March 24, 2022 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
02:10:18
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| Peace. | ||
| Joe Biden says that food shortages are coming. | ||
| He says that if Vladimir Putin used chemical weapons, we'll respond. | ||
| Others have said that if they use nukes, the fallout could spread to Europe and then NATO would be forced to respond. | ||
| And two, Members of Russia's nuclear chain of command have gone radio silent, and people are paranoid. | ||
| But we're not leading with that story. | ||
| As much as those stories are important, we will talk about them. | ||
| The one thing I think is particularly important is that The Daily Wire's Jeremy's Razors in just three days have surpassed Harry's Razors in followers. | ||
| The reason I think this is significant is that what happens here in the United States culturally will impact us politically, and that will have very serious ramifications. | ||
| Joe Biden would not be president If the right had a stronger culture or more dominance in cultural spaces to influence people, which ultimately leads to voting and practices. | ||
| And for a lot of the problems that we see from our political class, it has a lot to do with the fact that the left dominates cultural institutions and the media, and they control it. | ||
| So seeing a story about Harry's canceling or denouncing the Daily Wire, and the Daily Wire rebutting and growing bigger than their own Twitter account in three days, five million views on their commercial in only a few days, I think it's significant. | ||
| And as you know, my opinion on The Daily Wire is that what they're doing is absolutely fantastic and building culture. | ||
| So, joining us to talk about that is co-CEO of The Daily Wire, Jeremy Boren. | ||
| Co-CEO and God King. | ||
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Of course, yeah. | |
| God King, I'm sorry. | ||
| Come on, Tom. | ||
| Blasphemy. | ||
| It seems like such a small ask. | ||
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Yeah, right? | |
| Exactly. | ||
| And also, member of the hot duo Smokey Mike and the God Kings. | ||
| Smokey Mike and the God Kings. | ||
| Smokey Mike. | ||
| Good stuff. | ||
| Yeah, you know, the thing about Smokey Mike and the God King, I mean, obviously our early work is our best work. | ||
| The stuff we were putting out in the 60s, I think, is just underappreciated. | ||
| It's a shame that the culture is forgotten. | ||
| Yeah, Jeremy's 87. | ||
| Yeah, he looks great, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, that's Jeremy's Razors at work! | ||
| The most amazing thing about, and I haven't said this anywhere obviously, this is my first time on the show and my first time to share this information publicly, we've sold 25,000 Razor subscriptions in our first three days as a company. | ||
| Which is an amazing thing, obviously, and it makes the joke much funnier. | ||
| The thing you have to know about me is that I like to tell very, very expensive jokes. | ||
| Smokey Mike and the God King being one of them. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And I like to tell jokes where people don't know if you're kidding or not. | ||
| That's always very important to me. | ||
| And with With this, I was so incensed by—not by Harry's Razors pulling their ads, which, that's just the market at work. | ||
| If an advertiser wants to pull their ads out of our shows because they're going through an economic hard time, if they want to pull ads from our show because the ads aren't working, if they just don't like the cut of our jib, all of that is fair game. | ||
| If they attack us on their way out publicly, well, that's just bad behavior. | ||
| That's rude behavior. | ||
| We were good partners. | ||
| We told our audience, leveraged our personal credibility to tell our audience about Harry's razors, our conservative audience, by the way. | ||
| Harry's knew what they were getting. | ||
| They knew what they were buying. | ||
| And on their way out, they decided to virtue signal and respond to a tweet that had two followers and say that we had inexcusable views and a case of values misalignment. | ||
| And I thought, well, I I still have the same audience I had yesterday. | ||
| Why don't I tell that audience that Harry's doesn't want their business? | ||
| I don't see why we should... I don't see why we should put up with that. | ||
| We'll save some of that too, because I just want to run through the intros, but we'll loop back. | ||
| Wait, there's intros? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I thought the whole thing was like an extended commercial. | ||
| Yes! | ||
| You stole my introduction time right from me. | ||
| Should we pause and discuss what percentage I'm going to be getting? | ||
| Yeah, by the way, ol' Smokey Mike and the God King. | ||
| I don't know what Smokey Mike's talents are, but I know the God King never released a hit without him. | ||
| I'm Seamus Coghlan of Freedom Tunes. | ||
| We just released a video this morning, as well as a video two days ago. | ||
| Tim, Voice, Dr. Fauci, and both of them. | ||
| They were both a blast to make. | ||
| I really recommend you guys go check those out. | ||
| And if you want to donate at Patreon, you'll get to see the behind the scenes of Tim and I recording it, doing some improv, and the whole production coming together. | ||
| It was a lot of fun. | ||
| Yeah, it's also Seamus's birthday. | ||
| It's also my birthday! | ||
| Happy birthday, homie! | ||
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27. | |
| Nice, big year. | ||
| Which is the beginning of your saternal return. | ||
| Which is why they forced me to come back. | ||
| I was like, I just- Little old to be a virgin? | ||
| No, it's not. | ||
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Rude, wow. | |
| Actually, you're not too old to be a virgin if you're not married. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| I've heard that the age from age 27 to 30 is the saternal return, and what you do for those years basically dictates what you're going to be doing for the rest of your life. | ||
| Not a one-to-one ratio, but it worked that way for me. | ||
| I will say that the prohibition against premarital sex in the Bible was meant to encourage people to get married. | ||
| Not to just masturbate late into old age. | ||
| I mean, you just shouldn't masturbate at all. | ||
| It's supposed to happen. | ||
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Let's talk about that in the after show. | |
| Oh, hey, Ian Crossland here. | ||
| And you know, I don't use a straight edge. | ||
| I haven't in a long time anyway. | ||
| But if you guys looking at going into electric razors, I like that. | ||
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I like where your razors are at. | |
| Anyway, I'm just going to pass this over to Lydia. | ||
| Thank you, Ian. | ||
| I appreciate that. | ||
| I'm very excited to be here tonight. | ||
| Love Jeremy Boring. | ||
| He's one of my favorite non-commentators of the Daily Wire. | ||
| Somebody in the comments was saying that he is smart and polished, so I'm really looking forward to tonight's show. | ||
| I'm one of her favorite non-commentators. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| Because you keep it to a minimum. | ||
| I've already heard some comments. | ||
| It's just very precise. | ||
| I was going to say, you're like me in that you save up your words and keep it down. | ||
| Yeah, that's great. | ||
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| Yeah, all that happens in the Members Only show. | ||
| I'm not kidding about the fighting. | ||
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| And we've got to read this first story. | ||
| In just three days, the Jeremy's Razors Twitter account surpasses Harry's in followers. | ||
| So many of you heard a little bit already about this. | ||
| You know a little bit about it. | ||
| For those that aren't familiar, Harry's Razors is woke. | ||
| They denounced the Daily Wire's audience. | ||
| The Daily Wire launched their own version, essentially, Jeremy's Razors, which now has a, what do you say, Jeremy, 25,000 subscriptions. | ||
| Yeah, 25,000 subscriptions in 72 hours. | ||
| I'll just say real quick, and we can get into the beginning, the story of all this, The building of culture, the building of infrastructure, which means the ability for someone to buy a razor. | ||
| You know, people watch Netflix because where else can you go? | ||
| Well, now the Daily Wire's got something. | ||
| People buy Harry's razors or Gillette because they need razors. | ||
| And these companies are investing your money in things that you don't value or in people that hate you. | ||
| So what The Daily Wire is doing is profoundly important. | ||
| Many people are doing it, but you guys seem to be leading the charge. | ||
| So, Jeremy, do you want to tell us just a bit about how this started? | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Your position and where you're at? | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| I mean, what you said, I think, is a big part of it. | ||
| Like, conservatives have been, you know, sort of in retreat for most of my life, certainly for the last 15 or 20 years. | ||
| And as a result of that, we've sort of taken a very pessimistic view. | ||
| Conservatives spend a lot of time lamenting the loss of the past, | ||
| lamenting the loss of the economy, lamenting the loss of their place in the culture. | ||
| And Daily Wire has a different attitude. | ||
| We're not lamenting anything. | ||
| We're happy to be alive right now. | ||
| Like, I'm glad that we live at a time where black people can drink from the same | ||
| water fountains that I do. | ||
| Whatever a water fountain is, I guess they can drink from the same water bottles that I can. | ||
| And I'm glad that we have penicillin. | ||
| There's a lot that's great about the modern age. | ||
| What I want to do is take the great values that were established and worked in the past, learned from the past, and build on a foundation. | ||
| I want to be proactive. | ||
| I want to be optimistic about the future. | ||
| I don't want to lament the past. | ||
| I want to build the future. | ||
| And so when someone like Harry's virtue signals publicly and attacks my business, I wanna build my own business. | ||
| Conservatives deserve razors too. | ||
| And I think that it's an important, these world corporations, | ||
| they think that they can sort of rip the culture in half and not pay any economic consequence for it. | ||
| So I wanna rip the economy in half. | ||
| I wanna say, no, if you can't just alienate 50% of the audience, | ||
| of the people in the country, and still expect them to buy your goods and services, | ||
| they should buy their own goods and services. | ||
| And that sounds like I'm saying that I think we should be further balkanized, | ||
| that I think that we should be further divided. | ||
| I do in the short term, but I don't in the longterm. | ||
| I desire a country where we're all citizens together, where we can embrace disagreement, where we can embrace political processes. | ||
| I just think things are so out of alignment right now that to return to a place like that, you have to create economic incentive. | ||
| And the only way to create economic incentive, it's not with temporary boycotts. | ||
| It's not with complain culture online. | ||
| It's not with doom scrolling. | ||
| It's with actively building things that now require companies like Harry's to compete for our business. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Competition. | ||
| Competition. | ||
| So did Harry's have any wind of what you guys were planning on doing? | ||
| Or do you want to just give us the quick version of the story for anyone who doesn't know? | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| So one of the people who works for me, a peon named Michael Knowles. | ||
| Oh, the worst. | ||
| I know none of you have ever heard of him. | ||
| Who has? | ||
| Michael was on a podcast with another of our hosts, Candace Owens, but it was not a Daily Wire podcast. | ||
| It was a Prager University podcast, and it wasn't a year ago. | ||
| It was several years ago. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And they had a conversation about how gender dysphoria has historically been categorized as a mental illness. | ||
| I believe it. | ||
| Is it currently in the DSM-5? | ||
| It was. | ||
| That was the conversation. | ||
| It was a respectful conversation. | ||
| A respectful conversation. | ||
| Fast forward a couple of years. | ||
| One year ago in March. | ||
| One year ago right now. | ||
| And a Twitter account that had two followers. | ||
| A high schooler. | ||
| A high schooler with two followers pointed out to Harry's that this conversation had taken place and Harry's immediately reacted. | ||
| on their Twitter account and said, you know, this is inexcusable, this is values misalignment, | ||
| we're pulling all of our ads, and we're gonna make sure there's no further values misalignment | ||
| in how we conduct our sponsorships. Well, when you do that, you're signaling to all of my other | ||
| advertisers that the only excusable thing to do would be to also pull your business from the | ||
| Daily Wire. | ||
| That makes it an attack on my business, right? | ||
| It's not just you taking your spend, which you can do any time you want. | ||
| It's you attacking your company, a company that had been your partner previously. | ||
| It's also attacking my audience. | ||
| You're saying my entire audience, an audience you paid us. | ||
| to go help you sell razors to has inexcusable values. And I'm just not going to put up with | ||
| that anymore. I think one of the beauties of this medium that we all have this this digital | ||
| presence that we all have is that there are so many fewer gatekeepers. I don't have to make, | ||
| you know, the radio syndication network happy. They did radio syndication network | ||
| wants you to just take cancellations laying down because they have other shows. | ||
| They don't want to get into a war with the advertisers. | ||
| But, you know, with your show, with our shows, we're still going to have the same number of people watching tomorrow, whether Harry's razors advertises with us or not. | ||
| So why wouldn't I embrace that freedom? | ||
| Why wouldn't I use that same amount of time that I used to spend telling people to buy Harry's? | ||
| Which, by the way, Harry's is a great razor. | ||
| I was proud to tell people to buy Harry's. | ||
| I was proud that we supported their product. | ||
| But they don't want my audience to buy their razors clearly. | ||
| So I'm going to spend that same amount of time telling my audience that Harry's doesn't want their business, and I do. | ||
| And you're going to make more money. | ||
| Do you ever think that adding an extension to the handle of the razor would be good so you could shave your back? | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| That sounds dangerous. | ||
| Yeah, it could be. | ||
| Yeah, a little bit. | ||
| Maybe put a warning label on it. | ||
| Do you have back shaving problems? | ||
| No, I'm just thinking for the future. | ||
| Just in case. | ||
| A back shaver? | ||
| We all have back shaver problems at some point. | ||
| We may not have them today, but the day is coming. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So where are you at? | ||
| Can you mention how many subscriptions? | ||
| 25,000 subscriptions we've sold in 72 hours, which makes us the dog who caught the car. | ||
| I mean, for us, the commercial was everything. | ||
| And this is what I told my team all year. | ||
| We were sourcing razors. | ||
| We were mixing up shaving creams and seeing if we liked them. | ||
| What was important to me, though, was whether we ever sell a razor or not, the commercial has to be a statement about The Daily Wire. | ||
| It has to be a statement about our brand. | ||
| It has to say that we're proactive, that we're having a good time, that we're looking to the future, that we're not going to take cancellations laying down. | ||
| It has to remind our audience what we are and what we stand for. | ||
| If we happen to sell any razors, it'll just make the joke that much funnier. | ||
| Well, now I'm the dog who caught the car. | ||
| I have an actual business now I have to stand up over the next two weeks to make sure that we can keep up with the demand that's out there for these razors. | ||
| I just want to get the timeline accurate. | ||
| A year ago they pulled the ads. | ||
| So you've been in the process this last year building everything. | ||
| How long did it take to produce the commercial? | ||
| It was a three-day shoot and five or six weeks of post-production to get the commercial out. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| Five million views since the 22nd, so not even two full days. | ||
| It's 4.9 million views. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| Oh, was that a real flamethrower? | ||
| It's a real flamethrower. | ||
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Beautiful. | |
