Sept. 23, 2021 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| Peace. | ||
| What is the Iron Dome defense system? | ||
| Well, it is a system of anti-rocket rockets. | ||
| When rockets are launched from Gaza or other places, the Iron Dome tracks those missiles down and destroys them in the air. | ||
| It is a defensive system to protect Israel from terror attacks. | ||
| For that reason, or for whatever reason, I don't know, for whatever reason, AOC wanted to defund this $1 billion taken out of the budget bill so that Israel would not get funding to build their defensive system. | ||
| Well, it went to a vote. | ||
| And unsurprisingly, 420 people voted yes to fund the Iron Dome. | ||
| That is bipartisanship right in front of your eyes. | ||
| AOC began crying. | ||
| I think this is important because it shows you, look, I know a lot of people are probably like, oh, Tim's just ragging on AOC. | ||
| No, it really does show you that this progressive world or whatever it is, this worldview is fake. | ||
| That AOC has so much support. | ||
| All over the country and all of this money. | ||
| And she's so popular with all these followers. | ||
| And that position held by her and her followers is like, defund the Iron Dome. | ||
| And then basically everyone in Congress is like, yeah, we're not gonna do that. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| And she starts crying over it. | ||
| She is nowhere near the average American. | ||
| She represents a fringe minority and this is the perfect example. | ||
| And her behavior is a perfect example. | ||
| But there is really, really big news as well. | ||
| Gas shortages. | ||
| Driver shortages. | ||
| Becoming gas shortages. | ||
| Becoming natural gas shortages, my friends. | ||
| I hope you're paying attention to this, but we do have a bunch of other news and updates we'll get into. | ||
| We are being joined today by a political activist. | ||
| Somebody with experience in biological research, I suppose. | ||
| Malcolm Flex. | ||
| How's it going, man? | ||
| You want to introduce yourself? | ||
| Oh, don't mind if I do. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So, uh, I actually go by Malcolm Flex and pretty much I am what you would call a mishmash of a bunch of different recurring tropes and themes all rolled into one package. | ||
| But one of the most salient themes that a lot of people see on my social media is that yes, I do work in research and biological of the sort, which is pretty much become in vogue, you know, given the recent events that, you know, we'll probably delve into. | ||
| So, I know a lot about scientific method, about research, all of that good jazz that people are now saying that we should trust blindly, even though it's antithetical to science. | ||
| But hey, we can get into it. | ||
| And general news. | ||
| We'll have a good conversation. | ||
| It should be fun. | ||
| Oh my god, I love general news. | ||
| Good lord, it's a break. | ||
| But yeah. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Well, man, thanks for coming. | ||
| We got E and E's hanging out. | ||
| Actor, musician, social media entrepreneur coming at you. | ||
| What's up? | ||
| Talent stack, baby. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Good to see you again, brother. | ||
| Hello, everyone. | ||
| Here we are. | ||
| Yeah, and I'm gonna try to keep the mood a little bit light because Malcolm loves to deliver black pills and Tim is not the cheeriest commentator himself, so... The end is here! | ||
| I'm mad at other people! | ||
| That's right, yep. | ||
| Everybody's down and out, but... Before we get started, recognize the end is here and all this... I'm kidding. | ||
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| Let's read the news. | ||
| My friends, this story from the Daily Mail is a really good example of our political dysfunction. | ||
| AOC bursts into tears as Iron Dome's $1 billion funding is overwhelmingly approved in-house. | ||
| 420 votes to 9. | ||
| Rashida Tlaib is accused of anti-Semitism by fellow Democrat after she called Israel a violent apartheid system. | ||
| 9. | ||
| 9. | ||
| That's what AOC represents. | ||
| She got 12 million followers on Twitter. | ||
| This is what you need to understand. | ||
| I'm going to start off and I'm going to give you the hard facts and then we'll talk about this stuff. | ||
| AOC does not represent her district. | ||
| AOC represents fringe political individuals across the country who funnel money into her district, which she uses as a vehicle to sit in Congress. | ||
| I'm not saying that to disparage her character, but to point out her ideas probably don't fly in her own district. | ||
| The things her district cares about, they probably don't know what she's talking about. | ||
| But as Nancy Pelosi said, you could take a glass of water with a D on it, and it's going to win in Nancy or AOC's district. | ||
| That's what Nancy Pelosi said, my or her district. | ||
| So what happens is, there's no real Republican competition. | ||
| There's no strong primary. | ||
| AOC has too much money from external sources. | ||
| The same is true for other squad members. | ||
| Their politics are popular with fringe political groups, but a fringe political group is still substantive when they can coalesce online and funnel funding to politicians like AOC. | ||
| This manifests in AOC wanting to defund Israel's defensive system. | ||
| The Iron Dome isn't bombing children. | ||
| It's protecting Israel from rocket attacks. | ||
| Now, by all means, criticize Israel for all that stuff. | ||
| I'm just saying, Iron Dome, that's the job it does. | ||
| If you want to defund Israel or something like that, why take away the Iron Dome of all things? | ||
| Well, that's what AOC tried to do. | ||
| And as you can see, Overwhelmingly. | ||
| Like, I mean beyond overwhelmingly. | ||
| You get to see that AOC is shown what her politics really represent. | ||
| Nobody. | ||
| Now I will say, there are a lot of conservatives, libertarians who are pointing out, yeah, but we shouldn't be funding the Iron Dome. | ||
| Why is the U.S. | ||
| giving a billion dollars to Israel for this? | ||
| And my attitude is not, you know, I'm actually partially in agreement with that. | ||
| I actually think it's a great argument. | ||
| Why are we funding all this stuff? | ||
| Even South Korea, even in Germany. | ||
| That being said, and we can discuss this, it represents that AOC is not in alignment with where most people in this country are when they think about providing support to our allies. | ||
| Now, people can certainly say Afghanistan is bad, but Israel is a different story. | ||
| It's an ally of the United States in a war-torn Middle East that provides stability and people support that, whether you agree with Americans' foreign policy or not. | ||
| I think we can see here, perhaps, just good evidence. | ||
| Aside from like all the stories where you see the media lying, there's another good example of how broken our political system is. | ||
| I don't know if you guys have any thoughts. | ||
| I saw, I think it was around Occupy Wall Street that something came out and said that Congress is like, doesn't do what the American people want. | ||
| They do what their business associates want. | ||
| So I think that this... | ||
| Massive 460 to 9 vote or whatever isn't necessarily indicative that the American people want it, but that the politicians and their business contracts want it. | ||
| I somewhat agree with you. | ||
| It is true that Congress, public opinion typically does not move congressional votes. | ||
| But I gotta say, man, I do think the majority of Americans want to make sure Israel's not blown off the face of the earth. | ||
| That's a big, that's definitely a big sticking point. | ||
| Especially just, even when you look at moderate Democrats, I mean, they still have a healthy respect for Israel. | ||
| And, you know, there is still a very big religious section of our country. | ||
| And, you know, Israel holds a specific significance, you know, whether or not you want to debate against that or you want to debate for that. | ||
| A lot of people, Israel's still near and dear to them. | ||
| Now I have the question though for AOC, why does she want to see brown people get blown up? | ||
| Like, why? | ||
| It's just a mindless talking point. | ||
| It is. | ||
| Like, there's a legitimate talking point in, why are we providing funding, you know, to these foreign, like we should, America first is an argument, right? | ||
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| We should fix the pipes in our own cities and the streets and the infrastructure before we, but then there's the, like, There's a legitimate argument for the Middle East is horribly destabilized. | ||
| Israel is a stable nation. | ||
| They're an ally. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I get the argument on the libertarian stuff about funding and foreign policy stuff. | ||
| Okay, I get that. | ||
| But we're not talking about sending in troops. | ||
| We're not talking about occupation. | ||
| We're not talking about selling weapons to the Saudis. | ||
| We're talking about the Iron Dome. | ||
| Now, if you want to talk about Israel being bad in terms of what's going on with Gaza and the missile strikes, I'm fairly moderate on this one. | ||
| I do think the real argument comes from the libertarian position, not necessarily just right-wing, just the general, why are we focused on foreign excursions? | ||
| The founding father said we shouldn't be doing this kind of stuff, and we are. | ||
| Okay, fair point. | ||
| Most Americans, I think, recognize that we have international allies and that Israel is particularly vulnerable with all of these different places in the Middle East. | ||
| I want to blow it up, so we provide them with military support. | ||
| And out of $3.5 trillion, a billion isn't as much. | ||
| I gotta say, if you come to me and you tell me that they want to do $12 million for Pakistani gender studies, I'll be like, that's insane. | ||
| If they say, we think there should be a missile defense system for Israel, I'm like, well, that I understand. | ||
| Now, I'm a bit of a milquetoast fence-sitter on this one. | ||
| There's a foreign policy argument versus a supporting our allies argument. | ||
| The point is, AOC doesn't represent America in this regard. | ||
| I think she doesn't represent America on most anything. | ||
| She represents the fringe minority. | ||
| She doesn't even go there. | ||
| It's an odd position to have, number one, that it's a defensive system, as you've reiterated time and time again. | ||
| Why do you not want a nation to be able to at least defend itself you okay you can take the side that you want that you side with Hamas you think that a lot of people over there on that side have been basically disenfranchised by the Israeli government and again that's the conversation to be had but at the same time why do you want to basically disarm a group and allow them to Be vulnerable to more combat, more injuries, and proliferate the same warfare that you complain about Israel, you know, just engaging in. | ||
| That's a big issue. | ||
| So I'll say this too, Ian. | ||
| Like, I definitely agree with you on the politicians are just supported by their big corporate donors and the political action committees. | ||
| What do you think would happen if we defunded the Iron Dome? | ||
| Oh, you'd probably see more attacks on Israel, I would imagine. | ||
| I mean, that's a vague way of saying what might happen. | ||
| And what will those more attacks result in? | ||
| With no defensive capabilities? | ||
| You know, obviously, like death and destruction of the infrastructure. | ||
| I think it's really... Of the infrastructure? | ||
| Yeah, the infrastructure. | ||
| You mean the people will start getting killed? | ||
| Death and destruction of the infrastructure. | ||
| It's kind of like a pie in the sky, kind of an ignorant thing to be like, if we stop funding it, then it'll go away. | ||
| I mean, you see what cutting things out cold turkey did over there in Afghanistan, right? | ||
| Again, you can say what you want. | ||
| Yeah, we shouldn't have been over there. | ||
| But now that we're in it again, you cannot just leave it worse than you, you know, worse than you came in. | ||
| And that's the problem. | ||
| That felt like it was on purpose. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Again. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I know you've said it multiple times. | ||
| They're punishing the anti-war people. | ||
| They're like, Hey, this is what happens when America doesn't get involved. | ||
| People kill themselves. | ||
| stuff happens. A lot of really great questions have arisen recently which is | ||
| really things are getting kind of weird right so first people were saying oh we | ||
| shouldn't be in Afghanistan what about South Korea why are we there and I'm | ||
| like that's actually a good point like I understand why we're there because North | ||
| Korea there's still a war and because they'd love to just trample in and they | ||
| need support it's a good question you know we went there because of basically | ||
| the Cold War these proxy wars and why are we in Germany now that Donald Trump | ||
| asked and we all agreed why are we in Germany like let's get out so Afghanistan | ||
| I get the idea of like protecting Afghanistan but all of a sudden people | ||
| start saying hey wait a minute If we shouldn't be there, should we be in these other | ||
| places? | ||
| And I think a lot of these places, the answer is no, we shouldn't. | ||
| I think the answer for Afghanistan, no, we shouldn't. | ||
| However, I think the answer for Afghanistan was don't abandon Bagram Air Force Base and | ||
| provide logistics so that the Afghan army can maintain defense of their cities | ||
| and not let them fall so quick. | ||
| And then lie about it after they're sitting up here begging you, | ||
| begging you for your air capabilities. | ||
| Just a little bit, just a smidgen, maybe a drone strike here, you know, hold off the bad men. | ||
| For once, Joe Biden, for once, when you're being asked. | ||
| Ran off on the plug at midnight. | ||
| He did the drone strike, but he killed kids. | ||
| And I'm just like... Ten, right? | ||
| Ten people? | ||
| Mission accomplished, righteous strike, guys, righteous strike. | ||
| We did it. | ||
| We were asking you to use your military capabilities against the guys who were executing the Afghan soldiers. | ||
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Not the kids in the building in the urban environment! | |
| So look, it's the Democratic Party, man. | ||
| I'm sorry, they're a disaster in this regard. | ||
| You know what else is crazy, though, is one of the other things that's coming out of this political space with the overt tribalism is now we've even got, I think in Florida, they're questioning all vaccine mandates. | ||
| Where they're basically like, someone said, oh, well, you're saying no vaccine mandate for COVID, but what about mumps? | ||
| And a guy went, okay, that's a good point. | ||
| Yeah, let's get rid of the vaccine. | ||
| And then everyone's like, wait, wait, no, don't do that. | ||
| Much too fast. | ||
| We're opening doors that should not be open and again it's just the Democrats are pushing there you know they're treading on sacred spaces that you know we have had long-standing traditions for and now they're over here trying to erode those traditions and it's starting to cause a lot of people to ask questions like okay so why are we why are we doing it this way if you're saying that this doesn't work and The truth is, they don't have an internal layer of consistency behind their reasoning. | ||
| It's partisan politics at its finest. | ||
| And it's something that you get when you don't have two healthy wings. | ||
| You don't have a healthy Democratic Party. | ||
| Let me just say that. | ||
| And a Republican Party. | ||
| It's finally reforming under this new populist base. | ||
| So what ends up happening is that when one wing is not healthy, it's going to try to choke the other. | ||
| It's going to fall. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then what do you get? | ||
| You get single party politics. | ||
| People like AOC that sit up here and start pushing these fringe beliefs because again, they need to, you know, they got to say something. | ||
| Well, look at, um, you look at some of these news stories. | ||
| Like today, there was a story about Steve Bannon and all these leftists are like, Steve Bannon admits to planning the insurrection. | ||
| And then you actually watch it and Steve Bannon's like, on January 5th, I was talking about Trump to help organize a rally. | ||
| And I'm like, oh. | ||
| And they took that and they turned it into him saying, like them saying he planned the insurrection. | ||
| And then you get Lawrence Tribe being like, why isn't the DOJ acting? | ||
| He's confessed. | ||
| It's criminal code, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| And I'm like, they don't know that the FBI said there was no insurrection or they're just idiots. | ||
| Now imagine this, a group of people who don't know what's going on, who believe all this fake news and false framing, then going and voting on policy. | ||
| For AOC, she got a cold wake up call. | ||
| Like, hey, guess what? | ||
| You're in a cult. | ||
| People don't want this! | ||
| Look, I don't like the foreign intervention in Forever Wars. | ||
| Israel's different. | ||
| That's a rockin' hard place for me, because I understand the libertarian argument of, like, let's not just give funding to Israel, what's the point? | ||
| And then also, we're not asking for a military occupation. | ||
| We're not asking for an invasion. | ||
| We're just saying, like, these other countries want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth? | ||
| Okay, they can get a missile defense system. | ||
| I'm not necessarily a big fan of that idea, but I'm also not in the position where I'm gonna be as strong as I was in Afghanistan or these other countries and be like, pull out all US support for weapons and all that stuff, right? | ||
| It's like, what do you do? | ||
| Again, you're already in it. | ||
| You gotta actually go win it. | ||
| But can I just say one thing? | ||
| We need our top meme makers to get on it. | ||
| Make a meme of AOC crying with 420 in the background. | ||
| Do it. | ||
| This is for American history. | ||
| We need this. | ||
| Come on, guys. | ||
| I like she's legit crying. | ||
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No, I'm not even playing like look at this. | |
| So she's like, She's crying. | ||
| That's crazy to me, man. | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| This Israel thing is so wild. | ||
| This Israel thing, the country of Israel. | ||
| Then there's like the Jewish population and it's like a Jewish state, I think. | ||
| So it's like a theocratic state, which is very unique in the world. | ||
| There's not a lot of them anyway. | ||
| It's very, very... And then you go back to the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration after World War I or during World War I, where they kind of set up Israel, the French and the British. | ||
| Ian, I got to stop you right there. | ||
| Theocratic countries? | ||
| Like the majority of countries. | ||
| But they're not, I guess, not unique, but uncommon. | ||
| It's mostly... No, no, no. | ||
| Most states aren't religious states. | ||
| Yeah, they are. | ||
| They actually are. | ||
| America's particularly unique in that regard. | ||
| Well, Russia's not. | ||
| Spain's not. | ||
| I think you're wrong. | ||
| Libya's not. | ||
