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March 10, 2022 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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Timcast IRL - Youtube Flags "Ukraine On Fire" Documentary w/ Ryan Long & Danny Polishchuk
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ian crossland
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tim pool
One of the latest documentaries, actually it's a fairly old documentary, but one of the documentaries getting a lot of attention right now is Ukraine on Fire.
And there are a lot of people saying that the documentary has been removed by YouTube.
That is not correct.
It has been flagged by YouTube.
But of course, this is making it pop up now on social media, generating a lot of buzz.
People want to know what happened in Ukraine in 2014.
There's a documentary by Oliver Stone that basically lays out a case for Western manipulation of the Ukrainian government, which is particularly interesting and a narrative that is particularly bad for the West.
So when you hear that it was banned, a lot of people, you know, their ears perk up.
We've got a couple stories.
But truth be told, my friends, it is my birthday.
So smash that like button.
And I got to be completely honest.
Allergies, man.
Wow.
I look out my window and I see all those little leaves are... Allergic to Women's Day.
It's the day when all of the trees just like, and then it's just I wake up and it's like my lungs feel like they're full of pollen.
And I was thinking like, maybe I'm getting sick, but I'm not sick.
I feel like spry, but it's just like, oh man, just itchy eyes and like, oh, my lungs feel bad.
Congested.
And it's just so brutal.
ryan long
So He sees a picture of a cat and his eyes start watering.
tim pool
He looked at Bucko downstairs and his eyes just popped out.
danny polishchuck
I literally, before I came here, I took my inhaler just in case.
ian crossland
I was in New York, above the trees.
I lived on Cypress Hill.
tim pool
Someone knocked Ian's camera.
Alright, well let's just get through this introduction real quick.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the latest episode of TimCast IRL.
We are live for you in the tri-state area just outside of Washington, D.C.
And joining us today to discuss a plethora of topics from culture and politics is the rapper with the latest hit single, Brian Stelter, Is a Sex Machine.
Ladies and gentlemen, Ryan Long.
ryan long
Yeah, you know what it is.
I just wanted to give a shout out to all my fans.
You know what it do, what it do.
We out here in the Tim Cass studio.
I just want to say that it was a little bit rude of Tim to have his birthday on the same day as International Women's Day.
I thought that was a little bit selfish of you.
danny polishchuck
It was yesterday.
ryan long
His birthday or Women's Day?
danny polishchuck
Women's Day.
ryan long
For me, I celebrate it for a week.
tim pool
Hold on.
Today's the day Biggie died.
ryan long
Oh, crap.
Interesting.
unidentified
Is that a metaphor?
ryan long
You know what I say?
It's notorious W-O-M-X-N.
So that's my rapper.
I'm little, little woman X-N.
danny polishchuck
What's the proper pronunciation of it?
ian crossland
Wimixin.
danny polishchuck
Wimixin?
ryan long
Wimixin.
And for me, what I would like to see happen for Women's Day is I think that they should make them eligible for the draft.
unidentified
Yes!
ryan long
No, they've worked hard.
They deserve it.
I would like to see Ukrainian women take up arms.
They've been forcing them to flee, and I don't think that's right.
tim pool
No, no, I gotta stop you, okay?
That is deeply offensive, this idea that women should just be eligible for the draft.
Women should be in every combat role.
Women can do the same thing as men can do.
And, you know, when we talk about how we should have more female CEOs, we need more women in combat positions.
In fact, I think every position could be filled by a woman.
ryan long
We need more female DOAs.
tim pool
D.O.A.s?
Is that what it is?
unidentified
Combat deaths?
danny polishchuck
P.O.W.s?
ryan long
Isn't that a term?
danny polishchuck
I don't think you refer to somebody as a D.O.A.
ryan long
Military Polish Jack.
danny polishchuck
I don't know.
unidentified
Anybody?
ryan long
That's the thing.
I don't know this but I have I have also, in solidarity with Ukraine, one small decision that I've made is I've given Danny a one month suspension from the Boys cast because he's from Russia.
tim pool
Whoa, you're Russian?
danny polishchuck
Well no, my parents are actually from Ukraine.
tim pool
Get out.
danny polishchuck
But they're Russian.
Beat it, pal.
I got it on both sides.
It's like the first... So I got it on both sides because... Wait, wait, hold on.
ian crossland
But your last name is Polish.
danny polishchuck
No, so it's Polishchok, which is Ukrainian.
So this is basically my whole life.
Everybody thought I was Polish.
And then I was like, I'm Russian.
And then when I was 20, excuse me, I found out that my parents... Getting nervous talking about this.
unidentified
No, my parents were like...
danny polishchuck
We're actually from Ukraine because it was the Soviet Union.
tim pool
Look at him trying to cover up.
ryan long
He's been telling everyone I'm Russian before and then all of a sudden he goes, I never said that.
danny polishchuck
No, no, no, but they are Russian.
tim pool
Wait, wait, so let's just, uh, do you guys want to introduce yourselves?
ryan long
Yeah.
tim pool
Just like normally.
ryan long
Ryan Long, rapper, podcaster, the boys cast.
New special out on YouTube, White Immigrant.
Go check it out.
YouTube.com slash Ryan Long comedy just came out hot off the presses.
danny polishchuck
Yeah.
And Danny Polischuk, comedian.
I also host The Boys Cast with Ryan.
I have a live calling show Tuesday nights called Low Value Mail on YouTube.
tim pool
And yeah, right on, we got Ian.
ian crossland
What's up, everybody?
Ian Crosland.
Slid over to the right a little bit and got my floating UFO over here.
tim pool
Oh, because your camera's been knocked.
unidentified
Yeah.
danny polishchuck
I think I did that, by the way.
ian crossland
I think someone threw an elbow.
tim pool
We did it on purpose.
ryan long
I think Trump slid him over to the right a little bit.
danny polishchuck
I blame Trump.
ian crossland
I usually blame Trump.
ryan long
Yeah, he does.
unidentified
All right.
ian crossland
I love you, Donald.
lydia smith
Yeah, I just wanted the UFO to be the star of the show.
Unfortunately, Ian got kicked out of the picture.
Anyway, we got it fixed.
But yeah, I'm also here pushing buttons at the corner.
Love these guys.
I'm excited for tonight.
unidentified
All right.
tim pool
Before we get started, how about you want to just you want to fix that camera while I complain about stuff?
No, no.
Before we get started, head over to TimCast.com, become a member and help support our work.
We had a bunch of journalists, and because you are members, we are able to keep them all employed.
We're expanding.
We're building a new building.
We're going to be doing a lot of really, really cool stuff.
So, I just want to say, it is my birthday today, and I'm eternally grateful to everybody who has made all this possible.
Very much so, it is a dream come true to be able to complain on the internet.
To go from, man, like 10 years ago, to just walking around with my phone, Six, seven years ago, I'm putting a little GoPro 4 on top of my monitor to here we are.
We've got all these cameras.
We've got cameras up there.
We've got these famous comedians here making us laugh.
It's just kind of surreal.
And everybody who watches, everybody who signs up at the website is making this possible.
And it's incredible.
So I am eternally grateful to everybody and we're going to keep doing our best.
We're going to make sure we have excellent standards.
I check the news every day personally.
I send notes to the team.
We do updates and corrections all the time because I want to make sure we have really strong standards for our news.
We're going to be expanding.
We've got on-the-ground reporters, and it's all thanks to you.
We're going to have a members-only segment coming up around 11 or so p.m., and I think that'll be the real treat for everybody.
Because I imagine that Ryan and Danny are going to get, you know, I imagine when we're like off YouTube, you guys are just like really awful people.
ryan long
No, it's going to be wild.
danny polishchuck
No, we're awful people.
ryan long
I want to give a shout out to all your viewers, too.
And anyone who wants to subscribe for more Tim Cutts comment, it's just patreon.com slash theboyscast, and he appreciates it.
We all appreciate it.
There's lots of content over there.
His birthday present.
tim pool
Let's start by just touching on this stuff with Ukraine a little bit and then I think we're just gonna chill.
We got a bunch of weird stories.
There's this guy who like punched a 77 year old man in the face because he's had a racial slur to him.
ryan long
My stepdad.
tim pool
And now he's like under house arrest.
So it's an interesting cultural issue with like race and stuff.
danny polishchuck
I can't wait to find out whose side I'm on.
tim pool
Yeah, right.
No, exactly.
And then you have the director of Black Panther.
They thought he was robbing a bank because he walked in with a mask on and sunglasses and gave a note to the teller.
But we'll talk about this stuff.
Just have a good time.
We're chilling.
Some people were saying, like, Tim, take the day off.
It's your birthday.
And I'm like, this will be my day off, hanging out with Ryan, Danny, and Lydia.
ryan long
He's going to party like it's his birthday.
tim pool
I'm gonna sit here and mostly just, like, relax and you guys can talk and, you know, entertain everybody.
danny polishchuck
We'll just let the allergies take over your body.
tim pool
Oh, it's brutal, man.
I took allergy medicine and it worked for a little bit.
ryan long
Just sit down, put some headphones on, listen to the sweet sounds of Lindsey Graham telling you why we need to fight Russia.
tim pool
That's right.
We got chicken.
ryan long
The only way that I chill.
tim pool
We got Chicken City up.
lydia smith
Yeah, we did.
ryan long
What's Chicken City?
danny polishchuck
Oh, the chickens!
tim pool
Oh, it's so valuable.
It's the live stream of the chickens.
ryan long
I thought you were referring to Moscow.
unidentified
No.
tim pool
No, we have them and you can watch the chickens, you know.
Do you have coyotes on here?
We do, but because we have a dog, and he dumps all over the lawn, and my brother won't clean it up, it keeps the coyotes and the bears away.
ian crossland
It's a win-win.
tim pool
No, it's like a lose-win.
It's like, dude, clean up.
danny polishchuck
Well, it seems like if you live in places where you have chicken coops, unless you're in the city or something.
ian crossland
We had hawks at one point, but we built a mesh.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, you gotta get them really solid in there, right?
tim pool
Well, we still have hawks.
But we still there was like a hawk attack.
danny polishchuck
You have a someone you should get someone from us get a sniper's nest That's just always watching them the chickens chickens.
ryan long
What happens I get about 24 hour around the clock Let's get a hundred and then you sacrifice them and then you start is that why you need a constant flow coming in?
Sacrificing to the YouTube gods.
tim pool
We have 56 of them incubating right now.
Yeah 56 plus two babies.
unidentified
I should have got 69 69 That would've been cool.
tim pool
Let's talk about this Ukraine stuff.
Let's jump into the story.
We got this from Washington Examiner.
YouTube flags Oliver Stone's latest Ukraine documentary.
Now, I don't know when this came out.
There's a trailer for it.
It's a 2016 documentary.
Ukraine on Fire by Oliver Stone.
They put this warning on it, age restricting it.
Now, there's a lot of tweets here.
We got this one from Rumble.
They say, YouTube removed the documentary Ukraine on Fire.
We believe the public should decide what it sees, not Google execs.
We're proud to announce the producers uploaded the film to Rumble, enabling anyone who wishes to view it.
Well, I don't think it's taken down.
But they've also flagged trailers, and people have started uploading this en masse to YouTube.
So if you search for it now, you can see a bunch of new uploads of this documentary.
And it basically talks about, there's this weird... There's a dry sand effect.
Yeah, there's a leaked phone call of Victoria Nuland talking about who the president of Ukraine's going to be.
I think you were mentioning that, right?
danny polishchuck
Yeah, yeah.
She had some picks on who she wanted to install.
tim pool
And then it happened, right?
Is that what it was?
danny polishchuck
Yeah, I believe so.
tim pool
The crazy thing is, you guys see that story about the biolabs and all that stuff?
danny polishchuck
Yeah, well, we were talking about it before earlier before but yeah, like she they were Rubio was like grilling her and then she's like she kind of was sheepishly like Yeah, we're worried about them The biolabs might fall into the hands of the Russians.
tim pool
What was that?
If you go to the US Embassy in Ukraine's actual .gov website, it says the US built two biolabs, level two, specifically for food safety and consumer protection.
But then it talks about how they're researching pathogens and stuff.
So I certainly think the idea... Just doing a bit of gain of function.
I don't know about that.
That's the thing, right?
So if Russia comes out and they're like, they're doing gain of function in Ukraine, I'm like, that's how the fact checkers are able to dismiss this.
Because all we know is that the website and the US government said like, oh, there's pathogens here.
It could just be like they're researching, like they claim it's the biological threat reduction program to make sure people don't get sick or something.
ian crossland
Reducing botulism.
tim pool
Well, that's a toxin, I mean, right?
Or is that it's a fungus or something?
danny polishchuck
How many bio labs does Ukraine have in America?
unidentified
420.
tim pool
Danny was just showing us some wild stuff before of the old videos of Zelensky doing the Roman salute as a Nazi.
ryan long
Oh, yeah, he was Danny was just showing us some wild stuff before of the the old videos of oh, yeah
tim pool
The lens eat doing the Roman salute as a not pretty crazy.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, so well mostly joking about it He's like we sure have a lot of Nazis here
And everybody's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
ryan long
It's one of those.
But then I thought even crazier is like, oh, you know, Obama's government, we're going to have to we're going to join NATO.
But obviously as their puppet and everyone's like, it's funny because it's true.
ian crossland
This is the Ukrainian president before he was president.
danny polishchuck
Yeah.
Back when he was just a comedian.
tim pool
The conspiracy theory is that he's a comedian who played the Ukrainian president on a TV show.
And so they asked him to actually do it because they knew that he could act.
lydia smith
Right.
ryan long
Or he's like, well, I mean, it's not really a conspiracy theory.
That's kind of what happened.
danny polishchuck
But his approval rating was like super low before this.
I was reading something like my actually my mom was saying, but it's like less than 20%.
ryan long
How many people's approval rating right now is skyrocketing because of war talk?
unidentified
His!
That's the secret ingredient.
ryan long
Dude, it's legitimately, imagine you have a girlfriend, and you guys hate each other, and she's like, you're the worst, I'm gonna break up, and then someone comes into the house and you have to fight them off.
Yes, exactly.
And the movie always, you know what, you're not so bad, now I realize why I loved you in the first place.
tim pool
You know, I'll let you in on a, I was reading this thing, and it said that men can use fear to simulate attraction, So, like, what you're saying is... Turn the lights off!
No, no, they say, like, if you want to go on a date, bring them to a rickety bridge.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
tim pool
Yeah, for real.
unidentified
Crack your knuckles a lot on a date.
ryan long
And don't tell her either.
Tell the girl, hey, listen, I have a nice night planned for you and sort of drive out to the middle of the forest, pretend the engine broke down.
Have a stereo playing some squeaky sounds, find a knife, stuff like that.
She can't be scared of you.
Is this blood on the hood?
tim pool
No, there was actually an article that claimed that.
That if you bring them to a high location, like the observatory of the Sears Tower or something, the observation deck, or you bring them over to those bridges where the floor is glass, it'll make their hearts beat faster and faster.
danny polishchuck
You want to trigger a flight response.
tim pool
No, for real.
That's what they claimed.
ryan long
Bring them out into the middle of a lake on a canoe and then sort of dive down.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, so what's it gonna be?
tim pool
It's always sunny.
The implication.
Is that the Dennis system?
No, that wasn't the Dennis system.
ryan long
The implication of the boat.
tim pool
He was like, you bring them out on a boat to the middle of the lake or the ocean, and then, you know, because of the implication, they're like, what implication?
You're on a boat.
No, but there's like, um, I'll tell you this for that stuff.
ryan long
I mean, that's why you pay a guy to come, you know, show up and be like, give me all your money.
And then you karate chop him off.
tim pool
Or you like, you know, if you're dating a blind chick, you can just, you can do the whole thing yourself.
ryan long
You know, you can be like, I'm generally dating a blind chick.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
But, uh, the crazy thing about this idea is, like, imagine this.
Like, you're making a joke about how some dude might bring a woman out to the middle of nowhere on a rickety bridge because he's trying to manipulate her.
But think about a guy who's dumb enough to actually do that, and it works out, and he has no idea what's going on.
You know what I mean?
danny polishchuck
Yeah, he doesn't put two and two together, like, why that worked.
He just goes, yeah.
tim pool
So then it works out for him and then he ends up marrying this woman and then there's the dude who's like, I planned that and y'all hate me for it.
So if you're conscious of what you're doing to manipulate, you're a really bad person.
ryan long
Everything is gross.
Well, I mean, everything.
That's like a human rule that you're saying.
The same as when you watch cuteness or any sort of thing like that.
As soon as, you know, like when you're watching a baby being cute, it's okay.
But then as soon as someone's doing it on purpose where you go, I know it's cute when I kind of do this and they always do it, it's like, Ugh, it's gross.
danny polishchuck
Let's test that.
Someone get me a pacifier.
lydia smith
No, nope, not cute.
ryan long
That wouldn't be cute if you did it on accident.
Well, anything conscious is far more disgusting.
lydia smith
True.
ian crossland
Yeah.
I was just looking up oxytocin.
It looks like oxytocin is not only the love chemical, but also can make people feel extreme negative feelings too.
This is from the Huffington Post.
I don't know how much research has been done into this.
How many posts?
tim pool
Probably none.
ian crossland
Maybe this is part of why putting people in scary situations.
ryan long
What does the Huffington Post think about Tim's date plan of bringing them into the middle of the forest?
lydia smith
It's a pretty good date plan.
tim pool
No, no, the dentist system.
ryan long
To get them dripping.
Hold on, I know it's a real, I know you, here's, how about this one?
You bring him into the house and then you say you have to go to the bathroom and then you run out to the car and come back in a scream mask.
unidentified
Yes.
tim pool
The actual idea was to bring him to a scary movie.
Invite him in a day and then bring him to the movies and go see a horror film.
ryan long
Or turn up if you want to dial up.
danny polishchuck
That would be a good plan in the 70s.
tim pool
Now you gotta do it like Michael Jackson did in Thriller and be a werewolf.
Actually threaten them and scare them.
ian crossland
Like augmented reality glasses?
ryan long
No, I'm kidding.
ian crossland
You can always offer a pair of glasses when they come over.
ryan long
Or hire a team of hackers to do cyber warfare on your bank accounts while you're there.