| It's not the smartest idea I ever had to fire a flamethrower in my office, but it's definitely the most badass. | ||
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Jeremy. | |
| And that's Elad's, right? | ||
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And it works. | |
| Jeremy, Jeremy. | ||
| The Boring Company? | ||
| Yeah, is it made by The Boring Company? | ||
| It is The Boring Company Flamethrower. | ||
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Jeremy Boring fired The Boring Flamethrower at Gillette & Harry's. | |
| It was not boring. | ||
| Oh, that's awesome. | ||
| Do you believe in synergy, like in divine interconfluence and things? | ||
| I definitely believe that if Elon Musk will retweet my razor company, I will sell even more bajillions of razor blades. | ||
| Actually, this will be the most kiss-assy thing that I say on the show. | ||
| Elon Musk is the greatest living American. | ||
| He's the most important person in the country because he has an affirmative vision for the future of the country. | ||
| I don't know his politics. | ||
| I'm sure I disagree with him on 50% of everything, but that's a guy who has a vision for what we can be tomorrow. | ||
| He's not one of these, like, boomer lefties who's still fighting the cultural revolution of the 1960s or the economic revolution of the 19-teens and 20s in Europe. | ||
| You know, trying to socialize the country. | ||
| And he's not a boomer conservative who's just talking about how great things used to be back when we were still young and rock and roll. | ||
| He's a guy who's going, no, no, we can actually build something. | ||
| We can build, our best days are ahead of us. | ||
| Let's go build. | ||
| We were talking about leadership last night and Savannah Hernandez saying we need leaders. | ||
| And I thought, yeah, you don't, but you, what you don't want as a guy to step up and be like, I'm your leader. | ||
| Now you want someone like Elon or like you that's like building something that people can, you just casually building it. | ||
| And people look at you like a leader because of what you've created and what you're creating. | ||
| I agree with you that I'm a lot like Elon. | ||
| Your beard's very nice, by the way. | ||
| I don't know if I mentioned that earlier. | ||
| And I think for the average person, they just look at Elon and you as very, very wealthy, successful people who have a vision for something. | ||
| Elon, though, is he the richest guy on the planet? | ||
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I think so. | |
| I think Bezos is ahead of him, no? | ||
| Even if Bezos is ahead today, you just have to remember that SpaceX hasn't gone public. | ||
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Oh, wow. | |
| All of Elon's wealth really is Tesla, right? | ||
| I mean, when we think of his vast wealth as Tesla, what happens when you take SpaceX public? | ||
| I mean, the amount of money that that guy is actually worth, I think, is... Dude, he called it Starlink. | ||
| I think he's actually going to be linking star systems with that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe one day he'll build the Dyson sphere, but I think we're a long ways away from that. | ||
| Well, time, time can condense, you know, when you have a lot of time and space are the same thing. | ||
| So if you can move fast enough, you can, and if a lot of people are working together, it kind of condenses time too. | ||
| And if you have drones building things all at once in space, you can compile like large spacecraft really quickly. | ||
| Self-replicating machines we send off to other planets, perhaps, to just carry on the American vision. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's the end of existence. | ||
| I think you make an interesting point. | ||
| It's true that unfortunately a lot of what conservatives have been doing for the past 10 or 20 years has more or less just been complaining about the left, and it's really important for us to forward our own vision. | ||
| That's a huge part of what I try to do. | ||
| Agree or disagree with me, that's part of why I'm frequently talking about my faith and my own particular vision for conservatism. | ||
| Because even though I enjoy making fun of the left and pulling them apart, we actually have to give people something that they can believe in instead of just saying, that's bad, don't do it. | ||
| Well, let's talk about that. | ||
| So you guys are making movies. | ||
| We are. | ||
| Daily Wire. | ||
| You're making shows too. | ||
| How does it come to be that The Daily Wire, you guys are news aggregators and commentators for the most part, now you're in this cultural space. | ||
| How does that happen? | ||
| It was always part of the vision, right? | ||
| The company was founded in LA. | ||
| Obviously, Ben's lived in LA every minute that he wasn't at Harvard. | ||
| I spent 20-plus years in L.A. | ||
| before moving the company to Nashville at the end of 2020. | ||
| Andrew Klavan, screenwriter, novelist, was with the company from the very beginning. | ||
| There's always been this really kind of Hollywood foundation to what we do. | ||
| You know, I made a bunch of movies in a previous life. | ||
| They all failed, but I made them. | ||
| I'm proud of them. | ||
| And so, when Ben and I made the decision that we wanted to get into business together, one of the things that I told him, and it was an idea that another conservative commentator, Bill Whittle, helped me formulate, was that if we built a media company that was large enough, we would actually have a spotlight, and we could shine that spotlight on other kinds of projects that we might want to make. | ||
| And so, for me, that was always movies. | ||
| Like, I had a production company with some young actors when I was in my early and mid-twenties. | ||
| I had a production company later in life called Declaration Entertainment that was sort of just probably ahead of its time and underfunded to actually be what it maybe could have been, but was sort of intended to be like a crowdfunding film company before there were crowdfunding companies. | ||
| So that was always part of what I wanted, but I thought what we would do is we would build up a big enough audience that if I went and made something on the side, I could promote it. | ||
| To me, that's how I saw it. | ||
| But what happened in 2020, you know, everybody went home because of COVID. | ||
| Our office is on Ventura Boulevard in L.A. | ||
| It's the second time we've had to board up because Black Lives Matter is rallying on the street and we're afraid they'll burn down our building. | ||
| So I'm on the third floor of this office building with my business partner. | ||
| It's completely empty because no one's been to work in weeks and weeks and weeks. | ||
| And I said, Hollywood's over. | ||
| Like, what can they make now? | ||
| They've decided that the police are bad. | ||
| Literally 40% of everything that Hollywood makes is about a cop. | ||
| They can't do anything if this is the position they're going to take. | ||
| And that's when we realized not only had we built that spotlight that Ben and I had always wanted to build, But we had built something else, too. | ||
| We had actually built the distribution mechanism. | ||
| Because we had built this streaming video-on-demand platform for our podcasts, for the video versions of our podcasts. | ||
| And it just occurred to us in that moment, you know, the technology is agnostic as to what the content is. | ||
| We've essentially built Netflix, we just haven't put movies on it yet. | ||
| So if we bring in the one other thing you need for a successful entertainment company, it's just production. | ||
| If we bring in production, we actually have marketing and distribution. | ||
| Why don't we give that a try? | ||
| I know there isn't a god, but if you ever think about how the world has so much purpose and how everything's so complex and beautiful, it's almost like a god-like being, probably from outer space, built it all. | ||
| Not God, because that would be a silly thing for me to say. | ||
| That's insane, like, we're one of the crazy persons. | ||
| But like, just a God-like being, you know, if you really think about it. | ||
| That when the God-like being, sometimes there's this, like, fortuitousness or providence that happens in the world. | ||
| And as we're having this thought, Dallas Sonier, who's been a guest on this show, called me and said, hey, I made this great movie called Run, Hide, Fight, and Hollywood won't buy it because I've basically been blacklisted. | ||
| And we just saw that as an opportunity to test the theory. | ||
| If we put a great production through our marketing and through our distribution mechanism, what will happen? | ||
| It was an unbelievable success for us. | ||
| The movie paid for itself in something like seven days. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And we realized that we had an actual now opportunity, and I always think opportunities are always responsibilities. | ||
| So now I say we have a responsibility to go chase this. | ||
| Let me tell you about impact. | ||
| I would like for you, sir, to please read the headline on the screen. | ||
| I watched a Ben Shapiro movie by accident. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| This is some leftist who watched, I believe they watched Shudden. | ||
| And, uh, liked it so much they tweeted how much they liked it, saying, if you're looking for something to watch, Shut In is pretty fun and Vincent Gallo gets his ass kicked if you're into that sort of thing. | ||
| That's a tweet I wrote a couple weeks ago. | ||
| Late on a Saturday night, it no longer exists. | ||
| The reason it doesn't exist is because almost immediately after I posted it, I got a DM from a friend. | ||
| Uh, you know that movie was produced by the ultra right-wing Daily Wire with only ultra right-wing producers, talent, and so forth for the market. | ||
| Um, what? | ||
| No, no, delete, delete, what? | ||
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Yep. | |
| They're trying to make real movies now. | ||
| Sneak that ish in under the cover of actual production values. | ||
| For F's sake, this always happens to me. | ||
| I will be watching an ultra-evangelical movie and not realize it's ultra-evangelical. | ||
| I'll be listening to Christian radio and not realize it's a Christian radio. | ||
| If Jesus is around, I need him to announce himself, or I'll just think he's from Brooklyn. | ||
| That's smart. | ||
| The funny thing about this is that I hope it's satire, and it may be, but I'm assuming it's not. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's the greatest article. | ||
| I mean, at the end, they say, maybe if you keep doing this, maybe one day I'll watch one of your movies on purpose. | ||
| Real quick, we did talk about this the other day, but I just want to point out, you know, with you here, eat your thoughts. | ||
| This is someone who's saying they actually really enjoy Evangelical movies or the Daily Wire's content, but it says a lot that they're unwilling to watch things they enjoy because of cult-like behavior. | ||
| And so the point I made before we got on the show is, thinking about your commercial with Jeremy's Razors, it's an objectively funny commercial. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Obviously, you know, humor is objective to a lot of people, but it's very much in line with a lot of the, you know, the real American heroes bits that were happening out through the 2000s, 2010s, you know, real men of whatever and that stuff. | ||
| And it's an over-the-top, it's silly, use a flamethrower to torch, and there's a lot of jokes. | ||
| It's funny. | ||
| The Native American Elizabeth Warren you have standing behind you. | ||
| A lot of jokes in there. | ||
| The people who claim it's not funny or they don't like it, they're only saying that because they're part of a cult they have to adhere to. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Privately, they admit they like your movies, but they must say they don't like it for the sake of their political tribe. | ||
| Well, also when these people say something isn't funny, am I supposed to sit there and go, well, you know, the things you think are hilarious tend to be really valuable and enjoyable to watch. | ||
| So of course I trust your opinion on this. | ||
| I mean, none of their comedy is good, but part of why I think this, and I could be wrong, part of why I think that this is probably satire is because unfortunately, most of the stuff that conservatives and evangelicals make tends not to be funny or entertaining and they're, Saying that they keep seeing things made by evangelicals that they don't know are evangelical, which is kind of part of why I'm thinking it's satirical, but I could be wrong. | ||
| I'd like to quote Justin Roiland or his character, Rick Sanchez. | ||
| Your boos mean nothing. | ||
| I've seen what makes you cheer. | ||
| Best quote. | ||
| So there you go. | ||
| I mean, first of all, the funny thing is they cheered for your guys' movie. | ||
| And they're only booing it now when they realized who made it. | ||
| I'm like, nah, you can't take it back. | ||
| You cheered for it. | ||
| We know you like it. | ||
| Yeah, as an insecure artist, you know, anytime anybody says they like anything that I did, I don't hear anything they say after that. | ||
| It's all a buzz. | ||
| So what's the plan? | ||
| What's next? | ||
| TV shows? | ||
| TV shows, movies. | ||
| We, you know, as with the Razor Company, we just see a lot of opportunity in the destruction that the left is bringing to the culture right now. | ||
| I mean, I think it's tragic. | ||
| Listen, if I could snap my fingers and put the country back together and have everything be like it was back when I grew up, I'd probably do it. | ||
| If I could be dictator, that's what I'd... I'd just say, hey, it should be 1990s all over again. | ||
| I kind of like the 1990s. | ||
| The 90s were epic, dude. | ||
| Yeah, like there was no... the races all got along, and everybody was doing pretty well, and 401k was going up. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Transformers, Beast Wars, come on. | ||
| Dude, 97, 93. | ||
| But you can't do that. | ||
| And it would be disingenuous for us to say, in all of this destruction, there's not an opportunity for creativity. | ||
| No, absolutely. | ||
| There is and we should take it. | ||
| I totally agree and this is part of why I got into this sphere. | ||
| Firstly, I just always wanted to make entertaining content. | ||
| I lean right people on the show who watch me regularly know this and what ended up happening is I just got to a place after I launched my channel and was doing these political cartoons for a little while where I just realized I didn't really need to try to put a message into anything. | ||
| I just needed to make something that I thought was funny And my values would naturally come out in it. | ||
| So often what happens when conservatives try to make content, or evangelicals, Christians, even Catholics try to make content, is they will really hit you over the head with what the central message is supposed to be instead of just making something that's enjoyable to watch. | ||
| And it turns out really cheesy. | ||
| Now what's ended up happening over the past couple years is the left has adopted that strategy. | ||
| And so much of what they produce is message first, substance later. | ||
| And so you're absolutely correct that they're tearing their whole empire down because I remember as a kid we used to watch films and television shows from the 1950s or 60s with our dad and he would make comments about how they could never make that today. | ||
| Now we're saying that about things that were made 10 years ago. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| How do you guys get around the ESG stuff that's been coming? | ||
| You're familiar with the... What is it? | ||
| Environmental, social... Governance? | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| So, real quick, for those that aren't familiar, this is basically social credit scores for businesses. | ||
| And they expect you to be woke, to have these, you know, diversity statements. | ||
| Otherwise, they could negatively impact your ability to get loans and things like that. | ||
| So, The Daily Wire is making all this content. | ||
| You guys are going after culture, but isn't there a risk there if these other institutions come at you? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of risk everywhere. | ||
| One of the problems I think that conservatives face right now, and in the economy more broadly, is there are so many potential vectors of attack. | ||
| And you could put a lot of money into chasing any one of them, and then that could just not be where the attack comes. | ||
| So you wasted all of your resources trying to plan for a disaster that never came, and now the disaster can come from a whole other angle. | ||
| An example of this, conservatives want to build their own social media platforms right now. | ||
| You know, you hear every time I talk to any sort of like conservative billionaire, the first thing they say is, when are we going to get a Facebook? | ||
| And I say, Facebook is 20 years old, bud. | ||