| Forgive me if I'm wrong. | ||
| Weren't we founded on deism? | ||
| Or, like, just having the ability to question, but knowing that there is a power? | ||
| I can't quite remember. | ||
| We're not a Christian state, is what I mean. | ||
| Like, it's a Jewish state. | ||
| It's like a Jewish state. | ||
| Well, they are the only Jewish state, but there are tons of Middle Eastern countries that are, like, Muslim states. | ||
| Like, a lot, a lot of them. | ||
| I don't know about Asian, well, like, lots of Asian countries as well. | ||
| There's some Muslim Asian countries. | ||
| There's India is, like, Buddhist, right? | ||
| Yeah, I don't know. | ||
| The Indian subcontinent is very religious, but I know Far East Asia, you know, they're | ||
| a little bit interesting because yeah, they are very like technocratic. | ||
| They're moving beyond a lot of unified religion. | ||
| I mean, you just have too many religious practices there anyways that you can't have a unified | ||
| state religion. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| And that's, it's not a problem. | ||
| I mean, sometimes I think what confuses it, Judaism is a religion, but Judaism is also a bloodline. | ||
| So that's unique in all religions. | ||
| There's no other religion where you're like a Christian by blood. | ||
| It's always, you choose to become it. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| But I don't think the belief structure of the people in Israel is the issue here. | ||
| And I wonder if part of the strong reaction to what AOC wanted was because of what happened when we pulled out of Afghanistan. | ||
| You know, in a way it kind of is because the Jewish population, maybe not needed, but they didn't have a place to live. | ||
| They were like persecuted throughout time for whatever reason and so they needed a place to find... | ||
| To live, to settle, and it was either going to be in Northeast Africa, and then they decided to move it to where it is today. | ||
| I got an update. | ||
| Fact check. | ||
| 80 countries have a state religion out of 195 countries in the world. | ||
| So I would argue it's fairly... Almost half. | ||
| Almost half. | ||
| So maybe uncommon is a little unfair, but not completely. | ||
| What makes it unique is that it's a culture and a religion. | ||
| That's very unique. | ||
| Judaism is incredibly unique. | ||
| When you look at the way it was formed, basically the British and the French betrayed the Arabs to form it. | ||
| So the Arabs have had this stick about, I want that land, you told us we could have that land. | ||
| You're treading on thin ice, my friend. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, look up the Sykes-Picot Agreement. | ||
| So the Arabs betrayed the Ottomans in World War I, and that's how basically the Allies won the war, the French and the Germans, or the British and the French won the war. | ||
| And the French and the British promised the Arabs that area. | ||
| They were legal nations, right? | ||
| Uh, maybe, yeah, I'm not 100% sure. | ||
| And then, so, when they won the war, the Arabs betrayed the Ottomans, and our side won, and then they, you know, they said, sorry, we're not gonna give you that land now. | ||
| And so the Arabs were like, it's 100 years later, and they're still like, you said it was ours, give it to us. | ||
| Here's what I say to most people, right? | ||
| There's really interesting challenges when you have older generations making political arguments off experiences the younger generations don't have. | ||
| I grew up in a world where there's the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. | ||
| It's literally, there's war going on. | ||
| And everybody wants to make justifications for why one country should have control of this land, or that country, or this land, or this state agreement, two state agreement, one state agreement. | ||
| And I'm like, yo, I wasn't alive for most of this. | ||
| And over time, there's attrition in the conflict was started by people who are long since dead. | ||
| And we're now at a point where you can make any argument in the world you want for land ownership. | ||
| But throughout history, it's people and land are conquered, and I'm not a fan of war, and I'm not a fan of provocation and aggression. | ||
| But at this point, I don't know. | ||
| So right now, it's just like, yo, stop fighting. | ||
| Hey, get a missile defense system so you can stop the missiles. | ||
| It's kind of like the monkey in the ladder thing, you know, something becomes tradition. | ||
| Originally, the tradition had a pragmatic purpose. | ||
| But then at some point, people just constantly repeat that tradition over and over and over again until the original meaning was lost, even if it doesn't exist. | ||
| But now the question I have is if you support Israel, But you're also fairly, you know, conservative. | ||
| Does that mean that you support a post-national authority making such a big ruling such as this land should be ceded to the Israeli? | ||
| Because that's what the League of Nations is. | ||
| And we fought against post-national authorities like, again, like the EU, you know, that whole deal, trying to have this whole one world order type of thing. | ||
| That's what they tried to establish back in the day. | ||
| They're still doing it. | ||
| I mean, they still want to. | ||
| So do you support that? | ||
| Because that's basically the argument that I hear a lot of times when they say that you support Israel's right to be a country. | ||
| You say that post-national authority that's long gone, long dissolved, supersedes anybody else's claim to that land. | ||
| You know, this is a much too complicated subject. | ||
| I would say I don't support post-national authority, but Israel is a country now. | ||
| It's there. | ||
| So we can't pretend like we're not deciding whether or not we're going to create it anymore. | ||
| It's there. | ||
| It's like Afghanistan. | ||
| We shouldn't have just pretended like it never happened and disappear. | ||
| We can't do that with Israel. | ||
| Israel is a real place. | ||
| We got to treat it like it. | ||
| Well, there are challenges with the West Bank. | ||
| Palestine supposedly is a real place, you know? | ||
| I don't have enough knowledge. | ||
| You know, I'll get flak if I'm like, hey, the West Bank and the illegal settlements, what's up with that? | ||
| And then I'll get two completely distinct arguments, two completely distinct sets of facts. | ||
| And I'm like, this history is so deep seated that you can actually look up historical sources that will contradict another historical source and it becomes impossible. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Too many motivations. | ||
| We just have to let it play out and hope and, you know, depending on your religious predilection, pray that there's some kind of peace there. | ||
| I would pray for religious tolerance among the Arab... what is it? | ||
| The Jewish population? | ||
| And then who? | ||
| The Arabs are Muslim? | ||
| Is it the Muslim population? | ||
| The United States is so wonderful with our religious, you know, congruency that I would love to see that there. | ||
| In Israel, it's like, I've been to Tel Aviv. | ||
| You walk around, everything's like, it feels like America almost. | ||
| I mean, obviously people are speaking Hebrew and I couldn't speak a lick of Hebrew, so I was unable to like shop. | ||
| But I'm walking around and it was just like people going to malls and you know, there was like food carts and stuff. | ||
| It was just fairly urban and like, I say secular in the sense that people wore regular clothes like you'd experience in any major city. | ||
| I've been to Egypt. | ||
| And when I was at the Hilton, they had a casino and Egyptian citizens, it's illegal for them to enter. | ||
| I've been to Morocco. | ||
| They have these laws. | ||
| It's very, very, very different. | ||
| So you go to Israel and a lot of people are like, it's a very secular place in the middle of a lot of religious theocracy. | ||
| I feel like that's almost a prototype, and I know there was a lot of financial interest when it came to Afghanistan, but I feel like that was kind of the prototype for what we were trying to set up in Afghanistan. | ||
| You know, minus, again, Halliburton and all the military contractors, and again, setting up that whole Qatar-Turkey pipeline deal, you know, having staging area over that way. | ||
| Well, how about we move on to a different subject, speaking of the Qatar-Turkey pipeline. | ||
| See, that's a good one. | ||
| A lot of people don't know a lot about the pipeline. | ||
| The Qatar-Turkey pipeline is basically the basis for the U.S. | ||
| involvement in Syria. | ||
| I love bringing it up because people need to know this. | ||
| The U.S. | ||
| has been preparing to invade Syria going back well before the Syrian civil war. | ||
| They wanted to have Qatar build a pipeline up through Syria, through Turkey, into Europe to offset Russian gas monopolies. | ||
| And Syria said, we will not betray our ally, Russia. | ||
| So then the U.S. | ||
| was like, we're going to destabilize Syria and then they won't be allies anymore. | ||
| Proxy wars. | ||
| Surprise, surprise. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We needed access to Europe and Syria was in the way. | ||
| And then Russia and Syria said, we're going to have Iran tap the same gas well and then send the pipeline through Iraq. | ||
| And it was just like, wow. | ||
| Basically, the U.S. | ||
| had a plan, and they were like, we're gonna undercut you, and the U.S. | ||
| was like, war. | ||
| But anyway, speaking of gas, we're in trouble, baby. | ||
| We got this story from DW.com. | ||
| BP limits U.K. | ||
| petrol deliveries as driver shortage bites. | ||
| The old company is set to restrict deliveries of petrol and diesel to some gas stations in the face of a driver shortage happening in the U.K., like we saw here in the U.S. | ||
| A lack of drivers, a lack of stations, and then what we saw in the U.S. | ||
| was that the federal government comes out, and they're like, there is no gas shortage. | ||
| And then you're like, then why are all my gas stations empty? | ||
| Oh, because your gas stations are empty, but we have gas nationally. | ||
| And it's like, yo, that's a gas shortage. | ||
| Like for me and my family and where I live. | ||
| And then we get this from The Economist. | ||
| Natural gas shortages threaten government's green goals. | ||
| The U.S. | ||
| dollar is backed by energy, by oil, by fossil fuels. | ||
| People need to understand that the comfort of their lives here in the United States is based on the fact that we print these dollars, we borrow this money, we can just manifest it, and we can buy oil with it. | ||
| But with these energy shortages, you want to talk about crises? | ||
| A food shortage is bad. | ||
| What you gonna eat? | ||
| But if we have the energy to produce, it could be an economic bump. | ||
| But if we don't have the energy, if we don't have the drivers to transport it, yo, the long fall is coming soon, man. | ||
| Addicted to electricity? | ||
| I remember I said- I mean, built upon it. | ||
| Are we addicted to the chair? | ||
| Like, we're sitting on chairs? | ||
| I'm addicted to oxygen. | ||
| No, but people say, we're addicted to fossil fuels. | ||
| And I'm like, no, fossil fuels are the support beams which support our civilization that we've built upon. | ||
| When we're in a skyscraper, we're like, it's unfortunate that we're addicted to these central steel columns. | ||
| No, that's just what we built to maintain the structure. | ||
| Yeah, I think electricity is a natural evolution of our species. | ||
| It is, to a certain extent. | ||
| I mean, again, electricity powers a lot of processes. | ||
| You need electricity just as a mere means of converting energy. | ||
| Let me ask you a question. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How do we make electricity in the United States? | ||
| You do have to use gas. | ||
| You've got to power certain mechanical apparatuses and those run on chemical energy from gas. | ||
| So, uh, what do we do with the gas? | ||
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I'm not, I'm not trying to put you on the spot. | |
| You, uh, typically drill it, you, uh, transport it via pipelines. | ||
| It's got little substations, way stations, you can get it. | ||
| But then what do we do with the gas to get electricity? | ||
| You don't have to know. | ||
| Most people don't. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Go ahead and tell me. | ||
| So in gas factories, we will burn the gas to heat water, which creates pressure and spins a turbine. | ||
| A large magnet and a rotating magnetic field will generate an electrical current. | ||
| But natural gas isn't the only way. | ||
| It's not the most prominent. | ||
| I think coal is actually still the plurality of how we produce energy. | ||
| Do you know how we turn coal into electricity? | ||
| Go ahead and tell me the process. | ||
| All right. So we heated it. We set it on fire and that energy out of the coal heats water, which creates pressure | ||
| and the steam pressure exiting, you know, the system will spin a turbine. | ||
| Large magnetics rotating will create an electrical current. | ||
| So do you know how solar farms generate electricity or actually nuclear power? | ||
| You know, nuclear power? Yes. | ||
| Now, nuclear power is one of the that's actually one of the easier ones where you actually split, say, a subatomic | ||
| particle. | ||
| Again, it actually releases, it releases the alpha waves, the beta waves, but the gamma waves are high energy, and you can actually contain that. | ||
| How do we turn that nuclear reaction into electricity? | ||
| The rods are sitting in water, which boils, steam pressure, then spins a turbine, a large magnet. | ||
| Alright, now solar farms, this is my favorite, I love this. | ||
| Now, there's two kinds, to be fair. | ||
| But early solar farms were giant arrays of mirrors focusing sunlight on large vats of, I believe, salt water, which pressurized to spin a turbine. | ||
| Yo, the way we make electricity in this country is figuring out ways to boil water. | ||
| I'm sensing it. | ||
| I was just about to say, I'm sensing the theme. | ||
| It's salt, molten salt. | ||
| Thorium salt reactors. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| They'll boil salt and it'll stay hot for days. | ||
| So you get heat all night and then you can boil the water with it. | ||
| We do now have photovoltaic solar fields, which it actually, the photon hits an electron causing it to move, generating a current. | ||
| And so once we get to a certain level of efficiency, but the simplest way to put it is we generate electricity by spinning turbines. | ||
| Getting a large magnet to spin creates a current. | ||
| So we have tidal energy. | ||
| This is really, really cool. | ||
| When the tide comes in, the pressure against the generators spins turbines. | ||
| You got geothermal, the natural gas from the vents spins a turbine. | ||
| You got wind, literally just wind spinning a turbine. | ||
| So we're just trying to make things spin. | ||
| That's how we do it. | ||
| Basically, that's the mechanical process right there. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So I'm not trying to put you on the spot. | ||
| It's just most people, most people don't know because they don't look into it. | ||
| And you ask someone like, how does solar energy work? | ||
| And they're going to assume photo photovoltaic, which is true. | ||
| That's a fair. | ||
| You ask about nuclear and they'll tell you about a nuclear process. | ||
| You say coal, say we, we burn the coal. | ||
| It's like, but what does that process do? | ||
| So I'll tell you where we're at. | ||
| People don't understand what life was like before all this energy. | ||
| This Extinction Rebellion group, Greta Thunberg. | ||
| You want to go back to 1850? | ||
| I mean, we still had fuels back then. | ||
| Go back to when our number one source of fuel was wood. | ||
| And then you're chopping down trees, you're chopping them up, you're burning them for heat and for smelting and stuff, and you will see a life you do not want to live. | ||
| Now, I'm not saying it's not a life worth living. | ||
| I think working in the fields with your bare hands and having a cow or a bull pull the, you know, the thing to till the fields, a till or whatever it's called. | ||
| Today, we have such an abundance of all this energy. | ||
| Gigantic robots do all the farming and we sit back in our lounge chairs, eating our ho-hos and our Papa John's, watching the football game. | ||
| That is coming to an end. | ||
| More calories in and calories out, but that changes. | ||
| And yeah, we built too much of a society around, you know, it's like when you scale up, eventually you have to, say, create new processes that can help you mass-reduce energy, mass-reduce everything, and, you know, again, keep going. | ||
| But what happens if that energy source gets cut off? | ||
| You're left with a bunch of useless machinery that you can't even run. | ||
| And here's the scary thing. | ||
| All right. | ||
| We built an infrastructure on this chemical process, notably like diesel and gasoline. | ||
| If we lose that for whatever reason, these machines, we don't, we don't, we have, what do we do? | ||
| Like if you have a worker in the field and he's got a shovel. | ||
| And then that worker moves or passes, you find a new worker. | ||
| The tool can still be instantly applied to another person. | ||
| But if we lose our principal source of energy, fossil fuels, we have an entire technological infrastructure that doesn't adapt to any kind of other energy. | ||
| Now, we can start to adapt it. | ||
| Like, let's say if we start using hydrogen cells and we power things, we do electric vehicles, electric farming equipment, which I'm sure they do a lot of. | ||
| Probably because I think, well I'll say this, Tesla is not profitable is my understanding. | ||
| The Tesla cars? | ||
| Only profitable because they were tax subsidies. | ||
| Now that those have expired, it's no longer profitable to make these vehicles unless they jack the price up. | ||
| So if tomorrow, you know we're looking at these gas shortages across the US and in the UK, if tomorrow all of a sudden there's no gas, people can't drive, buses can't run, Machinery can't work, everything we do is stopped, and then we go back, what, 70 years? | ||
| And have to restart our infrastructure on other energy systems or whatever? | ||
| You can't do it. | ||
| And then even a transition, you're going to have to double your production of whatever, you know, you're basically going ahead and replacing it with, because you have to have enough to keep production of, let's say the batteries that you're going to power electric vehicles. | ||
| You've got to literally have enough batteries to power what you're using to replace. | ||
| I know this sounds a super, you know, it sounds super circular, but to what you're using to actually replace the means of producing the batteries, you got to eventually transition those off. | ||
| So yeah. | ||
| And how do you get the lithium? | ||
| You lose it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's a big one. | ||
| So people don't get, man. | ||
| You lose energy. | ||
| They're like, we're gonna build a bunch of electric vehicles, and it's like, oh yeah, what machines do you use to get the lithium out of the ground? | ||
| And they're like, well, we use gas-powered and diesel-powered. | ||
| It'd be cool to start fusing hydrogen and helium and making lithium. | ||
| Maybe that'll happen. | ||
| Does that work? | ||
| Well, it's the next, it's Element 3, so I would imagine, yeah. | ||