Oh, that's a good idea.
tim pool
Can you imagine that if some guy, like, you hire a team, maybe this is a good skit or a bit, a guy hires like 10 people and he tries convincing his date that he's, you know, a special agent.
ryan long
Yeah.
tim pool
And it's like, the Russians have come for him because he's got information about the war or something.
ryan long
You have your keyboards and she goes, those aren't hooked up to anyone.
You go, shh, they're new style keyboards.
danny polishchuck
No, all your boys, like right when the check comes, all the guys come and they go, we gotta go, he's gotta go.
tim pool
No, you're like fighting people.
You like fight your way out of this restaurant.
And then you're like, quick, get in the car.
ryan long
If you want to live, you'll come with me.
tim pool
And she, like, screams and punches you in the bottom of the lungs.
ryan long
In the trunk, yeah.
ian crossland
You get in the trunk.
In the trunk.
danny polishchuck
That's the Tinder swindler too.
tim pool
Tinder swindler?
ryan long
Wasn't that guy just like... So if you're listening and you're looking for dating tips... Hey, Ryan, you got a moment.
Pop him in the trunk.
unidentified
Oh, jeez.
ryan long
A lot, though.
tim pool
I said, Ryan, you got them all day.
ryan long
The Tinder Swindler?
I don't know if you heard, but I swindled the Tinder Swindler.
ian crossland
Did you?
Who?
ryan long
Well, he does cameos, and it's $300, but it's like $1,000 if you want it for promotional purposes.
But then I weaseled my not-promotional-purposes one.
tim pool
But you actually hired him?
ryan long
I got him to come.
He goes, congrats on your special.
Well, that's been my favorite thing with the Tinder Swindler is that his whole thing was to his girlfriend.
It always goes, my enemies are after me, right?
So I've been loving saying that to everyone, like my chick or whatever.
It's like, baby, you have to get the food.
My enemies are after me.
You don't understand.
I can't be home by 10.
My enemies are after me.
You could be definitely saying that.
Like, hey, the stream was late.
You know, our enemies are after us over here at TimCast.
ian crossland
That's a good idea, man.
ryan long
Yeah, we got swatted.
tim pool
He sort of has been doing that.
But like, while the show's going?
ryan long
Sorry we charged you double for the premium content this week.
danny polishchuck
Our enemies are- How many times do you need to be swatted before they show up?
You go, just grab a seat.
Let's interview you.
ian crossland
I'm going to have food waiting for me.
tim pool
Actually, it was like, should we just get like a thing of donuts?
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
And you know, and some people were like, maybe donuts is just too offensive.
Throw them at the cops.
danny polishchuck
That's like beef jerky, I think.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Or, you know, just a coffee cake.
unidentified
Yeah.
ian crossland
Something that's sealed.
So they're not like, what's in this, you know?
tim pool
Homemade cheesecake.
ian crossland
This is the first time I've heard of the Tinder swindler.
danny polishchuck
You've never heard of the Tinder swindler?
ian crossland
This is crazy.
February 22nd documentary on Netflix.
ryan long
You must know this, right?
tim pool
He was like ripping women off.
ryan long
Yeah, you're in the know.
He really is.
ian crossland
I was actually on Tinder.
ryan long
He leaves the show and goes right back into the bunker.
ian crossland
Silence.
What's that?
danny polishchuck
He's like a con artist and he just conned all these women.
ian crossland
Oh my gosh.
tim pool
He was just getting free food and stuff though, right?
danny polishchuck
No, no, no.
This one woman gave him like, she took out all these credit cards and gave him $250,000.
He was making bank, dude.
And the thing is, the movie had three women in it, which means there were 50 that didn't want to come forward.
tim pool
So how do you fall for this stuff?
ryan long
Well, that's how you get them.
You get them scared that all their money's gone.
And then boom!
You're in.
danny polishchuck
What's the boom?
ryan long
Look after she's scared.
We've been through this.
Instead of bringing them out to the bridge, you bring them out to a metaphorical bridge where their money is all disappearing.
danny polishchuck
Well, he tricked them into thinking he was a billionaire.
That was the big thing is like these girls, the first date, he'd be like, Oh, you know what?
Meet me at the airport and then go fly on a private jet to Switzerland for a night at a hotel.
tim pool
But that's still expensive.
danny polishchuck
Yes, because it was a Ponzi scheme that was being funded by all the other women who were paying for this one thing, and then she would now be paying for him to do this to somebody else.
tim pool
But were these women rich or something?
danny polishchuck
No, but he just knew so many of them.
ryan long
He was sort of involved in the thing too where he would get the girls, for example, he would write them fake employment letters for his fake company so then they could now go get their lines of credits extended.
He was pretty involved in the procedure.
He had it down to pretty decent science.
tim pool
And these women didn't know what they were doing.
ryan long
It wasn't that, it's like, I mean, you know, you got some cash.
Like if people were like, hey, can you lend me a thousand bucks?
Obviously I'm good for it.
Why would anyone believe that you wouldn't be, right?
tim pool
Especially if they kind of have- Oh, if I asked someone for money?
ryan long
No, if they asked you for- Yeah, if you asked that.
unidentified
Yeah.
ryan long
Like if you asked me for a decent amount of money- Yeah, can I get like- You go, my enemies are after me- But I wouldn't think anything of it, really, right?
tim pool
Can I have 400 bucks right now?
ryan long
Yeah, you know I got it.
Well, that's the thing.
You just found out that I have more money than you in my wallet.
tim pool
Well, I'm good now.
ryan long
He doesn't want to pull it out.
unidentified
I know he's got more, but he doesn't have the guts to pull it out.
ian crossland
Lucky no more tinder swindlers from New York Post dating app and background checks.
ryan long
Here we go Here we go everybody.
tim pool
So this is not only did we get Danny and Ryan to come out here and do the show We don't pay them.
ryan long
Yeah, I actually just got him to give me $400 What he doesn't realize is that I just put the terms at 50% interest per minute The juice is running.
Oh, I'll take my 500 back if you want If you'd like to close up the loan, if not, you can keep paying the interest.
I never signed it.
Never caught an honest John.
danny polishchuck
Two of you guys are going to be like deer hunter later tonight.
Russian roulette.
ryan long
What?
danny polishchuck
Red headbands.
ryan long
It's his birthday.
You can have the money back if you want it.
ian crossland
If those dollars are really made of cotton... Can you give me 400 bucks for my birthday?
Are they worth less than a quarter?
A quarter of metal?
If they're made of cotton, is the cotton worth less?
A dollar bill, is it worth less than a quarter?
Because a quarter is made of metal?
Like real value.
danny polishchuck
Oh, the actual melts?
ian crossland
Yeah.
tim pool
Well, hold on.
I don't know though.
You can wipe your ass with money.
ian crossland
That's true.
tim pool
You can stay warm with it.
danny polishchuck
Although, are there nickels that are made of nickel?
unidentified
Do you see how much nickel there is?
tim pool
So like in Venezuela, it's funny when people say things like in Weimar, Germany, they were shuffling money into like the drains and stuff.
And I'm like, that's toilet paper, man.
Like, you think I'm kidding?
I'm not kidding.
You're going to go buy toilet paper?
danny polishchuck
Legitimately, my dad, I was talking to him the other day that he doesn't use toilet paper in Russia.
And I said something about the ruble.
And then he was like, yeah, the only use for the ruble is if you need wallpaper right now.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
tim pool
Wallpaper.
ian crossland
Or what a toilet paper wallpaper.
tim pool
But I'm thinking like in Venezuela, they throw the money in the trash.
I guess you wouldn't want to take that really filthy money and put it on your on your hole.
You know what I mean?
Because just like you get sick or something.
ian crossland
This says that a nickel is 75 percent copper and 25 percent nickel.
danny polishchuck
I mean, that's a little misleading to call it Well, I think it used to be nickel, but then I think the price of nickel, I don't know if you saw what happened this week with all the war stuff and all the nickel comes from Russia or like a huge amount.
And then it was like all these like commodity companies basically have gone like bankrupt because nickel, I think it went up a hundred percent in a day, two days in a row.
unidentified
Wow.
tim pool
I should have bought nickel.
unidentified
Yeah.
danny polishchuck
And then the exchange canceled a lot of the orders.
They straight up canceled them.
tim pool
They're like, what was it?
Wasn't it?
But it's not really nickel.
It was silver, right?
ian crossland
Nickel is copper.
75% copper.
tim pool
I mean, originally, like, when the nickels were in circulation.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
danny polishchuck
Originally, like, I know, like, the dimes and stuff.
I don't know if in America, but probably.
tim pool
But they were literally silver.
You can buy bags of loose change that's measured in silver weight, not denomination.
So if you go to these, like, metal websites, you get a bag of, you know, pre-1960s coins or whatever.
It's all silver.
ian crossland
Dude, the price of nickels doubled in the last week.
It went from .8.
I don't know how to measure this, but it's doubled.
ryan long
Is that precious metals are all going up because of the... Because Russia produces a ton of them.
ian crossland
If your net wealth is in nickel, you just doubled your net wealth.
ryan long
I hope no one wasn't sitting there banking one day.
danny polishchuck
But there's a lot of nickel producers who were like, I guess they had hedged their production.
And then this is like essentially because this is such an unnatural like movement in the price that it was like a bunch of them got bankrupted.
Like they essentially just like, right.
I don't know the exact thing, but so then they had to.
There's companies like bailing them out now because you can't just like take this nickel production offline.
unidentified
Geez.
Whoa.
ian crossland
Isn't March 2nd?
I mean, that must have been when the war was declared or when Putin went in, right?
tim pool
Nickels are worth more than dimes?
No, than than than themselves.
danny polishchuck
I mean, pennies are worth more than a penny, but it's illegal to melt them.
tim pool
Well, I think pennies are zinc or something.
But like the inflation is so rapid now, I just googled it, this could be outdated, but it says Jefferson Westward Journey Nickels 2004-2005, 75% copper, their value is 6.7 cents.
ryan long
So that means... Inflation was so high it just gave you 400 bucks and you just gave me back 300 bucks.
Yeah, same thing.
ian crossland
Dude, look at the cost of nickel over the last 10 years, it's sitting here at 0.5, 0.5 for No, it's like a straight line and then it goes.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, literally straight line.
ryan long
Well, I was reading some articles today.
They were telling you that inflation is actually pretty good and it mostly only hurts rich people.
lydia smith
Yeah, I saw that too.
danny polishchuck
That's exciting.
ryan long
Those are my favorite takes.
Yes, I love those takes.
Actually, it's bad for only rich people.
tim pool
And you go, yeah, yeah, yeah.
ryan long
You know what's funny?
Because I would even say as like, When people talk about the gas prices and this, like you know how Stephen Colbert was kind of out there being like, you know, I don't know if you talked about this, but Stephen Colbert's take was like, you know, what do we care if it's higher, right?
But I would agree.
I don't see, you know, normal fluctuations.
Like I wouldn't, you know, make much changes based on gas prices and I'm not, but for someone, for anyone to say that like inflation and that affects exclusively rich people, you go, it takes a lot of mental gymnastics to get there.
tim pool
Well, you know, look, I can absolutely respect that regular people are impacted, but to Colbert's defense, you know, people like us, it's very difficult for us to track the cost of gas because when we ask Winston to go fill up our combats, we don't actually see the gas station prices.
And so he comes back and it's taken care of, and then we have a financial guy who takes care of all the expenses.
danny polishchuck
As you drive by, you go, Winston!
What are those numbers on that sign mean?
ryan long
Well, that's what I say.
I go, yo, can you get me a bag or a cup of gas or whatever it is.
ian crossland
Winston's like, blah, blah, blah, something, something.
ryan long
Yeah, how much is this?
Yeah, I go, a cup of gas.
How much do you need?
A couple grand?
What's it gonna cost?
tim pool
And then he's, it's, you know, but like, Winston walks up and you're like, what do you need to fill up the car?
Like, two, three thousand?
He goes, one hundred dollars.
He goes, only a hundred.
You hand him a hundred dollar bill and, you know, you don't realize that for a regular person.
ryan long
He goes, it's eight a gallon or whatever.
I go, A hundred a gallon?
Is that high or is that low?
Is that low?
tim pool
Is it low?
Let's talk about this weird story because it's just, I don't know, whatever.
LME forced to halt nickel trading.
Cancel deals after prices top $100,000.
Hoard your nickels because they're 25% nickel.
The London Metal Exchange forced to halt nickel trading.
The LME's shock move came as Western sanctions threatened supply from Russia produces the nickel, I guess.
In the 1990s, a rogue Sumitomo trader tried to corner the copper market and tin trading was stopped for five years in the 80s.
So right now, with the price of nickel being as high as they say, the actual number, here we go.
$2,250 a ton of nickels.
Do the math on the nickels you have in your piggy bank.
They're 25% nickel.
unidentified
Wow.
tim pool
Got a lot of money.
unidentified
Yeah.
ian crossland
Says they're $17 a pound nickel.
unidentified
Whoa.
tim pool
So divide 17 by 4 into a pound of nickels.
Maybe you'll have more money.
unidentified
I don't know.
tim pool
Maybe not.
But the copper in a nickel is already worth more.
danny polishchuck
Yeah.
But more importantly, they need them for electric batteries.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
tim pool
So a nickel's got to be worth 10 cents right now, right?
danny polishchuck
Might be, but it's illegal to do anything about that.
tim pool
Right.
danny polishchuck
Yeah.
Why do you think, because Canada got rid of the penny.
When did Canada get rid of the penny?
Five years ago?
It's still crazy to me that there's pennies in America.
ian crossland
Yeah, it is weird.
danny polishchuck
With the fact that nothing, well, I know, but there must be, I don't know.
ryan long
It makes no sense.
danny polishchuck
How much money, pennies is there?
tim pool
Yeah, but you know, here's the issue.
You could probably find a way to scheme money by using rounding up and rounding down.
danny polishchuck
Well, that's what they do.
tim pool
I legitimately mean this.
danny polishchuck
No, no, no.
unidentified
That's office space you're referring to.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, basically.
Yeah, yeah.
tim pool
Like if you go to a store and you buy something and it's like $1.24, you save the four cents, then you sell it for $1.25, you get an extra dime on top.
danny polishchuck
Right, but... No, round's not.
Round up to 125.
And 122 would be 120.
tim pool
124 rounds up to 125.
danny polishchuck
But I'll tell you this.
ryan long
When that rounding is done, you know which way.
If it comes to 122, you win sometimes, you lose sometimes.
tim pool
You know what I'm saying?
You could plan it.
You could, so you could do a deal with a company where you're like, I'm going to buy at $1.22 and save $0.02 per bushel.
ryan long
Yeah, but you're not going to send, you're only going to save $0.02 per order.
You'd have to buy each one individually.
Like what, like, let's say, see what, yeah, you go, I'm going to buy 10,000 things.
It's like, yeah.
And you save.
danny polishchuck
That'd be the best negotiation.
ian crossland
You go, ha ha!
danny polishchuck
And they go, yeah, it's not that way.
tim pool
Build an automated system.
danny polishchuck
Yeah.
tim pool
And you can, you can office space it.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, literally office space it.
unidentified
Kind of.
tim pool
Saving pennies.
ryan long
But you, but also people can tell, like, for example, if you, if you add the products together with the prices, do the thing and you go, but my system, uh, rounds it down when it should have rounded up.
It's like, well then by that logic, yeah, I could also just change the price to, you know, scam an extra buck from people that are lying.
Like at that point you're just stealing from people.
tim pool
So you're saying ban the penny?
danny polishchuck
Yeah, I think they should get rid of the penny.
tim pool
But then what happens to all the pennies everybody's got?
danny polishchuck
Well, I don't know.
Ask what Canada did with them.
ryan long
Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, I think they have them all at penny gumball machines, yeah.
danny polishchuck
I don't know.
The only real people who would lose out are those penny flattening machines.
unidentified
Yeah.
danny polishchuck
Whoever runs those businesses would be...
tim pool
No, I've seen some of those now.
For those that aren't familiar, you put a penny in and then 50 cents and you crank it.
Now, you just put 50 cents in and a token comes down and you crank it and it smashes a token.
ian crossland
I did some math.
You need 1,440 nickels to get $4 worth of nickels in nickel.
If you wanted to melt down and get a 25, I don't know what that means.
1,440 nickels to get about $4.50 worth of nickel.
So what's that?
unidentified
$70?
ian crossland
But hold on.
Do the nickel and the copper.
danny polishchuck
I need a piece of paper.
tim pool
And then do it by like 100 nickels, you know what I mean?
Like, 100 nickels!
You've got 75% of that is copper, 25% of that is nickel.
You know, you've got seven, seven, 75 percent of that is copper, 25 percent of that is nickel.
So how much does a nickel weigh?
You know how much.
ian crossland
Yeah, you're 91 nickels in a pound.
tim pool
91 nickels and a pound.
ian crossland
And that's a fourth of a pound of nickel.
So you'd have 360 nickels and a pound of nickel.
danny polishchuck
I didn't know this was going to be on the test.
lydia smith
I know, I wasn't ready for this.
tim pool
I didn't think we were going to talk about metal prices.
Danny came in and he was like, let's talk about the London Metal Exchange.
The price of nickel has gone up recently.
danny polishchuck
There's a lot of crazy effects of this war.
lydia smith
It's true, yeah.
ryan long
Crypto solves this conversation ever happening again.
tim pool
Yeah.
danny polishchuck
No pennies in crypto.
There's just a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a penny.
lydia smith
Yeah, that's better.
ryan long
Yeah.
tim pool
But look at it this way.
If the smallest form of a Bitcoin or fraction was worth one cent, one Bitcoin would be a million dollars.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
danny polishchuck
And then the future people are like, we need to get rid of these stupid Satoshis.
tim pool
Nobody uses them for anything.
But you would, because it would just be like, that's 3,000 Satoshis.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, it would just be on a ledger.
tim pool
I think Bitcoin is the currency of the future.
I think the World Economic Forum type people, they love it.
And I'll tell you this too.
ryan long
Did you see that they just...
Yeah, we were just talking about it.
tim pool
I went to Davos in, I think it was 2017, maybe it was 2017.
And the whole thing was crypto.
Like the whole event, like obviously the World Economic Forum itself, which is security and like high profile.
