very effective at their job.
We just don't know who it is.
tim pool
But maybe not.
Could it be that Joe Biden is so pathetic and weak that Black Lives Matter stuff can just waltz right in.
chris barron
Yeah, but like somebody... the way that this... somebody's making these decisions.
Somebody is saying at some level, institutionally, let's make this part of this.
I think, you know, so that the alternative... And it doesn't have to be one person who's in charge, by the way.
tim pool
But the alternative to the conspiracy theory is the standalone complex, which is a bunch of people doing the same thing that looks like a conspiracy.
I really do think that it's not so much that we're looking at a nucleus in control, because Biden certainly does not exude nucleus in control.
I think we're looking at the opposite, a fracturing and confusion, and the only thing people know is what's in the news, and the news is woke, woke, woke.
unidentified
So they're just like, woke, woke, I guess?
tim pool
But it's also kind of like a Mexican standoff.
So you have a lot of people who probably hate wokeness, but they're scared of speaking out because they think they'll get cancelled.
So what you have is a hundred people in a room all going, I'm woke, I'm woke, but deep down they're all anti-woke, but they're scared other people are woke.
You see what it is?
So I don't see it as a grand conspiracy because it's too Ridiculous and nonsensical.
chris barron
Well, and in a way, this may be the opposite side of the coin that Trump had when it came to staffing.
Trump's number one issue was staffing.
He relied on the establishment think tanks in D.C.
to fill out his mid-level and low-level political appointees.
The result was a whole bunch of people who didn't believe Trump, who didn't like Trump, and who took it upon themselves to run their own little fiefdoms.
The Biden administration, the progressives may have just done a really great job at making sure their people are the people who got hired.
The true believers ended up there, you know?
I mean, it's not the Rahm Emanuel disciples who are in charge in the Biden administration.
tim pool
I liken it to fire, in that it's just an expansive, chaotic, and destructive force.
That once it grabs onto something that can feel its fire, it does.
So it's fairly random.
And it's spreading into the military, it's spreading into the State Department, to the Federal Reserve, which is like one of the weirdest stories.
Do we have that?
Yeah, we have that one right here, look at this.
Senate Republicans expand investigation into woke mission creep of Federal Reserve.
Now that is the scariest thing.
I'll tell you one thing.
Ian, he knows this.
You can complain about the government being woke and we can argue about it.
When the Federal Reserve gets woke, then I start getting worried.
chris barron
You're in trouble.
ian crossland
Makes me think that it is intentional.
I keep thinking about the Great Reset and the Bank of International Settlements, which basically oversees the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Australia.
It's not a... No government has any oversight of what these organizations are doing.
The Great Reset has blatantly said that they want to... I don't know how you'd describe it, but destroy the economic order and re-instill a new world where we own nothing and that we're all kind of subservient and everything's given to us on loan by some greater... That light just is popping on and off.
I don't know if that matters.
Nah, whatever.
tim pool
Ian, you will own nothing and you will be happy.
ian crossland
I just don't think it's a conspiracy.
I think there's no more strong leaders.
And it seems like they're sowing dissent within the United States to break it up because the
greatest resistance to that is this liberty that we've got.
tim pool
I just don't think it's a conspiracy.
I think it's... there's no more strong leaders.
There's no more social and moral cohesion.
And so, it's...
I don't think there's a strong, powerful, cabal of people that want to break it apart.
I think it's a bunch of people grabbing money from the vault as the building's on fire.
ian crossland
I would refer to that Time Magazine article that specifically said there's a cabal of people that are intentionally Well, I'll say this much.
chris barron
My colleague Brent Hamachek at Human Events wrote a really awesome article about how we're now all dissidents.
The conservatives were dissidents.
And he's got this great thing where everybody always talks about, well, there's more of us than them.
Who cares that there's more of us than them?
Because they control all of the levers of power in this country.
Big business is run by the left.
Academia is run by the left.
Pop culture is run by the left.
They are in control of everything.
So it doesn't take a conspiracy theory.
What it takes is a group of people who are all thinking the same way, who also happen to occupy the most powerful positions in The country.
I mean, we always talk about, like, Fox News.
That's great.
We have, like, one Fox News.
And Fox News does great, but compare, like, what Fox News' viewership is to what all the other left-wing media outlets are, and then you realize Fox looks like this, and all of the left-wing organizations look like that.
I mean, it is...
I think we've been lulled into this sense of believing that because there's more of us than them, that that somehow is going to save us, and it's not.
tim pool
So, Ian's certainly not a conservative.
Not really.
Sometimes.
ian crossland
Depends on the situation.
tim pool
I don't think there's a sane argument for saying you're a conservative.
I can certainly say you have libertarian overlap with conservatives.
ian crossland
More like the death penalty.
That's kind of a conservative view.
Really?
Yeah, for sure.
I'm hardcore when it comes to military discipline and stuff.
tim pool
Wow, I didn't realize the Ian Hippie guy was like, KILL THEM ALL!
ian crossland
Don't let it be authoritarian now, Tim.
I don't know.
I don't think of myself as liberal.
I'm both liberal in certain situations which need it, and conservative when we want conservation to maintain and retain.
tim pool
My point is, conservatives certainly call me left-wing, but left-wings call me conservative because obviously I'm kind of in the middle.
And so the conservatives actually have allies with disaffected liberals and moderates.
Liberal people who have actually watched the news, surprise, surprise, end up joining the likes of the intellectual dark web or becoming fans of it.
But most of these people just watch MSNBC.
Now here's the problem.
There may be more of us on the freedom and individualism side than the constructivism, collectivism side.
However, if we got a hundred people on this side, of which twenty have spines, and they have forty people on that side of which thirty have spines, They're gonna win those battles.
Over and over and over again.
I can't tell you how many celebrities I've talked to who are like, well actually I can, it's probably like 10 or 12, who are like, I, you know, I believe everything you say, I'm a big fan of the show, but I can't speak up because I'll lose everything, and I'm like, then you don't deserve anything.
chris barron
Correct.
tim pool
You get to, what you're saying is, when you tell me this, guys, when you call me, you tell me this, you're telling me that you're okay extracting value from the system to live lavishly, because let's be real, you guys are rich.
You're not suffering like the average American, and you won't give up your silver spoon to save your own country.
Fine.
Then you don't deserve it.
And what's anyone gonna do?
Because they'll certainly wield the power.
Not only do the leftist celebrities wield the power, but even leftist celebrities who also don't like it will just toe the line if it means cash in the bank.
chris barron
Yeah, and also afraid that they'll come for them.
I mean, look at how many times that the left has eaten one of their own.
They'll do it, you know?
I mean, they have no problem sacrificing one of their own if it means it keeps 100 more of them in line.
tim pool
Man, it's like, who would want to be part of the Borg?
ian crossland
The metaphor I keep thinking is the Russian the World War two the Russians and the Germans and there were so many more Russians as far as I know But and there was so much fewer Germans, but they had better technology Whereas you see these people on the left have access to the media that they have the better technology They have the the tanks the blitzkrieg and then all these other people are You know, technologically, maybe, and less empowered.
The Russians only won that war, well, it's complicated, but they were allies, external allies, and they also won by war of attrition, by destroying what they loved, burning their own cities to the ground.
chris barron
Yeah, exactly!
ian crossland
I mean, they could suffer the most losses in the war, so it's not... It's the Zapp-Branigan strategy.
tim pool
That sending wave after wave of your own men until you just overrun the enemy.
They were like mass-produced trash tanks, The communist method was really just let the people die.
Just mowing people into it.
The capitalist and American strategy was have the efficient machine, have the efficient strategy, so we have air superiority and nuclear bombs.
That means we minimize the risk to ourselves.
The communists load them all up and send them out and just sacrifice wave after wave of their own men.
chris barron
They didn't care.
Just grind them all up.
Just grind them all up!
ian crossland
It worked!
chris barron
It did!
That's not pretty!
tim pool
For only a certain amount of time, though.
ian crossland
It may not be a good metaphor, because if the people on the right were the commu- It's just this ridiculous outside-of-the-box metaphor, but like, the cancel culture thing of just like, keep going with it, keep saying what might get you banned online, and then they keep, one by one, taking these people out, it's just... I think this metaphor is not good.
Well, it's only- Thanks for bearing with me.
chris barron
That was fun!
tim pool
It's only a matter of time, because they control the institutions, until everybody's been crushed.
ian crossland
So what, you cracked the code?
The Allies cracked the code?
tim pool
Google, Facebook, Twitter, they are slowly making excuses to purge people.
This is what happens when you have a religion that is violent, oppressive, and extreme.
Christians aren't that.
ian crossland
And you know, the Nazis, violent, excessive, and extreme, actually ate themselves from the inside out, as you can see the Celebs is doing.
They tried to kill Hitler, like their own, their own people tried to murder him, and that basically drove Hitler insane, and then made him start making poor decisions of leadership.
tim pool
It's extremists.
ian crossland
And then they fell apart.
So, you could see maybe, see that happening to this wokeness too, I could see that.
I mean, they obviously go after each other, like you were saying earlier.
chris barron
I mean, I really do.
I'm not always the most optimistic guy about this stuff.
I think politically, in the short term, I think we're going to feel the pain for a while.
And even if Republicans win back the House and the Senate, I have no faith in these people.
None at all.
But, long term, I do feel like this woke like push is going to undermine Democrats because again like I said until we pass my amendment to outlaw suburban women from being able to vote like they they matter and this this critical race theory stuff until then right this critical race theory stuff that's being pushed in public schools like this is the type of stuff and Democrats are starting to warn liberal thinkers are starting to warn Democrats you've got a lot of problems here you've got probably you are going to disaffect that base that you
You just relied on to get elected by pushing this critical race theory stuff.
You run around teaching that this country is fundamentally a racist country, that we're still a fundamentally racist country, that we're founded on racism.