| I don't know if they do it at scale. | ||
| Probably not, I would imagine. | ||
| Fusion creation. | ||
| I know they do, they can make diamonds by seeding carbon and then having a neon gas or something works. | ||
| Yeah, I think science can save us. | ||
| That's why I like the original idea of the Green New Deal. | ||
| I'm like, that sounds cool. | ||
| We allocate taxes towards building new energy infrastructure. | ||
| Could help make America energy independent. | ||
| Energy independence means a wealthy and strong America. | ||
| And then I'm like, I like the sound of this. | ||
| And then AOC comes out and says, the Green New Deal. | ||
| And I'm like, okay. | ||
| And then she goes, is free college for people who aren't white and healthcare. | ||
| And I'm like, wait, what? | ||
| That's Paul Dickson in a nutshell. | ||
| Yeah, right? | ||
| Good idea. | ||
| Poor execution. | ||
| Fizz.org. | ||
| Researchers simulate compact fusion power plant concept. | ||
| I mean, we are there, dude. | ||
| Fusion, fusion, fusion. | ||
| Where is the media talking about fusion? | ||
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| Return on energy investment is substantially higher than what we can predict out of fusion. | ||
| And it's portable. | ||
| Oil's portable. | ||
| You take a look at what's called Energy Returned and Energy Invested, and oil is the best. | ||
| Actually, I think nuclear is the best, but the left hates nuclear power, so we can't get it, unfortunately. | ||
| I know. | ||
| The problem is the word nuclear, because fission, historically, was pretty dirty. | ||
| But fusion's a completely different process. | ||
| They shouldn't call them both nuclear. | ||
| Yeah, but we're not there with fusion yet. | ||
| Will we ever be? | ||
| We've always been like five years away since like the 80s. | ||
| How do you take it from pre-production to actual production, you know, for the big time if you still have these challenges? | ||
| That's the question that you actually have to ask with Fusion. | ||
| Like what challenges? | ||
| So typically with Fusion, I think that to reliably... It's kind of like what Tim said, you know, when you actually deal with like energy costs, like it's an extremely expensive process. | ||
| I think I remember if I'm not... | ||
| If I'm not mistaken with fusion, where they actually use magnetics and they actually force the molecules together and again, or they actually force the subatomic particles together and it releases the energy. | ||
| But I think that it just takes so much energy to actually do that, that again, you're going to lose out. | ||
| They'll do like heavy water, which is called deuterium oxide. | ||
| It's, it's a hydrogen H2O, but the hydrogen has an extra neutron. | ||
| So it's heavier and they put it inside of a palladium lattice and then they, they, they, They do something. | ||
| I think they electrify the palladium, and it causes the... Whereas hydrogen is so light, it will fly away from itself when they aim it, but because the heavy water is heavier, they can ram it into itself and create helium. | ||
| That's one way they can do tabletop fusion. | ||
| And then what happens, I guess, is the system causes some kind of, like, vibration that they have to figure out how to capture. | ||
| So right now, what's happening is they've reached ignition, but that's like... You ever try and start a fire with a torch? | ||
| And you're holding the torch on the wood, and the wood starts on fire, and as soon as you take the torch off, the fire goes away. | ||
| You need to get the energy levels to enough where it's self-sustaining, and we're not there yet. | ||
| So fusion sounds fantastic, but nuclear energy is probably our path out of this. | ||
| The only problem is, you've got an activist left that won't let us do it. | ||
| Fission, yeah. | ||
| There's Three Mile Island and what else? | ||
| The Russian nuclear plant that went down. | ||
| Substantially more people have died from coal mining than from nuclear energy. | ||
| And I get it, Fukushima is really, really bad. | ||
| It had devastating consequences we probably won't even know about for a long time. | ||
| But that just means we need better safety standards. | ||
| It means we better better adaptation for nuclear technology. | ||
| People seem really afraid of of the unknown and when it comes to nuclear you can't see the radiation whereas coal you can kind of like see the smoke so you know what it is but with like COVID for instance you can't see it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| With with radiation you can't see it so there's this like fear about the things you can't see. | ||
| That's the tough part. | ||
| Is it in me or is it not? | ||
| I don't know. So that's even worse. | ||
| Well, I mean, we've, you know, we predicated the whole society on surviving based on calculating | ||
| the unknown to the best of our ability. And so again, when you kind of step outside of | ||
| that and you leave it to chance, you know, especially with something like energy and, | ||
| you know, nuclear energy to begin with, you know, if you fail to safely dispose of those | ||
| rods when you're doing fission, or you know, you don't cool it properly, again, catastrophic | ||
| circumstances, do you really want to leave that to human error to one, you know, miscalculation | ||
| or just, let's say a worker that's just very ambivalent about a job doesn't go through | ||
| protocol properly? | ||
| I heard a crazy story once where like some diver got sucked into a nuclear cooling system intake tube and he was swimming in the nuclear pool totally fine because radiation can't go through water. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So he was like at the top and they saved him and he was like. | ||
| I had this theory about recovering nuclear waste. | ||
| The corium is the core is called corium. | ||
| It melts when there's a meltdown. | ||
| It's it's producing so much heat, the heat's not getting out of the core. | ||
| So it keeps getting hotter and hotter, hotter, and then it just melts and it goes through the thing that's holding it down into the ground through the ground. | ||
| But what I was thinking is if we put some sort of superconductive metal in it, Then it would allow it to release its heat. | ||
| So like gold. | ||
| If you poured gold into a corium, then I would imagine that over time it would start to release its heat. | ||
| And then you'd have this hardened corium gold thing, and then you could maybe retrieve the gold that way. | ||
| Maybe there's some infrastructure utility company sitting there going, Ian has just solved the problem! | ||
| You've done your research on it. | ||
| Yeah, I was looking at the temperatures of gold. | ||
| Gold's a good one. | ||
| There are other platinum metals that might work as well. | ||
| But you've got to get in there, so you need drones. | ||
| And most of the drones, they power down when they get so close to that heat. | ||
| But then what do you do with all the constantly destabilizing isotopes and all of that? | ||
| They continue to fission off. | ||
| They've been recycling this stuff. | ||
| I think like 99% recycled. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, so like the technology that most people are complaining about when it comes to nuclear is from the 70s. | ||
| And we've greatly improved. | ||
| I mean, I think thorium salt reactors have been prominent for some time. | ||
| People have been discussing the possibility. | ||
| It's already melted, like you're mentioning, like melted salts or whatever. | ||
| So, I mean, it seems like we have a path towards better energy generation to avoid the problem of carbon emissions. | ||
| But this is the strangest thing. | ||
| You get these people like Greta Thunberg yelling, how dare you? | ||
| Demanding that we cut all fossil fuels. | ||
| And we're like, I think nuclear energy would work. | ||
| And they're like, no, you can't have that either. | ||
| It's like, do you want me to live in the woods? | ||
| I'll chop down trees. | ||
| That's exactly it. | ||
| That's what they want. | ||
| That's exactly it. | ||
| They want us to go carbon negative. | ||
| And I mean, the deal is, again, there's no way to stop this whole climate change bugaboo that you want to let you go carbon negative, which basically means that you have to start destroying a lot of manufacturing because you can go carbon neutral. | ||
| What do you think they're doing? | ||
| It's unfortunate because you can withdraw... You can't! | ||
| You can take the carbon out of the atmosphere and deposit carbon dioxide onto other metals like palladium and then create graphene oxide. | ||
| So you can actually pull the carbon dioxide out of the air. | ||
| We'll end up competing with trees because I think we're going to start... You mean pull the carbon out of the air? | ||
| Yeah, we'll start mining the carbon out of the air and then the trees are going to be like, hey, balance it out. | ||
| We can't build an entire infrastructure around taking the carbon dioxide away. | ||
| But that's better than destroying industry because we're going to have to learn how to make Synthesize oil in other ways, like super pressurized dirt. | ||
| We've done that. | ||
| We've grown algae and then made petroleum from algae. | ||
| Burn it off, recollect it. | ||
| I was listening to this podcast called like, what was it called? | ||
| Like Stuff You Should Know? | ||
| No, what is it? | ||
| Yeah, I think it's Stuff You Should Know. | ||
| Maybe not. | ||
| Maybe I don't want to. | ||
| That's a really big one. | ||
| Yeah, and they were like, it's like three guys or something. | ||
| And this is a couple years ago. | ||
| They were like, what are we going to do when there's no more, you know, fossil fuels are dead dinosaurs. | ||
| What do we do? | ||
| There's no more. | ||
| And the one guy goes, there's not going to be any more dinosaurs, dude. | ||
| And I'm like, wow, people listen to this stuff. | ||
| Fossil fuels are not dead dinosaurs. | ||
| Please, please. | ||
| Did you guys hear about these nuclear batteries? | ||
| They're taking spent nuclear waste and putting it inside of carbon glass, like carbon diamond glass, and it's producing like, basically like 10,000 years of electricity out of it. | ||
| It sends these particles out. | ||
| I'd have to see that. | ||
| Oh yeah, that's awesome. | ||
| See if I can pull this up. | ||
| This came out last year. | ||
| Batteries that never die? | ||
| Nuclear batteries. | ||
| It's all over. | ||
| If you look up nuclear batteries, you'll see tons of stuff on it. | ||
| 10,000 years. | ||
| So not never. | ||
| In the grand scheme, they'll be like, they only last 10,000 years. | ||
| We live for 900,000, so it's not good enough. | ||
| New approach to carbon-free tech. | ||
| And it recovers nuclear waste. | ||
| That's one of the cool things about it. | ||
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| That sounds awesome. | ||
| Now the question I have to ask, though, is, again, is the carbon really as detrimental as they keep saying? | ||
| Because I think they said back in, what was it, 2012, that we were past the anthropogenic tipping point of carbon to where there's no way we can recover, everything's set in motion, and this, that, and third. | ||
| So I have to ask, I have to pause and just ask, and again, I'm not an energy expert by, you know, by any means, but Haven't we already hit the point to where, you know, if something was going to happen based on all the carbon buildup in the atmosphere, like, aren't we there? | ||
| And hasn't everything still been okay? | ||
| And, you know, Obama's still buying the beachfront property and all of that, you know, like there's a certain level of trust that's been eroded in what these people are saying to where should we really be devoting a lot of energy Towards you know all these emission standards when we cut | ||
| our Manufacturing we cut our industry and in China's basically | ||
| over there producing all the dirty dirty energy They want and you can see the clear financial impetus for | ||
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| Never heard of it But they say eternally charged smart watches to become real | ||
| with nuclear waste powered battery could last up to 28 thousand years | ||
| They say the battery for the smartwatch will last eternally for its entire lifetime. | ||
| We should have the smartwatch released within 18 months. | ||
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| Then you can put those in your car. | ||
| You'll be able to put those, maybe you'll be able to stitch them into your clothing. | ||
| Why couldn't you have a smartphone that just never died? | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| That to me, that's, that's crazy if that's true. | ||
| Yeah, then they wouldn't make all the money selling you the power block separately since they don't put them in the boxes anymore. | ||
| Are they going to be able to contain the radiation so you don't die? | ||
| Yeah, I think so. | ||
| These things are really cool. | ||
| These nuclear batteries are a big deal. | ||
| Dude, I gotta make this call, get these dang tweets off. | ||
| I can't be concerned about those minute details, guys. | ||
| It's way more important. | ||
| So couldn't you just hook up one of those batteries to the outside of your house? | ||
| Because I know they were talking about Tesla batteries and I don't know if there's a similar application. | ||
| Theoretically, yes, you could. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You have to have a really, really big version. | ||
| A smartwatch is tiny. | ||
| Right. | ||
| The nice thing is it encourages nuclear power because you're going to create more nuclear waste that you can convert into batteries after you're done with the power plants. | ||
| Is this kind of like what Tim said, you know, with the example of, again, the use of turbines, all of our energy production methods just scale off of one simple theme that once we unlock it, again, we can continue to just scale it up and innovate and turn it into something new. | ||
| But man, we're asking too many questions. | ||
| The EPA is going to start knocking on our door. | ||
| EPA, open up! | ||
| As far as I know, these aren't steam. | ||
| I think they release alpha particles that vibrate. | ||
| You can look them up on Wikipedia. | ||
| I know they give you a nice kind of visual overlay of what happens inside the battery, how it releases these particles outside through the carbon glass, catches the energy. | ||
| I'm not sure if it's using piezoelectricity or not. | ||
| Sounds like an opportunity that we're not going to get to because the left doesn't want nuclear power. | ||
| Come, expert. | ||
| Come. | ||
| Join us. | ||
| It's our own progression. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Big business? | ||
| They're like, no, let's just stick with what we got. | ||
| Ride it out. | ||
| But like, we're cool on that. | ||
| You know, we could have infinite energy, but you know, I think we're okay. | ||
| I'll tell you, it feels like what the left does, they accuse the right of all the time. | ||
| They project. | ||
| So, the left has big business interests driving a lot of their agenda, and then they accuse the working class rural guy who's like, I want to vote for the guy who's going to end the opioid crisis, and they say, you're working for Big Pharma! | ||
| It's like, I literally don't want people buying this medication while you're promoting massive no liability contracts. | ||
| Bingo. | ||
| Bingo. | ||
| And I mean, again, you got to think about it. | ||
| If you were an evil, well, not even evil, if you just wanted profit at all costs and you wanted everybody thrown off your trail and you have control of all of the mass media apparatus, wouldn't you just project, wouldn't you just, you know, publish falsities and say your enemies are doing that? | ||
| Given how, you know, humans are devolving to the point where we're exhibiting a lot of tribal behavior, a lot of our primitive, you know, just urges we're kind of getting into and that whole tribal behavior of, This other guy's wrong, we're right, we're gonna fight you tooth and nail, you know, there's no discussion in the middle. | ||
| That's what they're taking advantage of. | ||
| Oh yeah, like I mentioned on the Russell Brand interview I did, he put up a segment about Civil War, and the comments were right-wing people saying Tim Pool's a leftist, and left-wing people saying Tim Pool's right-wing. | ||
| Success. | ||
| Isn't it amazing? | ||
| There's no middle. | ||
| You're either with us or against us. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And that's where we're going. | ||
| I will say though, You take a look at independent voters, I can have a conversation with... I'll throw it back to when I went to Sweden. | ||
| You know, when Paul Joseph Watson was like, I challenge a journalist to go to Sweden or whatever, and I was like, I'll do it. | ||
| And he was like, I was kind of just taking a piss. | ||
| And I was like, I'm gonna do it anyway. | ||
| And he was like, all right, I'll donate to your thing. | ||
| And then his whole attitude was very much like, crime is really, really bad. | ||
| And I said, well, it's not that bad. | ||
| Um, it is worse. | ||
| It's worse than it's been, but it's way worse than America. | ||
| The thing is, it's relative. | ||
| The people in Sweden, they saw one murder the prior year. | ||
| Now it's 13. | ||
| That, to them, that's, that's massive. | ||
| I mean, that's a 1300% increase, so they're freaking out. | ||
| But it's not like there's a war zone going on. | ||
| And the response from Paul on Enforce was like, oh, interesting. | ||
| Yeah, I hadn't considered that. | ||
| Thank you, Tim. | ||
| And I'm like... | ||
| What am I supposed to do when the guys at Infowars are the ones being like, oh, well, how about that? | ||
| And it's the people on the left being like, you're a liar and you're crazy and I won't talk to you. | ||
| So it makes it impossible. | ||
| I mean, look, I'll tell you this. | ||
| We've, we've invited a ton of lefties come on the show. | ||
| We say it all the time. | ||
| They won't do it. | ||
| They just don't do crossovers. | ||
| Maybe with some libertarians, but I guess, you know what I think it is? | ||
| I think it's, um, we fact check in real time. | ||
| We have NewsGuard certified sources, which has a bias, but we use that specifically to be like, hey, we're using a biased source on purpose. | ||
| Microsoft, for instance. | ||
| And if any one of these people comes and sits down, they're going to get roasted. | ||
| Yeah, talking points don't work again and unfortunately the left is, you know, their whole deal is closing ranks. | ||
| They hand down their ideas like doctrine whereas I think the right is still kind of open source to it to a degree because the right goes by principles more so than doctrine. | ||
| That's a good point. | ||
| Whatever the, there's two factions and it's the centralized and the decentralized. | ||
| That's that's really basically what it is. | ||
| I mean, that's how the populists took over. | ||
| And that's why, you know, the Democrats, you know, they're beating back the leftists with sticks. | ||
| Yes, they capitulate every now and again because it's just trendy and you've got these kids that don't know any better and they want to get them on board. | ||
| But at the same time, you know, the right won their revolt and took over the Republican Party largely. | ||
| Even if it's just for show, even if a lot of the politicians, you know, you just, you get a lot of these old, these old guard Republicans that are now adopting the whole populist message. | ||