We're talking about a lot of things, but the peripheral events they do, because people, what happens is when the powerful elites meet, roaches, you know.
ryan long
Like right now, here.
tim pool
Are they meeting?
ryan long
Yeah, in this room.
tim pool
No, I think it's us.
danny polishchuck
It's so diabolical, we're talking about getting rid of the penny.
ryan long
This is how it happens, behind closed doors.
tim pool
When you have like a thousand millionaires and billionaires all meeting at this privileged event, then you get a whole bunch of people worth a couple hundred K trying to push their businesses who show up at the base of the mountain, like they're in the mountain, and then they put on events, but they're connected, they're friends, they're family, they're just not as high up.
And so when I went there, the whole thing, like almost every business was like pitching crypto and they're like, this is the future.
There were like government officials and family members.
I was meeting like presidential families and they were like, Bitcoin's the future, I'm telling you.
And I've been telling people, I'm like, I think the World Economic Forum, Davos elites, the global elites, they want Bitcoin to take over.
Now Joe Biden has just instructed, you know, they're saying you have to investigate a digital dollar or whatever.
So there you go.
It's coming.
ryan long
Yeah, I either it's there's there's half there's one where it's they wanted and then there's the other version where, you know, you realize you can't compete with it and this is happening whether you control it or not.
Right.
tim pool
Yeah, I think so.
ryan long
Some people have said beat him, join him situation can't beat him, join him and then take it over.
tim pool
But but if they're if they do a digital dollar, they tokenize it, it's gonna have to be on what the Ethereum network or they have to make their own version of Ethereum.
danny polishchuck
I don't think they can make their own blockchain.
ryan long
Yeah, I think the idea is to make their own blockchain and I mean, or essentially nationalized the blockchain.
ian crossland
Or have no blockchain, which is even scarier.
It's just another ledger that they control and have access to.
danny polishchuck
Well, isn't that essentially just the bank at this point?
unidentified
Right.
tim pool
Yeah, so something interesting happened.
We had to buy a vehicle for the company to pull the RVs.
We got a ram truck.
And I bought it through a bank.
And they don't let you come in and buy it outright, many of these places, so you have to finance.
And they said, well, if you finance it, you can literally pay off the bill tomorrow and there's no fees or anything like that.
It's done.
But we won't do it personally.
ryan long
Why?
tim pool
Because they don't want to take the risk.
If I say, like, here's a check for 50 grand, they're gonna be like, and then what happens if it bounces?
We don't want to deal with that.
Have the bank pay it, and then you pay the bank back.
Have the bank take the risk.
So this is what we do, right?
And then, like, two days later, when I get the bill, like, I get the notification for online, I pay the whole thing off.
And then two or three months later, I get a phone call from this bank, and I ignore it, because I'm like, I got no business with them.
Another day goes by, I get a phone call, another day goes by, and then finally I get a voicemail, and I check it, and they're threatening to repo the truck, which I own outright and paid for in full.
ryan long
Didn't go through?
tim pool
They lost the transfer.
They lost the transaction.
So I called my, they were like, we don't have any transactions from you.
Like you owe us the full amount.
And I was like, I went to my bank and I did everything.
I was like, I went to your website.
I filled out everything as you expect me to fill out.
My bank debited the cash.
And so I called my bank and they were like, money's gone.
And then I was like, where did the money go?
And they were like, sir, do you know how banking works?
And I was just like, yes.
And they were like, right, on our end, we wrote in our ledger, the money is gone, and this account now has the money, which means they now have to deal with it, because we've subtracted it from your account.
So I'm like, the money's just gone.
I'm like, it's gone.
And then I called the other bank, and they were like, we have no record, and we have not updated your account.
ryan long
I'd be going postal right now if this is me.
Blink Fitness scammed me out of $1,000, and I was ready to burn the place to the ground.
I was so mad.
tim pool
Well, so I tweeted at them, and then everything got better.
It's funny how how this how the how isn't it you have to these days but that that is so messed up that would you tweet at them that the what the bank they stole my money bank I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say it here like it's been already did I thought I didn't say the name of the bank but okay but it was it's a it's a large bank and uh they said did you tell them like listen by the way the tweets and the tweetings about the start this is your first warning I was like if you don't fix this I'm gonna tweet So help me and they were like, and then they were just like
tweet ahead sir tweet to go ahead and tweet, sir What are you gonna do about it?
And then I went to my million followers on Twitter I was like this bank is stupid and they called me back like
ryan long
I am so sorry Oh, I don't like fitness as about to tweet and they said
They said we saw it We didn't care about it.
The tweet didn't matter, but we did see the pythons in the photo.
And we don't want to be messing with those.
tim pool
Let me clarify for all seriousness.
I did tell them on the phone.
I'm like, guys, I went on your website.
I sent you this money.
My bank took it from me.
It's not here.
ryan long
Stealing from?
tim pool
You lost it.
You figure it out.
And they were like, no, we won't.
And then I said, then my only recourse is what, to sue you?
Okay, here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to tweet about it.
I'm going to talk about it.
ryan long
It's going to be my number one topic.
tim pool
And they said, fine, by all means.
I think we did mention it briefly.
I tweeted about it.
And then all of a sudden I get emails saying like, oh, we're so sorry about this problem.
We're going to rectify it for you.
And then what ended up happening was I pulled up the information from my bank and sent them, I don't want to do this.
I'm like, why am I sending you my statement?
ryan long
Yeah, I don't want to do a bunch of work because you screwed something up.
tim pool
It's like I don't want to send strangers my bank account information. It's got more than just I do that all the time
But you know what we're doing business. I've got a bunch of other transactions and people expect privacy, so what am I
gonna?
Do I'm gonna just screen grab the one bar saying the money went through and they're like yeah, I'm like okay fine
But anyway, I'll tell you this Here's what really bothers me about our modern society is that, yes, my friends, I can tweet and these companies bend over backwards for me.
ryan long
You can, yeah.
unidentified
Right.
tim pool
That's screwed up.
I was flying on American Airlines once.
ryan long
Jordan Peterson was getting mad at Microsoft the other day.
tim pool
And it works.
I flew on American Airlines.
There was a storm.
We didn't know what was going on.
We landed in Texas.
Everybody was delayed.
I tweeted, what's going on with this?
And I immediately get a message like, we're going to take care of you.
Skip the counter.
Go right to this guy.
And they were like, we got you booked already.
And then I'm watching like, you know, 500 people waiting in line, all angry.
Their flights are delayed.
But this is a problem because it's creating this.
I don't like the classism, the elitism.
Where if you, this is why you get virtue signaling.
ryan long
You get the influencer deal.
tim pool
People know that if they have followers, they can bully people with influence.
ian crossland
Stakeholder capitalism.
tim pool
That's right.
And it's creepy.
It shouldn't be that way.
ryan long
It is a little creepy where I go, okay, I'm getting screwed over by this, you know, car company or gym or whatever.
In my case, Blink Fitness.
danny polishchuck
Did you resolve it by tweeting it?
ryan long
I'm currently resolving it on the Timcast right now.
danny polishchuck
We've been talking about this for a while.
ryan long
I haven't been, I've resolved it, but I never got my money back.
unidentified
I'm currently, my war, their literal business, his war is over.
ryan long
My war is just beginning.
See those swords in the back?
ian crossland
You know, as much as I hate the empire or dislike being it, the FDIC insurance is like, if your, if your bank account screws you, if your bank screws you, you can get it the money back.
But once that's gone, if that's not there, it's, it's the Well, you're right.
ryan long
It's worse than that because that was what everyone says with these things.
They go, yeah, just get the money back.
But what they do is they have your account on pause for a year or two years instead of cancelling when you try to cancel.
Then they open it up two years later and just start charging you.
Blink Fitness?
Blink Fitness is the name.
And because of that, most people's credit cards have changed a couple years, or at least whatever percentage.
If you change every six years, then 30% of people every two years would have a new credit card.
So you can't call your bank because they just have you owe us money and it didn't go through.
And then they go, it's going to collections.
So you can't call your bank because it didn't actually go through.
tim pool
Why don't you send them an invoice?
ryan long
Send them an invoice for what?
tim pool
Do the same thing back.
ryan long
Well, I can't send it to collections, though.
Yeah, you can't.
I see what you're saying.
tim pool
You literally could.
ryan long
But wouldn't collections go, I go, the bank owes me $600.
unidentified
Imagine collection goes, yo, yo, yo.
ryan long
I go, for what?
tim pool
Didn't you ever hear the story?
ryan long
Pain and suffering.
tim pool
There was a dude, I can't remember exactly what happened.
ryan long
This seems like a lot of work.
tim pool
This dude had a thing happen where the bank accidentally filed a claim against his house.
When he had paid it off.
And so he sued them back and won like $1,200 and they refused to pay it.
He showed up with the sheriff and they went inside and started taking the bank stuff.
ryan long
That's so funny.
Love it.
tim pool
I mean, look, I'll be honest.
It is really hard to use the systems the way the corporations... Impossible.
It's not impossible.
ryan long
And you know what else?
tim pool
But it's hard.
ryan long
And it has to essentially be a passion project because you're going to spend a week of your
life to save a few hundred bucks most of the time.
tim pool
Depending on how you have it set up.
ryan long
It legitimately has to be your hobby.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, well you got super screwed because of the whole wrong credit card.
Because normally I just said to you, just call your credit card company.
ryan long
It's part of their business model.
It's two years later.
But the point remains, it is true.
The only way to get your anything done is to exert influence.
So as soon as that happens you go, okay, so you are able to deal with this problem.
danny polishchuck
I don't know, why don't you go Laura Loomer style and just go outside of Blink headquarters and just sandwich board?
Literally just sandwich board.
ryan long
I actually still might.
danny polishchuck
Handcuff yourself to the Blink Equinox.
tim pool
That would be really funny.
ryan long
I mean, the opposite of this guy, if I handcuff myself to the Stairmaster, this guy's got himself handcuffed to the donut tray.
I'm not leaving until I get my money back!
danny polishchuck
I'm at the Dunkin Donuts.
unidentified
I ain't leaving!
ryan long
Until you give me another chocolate dozen!
tim pool
That'd be funny if you showed up at the Blink Fitness with a sandwich board and you're protesting.
unidentified
That'd be pretty funny.
danny polishchuck
Give me my money back!
ryan long
That's the thing where all you can do is go in and yell at the employees that have nothing to do with the scam.
danny polishchuck
No, I'll say the Blink Fitness, they're not.
ryan long
They're in on it?
danny polishchuck
They're getting a taste of that.
They're not helpful.
ryan long
They're getting a taste?
ian crossland
I think you made a good point out like social pressure is the way or one of the ways and that's what like Antifa has been doing and BLM has been doing to get things cancelled.
But it is like power, power, no truth but power.
If you can get the mob to get behind you, the corporation will bow.
ryan long
They have obviously a lot of these places.
Yeah, there's a lot of places, you know, the blogosphere has essentially, to some degree, their influence is worth a lot less than it used to be.
So they've devalued all their tools.
tim pool
You've not gotten your money back from Blink Fitness?
ryan long
No, the case is closed.
I paid it and it's over.
And I basically said, and they were like, blah, blah, blah, sorry, and I go, Well, no, you stole $500 to me, and I'm not happy about it.
tim pool
So they stole 500 bucks from you?
ryan long
Yeah, something like that.
tim pool
More, probably.
ryan long
Twice, by the way.
I don't even need to get into the nitty gritty, but they did the same scam to me twice, and I paid it off and canceled.
danny polishchuck
I mean, there is a saying, it's immoral to let a sucker keep his money, Ryan.
tim pool
So if hundreds of thousands of people who may be listening to a podcast decide to... Do you want to message me and do a class action situation?
Or just send an email saying, Blink Fitness, you took this guy's money and you're wrong.
ryan long
You blink and your money's gone.
danny polishchuck
I mean, if you go look at the Yelp reviews of Blink Fitness, every single one of the reviews is what Ryan is saying.
Nobody's like Great Jim.
It's all, they scammed me out of my money.
Give me my money back, Blink Fitness.
ryan long
Where's my money?
I lost a pound the first day.
How'd that happen?
They took my wallet.
ian crossland
So it was it you signed up you quit but in the contract it says we're gonna it's a they're gonna start your account back up in a two years or because of COVID.
ryan long
Because of COVID I basically they put it on hold and then they go okay you have to if you wanted to work out you have to come wear a mask and you got to do a certain time I go okay just leave it on hold they go we can't and I go okay just cancel it and then they go fine.
So they go, Oh, and then it's three months later.
I just start getting charges again.
And I go, Oh, they go, I thought you canceled.
They go, no, we didn't cancel it.
Uh, we just put it on hold and now you owe us.
I go, just cancel it now.
And they go, well, unless you pay this $500, we can't cancel it.
danny polishchuck
And to cancel it, you have to send in a letter to their corporate office.
You can't go into the location that you signed.
Cause I was going to the same Blake Fitness as him.
You can't go in there and say, hey, I'd like to cancel.
They go, okay, here's an address.
Send a letter to this address requesting cancellation.
ryan long
If they want to cancel, they basically are like, you need to do, you know, we're going to give you three challenges.
I want to cancel this account.
They go, you have to climb this mountain in under four minutes.
tim pool
There's like a, they're like, just go through that door in the back and you go through it.
And it's like a, this like lush Elvin paradise.
And there's a bridge and try to cross it.
And a troll comes out and asks you three riddles.
ryan long
That's exactly what it is.
tim pool
You've got to cast the ring into the fire.
ryan long
And your receipt for cancellation is in one of these nine boxes.
tim pool
You must cast your membership cards into the fires of Mount Doom.
ryan long
If you open the wrong door, you just bought four more years.
danny polishchuck
This is probably triggering so many of your listeners who have gone through this exact same thing, buried this in the back of their mind, and now this is coming back.
tim pool
Well, this is how gyms make money, though.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
You know, gyms, they know everybody.
Everybody signs up on January 1st.
ryan long
And guys named Jim make money working as mechanics.
ian crossland
Why gyms?
How come it's always gyms that do this?
tim pool
Listen, listen, I'm explaining.
On January 1st, everybody's like, I'm gonna show up and I'm gonna get fit.
And so these gyms, in the first week of January, get massive sign-ups.
ryan long
And then you scam them for the next couple years.
tim pool
Right, because they know no one's gonna come back.
And so they're just like, they tell you, because I sign up for a gym, And it was in like February or something like four or five years ago.
And I still pay him to this day.
danny polishchuck
Yeah.
Well, because it's like cancelling is admitting defeat as well.
Like you're essentially saying I give up when you cancel.
So so many people do that.
And then they're like, well, you know, I might go.
tim pool
But what they tell you when you're signing up, they say to you, like, this is a two year term.
ryan long
They force you to be a long term hodler of their gym membership.
tim pool
But I think like I don't I don't mind having a specific gym membership because you never know if you need to use a shower.
ryan long
That's definitely 100% battered wife syndrome.
You go, it's fine that I pay 300 bucks a year, maybe one day I'll need to shower.
ian crossland
Because you could just go in and pay to use the shower.
tim pool
When you're traveling around the country, several years ago, and I'm on one and a half flights, two flights every three weeks, I would fly.
And you don't know exactly where you're going to be.
I've popped into one of these gyms and I've been right on.
ryan long
Well, the trick is to pop in without your membership and act like, Not very confused.
danny polishchuck
All the van people, all the people who live in vans, the kind of nomads, that's their deal is you get a gym membership.
tim pool
Yeah, you sleep in Walmart parking lots.
That's the future.
You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
danny polishchuck
I had a friend who did that.
He was like a camper kind of guy.
Loved it.
But then he needed to meet a woman and he's like, I gotta go get a house.
tim pool
Yeah, but what if you get like, what if you get like a full-size house, but you know, with wheels?
So it's not a van, it's literally a house you can drive.
ryan long
Yeah, mobile home, they believe they call those.
ian crossland
Yeah, yeah, but like a real camper home.
danny polishchuck
That's my mom We're talking about the homes where they're like you ever see them relocating an actual house.
That's cool Yeah, and they're like driving it like 10 miles an hour.
tim pool
Yeah, there's a porch and everything Yeah, like the whole house, you know, we should do while we should we should build something that can like fold out into a house So it's like it can be dragged on the back of like a 16-wheeler like, you know, like yeah look at this I believe you're describing a tent.
No, you know like with walls and like power outlets.
You ever see those houses where they 3D print it?
Like a concrete tube comes out?
Yeah, that's cool.
ian crossland
We're getting close to the right materials.
The meta materials that are super thin, super lightweight, super strong structurally.
ryan long
Nickel.
ian crossland
Yeah, nickel.
Something like nickel.
ryan long
We're gonna build this house with nickel, bitcoin, and Russian bones.
tim pool
Well, there's this, you know, once you make enough money, you do two things.
You replace all of the electrical work in your house with silver and graphene.
Because, you know, because why not spend three million dollars on the electrical system?
ryan long
And then it's a good investment.
tim pool
Yeah, because then no one knows.
And when the apocalypse happens, you just punch your wall and pull the silver out and boom.
ryan long
That's how you get your out.
We're out of here.
tim pool
Yeah, that's right.
Rip it out of your own walls.
ryan long
Let's ride.
tim pool
Let's bring this ridiculous conversation back to the war and stuff like that.
ryan long
Well, what happened was, yeah, basically Biden came out.
Biden came out and he said contrary to what I want to say before was I'd like to make the announcement the United States government is going to the moon.
That was the exact thing he said.
Spreading FUD is now going to be illegal.
A crime punishable by death.
tim pool
Joe Biden came out and said the United States will be canceling its Blink Fitness membership.
ryan long
Canceling the Blink Fitness membership and we will be tying American coin.
It's going to be tethered one-to-one to Doge.
danny polishchuck
Has anyone looked into the possibility that this whole Putin-Ukraine thing is just because he had a gym membership in Ukraine?
unidentified
Yeah, that makes sense.
danny polishchuck
He goes, I can't cancel.
He goes, you know what?
Well, I'm going to go in there and I'm going to cancel it myself.
tim pool
He shows up and he goes to Biden in a meeting and he's like, you know, look, everything's great.
We're fine with the sanctions.
We're going to work it out.
I know we can negotiate.
Shakes Biden's hand.
