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March 8, 2022 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool

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Timcast IRL - Wheat Prices Up 68% Signaling INSANE Inflation, Gas Prices At RECORD High w/Gothix

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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm JamesBl0nde… see ya out there gamers!
		Gas prices have just shattered their all-time record high.
		There's reports coming out of California that gas is over $7 a gallon, so, uh... Ouch.
		A lot of people, of course, are blaming Joe Biden, and there are reasons to blame him, I absolutely think so, especially with U.S.
		exporting of oil, with Keystone Pipeline, with the... Just recently, in the past couple of weeks, Biden shut down new Oil and gas leases for climate change policy, and then many of these Democrat personalities come out and say, it's not Biden's fault the gas is too high, it's Russia's fault.
		Okay, well, it is going to be Russia's fault a little bit too, because the U.S.
		is still importing oil from Russia, and now there's, they say, bipartisan support to stop buying oil from Russia.
		And if that's the case, and it does make sense considering the war, you can't be buying oil from a country that you're condemning while funding or providing weapons to Ukrainians, effectively playing both sides.
		If we stop importing oil from Russia, oh, those prices are going to get really bad.
		So this should be interesting.
		We have a lot of war news just because that seems to be what's happening.
		The interesting thing I'm seeing about the war right now is that Russia is recruiting foreign fighters.
		Ukraine is recruiting foreign fighters.
		It kind of seems strange that they're acting like this isn't an international conflict when Latvia has voted to allow their citizens to enter the conflict on the side of Ukraine.
		Russia is bringing in Syrians.
		I'm like, Okay, maybe it's still just mid-tier regional conflict, but NATO is now saying they're green-lighting fighter jets to be given to the Ukrainians.
		So I'm kind of like, if NATO's giving them weapons, and citizens of NATO countries are going in to help, you know, fight in this war, at what point do we just say NATO has engaged the conflict?
		I don't know.
		We'll talk about all that stuff, and probably a bunch of other stuff too.
		Joining us to discuss that is Gothix.
unidentified		Hi.
		Hello.
		Hi, guys.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		How's it going?
unidentified		Thanks for having me here.
unidentified		I love your castle.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Oh, appreciate it.
unidentified		Pretty cool.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And who are you?
unidentified		I ask myself that every day when I look in the mirror.
		I am a content creator, Twitch streamer to YouTuber.
		I used to do gaming content, and now I just rant about things on the internet.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Wonderful.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let's rant about things together.
unidentified		All right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We got Seamus.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I am Seamus Coghlan of Freedom Tunes.
		I make animated cartoons.
		We upload a new cartoon every Thursday, and we're going to be uploading one tomorrow as well because we're getting real crazy.
unidentified		All right.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		By the way, last Thursday's cartoon was incredible.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Thank you so much.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		What's up, everybody?
		Ian Crossland over here, iancrossland.net.
		Talk to you soon.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		And I'm also here in the corner pushing buttons.
		I'm going to enjoy this conversation because this is a very sharp young lady, and I love her input.
		Let's get going.
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		Let's read this first story from The Hill.
		Stocks plunge as rising oil wheat prices shake market.
		Stocks fell sharply Monday as the economic fallout of Russia's war in Ukraine rattled investors.
		The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell almost 800 points Monday to close the loss of 2.4%.
		Companies in the finance, travel, entertainment, retail, and construction industries fell sharply Monday as skyrocketing oil prices raised fears of an economic slowdown while energy companies rallied on the prospect of higher prices.
		That's kind of messed up, but, uh, yeah.
		U.S.
		gas prices average hits new record high, the previous being set in 2008.
		So, uh, I saw some people in the chat, they were saying doom cast IRL.
		Uh, are we just, uh, are we just preaching the apocalypse?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I mean, you didn't make any of this up.
		Yeah.
		It's not like you invented these stories.
		I think it is a question of what you choose to focus on, and I think sometimes the show can get a little bit dark, but this is all true.
		It's valid to talk about it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't think it's the apocalypse.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think it is definitely the economy crumbling, like the Federal Reserve's fiat currency system is just coming to an end or some sort of transmutation.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Or a great reset?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I don't think it's the apocalypse either.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Well, whether or not it's a great reset is up to you, Tim.
unidentified		It's good to be aware though, right?
		It's good to be aware of it.
		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't know, I feel like when you go on major news sources, I'm not just the only one talking about it, it's what everyone is talking about.
		When I look at what's happening on Twitter, when I go to cultural websites, sure, they're talking about other stuff too, but somehow this stuff still finds its way into the mix.
		It's not just a movie, something's happening politically that involves it.
		And I wonder if the issue is, because we talked about this before with GamerGate, That because you can't write video game news every single day, there's only so many stories you can write about a new video game, they inject politics into it.
		So it could be that's why politics has become so prominent, but I kind of feel like, I don't know, Russia invaded a country and there's like war happening, so...
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Well, I think it's possible that maybe we're just talking about this before everyone else was.
		I think that we've been talking about this probably longer than a lot of these other people.
		When we started to see the news articles come out that were kind of in agreement with what we were saying, we were kind of like, oh, look at this.
		This is really happening.
		Other people really think this is great to be aware of.
		And I feel like it's part of keeping people informed.
		Just try to stay positive, I guess.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think it was Alex Jones, for sure.
		Maybe the first time he came in with Michael Malice, it might have been the second time, and he was like, it's Klaus Schwab.
		Klaus Schwab's the guy.
		And I was like, I never heard this name before.
unidentified		What's that?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Who's that?
		And he started telling us, and he told us.
		And now it's to the point where JP Sears releases a video four or five days ago about the great reset, Klaus Schwab, BlackRock, to the heart of the matter.
		Half a million views, and it's mainstream now.
		So that's a good sign.
		Yeah, Lindsay's on it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		James Lindsay just keeps posting the same paintbrush meme of Klaus Schwab saying something stupid.
		Have you seen those?
		Yeah.
		You know, look, there's some billionaire saying that World War III is coming.
		I guess we'll talk about that.
		Everybody drink!
		I said it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Drink something healthy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm wondering if when you look at like the price is skyrocketing inflation
		there some articles are warning inflation could hit double digits and I'm kind of like by what metric because if we're
		going by the Same calculation as the 80s
		Inflations in the double digits So it kind of feels like if you did want a great reset a
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		war is a great way to go about doing it Is it possible that the pandemic wasn't quite enough for it?
		Because it felt like that was a really strong step toward that.
		I don't know.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I don't.
unidentified		I think they're trying to destroy the economy intentionally.
		And I think inevitably we're.
		Yeah, I would say double digits for inflation.
		I could definitely see that happening.
		And I think that the pandemic was probably something that they were using to start it.
		And I think a lot of people are falling off of that bandwagon now.
		So now War!
		Yay!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But the media says you're a conspiracy theorist for saying that, even though, wasn't it, didn't Klaus Schwab write a book called COVID-19 and the Great Reset or something?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah!
unidentified		These people are out in the open, and that's the thing.
unidentified		It's like, they're so open about what their plans are, and you're still labeled a conspiracy theory for just literally repeating what they're saying.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's the crazy thing.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		No, exactly.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Because who are they convincing?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Are they like people just trapped in the Matrix who believe it, I guess?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		There are some people, but at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter whether you believe it.
		What matters is whether you're willing to go along with what they're saying.
		I'm not sure that they're really interested in true believers so much as they're interested in you not saying anything when you do see through the narrative.
		I think they would be fine if no one believed them, but everyone was too afraid to say anything.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Man, how conspiratorial should we get?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
		I mean, look, what does conspiracy theory even mean anymore?
		There are certain examples of conspiracy theories which are like so completely over the line and insane sounding that you don't even really need to label conspiracy theory in order to understand that they're ridiculous, like when people start talking about flat earth.
		But then when it comes to things like the lab leak hypothesis, And it turns out that it's true.
		It's like, well, then the term conspiracy theory didn't even fit there.
		And so I find the term is almost always used either A, where it doesn't apply, or B, isn't needed.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I like the word conspiracy.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Like, can we just talk about conspiracies?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but hold on.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Conspiracy implies a criminal plot.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's why it's stupid.
		Like, hollow earth and flat earth is not a conspiracy.
		There's no cabal of elites who are like, we will make sure the earth is flat.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I think their argument is it's the cabal that convinces us that it's spherical when it's not.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I see.
		What do they say?
		That you're a globulist?
		That's what Flat Earthers call people.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Globulist?
unidentified		How is that?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Globulist.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Because they can't call you a globalist, because that's a different word.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		But it's gotten so twisted to the point where when I said there was no conspiracy between Donald Trump and Russia, I was a conspiracy theorist.
		When I said that the Russian government was not controlling the executive branch, I was a conspiracy theorist.
		Isn't that insane?
		It doesn't mean anything.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The New York Times won a bunch of awards, didn't they?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		For the Ukraine thing?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		For reporting on RussiaGate?
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Claiming that Donald Trump was secretly colluding with the Russians.
		I don't think they said that explicitly because if they did, there'd be bigger news.
		But they did investigations into Trump's ties with Russia, and they win awards.
		And everyone's like, oh, and they're all clapping.
		You're so smart.
		And then the Mueller report comes out, and it's like, none of that happened.
unidentified		You won awards for doing nothing.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well, none of them lose the awards, right?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Walter Durante didn't even lose his Pulitzer for covering up the Holodomor.
unidentified		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You know what I said?
		I'm like, the response from a lot of people, because Russiagate was wrong, they were like, well, they still did good reporting.
		And that's why they won the awards.
		And I'm like, listen.
		If I hire a guy to mow my lawn, and I go inside, and when I come outside, he mowed my neighbor's lawn, I'm gonna be like, sir, you worked really hard, you did a bang-up job, but that's not my grass.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So, you expect me to pay you?
		Nah, it's not happening.
		Like, they did the work, they just did the wrong work.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		So, I don't know what it is you want me to say, but... It's just, it's hilarious when the establishment gives itself awards.
		That's all I do.
		Anytime I see any of these ceremonies, I'm like, oh, you patented yourself on the back there?
		What a surprise!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but you know what's weird is that there used to be, that we used to have like a monoculture.
		We used to have one award, you know, we had all these award ceremonies and everyone was just like turning the TV on and watching, everyone turning the TV on and watching Super Bowl.
		Now it's like, you know, I was reading about Joe Biden's State of the Union having like the lowest ratings of any State of the Union in 30 years.
		And I'm like, yeah, it's because people are on the internet.
		You know, no one's watching on TV, but more importantly, a million, like one point something million people watched Stephen Crowder's version of the State of the Union, where he's correcting them.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And then we had like 750K VOD views on us.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Nice.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Drinking and mocking.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Drinking our way through, yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So you have a lot of people who don't like Joe Biden who would rather watch us make fun of him or correct him.
		And so basically you have all these different pockets of different cultural spheres of influence.
		And then, I don't know, culture war chaos?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but which brings us back to the exact reason why they need to use the term conspiracy theory so much because information is more widely accessible and they can't hide it from you, but they can make you embarrassed to repeat any of the information that you heard and that's what that labels for.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's so weird.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Yeah, it's just a deflection tactic.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Just don't care.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		What's the history of the word?
		If what you're saying is legitimately crazy, it doesn't matter whether you get called a conspiracy theorist.
		You sound crazy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Georgia Guidestones.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I'm not familiar.
		I've heard a little bit about them.
		I haven't looked into them too deeply.
unidentified		You just made a good point.
		I remember back in the day, I would watch alien shows.
		Conspiracy theory.
		Okay, cool.
		Like you used your brain to conclude whether or not something is true or not and you weren't ridiculed for it.
		But now you can't even come up with a theory for anything without being rescued.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		This is why.
		Can I respond to that really quickly?
		The reason is because when you're looking at ancient aliens, that's obviously ridiculous.
		People can look at that and dismiss it.
		But the only time they need to censor misinformation is when there's a chance some of it's true.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I was gonna say, how come Ancient Aliens on the History Channel gets to... I mean, seriously, it's some of the most racist stuff ever.
		Don't think about it.
		Ancient Aliens... I love you, Ancient Aliens.
		You're a fun show.
		But when you have, like, these white European professors sit down in front of a camera and say, there's no possible way South American indigenous could build structures like this.
		It had to be aliens!
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		That's so true!
		I'm like, oh my gosh.
		They're like, we just can't figure it out.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's like ancient Rome they'd concrete that could set underwater and they're like well, of course But those people in in South America.
		Nah, they couldn't have figured anything out It had the only logical explanation how they built things was aliens.
		I'm like, I'm like, how is that not very racist?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I got some information about conspiracy theories from Wikipedia.
		The term conspiracy theory is itself the subject of a conspiracy theory, which claims the term was popularized by the CIA in order to discredit conspiratorial believers, particularly critics of the Warren Commission, who was like studying the Kennedy assassination.
		Luke said that.
		Yeah, I heard that.
		Maybe he's who I heard it from.
		The CIA seeded the ideas of conspiracy theorists being a problem when people were trying to figure out what happened to Kennedy.
		And they were like, no, we just want to sweep it under the rug.
		They're all conspiracy theorists.
		Ignore them.
		And now the term is so crazy.
		Like you said, unless it's breaking a law, it's not really a conspiracy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Is it a conspiracy to believe that aliens built the Incan temples or something?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Only if it was against Incan law.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Right?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I'm sorry, I just got that.
		I think that you would argue that it was a conspiracy theory because if you were able to determine that ancient aliens were involved here, archaeologists could determine that too when they're covering it up.
		I think that's the theory.
		They don't want to let the people with alternative theories in, and so that's why they call it a conspiracy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's a different conspiracy though, right?
		The show is literally talking about, could aliens have drawn, what are they called, the Nazca lines?
		You know those things?
		Nazca, is that what it is?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Where it's like from the sky you can see these massive pictures that are what, like hundreds of feet long?
unidentified		So cool.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But from the ground, you can't see anything.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm like, maybe they had hot air balloons on.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		By the way, I want to make a point here, because you were talking about the Warren report.
		According to a Gallup poll, The majority of Americans disbelieve the official narrative on the JFK assassination to this day.
		Now, I don't really have a dog in this fight.
		I haven't looked too deeply into it.
		But in 1975, it was, I think, yeah, 81% of people said that they thought that there were more people involved in the assassination of JFK than were stated.
		So it's just interesting that in that case, you have the vast majority of people disbelieving the official narrative, but you're crazy if you're with them.
		It's just everyone else is crazy, but the 20% of people who are saying, yes, I believe the government, they're the ones with their heads on straight.
		I find that a little bit interesting.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I keep saying Georgia Guidestones because... Yeah.
		What it really seems to be if you're being charitable is that like in the 80s a bunch of rich people built these big stones in multiple languages that can perform a series of functions like there's like a sundial or something and like some astrological like there's like math or something I don't know.
		And then there's like rules.
		Well, they wanted to make sure that any humans who came after us would have access to certain basic knowledge.
		And that's why they're called the Guidestones.
		But one of the rules is that the population of the planet should never exceed 500 million.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I've heard of this.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So the conspiracy theory is that there are powerful global elites that want to purge, what is that, 7.6 billion people or something?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		To get us down to half a million.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Now I don't know if that's true, because it seems like the Guidestones, if you're being charitable, were just like, the height of the Cold War, people were scared there was going to be nuclear annihilation, so a bunch of rich people were like, let's build these big stones that do these things, and like, if we all die, then the people who come after us will like find them and be like, oh, we'll do that, I guess.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		The crazy thing is to say that populations should never exceed 500 million.
		That's so freakish!
		Like, what do you do when you hit 499 million?
		Like, you just start pulling out the axe?
		Like, what the heck?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
		Well, if you're an elite, I'm telling you this, you don't commit suicide, right?
		Other people have to die.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's craziness!
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's crazy.
		I agree with you completely.