It's not simply teaching, yes, slavery was terrible, and the lessons learned from that, and Jim Crow was terrible, but that somehow we're beyond saving.
This country is just garbage.
tim pool
It's really, I got a really simple solution for everybody.
If you work for one of these companies, or you are a member of a school board, or you have kids in one of these schools, and you hear critical theory in general, file a complaint with the appropriate administration or organization.
So, if you work for a company, and they announce they're doing critical race theory trainings, or If another employee brings up critical race theory, report them for racial harassment immediately.
I'm not exaggerating.
You go to your boss and say, Janet came and started spouting a bunch of racist stuff, and I demand you tell her to stop, otherwise I will file a complaint.
You have been warned.
And then you know what they'll do?
They'll say, Janet, stop the racist stuff.
And she'll go, I was arguing against race.
I don't care what it is.
Stop it.
People are getting mad.
chris barron
That's why you have to use their own language against them.
That's why when whenever I see somebody like talking about critical race theory, like, yes, you accuse them of being racist because that's what they are.
But that's, but it's, I won't do it though.
They're like, oh, critical race theory.
It's a kind of bad thing.
It's like, you know, like it rather than say like, this is racist.
tim pool
If you work for a company, I'll tell you what I would do, because we talked about this last week.
If I worked for a company and the boss was like, we're doing a racial sensitivity training, I would be like, oh, this is going to be great.
And I would go in and no matter what they say, I would get offended.
There was a training video, I guess, I think this was from Coke or something.
I can't remember where I heard this, but someone was talking to me about In the training, it explained racial stereotypes.
It was like, people often think Latinos are lazy instead of a bunch of things.
I'm like, if you're Latino, you should immediately say, excuse me?
Did we just get invited to your clan rally so you can explain to people why people think Latinos are lazy?
And then they'll have to shut it down.
You, see, here's how it works.
You give your boss a warning, and if they don't rectify the problem, then you inform them you're filing a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, I think it's called, EEOC, and then you go and file the complaint.
Now again, I've mentioned this before, maybe someone at the administration at the EOC is gonna be super woke by the time you go screw yourself and that's where it starts getting bad.
But for the time being, you just go in, and you don't even gotta be specific.
You don't gotta be- Listen, if there was a guy, and he's a boss, and he's like a white progressive guy, and he's like, we're gonna be doing, you know, critical race theory diversity training, I'd be like, if you do that, I will be filing a complaint.
And then when I file the complaint, I'll say he started spouting a bunch of extremely racist sentiment, talking about how some people of certain races were inherently bad or wrong, and it was bad to look this way and have this colored skin.
What did he say specifically?
I can't repeat it.
Don't make me say it.
That's it.
Go to the boss.
Go above your boss and say he said a bunch of racist things.
What did he say?
I will not repeat it, but I have warned you he is harassing and is racist.
People need to do this.
Because guess what?
It's not about using the language of the left.
It's about you could be sitting there and being like, man, that Chris Rock's a funny guy.
Excuse me?
And then they go and complain about cultural appropriation.
And then your boss is going to be like, you really got to chill out on the racist stuff.
And you're like, wait, what?
I didn't say anything.
Well, they complained about you being racist.
So if they bring it up, complain about it.
chris barron
The problem is, is our side has traditionally sucked at this.
By the way, because most of us just want to be left alone.
We just want to do our own thing.
Like, fine, you have opinions.
I don't really like them.
Whatever.
It doesn't change my life.
But you're right.
We can no longer just sit back and let that happen.
Because of the fact that we've allowed ourselves to be rolled over to the point where it's not okay.
We're not allowed to have opinions anymore that they don't like.
tim pool
Well, if you're not willing to fight back, you know what really bothers me?
I go through some phases when I watch bullying, right?
So I see a kid getting bullied, and the first thing I get mad about is the bully.
Leave that dude alone.
What's wrong with you?
And then, after, like, the tenth time, you know what I get mad at?
The kid getting bullied.
You know why?
Bro, at a certain point, you've gotta change what's happening.
You can't keep walking up to the bully.
Stop walking this direction.
Stop going to the school.
Or...
Stand up for yourself.
But at a certain point, if you don't stand up for yourself, after all of this, I won't defend you.
I'll get mad and I'll say you're on your own.
And so I've talked about this with police.
Like the cops in the Minneapolis area.
They're getting defunded in Brooklyn Center.
And you know what?
I'm not going to defend them.
Sorry.
I defended them before the election.
What did we see?
In Philadelphia, they're experiencing one of the worst crime surges ever.
So they re-elect, in a landslide, their progressive, soft-on-crime DA.
Well, let's keep doing it.
Fire hot, but let's try it again.
Maybe fire not hot this time.
I'm not going to defend the people of Philadelphia.
I'm not going to defend those cops if they stick around and they get locked up for, you know, trying to arrest somebody.
Look, at first, I'm going to be like, these people burning on these cities are awful.
They're bad.
They must be stopped.
Then I watch, in a landslide victory, the Democrats vote in the politicians who supported the riots, and I'm like, okay, it's all yours.
Have a nice day.
chris barron
Yeah, no, let the rich white people experience what they, they bought it, you know, they paid for it, let them have it.
Like, look, if that's what you want.
And by the way, none of them actually want that.
unidentified
Right.
chris barron
None of them want that.
Because they're all living in their estates and they're in the nice areas of town and they think they're immune from this stuff.
tim pool
Well, but you know what's happening now.
Wall Street Journal reported the areas that have experienced the worst surge in crime, black neighborhoods, Latino neighborhoods.
chris barron
Of course.
tim pool
Not affecting the white progressive suburbs.
chris barron
No.
tim pool
So take away their cops.
Take them.
They want to abolish the police?
You get what you ask for, because I'll tell you what.
I live in the middle of nowhere.
You know, we got guns, we're good.
I'd prefer if it wouldn't have to be this way, but if they're advocating for abolishing
the police, I'm going to take responsibility for myself.
But going back to the stuff about critical theory.
It's not just race theory.
It's critical gender theory.
It's critical theory as a whole, which is this Marxist philosophy.
Frankfurt School, etc.
It's really, really simple.
You see a flyer on the wall that says white privilege or anything like that?
You immediately file an anonymous complaint about racial harassment from the individual who put it up.
You don't gotta get specific.
You can say they were spouting racist things, disparaging people on the basis of their race, it's a violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and I am upset about it.
I think it's Title VII.
And if they don't rectify it, you can file a complaint, and they will get in trouble.
In New York, it's particularly serious.
If you live in New York City, It's a $250,000 fine if they do not stop this behavior.
So you warn your boss.
Say you work at Starbucks.
And they're like, we're going to have a talk about white privilege.
No, you're not.
Because if you say one more word, I will file a complaint for racial harassment.
unidentified
They'll be like, uh, say it.
tim pool
I told you not to harass me.
And then go file a complaint, and say they were making, you know, harassing people on the basis of their race, saying some employees were better than others on the basis of their race, some were worse than others.
Boom.
$250K.
Out of their pocket.
That's not even using their own tactics.
That's just the law.
And it's a law that, today, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, basically everybody agrees with.
It should be illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, except for the woke left.
Nobody's fighting, though.
chris barron
Yeah, but by the way, I'm 100% for using their own tactics.
Look, I wish we lived in a place where cancel culture didn't exist, but as long as cancel culture exists, then I'm for canceling liberals.
I see this on Twitter all the time when people are like, stop celebrating, this person got fired because they had this position.
No, I'm going to celebrate.
Every single time one of theirs goes down, I'm going to celebrate.
Because, again, this is a war of Attrition.
And until they start feeling some of the pain, they're not going to change.
The policies aren't going to change.
They're not going to change what they're doing until enough of them start feeling the pain of it.
tim pool
No, I don't think that's going to work.
They sacrifice their own.
They cancel their own.
chris barron
They do, but eventually, look, eventually it's going to start.
And we've seen it a little bit, you know, when there'd be the, like, you know, recently the woman who was the Hamas terrorist supporter at AP.
at AP who lost her job and they're like, you know, all these reporters are like, this is so terrible that somebody can't have their own opinion, blah, blah, blah.
It's like, where were you guys?
Like every, any conservative in the entire world gets fired for having, you know, objectionable opinions.
This woman is actually a supporter of terrorism and you're angry that she lost her, her job.
tim pool
Could have sworn Marjorie Taylor Greene got stripped of her committees for things she said years before she got elected.
chris barron
Yes.
tim pool
Amazing.
chris barron
Yeah.
Amazing how that is.
But again, like let, let them feel the pain from it.
tim pool
You know, uh, I'm in favor of cancelers getting cancelled, but I'm not in favor of leftists getting cancelled for their opinions.
Because there's gotta be a standard.
If this is a leftist who is actively trying to get people fired, and then they get fired, I will laugh.
And say, get outta here, I'm not gonna help you, you're nuts.
It's like the fire being put out by a controlled burn.
We're happy about it.
But if it's just some like, you know, dumb commie Twitter account who says something communist so they ban him, that's bad.
That's really bad.
There's gotta be a line.
So anybody who's for free speech, I'll protect their right to free speech.
Anybody who's not, well then, you don't want my support anyway.
chris barron
But the problem is, is that all of these people are for cancel culture themselves.
tim pool
I'm saying if there is somebody who is like pro-free speech.
chris barron
Yeah, I mean unfortunately those people don't exist on the left anymore.
tim pool
There's a little bit.
There's a decent amount.
She won't head.
You know, she's for free speech.
So I will absolutely defend her at every turn for her right to speak and say what she wants to say.
chris barron
I'll defend Tulsi Gabbard.
tim pool
Oh yeah, but Tulsi is like, she's got more spine than most Republicans on this stuff.
chris barron
I know, which is embarrassing by the way.
