Sept. 17, 2021 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| Peace out yo! | ||
| She's arguing with journalists. | ||
| They're trying to get information on her family. | ||
| So she published the private details of, I think, two journalists. | ||
| I've only seen one. | ||
| She posted some guy's business card with his email and phone number on it. | ||
| And now these journalists online are like... | ||
| Who does she think she is? | ||
| We're journalists. | ||
| Journalists are better than you. | ||
| And I'm just laughing the whole time because these journalists are egotistical scumbags for the most part. | ||
| And so they're whining and crying. | ||
| So you know what? | ||
| I'm not going to shed a tear for any of these people. | ||
| They lie about Nicki Minaj. | ||
| They go on CNN and claim she's scared of vaccines because of swollen balls, which is not what she said. | ||
| They don't give you the nuance and the actual context. | ||
| They just want to make fun of people. | ||
| They just want to smear them and make rage bait. | ||
| Nikki is waking up to this, or maybe she already knew, and maybe she's finally speaking up. | ||
| But she actually said to like one, one woman, like she called her, uh, I don't even know if I'll wait. | ||
| YouTube has a rule on swearing in the first 30 seconds. | ||
| So we'll read what she said about this journalist. | ||
| And she was like, basically saying I'm coming for you, but in a more aggressive way and called her. | ||
| A female dog. | ||
| So you know where that went. | ||
| And I'm, you know what? | ||
| I don't like name-calling. | ||
| I don't like escalation of conflict. | ||
| But it's also kind of a, there is this cathartic release seeing these journalists, you know, they're trying to go up against somebody who's one of the most famous individuals on the planet. | ||
| Lie about her, insult her, deride her, and she's like, she's got weight to throw around. | ||
| So this is interesting. | ||
| Is Nicki Minaj the hero we need to challenge the authoritarianism? | ||
| She came out and said the U.S. | ||
| is becoming like communist China, and now this? | ||
| Wow. | ||
| We got a bunch of other stories, though. | ||
| There's one really interesting story that I talked about on my main channel, which is there's an article in The Atlantic where this historian says he predicts a civil war and the Trump supporters will win. | ||
| Now that I found really interesting. | ||
| He says, ultimately, an authoritarian, regressive, reactionary, you know, political system can't survive. | ||
| And I'm like, what does that mean? | ||
| It'll last 20 years, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90? | ||
| Yeah, eventually systems collapse. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| But bro came out and said, there's going to be a civil war and Trump supporters are going to win. | ||
| He said he thinks it might start with the indictment of Donald Trump. | ||
| That would be the crossing of the Rubicon. | ||
| And there's a lot to consider there. | ||
| Because ultimately I think the difference between ancient Rome and now is that The Trump supporters are the people who are just like, peaceful divorce, take your state and go. | ||
| We don't care. | ||
| They don't want to take control of it. | ||
| So we'll get into all this stuff. | ||
| We're being joined by Matt Palumbo. | ||
| You want to introduce yourself? | ||
| Yeah, Matt. | ||
| I don't know what else to say besides I'm today's guest. | ||
| I run a website. | ||
| It was some guy outside? | ||
| Some guy from the street that Tim found who was kind enough to invite me in. | ||
| No, no, I'm here to talk about a new book I have out about George Soros, or is coming out, I should say. | ||
| And I run Dan Bongino's news aggregator, Bonginoreport.com, which is our competitor to The George Report, which, as everyone here knows, kind of blows. | ||
| Yeah, it used to be good. | ||
| I mean, 20 years ago. | ||
| I mean, the problem, too, is the site never really advanced. | ||
| In fact, there was an article on The Onion, like 10 years ago, a Drudge report, and it was like, exclusive report, Drudge has actually been hacked for the past 20 years. | ||
| They're trying to make the site look like shit. | ||
| And, you know, so there is, you know, A, that the site never really adapted, and then B, there's been this weird sort of left-wing turn starting to trump. | ||
| He might be sort of bouncing back a little, but overall it's gone left and, you know, he's hammered his audience and no one really knows what, you know, the story is behind that. | ||
| Well, there you go. | ||
| Word. | ||
| Well, thanks for joining us. | ||
| Pleasure to see you guys. | ||
| Happy to be here on a Friday. | ||
| Beautiful Friday night. | ||
| Amazing weather outside. | ||
| Went for a walk down to the river. | ||
| Happy to be back. | ||
| Nice moonlight. | ||
| Very sweaty. | ||
| Yeah, it was nice. | ||
| The moon hadn't gone down yet. | ||
| Yeah, because we're actually at the top of a mountain. | ||
| I got some. | ||
| What are those little those needle? | ||
| I'll think of the I'll think of the word of this plant that I got all over my feet. | ||
| These little needles. | ||
| Nettle. | ||
| You walked barefoot? | ||
| I walked in sandals through the nettles. | ||
| Yeah, it was the nettles. | ||
| We're on top of a mountain here. | ||
| I think we're like 150 feet up or more. | ||
| Like, no, I think it's way more than that. | ||
| I think it might be like 200. | ||
| When I was driving in, every ten foot there was a no trespassing sign, and I was getting progressively more nervous. | ||
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If this is the wrong house, I'm totally getting shot. | |
| There's two no trespassing signs, so don't exaggerate. | ||
| Because after the second one, it's the auto defense turrets. | ||
| They progressively get bigger. | ||
| That's what I saw. | ||
| Someone actually once claimed that we had full auto .50 cal. | ||
| It's like, cool! | ||
| These people are nuts. | ||
| Like, no, that's not true. | ||
| It's just a little sign that says, don't come in my house. | ||
| But sure, we got Lydia Preston. | ||
| I loved this rumor about our auto defense turrets and 50 cal. | ||
| I was like, this is cool. | ||
| Why hasn't Tim told me about this? | ||
| I wouldn't deny it. | ||
| I would just say, yeah, yeah, totally have that. | ||
| Yeah, don't come here. | ||
| Let them believe it. | ||
| All right, let's talk. | ||
| I'm so excited for this Nicki Minaj story, because it's just progressively getting better. | ||
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| Ian's getting ready to do a cooking show. | ||
| Oh, it's making me hungry just thinking about it. | ||
| Cooking show. | ||
| I tell you, the feedback's been great, too. | ||
| I think people are really excited. | ||
| The people that like me are really excited to watch the cooking show. | ||
| It's going to be like a hippy, trippy, cosmic cooking show. | ||
| You know, and what I'm going to do is take people's suggestions. | ||
| They're going to send in recipes, and I want to do recipes from fans and things too. | ||
| I think that'll be really fun. | ||
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| Let's read this story! | ||
| I chose Jezebel for our source. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| On purpose. | ||
| Jezebel reports, Nicki Minaj just tried to dox two reporters. | ||
| It seems like she isn't very happy about what's going on? | ||
| There's a question mark there. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I had to read it with the upward inflection. | ||
| Jezebel is a bad website. | ||
| They're not a good website, but I thought it would be interesting to pull up Jezebel because here's what I find fascinating. | ||
| Jezebel's supposed to be like feminists. | ||
| Feminists, right? | ||
| Supposedly feminist websites. | ||
| That's the right thing. | ||
| Why are they defending the Daily Mail? | ||
| Isn't that weird? | ||
| So anyway, they prattle on for quite a bit and then somewhere near the bottom they go on to mention, she hopped on Instagram and posted screenshots to her story that allegedly show a conversation between a reporter in Trinidad attempting to contact some of her family members. | ||
| One assumes that this reporter must be doing so in order to verify the claims of swollen balls. | ||
| But we will likely never know the truth, because Minaj also used her story to attempt to dox the reporters by posting a picture of a business card, a name, and a phone number, and that it was a mail-online business card. | ||
| Like, it's a Murdoch company. | ||
| I'm Jezebel's feminist, and they're all of a sudden... These people have... They claim, like, these are bad outlets, and now, all of a sudden, they're journalists? | ||
| Okay, sure, whatever. | ||
| But anyway, for those that are familiar with the story, I'll give you the quick version. | ||
| Nicki Minaj tweeted that her cousin's friend got the vaccine, became impotent, his balls swole up, and then his fiance left him. | ||
| Which is like an absolutely insane and ridiculous story. | ||
| I personally, like based on everything I read, I don't think that had anything to do with the vaccine. | ||
| But Nicki Minaj was just telling a story she heard. | ||
| So okay. | ||
| Journalists got all angry and they started making fun of her. | ||
| She then said two things. | ||
| She didn't want to travel because of her baby. | ||
| She then said the Met Gala wanted people to get vaccinated, and if she was going to get vaccinated, it wouldn't be for the Met Gala. | ||
| Then the narrative became, Nicki Minaj refuses to attend Met Gala due to vaccine mandates and a fear of swollen balls. | ||
| Which she wouldn't really have, but... Right. | ||
| But it's just like, it's over the top, and then she's like, yo, you're lying. | ||
| I didn't say that. | ||
| And the media, what they do is they take what she said and twist it to the legal extent they can without getting sued. | ||
| But Nicki Minaj has got 180 million followers, so she's going nuclear on these. | ||
| Let me show you what she posted. | ||
| So, let's get rid of that. | ||
| She says, she posts one thread. | ||
| I'm not gonna read necessarily the conversation. | ||
| It's just like a journalist, like their names and stuff. | ||
| She says, threatening my family in Trinidad won't bode well for you. | ||
| In Trinidad, harassing my family. | ||
| I didn't want to give details, but now I will. | ||
| And this is a guy named James Fielding. | ||
| We blocked that as information. | ||
| They're forcing my family to have to hide out. | ||
| This is what speaking up looks like. | ||
| Millions of poor people are treated this way by people you think are the good guys. | ||
| This is unconscionable, that one. | ||
| Well, that was surprising to me. | ||
| Because she's now pointing out, like, these people are bad guys. | ||
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Huh. | |
| They're claimed to be the good guys or the bad guys. | ||
| She said, Charlene Ramper said, bitch, your days are effing numbered, you dirty hoe. | ||
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Ooh! | |
| Spicy. | ||
| Nikki! | ||
| You know what, I'm not gonna cheer for that level of... Behemoths. | ||
| Yeah, but I will say, fighting back. | ||
| That I respect. | ||
| I was gonna say, I'm against doxxing people, but the key word there is people. | ||
| That's exactly it. | ||
| There's a bunch of little guys out there who get pushed around and lied about. | ||
| I don't know, these people all see themselves as gods to some extent, and I do think it's | ||
| time they sort of get some pushback, and who better than someone with 100 million rabid | ||
| followers to join in. | ||
| That's exactly it. | ||
| It's like, you know, there's a bunch of little guys out there who get pushed around and lied | ||
| about. | ||
| There was that CNN story we were actually talking about before the show. | ||
| CNN's like, we're gonna dox this guy if he posts a meme one more time. | ||
| And it's like, these people are insane. | ||
| They target the little guy. | ||
| And now they've gone after Nicki Minaj, who is the opposite of the little guy. | ||
| She's a juggernaut. | ||
| Maybe celebrities we all don't really like are way forward. | ||
| It's like the secret to defeat these people. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You see all these conservatives that are cheering her on like, yeah, she's one of us now. | ||
| And it's like, no, she agrees on one issue. | ||
| We don't have to accept them fully, but it is nice when we can align here and there. | ||
| She is one of us. | ||
| Because whatever this side is, we were talking about the other day, the cult and the not cult. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| I don't agree with conservatives on a lot of things. | ||
| And I always like to mention that I went on Glenn Beck's show. | ||
| We're sitting in this big movie studio, basically, because Glenn Beck's The Blaze offices are ridiculously massive. | ||
| And we have like this microphone hanging down or whatever and we're arguing pro-choice versus pro-life | ||
| with smiles on our faces and a handshake and like wow that was a really great conversation and we're | ||
| like yeah. I remember I had that thought the other day too where I'm like I think with me like if I | ||
| had a you know start a new country it's more the people than the policies like I would rather have | ||
| our legislature but where we can actually talk to each other and actually converse and and instead | ||
| of just you know defaming each other and you know do what the left does where they reinvent the | ||
| Like, I would rather have a more sane populace with a diversity of opinion than an only right-wing country. | ||
| Because, I mean, I don't know what kind of right-wing it would be, even. | ||
| And what if there are people I don't like? | ||
| So that, too, I think is important. | ||
| I would say that's never going to happen. | ||
| There are some instances where I'll see the right do something that I consider to be disingenuous, or just, like, exaggerated or hyperbolic, you know? | ||
| There was one where, recently happened, Joe Biden was, like, wearing sunglasses and eating ice cream or whatever, I don't know what he was doing. | ||
| And he said something like, he was asked about Trump, and he goes, ah, Trump, I don't know, said, uh, Robert E. Lee, we're in Afghanistan, I don't want to talk about it or whatever. | ||
| and they were like look he's stuttering and mumbling and he can't speak and I'm like no | ||
| that time it just sounded like he was uninterested. It was being dismissive. | ||
| It was being dismissive. You don't need to pretend that Joe Biden can't speak. We can | ||
| all hear him say, tune in on a shot of the pressure. That's what it was. | ||
| But it's With the quote-unquote right or the not-cult, it's a mix. | ||
| It's independent voters. | ||
| You've got people like Jimmy Dore. | ||
| Jimmy Dore's a socialist as far as I know. | ||
| I'm not saying it to be derogatory. | ||
| I think he actually identifies as a socialist and I think Jimmy's fantastic. | ||
| And he points out a lot of the same manipulations and lies in the media. | ||
| So Jimmy Dore sitting down with a conservative, they're probably going to be arguing like crazy, but then they're going to completely agree on the establishment, the feds, the war, the manipulation. | ||
| So when Nicki Minaj comes out and she's like, the media lies. | ||
| And I'm not going to stand for it. | ||
| It's like, yes, this is basically what we're talking about. | ||
| The people who are discerning, they look at the media and they question the narratives and the people who aren't, who believe whatever they're told. | ||
| So Nicki Minaj tweets this thing like they're lying about me. | ||
| Michael Malice tweeted at her, the corporate press is the enemy of the people. | ||
| And then someone responded, Nicki Minaj is on the side of the far right. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| But that's the cult. | ||
| I mean, that's the weird thing about the left, too, and making every common sense position far right is like you're going to actually normalize the far right, which is not necessarily something you want to do either. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But it's not even far right. | ||
| Well, it's not at all far right. | ||
| I was thinking about how it's not a volleyball game where it's like half of us and half of us. | ||
| It's more like mold toxicity has entered the system. | ||
| So it's not like an aberration, like it's there and we can locate it. | ||
| It hits the system and then it disperses throughout. | ||
| So we've got this bits of like toxicity in the system, but it's a small percentage of the system, although it's affecting it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then the rest of the system's just functioning, and now we're all kind of trying to work together. | ||
| I got a crazy idea. | ||
| Get the right to get on board with universal health care. | ||
| Actually, it's not even my joke. | ||
| It's the Babylon Bee. | ||
| Trump comes out in support of impeachment, forcing Democrats to oppose. | ||
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Remember that one? | |
| I'm not even going to claim the joke. | ||
| It's a recycled joke. | ||
| But yeah, if the right came out and they were like, we support the Green New Deal and AOC, they'd be like, AOC is far right! | ||
| Because you can't convert people on the right. | ||
| Politics only flows one way. | ||
| Someone did that with CNN. | ||
| I think they were arguing for paid maternity leave. | ||
| And then Ivanka Trump proposed not that policy, but a tax credit for mothers. | ||
| And then CNN wrote an article about why that was such a horrible policy. | ||
| Well, this is the world we live in. | ||
| That's why I call it the cult. | ||
| Because, like, I can sit down and have a conversation about border policy with libertarians, and you have libertarians who are pro and against borders, and the libertarians who are like, open borders are the only true libertarian position. | ||
| And the other person is like, no, no, there should be borders, otherwise you don't have a country. | ||
| And it's like, those conversations can happen. | ||
| We've been trying to get people to come on with Alex Jones. | ||
| We want a leftist to come on. | ||
| They won't do it. | ||
| Because they're scared of him. | ||
| Not because, you know what the funny thing is? | ||
| They're scared because he's gonna be right. | ||
| Because when Joe Rogan had him on, and Joe Rogan kept fact-checking him, and then Joe would be like, Alex, that's not true, and Alex would be like, look it up, I'm telling you! | ||
| And then Jamie pulled it up, and then, oh yeah, I found it, it's true. | ||
| It's CNN reporting, 2016, some weird thing. | ||
| When he was here, Alex told me that we eat cloned beef. | ||
| He's like, all the beef you're eating, it's all clones. | ||
| And I'm like, no it isn't, that's ridiculous. | ||
| And he's like, look, Google it. | ||
| Typed it in, and dozens of articles. | ||
| All of the meat you get is from cloned cows. | ||
| And I was like, oh. | ||
| So what happens is we have these leftists. | ||
| Some of them are like, yeah, I'll do the show. | ||
| And then later go, no, no, no, no, I'm not going to do it. | ||
| Because what are they going to do when they sit down across from Alex Jones and he says something populist? | ||
| Like, we can't have these elites stealing money from the working class. | ||
| And they're gonna be like I agree with you Alex Jones, and I think that's gonna get clipped yeah and put everywhere | ||
| They're scared. They're scared because now I certainly think Alice has been crazy and wrong about a lot of things | ||
| Oh, he's a nut, but I like the guy but but when he talks about | ||
| Nobody wants to be in the room with the guy these leftists Don't where they get a sound bite where they're in | ||
| agreement with him over basic issues When he's talking about 5g cell towers and mutant animal hybrids | ||
| and weird stuff like it's weird The left can't agree with the right on a single issue. | ||
| We can agree with a single issue with Nicki Minaj and go, yeah, we'll align with you there. | ||
| But they'll find someone they agree with on everything, or even they're canceling within their own. | ||
| They'll find someone they agree with on everything and be like, oh, he said a homophobic term in Xbox Live in 2003. | ||
| Oh, what was that? | ||
| The Jeopardy guy? | ||
| Yeah, I think it was nine years ago. | ||
| It's so weird, too, because you can see it play out on Twitter, the whole process, and all the other journalists are like, wow, great job transcribing this nine-year-old podcast no one knew about. | ||