| You will probably get one 10 years from now. | ||
| It's been half a biblical generation since it was created, so I think that you're getting close. | ||
| Soon you will have one. | ||
| But that's the whole problem with conservatism from an investment class point of view. | ||
| Most high net worth conservatives made their money in energy, or they made their money in real estate, they made their money in agriculture, very conservative ways of making money. | ||
| The result of that is, if a kid with a backpack walks into their family office and says, hey, I designed an app that lets you rank how hot girls on campus are, I think if you gave me a little capital, I could turn it into the dominant communication platform ever conceived in all of human history, they would call security and throw that guy out. | ||
| Now, 20 years later, they go, why don't we have a seat at that table? | ||
| But if a kid with a backpack walked in now and pitched him blockchain or pitched him meta, they would have the same reaction that they had 20 years... So, it's like, I bet we have a conservative Facebook in 10 years, and I bet that we have a conservative metaverse in 45 years from now, right? | ||
| Like, that's the problem. | ||
| And so, but as with all problems, it creates certain opportunity. | ||
| We found an early investor in our company who was able to Get us off the ground. | ||
| We took money from them that helped us for the first 14 months. | ||
| In month 14, the daily wire was cash flow positive. | ||
| We've paid for all of our growth since then out of cash flow. | ||
| We did $120 million of revenue in the last 12 months. | ||
| You know, it's a it's a sometimes I get angry when people are billionaires pay for everything you do. No, no, no | ||
| Like many companies we we were privileged to get some startup capital, but we funded all of this out of our | ||
| success So you're just saying daily wire pulls in 10 million a | ||
| month Yeah, and because and because of that the ESG stuff right | ||
| now doesn't apply to us, right? | ||
| Because we funded our own growth. | ||
| It's sort of like your situation here. | ||
| You've built something. | ||
| Now, you didn't even have the amount of startup capital that we had, but you've built something that you own, and because you own it, you can't be canceled from it. | ||
| You can't be thrown out of it. | ||
| Now, Our goal at The Daily Wire is to become an institution. | ||
| Our goal at The Daily Wire is to challenge the left on an institutional level, because we think that's the only place that true victory can take place. | ||
| Maybe at some point we'll have to go to the public markets. | ||
| But what we won't do is get caught up in the CSG stuff. | ||
| It may come to, at a certain point, we have to decide, do we subject ourselves to forces that change what we are, or do we not grow? | ||
| The risk I see is... Yeah. | ||
| Well, I'll phrase it this way. | ||
| When I watched that commercial you put out, when I saw the building you were in, and the TV and the structure, I'm like, that reminds me of Vice. | ||
| You know, when I worked there, when they were edgy, when they were offensive, when they were shocking, the way they designed their buildings, and I was like, man, is The Daily Wire like Vice now, like how they used to be. | ||
| How did Vice go from being sex, drugs, and rock and roll into wokeness, outright establishment? | ||
| And there comes a time. | ||
| Hundreds of millions in institutional capital. | ||
| Do they go public? | ||
| Well, they want to. | ||
| I think they're trying to go through a SPAC. | ||
| They've wanted to for a while. | ||
| My understanding is, what I was told by former higher-ups who are at the company, is that They had been attacked so many times by harassment complaints, sexual harassment, that the press was bad. | ||
| And they had paid people out, and there was a risk of certain stories going public. | ||
| So their investors said, just declare yourselves a feminist company, make feminist content, adopt this, and you'll shield yourself from these claims. | ||
| And so this is what I was told, and this is someone who I worked with, I worked at Vice, they said, when the investors came in and said, be a feminist company and you will be safer from these attacks, they said, okay. | ||
| Because the executives didn't care, so my understanding is, they were just like, hey, whatever gets people off our back, you guys, no problem, we just want to make cash and run a business. | ||
| None of these executives care. | ||
| Disney doesn't care about the grooming law down in Florida, right? | ||
| Of course they don't. | ||
| What they care about is their 23-year-old woke employees making it impossible for them to conduct their business. | ||
| What they care about is the fact that the left is so skilled at weaponizing, | ||
| and they want to avoid those attacks of their business. | ||
| And so it's a—the thing about virtue is that it's actually a really cheap currency. | ||
| You just say something. | ||
| Hollywood's always peddled in this, you know, even in the glory days of the 90s, you know, and we're all walking around sucking on a big gulp or whatever. | ||
| You know, everybody in Hollywood wanted to save the freaking whales. | ||
| Because of course they want to save the whales. | ||
| Because when you're on like your third marriage and four out of your five kids are in rehab and... Gotta save something, I guess. | ||
| Everyone needs to see themselves as good on some level. | ||
| And if you're good for... Christians do this too, by the way. | ||
| Everyone—an easy out is to find an abstract way to be good. | ||
| You know, it says in one of the epistles written by the Apostle John that it's easier to love your neighbor whom you know than to love God. | ||
| And Christian—every time you talk to a Christian, they'll go, well, that's not really true. | ||
| I mean, my neighbor's kind of a jerk, my brother's kind of a jerk, but of course I love God. | ||
| And I said, well, you don't. | ||
| I mean, God himself in the epistle says that you don't. | ||
| You say that you do because you've abstracted a God that you can love more than your brother whom you know. | ||
| You've created a God to love who approves of you and who doesn't have anything that you disapprove of. | ||
| Your neighbor, your brother who you know, has all kinds of crap that you don't approve of. | ||
| And so you see like, it's very easy to give money to African missionary work or African charities or to save the whales or to save the environment. | ||
| These are ways of abstracting your way out of having to deal with the messy reality of the world. | ||
| If you really care about people, You interact with those actual people and try to make improvements into their lives, right? | ||
| Yeah, I would actually agree with that. | ||
| And I would go as far as to say when somebody says that they love God, but they hate the people around them, don't do anything to improve their circumstances, either materially or spiritually, that person really worships themselves because their vision of God is just, as you said, something abstract that caters to all of their particular desires. | ||
| One thing that I think our society has really lost is people are not focused as much on what is near to them. | ||
| They want to solve problems on the other side of the world. | ||
| That's a huge part of progressive politics. | ||
| In fact, you could argue it's the only part of progressive politics is to defer responsibility elsewhere. | ||
| Historically, people understood you were supposed to love those closest to you, care for your family first and foremost, and then you started to worry about the people around you. | ||
| Now it's the exact opposite. | ||
| I can treat my family horribly, but as long as I, in fact, If I'm theoretically good to someone on the other side of the world, I'm a good person, even though my entire social life is a complete failure. | ||
| The greatest psychologist of our time has a statement. | ||
| Jordan Peterson, you have to clean your room, man! | ||
| But that's exactly the meme. | ||
| The meme is, you can't change the world if you can't even get your own life in order. | ||
| But I want to point something else out, too. | ||
| When I'm looking at this article from Defector, and they're holding up a sign saying, F.U. | ||
| Ben Ishpiro, like just cussing at him, I think to myself, I don't, I don't recall seeing conservatives holding up signs saying F.U. | ||
| Uygur, or to be fair, obviously sometimes they do, but it's kind of a common occurrence among the left to hate Yeah. | ||
| and to hate without trying to understand. | ||
| So I'm thinking about Darrell Davis. | ||
| He's been working with Bill Ottman over at Mines. | ||
| They wanna de-radicalize extremists, not de-platform them. | ||
| It's one of the things they're working on. | ||
| And Darrell Davis, you know, he's the guy who went to Klan meetings, a black man, | ||
| and just talked to these people to try and understand them, ends up de-radicalizing them. | ||
| It's fascinating because when I see how the modern left, the activist left, not like regular run-of-the-mill, | ||
| you know, Democrat voters, they're, you know, mostly just regular people aren't paying attention maybe. | ||
| But these activists just, they hate. | ||
| They hate so much. | ||
| It's the weirdest thing that Glenn Beck can tell Dave Rubin, I disagree with you, and I think what you're doing is wrong, but I love you. | ||
| And what do they say? | ||
| They say, F you, Ben-ish-pero. | ||
| I'm like, man, Glenn Beck tells the people he disagrees with that he loves them. | ||
| They tell you they hate you. | ||
| I don't understand why anybody would wanna be a part of that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, this is the problem with dogma and ideology and politics is that they allow you not to have to actually engage with the world as it is. | ||
| You're only required to engage with the world sort of as you perceive it, juxtaposed against a code of your, essentially of your own making. | ||
| And people can say, well, no, my dogma is, is 2000 years old or my dogma is, uh, well, it's, you know, come straight from Athens or whatever it is. | ||
| But the truth is, uh, if you're a person who can't engage in reality, Then your dogma is an abstract. | ||
| Your dogma is just a reflection of things that you want, and it's a way of, to your point, mitigating responsibility for the actual people around you. | ||
| You know, you... I've thought a little bit about our... I actually was about to say something that I had committed not to say on the air, so I'm not going to say it. | ||
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| It's rare that I make a good decision, but I just made a good decision. | ||
| I hear you. | ||
| But it's so important, you know, God, if you're going to believe in God or the God-like alien who actually made the heavens and the earth, there's a whole conversation there. | ||
| You actually have to believe, like, God has to be the God of reality. | ||
| I took a friend, 10 years ago, I'm married to a woman, I never talk, I won't say her name or talk about her too much, but I will tell you this funny story that I took a friend's future in-laws out to a movie 10 years ago, And the first thing that his future mother-in-law said to me after the movie was, I said, oh, did you enjoy the movie? | ||
| She goes, well, I don't really like movies. | ||
| I said, oh, great. | ||
| And she said, you know, you and your wife are married? | ||
| I said, yeah, we've been married a short amount of time. | ||
| She said, well, you know, in God's eyes, she's still married to her first husband. | ||
| And I said, oh, well, God must be an idiot. | ||
| Wrong. | ||
| Because that's not true. | ||
| That is not reality. | ||
| God has to be the God of reality, not the God of an abstract fantasy. | ||
| So I would argue as a Christian that it's an abstract fantasy that you can divorce and remarry if it was a legitimate marriage in the first place. | ||
| Because one of the definitions of marriage is that it's a lifelong commitment until death do you part. | ||
| But what would you argue as a Seamus? | ||
| As a Seamus? | ||
| Well, I mean, that's my belief. | ||
| Do you actually believe it or do you just believe that the Christians believe it? | ||
| No, I believe it. | ||
| I mean, I believe, I think most Christians don't believe it, unfortunately. | ||
| I think a lot of Christians have abandoned that. | ||
| It's not a popular teaching anymore. | ||
| I suppose you could define the word marriage meaning to mix. | ||
| So if you're going to mix your soul with something, if there is a God, if there's an energy field. | ||
| There's no unmixing that soul. | ||
| That's a good point. | ||
| Well, no, there's no unsaluting a solution, but I think you can reverse a mixture. | ||
| If you mix red and blue paint together, you ain't getting them back out. | ||
| I'll push back on that just a little bit. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| God's the God of reality. | ||
| Divorce exists in the Bible. | ||
| That's not a recommendation of divorce, which is a horrible, terrible thing. | ||
| But the idea that God lives in a sort of abstract, where things are as they should be, how far back do you take that? | ||
| Essentially, if that's the case, then God still lives in Eden, before the fall happened. | ||
| God still lives in a place where people haven't been living in sin, where people haven't been | ||
| making mistakes, where none of the eventualities that came from that causality of sin have | ||
| ever occurred. | ||
| And God is abstracted out of being the God of actual people in an actual place in an | ||
| actual time. | ||
| The God of the Bible, in my estimation, is a God who actually took on sin and took on | ||
| the consequences of sin on himself and Christ. | ||
| As a result of that, he becomes God of a reality that's—he becomes God of the people who | ||
| have existed in reality, not just the people who could have existed in the abstract. | ||
| So I just think that any time that we used... See, this is a great example. | ||
| That's a place where we use sort of a dogma or an ideology to deny a reality that's right in front of us. | ||
| I think you see it a lot with what's happening in Ukraine right now, by the way, where Uh, regardless of your opinion about NATO expansion, regardless of your opinion about, uh, the merits of Zelensky, regardless of your opinion about a lot of things, like Vladimir Putin actually did invade Ukraine and Ukraine did not want to be invaded, and you see a lot of people left and right, but particularly on the right, who are almost in denial. | ||
| about that situation because it doesn't line up with their political point of view. | ||
| They have a political point of view that Ukraine shouldn't have done certain things, or that Putin was more friendly to the West than he actually turned out to be, or that Putin was a better representative. | ||
| You even hear people on the right right now saying that Putin was a better representative of Christianity because he built a cathedral at one point in time or something. | ||
| And then actual reality takes place in front of them, they have a very hard time pivoting to accept it, because it's out of line with their expectations based on how they thought the world should be. | ||
| Yeah, Hitler was Time Man of the Year. | ||
| And they did appease him for a long time. | ||
| So I hear some of what you're saying, and I agree with some of what you're saying, but I would say where we definitely disagree is that I would argue that God Having moral prescriptions for us that we ourselves do not live up to does not mean that he's over abstracted or doesn't govern our reality because it's actually Christ in scripture who says what God has brought together. | ||
| Let no man put asunder and anyone who leaves their husband commits adultery, etc. | ||
| He also says if you have lust in your heart, you are an adulterer. | ||
| You're not on the path to adultery. | ||
| You're not kind of like an adulterer if you really think about it. | ||
| You are one. | ||
| If you're in a marriage and you're thinking about having sex with another woman, does that make you cheating on your wife? | ||
| Yes, that's adultery of the heart. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| How do you control your thoughts? | ||
| Like, you got to learn to control your thoughts. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| Custody of the thoughts. | ||
| I mean, nothing happens in the world that didn't first happen in the human heart. | ||
| I would actually disagree. | ||
| I think the entire purpose of the Sermon on the Mount is to get us out of these abstractions. | ||
| It's to bring the full weight of condemnation. | ||
| It's so that no one can claim not to be an adulterer. | ||
| Not so that we can also try to figure out how to not commit adultery in our heads. | ||
| So, I would absolutely agree that people should not be sinnier, and it is certainly not my claim to say that I am not a sinner, or that I have not committed adultery of the heart, etc. | ||
| It's simply to say that I don't believe recognizing that negates the moral precepts that Christ put forward. | ||