It's absolutely embarrassing that the, like the, the...
tim pool
Progressive Democrat Tulsi Gabbard.
Yeah, she's progressive. She's for gun control.
chris barron
She's for socialized medicine.
Yeah, I mean she's not conservative.
But again, I think this is where some of the breakdowns on the political partisan battles these days aren't on these traditional left-right axis.
It's not like it's a whole bunch of, are you pro-life, are you pro-choice, are you pro-this, pro-that.
Some of this stuff really is crossing all of those lines.
And for us to win, we need more of the Tulsi Gabbards.
We need more of the Tulsi Gabbards saying, You know what, this is ridiculous, like Lori Lightfoot in Chicago saying she's only going to give interviews to reporters of color.
tim pool
Can you name a Republican who's called out the anti-white racism from a politician ever?
I don't think so.
Tulsi Gabbard said this is anti-white racism and she should resign.
It should be condemned.
Everyone should come together.
It's like, yeah, Tulsi, we know, but no one's playing fair.
The Republicans aren't playing at all.
They're sitting on their hands and the Democrats are just trying to burn it down.
chris barron
Right, well, and by the way, like, again, this is because Democrats, when they get power, are willing to use, you know, every tool available to them, and our side won't.
Which is why I said, like, even if we went back to the House and Senate, I have no faith.
tim pool
I think of it like this, like, you vote, like, there's a bank.
And you vote for the Democrats because they're promising to run to, you know, when we run the bank, everyone's going to get a higher interest rate.
You're all going to get 10%!
Wow.
And then as soon as they get in, you just watch them like going into the vault and carrying out stacks of cash.
And you're like, where are you going?
What are you doing?
And then you're like, you know what?
I'm gonna vote for the Republican next time, because these people are just taking money from the vault.
Then you vote for Republicans, and they're just, like, sitting on the toilet on their phones, and you can't find them.
You're like, what's going on?
The Democrats are still looting the vault!
And then they're all just in the bathroom on their phones, because they don't want to actually do their jobs.
So who do you vote for?
I feel like...
It really does feel like it's on purpose.
But, I think the reality is, the Democrats are just looting the vault.
You vote for them, and they run in, and they grab as much as they can, and they run out.
They sign bills that guarantee their future.
They're extracting the system, and it's getting worse.
So, my friends, I bring you to the ever, ever, uh, uh, the never-ending story.
How about that?
Of San Francisco.
I remember the first time I heard about San Francisco's Poop Patrol.
Did you know about San Francisco's Poop Patrol?
Some cities have a fire department.
Everybody's got a fire department.
Maybe you've got a volunteer fire department.
You're living up on a mountain or something.
Maybe you've got a local police department or sheriff's department.
San Francisco has a poop department.
It is a publicly funded poop unit that goes around with specialized tools for cleaning up human waste because their streets are littered with it.
The New York Times reports, San Francisco's shoplifting surge.
The mundane crime of shoplifting has spawned out of control in San Francisco, forcing some chain stores to close.
I believe it was, what, 17 Walgreens stores?
lydia smith
Yeah.
tim pool
Because the police said they're no longer going to arrest people for these petty crimes.
You see a video of these women in Walgreens, and they're just shoveling makeup products, cosmetics, into bags.
Because the cops won't come.
They're not going to bother with it anymore.
The Democrats said, the police system is oppressive.
Let's not have it.
And so you don't.
chris barron
So in New York, apparently there was a series of shoplifting things that were happening.
So more of like the CVS and Walgreens were starting to put more stuff behind lock and key.
And Cynthia Nixon, being the great limousine liberal that she is, tweeted out about how she went to her corner CVS and she saw stuff behind lock and key.
And she was so offended at this time that people were struggling to make ends meet that they thought that this was the best way to handle it.
I mean, That's why, like, when people say liberalism is disorder, I'm like, that's so not nice to say, and then I'm like, actually?
But it may be a disorder!
tim pool
But we can't let them take the word liberalism, because that's certainly not what it is.
chris barron
I know, but like, the idea that you see things behind lock and key in a CVS, and instead of thinking about, isn't this terrible that we have this scourge of shoplifting to the point that shop owners are required to put stuff behind lock and key?
Instead you think, Isn't it awful at this time when people are struggling to eat that people feel like they have to hide things?
tim pool
This is the cycle of Democrats.
Here's what happens.
Someone shoplifts and gets arrested.
And then people outside are filming, and the person's screaming, My hands!
You're hurting me!
I can't breathe!
And they're like, This is bad!
He was only shoplifting!
Like, this is crazy!
Like, what are these cops doing?
So then they all protest, and they smash a bunch of windows, and they burn places down, and the city says, People, people, we've heard your cries.
We will no longer arrest shoplifters.
Then all of a sudden, and this is actually what happens, Walgreens sees a wave of shoplifting, and so then Walgreens puts things behind locked cages, and then people start filming it going, Walgreens is racist!
They are racist!
Because the only things that they're covering up are the products used by minority communities.
It's like, But there's no cops to stop the shoplifting so they have to lock the products up now.
Now you're complaining about what you advocated for?
That's the system.
They say, we must abolish the police because the police are oppressive.
Then crime skyrockets.
See?
The police weren't doing anything anyway.
They weren't keeping our community safe.
No, no, no, you got rid of the cops!
You defunded them!
You abolished them!
What are you complaining about now?
chris barron
The left is completely predicated on building coalitions of victims.
So all their policies have to be geared towards creating new victims.
No one can ever graduate from victimhood.
It's why, like, look, gay people for years and years and years said, if we get the right to marry, the right to open, you know, openly serve the military, like, our work here is going to be done.
When they said, actually, now it's LGBTQIAA plus two.
Because you can't, no one's ever allowed to leave.
You're never allowed to graduate out of victimhood.
The fact is, is that gay people in this country have more freedoms than any other country in the entire planet.
They've been the most successful civil rights movement of all time, in record time.
People should be high-fiving.
Instead, you've got the left trying to convince them that, you know, actually you're still oppressed.
tim pool
My favorite article, I think it was from The Root, it said, Black men are the white people of black people.
chris barron
Yeah.
tim pool
Something like that.
And it was like, wait, what?
They needed to find some kind of power dynamic.
The woke left, so it's not all of them, but they do align behind this.
They only believe that there is no truth but power.
So that was a fascistic ideology.
That the only thing that mattered was power.
Because truth is irrelevant if you could remove anyone who believed the truth.
The left doesn't believe in objective reality.
And I mean, like, overall.
There are obviously some leftists who are, like, anti-woke communists, but it doesn't matter because they still vote for Biden, who then puts in woke policy.
They don't believe in objective reality.
They do believe in power dynamics.
They literally follow tenets of fascism.
Now, I know they're not ultra-right nationalists, so spare me, leftists, when you're like, that's not true, you're dumb.
They are authoritarian.
Race-based Identitarian.
Generalized Identitarian.
And they have fascistic tendencies.
Call it whatever you want, I don't care.
They're psychopaths.
chris barron
Well, it's like, the left is also, years ago, the left decided to adopt this politics of intersectionality, where you had to be for everybody else's agenda.
The right has always been this coalition of kind of diverse, like, I'm the gun people and the abortion people, and they can agree on this and disagree on that, and it's always been, you know, this kind of raucous coalition of folks.
The left decided a long time ago that they had to stamp out any opposition to each other.
You couldn't just be, like, I'm the pro-choice Democrat.
You also had to be, I'm the pro-everything else.
And you had to be at 100%.
And that's why they've been so effective.
The Human Rights Campaign is the largest LGBT organization in the country.
It takes all kinds of positions on crap that have absolutely nothing to do with gay people whatsoever.
Because the left has been so effective at intersectional politics.
You have to buy in on everything.
tim pool
Well, the example I love to give is an organization called Free Press, FreePress.net.
What do you think an organization called FreePress.net advocates for as a non-profit?
chris barron
Sounds like Freedom of the Press.
tim pool
So, would you be surprised at all to learn that they advocated for the censorship of Alex Jones?
Wow!
I remember when I saw that, I know people there and I hit them up, I'm like, why are you guys advocating for censorship?
I'm like, hate speech is bad.
I'm like, isn't that just press?
Like, I don't get it.
What's the difference between your opinion and their opinion?
Well, they're hate speech.
I'm like, free press.
It doesn't say free press for some.
I guess that's what, that's what, it changed.
They changed.
Intersectionality.
Yeah.
All of a sudden, you had to support all of the causes.
chris barron
Yep.
tim pool
Even if it defied your own principles, principles were gone.
And then I love it.
unidentified
I love it.
tim pool
I had a meeting with some people from Vice, and they're like, they're like, I don't know, man.
Like, people change, you know?
It's like, they, they, that stuff doesn't fly.
And I was like, bro, do you think maybe you changed?
And then these two people were like, Yeah.
Yeah.
There was an article in Vice about an app that you take a picture of a woman and then it uses AI to show her topless.
And they called it like, this horrible app shows a woman topless.
And then I was like, you see that article?
I was like, do you know what Vice would have titled that article in 2012?
This amazing app shows you women topless.
Because it was meant to be in your face, edgy, angry.
Something happened to Vice where they became feminists.
And that's when they were like... Yeah, you're right.
But we can't do that anymore.
And I was like, of course you can!
You're just... You're scared.
Like, why can't you do it?
Your ratings are in the gutter.
Your views are in the gutter.
Clearly people liked the punk rock F.U.
attitude.
And what did you give them instead?
Demure, scared feminism?
Yeah, that's exactly what's going to save your company.
Now they're in the gutter.
Disney wrote off their $500 million investment in Vice to zero.
Congratulations, getting woke.
Was it worth it?
chris barron
It won't go broke.
Same thing's happened in comedy.
Comedy has been absolutely ruined by the woke left.
You know, and it's why the handful of people who, you know, push back against woke are actually, like, some of the most powerful activists in this country, which is so crazy.