| Great work, guys. | ||
| Yeah, what did he say? | ||
| He said boobs or something. | ||
| Something. | ||
| It was something so... I mean, I already forgot what it was. | ||
| Dude, I say it all the time, but like, I don't understand how people would choose to live that way. | ||
| Like, Nicki Minaj is willing to put her career on the line because she's like, screw you, I'm not gonna do what you say. | ||
| How is it Nicki Minaj is more punk rock than Rage Against the Machine? | ||
| That's the thing with the left. | ||
| They always have an issue, no matter how obscure. | ||
| Like, I'll be friends with someone on Facebook from college and they're like, oh, this native tribe in the middle of this place you've never heard of needs our help. | ||
| And I'm like, how do you guys keep track of all this? | ||
| I'm not saying it's bad to care, I'm just saying I don't get how you guys- it must be exhausting. | ||
| I'm looking forward to, like, Nikki doing new songs. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because she- She might incorporate a- Oh, it's all gonna be in it. | ||
| Red pills, baby. | ||
| Yeah, and she's- it's like, you think back to that line from Rage Against the Machine, I'm sorry, Rage on Behalf of the Machine, where they said, F you, I won't do what you tell me. | ||
| And now they're, they're lying. | ||
| We should rewrite that song. | ||
| F you, you better do what they tell you. | ||
| And they're not, they were never really anti-establishment. | ||
| Like if you, well they actually did a tour, I think it was sponsored by Pepsi once, but you might want to check that. | ||
| But on Tamarowe's guitar, the black one, I don't know what it's called, I'm not into music, but it references Shining Path, which is a Peruvian communist group that killed 60,000 people. | ||
| Yeah, so that's the kind of people he's publicly supporting. | ||
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| I mean, it doesn't really seem all that anti-establishment or you're | ||
| rebelling against anything. | ||
| But when the establishment in the U.S. | ||
| opposes communism, they're anti-establishment. | ||
| Yes. So that's the funny thing, right? | ||
| You've got some people who are who this is what I what I what I found. | ||
| I was having a conversation with this hacker guy, relatively prominent. | ||
| Prominent during the anonymous era. | ||
| Occupy Wall Street. | ||
| And I was like, we were arguing. | ||
| And I was like, dude, you guys changed. | ||
| Like, we didn't change. | ||
| We still believe in free speech. | ||
| We still believe in all these things. | ||
| And then he just was like, yeah, I know. | ||
| We used you. | ||
| Like, we were anti-establishment because we want to subvert, you know, the authority and take over and install our communist, you know, utopia. | ||
| And you were willing to help us do it. | ||
| So we tolerated it. | ||
| Now that we have institutional authority, we don't believe in freedom. | ||
| And we never did. | ||
| It was just a means to an end. | ||
| Yeah, that's that's the thing in politics in general. | ||
| Like people are only really principled so long as, you know, it gets them into power. | ||
| I think only the right really stays principled, but it's almost to their detriment at certain times. | ||
| Like you'll see them be weak on vaccine mandates, for instance. | ||
| It's like, well, we can't really tell business what to do or go ahead. | ||
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| I don't want to interrupt. | ||
| I didn't want to interrupt. | ||
| I wanted to ask though, because you might know this, has Lauren Boebert proposed repealing the NFA? | ||
| I mean, I assume not. | ||
| But I don't know the actual follower that much. | ||
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So someone may have... Let me look it up. | |
| Yeah, I'm not entirely sure, but that's the National Firearms Act. | ||
| It bans tons of weapons. | ||
| It makes it nearly impossible to get specific guns that I think don't even make sense to be banned. | ||
| But there's a ridiculous amount of guns that are banned. | ||
| People don't understand that not only is there a ridiculous amount of guns that are banned, but there's also a ridiculous amount of guns that can't even be made because of the NFA and other ATF regulations and rules. | ||
| So, it looks like Senator Kramer, the U.S. | ||
| Senator for North Dakota, introduced a bill to abolish the NFA. | ||
| Senator Kramer and colleagues introduced a bill to improve firearm owners' access. | ||
| Oh, when was this? | ||
| This is from June 2021. | ||
| Oh, hey, that's great! | ||
| So, I don't know. | ||
| Is that guy, he's in right now and he's doing that? | ||
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Yeah, North Dakota. | |
| I wasn't doing that to drag Lauren Boeber by any way. | ||
| It's just because she is very, very much a two-way candidate. | ||
| And I'm wondering, like, are the Republicans coming out and being like, you know, we demand? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Seemingly not, no. | ||
| For the most part, no. | ||
| It's the thing, Republicans will get power, then they'll go, well, if, you know, we use the government to enforce our principles, the left will do it when they take power. | ||
| And it's like, well, they already are. | ||
| I mean, it's almost like a meme that schools are left-wing. | ||
| It's like, you guys let them get that way. | ||
| But that's the point. | ||
| I'm not asking for Lowenboebert or Marjorie Taylor Greene or any of these Rand Paul to demand the government give us stuff. | ||
| I'm saying repeal the law and let people decide on their own. | ||
| But, you know, the issue is, You got a game of tug-of-war with the left pulling with all their might and the right's just standing still. | ||
| They do tweet a lot though. | ||
| You've got the fear of not getting voted back in. | ||
| If they anger too many people. | ||
| If they get too loud. | ||
| So they're kind of like, don't want to make a noise. | ||
| I didn't even know who that guy was who you just mentioned. | ||
| Yeah, but there's a lot of members of Congress you don't know. | ||
| But come on, look at AOC! | ||
| She stomps around. | ||
| Yeah, I think her district is like... She's not one of those people. | ||
| I think it's like D plus 25, though. | ||
| Like, basically, you could run a dead Democrat against a Republican in her district, and the dead person would win, unfortunately. | ||
| You could run a sawhorse. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's literally possible. | ||
| It's a, you know, Kim Klasek-level district, so it's not... I mean, no, that's the crazy thing, too. | ||
| And this is not an exaggeration or a joke. | ||
| If you put Sawhorse, Sawh, space, horse, D, and, you know, John Smith, R, the Sawhorse would win. | ||
| Because people will just see the D and then check it off, regardless. | ||
| There's some town, I don't know, I still haven't saw the headline, but where I think a cat won the mayoral election. | ||
| Which, maybe that was just a joke on the people's part. | ||
| There's a lot of small towns with only a couple hundred people that vote for the dog. | ||
| That's because they're like, we don't need a mayor, what's the point? | ||
| But I actually think, I wonder if this can be, you know, pulled off. | ||
| If you can... I wonder what would happen if you just went to a district, got someone who's a Republican on the ballot as a Democrat. | ||
| I've had that thought. | ||
| Like, you run and you lead with your issues that are left-leaning and just, you know, kind of stay quiet on the other ones. | ||
| But it doesn't even matter. | ||
| If there's some obscure district, and you run and it's D plus 28, and you run as a Democrat, and you win the primary... | ||
| See, the issue, I suppose, is running the primary is very activist-y because that's where all the hardcore activists are. | ||
| But what's to stop a Republican from doing, you know, pulling an AOC and being like, I'm far left, and then getting in and then go right to the establishment. | ||
| I know this is just a sheriff election, but I think that's what, I suppose like David Clark, the black sheriff, he used to be on Fox News a lot. | ||
| Very conservative, but he is a registered Democrat. | ||
| And I think it's sort of the same thing. | ||
| He's in an area where you kind of have to be, even though what he's saying is not that way. | ||
| I think that's the answer to the problem. | ||
| So a Republican runs as a Democrat in a Democrat district and then votes Republican. | ||
| No one pays attention to those local politics. | ||
| I mean, I know who my representative is. | ||
| I don't know who any of the other ones are. | ||
| I doubt half the people in my town even know who theirs is. | ||
| So yeah, I think it would be possible. | ||
| Well, that's the thing about... | ||
| AOC's district. She won the primary with what was it like 11,000 votes? Wow. So imagine | ||
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Is there? | |
| if a Republican ran as a Democrat and told all of the Republicans, because there's I | ||
| think how many are there? 200,000 or it's like 120,000 Republicans in AOC's district | ||
| I think. Is there? Yeah. Interesting. It's like 20% so it's actually a little bit more. | ||
| It's like 150. Imagine if you got 20,000 activist Republicans to vote in the Democratic primary | ||
| for the conservative Democrat. | ||
| Although, was the 11,000, was that her... Didn't she have like a runoff with the incumbent or something? | ||
| Joe Crowley, I think it was. | ||
| AOC? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It wasn't a runoff. | ||
| She won the primary. | ||
| Oh, so that's what it was. | ||
| 11,000 votes for the primary. | ||
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And then she wins. | |
| I don't know why. | ||
| I must be misremembering something weird. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think it might have been 17,000. | ||
| And he got 14. | ||
| But either way, the point is, it was like, in a district of 750,000, that's all you needed to win? | ||
| Okay, Republicans, run as a centrist Democrat. | ||
| Just vote. | ||
| And get all the Republicans to vote for you. | ||
| And then once you're in, be like, oh, I'm joining the Republican Party. | ||
| And then you've got New York's 14th as a Republican district in New York. | ||
| Like, what was, Jeff Van Drew? | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| You saw that guy? | ||
| He was in New Jersey. | ||
| He was a moderate Democrat. | ||
| He won in 20... He's flipped, right? | ||
| Yeah, he flipped because of the impeachment. | ||
| He was like, they're nuts. | ||
| And he won again, didn't he? | ||
| I think so. | ||
| I think he's from, I think he's South Jersey, which is the more conservative half. | ||
| Yeah, massive Trump. | ||
| I'm thinking like, we're thinking like, strip the D and the R off the tickets. | ||
| Try that. | ||
| And then just, then just vote. | ||
| And you have to know who you're voting for. | ||
| But then it'd be whoever the coolest name. | ||
| And you'd get people would change their names to like, Lightning Smash. | ||
| And then you were heading towards Camacho and Idiocracy. | ||
| Lightning Smash! | ||
| Maybe the age of the popularity contest should be... I'd make my name like election loser so people would vote for me as a joke. | ||
| Nobody wins. | ||
| Ian, I gotta say, I think it's still better. | ||
| Slashing the D's and the R's? | ||
| We would be better off if, in deep red and deep blue districts, a random person won. | ||
| Random. | ||
| I really don't like that people drop for the D or the R. That always bothers me. | ||
| That's all they do. | ||
| There was a story of the trans-anarchist Satanist in New Hampshire. | ||
| I think it was New Hampshire, right? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| That ran as a Republican and won. | ||
| It was a primary, though. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| And it was because Republicans were just like, yep, yep, Republican, Republican. | ||
| And then when the Republicans, these voters, found out, they were like, what? | ||
| I'm outraged! | ||
| And the trans-anarchist Satanists said to them, you voted for me? | ||
| Are they still a Republican, do we know? | ||
| I don't know, I don't know, but I thought that was brilliant. | ||
| Absolutely brilliant. | ||
| Send a message to these people who walk in and go, oh, Mitch McConnell, he's a Republican. | ||
| Lindsey Graham. | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| The establishment Republicans are speed bumps for Democrats. | ||
| And it's intentional, as far as I'm concerned. | ||
| What do you guys think about having more parties? | ||
| Because I've floated it in both ways, where I'm like, on one hand, it allows people to be more honest, because optionally, within the Republican Party, there's probably three or four different factions. | ||
| But on the other hand, it could risk making the country more divided in that, you know, instead of one, the blue team versus the red team, you've got eight teams that are... It would be a good thing. | ||
| But it's not possible in first-past-the-post voting systems. | ||
| Well, it would need to be like Europe, where you vote for the party and then whatever percent they get, you know... | ||
| Like the parliamentary system? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Where basically it's like, if 70% of the vote is for... Republicans, then you're hoping to get 70% of the seats. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I'm a little ignorant on how they fill the seats. | ||
| I don't know if the party picks them or what goes on next, but... I think the party decides. | ||
| I'm not sure though. | ||
| I assume that's it, but I'm not sure, yeah. | ||
| If we had 10 Libertarian seats in the House, it would force the Democrats and Republicans to compromise. | ||
| Yeah, I want, like, a Libertarian Party, a Nationalist Party, like a... I don't know, maybe, like, a Tea Party, a Tea Party, and the left can have their, you know, crazy different factions, like a Green Party or something. | ||
| Maybe in a ring of choice? | ||
| Or a DSA, or something like that, yeah. | ||
| Because, look at it this way, there's... Bernie Sanders is notorious for compromising and working with Republicans, and that's why they called Kamala Harris the most liberal member of Congress, which is not true. | ||
| It was just based on one year's voting, I think, that particular... It was based on cooperation. | ||
| Bernie Sanders was willing to cooperate and sponsor Republicans in exchange for their support on his bills. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And his bills were substantially more progressive, but he knew where his paths were, and Kamala Harris was just not talking to Republicans at all. | ||
| That doesn't make her further left than Bernie, but that's how they weighed it. | ||
| Yeah, and I think another thing, too, is, like, Bernie, there are certain policies of his that there's literally no point in proposing because they're not gonna go anywhere. | ||
| So, obviously, he has radical beliefs, but they don't show up in the record because You know, it's just never going to pass. | ||
| You remember when Bernie, he said this, I think it was, man, when was this? | ||
| 20, it might've been 2018. | ||
| He said, he was asked at a rally, should we have open borders? | ||
| And he said something like, it's Koch brothers, right? | ||
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| He went, no, no, no. | ||
| That was an interview in 2015. | ||
| He was asked at a rally and he went, oh, oh geez, no. | ||
| Like the poor would flood into this country. | ||
| We can't do that. | ||
| And so the world socialist website called him a nationalist capitalist. | ||
| Speaking of people flooding into the country, did you see Drew Hernandez's tweet from today of that giant mob of people coming across the border? | ||
| It's from the air. | ||
| You might be able to pull up Drew's Twitter. | ||
| And then after that went viral, didn't they try to ban the use of drones in that specific area? | ||
| They banned Fox News flying drones over that particular area. | ||
| So the local law enforcement gave them a helicopter to fly overhead. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| Yeah, incredible. | ||
| I thought it was fantastic. | ||
| They're the people on the border who live there, the local law enforcement. | ||
| They're like, this needs to be. | ||
| Are you talking about the aerial view? | ||
| One or 10,000 migrants have congregated under a border bridge after crossing illegally. | ||
| Reports Fox News. | ||
| This is from Del Rio, Texas. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So these images are crazy. | ||
| And the Biden administration got the FAA to shut down airspace. | ||
| Apparently they're defying it. | ||
| Drone airspace, I guess. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So Tucker said on the air there he was telling them, like literally telling the guy, don't | ||
| obey them. | ||
| Right. | ||
| There's no United States anymore. | ||
| See that? | ||
| It certainly doesn't feel united. | ||
| We're not a republic. | ||
| We talked about this a couple days ago with Jack Murphy. | ||
| Laws are created in this country now over the past two years as the sovereign decrees it, and then the people are given the right to challenge so long as they're impacted by it. | ||
| The courts can then strike down their challenge and the law stands. | ||
| That's what's happening with all of the coronavirus lockdowns across the country. | ||
| Yeah, CDC stuff. | ||
| It's like, they should not have the authority to create law. | ||
| And even when the Supreme Court says so, Biden says, I'll do it anyway. | ||
| So now we're in a government where governors and the president just say, here's the law. | ||
| And then the people go, okay, I guess. | ||
| Not only that, so that's why I say we're not in a republic. | ||
| Jack Murphy is actually the one who said that, but we're not a country anymore for one simple reason. | ||
| At the southern border in Texas, the migrants are going back and forth. | ||
| I saw that. | ||
| It looked like that. | ||
| No, they are. | ||
| Literally, this is the big news. | ||
| They're going into Mexico, and they're walking back and forth as if there's no border anymore. | ||
| Well, there really isn't. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| So, when it was... When we had a border, You have a country. | ||
| It's defined by here's the border of our country where our jurisdiction extends. | ||
| Then we started having problems with illegal immigration, so we started putting up barriers, and then Trump says, you know, we get to the point now where it's like we're gonna build a wall because we're asserting our right to have jurisdiction. | ||
| That this is our country, this is where our community lives. | ||
| Joe Biden gets in, and the crisis gets worse. | ||
| But we identify it as a problem. | ||
| Illegal immigration, people coming in this country are violating our borders. | ||
| Now it's been a year. | ||
| No, it's been almost a year. | ||
| It's been, you know, three quarters of a year. | ||
| And Joe Biden, the problem's only gotten worse. | ||
| And it's gotten so bad that the migrants are actually crossing back and forth. | ||
| So people will walk into the United States, go to the camp and hang out, then walk back to Mexico for food and water and go to stores and then walk back and then sleep under the bridge as if there is no jurisdiction at all anymore. | ||
| We're having I think there's like a 20-year high in apprehensions and I assume because of Biden we're not not as much effort as even going into apprehensions and despite that fact we're at 20-year highs so it's probably so much worse than we can even imagine. | ||
| I imagine Joe Biden sitting there like, is the country collapsed yet? | ||
| Well, I mean, the end goal is amnesty. | ||
| And the left is always shifting the goalposts. | ||
| They'll go, oh, I mean, we have 11 to 30 million people here. | ||
| We can't possibly deport them all. | ||
| So the answer for them is to do nothing. | ||
| And then 30 years from now, they can go, hey, there's 50 to 100 million illegals here. | ||
| We can't deport them all. | ||
| And it's just it's endlessly moving the goalposts and then trying to end with amnesty. | ||
| You know, but the amnesty is irrelevant. | ||
| Illegal immigrants give electoral votes to states. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So congressional districts are drawn. | ||
| I have a story about that. | ||
| Just for people, because we bring this up a lot. | ||
| A lot of people don't know this, and it's one of the most important points. | ||
| Congressional districts are drawn up by population, not by citizenry. | ||