| These are very profound moral, ethical, and religious questions that are very difficult to get into, especially You know, we could talk a bit more about, I suppose, in the members only segment, if you guys want to get into the core of it, because I love having these conversations. | ||
| But when you got into Ukraine, I was like, let's let's let's segue, you know, and then it's like it gets pulled back into the philosophical world. | ||
| They need razors in Ukraine. | ||
| Let's talk about it. | ||
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| They do. | ||
| So here, basically, more than ever, this is me navigating a very hard segue back to this topic, which we have pulled up, which is Biden warning of real food shortages, food shortage risk over Russia's invasion into Ukraine. | ||
| We've been hearing murmurs about this, but it's very obvious. | ||
| Ukraine is the breadbasket of Europe. | ||
| They produce wheat. | ||
| Russia exports fertilizer. | ||
| We're no longer able to buy that fertilizer. | ||
| For the most part, the prices are skyrocketing, which means the spring planting season will be limited. | ||
| And that also means the fall harvest will be severely stunted. | ||
| So you can expect to see food shortages here and in Europe, and Biden is warning about it. | ||
| I think there's a couple of things to point out. | ||
| One is that Biden has basically said, what did he say? | ||
| We're going to disseminate food shortages around the world? | ||
| What a ridiculous thing to say. | ||
| Sounds like a Biden thing to say. | ||
| But, you know, people will be like, what he really meant was we're going to disseminate food around the world. | ||
| Well, you don't know what he meant. | ||
| He said he's going to make food shortages worse. | ||
| The other thing is, this is the direct result of a lack of culture coming from the right. | ||
| Because politics is downstream from culture, as Andrew Breitbart said. | ||
| And when you get a 2020 in which every channel, every movie, every media outlet is all screaming, Orange Man bad, it lights people up to get out there. | ||
| And I always bring up the story, man, people I know who have no business in politics. | ||
| I certainly think they have a right to be, but these are people who couldn't tell you what the Supreme Court was, how many justices it has, or even name a single member of Congress going out and voting. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because their media and their culture tells them what to do. | ||
| Now we're seeing the ramifications of this. | ||
| Joe Biden as president is not responsible for every crisis we're dealing with, but he's certainly a bad leader who said he's going to be disseminating food shortages. | ||
| Now we get to experience those food shortages. | ||
| There's a promise. | ||
| Because to stop literal Hitler, you would elect anyone. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| It looks like the actual quote is, uh, we both talked about how we could increase and disseminate more rapidly food shortages. | ||
| That's a great quote. | ||
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| It just makes me contemplate time, you know? | ||
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The passage of time. | |
| Imagine guessing this situation five years ago. | ||
| Like, yeah, we're going to have these food shortages, and the president's going to go out, he's going to distribute the food shortages. | ||
| Um, imagine being Donald Trump, speaking at a rally and saying, if you vote for Joe Biden, you're going to have, your gas prices are going to go way up, the economy's going to be bad. | ||
| And you get freaking fact checked and shut down on Facebook for saying it, probably at the time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Missing context, they would have said. | ||
| Oh yeah, yeah, no for sure. | ||
| I remember this one fact checker, someone quote tweeted me because I talked about Bill Clinton and Epstein's plane, and they fact checked it as false. | ||
| When you click the fact check, it's explained in great detail how I was correct. | ||
| It's the most insane thing. | ||
| They did it to Josh Hawley, PolitiFact did it, where they were like, Josh Hawley says that Judge Jackson was lenient to, let's just say child abusers, very extreme child abusers. | ||
| and they were like, mostly false. | ||
| And then you scroll down, it's like, well, it's true. | ||
| She was lenient to these people. | ||
| It isn't a, it isn't out of the ordinary for judges to be lenient. | ||
| And it's like, did he say it wasn't? | ||
| He just gave a fact. | ||
| So, well, this is the reality of where you're at when your cultural institutions are dominated by a cult | ||
| and by people who are intent on just controlling the system, even if it means burning it to the ground. | ||
| Yeah, the institutions in this country were always the real bulwark against state intrusion into our lives, right? | ||
| You had the states actually created the federal government, so that they're like the ultimate pre-federal institution. | ||
| You had the church, which was one of the most important institutions in the country. | ||
| You had other institutions, though, corporate America, I think, probably the, | ||
| it's unpleasant to say, but like, probably the institution that mattered the most in many ways | ||
| as a bulwark against state power. You had the family, the ultimate institution. And | ||
| what the left has done since the 60s is they've infiltrated every one of those institutions. | ||
| Since the state automatically essentially desires what the left desires, a state, | ||
| the natural state of a state is to grow its power over the individual, which is a left-wing goal. | ||
| Since that is the truth, when the left takes over all the institutions that allowed the people to essentially it solves the collective action problem of the people in defending their rights against the state. | ||
| Once the institutions are on the left, the institutions immediately essentially become an arm of the state. | ||
| And you see that with all these fact checkers. | ||
| You know, I actually I have a soft spot for Facebook. | ||
| I mean, Daily Wire has been the number one publisher in the world on Facebook 15 months in a row. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| We do really well on Facebook. | ||
| I think Mark Zuckerberg, if you were to talk to him personally, wouldn't see himself as a guy who has taken voices away from so many people. | ||
| He would see himself as the guy who's given a voice to a billion people. | ||
| Nevertheless, the institution that he's created, because, you know, 30,000 people at Facebook all walk in lockstep with the left, they've become an arm of the state. | ||
| And so instead of corporate America now, all the things we've been talking about all night, HR and all these things, instead of corporate America solving the collective issue, the collective action problem of the individual, they actually become a part of the state's power to shut down the individual. | ||
| And that's why you get these incredibly Orwellian expressions like fact checking. | ||
| How can you have a fact check that says you are mostly fall that something is mostly false which is completely true and what the answer is that missing context or mostly false the piece that they say was missing or that would have that created the falsehood is just their point of view not more information not more fact their point of view missing context if i say joe biden isn't a good president | ||
| you know, they will say, fact check, mostly false, missing context. And you'll read the article and | ||
| they'll say, well, hyperinflation, war overseas, the end of American hegemony, gas prices through | ||
| the roof, food shortages being disseminated around the globe. But other presidents have been bad. | ||
| They would say Joe Biden actually promised to disseminate those food shortages. So he's | ||
| keeping his campaign promises. | ||
| He's a good president. | ||
| Let me ask you. | ||
| We've had a few people on the show. | ||
| We recently had a more middle-of-the-road guy on the show, and sometimes we hear this from the moderates that, you know, oh, the both sides things. | ||
| I think both sides have their problems or whatever. | ||
| My response to this is like, look man, I personally have never been this staunch conservative guy. | ||
| I've actually, when I was younger, I went to Catholic school up until I was in sixth grade, then I went like anarcho-punk rock, hanging out with these hardcore like lefties, and then eventually kind of just found a middle-of-the-road place. | ||
| But when you have, I love going through the list of stories, Covington Kids, Russiagate, Ukrainegate, Jussie Smollett, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, over and over again. | ||
| At a certain point, why aren't these people being like, I was lied to? | ||
| I shouldn't listen anymore. | ||
| You know, you've got these fact checkers who come out and they fact check stories that later turn out like the Hunter Biden laptop. | ||
| It didn't later turn out to be true. | ||
| It was always true. | ||
| They always knew that it was true. | ||
| What are your thoughts on this? | ||
| Are they faking it? | ||
| Are they lying? | ||
| Look, I talk about, I call it a cult all the time. | ||
| We call them the city urban liberal types. | ||
| Sorry, people living in cities, but you're the cult. | ||
| And what are your thoughts on this? | ||
| Why are they faking it? | ||
| Are they lying? | ||
| Are they just stupid? | ||
| I agree that it's a cult to some degree. | ||
| I mean, it looks like a cult if it looks like a cult, right? | ||
| And smells like a cult. | ||
| But I think that Andrew Klavan talks about this from time to time. | ||
| I'm loathe to agree with Andrew Klavan on anything. | ||
| But on just this one thing, he did christen me the God King. | ||
| So on these two things, I agree with Andrew. | ||
| Everything we're living through right now is because we as a species have not evolved to know what to do with the internet. | ||
| You know, the Protestant Reformation in many ways was a reaction to the advent of the printing press. | ||
| It seems funny to us, so far down the road from the printing press, the printing press was such a remarkable leap forward in technology for human beings. | ||
| Suddenly there was information available to everyone that formerly had only been available to the very, very elite few. | ||
| And to come to grips with that, took two generations and a war that wiped out millions of people in Europe, that ripped the church asunder, that ripped the world order asunder. | ||
| They printed words on paper, and the Protestant Reformation happened basically as a result. | ||
| And it's always that way when you have these moments of, you know, in many ways, World War I was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. | ||
| When there's these enormous leaps forward in technology, people don't know what to do with it. | ||
| It takes a generation or two. | ||
| The internet Literally rewires our brains. | ||
| It has biological ramifications. | ||
| We have so much information, more information than any human being knows what to do with. | ||
| We have not solved how to take in all that information, how to sort through all of that information, how to come to conclusions. | ||
| And so what we've done is we've same thing we did when the printing press happened. | ||
| We've just become more tribal. | ||
| Since I can't sort through all the information, I have to believe that Tim knows how to sort | ||
| through the information. I have to believe that Jordan Peterson knows how to sort through the | ||
| information. I have to believe that Ben Shapiro knows how to sort through the information. I | ||
| have to believe. And the problem with that is some of the sorters are better than others. | ||
| I was wondering, you know, Joe Biden recently came out and said he referenced the fourth turning, | ||
| the Strassau generational theory. | ||
| You're familiar, I imagine? | ||
| He said, you know, between 1900 and 1946, you know, what did he say, 60 million people died. | ||
| Then there was a liberal world order, there'll be a new world order. | ||
| I was wondering, we talked a bit about how he brought that up, but I thought to myself, why was it that so many people died between 1900 and 1946? | ||
| You know, what was the catalyst for these emergent ideologies that opposed each other so fiercely? | ||
| And I wonder if it was radio. | ||
| All of a sudden we've got serialized radio programs, radio news. | ||
| Hitler used mass media. | ||
| That was how he became Hitler. | ||
| So imagine you are the average person and there's a handful of newspapers. | ||
| The newspaper is mostly homogenized to maximize profits, so they may have slightly differing views or it might be yellow journalism. | ||
| But for the most part, your information moves slowly, so radicalization is slow. | ||
| Along comes radio, which is more rapid. | ||
| It's on, you know, frequently and there's multiple channels with different perspectives. | ||
| Now, they're finding new audiences because they have more opportunity to send out those measures in real time. | ||
| I wonder if that played a big role in radicalization which, you know, give or take 10, 20, 30 years results in major clashes and war. | ||
| Yeah, it's actually a good thing. | ||
| Most humans don't have time to just live reading the internet and reading the news and sifting through the news. | ||
| They're busy working for a living. | ||
| They're busy raising their kids. | ||
| And so they need people to help them with this fire hose of information that now comes our way. | ||
| And yeah, I'm sure radio was very similar. | ||
| I'm sure I know the printing press was. | ||
| One thing I'll say to bring it full circle to my conversation about why conservatives tend not to build the future. | ||
| It's because, yes, perhaps the Second World War was a result of radio. | ||
| Perhaps the explosion in the isms, fascism, socialism, communism, anarchism, maybe it was all a result of radio. | ||
| I think that's a really compelling theory that you bring up. | ||
| Conservatives did get around to being on the radio though in 1980. | ||
| So I just want to say after 60 million people were killed because of radio, a generation later we got some. | ||
| No, I think it's an interesting point, and conservatives have done a very poor job keeping up with mass communication, with the artistic fields. | ||
| I mean, you look historically, so much of the beautiful art that we see in the West was basically commissioned by the Catholic Church. | ||
| Nowadays, I mean, what fraction of media does the Catholic Church, let alone any group you'd call conservative in general, control? | ||
| It's a very small proportion. | ||
| And I think part of that could just be the nature of the way people who tend to be more quote unquote progressive are willing to experiment | ||
| with new technology. | ||
| You were sort of discussing the fact that conservative investors would be less likely | ||
| to put money into an app that they can't see a direct utility in the way a left wing person | ||
| might be capable of. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| But I also think when we talk about left wing people today, we're not really talking about | ||
| the left wing of 20 years ago, even though they have similar ideological roots, because | ||
| I think many of them today wouldn't invest in these sorts of technologies. | ||
| A healthy society needs a healthy needs healthy liberals. | ||
| The reason conservatives don't, conservatives have never made art ever. | ||
| The Catholic Church didn't make any art. | ||
| It bought art from much more liberal people like Michelangelo. | ||
| A healthy society has healthy liberals. | ||
| An unhealthy society has ascendant leftists. | ||
| That's a big difference. | ||
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| Why don't we make gargoyles anymore? | ||
| Yeah, let's bring it back. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
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| We have a lot of work in expansion. | ||
| I'm getting gargoyles. | ||
| Because you look at all of these, and I'm half kidding about gargoyles, but you look at modern construction, it's like glass steel boxes. | ||
| There's no art or inspiration. | ||
| And then I'm thinking about a lot of churches and a lot of older buildings, gargoyles. | ||
| And I'm like, that sounds kind of like, if somebody was a fan of the Lord of the Rings, they'd be like, I'm building a house, I'm gonna put a You've got to have tubes out of their mouth that shoot fire, though. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| They're just like, at will, you can push the button. | ||
| I don't know if it's legal, but we can certainly have it spray water. | ||
| We just have it shoot electricity or something. | ||
| You're more conservative than I thought, because that's a very practical—that's not a non-artistic, practical thing that you just suggested. | ||