I mean, at its base, like, comedy was supposed to be funny.
It was supposed to be equal opportunity offenders, pick on everybody, like, slaughter all the sacred cows.
tim pool
Yeah.
chris barron
Instead, you watch, like, late night, you know, TV over the last four or five years, they're telling the same joke on every channel every night.
SNL is unwatchable from start to finish, and it has been.
unidentified
Yeah.
chris barron
Because the number one point of comedy was to make people laugh, and instead they decided the number one point had to be to toe Claptor.
tim pool
It's called Clapter.
It's where people aren't laughing at the jokes, they're clapping because they agree with the political message.
chris barron
Right.
tim pool
So, these comedy shows during the Trump era, like SNL, they would get Alec Baldwin to do this impression that in no way resembled Trump.
It was the weirdest thing.
Like, Trump wouldn't ever just freeze and then hold his mouth open in a weird way.
That didn't happen.
So, Alec Baldwin was just...
Making fun of the guy.
Like, he wasn't doing an impression, it was just people laughing because they hated Trump.
There was no substance, there was no humor.
Well, I shouldn't say there's no humor.
If you find it funny, fine, but it was clapped-er.
They would get a guy on stage, they'd be like, Trump is so dumb!
And then everyone would go, haha!
And they'd all laugh and clap at each other, and it's like... Okay, well... When you look at all the other late-night hosts, and it's all the exact same thing.
And John Oliver's, like, the worst.
That guy just, like, lies.
All the time!
It's hilarious how awful the show is.
It's formulaic.
Little Timothy over here says Trump is bad!
And everyone laughs and I'm like, well, that's funny about that.
chris barron
Well, I mean, that's the thing, though, is that, like, I mean...
I would love if, by the way, if Alec Baldwin had actually done a good Trump impression,
I would have laughed. The impression he did actually got worse as it went along.
tim pool
He wasn't doing an impression.
chris barron
No, it was like the same thing. And again, like I laughed all the time. I enjoy comedy
that makes fun of everybody. There's plenty of things to make fun of Trump about that could have
been funny.
But it never was, because it was.
It was all about the political.
It was all about trying to get the clap, the applause.
It's like after the Hillary Clinton loss, you know, and the SNL did the skit with, you know, the woman coming out, you know, as Hillary, and like singing the song.
And it was like, what am I watching?
tim pool
We got this art on the wall.
You guys can't see it on the cameras, but it's from George Alexopoulos, and it's one part of a comic about Trump.
It's Trump struggling to eat what appears to be like broccoli, and he can't.
He's wearing a bib.
It says, Bib Boy.
In the original comic, he says, like, my hands are too small, and he's struggling to eat it.
What's funny about this is it's not really making fun of Trump.
It's making fun of the left as they would make fun of Trump.
So when I look at it, I laugh, but I'm not laughing because Trump has little hands and wears a bib.
I'm laughing because that's the garbage joke the left had.
It was the only thing they had.
You turn on Family Guy, Trump was orange, literally, massively fat, with tiny little hands, and I'm like, Who are you talking to?
Trump doesn't have little hands.
I get the joke the first time, but is that it?
That was it.
That was it.
It is like a bunch of drones all being with the applause sign flashing.
That's what tiny hands was.
They'd go, hey, hey Ian.
Dainty hands!
It's like, okay, I get it, whatever.
ian crossland
Apparently a comedy's crushing it in Texas right now.
The Creek and the Cave, are you familiar?
tim pool
Is that Rogan's?
ian crossland
Well, no, it was an independent thing run by Rebecca out in New York and they shut down because of COVID and reopened in Austin.
I keep hearing it's apparently one of the hottest spots in Austin right now.
lydia smith
Awesome.
tim pool
Yeah, but you do have some people who are willing to say F you and kind of push the boundaries.
Ryan Long, obviously.
We've had him on the show several times.
ian crossland
It's just good luck getting it on network TV.
That's the problem.
tim pool
No, no, no.
I don't think these people want that anymore.
I think the comedians are like, why?
You can't make jokes.
ian crossland
I mean, what's his name?
Got arrested for... George Carlin.
Yeah, Carlin got arrested for...
That's awesome.
It's always kind of cool to land a Tonight Show spot as a comedian, but I think like you said about the Republicans seeking a good word in the New York Times, getting an award or getting that one moment in the spotlight is not really valuable.
chris barron
Counterculture has become the establishment.
Like, I was literally sitting there listening to Sirius XM and Rage Against the Machine.
Tom Morello came on talking about his channel and blah blah blah.
And I was like, Rage Against the Machine is now Rage for the Machine.
tim pool
Rage on behalf of the machine.
chris barron
Yeah, I'm like, it's the least, like right now, all of these people have completely sold out everything that they were supposedly for.
I love it.
All the counterculture and punk rock and all that, it's all dead.
They killed it all.
It's all just milquetoast, boring crap.
tim pool
It's like Tom Morello is like, what's up everybody?
This is Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine.
Check out my album.
You can order it on Amazon or find it at Walmart.
Produced by Shenzhen slave labor youth for $0.50 an hour.
ian crossland
A big problem with the record and music industry is like autotune and computers.
Like how you can record your one, one like a segment of like a one, what do they call it?
A beat or like a, yeah.
What are you talking about?
Like 16 bars, you can record it and then stop, and then record the next 16 bars and then cut them together in the
computer, which is a totally disjointed way to sing.
If you want to sing a song, normally back in the day...
tim pool
What does that have to do with what we were talking about?
ian crossland
It's cheapened the art.
No, I disagree.
Back in the day you would go in and you'd have to kick it in one track and it has to be good because that's the way
chris barron
it sounds.
tim pool
It has little to do with rage on behalf of the machine.
ian crossland
14-year-olds don't realize the passion that is involved with art because they don't have to.
The computer is doing it for them.
tim pool
You're not even talking about the same thing.
When hip-hop came out, people called them demo tapes.
They said it was not real music.
I'm not going to have an argument about what is or isn't enjoyable music.
I'm having an argument about punk rock bands that are supporting Walmart and Amazon.
ian crossland
Well, you can't be punk if you're going to rely on a computer to do the work for you.
Yes, you can.
That's not punk rock.
tim pool
You're an old man, Ian.
Get with the program.
Your music is old.
ian crossland
Punk rock is hardcore.
You don't rely on a machine to fix it for you.
tim pool
You're making excuses for your bad music.
ian crossland
I'm pointing out why there is a dead punk rock scene right now.
chris barron
You know what's amazing?
To digress, but on the music thing here.
Sean Ono Lennon is one of the best follows on Twitter.
And the guy is not even saying anything that's that far out there.
He's just asking questions sometimes, and I'm realizing that's revolutionary right now on the left.
Somebody who's... John Lennon's son.
John Lennon's son with Yoko Ono.
So he's got the background that's bulletproof.
You can't accuse Sean Ono Lennon of being a white nationalist.
So he's the guy who can say, like, hey, by the way, are things going too far?
And start asking the question.
And I'm like, that's so crazy that we've gotten to a point where that's revolutionary.
That's actually revolutionary is now doing something so baby step of just saying, hey, is this going too far?
tim pool
I should just write parody punk music that's just like super in favor of the establishment and like massive multinational corporations.
Just write a punk rock song like Joe Biden rocks.
chris barron
I can't even go back, I can't, so I used to like Rage Against the Machine, but I can't even listen to their music anymore because all of it feels so fraudulent at this point, you know what I mean?
tim pool
To be fair, like, Killing in the Name, like, have, have, there was a video I saw, it was funny, it was conservatives dancing to Killing in the Name, and I'm like, you guys know what that song's about?
Like, white supremacist cops who are murdering black people?
Like, that's Black Lives Matter.
I guess the interesting thing is, the response I saw from this, I tweeted about it, were people like, dude, they know what the song's about.
Like, they legit don't like cops who are racists killing black people.
The left just thinks all conservatives agree with that.
And I'm like, wow, that's actually kind of a crazy point.
Like, you could have liked Rage Against the Machine.
And then I had this funny moment where I was talking to this Antifa guy.
This was in Berkeley.
And he had a knife.
And he was like, all those people are fascists.
And I was like, all those people in the park right over there?
He's like, yeah, they're all fascists, man.
And I was like, do you think those people are pro-gun?
And he's like, yeah.
And I was like, do you know why they're pro-gun?
And he's like, I don't know.
I was like, isn't it because they're scared of a tyrannical government taking over so they want guns to protect themselves from fascism?
And he was like, Oh.
Yeah, I guess.
And I'm like, so it kind of sounds like they're the ones who don't like fascism and they, like, want guns to protect themselves.
See, like, the left has this assumption that the right loves the government, and I'm like, yeah, maybe some elements are, like, supportive of the government, but, like, the Gadsden flag and, like, all that stuff about, like, small government, I'm not surprised they're dancing to Rage Against the Machine, where they're preaching about racist cops, like, being bad, because conservatives are also skeptical of government, but they do support cops.
That's why it was kind of paradox.
chris barron
So in a way I feel like kind of the bases have kind of flipped over the last 20 years.
With the base of the right wing base getting more and more like skeptical of authority, skeptical of the government,
more like self-reliant, you know, less interested in foreign adventurism, you know, less, you know, more
skeptical of Wall Street and big business.
And the left has completely and totally sold out to all of that.
Again, it gets to your point about Rage Against the Machine selling their, you know, their CG's at Walmart.
tim pool
Well, I don't know if they're actually, but they probably are.
chris barron
I'm sure they are.
But, like, they've sold all of that out.
The Occupy Wall Street people are now the party of Wall Street.
tim pool
Well, Occupy Wall Street split up, so a decent amount of those people became Trump supporters.