| So the more non-citizens are in an area, which they can just keep bringing in, then the census comes out and they say, oh, look, we've got, we need more districts. | ||
| California and New York, I think, are actually losing districts this time. | ||
| So I don't know if you ever had any run-ins with the fact checkers yet. | ||
| I think it's one. | ||
| over that I did an article and I was citing a reputable study on how many extra votes | ||
| does Cal or how many extra reps does California get due to illegal immigration. | ||
| And I think it was four or five was what it came out to. | ||
| So PolitiFact wrote about it. | ||
| I think it's one. | ||
| Well, I'll show you the study. | ||
| But there are fact checkers I think was two. | ||
| But so they do a fact check on me. | ||
| Their response was it's mostly false because it might actually be two or three. | ||
| And I went to the evidence where they debunked my claim. | ||
| They emailed some professor and he said, oh, I think it's probably closer to two or three. | ||
| That was literally the fact check was some dude whose name I forget. | ||
| They ask an opinion piece to act as a fact check. | ||
| And then Facebook gives them the power to strike your business. | ||
| And then I think I emailed them even the math. | ||
| I'm like, well, here's, you know, the average population of reps. | ||
| Here's their extra population. | ||
| So it should be this amount and no effect. | ||
| I think it was the Heritage Foundation said that California ends up with one extra electoral vote and college seat based on electoral college votes and congressional seat based on the population of illegal immigrants. | ||
| Yeah, it was Center for Immigration Studies and to be fair they might have also been factoring in, and I think mine excluded this, but they also did one where they put in legal permanent residents who are non-citizens because they also count And it also, you know, generally benefits left-leaning states. | ||
| I don't, I don't, I think, man, Biden's our Buchanan. | ||
| You know, so either the United States is done already. | ||
| We've got Sarah Silverman coming out being like, I think we should have, our country should break up. | ||
| They can be USA1, we'll be USA2. | ||
| And I'm like... I did like she would give us one though, that was very nice of her. | ||
| It was very nice. | ||
| But she's independently come to this idea. | ||
| She doesn't watch Michael Malice's show. | ||
| And that's what he's been talking about. | ||
| So for her to independently come to this, maybe it's time the country breaks up. | ||
| I'm like, you know, when the left and the right are basically like, can we break up please? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Then what's keeping it together? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The only concern I have is, I mean, from our perspective, and definitely because we're all politically involved, it feels like it's half the country hates the other half of the country. | ||
| But I think it also could be the case that 20% of the country hates the other 20%, and then the remaining 60% just want to watch The Bachelor. | ||
| I'm definitely one of those other 60%. | ||
| I don't think it's that big, actually. | ||
| It could be 10 and 10, even. | ||
| I think the fact that Joe Biden pulled in as many votes as he did shows that there are regular people who just believe what they're told. | ||
| Now, they do just want to watch The Bachelor, but they're also scared of The Ripe. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| So it's unique to the, whatever we would call the establishment, the left, whatever you want to call it, in that I know people, and this is what I told Bannon, who had no business being in politics, like these are people who've never watched a minute of news, all of a sudden posting videos of them filming themselves dropping their mail-in ballots for Biden saying, we all got to vote for Biden. | ||
| That kind of zealotry is unique to the left. | ||
| The right doesn't have that ground game. | ||
| And that's why I think, you know, like the recall effort could have... They were 1.7 million down, if you analyze the data. | ||
| I don't know the exact numbers are now. | ||
| But Trump supporters didn't show up to recall Gavin. | ||
| I'm not saying they would have won, but they could have come out. | ||
| Republicans on the right don't have ground game. | ||
| And I think there are a lot more, as Michael Malice would say, a lot more NPCs on the left. | ||
| Default liberal, I think, would be right. | ||
| That's the thing. | ||
| Your blinders growing up are every musician, artist, mainstream TV show, comedian, every sort of facet of the entertainment industry is all left wing. | ||
| So when you only hear one opinion, you really can't blame someone for just going, oh, OK, this is, you know, I guess what I'm told. | ||
| But it's not even that. | ||
| It's the fear. | ||
| It's like, you're not right wing, are you? | ||
| And then when you're like, yes. | ||
| But not even that, you're like, no, I just think there was a viral TikTok, you know, from libs of TikTok, where this woman's like dancing. | ||
| It's like, why I broke up with my boyfriend. | ||
| It's like, unvaccinated. | ||
| Doesn't want the vax. | ||
| Isn't vaccinated. | ||
| Doesn't like science. | ||
| And I'm like, what? | ||
| These people are insane. | ||
| I'm like, you all got a C in chemistry. | ||
| Like, what are you pretending, just because you agree on the vaccine science thing? | ||
| They don't believe in science. | ||
| I saw this and I was like, this is the crazy thing. | ||
| When we say science, we're talking about analysis, research, control groups. | ||
| When they say science, they're talking about authority. | ||
| Well, the thing too, the phrase, I believe in science is an unscientific phrase. | ||
| You don't believe it. | ||
| You accept the data or challenge it. | ||
| And if you believe in it, you're not thinking. | ||
| Yeah, you're supposed to use science to challenge itself. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| There's a really great scene in Stargate SG-1. | ||
| You ever watch that show? | ||
| Is that the show that was just on downstairs? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| Well, so I saw that one episode. | ||
| So they, in one of the early episodes, they go through a portal to other worlds. | ||
| They find a group of people who are highly technologically advanced. | ||
| And they consider us primitive, like Earth. | ||
| Humans on Earth are very primitive. | ||
| And Carter is explaining Schrodinger's cat, quantum physics, and he laughs and he calls it something else. | ||
| And then she's like, wait, do you know quantum physics? | ||
| And he goes, yes, we've long learned of quantum physics and other scientific misconceptions. | ||
| And she goes, misconceptions? | ||
| Are you saying you've thrown out quantum physics? | ||
| And he laughs. | ||
| Because like, they're not supposed to share their science with less developed. | ||
| But that was a really great point to be made in a show from, I think the episode was in the 90s, that we can laugh at the fact that we think we know things, and then later on we continually better our understanding and debunk and disprove and refine our understanding. | ||
| So when you have people saying, I believe the science! | ||
| And I'm like, oh, which papers did you read? | ||
| Well, I, Anthony Fauci said on TV, it's like, yo, don't come at me and say that we, our research from reading articles is wrong when I literally read the scientific papers on these different things and you did nothing. | ||
| It's a cult. | ||
| And with, and this is more medical science, but there's, I know Vox sucks, but they did an article on like studies proving and disproving that something is good for you. | ||
| So they'll have like chocolate and have a list of every study that says it's good and everyone that says it's bad. | ||
| And like for every possible thing, it's 50 50. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Now, obviously, medical science is much harder to control for all that stuff, so it's different than, you know, physics or something, but it is interesting. | ||
| I don't see how, because we had this argument the other day. | ||
| There was a point where I felt like we could mend the divide, maybe 2015, 2016. | ||
| where you know I'm saying like we need to make sure we're understanding each other and explaining | ||
| things in the right way and if someone is saying racism is prejudice plus power then all we got | ||
| to do is break down what these words mean and try to come to an understanding. Now we're at the point | ||
| where it's like you know people are wishing for death on each other. Well we can see we're at a | ||
| point where we can all see the same viral video and somehow predictably you can predict someone's | ||
| Or, like, you can know someone's opinions on guns and know their opinion on abortion. | ||
| Like, there's all these things that really shouldn't be... But I'll tell you where the line is. | ||
| And this is why I say the left is a cult and whatever you want to call this amalgam of different factions is not. | ||
| Remember the Acosta? | ||
| Jim Acosta had the microphone? | ||
| Yeah, and he was trying to... And the young White House intern tried to take it from him. | ||
| The establishment people were arguing that she tried yanking it from him. | ||
| And the right tried arguing that Acosta tried yanking it back from her. | ||
| And I think you can clearly see that Acosta was the one musing the force. | ||
| But my position was, I don't know exactly if Jim Acosta was trying to yank it from her or if he was just reacting. | ||
| Regardless, Jim Acosta should not be fighting with an intern no matter who was in the right or wrong. | ||
| Jim Acosta should have handed the microphone over. | ||
| And I had high profile personalities DM me. | ||
| I'm not going to say who it was and be like, are you being serious with this right now? | ||
| And I was like, serious with what you really saying it's his fault. | ||
| And I was like, why, why was he standing up there talking for two minutes? | ||
| When you're in the White House as a guest, when the intern comes up to take the microphone from you, you say, well, here's your microphone back. | ||
| But they don't care. | ||
| They literally are like, that's why I say it's a cult. | ||
| It's not about whether it's true or false. | ||
| It's not about whether it was Acosta's fault or the intern's fault. | ||
| It's about do you agree with me or not? | ||
| And even if I say, I don't necessarily agree with the conservatives on this one, but I still think it was wrong that Acosta was even in that situation in the first place. | ||
| He should have just, he should have handed it right to her. | ||
| And they're like, no, you're wrong. | ||
| You're in a, you're, you're the bad guy. | ||
| And if it was Peter Doocy and like Biden, a woman for Biden, we get like a 3000 word think piece. | ||
| I'm like, oh, the challenges that female white house interns have always faced in this country. | ||
| And what are we going to do about it? | ||
| I've noticed like if someone posts something and then I'll respond, like, like Tim will say something and I'll write, yeah, right. | ||
| On, on his comment, other people will read that and they'll be like, he said, look at that sarcastic jerk. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| And the age of text is very new for humanity. | ||
| Oh, I had a roommate who would always drop, like, trolling comments on my post, and fans of mine didn't know who he was, so they would always get angry at him, and he thought it was hilarious. | ||
| And the problem is, if I'm not trolling, if I really mean, yeah, right, what you're saying, people will see that and think I'm being sarcastic and misinterpret, and that's caused massive confusion. | ||
| You know, I tweeted, we should ban fat people from hospitals so that we can protect the healthy. | ||
| It's about the vaccine. | ||
| It's about triage. | ||
| It's about if you choose to be unhealthy, then we will not give you a hospital bed, just like with people who aren't vaccinated. | ||
| And the tweet got thousands of retweets. | ||
| And I have people responding with, I may be fat, but I'm healthy and have never spent a penny in the hospital. | ||
| And then the guy goes, you're being sarcastic. | ||
| He responds again, dot, dot, dot, you're being sarcastic, aren't you? | ||
| Like, it was a tweet. | ||
| The purpose of the tweet is you got to understand about when you do trolling well, it was not a serious tweet. | ||
| I'm not literally calling for fat people to be banned from hospitals. | ||
| I'm constructing an argument that puts them in a principled predicament. | ||
| If they say, well, the reason we think the unvaccinated shouldn't be given hospital beds is because of triage. | ||
| Then I start with, fat people should be banned because of triage, like the unvaccinated, right? | ||
| And it forces, often when I do these tweets, the left can't even respond because it would shatter their narrative. | ||
| It applies to almost any reason you'd be in a hospital. | ||
| Like, you could break your leg in a skateboarding accident. | ||
| Are we going to say, oh, well, you shouldn't have taken that risk, so it's your fault? | ||
| I mean, and it also sort of undermines their case for universal health care and that if these people were in charge of it, It seems like they're going to be sort of nitpicking who's allowed to have it. | ||
| Look what they're doing with Florida. | ||
| Joe Biden takes away some of the monoclonal antibodies. | ||
| Well, we've got to give it to other people, and it's like, wow, the other states aren't ordering it. | ||
| Florida is ordering it because Florida needs it. | ||
| Why would you take them away? | ||
| Because it's punishment. | ||
| Let's talk about this, because I want to show you this article I got from The Atlantic. | ||
| This is a series. | ||
| This was an article published August 13th. | ||
| It's a series on ancient Rome and the fall of the Roman Republic. | ||
| And it's really, really quite interesting. | ||
| Now, this guy running for the Atlantic, it's a mainstream media thing. | ||
| It's a left wing. | ||
| He basically says that Trump supporters live in fantasy land and that reactionaries clearly doesn't like Trump supporters. | ||
| But here's what he says. | ||
| Will the Trumpist party similarly ultimately prevail once they cross the Rubicon? | ||
| I have been predicting for years that something resembling a civil war will arise, and something like Trumpists likely will carry the day in the short term. | ||
| But a reactionary philosophy that rejects fact in favor of fantasy, is economically retrograde, and socially repugnant to the majority of Americans, can impose its rule only for so long. | ||
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You know what's really funny about that? | |
| When you take out the fact that the Trump supporters are not the ones who believe in fantasy, but typically are the ones who are critically thinking, not all of them. | ||
| They have their zealots. | ||
| What he's basically saying is the Trump supporters will win. | ||
| Well, we hold a gun, so... Yeah, but the military and the cops have guns, too. | ||
| This is one thing that the right doesn't seem to understand. | ||
| You know, I see these comments all the time. | ||
| They were like, how is the left going to win a conflict when the right are the ones with the guns? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| The right's the one that are leaving the military. | ||
| officers are resigning and quitting the police force and leaving in the | ||
| establishment shills who are armed. But in this, if you're operating | ||
| under the presumption that Trump supporters are going to win and then say | ||
| but they can't hold power for long because you know insert disparaging | ||
| comments about Trump supporters, okay well if you look at the right, if you | ||
| look at the thought leaders on the right, they're typically critical thinkers. | ||
| They're biased. | ||
| Like Daily Wire is a conservative biased site, but they don't post lies. | ||
| Then the reality is it's the left that's retrograde and reactionary and in favor of fantasy. | ||
| They think the economy is good right now. | ||
| So what they're really saying is this guy, based on his assessment of ancient Rome and what's happening now, thinks there will be a civil war and the Trump side will win. | ||
| I wonder, too, like, when people say civil war, do they literally mean for the entire country? | ||
| Or do they just mean, like, in some region of it, you know, will be taken over? | ||
| Because, like... It would be the entire country. | ||
| Like, so we just got to claim Alaska and Hawaii somehow? | ||
| It's just included in the package? | ||
| So, people... The problem with Americans is that their view of civil war is based on one of the most unique internal conflicts in history. | ||
| The American Civil War was a union of states of different jurisdictions aligning against each other. | ||
| Whereas most civil wars are factions fighting everywhere in the country at the same time. | ||
| So if you look at the Spanish Civil War and see like the different pockets that emerged of the Republicans versus the Communists or whatever, and then they're fighting each other and then gaining more and more ground and eventually they take over. | ||
| I think Spain win military dictatorship or whatever. | ||
| That's like, oh, okay, that's how a civil war operates. | ||
| But Americans are like, there was the Mason-Dixon line, and then West Virginia became a state and Virginia separated, and it's like, that's because each state was basically a country. | ||
| Right. | ||
| With a sovereign state. | ||
| And so when the Union got shaky, states seceded of their own accord without what other states thought. | ||
| And then because of the conflict, the Confederacy joined forces to defend themselves against the Union, and that's why they called it the War of Northern Aggression. | ||
| Was there a big call from the citizenry to go to civil war, the American Civil War? | ||
| Was that all like a government thing? | ||
| I think it was a government thing. | ||
| All the governors just decided, right? | ||
| Not a governor thing, I think it was a government thing. | ||
| The legislatures, and I think regular people didn't want it, but nothing could be done. | ||
| I mean, first and foremost, slavery. | ||
| Here's the other difference between a modern civil war and the past civil war. | ||
| You can argue, and I agree with this, that slavery was so morally repugnant, going in to stop slavery was a cause in and to itself. | ||
| Meaning, if we had a state right now that was like, Enslaving people? | ||
| I would be demanding the federal government, like, we cannot tolerate it in our own country. | ||
| It's a violation of all of our rights, and it must be ended immediately. | ||
| And so I can certainly understand why the North was like, we're not gonna let these states do this. | ||
| First of all, they had continually passed laws that were like, we're gonna get rid of slavery, and the South was mad about it and wanted to leave the Union. | ||
| War breaks out. | ||
| But when you have that moral issue, and I think everyone agrees, like, you know, it was a good thing to end slavery. | ||
| I agree slavery was really bad. | ||
| That's the thing, like, name a person right now. | ||
| I'm sure there are some crackpot, you know, individuals and racists who are, like, angry about it, but 99.99% of everyone agrees it turned out properly. | ||
| It was the right thing. | ||
| Today, we do not have that moral issue. | ||
| Our moral issues are like, I live in the mountains of West Virginia and I want to own a gun. | ||
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Well, I'm from New York and I think you shouldn't be allowed to have one. | |
| Could you imagine? | ||
| That makes no sense. | ||
| No one's gonna invade West Virginia to end the moral repugnance of gun ownership. | ||
| And no one from West Virginia is gonna go invade New York to stop them. | ||
| They're gonna be like, what's gonna happen is, West Virginia's gonna be like, we out. | ||
| I also had this thought, too, in my various streams of secession. | ||
| I had this thought that, like, I think the biggest divide, too, is urban-rural, in that even if a state were to succeed, its population centers are probably still going to be left-wing and still have outsized influence, even if, you know, people, you know, in the majority of the square mileage of it are right-wing. | ||
| So, and I know this would never happen, but I don't know if it would make more sense to have, you know, sort of city-states for liberals than, you know, everything else for the conservatives. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| They'd fall in two seconds. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They'd fall in two seconds. | ||