| You know, regarding the firehose of information you're talking about with the internet, I would love to be able to understand all the information on the internet without having to read it or watch it. | ||
| So I'm thinking of Neuralink. | ||
| It's a bit esoteric because it hasn't come out yet. | ||
| And I wonder if it's like, we invented the firehose, but we don't have any of the mechanism to control it, really, or very rudimentary. | ||
| Think about how crazy it's going to be. | ||
| Of course, it has its own problems. | ||
| So they actually refer to all the tweets on Twitter as the firehose. | ||
| So if you want to access the API for certain information or whatever, and some companies do it. | ||
| There's so much information on Twitter. | ||
| I gotta tell you, I would be willing to bet the Twitter firehouse has been plugged into an AI a long time ago, and it's like, it knows everything happening, it's an oracle at this point. | ||
| I should also specify, I don't know if I want to see everything on the internet, because the mind can get warped by crazy violence. | ||
| Real quick, through Twitter's information with everyone posting things, Just think about what happens in New York City when, let's say, a transformer explodes. | ||
| Instantly, you're going to have 3,000 tweets all saying, I heard this explosion. | ||
| Instantly, those with access to the geolocation data are going to know exactly where all of those people are. | ||
| Instantly, the AI is going to be able to get this circle on a map of all these people saying they heard an explosion, and then be able to triangulate where the explosion was, basically, based on how many people are tweeting about it. | ||
| They'll know exactly where that is. | ||
| Instantly. | ||
| Think about anything in that regard that people might talk about, be it a storm, be it a flood. | ||
| There's going to be AI that has access to this firehose. | ||
| Now what happens when you plug into the metaverse and they can download that rapid information? | ||
| People will become like... | ||
| I don't know, man, what people will become, but you'll just know everything all at once. | ||
| And that's, that's, it's going to be an experience. | ||
| I'll tell you that. | ||
| This is funny because you, you made this point earlier about how it's good that most people can't just sit online and consume information all day. | ||
| And we have this saying, right? | ||
| People joke about going outside and touching grass. | ||
| It's like, all right, bro, you're too online. | ||
| There's this idea of being terminally on the internet to the point where you just can no longer recognize and contend with reality. | ||
| And so if people do get plugged into that point, my goodness, I don't even know what political ideology they'll have because some 14-year-old will spend hours and hours and hours online and end up in more and more bizarre, esoteric corners of the political internet and claim that that's their view. | ||
| This is happening, and I don't know if you're familiar with this. | ||
| We've talked about it quite a bit. | ||
| Are you familiar with Elsagate? | ||
| No. | ||
| So this was something that happened about four or five years ago, where YouTube was inundated with people dressing up like Elsa from Frozen, Spider-Man, Joker, and then, so it was these weird videos with no length, with like no speaking, just music, and the Joker would chase Elsa and Spider-Man would save her. | ||
| And it was because, algorithmically, those characters generated a lot of hits and recommendations. | ||
| So people made content for children, but this began to devolve. | ||
| Eventually, the people who made the content, many of these people realized, It's babies watching this stuff. | ||
| Babies can't change the channel. | ||
| It's the autoplay feeding the content. | ||
| So they used computer programs to procedurally generate content with these keywords. | ||
| You ended up with videos that were very bizarre. | ||
| Like, there's one video, one of the most notable in this space was Adolf Hitler, but his body is a woman in a bikini doing Tai Chi as some Indian family sings Finger Family Nursery Rhyme. | ||
| And the Incredible Hulk is also like, you know, doing like some kind of boxing maneuver. | ||
| The reason was, it didn't matter what the content of the video was. | ||
| All that mattered was the key words were in it. | ||
| Nursery rhyme, finger family, the Hulk, for some reason Hitler, I guess. | ||
| These things were shocking and generated recommendations. | ||
| Children grew up watching this stuff. | ||
| So when Ian said, I'm sorry, when Seamus is talking about their warped perspective, we are going to have 12, we probably have it now, 10 year olds who are unsupervised | ||
| on the internet, watching the craziest stuff you've, you've never, you'll | ||
| never understand abstract nonsense of, you know, the incredible Hulk and Hitler dancing together. | ||
| And when those people grow up, they're going to have insane views that make no sense | ||
| because when we grew up, we're older, right? | ||
| I think Seamus is the youngest person. | ||
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| My parents were living in reality. | ||
| All of our parents were living in reality, even with Seamus being the youngest person. | ||
| But what about one of these kids who's 10 years old today? | ||
| When they have their first kid and the values they transfer down to those children are telling the great story of female Hitler's Tai Chi against the Hulk as their story or whatever. | ||
| These things are going to be wired into their brain. | ||
| When I was a little kid, the things that were wired into my brain were Superman, Batman, Star Trek, The Next Generation. | ||
| Those values carry forward. | ||
| If little kids are developing around psychotic algorithmic nonsense, They're just gonna be insane. | ||
| I just typed in Elsagate too to get a look and I mean there's some crazy girl drinking a beer like a baby drinking a beer with a spider-man. | ||
| Yo, Elsagate had cartoons on YouTube of little kids drinking urine. | ||
| This is like R-rated content and the guys have a cartoon. | ||
| I actually know someone who told me that their child came across content on the internet that was supposed to be Peppa Pig, and it was actually Peppa Pig describing some extremely violent things and actually basically telling the kids to do violent things. | ||
| Very disturbing. | ||
| Very disturbing. | ||
| Yeah, I think one of the things that's missing in our culture now is cultural literacy. | ||
| And it's not a topic that gets discussed much. | ||
| It probably should be discussed a lot more. | ||
| That when we were kids, the Western canon, which a canon is important because it's essentially the set of stories and ideas that we all share. | ||
| uh the western canon was baked into all of the fiction that we ingested so i learned the the famous story of uh of tom sawyer convincing his friends to whitewash the fence right that's right i learned that from looney tunes i didn't learn it from reading huck finn you couldn't you know a seven-year-old can't read huck finn but a seven-year-old could watch looney tunes i learned about classical music from looney tunes you know I think that that idea that we have a shared heritage, that | ||
| we have a shared fiction, even a fictional, a legendary heritage, you know, the stories | ||
| that we all know is completely gone. And to your point, I think we are already seeing the results of | ||
| it. There's never been a generation with more psychoses. Oh, yeah. | ||
| Than young people today, right? | ||
| I mean, I think it's going to get substantially worse. | ||
| People don't understand. | ||
| We've been, uh, I've been kind of obsessed with talking about the metaverse just because I've been, you know, it's, I read news, I read politics, I read culture, and all of these cultural stories that keep popping up just lead me to the singularity. | ||
| You know, that's what I think people call it. | ||
| Alex Jones calls it that. | ||
| The metaverse is a path towards this, you know, unification of man and machine or whatever. | ||
| It's a Ray Kurzweil thing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, one of the things I mentioned was that a lot of what we're experiencing in the culture war with the transgender issue is actually due to technological advancement. | ||
| Now, I'm not making a social commentary on this, I'm making a scientific one. | ||
| When we isolated hormones and then in the 1960s started creating hormone therapies, this led to a sort of understanding of what hormones can do to the body, which leads us to the 90s where hormone replacement therapy becomes more popular, which results to, in the 90s, you now have prominent adults who have underwent or undergone hormone replacement therapy now sharing those ideas and expanding that idea. | ||
| Again, not a social commentary, a scientific one. | ||
| If the debate we're having now because of the existence and the isolation and creation of hormones and that technology has resulted in this culture war debate, what'll happen when we start shifting into metaverse spaces? | ||
| When we're plugging our brains in or virtual reality to go to work? | ||
| Already on Twitter, Many people use cartoon avatars or animals as their profile picture. | ||
| What happens if we really do, and I think we will, get to that point where we have our business meetings in a high-res metaverse and someone shows up to work and it's Tony the Tiger or some giant ostrich? | ||
| And they say, you can't discriminate on me on how I choose to represent myself in the metaverse environment. | ||
| So right now, if you look at New York City's human rights law pertaining to gender identity, it's specifically defined as self-expression. | ||
| No joke. | ||
| Literally, it's defined as self-expression. | ||
| And this is something I actually— And you're literally not expressing yourself. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| No, it's true. | ||
| I covered the story and I actually called the city and I called some lawyers to get some understanding on this. | ||
| This was back in, I think, 2018. | ||
| It was New York announced that they had 31 genders in their public listing. | ||
| So, their human rights law specifically says, if you are in any of these categories of gender or gender identity, you are a protected class. | ||
| If anyone discriminates against you, it's a $125,000 fine. | ||
| If they willfully discriminate, it's a $250,000 fine. | ||
| So I looked into the law, and it said gender identity is defined as self-expression. | ||
| They can't discriminate against you based on your name or the way you dress. | ||
| So I called several human rights lawyers and I asked them for an understanding of this. | ||
| And I said, how can a workplace determine what is reasonable or not in terms of someone's name and expression and clothing? | ||
| And they said, well, we all know what's reasonable. | ||
| A judge knows what's reasonable. | ||
| That's why judges exist. | ||
| If you go into their courtroom with something unreasonable, they'll tell you you're unreasonable and it doesn't fit the law. | ||
| And I said, okay, what if someone went to Starbucks and they told the person, you know, I want to work here. | ||
| They get hired. | ||
| But on their first day, they show up in a full wolf costume with like lifts, so they're six foot five, and they say that their name is Vulsiferon, Herald of the Winter Mists. | ||
| You can't discriminate on the basis of my name or my clothing. | ||
| I was told this by several lawyers. | ||
| They all said, Good luck going into a courtroom and telling a judge that you're a vociferon and they need to allow you to wear a wolf costume in Starbucks. | ||
| And I said, would not the same thing apply to a man wearing women's clothing whose legal name is John saying his name is Jane? | ||
| Why would the judge have the discretion to determine whether or not it falls within the legal definition of self-expression? | ||
| Because if you're telling me that someone can't choose to be a furry, And furries exist, and I don't think they're all calling themselves vociferon, but they have specific names and costumes. | ||
| Why would a transgender person be afforded rights that another person in a similar fashion would not be? | ||
| And they had no answer for me, other than, we think a judge would find it unreasonable. | ||
| And then I said, wouldn't it stand to reason then you could appeal and say any judge could find a transgender person unreasonable, and that would create very serious problems based on this human rights law. | ||
| That's where I think we're headed. | ||
| Now, once we get into the metaverse, you're going to see that very same thing happen. | ||
| You're going to be around people who say, I am a carrot. | ||
| This is my identity. | ||
| Identify as carrot. | ||
| And you won't be able to fire them or admonish them. | ||
| You'll have to just say, you know, Robo is a carrot. | ||
| He works here. | ||
| You might be able to make it so no one else can see the carrot when they're in the boardroom, but they only see the base avatar or something. | ||
| I don't know about that. | ||
| That would be like saying if a protected class of any type, gender, race, national origin, came to a workplace, you could cover them up so none of the customers could see them. | ||
| You could say like, you can express yourself however you want, but you can't make me see you. | ||
| That's up to me whether or not I see you. | ||
| Tough questions, man, because they're saying in workplaces you have to use pronouns. | ||
| Well, and it's interesting because one of the points you made was that somebody said, well, good luck getting in front of a judge and having them take that argument seriously. | ||
| I don't think you need luck. | ||
| It's possible you just need a couple of years because our social structures are shifting so quickly that even going to court as a transgender person, right, and saying, I am a A woman trapped in a man's body, you're discriminating against me if you don't acknowledge that? | ||
| I mean, 20, 30 years ago a judge would have said that's absolutely absurd, but today they wouldn't. | ||
| Right. | ||
| This is actually why. | ||
| Things are moving so quickly that even we can't carry on a real conversation about what's actually occurring. | ||
| When any of us sit at a table and we talk about the trans issue, we still use terms | ||
| like men and women. | ||
| We still think fundamentally if a man says that he's a woman, if a man named John walks | ||
| into Starbucks and says I'm a woman, and we think that that's what the trans conversation | ||
| is really about. | ||
| But when you read statistics like 40% of kids now are trans or whatever these crazy statistics | ||
| are, they're not having conversations about being men trapped in women's bodies. | ||
| They're having conversations that are so far beyond that. | ||
| It's not always the furry conversation, but to your point, there are 33, there are 72, | ||
| there are 40. | ||
| There's a number of genders. | ||
| It's sort of like when conservative parents say, oh, I can put my kid in college. | ||
| You know, it was liberal when I was there and I came out just fine. | ||
| And you're like, you have no idea what's actually happening on a college campus right now. | ||
| This is exactly my point, that because of the 90s and the technological advancement around HRT, 30 years later, we're having a conversation around transgender issues. | ||
| But kids today, they're talking about, you know, otherkin. | ||
| Are you familiar with otherkin? | ||
| That's right, yes. | ||
| People who think they're mythical beasts or mythical animals. | ||
| And when it comes to the metaverse, this won't be a question. | ||
| They will be. | ||
| They will be. | ||
| And give it 50 years. | ||
| If we're neural-linked into alternate realities and digital realities, A lot of the work, the work we're doing right now could be held in a metaverse space with high quality microphones and ultra high, you know, ultra, you know, 10K, 12K video. | ||
| We could, we don't have to be sitting in the same room or fly people out. | ||
| We could all put on our headsets and then people will watch. | ||
| A video of us in a room together. | ||
| Isn't that crazy? | ||
| They'll sit in the room with us. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| I was gonna say, someone could place themselves in that chair. | ||
| And you know what's funny is 10 years ago, I pitched this to Vice. | ||
| I pitched it to Fusion. | ||
| I said, we do a show where in one chair, it's a 360, um, um, what's the, what's the word? | ||
| Binocular, um, What's the word? | ||
| I just call it Canva. | ||
| Stereoscopic. | ||
| Oh, cool, yeah. | ||
| Stereoscopic 360 view, which allows you to see like you're actually there. | ||
| But the resolution was really bad, but we could still try it. | ||
| That's coming. | ||
| Now, if you get to the point where you can actually have full sensory feedback, like Neuralink would potentially allow you to do, if we can actually wire a brain, people are literally going to be like, in this space, I am Vulcifer. | ||
| I'm the wolf lord of, you know, the arboreal forest. | ||