I remember I went to the Deplora Ball in D.C., and I was just like, I didn't think anybody there would know who I was, and I saw two people, and they were like, Tim, huge fans, so cool to see you here, nice to meet you, and I was like, oh, I didn't realize I'd have fans who were Trump supporters, and they were like, oh no, we were down at Occupy Wall Street the whole time.
I was like, you're wearing MAGA hats.
Like, yeah, yeah, Trump's the guy, man.
And I was like, wow.
But like, when you think about it, these are people who are angry at the banking establishment, angry at the political establishment.
And Donald Trump came in and said, bring the jobs back, secure the borders.
That sounds about right.
ian crossland
But also, they were voting against Hillary.
tim pool
We gotta be honest.
ian crossland
Hillary usurped that from Bernie.
And people voted against Hillary.
Just like they voted against Trump this time, they voted against Hillary last time.
tim pool
That nasty woman.
ian crossland
If she was just so hateable.
chris barron
In a way that like Biden is really not that hateable.
He's just kind of, you know, and you almost feel bad for him.
You feel like, God, I wish, I wish he wasn't put out here.
Yeah.
Like, you know, you know how the story ends and get to the end of the story.
Like, whereas like Hillary, every time she said something, it came across as so smarmy and so elitist.
And you're just like, Oh God, I want you to lose so bad.
tim pool
Please lose.
ian crossland
Her email scandal was insane.
Like once she burned like 10,000 emails.
30,000 emails that she just destroyed and disrupted with like talks with Sidney Blumenthal
about going into Libya when she was Secretary of State.
chris barron
After she was supposed to be out.
tim pool
She was so entitled.
Ian.
She said it was yoga.
lydia smith
Yeah, her daughter's wedding.
ian crossland
Oh, no doubt.
chris barron
Yeah, her daughter's wedding.
Again, she was the perfect opponent for Trump because it was the establishment versus, you know, and I'm not the first person to say this, but it was, you know, it was Bushwood.
It was Rodney Dangerfield.
It was the, you know, it was the Caddyshack, you know.
tim pool
Have you ever seen Dogma?
chris barron
No.
tim pool
You haven't seen the movie Dogma?
Have you seen Dogma?
You guys haven't seen the movie Dogma?
unidentified
No.
What?
tim pool
The Kevin Smith movie?
ian crossland
The first Kevin Smith movie I missed.
tim pool
With Jay and Silent Bob and like basically the story is Loki and what was the other angel?
Bartleby.
Two angels fell from heaven, they want to go back.
Man, I can't believe you guys haven't seen the movie.
Anyway, there's a point in the movie where this demon, his name is Asriel, he wants to end all existence because he hates being in hell.
And so there's one scene where He summons, or like, yeah, something called the Golgothan.
It's a demon made of human excrement.
So Golgotha, I guess, I don't know.
ian crossland
That's where they crucified people.
unidentified
Right, right.
tim pool
And so when people get crucified, all their waste, you know, like drops out.
And so the idea was that all of that waste from all these evil people formed a demon called the Golgothan.
Hillary Clinton is that, but for the political elites.
So like, after a huge, really long congressional session, and all of the members of Congress and Senate run to the bathrooms and then flush at the same time, Hillary emerges from that muck and climbs out, and then she goes up on stage, VOTE FOR ME!
And you're like, I'll take the orange guy.
But outside of the silliness, she represented all of the filth of the political establishment more so than anyone we'd seen in a really long time.
chris barron
And she never even tried to shine it up.
That was the thing that was so amazing about Hillary.
I mean, look, Bill was garbage.
I mean, he was total trash.
But Bill tried to come across as, I feel your pain, you know?
He tried to be likable.
Hillary figured out a long time ago, I'm completely unlikable, so I'm just gonna go with it.
tim pool
Who would you rather vote for, Mitt Romney or Hillary Clinton?
unidentified
Oh, jeez.
chris barron
I mean, I guess Hillary Clinton.
tim pool
Really?
unidentified
Wow.
chris barron
Yeah, you wanna know why?
Because I think maybe she would, like, at least keep us safe internationally.
You know?
tim pool
Like, she's gonna start war with Russia.
chris barron
I don't know.
Look, that's... I don't know.
tim pool
I feel like the worst thing that Romney would do was just extract value from the system and watch it fall apart.
Hillary would actively get us involved in conflicts, but Mitt probably would too.
I guess the question is, would you vote for the same person?
So that's probably not a good analogy.
They're both just so awful.
chris barron
Yeah, they're both terrible.
unidentified
Yeah.
chris barron
And by the way, there's another thing.
We talk about the things that Trump has exposed.
Trump exposed people like Mitt Romney, you know?
And it's so beautiful.
The guy who was the 2012 nominee of the Republican Party is getting booed in his home state by Republican delegates because they hate the guy.
And you know what the truth is?
Is that Mitt Romney has always hated his own voters.
He has always hated the dirty, unwashed masses that he had to rely on.
And it's so gorgeous to finally see people waking up to the fact that, you want to know what?
He never liked you.
He hated your guts.
Paul Ryan did too.
None of these people liked you.
tim pool
You know what's really funny?
Hillary Clinton definitely doesn't like you.
And they say, I see these memes on the left where Trump doesn't like you, he's using you.
And I'm like, have you ever seen Trump interact with people?
I've been to Trump rallies.
You know what the man does?
He hugs and shakes hands and he smiles.
And he's a germaphobe.
It's like the craziest thing when he walks over and he's sending autographs from people.
He would do a rally and he would come down and he would meet and greet people and have long conversations with them.
I went to Trump Tower.
I went to the ice cream shop and the steakhouse and asked the employees, like, you guys ever see Trump down here?
And they're like, yeah, every so often.
Do you like him?
They're like, he's great.
He, like, walks over and just hands you a $100 bill.
It's awesome.
And I'm like, wow, they really like the guy.
Hillary Clinton, you know the stories we hear about her?
She's on, like, an Air Force jet and she holds her wine glass up and goes, And these, like, Air Force officers are like, lady, I'm not getting your wine for you.
And she goes, mm-mm-mm!
And they have to pour her wine for her.
The stories about Hillary are that she's despicable and evil and nasty.
And then you look before Donald Trump ran for president.
Everybody loved him.
chris barron
Oh, God, yeah.
tim pool
They loved the guy.
chris barron
Yep, absolutely.
And by the way, so 2011, I got Trump invited to speak at his first CPAC.
And Trump comes, and he's a total mess before his speech.
He's mad that it was late, like he went to the wrong entrance, it was kind of a disaster.
He goes up there, gives a barn burner speech, he gets done, we're walking out, and they decide they want to leave through the service entrance.
So we're going out the service entrance, And literally he stopped and shook hands with and took his picture with every single busboy, waiter, housekeeper, like every, it was the first time, like I watched him give his speech and it was like, it was Trump being Trump, you know?
And I was like, I didn't think it was like Trump had some political future.
And then I watched him interact with all of those working class people on the way out and I was like, wait a second, like there actually may be something here.
tim pool
Yeah.
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We'll sort it through.
lydia smith
Tweaking it.
tim pool
Yeah, we're tweaking it.
We're going to listen back and then just try and make it better and better and better.
It's, you know, you do what you do, I guess, you know.
All right, let's see.
Zion Reborn says Texas passed three pro-2A bills and it's on the way to the governor's desk.
Constitutional carry, suppressor freedom, and two-way sanctuary state.
unidentified
Wow.
tim pool
Do we gotta move to Texas?
ian crossland
I second that.
I like the weather.
tim pool
I do not like the weather.
chris barron
I do not like the weather either.
ian crossland
The heat.
Bring it on.
tim pool
The oppressive heat.
95 degrees.
Maybe we can buy an old missile silo and live underground.
chris barron
It's like 105 degrees.
And everything will kill you there.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
It's like Australia.
chris barron
Scorpions, snakes.
tim pool
It's like a mini Australia.
chris barron
Yeah, I'm not good with that.
tim pool
Florida and Texas are passing these laws that are really good for social media censorship, you know.
lydia smith
The weather.
tim pool
But the weather.
Florida's the worst.
chris barron
I know.
No.
So I was at Trump Doral, like, at the end of March, beginning of April, and it was, like, nice time to be in Miami, which, man, it was, like, 90.
unidentified
Ugh.
Yeah.
chris barron
So I'm like, I'm not built for this.
unidentified
No.
ian crossland
And it's wet.
It's humid.
chris barron
It is.
tim pool
Maximum humidity and maximum heat.
So people can't go outside because you can't.
So people stay inside in the air conditioning.
When I lived in Miami, we were just like, oh man, I can't wait until January and February when we can actually go outside.
ian crossland
Brutal.
Even then it's 90 in February sometimes.
tim pool
But it wasn't as humid.
chris barron
so it was like you could go outside and it was just hot but you were still okay how nice yeah yeah and the rest of the year was like maximum humidity so you like swim through the air it's like but the thunderstorms are really fun you know watching the crazy storms and by the way like i'll give like obviously florida handled covid like so darn well and by the way when i went down there it was still where florida was free america So just the joy of taking off my mask and not like, I was like, I can deal with the heat, I can deal with the humidity, this is the way life is supposed to be lived.
tim pool
All right, we got Kyle Buchanan says, the Babylon Bee must be shut down because too many of their stories come true.
That's right.
Georgie Georgiev says, hello Tim, I'm an alcoholic.
You helped me while I recover.
I watched all your stuff.
Love you, man.
I make good money.
I hate how the MSM lies.
I have a friend that thinks you are far right.
He refuses to listen and be rational.
Anyway, love you, man.
It's like, what does far right even mean, you know?
Like, we're just an approximation of a chimpanzee full of snakes.
That's right.
Go watch Freedom Tunes if you don't understand what that reference is.
JustKidding says, released my first independent EP today, still live by Jason Card.
On YouTube and Bandcamp, support non-woke musicians.