| I think it is true that even in West Virginia, the states are blue. | ||
| It's the craziest thing. | ||
| People should check this out. | ||
| Come to West Virginia. | ||
| Go to central West Virginia. | ||
| We were in central West Virginia in some small town. | ||
| And the bars got the trans rainbow flag. | ||
| And I'm like, we're in central West Virginia. | ||
| And I'm like, I don't understand why even small urban centers become leftist. | ||
| The internet. | ||
| I mean, there's actually a really interesting book by Jonathan Haidt, and he points out that conservatives and liberals actually have different brain structures, and that we are just fundamentally different, and it could just be naturally people with more left-leaning and progressive views tend to congregate among other people. | ||
| Weaker people who need support. | ||
| support and want to looch off others. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And conservatives kind of like you know space and like there | ||
| have been polls and it's like with conservatives would you | ||
| rather have to drive 10 minutes to get somewhere or walk you | ||
| 10 minutes and most liberals will say oh I'll walk to the | ||
| store most conservatives would prefer the drive and those | ||
| traits just kind of self select you into that kind of | ||
| lifestyle. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Jonathan Its research is fascinating. | ||
| Liberals have only two of six Yes. | ||
| Care and fairness. | ||
| Conservatives have all six, and libertarians only have one. | ||
| What's theirs? | ||
| Liberty. | ||
| Oh, that's it. | ||
| The only thing! | ||
| So you can take these tests to weigh your moral foundations, and When I take the test, it comes up left liberal. | ||
| But it's because I have a little bit more care and fairness and then a slight balance across the board. | ||
| Liberty, care and fairness for me are really, really high. | ||
| And I think that really makes sense. | ||
| I'm left leaning on a lot of policy issues, but I favor more liberty, which means I'm typically in opposition to the authoritarianism. | ||
| And then when it comes to the other moral foundations, I do have them more than the average liberal. | ||
| But watching Libertarians take the test, because some of these questions, like, I can't even say what some of the questions are. | ||
| Like, oh man, there's there's questions about incest? | ||
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| Oh, yeah. | ||
| And so Libertarians are like, zero on these other moral foundations and Liberty's 100 because they're like, I don't care what you do! | ||
| Get the government out! | ||
| And I'm like... | ||
| I don't know, I've got, yeah, because there's purity, there's loyalty, there's authority, liberty, care, and fairness, I think, are the, you know. | ||
| So purity is like, there's a reason for that moral foundation. | ||
| Because, and I was reading about it, I think purity has a lot to do with disease. | ||
| That people who didn't care about, like, debauchery would be more likely to spread diseases, so you end up with certain traditions emerging of being clean and being, you know, pure. | ||
| You can see that, like, in religion, like, not eating shellfish. | ||
| It's like, well, at that time that actually was a pretty, you know, brilliant suggestion. | ||
| And pork. | ||
| Yeah, and pork, yeah. | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| Which, you know, broken, but... | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Well, now we've gotten better at, you know, cleaning and cooking and everything, so it's safer, but you can see those things still exist. | ||
| But I'll add one thing to this too. | ||
| You know, I don't know exactly what'll happen in terms of civil war, but I can say, if we have two distinct cultures forming in this country, laws cannot be enforced. | ||
| Period. | ||
| So the example I give is, I don't know if you've ever seen these books, it's like wacky laws the US still has. | ||
| Oh yeah, there's a million of them, yeah. | ||
| But why don't we enforce those laws? | ||
| Like, you can't take showers on Tuesdays in, you know, Rhode Island. | ||
| Yeah, we just know intuitively it's absurd and, I mean... At the time it made sense. | ||
| Yeah, at the time, yeah. | ||
| So, I'm not saying Rhode Island literally bans showers, but there are places in the East Coast that were like, you can't shower on Tuesdays. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Well, maybe because Tuesday was the day they allotted to the farmers to get access to the fresh water so they could, you know, farm their crops and you couldn't be... And then there's some things where it's like, you can't put pies on the windowsill on Sunday mornings. | ||
| Maybe it's because Sunday mornings is when the church would come, and it would attract animals, and then there'd be people around, and it would cause problems, and no more putting your food on the windowsills to cool, because the animals come, but now the animals are gone, and people are going to church less, and we have, you know, we just don't have that problem anymore. | ||
| So culturally, we just ignore that law. | ||
| Now what happens when you have two distinct cultures? | ||
| And then you have a law in the books, which is like guns. | ||
| It happens a lot, actually. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What's that law? | ||
| It's old, that old law that they were like, are they going to invoke the Insurrection Act? | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
| Some old, old law. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| About like not sending a spy overseas or something. | ||
| The Logan Act. | ||
| The guy that the act is actually named after lobbied a foreign government after the act was passed. | ||
| So it didn't even deter him when it was passed. | ||
| Yeah, they tried to get Michael Flynn on it. | ||
| And it makes no sense. | ||
| It's never been used. | ||
| Not to point my own work, but I did a book that was a section of it with one genome. | ||
| Isn't there an argument that Mark Milley may have violated the Logan Act? | ||
| He was discussing U.S. | ||
| military policy with foreign adversaries. | ||
| I would say yes, but it won't matter in that it's never been enforced. | ||
| And that's where it comes down to. | ||
| If Republicans actually had power—no, Republican's the wrong word. | ||
| Lindsey Graham wouldn't do anything. | ||
| If conservatives, Trump supporters, had power, Hillary Clinton would be indicted. | ||
| Uh, tons of the Russiagate people. | ||
| All these people who lied would be indicted, like, just across the board for all the lies they put out. | ||
| They'd find something. | ||
| You got that one lawyer who lied. | ||
| The Alphabank thing. | ||
| What's his name? | ||
| Sussman? | ||
| Is that his name? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, wow. | ||
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That's amazing. | |
| I mean, me and Bongino debunked that, like, four and a half years ago. | ||
| And it's just funny, like, the news cycle where I'm going, oh, we were right about all that. | ||
| That's kind of a cool story. | ||
| So, a lawyer fabricated evidence. | ||
| He claimed that there was a server in a Trump tower that was communicating with a Russian bank called Alpha Bank, and it turned out to just be complete bullshit, basically. | ||
| And Hillary Clinton was tweeting it and John Podesta was tweeting it. | ||
| And all these journalists were like Trump's secret server. | ||
| And it was fake. | ||
| I mean, the whole the whole Michael Flynn with the Logan Act, he was called while he | ||
| was on vacation. | ||
| The people who called him knew his knew that they were going to. | ||
| Sorry, he knew he was going to be getting called by a Russian ambassador because he's | ||
| on vacation. | ||
| There's no way from the threat has caught being intercepted. | ||
| So the whole thing's getting recorded. | ||
| And then, you know, that's because what it led to is downfall under Trump. | ||
| And they started, like, mentioning the Logan Act. | ||
| And I'm going, well, why would you mention the Logan Act to get to take the sky down | ||
| when it's never been invoked? | ||
| Only if this whole thing was planned so you could try to find some sort of reason to get rid of the guy. | ||
| And it worked. | ||
| You look at everything we talked about already. | ||
| The border is so porous, illegal immigrants are going back and forth. | ||
| There's no border. | ||
| Biden's watching it crumble. | ||
| The economy's in shambles. | ||
| The separation of powers has completely gone. | ||
| And we had, in the past five years, fake indictments. | ||
| I mean, literally, against a political party, a political group, for the sake of power. | ||
| And we don't even really have three branches anymore. | ||
| Because, as we were talking about earlier, the CDC is just creating a lot of thin air in other agencies. | ||
| It's up to us to say, oh, actually, you can't do that. | ||
| And when the Supreme Court told Biden the eviction war time was illegal, he went, | ||
| I'll do it anyway. And the Supreme Court could do nothing to stop him. | ||
| So you look back at the Russiagate stuff, and I think a lot of people said the country was | ||
| done when that stuff came out. Michael Flynn goes to an informal meeting at the White House | ||
| and he gets asked, so did you talk to a Russian ambassador? | ||
| And he goes, no, no. | ||
| And they go, okay. | ||
| Then later they come back. | ||
| You lied to us. | ||
| That's a crime. | ||
| It was actually a bit more complicated than that. | ||
| So they bring him in for questioning. | ||
| As they're questioning him, they have a transcript. | ||
| I thought it was informal though. | ||
| Like it wasn't yeah, it was like two guys. It was Peter struck and someone else | ||
| So they bring him in for questioning. He didn't know he was being investigated | ||
| No, so he's bringing him for routine questioning and he did admit to the call | ||
| He told all the contents of the call and they as they're questioning him have a transcript of the call in front of | ||
| them Meaning they're not asking him to get the truth of what | ||
| happened They're trying to see if he's trying to deviate and then | ||
| they report back. No, there was no irregularities And then somehow in the chain of command that I have no | ||
| idea how it changes to he lied about his call Oh, no, the agents had no it's thing | ||
| You know and there was that document that came out where like clapper and Biden had a meeting and they were like | ||
| How can we get this guy? Yeah, it It was the Democratic Party, what they did with Russiagate, and what Vindman did with Ukraine. | ||
| These people are... Man, I don't know the right word. | ||
| It's sedition. | ||
| Honestly, when I first started writing Spygate, I was like, you know, this will be interesting, but it can't be that crazy. | ||
| And it turns out that the sort of type of politics you see in a movie is actually more real than you'd think. | ||
| Let's break this down. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Donald Trump is on the phone with the President of Ukraine and he says something off the cuff about like, you see this, what's this thing going on about Biden and this quid pro quo or something? | ||
| Why don't you guys look into that? | ||
| Trump clearly had no idea what he was talking about in this phone call. | ||
| But what happened was it was a viral video where Joe Biden's at, where was he at? | ||
| It wasn't the Council on Foreign Relations, no. | ||
| I can't remember. | ||
| was the one where someone bragged that he was able to get the investigation. | ||
| The event he was at, I can't remember the event. | ||
| I can't remember the event. | ||
| But he says... | ||
| Yeah, but he bragged about it. | ||
| I went to the president and said, look, if you don't fire the prosecutor, you're not getting | ||
| the money. | ||
| And he said, you don't have the authority to do that. | ||
| And he goes, call the president. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, son of a bitch. | ||
| Six hours later, prosecutors fired. | ||
| So Trump hears about this, asks the new Ukrainian president, like, well, look at this. | ||
| Joe Biden had not announced any political ambitions. | ||
| And then everyone said Trump was going after his political rival. | ||
| And we were like, but Biden's not running for president. | ||
| This call, I think, or I think that it was in September that Trump had this call and people were saying he threatened to withhold military aid. | ||
| But the military aid was actually, had been withheld since I think January or February for other reasons. | ||
| So here's what you need to understand, Ian. | ||
| Yeah, that was the Council on Foreign Relations. | ||
| Council on Foreign Relations, where he said it. | ||
| Biden admits, brags, that he said he would withhold foreign aid in exchange for getting a guy fired. | ||
| The media said, but we do this all the time. | ||
| We pressure countries for this reason. | ||
| So when Donald Trump says, I want you to investigate what happened with this, they called that a quid pro quo, even though Trump didn't ask for anything. | ||
| So here's what really happens. | ||
| They claim that Donald Trump was abusing his power by trying to use Ukraine to go after his political opponents. | ||
| What really happened was that Joe Biden shut down, whether on purpose or not, an investigation, multiple, many investigations, but some into Burisma, where his son happened to be on the board. | ||
| Mike Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma, had fled Ukraine. | ||
| Biden comes in, gets the prosecutor fired. | ||
| Zlochevsky returns. | ||
| Trump comes back in and says, I want this investigated. | ||
| Zlochevsky flees again. | ||
| But the media comes out and says Trump was the criminal. | ||
| Joe Biden flew on Air Force Two with his son to China to negotiate a private equity deal. | ||
| But Trump's colluding with Russia. | ||
| Michael Flynn. | ||
| I think he was talking to Sally Yates. | ||
| Yes, she's the one who first pitched that maybe he voted for the Logan Act, leading me to believe she was sort of behind it. | ||
| Because he said, I think China is a greater adversary than Russia. | ||
| And then all of a sudden she was like, oh geez, oh no. | ||
| He's colluding with Russia, trying to downplay it. | ||
| The reality is, I think China, according to Mike Pompeo, has infiltrated every level of our country in a government. | ||
| That's what he said. | ||
| You've got the Thousand Talents program where they're actually hiring our own professors to give away our research back to them. | ||
| You've got Chinese individuals being caught carrying infectious diseases and bringing them illegally through the U.S. | ||
| And then strangely, when Michael Flynn says, I think China's a bigger threat, all of a sudden there's alarm bells going off in the Democratic Party, and they seek to then get indictments, and Russiagate was fake. | ||
| It was years where even I was like, well, this is interesting, we should absolutely look into this. | ||
| And then afterwards, it's over, Rachel Maddison, the Virgin Tears. | ||
| Listen, you didn't understand, when I say these people are evil, dude, and the NPC default liberals who line up behind them and in the millions to vote for them, because they're in this matrix, This is a whole new, this is a level of depravity that can't | ||
| be described in words. | ||
| Whole new paradigm. | ||
| After the Hillary emails came out, I was just like, gobsmacked. Gobsmacked at like the Sidney Blumenthal, Osprey | ||
| Global Solutions, Libya contracts, like that she was pushing for her buddy | ||
| Sidney. And nothing, you know? | ||
| And I was like, wow, Tyranny's real. But then Trump won. So I was like, oh, maybe Tyranny's not. | ||
| Oh, and then what did they do to him? | ||
| Oh, can I the first anti-war president of people's lives? | ||
| Look, can I can I just point out that? | ||
| Wouldn't it be wouldn't it? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Imagine you lived in a country and a high-ranking cabinet member in the executive branch had a nonprofit that was taking in millions of dollars from foreign governments. | ||
| And the nonprofit was named after this individual in the cab, in the executive branch. | ||
| I mean, surely that would shock people to their cores when, say, like, imagine Saudi Arabia was giving tens of millions of dollars to this. | ||
| And we'll call it the Blinton Foundation, just as, you know, while they're... Just pick a name. | ||
| Secretary of State. | ||
| And we'll call it the Blinton Foundation. | ||
| And then as soon as this individual doesn't win the election, the donations fly out. | ||
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Very corrupt. | |
| Very, very corrupt. | ||
| And that was the first time, the email scandal was the first time I saw it very clearly. | ||
| Because it was very obvious. | ||
| If you looked at the emails and you looked up Sidney Blumenthal and you wanted to look at like, she was directly instructed by Obama not to work with Sidney. | ||
| And she was just doing it because he was an old Clinton advisor. | ||
| For like 30 years he's worked with the Clintons. | ||
| It's terrifying. | ||
| Doesn't mean that it's impossible. | ||
| But I mean, cryptocurrency and the underground movement is very promising. | ||
| But politically, it's terrifying. | ||
| These are interesting times. | ||
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| And the power is in the media, which is why shows like this are so cool. | ||
| Yeah, we're fighting an uphill battle, that's for sure. | ||
| But I will say, the challenge the establishment faces is that they're losing control. | ||
| So ultimately I think everything might lead to some kind of balkanization, regional breakups, and they can't do anything about it. | ||
| So earlier I saw you guys were doing the Fediverse meeting. | ||
| And I was talking to Andreas about it, so for those that aren't familiar, we pitched this idea. | ||
| Ian and the crew have been working on this with a big team. | ||
| The idea is to create an open source software that allows you to have your own website, social media present, subscription service that's networked, so no one can ban you anymore, because it's your website. | ||
| But your website does connect with the network, so if you go to my site, you can see a Twitter feed. | ||
| And each individual tweet comes from an individual's own private server, unbannable. | ||
| And so we talked about this, and I was like, sooner or later, someone's gotta try to shut this down, because this would, like, if we actually get to the point where we have mass adoption of, imagine you owned your own private Patreon, where you had subscription service, you could post a video feed, you could post tweets, and it would actually link, and people could follow you across different networks. | ||
| The technology already exists, it's called the Fediverse, Gab is on it. | ||
| And now we're ramping up and trying to create website applications that can be really easy for people to use. | ||
| Imagine we get to that point where the powers that be can no longer censor the news about Hunter Biden because the network is totally decentralized. | ||
| And I'm like, someone's going to have to try and stop that, right? | ||
| Because it usurps Facebook's power. | ||
| And then the conversation was just, how would you do it? | ||
| It's a decentralized project. | ||
| No one person is running it. | ||
| It's open source code. | ||
| Who do you go after to stop it? | ||
| You can't. | ||
| And because technology already exists, they can't stop crypto either. | ||
| There's nothing they can do. | ||
| Ultimately, the end result is going to be that they lose the ability to manipulate the media. | ||
| They lose the ability to create the propaganda. | ||
| And then it's just free-for-all. | ||
| The only thing I think they do with crypto is sort of on the, I guess, when you're cashing out, is you would need to go through a legitimate brokerage to convert to cash. | ||
| But if you're never, if you're never going to convert to cash, you don't. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, you use like tethers or not tether. | ||
| I think they're kind of fraudulent. | ||
| I think Bitcoin is one of the pegs. | ||
| Bitcoin is a legal currency in El Salvador. | ||
| You don't need to go through. | ||
| If you have crypto and the crypto has value, that's it. | ||
| Look, we got these little obsidian rocks that you bought. | ||
| I love these things. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| We all got one in our hands. | ||