| But even if it's just for show. | ||
| Shrek, primary him, get him out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You want, you want me to vote Republican? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Primary all these guys. | ||
| All of them. | ||
| Get them out. | ||
| And I'm pretty sure everyone on the, all the Trump supporters agree. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Rhinos out. | ||
| I do think it's fair to, I think it's unfair to call them rhinos though. | ||
| Republican in name only. | ||
| Cause I'm like. | ||
| The truth be told, the Republican party in the majority are do-nothings. | ||
| It's like the one or two guys, like Rand Paul maybe, who's gonna do something different. | ||
| So he's the one who's only Republican in name. | ||
| He's more libertarian in principle. | ||
| At the beginning of the show, I was thinking, I feel like American politics is different now. | ||
| It's still the same suit, American politics, but whoever's wearing it is like, because we're in the age of social media and popularity contests now, I don't think that term that these endless terms work anymore it's too it's too easy to get super popular and then have like totalitarian control basically so we've really got to kind of | ||
| You know, reboot or reevaluate or transition. | ||
| There's probably better work. | ||
| I get what you're saying. | ||
| And I mean, it's happening to an extent. | ||
| The Democrats, they run their party in a very 90s to 2000s era kind of way. | ||
| That's why they focus on big media corporation and all that, whereas the right has already evolved. | ||
| So the left is still the left. | ||
| And when I say left, I don't mean the true left. | ||
| I mean this neoliberal establishment. | ||
| They are still operating in the Clintonian era where, you know, you go up, you get a celebrity to say some good things about you, and then, you know, you dance around for the camera and then you go back to your dark room. | ||
| But remember when Hillary Clinton was campaigning and she put on a southern drawl when she was in like Alabama or wherever she was? | ||
| Like, yo, we have the internet! | ||
| Back in the day, you could do that. | ||
| Back in the day, the politician could go to Chicago and be like, I'm just like you guys! | ||
| I got a garage door opener just like you! | ||
| And they could go to New York and be like, yo, you vote for me and both of these guys are getting out and I'm gonna wipe these guys out. | ||
| And it worked. | ||
| People would be like, hey, he sounds like me. | ||
| Now, when you do that, they're like, why are you talking different? | ||
| AOC actually did it. | ||
| Remember when she put on a Spanish accent? | ||
| And then people were like, yo, you don't sound like that. | ||
| And she was like, I wasn't putting on an accent. | ||
| That's just because I'm bilingual. | ||
| And it's like, dude, It worked when we were only newspapers. | ||
| It would be like Hillary Clinton came and said these words, but if you actually heard it, she tries to imitate the people there. | ||
| She did that in her campaign. | ||
| Doesn't work. | ||
| These are different times. | ||
| You can't do that stuff, but they still think it's 20 years ago. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Well, Nancy Pelosi's what? | ||
| She 80-something years old? | ||
| How old is she? | ||
| One, I think. | ||
| Dianne Feinstein's 90, isn't she? | ||
| Yeah, at some point, you know, these politicians, they reached their shelf life and You know, I think the GOP a lot of a lot of the old guard politicians GOP are really about to probably bow out just because they they see what they're writing on the wall and that it is good. | ||
| But the issue is the right has a very big talent scouting program. | ||
| Think about this. | ||
| Or I mean a talent scouting or an issue with their talent scouting program, where | ||
| a lot of the people that you see come up on the right, you know, they don't get a | ||
| lot of these people that are out on the forefront on Twitter, making means | ||
| spreading this information. | ||
| A lot of these non blue check, but big name influencers, they don't scout those | ||
| people. | ||
| They get the interns, the people that work for somebody that they know to come up the | ||
| yes, man. | ||
| And that's who they put in. | ||
| And these are anti-charismatic people. | ||
| They don't quite understand or relate. | ||
| And it's like getting somebody like Marjorie Taylor Greene, you can say what you want about her Q stuff and all of that, but she's different. | ||
| You know what I can't stand? | ||
| Republicans, they all wear suits. | ||
| No, I get it. | ||
| Democrats in Congress are wearing suits, but like conservatives, like mainstream conservatives show up to events wearing suits. | ||
| 19 year old kids wearing suits. | ||
| I'm like, you are not relatable to a regular working class person. | ||
| Nobody wants that guy. | ||
| And it's like, you have all this talent right here. | ||
| But you keep on picking the same old, same old, and then you're wondering why you're getting stomped out by these people that are using Twitch streams, and they're sitting up here, they're reaching out to the kids, and they're inspiring youth to become leftists. | ||
| You know, I think a lot of people, conservative, that are really successful people, that happen to be conservative, go into business. | ||
| They don't go into politics. | ||
| That's a big thing, too. | ||
| And you know, that's honestly the cycle that politics should follow, | ||
| is that you should become very proficient in something else in life. | ||
| And then once you've done that, once you've accomplished all that you want, | ||
| then go into politics. | ||
| That sounds pretty similar to what Trump did. | ||
| Trump had already made his money. | ||
| He had already become a business magnate. | ||
| He had, you couldn't bribe him because he already had everything. | ||
| So what do you want? | ||
| He wanted the accolades of going into politics. | ||
| And now when you have that motivation, you're not out here trying to sell out the highest bidder. | ||
| You're not out here trying to wear a bunch of corporate brands. | ||
| You're just trying to get your legacy, you know, you're just trying to get your legacy through. | ||
| And that's why I didn't understand why they did not like this guy. | ||
| Like it's an insurance policy. | ||
| Trump gets in. | ||
| If he does bad, his brands suffer. | ||
| People remember Trump as, oh, you remember the guy that got in and he just ruined everything? | ||
| Kind of like what we said about Joe Biden. | ||
| Like Trump would not, he wouldn't allow that to happen. | ||
| So that's why I just didn't get that. | ||
| But that's the cycle that politics is supposed to follow. | ||
| But. | ||
| You miss Trump yet? | ||
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I sure could go for some mean twits right now. | |
| I would take 20 mean tweets. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, he's looking good. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I remember 2019 man. | ||
| Best economy. | ||
| People were cheering. | ||
| Jim Cramer was like best numbers of our lives. | ||
| COVID happened. | ||
| I can't blame Trump for COVID. | ||
| I know. | ||
| You know, by Kent, you know, he was going along with it. | ||
| He should have fired Fauci. | ||
| There's a lot of things he could have done better, but, you know, it's a natural disaster of sorts. | ||
| Part of it is. | ||
| But under his administration, in the first few years, I mean, things were skyrocketing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The economy was through the roof. | ||
| Booming. | ||
| Business was booming. | ||
| Now where are we? | ||
| I mean, Trump didn't start any wars. | ||
| He was trying to get our troops out of the Middle East. | ||
| He made some absolute foreign policy mistakes, often with drone strikes, military strikes, missile strikes, commando raids, etc. | ||
| But nothing ever came out of them. | ||
| But the last couple years, he was like, it's pretty good. | ||
| I'm like, all right, you know, Donald Trump's got a potty mouth, but this ain't bad. | ||
| And then when Joe Biden comes along, I'm like, I'll take the potty mouth. | ||
| Plus Trump's second term agenda was legit. | ||
| He had like school choice on there. | ||
| Now we're nine, eight months in, and it's like, Democrats voted for this. | ||
| We got the border crisis. | ||
| We've got the Afghanistan withdrawal problem. | ||
| We've got an economic crisis. | ||
| We've got the eviction crisis. | ||
| We've got job shortages, fuel shortages, food shortages. | ||
| Holy Joe Biden screwed all this up. | ||
| I won't blame him. | ||
| The economy was on its way down, even though they gave it that one last ride before they started printing the other. | ||
| We were already at $18 trillion in deficit. | ||
| But the rhetoric around, I mean, at that point, you know, the rhetoric around lockdown is definitely accelerated. | ||
| It made it worse. | ||
| And, you know, again, there was nobody to take the dissenters approach and just say, hey, guys, let's just let's stop this. | ||
| Follow me. | ||
| Trust me. | ||
| Let's not lock down because that's going to kill us where we're at. | ||
| And, you know, and there's a difference between the debt and the economy. | ||
| The debt's a problem. | ||
| It means, you know, we're going to see inflation. | ||
| The government is overspending. | ||
| It's overexerting itself. | ||
| But when you have debt, the train is still moving. | ||
| It's causing problems and it's bad, but when you just stop everything. | ||
| That was the Democrats. | ||
| Now again, Donald Trump should have fired Fauci. | ||
| Donald Trump was all about 15 days to slow the spread, but it was mostly Democrat governors who went hardcore. | ||
| Trump does deserve some of the blame for the COVID response. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Could have fired Fauci, could have said no to a lot of this stuff, thought he was doing something good. | ||
| He was like, I'm gonna race a vaccine out as fast as possible, everyone. | ||
| Yay! | ||
| Well, that was part of the issue, though, that we took a vaccine-centered approach. | ||
| Again, Trump's original idea with the red and green zones, or however they did it, again, just testing, rapid testing. | ||
| That was a much better approach. | ||
| Rapidly test the individuals, you know, make sure Number one the fact that we're still using PCR is just you know it's an affront because PCR doesn't detect whether or not you're carrying a viral load that you can actually transmit. | ||
| A rapid test would be very much suited towards that because that basically gauges your load whether or not you can actually give somebody COVID or you can't and then you quarantine the people basically tell them hey go ahead and do this stay away from these people and you keep everything moving The fact is, we took a vaccine-centric approach where we wanted to lock everything down until we got vaccines. | ||
| Well, we got them. | ||
| Well, hold on. | ||
| We wanted to lock everything down for 15 days to slow the spread so hospitals didn't overload. | ||
| Within 15 days, it turned into just a couple more weeks. | ||
| Then it became just until we've stopped COVID. | ||
| Then it's like, we'll get the vaccines. | ||
| Don't worry. | ||
| Once we have the vaccines, then we're back to normal. | ||
| Then we get the vaccines and they're like, okay, well, you've still got to wear your mask if you get the vaccine. | ||
| Then they're at the point where they're like, look, we need everyone to do weekly tests. | ||
| And if you don't want to do a weekly test, get the vaccine. | ||
| Now we're at the point where they're like, even if you've gotten the vaccine, you need a weekly test. | ||
| That's at University of Arizona. | ||
| Are they still doing PCR tests? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And so this is like your expertise. | ||
| You're saying these PCR tests are not accurate, not as accurate? | ||
| Well, it's not that they're not as accurate. | ||
| They get trace artifacts and they basically do a polymerase chain reaction where they actually recreate the COVID particle using the other strand to the base pairing on that RNA. | ||
| So they can tell if you've had COVID or if your body's reacting and you've got the antibodies, but they don't know if you're actually able to transmit or not. | ||
| They can't tell viral loads, so you could be asymptomatic with a very limited load, and they can't see that. | ||
| So they need different tests. | ||
| And I think it's really obvious they went to this direction of, even if you're vaccinated, you gotta get tested, because I said this a couple weeks ago. | ||
| How does it make sense that you're gonna be like, you can't come to the movies unless you're vaccinated or get weekly tested? | ||
| And I'm like, breakthrough cases exist, and people who have breakthrough cases can transmit to the same degree as someone who's not vaccinated. | ||
| Once you get COVID, your chance of transmission is like equal regardless of | ||
| vaccination status but those who are vaccinated are much less likely to get that's what they're | ||
| saying but if that's still the case they can transmit it then doesn't everyone need to test but | ||
| they were like no and i was like okay now here we are university of arizona is the first to be | ||
| like yeah everybody get your test So do you know, so now that this Delta variant is out, are they still vaccinating for the original variant, even though there's a new variant that's traveling? | ||
| So when people are getting sick with COVID, are they actually, as put in in quotes, are they getting sick with a variant that the vaccine is not prepared for? | ||
| There's all sorts of different variants of, you know, COVID. | ||
| And the difference is that you can have a variant of COVID that literally does absolutely nothing. | ||
| Like if you go ahead and you look at the sequencing data on GISAID you'll see so many different like on GISAID where they share the actual data from the PCR tests and from like people that they actually confirm positives. | ||
| They can tell you what prevalence that specific strain is. | ||
| They've got a bunch of them and it's a bunch of different areas of sharing that data. | ||
| So, you have variants that do absolutely nothing over the actual version. | ||
| That's natural because it's an RNA virus. | ||
| You're going to get single nucleotide polymorphisms where, again, one of the base pairings skips or one of the base pairings omits and it's not the right one. | ||
| And so, the question is, what does the Delta variant do? | ||
| Do we even know? | ||
| Because a lot of people say that it's more transmissible, but you got to think the Delta variant started coming around right as everybody started getting COVID apathy. | ||
| You know lockdowns were being released in a lot of places. | ||
| They're brushing in. | ||
| It's like how do you gauge transmissibility? | ||
| If you're not infecting somebody with COVID, telling them to walk the same distance around the same amount of people, not touch anybody, but get within this distance, you can't control to see how transmissible a specific strain is. | ||
| So do we know that it has any, and this is the hot button, demonstrated gain of function over normal, you know, over the normal SARS-CoV-2 strain? | ||
| Like that's the question that you have to actually ask. | ||
| Like when someone walks in, if something were to happen, we're like, this person got COVID from that person. | ||
| I've never, I've been following this for a while and I don't know, they don't say what strain they caught. | ||
| So I keep thinking it's the original, but it might not be, right? | ||
| Well, so here's what I think happened, and you know, consult your doctor, because I'm not an expert on this, but I was reading about it, and basically when we had the alpha strain, it was like the original strain, it was brutal, it was more deadly, less infectious, but what happens is natural selection occurs, right? | ||
| So the viruses that cause, and outside of COVID, just in general, and you can probably correct me if I'm wrong on this one, but viruses that cause more damage are less likely to spread because the person notices it and then takes action. | ||
| So viruses that are less deadly and less, you know, causing of symptoms are more likely to transmit, naturally selecting for a highly transmissible but less deadly variant. | ||
| So what happens is, here's what I think. | ||
| This is my opinion. | ||
| The Alpha variant, I think, was nightmarish. | ||
| Like the data we were getting, the videos we were seeing, it was horrifying. | ||
| We saw videos of people collapsing in the street in China. | ||
| People are now saying they're fake. | ||
| No, I don't think that's what's happening. | ||
| I think what happened was the initial strain was people were saying it was like a pressure on their chest. | ||
| And so you've got people in China who are like pressured to go out work and, you know, there's like a more honor culture. | ||
| So it's like, put a mask on and get out there. | ||
| And then someone would be struggling to breathe. | ||
| And what happens when you can't breathe? | ||
| You pass out. | ||
| Yeah, they have bad air there too anyway. | ||
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| So you got bad air, you've got pressure on the chest, and this weird, like, pneumonia was going around. | ||
| So we see this data, and the initial data was like, we could see millions die from this in the U.S. | ||
| Like the New York Times had a slider bar. | ||
| The models were horrible. | ||
| But what happens is there's a natural selection that occurs. | ||
| The most severe strains are eliminating themselves by killing people. | ||
| The less severe variants were more likely to transmit because the people were less likely to be hospitalized. | ||
| So then we went alpha, we had beta, you know, now we've seen epsilon and mu, but delta seems to be the scarier one. | ||
| It's highly transmissible and still deadly, but less deadly. | ||
| This really makes sense. | ||
| So now we're getting to that point, perhaps, where, you know, people are saying we're gonna have to live with COVID. | ||
| But the worst strain of COVID will probably fizzle itself out. | ||
| So I'll throw back to the 1918 flu pandemic for another point of data. | ||
| There's one historical theory that the 1918 pandemic started in China as a lighter strain. | ||
| and a bunch of people got it and they got over it. But then it moved into the trenches, | ||
| came back to the United States where it festered and got worse. And because it had the ability to | ||
| rapidly infect close-quartered people who are injured or sick, that allowed for a very serious | ||
| variant to rapidly infect lots of people. By the time it made it back to China, the people of | ||
| China already had some natural immunity to a similar strain and were less impacted by it. | ||
| In this instance, it's similar but different. | ||
| The very serious strain was struggling because we did the slowdown, we did the lockdowns, we did these things. | ||
| I think it's fair to say we probably had a positive impact in that regard, but then variants can still persist and we made a lot of mistakes. | ||
| Notably, Being indoors seems to be bad. | ||
| Being outside with fresh air, with UV lights, with vitamin D, with exercise seems to be good. | ||
| So we made some mistakes in that capacity. | ||
| We need to update our strategy. | ||
| Now I think we're in a new pandemic. | ||
| A pandemic of political manipulation. | ||
| Where we do have a crisis. | ||