| And you'll be watching a show of a giant wolf creature and it will look like reality and the wolf will be like, I take issue with the president's anti-wolf policies. | ||
| And people are going to be like, wow, it must be crazy being a wolf. | ||
| And then that person will become a CEO. | ||
| And the boomers will still be presidents in real life. | ||
| They'll still run the whole thing. | ||
| Uh, I think what you're saying is right, but I do want to challenge us a little bit. | ||
| It is the nature of, uh, it is the nature of contrarians and the nature of conservatives. | ||
| Uh, not that I want to label you all as that, contrarians though. | ||
| To look at the future and only see the worst things that can happen. | ||
| And the worst things that can happen will happen. | ||
| I'm not suggesting that those things won't occur. | ||
| You're right, they will occur. | ||
| See, so this is a point I was making with a few other people. | ||
| Me describing the potential future through the metaverse is not a moral statement, good or bad, about it. | ||
| It's just something I see as a potential. | ||
| But you do see it as something bad. | ||
| Yeah, and I think that the potential that you're outlining, some version of it will come to pass. | ||
| It's not that when we look ahead and say, oh, you know, we're going to have to be in business meetings with Vulciferon, that we're wrong. | ||
| That is one of the things that will occur. | ||
| Everything that people put their hands to because people are fallen, because people are broken. | ||
| the things that we create reflect our brokenness. But they don't exclusively reflect our brokenness. | ||
| And I think that what we have to do, people in this room, people who think in the directions | ||
| that people in this room think, we have to be active parts of the construction of the future | ||
| so that it doesn't just represent our brokenness. It can also represent a lot of the good things, | ||
| a lot of the values that we share, a lot of the things that we would like to see expanded. | ||
| Here's what I want you to consider too, something that most people probably don't realize. | ||
| is. | ||
| If the metaverse reality comes to pass where you can choose your identity, you, Jeremy, will be sitting at a Daily Wire meeting. | ||
| You'll have hired a young man named, you know, Ricky Smith. | ||
| But when he shows up on the first day in the metaverse, he looks identical to you, and he says, my name is Jeremy. | ||
| This is my identity. | ||
| And if you are tallied against me because of my identity, that's discrimination on the basis of who I am and my name. | ||
| And they want to be you. | ||
| People don't want to be themselves. | ||
| The people who look up to you, they'll just say, I'm going to be this person. | ||
| The number of people who wish that they were me is staggeringly low. | ||
| So can you imagine being in the metaverse, walking down the street, and then there's like 10 of you, and then they look at you and they're like, you're not the real Jeremy, are you? | ||
| And you're like, no, no, not me. | ||
| And they're like, okay. | ||
| The question is, do you have the IP of your own likeness? | ||
| You'll have to buy a non-fungible token of yourself. | ||
| You will have to pay someone else for it. | ||
| This is very interesting because modern media law, when Disney has a contract with the guy playing Thor, what's that guy's name? | ||
| Chris? | ||
| Chris Hemsworth. | ||
| They have him on contract saying they own his likeness in perpetuity forever in every universe henceforth, which means if they ever want to make a A deepfake with Chris Hemsworth saying whatever they want. | ||
| They own that. | ||
| Yo, this was the plot- They own Chris Hemsworth's likeness now. | ||
| This was a plot of 30 Rock episode, where Jack Donaghy took all of the Seinfeld episodes | ||
| because they own the likeness of Jerry Seinfeld and superimposed them into other shows. | ||
| So they would take- It was actually- And then Jerry Seinfeld finds out and he gets really | ||
| So we need to rewrite it. | ||
| Oh, but just really, really funny. | ||
| Cause I love the show. | ||
| Jerry Seinfeld finds out and he's like, uh, he's like, I could buy your network 10 times over. | ||
| And then Jack's like, you don't have $4 million. | ||
| We're going to need to rewrite entertainment law really rapidly too, because, uh, I don't think corporations should own the likeness to actors anymore because of the deep fake MetaNet that we're entering. | ||
| That's interesting. | ||
| That's actually a really good point. | ||
| You know, I've been excited about these technological advances because of Star Trek, the animated series, which is an old one. | ||
| But here's here's the thing that occurred to me recently is that some of the best Star Trek writing and the third season of the original series of Star Trek is garbage. | ||
| The first season is some of the best sci fi ever written and the animated series. | ||
| is some of the best sci-fi that was ever written and it occurred to me very recently after the next generation we're moments away from them making live action versions of star trek the animated series with the original cast it's already their voices they voiced the animated characters and now a remake an animated remake would essentially be deep fake level reality right they can just make that show now And they could put Jerry Seinfeld in it. | ||
| And then Jerry Seinfeld will show up. | ||
| So, with the Romulans! | ||
| So it'd be like a basic human right is you own the IP to your likeness forever, henceforth. | ||
| But I think there's an argument to be made that... Unless you trade it for some Ethereum. | ||
| I think that's... If you need Ethereum... Now, I'm not saying this is the argument I would make, but someone who is in favor of people being able to redistribute their likeness would say, well, you own it, therefore you have a right to sell it. | ||
| So you could sell it to a network. | ||
| Maybe only licensed. | ||
| Maybe you're not legally allowed to sell it, but maybe license it with a sunset clause. | ||
| I mean, just Ready Player One. | ||
| Have you guys seen it? | ||
| People were cartoon characters. | ||
| They would go into the game and they'd make themselves whatever they wanted, you know? | ||
| And in fact, in that movie, one of the in-game characters, a dude, was actually a woman in real life. | ||
| It's not that the Gnostic heresy version of the metaverse won't come to pass. | ||
| It will. | ||
| The Gnostic heresy version? | ||
| But there will also be... There's also beauty to be found in the future. | ||
| We have to go build it. | ||
| We are not victims of circumstance. | ||
| The worst thing to be as a human is someone who perceives themselves as powerless, perceives themselves only to be a victim of sort of the fates around them, right? | ||
| We can go make it. | ||
| We can make it better. | ||
| We can answer some of these questions in advance. | ||
| We can build structures that constrain some of the worst excesses that could come to pass. | ||
| But we won't. | ||
| We'll just say 30 years later that we should have had our own metaverse. | ||
| No, I think we will. | ||
| We'll build this metaverse with free software so that you can see the algorithm codes and you know if it's extracting your thoughts or not. | ||
| And then you'll be able to pass it off and create new metanets that will all interoperate and you'll have like an open system. | ||
| Babies will be born and the doctor will say to the parents, do you want the, we can do the Neuralink implant today. | ||
| We can do it right now while your baby's in the other room. | ||
| And they'll say, oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. | ||
| I mean, truth be told, what will likely happen is they'll call you on the phone and be like, hello, Mr. Johnson, your test tube baby was born and we did the Neuralink implant. | ||
| You can pick him up at five by click. | ||
| The Next Generation is the opposite of the original series because the first season sucks and the third season starts to be good. | ||
| I think the first season is good. | ||
| It was awkward. | ||
| No, you don't think the first season is good. | ||
| Yes, I do. | ||
| It introduces Q. That is absurd. | ||
| It was awkwardly acted, I thought. | ||
| That is absurd. | ||
| The best of both worlds is the greatest achievement in the history of television until Game of Thrones. | ||
| And after the best of both worlds, it becomes a great television show. | ||
| That's an episode? | ||
| The best of both worlds? | ||
| It's two episodes. | ||
| Which one is? | ||
| Lacutus of Borg. | ||
| Oh my goodness, yeah. | ||
| Borg was such good writing, too. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| And after that, they brought the high collar in, they got the cooler phasers, they got the new model, everything got cool. | ||
| But man, those first couple seasons, it's the love boat in space. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| I love all of it. | ||
| This is our Western canon. | ||
| The future generations needed a Star Trek. | ||
| It's Disney, man. | ||
| Disney's not Disney anymore. | ||
| I posted this clip because there are so many people who are naysayers. | ||
| I'm surprised there are people who would watch a show like this but also be like, I'm not watching Star Trek. | ||
| And I'm just like, no, no, no, you don't understand. | ||
| We're not talking about, wouldn't it be cool to be in a spaceship with lasers? | ||
| We're talking about naval tradition. | ||
| We're talking about military officers defending the freedom and civil liberties of individuals going to planets where they experience terrorism. | ||
| That line when Data goes to Picard and says, I'm having trouble understanding the conduct of these people. | ||
| They're engaging in terrorism. | ||
| And then Picard says, I do not subscribe to the belief that political power is derived from the barrel of a gun. | ||
| And then Data says, but if you look at history and the names, like two real examples, but then fictional future examples where terror actually worked. | ||
| And Picard's like, these are questions that humanity struggles with. | ||
| Like, that's why the show is good. | ||
| The philosophical and moral exploration And I was being somewhat facetious, but there is a component to the fact that Star Trek did often include the great works. | ||
| So they reference Shakespeare. | ||
| You have episodes about, you know, Greek mythology. | ||
| They really included things that today most people are completely unaware of, which is sad, but you could actually like learn about them from Star Trek and then start to do a deep dive because kids aren't learning it in school. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| I do have a special soft spot for, like, laser beams, though, when they, like, roughhouse with an alien dude in a costume. | ||
| You know what? | ||
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| I do, too. | ||
| One of my least favorite things about all the new iterations of Star Trek, starting with the J.J. | ||
| Abrams and all the way through Picard right now, is that they've basically gotten rid of phasers and everything's just a Star Wars-style blaster now. | ||
| Phasers to stun, man. | ||
| They call them phasers, but they don't have beams. | ||
| They're like little bolts. | ||
| But they were little clickers. | ||
| In The Next Generation, they were miniaturized little clickers. | ||
| They would just point, which would be very difficult to aim. | ||
| Oh yeah, you couldn't. | ||
| I think every time I watch The Next Generation, I just think, you just killed everybody. | ||
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| Like, what is this? | ||
| I wonder if they aim themselves. | ||
| Well, one of the things that was positive about it, and the reason my dad used to watch it with us as kids is because his view, he told us when we got older, is that it was very much a positive influence because They would exhaust every peaceful option they could, but they would still fight when they had to. | ||
| So it wasn't completely pacifist, but they were all about seeking the nonviolent solution when possible. | ||
| And they didn't hesitate in the face of threat. | ||
| They would fight immediately. | ||
| They would fight when they needed to. | ||
| The original series was so pro-American. | ||
| I grew up in the next generation. | ||
| I love the next generation, right? | ||
| I'm a sucker for all Star Trek. | ||
| But the original series is, like, morally and philosophically so much better because it's deeper and richer. | ||
| It was at the height of real sci-fi, especially the first season and a half, where they really were asking all these questions for the first time. | ||
| And you have these episodes where, like, Captain Kirk will beam down to a planet that is utopia. | ||
| Everyone there has all the food they can eat. | ||
| They have... It never rains. | ||
| You know, there's no hail. | ||
| There's no weather. | ||
| Everything is perfect. | ||
| And he'll look around and say, This place is crap. | ||
| I'm gonna go destroy the computer that has made you all mental slaves. | ||
| And he'll ruin their utopia to set them free. | ||
| And you talk about things you can't do on television now. | ||
| You could never say that utopia is bad because people aren't free. | ||
| That's so true. | ||
| That's an interesting topic. | ||
| So this is what people have pointed out. | ||
| Have you been following the new Picard? | ||
| Oh yeah, of course. | ||
| I don't think I'm gonna watch it. | ||
| Yeah, I didn't even bother. | ||
| I didn't mind season one of Picard. | ||
| Um, but Season 2, for those that aren't aware, is about, uh, you know, what is it, the 2022s or whatever? | ||
| The 2020, yeah. | ||
| 2020, 2220s or whatever. | ||
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| 20... Well, uh, so, the Star Trek crew, Picard, which are in the future, have to transport themselves back in time to 2024 because something happened that turned Earth into a human supremacist planet. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And I'm just like, yo, this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. | ||
| Political propaganda. | ||
| It's absolutely absurd, by the way. | ||
| And I've seen every episode that's out so far. | ||
| I can't help myself. | ||
| But I'm such a sucker for nostalgia. | ||
| And the first season of Picard is terrible. | ||
| But when you get to the end and we get the actual Data Picard death scene that we were robbed of in the films, you go, yeah, I'll follow you guys through the gates of hell. | ||
| Tell me how all humans are fascists. | ||
| I'm in. | ||
| You know, yeah, they never talk about Vulcan supremacists. | ||
| It's interesting. | ||
| But Vulcans don't have institutional power, so they're not. | ||
| The first thing is, it's clear that the Picard series is just, you know, Member Berries. | ||
| Remember the Borg? | ||
| Remember Picard? | ||
| And then, like, they meet everyone, and it's like, oh, like, yo, just give me a series that follows Deep Space Nine in the continuity, and we can move beyond the Dominion War, whatever, for those that are fans. | ||
| But instead, what they're doing is, We're going back in time again. | ||
| And the characters they bring back, you know, so you've watched the first two episodes, I'd imagine, of Picard? | ||
| First four, yeah. | ||
| First four already out? | ||
| Man, I've been working too much. | ||
| But Q does not feel like you. | ||
| You know, when he's like, this is not a lesson, Picard, it's penance. | ||
| I'm like, come on. | ||
| He was the guy who showed up with the mariachi band smoking a cigar and dancing, not some like torture of some great message or anything. | ||
| He was chaotic. | ||
| You're not allowed to have fun. | ||
| This is what's different now. | ||
| You're not allowed, you watch ads at the Super Bowl, and they're all important. | ||
| The words you would use for the ad agent, they would say, this was an important ad at the Super Bowl, | ||
| or this was a beautiful ad at the Super Bowl, or this was a touching ad at the Super Bowl. | ||
| And I'm like, yeah, but what are the really funny ads at the Super Bowl? | ||
| I'm getting, people keep writing in telling me that the Jeremy's Razor shameless plug, | ||
| you can see it at IHateHarris.com commercial. | ||
| People, hundreds of people are writing in, this is the best commercial I've ever seen. | ||
| I'm very proud of the commercial. | ||
| It's not the best commercial that's ever been made. | ||
| Why they're responding that way is because it is the best commercial that's been made in a decade. | ||
| It's the first commercial in a decade where you can just laugh at it. | ||
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| What's that movie, Fall Guy? | ||
| Is that what it is with Ryan Reynolds? | ||
| Is that what it's called? | ||
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No, no. | |
| Is that what the movie's called? | ||
| Which one? | ||
| Some movie that just came out where he's like a free guy. | ||
| It felt like a free guy, but almost produced on that level. | ||
| And I just want to add, you know, my compliments to the commercial were so good. | ||