| If this is value enough for you, I can trade it with you and I've got to go now. | ||
| We should make an NFT of it. | ||
| Ian's Obsidian Stones NFT. | ||
| I'm very excited about the future of NFTs. | ||
| The NFT revolution is upon us. | ||
| It's like how cool Bitcoin was in 2011. | ||
| So if you're paying attention to NFTs now, keep paying attention. | ||
| Get involved. | ||
| I mean, it's just a new form of data transmission. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| What's it called? | ||
| Like ER17 or something? | ||
| Yeah, it's ERC170, is it? | ||
| It's not ERC20. | ||
| It's a different kind of ERC token. | ||
| NFTs are going to be awesome because we're talking, we're talking, we have a top secret project that we're, we're creating. | ||
| And the idea is NFTs are unique, non-copyable digital assets, non-fungible. | ||
| So this means that we're going to be able to create digital hard assets that are completely unique. | ||
| And so we're working on some projects. | ||
| As for like people posting photos and then selling it for 50 grand, I'm like, that's right. | ||
| I just don't get who these people are buying it. | ||
| I assume it could just be some guy who made a bajillion dollars in Bitcoin and is just... Yeah, where do you spend your crypto? | ||
| Well, on NFTs, basically. | ||
| That's one way to spend your crypto. | ||
| Or to trade your crypto, basically. | ||
| You know, just in line with what we were saying about the country breaking apart with crypto, No one needs the Federal Reserve. | ||
| And not only that, El Salvador was one of the smartest things a country could have done, especially a country not as wealthy as, say, the United States. | ||
| Because now that they're getting all of their citizenry to use Bitcoin, Bitcoin is going to keep going up in value. | ||
| It's also helping them, too, because their economy is dollarized, and they're constantly losing dollars due to imports versus exports, and they can't print any more money. | ||
| So this kind of also works around that problem for them. | ||
| Well, they can't print Bitcoin. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, but the thing is when a citizen holds 0.1 Bitcoin because they're planning on using it and the next day bitcoins up 10% Yeah, they got richer. | ||
| Yeah, and so it's like imagine how well off the citizens are gonna be now Yeah, because they're gonna get paychecks in Bitcoin They kind of get on the ground floor of all the countries are gonna follow a lead I assume What concerns me is when you see the entire crypto space, the two trillion cap, dip by 40%, all of it, over the course of three weeks, like it's driven down 30%, 40% because some big, probably governments, Chinese governments, American governments, are selling it and selling it and selling it and make it want to drop. | ||
| And then as soon as it drops, they buy it all. | ||
| All these poor people thought they were losing their money. | ||
| It's not as bad though as when you sell it and then it goes up 40 or 50%. | ||
| Right, exactly. | ||
| It's being manipulated heavily. | ||
| And that's bad for the poor people. | ||
| But these people got to learn, and we keep saying it, when there was that last big crash from $60 to $30, most of the sales were a couple hundred bucks. | ||
| It was the poor people cashing out, panicking. | ||
| I actually bought Bitcoin. | ||
| It crashed to $30, and then Paul Krugman wrote an article about why you should never buy Bitcoin. | ||
| I went, all right, I'm in. | ||
| Yeah, he's wrote a lot of those. | ||
| Yeah, I should. | ||
| I should. | ||
| If I took his advice, you know, 10 years ago, I would be much wealthier. | ||
| Max Geyser, man. | ||
| He told me when Bitcoin was like at a couple bucks. | ||
| Yeah, me too. | ||
| He's like, you gotta buy Bitcoin. | ||
| I'm telling you, Tim, you want to be rich. | ||
| Hang out with me. | ||
| And I was like, OK, Max. | ||
| I was up on a roof in Brooklyn with Bill and a couple other guys. | ||
| And one of the guys was saying, dude, the next big one's Ethereum. | ||
| You got to get into Ethereum. | ||
| And we're like, what's what's OK? | ||
| I looked and I was like, I waited a couple of weeks. | ||
| I was like, oh, it's 10 bucks already. | ||
| It's too late. | ||
| I can't get into it. | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| It just didn't didn't click until a couple of years later. | ||
| Bill Ottman was here, I think, in like November, right? | ||
| Bitcoin was at $13K, Ethereum was at $1,000, and Bill was like, you should buy Ethereum. | ||
| And I was like, you think? | ||
| He's like, you should get some. | ||
| And I'm like, okay. | ||
| And then I bought a bunch, and now it's at like $3, $3.5 or whatever. | ||
| Yeah, because Ethereum is... NFTs, like Ethereum is... Ethereum is the evolution of Bitcoin. | ||
| Some friends and I actually started one as a joke, and it has a $1.4 million market cap. | ||
| But it's so misleading because there's like 30 grand in liquidity so like obviously it's not, you know, you could sell through it but on paper it's worth like 1.5 million. | ||
| So I own, I have some Doge because it's fun. | ||
| I have Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cardano. | ||
| I own like Uniswap, SushiSwap, and then basically all the tokens that are exchanges. | ||
| My logic was like, well, even if the coins go down, as long as there's volume, the exchanges are making money. | ||
| Uniswap I own a lot of. | ||
| There's so much money in Uniswap, people don't understand. | ||
| When you open these apps like Coinbase, it's like you can earn interest on your crypto. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| So for those that don't understand, you basically have crypto. | ||
| In exchange, the Winklevoss twins started. | ||
| They're giving you like 7% on their Gemini dollar. | ||
| I don't get how that's even possible. | ||
| So it's really, no, no, no, it's really, really simple. | ||
| So for those that don't understand, you basically, you have crypto. | ||
| You can stake it being like, let me put my cryptocurrency into your pool, | ||
| which allows them to do transactions. | ||
| Yeah, that's how AORUS works. | ||
| They need liquidity. | ||
| When the transaction happens, you get a fee, just like an ATM machine. | ||
| So, you know, I was actually talking to my accountant, and I was like, it's kind of like an ATM. | ||
| Someone comes in, and they punch in their keys, and they take cash out, and then I get a fee on it. | ||
| So, this is huge. | ||
| on it. I get a fee on it. So this is create it's this is huge. It's going to make a lot | ||
| of working class people. I'm not going to say rich but comfortable. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So like the stories of people who start with start small and just keep putting more crypto back into the system and they're building up that portfolio. | ||
| It's kind of crazy because so long as the it's like basically the power of the central banks in the hands of regular people and decentralized. | ||
| So now the money transactions and printing and. | ||
| It's just mind-blowing. | ||
| It's just mind day trading because it never ends. | ||
| It's 24 seven trading. | ||
| Like if you're a 14 year old and you want, you get some money, you want to | ||
| day trade addicts is the best thing. | ||
| You can easily increase your like 30% your profits. | ||
| And just by looking at trends and reading white papers and seeing what's | ||
| the next big cool currency, I am not advising anyone to do anything, but. | ||
| I would be willing to bet if there was a 14 year old right now who was given | ||
| like a hundred bucks by their grandpa and put it into one of these systems and kept | ||
| putting all of their their fees back in by the time they're 20 to be a millionaire. | ||
| Eric Finman, the guy who started the Freedom Phone, that is him. | ||
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| That's exactly right. | ||
| Yeah, I think he'd be like a grand or two and now has like, you know, probably like $10 million. | ||
| Something very high in the millions. | ||
| is if you're paying attention you can really take the light because it's always up down up down and i mean you just follow those leaps you have the bitcoin you put it into usd coin when it drops it is hard you gotta it's a giant i think for the average person i think just buy and hold just because you'll go you know insane right but there's a million what they can do i mean i tried that and uh I was day trading for a while, but it became very exhausting because it's a lot of work. | ||
| The Uniswap stuff is where the real opportunity is. | ||
| There's risk because you're staking your coins to someone else's pool and it could go belly up. | ||
| Well, that's how it works. | ||
| So we had to put our own money into the pool with our own token. | ||
| And I mean, our own coin is sort of thus dependent on the value of Ethereum. | ||
| You have to match it to create value. | ||
| And of course, I can just sell all the way through if I want to. | ||
| So yeah, it's risky obviously, but it pays off. | ||
| So if you find a good utility token with Ethereum and you put it into Uniswap, then you're set. | ||
| So it's basically, you bought an ATM. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Imagine if you had 50 grand, you bought an ATM, you need another, I don't know, an ATM probably costs like 20, 30 grand, then you need 40 grand to fill it. | ||
| You're spending $70,000, you put the ATM in a bar, and then you're just getting free money. | ||
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| Could we get an ATM here? | ||
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Why? | |
| Technically? | ||
| We could all buy Bitcoin ATMs. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's why Ethereum is so cool is because the Ethereum network is very, very heavily utilized. | ||
| And you use Ethereum to cover the gas fee, which is the transaction fee. | ||
| So Ethereum is massively utilized. | ||
| People, I think, what did Max say? | ||
| Like 200k in Bitcoin by the end of the year? | ||
| I'm wondering if we're still going to hit that. | ||
| I don't think by the end of this year, but I think it will get there. | ||
| I mean, somebody did the math and like there's not enough millionaire, or what's a stat? | ||
| Like there's so many millionaires in the world that each can't own one full Bitcoin. | ||
| You want to know something funny? | ||
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| If I invested my money in Bitcoin when Max Keiser told me to, I would be a billionaire. | ||
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| With a B. Wow. | ||
| I'm not kidding. | ||
| There was a crypto Shiba. | ||
| It was like one of those Doge Nuggets. | ||
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Right. | |
| So I put three grand in. | ||
| Four days later, it's like 60 grand. | ||
| So I'm like, yeah, fuck you, I'm going to cash out. | ||
| If I held it another three weeks, it would have been like one or two million or something. | ||
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Wow. | |
| And I'm like, you know what? | ||
| That's garbage. | ||
| You can't be mad at yourself. | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| The way I view it is this. | ||
| So there's this game I saw online. | ||
| It's like some gambling game where the way it works is like you put in money, and then for every second that goes on, you get a multiplier. | ||
| So it could be like, after two seconds, you get double your money. | ||
| For three seconds, triple. | ||
| But then it will go to zero at any random point. | ||
| I think that analogy works for this sort of high-risk trading, where it's like, because it could be so easily lost, you really can't kick yourself when it does take off after you sell, because, you know, if you're playing that literal gambling game and you sold off, you turn a grand into twenty grand, you could kind of be an idiot to keep holding it, knowing you could easily get it out to zero. | ||
| So, maybe that's just what I tell myself to, you know, not go criminally insane, but that's sort of how I see it. | ||
| I remember Max used to, on his show, he would talk about all the different altcoins and stuff that existed at the time, and he was very big on a lot of them. | ||
| Now he hates them all, and he's like, Bitcoin is the only true coin. | ||
| But I've known Max for a minute, and he was pushing Bitcoin in the very early stages. | ||
| Granted, at the time, he was also pushing other coins, saying that these looked promising for certain reasons. | ||
| So what happens is, in the early days of Bitcoin, it was like nothing. | ||
| It was this weird internet thing. | ||
| People were confused by it. | ||
| Once it got its first boost of popularity, people started cloning it. | ||
| There was a bunch of different versions that tried tweaking different things about it, like it'll produce slightly more, or slightly less, or work slightly faster, or take less energy. | ||
| And there were a few that required substantially less energy, and that seemed to make more sense. | ||
| So Max was big on those. | ||
| But he had been, you know, so look, I had my savings back during those early days, and if I just put it all in Bitcoin at the time, Bitcoin was at a couple bucks. | ||
| The thing is, I tell myself, like, oh, I invested in Bitcoin when I heard about it in, what was it, 2012? | ||
| We would have sold out. | ||
| That's the thing. | ||
| It would have went from $2 to $20, and then I would have wanted to, you know, commit suicide the remaining $20 to $60,000. | ||
| There was a point where I had, like, $20 Bitcoin or whatever, and I was like, yeah! | ||
| And I cashed it all out for, like, $400. | ||
| And, like, I high-fived my friend. | ||
| And then I was like, let's go, I'm taking you guys out to eat, let's do this! | ||
| I saw this thing, it was this Twitter account, it's called like, Poorly Aged Things. | ||
| It was like a scoreboard for some video game tournament. | ||
| It was like, first place, a thousand bucks, and you get into 10th place, and it's 10 free bitcoin. | ||
| No, it was like, first place is like a thousand, second place 500, and then it was like, fourth and fifth were 25 bitcoin. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, that was it. | ||
| But you know, if people actually invested and understood investment, they'd be better off regardless. | ||
| People don't understand the value of like to invest. | ||
| And they, you know, when I see my friends and they're like, I got paid, let's go spend it on drinks and partying. | ||
| And I'm like, if you buy something, you have the something. | ||
| It would be cool if you could not, you don't really have to build a school, but just build some sort of curriculum where you you're able to teach kids economics. | ||
| And the thing is, there's a lot of apps now that kind of automate it, where you can just take a hundred bucks out of every check and put it in, so you don't even have to think about it anymore, you can just kind of have it be on the back end. | ||
| I think this Uniswap stuff, I think Uniswap's huge. | ||
| I'll say this though, so I always say this as a disclosure, Doge, I don't think, is going to make me rich. | ||
| I just think it's funny, and so I have some. | ||
| Bitcoin is going to skyrocket in value. | ||
| I think a Bitcoin is worth a million bucks. | ||
| Ethereum, I don't know where its cap is, but there is a finite amount of Ethereum, I believe, correct? | ||
| I think so, yeah. | ||
| And we have a general idea of the amount, but we don't know the exact number, so I think Ethereum can reach a certain level. | ||
| Cardano is, I think there's like, what, 10 times more Cardano or something like that? | ||
| I have Cardano as well, because one of the guys was involved with Ethereum. | ||
| And so these are evolutions on Bitcoin that are going to allow so much. | ||
| So I also have some Cardano, because I think Cardano is going to skyrocket. | ||
| There's 32 billion Cardanos, and it looks like it's going to end up at about 45 billion somewhere. | ||
| There's 117 million Ethereums, but there's no end cap for those. | ||
| We talked about this, and I think you and I were saying we think Cardano would be like 30 bucks. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If you, if you measure the value of a token against, so I go to this thing called coinmarketcap.com. | ||
| And if you look at Bitcoin and how many 18 million of them, and then you look at Cardano and there's 32 billion. | ||
| So you do the math, you divide 32 billion by 18 million, and then you see. | ||
| But they're different. | ||
| Cardano is much like Ethereum. | ||
| It's providing the backbone for a lot of new software. | ||
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| Then you start to take into account the utility and that's when things break the mold. | ||
| So it's not just, it's not just one on one to one ratio. | ||
| How much Ethereum exists? | ||
| 117 million ish. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So I think, what do we say? | ||
| It's like 30 times. | ||
| So it's probably gonna be like 10 bucks. | ||
| I think Cardano. | ||
| Oh, Cardano, what it would be, what you could measure it to be valued for? | ||
| When Cardano is fully launched and operating like Ethereum, it'll be like, what, 10 bucks per trillion? | ||
| Yeah, you do like 2,000. | ||
| If Cardano was How do you do this? | ||
| But also, but also spot I'm not doing the math. | ||
| Right. Right. Right. Right. | ||
| The point is there's substantially more Cardano. | ||
| So it's going to be worth substantially less. | ||
| Yeah. But it's like we haven't really don't get that right. | ||
| Right. Because the circulation is massive. | ||
| It's just how inflation works as well or partly. | ||
| So they're going to be cardinals should be worth like a thousandth of a Bitcoin at any given moment or like less | ||
| than that. | ||
| Because there's a thousand. | ||
| There's a thousand times more of an equal market cap. | ||
| It would be if they each have equal utility. | ||
| But like you said, Cardano has a different utility. | ||
| So you take the utility into effect. | ||
| Ten bucks like mine's token. | ||
| You put one token on the network. | ||
| You get a thousand views. | ||
| That utility adds value to the other thing is with. | ||
| So we had a conversation about this like a week ago, and it was like, we ultimately came to like, if we are going to randomly just throw darts at the board and try and think of what it might end up being based on the volume of it, utility of it, Bitcoin's going to keep going to value, Ethereum and Cardano have utility, Cardano ends up around $30. | ||
| So I was like, I like what they've talked about doing. | ||
| I like what they're doing. | ||
| I've heard a little bit about what they're doing. | ||
| And I'm like, I gotta be honest, I don't know everything about it. | ||
| I know Ethereum works. | ||
| I know it's made a bunch of stuff we're working on possible. | ||
| It helps what Mines is doing, makes it possible with utility tokens. | ||
| And if they're going to offer up a competitor to that, I think it's going to drive up the value. | ||
| The Cardano? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, he did the math right. | ||
| Measuring it as it stands, you'd think it'd be like $35, something like that. | ||
| And it's at what? | ||
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| $2.30. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So not advice to anybody because we're literally just making up numbers at this point. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| But I look at Bitcoin as decentralized transfer of value, which is tremendous. | ||
| And then Ethereum and Cardano and any other token are like investing in the network. | ||
| And I love investing in the network because I'm not even super concerned with the value of it monetarily. | ||
| It's the value of it socially. | ||
| What can it do for us? | ||
| How can it cut out the middleman? | ||
| How can it speed up transactions? | ||
| How can it give you more reach on a social network? | ||
| Those are the things I love, like the library token. | ||
| I'll tell you this, maybe this is what the Davos types want. | ||
| They don't want a Federal Reserve. | ||
| They don't want a central bank. | ||
| They want completely decentralized systems that create global currency. | ||
| Look at Bitcoin. | ||
| It's a global value network. | ||
| So you can send money from here to China just like that. | ||
| I've got a sneaking suspicion we're all going to have our own crypto in the future. | ||
| Everyone will have their own, kind of like a social security number. | ||
| And then if you have people buy your services, if they use your token to buy it, you can give them a discount. | ||