You can't do anything about it.
I forgot this gym membership has blink fitness.
It's an American company and Joe's just like...
danny polishchuck
Are you familiar with blink fitness?
tim pool
But Joe's like, oh dude, you signed a contract man, you gotta pay.
And Putin's like, dude, I don't go there anymore.
And Biden's just like, bro, you signed the contract.
ryan long
Biden's like, what if you need to shower next time you're here? It's good.
tim pool
And then all of a sudden bombs are dropping.
No, but in terms of the war stuff, like, you will own nothing and you'll be happy.
They're talking to us about eating bugs for the longest time.
They're talking to us about living in the pods.
Then they're, you know, they're telling everyone to stay home and work remote.
And then as soon as the COVID thing, like, disappears, all of a sudden now it's war with Russia and Ukraine.
And it's like the same prescription.
Gas prices are through the roof.
It's like the same issues are starting to occur.
ryan long
They just found—and the same things are happening where there's, like, Hey, we have a new reason that we can just print money and then distribute it as we please.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, they haven't quite turned on that spigot yet, but that's probably... Yeah, I mean, they just announced $14 billion to Ukraine or something like that.
tim pool
Yeah, that's great.
danny polishchuck
Or whatever, I'm just saying they have turned... Oh, you're just saying they haven't... No, they're not like the COVID trillions, like the $4 trillion or whatever.
ryan long
I mean, that press is still hot.
tim pool
This is the crazy thing.
This is why, you know, I've been saying I'm trying to buy as much as I can for the studio and the company.
Instead of waiting so we bought like five desktops. We need them and they're just like they're cheapos
They're small like you can type on them You can't really do anything like you can barely watch a
movie on them a couple hundred bucks with you with a monitor
And I'm just like we need them for the office We need them for you know writers just buy them all now cuz
I'm gonna wait and it's gonna go up 50 bucks It's gonna go up 100 bucks. I mean especially anything that
has any kind of chip in it. Oh, yeah, dude We're gonna lose Taiwan in two seconds.
ian crossland
I don't know about that.
I thought for sure I'd given up, but now, seeing all these sanctions on Russia, I think that the CCP is more about profit.
I don't think they're really gonna throw all this McDonald's at us.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, they're not gonna shut off the West like that.
I just think it's the raw materials.
I don't mean China's gonna stop providing chips.
I think it's just gonna be like, we're not gonna have the materials.
tim pool
You know, I'm a big Buttigieg fan.
Yeah, so when he came out and said, you should buy an electric car, I was like, that's a good point.
So I bought like seven of them, just to make sure.
Because, you know, I don't understand why poor people don't just do that, you know what I mean?
Just buy a couple electric cars.
You don't have to worry about gas prices ever again.
lydia smith
Yeah, you don't have to think about it, bro.
tim pool
Yeah, you don't have to think about it.
Just buy an electric car and you can just drive it.
The funny thing is, you know, you ask the question of these people, where does the electricity come from?
It's like fossil fuels.
ian crossland
The sun.
tim pool
It doesn't come from the sun, though.
ryan long
Well, do you see, I don't know if you saw the Alberta guy from Canada, because they were basically, when all this stuff happened, they were like, OK, we need to, you know, find more oil.
We're going to meet with Saudi Arabia or whatever.
And the Alberta guy was like, Yeah, happy to meet you.
We could sort this whole thing up pretty easy.
You just have to open up our pipeline again.
Pretty funny.
ian crossland
Do you guys ever go to USdebtclock.org?
It's like a trauma nightmare.
ryan long
Isn't there one in Union Square?
danny polishchuck
So in Union Square in New York, I always thought it was the debt clock, but it turns out it was actually a regular clock.
ryan long
It was actually my D size.
tim pool
It goes down, you know.
ryan long
Danny thought it was the U.S.
debt.
It turns out it was his mom's scale.
tim pool
But you know, the number is going down.
lydia smith
Is it?
ryan long
Of the what?
Of the debt?
tim pool
So the number in Union Square, New York.
danny polishchuck
No, it's a clock with the date and time.
tim pool
But the back of the second number is the amount of time left decreasing.
danny polishchuck
Yes, exactly.
tim pool
So if you're looking at the number, you're seeing the digits on the right going down.
So if you're to your D size, your D's getting smaller.
danny polishchuck
That sounds accurate.
Good news for my pants.
tim pool
That actually is good news for my back.
unidentified
So here's what I did.
tim pool
I bought a bunch of emergency food and I didn't do it because I think we're going to need to eat it.
unidentified
I didn't do it because I thought the apocalypse is going to happen.
ian crossland
You can breathe.
unidentified
You know, I just I, I, we keep hearing good news from my back.
tim pool
So here's what I did.
I bought a bunch of emergency food and I didn't do it because I think we're going to need to eat it.
I didn't do it because I thought the apocalypse is going to happen.
I did it because I thought it was gonna become more expensive in a few months.
And I'm like, if this stuff lasts 30 years, some of it does.
danny polishchuck
And then I'm just like, why didn't you buy the 30 year old stuff?
No, it's just to see what it tastes like.
ryan long
Buying 30 years of food is true.
danny polishchuck
Like, is there a way that you can get a 25-year-old?
tim pool
No, no, no, it's not 30 years.
It's food that lasts a shelf life of 30 years.
ryan long
No, but that's what I mean.
No, I'm saying you buying food where you're like, you bought too much food, it's like, yeah, well, if we have to eat it in 2055, we'll eat it in 2055.
tim pool
Well, because look, look, look.
We've got, you know, around 30 employees, which means... You're gonna eat on that in the next 40 years, yeah.
Uh, within the next 30 years, is there a possibility that there's a storm?
Is there a flood?
Is there a blizzard?
Is there a- well, sure, but I'm thinking about it more practically like sometimes it rains and there are floods and, you know, we got the river right there.
ryan long
You'll be the only guy where everyone's eating their bug burgers and you're gonna have your 30 years of supply of food.
He's gonna have his space food.
tim pool
Unfortunately not.
It's a bucket that lasts 30 years.
It's like a day's worth of food.
danny polishchuck
I have a question.
tim pool
So the expiration date, it's like dried in a package.
You can put it in a bucket for 30 years, but it's like one day of food.
Yeah, I got it.
You said 30 years of the food or something.
No, we've got like two weeks worth of food.
ryan long
Well, how much did you buy?
tim pool
Enough for like two weeks worth of food My point is I thought you I don't think I don't think in the next few years.
I'm gonna eat it I'm like, I just think in the next few years gonna double in price Might as well buy now.
I guess it's food.
ryan long
You're where you see your portfolio.
What's your important folio?
I got some of the SP 500 a bunch of Nutri green bars The hard copy the pie chart is actual bunker pie Why don't you go look at our storeroom?
tim pool
We've got maybe, like, a thousand Gatorades.
ryan long
You have a lot of swords.
You have a lot of swords.
danny polishchuck
Well, that's what you want, what you really have to have.
ryan long
The Tim Guzmuch's 50% swords.
tim pool
We should probably actually film it, because it's funny.
Be like, we need to think and prepare ahead.
What should we get?
danny polishchuck
Swords.
Blades.
ryan long
Yeah.
tim pool
We're all training.
danny polishchuck
That really is what you want.
ryan long
Club.
tim pool
I did buy a bunch of swords.
ryan long
That's gonna be you just like opening up and divvying up the bunker food with the sword.
Alright, everyone get your portions.
tim pool
This behind me is a Wakazashi.
It's not a sharpened blade, but it is a sharpened point because it's more like decorative, but it is real.
ryan long
But it's more for poking?
tim pool
You could poke.
ryan long
Okay.
tim pool
But but for the most part it's meant to just be like art.
It's like I think it's like a it's like a laminated blade Or something. I don't know. Maybe it's right, but it's not
supposed to rust or whatever Yeah, they look like oh, that's for sure. It's actually it
was nice people were complaining with a mall. So you got a sword an axe
There you go, but people were complaining about my mall sword because I went to the mall
ryan long
It's a mall sword.
Oh, you bought one from a mall?
tim pool
Yeah, it's like, just cheap steel.
ryan long
Right.
tim pool
Costs 10 bucks and everyone's making fun of it.
ryan long
Ex-girlfriend's name engraved in it.
tim pool
Yeah, that's some anime on it.
And I'm just like, why are you guys ragging on my mall sword?
I know it's a mall sword.
Fine!
So I bought an actual Wakazashi from a company that makes them and it's like, just unsharpened because, you know, we don't actually need to go around.
But then I thought about it and I was like, I'm gonna buy a bunch of actual swords.
unidentified
Yeah.
ryan long
Talk about swords.
tim pool
I'm like, you know, here's what I'm thinking.
Gonna get more expensive.
Might as well buy it now, huh?
danny polishchuck
I mean, the raw materials in them definitely will be.
tim pool
Yeah.
danny polishchuck
The steel one, huh?
tim pool
Yeah, man.
Iron.
danny polishchuck
Especially if you have to use them against someone who knows how to use a sword.
tim pool
In the springtime, those weeds, man.
ryan long
They grow quick.
Dude, whacking weeds with a sword in your underwear?
Just let the neighbors know who's boss.
ian crossland
You can see the muscles.
ryan long
Deep July, just whacking your weeds with a sword, wearing Long John's no-shirt.
ian crossland
The sweat flies off.
tim pool
I got a titanium-sealed katana, and we're gonna go out and we're gonna do the lawn.
We're gonna, you know, swipe the grass.
ian crossland
Titanium!
tim pool
Yeah, that doesn't rust.
Yeah, and you know, you want to get the grass the right height.
Yeah, no, to be completely honest.
ryan long
That'll keep people from swatting you again, too, when they see that image.
tim pool
I bought some swords, and the food stuff, although I'm serious, because it's like, we've eaten a ton of it already.
And that's the thing, it's like it's food, you just eat it.
It's mac and cheese.
It's like craft.
ryan long
Well, then you're sort of dipping into your investments, though.
danny polishchuck
Never get high on your own supply!
You're breaking one of the crack commands.
ian crossland
I don't know if you bought seeds.
tim pool
No, this is actually true.
I did.
ian crossland
We should get a thousand times more than we think we need.
Because they're not expensive.
No, it was just in case.
tim pool
You know what the funny thing is?
If it does, you know, go to like nuclear war with Putin or whatever, people are gonna watch this and they're gonna watch it laughing at us.
ryan long
I just love the level of investment here.
danny polishchuck
They're gonna be trying to find out the address of this place and then come get some of it.
Because they have everything we need!
ryan long
Because on the one hand, it's like, okay, let's buy this compound and build this thing.
It's like, okay, that's investment one.
Investment two is like a bucket of slop.
tim pool
Hey, this is good food.
Got pancake mix, got stroganoff.
danny polishchuck
Can you find out, like, do you know what the price of, a good example would be around Y2K, because that was what, 22 years ago.
I'm sure they were selling these things.
I wonder how much they've gone up since then.
And then it would be interesting to eat one of those, because that'd be 22 years old.
tim pool
How old are you?
How old are you guys?
danny polishchuck
I'm 38.
tim pool
You're 36?
So, uh, is it just me or did everybody on Y2K turn the power off at their house on New Year's?
ian crossland
No, we did not.
unidentified
You didn't do that?
ian crossland
We just played Magic.
unidentified
You guys didn't do that?
tim pool
My friend's house, they turned the power off.
ian crossland
I actually can't remember.
ryan long
Oh, you did that as a gag.
tim pool
I didn't do it.
Someone did the part.
danny polishchuck
You're right.
ryan long
Someone was doing that in every house across the world.
tim pool
Every dad joke.
ian crossland
I think I did puke that night.
tim pool
Playing magic together.
ian crossland
I just wasn't ever sick that night.
danny polishchuck
I don't know.
ian crossland
I was stressed out.
tim pool
You're the funniest.
ryan long
I remember I had a girl and a car and a bridge when it was happening, right?
unidentified
Yeah, probably.
lydia smith
That's the way to go.
danny polishchuck
I'm really shocked if the world's about to end.
lydia smith
That's right.
unidentified
No, no, no.
tim pool
Think about how insane the fake news was.
Like, how insane the fake news was about this.
The media was saying Y2K.
So you know what we did at my house?
We had a bunch of computers and we went into the BIOS and we like set the internal clock for like a half an hour.
Then we went into Windows, we did the same thing.
ryan long
See what happened.
tim pool
And we sat back and literally nothing happened and I was like, this is dumb.
ryan long
So nothing's gonna happen.
tim pool
And we're like, nothing's going to happen, they're making it up.
ian crossland
I think they thought that because of the way computers were reading data, it was going to cycle to all zeros and reset.
danny polishchuck
Well, it was for the banks and all the corporations weren't able to do that.
tim pool
They were making Y2K compliant programs you could buy.
And then I'm like, it just changed to zero zero and nothing happens.
danny polishchuck
That was one of the most embarrassing manias.
tim pool
Bro, this don't say gay thing is basically Jesse Smollett.
No, for real.
They've made up a problem in their own minds, and now they're complaining about a problem they made up, and Republicans are complaining about how the problem they made up is actually a good thing.
And I'm like, what is going on?
So I'm seeing Ben Shapiro tweet at them, and he's like, why are you trying to indoctrinate kids?
This bill stops that.
I'm like, no it doesn't.
ryan long
Right.
tim pool
It's like the left made it up, complained about it, and then the right argued it was a good thing, but none of it is true.
ryan long
They got baited into defending it, essentially.
Yep.
tim pool
That was one of those- It's the don't say straight bill, by the way.
ryan long
That was the one, as soon as I saw, I was kind of like...
Whatever you guys are saying, it's not that.
I go, what's actually going on here?
tim pool
Everyone seems to be lying.
So I've called it the anti-grooming bill as kind of a point.
And I say that as a point to counter the Democrats calling it Don't Say Gay.
ryan long
No, I know what you mean, but that is the... Sorry.
tim pool
No, I was going to say the better point is Don't Say Straight.
There's literally no difference between straight and gay when the context is identity or orientation.
So if the bill restricts classroom discussions from preschool to third grade on orientation, then you can't say straight.
ian crossland
What about Don't Secretly Talk About Sex With Students Bill?
tim pool
It doesn't stop that.
That's the thing it actually encourages.
This is the craziest thing.
The bill encourages teachers to secretly talk to children about these things.
ian crossland
I thought that it was banning them from secretly talking to children.
tim pool
No, you are incorrect.
danny polishchuck
Man, it sucks to have kids right now.
unidentified
What?
ryan long
You're saying it's like the Catholic Church being like, any sex talk's gotta be one-on-one.
tim pool
The bill restricts classroom discussions from preschool to third grade on gender identity or orientation.
That's not the bulk of the bill.
Like, the actual bulk of the bill is, parents must be informed about medical issues involving their children.
That's it.
So it's like a kid who stubs his toe.
Tell the parents the kid got hurt.
ryan long
Let's say that you are the person who would be, on the non-Republican side, super in favor of kids.
Is there anyone arguing that sex needs to be taught to JK?
unidentified
Yes.
ryan long
So how old are you when you're JK?
Like six, five?
So they're saying five-year-olds need to be like, here's what anal sex looks like.
No, no, no.
tim pool
It's four-year-olds.
Preschool is four years old, and third grade goes up to eight-year-olds.
ryan long
And where's that?
Where are they arguing that should happen?
So the issue is that, this is why I said- Like anyone legitimately, like is there- So CNN- No, not like fringe bloggers, or is this legitimate?
tim pool
CNN runs a story about Kate McKinnon, I think her name is on SNL.
Oh yeah.
And she does a bit where she's first pretending that it's like you can't insult someone by calling them gay, and then she realizes what it actually is.
But CNN shows the bill would restrict discussions of gender identity and orientation in preschool through third grade over Kate McKinnon talking about it.
So I'm like, Do we sit here and just assume that the people who go on CNN, the people who watch CNN, aren't aware of what the bill is and genuinely think it's stopping kids from talking about orientation?
Or do we assume, based on CNN accurately reporting it, they know and they're trying to teach four-year-olds about Sexual activities.
ryan long
Yeah, yeah, because it's... I see what your point is.
You go, I mean, if you're lying, at least you're just up to your old tricks.
But if you're not lying, it's worse.
Or whatever.
So my thing is... It's also just strange where you go, I get the... I think that people just, they leave any sort of thought when they go, this is what our team thinks.
And you go, really?
You want to... Like what grown adult really wants to take someone else's kid and be like, let me tell you about sex when they're four.
tim pool
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
My friends, my friends.
The bill doesn't stop this.
A teacher, a janitor, a school district employee can walk up... Well, the janitor should be teaching you.
danny polishchuck
I learned all about sex from my janitor.
tim pool
Because the bill says school district employee.
They can walk up to a group of 10 kids and say, kids, I'd like to talk to you about why you're trans.
And the bill doesn't stop that.
What the bill stops is that if they're in the classroom for a specific classroom discussion, Well, does it encourage that, though?
ryan long
It doesn't have anything to do with that, you're saying.
They're allowed to have one-on-ones, but they can't be teaching in a group setting.
tim pool
They are allowed in group settings.
They're not allowed in classroom settings.
ryan long
They're not allowed in classroom settings.
tim pool
Which specifically means the bell rings, it's 9am, the teacher walks in and says, everybody turn to page 17 and we're going to learn about oral.
unidentified
Right.
tim pool
They can't do that.
They can, after class, walk up to a group... Take them to the woods and show them the... I don't know about all that, but they can.
So let's say there's a group of kids and they're talking about this stuff.
The teacher can hear it and walk over and say, ask me anything you want and we'll talk all about it.
They don't got to tell the parents.
All of that is still acceptable and fine as far as Republicans are concerned.
ian crossland
I don't know, because they're still in a classroom setting.
tim pool
Even if it's after class.
Classroom discussions.
ian crossland
Even if it's like after school, if it's in the classroom.
ryan long
It's essentially about the curriculum is what the argument's about, right?
tim pool
Right.
So, one-on-one is in the clear.
There may be some questions about with more than one person, but nothing is stopping a teacher from having a... Let's just go to that point.
A teacher can walk up to a student who's four years old by themselves, pull them out of the classroom, and say... Yeah, are you gay or nah?
unidentified
Right.
tim pool
Yeah, but there's one thing the bill does.