		It's horrific.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Who built these things?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't know exactly.
unidentified		It was Ted Turner.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think Ted Turner was involved in it, wasn't he?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You better back that up.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		We don't do misinformation on this podcast.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So they exist.
		They're a real thing.
		And my explanation for why they were built is, I believe, the basic explanation for why they were built.
		But then the more conspiratorial idea is that there are people who want to adhere to its rules now to prevent any kind of mass extinction event.
		In which case, there are people who think they want to reduce the population of the planet, and then you get... Look, when you get the World Economic Forum, you know, some of the individuals involved with them advocating for Western intervention in Ukraine, which many people fear could trigger a nuclear conflict or a greater conflict, you're like, these Great Reset people sure do want a war.
		Maybe not all of them, I don't know, but enough of them.
		And that's kind of scary.
		You know, so you're going to get a lot more people who are going to believe these kinds of conspiracies, or who are going to believe there's some nefarious agenda.
		And then I'll put it this way.
		If you go to any regular... Actually, I'll start this way.
		There's a meme.
		It says, please do not feed the animals because they will become dependent.
		And, you know, so the meme then shows that and says, what's the difference between this and social programs?
		If you go to a human talking about deer population, Someone who knows, like who lives out in a rural area, and asks them, what happens when the deer population grows too large?
		They'll say, oh, it's a disaster.
		Disease starts spreading.
		They start decimating local, you know, plant populations.
		You get an imbalance in the ecosystem.
		So hunters need to go out and actually start culling the herd.
		Then ask somebody, what happens if there's too many people on the planet?
		And they'll say, I don't know.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Well, I don't know.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		So this idea that humans are comparable to deers here, or deer here, I would reject because as the world population has increased, overall poverty globally has decreased.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But that's actually my point.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		No, yeah, yeah, no, exactly.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		People are more capable of providing for themselves in finding creative solutions to scarcity than any animal is.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, the issue with, it's not just deer, but any large population, hogs for instance, it's not just decimating the environment, which I think humans do to a certain degree, it's also just the spread of disease.
		And then you also have the, what was it, the rat utopia experiment, where you end up with, what was it called?
		The beautiful ones?
		Yeah, but it wasn't called moral sync, is that what it's called?
		Behavioral sync.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Behavioral sync, yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Behavioral sync is one of the things that occurs.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Are you familiar with that?
unidentified		Never heard of it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So there was the rat utopia experiment put a bunch of rats and or mice like not and or rats or mice different experiments into a space with tons of food and water and they could never had to worry about food or water.
		And what happened was once they reached a certain population size, they started behaving in ridiculous ways.
		They started fighting each other.
		Some only groomed themselves.
		They like just basically their behavior started to degrade to the point where they wiped themselves out.
		And some of the mice or rats that were in the experiment were taken out and rescued and placed in regular populations, but retained the bad behaviors that ultimately destroyed the previous rat utopia.
		So there's two ways to look at it.
		If we are overpopulated, I'm saying if we are, some people think we're not.
		If we are, then we're gonna end up with mass pollution, we're gonna end up with serious disease, not necessarily poverty, but issues that will result in a collapse.
		If we are not overpopulated, But we are in overabundance.
		It's like either we go the retutopia route, where all of a sudden we have behavioral sync, we destroy ourselves morally, ethically, and functionally, and then cease to exist, or we overpopulate, we destroy our environment, and then choke ourselves to death on our own farts.
		Maybe that's a very pessimistic way of looking at things.
		But I'm referring specifically just, I'm not saying those are true to happen, I'm just saying in reference to the fact there's a major war breaking out, that there's great reset people who are advocating for expanding the war, I'm just making these points.
		Maybe that's their view or something.
unidentified		I don't think necessarily the world is overpopulated.
unidentified		I think the problem comes when, if it is overpopulated and people also don't have a goal or something to actually do, which is why whenever I see this push for like a government dependency and people just needing the government to protect them and save them and do everything for them, that's when I get worried because I'm like, okay, you're not actually doing anything to keep yourself, you know, you know what I'm trying to say?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think you make a really good point, which I'll add on to.
		I don't think we're in the rat utopia yet.
		The rat utopia will happen the moment all of us agree the government should do everything for us, because then you end up with the rats sitting around where the food and water was given to them.
unidentified		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So long as the rest of us are striving and have purpose and drive, we're resistant to that behavioral sync.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And also the ability to spread out, because the Rat Utopia experiment was all about being in an enclosed space.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		So if we can get off Earth, I think it's a big deal.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yes, getting off Earth.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But in the Rat Utopia, when there was space, they would still all go only in one side and densely pack in one small space.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's like the idea of cities.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We could spread out, but we don't because everyone wants to be by everyone else.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		I was going to say, I think my conclusion this far, based on all the chaos we've seen, is that I don't think that people can live properly in cities.
		That's been my conclusion.
		I'm like, I don't think that's healthy for people.
		And maybe that's based on our talk about the rat utopia experiments, but people aren't meant to live that close together.
unidentified		Yeah, I went to New York once.
		It was terrible.
		I want to add a caveat.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I hear what you're saying, but I would argue that people are not meant to live that close to each other without accountability.
		So historically, people lived in tribes where in many cases you were really right on top of one another, but people knew your face and they knew your name.
		So if you got out of line, that was going to be corrected very quickly.
		In cities, you're very close to other people, but there's this strange anonymity there.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I like to think of it this way.
		It's like the various states of matter.
		When you live out in a rural area, you are in a gaseous community.
		That means you as an individual can bounce around and do crazy stuff, freely moving around.
		As you move into more suburban areas, the amount you can move is less, so you're acting more like a liquid.
		And then when you live in cities, you're all stacked on top of each other, hard compressed, and you're stuck exactly where you are.
		What I mean by this is, We have a sphere of freedom, and the closer you get to someone else, the more you're compressing that sphere.
		So, for example, in New York, they pass crazy laws like you can't own guns, you can't have ammo, and you can't play drums in your house, for instance.
		Why?
		Because the noise would bother somebody and they would fight, and they're like, no, no, no, you can't play loud music.
		Out here in the middle of nowhere, you can shoot guns.
		Not only can you have the guns, you can shoot them and be very, very noisy, and nobody cares, because you have more space.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That could also explain why formation psychosis tends to appear with what you consider the liberal environment in the cities, because when you're so densely packed, information passes through you like a...
		Like, atomically, in a solid, you can fire current through it much faster than through a gas, because it's just got something to move through.
		It's not getting bounced off of.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's a really good point.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Basically, if you've got ten people all smashed next to each other, and then you tap one on the shoulder and say, you know, carrots are healthy, the information travels rapidly down the line because everyone conveys it to the other person.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Whereas, I mean, we don't even need to use the physics analogy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		If you live in a rural area and someone comes and knocks on your door and says, carrots are good for you, you have to get in your car and go drive to your neighbor's house and let them know, and that's very difficult relative to yelling out the window, hey Jim!
unidentified		What?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Carrots are good for you!
		Alright!
		That's it, right?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		No, no, it's true.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I mean, yeah, ideas travel and evolve more quickly in a more densely populated environment for better or for worse, because that's true for good ideas.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think for worse.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		It's good for bad ideas, yeah.
		I think generally for worse, because even if you start with a good idea, it can be warped and twisted into something else.
		And to be fair, I think you could argue that a bad idea could sort of be twisted into something better, but...
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's for worse because bad ideas travel really, really fast and need to be checked.
		And when something's traveling slowly, you have an opportunity for the truth to shut it down and then catch it as it's spreading.
		When you're in a city, you have a bad idea, it just ripples right through, travels halfway around the world before the truth gets strapped on its boots.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Same in crowds.
		If someone panics in a crowd, the entire crowd starts to move with that panic.
		That's similar to being in a city.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And for war.
		I just watched The Sum of All Fears.
		You guys ever see that movie?
unidentified		No.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Oh man, you guys gotta see it.
unidentified		It's good.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		When's it from?
		I don't know, 2004 or something.
		Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, some other people.
		And basically what happens is, some organization is trying to trigger a nuclear war between Russia and the U.S., and so a bomb goes off in Baltimore, and the U.S.
		is like, it had to have been Russia.
		Russia's like, it wasn't us, but the U.S.
		doesn't believe us.
		Yeah, it's been a while.
		No, hold on.
		Let me take my headphones off.
		on high alert. Then the president of the US goes, or the advisor says, Mr. President,
		Russia's just put all their defenses on high alert. And he's like, what? And he's like,
		get our fleets ready. Because he sees them reacting and then they both start escalating
		to the point. But then I guess, you know, like something happens. I don't want to spoil
		the movie. Well, I guess it's from 2004. So I'm going to spoil it.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		No, hold on. Let me take my headphones off.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So basically, Ben Affleck intervenes and gets a message sent to the Russian president saying
		you're being played by terrorists.
		I know you didn't fire that.
		You didn't detonate that nuke in Baltimore.
		Stand down.
		It's the only way.
		And then Russia agrees and stands down all weapons.
		And then the US says, Stand down, stand down, but they were doing a countdown for a missile strike or whatever.
		Basically my point is, when one side gets scared, and the information is rapid, then it's just escalation.
		So there was a story I heard once where two guys got into a minor fender bender, but one guy was road raging and really angry, and when he gets out, they're both armed, and the guy's all super angry and he's like, you hit me, you rear-ended me!
		And the guy who re-rendered him was an accident, sees that he's got a gun, so he puts his hand on his hip and says, back up, buddy.
		The other guy sees him reaching for his gun, so he grabs his gun.
		The other guy sees him grab his gun, he pulls his gun, and then the other guy pulls his gun, and then someone gets shot.
		Because they both, you know, were in this heated moment.
		They're like, no, don't do it!
unidentified		Stop!
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		No!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And then they both pull their weapons out.
		So things like that can happen.
		You know, I hope that's not where we're going with this Russia stuff, but the issue I suppose is that no one's gonna back down.
		No one will.
		Like, why would anyone back down?
		You know, it's...
		I actually, you know, I think maybe the West backs down in this one because we're the morally weaker, like maybe not morally weaker is the right word, we're the ideologically weaker faction here.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Well, didn't Russia offer terms to Ukraine today?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, Ukraine was like, nope.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Really?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, they said Eastern region, the Donbass region, and Crimea are now Russia.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Can't join NATO, right?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You can't join NATO or any bloc like the EU or anything like that.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		It kind of sounds like Ukraine is just gunning for EU-slash-NATO membership at this point.
		It seems like they're using this conflict to push towards being joined with those groups.
		I don't know.
		That's just my observation.
		I'm not the foreign policy expert.
		But they are being incredibly stubborn.
		I don't know.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Here's what we'll do.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Instead of... Oh, snap.
unidentified		What?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Oh, this next article.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Sorry.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
		Instead of saying, World War III is coming, we'll do this.
		Yahoo.com says, American Express follows Visa and MasterCard in exiting Russia.
		So now, Amex, Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal are all shutting down services in Russia.
		In response, Russia is announcing they're going to be partnering with Chinese Union Bank for the Miracard network, which does operate in many countries.
		So we're now seeing a fracture between two major economic blocks, and no war will come of this.
		No, no hyperpolarization, no conflict.
		Everyone's going to come together and the competition will be healthy for everybody.
		Russia will eventually come and shake hands with the West and say, we're all richer and better off for it.
		And that's what happens.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah?
unidentified		Nah, fam.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I don't think so, no.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But everybody gets mad when I say this stuff is escalating into war.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Well, I could have told you that having these big credit card companies exiting Russia is going to push Russia toward China.
		Why wouldn't it?
		Like, China is very advanced.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But hold on, is it really going to escalate the conflict between... I don't know if it will, but it will ostracize them from the rest of the West, you know?
		I think the issue is if there's no tie between the Dragon Bear, the BRICS economic bloc, and the Western economic blocs, the chance for conflict is greater because now there's no cooperation at all.
		The cooperation helps.
		It's like, listen, listen, let's not go to war, man.
		I got a big company.
		I'm buying that new superyacht.
		Chill out, man.
		Russia goes to war.
		They invade.
		And then it's like...
		What do you do now?
		Now they start seizing super yachts.
		All these companies are shutting down in Russia.
		And I think it may be, in all seriousness, I think a lot of companies expect the United States to be involved in a war with Russia.
		And that's why this is happening.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		I think you might be right, because before the show I was a little bit wound up about this earlier.
		I was like, how is it that these companies can make this unilateral action against Russia?
		It's as if they're independent countries treating Russia as a foreign enemy.
		But Tim was telling me that it's against the law to do business with these kinds of enemies?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's complicated, but treason is when you provide support to an enemy of the United States.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So specifically, if the United States was at war with Russia, And you then traded weapons to Russia, you'd be committing treason.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Unless you're a multinational corporation, then you have no allegiance.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Technically, that may be true, but if you're operating in the U.S., I think the U.S.
		is gonna be particularly brutal.
		Come on, let's be real.
		If someone in the U.S.
		was actively selling materials to the Taliban, the U.S.
		would have before.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Like if we gave them a bunch of weapons or something?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		No, that was Obama who did that!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, I don't know about the Taliban, but ISIS for sure.
unidentified		No, when the government does it, they get away with it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Henry Ford sold vehicles to the Nazis for years.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Before the war?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, leading up to the war.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And then stopped?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I don't know the actual when he stopped, but I would imagine.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I would imagine, yeah, during the war.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's the thing I'm looking at.
		I'm like, why are all these companies, are they really virtue signaling?
		Or are they concerned that if war breaks out, it will be difficult for them to immediately sever ties and they don't want to be on the hook in any way?
		I don't think, like, right now if the U.S.
		was like, we hereby declare war, it's Joe Biden.
		So he'd be like, come on, man, we're declaring war on Russia!
		Come on.
		Well, actually, he can't do it.
unidentified		Congress has to do it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But, you know, I don't know, he might, and then they might be like, no, Joe, stop!
		You can't do that.
		I don't think they're going to start arresting executives from these big companies because they're operating in Russia.
		They would be like, you have one week to cease all operations.
		But it is disconcerting because one could certainly lead to the other.
		And I'm wondering if these companies cutting off from Russia, they're washing their hands
		of this economic, you know, I'm not going to pretend like Russia is the biggest part
		of the economy of the world or anything, but they're certainly cutting themselves off for
		a major source of revenue.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, absolutely.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I wonder if they're worried that war, well, maybe it's simple.
		Maybe I don't gotta overthink it.
		Maybe they just fear war might break out between us and them, and so better safe than sorry.
unidentified		It's very confusing to me because, to me, it looks like our country is weakened.
		So if we were to potentially go to war with Russia, to me, it looks like we wouldn't lose.
		Just based on how culture's been kind of going in a certain direction for the last couple of years, we don't look very strong.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You're saying we would or wouldn't lose?
unidentified		I think we would.
		Well, it looks like we would based on how our- It appears that way.
		It appears that way.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I agree with you.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I have some feelings that the American military has some nasty weaponry prepared.
unidentified		Yeah?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I agree with you.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		I hope you're right.
unidentified		Is this a poker game?
		Like they're making us look weak?
		Yeah, yeah, yeah.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		It's 40 tests.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Sun Tzu.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that's right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		When you are strong, you make your opponent look weak.
		But I think the reason the U.S.
		could lose, well, I don't know if I agree with you that it would, but could because we're so divided with gas prices reaching record highs.
		Yo, we were in central PA this weekend.
		Diesel was like 550 and gas was like 450.
		Yep.
		Crazy.
		So when you see that, we're already in this hyper-polarized country where everyone's still constantly fighting.
		You've got the establishment pushing their narrative, saying Trumpers are evil and all this stuff.
		One of the things that precipitates civil war is rising cost of food.
		Wheat is up 68%.
		That freaked me out.
		There's this viral tweet where someone was like, this is not oil or a meme stock, this is wheat.