| I basically have that, but no one uses it. | ||
| Oh, you have your own token? | ||
| Yeah, it's a highly regarded token. | ||
| It's a joke. | ||
| I mean, our stock ticker is RTRD. | ||
| And I, dude, I'm so angry. | ||
| I ordered custom RTRD clothing for you guys, but it didn't ship in time. | ||
| Oh, I'll wear it when it comes. | ||
| I'm not kidding. | ||
| I'll get it to you guys. | ||
| It's been at like stuck in the same shipping facility two miles from my house, like four days in a row. | ||
| And I'm like, all right, I'll get it over somehow. | ||
| Blame the COVID. | ||
| Yeah, so anyway. | ||
| Yeah, you can easily make your own token and just... Oh, my friend did it in like 20 minutes, and then we raised money for the pool, and I don't know how we raised money. | ||
| We literally put out on a Medium page, like, hey, send us money at this link and we'll give you our new coin. | ||
| And it looks like a scam, obviously it was not. | ||
| People did, we raised like 30 grand in a week, and then we just put it all into the pool. | ||
| Well, so this is one of the big challenges the SEC is not happy with, is people are using these tokens effectively as fundraising venues, like shares. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And so you're basically telling people, you'll get this empty thing in exchange for money, so that we can fund the business. | ||
| So all the people that bought our pre-ICO, I mean, can sell at any time, there's enough liquidity to make all of them whole. | ||
| So anytime they want to get out, they could. | ||
| All you gotta do is pay your sales tax on it. | ||
| And you're literally just selling the digital asset. | ||
| It's not an investment in the company. | ||
| You pay your taxes on that. | ||
| It's like, if we sold these, if we made a thousand little rocks and sold them, we'd pay our taxes on it. | ||
| If I can make a million tokens and sell them, you just pay the sales tax on them. | ||
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| And if each token can get you a little cartoon beanie. | ||
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Hell yeah. | |
| I think that whole market stuff is ridiculous. | ||
| It's funny, but it is effective. | ||
| And it feels like to me, I really, and I've said this a lot in the last week, it feels like what Bitcoin felt like in 2011. | ||
| So made up, basically. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No one understands it yet. | ||
| It seems cheap, but it's going to be a trillion dollar industry. | ||
| Yeah, it's somehow, but yeah. | ||
| Digital art, man. | ||
| People don't want to go out of their house. | ||
| Well, maybe they do. | ||
| So I'll say this, though. | ||
| If I did listen to Max and, like, legitimately listen to him, buy it and keep it, yeah, I'd be a billionaire. | ||
| I'd be a millionaire if I bought NFT of a blank space. | ||
| There was this thing back in the day, I don't know if you heard of it, where a guy had a million pixels, and he sold a pixel for a dollar each. | ||
| And it was a website with a million pixels, and then people would buy, like, I want 100 pixels, and they would put their art there. | ||
| I made a million there's actually people who do there's a whole website here where it's called where they buy famous | ||
| art pieces Like worth tens of millions of dollars and they issue | ||
| cryptocurrency on the art and you can buy up like shares of it | ||
| Yeah, you can buy a share. It's like a famous painting and then then you get voting rights | ||
| So if they get a bid in for the painting you get a guy's gonna vote if you're gonna sell Wow | ||
| Stock on object. Yeah, but I think I remember I signed up for it | ||
| But I think you needed like tens of thousands of dollars and it takes years for them to so I wonder if we can issue | ||
| Stock on Ian. Oh, I was just saying that stock on people When's that coming? | ||
| AOC was who I was thinking of, actually. | ||
| They tried that. | ||
| Yeah, there's some guy that's an Archibald who's sold shares in his life and has to do whatever they tell him. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| They were out to vote, but he had majority control, I think. | ||
| Ah, well then you don't owe him anything, I guess. | ||
| Well, but you know, it was like he would take into consideration their votes on what he should be doing and they earned dividends. | ||
| So when he would get a job and it would pay him a hundred bucks, then he'd pay out 20%. | ||
| If someone bought stock in your life and then as you went on, you, they got dividends throughout your life. | ||
| Talk about a support. | ||
| They would support you forever. | ||
| Yeah, but talk about nightmarish. | ||
| I know, that's bizarre. | ||
| Like some young 18-year-old kid, he's poor and desperate and he's like, I'll sell you 50% for a thousand, please man, I'm gonna be homeless. | ||
| And then he's like a tech CEO and there's like this evil guy like behind him like, I control everything. | ||
| Maybe you could legally cap it so you can't sell more than 1% of your own stock. | ||
| I don't think you should be able to sell any of it because what happens then, rich people would buy up from young people and then creating indentured servants. | ||
| Not 1% from everybody. | ||
| Like I said, young, desperate people. | ||
| And then when they're older, I mean, that's basically what college is doing. | ||
| There actually are services where you can get a student loan and they get a percentage of your income instead of you taking debt, which Stossel did a segment on it. | ||
| It makes a lot more sense, but they do cap it at a certain amount. | ||
| And if you're unemployed, you don't have to pay anything. | ||
| That makes sense. | ||
| Yeah, maybe that's better. | ||
| Do you guys want to cover the Soros book at all? | ||
| Oh yeah, let's bring it up. | ||
| Let's talk about it. | ||
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| Tell me about it. | ||
| Yeah, so I'll give you kind of an overview of how it came about. | ||
| And then, you know, I'll go over the contents and all that. | ||
| So I've been... The first book I did with my current publisher was called Spygate. | ||
| Oh, see, I should probably speak into the mic. | ||
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| So it was called Spygate. | ||
| Me, Dan Mangino, and another woman named Denise McAllister wrote it. | ||
| And it was... | ||
| I mean, it covers all the Russiagate stuff. | ||
| It starts pre-election, and then it goes into sort of the Mueller special counsel. | ||
| He made it into a trilogy, so he did two books after that on his own. | ||
| One that's more old special counsel stuff, and then the last, which is just sort of everything after that. | ||
| So there's a chapter in the third book in the series called, or I can't remember the name of the chapter, but it has a lot to do with Ukraine and the whole impeachment hoax. | ||
| And there was some sort of like Soros ties into that chapter. | ||
| So there's a number of Ukrainian anti-corruption organizations that are Soros backed that were actually cited in the whistleblower complaint. | ||
| And then a lot of like the sort of swampish characters in the impeachment saga are connected to U.S. | ||
| institutions obviously that are also sort of tied in with Soros. | ||
| So he pitched the idea of doing a book where that was sort of going to be our starting point was let's try to do a book based out of that section of his last book. | ||
| So I put together a pretty lengthy chapter, I think it was like 15,000 words, which is, you know, I'd say half the length of a very short book. | ||
| But obviously that itself is not going to be a book. | ||
| And, you know, it was really as much as I could do was that much, given the content, or given what was available. | ||
| So it just became a question of, like, well, what do I want people to know about this George Soros guy? | ||
| And I sort of settled on everything. | ||
| So I started just by making it into more or less a critical biography. | ||
| So I started out by just giving, you know, an overview of this guy's life. | ||
| Um, who he is in his own words, where he came from, how he made all his money, um, what it was that made him want to go into politics and influence that. | ||
| Um, and then each chapter is just sort of a, um, I mean, I try to make it like a biography slash novel slash reference book. | ||
| So each chapter is just a different facet of life. | ||
| So we'll have one called Soros in the Media, and it's just, here's every, literally every person in the media I could find that Soros is connected to either, um, that he's associated with publicly, that, That have worked for his foundations to varying degrees, and here's where they work today, and it's places like the LA Times, and NPR, and the Washington Post, and MSNBC, and CNN, and pretty much every quote-unquote mainstream place you could list. | ||
| And then it's just doing that for everything else, so I do one on his quest to sort of infiltrate higher education. | ||
| I guess in his view, college isn't liberal enough, so he's trying to sort of... Actually, this is a more recent end-of-life sort of thing he's doing, is he's been creating his own network of colleges internationally. | ||
| And his dates actually back to the 80s. He started a college | ||
| Called Central European University in Hungary was later expelled from Hungary and is now in Vienna | ||
| But he's sort of starting to build a network around that in recent years | ||
| And then I just do this for everything. So I found for instance | ||
| I have a whole chapter on leaked Soros documents from wiki leaks and DC leaks and just everything to be gleaned from | ||
| them Then it's connections and like just randomly, you know, | ||
| what's what's his goal? | ||
| Well, it's to a large extent. It's it seems to be influence for the sake of influence. He | ||
| He is one of those people that the, you know, not to sound like Ted Kaczynski or anything, but the power process is very important to him. | ||
| In his own words, too, he describes himself as an egomaniac. | ||
| He says he wants his views to be the conscience of the world. | ||
| And it just seems like, from his perspective, he just kind of gets off on influencing things. | ||
| You know, the most interesting thing about the book, too, is like, I know it's going to be called the hit piece, but most of the negative stuff that I say about Soros and his personality is quoted from him. | ||
| I read all the guys' books in preparation for the book. | ||
| My own book, I mean. | ||
| The only thing he's walked back on was there was a very, I guess, infamous or famous interview he did with 60 Minutes back in the 90s, where he admits to working with one of the Nazis' Jewish councils back in Hungary, you know, serving deportation papers to Jews, telling them their goods are going to be confiscated. | ||
| Sociopathically says that it's something he never felt any guilt over. | ||
| That's the one thing he sort of tried to reverse course on. | ||
| And if you ever do a Google search for that interview, they're always playing cover saying, oh, it's actually not really what he said. | ||
| The interview is actually kind of hard to come by online, too. | ||
| So, I mean, I'm not saying he's the kind of guy who's got legal resources. | ||
| I'm not saying he's censoring the internet. | ||
| However, he has a lot of influence, and he easily could reduce its reach tremendously. | ||
| So I actually found the transcript, and it's more or less exactly what he says. | ||
| And not only did I find the transcript, George Soros' father wrote an autobiography. | ||
| He talks about the same influence, and it said that his son seemed to enjoy it, and he tried to dissuade him from it. | ||
| Do you remember when, I think it was Newt Gingrich was on Fox? | ||
| And he mentioned, like, George Soros funded these DAs. | ||
| And Fox was like, we don't accept that. | ||
| You can't say that. | ||
| So they had to apologize. | ||
| Yeah, the only other two people I had review the book besides Dan were Newt Gingrich and Steve Bannon, actually. | ||
| And Gingrich obviously liked it, and I'm sure I'll make a joke about his Fox appearance next time I see him, or talk to him. | ||
| But yeah, that was very odd. | ||
| I mean, I'm actually going to be on Fox, hopefully, to talk about the book. | ||
| So hopefully they'll let me talk about it. | ||
| But yeah, that's just a sort of general overview of the whole thing. | ||
| Is it out now? | ||
| So it should be out in December. | ||
| Potentially might get delayed because so we're nervous that we're gonna get sued not like a legit case but just to sort of f with us and cause us money because the libel laws are such like I can literally accuse this guy of murder in the book and I can't I would win a lawsuit just because of how high profile he is. | ||
| But anyway we're still doing a legal review just to like get even that possibility out of the way. | ||
| And the lawyer like I'm sort of paraphrasing but he was like really good book interesting really well researched Um, you're enough of a dick where it could get you sued. | ||
| So I have to, they highlight it all and I have to, you know, undickify the book. | ||
| But, you know, hopefully it won't get delayed more than a week or two. | ||
| Are people able to pre-order it? | ||
| Yeah, so it's on Amazon and Marts & Noble, and then I think all those other random sites like Books a Million or Target, it's probably on there too, but Amazon's the big one. | ||
| Give me the name again? | ||
| So it's called The Man Behind the Curtain. | ||
| Um, the secret network of George Soros. | ||
| Um, and, uh, yeah, I'll tweet about it and I'm sure you guys will get it as well. | ||
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| Well, how about we go to super chats? | ||
| If you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe to the channel. | ||
| It is Friday night, everybody. | ||
| Thank you so much for hanging out. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Jordan Olson typed a bunch of Japanese, I think. | ||
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Oh, nice. | |
| Thanks, Jordan. | ||
| I can't read it, but he says the left has no idea what they are dealing with and they're pushing too far. | ||
| Well, there you go. | ||
| Michael Irwin says, how dare the journalists assume Nicki Minaj's gender? | ||
| She seems to have bigger balls than any of those insulting journalists. | ||
| Redonk says, Nicki can handle her own ish, Tim. | ||
| Yes, I know, that's the point. | ||
| That's why I'm happy, because she is. | ||
| We finally have someone with power and influence pushing back. | ||
| I shouldn't say finally, we've got a lot of people who do, but she is a juggernaut in this space. | ||
| She is the hero we need right now. | ||
| Andrea and Zachary say, uh, IFV Fundraising GoFundMe says, the Kyle Rittenhouse motion hearing today went very well in his favor. | ||
| Rekia Law did a good stream for it earlier. | ||
| I think you'd like to follow it. | ||
| Ooh, that's very important. | ||
| We should, um. | ||
| We have Andrew Branca back. | ||
| Yeah, we should, we should, we should look into that. | ||
| Maybe, maybe have someone come in, uh, look at that. | ||
| Uh, Cigars and Cigarm says, did you see the Kyle Rittenhouse motion hearing today? | ||
| It seems the judge is not having any of the prosecutor, prosecution's shenanigans. | ||
| He may yet walk. | ||
| Woo! | ||
| Kyle, I just want to say for the record, Kyle Rittenhouse is my hero, so. | ||
| You know, I don't know if I'd go that far because he's a young kid who was trying to do right by his community, and the whole thing was crazy. | ||
| But when you break it down, the left is trying so desperately to cover this up. | ||
| That's... I'm sort of being reactionary. | ||
| Like, yes, I understand he shouldn't have been there. | ||
| However, given the context of everything... Oh, no, I wouldn't say that. | ||
| But neither should the rioters. | ||
| So it's, you know... I would say... | ||
| Hindsight is 20-20. | ||
| But when you watch a video of a 70-year-old man being bashed over the head with a brick and left bloody on the ground, and then you say, I'm coming out to protect my community, should Kyle have been there? | ||
| I mean... I should rephrase it. | ||
| The gun ownership is the only thing I think legally there was some ambiguity to. | ||
| We talked, we've had a bunch of lawyers on the show, so nope. | ||
| No? | ||
| Oh, well, good. | ||
| I mean, I hope it's not the case, obviously. | ||
| Yeah, so we'll see how it plays out. | ||
| I've been saying for a while I think he'll get life because the political climate. | ||
| No one's gonna stick their neck out when Antifa's gonna come to your house with a brick, but hey, we'll see. | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| BearXO says, I'm glad Ian is here today. | ||
| After last night, I thought, Tim, I'm not going to say that. | ||
| That was a very eye-opening conversation last night. | ||
| Still waiting for his cooking show. | ||
| I thought a lot about semantics, and what I don't want to do is be like, you said that, so you mean this. | ||
| I don't want to twist you, but I like to talk about the meaning of words and how the meaning of words are perceived by different types of people. | ||
| It's very important to the dynamic, I think, today. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| The Praying Doola says, Hey Tim, I watch you every night. | ||
| So much so my husband calls you the other man in my life. | ||
| Can you give a shout out to Mr. Calvin Wiggins? | ||
| Let him know he is still my number one. | ||
| Love you all. | ||
| You too, Ian. | ||
| I like how I said you too, Ian, as if to like make sure she, like, yes, I'm saying I like you. | ||
| What was her name? | ||
| The Praying Doola. | ||
| Thank you, The Praying Doola. | ||
| And shout out to Mr. Calvin Wiggins. | ||
| It would seem that your wife very much cares about you. | ||
| So much that she gave me, so much so she gave me 20 bucks. | ||
| So that I would say. | ||
| That's love. | ||
| It's worth $20. | ||
| There was a funny meme where some guy was tweeting, like, a couple asked me if I would leave my window seat so that they could sit together, and I said, your love is not as important as me watching the airplane take off. | ||
| And I'm like, yeah, but like, it's a funny way to put it, but like, bro, you're going to sit in a plane for a couple hours. | ||
| It's a good 4chan post, but yes, in real life, you might not want to. | ||
| Tim Johnson says, you were right. | ||
| I was wrong. | ||
| The cops are a central problem. | ||
| They could stop this. | ||
| God bless Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The police. | ||
| So here's what's happening. | ||
| Freedom-loving cops are resigning. | ||
| And I get emails all the time, they're like, Tim, I had to quit, I couldn't do it anymore, I won't do this. | ||
| We have the story, 11 of 15 restaurants that were surveyed by New York Post wouldn't enforce this. | ||
| Apparently, Libby is telling us, she was here on the show, cops won't even enforce this. | ||
| So there's still a lot of good cops, but a lot of the freedom-loving ones are resigning. | ||
| Then you've got people in the military, officers, who are resigning. | ||
| So what's going to be left in five years? | ||
| Well, that's the unintended consequence, too, of Black Lives Matter is, generally speaking, when cops are demonized, it's the good ones who know, hey, if I'm ever in a tough situation, I might have to, you know, behave in a certain way that might not be popular. | ||
| They're the ones who leave. | ||
| Then you're left with all the crappy cops who are sort of going to end up perpetuating their narrative. | ||
| The people willing to join, and the people willing to stay, will be establishment shills. | ||
| They'll be the fascists, it'll be the banality of evil, and so when people are like, if a civil war happened, the right has all the guns, and it's like, and the left will have the institutional guns, and you will have the civilian guns, and so bad things happen. | ||
| Brett says, Nikki was blacklisted years ago. | ||
| Been working against the industry machine and their plants. | ||
| E.g. | ||
| Fraud E.B. | ||
| She's the Donald Trump of hip-hop. | ||
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I thought that was Kanye. | |
| Wow. | ||
| Well, I like Nikki Minaj more and more. | ||
| I haven't actually listened to her music. | ||
| You know, I gotta be honest, I bet if you played her music, I'd be like, oh, I heard that song. | ||
| It's not good. | ||
| It's not good. | ||
| It is not good. | ||
| Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. | ||
| I like The Weeknd. | ||