| Coronavirus is really bad. | ||
| We're still hearing stories about people getting it. | ||
| But now you've got political parties that are like, now's our chance. | ||
| Never let a good crisis go to waste. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And I mean they're doing that and you know part of the issue as well though you can actually argue with the lockdowns is that you allow and incentivize mutations when you lock down because when they finally get out or when they have to actually go out and they've been locked down for so long they're spreading a much more mutated iteration it's went through about five or six viral viral generations and now you're getting something that there's always a small chance that when a virus mutates that it can demonstrate a little bit more virulence and it can become a lot more deadly but That's interesting. | ||
| Locking down essentially created isolated incubation. | ||
| Is our virus more or less likely to mutate in isolation? | ||
| If we never locked down, what would happen is that COVID would burn through its host reservoir. | ||
| Eventually we would reach herd immunity a lot faster. | ||
| That's at least, you know, that's the traditional logic. | ||
| I think it still stands. | ||
| There's a lot of inconsistency on it. | ||
| And I'm not going to give you a definitive, but what happens is you let it burn through its host reservoir. | ||
| And again, people are going to, you know, people are going to succumb to the illness. | ||
| That's part of the nature of it. | ||
| But once it actually burns through. | ||
| Everybody's already immune you know they're immunized so you don't have a let's say a generation one COVID and then generation five you know a generation five COVID illness going and in generation five is so much different from generation one that eventually you get a chance to mutation that allows it to spread a little bit easier. | ||
| A question if you don't know the answer it's okay if if if you become immune to like alpha of COVID alpha it can it mutate in your system once you develop immunity to the alpha can it? | ||
| That's always a possibility. | ||
| That's actually something that, you know, we take. | ||
| Well, okay. | ||
| It's complicated because once you have the antibodies, once you have the immunoglobulin G antibodies within your blood, once it's there, again, it's going to eventually get wiped. | ||
| It's going to eventually get wiped out and then the rest of your antibody production will catch on. | ||
| Lymphocytes and the dendritic cells will begin to dispose of it. | ||
| So you will eventually get rid of the infection entirely. | ||
| But the issue is, again, how do you control for whatever you're spreading? | ||
| Because you have a thousand different variants of the virus here, and the one that's the most transmissible will then be able to be shed to somebody else. | ||
| And then that one will actually spread and it'll copy those transmiss- you know it'll actually carry those same transmissibility traits and it might actually improve on that further and further and further and then they might actually spread that one but you know it's all chance it's like you know you're rolling a dice every single time because first you have to actually spread the most transmissible variant of invariant of it And then you have to hope that that one doesn't self-terminate or snuff itself out every single time that it's hijacking a cell and getting itself to be reproduced. | ||
| If it snuffs itself out, or if you don't actually spread it and your body actually develops immunity to it, you know, that's game over. | ||
| So it's basically a chance thing. | ||
| That's why I say mutations are, they're drummed up to such a degree that You know, it's like Tim said, they're not letting a good crisis go to waste. | ||
| But really, this is something mundane that we're making sound so exotic. | ||
| I think I think initially, I actually do think the initial like everything we saw initially was accurate. | ||
| And we have to we have to make sure we're updating the science as the as the mutations happen and assess our economic circumstances. | ||
| It started with a novel virus that it was highly infectious and it was novel. | ||
| So it's likely going to hit everybody. | ||
| And it was just, as they reported, not a lab leak, but just very... Interestingly, it had these proper, you know, infection methods. | ||
| But in the beginning, they're like, look, nobody's had this, so that means everyone's gonna get it. | ||
| There's no natural immunity to this. | ||
| And that means we're gonna see a lot of death. | ||
| And so we wanted to do something about it. | ||
| I think that was legitimate. | ||
| But what happens is... | ||
| With mutations, with bad policy. | ||
| We're not perfect. | ||
| We make mistakes. | ||
| We should have done different things. | ||
| I can accept that. | ||
| Trump should have fired Fauci. | ||
| I definitely think that is. | ||
| Fauci has got no confidence in the American people. | ||
| But it's hard to say. | ||
| We're at a point now where I'm wondering if the hard lockdowns allowed for isolated incubation. | ||
| So put it this way. | ||
| If the population is rapidly intermingling, then there will be variants, but people will quickly catch certain strains and then develop immunity to those strains. | ||
| Granted, with a novel virus, we're talking about a lot of death, so it's scary to just be like, we're going to ignore this. | ||
| Well, then you get overloaded hospitals. | ||
| But if you tell everyone to lock down, then what happens is, let's say you have 10 buildings that are sealed, each infected with COVID, When they open the doors, you could have 10 variants because they went through multiple, like you said, five or six generations. | ||
| Now it comes out with 10 different strains all at once. | ||
| So, look, I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on this or an expert on policy. | ||
| Nobody is at this point. | ||
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| It's hard to know for sure. | ||
| The one thing I can say is when you look at Australia, you look at what's happening with Democrats, I think they're like, it's an opportunity for us to push through agenda items to, you know, do a lot of things. | ||
| Now, interestingly, I guess, you know, Gretchen Whitmer, like, is opposing vax mandates and mask mandates. | ||
| Polling, her polling was bad or something like that. | ||
| Yeah, she must have sold them numbers. | ||
| All right, she's for the people. | ||
| Well, I'm glad that's the case, but I don't think it's going to save her career. | ||
| I think too many Democrats saw this as an opportunity. | ||
| They started by saying, come on down to Chinatown. | ||
| That's what Nancy Pelosi was saying. | ||
| Yeah, I remember that. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi not wearing a mask, getting her hair done. | ||
| Gavin Newsom not wearing a mask, going to these restaurants. | ||
| They don't care about this. | ||
| And I'll tell you this, celebrities aren't scared of this at all. | ||
| No. | ||
| Take into consideration that. | ||
| They go to the Emmys, they go to the Met Gala, they don't wear masks, they don't care. | ||
| They literally do not fear this at all. | ||
| So if you're sitting at home and you're worried and you're scared about this, ask yourself why it is that political elites and celebrities have zero fear. | ||
| They go on TV, they don't wear masks, they go to special events, they don't wear masks, they do not care about this. | ||
| There's just such an informational lag because I think conservatives are on the cutting edge of this. | ||
| Conservatives have already gotten to the point where we've accepted that this is going to be an endemic virus. | ||
| It's not as bad as it could be. | ||
| Practice good health. | ||
| Get outside, again, because you need the vitamin D, and also because heat stimulates interferons, which can help, again, help your body actually ward off the virus. | ||
| A lot of people do research into interferons. | ||
| Children also have a much higher number of interferons within their nose, and that's part of the reason why children are less susceptible in general. | ||
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| But um, you know, there's so many, there's so many facets to this that the average person does not know. | ||
| And there's information like because they're getting it from these traditional sources. | ||
| So what do you do? | ||
| Make more interferons, baby. | ||
| Hey, so you're saying it's an endemic, which means what does that mean? | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| That means that you're going to, it's basically a part of society, you're going to have a COVID every single year. | ||
| And ask yourself, how long have we had a flu vaccine? | ||
| Well, we've got a bunch of different ones. | ||
| Okay, have we gotten rid of the flu yet? | ||
| No. | ||
| Okay, so why are we trying to do the same thing with COVID? | ||
| Right, but I always call it the flu shot. | ||
| Is that because I thought it wasn't a vaccine? | ||
| It is a vaccine. | ||
| It's a more traditional one. | ||
| The mRNA vaccine is where you're exposing yourself to two specific spike proteins out of the 26 that are on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. | ||
| But these have what's called a pre-fusion confirmation, which keeps the spike protein from damaging the cell, basically, as it's, you know, as it's manufactured. | ||
| And it actually locks it onto your cell, the plasma membrane of the cell, so it can't get loose and go and damage other cells. | ||
| Is the RNA one? | ||
| Yeah, that's the RNA. | ||
| It helps your body basically produce the spike protein so that you can create those IgGG or IgG. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| Antibodies. | ||
| That's the worst naming convention ever. | ||
| I'm so glad you're here. | ||
| It's complicated. | ||
| It's super. | ||
| It's super complicated, but it's also niche too, because again, a lot of virologists, they'll study this and they won't put two and two together. | ||
| And then, you know, you have some virologists that dedicate themselves to studying interferons. | ||
| You have some that dedicate themselves to say, studying different methods to deploy, you know, That's pretty much how we have the 8026 and the Janssen, and that's how we have the nanoparticle, the lipid-covered nanoparticle of basically the Pfizer one. | ||
| So, what's a traditional vaccine called? | ||
| Does it have a name? | ||
| I would say a live, well, no, it wouldn't be a live attenuated one. | ||
| Yeah, that's pretty much it where you're presenting an inert copy. | ||
| So the Novavax, I think. | ||
| That's a traditional vaccine. | ||
| Is that a live attenuated or? | ||
| Ooh, I might actually have to go look at that. | ||
| The specifics of which I'm super... Do you know anything about the Johnson & Johnson vaccine? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| It's a DNA virus. | ||
| It's a DNA vaccine. | ||
| Right? | ||
| I think it's still... I thought it was still RNA, but it was just deployed using a dental virus that was actually found in rhesus monkeys. | ||
| I could be wrong, but I thought that it was still... that we're still dealing with RNA. | ||
| Hey, kind of as a more general question, do you think that there's a lot of promise in the RNA vaccines in general? | ||
| I mean it's a it's a useful way to do what we've always done but you know the weakness of RNA vaccines is again it's blood-borne immunity which means if you have something that transmits or sheds via the nodes you're still able to transmit because that's a different antibody that you're trying to So it works on blood but not in mucus, not in the lymph. | ||
| Yeah, those would be the IgA antibodies that you find there, your saliva, and I believe in your stomach. | ||
| It says DNA. | ||
| It says that Johnson & Johnson uses an adenovirus to deliver the spike protein DNA. | ||
| But, and it's Nebraska Medicine, so I'm assuming that, I read this too, I think I was reading on the CDC that it's a DNA vaccine versus the mRNA vaccine. | ||
| Similar but different technologies. | ||
| Yeah, it's just the same process, just kind of in reverse. | ||
| DNA, you're basically cleaving it into an RNA. | ||
| You're basically splitting it into an RNA and then giving it out to your ribosome so that they can actually, you know, send it so that they can actually manufacture it where it's RNA. | ||
| Again, it's already ready to go. | ||
| Word. | ||
| It's like inserting a disc with a program into a computer. | ||
| Like a doomed CD-ROM. | ||
| Yeah, indeed. | ||
| Before we move on, I have to ask, a lot of times people will just dismiss out of hand the concept of a vaccine altogether because they'll tell me it's not a vaccine, it's gene therapy. | ||
| What do you say to that? | ||
| I mean, it's a semantic argument because, you know, everything is, you know, everything to some degree are genes. | ||
| Like, now what I think when people say gene therapy, they're thinking kind of like a retrovirus where it actually overwrites the DNA of your cells and causes them to basically, by default, produce this. | ||
| Like I said, this is like just inserting a CD into a computer and telling it run a specific program it's going to conduct though. | ||
| I was reading a Harvard article about gene therapy. | ||
| A lot of people were sending saying, see, it proves mRNA is gene therapy. | ||
| It actually doesn't. | ||
| The Harvard article says that there is mRNA gene therapy. | ||
| mRNA vaccines are not gene therapy. | ||
| So the idea is basically what they're saying. | ||
| If you've got a genetic disorder, They can use mRNA to literally do a gene therapy and change the DNA in your cells to stop that disorder. | ||
| But these vaccines don't do that. | ||
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| They just give the RNA to make a spike protein and then eventually cease to exist. | ||
| They allow the ribosomes to basically go to work and, you know, again, mobilize the aminos to conduct the protein. | ||
| And it's only two out of the 26 that, you know, you'll find on the surface too. | ||
| So it's not even like it's covering the whole cell with it. | ||
| And I just think there's a lot of other arguments people make. | ||
| They use semantic arguments like gene therapy. | ||
| I'm like, what does that mean? | ||
| Like, I mean, does that affect the politics of freedom and medical choice and bodily autonomy? | ||
| You know, write the mandates, not the vaccines, because again, the vaccines are, you know, vaccines are pretty much wonderful. | ||
| Anywhere you've actually been. | ||
| Yes, these may have, you know, you might have a lot of allergic reactions. | ||
| There's a lot that we don't know how people's bodies are reacting to it. | ||
| But, you know, people react. | ||
| All medicine has risk. | ||
| People will react oddly to all kinds of medicine. | ||
| I'll put it this way. | ||
| If someone comes to me and says that they would like to get vaccinated, I'll be like, that's cool. | ||
| You talk to your doctor and they'll be like, yeah, that's fantastic. | ||
| I'm glad you did that. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| I don't think we should force people to do it though. | ||
| And there's arguments about, like, well, what about all the other vaccines? | ||
| And I'm like, truth be told, I still have issues with government-mandated medication. | ||
| I think people, you know, there's limited function, right? | ||
| If you want to go to a public institution, like a school, and they mandate it, that's different from saying all public accommodation, period, for participation in society. | ||
| Furthermore, the older vaccines have been around for a much, much longer time and went through a legislative process for approval. | ||
| It's very different from, like, we're in a crisis and we're going to just executive decree this stuff. | ||
| So I think it's like the Supreme Court said about the eviction moratorium. | ||
| It's an issue for Congress. | ||
| Laws have to be voted on and passed. | ||
| And the problem is when Democrats realize they can't get it through because of Republicans, they just say, you know, we'll squeeze it in with a budget bill. | ||
| We'll do the omnibus spending where we just get whatever we want. | ||
| Or Biden will rule by decree. | ||
| Yeah, and that goes back to what we said, though, that, again, the Democratic Party is sick, and when you have a sick party that can't get the other wing to agree or work with it, then what do you get? | ||
| You get these schemes, these plans, these ways that you are trying to control, manipulate, and snuff out the other party, and that eventually destroys the nation, because you need the ideas of the left. | ||
| which left does not it doesn't mean de facto communism let's go go to that you know left and right are just uh semantic terms that we use to describe traditionalism which would normally be right and then you know this whole moving forward changing things which is what we see left like if america was historically a communist country the commies would be the right Yeah. | ||
| And, you know, the left would be the capitalists. | ||
| And could you imagine that? | ||
| A group of Wall Street bets savant capitalists hurling Molotov cocktails into worker camps? | ||
| Yeah, but they also don't like... It's not about being establishment. | ||
| It's just certain political factions don't engage in that kind of behavior. | ||
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| Whether they're revolutionary or not. | ||
| But let me show you the story. | ||
| We got the story from Fox News. | ||
| New York governor refusing to budge on vaccine mandate for nurses. | ||
| You're replaceable. | ||
| I don't think they realize. | ||
| We had a story that one hospital in New York was no longer going to deliver babies because they had no maternity ward nurses. | ||
| This is a bet the New York governor is going to lose. | ||
| They're not replaceable. | ||
| Not going to happen. | ||
| You know who is replaceable? | ||
| The governor! | ||
| Yeah, look at that. | ||
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That's true. | |
| You know, I could replace the governor with a golden retriever and we'd probably be better off. | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| So, when they start firing people, I think the economy is gonna just... Look, they come out and they say, we're in a very serious pandemic, we need to mandate this stuff. | ||
| Okay, what happens when you eliminate nurses in the middle of a pandemic? | ||
| Pandemic gets worse! | ||
| That's where we're going. | ||
| They're literally paying travel nurses exorbitant amount of fees to come work for them when they could just pay the nurses a little bit more. | ||
| But no, instead they're going to go ahead and fire them. | ||
| Yeah, what did she say? | ||
| She'll bring in a foreign staff or something? | ||
| That's so expected. | ||
| We're sending out a call statewide. | ||
| There are facilities, for example, in New York that 98% of the staff are vaccinated. | ||
| They don't have a worker shortage. | ||
| We are working closely with these hospitals to find out where we can get other individuals to come in and supplement nursing homes and other facilities. | ||
| Her comments come after she had already said on Tuesday while visiting the Niagara Power Project, those who refuse, we will find replacements. | ||
| Those who refuse, you have my utmost respect. | ||
| Do not give the government an inch. | ||
| They will take 10 miles. | ||
| It's a power play. | ||
| That's all it is. | ||