		And it's like going straight and then spikes, which suggests demand, the expectation is supply will not meet demand.
		So buy, you know, they're buying it now, expecting the price to skyrocket, causing the price to skyrocket.
		That's scary, because food's already insanely expensive.
		And now get this, with Russia and the US at odds, and you know, look, Visa and MasterCard, so what?
		What happens when we stop importing fertilizer from Russia, which we are a major importer of?
		I'm sorry, did I say exporter?
		What happens when we stop importing fertilizer from Russia?
		Food's gone.
		So I'm thinking, you know, COVID may have been, in terms of food shortages, a hiccup compared to what we see now.
		Food prices through the roof, food shortages and gas shortages and gas prices.
		And you've got a recipe for disaster.
		People are going to start screaming for Donald Trump because they're going to say Trump did not get us into any new wars.
		Gas prices were low.
		Food was abundant.
		Unemployment was low.
		I'd rather have the president who says no war and fix America than Joe Biden and his international whatever.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I feel like Trump sailed us into the iceberg and then Biden got on board and took control.
		How did Trump sail us?
		They were just the economy.
		It was like the best it's ever been.
		The debt just keeps going up and up and up and up.
		And he didn't repeal the Federal Reserve.
		He had John Bolton on board.
		His sister got him to bomb Syria.
		His daughter.
		Status quo.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You could say that Obama did that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, this whole time.
		None of them have changed course.
		They all had a chance and none of them have done it.
		Well, the Federal Reserve is sinking us.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Listen, listen.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Have you ever been on a cruise ship?
unidentified		No.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Those things are so impossible to move.
		So let's say you're on this cruise ship that's been sailing this way for 60 years and you get four years to try and turn it around and you make some turns and all of a sudden the economy is doing better.
		You get your troops out of Afghanistan.
		Trump did some stuff.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Also, if he tries to turn the ship, they're gonna, they got guns and they're like, don't turn the ship, sir.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, right that I agree with yeah, so I do feel like Trump did what he could I do feel like Trump in many ways
		It's kind of a bad dude. I think he's a generous guy you hear the stories
		But how he's giving his staff all this money. I've heard stories directly from people who work at his hotel
		Like he just gives him $100 bills. Yeah, so there's good things. There's bad things about him
		I think he's kind of an arrogant dude But I think he did some good things that he genuinely
		wanted to you know No.
		know, help this country. The problem is Joe Biden gets right back in and course corrects,
		and then we go sailing, you know, headfirst into Ukraine.
		How is it? This is amazing. The Clinton Global Initiative is coming back. Have you heard this? Yeah,
		no. Five year hiatus. Okay. Under Donald Trump. Yeah. Oh.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Oh my gosh.
unidentified		Is that a bad thing?
unidentified		I'm looking at you guys and it looks like a bad thing.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Clinton's, come on.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's not that, in my opinion, we can talk about the global initiative or whatever their operation is.
		It's about that when Hillary Clinton loses, it goes defunct.
		And then Donald Trump comes in, Joe Biden comes back in, and now they're kicking everything back up.
		It's that when Donald Trump gets elected, no war in Ukraine.
		We had the eastern separatists, we had the 2014 regime change in Ukraine, we then had eastern separatist conflict since then, but Vladimir Putin did not invade Ukraine during Trump's presidency.
		What the establishment says, the left Democrat types, is that, oh, because Trump was deferential
		to Putin and giving him what he wants.
		And I'm like, that's kind of an extreme way of saying Donald Trump avoided a war in Europe,
		which if we're trying to avoid World War III, then I don't necessarily see anything wrong
		with what Trump was doing if it prevented war.
		You know, I'll put it this way.
		When they say that, I'm like, so you're saying that everything we're seeing now in Ukraine
		could have been prevented, that there was something that you thought was worth all of
		this death and destruction?
		That's kind of crazy to me.
		Because under Trump, we didn't have that.
		But as soon as Biden comes in, all of a sudden Putin's like, it's time to go.
		I think the issue is the democratic agenda, clearly at odds with Russia, clearly trying to pressure, use NATO influence to pressure Russia and put them in a continually weaker position, antagonizing Putin, which is bad because he's got nuclear weapons.
		And Donald Trump wasn't doing that.
		Donald Trump often said, Oh, he's a powerful guy, man.
		You know, you gotta watch out because he understood Russia was, but still, you know, avoiding war.
		Um, you know, a good thing.
		Now we're at the point where Vladimir Putin not only sees the return of the Democrat agenda, but, but an extremely weak president.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's funny how the playbook has flipped here, because I remember in the early 2000s, it was the Democrats who were constantly being accused of being weak on terrorism whenever they tried to take any measure that would prevent warfare.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		And now, because Trump got through four years without starting a new war, and because we didn't end up having tensions escalate with Russia, we're told it's because he was weak by the same people who were accused of weakness, you know, 15-20 years ago.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's kind of crazy to think that the view... Who was it?
		Was it David Fromm?
		I don't want to accuse the wrong person of saying this.
		But to be like, Donald Trump was appeasing Putin.
		That's why he didn't invade.
		And I'm like... Didn't he try to nuke him?
		Donald Trump prevented a war with Russia?
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's all I'm hearing.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm like, okay, that's kind of a good thing.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Well, and we were talking about this the other day.
		I'm not sure if this is just a Trump quote that we haven't verified, but didn't he say that he threatened Putin?
		He said, if you invade Ukraine, we will bomb Moscow.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The original story was that he said to Putin, if you take Ukraine, I'll hit Moscow.
		But then Trump himself, I guess, came out.
		In fact, check me on this one because I saw a story.
		And he was like, I told Putin I'd nuke Moscow.
		Geez!
		That's not good.
		I don't like hearing those stories.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I mean, I hear you, but that's definitely not appeasement.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		For sure.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And along those lines, I looked up if Ted Turner was involved with the Georgia Guidestones, there's no evidence.
		It's completely anonymous who did those things, but I don't know why his name's...
		Wrapped around, you know, talking about this democratic problem that we have, or this liberal economic order-ish problem.
		I looked up American Express and who owns it?
		Let's do some math.
		So Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street own about 17% of American Express.
		But Berkshire Hathaway owns 20% of American Express.
		Who owns Berkshire Hathaway?
		Oh, 20% of Berkshire Hathaway is owned by Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street.
unidentified		Huh.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		So they own companies that own companies that they also own.
unidentified		So that's not sketchy.
unidentified		No, that seems perfectly normal.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's beyond liberal and conservative at this point.
		It's an economic overthrow.
		They've been doing it so subtly, but it's so obvious now.
unidentified		Yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I just don't know who they are.
		The CEOs of these companies maybe.
		It goes beyond.
		It's beyond the frontman.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		You need to do a deep dive Ian.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Where's the money at?
		What's up with the Panama Papers?
		Let's blow them open.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Wasn't there like a second release?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I heard something just came out recently about it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Wasn't the journalist killed?
		It's like the most dangerous thing a rabbit hole on earth is but I mean you guys remember when that one dude who had that island with little girls on it died in his prison cell and then the guy who was working at them like also died in his prison cell and then and then the lady who worked with them got convicted of trafficking minors but like to who we don't know so like To no one.
		We can prove that you were doing this!
		Okay, well hold on.
		Proving that they were doing it means you know that there was an exchange between two parties.
		So who's that party involved?
		Okay, if you're convicting this woman, Maxwell, that means you know that other people were involved.
		You know what, man?
		Conspiracy.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's consistently, I think, of D'Anton from the French Revolution, who was eventually executed by his partner, Robespierre.
		And as he was being executed up in the court, he said, better to have been a poor farmer than to meddle in the politics of man.
		And I think this now, as we're doing this show, if I start naming names and really going deep on the Panama Papers and seeing, that's like putting a target on my face.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		One day we wake up and like, Ian's just not here.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't want to be, I don't want to do that.
		But like, if I don't address this stuff, how do you fix earth and help humans?
		You just got to let them like fry themselves and then regrow from the ashes?
		I don't want to do that.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's what they think they're doing.
		One day we all come back on the show and there's a guy who looks like Ian, but it's not Ian.
		And he's like, hello friends, I am Ian Crossland.
		And we're like, that's not Ian.
		Who is this guy?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		I am not a Fed.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I do not work with the World Economic Forum.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think maybe culture and business, you know, is the way to try and fix Earth.
		Like Elon's building satellite internet.
		That's a good start.
unidentified		Yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Culture.
		You make people laugh with movies.
		That's a good start.
unidentified		Didn't they actually reach out to his Internet service?
unidentified		They did.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, they actually did that.
unidentified		Yeah.
unidentified		Quite a bit of stuff.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Oh, that's right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, they wanted Starlink to block Russia.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And he was like, nah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		He said, I'm a First Speech First Amendment absolutist.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Sorry.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		That wasn't the only thing they did.
		They also asked Tesla.
		They also asked Elon Musk to shut down Tesla vehicles in Russia.
		And he's like, no, absolutely not.
		And I'm like, if this was any other CEO, you have no guarantees.
unidentified		First of all, isn't that a core reason why I don't want to get an electric car?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		I was like, no, I'm out on that one for sure.
		That was crazy.
		I was like, it's just some social justice warriors on Twitter.
		So it's like a serious, but he engages so much.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We should, we should read this story because this is crazy.
		Look at this.
		Elon Musk mom on Twitter verse, please to deactivate Teslas in Russia.
unidentified		What?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Who in their right mind?
		Look at this.
		CEO Elon Musk has been mum on requests from Twitter users to shut down Teslas in Russia.
		This as he provides free internet access to Ukraine and free charging for all electric cars in nearby countries.
		Here's an idea.
		Shut down all Tesla cars in Russia with a note.
		Hi guys, you'll get your cars back when you stop fighting Ukraine, one user tweeted.
unidentified		What?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Another said time to start time to shut down Russian teslas with a kill switch. I know you can do it
		So far musk hasn't responded now The first thing I want to say is well, they do mention elon
		musk says in reference to censorship He's been told by some governments to block russian news
		sources We will not do so unless at gunpoint. Sorry to be a free
		speech absolutist. Bravo. Good, sir Yeah, I also want to point out look some twitter users
		tweeting at elon musk does not a story make exactly but The sentiment among these pro-war people is kind of nightmarish.
		These are torch-wielding, pitchfork-wielding people who are, like, screaming, burn the witch, and they do it for everything.
		Like, the video I like to bring up where the guy's chasing the woman around the store, because she's not wearing a mask, and he's like, is anybody else mad that we all have to wear masks and she doesn't?
		Like, these people are the kind of people who just want to grab a... They're, like, waiting outside saying, ooh, let me get a pitchfork, let me get a pitchfork, I want to chase people and scream.
		The idea that we're not going to war, resulting in them just saying, escalate the pressure and the tension and the pain, is a scary thought.
		Perhaps what we're dealing with in this great culture war, or cold civil war, is a kind of yin-yang, and we are the people who are kind of like, we should reduce suffering as much as possible.
		And they're the kind of people who are like, we should increase as much as possible.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I actually tweeted, I was like, what is going to happen when people can't afford to drive to work?
		And I had people responding to me saying they deserve to suffer.
		You know, we should raise the price of gas or like the price of gas is much, much higher in the UK.
		That's fine.
		They should raise it higher.
		People need to buy electric vehicles.
		And I was like, what are you talking about?
		You're just raising net suffering in the world for what purpose?
unidentified		It's because they don't have a point of reference.
		It doesn't actually affect their life.
		So they're not going to care.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Right.
unidentified		And it's crazy because I always used to talk about cancel culture and why cancel culture will ultimately lead to stuff like this.
		And people don't get it.
		It's literally just wanting to incite more pain.
		But what is it actually going to do?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Make things worse.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Right.
unidentified		Yeah.
unidentified		But they don't know that.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Or they do.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It reminds me of a kid who's torturing ants.
		You know, they're just reveling in the suffering of others.
		It's really weird, man.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		That is psychopathic to revel in the suffering of others.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		And to think that other people deserve to suffer for not following your particular ideology is probably as close to evil as anything that I can come up with.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'll give you guys something to ponder.
		So, I was thinking about this several years ago.
		I think when I was in... I might have been in Ukraine or something.
		I might have been in Ukraine, yes, like 2013-2014.
		And, like, why people are protesting.
		And I thought about how they say, like, the economy is really bad and, you know, we work for a month and the average income is like $400 a month or something.
		And they were like, if we join the EU, the economy will be better and everyone will have, you know, better access to things.
		And then I was like, what would happen if the cost of water was greater than the cost of labor?
		If that ever happened, you will get total revolution instantly.
		Total revolution.
		So we pay our water bills when you live in a city, right?
		So Detroit, this is what kind of got me thinking about it.
		It was the Detroit and the Flint water stuff.
		It's the most expensive in the nation.
		I don't know if it still is, but it was at the time.
		And the reason was, there was an activist I know who's based in Detroit who was working on fixing the pipes when all this was going down.
		And he said that it used to be cheap to get water to your house.
		But the more people leave Michigan, then the more the cost of the water system is spread out among the remaining population.
unidentified		Interesting.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So if you have a million people, and it costs a million dollars a month, that's a $1 per month.
		If half a million leave, your cost just doubled to two bucks a month.
		If, you know, another, you know, 250,000 leave, now it's four bucks a month.
		It's actually substantially more than that.
		But because people were fleeing Michigan, the cost of water was going up and up and up to the point where, I guess what happened was Flint switched off of Detroit water into, like, Flint River water, which was nasty and then caused corrosion or something, but I digress.
		The point is, I started thinking about this and I'm like, water costs money to get to you.
		Food costs money.
		If high food prices result in civil war because people can't work enough to eat, Then what happens if they can't work enough to drink any water?
		It'll be worse than a revolution because people will be trying to just steal water.
		Like, water is the most valuable thing on the planet.
		For, you know, for people.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Well, it becomes such a double bind when you can't afford the gas that it costs to get to work.
		Like today, uh, or I commute 20 miles each way.
		And at first I was worried because Biden was talking about putting a tax per mile, but now I'm just concerned about the price of gas and how it's going to affect everything longterm.
		It's only going to get higher and over here, it's going to hit $4 soon.
		It was $3.50 earlier this week.
		And I was like, Thank God that I make ends meet, but normal people who are just scraping by already?
		Unsustainable.
		What do you do?
		You can't even earn the money to buy the food.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You know what the craziest thing you could do right now is shut off electric vehicles.
		This was the stupidest thing these people could have tweeted.
		Because right now, the refuge is in electric vehicles.
		You're concerned about high gas prices, they come out and they say, well, buy electric.
		If Elon Musk has the ability to snap his fingers and turn my car off, and he does, that's kind of scary.
		I suppose, though, with a lot of modern vehicles, they could do that to any car if it's a gas-powered car.
		So, you know what?
		Here's what I'm thinking.
		I'm going to buy a bunch of emergency food.
		I'm going to then buy a car from, like, early 1960s with no computer components in it or anything like that.
		An old Mustang or something.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Oh yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And just get ready for that solar flare or whatever.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		We gotta grow food, I think.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We are.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Big time.
		Indoor food.
		I think indoor food growing is the future and should be localized.
		Every human should have.
		We're working with this company called Eden Grow Systems right now and they've got this NASA technology where you can grow zucchini and strawberries inside.
		Four of these standing things can support one human indefinitely.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So we're gonna get a 200-gallon aquarium and we're gonna put Bantam chickens in it.
		They're like little tiny ones.
		And then we'll have miniature eggs every day.
		I'm just kidding, we're not.
unidentified		I mean, I'm getting excited.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		No, we are actually getting a big aquarium for raising babies in.
unidentified		Like actual babies?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Not human babies.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Chicken babies.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Because we have 54 eggs currently incubating.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They just keep making more of them and we decide to turn more into chickens and just let them do their chicken thing.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		The cost of gas going up is causing the cost of food to go up because it costs more to transport the food.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The diesel.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm wondering if there's a way we can make a kind of fuel for a vehicle out of egg.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Oh my gosh.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And then we can take all the eggs we don't need.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I bet we could.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		We want to eat eggs.