Absolutely.
unidentified
Very cool.
tim pool
Caleb Crow says, have you heard the recent song Never Take It by Twenty One Pilots?
A bit surprised they took the issue on.
Thought you'd find it interesting.
Starts out, quote, now that they know information is just a currency and nothing more.
Interesting.
Bullet Tooth Tony says, Malice at 26 on Amazon for Anarchist Handbook.
unidentified
Is it 26?
chris barron
I thought it was higher.
ian crossland
I thought it was number 3.
lydia smith
So he was super super high under Anarchy.
As like general, I think he is number 26 in general, which I guess is like above Oprah.
ian crossland
Nice job, Michael!
tim pool
Everybody, you need to buy Michael's book, The Anarchist Handbook, on Amazon.
You must.
Because we have to support people who are challenging the cathedral and the establishment.
I shouldn't say no one, but Michael is one of the best of the best.
chris barron
He does it with such glee.
It never feels mean, it always just feels so good.
ian crossland
He's like an undercover angel.
lydia smith
Yeah!
ian crossland
He's cool.
tim pool
He's really... He gets way too much promotion on this show.
We're always just singing his praises.
unidentified
He also self-published this book, so he's like really rockin' it.
tim pool
No, but people should buy his book because... and Michael Knoll's book is available for pre-order.
ian crossland
Oh, I heard!
lydia smith
That's right.
ian crossland
Speechless!
tim pool
Gotta support people who are challenging the establishment.
Okay, there are several things that have to be done on a business level which are very difficult to do.
We literally can't just be like, come hang out.
You can't do it.
It's not allowed.
For a variety of reasons.
So, appropriate legal paperwork to allow us to have people, you know, come.
New website launches.
We're going to have first come first serve select tickets.
We need to figure out what the total capacity is going to be.
It might actually be 30, so it might be 15 and 15.
And then we're going to have auction based tickets of the top 15 in the auction will get the tickets at a certain, you know, so like it'll go on for 24 hours and then when it finishes it'll go boom there's the people who win the tickets.
And that way we can have the people who maybe, you know, can't afford to pay a crazy amount for tickets, first come first serve, that's unmerited.
If you can get it, you can log in fast enough, you can get it.
And then for the people who are too busy with work, can just choose to pay a little bit more, we're trying to find the right balance.
It's basically just about screening, you know, people.
We don't, I don't expect to make a billion dollars off of tickets, we're just trying to find a way to do it appropriately because we don't have that much space.
But, um...
We wanted to do it in March.
And then we hit legal bump where it's like, no, no, no, no, you can't do that.
It's like, okay, well, we got to file paperwork.
And then once we can, and then we got to build the website.
So I think the website should be done in only a few more weeks.
The final upgrade with, you know, it's like we're upgrading our upgrades.
We're building as fast as we can.
It's only been four and a half months, ladies and gentlemen, since we launched the website, so please bear with us.
If you are a member at TimCast.com, just know that you being a member is what's allowing us to actually fix and make this good.
So my apologies to everybody who's experienced some kind of bug or glitch or something.
We built, like, a really simple WordPress site, and then we got traffic on par with, like, a large news publication that we weren't prepared for because we did not expect.
And that's our fault.
That's our fault, for sure.
But I really do appreciate everybody helping get that set up.
Butters Scott Stotch says, Have you ever thought about having Donut Operator on your show?
I think he would be great.
Donut Operator has an open invitation.
Absolutely!
I guess we just gotta figure out when we can.
And Colleen Noir as well.
Zermas Playgrounds says, Amazon is now implementing vaccine IDs for their employees.
In order to remove your mask, you have to bring in proof of vaccination and get a sticker on your ID.
Even in Florida.
They're flagrantly disregarding the passport ban.
I'm so glad I'm leaving.
Well, you see, this is a clever loophole.
They're not saying, you must, or you're out.
They're saying, no, you don't have to, but you can take your mask off if you do.
See how that works?
It's clever.
It's kind of like how the government bans guns.
They say, we're not banning the gun, but it is now an NFA item.
Which means, you'll have to pay a tax, and then file paperwork, and then get fingerprinted, and then maybe a year, you'll be able to get it.
And a lot of people just go, I don't even want it.
It's just too much work.
Michael K. says, about calling Biden policies communist Nazi, you are forgetting that Nazi is an abbreviation of nationalist socialist.
Berlin suffered coal shortages in 1937.
German was second largest producer of coal after USA.
Interesting.
Yes.
Communist Nazis.
Commander Mickalent says, in the book version of Starship Troopers, service is anything meant to serve your fellow man.
Most being government services like mail, road construction, etc.
And the Gov cannot deny you from serving.
I like that.
Simulation says, community service guarantees the right to vote.
50 hours of community service for the right to vote that year.
I don't know, what do you think about that?
I kind of like it.
ian crossland
You've got to define community service, because if you're an artist, and you perform shows, and people love you, and you help people, then that would be a type of community service, but the government doesn't think like that.
chris barron
What if I don't like leaving my mountain, and I just want to be left alone up there?
tim pool
If you don't want to contribute, and you don't have skin in the game, why should you get to vote on what people do with their money or their tax dollars?
unidentified
Because they take my money and tax dollars.
tim pool
I guess that's a good argument against service-guaranteeing citizenship.
If you pay, you vote.
So how about that?
I work, and then I give money to the system so I have a right to say what that money goes to.
That's fair.
So then you get a bunch of really dumb people with no skin in the game other than their taxes.
Hey, there you go.
Oh, here we go.
Josiah Magnuson says Project Veritas dropped a video with whistleblowers talking about Facebook's suppression of vaccine hesitancy on their site.
Creepy.
ian crossland
Wow.
Oh, James O'Keefe, by the way, got cast in an Off-Broadway performance.
Was it Oklahoma?
He's playing Curly?
unidentified
Wow.
lydia smith
That's awesome.
ian crossland
Nice job, James.
lydia smith
I'm excited.
tim pool
I think, you know, the problem is I'm like, man, James O'Keefe needs to run for office because he's a fighter.
ian crossland
Do you see him doing the moonwalk?
tim pool
Yeah, I've seen him doing many moonwalks.
unidentified
He's awesome.
tim pool
But he's probably the most James has got, like, so many spines, he's probably gonna have to go for surgery to, like, fix his back.
Like, his spine is too big.
It's too big.
ian crossland
He belongs in deep space.
tim pool
He fights harder and more than basically anybody else.
ian crossland
Smart, too.
tim pool
But then, is it like, is he more effective running Veritas than he would be in office?
Probably.
ian crossland
He's going the right direction with the entertainment industry.
tim pool
I think he just likes singing and dancing.
chris barron
True.
lydia smith
For sure.
tim pool
He does, like, the Michael Jackson stuff.
ian crossland
He's funny.
He's so serious with his work with Veritas, but he's so funny.
chris barron
It's always so fun learning, like, little bits about people like that that you're like, God, that's so against type.
unidentified
I love it.
tim pool
You saw the music video they did?
chris barron
No.
tim pool
What was it called?
lydia smith
I forget.
ian crossland
Like a Paul Abdul video.
tim pool
Oligarchy.
lydia smith
Oh, yeah.
tim pool
Yeah.
I felt the music video called Oligarchy.
chris barron
Excellent.
tim pool
Doc Williams says, Tim, longtime listener.
Thank you and guests for making people aware to prepare for the unraveling.
I work my fingers to the bone to turn money into food, crypto and various fast metals.
My family is ready.
I love Cassie and our three girls.
You know, I don't know what's going to happen.
I've got one foot in, one foot out in terms of like actually thinking something crazy bad is going to happen and there's going to be a collapse or whatever.
And what I mean by that is, you know, are we going to go full Mad Max?
Probably not.
Is there going to be turmoil?
Probably.
Turmoil happens, and we've been in a really long period of growth and golden age.
Now things are getting crazier, so it's not like I think the U.S.
will cease to exist.
You know, a lot of people are like, the country's gonna break up into, like, the Chinese-run West, and the European-run Canada and Mexico, and, like, the John Titor conspiracy, and I'm like, I think the dollar will bottom out, and the petrol dollar will cease to be the main thing, maybe, and then we'll have to spend a lot more money and work harder for food, and we'll all probably just keep living.
ian crossland
Yeah, we desperately need a new industry in the United States.
I think that something like the graphene industry could absolutely be, we could be the 25 years familiar with graphene, the material, it's carbon, like a carbon nano lattice or one layer.
It's incredible, incredible chemical properties.
It's like electrically conductive.
You could use it as a super capacitive battery.
You could use it as wallpaper, clothing.
You can eat it.
It's pure carbon.
And if the United States can start industrializing and printing this stuff and selling it to the world, I think that can give us a purpose.
chris barron
By the way, I'm not one who thinks that things are just going to completely fall apart.
I do have to tell you, though, the shutdown of the pipeline for a week was a real eye-opener to me.
Because a whole bunch of people who I didn't think would be the type who were going to panic, panicked.
tim pool
Started pouring gas in their pockets.
chris barron
Yeah!
And by the way, it wasn't just out in my rural area.
D.C.
had no gas.
tim pool
Yeah, 88% of stations were out.
chris barron
Yeah!
That's crazy.
I feel like the country is on edge.
tim pool
Yep.
James Ornthal Nguyen says, Two of your youngest fans, Lola and Sayuli, would love a shoutout from everyone on tonight's show.
They also want to know if the Timcast events will be general admission or bar-age patrons only.
I believe it will be general admission.
We do a family friendly show and the events we're planning on doing are going to be just kind of like hangouts with maybe some music.
Maybe we'll have, you know, a certain guest come and we'll hang out and you get to just, you know, probably grill some late night burgers or something.
And it's going to be like the idea would be a Friday at 10 to midnight.
You come, you hang out, play music, there's drinks.
It's super chill.
So people will be there probably with their kids and stuff like that.