| Because I mean, again, if you have nurses refusing the vaccine mandate and nurses are regarded as health professionals, then what do you think is going to happen to the rest of the people? | ||
| These certainly must be the stupidest nurses on the planet. | ||
| To be in these hospitals where they can actually see the vaccine workings and then reject them? | ||
| What strange individuals. | ||
| I'm being facetious, by the way. | ||
| The point is, I don't know what they're experiencing. | ||
| And there are a lot of people who, like, the left have been like, wow, someone actually tweeted this on the left. | ||
| They're like, these nurses must be really stupid to be working in the hospitals where they can see the vaccines work and refuse them. | ||
| And it's like, Maybe there's still breakthrough cases. | ||
| Maybe there's like, it doesn't matter. | ||
| If you're a nurse and you see people coming in for COVID, you're not going to see a grand global overview of the numbers. | ||
| Well, it all goes back to what do you define as a breakthrough case? | ||
| Because again, I think the vaccines were rated even at their peak for like 95, 90% efficacy. | ||
| So what do you call the other 5%? | ||
| What do you call the other 10%? | ||
| That's expected. | ||
| So that's not even a break. | ||
| Again, that's a semantic fear word like breakthrough case. | ||
| Oh, your vaccine. | ||
| It may or may not work. | ||
| No, we've already controlled for that. | ||
| But the fact is, you get the vaccine, you have a better chance of surviving, you can develop real immunity. | ||
| Now the issue with the whole nurses refusing mandate is if you get if you get the vaccine you get and you get the SARS-CoV-2 virus up in your nose you can still spread it but you don't know you have it because your symptoms are reduced so now they can potentially spread it to even more patients because they're almost confirmed to be asymptomatic Well, especially if they have a working immune system, they're not going to have symptoms. | ||
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So now you just, and now it's going to be mass testing for everybody. | |
| That's controlling for a mistake that they made. | ||
| Because again, we just didn't have the data. | ||
| It's like I said, nobody's an expert on this. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I say we do it right now. | ||
| I say, not a vaccine mandate, a swab mandate to enter all establishments. | ||
| So every business has to have someone employed at the door, and when you walk in, they stick the thing in your nose, they put it down, and you wait 15 minutes or whatever. | ||
| How long does that take? | ||
| It takes 15 minutes? | ||
| Or no, it takes longer than that, doesn't it? | ||
| I think about 30. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| All right, you stand outside for 30 minutes, and then if you, all right, you can come in now. | ||
| I got the finger test where they prick your blood, and they check or whatever, that was negative, | ||
| but they put the finger on your finger and they smash it, and then it goes through your skin, | ||
| and then they do the blood. | ||
| That was instant. | ||
| It was like you literally look and go, you're good. | ||
| It was like, instant was more like a minute or so. | ||
| I have one where they put the thing on my forehead, and then they put a green light on my forehead or something. | ||
| You guys get that? | ||
| And they're like, yeah. | ||
| This is a temp scan. | ||
| Oh, it's a temp scan. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, trying to see if, it's a laser, trying to see if you were sick. | ||
| Just looking at manifestations of, if you're febrile. | ||
| Yeah, that's what it's doing for sure. | ||
| The story shows they don't care about you. | ||
| They don't care about your rights. | ||
| They don't care about your freedom. | ||
| They don't care about the Constitution. | ||
| They will replace you. | ||
| So we should replace them. | ||
| We don't need these fat cats, these big wigs. | ||
| It's our duty to replace them. | ||
| Term limits, man. | ||
| Term limits. | ||
| Term limits. | ||
| How do we make it happen fast? | ||
| We don't need to make it happen fast. | ||
| How do we make it... | ||
| It happened legitimately. | ||
| Midterms. | ||
| Yes, but there are two distinct cultures in this country that I don't think that solves the problem at all. | ||
| I don't know what does solve the problem. | ||
| Because you can have Tom Cotton come out and say, we should consider whether or not COVID leaked in a lab. | ||
| And New York Times says, crackpot conspiracy theorist Tom Cotton puts out crackpot conspiracy theory. | ||
| And then a year later, some guy, former New York Times, is like, actually, it may be. | ||
| And they go, oh, it may be. | ||
| Or Hunter Biden's laptop. | ||
| They come out and they're like, they found an old laptop. | ||
| There's no proof. | ||
| We're not going to look at it. | ||
| The NPR said, it's not even news. | ||
| We won't entertain it. | ||
| Twitter said, we're going to block the New York Post from sharing it. | ||
| And then a year later, they're like, oh, that laptop thing? | ||
| Yeah, that was true. | ||
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| I had this thought that we used to write constitutions and laws. | ||
| Now we write code. | ||
| So if the code does it, there's no enforcement. | ||
| The code happens. | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| If you're living in a digital society, the code's gonna dictate what you can and can't do just by basis of what the code is coded to do. | ||
| So it's like the law is built into society at that point. | ||
| The law is part of the function. | ||
| So maybe that's the future. | ||
| Like social media. | ||
| You could use a word on YouTube that makes your video not appear. | ||
| So there's like invisible enforcement that someone put in play that is shaping our culture without anyone's permission. | ||
| We've lost. | ||
| We've lost control. | ||
| The machine is taking over. | ||
| And here's the crazy thing. | ||
| It's not an AI. | ||
| It's just a random amalgam of different code and maybe some machine learning, but for the most part... | ||
| They ban words based on what words, a word could sound like another word and they'll ban you for it. | ||
| They ban sounds. | ||
| Isn't that nuts? | ||
| There's literally no oversight. | ||
| And I mean, that's the argument against having just code because again, code is going to happen. | ||
| There are going to be errors because code is dealing with people. | ||
| People can say something, a code can't sort out for sarcasm. | ||
| A code can't sort out whether or not you're quoting something unless you say begin quote. | ||
| You could build it into the system like a jury system with like a transparent free software code and then if there's a someone feels like they were wronged by the way the code acted they could appeal to a jury of your peers like a thousand random people could get an opportunity to view the process, and then that could self-alter the code. | ||
| If you get enough times that this thing has gone wrong, then the code rewrites itself, or the people overseeing the code can rewrite it. | ||
| Sounds good, but again, if it deals with people, and it's dealing with, you know, personal interpretations, and then, you know, those personal interpretations are being cultivated by that same code and algorithm, then, you know, you're just back at square one. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| You know, there's a lot of problems in that, because people are going to argue, and then you're going to get people saying, here's the real problem, and it's going to break down as to who gets to implement the code. | ||
| I think maybe one of the simplest solutions would be if, you know, you just took one person and appointed them Supreme Chancellor with absolute power to do anything, and then just said, you know what? | ||
| You take care of us. | ||
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| We don't have to fight anymore. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| We'll just have them be allowed to do anything and control all of the law enforcement and just accept that their decisions are law. | ||
| Genius, but you know we say that jokingly, but you know the fact I had a disclaimer because but no we say that jokingly But here's the problem the left is constantly burning books removing history Removing the stories and tales of when we did things like that and when they went horribly wrong so what happens when you get the next generation that does come up with that idea and they don't have the history to tell them and You might not want to do that. | ||
| It's a big part of why I don't like that they've censored the swastika. | ||
| Because you need to know. | ||
| It's a movie symbol. | ||
| You gotta know that he's through with a Nazi party, man. | ||
| You gotta know. | ||
| There's cartoons. | ||
| Family Guy, Justice League, that they show these symbols. | ||
| And now it's like, they're like, oh, we can't show that. | ||
| It's offensive. | ||
| I'm just assuming that they banned the swastika. | ||
| I don't know if the swastika's banned. | ||
| Can you show a swastika on YouTube? | ||
| It is algorithmically reduced in a lot of capacities. | ||
| And depending on the context, Twitter might remove it or flag it. | ||
| And there's a big difference. | ||
| We talked about this before the show. | ||
| Talking about something racy, like a word, is very different than using that word to describe someone or attack someone. | ||
| But it should matter for the future. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| It matters to human beings. | ||
| It doesn't matter to the machine. | ||
| The machine doesn't care why you, you know, or actually I think it no longer matters to the people either. | ||
| It's like that Netflix executive was explaining to people racial slurs and why they were banned and what they were. | ||
| And he got in trouble for saying it. | ||
| Imagine being part of like a diversity and inclusion thing where you're like, we're going to be explaining racial slurs, why they're offensive and why you can't say them. | ||
| And then someone gasps when you say it to tell them not to say it. | ||
| And he got fired. | ||
| So this Netflix guy gets called to HR, and they're like, what happened? | ||
| He goes, I was explaining to them racial slurs and what was not acceptable, and I said, and they went, oh, he said it again! | ||
| It's like, well, you asked him, what? | ||
| He got fired, lost his job. | ||
| John Schnatter? | ||
| Yeah, look at Papa John. | ||
| We had Papa John on the show. | ||
| He was explaining on a phone call how this word's offensive, and Colonel Sanders used it, and nobody even got mad at him, and they were like, oh, he said it. | ||
| He didn't call anybody any racial slurs. | ||
| Saying the sound is so different than calling someone a name. | ||
| I could be like, call you a name that's like an innocuous word. | ||
| And it's more offensive than if I'm discussing the etymology of a word. | ||
| There was a period where people were using Facebook, Skype, Twitter as like slurs, trying to get the word banned, I guess, or whatever the point was. | ||
| But there was a period where it was like the left was writing saying like, these are now slang for racist terms or whatever. | ||
| And it's like, oh, geez. | ||
| In the Kyle Rittenhouse case, apparently the judge said he didn't recognize the OK symbol as a symbol of white supremacy, and that he thought it was, um... Who did he say used it? | ||
| Oh, it was really funny. | ||
| Literally everyone. | ||
| I'm curious, I don't remember. | ||
| I've seen AOC throw up two of them. | ||
| I know! | ||
| So did Obama! | ||
| A-OK. | ||
| Dog whistles! | ||
| I know! | ||
| It's perfect. | ||
| It means perfect. | ||
| Well, actually, it could be more of a dog whistle, seeing how the progressive party's basically, you know, again... Who's it a dog whistle for? | ||
| And who is hearing the dog whistles? | ||
| I'm just saying. | ||
| It's like we never considered the possibility that these people could be entirely subversive. | ||
| They could be virulent bigots and this could have been like a 10-year plan to get in under the guise of being an ally and eventually turn the country back to the age of Jim Crow. | ||
| Chef Boyardee. | ||
| Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
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| I haven't had that in a minute. | ||
| I used to eat a lot of that stuff. | ||
| For good reason. | ||
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| So yeah, the judge said the okay sign is also used as a game and in old Chef Boyardee campaigns. | ||
| I certainly would keep the door open if you can show that there is any connection between the defendant on the day in question and this organization. | ||
| But as I said before, if this organization embraces the defendant after the fact, and he's lionized because of his behavior, that is not something that the jury can make anything out of that would be lawful. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| Now the question is, again, with algorithms, do you get that level of nuance into it? | ||
| Can algorithm be that nuance and make that judgment call? | ||
| At this stage? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I would hazard that it couldn't. | ||
| It will never, unless you get algorithm that's so sufficient that it can replace humans entirely. | ||
| What would happen is, okay, you make the okay sign on your mind's video, and then the AI flags it. | ||
| And it's like, hey, offensive thing. | ||
| And then you're like, no, I wasn't doing it offensively. | ||
| I was doing it non-offensively. | ||
| So then you, you appeal it. | ||
| And then it goes out to like a thousand people that get to vote. | ||
| Is he, did he use it in context or is the AI right? | ||
| And then they vote and then the AI changes itself. | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| That's ideal. | ||
| Once again, your idea is absurd and wrong. | ||
| I'll tell you what we should do. | ||
| And mine should roll this out. | ||
| As you're posting, there should be a little circle with a red light that's flashing a little bit. | ||
| And if you're about to post something offensive, it goes, I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Ian. | ||
| You're like, I want to freeze your bloodstream, Ian. | ||
| Hold still, Ian. | ||
| I want to post this meme! | ||
| I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Ian. | ||
| Cryo-freeze initiated, Ian. | ||
| Don't press that button. | ||
| Don't press that button. | ||
| And then robotic arms can come out of the ceiling. | ||
| Hold still, Ian. | ||
| Hold still. | ||
| It's for your own good. | ||
| It's going to amnesticize you and take away the will that you ever had to post that meme. | ||
| Andreas has been talking about neural net, and one of the things they might do with it is for violent prisoners, rather than put them in prison, put them on a neural net that dampens their willpower to become Digital lobotomy? | ||
| I don't know if that's ethical, but it's a use of the technology. | ||
| The Ethics Committee would never go for that again. | ||
| But like, is it ethical to put someone in prison for 20 years? | ||
| You know, it's kind of the argument. | ||
| Again, then it's like, kind of, what do you do with it? | ||
| We have an unrepentant. | ||
| You know, these are imperfect. | ||
| And we're dealing with people. | ||
| People are imperfect. | ||
| And these problems, unfortunately, will never have a perfect, neat answer. | ||
| All you can do is just mitigate harm. | ||
| And unfortunately, you know, it goes back to the pandemic. | ||
| Democrats haven't figured out that. | ||
| You can't do anything. | ||
| You just got to mitigate the harm. | ||
| There's no perfect meat, but everybody's a coward. | ||
| Well, there's power and regular people and the people in big cities are terrified. | ||
| They're like, they scream. | ||
| That's what Zuby just tweeted out. | ||
| It was like, I mean, she's been traveling the U.S. | ||
| and he was like, man, these blue states, whatever they're talking about, the big cities, this is so much fear. | ||
| And it's really dampening my vibe. | ||
| It's messing with my vibe, man. | ||
| I want to go back to Florida and Texas. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| West Virginia, it's like, life is normal. | ||
| It's weird to see, uh, going to the casino, they ban masks because it's a casino. | ||
| And they're like, you can't wear masks. | ||
| But people still do it and they don't say anything. | ||
| But I'm like, it's kind of weird. | ||
| People are smoking in there. | ||
| West Virginia, man, we got freedom. | ||
| It really is great. | ||
| Freedom. | ||
| But yeah, freedom if you can keep it, I guess. | ||
| Freedom is scary, though, to an infantilized people. | ||
| And that's the problem is that, again, people in our stage, this is why I'm black people. | ||
| I know. | ||
| I'm not supposed to do that. | ||
| I'm not supposed to do that. | ||
| But I'm black peeled when it comes to, you know, libertarianism in general, because libertarianism would have worked when people were more rugged, more robust, more open to risk. | ||
| But now everybody's so infantilized. | ||
| It's like the muscle doge meme and the little jeans. | ||
| And it's like, It's kind of like, you know, back in the day, people were all just, they would take risks. | ||
| They would do what they needed to do. | ||
| Nowadays, it's like, someone called me a mean word online. | ||
| Now, if there's something you don't know, you just look it up. | ||
| That didn't exist before. | ||
| That's something we have, but I mean... | ||
| The search for the knowledge, like just doing something more than Google search, like going to your library and grabbing a book, that allowed you to uncover more. | ||
| But we don't have that now. | ||
| Now you can just look something up and people are so spoiled. | ||
| You have to ask people. | ||
| It was so much conversation was, hey, what is it? | ||
| Can you answer this? | ||
| There was a funny comic where it's like, it says then, and it's like two guys sitting down, and one guy goes, Hey, what year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated? | ||
| And the other one goes, I don't know, you wanna go to the library? | ||
| Not really. | ||
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Okay. | |
| And the panel below it's like, now, hey, what year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated? | ||
| And then he holds up his phone and, what was it? 1864? | ||
| I don't know the exact year, but he ultimately decided. | ||
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| If you haven't already, you must smash that like button. | ||
| It is your sworn duty! | ||
| And subscribe to the channel. | ||
| Go to TimCast.com, become a member, share the show with your friends. | ||
| Let's read some of these fancy messages. | ||
| Ooh, this one's good. | ||
| You know who says Malcolm Flex has the deep, gravely baritone voice that could serenade me into walking off a cliff if we were to use his powers for evil? | ||
| Pay me $5 and I will say whatever you want. | ||
| I will make a cameo page. | ||
| We can get this going right now. | ||
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| Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, April 14th. | ||
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So close! | |
| I am many things but I am not a historian nor am I good with specifics. | ||
| So... | ||
| Lua Coder says, Tim, why are we giving billions of dollars to foreign countries | ||