		You know what I mean?
		You want to try to use something that has no other real application.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Like grass?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Oh, we should look into the water car.
		Stanley Meyer's water car.
		He had an engine.
		In 1996, he patented this engine that could take him, he said, in 22 hours, 22 gallons of water he could get from LA to New York, and then they wanted to buy his patent.
		They kept offering all this money.
		They offered him a billion dollars.
		He refused.
		He had a lunch meeting one day with a couple of investors, and in the middle of lunch meeting, they poured him some cranberry juice.
		He runs out, grabbing his throat, and his brother comes out, and he's like, they poisoned me, and he died.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't believe that story.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Look this guy up, Stanley Meyer.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It is freakish.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Who told that story?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's on the internet.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		There's video of him pouring water into the gas tank and being like, showing, he goes down the river and he gets water out of the river, pours it into his tank and turns his motorcycle on.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but this could, so I don't know much about this.
		Is this the electrolysis vehicle?
		Because that's not, that's true.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's just the issue is it takes more energy to perform the electrolysis to get the fuel out of the... What I was reading said that he was getting a net positive energy because the water was the additive energy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		No, so you need an electrical current to separate the outbaser elements of the water, to utilize the hydrogen.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So the issue was, the water car works, everyone knows it works, but you need a greater charge externally to generate the fuel.
		To generate the electrolysis which creates the fuel from the water.
		So it's not like you can just pour water in and drive, you need a battery, and it's just a kind of combustion.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Well, I'm going to look I'm going to look more into this so I can bring a deeper understanding of Stanley Meyer's water car, because if we can use water as fuel, that would be revolutionary.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think that it may be noble to think of these revolutionary things, man, but I think you got to obey the laws of thermodynamics and we shouldn't get into wishful thinking.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Oh, but the energy you put into it is you're getting the energy you're putting into is the water.
		So it's not that you're getting more energy out.
		You already have the input.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Ian, I don't think you've read enough about this.
unidentified		What happens if there's a drought?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You're right.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That will exacerbate everything that's happening on Earth right now.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And what happens if people need to drink water and everyone starts pouring it in their cars and there's a water shortage and the price of water skyrockets and everyone starts fighting?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think that's all going to happen inevitably anyway without it being a fuel.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think there's a lot of people who want to believe in these magical solutions.
		They want to be like, we don't need fossil fuels, we don't need to drill, we don't need this, we can just power our She annoys me.
		with good intentions. You know, you just put on a special headband and the whole machine
		just turns on with the good intentions of but one man. No, it just doesn't work that way.
		We need energy. Without energy, people die. So when Greta Thunberg comes out and says,
		how dare you to everybody? And she says, we won't wait until 2030 or not even 2023.
unidentified		We want to shut down now. It's like, she annoys me. She doesn't know what she's talking about.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, right. I mean, that would kill millions of people, but okay.
		That's an idea.
		Let's not do that.
		Moving on.
		Anybody else in the room have any thoughts?
		Because that was insane.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's ironic because I think in the long run, them trying to push for these environmental policies right now is going to be way worse for the environment overall.
		Assuming those policies would actually be effective because if there is one thing we have seen historically and worldwide It's that environmentalism is a luxury and so if you triple our economy to the point where it can't bounce back We are not going to be environmentalists.
		We're gonna be doing everything that we can to try to survive And so Joe Biden keeping pipelines closed or trying to implement whatever other energy independence demolishing pro-climate measure is just going to make it more impossible and more difficult for our country to sustain itself and for our economy to survive, which means in the long run there's going to be less potential to actually develop the technologies that would help improve the environmental circumstances that they're claiming are going to be to our detriment.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		We're at like a launching period right now where you have to, you're going, we're creating the momentum to bounce off the diving board, to dive into a future of energy off of fossil fuels.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		But in order to get that momentum, we need to use the fossil fuels.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Fusion.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Stuff like that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think that that's being repressed personally, because the people in power are afraid that if an individual had infinite electricity, they'd lose control.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's not infinite.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's not infinite, you're right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's a slow burn.
		I think the people who run the energy companies desperately want fusion to work so they can control it and own it.
		And then they're the barons of this massive energy supply.
		So it's good for them.
		They make money off it, baby.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I'm not sure how... I don't think you can... If I had a fusion generator in my house, I really don't want to derail this into me dreaming about my fusion generator.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		No, this is powerful companies that invest in new forms of energy because if they own that form of energy, you're dependent upon it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Oh yeah, if they have the only fusion generator.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		But if everyone's got their own... No, no, no, no, no, no.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		If they own the fusion generators and the process... I mean, look, you're not going to have a home fusion generator.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's ridiculous.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's not what they want you to think.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We have small generators.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You have a fireplace in your house.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We have small generators you can power your house with, but it's not practical in the long term.
		You get a natural gas or diesel generator for your house.
		You turn it on sometimes, but you're not going to want to keep constantly putting fuel in or whatever.
		Fusion's fantastic.
		It generates a lot of energy, but it's not infinite.
		Energy comes from somewhere.
		So you'll have a backup generator for those who have it, but the power plant will just be a fusion power plant.
		You'll pay your electric bill, and you'll be dependent upon the system.
		That's what they want.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You might be able to get a cold tabletop fusion generator and then you just pour deuterium into it, which is heavy water, water with an added neutron, and then in a palladium lattice and then you bombard it with electricity and it creates... You're talking about science fiction.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's called cold fusion.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't know if it's science fiction.
		And the issue is there's not going to be some dude at his house who's like, let me just pour some heavy water into this machine.
		And ah, now I can power my house for a hundred years.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Well, in the ocean, I think it's like, I don't know what percentage, it's a very small percentage of the ocean water is heavy water.
		It's in nature.
		So you might just be able to pour water in and filter out the heavy water.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Right, but you're talking about a hundred years in the future.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm talking about science fiction.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I'm grabbing at straws because it is terrifying to think that we're hung up on oil still.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And it's going to be oil because oil works.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Because it's profitable.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And it does work.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's profitable because it works.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's profitable because it can control who has it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		No, Ian, you can't.
		When there's no wind, you got no wind power.
		When there's no sun, you got no solar power.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Well, when there's a wind generators, you have no wind power either.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yes, the issue is when it comes to wind and solar, they don't work sometimes.
		Fossil fuels work 24-7 so long as we're supplying the fossil fuels into the machines.
		And if it's not too cold.
		That's why it works.
		Nuclear power works.
		Nuclear power is also reliable, but for some reason the establishment doesn't want nuclear power.
		I don't understand.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		They gotta sell you that oil, man.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Also, I'll give you that one.
		You know, we absolutely should be building more nuclear power plants and we're not.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So they do wanna sell us that oil.
		I suppose the fear is that if we get off oil too quickly, China or some other country swoops in and starts taking it, plus there's oil interests, potential for war.
		Like, what's China, Russia, or Saudi Arabia gonna do if we're all of a sudden just like, oil, no more petrodollar.
		I think one of the reasons we're so adamant on maintaining oil is not just because it works and it's got a high energy return on energy invested, but it's also because the US uses it as a control mechanism.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I was thinking if John Rockefeller were alive today, that he would be really upset with what people did with his oil, this whole oil world.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't think he intended for it to become a weird sociopathic monopoly.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		He was a pretty God-loving guy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You mean like government control?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, like he unleashed the beast of greed, of just covetousness of this oil all over Earth.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't think that was his intention.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think the issue is you can't ship nuclear power, right?
		You build a nuclear power plant, you put small nuclear reactors in submarines and stuff, and they can power them.
		But if you want to transport energy and sell it and control the mechanism by which it's sold, the petrodollar, oil is a substance that can be moved all around the planet.
		You get everybody to buy and sell using U.S.
		currency, the reserve currency, and you own everything.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		That makes sense.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And it's liquid, too.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They don't want to give it up.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Pipelines and stuff.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
		And then you've got pipelines everywhere and they don't want to give it up.
		But if we were to shift in the United States to nuclear or other renewables, then we would lose the ability to point the weapons at people and be like, buy it with our money or else.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Interesting.
		So how much oil is in Alaska?
		Is there any way that we could be energy independent by that?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, we were energy independent, technically, under Donald Trump.
		We were a net exporter of oil.
		And then as soon as Biden gets in, it's like, start importing oil again.
		And it's funny because they're like, Biden didn't do anything.
		And I'm like, he ended oil and gas leases because of the climate cost.
		That was reported by the AP.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's just, I'm not even going to say anything else.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Joe Biden shut down oil and gas leases like a month ago.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, he did.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		He was like, oh, the climate cost is too high.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		OK, well, you know.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You made a good point that climate, that like, caring about the environment is a luxury.
unidentified		Yeah, it does.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Y'all, it gets scary, man.
		I'm seeing I'm seeing discussion among the experts that if Russian
		imports are shut down, then gas could be over 200.
		Crude could be over 200 bucks a barrel.
		And then we're looking at 750 or eight dollars a gallon.
unidentified		Sheesh.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, man.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that's crazy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We're going to be on, like, horse and buggy again.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I know, I know.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's kind of cool, though.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Horses are fun.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		You can pet them.
		Oh, yeah, that's fun.
		No, definitely.
unidentified		I don't love my car, but you can hug a horse.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Instead of mechanics, you have to go to a vet.
		It's going to be great.
		It's going to be a really good time.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And it's funny because, like, when you're, like, in the carriage and the horse is walking, it lifts its tail up and just poops right there.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		All over the place.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And right on the... No, no, but here's... Like, right on the ground.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Like, when you're getting... Fertilizer.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's great for the environment.
		When you're getting an oil change, you gotta go and you get to... That's true.
		Why can't I just pour the oil down the sewer drain, you know?
		Apparently you can't do it.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you can't.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But if your horse takes a dump...
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		No problem.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You put jingle bells on your horse.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
unidentified		You're selling this idea.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		When it's dark at night and you hear ching ching ching ching ching, you know how fast the horse is running and how far away from you it is.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's why they put bells on the horses.
unidentified		What would road rage look like with horses?
unidentified		What did road rage look like with horses?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Like people with like a saber on the right side or the guy riding shotgun with an actual shotgun.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Look, I'm not gonna say it didn't exist, but also I think part of the reason you have road rage is just because of the anonymity of being behind the wheel.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		If you're on horses and you're like looking at the other guy, I think people are a little bit less tough.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Howdy neighbor. We're going slower. Yeah, you're going slower. Yeah, but people also had swords and guns. No, that's
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		right. I'm not Like i'm saying people people got into fights and they were
		angry But I know what I mean is a big part of the reason why
		there's so much road No, I I get what you're saying too that there's a deterrent
		there. So i'm actually gonna fight you you're yeah, there's the duel
		Yeah, that's crazy People in government used to duel.
		It was literally a thing.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		There's actually a movie about the last duel.
		Did you guys see that one?
		No, it was some French guy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And apparently, what did they say?
		Hamilton didn't really expect to shoot Aaron Burr.
		He thought it was going to be a gentlemanly honor thing and that they would duel, but he would intentionally miss and they would move on.
unidentified		But Aaron Burr was like, Also, why would you assume that?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		It's gonna let someone point a gun at you and like, it's okay, they won't shoot me.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Bro, like, I don't think those things were very accurate.
		And so they're kind of like, walk ten paces, turn around, there's a bang, we go home.
		But the guy got him.
		He got him.
		So, you know, lost his life.
		And then apparently the younger generation was offended by it and was like, people should stop dueling.
		And I'm kind of like, I don't know.
		Some states still have mutual combat.
		I think Oregon has mutual combat, right?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Interesting.
		I'll have to look that up.
		I don't know.
unidentified		How about we do that for the next presidential election?
unidentified		Yes.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Mutual combat.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I love this.
		Let's do it.
		Like, trial by combat for the presidency of the United States?
		Or what is it?
		What is it?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Just put them in a ring.
unidentified		UFC.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The children of Joe Biden and Donald Trump are entitled to enter a ring and challenge each other.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Only the presidential families.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You know, we had a TV host radio personality in Donald Trump be president.
		I wouldn't be surprised if we have two fighters that fight for the presidency in the next hundred years.
		I wouldn't be surprised the way it's going.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, Washington and Texas are the only two states that still allow mutual combat, so... Ah, Washington.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, Washington, Oregon.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		This thing about the last duels from 1386, it's a movie that just came out last year in medieval France, Jeanne de Carouger.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't know how you pronounce that exactly.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, we were dueling in the U.S.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		a couple hundred years ago.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		It wasn't the last duel.
unidentified		Interesting.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It was like the last legal duel, I think, in Europe.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I'm not 100% sure.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Should dueling be legal?
unidentified		Yeah, what do you think?
		Yes.
		Yes.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		You were just ready with that one.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		You're like, absolutely.
unidentified		Why?
		Why?
		Because judging by social media, a lot of people are ready and they pretend they're tougher than they are.
		So I would like to actually do an experiment just for science.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think we solved all of our problems.
		To all the Great Reset World Economic Forum people who want to depopulate, bring back dueling!
		And for all those who don't like cancel culture, let the cancel culture people duel each other.
		It's win-win!
		Everyone just goes outside and starts fighting?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Our country is so polarized that, like, for the first week when people were talking about bringing dueling back, everyone would be like, yeah, yeah, let's do it!
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		And then when it came time to do it, it would happen for, like, a week, and then people would be like, alright, like, I really don't want to do this anymore.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Nah, you'd get the right being like, guys, this is ridiculous, we can't just start fighting each other and killing each other.
		And the left would be like, you're a bigot!
		Dueling should be allowed as tradition for various cultures!
		And then as soon as the right says, okay, fine, we agree, let's start dueling, they'll be like, well, we actually think dueling is wrong, we've evolved on the issue.
		I just would never agree on it.
		It's not allowed.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		This movie's about the last, what's called, judiciary duel held in France.
		And then later, it was 1547 was the last legal duel in France.
		I guess we're still doing them in the United States.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Interesting.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think we should have actual trial by combat, like at a court.
		It's like you walk in and the judge is like, we have the case of, you know, the state versus John Smith.
		You are speeding.
		You're going 30 and you're going 30 miles over in a 45.
		I would like to fight the officer, your honor.
		Like the floor expands into an arena and the cop is like, you know, you're like gotta wrestle Cops would be very worried about like they pull a guy over and he's like six seven and super ripped and he's like You have a good day, sir.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's been nice.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let's him go.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		If they did let the presidents duel for combat for experience, would they be able to claim a champion?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Would Biden be able to bring a champion in to fight for him?
unidentified		No.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Wait, he's too old to fight.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Too old to fight, you're too old to be president, bro.
unidentified		There you go.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Perfect.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I got a legitimate, I got an actual idea.
		Here's what we do.
		International law.
		We would need some way to enforce it, but the idea would be, if a war were ever to break out, instead, the firstborn children of both countries' world leaders have to fight to the death.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Oh my.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And then the winner wins the war.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Spicy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So you'd have like, you know, Putin's son would be like crazy ripped and then Zelensky's son or whatever.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And if they don't have a son, then they have to fight.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		They themselves have to fight.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I wonder if, I'm kidding obviously with that idea, but I'm wondering if forcing the leaders to put themselves on the line or their families would be a deterrent for war.
unidentified		That's a good idea.
		Yeah.
		I was just going to say that, even if it's not a dueling thing, just in terms of if there was a war, yeah, send them first.
		Send the first born child.
		See how, you know, they change their mind.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They would be like, I would not like to have this war.
unidentified		Yeah.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		No, they would still do it, and then the military wouldn't ensure that their kid was never on the front lines.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		No, no, no.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Arena duel.
		Like, everyone shows up, and there's a big, you know, ring, and they bring the children of the world leaders who are going to war, and then... No, here's what it would be.