| There was a time that whenever a song would come on, I would turn off the radio because I'm like, if I die in a car crash, this can't be the last thing I hear. | ||
| People like it. | ||
| I appreciate that. | ||
| I remember, didn't Ben Shapiro have this thing where he was like, rap isn't music or something? | ||
| Yeah, 75% of crap. | ||
| I mean, it's a boomer joke, but I think he made that comment as well. | ||
| Zuby changed his mind. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| He did, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, um... Yeah, music's music, man. | ||
| Oh yeah, you can raise and lower the pitch of your voice as you're talking. | ||
| It's definitely music. | ||
| Yeah, it's definitely music. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| And there's some really good stuff. | ||
| You know, I always really liked the more political, older rap stuff, where they're actually saying stuff. | ||
| And it's good. | ||
| It's good beats, it's good music, it's good sampling. | ||
| And now, we got to that period in the 90s and 2000s where it was just like... Opioid music. | ||
| Yeah, just, I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm rich, and I'm like... Like, I get it, you can dance to the beat, but man, there's no substance. | ||
| Give me the heart. | ||
| Give me the grind. | ||
| Yeah, that's why there's like some pop musicians where I'm like really disappointed sometimes when they'll write, they'll come out with a song that's actually really great in terms of composition, but the worst possible lyrics you can imagine. | ||
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| And I'm just like, wow, imagine if they actually, you know, Adele's good. | ||
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Needs both. | |
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| She's great. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
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| Let's say, okay. | ||
| Busted Knuckle says, Tim had a powerful quote today. | ||
| It's not about my opinion or making this stuff up. | ||
| It's about watching everybody else getting ready. | ||
| Tom McDonald and Nicki Minaj collab. | ||
| OMG let's make it happen. | ||
| I think I was basically saying like, the issue of Civil War and the cult and everything. | ||
| I said this a lot in various ways. | ||
| It doesn't matter if you think you're right. | ||
| It doesn't matter if I'm right or they're right. | ||
| What matters is both sides are adamant they are right, and they're continually escalating the conflict. | ||
| Now I will say, as I often do, I think the cult are the ones who are actually pushing it. | ||
| Donald Trump did not invoke the Insurrection Act. | ||
| Donald Trump did not start these riots. | ||
| And Donald Trump didn't even stop the riots. | ||
| But when it comes to Joe Biden, the executive decrees, and Cuomo murdering 15,000 people, the left is right there empowering them the entire time. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| You can kill 15,000 people, but if you make a few women uncomfortable, that's where they draw the line. | ||
| That's where they draw the line, yeah. | ||
| Which, I'm not saying what he did was right, but it's just of the two things, obviously. | ||
| One is quite a bit worse than the other. | ||
| Socrates was huge on questioning himself and advising other people to question authority and question themselves. | ||
| I think we should definitely keep that in mind. | ||
| Pepi Clown says, Tim, I'm gonna start calling you Three Dog from Fallout 3. | ||
| My super chat is about you claiming we have no culture on the right. | ||
| Just look at Adam Calhoun, Ryan Upchurch, and all the other creakers and rednecks. | ||
| We got culture, bud, we just don't got a media presence. | ||
| So what I mean is mainstream culture, there's like almost no right wing presence. | ||
| Obviously people have culture. | ||
| Obviously there's... They just don't talk about it. | ||
| Well, it's just the mainstream is owned by the, like the establishment culture. | ||
| It's all owned by the left. | ||
| It's like, it's like 5% of it is right wing and they don't talk about it. | ||
| Like, I mean, like I think actually Norm Macdonald who recently passed away is actually sort of an example of that where he's, you know, he, when he rarely talked about politics, it was right wing, but it was just, you know... Didn't he have a thing where he talked about going to a Trump rally and how he like, he loved it or whatever? | ||
| Well, he had this one joke where he was talking about how a transgender woman came up to him and was like questioning, like, how can you possibly believe in God? | ||
| How ridiculous it is. | ||
| And he goes, well, I have to pretend you're a fucking woman, which is a pretty ballsy joke from any comedian nowadays. | ||
| But I mean, it was from something within the past few months, but he gave no fucks, which was awesome. | ||
| But it's funny that, you know, he goes on this radio show and actually pushes back woke talking points. | ||
| This is the bit we've been talking about for a while. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He pushes those talking points where, you know, about he was on a radio show with this woke woman and he said that black people are poorer than white people and poor people are dangerous. | ||
| And they all got offended by it. | ||
| But the problem is that was actually their talking point. | ||
| He just said it in a way that came off as crass and they were offended by it. | ||
| And it's like it really makes you makes you think that Many of these people are offended not by the substance of the idea or the fact, but by the way it's put to them. | ||
| Yes, the tone. | ||
| Like, learn to code. | ||
| The thing too, they want to know your motivation by arguing something. | ||
| Where you can say something sympathetic, but if they suspect it's for the wrong reason, that's also a sin. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| True. | ||
| Norm was a master of the tone. | ||
| Oh, he was the greatest ever. | ||
| He's so good. | ||
| There's never going to be anyone funnier than him. | ||
| I hope there will be. | ||
| I want to carry his torch, man. | ||
| I hope there is, but yeah. | ||
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Norm. | |
| Yeah, there's so many videos that are popping up of him when he was on The View talking about Bill Clinton. | ||
| He killed the guy. | ||
| I was just thinking about that. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| See, Hennessy says a house divided against itself cannot stand. | ||
| I do not expect the union to be dissolved. | ||
| I do not expect the house to fall. | ||
| But I do expect it will cease to be divided. | ||
| It will become all one thing or all other. | ||
| Oh, only I listened to this guy because I'm clicking through YouTube and of course millions of people do but it | ||
| was I loved him on the weekend. Yeah, best ever weekend update. Yeah. | ||
| He was so good. All right, let's see. | ||
| C. Hennessy says a house divided against itself cannot stand. I do not expect the union to be dissolved. I do not | ||
| expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all other. | ||
| Lincoln. | ||
| I don't think it will be united. | ||
| I don't think it's possible. | ||
| It's just absolutely not possible. | ||
| Because it's not about facts. | ||
| It's about that I can sit and ask someone a question and they will change their opinion just to oppose me. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| You'll sit down, you'll have a conversation with one of these people on the left, and you'll say something, and they'll just say the opposite. | ||
| Well, there's a whole Twitter account called DefiantLs, and literally the entire feed, no matter who you are as a liberal, he will find you saying one thing, and then four days later magically having the opposite opinion in the opposite circumstance. | ||
| Oh, oh, Ezra Klein. | ||
| Yeah, he's an awesome guy. | ||
| Ezra Klein had, like, the really famous moment where he was like, You know, um, we, we, we should have, uh, appointments for the Supreme Court for life. | ||
| It makes sense. | ||
| It's part of this country. | ||
| And then when, you know, uh, Kavanaugh comes around, I can't remember who it was. | ||
| Then Kavanaugh comes around and goes, well, we really should consider limits and people should be out at a certain point. | ||
| And it's like, Well, the big one is the vaccine, which is, I mean, now getting pushed on us as, if you don't take this, you want everyone to die and you should have no rights. | ||
| A year ago, it was, God, why is Trump trying to rush this? | ||
| What kind of idiot would take this? | ||
| And literally every mainstream public, including Frank 5502 from Twitter, every single person did a 180. | ||
| And it's incredible to see. | ||
| So there's no way to mend when you can literally sit down next to someone and be like, Trump wants this vaccine to be put out. | ||
| And they'll go, that's a stupid idea. | ||
| You're wrong. | ||
| And, well, Biden got elected. | ||
| Oh, the vaccine's a good thing now. | ||
| It's like, okay, so are we arguing? | ||
| It's like that Drake meme. | ||
| Joey Reed tried to defend it by saying, well, under Trump, it was just a different regulatory process. | ||
| So now that it's under Biden and literally nothing has changed since, you know. | ||
| I still, I always seem to still find that when people come face to face, it's a different story. | ||
| One-on-one, not when, not when mobs come together. | ||
| Especially online too. | ||
| I mean, A, there's a divide. | ||
| And then also there's the acknowledgement that on Twitter, your odds of convincing someone of your opinion in a hundred characters is zero percent. | ||
| So. | ||
| Text is not, it's really disrupting society right now, this text communication. | ||
| Yeah, I've thought about going off the grid once I'm no longer doing politics. | ||
| Dude, just walking to the river today was incredible. | ||
| I picked up my phone this morning, I was like, I think I don't want to be on the internet today. | ||
| I think if I had everything now, but limited to like an hour a day, it would be fine. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think that's a good, but I will never get the willpower to enforce that. | ||
| You can do it. | ||
| You can do it! | ||
| That's uh, that's Rob Schneider. | ||
| Josh, oh my gosh, say Tim and Crew, what do you think of forcing politicians' wages to be the | ||
| same as the median between the lowest wages and the middle class wages in their areas? | ||
| How would this affect those who seek power in government? | ||
| They would become desperate and then pony up to establishment power to get a good job after they left after | ||
| two years? | ||
| So Thomas Sowell made that point. He actually made a case, and I don't agree with it going this far, but for paying | ||
| everyone a million a year. | ||
| That was Yang, so the same thing. | ||
| Yeah, and his logic was A, the cost per taxpayer is like, you know, less, | ||
| probably less than a penny when you divide it between everyone. | ||
| And then, you know, his arguments would make them less susceptible to corruption. | ||
| Now, obviously you could be, you know, super green, want the million plus everything else, but that was his | ||
| argument. | ||
| Yeah, money doesn't solve greed. | ||
| Yeah, I think it should be, uh, that that. | ||
| We'll see you next time. | ||
| Maybe we pay really, really well. | ||
| Like Andrew Yang said, you know, you get paid a million bucks or whatever. | ||
| Thomas Sowell apparently said the same thing. | ||
| But then what if after you got out, you could no longer work in the private sector? | ||
| That would be interesting, because you can't. | ||
| That seems to be the number one job is just like, oh, this random senator is now on Walmart's board for some reason. | ||
| How did that happen? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So how about you can't you can only work in the public sector? | ||
| That would be interesting. | ||
| But what if we we paid a million bucks a year and then I guess the challenge is, there's no simple answer to this problem. | ||
| Paying a million bucks won't solve anything. | ||
| It'll just make people want to win so they can get two million dollars. | ||
| There's always a workaround. | ||
| In India, lobbying is banned, but bribery and corruption is extremely common, so you just find a different form for it. | ||
| And people don't understand what lobbying is. | ||
| Typically, younger leftists will tell you that lobbying is like Here's a big check. | ||
| Mwahaha. | ||
| No, they go to dinner with the guy. | ||
| Lobbying literally means argue to person. | ||
| It comes from people standing in the lobby and waiting for Congress, the day's session to end, when they would come out and they'd be like, hey, hey, hey, come, you want to come look at this? | ||
| And they're in the lobby. | ||
| Come to dinner with me. | ||
| People really don't understand how simple things can be. | ||
| We've talked about gerrymandering. | ||
| Gerrymandering is one of the most important things that we have in this country when it comes to our political system. | ||
| They just don't get it. | ||
| They show a map, and it's like, here's Dan Crenshaw's district, and it's got, like, weird lines, and it's, like, oddly shaped, and I'm like, yes. | ||
| Would you prefer it if half his district covered the water, or if it covered large swaths of empty farmland? | ||
| No, they're drawn over where people live, so of course they're not solid blocks or surfaces. | ||
| how everyone thinks that's what gerrymandering looks like but he created his own hypothetical map where every box just looks like oh it's an evenly made district and it was more gerrymandered than the most gerrymandered districts but it's just the placement of it doesn't have to be the shape basically was his point people seem to think that like Chicago is a giant square And you can just draw a square over it and be like, that's a district. | ||
| They don't realize that in Chicago, there's big commercial industrial areas. | ||
| Like on the south side, where it's literally like five square miles of factories. | ||
| Wrigley Field, for instance. | ||
| So yeah, so it's like, we're gonna, people don't live there. | ||
| And then there's also mountainous terrain, swamps, places that are not incorporated. | ||
| So yes, districts are drawn where people live. | ||
| And the problem is, Whether intentionally or not, you will end up with a favorable redistricting, and so people accuse each other of both sides of corruption for doing it. | ||
| The problem is, I think, we have first-past-the-post voting. | ||
| One-person-one-vote is a really dumb idea. | ||
| I can talk all day about how the Founding Fathers were brilliant, but this was one of the dumbest things they did. | ||
| But I don't blame them. | ||
| What is it, first-past-the-post? | ||
| What's it? | ||
| One-person-one-vote. | ||
| It doesn't make sense. | ||
| Because we end up with a system where people are voting against each other. | ||
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Right, right. | |
| As opposed to like a ranked choice system, where you set your top ten, and then if the first person's off the table, it goes to your second vote. | ||
| Did New York try that? | ||
| I don't know how that went. | ||
| Yeah, I think they do it now. | ||
| They do ranked choice. | ||
| I think Nebraska, or Maine, might do ranked choice for all their elections as well. | ||
| Um, you look at the parliamentary system where I think that's actually in a lot of ways better. | ||
| I would actually prefer it, you know, compared to what we have. | ||
| I mean, as I said earlier, I want to see more parties. | ||
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Right. | |
| You know, I'm a Republican, but I'm in a faction that I think 20% of Republicans are in. | ||
| So it's, you know. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| With, uh, with, if, if, if we had, if we had a parliamentary style voting system in the U.S., you would end up with, what is, what is the Libertarian Party like, uh, uh, 5%? | ||
| 5%, yeah, probably get 5% on the seats. | ||
| So you would end up with what, like, uh, what would that be like, um, like a couple two or three libertarian congressmen 20 in | ||
| the house i guess it'd be 20 what was it what 435 seats oh yeah right there you go yeah about 20 and | ||
| then you'd have yeah one or two in the senate yeah yeah the way that would work is any legit | ||
| uh you have five and recognize political party automatically gets so then most european countries i | ||
| think it's your party has to get like five percent although the threshold might differ | ||
| But then once you're above that, then they get distributed based on that. | ||
| And then coalitions have to form. | ||
| So Republicans would probably... You'd have like a Republican Party, a Libertarian Party, a Nationalist Party, and they might be a coalition. | ||
| Then, you know, the Democrats and the DSA might be a coalition and the Greens or whatever. | ||
| And what would happen is the Republicans would come out and be like, we want to cut taxes on the billionaires and the millionaires, and the Libertarians are going to be like, you bet, and the national populists are going to be like, we're not going to get on board with that, we don't see how that serves the working class in this country. | ||
| But the Libertarians would often be like, anything having to do with shrinking government, we're going to say yes to. | ||
| And then when the national populists agree on certain regulations, the Republicans do, the Libertarians are going to be like, nope! | ||
| So it forces, but then they could go to the Green Party and say, hey, this regulation, you know, so then they would actually have to meet with more different perspectives on the left and the right to solve things. | ||
| I don't know if it would solve all the problems though. | ||
| But I will say, first past the post results in locked districts and voting against people. | ||
| So now it's like, we have the epitome of anti-elections. | ||
| Joe Biden is an anti-president. | ||
| He was not elected. | ||
| Trump was anti-elected. | ||
| People went in hard, like, I don't care about Joe. | ||
| We don't know or care who he is. | ||
| Typically it was the lesser of two evils. | ||
| Now it's quite literally anything, anything but Trump. | ||
| That was their vote. | ||
| I think too. | ||
| I think the mail-in voting probably also helped tip the scales in that, like, if you're in a swing state and you're some college, like, I'm working off the premise that the people that were the most anti-Trump were the youngest people who were also the least likely to vote in the first place. | ||
| So, like, when you have mass mail-in voting in any swing state, you have all these college kids who would never in a million years would go to a polling place, can now just check a box. | ||
| Now people are going to say, like, Matt, are you saying college kids shouldn't vote? | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| No, no, here's the way I'll put it. | ||
| If you want to vote, there should be at least some responsibility, some requirement. | ||
| It shouldn't be that you can sit there with your eyes half closed, someone knocks on your door and says, can you check that box for me real quick? | ||
| People think it's a virtue getting more people to vote. | ||
| I'm like, well, what if they're idiots? | ||
| They wouldn't think that if it was more Republicans. | ||
| So what happens is, this is what the Democrats have been doing. | ||
| I do not believe we're going to find any widespread fraud. | ||
| I don't think so either. | ||
| I think like Bill Barr said, like, there's fraud, but it's not that crazy. | ||
| And I think that's, I think it's correct. | ||
| I do think we need security. | ||
| I think it'd be ridiculous to reduce security. | ||
| We need open source code in these voting machines. | ||
| But what's happening is, with universal mail-in voting, Democrats have all of these nonprofits to go door-to-door knocking on every door and saying, do you vote yet? | ||
| Do you vote yet? | ||
| Do you vote yet? | ||
| It's right there. | ||
| Before they had that, they would knock on the door and say, make sure on September 14th you go vote. | ||
| And they go, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. | ||
| And then September 14th would come around and they'd be like, I'm not going anywhere. | ||
| But now, with a month of print-out-your-own-ballots, they have that in California, if you're approved, universal mail-in voting, now the Democrats have a month to go door-to-door to all of these people and say, can you fill that out right now? | ||
| Just fill it out right now. | ||
| You know you gotta fill it out. | ||