And we'll have to figure it out because There's a capacity issue but if like someone gets a ticket and they want to come with their family but their family it's it's tough right so if someone buys a ticket and then their wife doesn't what are we gonna say like all right your family can't come we'll have to figure it out so there's a lot of stuff to work through but uh i think you know one ticket probably should be good for like you know a family whatever we'll figure it out the big issue is
Capacity issues so we have legal things to deal with in terms of a business allowing people to come and then It's not that big of an outdoor space.
So the initial number I think was like 20 people So that should accommodate if people have like family and kids are coming so it'd be like 30 or 40 people max So we can only sell like 20 tickets.
We got to figure it out Mr. Renegade says I'm a truck driver who's a giant fan of... Oh, actually, I forgot.
Can you guys shout out Lola and Sayuli?
unidentified
Yeah.
chris barron
Lola and Sayuli.
ian crossland
Lola.
Sayuli.
What up?
lydia smith
They sound adorable.
I'd love to meet them.
tim pool
There you go.
Shout out.
Okay, Mr. Renegade says, I'm a truck driver who's a giant fan of the show, and I appreciate all the work you guys do.
My favorite line that Tim used to say is, the screeching and reeing left.
Bring it back!
Yeah.
You know, I'm trying to, like, differentiate between the different groups, because liberals and leftists are not the same thing.
I can respect that leftists are like, we demand gun rights, and I'm like, that's good.
I don't think for the same reason as us, but if you want to defend my right to bear arms, in general, I'm gonna accept that win.
Liberals don't want to do that.
So you gotta, like, figure out the different factions.
So, like, the screeching and reeing left, these are like the woke ones who have no real politics but just scream because they're just whiny.
You know?
Like the DSA meeting, where they were like, point of personal privilege, the chattering is getting to me, and... Yeah, that's the screeching.
chris barron
It's the perpetually aggrieved.
lydia smith
Yes.
tim pool
The perpetually aggrieved.
All right.
Axel Thunderpaw says, we're in a civil war and a cultural revolution.
Our elites are killing citizens and stealing their money and rights.
Hopefully YouTube actually lets me super chat for once.
And, uh, Cuomo put sick people knowingly in nursing homes and killed people.
Creepy.
Dragon Lady says, Democrats move from blue area to red, destroy it, and move on.
They're like locusts.
They're moving from planet to planet.
After they've consumed every natural resource, they move on.
Independence Day.
Brandon Tom says Fauci lied, people died, is missing one key premise.
Idiots listen to him.
The proverb, fool me once, shame on you, shouldn't be taken seriously during a pandemic.
We're endowed with our own minds to discern, evidence, and prosper.
In the beginning, When Fauci said don't wear a mask, this was early on and I was like, I like the guy, you know, he says you don't need it so it makes sense.
It's not gonna do all that much.
I think people are freaking out.
It's not gonna protect you.
And then it turns out he lied.
And I took him seriously.
And I won't make that same mistake.
And I immediately was like, nah, this guy's lying.
He's full of it.
He just sits in his room and he's probably like eating Cheetos with like Cheeto dust on his hands.
And he's watching MSNBC and they're like, should we wear two masks?
And he goes, two masks?
I like that.
Oh, I gotta go on TV in an hour.
You should wear two masks!
He never actually said to wear two masks.
He was just like asked and he's like, it's common sense!
They're wearing two masks.
There you go.
Cal Al says, Wokeness is being driven by feeding HR and corporations with fake data made by AI and bots on what's popular from Twitter and social media on what's popular.
50-80% of opinions are fake.
I completely agree.
James Alford says, Chris Barron, never heard of him, but I like him.
Thanks to him for opening me up to people I can respect and sometimes disagree with.
And yes, that can be one of your hosts.
Absolutely.
Joshua Ryman says, to paraphrase Al Pacino, scent of a woman, for the Fed Reserve and Deep State, FU2.
unidentified
Hey, there you go.
tim pool
Matthew Mansfield says, Ian is a gray Jedi.
ian crossland
Yeah, you're right.
unidentified
I can see it.
tim pool
Brand Dizzle says the killbots had a preset amount of kills registered in their system.
Zap clearly outsmarted the coding.
lydia smith
He did.
tim pool
You know that reference from Futurama?
So Zap Branigan is this really bad military leader for some reason, and it was a war against the killbots, and he's like, I quickly realized the killbots had a preset kill limit, so I sent wave after wave of my own men until the limit was met and then the war was over.
Yeah, that's one way to do it.
A preset kill limit.
What a great show.
Anthony Cothran said, Did Ian just admit to being a jellyfish?
I'm a libertarian when we need it and a conservative when needed.
Read this after his answer.
ian crossland
Um, I highly recommend looking at pictures of the brain stem inside your body, because it looks like a jellyfish.
tim pool
He's confessed, and then Anthony says, I confess nothing!
He says, I hope he is a contrarian.
lydia smith
He is that, obviously.
ian crossland
I don't think so.
tim pool
Okay Zendo can says hit like gd it that's right. You must hit
like Smash the like button.
Clef the Misfit says, Tim, you're giving people bad advice.
Proponents of CRT don't use the term.
People need to look out for the words diversity, equity, inclusion, intersectionality,
social justice, and racism.
I don't like the term critical race theory because it cuts out the rest of critical theory.
But I will tell you, a lot of people say,
I wonder how it is that in World War II it got so bad that people would go along
with like doing the salutes to Hitler, the Roman salute and stuff.
Why would they do that?
Have you looked outside at one of these protests where these people are marching around doing the Red Salute?
Do you know what the Red Salute is?
It's the communist salute.
It's where... I'm not going to do it.
You raise your fist up.
chris barron
Oh.
tim pool
And hold it straight up, showing your fingers.
And the difference is, there's showing your fist to someone, which is like a threat or, you know, an assertion of your power.
The reason the red salute displays the fingers is that each finger together is weak.
Each finger is weak, but together it makes a strong fist, and you're showing the people the unity.
It's very similar to the fascists, where they had the bundle of sticks.
What was it called?
The fascists?
Fascists, yeah.
The weapon.
Wasn't that built?
would hold that that shows all the sticks together make a powerful and it
was very very similar i saw a photo of someone in my own family
doing the red salute it would be no different if you saw them doing the the
roman salute but how many people have you seen marching and doing the
fist in the air?
ian crossland
wasn't that the black power salute also?
tim pool
yeah and the white power salute sure call it whatever you want
ian crossland
It's just raising your fist in the air.
tim pool
And the white power salute is raising your hand in the air, right?
I don't care what you want to call it, if the communists have a red salute, and some racial group adopts that symbol, they can call it whatever they want.
The swastika is a Nazi symbol, I don't care what ancient India did with it.
ian crossland
Yeah, it's like an ancient Hindu symbol.
tim pool
Doesn't matter to me.
lydia smith
Doesn't matter anymore.
tim pool
It's now, people don't look at that and say, oh yeah, ancient Hinduism.
ian crossland
Wheel of time.
tim pool
No, they go, I know what that is.
So now the problem is, people are showing the red salute, which is the fist, and they go, oh, Black Lives Matter.
It was very, very clever to use the communist symbol, but to change its name.
Because now they have the same symbol, representing the same ideology.
The Berlin Wall was called the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart.
Antifa is not new.
It is literal communism.
They are authoritarians, and Americans are not educated on this.
So we all know why Nazis are bad, but too many Americans don't realize they're marching around doing what is effectively the same salute.
But the opposing group, right?
The communists and the Nazis fought, the communists lost in Germany, the Nazis won.
That was the fight.
Now they're marching around doing the other extremist faction salute and don't know it.
So if you want to know how they got to that point, look at what's happening right now.
Nadia shall worry no more, says I agree suburban women shouldn't vote, they shouldn't drive either, so I don't have to worry every day about getting hit.
I'm not a small lady.
How can these people act like they can't see me?
unidentified
Yikes.
lydia smith
I agree as well.
tim pool
N.L.
Sponsel says, in honor of tonight's and every other night's theme of the deceitful media, let me shill my new album.
Sponsel, from Zenith to Nadir, for the sake of making culture and all, I made sure I snuck a reference to the rabble in there for Tim's sake.
lydia smith
Very good.
tim pool
So I love two phrases, the poors and the rabble, when I'm mocking wealthy elites, mocking poor people.
So, there you go.
chris barron
I love the poors.
unidentified
The poors.
chris barron
The poors.
Yeah.
You could hear Hillary saying, I feel so bad for the poors.
unidentified
No, no, no.
tim pool
She wouldn't say she feels bad for them.
unidentified
She would go, ugh, the poors are trying to get into the debate hall.
chris barron
Remember when they had her go into a Chipotle?
And they like tipped off the New York Times, like, look how Hillary's so normal.
She's going to Chipotle.
You know, they had to like, you can do it.
You can do it, Madam Secretary.
And she's like, I think I can.
I think I can.
lydia smith
We'll get all the pores out.
It'll be okay.
unidentified
The pores.
chris barron
They're looking at me.
tim pool
Ponyboy says, Hey Ian, have you ever heard of the Adam and Eve story by Chan Thomas?
It was a book written in the 1960s and then classified by the CIA and recently declassified with over 150 pages redacted.
ian crossland
Yeah, I have, but only like very vaguely.
unidentified
Huh.
ian crossland
I remember hearing something like a Man, I don't want to misrepresent this thing.
I recommend looking into it.
It was like the CIA classified it.
But it was like some ancient story.
It was very weird.
tim pool
I just got a brutal eyelash.
It's killing me.
ian crossland
Wicked.
lydia smith
Stabbed in the eye.
Traitorous.
tim pool
I think the EEOC is the right organization.
actionable items to viewers, re EEOC complaints.
I think the EEOC is the right organization.
When, like your companies being racist, you complain to them.