They can't say, don't tell your parents.
They can't do that.
So they can still have private discussions about this stuff.
They can say literally nothing, but if they say, don't tell your parents, now they're crossing the line.
danny polishchuck
Like the teacher says, don't tell your parents?
unidentified
Yeah.
It should be a how they say, don't tell your parents.
tim pool
They can't discourage or dissuade students from talking to their parents about medical issues.
So, the crazy thing about the bill, and we talked about it for like three days now, is that if a kid slips on vomit and breaks his arm, the teacher might go up to him and be like, we're gonna get sued because that's our fault.
And they go to the kid and they say, don't tell your parents how that happened, just say you were playing outside.
ryan long
Yeah, don't tell them that I had a couple extra today in class.
tim pool
No, for real, and barfed.
ryan long
Let loose a little.
tim pool
So, I mean, obviously drinking at school would be illegal for the teacher, but let's say a kid trips on something.
It's a school's fault.
And the school just comes up to them and knows the kid's not smart enough to address the issue and says, don't tell your parents.
The kid goes home with a broken arm.
They call the parents.
Oh, he was playing outside.
The kid doesn't tell his parents because the teachers told him not to.
Now the insurance, now the insurance is like, we're not covering it.
And the school's like, it's not our fault.
And now this poor middle-class family is being put out.
So that, the reason I bring that up is that the Democrats' narrative on the whole thing is just like, they literally made it up.
It has nothing to do with this bill.
It is just like, that's why I'm calling the bill, don't say straight.
ryan long
In your mind, you kind of go, yeah, who even came, who even ever read this and interpreted that was what was happening?
ian crossland
Yeah, gay and straight's not a medical thing.
ryan long
So what is the trans component?
tim pool
Nothing.
Identity and orientation, I suppose.
ryan long
Well, wasn't it that if you're, you know, K-2 and you are taking hormones, you're supposed to notify the parents?
Is that the idea?
tim pool
Not in the bill.
The bill just says if the teachers can't give medication to students, if a student would be prescribed any kind of medication, the parents must be informed.
I'll tell you this.
ryan long
I've been trying to get to the bottom of this, to be honest, because it did feel like, I go, what the hell is actually happening here?
tim pool
So let's say your kid's at school, right?
ryan long
It's like a propaganda salad coming around from everywhere.
tim pool
Let's say your kid's at school, and he gets a stomachache.
And so they say, we want to give the kid some Pepto.
Make his stomach feel better.
Gotta tell the parents.
Democrats are opposed to that.
ian crossland
No.
tim pool
Because the reality here is they're saying don't say gay as a psychological attack.
Conservatives have fallen for it.
Conservatives are playing into that narrative because the reality of the bill is they want to make sure parents don't know what's happening to their children.
Period.
It's not about gay.
It's not about straight.
It's not even about any one specific thing.
It's about saying don't let parents know what we're doing in general.
ryan long
Because then we can now take that principle and do some... Critical race theory.
Teach them whatever we want.
tim pool
So they claim they're not teaching critical race theory.
So it's more about that.
It's just, you know, it wasn't until COVID we actually learned what they were doing to kids because the Zoom classrooms.
And the teachers got freaked out.
Like, we saw these leaked calls where they're like, parents are finding out what I'm telling their kids.
That's what it's about.
The teachers can't teach children things, you know, outside of curriculum.
Parents can sue the teachers if they go outside curriculum.
Teachers can't take medical action against a child without parental consent or advisement.
If a kid has a medical, mental, or physical issue, they have to inform the parents.
And then, one provision is, preschool through third grade, you can't have classroom discussions on orientation or identity.
danny polishchuck
It's all very reasonable things.
ryan long
I'm like, you know what else there is something to be said about?
If you want to teach like essentially your worldview and propaganda, then be a university teacher.
Cause that's like, that's basically the job.
You get to do your course and you can kind of teach whatever you want and which is very worldview and very what you think.
If you want to teach grade seven, you know, maybe just teach the stuff.
tim pool
You guys ever play Lemmings?
danny polishchuck
Yeah, back in I played on like a Windows 95.
tim pool
Yeah, I don't know who came up with the idea.
NPC lemmings.
ian crossland
I think it was Seamus.
tim pool
Yeah, the idea would be, I think I was talking about how I play the game lemmings on my phone.
And the idea is someone mentioned they're programming a version of it where instead of lemmings, they're NPCs, a little NPC meme.
ryan long
And we're gonna you know, when you when you want to like dig through a wall, he puts on like an antifa mask and starts like vandalizing the wall and I thought this Russia stuff in general was a very, you know, from back to back with COVID, just to show the extent to which it's so easy to get people hyped up on for whatever you want them to be hyped up about.
And it's like, it's funny, it's funny to point out sometimes, but you go, it's almost would just be like, Man, it's almost just better to be a politician because you go, it is, or whatever.
If you have a real agenda, it's very easy to get people jazzed up for whatever you want them jazzed up about.
tim pool
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
ryan long
And nothing, and the hypocrisy doesn't matter.
I mean, you know, we're talking about all this trans stuff, but like all this stuff that they were mad at people about for four years straight.
tim pool
Ukraine could be doing it all of that and it could be you know on video and it'd be all right We don't care I mean there was that you guys before the show you pulled up Zelensky And he was doing like Roman salutes Nazi salutes, and he was making jokes about buying Hitler's book and all that stuff Well, he's making jokes about how the Mein Kampf was sold out in the Ukraine, which is because the Azov and the Western Ukraine are like militant Nazis No, but imagine that was you know some you know politician running for New York.
danny polishchuck
That's you know I Yeah, but also like, you know, Putin was like, we're going to denazify and everybody's like, okay, whatever.
Like, that's your pretext.
Nobody actually believes that.
And then you see it, you're like, yeah, well, but everybody, but then you see, you're like, oh, there actually are like quite a bit.
Yeah.
And then we were in the Ottawa thing, the protesters and they go, ah, there, look, there's like a Confederate flag.
There's like a Nazi flag.
You're all Nazis.
And then you go, okay, so there's all these people in Ukraine, Nazis then?
ian crossland
Yes.
tim pool
All the people you all support?
ryan long
They don't care.
I know they don't care, but... Yeah, that's reserved for podcasters.
ian crossland
The Azov were basically, in Western Ukraine during World War II, they were like insurgent Nazis that were fighting on the side of the Germans.
Left over from when Ukraine was a German protectorate after World War I.
ryan long
So there's definitely like nuance to all of these points, but the point, my point is that the nuance is granted very differently in every situation.
And it's like, and it's almost, it's pretty egregious to the point where it's interesting.
I would even see with other people, I go, you can't, they're not going to get hyped up about something completely opposite a day later, are they?
And they will.
tim pool
Let me, let me, let me pull this story we got from TimCast.com.
Poll finds Republicans and independents would stay and fight if America was invaded.
Democrats say they would flee.
Nothing.
of this guy. And he was tweeting up a storm during 2020 about how Trump was evil and Trump
was bad. And you know what he did right after the election?
unidentified
Nothing. He moved to Europe.
tim pool
And I'm just like, this dude votes for Joe Biden. And then within a couple of months,
the ship is sinking, gas prices, all these problems, and he's gone.
And he's gone.
And here I am, sitting here, holding the bag, and I just feel like, yo, these people are evil.
Right?
It's the banality of evil.
It's not diabolical evil.
It is, you know, what, neutral evil, I guess you'd call it?
It is...
Indifference, as they watch things crumble around them.
They say, I'm going to vote for Biden because I want to signal to everybody how virtuous I am, but I'm gone the moment he gets elected.
I'm going to go live somewhere else because we know how bad it's going to get.
And there they go.
They go off.
danny polishchuck
It's funny they say they would flee because the same people were like, when Trump would go, I'm moving to Canada.
None of them, none of them did.
None of them did.
And the funniest part is we were living in Canada at the time.
We go, that's rich that you all think you can just come here.
But it's this weird American exceptionalism where you guys think you can just go anywhere.
tim pool
We can.
ian crossland
Bill Clinton did it.
tim pool
But with Trump, things were good.
So when Trump got elected, these celebrities were like, well, you know, my 401k is doing well.
My bank account's doing well.
I'm getting more work.
I'm okay.
When Biden hits and everything starts going bad, they're like, I'm going to get out of here because things are falling apart.
And it's their fault.
Yeah, here we are.
danny polishchuck
I would not want to Europe.
tim pool
These people say the majority of Democrats that they would flee if the US got attacked.
And that's a crazy thought.
You know that these people are helping steer the ship Iran, but they have no problem admitting they would jump overboard the sign of any any conflict or turmoil.
Leave us holding that bag.
danny polishchuck
Yeah.
ian crossland
Oh, I just said that Clinton fled to Canada during Vietnam.
I think that he just sought and received deferments to avoid combat being sent to the jungle.
Good job, Bill.
I don't know if he actually went to Canada.
danny polishchuck
That was different.
At the time, Canada actually did take people who wanted to not go to Vietnam.
If you tried to get into Canada during Trump, what would you do?
ryan long
I'd be one worse than gone.
I'd have both uniforms in my backpack, and then whoever was winning that particular battle.
ian crossland
Yeah, there's no way I would do everything I could to not get sent to go to the meat grinder in the jungle.
ryan long
Yeah, I don't think I'd be fighting any wars.
tim pool
Well, Vietnam I get, but what would happen right now?
You find patriots.
If America got invaded, would you be on the front line defending America?
ryan long
Yeah, I'd be on the front lines of a gender reassignment surgery, Ms.
Doubtfiring my way out of this floor.
tim pool
You're in America now, alright?
You are suckling the bosom of this country.
ryan long
You will stand— Suckling the—what's the reverse of suckling the bosom?
Funding your social beings.
danny polishchuck
We're being held by the ankles and just shaken.
ryan long
Out of your mind?
Yeah.
tim pool
Well, the taxes are higher in Canada.
danny polishchuck
New York City?
unidentified
Are they?
danny polishchuck
No, no, no.
New York City has higher taxes than anywhere in Canada, and we don't get free healthcare.
ryan long
Yeah, I assure you that I'm not suckling off the T. You do!
And to answer your question, yeah, if Uncle Sam came knocking my door, they're like, listen, you gotta join the battalion.
I'll go, yeah, yeah, meet you there.
danny polishchuck
Do you need a jester?
tim pool
You're saying you don't get healthcare in New York?
But you do get rat kings.
danny polishchuck
You know what a rat king is?
I do know what a... I tried to write in a rat... So I did this movie... Remember Rob Ford?
The mayor of Toronto?
So I made this movie about Rob Ford.
tim pool
He's a guy who's doing drugs, right?
danny polishchuck
He was smoking crack.
And I tried to write in a rat king into the movie.
unidentified
What the heck?
What's a rat king?
ian crossland
Tell me about this rat king thing.
What is that?
danny polishchuck
It's uh basically it's a bunch of rats and then their tails get all matted with like mud and dirt and then they all get stuck together and then they essentially become it's like a hive mind thing where they because you know now their tails are all stuck together so they have to move in unison because otherwise they're all pulling Uh, so it's, yeah, see, they're all, it's called the rat king.
ian crossland
And they do, they move together?
danny polishchuck
Well, they have to, otherwise how do you get anywhere?
ian crossland
Wow, does one of them take over as the brain?
danny polishchuck
I don't know, I think it's like a symbiotic, like they all... It's like a Ouija board, you know?
Yeah, it's like a, exactly, it's like a Ouija board.
ian crossland
It's like a corporation for rats.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, yeah, kind of, exactly.
tim pool
This crazy, dude.
I don't know.
Is it real, though?
Because some people have said that it's like an urban legend.
Oh, I guess there you go.
ryan long
It does look man-made.
tim pool
Rat king phenomenon.
ian crossland
Synthetic rat kings?
unidentified
There's rats everywhere in New York.
ian crossland
Why on Wikipedia does it say, historically this phenomenon is particularly associated with Germany?
Why does it say that on Wikipedia?
It's in the first paragraph on Wikipedia.
tim pool
Really?
unidentified
Yeah.
ryan long
You're saying that's 4chan getting in there?
lydia smith
Yeah, what the heck?
tim pool
Maybe Germany has rat kings.
ian crossland
I mean, but you're saying New York City... Oh, squirrels do the same thing.
lydia smith
Oh, interesting.
danny polishchuck
Squirrel king just doesn't have a good... Have you ever seen a squirrel rat?
ryan long
Well, they do.
Once you put them in your rectum, they get tangled.
tim pool
It's a family friendly show.
Have you ever seen a squirrel rat?
ryan long
That's a medical procedure.
danny polishchuck
What is it?
tim pool
So they're not real but I was in New York as a Central Park and I saw it was a genetic it was like a chimeric squirrel Something happened to it where its tail part of it didn't have fur and part of it didn't have like poof It was out partly albino like a mange So like, no, no, no, it was like half albino squirrel.
And so it looked half rat and half squirrel, but they can't procreate.
So it's not a real thing, a squirrel rat, but people think they are because they'll see these mutant squirrels with like less hair on one side and they think it's like a mutant, you know, like a hybrid.
ryan long
But yeah, it's just they're ill and diseased, right?
tim pool
No, it could just be a genetic thing.
Yeah, it's just like a genetic mutation.
ryan long
Yeah, they are aggressive in New York.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
ian crossland
The rats.
ryan long
Squirrels.
And the homeless.
ian crossland
The squirrels, I used to feed them and they'd come up and then every once in a while you get one that would just grab the bag of nuts and run.
tim pool
And pigeons, you can hold out your hand and the pigeons will jump on you.
You can walk up to a pigeon in New York, hold out food, it'll jump into your hand and start eating.
ryan long
Yeah, they don't have any, they're not afraid.
tim pool
And then what you do is you grab its feet and it can't get away.
And then you take it home.
ian crossland
Mike Tyson.
Mike Tyson's gonna be sad that you said that.
tim pool
They used to do that, you know, right?
danny polishchuck
What's that?
tim pool
I think it was, was it the passenger pigeon?
Was it?
ian crossland
That would be extinct one.
tim pool
Yeah, in New York, they would like go with a net and just catch pigeon and eat them.
Could you imagine living that way?
Like going out in New York and putting up a rat trap and being like, we got some meat tonight.
I mean, it's crazy, right?
ryan long
That's what they do at the North Korean camps or whatever.
They put them in the labor camps.
That's a delicacy.
You should be so lucky to catch a pigeon.
danny polishchuck
People don't realize when we say... I mean, when you're eating all your bunker food, that's what me and Ryan are going to be eating in New York City.
unidentified
We're going to literally be like, that's fine, there's a pigeon.
ryan long
I wish we bought some of those bunker supplies.
When he's feasting on that sweet, sweet, compacted granola.
tim pool
Rice and beans.
Yeah, just rice and beans.
ryan long
You got the Trinidad pack.
tim pool
So we're gonna be sitting there.
ryan long
The Bunkermon!
tim pool
And yo, we got chili powder and paprika, and we're gonna be sitting there and we're gonna be, you know, dancing and like, eating rice and beans and you guys are gonna be munching on rat and you're gonna be like...
Tim was right the whole time.
danny polishchuck
Our hair is going to be falling out from the radiation.
ryan long
Speaking Russian.
And Chinese.
A mix.
Russianese.
ian crossland
You can plant dry beans from the grocery store.
I never really thought that through, but that's awesome.
You can eat them or plant them.
ryan long
Now you're just rubbing it in.
So now you have a garden.
danny polishchuck
We're wasting an endless supply of beans.
ryan long
We got a lot of beans.
We can eat Danny's crypto portfolio.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, that's gonna be very useful in the end of times.
tim pool
It's crazy to think, you know, if you go to certain higher-end restaurants, they're often out of things because they're hard to come by.
ryan long
And we've... Every time I go there and ask for a hot dog, they're always out of it.
tim pool
Well, there's a steakhouse nearby and it's like, they were out of a certain steak, they're like, oh we don't have this meat, we don't have that meat, it's hard to get, it's really expensive, the prices are going up.
ryan long
You can't afford it.
tim pool
But we're so luxurious in the United States that we don't even think twice about going into a local diner and saying, for breakfast I want like a sirloin, top sirloin with scrambled eggs, and they're like, yup, no problem.
And there are countries where getting protein is unheard of.
So it's just so, like Americans.
ryan long
Totally, you get that for 10 bucks, yeah.
tim pool
And that's why they keep saying you'll own nothing and you'll be happy, because they're like, time to eat some bugs, dude.
And for me?
ryan long
Well, I mean, for most people, they do own nothing.
So that won't change very much.
There's an idea of 15 years ago, people used to own houses.
People don't really own houses anymore.
tim pool
But this is because we've been taken over by oligarchs.
No, for real.
You know, so I talk about wealth inequality every so often because I think it's a big problem.
And there's, you know, it's a very common trope on the right where it's like relatively dismissive of it.
It's not an issue.
It doesn't come up as often.
ryan long
Yeah.
tim pool
But when you have a small handful of ultra wealthy elites, what they do is like almost every time they buy up as much property as they can because property is mandatory.
ryan long
Well, that's happening now, yeah.
tim pool
Exactly.
So, when I visited Ukraine, we saw this.
ryan long
It's the new rush.
tim pool
I was looking at lofts in Ukraine in, like, 2013, and the prices were comparable to, like, a house in America.
And I asked my Ukrainian friend, how is that possible?
And she was like, it's a bunch of billionaire oligarchs who own everything.
danny polishchuck
They own everything.
Yeah, they just have to park their money just all over the world.
tim pool
And so they trade amongst each other, but I was told, but the rent is only, like, 50 bucks a month.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
And I'm like, so it's a 300- So they take hits on them.
No, not really.
It's like, The building should be worth it.
danny polishchuck
Well, they just want to own the asset.
They don't care about the cash flow.
ryan long
I'm just saying that, well, that's what I meant by, you can't, however you want to look at it,
if you're paying more than.
tim pool
Only other oligarchs can buy it.
So they just talk amongst themselves like, oh yeah, it's 321, okay, fine.
And then foreign investors, that's the other thing too.
The oligarchs know, we'll put the price comparable to the West because Westerners who want to get property
in here will have to pay it.
We own it all.
It's ours.