| when our economy is falling apart? These politicians do not care for Americans | ||
| and only value their overseas pet projects. | ||
| I completely agree. | ||
| That's why I think it's a challenge when it comes to Israel because it's like, ugh, do we let it just be peppered with rockets and then see all this mass death? | ||
| Should we be securing the face mask of those in an exodus before securing our own? | ||
| There's a good argument for not providing funding, not because it's Israel. | ||
| Here's the issue. | ||
| If you came to me and said, I think we should reduce all of our foreign spending until we can resuscitate America, and maybe even drop it down to near zero, or zero, I'd be like, hmm, we should have a discussion. | ||
| When AOC is like, I don't like Israel, I'm like, shut up! | ||
| Get out of here, stupid argument, you don't care about the economy. | ||
| She's just in this weirdo world of Israel bad. | ||
| Rashida Tlaib is like, it's a humanitarian crisis and they're war crimes. | ||
| And I'm like, you see, if you really cared about foreign spending, you'd be talking about all the other countries we're dumping money into as well. | ||
| Not just Israel. | ||
| They're just obsessed because they are lunatics. | ||
| They are obsessed with this stuff. | ||
| You know what really, really frustrates me more than anything? | ||
| Are the anti-Israel zealots and the pro-Israel zealots. | ||
| I'm like, dude, you can be pro, you can be anti, and we can have a conversation. | ||
| But I can't stand people like AOC who are like, screaming and they're like, you're dedicating your time and | ||
| energy to one country. | ||
| Calm down. Give me some principled opposition like this was right here. | ||
| We shouldn't give billions of dollars to foreign countries when our economy is failing. | ||
| That's a really good point, Lua Kota. You're correct. I agree with you. | ||
| AOC, I don't. I think she just hates Israel. | ||
| Yeah. A lot of these people weren't even alive when the conflict went on. | ||
| So they're just picking a side based on some skewed iteration of history that we've already said, let's not do. | ||
| White rat says nothing says strong political figure when they when they cry if they don't get their way. | ||
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It's true. | |
| Amazing. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| She thinks it'll work. | ||
| Irish Fish says, the left cult is not stupid. | ||
| They are crazy. | ||
| Also check out Neon Genesis Evangelion and Akira. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I never said that, though, did I? | ||
| No. | ||
| I voted for Obama in 2008, so technically, by default, Biden was involved in that, but I didn't vote for Biden. | ||
| I didn't vote this last election. | ||
| I couldn't bring myself to do it. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| I mean, also, I'd just moved, so it was a big challenge. | ||
| You want to know something that's really bad. | ||
| I don't want to cut that off, but you know, if Biden gets 25th or he dies or, you know, worse, you know, if something happens to Joe Biden, we won't get a President Trump because President Trump is going to be that same age. | ||
| I think the independents are going to look at it and say, do we really want to go down there? | ||
| So that's something. | ||
| I need young scientists. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I want like an ethical genius in office right now. | ||
| Well, tell your GOP to find them. | ||
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Mm-hmm. | |
| So I'm probably pronouncing this name wrong every time I do, because I don't know what it is. | ||
| Leg-ima-the-gay-in? | ||
| But he says— Sounds Latin. | ||
| Ian! | ||
| You're my bro. | ||
| But Israel isn't a theocracy. | ||
| Most Israelis are secular Jews. | ||
| You can be any religion or none. | ||
| The land was split into two states by the UN in 1948. | ||
| Israel was instantly invaded and defeated the invasion. | ||
| The history is highly complex. | ||
| It is very. | ||
| Is Israel not a Jewish state? | ||
| Lurch says, the last super chat is complete BS. | ||
| Israel was not invaded. | ||
| They waged a campaign of ethnic cleansing in 1947, and a handful of Arab soldiers came to try and stop it. | ||
| See, this is what happened. | ||
| Are they talking about the Six Day War? | ||
| Is that what it was? | ||
| There's so many different canons. | ||
| They did like a blitzkrieg against Egypt, because Egypt and Israel had had all this conflict, and there was like this blitzkrieg and then this takeover of land. | ||
| I think it was in 67, though. | ||
| That was longer, further away. | ||
| Alright, Fidel LeBlanc says, Had no idea until the other night that you're a weeb. | ||
| Love Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. | ||
| What's your favorite anime manga? | ||
| PS. | ||
| Love the show. | ||
| Watch every night. | ||
| I think I'm gonna go for the obvious and say Naruto. | ||
| Because when Naruto was in its manga run, Shonen Jump, every week I would pulp the scanlation. | ||
| 10 years. It's crazy when I think back, I'm like, there was a period where I was like, | ||
| oh, it's Wednesday now, I would pull up and I would read the latest chapter. | ||
| And then I'm like, and then it ended. I will say the last few chapters I thought were terrible. | ||
| Yeah. Are you familiar with the Naruto? Oh yeah, I'm very. | ||
| Yeah, I thought the Kaguya stuff went over the top and it was too nuts and wacky. And I'm like, | ||
| the problem is Kishimoto, he couldn't bring himself to kill off Madara. | ||
| Like, at some point, Madara was, he was hyped up, he was foreshadowed, and he was just the perfect villain. | ||
| And, you know, again, especially when, you know, the Five Kage Summon, he literally soloed the whole, the strongest ninja in the verse. | ||
| And how do you, how do you do that? | ||
| When he got the Sage powers, I was like, this is great. | ||
| But then when the Kaguya stuff started and he was like a pawn, I'm like, this is great because the aliens are here! | ||
| The Black Zetsu. | ||
| And then, you know, they expounded upon it with the Wars, though, but it's just like, it's tanking. | ||
| And, you know, it was just, he did too good. | ||
| Overwhelmingly, the series was really, really, really, really, really great. | ||
| Full Metal Alchemist, Brotherhood. | ||
| I mean, both series were really, really good. | ||
| And I got to give a shout out to FLCL back in the day. | ||
| Oh, I remember watching it on Adult Swim. | ||
| It's right. | ||
| What was it, six episodes? | ||
| It was, uh... Wacky show, limited run, total absurdism. | ||
| They tried making sequels to it, they just don't work. | ||
| But that is a classic, classic series. | ||
| And then I gotta say, these are really obvious, but Death Note... | ||
| I will give a shout out to that time I got reincarnated as a slime. | ||
| I think it's pretty good. | ||
| I stopped watching it a while ago. | ||
| And there's another show I can't remember the name of. | ||
| Maybe you guys in the chat can remind me of it. | ||
| It's about a dude. | ||
| They're in like a training class for like nights or something. | ||
| And then he's in a dungeon but he falls. | ||
| And then he's gonna die so he eats a monster but then becomes like a hybrid monster. | ||
| You saw that one? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| And then he's like going through the dungeon, leveling up, getting ultra strong and his arm gets chopped off or whatever. | ||
| And then when he finally escapes, he's super powerful and like a demon of some sort. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I can't remember the name of that show. | ||
| I watched that one. | ||
| That was really cool. | ||
| Yeah, it's odd. | ||
| It sounds like a setup for- it almost sounds eerily similar to the setup for Jujutsu Kaisen. | ||
| Like, from the eating of the finger and, you know, almost becoming a monster. | ||
| Again, just kind of drawing parallels. | ||
| My Hero Academia is pretty good. | ||
| It is, it's- But these are all like the really obvious cliche ones, to be honest. | ||
| Did you guys ever get into sword art online? | ||
| Sword Art Online it doesn't get good until the Gun Gale part even after that because I mean Kirito's he's a Gary Stu you know it's like he's perfect in every in every way in the series and even in the real world it's just like he's a kendo practitioner so he's got reaction skills and it's like You know, at some point, it lost luster. | ||
| I thought Cowboy Bebop, man. | ||
| Greatness. | ||
| It's such a bummer that it only got 26 episodes. | ||
| I guess it was too violent at the time and they didn't want to renew it. | ||
| But that show, the lore, they're saying they're going to expand the canon with Netflix, with the Netflix live action. | ||
| Yeah, I don't trust it either, especially because Edward's not in the trailer. | ||
| So I'm like, yo. | ||
| I don't trust it. | ||
| Is that the John Show? | ||
| The John Show movie? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's not a movie, it's a series. | ||
| Oh, a TV show. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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| Surge says, Democrats are trying to pass legislation to prevent people who self-direct IRA accounts from investing in anything but the stock market. | ||
| No more crypto or real estate investments. | ||
| This is scary. | ||
| Wow. | ||
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| Christopher Riley says, please read this. | ||
| Have Modern Renaissance Man on your show. | ||
| He would be really fun to watch on your show. | ||
| Well, OK. | ||
| We'll take a look. | ||
| We'll look him up. | ||
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All right. | |
| Let's see what we got. | ||
| Drew Richman says we need a Tim Pool the Science Fool shirt. | ||
| Bill Nye was the inspiration here. | ||
| Of course, a better rhyme would be needed. | ||
| Fool is not complimentary. | ||
| The science... | ||
| Can people make science cool? | ||
| There you go. | ||
| That works, yeah. | ||
| Well, I don't! | ||
| You do now, Tim. | ||
| Shadi Viceroy says, I work in the solar industry and the process for PV arrays is very interesting, photovoltaic. | ||
| Especially the DC to DC link battery systems are super cool. | ||
| Also, the inverters switch IGBTS for DC to AC after being broken up through a sine filter. | ||
| I have no idea what that means. | ||
| Sounds cool. | ||
| Science. | ||
| A lot of people do. | ||
| I learned that from watching Rogan's podcast. | ||
| He'd have these geniuses on and they'd be talking to him. | ||
| He'd just sit there and listen and not understand anything they said. | ||
| But he's like, but it's getting recorded. | ||
| I can either watch it later or there's a bunch of people that know what he's talking about. | ||
| This is a good Great Gateway podcast. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| Peter Provenzano says, Tim, the U.S. | ||
| is buying the Iron Dome to defend the air bases in Guam, Japan, South Korea. | ||
| We basically paid for the R&D for the defensive weapon. | ||
| In South Korea, it's called THAAD. | ||
| THAAD? | ||
| Yeah, I forgot what it stands for. | ||
| Aerial Defense, maybe? | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| And there are protests against it. | ||
| They're worried that it'll increase the tensions between the North and the South. | ||
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| When I was there, there were, like, signs saying, like, no THAAD in South Korea. | ||
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| Interesting. | ||
| All right, let's see what we got here. | ||
| Justin Bell says, as fall comes in, I will be able to see Three Mile Island from my front porch. | ||
| That sounds cool. | ||
| Derek Jones says, Ian, I have an MS and wrote a thesis on horizontal gene transfer. | ||
| HGT is the non-sexual transfer of genetic material, e.g. | ||
| DNA, RNA, between organisms. | ||
| You've been conflating it with other phenomena. | ||
| I'll tweet DM you good sources. | ||
| I'm a fan of what y'all do. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| Very cool. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| Oh yeah, have you studied the gene translations much? | ||
| Lateral and horizontal gene translations? | ||
| Not near as much. | ||
| I haven't delved into that one. | ||
| When you start getting into the pairing and translating, transcripting and all that, that's where you literally... Complicated. | ||
| BN says even nuclear isn't as uncommon as you're making it sound. | ||
| In the US, we have 56 nuclear power plants operating across 28 states. | ||
| And maybe we should have... | ||
| 112 operating off of 56 states. | ||
| Maybe we can have 3 million good ones in our pockets encased in carbon glass. | ||
| Little tiny ones. | ||
| Well, I was reading we had solid, you saw the solid state battery thing like several months ago or last year or whatever. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| They had a breakthrough in solid state batteries, which are extremely energy dense. | ||
| So it's like your phone could last 10 days off one charge or something like that. | ||
| But isn't crazy. | ||
| I was about to say isn't the downside of anything solid state is that it dies almost like instantaneously and at random like you know when the solid state sales go out like they're done. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know anything about it. | ||
| That was kind of like a push against going from just hard disk drives to solid state because again solid state drives you know there's a finite amount of charges that can pass through and they just eventually become non-functional where it's hard disk you can manually extract the data from it. | ||
| Captain says, Tim, you keep praising Thomas Massie because he has spicy tweets, but he won't help pass anything in Congress. | ||
| He voted against the Trump wall three times with every Dem. | ||
| He voted against Trump at every turn, including USMCA. | ||
| He also voted against Lauren Boebert's pro-2A leg. | ||
| Good criticism. | ||
| I will accept that, and I will look more into it. | ||
| But that's a good point. | ||
| Mostly, it's like I see Thomas Massie standing up and saying a lot of things. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| We'll take a deeper look, that's a fair point. | ||
| Should have been doing that in the first place. | ||
| You know what we need? | ||
| We need more pets in Congress. | ||
| I want to see them bringing in their dogs and their cats. | ||
| Humanize that, yeah. | ||
| It's all positive until the progressive sick a Doberman on somebody across the aisle. | ||
| That would be exciting, if nothing else. | ||
| Oh yeah, certainly. | ||
| I was thinking of Tom smashing this farm, that's what made me think of it. | ||
| Oh yeah, yeah, you can bring some goats in. | ||
| It'd be awesome. | ||
| Dave VD says, just here to shout out my amazing girlfriend Hannah Wallace and her album she released on Spotify called Learn to Love Me. | ||
| It'll leave you speechless! | ||
| What? | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| Nice job, Hannah. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Alex R says the difference between Soviet and American reactors is how to slow down neutrons. | ||
| Soviets use graphite, we use water. | ||
| Slowing neutrons increases the chance for fission. | ||
| Chernobyl occurred because graphite won't boil like water and it sprayed graphite radioactive all in the air and yeah, it was really bad. | ||
| CJ says, as a former reactor operator, I love the enthusiasm, but this discussion is making my eyes bleed. | ||
| Love the show. | ||
| When the radioactive Florbo particle meets the Zombo, and then they collide, splitting into 17 quarks, the quarks start spinning, creating a time dilation, just to say science things. | ||
| The leptons and fermions. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Start jumping, and then when they jump, it generates isoelectricity, Let's just say words. | ||
| Spinners, half spinners, full spinners. | ||
| Speaking about all that, and I don't know the details, but Jack keeps on telling me about it like CERN. | ||
| Apparently something big is happening with CERN, so that might be interesting. | ||
| In 2012 it did. | ||
| I'm big into excitons. | ||
| That's a cool particle. | ||
| You're going to have to lecture me on this for sure. | ||
| That's how you make antimatter. | ||
| Corn5656 says, Hey Tim, been watching since the beginning of Tomcat's IRL and y'all have inspired me to get in shape. | ||
| It allowed me to value my life choices and kick myself in gear. | ||
| Ian is the best guru. | ||
| Skulls for the skull throne. | ||
| Um, I tell you this, man. | ||
| If you're not in shape, and then you get in shape, the feeling is so amazing, you don't know what you're missing out on. | ||
| Like, always feeling good. | ||
| I gotta say, Flex, I've been looking at your ripped arms. | ||
| What's your what's your? | ||
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| Oh, God, look, let's just say I'm probably one of the lucky few that won | ||
| genetic lottery of not having very many myostatin. | ||
| So I don't lose muscle. | ||
| And I gained a lot of this during a longer best football career. | ||
| But honestly, I would say for anybody that wants to, you know, at least build respectable arms, high volume. | ||
| Volume really is king, and if you don't go too high... Low reps? | ||
| I'd actually go higher on the reps only because, again, you don't want to go too high on weight. | ||
| You don't want to tear something. | ||
| When you say high volume, what do you mean exactly? | ||
| Like lots of rep sets, sometimes rest-pause sets. | ||
| The final number needs to be as big as possible. | ||
| Not so much having super dense rep sets. | ||
| Just make sure that you get to a certain high amount. | ||
| Freedom Thoughts says, watched your segment on dating. | ||
| Story you read sounds a lot like my situation. | ||
| Very few matches, and when I do, they rarely message back. | ||
| I've had a handful of no-shows. | ||
| Rural living, so the only place is the bar. | ||
| Don't want that. | ||
| So there's this viral post from the other day where this woman, she's 33, she said, | ||
| I was trying to help my brother who's 31 date. | ||
| He was having a problem with online dating and I said, you must be doing something wrong. | ||
| So I'll take your profile, I'll put your pictures up, I'll set it up, and then I'll send out | ||
| some messages to get things started for you and show you how to talk to women because | ||
| clearly you must be doing something wrong. | ||
| Then she said, I'm totally depressed now. | ||
| There's no matches. | ||
| There's no responses. | ||
| Women won't talk to me at all. | ||
| I don't understand what I'm doing wrong or why it's happening. | ||
| How can men deal with this? | ||
| This is a nightmare. | ||
| For women, you get a response every time you send a message out. | ||
| You get massive amounts of matches. | ||
| You can go through all the matches and I'm like, wow. | ||
| You know, I think men don't understand how women have it. | ||
| Women don't understand how men have it. | ||
| But I do think men understand a little bit better how women have it than women understand how men have it. | ||
| Yeah, that's just my perspective. | ||
| Maybe I'm wrong. | ||
| But I do think it's fascinating when you get these feminists saying, like, men have it so, so much better than women. | ||
| And I'm like, man, five times the homelessness and five times the suicide. | ||