		The person declaring war has to send their son, and if no son themselves, and the person being challenged can elect anyone they want.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		So here's what happens.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Every world leader adopts a kid they don't care about and never see.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I said first born.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Well, they could just adopt a kid before they have any children.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I said first born or themselves.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You'll be like, I'm not going to have kids until after I declare my wars.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Then they personally have to fight to go.
		And then the person who's the declaree, the person who's getting to war, can choose anybody.
		So like Putin would be like, we're going to war in Ukraine.
		And it's like, all right, it's you or your son.
		And then Zelensky would just be like, I'm going to find some great, you know, MMA dude and have him do it.
unidentified		There you go.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I have a feeling that that is how it used to be.
		And then they were like, we got to start telling them that we're God.
		So they stopped making us go to war with them.
		We watched it treated with royalty.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We watched Troy this weekend.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You guys ever see Troy?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		No, no.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And it's like Achilles challenges the prince to a battle.
		I don't know, basically like he walks up to the gate by himself and they're at war and he's like, Hector!
		And then they come out and they fight one-on-one with all the soldiers watching.
		And it's kind of crazy to think because I can't imagine that if like a US Marine walked up to like an Al-Qaeda base or an ISIS base and yelled, Al-Baghdadi, you challenged me!
		They would just be like, bang.
		Next!
		Like, that was ridiculous.
		What was that all about?
		But in these old stories, there was like, honor and war, and like, you would challenge someone to a fight.
		In fact, yeah, in the movie, the brother of Agamemnon, I think it was, challenges Paris, the prince of Troy, to a duel for his wife or whatever, and it's like all the armies are standing there watching, and I'm like, that's ridiculous.
		Did they really do that?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		The stories say that they did, that they would send their best warrior out, and then the other side would send their best warrior, and it was whoever won would basically decide the battle, so you don't have to throw a bunch of people's lives away.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Maybe we should still do that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think ballistics changed everything.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		They mastered the art of firing weapons.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The opening scene is, like, Sparda is, you know, confronting this other nation, and they have this big, super-ripped guy who's their champion, and then Achilles comes out and just runs up and then, like, takes a sword and one-shots him, like...
		in the neck and then he's like, and then then the leader of the enemy, you know, the other side says,
		like, give this up to our king for he rules our country.
		And like, that's how it was. I'm like, man, that made things so much easier, I guess. So I got you're
		the boss. Now, you have become the president of this country because you killed some dude,
unidentified		a guy who was like our guy and you beat him. Just pros and cons to that, because you could get a
unidentified		really strong dude that whoops the other guys, but but then ends up being an absolute idiot. So, you
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		know, yeah, but now it's just Whoever's the best at gossiping. Yeah, we're like, yes you
		win. Yeah You can run the country now.
		You made him look bad and yourself look good.
		That's it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's kind of crazy how things have gotten to this point.
unidentified		It is.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Russia is absolutely terrible at information war.
		So it's like, with all the censorship, with all the cutting off, it looks like what we're seeing with China, with India, with Mexico and those countries, they're actually scared to get involved and help Russia out.
		Because it looks like they're like, nah, Russia's been cancelled.
		You know what I mean?
unidentified		Wow.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Isn't that interesting that an entire country could be cancelled?
		And one of the things I was thinking about was, who do you think that a Tesla, cutting off a Tesla, would affect most?
		You think that would affect Putin?
		You really think that would affect the military?
		Or would it affect Olga, who's trying to take Dimitri to the grocery store and buy groceries for their family?
		Like, who do you really think this is going to affect?
		I'm like, do you want a civil war in Russia?
		Do you want them to focus on themselves?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		I guess maybe that's an approach.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But I think, you know, what you end up seeing with this is just the Russian people genuinely hating the rest of the world for doing it.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Like, why are you attacking me?
		What did I do?
		Putin was right.
unidentified		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's what they're going to say.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Well, we've already seen those huge protests, right, of Russians who aren't interested in going to war with Ukraine.
		Like, these are the normal people who don't like what Putin is doing.
		And we're punishing them.
		We're taking away all their entertainment.
		We're taking away their ability to pay anything.
		Talk about cutting off their Teslas for Pete's sake.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, you know what, man?
		I'll tell you the one thing.
		The only thing that matters is that Sean Penn flees to Poland on foot after calling on America to fight for Ukraine.
		Why?
		Like, this is the... He already beat the game.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		He's another example.
		He was very anti-war, wasn't he, in the early 2000s?
		Was that part of his chick and his activism?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
		I'm just exhausted by this.
		Sean Penn, I don't know or care about you.
		And why are you telling us to get involved in a war with Russia, which is a nuclear power?
		This is the stupidest thing ever.
		Like, this actor guy goes to a foreign country during a war and then is like, we gotta go fight for them.
		No.
		No, we don't.
		And you shouldn't have been there.
		I just... You know, I will say this.
		Americans are certainly arrogant.
		That's for sure.
		And, um...
		Yeah, maybe most of them, you know, in different ways.
		We have this contingent of the Hollywood establishment elites and the Democrat elites and they're just, they're so full of themselves, they're so entitled.
		And then you also have, you know, many other Americans and maybe more justified in arrogance, you know, in the observation of American power and might around the world.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I was just watching a Howard Stern clip of, what's his name, from Breaking Bad, the guy, Odenkirk.
		And he was like, oh, and after, you know, before he got Breaking Bad, it was so hard.
		I was writing, and we were barely making any money, and I had this big loan, and Stern was like, oh, this must have been so hard for you.
		Like, he was like, you know, I'm trying, I'm writing movies and taking these little acting roles and I'm in debt.
		And Stern's reaction that he must, what suffering you must have been going through having to write movies and act and be in debt.
		I'm like, what, how detached these people have become for what real suffering is.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
unidentified		Yeah.
		This kind of reminds me of the peaceful protests and how a lot of people were acting really irrationally like that mass psychosis where now you got a bunch of people that are openly just hating Russians because they're trying to like shut off cars and stop selling their products and stuff like that.
		It's like you're demonizing an entire population of people in the same way that people were so willing to go Smash businesses and and hurt people that weren't putting their fist up in the air just because they thought that they were actually doing something helpful Well in some instances they actually are Vandalizing Russian owned businesses or companies with the word Russia in the name like this happened in Canada happened in Germany It's insane like that.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		This is the beautiful ones Okay, so I'm gonna go back to the rat utopia yeah in the rat utopia They put all these rats in a big box.
		They gave them all the food and water they wanted and then left them alone And eventually a group developed called the Beautiful Ones in the Behavioral Sync.
		These are people who did nothing but groom themselves.
		They just groomed themselves and tried to make themselves more beautiful and that's the virtue signal.
		That's what we're seeing now with people like Sean Penn.
		Look at this tweet from him.
		him. Myself and two colleagues walked miles to the Polish border after abandoning our
		car on the side of the road. Almost all of the cars in this photo carry women and children
		only, most without any sign of luggage and a car, their only possession of value. And
		here's like they state they planned this photo of him walking. This is Sean Penn's vapid
		ego virtue signal on display.
		His intentions, this is my opinion of him, is that he wants his name to matter.
		He wants to be beautiful and seen by everyone.
		So he flies himself into a war zone and then makes it about him and what he's doing and we must fight.
		What are you doing there?
		This guy has nothing to do with this.
		No experience here, but he wants people to see him as beautiful.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Tropic Thunder vibes.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I just watched some of that last night.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But this is Virtue Signal to the nth degree.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You could not Virtue Signal more than flying into a war zone and then being like, we abandoned our cars!
unidentified		Fleet on foot because only women and children... Shut up.
		Why don't you put the damn camera down and help if it's actually...
		You know, this is a photo shoot to me.
		This is virtue signaling.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Because in the behavioral sync, the rats or the mice, whichever, because they did both, just wanted to look beautiful.
		Well, beautiful to rats is just, you know, grooming yourself and then having other rats look at you.
		For a male, it is peacocking.
		It is making yourself as boisterous and loud and visible as possible.
		This, to me, is the epitome of self-grooming behavioral sync.
		A guy with no business in this war, flies in, films himself going there, posts social media of like, look what I'm doing.
		And it's just like, we've gotten to the point now where we have these plastic robot people.
		They treat all of this like a game, like a TV show.
		This is the most insane thing.
		You know, it's just like, He just wants people to see him.
		And he wants to say, I went to Ukraine during the war.
		I talked to the families.
		The U.S.
		must fight.
		It's like, shut up.
		Shut your mouth.
		Go home, you pathetic loser.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Oh, who's that girl?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't care what you have to say about this.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You have nothing to do with it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Jane Fonda went to Vietnam, I think, and hung out with the Viet Cong?
		Is that what it was, Jane Fonda?
		And they, man, the media launched on her for trying, it was basically like if someone went to Russia right now and was trying to like show some humanity about the Russian people, Jane Fonda did that in Vietnam.
		But they did not, people did not want that.
		I think this guy's an actor.
		You know, I, I've always got the vibe from Sean Penn that he really wants to help people.
		And, but, and so kind of, that's kind of what I was going through as a kid.
		And I thought, let me go get into acting so that I can be famous.
		And then when I tell people like good ideas that I have, I'll be able to tell them to more people.
		And I think that's, I've always thought Sean Penn was a pretty ethical guy, but when you're an actor, that's all you really know how to do is act.
		You just talk in front of a camera.
		That's his job.
		It's what he's done his whole life.
		I don't, I've never seen any other skills this guy has.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah I think you might be right and it's commonly said that Americans have main character syndrome and I commented on Twitter that our main import at this point is narcissism because NPR was talking about how to maintain your self-composure when you're reading the news about people fleeing their homes and being bombed and stuff and I was like What kind of narcissism is this?
		It makes us think that we're the most important people.
		And Ian is right about Sean Penn being an actor.
		This picture is so clearly staged.
		It's kind of disturbing to think that people are actually suffering.
		And he is treating it like a movie.
		And many Americans are.
		And they're like, oh, there's crazy stuff happening.
		The ghost of Kiev.
		Snake Island.
		And it's like, I wonder how much of this stuff will be proven to be false as we go on.
		We're just treating it like a movie.
		Oh, who are we going to cast as Zelensky when the movie comes around?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's like... Jeremy Renner, for sure.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Oh, what is wrong with us, though?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Like, why are we even thinking about that?
unidentified		Look at this.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Zelensky's an actor.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Sean Penn arrives in Ukraine to film documentary about Russian invasion.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		What?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The actor and director came to tell the world the truth about Russia's invasion of our country, says the office of Ukraine's president.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Imagine being as vapid as this guy is.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		He's bored.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You know a man.
		Yeah.
		You know what, man?
		The virtue signaling has just reached a point where it's just vomitous.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Have you guys seen Ukraine on Fire, the documentary?
		I have not yet.
		It's in Oliver Stone.
		So Oliver went in there, I think it was from four years ago he did this.
		Is this four years ago?
		So Oliver Stone, I mean, he was talking about this stuff way before any kind of physical conflict erupted, basically about the CIA coup in Ukraine and the installation of Poroshenko and basically the UN or whatever the heck this body, NATO, is pushing the borders of Russia, pushing right up against the borders of Russia.
		And I have a lot of respect for Oliver Stone.
		So you want to talk about someone in the entertainment industry that's really doing good, making documentaries about this stuff, Oliver Stone is at the tip of the spear.
		Maybe this will end up being really good.
		I don't know, I don't want to shoot it in the foot before it begins.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		He flies in, meets, goes to the president's office to officially support them, and he condemned Russia before even knowing what was going on in the country.
		And that's something, like, not even anybody at Vice would do.
		What's up?
		You know, they would go in and they would have their assumptions based on stories they read, but they wouldn't
		be like, we hereby declare that we're sending in journalists to uncover all the lies about the invasion.
		They'd be like, we're sending a reporter to see what's going on.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		What's up?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And that's that's about it.
		And then, you know, it was like the crazy thing is vice as like fast and loose as it was with a lot of its journalism
		took it seriously.
		Like one of the one of our reporters, I remember, I think Glenn Beck criticized vice when I was working there,
		because I think it was Danny Gold, one of the one of the vice reporters.
		Went to Israel, went to Palestine during I think it might have been Operation Protective Edge.
		And Danny also went to Israel.
		He went to Palestine and Israel and documented what people were going through.
		And Glenn Beck, I think it was Glenn, I'm sorry if I'm getting this wrong, maybe it wasn't Glenn, but some conservative pundit criticized him saying they're only showing what the Palestinians are going through and not what the Israelis are going through.
		And we were all confused by that because we were like, Vice put out literally two short docs showing the Palestinian and Israeli sides of the conflict.
		And it wasn't really like, it wasn't pro one side or the other.
		It was like, here we are, here's what's happening.
		So that's the issue I take with this, because certainly, you know, I've had my share of parachuting into many different countries, but we would never go in and just, you know, valiantly decry and declare we knew what was going on.
		In fact, when I was in Ukraine, there was British media, public, like publicly, no, no, it wasn't publicly funded British media.
		It was one of their news corporations had put out fake news about a protest that was actually pro Yanukovych.
		I could be getting this wrong.
		It's been almost 10 years.
		And it was a big rally of Ukrainians came out to support their president.
		And then some media outlet like lied about it and said it was it was opposing it or whatever.
		And we were all confused.
		We were like, what?
		They're all waving Ukrainian flags and supporting their president.
		But of course, the Western narrative was the Ukrainians hated Yanukovych and they didn't want the Russian regime.
		They wanted the EU and all that stuff.
		So you got the same fake news.
		So when I see like these vapid Hollywood actors who specifically fly into a country to tell the world the Russians are to tell the truth about Russia's invasion of our country, says the Ukraine's office of Ukraine's president, and he meets with the president, and it's very clear he has an agenda.
		I'm like this.
		I just I can't stand the lies in the propaganda.
		Doc, there are a lot of journalists down there right now who are doing a really good job in telling people what's going on, and it does not look good for Russia.
		And that's all you need to do.
		You don't need to... You know who's cool?
		Trey Yinks is cool.
unidentified		Who's that?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Fox News.
		Trey.
		He's, uh, I'm pretty sure he's on the ground right now in Kiev reporting.
unidentified		Oh, cool.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah, I've seen his name.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, he does a good job.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		There you go.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Cool, cool.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's what a reporter does.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They go down there and they say, here's what's happening.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Like, they're tweeting, like, air raid sirens.
		Like, they're not posting photos of themselves with, like, at an angle, with, like, carrying their bag, like, I abandoned my car.
		We have to make it to the border.
		Yeah, they're not doing that.
		They're like wearing bulletproof vests.
		Like, I'm reporting here in central Kiev.
		Right now we're hearing... Because there's journalism, and then there's whatever this is.
		The beautiful ones of Universe 25.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		This is Kony 2012, 2022.
		Remember that movie, Kony 2012?
		The propaganda campaign?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That was crazy.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		I saw those stickers everywhere.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		I didn't know what they were.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It was Kony 2012.
		You guys remember that?
		Oh, I remember that.
		There was this documentary, it was like a commercial, and it was the stupidest thing ever because it was like the digital media has allowed us to have power like more than ever before and we can come together and it was this big grandiose narrative how we can all join forces and fight for the good of stopping this one guy in an African nation who's trafficking kids.
unidentified		Oh, I remember this!
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Wasn't he already dead?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And he like, yeah, he apparently wasn't even involved anymore.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		He was an evil guy.
		He had child soldiers or something.
		But yeah, he was, I think he was already dead by the time the documentary came out.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't know if he was dead, but he was like, he was ousted already.
		But my issue was kind of like, they made this documentary that was very grandiose about like global affairs in the world.
		And they're like, and that's why we need your help to stop one guy you've probably never heard of in a Central African nation.