Yeah, it's happening now with these companies buying up.
danny polishchuck
I mean, New York City has tons of like some of the most expensive properties are owned by Russian oligarchs.
Wow.
Yeah, there's a lot there's like I've been seeing stuff where a bunch of these places are going up for sale because you know, like Roman Abramovich.
He's like one of the big ones and he's selling he owns Chelsea.
He's been like the big owner of Chelsea.
And he's like, I have to sell it.
He's selling Chelsea because of all this whole war.
unidentified
Wow.
danny polishchuck
He's just like, I have to get rid of it.
I can't keep any selling.
tim pool
And who can buy it?
danny polishchuck
Oh, someone will buy it.
ian crossland
Oh, BlackRock.
tim pool
A big firm?
ian crossland
BlackRock will take out a hundred billion dollar loan and then buy a bunch of houses.
danny polishchuck
There'll be a lineup to buy that.
There's no shortage of American billionaires.
ian crossland
I don't get it how a company can take out a billion dollar loan of funny money and then just own now the properties theirs because the funny money said so.
I don't believe the funny money.
ryan long
What do you mean?
ian crossland
They take out Federal Reserve loans, which is just basically fiat, fake money.
It's faith-based money.
And then they buy hard assets.
ryan long
They do Federal Reserve loans.
ian crossland
I don't think they take it directly from the Fed.
They take it from a bank that took it from the Fed.
ryan long
Yeah, but they don't take it at zero percent.
danny polishchuck
I don't know.
tim pool
But Ian, this is how banking works.
This is how banking works.
ian crossland
It's crazy.
tim pool
When I swipe my credit card, the money just blinks into existence.
And then I got to pay.
ian crossland
And these big companies have so much assets to take loans out on that they can take huge loans out and then buy the assets and then sell them back next year for double the price.
danny polishchuck
I mean, all of this is just based on the fact that, you know, the U.S.
You can only do this in America.
ian crossland
Yeah, it's funny money.
It's the federal fiat currency.
danny polishchuck
And they know it, dude.
Look, you guys had your cash out earlier.
You can take that cash and go spend that in any city in the world, pretty much.
Other than the ones like North Korea where it's illegal or whatever.
You can't do that with any other currency.
You go anywhere on this planet and say, here's a $5 American bill.
They go, yeah, that's as good as anything.
ryan long
You're saying I can't go and pay my tab in London with an Ethiopian franc?
danny polishchuck
Go try and pay it with a $20 Canadian bill and just the look they're gonna give you when you're out.
tim pool
So here's what happens.
I've traveled to maybe like 35 to 40 countries and I've asked this a lot and the response I usually get like when I go to Morocco and I'm like, will you take US dollars?
They'll go...
Okay, I guess.
Because they gotta go exchange it.
But they're like, meh, fine, you know, I'll take it.
You go, you do the opposite, you get like, you know, a bowl of Ar Fuerte from Venezuela in your garbage bag, and you bring it to a Dunkin Donuts, and you slam 300 pounds of cash into one donut, and they're like, sir, get out of here, what are you doing, we're calling the cops.
They won't, it's just toilet paper to them.
ryan long
Depends on where, yeah.
tim pool
Yeah, you're not gonna... Bro, when I came back from Venezuela, we had big garbage bags of cash.
And so... Did you really bring them?
We didn't bring the full garbage bags, but we had massive stacks.
ryan long
Take them to the strip club?
tim pool
No, no, we just... I turned the cash in, it was... Go-go usher style?
Yo, yo, check it out.
danny polishchuck
Usher bucks?
ryan long
No, you bring the gun with the... Yeah, the gun with the Venezuela.
tim pool
They give us petty cash.
Oh gosh, it's petty to me.
on day to day stuff.
ryan long
Oh gosh, it's petty to me.
tim pool
Sure.
So we arrive in Venezuela and I'm like, how do we do it?
And they're like, you can't, it's illegal, you can't.
The official exchange rate was like $1 with 7, but they were like, that's insane, because
it's actually like 70.
So a guy smuggled in money.
ryan long
You need 70 bills per dollar.
tim pool
Yeah, something like that.
So we had garbage bags filled with money and we'd have to pull out huge stacks and literally
pay at a restaurant.
ryan long
Like, pfft.
danny polishchuck
It's crazy in that hyperinflationary environment too because those people, there's no such thing as savings.
It's like you have to spend the money instantly.
tim pool
This has happened now, man.
danny polishchuck
The moment you get it, it's like you spend it.
ryan long
Well, that's why you gotta have it on swords.
danny polishchuck
Well, honestly, but the moment, because tomorrow that loaf of bread is like five stacks of money instead of four stacks of money.
tim pool
Have you guys been watching Sword Futures?
Through the roof.
Four or five swords.
danny polishchuck
Do you see actually Venezuela that Biden's now trying to fix the oil stuff by buying oil from Venezuela?
tim pool
Desperation, man.
danny polishchuck
Yikes.
tim pool
And, you know, I'm just imagining like Maduro is like sitting in his office and he's got like his belly hanging out.
He's eating empanadas and like the phone rings and it's Biden.
unidentified
And he's like, it's Joe Biden.
tim pool
They're like, oh, like everyone's sitting around.
He picks the phone up.
He's like, yes.
And Joe's like, Come on, man.
We really need some oil, man.
We're hurting here.
And then he's like, let's negotiate.
ryan long
Call me the tin man, because I need to be oiled, pal.
tim pool
They're all cheering and celebrating.
We finally won.
Oil me!
Yeah, oil me.
ryan long
He goes, who is this?
Oil me!
unidentified
Hello?
ryan long
It says White House on my phone.
Oil me!
Nah, just kidding, man.
It's your old friend Joe.
tim pool
No, he's sitting in a wheelchair.
Smile, man.
With a blanket on his lap.
unidentified
They're like, what?
tim pool
Oil!
And they're like, oh, it's Joe.
danny polishchuck
It's Joe.
unidentified
Joey.
ryan long
It's the oil man.
It's your old pal Joe the oil man.
tim pool
I love when they announce that they're gonna be like, they've done this a couple of times.
We're releasing strategic reserves.
And it's like, we're gonna be releasing, you know, 10 million barrels.
And it's like, dude, that's a day.
unidentified
Yeah.
danny polishchuck
He said 60 million barrels, three days worth of oil.
tim pool
Yeah.
ryan long
Do you think he's just going by, uh, by didn't do nothing?
tim pool
What do you think gas is going to hit?
unidentified
11, 1150?
tim pool
1150 a gallon.
ian crossland
I think it'll be hit 1150 before people go insane.
danny polishchuck
You know, I just started seeing revolts.
tim pool
I just, I just went out.
I bought a couple Teslas just to make sure, you know, we'll keep someone in the garage.
I'm kidding.
ryan long
You don't have a Tesla?
tim pool
I do have a Tesla.
ryan long
Yeah.
ian crossland
Okay.
unidentified
But I was thinking about buying a couple Teslas.
ryan long
I bought some Teslas.
You bought one?
No.
Do you have a Tesla?
I do have one.
tim pool
I'm allowed to have one, Ryan.
ryan long
I don't know.
tim pool
All this stuff is funny.
This is why I bought the Tesla.
No joke.
So, I bought it, I think, how long ago?
Was it a year?
A year and a half ago, maybe?
No, it was one year ago, I think.
One year ago.
ryan long
Could you get Elon on Timco?
tim pool
I'd love to.
But I specifically was telling people, like, I think I'm going to go buy a Tesla right now, specifically because I think gas is going to go nuts.
And I was talking about it all last year for a variety of reasons.
Now, here we are.
They're saying gas is higher than it's ever been.
It's like $7 in L.A.
County.
And now the average is like $4.50, I think.
And they're saying it's going to get worse because all of this happening with gas happened before the banning of Russian oil imports.
Joe Biden is so desperate.
He's asking Venezuela for help.
danny polishchuck
It's a perfect storm.
ryan long
What about buying a bunch of gas and just having it all stored in your lawn?
tim pool
Someone did that in Chicago when I was a kid.
They took a bunch of 50-gallon drums and they filled it with gasoline and put it in their basement.
Because this was back when gas... Accidentally lit a smoke.
And then the house exploded.
danny polishchuck
Let me pull it up.
tim pool
So remember when oil went negative?
danny polishchuck
Two years ago?
You know what's so crazy is that in the last two years, oil has gone from negative $40 a barrel to up to, I think, what were we at?
$150 is what we hit?
$140 or something?
So it was right when COVID hit and then oil futures, like the April contract or something, literally because demand just disappeared.
Like there was like, yeah, nobody's flying, nobody's driving, there's no demand.
And so you could straight up, they would pay you Like if you bought an oil contract, which means you actually have to take delivery of a barrel of oil.
Like when you buy an oil futures contract, like you're like, yeah, when this expires, you have to go pick up from Cushing, Oklahoma, a barrel of oil.
And so normally like, you know, it's $140 right now.
You pay $140 and then you go pick it up.
They were like, come pick these up.
We'll pay you $40.
unidentified
What?
danny polishchuck
To take away.
But so then all these people on Reddit were like, how are we gonna, we could probably make like a fortune on this, you know, we just have to store it.
But you're like, you can't store crude oil in your garage.
It's like the smells that come off of it.
And like, you need like, yeah, but you need like real facilities.
ryan long
And there was all these people like scheming Yeah, if it was so easy, they would be doing it.
danny polishchuck
Well, yeah, but first off, you got to go get a truck, go to Cushing, Oklahoma, like show up there, load up and then store it until the... And I'm sure somebody who had everything set up did do that.
ryan long
That's why I should have got Tim for his birthday.
Just like a bucket of oil.
tim pool
I'm trying to find the store.
I can't find it.
It happened too long ago, I guess.
danny polishchuck
But there was some oil trade, somebody was trading oil contracts and then his like account, he had like, you know, $10,000 in account.
And then he was, he bought these, uh, he bought oil at one cent a barrel.
Cause he goes, it's one cent a barrel.
It's like, he didn't realize that it could go negative.
He just goes, it's one cent.
Can't go below one cent.
Right.
And then he like logs into his like interactive broker's account and he's like down a million dollars.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
ryan long
That's some shit I would do.
danny polishchuck
You know what, though?
But they forgave everybody in that scenario because they were like, you know, we never told anybody that you could go negative.
Like, there's no negative in a brokerage account.
You go to zero.
tim pool
Yeah.
unidentified
Right?
ryan long
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He just got a wild margin call kind of thing.
danny polishchuck
He literally interacted with brokers and called them and go, yo, what's a million dollars?
And he's like, what?
I don't have a million dollars.
And how did you let my account go negative a million?
And they go, well, oil is minus $40 a barrel.
ian crossland
I'm looking at crude oil costs for oil.
Looks like it's like $120 right now.
Yeah, so it's $120.
danny polishchuck
It was minus $40.
ian crossland
$108 right now.
tim pool
They were paying you to take you off of them.
danny polishchuck
If you would show up and take away a barrel of oil, they would hand you $40.
ian crossland
That's because it was going bad, basically.
danny polishchuck
You guys see that video?
ryan long
It's going bad.
ian crossland
It goes bad.
tim pool
He's got a big supply.
danny polishchuck
No, no, they were because Trump bought not at minus but around then he bought a bunch and I was listening on the
Nelk thing and he was saying he's got a big he filled up the the strategic reserves
And he says they keep it in Louisiana and these like mines under the ground
tim pool
Do you guys see that video of the guy pouring gas into his pickup truck?
Into the bed He lined the pickup bed with a tarp and he was just pouring it in.
ryan long
Some good old white trash fun.
tim pool
People were like, dude, don't do that.
And he was like, shut up.
Then he gets in the car and drives and it just like splashes back and forth.
danny polishchuck
I mean, you've seen when someone does that with like a kiddie pool in there.
tim pool
This one I can pull up.
This one I can pull up for sure.
Check this out.
ian crossland
That's like chemical weapon thing.
That's gross.
That's toxic.
unidentified
Wow, that's a stupid humans Yeah, he's actually filling he's filling the bed of his truck, of course, he's got a ponytail It's dripping out This is a human being that guy's a human not this guy's now.
tim pool
Do you guys understand now?
Yeah, look at that.
ryan long
It's dripping out.
ian crossland
What is this?
This is a human being. That guy's a human.
tim pool
Now do you guys understand Bill Gates?
We gotta say something.
ian crossland
I understand how people- why the Romans called people plebeians.
Like there was the elite class and then everyone else they called plebeians because they were like, wait till he drives- Is that by LAX?
tim pool
I think so.
ryan long
This guy's got a cable access conspiracy podcast that only his aunt listens to.
unidentified
Just don't let them know what's going on.
ian crossland
It is terrifying to think there are people out there like this.
unidentified
I love how this bloody- You're not safe.
You're gonna- you're gonna cause a big accident.
tim pool
What's he gonna do with all that gas?
unidentified
This guy rules.
Well I don't think a lit match can go off in liquid gas.
the cost.
Give me as much gas as I can.
Dude, it's not that serious.
This guy rules.
If somebody throws a lit match in here, it's going to blow.
tim pool
Well I don't think a lit match can go off in liquid gas.
unidentified
No.
tim pool
It's the fumes though.
Look at this.
It's still going, right?
How are they letting him do it?
ryan long
These people need to mind their own business.
This guy's rocking.
tim pool
Yeah, they're the Karens.
Watch this.
You guys ready for this?
Watch it move.
Watch it move.
He's gonna drive.
unidentified
Oh my god!
ian crossland
What is he doing?
Dude!
unidentified
Watch, watch, watch.
Alright, here he goes.
tim pool
It's splashing around.
unidentified
What is she doing?
danny polishchuck
Someone steps on their brakes in front of me.
tim pool
Where is she going with it?
ryan long
They're following him now?
danny polishchuck
Oh you have to.
ryan long
Well now they've got a high speed pursuit.
lydia smith
I know right?
Very low speed.
ian crossland
Oh!
lydia smith
Tragedy.
ryan long
Dude, that guy's wife told him that he can't take the gas and he's proving her wrong right
tim pool
This is, for those that are just listening, it's a pickup truck full of gas and he turns left and it all just flies out over the right side.
These are human beings, man.
ryan long
Dude, that's incredible.
tim pool
And so, you know, what Luke needs to understand, Luke Kudkowski, weird change, he needs to understand, he needs to watch that and then go and read about what Bill Gates' plans are, whatever he thinks they are.
Then you understand, Klaus Schwab, you understand these powerful elites.
Don't you sympathize with them now, after watching that?
ryan long
Yeah, as a powerful elite, I get it.
ian crossland
I get it.
The eaters, is that what they call those people?
Eaters?
People who just consume stupidly and do dangerous stuff?
tim pool
I don't know if they actually call them that.
ian crossland
Takers.
They're called takers.
They don't give, they take.
danny polishchuck
I'd like to see Klaus Schwab do the circuit of all the late night shows, just to be like, hey guys, I'm totally misunderstood.
You know, go on Colbert.
tim pool
Oh, that'd be great.
danny polishchuck
In his doom, like his crazy futuristic leather suit.
unidentified
And he's like, I don't want people to die, I just want to take away their fuel so they starve and then There's this book called Ishmael.
ian crossland
Alex Jones came in and was talking.
It was like, uh, I'm a gorilla murder, you know?
And he's talking about like Ishmael.
Ishmael is a psychic gorilla.
That's talking to the student.
In the book, there's givers and there's takers and humanity is divided amongst them.
I think that we're looking at like 99.98% takers in society right now.
Just receiving electricity, receiving food, not really providing for the future.
danny polishchuck
Yeah.
That guy must've just set a record for the pump.
Like that was probably not.
Although, you know, with the price of gas right now, we're the idiots.
Even if you lost half of that, that guy's still ahead.
That guy's honestly listening right now, being like, yo, you know how much I'm up?
I have this all sitting in my... He sold it.
tim pool
He drove back to the gas station.
danny polishchuck
He did that every day!
He's like, I was doing that every day last year.
tim pool
He drives it from one gas station to another, puts the pump in, and it sucks it back up into their pump, and it reverses the counter, and he's like, I'm gonna change it.
danny polishchuck
Or maybe he's about to open his own, like, kind of artisanal gas station.
ian crossland
Oh, he's starting his own gas station.
danny polishchuck
Artisanal?
I've been stocking up.
ryan long
America's finest gas.
Patriot's gas.
tim pool
We had this bit we wanted to do as a joke about, you know, Bill Gates being mildly inconvenienced.
And so that's like, you know, all of the crazy conspiracy ideas people have about him.
ryan long
It's just like... He's on gear, right?
tim pool
He's super ripped.
You hear Joe Rogan talking about him?
That he's like Joe was saying how ripped Bill Gates is and how healthy he was and how he should be giving everybody medical advice because he's a very healthy individual.
I'm kidding.
ryan long
He looks like a guy.
tim pool
It was the opposite actually.
ryan long
It's only a, uh, you know, he's only eaten like a sugary cereal with no milk for all three meals a day.
Like he just has like a handful of Count Chocula.
Yeah, that's what he's been rocking.
There's a lot of sketches.
He hasn't touched water in three weeks.
tim pool
He just drinks Gatorade.
ryan long
He likes Gatorade.
danny polishchuck
Did he drink the poo water?
ian crossland
Yeah, he made a waterless toilet.
Did you see that one?
tim pool
What they do at a lot of these environmentalist organizations is that the toilet is actually, the top of the seat, like the seat, is a foot pad.
And when you sit, the toilet has two levels.
It has the seat up top.
You sit on the top.
ryan long
Put the upper decker.
unidentified
And, well no, you urinate at the top.
tim pool
And then, you'd go number two, one step down.
ryan long
Flush your number one.
tim pool
With, flush your number, use the number one.
ryan long
Flush your number two.
Oh, that's actually kind of smart.
For girls, it's probably a little harder.
tim pool
The seat is a foot pad.
It's a double-layer toilet.
There's like a seat on top.
ryan long
So you sit on the top, then you go sit on the bottom.
tim pool
It's like a loft.
ryan long
Yeah, but the problem is when you're sitting, you go, oh yeah, yeah, it's convenient.
Just sit up there, let out the number one, not the number two.
ian crossland
Okay, there's a lot of you.
unidentified
No, I think what you do is... I couldn't hold it!
tim pool
I mean, I'll try.