| You know, 98% of combat death. | ||
| Look, everybody's got good things and bad things, but I think perspective is important. | ||
| And I think the issue is, one of the ways I've explained it is, men have no value when they're young. | ||
| They have no status, no strength, they're not adults, they don't have muscle mass, so there's like very little they can do in terms of lifting stuff or construction or planning things. | ||
| So they're just considered less valuable. | ||
| Women are prime value, according to evolutionary biology, because they can have kids. | ||
| And I'm not saying it's a good thing. | ||
| I think, you know, we as a society have evolved beyond just being like we're baser, you know, just reproducing animals. | ||
| But what happens then is we still have these tendencies from evolutionary biology that we overprotect women because they have higher value | ||
| than men and then we undervalue men because they can't do much for | ||
| society based on again evolutionary biology. So things start to invert | ||
| around 30 when men all of a sudden have wealth and status and career | ||
| and women you know are no longer in their prime years for having kids. | ||
| These are things that I think are bad we should consider. | ||
| If you want to take the feminist approach and be like, women shouldn't be treated this way, you got it. | ||
| Men shouldn't be treated this way either. | ||
| So that means we need to make sure that younger men are getting a better shot at things and being treated well. | ||
| And women, as they get older, are being treated well. | ||
| Everybody has equal opportunity. | ||
| However, there are natural tendencies because of human biology. | ||
| And that what happens in dating? | ||
| I think the data from OkCupid was that something like the top 10% of men are getting 80% of the women. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Women don't respond to average men. | ||
| They have no interest in doing so and it makes sense. | ||
| If every guy messages every woman they can, the woman can scroll through and look for the best looking guy and be like him and ignore everybody else. | ||
| Men don't have that option. | ||
| And I've got to pick up litter again. | ||
| Men have to be the hunters, the gatherers, the forgers, and it's a zero sum game. | ||
| You know, if you don't have a woman, then it's not like you're, you know, a new woman is created for you. | ||
| If you get a woman, then that means that's the one woman that another guy is not going to get the date. | ||
| So it's, you know, the competition is much higher. | ||
| I kind of, kind of treat it like a video game, man. | ||
| Online dating is crazy. | ||
| It's broken. | ||
| Yeah, it doesn't work. | ||
| Not right. | ||
| I have no luck online dating, but when I meet women, I have insane. | ||
| I mean, it's just, it's easy. | ||
| Stick to that. | ||
| Well, it's the vibe, you know, you can't get that in a picture. | ||
| It's not that. | ||
| It's that when you go out to an event, a bar, a market, wherever, where you naturally meet people. | ||
| People are walking around and it's fairly 51% men, I mean, 51% women, 48% men. | ||
| And let's say you're at like an amusement park or you're at a music venue and then you see a woman and you start having a conversation. | ||
| Yeah, it's because you're like the guy there. | ||
| You go up and say, hey, how you doing? | ||
| And then she's like, cool. | ||
| And you vibe. | ||
| Online dating, literally every single guy is screaming at the top of their lungs I want a girlfriend all at the same time and the women are | ||
| just like, uh, you let's get out of here. | ||
| So you have no chance to even say hello. Right? So online, that's why they did Bumble women message | ||
| first. And so I think that's a smarter move because then men don't spam message women. And | ||
| the issue then still is though the OkCupid data that, you know, ugly, ugly and average women | ||
| still try and message attractive guys. | ||
| They go high, and they go high, and unfortunately, we go low. | ||
| I hate to say that, but... All right, Grayson Resident says, Tim, as an investor, please check your facts. | ||
| Tesla earned $788 million last quarter. | ||
| Regulatory credits excluded. | ||
| Good point. | ||
| Well, take that into consideration, everyone else, and then Google it, because I was just saying something I read in an article. | ||
| I'm not well-versed on the Tesla stuff. | ||
| Dutch R. Jan says, Physicist here. | ||
| Most NG turbines burn gas directly in the turbine like a jet engine. | ||
| Wow! | ||
| No water needed. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Helium nuke is 2P2N. | ||
| Hydrogen is just Pd versus H fusion is easier as it needs to make less N. CO2 is what plants eat. | ||
| The world is getting greener. | ||
| Well, there you go. | ||
| And that's kind of what I said again, you know, carbon and carbon dioxide. | ||
| Is it really a problem? | ||
| Because we have a system, human, human body exchange, carbon dioxide plants feed off of it. | ||
| You know, they produce oxygen. | ||
| We, you know, it's a cycle. | ||
| Nature heals itself. | ||
| Here's, here's a good and a good, interesting and new question. | ||
| Rudy C. Winslow says, Ian, what are you, what's your opinion on rights? | ||
| Do you believe they are granted to us by God? | ||
| I'm just kidding. | ||
| Don't answer it. | ||
| That's a joke. | ||
| OurFamilyVideo says, I love you guys, but technology isn't really within your scope, looks at Ian. | ||
| Please try to get IsaacArthurSFIA. | ||
| You could have amazing discussions on science and futurism, a truly epic crossover. | ||
| Yeah, I'm gonna agree with you. | ||
| I'm kind of a guy that knows a little bit about a lot of different stuff, and I want to highlight the really important things in society. | ||
| So sometimes I get a little excited and talk about it a little bit more than I'm, you know, I can't fault you for that. | ||
| I'm the same way. | ||
| Again, it's kind of a jack-of-all-trades kind of deal, unfortunately. | ||
| Something just goes lacking sometimes, or sometimes you're not as well-versed because you're spreading finite time on a bunch of different topics. | ||
| I try to know enough about it that if I sit down with an expert, I know what they're talking about. | ||
| You can hold your own, at the very least. | ||
| DJ Madero says, Tim, Sour Patch Lids, and Ian, I once had a super chat that asked you to read Arthur C. Clarke's 3001, specifically the Sources and Acknowledgements, Chapter 7, debriefing. | ||
| It talks about vacuum energy and what it means, it also ties into Stargate. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Vacuum energy. | ||
| Zero point energy. | ||
| The Schwarzschild proton. | ||
| It's Nassim Harriman's paper about quantum fluctuation, vacuum fluctuation. | ||
| Every proton in the universe is two protons revolving around each other at the speed of light. | ||
| And every proton, everything he's calculated, like done away with the strong force. | ||
| And if you're if you want to, I think he's basically solved Einstein's field equation of like a unifying field theory. | ||
| It's called the Schwarzschild proton. | ||
| Vacuum energy. | ||
| We're going to get our energy from the vacuum. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Like the villain in, um, The Incredibles. | ||
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| Uh, what was his name? | ||
| Syndrome. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| Neo Ritter says, you need to watch Legend of the Galactic Heroes. | ||
| Anime about two protagonists in diametrically opposed government systems. | ||
| One, a dictatorship. | ||
| The other, democracy. | ||
| Watch the OG OVA first. | ||
| You see, have you read Death Note or seen it? | ||
| I got into it at some point, but I think when Elle and Light Med... Spoiler alert. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| No, it's fine. | ||
| We can spoil it. | ||
| It's a 20-year-old show. | ||
| What are the rules on spoilers? | ||
| I don't know, but when Elle and Light Med, that was kind of where I just got... It was like, holy crap. | ||
| Oh, dude, it's such a good show. | ||
| You know Death Note, right? | ||
| Yeah, I've seen a few episodes. | ||
| You get a notebook, and then you write someone's name in it, and they'll die as you say it, as long as it's within the realm of possibility. | ||
| So this dude basically says he'll start watching the TV and then writing down the names of all these criminals. | ||
| And if he doesn't give a reason, they have a heart attack because he wants the world to know that criminals are dying of a heart attack. | ||
| It's not a coincidence. | ||
| And then L is this world famous detective trying to track him down. | ||
| But I bring it up because there is a new one shot with Donald Trump in it. | ||
| There is a Donald Trump, there's a Death Note comic after the series where some kid gets a hold of it and then uses the dark web or something to auction off the Death Note. | ||
| Now that everyone knows what it is, Donald Trump offers like an obscene amount of money for it, like 50 trillion or something, because he doesn't want other countries to get it. | ||
| Literally Donald Trump is in it. | ||
| What more could you want? | ||
| Got it. | ||
| We needed it. | ||
| going to spoil it actually. It is relatively new and you should read it because it's hilarious | ||
| and it's like it's a good comic and Trump's in it. There you go. And you can see how it | ||
| plays out. It's interesting. | ||
| What more could you want? | ||
| Yeah. Donald Trump anime. All that good stuff. | ||
| Got it. We need it. We needed that Trump anime that never came. | ||
| Poofy says Malcolm is literally swole doge meme. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| Can we get a pan over here? | ||
| There you go. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| You got it. | ||
| This ain't even my QB second weight. | ||
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| Did you play all over the linebackers? | ||
| Linebackers and tight end. | ||
| Although, again, tight end, I actually got phased out at some point because we wanted the new sleek, fast models that run all the routes and catch. | ||
| Did you play left, right, and center linebackers? | ||
| Just move around? | ||
| Um, pretty much just inside linebacker, but also when I started out with the outside linebacker, so designated past Russia, basically. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Harvey Slayer says, we need journalists like you to create online profiles on every state federal politician and record their political stances, votes, scandals, and overall performance. | ||
| The people need to be better informed so they can hold them accountable. | ||
| Is there a website that can show you all their votes? | ||
| I'm pretty sure there is. | ||
| It should be a blockchain. | ||
| Well, I think the issue is that it does exist. | ||
| I think you can go to, like, congress.gov and stuff, or BillTracker, but they're not easy. | ||
| I want to be able to see, like, a picture of everyone in Congress, and you can, like, click them, and then it says, latest votes, and it's really easy to see. | ||
| Latest bills, latest proposals, latest votes, latest news articles. | ||
| And then when they get voted out, we put them into, like, you know... Hall of Fame? | ||
| Not Hall of Fame, just like historical record. | ||
| You can go back and look at different politicians and what they voted on and it stores it. | ||
| I think we just need an easy, streamlined system that does that. | ||
| Like a smart contract blockchain. | ||
| And we would embed C-SPAN so that like even when you go there, you can see active voting. | ||
| And then we would have staff who watch it and then enter it in in real time. | ||
| I sure wish we could get Joe Biden's old voting records unsealed. | ||
| That would be nice to see. | ||
| Are they actually sealed? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Some of the nice colorful stuff. | ||
| I'd love that. | ||
| Did he seal them or were they always sealed? | ||
| Ooh, that's actually a question. | ||
| I'm not 10% sure. | ||
| Political Defiant got me. | ||
| He says, name of the anime you spoke of. | ||
| It's Arifureta. | ||
| From Commonplace to World's Strongest. | ||
| Arifureta. | ||
| I'm pronouncing it probably terribly. | ||
| Also, if we do go towards nuclear, how do we deal with waste? | ||
| In fact, what should we do with all the waste? | ||
| Futurama. | ||
| Futurama it to the sun? | ||
| Tim, Ian, Lids, and Malcolm, have a great one. | ||
| Yes, launch it into the sun. | ||
| I guess the nuclear batteries, that's what I've been thinking about lately. | ||
| Yeah, nuclear waste would be great. | ||
| I mean, that nuclear battery idea is like, you know, that's mind blowing. | ||
| It kind of does away with centralized power grids that we'll all have our own batteries. | ||
| But that's the problem though. | ||
| It decentralized it. | ||
| Where are we trending towards? | ||
| Everything people, you know, the powers that be will never allow that to happen. | ||
| And you need funding to make it happen. | ||
| M. Shiba says Obama was in the manga Air Gear as John Omaha. | ||
| But I'm pretty sure in the Death Note one-off, it's literally Donald Trump. | ||
| Call Donald Trump in the presidential office saying, I want to buy the Death Note. | ||
| You know, I'll just tell you this. | ||
| He doesn't get it. | ||
| Wait, don't spoil it. | ||
| Oh no, I think he does. | ||
| I think he does get it. | ||
| I don't remember, actually. | ||
| All I know is it would be amazing if they actually did a one-shot where it's Trump with the death note. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| Oh man, that would be a great skit where Trump's sitting there like by himself in the Oval Office and he's like, Joe Biden is so awful. | ||
| I'm going to write his name. | ||
| Hillary Clinton should be in prison. | ||
| That's her. | ||
| What's got to happen is- And then he can manifest things other than just dying. | ||
| He gets the death note and like lightning strikes and he cleaves into two realities. | ||
| One where he becomes evil with the death note and one where he becomes just. | ||
| Dude, speaking of the two realities, man, I'm still mad that, you know, somewhere off in prime timeline Earth, President Alex Jones is sending his Secretary of Defense, Michael Malice, to negotiate a treaty with China. | ||
| And we're missing that. | ||
| That's prime Earth? | ||
| That's probably prime Earth. | ||
| I'm sorry, we're clowniverse443. | ||
| So yeah, we are the clowniverse. | ||
| I don't know, I think we were in Earth Prime, and then the Large Hadron Collider turned on in 2016 and caused Earth Prime to shake and jostle between some alternate realities. | ||
| And I'll tell you this, it wasn't that there was a clean jump to another reality, it was like all of a sudden a bunch of realities slammed together. | ||
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| and random particles mix so all of a sudden it's like you have a little bit of random everything Republicans | ||
| become Democrats Democrats become Republicans Trump gets elected | ||
| I duck duck go 2012 CERN and the first thing that came up was sorry but we | ||
| accidentally ended the world in 2012 there you go oh that's crazy | ||
| I'm sorry, but think about this. | ||
| What if everybody's actually living in pocket dimensions and Democrats are actually living in a dimension where COVID really is as bad as they think and we're in like the real and we're like in a different dimension where COVID's actually not that bad. | ||
| You know, we're all free and then like what if there's like this whole The holofractographic universe? | ||
| That's another Nassim Harriman theory. | ||
| This guy's a genius. | ||
| We should do a spoof of What If? | ||
| Have you guys seen What If? | ||
| On Disney? | ||
| Oh yeah, I saw it. | ||
| The watchers watching all these different universes? | ||
| We should make a spoof version of like, What If, but real life. | ||
| In this universe, Donald Trump never won the election. | ||
| Infinite. | ||
| You have infinite material there too. | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| That actually would be really fun to do a real life political. | ||
| Like what if, what if Joe Biden didn't win and like Tulsi Gabbard became president? | ||
| Reenact it. | ||
| Put up a fan poll each week and you know, what episode would you like to see? | ||
| And then like give them options. | ||
| They choose which one. | ||
| We'll do a, what if Ian Crosland started TimCast and then hired Tim Pool? | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That would be tasty. | ||
| But it would be funny because you would literally be just wearing the same thing as me and talking like me. | ||
| And I'd be sitting there talking about DMT and stuff. | ||
| But that would be surreal. | ||
| That would still be surreal. | ||
| My mind would be blown. | ||
| Alright everybody, if you haven't already, give us a like, subscribe to the channel, and go to TimCast.com because that member segment's coming up maybe around 11pm or so. | ||
| But thanks for hanging out. | ||
| Share the show with your friends if you like it. | ||
| You can follow me at Timcast basically everywhere. | ||
| You can follow the show for cool clips at Timcast IRL. | ||
| Malcolm, you want to shout out anything? | ||
| Oh, yeah, certainly. | ||
| Um, first of all, obviously, go follow me. | ||
| I'm return of the flex on Twitter. | ||
| And also while you're at it, visit flex your success.com. | ||
| And that's where you can find me on other social media. | ||
| If you I do all kinds of different coaching advisement, you know, we can you can fill out a form if you want to get into e commerce and talk about that kind of stuff. | ||
| And also, we're starting a decentralized network on Telegram of content proliferation started by Elle. | ||
| And she goes by a name that's a little bit unclean, so I can't really say it on here. | ||
| But great, great person. | ||
| We've got so many personalities that are too spicy for the world. | ||
| I think we're up to like 30 something and we're growing and we're just spreading memes, information, dank content. | ||
| Send it wherever you want and get your information unfiltered. | ||
| So it's like the coolest Twitter timeline that you've ever been a part of, not on Twitter. | ||
| That's awesome because we're building up the Thetaverse right now and that's something that could integrate into that system. | ||
| I would love it. | ||
| Excellent. | ||
| All my yes. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Hey guys, love you. | ||
| Thank you for coming. | ||
| Thank you for keeping me honest in the comments every day. | ||
| Looking forward to seeing you again tomorrow. | ||
| Have a great day. | ||
| Thanks, Ian. | ||
| And you guys all know that you are, in fact, contractually obligated to click the like button when you watch our stream, right? | ||
| All of you. | ||
| We have 10,000, but we had like 33,000. | ||
| I'm just kidding. | ||
| It's fine. | ||
| So hit a like if you like it, because it does help in the algorithm. | ||
| And if you would share it, we would appreciate that as well, because you know they're all out to get us. | ||
| Anyway, you guys are welcome to follow me at Sour Patch Liz on Twitter, although I have achieved my goal of surpassing Sour Patch Kids in numbers, and I can die happy now. | ||
| Thanks, guys. | ||
| Don't rest on your laurels. | ||
| I know, I know. | ||
| We will see all of you over at TimCast.com. | ||
| Thanks for hanging out. |
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