		Who's like a bad guy, but man, on our list of bad dudes, like Al-Baghdadi was still, like, you know, there was ISIS.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, actually, 2012, how prominent was ISIS back then?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They were fairly prominent, right?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		They were JV then, I think.
unidentified		No, no.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It was before ISIS.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you're right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, that was, and that was, was Kony before or after Bin Laden?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		After.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Needless to say, there were many bad people other than this one Coney guy.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, and it was all, let's come together.
		It just felt like World Economic Forum propaganda, looking back on it.
		I was still in the Obama brain fog at that time.
unidentified		What was his plan, though?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, then the guy who did it, from that organization, was stripped nude and started jumping up and down and banging on the pavement while gripping himself, if you know what I mean.
unidentified		What?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Oh, wow, I remember that.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		What's going on?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Jason Russell, the director.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Was that it?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I'm going to look into that.
unidentified		That wasn't a part of the tactics.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Here's what I'm wondering.
		What if the Kony 2012 video was the test firing of a social media manipulation tactic or weapon, basically?
		Can we weaponize propaganda to direct everyone to do one thing?
		And they tried it out to see what would happen because you've got to test weapons.
		And it was a fifth generational warfare.
unidentified		I was thinking about this actually because technically people have the data on society in terms of, okay, what do we need to do?
		What do we need to put in front of people's screens in order for them to render this type of behavior?
		And if you think of like all of these crazy campaigns and social media trends over the years, like one comes to mind, like that ALS ice bucket challenge and stuff.
		Just that and doing these different trends, you can sort of guess where you can lead society in a particular direction just by socially engineering stuff like that.
		So technically, they have enough data to know that they can make people jump just by doing certain things.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, the Russian propaganda campaign has been going on since... 14?
unidentified		2015?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		16?
		When did that turn on?
		2015?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I mean, everyone's always running propaganda campaigns.
		Like, every country's got it.
		What I'm actually wondering is, you guys have heard of Havana Syndrome?
unidentified		Yeah.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Have you heard of that?
unidentified		No.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So there are people who have reported that they'll be working in some government building and they'll hear a hum, and then all of a sudden they'll start getting headaches, and they'll start getting blurry vision, and they get permanent vision damage.
		And for a while people were just like, oh, it must be something unrelated and people are overreacting.
		But then the White House got hit by Havana Syndrome.
unidentified		Really?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So it may be some kind of directed energy weapon meant to cause long-term damage to a person.
		Because think about it this way.
		If you're engaged in a war with a long-term plan, you could be thinking, this person could probably be a threat.
		Cause damage to them now, so they don't last five or ten years in this industry.
		Diminish the amount of time they have, so they're not a threat to you in the future.
		That's the kind of crazy stuff we're seeing.
		But here's what I was thinking with Russia.
		Do you guys really believe that nuclear weapons are the pinnacle of military might these days?
		Not anymore.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		No way.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Well, I mean, weapons of mass destruction, generally speaking, but we can also talk about biological weapons, chemical weapons.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		No, no, no.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Not even that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Laser weaponry.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think if you know what it is, then it's not the pinnacle of weapons technology.
unidentified		Oh, I hear you.
unidentified		I hear you.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We didn't know about nukes.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Manhattan Project.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		There was speculation.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Until they got used, right?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
		So there was a report that came out where it was like, what could they be building?
		Some thought it was like a death ray, like a beam that would like, you know, cause damage.
		They didn't know for sure because all of these different areas were working on specific things and then journalists couldn't put it together.
		So if the US or any country has something, one of the arguments put forward is that we would see the infrastructure operation.
		You'd see the trucks bringing certain materials to certain areas and bringing them underground.
		You'd know they'd be building something, but you don't know what they'd be building.
		So is it cyber?
		Is it influential?
		Is it psychological manipulation?
		Or is it possible that... We even understand the concept of rods from God.
		That's a satellite holding giant tungsten rods.
		It drops them and they slam into the earth and they're more powerful than nukes.
		Could they have something more powerful than even that?
		Because they wouldn't tell us.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think that tiny, tiny micro drones that can fly into people's ears are pretty dangerous.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't know about that.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I know.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't either.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's the problem.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But that's a good point.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Because it's in your ear, Tim.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		That's why you don't know.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's a good point, right?
		Like, I'm so ready to dismiss the idea of micro drones flying in your ear and like killing you or whatever, but that's actually a good idea.
		We would not know and we would think it was crazy if like a CIA officer was just like, the US?
		Microdrones.
		Flying near, kill you like that.
		We'd be like, shut up!
		Not true!
		Because we wouldn't believe it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I remember, I think it was 2004, I was like, they can fly a drone into a window and hurt someone?!
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Like, it was groundbreaking, the concept of being able to literally, like...
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		I don't know if you guys remember the Black Mirror episode, but the way they introduced these tiny lethal drones was because the bees died.
		I was like, oh, well, we have bees that are dying.
		That's so interesting.
		What if we decide to try to fix this problem with these little drones that can activate if your social credit score is low or something like that?
		And that's what ended up happening in that episode.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yo.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		That's why I stopped making that show.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Look at this story.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Oh my gosh.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The disturbing story of the heart attack gun invented by the CIA during the Cold War.
		The heart attack gun fired a dart made of frozen shellfish toxin that would enter the target's bloodstream and kill them in mere minutes without leaving a trace.
		Senator Frank Church holds aloft the heart attack gun during a public hearing.
		I mean, think about that.
		A frozen dart with shellfish toxin?
		That sounds like caveman technology.
		I mean, not really, but it's, like, based on our standards?
		Like, sure.
		You're just poisoning somebody.
		Think about what they could make.
		What if it had, like, polonium in it or something more brutal?
		So easily to deliver this stuff.
		So easy to deliver these kinds of things.
		So there's a scope on it, and they hit you with it, you have a heart attack, and it leaves no trace.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Amazing.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And then how did that come out?
		Do you know much about this story?
		Because these guys are testifying in front of Congress about it right now.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They say, in 1975, more than 30 years of almost unrestricted CIA activity came grinding to a halt before Senator Frank Church on Capitol Hill after the shocking revelations of the Watergate scandal.
		Okay, so I guess it was Watergate.
		The American public had suddenly gained an intense interest in the activities of their intelligence agencies.
		Unable to resist the growing disquiet any longer, Congress was forced to peer into the dark corners of the Cold War, and some of them held bizarre secrets.
		What they found was the stuff of paranoid thrillers and hair-raising spy fiction alike.
		Aside from plans to assassinate national leaders from across the globe, and extensive spying on American citizens, investigators came across the heart attack gun.
		A macabre weapon that could cause death in minutes without leaving a trace, is the story of what may be one of the Central Intelligence Agency's most chilling gadgets.
		There was an old conspiracy where this woman was posting crazy stuff on Facebook.
		And people started asking, like, who was she and why was she posting this?
		Because it was like seemingly random gibberish.
		It would be a large paragraph saying something like, I went to the store to pick up an oatmeal spoon, but the dog came running in with the vanilla.
		When I saw it, I screamed and jumped in the car and drove to the edge of the cliff where the surfers were screaming.
		Like, it was just nonsense, right?
		And you're like, what is this?
		And so everyone was trying to figure out what it was, and I don't know if it could have just been fake.
		Some people believed that what was happening was that someone working in intelligence was using a fake profile to post messages that someone else could receive without anyone making the connection.
		The message was publicly available, hard to find because it was on a random Facebook profile, and only the person who knew what to look for could read it.
		Others speculated that the woman who was posting it, who was older, was former CIA and that she had been drugged with some kind of psychoactive, you know, drug to basically corrupt her mind so that she could no longer tell people what she knew.
		Like it was someone who knew secrets was going to blow the whistle, so they used some kind of drug to twist her brain so she could no longer form proper sentences.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Was she CIA?
		She was CIA?
		Is that why that?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Just conspiracy theory.
		People believe they found her name in a database related to government work or something.
		Could all just be fake.
		Could have just been someone having a laugh.
		But there was like years of these posts.
		So it was kind of like, I don't know about that.
		It could just be some crazy lady who was posting random gibberish because she was unwell.
		But it's crazy to hear these stories because while that story may be just totally irrelevant, when you hear about in the 70s, they have a heart attack gun.
		My question is, Does the United States or any other government have the ability to make you insane?
		How hard would it be to do something to someone's brain to make it so they can't talk properly?
unidentified		I don't know if this is off the list of stuff we can talk about but can you talk about other governments?
		What do you mean?
		So I like to research a lot about things happening in like with China's government and I've seen some documentaries you were talking about the Havana syndrome and I've seen some documentaries of people that oppose their government and what happens is that there was this like one family where The regime was sent after them and they had these types of devices that would be in proximity to their houses and it would cause them to become very confused.
		It would make them ill.
		So it's like what you're describing is sounds kind of similar.
		And then I also saw something about how they're working on something to essentially something to do with like controlling their people's brains.
		I don't know how advanced they are, how far off that is, but Yeah, that's a possibility from what I've been seeing.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Well this brings me to Yuval Noah Harari talking about hacking humans.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		This is like one of the number two, number three guys at the World Economic Forum.
unidentified		Yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And he's blatantly saying it has come to the point now where we can hack human brains.
		Yeah.
		And it's going to continue to happen.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But you got to understand that in a rudimentary sense, hacking the human brain is just talking to someone.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You know what I mean?
unidentified		True.
unidentified		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Like you know what to say to make them behave a certain way.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So you publish commercials.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Subliminal messaging was like the oldest version of this in media, you know, when they'd flash an image in the middle of a commercial and you wouldn't even realize you saw it, but then you start thinking about it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Dude, when I was like 20, I was hanging out with my friends, and we were watching, I think, I can't remember, we might have been watching like Colbert Report or something.
		And it was a commercial, and it was dumb, and it was just like, you know, body armor, deodorant, we weren't paying attention.
		And then all of a sudden it went BAM!
		Real quick.
unidentified		What?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And I caught it.
		It said, U.S.
		Army.
		Go U.S.
		Army.
unidentified		What?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And then my friend had TiVo.
		And so I was like, stop it.
		Go back.
		And there was a split second where it just showed the U.S.
		Army logo.
		I don't know what it was.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		That's straight up from the Simpsons.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Join the Navy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And then I was like, dude, for like a second, it just played a bramp and showed that and flickered in and out.
		And it said, Go Army.
		Like, it was like, I think it was Go Army.
		It was like, it may have been an army of one, whatever the logo was at the time.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Huh.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So I don't know what that was, but it just, like, flashed on the screen.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And so, far be it for me to accuse anybody of doing that on purpose.
unidentified		I don't know.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Was this on cable?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Because sometimes there are weird mix-ups with, like, the commercials that they're playing.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It could have been.
		It could have been.
		Because we were watching cable, for sure.
		Like, one commercial over the other.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Because it was Colbert.
		Yeah, that's right.
		It's Comedy Central.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I saw, like, uh, a porn one time, and there was- Really, Ian?
unidentified		Yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Let me tell you about it, Taylor.
unidentified		Tell us about it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		There was- there was sublim- like, over the- the video, it was talking, like, the Russians have invaded.
		It is a humanitarian crisis.
		Just, like- Wait, what?
unidentified		When?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Over- it kept repeating it over and over again.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Recently?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		No, this was, like, four years ago.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		When did the Russians invade- oh.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't remember the exact propaganda that it was saying, but it kept- it was, like, seeding this propaganda over and over again over the video.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I was, like, what the heck?
unidentified		That's weird.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		But it was blatant.
		It wasn't quiet.
		It was, like, It was subtle, though.
		It was very weird.
unidentified		Very weird.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		The only way to see it was to listen to it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It was crazy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You gotta stop, man.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That might be true.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Stuff's gonna destroy your brain.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		There are a couple interesting devices that we know about.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So, apparently, you can buy flashlights that will shine specific patterns of light or colors that make people feel nauseated.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Easily done, yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And then there's ULF sound generators, which is also the subject of... Ultra low.
		Yeah, ultra low frequency.
		I think this may be conspiracy territory, like, well, it's not a conspiracy, it's not criminal.
		But the idea is the militaries are working on technology where, and look this up, because this might be nonsense, but I was reading about ghosts a long time ago.
		And I want scientific explanations for the ghost phenomenon.
		I don't care about someone being like, it's the spirit of someone.
		I'm like, get out of here.
		And so what I read was that in many of these areas where people claim there's hauntings, they've also found evidence of ultra-low frequencies coming from maybe underground or from terrestrial movement, things like that, like geological activity.
		And this can have an impact on someone's body and cause manipulations in perception or a sense of someone being there around them or something like that.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And so this idea was weaponized purportedly.
		Again, I haven't read it.
		It was like 15 years ago.
		I was reading something on the internet, probably fake.
		But I was saying something like, they have taken generators that generate ultra-low frequency sound, and it causes people to feel disoriented, confused, paranoid, and sick.
		So these kinds of weapons, I would have to say, I believe.
		Come on.
		Of course, militaries around the world have been working on ways to incapacitate people by any means necessary.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		This is from militarytimes.com.
		It's called Talking Plasma.
		You can find that if you look up militarytimes.com and Talking Plasma.
		And instead of beaming a flashing light or shouting over a loudspeaker to keep people away from sensitive areas, new technology being developed could allow troops to fire a laser that can form a plasma ball that talks to the potential intruder.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		What?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Talks to someone with a laser?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Okay, this is military tech.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, this is militarytimes.com.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Pentagon scientists are making talking plasma laser balls for use as non-lethal weapons in 2019.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		That's more like it.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		I was going to say, all these weapons seem clumsy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Stop, or we'll be forced to fire upon you.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		This is awesome.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think a lot of UFOs that we see on radar are these plasma balls being moved around really fast just with lasers.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What were you saying before?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It was like three lasers?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you triangulate at least three or more, quadrangulate, and then you hit a point in the sky and create a ball of plasma, and then you can move that around.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So it's basically all the lasers are intersecting.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Creating a single point where the energy intersects and you can see it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Crazy.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, so maybe they're pointing those towards people with brains, I don't know.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		If they can make you hear things.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They're gonna, one day Ian's gonna be like, complaining of hearing a humming noise.
		He's gonna be like, the Panama P- The Panama Pump?
		The Panama what was it?
		I can't remember.
		I wonder if- What were we talking about?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I just, I hear you.
		I mean, all this set aside though, I could understand them developing these experimental new technologies to use as weapons, but they pretty much know how to control people already.
		You just make them lazy.
		You just have the ability to defer gratification.
unidentified		That takes generations.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		They will do whatever you want.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		But they've already done it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yes, but listen.
		No, I mean, we're here.
		We've got tens of thousands of people watching.
		There are always going to be some people in a population who don't fall into it, but... If they can take a sonar dish or something and point it at you and click a button, and then all of a sudden you're like, no, what's happening?
		Yes, I love Joe Biden.
		He's the greatest president.
		They do it.
		They'd be like, all right, mission accomplished.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I have to go make Biden tunes.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You're talking about ways to control that aren't like, um, taking away something like taking away your food or taking away your money.
unidentified		Yeah.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Well, look, as long as you get people to pursue pleasure rather than virtue, as soon as they believe that public opinion is on a specific side of an issue, they're going to go along with it because that's what's easier for them.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		And they've habituated themselves towards always taking the path of least resistance.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well then, how about we take the path of the Super Chats.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And talk to all you guys.
		So if you haven't already, peck that like button.
		The Chicken City livestream is now up, and we are slowly building and expanding it.
		So good.
		I don't even know what the URL is to Chicken City.
unidentified		Oh.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I'll see if I can find it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You can search Chicken City on YouTube, and it's one of the first ones that'll come up.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And it's just a 24-7.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's been streaming for days.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, a few days now.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And it's just the chickens.
		So we're going to be adding more cameras.
		We're going to be adding the night vision.
		You can listen to them.
		They scream all day.