When you gotta go number one, you go on top.
When you gotta go one and two, you go on the bottom.
And then you're using other people's number one to... And if you're just a freak, you go one low below that.
The upper decker.
ryan long
If you're a real freak, you go on the mechanics trolley.
ian crossland
Take it into orbit.
tim pool
How about we go to Super Chats?
ryan long
One level below that.
ian crossland
When you go to Super Chats.
tim pool
If you haven't already, my friends, smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, and share the show with your friends.
We're going to have a raucous members-only segment coming up.
What is this, guys?
ryan long
Water.
Oh, you want water.
ian crossland
Over there in the fridge, I think there's a few.
danny polishchuck
Can you grab me one of those dumplings?
tim pool
I don't know if we have these upstairs.
danny polishchuck
There was.
tim pool
There was?
Yeah, we have these.
Someone asked me what these were, actually.
This is a Pneuma Clean Hydration.
unidentified
Those are good.
ian crossland
I'm going to get one.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, get me the chocolate mint one, Ryan.
tim pool
You really like those?
There's no chocolate mint?
No chocolate mint?
So this, it's weird.
Chocolate mint sports drink?
This one's lemonade.
It's like coconut water, lemon juice, Himalayan pink salt, stevia, organic cordyceps mushroom extract, and ashwagandha.
unidentified
Oh!
ian crossland
Luke is a huge fan of the ashwagandha.
danny polishchuck
I like ashwagandha.
I take ashwagandha.
It helps you increase testosterone.
ian crossland
Oh, excellent.
unidentified
Wow.
danny polishchuck
All right.
tim pool
We're going to have that members only segment coming up and we will unleash these fellas.
Alright, let's read some of your guys' superchats while, uh, you know.
danny polishchuck
Ryan goes and, uh, uses the toilet incorrectly.
ian crossland
He's like, Tim was serious about his toilet, right?
tim pool
He was, yeah.
danny polishchuck
Use it incorrectly with the Just go pee in the top one he's like Tim Tim was serious
tim pool
about his toilet, right? Yeah, I'll just do that All right. Let's read. Let's let's read we got
What are people saying?
Cordyceps?
That's what it is, right?
ian crossland
Cordyceps.
tim pool
Cordyceps.
ian crossland
It's a type of mushroom.
tim pool
Cordyceps.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
All right, we got a whole bunch of people saying, happy birthday.
Frost says, happy birthday, Tim.
I see the old 690 brewer do a chocolate milk stout.
Those are always lovely.
You got to try it.
Buy yourself as many as you can with this.
Thank you very much.
We did.
Yeah, old 690, we were drinking that at a local brewery for the State of the Union drinking game we did.
And they also have a maple walnut stout.
unidentified
Wow.
ian crossland
Do we have that in the house?
tim pool
I think it was a stout.
ian crossland
I do like the stouts.
tim pool
It's like drinking pancakes.
Yeah, for real.
It's like drinking pancakes.
ryan long
These are good.
tim pool
Those are good?
I like those too.
ryan long
That's better, the mint chocolate one.
tim pool
So what happened was I got sick.
I was feeling really messed up.
And I wasn't getting better and my whoop was telling me that I was sick and I didn't understand what was going on.
It's a whoop.
So it's like a health fitness tracker.
So I was waking up and it was like, you're not recovered.
And I was feeling really sick.
Something was wrong with me.
And I'm like, this is not a normal sickness.
Turns out I was dehydrated.
And what I didn't realize, you can't just drink water.
I was eating normal food.
I was drinking water.
But what happened is, water doesn't have the salts you need to retain fluids.
So I was just drinking water and just getting rid of it, and so I got dehydrated, and then I had to get saline, and they told me to drink Gatorade.
And so I did, and I instantly felt better, and I was like, wow, man, I didn't realize I was dehydrated because I was going to the bathroom, everything felt normal, and you gotta take this stuff seriously, so I bought a bunch.
ryan long
I went to my doctor, and he has a don't say Gatorade law that he just passed.
unidentified
Oh no!
ryan long
So we only drink Powerade at my household.
tim pool
No sugar.
So no added sugar.
So it's got a little bit of sugar.
And that's why I was like, all right, I don't want 50 carbs per Gatorade or whatever.
You know, I don't want any of that stuff.
Sugar, drink sugar water.
unidentified
All right, let's read.
tim pool
We got, we got a happy birthday, Tim.
We got happy effing birthday, Tim.
Thank you very much.
Everybody's telling me it's my birthday.
Yes, I am 36.
I am, I am old and I am 36 and people are saying happy birthday.
We got another super chat.
Seth is happy birthday.
ryan long
Happy, happy birthday.
tim pool
I have not heard you say anything on the crypto bill that Biden is signing.
It's a bill?
I thought he did an executive order.
Yeah, I think it'll only help Bitcoin.
I think the government saying they want a digital dollar is going to make Bitcoin stronger.
ryan long
Well, it did.
Apparently it went down for a second, but it's coming up now.
danny polishchuck
Well, when he announced it yesterday, it dipped and then it got leaked this morning.
And then when the actual details came out... Oh, because people thought it was going to be... Everybody thought it was going to be... I mean, Joe Biden goes, hey, I'm coming out with the crypto executive order.
Everybody's like, oh, this is not going to be good.
tim pool
So I bought a bunch of Bitcoin when they announced the SWIFT thing.
They were like, Russia's getting booted.
I was like, ooh, I better buy some of this.
And then it spiked.
And then I bought some more again, because I'm just like, you know, I'm really worried about what's going on with the world and the economy.
And I'm pretty sure the World Economic Forum types love cryptocurrency.
And then it jumped again.
danny polishchuck
Yeah.
I mean, I will say the one thing, a real benefit of it is, you know, for all the people who are like refugees or whatever, and you know, you need to pack up all your stuff and go to a different country.
You can literally, if you have Bitcoin, like you can take all your money in your brain.
Yeah, if you know- Like, if you know your seed phrase, theoretically, you know, where people in the past would have taken their diamonds and sewn them into their jacket or their gold or whatever, like, you can just take all your money and, in your brain, transport it.
tim pool
Bro, bro, do you know about, like, um, what is it called when there's an escalation between the police and the criminals?
I don't know.
But you start wearing bulletproof vests, the bad guys start using, you know, armor-piercing bullets.
You start driving trucks, they start, you know, using things that can, like, shut down trucks or get inside of them.
You start storing your crypto in your brain, they start hacking your...
ian crossland
Oh yeah, what is it, Yuval Harari?
That's the World Economic Forum guy.
He's saying blatantly that we're hacking brains.
danny polishchuck
Isn't that what the neural net thing?
tim pool
Give me your keys!
Bro, you guys are going to plug into Neuralink, same as everybody else.
ian crossland
Dude, having a clear brain is going to be so key for the future.
ryan long
You mean me and him like will and you won't kind of thing?
tim pool
I probably will too.
I don't know.
People don't realize.
ryan long
I thought you were saying, like, look at you two bitches.
tim pool
Well, you're Canadian, so I figured you'd be a bit more demure.
danny polishchuck
Look at your sheep!
tim pool
Just plug your head and comply.
You just plug it immediately, it's like... A lot of people are going to say no, for sure.
A lot of people who are watching probably will say no, for sure.
ryan long
I think the benefit's probable, but it depends on... You know, there are elements where I'm like, If I plugged in and all of a sudden all my comedy documents are kind of like right there and I could, you know, I could see myself.
danny polishchuck
No, that, you know what I mean?
That is, they're saying Apple's going to have a contact lens that'll, that'll straight up, it'll be a contact lens and then it'll be like augmented reality.
ryan long
No, but I won't, I'm not going to, I wouldn't enter it for the coolness.
I would enter it for, if I really am like, this is going to make my life so much better.
tim pool
How about this?
ryan long
So if they're going to be looking at my info, I would really have to be like, alright, my life is gonna be so much better.
ian crossland
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
tim pool
You guys are missing one key component.
So first, I don't think, yes, I don't think they're gonna be like forcefully putting chips in people's brains.
It's gonna start with kids.
Young kids, they're going to ask their parents, and it's not going to be a machine, it's going to be a port.
So Neuralink or whatever, they're not going to come out and say we're implanting a computer in your brain we can access.
They're going to say it's a port and you don't have to connect anything to it.
You can choose what to interface with if you want to.
And what will eventually get people is if we get to the point where we can simulate reality in your mind, yo, everybody will do it.
danny polishchuck
And then it'll be like USB in cars where it'll be obsolete.
I don't even want that!
ryan long
Sure, but that doesn't interest me.
ian crossland
What if you could click a button and live 50 years in an hour?
But you are committed to those 50 years of thought and it's actually like living 50 years and then you wake up and it's back to 50 years ago in your room.
tim pool
Sure.
ian crossland
It's like a prison sentence on the post.
ryan long
O'Reilly's brother in Oz, that's what happened.
tim pool
Oh, wow.
Why would it be mandatory?
So, you gotta look at how things are implemented, right?
When the iPhone came out, it was revolutionary.
And all of a sudden, everybody was like, I want this thing.
It's got a camera on it.
It's got a GPS on it.
They know where you're going and no one cared.
They literally track you and spy on you.
They can spy on the microphones.
ryan long
It's different than your thoughts, though.
tim pool
Yo, yo, check it out.
It is, but people won't think.
They won't think you're stealing my thoughts.
ryan long
They'll say, well, yeah, they have access to it, but who's actually looking at my thoughts?
danny polishchuck
How many of your thoughts do you write down?
unidentified
Do you guys know what shadow profiles are?
tim pool
Facebook has a profile on people who never signed up.
So if you, Danny, you sign up for Facebook Messenger, It says, hey, can we help you find your friends?
And you put yes.
It sends all of your phone numbers to Facebook along with all of their names.
They see mom 555-1234 and they say, Danny's mom is 555-1234.
Someone else signs up and they put sister.
And then it says, John's sister is 555-1234.
Now they know who your uncle is.
Then it'll say Janice, co-worker, and they'll be like, now we know her name's Janice, we know where she works, and they make that profile, and your mom may have never signed up.
People don't realize how easy it is to capture all that information.
So right now, they know what you're thinking, even though you've never interfaced your brain.
For real, like Facebook knows when you have to poop.
I'm not exaggerating, I was reading a story about how Facebook actually figured it out because they can track where you go, they know what time you eat because they know where you're at, they know what time you get to work every day, and the AI can basically be like, there's a 97% certainty that this person is going to the bathroom right now.
danny polishchuck
Show them an ad for the Squatty Potty.
tim pool
And they do!
So people are just like, how did I get an ad for this TV?
It's not because they're listening to what you're saying.
It's because they know what you're thinking.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, they're getting so good at predicting.
That's like the Cambridge Analytica stuff.
tim pool
Yeah, there was that story about a guy who started seeing mail come in for his daughter about being pregnant in maternity clothes.
So he complained.
I think it was to Target, I'm not sure.
And he was like, why are you sending maternity advertisements to my daughter?
And they're like, sir, it's an automated system.
If the system detected she was pregnant, they send her the ads.
She didn't even know she was pregnant.
She was searching things like weight gain or bloated or vomiting and the algorithm understood those things meant
pregnancy and before she realized that They were sending her ads for it. So here's what happened
ryan long
Yeah There's a lot of stuff kids are gonna get these and they're
tim pool
gonna back I don't know what the problem is and you're gonna be like
We'll be old guys and they're gonna be like don't you use neural link and they're gonna be walking around seeing
crazy stuff And then we're gonna get these like it's gonna be called
like master link or whatever And then we're gonna be old people with these weird bulky
external things you put on your neck and we're like I can't figure out how to work the dang widget!
And your kid, your grandkid's gonna be like, let me help you, Grandpa.
Why don't you get a modern, you know?
ryan long
Put it in your nose, yeah.
tim pool
And you're gonna be like, I don't know, I just like this one.
It works.
And the buttons are bigger.
ian crossland
I would imagine if you interact with someone that has the neural net, they're gonna be tracking your behavior for the company.
And then, like, it'll get to a point.
So, like, if you look in my eyes and you're in the neural net, the neural net's gonna read my thoughts, because you're looking in my eyes with your net.
And then it'll be to the point where, like, we have to do it for defense.
You have to always be recording everyone else's thoughts around you or the person's vulnerable.
Then it's gonna be like everyone's thoughts are being measured.
tim pool
I'm just saying, people don't realize it, but when you get the option, they're like, how would you like to be a level 90 wizard who can throw fireballs from your hand?
Just plug in the Neuralink, enter Skyrim 7, and you are literally feeling and experiencing the battle against the Titans.
ryan long
And there'll be so much to do, you know, so many people for work, it'll just be like mandatory, where you go, you know, the meetings are going to take place in that, and you go, okay, well, you can be the person that says, I don't want to work there.
danny polishchuck
I mean, that is like five years away or less.
ryan long
Well, but maybe not, well, yeah.
ian crossland
Because they'll say you can't discriminate, but the person with the net is going to be able to do five times the workload.
ryan long
But you won't even be able to, you won't even be able to enter the, The online meeting board, unless you get on the internet.
tim pool
No, they won't hire you.
They're gonna be like, we do require neural link.
Is that okay?
And people are gonna be like, yeah, sure, it's fine.
ryan long
It'll be their vaccine.
ian crossland
It'll be a discrimination thing, a Supreme Court case, then in 30 years when the first neural linked person is on the Supreme Court is when we're in hell.
tim pool
No, it'll be a states thing where a bunch of states are okay with it.
Republicans are like, you can't force people to Neuralink.
ian crossland
You gotta learn how to clear your mind.
That's key.
Meditation, because if they are measuring your thoughts, have no thought.
ryan long
That's the oldest, yeah, that's the only... It comes full circle.
So you're saying girls are safe.
tim pool
Let's grab some more.
danny polishchuck
And Ryan, it's Happy International Women's Day!
tim pool
Let's grab some superchats.
ian crossland
Shoutout to all the women.
tim pool
We got Christina H saying, Happy Birthday Tim!
When are the Rage on behalf of the Machine parody songs coming out?
P.S.
The website is awesome, been a member since pretty much the beginning.
Highly recommend to anyone that sees this.
Thank you very much.
I think maybe you guys should do... THE GAY PARADE!
Rage on behalf of the machine.
Do you guys see what Ethan Klein was saying about me?
ryan long
Yeah, I've seen you guys fighting a bit.
tim pool
Well, I don't tweet at him.
I don't care.
Oh, no, I did a tweet hahaha in response, but I tweeted Zelensky.
He did the red salute, and I don't want to do it, but I was like, I'm not sure if he's supporting communism or Black Lives Matter, and it's like very clearly joking, I think, and Ethan Klein was like, Is that the universal sign?
Zalensky is a communist for using the universal sign of resistance and I'm like bro if Walmart is using that sign
You're not resisting anything like you're the machine dude, right that you're not resistance. Yeah, so weird. Is that
danny polishchuck
the universal sign?
tim pool
No, it's not the red salute is literally the communist salute
Yeah It would be like if someone was like well
And I've heard the alt-right people say this that you seem at protests and they'll be like it's not a Nazi salute
It's the Roman salute And I'm like, mean the same thing to everybody else.
ryan long
So when the communists do the fist... It's the guy out there being like, no, this is the Buddhist swastika.
It's like, sure, but have that argument at every party, at your own peril.
tim pool
All right, let's read some more.
We got Rob Maddy says, I'd love to see you have Randall Carlson on to discuss the great floods in Atlantis.
Would be nice to get away from the seriousness of the world for a day.
Pretty sure Ian would have a blast with him.
That would be really fun for like a Friday show where we usually like chill and talk about crazy stuff.
Talk about the great flood.
ian crossland
It would be good.
I do want to refocus people to really, if we really want to come together as a human race about real like problems, comet impacts.
You know, they wiped out the human race once before almost, so I don't want it to happen again.
tim pool
Andrew Knapp says, rule of acquisition number one, once you have their money, never give it back.
And that's the Ferengi.
danny polishchuck
Does he work for Blink?
ian crossland
Yes.
tim pool
So Blink Fitness, you guys may not know this, but they were actually founded by Ferengi.
Are you familiar with the Ferengi?
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
In Star Trek, they were a capitalist... The Jews in Star Trek, right?
No.
danny polishchuck
I'm Jewish, it's fine.
I thought that was the deal.
tim pool
The Ferengi are easily described as a nation or people that abide by caveat emptor.
Let the buyer beware.
Dude, I love Star Trek The Next Generation.
So you've got all these different alien races that discover technology, the humans discover warp technology after a civil war, and then the Vulcans come in.
The Ferengi bought it.
It's cool.
They made this capitalist race and they had a planet.
And when people, when traders came, they were like, we want warp drive.
So they don't understand the technology all that well.
They're an underdeveloped society, but they're really good at
haggling, mercantilism and stuff like that.
Right, right, right.
And they're, and they're, and they basically steal.
danny polishchuck
Like, it sounds like my landlord.
ryan long
Yeah.
ian crossland
Do they have a good perception?
Is that what it is?
Really good hearing or something?
And they can like read their other people's deal?
tim pool
I don't know about that, but they have big ears.
And then like it's a thing in Star Trek where if you rub their ears it's like erotic or something.
ian crossland
Oh my gosh.
danny polishchuck
Oh yeah, I do remember that.
ian crossland
Unforgettable, actually.
ryan long
But the funny thing is... Well, it's sort of like someone selling the Versace purses.
They don't really know what's going on with the Versace, but they do know what the market value is.
They rub my ears.
tim pool
All right, Common Sense says, if the biolabs are harmless, simple labs focused on food, etc., why would the U.S.
fear them falling into Russian hands, unless they were bioweapons?
That's exactly what I was saying earlier.
Because the official statement from the U.S.
government was, we did help construct biolabs, Biosafety Level 2 in Ukraine, but it's for food safety.
Why, then, would... Well, I suppose it's separate, then, from what the Ukraine is doing.
So this is probably the point.
The labs the U.S.
constructed, they're saying they're BSL 2.
The labs the U.S.
are concerned about are the BSL-4s, where the Ukraine is working on stuff.
But then I have questions about... You know, people have brought this point.
Do you really think Ukraine is not getting support from the U.S.
for bioweapons research?