| The Daily Wire actually pushed my video out. | ||
| Yeah, good commentary from Tim. | ||
| Yeah, we need more like that. | ||
| You mentioned these people seeing their advertisements as important, and this is one of these things | ||
| that if they could just step out of their little box for three seconds, they would understand | ||
| how ridiculous it is. | ||
| Just the phrase, like, this is going to be the most important Coca-Cola commercial of | ||
| all time. | ||
| Well, let me, I want to go back to, let's throw, right back to Star Trek. | ||
| How and why does a network, a company say, we have this IP, this popular IP. | ||
| We have decades of storytelling and movies and series. | ||
| Let's just put them in 2024 to fight Trump. | ||
| I know why. | ||
| That has nothing to do with any of the history. | ||
| Like if you want to make a show about time travelers who fight Donald Trump, make the show. | ||
| I'd probably watch it anyway, just to see what you're talking about. | ||
| But why make Picard do it? | ||
| And then Star Trek Discovery's Stacey Abrams shows up as the President of United Earth? | ||
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| She actually got cheated out of that election. | ||
| That's trash. | ||
| Who are they speaking to? | ||
| Themselves. | ||
| They're speaking to themselves. | ||
| I honestly wonder if they're even doing that. | ||
| It's funny, we were, oh man, I really wanted to get into this earlier but it blew past us and now's the perfect time to segue to it. | ||
| You were discussing the Western canon. | ||
| Part of why it's so important to tell good stories is because it's where people get their morality from. | ||
| Yes, it helps to give people moral precepts and principles, but ultimately people are going to act on the basis of who they admire and the stories that they know. | ||
| And so part of why they need to change these stories is because though they weren't perfect, some of them actually had decent values. | ||
| And so what you need to do is retcon them and shove your own values into it so that you can control people. | ||
| This is what people say because I tweeted a video from The Next Generation Where an admiral at Starfleet orders Data to give up his child to the state and Picard is like, no, and he risks his career. | ||
| He says, men of good conscience will defy orders. | ||
| You know, to watch, to compel a man to give his child to the state, not while I'm captain. | ||
| And I was like, man, that was so awesome. | ||
| And then everyone said the new Picard series, he would do the opposite. | ||
| He would say for the betterment of the family, we must allow, you know, and for safety and security. | ||
| That's the message we'd get across now from Picard. | ||
| Like his values are gone. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that's kind of sad to me. | ||
| The character should have been left just as it was. | ||
| They can't. | ||
| They can't do it. | ||
| They can't help themselves. | ||
| They need to change it. | ||
| They can't create. | ||
| They can't make new things. | ||
| They have to pervert what other people have already made. | ||
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| Roddenberry's gone. | ||
| This is true, which is why... | ||
| They take this long history show and then change it, but it's also they want to destroy | ||
| the character Picard represented, the values he represented. | ||
| They want to take him away as a role model from people who believed in these civil libertarian | ||
| values. | ||
| Yeah, this is one of the reasons that we got into making movies at Daily Wire is because | ||
| so much content that exists now exists to tell you that you don't deserve these characters. | ||
| And so, like, you see it in these superhero movies quite a lot. | ||
| Like, you watch the beginning of Endgame, and Captain America, who in the first Avengers movie, Captain America says, you know, there's only one God and he doesn't wear tights, and he's a character from the 1940s. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| who lies about his age to go fight the Nazis, he wears red, white, and blue, and literally is called America. | ||
| That's the character. | ||
| And then he gets frozen in ice, and he wakes up in the 20th century, and by endgame, it opens up and he's in this counseling session, and we have to have the reveal that the person who is sharing an insight with him is a married gay man. | ||
| A gay married gay man. | ||
| I would say a gay married gay man, because gay men have been married throughout all of human history, and it didn't mean what we mean now, right? | ||
| It's a gay married gay man. | ||
| And why do they do that? | ||
| You can say, well, to be inclusive, to show people that even gay married gay men | ||
| have a place in the world, but that's not why they do it. | ||
| If that's why they did it, I might even go, eh, okay, we can live with it. But that isn't the motive. | ||
| The motive is to say, all of you red state, | ||
| flyover, MAGA hat wearing, love America, wear red, | ||
| white, and blue guys, literal Captain America doesn't | ||
| belong to you. | ||
| You don't get to claim him. | ||
| He belongs to us. | ||
| We can give him any set of values that we want. | ||
| In fact, if you watch that whole Marvel Avengers arc, remarkably, Captain America becomes the renegade character during Civil War, and Iron Man, Tony Stark, becomes the representative of state power. | ||
| Like, it's an unbelievable inversion of those characters because they don't know what the characters mean. | ||
| It's not because they don't know, it's because they actually reject what the characters stand for. | ||
| Well, hold on a minute. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| You're not familiar with the Captain America Nomad arc? | ||
| I'm not, no. | ||
| Captain America, I'm not, I haven't read all this stuff, it was before my time, but there was a period where Captain | ||
| America abandoned the name and called himself Nomad, because, you know, the point they were making was, if you | ||
| truly believe in America, you don't always stand by the government for whatever it does. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So, you know, that's a general idea. I actually thought Civil War was fairly well done. | ||
| I mean, Captain America was the guy saying, I'm not going to sign over my rights to the state. | ||
| I'm, you know, I'm an individual. | ||
| And Tony Stark is a corporate warmonger who's like, the state, you know, is right. | ||
| Sign out. | ||
| You know, we have to. | ||
| I thought the politics in that were fairly good. | ||
| Albeit, the Marvel movies are like kindergarten grade entertainment. | ||
| Captain America's war propaganda was created to fight Nazis and get people riled up about World War II, and keep that in mind forever moving forward that that was war propaganda. | ||
| Well, I want to make this point. | ||
| Part of why it's so instructive that it's Captain America is because the left has this fetish for projecting their values onto the people who fought the Second World War. | ||
| So they're always claiming that they're the ones fighting Nazi. | ||
| You'll see memes floating around of the brave young men storming Normandy and it says this is Antifa trying to fight Nazis. | ||
| I did a cartoon about this a while ago called fighting Nazis then verse now and what it was based on was this exact premise because my grandfather fought in the Second World War. | ||
| He played a very key role in ensuring that the officers at the Flossenberg concentration camp were caught and placed on trial. | ||
| He really had an incredible and harrowing tour. | ||
| And he would not use your pronouns. | ||
| I mean, this is not somebody who's going to, uh, or would comply with left-wing values. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| I made a whole cartoon about this point, but it's so funny to me that the left wants to claim that they own these people, even though if they were alive today and those who are alive today from that era don't agree with them at all, if they even think about them. | ||
| Yeah, I wonder if the speed at which we're communicating, the bifurcation of culture, it's leading to some say peaceful divorce, perhaps, because of the internet. | ||
| It could be something we haven't seen in the past, or civil war maybe. | ||
| But I just don't see how there's any reconciliation with the modern iteration of the left sphere of influence because the things they believe are just not aligned with reality. | ||
| I think it comes to the individual clearing, like slowing down their thoughts. | ||
| Because if your mind is moving super rapidly with the information, like a car traveling so fast on the road, a minor variation in the wheel will send that thing flying off course. | ||
| And the same thing happens to your brain if it's on overload activity all the time. | ||
| So it's really... | ||
| I don't think there's a top-down solution. | ||
| It'll be up to people to control themselves and let this stuff flow past them while still acknowledging it. | ||
| Are we doomed? | ||
| Or is it going to be alright? | ||
| I don't think we're doomed. | ||
| I think both. | ||
| I think things could get bad for a while. | ||
| I think things might get bad for a while. | ||
| I wouldn't say that we're doomed, though. | ||
| I mean, it's a pretty easy prediction to say that things are going to get bad for a while, but also in the long run, I don't know how things are going to turn out. | ||
| My mentality is very much like, I've got to be honest with everybody, You know, I had it bad most of my life, you know, up until my mid-twenties when, you know, for the next few years, my career started taking off and things started generally improving. | ||
| And so for me, my attitude's always kind of just been like, yo, all of this is icing on the cake. | ||
| You know, if people were unwilling to fight for their values and everything fell apart, the food shortages get really bad and I wake up, you know, in six months homeless and with no food, I'd be like, oh, you know, been there, done that. | ||
| I'm not really worried about it. | ||
| Granted, I don't have a family, so a lot of people who do would be much more terrified of something like that. | ||
| If tomorrow all the things were gone, I'd work for all my life. | ||
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| If you had to start again, just your children and your wife? | ||
| Oh, here we go. | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| Ain't my luck to start! | ||
| No, I just, there's a, I think it was Zuby who said this, that if you took all of the property from every single person, and then gave everyone, you know, $10,000, the people who were rich before would become rich, and the people who were poor before would become poor. | ||
| This is a hard conversation. | ||
| Maybe we can go into it on the after show, because it really comes down to eugenics. | ||
| This concept of eugenics, where it came from, and what it all means. | ||
| The fact that people even think of themselves as an elite class, and that there's everybody else. | ||
| Or the plebeians, is what the Romans called them. | ||
| And then there's the central intelligentsia. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Is that real? | ||
| Like you just stated. | ||
| A lot of things are real. | ||
| A lot of things that are unseemly are real. | ||
| But not everything that's real is... | ||
| Not everything that's true is capital T truth like I think that one of the problems this kind of comes back to the ideology dogma thing we we sometimes take observations that we make or measurements that we make things that are true and because you're not allowed to say a lot of things that are true in our culture right now it's it's Subversive to even think about them and the result the result of that is that whenever you do engage with those ideas you're engaging in them in the worst place as possible with people who are like Probably taking them to the furthest extreme and it becomes easy for us to so, you know Like you become a eugenicist in your mind like Hitler was in the 20s and 30s or something, which is Obviously a grave evil thing. | ||
| I mean, it's it's obviously true It's an obvious truth that simply because something is generally true, it's not specifically true. | ||
| That because, for example, Asian Americans have a higher IQ than white Americans, just to avoid any of the races you're not allowed to talk about. | ||
| There's nothing racist about talking ill of Asians, right? | ||
| So, Asians, statistically, higher IQ than white people. | ||
| The smartest person in the world could be a white person. | ||
| And it would still be true that statistically Asians have a higher IQ. | ||
| So you end up in this situation where the general truth can sometimes blind us to the specific truth. | ||
| And I think that's where a lot of tribalism, a lot of isms come from that aren't good. | ||
| You get into the nuance of what does it mean to be Asian? | ||
| Are you referring specifically to Southeast Asian? | ||
| Are you referring to the Philippines? | ||
| Are you referring to India? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| And then those things all play a role. | ||
| I think the problem with stereotypes is that people hear the word Asian and they exclude Indians. | ||
| But particularly in Europe, you say the word Asian and they include Indians. | ||
| So we're not even necessarily hitting at the same points. | ||
| Yeah, I agree. | ||
| I'm only making the point that when we talk about these difficult issues like eugenics, are some people born with advantages? | ||
| Of course they are. | ||
| People are born with high IQs and people are born with low IQs. | ||
| More people are born with low IQs than people are born with high IQs. | ||
| One of the challenges in ordering society is not judging people based on those generalities. | ||
| But that doesn't mean that there aren't specific No, I couldn't. | ||
| that people are different. | ||
| There are people born with advantages. | ||
| You can leave IQ out of it. | ||
| IQ is the hardest thing to talk about because everyone is the smartest person they know. | ||
| It's just your ability to perceive someone smarter than you is capped by your own intelligence. | ||
| Love it. | ||
| But it's very easy for me to acknowledge that like LeBron James is better than basketball than I am. | ||
| And you could say, if I practiced really hard, I could be better than, no, I couldn't. | ||
| If I practiced really hard, I could be better than me, But no amount of practice will make me better than LeBron. | ||
| If LeBron didn't practice, and I did practice, he would still be better than me. | ||
| Now, if we played a game of... LeBron and I play a game of pig. | ||
| And instead of playing pig, we just play puh. | ||
| And LeBron says, whoever wins this game of puh, you know, gets a million dollars. | ||
| I might win the million dollars. | ||
| Every now and then, he misses. | ||
| And every now and then, I don't. | ||
| But if you make it pig, his chances go up exponentially. | ||
| If you make it pig, they go up even radically. | ||
| If you make it horse, I will never win statistically ever. | ||
| There's no world where I will ever win that. | ||
| He has those advantages. | ||
| There's no question about those advantages. | ||
| Let's go to Super Chats! | ||
| If you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe to the channel, share the show with your friends if you really do like it and you want to help us out, and go to TimCast.com. | ||
| Sign up to become a member to support our work, and we're going to have a members-only segment going live on the website around 11 or so p.m. | ||
| You're not going to want to miss it. | ||
| It'll be fun. | ||
| But let's read some Super Chats. | ||
| Alright, we got Rilo who says, Applebee's is celebrating inflation because it kills competition and makes people poor. | ||
| They note that more poor people means more disposable employees they can underpay and overwork. | ||
| Applebee's hates you. | ||
| I'm not familiar with that. | ||
| Is that something specific? | ||
| I didn't hear anything about that. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe this guy just got fired by Applebee's. | ||
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Maybe. | |
| What if they just like really don't like Applebee's? | ||
| Yeah, I don't know what would happen. | ||
| I'm going to Google this now. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Patriot American says happy birthday to my fellow Irish-American brother, Seamus. | ||
| Oh, thank you. | ||
| Keep up the good work, bro. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Very kind. | ||
| Oh, you guys are too nice. | ||
| I worked really, really hard to make a cake for Seamus. | ||
| He did. | ||
| He did. | ||
| It was insulting. | ||
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Of course. | |
| And it was honoring his Irish heritage. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| I drew gold coins. | ||
| That's what the Redskins said. | ||
| We put shamrocks on it. | ||
| And I wrote McBirthday. | ||