		You can sometimes hear us talking when we're walking around outside and stuff like that, so Chicken City's pretty awesome.
		And it's rudimentary, so a lot of people are like, we need more cameras.
		I'm like, yep.
		We've got multiple cameras, now we just need to get to the point where we configure everything.
		The idea was, as always, start it up, slowly build up from there, so we'll be adding night vision soon.
		But don't forget to smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show if you really like it, post in that URL wherever you can, go to TimCast.com, become a member right now, because we're going to have that members-only segment coming up for you at 11pm.
		And now, let's read your Super Chats.
		The top Super Chat, whose name I can't read because that's how YouTube does it, says, See you guys in the Wasteland.
		Post-apocalyptia, baby.
		Alright.
		Pirate Taurus.
		What did it say?
		Pirate Taurus.
		Spice up Chicken City a bit by theming it like a brothel with a stage.
		Call it Kickin' Chicken City.
		Drums, bass, horns, and all.
		We have a problem because we have Roberto, who's the patriarch.
		We didn't intend to buy a rooster.
		We never bought a rooster.
		We bought eight chickens.
		A couple died.
		We adopted another one, and it turns out one of our chickens was actually a dude.
		Well, he promptly started making more chickens with the other chickens, and then we had a bunch hatch, and one of them is Roberto Jr.
		For a while everything was fine, because I made sure, you know, I talked to some chicken tenders, you know, chicken farmers, and they said it's fine to have the young cockerel with his dad, because as long as he grows up with him, they won't, they don't, like, it's not like, you know, the movies where they fight to the death, they don't do that.
		But they will be territorial.
		So now they're basically yelling at each other in competition.
		One will rock a rubber, and the other one will go, rah rah, and they just keep going back and forth
		because they're like, I'm the boss, no, I'm the boss.
		And so we may just separate them or bring more hens in.
		And we got 54 eggs in the incubator.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		We got a lot.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Dude, we caught some hot action of the two roosters fighting over one of the hens.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't know, was it the young one that threw the dropkick?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, Roberto Jr.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		dropkicked Roberto Sr.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That was hot.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Crazy.
		Chicken City is full of drama, man.
		People don't get it.
		Like, Roberto and Roberto Jr., it's father and son fighting over these women.
		You know what I mean?
unidentified		You should hire someone to just commentate.
unidentified		Just commentate what they're doing.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's a good idea.
unidentified		I wonder if Rosario's walking in now.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Do a clip for us.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Just get hire someone to sit there all day watching and just telling people what's happening.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		You have to get a bunch of different angles and then really dramatize it with music and have like testimonials with the chickens in front of the camera.
unidentified		All right.
unidentified		All right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let's read more.
		That's who we got.
		All right.
		David C says, I know it was a couple of weeks ago, but Steven Crowder did a video about Wikipedia and how to become an editor and their bias test.
		You should check it out.
		Interesting.
		Jeff Rocha says, all government is just theater on a world stage.
		All governments are in this thing together, and all of us normal people are just their victims.
		You know, I started thinking about how conspiratorial you can get, and it's like, is Russia doing this invasion on purpose to destroy gas prices so they can get us off of fuel and be like, Joe Biden's gonna come out and be like, gas prices are at $10, we need a green new deal right now!
		And then everyone's going to be like, please, please, anything to alleviate the suffering.
		All because of that dang Putin who was on the World Economic Forum website up until a couple weeks ago.
		Or is that stupid?
		And Vladimir Putin is just a proud guy who was like, don't know, don't care.
		And they're like, no, Putin, what are you doing?
unidentified		Stop.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		They've got to know that nation building doesn't work at this point.
		So like to put all these weapons on NATO, on the borders of Russia, I think that they know it creates instability.
		So who's making this call at this point?
		It can't be government.
		It's got to be some sort of corporate authority, extrajudicial authority.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Koldilock says, what you don't understand, Tim, is that this is normal in war.
		It's called soldiers of fortune, or better known as mercenary work.
		This sort of thing has been around since even before the Greek Empire.
		I believe they're referring to the foreign soldiers who are fighting on both sides of the conflict.
		The Syrians are mercenaries, right?
		We have the Hessians with the British Empire, right?
		They send them out here.
		When you have NATO countries sending civilians to volunteer to fight for Ukraine, these aren't mercenaries.
		They are people who are choosing to come and fight for a global institution or something.
		That's the crazy thought.
		That people aren't simply being like, I'm not part of Ukraine, leave me out of it.
		No, you have like Latvia, you have Poland, you have the US, UK citizens being like, we'll all team up and have this NATO alliance of civilians volunteering.
		And I'm just kind of like, If you're given fighter jets, money, and weapons, and your citizens are fighting, I kind of feel like, how is that not war?
		You know?
		Like, imagine if, you know, your country and the neighboring country is like, I didn't declare war on you, my people just are invading your country!
		Granted, they're not invading Ukraine, they're being welcomed in, so.
		It is different.
		It's like joining the resistance, I guess.
		Kind of crazy.
		Glenn says, Tim, if a U.S.
		citizen goes to fight for Ukraine, they should be stripped of their U.S.
		citizenship so they can't be used as a POW or hostage.
		It's interesting.
		Russia has put out a statement saying any foreign fighter in Ukraine will not be treated as a POW.
		They'll be treated as criminals because they are not enemy combatants by international law.
		They're just random people shooting at their soldiers.
		I'm paraphrasing basically what they were saying, which is crazy.
unidentified		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And that's what I'm referring to.
		I understand that Russia recruiting Syrian soldiers to fight for them is like mercenary fighters.
		Sort of.
		It is a little different.
		time our generation has seen it through since a real war hasn't happened for 30 plus years,
		though Latvia sanctioning it is unusual. Right. When and that's what I'm referring to. I understand
		that Russia recruiting Syrian soldiers to fight for them is like mercenary fighters, sort of.
		It is a little different. It's like, it's, you know, but the 16,000 foreign fighters going to
unidentified		Ukraine is weird. All right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Oh, Hell No says, it may not be the apocalypse, but all signs point to a hell of a lot darker future than the deniers want to accept.
		Don't ever water down the truth.
		Yeah, man, that's crazy, man.
unidentified		I mean, they even said it, World Economic Forum, prepare for a angrier world.
		Isn't that what he said?
		Yeah.
		Interesting.
		I didn't see that.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You guys ever watch the movie Kingsman?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		No, I didn't.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The bad guy is played by Sam Jackson, and he's a tech billionaire who wants to purge the world because of climate change.
unidentified		Bruh.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's the correct response.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But he's the bad guy.
unidentified		I don't know.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I got this article that says that transgender women are stuck in Ukraine because they're not letting men leave the country.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And it says male on their identification.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, they are male.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But, you know, that's not to make a comment on any of the trans issues.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		If the government of Ukraine is saying, biologically male or female... It is an example of people kind of dancing around the United States about their gender, but when it comes down to it and there's war, men fight and women, you know, women can also fight, but men fight.
		Like, men are held to fight.
		It doesn't matter what gender you feel like you are, if you've got the biology.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'll tell you this.
		I mean, my view is, we talked about, like, women in the Air Force when that whole thing happened with Tucker.
		I was like, If you have a hundred soldiers, if you have a hundred men and a hundred women, and we're no longer... Well, actually, I'm gonna add something to this thought.
		But if we're at a point where we have absolute luxury and feminism, you have a hundred men and a hundred women, and only your men are fighting, and I have a hundred men and a hundred women, and I got a hundred men and fifty women fighting, I got more soldiers than you.
		And women can pull triggers too.
		So, maybe they won't be as effective in certain ways, compared to what the men are able to endure.
		I'm talking about lifting things or climbing things.
		But I got some female snipers that seem to get the job done.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And they can carry ammo, that's for sure.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They can provide for the war effort, they can do stuff.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That being said, considering the birth rate is in rapid decline for many of these countries, they probably would like to, you know, not have their women die in the war.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you can send your kids too, but you don't want to do that either.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Well, this is actually something that was said to me by a female friend of mine who is in the army in a non-combat role.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		She doesn't believe women should be in combat roles because you have to be able to carry your fellow soldier if they are wounded and it's much more difficult for women to carry men.
unidentified		Mm-hmm.
unidentified		Exactly.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But I think they're, you know, the way I see it is if you've got a hundred men and 50 are support roles and 50 are combat, and I got a hundred men all combat and 50 women in support roles, I'm better off.
		I got more fighters than you.
		You know, like whatever your view of it is.
		But then again, with declining birth rates, maybe you might want to not have women die.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		A pyrrhic victory.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Women are the ones with babies.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We have one rooster who made all of these babies.
unidentified		Yep.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So technically, 12 we ordered because we're trying to get some genetic diversity.
		But we had one rooster and he sired himself 44 eggs right now.
		That's a lot.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Very Zeus-like of him.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Can we rename him Zeus?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		That's a good name, yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		A lot of kids.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So he's already got, I think, 8 children.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Genghis Khan.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		He's already got 8 kids.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And he's got 44 kids incubating.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		One guy!
unidentified		Beast.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well that's how it works.
		If we had 10 roosters, we'd have no babies.
		You know?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Oh yeah, too much competition.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Sean says, thanks for having on Gothics.
		Highly recommend your viewers follow her.
		She's a hardworking woman that dishes out some of the best content I've seen in the last two years.
		She's informative, humble, and at times, extremely funny.
unidentified		At times?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		At times.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Wow, I didn't know that.
unidentified		You know what?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		From you, Sean.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Here he pays 20 bucks to compliment you, and that's your response.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Well, the comment wasn't good enough.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Not good enough.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Oh, here's another one.
		Elizabeth Carmela says, Gothic.
		She's wicked smart.
		I've learned so much from watching her.
		Such a beautiful person inside and out.
		Love her style too.
		Always looking fresh.
unidentified		That person has to be from Rhode Island if they're saying wicked.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Wicked.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Wicked smat.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Wicked smat.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Filthy Hippie says, is it a conspiracy to not tell people you pooped your pants when you were five years old?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't understand.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Depends on how much of an effort there is to cover it up.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Was it illegal what you did?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		I don't know, yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let's grab some more Super Chats.
		Kenny Cab says Trump should have released all the JFK tapes and freed Assange.
		That is correct.
		That is absolutely correct.
		The Ultimate Naruto Fanboy says, yo, there's something on your mic, Tim.
		It was a stink bug.
unidentified		It was, yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And he has been removed, unfortunately for him.
		At least stink bugs are doofy.
		They're kind of funny.
		And the chickens love eating them.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		They do?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I heard that in China they eat them because they taste like apples.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, they smell really bad though.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Too scared to try.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's like stink bugs.
		I see them around.
		Used to have them at my house when I was younger.
		They're just, they're so stupid.
		They're not threatening.
		You know, like there's other pests like roaches or spiders.
		They're kind of like creepy and almost a little sinister looking.
		And the stink bugs are just stupid.
		Like, I can't be upset with them.
		They're just these bumbling little idiots.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you'll like watch him walk around and you and you'll like put your finger be near it and it just jumps and kamikazes to the ground and just Okay, yeah, no, they just jump off the walls and fall I really can't really slow and they're really dumb.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but when they release that stink oil, yeah, you gotta be gentle I get that freak out and they release the stink bugs Yeah, well, when you're out here in the summer and there's like 3,000 of them, last year was crazy bad.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		It was really bad.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Because they're spreading all over.
		And now there's that other bug.
		I forgot what it's called.
		It's another Chinese bug.
		And it, like, destroys trees.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Awesome.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They have the weird spotted wings or whatever.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I can't remember.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think that's his fifth dimensional war, fifth generational war, the stink bug invasion.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Sending invasive species to destroy our crops.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		They only arrived like 20 years ago.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		They weren't around and it was in Pennsylvania where they landed the stink bug infestation.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Now they're everywhere.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Do you guys remember at the beginning of the pandemic, people were getting seeds in the mail from China?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		No?
unidentified		People were planting them according to reports.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		People were randomly getting packages in the mail they didn't order and it had seeds and they'd be like, Oh, I'm going to plant them.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And they would.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		What the heck?
unidentified		Idiots, lie!
		Right, yeah!
		Wait, so what were they?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		We never heard anything.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Genetically modified plants that emit 5G waves to choke out.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Well, like kudzu in the deep south is really bad for them.
		Really bad.
		I don't know where that came from.
		Probably not China.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Ryan B says there's a bug on Tim's mic.
		Dark Matter says that stink bug on Tim's mic is distracting.
		Did you guys watch when I flicked him off or was the camera not on?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		No, I don't think I saw it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Send him on his merry way.
		Tadpole says, overpopulation of deer is partly caused by taking best and strongest from herd.
		They make up with quantity the loss of quality.
		Maybe we've lost quality.
		Interesting.
		Scary thought.
		King Tesseract says, Republicans winning 2022 is the best thing that could happen to the Democrats.
		If conservatives want to make a stand, they shouldn't vote for Republicans.
		Not Senators, Reps, Prez.
		Only vote for a Rep, a Republican governor willing to call for a convention of states.
		I see what you're saying.
		I could see that.
		basically the more Democrats are in control, the worse it is for them.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They absorb all the blame.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		I could see that.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Yeah, he's probably arguing we're just going to have a collapse either way and if Republicans
		are in charge, it's going to look like it was their fault.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Kyle Miller says, I like how in two months we went from possible civil war to World War
		Crazy times!
		Also, here's my super chat worth two gallons of gas.
		It's ten bucks.
		We didn't go from possible civil war to World War III.
		We went from possible civil war with World War III.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's like a side dish.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		So great.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Main course.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		World War 2 is getting a sequel.
		Civil War is getting a sequel.
		It's all happening at once.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We just keep rebooting everything.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The writers of this season.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		World War 2 Part 2.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Is that what this is?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		World War 2 Part 2.
		World War 2!
		World War Two. Two! Yeah. Eddie says get Tim, what is this, get Tim instead of city urban liberal types. I
unidentified		2!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I prefer crazy urban neurotic tools.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		No.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		City urban liberal type as a statement is not offensive in any way.
		But when you put it together and you show the first letter of every word, it becomes offensive.
		That's kind of, you know, that's the thing.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		That is as offensive as theirs.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Madison Lynn says, Ian, we only follow Incan laws in my house.
		You're weird.
		And that was slander.
		I love you anyways.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I love you, sir.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Incan laws.
		Conspiracy theories.
		People keep telling me I got a stink bug.
		I made a lot of them.
		You know what we should do?
		We should put stink bugs on here on purpose because we got a lot of super chats because of that.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		We know.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Cyrus Nershal says, War is going to happen.
		It's just a matter of time.
		The East, Russia and China and West, EU, NATO are fundamentally incompatible.
		The only question is how much damage is done to the world.
		I don't wanna look that up right now.
		That'd be nice.
		prices in Russia $2 a gallon for premium fact check me that you're someone with
		that up to dollars a gallon for gas in Russia well we'll see how things play
		out usually cost though Raymond G Stanley Jr.
		says, quote, don't make me stick up for Trump, end quote, LOL.
		That's how it went.
		There was a really funny comedy sketch by a guy who was titled, Stop Making Me Defend Trump.
		And it was like, he overhears someone saying something about Trump, and he's like, that's not true, that didn't happen.
		And they're like, why are you defending Trump?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Do you support him?
		No, no, no, no, that just, what you're saying isn't true.
		And they're like, you must be a Trump supporter.
		And he's like, ugh.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, gas prices are really low in Russia right now.
unidentified		Really?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		That's interesting, yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's because they produce a lot of gas.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, sure it is.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Travis says, Ian rolls a solid 100 tonight.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Keep on, brother man.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		All right, I'm gonna roll.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I'll let you know what I get.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Ashton Hamlet says, y'all should check out Inside Job on Netflix.
		Stupid, funny kind of show about conspiracies in the deep state.
		Thanks for being real and honest.
		I have seen it.