| And they'll go, okay, fine, fine, I'll fill it out. | ||
| Don't recall. | ||
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Here. | |
| Done. | ||
| I'm done. | ||
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Right? | |
| What do I do with it? | ||
| Just put it in your mailbox. | ||
| Mailman, let's come take it. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| That's what they've been doing. | ||
| And the Republicans don't have this ground game. | ||
| So there's a lot of Trump supporters who think they were making fake ballots, and I'm like, dude, they're real, they're mail-in ballots, the Republicans helped them do it in Pennsylvania, and then the Republicans did not go on the ground, and that's why Republicans disproportionately vote in person. | ||
| Because no one in the Republican districts, and you know what the other thing is? | ||
| It's harder to do. | ||
| When you're a Democrat and you walk into an apartment building with a thousand people and a massive building, and you go, knock on one door, vote, vote, vote, you walk ten feet, knock on the door, vote, Republicans gotta go house to house to house. | ||
| It's a lot harder to do. | ||
| That's why I think universal mail-in voting is bad, because it disproportionately favors dense populations. | ||
| And we can't have that. | ||
| Because they make very, very bad voting decisions. | ||
| Regardless of whether you think their votes right or wrong, if you're giving an advantage to those who live in dense populations, then you're going to continually pressure left victories, right? | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| There's a good one. | ||
| Well, Alex has said a bunch of crazy things, that's why. | ||
| He said a bunch of things that turned out to be true, and that's fair. | ||
| What's the difference between conspiracy theory and facts now? | ||
| A few weeks, get Nikki on the show. | ||
| Well, Alex has said a bunch of crazy things, that's why. | ||
| He said a bunch of things that turned out to be true, and that's fair. | ||
| But when he was on it, like Rogan, and he was saying like the towers, the interdimensional | ||
| beings and all this stuff, I'm like, dude. | ||
| When he said, turn on the freaking frogs! | ||
| That was hyperbole. | ||
| So he's also hyperbolic, which I think has given him kind of tainted his persona to a lot of people, because it was making them hermaphroditic, this enzyme or whatever it was. | ||
| Atrazine. | ||
| Atrazine. | ||
| But not gay. | ||
| No, not gay. | ||
| He's admitted that. | ||
| We've had Steve Bannon a couple times, and we get so many comments from people being like, wow, I didn't realize he was actually kind of a normal dude. | ||
| Oh, I've met him a few times. | ||
| He's the coolest guy I've done shows with. | ||
| But people think he's this fringe, crazy, far-right, neo-Nazi guy because of the media. | ||
| And for a lot of the people, I think that's why Steve likes me. | ||
| He came on the show twice. | ||
| He saw me on a show in like December of 2019 and then like eight months later someone just sends me a clip of it. | ||
| He's like, yo, yeah, right. | ||
| I saw the show with Matt Palumbo. | ||
| You did a great job. | ||
| And I was just, I don't know, I was kind of blown away that he remembered who I was. | ||
| I think he came on twice. | ||
| After the first time he was like, you know, I'll come back. | ||
| And I think it's because there's a lot of people who watch us who are like fairly moderate. | ||
| Who have maybe only ever heard of him from the mainstream media. | ||
| And then when you actually hear him talk, it was funny. | ||
| He said he was far right. | ||
| And then he says he wants to tax the rich. | ||
| And I'm like, Steve, that's not far right. | ||
| That's like pretty left. | ||
| And he goes, no, I'm far right. | ||
| And I'm like, no, that's not. | ||
| He goes, well, I'm a populist. | ||
| And I'm like, right. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You're a populist. | ||
| And so when the media says far-right and you think it's true, I'm like, people don't understand what that means, you know? | ||
| But for Steve Bannon to be like, tax the rich, we're getting ripped off, I'm like, that sounds more like Bernie than anything. | ||
| And it is more common with the European far-right, where they're like, you know, big on anti-immigration, but, you know, when it comes to taxes, they're, you know, more liberal on that. | ||
| But yeah, I mean, he's not, you know, completely one-dimensional or anything. | ||
| Yeah, he's really grounded. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know, a very nice guy. | ||
| It's just weird the image that's been created around him. | ||
| If I met him and didn't know a single thing, I'd be like, oh, he's a nice old man. | ||
| I love that he's excited for the future. | ||
| It's great to be around him. | ||
| Victor Dimitrov says, any plan for TimCast to make games? | ||
| We are in desperate need for more game devs that aren't woke and aren't in the hellhole cities. | ||
| Too many games have sacrificed quality in favor of pushing an agenda. | ||
| We have two video games in development. | ||
| They've been in development for some time. | ||
| It's difficult. | ||
| It takes a long time. | ||
| And we're going to be incorporating very interesting new technologies into these games to make them alive outside of the game as well. | ||
| It's going to be awesome. | ||
| We're working on a roguelike game. | ||
| I've actually posted a video of it. | ||
| We should probably... I think we should maybe make an announcement at some point about one of the games. | ||
| Let's talk about it after the show. | ||
| Because it's a roguelike. | ||
| It's a normal game. | ||
| And it's going to be really, really fun, and we're going to make it an immortal, living game where we have regular updates, different levels, procedurally generated stuff, and we've got a bunch of crazy ideas that are going to make... | ||
| Probably one of the most fun games you'll ever play. | ||
| The industries are combining, I've found, all these industries. | ||
| The movie industry, the video game industry, the economics, it's just becoming one. | ||
| VR, you know, you're going to be in this world of reality, sub-reality. | ||
| So we're stepping into that. | ||
|
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I love you. | |
| Who said that I love you? | ||
| Dragon Lady. | ||
| Dragon Lady, I love you. | ||
| I don't think Dragon Lady is a fan of me. | ||
| She'll get to know you. | ||
| No internet reception available. | ||
| I feel so relaxed now being able to tune in to Tim and Lydia and I'm even glad to hear | ||
| Ian. | ||
| I love you. | ||
| Seriously, hugs to Ian. | ||
| Who said that? | ||
| I love you. | ||
| Dragon Lady. | ||
| Dragon Lady. | ||
| I don't think Dragon Lady is a fan of me. | ||
| Thanks, Tim. | ||
| She'll get to know you. | ||
| Excellent. | ||
| Rick Ortiz says, Tim, not financial advice, but do you have faith in both AMC and GMC | ||
| Also, you're a nerd, Ian. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| Yeah, definitely. | ||
| I have AMC stock. | ||
| Um, and I, and I, I didn't actually buy it when like the whole thing started. | ||
| Cause I was like, I don't want to do that, but I actually bought it because of cover restrictions. | ||
| Cause I was thinking two things. | ||
| What is the one thing I want to do when they lift restrictions? | ||
| I want to go to the movies, man. | ||
| I miss the movies. | ||
| That was my logic. | ||
| I bought it, and then the first meme wave, I just sold when it was like 20 or something. | ||
| I got it for like three, and I was like, whatever. | ||
| I'm not gonna sell it, because my concern isn't making money off of it. | ||
| My thing was like, I love going to the movies, and I haven't been able to, and now we've gone to the movies a couple times, and it's fun. | ||
| And also, that says to me, it's a good investment. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| I bet a lot of people feel the same way. | ||
| So there's a lot of the super stonk stuff where they're like, buy MC, the short people, you know, the mother of all shorts. | ||
| And they have all this extra cash on their balance sheet now that they can just kind of diversify if they need to or, you know, use it to do anything. | ||
| Makes it an even better investment. | ||
| Have you guys ever been to an IMAX theater? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh my, oh gee, I saw Avatar in the IMAX. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Dude, go see an IMAX movie. | ||
| What did I see? | ||
| I think I saw Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull in IMAX. | ||
| What's the name of it? | ||
| What's the Paradox movie? | ||
| I can't remember what the hell it's called. | ||
| Joseph Gordon-Levitt? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Inception. | ||
| Inception. | ||
| Yeah, I saw that in IMAX. | ||
| It was very good. | ||
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Whoa. | |
| That must have been twisted. | ||
| IMAX is fun. | ||
| I still don't know what happened, but yeah, it was good. | ||
| I fell asleep during that movie. | ||
| I don't think it was my fault. | ||
| Brewmaster Monk says, NFTs sound like a great way to prove you're at an important cultural event. | ||
| Like imagine getting one from attending a concert and being able to display these badges on a dating profile. | ||
| That's a really good idea. | ||
| We should rip this guy's idea off. | ||
| But you don't need NFTs for that. | ||
| So we're planning an event and we're going to be sorting out the details. | ||
| It's probably going to be October 23rd. | ||
| We could just issue a token and there's only 300 of them. | ||
| So they're fungible, but there's just 300. | ||
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Right? | |
| They don't gotta be NFTs? | ||
| Um, you could issue utility tokens, yeah. | ||
| But I guess you could do 300 NFTs? | ||
| Probably, yeah, I think you can, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, that actually makes sense, because then you have, it'll be called like, and the data within them will be 1 of 300, 2 of 300, 3 of 300, and then someone will be like, I went to the event and I got the NFT 3 of 300, or 1 of, and then the person's gonna want that number 1. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Big time. | ||
| And then what do you, is that all it is? | ||
| Yeah, it's basically an art project. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| At least right now it is there might be better utilities to come out for it. | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| There was a super chat and it just disappeared. | ||
| And it was about Cardano. | ||
| And I want to read it. | ||
| Oh, there you go. | ||
| Goblin Hand says, Tim, you promised us Charles Hoskinson. | ||
| What happened there? | ||
| When? | ||
| He's probably in... He's probably the coolest billionaire you will ever meet. | ||
| And you can talk not only crypto with him, but liberty as well. | ||
| He's a Wyoming guy. | ||
| I mean, we... He has an open invite. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| We run in the same circles. | ||
| Come on, Charles. | ||
| He can come on whenever he wants to come on. | ||
| Wyoming's got great crypto laws. | ||
| I'd love to talk to him about it. | ||
| Oh, what state? | ||
| Wyoming? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, isn't their senator really into it? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's cool. | ||
| Speaking of secession, why don't we just, like, take over a state like that? | ||
| It would be real exciting to start a new community somewhere. | ||
| They tried to do that in New Hampshire, the Libertarians, I think. | ||
| They're working on it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Lord of Avignon says, Tim, how do you feel about the quartering saying you want a civil war? | ||
| He doesn't listen to my videos because, like, I've consistently said one of the worst possible things for us in the world would be if we if we fracture, then China wins. | ||
| And China is our greatest adversary. | ||
| But it's funny that he uses the leftist talking point that by talking about something happening, you want it to happen. | ||
| It's a weird thing to say, because it's completely irrelevant to the conversation, completely irrelevant to the argument. | ||
| If the Atlantic writes a story saying, a historian says, we're tracking like ancient Rome and we will have a civil war, and we've had a Princeton professor say it, we've had numerous articles about security experts saying it, we have leftist pundits and right-wing pundits saying it, we have Sarah Silverman saying, secede, New Hampshire's trying to secede, and then I go, man, sounds like civil war. | ||
| He wants it to happen! | ||
| I think that's psychotic. | ||
| Let me offer a little counterpoint, because if a kid, say for instance, is holding a knife | ||
| and you're like, hey, put that down, you're going to hurt yourself. | ||
| Then the kid starts thinking, I'm going to hurt myself. | ||
| I'm going to hurt myself and then might end up hurting themself. | ||
| I think that's psychotic. | ||
| I know it is psychotic. | ||
| I think what you're arguing right now, if you tell someone, it's kind of the way you | ||
| I think ultimately, not you particularly, but just the way things are phrased to people can kind of guide them towards ways. | ||
| And maybe you've said things like, it's going to happen. | ||
| So I guess that means you want it to. | ||
| The counterpoint though is that it really hurts stabbing yourself. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| As opposed to like, put that down. | ||
| It's safer if you put it down. | ||
| People have, you know, I don't think that makes sense. | ||
| But the point is, imagine seeing a fire, and then being like... That might burn the house down. | ||
| That fire is gonna spread, it's gonna spread. | ||
| He wants the fire to spread. | ||
| What?! | ||
| It's the worst possible thing! | ||
| It's gonna destroy the neighborhood! | ||
| And then the rival high school is gonna take over! | ||
| And they're like, he just wants the fire to happen. | ||
| It's like, okay, I guess I'm done telling people there's gonna be a fire. | ||
| You've warned us, but now it's your job is to help us solve it. | ||
| That's the crazy thing, too. | ||
| Most of what I do is kind of just observational. | ||
| A lot of my videos on conflict in China, it's funny when they're like, Tim Pool's so biased, and I'm like, have you ever watched one of my videos that gets substantially more views? | ||
| I will get way more views talking about, if I did a segment on Biden and the drone strike, and it's just like, a drone strike was ordered here. | ||
| I did one segment talking about 30 minutes. | ||
| The military was reducing contracts in desert theater warfare ordnance and military gear and stuff like that, and was shifting to Pacific theater, which was indicative of a greater threat from China. | ||
| It also was a sign of the withdrawal with Afghanistan, and it was ridiculously dry. | ||
| There wasn't me going like, I can't believe these Democrats are going! | ||
| It was me literally saying, Joe Biden announced that the Pentagon would be reducing its purchasing of, and it's just like 30 minutes of really dry stuff. | ||
| And they accused me of wanting war by literally reading military reports and purchasing reports and saying like, guys, it really does sound like the U.S. | ||
| is going to be shifting in this direction and this will put pressure on China. | ||
| Thucydides trap, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| I think it's a ridiculous argument. | ||
| Also, I think Jeremy is very much a person-oriented show. | ||
| So, for me, when I'm like, take a look at this report about conflict, and the segment is literally about the allusions to ancient Rome and, like, potential conflicts and history repeating itself, and then you have other channels like Jeremy where he talks about people and, you know, what people do, It's just very different. | ||
| Jeremy's not gonna make a video talking about the merits of civil war because he's a people channel, you know what I mean? | ||
| Like, they're channels that focus on, like, individuals and individual culture, and then we talk about... That's why I usually don't name people. | ||
| When I'll be like, we did it several times today, I don't say their names because I'm more interested in the ideas that's being conveyed by the person and not getting into petty drama about them. | ||
| Also, I didn't know he said that anyway, so I'm assuming he did, but whatever. | ||
| It's what the left says over and over again. | ||
| Like, the principal professor can come out and say it, and he gets a free pass. | ||
| Do you mean, like, Kevin Cruz douchebag? | ||
| Who? | ||
| Oh, it's the principal professor that I hate, but no, go ahead. | ||
| No, some principal professor came out several years ago and said, we're in a cold civil war. | ||
| And then I go, hey guys, look at that. | ||
| He said, and they're like, you want a civil war, don't you? | ||
| And I'm like, no, I really don't, because China will then take over. | ||
| Sarah Silverman seems to want balkanization though, so. | ||
| That's good for her. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| All right, let's see. | ||
| We'll grab a couple more. | ||
| Jim Pina says, you have a game project. | ||
| I have 20 plus years in the industry, so I'll keep an eye on this in case I could contribute. | ||
| We need a lead dev. | ||
| Like a full stack dev. | ||
| Well, full stack. | ||
| I don't know if they're going to do the game stuff for us. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| We need a lot of people. | ||
| Let's go slow. | ||
| One dev at a time. | ||
| We need a legit game dev who knows... What are we using? | ||
| GameMaker? | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
| GameMaker? | ||
| Yeah, and it's not even that complicated. | ||
| It's just mostly tedious. | ||
| But we need someone who can streamline through these projects because we got too much on our plates. | ||
| Jobs at TimCast.com. | ||
| And I think we might already have a ton of people who applied, but feel free to email us. | ||
| And well, it's Friday night. | ||
| We'll do one more. | ||
| Jordan Olson says, Love your show. | ||
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| Right on. | ||
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| You want to shout out anything before we go, Matt? | ||
| I'll plug my own book for the second time. | ||
| The Man Behind the Curtain, The Secret Network of George Soros on Amazon, Martha Noble. | ||
| Get it. | ||
| And I don't want to, you have another book too, right? | ||
| So it's actually somehow my second book I've published this year, well I've published. | ||
| Other one it's about de Blasio and Cuomo and just kind of a brief history of them ruining New York. | ||
| It's called Dumb and Dumber. | ||
| Gimmicky title, but a good book, obviously I would say that. | ||
| Might be a bit dated now, but I think it's also an enjoyable read. | ||
| Where can people follow you on? | ||
| Only on Twitter. | ||
| Unfortunately, the website's kind of a hell site. | ||
| But MattPolumbo12 on Twitter. | ||
| That's the only place I'm at. | ||
| Nice to see you. | ||
| Hey, check me out. | ||
| Ian Crossland. | ||
| Anywhere on the Internet. | ||
| Love you. | ||
| See you later. | ||
| We were talking about NFTs and we were talking about rap and it made me think of one of my favorite artists called NF. | ||
| He is a Christian. | ||
| He writes about philosophy. | ||
| He's very talented. | ||
| So you guys should check him out for sure. | ||
| And you guys should also follow me on Twitter at Sour Patch Lids because I'm very close to beating Sour Patch Kids and Followers. | ||
| That's my only goal in life. | ||
| Make sure you go to youtube.com slash castcastle to watch the shenanigans that happen every day in this facility, which are likely just to get more shenanigansy as more and more people come. | ||
| But that's one of that's our new our latest show and our new show. | ||
| We're having a meeting on to prepare for the launch next week. | ||
| Graphics, marketing materials, accounts, all that good stuff. | ||
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| It's a great show. | ||
| You're gonna love it. | ||
| And, you know, as I always say, you just get started. | ||
| We're gonna start it up. | ||
| We're gonna slowly make it better and better and better. | ||
| And we got a lot of great new stuff coming for TimCast.com. | ||
| So, that being said, thanks for hanging out, everybody. | ||
| And we will see you all Monday. | ||
| Thanks for hanging out. |
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