Like, if Ukraine is building these labs and engaging in this stuff, the U.S.
has got to be involved in some way.
danny polishchuck
Considering they're on the border of Russia?
tim pool
Yeah.
Maybe not, though.
Maybe not.
Crang says, boys, boys, boys, boys, boys.
Fellas!
It's about time we got a podcast just for boys, you know what I mean?
ryan long
Yeah, I've been saying that forever.
danny polishchuck
I mean, they've had all the murder podcasts for girls, now there's one for boys.
tim pool
Isn't it weird that women love murder podcasts?
lydia smith
Yeah, it's a little creepy.
ian crossland
Why is that?
ryan long
I don't know if you know this, but this is a tip for Women's Day too, that women are most likely to be murdered by their husbands, which is why you should never marry a chick to keep her safe.
So even if it's been 10, 15 years and her parents are pressuring you, your parents are pressuring you, I would never do that to her.
And even if you do propose, then go to the store, get milk, never come back.
Life is important.
danny polishchuck
The more you know.
unidentified
Freedom over safety.
tim pool
A lot of people saying happy birthday, so I really do appreciate it.
ian crossland
Happy birthday.
ryan long
Your freedom, her safety.
That's right.
tim pool
All right.
What do we got here?
Chris Stark says, if you go to the partners page on the weforum.org, you'll find that all of the companies that pull out of Ukraine are with the World Economic Forum.
Also is BlackRock and Blackstone, as well as Cisco.
Very interesting.
Creepy.
danny polishchuck
The thong song guy?
tim pool
Yeah, Cisco.
It's right.
The Thongsong guy.
You can't listen to Thongsong in Russia anymore.
No, Cisco is like the biggest supplier of food, I think.
danny polishchuck
Oh, not the Cisco Systems?
tim pool
Oh, it might be Cisco Systems.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, for sure.
tim pool
Oh, yeah, right, right, right.
It's the wrong... I'm thinking of the food thing.
You know what's crazy, though, is that, like, when you go to a diner, the food is almost always identical because it's one company that supplies them with all their, you know, all their ingredients.
ryan long
Really?
tim pool
Yeah, it's crazy.
danny polishchuck
Like that Cisco.
tim pool
The other Cisco is like S-Y-S or something.
This one is Cisco C-I-S.
Maybe the conspiracy is that they're actually one company working together on our food and security.
ryan long
All right.
tim pool
Adam S. says, Tim, Monero is the future, not Bitcoin.
You said it was tracked with the Bitfinex hackers, but not true.
It was not necessarily to track Monero to catch them.
I would elaborate, but superchats are too short.
The feds claim they were able to see their Monero accounts, basically what they did, and they knew where the money was going.
Maybe not true.
Maybe they lied.
I did eat some local honey.
It doesn't do anything.
Oh, I've done that too.
of my life until I started eating until I started eating about five years ago
local raw honey it will save your life Jamie from Hillsborough Oregon I I did
eat some local honey it doesn't do anything like I get oh I've done that too
you know when I was time every year I get as soon as the trees just you know
and all the cars are covered It's like flu symptoms.
But it's like, it's, it's, it's the same.
I don't get any sicker or less sick.
It's just like instantly I'm sick.
And then eventually it just stops.
ian crossland
There's a day every year where the trees, all the pollen is just released.
I was up in Cypress Hill above the tree line, and one day, my windows were open, and all this yellow pollen came flying through, covering all my surfaces.
Maybe that was today or yesterday.
danny polishchuck
My grandmother told me a story.
She had bad asthma, and she lived in, I think, Russia, and she said there was a month every year, because it was before allergy medications, a month every year she had to go to the Black Sea, because she's like, I couldn't really live where I lived.
ian crossland
National Women's Day.
tim pool
Allergy medicine doesn't do anything.
ryan long
I have the same thing with you.
I don't get stuffed up.
I only get itchy eyes.
tim pool
That's it.
My eyes were itching like crazy last night.
ryan long
Yeah, dude.
tim pool
Can't sleep.
ryan long
Benadryl does work, though.
tim pool
Yeah, I'll let you out.
I took a couple different allergy medicines.
ian crossland
Eat no bread.
tim pool
It worked a little bit.
ian crossland
Cut the bread and sugar out.
Try hydrating.
ryan long
The only thing that I found of everything I've tried that worked is the Benadryl.
tim pool
You know what?
I tried eating Papa John's and it didn't work.
I had a bunch of pizzas for my birthday and it didn't work.
ian crossland
You ate all that bread?
Didn't stop your allergies?
tim pool
Yeah, for some reason I felt worse.
ryan long
Danny's eyes are always crying a little bit and I say it's because of inflation.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, and I've been right this whole time!
ryan long
We've been making that joke for five years!
Yeah, you're right, now it is!
danny polishchuck
Chickens are coming home to roost, Ryan!
tim pool
All right, check this out Paul Wallace says MIT is now polymerizing a material in two dimensions Stronger than steel and light as plastic can be used in everything super cheap to make tell me about it.
Maybe we'll make We'll make lighter-than-air vessels that don't that are not powered.
So like Ian was mentioning like an aerogel Like a gigantic aerogel, but if you were inside of it it would be But if it's really, really big, it'll displace the air to the point where the air pressure pushes it up.
So it can lift you.
So look at tankers, right?
ryan long
Is that possible?
tim pool
Look how big tankers are.
How do they stay floating when they weigh like hundreds or thousands of tons?
What does a tanker weigh?
Thousands of tons?
Tens of thousands?
Yeah, tens of thousands.
cities man because they can't displace the water it's like even though they're
massively heavy they're too they're too they also have water in the sealed in
danny polishchuck
the hall I know that because we watched one of those the Netflix with the the
cocaine f1 guy yeah you guys it is ballast yeah the guy who was like a big
f1 he was like or not f1 he was an IndyCar driver who was also this giant
cocaine smuggler and he would do it in that compartment and it's full at the
tim pool
bottom of the boats full so you can have a vehicle that's heavier than air but
because it's so it's so it's like not dense to a certain degree as long as
rigid enough and strong enough for you to stand on It would be so wide that it wouldn't be able to push enough air out of the way and the air would lift it up.
It would float.
And you'd float to the top of the atmosphere, basically.
ian crossland
There's these hydrogels.
They're working on all these cool metamaterials where they'll take like aerogel, which is lighter, almost as light as air, if not lighter, and then they'll take hammer and they'll just smash it and machine it.
It's super strong.
So I'd imagine you can make chambers out of that and then vacuum them out and create some sort of buoyancy.
tim pool
Beautiful Bacon says, if there is any sword that is destined to be used to cut grass, it is the Master Sword.
Yeah, I was thinking about sharpening it.
We got it from a mall.
We probably need to redo the hilt and everything and like actually make it out of wood.
ian crossland
I wonder if we can stick it into a stone and then like solidify it.
tim pool
And leave it in the woods.
ian crossland
See if someone can pull it.
tim pool
Yeah, yeah.
We need to put it in there.
So, the idea I had was to use a magnet, and then make it so that if you know where to push down, it releases it so you can pull it out in front of people, and then put it back in and release the paddle, and then they walk up and they can't remove it.
unidentified
Okay.
tim pool
It's like, only you, only you are worthy.
unidentified
Uh-huh.
ian crossland
Or like a hook or something in there that hooks it.
tim pool
Something where it's just like... Well, then they would see the hole and they'd be like, oh, there's a thing in there.
unidentified
Yeah, the magnet.
tim pool
But you just do it, you do a really strong magnet, you can't pull it out.
That'd be fun.
It would be fun and funny.
ian crossland
Fun for kids.
tim pool
C.S.
says, honey is a natural antiseptic.
Happy birthday.
It is.
We also bought a lot of honey.
And for some reason, Ian bought a lot of vinegar.
ian crossland
Dude, honey and vinegar.
tim pool
Good combo.
ian crossland
Dude, when I was recovering from COVID, I took a huge scoop of honey and I just ate it.
And it was like the most magical taste I've ever had of honey.
And then I took another scoop and it was like, no, no, that's too much honey.
Too much sugar.
Shocked.
tim pool
All right, Crimson7 says, Tim can't buy a subscription for TimCast.com because I did that four months ago.
Yeah, thank you very much.
Happy birthday, and thank you guys for all that you do.
I'll mention too, for anybody having any issues, just email members at TimCast.com.
We are absolutely working our hardest to make sure everyone's getting their issues resolved.
We're trying to, I don't want to say too much for security reasons, but we're working on a resilience and security program.
And we'll give a shout out to the people that we're working with once we have it all configured.
But basically, the goal is to be uncancellable.
And so this means we're like building out systems that might cause bugs sometimes.
But we have to do it.
You have to do it.
Otherwise, you know, one day you wake up and your bank's closed or something.
ian crossland
The average weight of a cargo ship is about 10,000 tons from World War Two.
tim pool
How does that float?
Well, it's like it's wide, so it can't push enough water out of the way.
So the water pushes it back up.
ryan long
And average weight of my ex-wife?
Exactly the same.
ian crossland
You have an ex-wife?
ryan long
I was just trying to mix it up from my Danny's Mom's jokes.
It's getting late.
I wanted to give people some of the street-ish.
Some of that good old-fashioned street jokes.
tim pool
Dan C says, Tim, if you're looking for more swords, check out Skologrim.
People send him medieval weapons to review on his channel all the time, and he's always trying to get rid of all the swords he has.
Oh, interesting.
ryan long
That's cool.
ian crossland
Yeah, super cool.
tim pool
We're going to have like a cool sword room or something.
You know.
Mary Berthmist says, Brownie Ninja.
Thank you very much for the Mary Berthmist.
Raymond G. Stanley Jr.
says, this is a live stand-up comedy from BoyzCast.
Thank you.
That it is.
The BoyzCast in the house.
Performer of the hit new single, Brian Stelter is a sex machine.
ryan long
He's a sexy man.
tim pool
Nate says, bock bock, bock bock, bark, bock bock, that is all.
If you go to Chicken City, we have Chicken City Live, and I will tell you this, if you go to Chicken City on YouTube and subscribe, periodically you'll hear me screaming.
danny polishchuck
24 hours a day?
tim pool
Well, so, uh, 24 hours.
ryan long
You stream at 24 hours a day?
tim pool
It's Chicken City, bro!
danny polishchuck
The chickens are alive 24 hours a day.
ryan long
Really?
tim pool
It's a reality show, man.
Yo, you're missing out.
So there's, check it out, check it out.
unidentified
Drama.
ryan long
How many viewers does it have at any given time?
ian crossland
It's got 14 right now.
I'm looking at it.
Chicken City livestream.
tim pool
It's pitch black right now.
unidentified
Love it.
tim pool
And we have over 4,000 subs.
And today we hit like 120 or something views.
ryan long
Never doesn't stream.
tim pool
Well, it's only gone up a few days ago.
That's funny.
So, check this out, check this out.
So, Roberto, right?
He's the rooster.
Well, he has a kid, Roberto Jr., with Kareena.
ryan long
So, sometimes you catch him doing it?
tim pool
Well, yeah, but check this out.
So, Roberto Jr.
sees Dorothy, and he's thinking to himself, like, hmm, you know, but that's one of Roberto's harem, right?
So, Roberto Jr.
runs over and chases Dorothy, who's like, no, and Roberto Jr.
won't take no for an answer, so he jumps on top of her.
Roberto screams, like, ehhh!
unidentified
Wow.
tim pool
So it's getting wild.
runs over, Roberto Jr. runs away scared.
Roberto then looks at Dorothy and jumps on her after him, because he's like, you don't get to, I do this.
Roberto Jr. jump kicks Roberto, knocking him off the head, and then he runs away.
Dude, if you have not watched Chicken City.
ryan long
It's getting wild.
tim pool
Dude, it's like Game of Thrones.
It's like Game of Thrones.
ryan long
So does someone have to go through and pick the good parts?
tim pool
Do we just live stream it?
Is this it?
ryan long
No, but how do you know that happened?
Did you catch that or did someone tell you?
People clipped it.
We're posting it and they were like, dude, look at this.
tim pool
And then there's other stuff where you can see one of the chickens will walk up to Roberto and peck at his waddle because it's dirty and groom him and clean him or whatever.
So there's some emotion, you know what I mean?
ryan long
There's a lot going on over there.
tim pool
Yeah, the drama, the game.
ryan long
A bit of a will they, won't they.
lydia smith
Yeah, exactly.
ian crossland
This is the second time in two days that the power must be flickering, I think.
ryan long
It doesn't like you talking about the chickens.
Yeah.
tim pool
Yeah.
Chicken City on YouTube, man.
So we're working on the night vision cameras.
We have them already.
ryan long
We have in New York.
I might do a Rat City.
ian crossland
Shout out to everyone coming to the Chicken City live stream.
What's up, everybody?
tim pool
Just film.
ryan long
I just put a GoPro in the subway.
tim pool
Just put out your window.
There goes one.
ian crossland
Shout out to Terry O in the Chicken City livestream chat.
What's up, dudes?
tim pool
The next season of Chicken City, we got 56 babies about to hatch.
ryan long
Right.
tim pool
And so what we'll try to do is we'll try to get a livestream on the babies as they're hatching for Chicken City, which is in like a week.
ryan long
Just get a wild, you know, get a wild animal, put like a wolverine and just have like massacre at Chicken City.
tim pool
The animals won't come over here though because, so here's the thing I want to mention.
If you're listening to Chicken City, like at some point during the day, where I work, there's a window and I can see Chicken City.
So I'll open the window and just yell at the chickens, because I know people are listening in the stream.
But then the other day... What do you yell?
ryan long
Give it to her!
unidentified
No, I yelled, uh... Hattaboy Roberto!
I yelled, uh... Roberto, oh, oh!
tim pool
No, I yelled, Roberto, keep it down, because he kept yelling.
ryan long
Show her that Roberto face!
tim pool
I yelled, hey Roberto, you're a chicken.
unidentified
Yeah?
tim pool
But here's a funny thing.
danny polishchuck
Wait, do you hear Roberto at 6 in the morning?
ian crossland
Oh, yes.
tim pool
4.30.
No, no, no, no, no.
He just never stops.
ian crossland
I hear Roberto.
tim pool
All day.
All day.
ian crossland
He's just... And his brother, his son, or whatever he is.
danny polishchuck
Oh, so you get woken up.
unidentified
The son's like... That's the junior.
tim pool
Yeah, junior.
So they compete with each other.
And they were yelling so much, their voices started cracking.
And I'm like, oh, dude, like, this is getting... We're gonna have to, like, separate them or something.
But I was yelling, and Dingo, the dog, was outside.
And he, like, watches me as I'm yelling, and then I close the window, and I go back to work, and I have Chicken City open.
And then, like, a minute later, I see him, like, you know, I look out the window, and I see him, and he goes, and I'm like, that was the dog saying, what the f was that?
unidentified
Like, opens the window and just yells, like, what's going on, huh?
tim pool
But he pees on the chicken coop, which is really good.
It keeps all the predators away.
danny polishchuck
Oh, that's good.
tim pool
So the chickens don't even realize how good they have it, man.
ryan long
They don't even know.
tim pool
For all we know, we're in Human City right now, and people are watching us.
They almost figured it out.
ryan long
The predators are trying to get in our brains.
tim pool
All right, everybody, here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna go film that members-only segment.
So head over to TimCast.com, become a member, and help support our work.
In the meantime, because that's gonna be live at 11 p.m., head over to YouTube.com.
Well, actually, do you know what the URL is?
Do we have one?
ian crossland
I just searched Chicken City on YouTube, and it always comes up.
ryan long
I believe it's patreon.com slash the boys cat.
Unless you're a white immigrant.
tim pool
Go subscribe to Chicken City.
And I'll tell you this, in all seriousness, a lot of people have been commenting that you'll hear like rain, and like birds, and chicken clucking, and it's like nature sounds.
A lot of people are like, it's super chill to like lay back and listen to nature noises.
danny polishchuck
Until 4.30 in the morning.
unidentified
Tim's really plugging the new chicken channel.
tim pool
You have no idea.
So we need 4,000 public watch hours to monetize the channel.
Because once we get super chats, we can create this machine that whenever we get a super chat, it throws like treats, the chickens or something.
So it'll like rotate and the treats will come down.
danny polishchuck
So people who are watching can be like, give the money to the chickens and have the richest chickens in the world.
tim pool
And we're gonna, they have these 3D printed arms you put around the chicken's neck and then it gives the chickens little arms and they run around and they're like this when they run.
So we'll do that too.
Alright everybody, you can follow the show at Timcast IRL.
You can follow me at Timcast.
Do the boys want to shout anything out?
ryan long
Yeah, the main thing is check out my special that just came out a day ago on my YouTube channel.
YouTube.com slash Ryan Long Comedy.
White Immigrant is the special, just came out.
danny polishchuck
Yeah, and follow me at Danny Jokes everywhere, and we have The Boys Cast, and then every Tuesday night, live at 9.30, I have a call-in show, Low Value Mail.
ian crossland
Where's the call-in?
danny polishchuck
On YouTube.
ian crossland
Low Value Mail?
danny polishchuck
Yeah, mail as in M-A-I-L.
ian crossland
I'm iancrosland.net, check me out there, and much love to all you yokels in the Chicken City livestream enjoying the evening.
lydia smith
Thank you guys all for tuning in to Human City this evening.
I do really recommend checking out Chicken City.
I'm really excited for the night vision cameras.
I love listening to it.
You can hear trains go by.
You can hear the beautiful birds we have around here.
It's a lot of fun.
It is actually a really neat experience to watch and enjoy.
You guys may follow me on Twitter and Minds.com at sarahpatchlids.
tim pool
And stay tuned for the next season.
ryan long
I just checked before we switched over and people are already tweeting up Blink Fitness.
Oh really?
tim pool
Nice!
I want to give a shout out to the next season of Chicken City.
We have 56 babies about to hatch and we have two babies, Set and Ra.
You see Set is a black chicken who was born at night and is a boy and Ra is a gold chicken who is a girl and born in the morning and they're the only two from the batch that made it.
So I just assume they're the embodiment of night and day.
ian crossland
Yeah.
tim pool
And they're going to team up to defeat Apep.
lydia smith
Of course, yeah.
tim pool
So check out that.
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