		It was funny-ish.
		What'd you get?
unidentified		A 17.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Oof.
unidentified		Oof.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Where's the other one?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Give me your best.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		All right, I got the 100-sided die.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let's do it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Wait, I feel good things coming.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Water's all over the table.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It is a... 27.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Almost a 17, though.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Almost.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It was almost a 17.
		17 was one the other direction.
		In lockstep.
unidentified		Yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You guys want to roll?
unidentified		Let me roll.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		There he goes.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They're basically just like, this is a weapon.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, they're like balls.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		So cool.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		So heavy.
unidentified		That was huge.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		What was that?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		They rolled it off the table.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it rolled off the table.
unidentified		Okay, here we go.
unidentified		It's on you.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		What do you guys think is coming?
unidentified		I don't know, it's still going.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Type in the chat.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, everyone guess.
unidentified		Mine's chasing yours.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Oh my gosh, the battle!
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		These things are so weird.
unidentified		They roll wherever they want.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Did you roll an 80?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Let's see, let's see.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		And we have... 83?
unidentified		83.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Nice.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		It looks like an 81.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		83 plus 17, 100.
		Nice, there you go.
		There you go.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		You guys rolled great, good work.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Together we rolled 100, that was good.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Here's a good one.
		Wounded Man says, Buying a freeze dryer a few years ago to save our leftovers and extra chicken eggs seems like a good idea now to some of our city friends who laughed at us for getting it, calling us crazy preppers, but hey, I hope the bugs will be tasty.
		I mean, a lot of people are chatting up random numbers.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Can we get refrigeration units that are like on the wall so they don't take up floor space?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Oh, interesting.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		We should get a lot of refrigeration.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They still occupy lateral space.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's okay.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Even if they're not on the floor.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Not ground space.
		Like put them up high.
		Maybe you can pull it open like that or something.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Probably exists.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We have a gigantic freezer full of meat and we can't stack them.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's the problem.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And pizzas.
unidentified		And pizzas.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Because we got Giordano's.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Very important.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I like ordering hot dogs and pizza from Chicago.
unidentified		Okay.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's very expensive.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think I'm going to eat one of those later.
unidentified		But it's delicious.
unidentified		Import hot dogs?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So, uh, you know, we have parties where we get hot dogs and pizza flown in from Chicago.
unidentified		Okay.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Barack.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What we actually do is Portillo's and Giordano's and Lou Malnati's.
		Cause Chicago hot dogs and pizza are very famous.
		The Portillo's hot dogs, man.
		And then you come with the peppers and tomatoes and the celery salt and everybody makes them.
		We're going to be grilling Jimmy John's on Saturday for my birthday.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Grilling Jimmy Jones?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Grilling, yeah.
		So we were trying to, like, I was asked what I wanted for my birthday and I said, I would like to order a bunch of Jimmy Johns, turn on the grill, and then open... Take them apart?
		No, just open them and grill them for, like, 30 seconds so they get, like, crisp.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Oh, like paninis?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well, not kind of, you're not pressing them, you're just open-facing them so, like, it melts and then... So we're gonna do that.
unidentified		Sounds great!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And for the whole week, nothing but Jimmy Jones.
unidentified		What is a Jimmy Jones?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Jimmy John's?
unidentified		Sandwiches.
unidentified		Sandwich?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Just say a sandwich.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But Jimmy John's is a special company.
unidentified		What am I going to get, Subway?
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		No way.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Subway.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Come on, Jimmy John's, man.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Quizno's good, too.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		The business was founded by Jimmy John.
unidentified		Hey.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Leo Tau.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I heard stories that he used to walk into the franchise and he has a credit card that says Jimmy John on it and he can swipe it at any restaurant.
		Like he'll walk into a Jimmy John's.
		I don't know if this is true.
		Someone I know who works there told me it was true.
		That he walks in and he's like, I'm Jimmy.
		And then he just like hands him the card and they swipe it and it gives him free food.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		The history is after high school, his dad gave him the ultimatum, join the military or start a business.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		So he started Jimmy John's.
unidentified		Smart guy.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I don't know why that got me, man.
		Just the idea of him walking, I'm Jimmy.
		It's like anyone walking anywhere before they make a transaction and going, I'm Jimmy.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I guess he was proud.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		He's like, it's me, I own this franchise.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I own the name.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		What about Papa John?
unidentified		Is he going there?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm Papa.
		We had Papa John here, and we ordered pizzas, and he explained to us everything wrong with the pizza.
		No way.
		Well, because he was like, the way the pizza's got to be made is specific.
		And so he's like, see right here how the crust is not rising?
		That means they had a problem with this.
		And over here, the sauce didn't go all the way.
		And he was explaining.
unidentified		Scientist.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Because he takes his pizza very seriously and he autographed a pizza box for us.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		We have kind of an open invite to go down to his house and do a pizza cooking contest.
unidentified		That'd be fun.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I really want to learn.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		If we ever have time.
		Alright, Samuel Bonin says, I started making the NPC game you mentioned on Friday.
		Still a prototype but adding features.
		What is the best way to talk, share with you?
		Tweet it at Ian.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		There you go.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You heard the man.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, what's your Twitter?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Ian Crosland on Twitter.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Send him a tweet.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What was the NPC game we were talking about?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Like lemmings with NPC faces.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Oh yeah, that's such a good idea.
		You have to, it has to be political though.
		So it has to be like, you make them campaign and do stuff to like get to the level.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		You have to like, yeah, shake a protest sign.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Throw a Molotov.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Instead of, yeah, like, so instead of where like one lemming, you can do the stop lemming where he like puts his hands up.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You make it so that there's like an antifa lemming holding a sign and like protesting and they turn the other way.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Or something like that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You could make them, if they get overworked, they could be angry.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't know if you can you only do a limited number of jobs on a lemming or can you just do infinite infinitely one one they can do one job at a time but then some of the jobs are permanent so if you make them a stopper lemming they can never move again right a digger i think these forever no no yeah he digs until he stops right like so he'll dig until he hits a chamber and then he stops digging So if you need to destroy something in front of the lemming, they have like the pickaxe one, and this one, it would be an antifa with like a baseball bat and he's vandalizing, bashing his way through.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Dude, you could literally, well if it's a little dark, you could like, you could suicide the lemmings.
		Like, there was an option to explode them.
		No, I know.
		And it blows stuff up.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		There's a lot of options.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And then you could have grappling hook NPCs.
		They make ropes and they climb up.
		This game sounds like a lot of fun.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Sounds great.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's a good idea.
		Alright.
		Roberto Laura says, what a great sales pitch.
		Buy electric cars so when you think against the narrative, kill switch activated.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Seriously.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Elon's not going to be saying that anytime soon, you know.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Thankfully.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it was a hydrogen cell, though.
		It wasn't water.
		It was hydrogen cell cars.
		Honda had a hydrogen version of the Accord in the early 2000s that was for sale in California.
		There were only two to three stations across the whole state and never got traction.
		Featured on British Top Gear.
		Yeah, it was a hydrogen cell, though.
		It wasn't water.
		It was hydrogen cell cars.
		And it was a big deal, I remember, but never took off.
		Storm Viking says, Seamus looks like the Ben Affleck meme where he's smoking a cig and
		just has that look of why me.
		I love how you guys are doing a great job.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I hope I don't have that edge.
		I'm very blessed.
		I have a very good life.
		It is a good meme though.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Last night Seamus got back.
		He came in late, like 2 a.m.
		And I was like, who are the elites?
		I was just like, really?
		And he was like, the elites are the people that will never get in trouble for anything they do.
		And it was just mind warping.
		Thank you, Seamus.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you're welcome.
		Well, it was funny.
		I was driving out from an area where I've been staying because I wanted to be back at the house in the morning and I actually came very close to hitting a deer and fortunately didn't.
		And I told Ian about it and he was like, it's great.
		We had this whole conversation about the elites.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Listen to this.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Objective says, in Japan this weekend, the Sesshoseki, a large stone that in mythology seals the Tamamo no Me, the evil demon nine-tailed fox, split in half, thus releasing the demon bad omen.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		That does seem like a bad omen.
unidentified		What?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		I'm gonna look that up.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The Kyuubi, the nine-tailed fox.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		How do you spell that?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Sesshoseki, how do you spell that?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		S-E-S-S-H-O-U-dash-S-E-K-I.
		It sealed the nine-tailed fox.
		You know, I know this is fake news because everybody knows the nine-tailed fox was sealed inside of Naruto.
		Sorry, half of it was.
		The other half was sealed in the stomach of death.
		But, you know, I don't want to be nitpicking.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		T-Kan says, no man is more evil than the one with a righteous cause.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Is it true?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		The Sesshoseki, uh, is it split open?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I was just reading about it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's the apocalypse.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Snopes.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Why would it be on Snopes?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Because they're fact-checking it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They are fact-checking it?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, they are.
		From seven hours ago.
		What?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I bet it's fake news.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		It's true.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It is true.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		It's true, yeah.
unidentified		What?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Split in half.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Revelation is out.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Whatever they're saying about the beast and all that stuff, no, this is the true sign.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		The Killing Stone is split?
unidentified		Yeah.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Are you looking at Snopes?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		How did it split?
unidentified		I don't know.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Just abruptly just ruptured?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Wait, wait.
		In March 2022, a photograph was circulated on social media of a famous rock in Japan called Sesshoseki, or Killing Stone, that supposedly housed an evil spirit.
		This picture was often attached to a caption claiming it was recently found split in half, that the spirit, or the nine-tailed fox, had been released.
		Oh my gosh.
		This is true.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It is true.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		As for the facts, while we have nothing concerning about the existence of the evil spirit, which is after all a mythical entity, we can say the Killing Stone truly split in half in March 2022.
		What?
		The world is over.
		It's it.
		We're done.
		We're done.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Maybe the evil spirits are here to help.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I have read every single... I'm looking for a bright side here.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		No, I don't see it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I have read every single chapter of Naruto.
		From the beginning to the end.
		So I can tell you that Nine-Tailed Fox.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		It's bad news.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I know a lot about whatever that means.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Whatever that is.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		So this is the spirit of the Nine-Tailed Fox is released?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I have no idea.
		I did read Naruto though.
		I started watching Attack on Titan recently because apparently Jordan Peterson said you had to.
		And I'm kind of like, it's cool, you know.
unidentified		Do I have to?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's like a weird show.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I wonder how many of the episodes he's seen because I got, I kind of got bored with it after a while.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you know.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Once the spectacle wore off of like the big heads and stuff.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The big heads!
		The giants which are crazy looking.
		One of my favorite memes was Attack on Hill and it was the King of the Hill characters as the Titans and Hank Hill had spatulas and the omnidirectional mobility.
unidentified		That was really good.
		I sell propane and propane accessories.
		I'll tell you what.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Alright, let's grab a couple more.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		I'm not sure that's what Roberto Jr.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Alright, let's grab some, let's grab a couple more.
		Noel P. Bones says, Roberto Jr., con.
		I'm not sure that's what Roberto Jr. is yelling.
unidentified		No.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let's see.
		Raymond G. Stanley Jr.
		says, no Jersey Mikes down there.
		You're missing out.
		We have Jersey Mikes.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		They're good, too.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They're good.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Firehouse subs are really good, too.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		So yeah, Quiznos are really good, too.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, all those sandwiches are good, but there's something about Jimmy John's.
		It's very basic.
		It's like, what do you get?
		You get lettuce, tomato, cheese, roast beef.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And I'm just like, that's kind of all I need.
		Firehouse is good, though.
		I like Firehouse.
		Okay, let's grab a couple more.
		What do we got here?
		Chris Wolney says, shout out from Loudoun County neighbor.
		Stink bugs are not as dumb and clumsy as cicadas.
		If they end up on their backs, they're done.
		Cicadas?
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Really?
unidentified		Cicadas are pretty dumb too.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		When the cicadas came out, it was awesome because the chickens, it was like,
		I feel bad for any chicken that was not around for the great cicada release, you know?
		Because chickens don't live that long.
		That means the chickens that are born today are probably never going to experience
		the awesomeness of cicadas.
		Because we'd walk to the tree line with gloves and a jar, and in 20 minutes we'd have 50 cicadas.
		And we would throw them in the chicken coop, and they would just annihilate them.
		And I was kind of thinking, imagine what it's like to be a cicada.
		And you come out of the ground, and you're like, after 17 years, I'm alive!
		And then a chicken just rips your head off.
		Or you get picked up and thrown to the gauntlet with a bunch of massive chickens.
		And you're like...
		And they just pack you?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think I might have found a picture of the Killing Stone split in half on Twitter from Lily0727K at L-I-L-Y.
		That's reliable.
		I trust her.
		Can't confirm or deny, but there's 577,000 retweets.
		We'll have to confirm or deny, but there's 577,000 retweets.
unidentified		All right, I'll just grab a couple more.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Go you to Sama says for that Naruto reference.
		I got, I got money.
		See, here's the thing, whenever I shout out an anime, people like super chat.
		So, uh, I tweeted something.
		What did I tweet?
		I can't remember what I tweeted.
unidentified		Uh, I tweeted, what was it about?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It was something about Attack on Titan.
		I can't remember what it was, but everyone was like, all of a sudden, now I really like your show.
		And I'm like, aha!
		I mentioned anime and people get happy.
		Okay, I can't read your name because it's a bunch of symbols.
		Vanguard and BlackRock run index funds that buy companies in proportion to their market size, including companies of companies.
		It's normal.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, so that's Berkshire Hathaway they're talking about?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		All right, let's just do one more.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's normal, I like how they put that in there.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Thorium nuclear, much safer than legacy uranium fission, designs used for depleted uranium weapons.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		May be my flat earth type theory, but strange to me why innovation seems stifled in nuclear energy.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, isn't that weird?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		There's a lot of weird stuff.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		A lot of technology seems to be not happening.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But let's do this.
		We will go and record our members-only segment, so if you haven't already, peck that like button and check out Chicken City on YouTube live right now!
		Literally, it is.
		It's live, non-stop, 24-7.
		And there's no lights because chickens need to sleep.
		And we do have the night vision cameras already, but they're not set up because we have to just slowly build up to that point.
		So subscribe to Chicken City if you want to just literally watch a live stream of chickens.
		But I was thinking it would be funny if we used the Chicken City feed as our, like, TimCast.com members chat room.
		So, like, when you go to TimCast.com as a member, it's just there will be an additional, like, next to everything you watch, a chat room, and it's just the same Chicken City chat.
		So some people will randomly be like, the roosters are yelling again, and they'll be like, I was talking about what Alex Jones was saying.
		And then someone might be like, there's very little difference, you know, they're both ranting.
		But yeah, go to TimCast.com, be a member.
		We're gonna have that member segment up at 11pm.
		You can follow the show at TimCast IRL, basically everywhere.
		You can follow me at TimCast.
		Gothics, do you want to shout anything out?
unidentified		Thank you guys for having me on, by the way.
		And you can follow me at gothicstv, pretty much everywhere.
		And that's about it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Cool.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		I'm Seamus Coghlan.
		I have a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes.
		We're going to be uploading a new cartoon tomorrow and then another one on Thursday.
		So please go check that out.
		Thank you very much for watching.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Ian Crossland, iancrossland.net.
		If you want to follow me on social media, really great to see you.
		And that Seamus, Seamus' last Freedom Tunes video was insanely awesome.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
seamus coughlin ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it was awesome.
lydia smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, so if you guys want to watch Chicken City, just enter Chicken City in YouTube and there's a little button at the top that says Live.
		You click that and you will be taken to our Chicken City.
		I cannot wait to have the infrared cameras up or the night vision cameras up.
		I think those are going up next.
		Stoked.
		Really glad we finally got it up.
		You guys can follow me on Twitter and Minds.com at Sarah Patchlitz.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We will see you all at TimCast.com.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Thanks for hanging out.

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