Hmusic197 says, hey Ian, the Beatles used multiple takes spliced together for their
Do some research.
ian crossland
Dude, the Beatles would like sit down with, uh, they'd hit record on their, on their tape or whatever they're, they're recording a track.
And then they just sing Stream of Consciousness.
They wrote like Strawberry Fields in like five minutes or eight minutes.
Then they listen back to it.
This is a great way that I, I make music too.
unidentified
Uh, I don't know what, I don't know much about their recording process.
tim pool
You were talking about computers, remember?
ian crossland
Yeah, yeah, I don't think they had computers.
Didn't they do it all on tape?
tim pool
No, you're talking about how on computers you can take chunks and then just line them up.
ian crossland
Yeah, I'm not into that style.
tim pool
That's how they always, I've always done it.
ian crossland
I get kind of disconnected from the music that way.
tim pool
You want to go back to the 50s where they would have the band in a big room and record them as they played?
ian crossland
Well, like, the Foo Fighters do that now, yeah.
It's just, it's just, I want it to be exactly like when I see them live.
I don't want, I want you to be able to replicate what I'm listening to on the album.
lydia smith
Yeah, that's fair.
tim pool
Oh, YouTube.
I love when they just jump and flood us.
ian crossland
Yeah, the Beatles didn't play live.
They were a purely a record making band after their first couple albums.
First few albums.
lydia smith
I know that.
tim pool
Megan Stewart says, the updated audio makes you guys sound sexy.
Yes, it's low, but the quality is good.
Love you guys.
Keep up the great work.
Well, then we will just figure out how to boost the audio.
lydia smith
Yeah, we'll figure it out.
tim pool
There's like literally a switch.
The problem is I don't want to just crank the audio up right now.
So we'll have to just do more tests.
We did some tests.
It sounded fine.
Yeah, we'll just do some more.
It'll be fine.
Magic Space Viking says, Hey, Tim and gang, Texas resident here.
The weather you feel is just the freedom you're feeling.
Oh, yes.
Carl Johnson says, third time does it.
Sent you a book called The Servile State.
Would love to hear your opinion on it when it comes.
Greetings from Portland, Oregon.
Ooh, from behind enemy lines.
unidentified
Greetings.
tim pool
Choice With Music says, I'm sorry, Choice Truth Music says, Alanis Morissette was god in Dogma.
Feminist lol.
Hey, there you go.
Explained Nation said, did you see that 1.6 trillion barrels of oil was discovered in Namibia, Africa recently?
Sounds like the U.S.
is going to discover weapons of mass destruction in Namibia recently.
Oh no!
lydia smith
Protect that oil.
tim pool
Let's see, Machisma Joe.
Chris R. Barron, just because you said it, I asked you about the Spin Doctors on Twitter.
Now you can't say no one has ever asked.
Great show.
There you go.
chris barron
Thanks, I appreciate it.
tim pool
Do you have in your bio, not the Spin Doctors guy?
chris barron
No.
Maybe I'll need to put that in now.
unidentified
Baby step, huh?
tim pool
MmMmMmSupra says, the metal community are a bunch of clowns.
They showed their true colors last year by supporting the Soy Ninjas and Burn Loot Murder.
Not really excited to go to concerts anymore.
unidentified
Yeah.
Oof.
lydia smith
I guess they suck now.
tim pool
Yeah.
That's too bad.
DolomiteX says, for once, I have to agree with Ian.
I'm a musician.
Back in the day, music was real and from the heart.
Now it's all modified like photos in Photoshop.
It all sounds the same as well.
It's junk.
You, for one, shouldn't disagree.
There's always been pop music.
There's always been corporate regurgitated formulaic trash.
If someone can take two spoons and clank them together and make music with it, I dig it.
If someone can take a bunch of hard drives and then have them do different pitches and write a song with it, I dig it.
If someone can go on a computer and type in code that makes music, I dig it.
If a big corporation creates an algorithm that manufactures a song based on all the other songs and it's a top 40 regurgitated piece of garbage, I don't like it.
Garbage pop music by corporations who are like, eh, you know, we'll use a machine to make everything sound like everything else.
Daniel Garland says, Tim, speaking of Texas, will you do a Timmy and, what is this, a Timmy and Timmy Power Hour with the one and only Tim Dillon?
Yes or yes?
Much love from Oregon, hopefully elsewhere soon.
Tim Dillon is always welcome on the show, but the issue with people who have their own shows is that they're busy doing their own shows.
Rainforest says, what's a more reliable source of info?
Tim's joke post, Babylon Bee satire post, or CNN's actual post?
Yikes!
Probably my joke posts, because they're like... So there was one where there's a video of the cops telling the protesters at the Capitol they're allowed to do it.
They're like, you're okay to do it, just do this.
A lot of people mentioned the doors were sealed, so they actually opened the doors for people.
You can see the videos of it.
And so I was like, these cops should be arrested for treason, because they aided and abetted an insurrection.
Come on, where's the Democrats?
They should be arresting each one of these cops.
No, they're not gonna do it.
So it's not, you know, I'm not being serious, but it's, you know, more truthful than CNN.
Geraldo Alvarez says, What I've heard, Texas Suppressor Bill is for Texas-made cans, but its legitimacy is debatable considering Wickard v. Filburn as the issue the bill will be interstate commerce, not gun rights.
Interesting.
Sol Invicta says, You forgot the part where the government levels guns at our heads to get us to work for free.
Yeah, they do that.
Anthony Moody says, I love you guys.
Do you think the left will ever open their eyes to the corruption and destruction that these politicians are creating?
I don't know.
What do you think?
chris barron
I don't know.
I honestly, again, I think back to Occupy Wall Street and even some of the Bernie true believers, and I feel like there was an opportunity at some point for some of this left-right populist to kind of come together, but I don't know.
It feels like all of that leftist populism is gone and it's been replaced by this woke stuff, and I feel like That's never, we're never going there.
There's no common ground with the woke police.
tim pool
But, the regular people who are just marching and doing the red salute, if you speak up, then they will back off.
So, the issue is, Coca-Cola comes out, and they yell, woke, woke, woke!
And the conservatives just go, hmm, that's dumb.
And the left cheers.
So, Coke's got no downside.
The conservatives don't do anything, and the left is leaving us alone.
If Koch comes out and says, no, no, we're not woke, the conservatives do nothing, and the left throws bricks at them.
The only upside for these corporations is to support the wokeness.
If conservatives start boycotting, legitimately hardcore boycotting, being like, I will never buy from you again, they'll feel the pain and they'll apologize.
chris barron
And by the way, it works.
It works.
We saw it with the NFL.
We saw it with the NFL.
The NFL leaned in so hard on all the Neyling and the Woke and the Kaepernick, and the ratings were garbage.
And they carried about one thing, money.
And so all of a sudden, a couple weeks into last year, we didn't see anything more about the BLM, about Neyling.
tim pool
Send an email.
Who's a woke company right now?
chris barron
Disney?
tim pool
Disney lost a lot of money year over year.
But maybe there's a better example.
Who just recently started pushing woke trash?
I can't think of anything off the top of my head.
lydia smith
There's a cereal company that's doing super woke cereal boxes.
tim pool
No, no, I mean like a major corporation that is just getting political for no reason.
Why?
American Airlines.
Oh, wait, wait.
American Airlines.
Yeah?
Mass send emails.
Complain.
Send emails.
I'm complaining.
Whenever you see a company do something woke, make sure you send your email and tell all your friends and family to do the same thing.
Because when they get flooded with 100,000 emails, they'll be like, whoa!
We gotta back off this.
These people are getting mad at us.
But conservatives don't do that.
So the only emails they ever get is, you're racist.
They say, we're sorry.
If the conservatives are nothing but a speed bump, the corporations don't care.
You gotta be more than a speed bump.
unidentified
Yep.
tim pool
You gotta be actual opposition.
Alright, let's just do a couple more.
George D says, Tim, you can't compare Texas to Australia.
Texas doesn't have enough danger compared to Australia.
Our cute, cuddly drop barrels will ruin your day.
unidentified
Oof.
tim pool
Jonathan Duger says, the good news is once we hit rock bottom, there's only one direction to go.
But, uh, hopefully, I mean, how much worse will it get before we know?
chris barron
Right.
ian crossland
Yeah, if you study the Roman, the fall of the Roman Republic, it can get a lot worse than rock bottom.
chris barron
Yeah, and by the way, there's always another bottom.
Like, I keep thinking with the media, like, okay, it's not gotten, it can't get worse than this.
This is going to be this moment of introspection and reflection, and we're going to get a better media.
No, they always double down on what they, you know, it's like over and over again.
So I don't know, I don't know what rock bottom actually looks like.
tim pool
Yeah.
Oh man.
Well, I'm ready for it.
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And then start getting better information and break away from the broken, fractured, fake news of the mainstream press.
And I'll tell you this.
My friends.
With your membership, we will not be buying infinity pools.
We will not be buying private jets.
You know what I'm gonna do?
We're gonna be buying journalists.
Real ones.
We're gonna be buying documentary crews to go and film real news.
And that's what we want to produce.
We... I don't want to be... I don't want to make content that's like super conservative or liberal.
I just want to make honest content and be like, man, you guys decide.
I don't want to tell you how to live.
I'm just going to tell you what I saw.
We need more of that.
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Check it out then.
Did you want to shout anything out, Chris?
chris barron
Just follow me on Twitter at Chris R. Barron.
tim pool
There you go.
ian crossland
And you can follow me at iancrossland.net and at iancrossland all over the internet.
So thanks for coming, guys.
lydia smith
And you guys are cordially invited to join me in my journey to have more followers on Twitter than Sour Patch Kids at Sour Patch Lids, L-Y-D-S.
tim pool
We will see all of you over at timcast.com for our exclusive members-only segment.
Thanks for hanging out.
We'll see you there.
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