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He did, yeah. | |
| Birthday. | ||
| That means son of birthday. | ||
| It's just racist. | ||
| Everyone here is Irish. | ||
| This is a great way of looking back at the problem with stereotyping. | ||
| If I take a shot and he takes a shot, statistically, I could become the alcoholic or he could become the alcoholic. | ||
| But if there's three shots... | ||
| Well, also, I'm a writer too, so like Irish plus writer, I'm in even worse shape. | ||
| Game over. | ||
| I just, I think the joke's funny because Seamus is an American guy from the south side of Chicago who we're constantly calling him. | ||
| I spent most of my life in the suburbs, let's be real. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I can't take all that street credit. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Crayson says, it's not just about building culture. | ||
| You have a culture and history already. | ||
| You need to make people proud of the history and culture they already are a part of, not forget it and do something else. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| I think it's true. | ||
| I don't think that's enough, but that is a major part of it, and it's a part that we haven't talked about much tonight, so I think it's good that they pointed it out. | ||
| American Advocate says, I'm so proud of The Daily Wire. | ||
| They're not afraid of conversation or debate. | ||
| The biggest cojones in America. | ||
| I'm all in. | ||
| Latinos for America. | ||
| There you go. | ||
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Wow. | |
| That's amazing. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| We take it as a responsibility, but I'll also say we're just having a good time, too, and I think that that's part of what differentiates The Daily Wire, is that we enjoy what we do. | ||
| Man, my thing is, like, have fun. | ||
| If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong. | ||
| All right, Hayden says, Jeremy, I'm from the Lub area. | ||
| Thanks for what you've built. | ||
| You hate credentialism. | ||
| My question is, how would you recommend somebody get started in learning about video production? | ||
| Working at Daily Wire has become a goal. | ||
| Is SPC an option? | ||
| They've gone woke. | ||
| Yep, I went to SPC for a period of time. | ||
| I didn't ever go to a university. | ||
| I didn't get a college degree. | ||
| I didn't even get an associate's degree. | ||
| And I failed at everything that I did in life basically until I was 35 I'd never made more than $25,000 in a year in personal income I had businesses that made more money than that I just paid it to other people and and didn't understand how to pay myself and as a result I had disconnected my own My own personal success from the success of these entities. | ||
| I'd created sort of a false and Crippling moral paradigm for myself and obviously now I'm spectacularly wealthy and people bow to me and call me So my first thing, as a guy from the Lubbock area, as a guy who went to SPC, I just want to encourage you that it doesn't matter what advantages you start life with, it doesn't matter what advantages come your way, you can make of life what you will. | ||
| You can set your mind to something and you can go accomplish it. | ||
| That's not true for everyone and every place. | ||
| It is true if you're born in this country. | ||
| The proof is all around you. | ||
| Opportunity is everywhere. | ||
| You just have to learn, grow, challenge yourself, never be complacent, don't stand still, don't be risk-averse. | ||
| If you want security, you can have it, but if you want the kind of success that you're describing, you actually have to go risk for it. | ||
| Now, as to how does one get the small steps, how does one get into video production, how does one get even a job at the Daily Wire, I think that there's no substitute in life for doing. | ||
| There are those in life who do, and there are those who do not. | ||
| And this is my famed Jeremy's Doers and Do-Noters speech. | ||
| No one has ever been happy to receive it. | ||
| No one is ever satisfied. | ||
| They'll say, how do you do thus and such? | ||
| I give this speech. | ||
| They always think there's more. | ||
| There isn't more. | ||
| There are those who do, and there are those who do not. | ||
| When I moved to Hollywood, I thought, I'm a smart guy. | ||
| If I just met Steven Spielberg, and he could tell me how to make a movie, I could take that and go make a movie. | ||
| And then it was only after years of struggling in Hollywood that I came to realize that Steven Spielberg, if I did get that meeting, what would he tell me? | ||
| He would say, oh, you want to know how to make a movie? | ||
| No problem. | ||
| Find a book written by a famous author that you really like that sold a lot of copies. | ||
| Give him a million dollars for a two-year option on that book. | ||
| Then, go take meetings with 10 of the best writers in the world, pay one of them a million dollars to write a draft. | ||
| You won't like the draft, so you'll pay the second guy on the list half a million dollars to rewrite the draft. | ||
| When you have a draft that you like, call your buddy Tom Cruise and say, would you like to play the lead in this? | ||
| He'll say, yeah, and I'll be over for burgers this weekend. | ||
| Now you've got him. | ||
| Go to your business partners at your own studio that you own, have them architect the foreign sales deal piece of this, and then go to the major studio with whom you have a direct distribution deal and trigger it, and they'll release it. | ||
| Now you can make your movie. | ||
| What good would that information do me if I had it? | ||
| The real question you want to ask is, Steven Spielberg, how could I make a movie? | ||
| And the answer to that would be, oh, I have no idea. | ||
| Steven Spielberg knows less about how you could be successful than anyone. | ||
| What you should do instead is realize that how did Steven Spielberg himself did it? | ||
| Well, he just did it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He was a those who do, not a those who do not. | ||
| This is what I tell people, because one of the most frustrating things I hear all the time is either, Tim, you're able to do things because you have money. | ||
| And I'm like, it's the other way around. | ||
| It's because I did things I have money. | ||
| And people saying, if only I had money, I could do thing. | ||
| And I'm like, that's just not true. | ||
| I've seen it. | ||
| I worked for Fusion. | ||
| They put hundreds of millions of dollars into nothing, flushed down the toilet. | ||
| Money doesn't make things happen. | ||
| People do. | ||
| So whenever people are like, how do I do something? | ||
| How do I do? | ||
| I'm like, you just do it. | ||
| Like, how do I film these videos? | ||
| I don't have a computer. | ||
| I don't have cameras. | ||
| I don't have all that stuff. | ||
| Like, do you have a phone? | ||
| You do. | ||
| Most people do. | ||
| If you don't, truth be told, maybe you don't. | ||
| But phones, you can get an Android phone for no joke, like 20 to 30 bucks. | ||
| Not a good one. | ||
| You can get a webcam for 20 to 30 bucks. | ||
| You can go stand in a street corner in any major city and hold up a sign saying, once I get 20 bucks, I'm going to buy a webcam to start a show. | ||
| That's all I need. | ||
| And in 10 minutes, I guarantee you someone will walk over and hand you 20 bucks. | ||
| That is American privilege because we do that. | ||
| I'm not saying it's the best thing to do, but how about this? | ||
| You go work for a fast food restaurant. | ||
| You work until you save up a couple hundred bucks to buy a computer and a camera, and then you can start making videos. | ||
| And then you just have to earn it. | ||
| You know, the idea that people are gonna watch your content? | ||
| It's gotta be earned. | ||
| You know, I was just talking about this band I knew a long time ago. | ||
| in a we were driving in a car we were listening to this old music and you know someone said | ||
| what happened to him I'm like they broke up because the lead singer was like if my music | ||
| was so good how come I'm not famous and then I was like bro you can't just write a song | ||
| and then think you're going to be famous like you've got to work for 10 years you've got | ||
| to keep playing you've got to do you got to put in so much work and effort I got started | ||
| doing all of this stuff technically well before I was 25 because I was working at nonprofits | ||
| I was involved in politics. | ||
| I was reading the news all day every day since I was 15. | ||
| So when Occupy Wall Street started and I went to cover it, I already knew a lot about what had been going on. | ||
| This allowed me to, you know, it's all one thing after another. | ||
| But let's read some more Super Chats. | ||
| I love that story, and to me, nothing we've talked about tonight is more important than this. | ||
| We've hit on it in several different ways, but this idea that you're just a victim of your circumstances is the most crippling—the victim mentality is the most crippling ideology that has ever been unleashed on an individual. | ||
| You again, not everywhere. There are people born in true hardship around the world in this country. You can do so. I | ||
| love Gary Vaynerchuk for this reason. I love that on Saturdays he goes out and buys crap at garage sales and | ||
| then sells it and shows that you anyone could have done what he just did. | ||
| You know the story of the guy who traded the paperclip for a house, right? | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And but several people have replicated this in various ways. | ||
| A guy took a paperclip and he traded it up and up and on Craigslist or wherever the story was. | ||
| Paperclip for a pen, pen for a notepad, notepad for a pack of pens. | ||
| Eventually he got to a lawnmower, then a bike, then a broken motorcycle. | ||
| Eventually it was a boat, and then sooner or later he traded it for an old house, got the deed from a paperclip. | ||
| The difference between a piece of paper and a million dollar screenplay is what comes out of your brain and goes onto that page. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Let's read some more. | ||
| All right, David Short says, hey Tim, just bought my first 10 chicks. | ||
| Please ask Jeremy where the razors are made. | ||
| That's a non sequitur. | ||
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Yeah, it is. | |
| Our razors are made in China. | ||
| We source them through Finland. | ||
| There are no razors made in America. | ||
| Razors are not made in America. | ||
| One of the reasons it took us a year to get our razor out is because we were trying to source razors. | ||
| It's a very challenging thing. | ||
| A razor is a thing that cuts people. | ||
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Yes. | |
| So a lot of people don't want to make them. | ||
| There are straight razors made in America. | ||
| There aren't cartridge razors made in America. | ||
| We haven't talked about this much publicly. | ||
| A lot of people will write into me all the time and say, because I'm conservative, and they'll be like, you make your leftist tears tumblers in China. | ||
| I'm canceling. | ||
| And I always think, you wrote that on a computer or a phone that was made in China. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I don't understand. | ||
| It's not—I didn't decide to export all of America's manufacturing jobs overseas. | ||
| That happened when I was a child. | ||
| This is the world that I live in. | ||
| I want to change that world, but the reality of how to change that world is it takes | ||
| time, success, and money. | ||
| Just our Leftist Tears tumbler is a great example. | ||
| We have priced out what it would cost to manufacture the tumblers in America. | ||
| Just the equipment would cost $20 million. | ||
| So the cost of a tumbler would go from $20 per tumbler not to people say you just do it to save a few cents or a few bucks no no no the cost of the tumbler would go from twenty dollars to two hundred dollars per tumbler in raw material like or which means like it is it's not impossible it is it is practically impossible it is not actually it's prohibitively | ||
| Now, will we ever make our razors in America? | ||
| Will we ever make our tumblers in America? | ||
| Well, I'm telling you what it would cost to make the tumblers in America, because I know. | ||
| Because we're always researching how to change the paradigm where all of our manufacturing is overseas. | ||
| We do think that we have a constructive role to play in that, but it's a role that one can only play out of success. | ||
| We've talked to our friends over at Black Rifle Coffee, for example, about buying tumblr making equipment together starting a joint venture it's going to it takes real resources it takes real success to make these razors in america four days ago i did not own a razor company today i've sold 25 000 razor subscriptions like that to do that requires | ||
| Buying razors where they already make razors. | ||
| If we sell a million razor subscriptions, we'll build a razor company in America and we'll change things. | ||
| And by the way, if we get a million subscribers, it won't just be our razors that are made in America. | ||
| Once we build the infrastructure to make razors in America, other companies will come source razors from us. | ||
| So it's not that I'm opposed to the where is this made question. | ||
| I get a little bent out of shape about this because I think people don't really understand how much we have exported overseas in terms of | ||
| manufacturing. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| How much money and time it's going to take to fix that. | ||
| And to think that, well, you shouldn't be able to start, if you're a real American, you wouldn't even start a | ||
| company until you could make the razors in America, | ||
| which just means that you can't make anything. | ||
| I want to eventually manufacture things in America, which we will do in success. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I love that people think, you know, a lot of people I saw on Twitter were saying, | ||
| like, I can't believe the Daily Wire would do this. | ||
| And I'm just like, do you, I wonder if, do you think that you get like the Daily Wire guys aren't thinking about that when, when they, you know, why are they making that in China? | ||
| It's like, I'm pretty sure they know what people are going to say if they do and why they have to. | ||
| Yeah, like these microphones were made in China, and these laptops were made in China, that gorilla was made in China. | ||
| Like, it's going to take time to change that. | ||
| Maybe there's a gorilla on there? | ||
| Huh, let's see what he says here. | ||
| Yeah, he's definitely Chinese. | ||
| Well, this one has, is that Chinese on the packaging? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| This is a gift from Luke Rudkowski. | ||
| That is Chinese. | ||
| Luke Rudkowski sent a birthday present made in China! | ||
| I'm dead against it. | ||
| Is his mug made in China? | ||
| No, we tried. | ||
| Yeah, we should change it. | ||
| Yeah, this mug was made in China. | ||
| But it's a generational work to change it. | ||
| You want to know the craziest thing? | ||
| Tell me. | ||
| How they make skateboards. | ||
| Wood from Canada gets shipped to the U.S., then shipped to China, turned into a skateboard, and shipped back to the U.S. | ||
| That sounds like the stupidest thing I've ever heard. | ||
| A lot of people are taking a cut on that. | ||
| Chinese labor is so cheap that it's cheaper to ship all of that wood all over the | ||
| place than just make it here in the U.S. | ||
| It's also the EPA. Very famously, Steve Jobs said, only a year or two before he died, he said, | ||
| if we had not been able to make the iPhone, if I had been required to make the iPhone in America, | ||
| just the process of innovating around the class for the screen on the iPhone. | ||
| He said, I don't remember what iPhone we were on when Steve Jobs died, iPhone 6 or iPhone 6S or something. | ||
| He said, we would not be at iPhone 1 yet. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If I had to make it in America. | ||
| And that's because environmental laws, and you could say environmental laws that Steve Jobs supported. | ||
| I'm not, I'm not giving you a Steve Jobs hagiography. | ||
| I'm just telling you, if a guy worth billions and billions and billions of dollars couldn't manufacture in America, Have a little grace for those of us who are trying to start things from the ground up. | ||
| Mike Allen says, if you joined late and are listening at 1.5x speed to catch up, Jeremy sounds like Ben Shapiro. | ||
| Oh, that's the nicest thing anyone's ever said about me. | ||
| Alright, Josh OhMyGosh says, how the frick can I get an acting job with The Daily Wire? | ||
| I need a job I can enjoy. | ||
| I'm an entertainer and I can't stand Hollywood. | ||
| Please let Jeremy know, I will send my resume to him. | ||
| Yeah, look, we need talent. | ||
| One of the challenges in our work is because we're very front-facing, because we're very public, a lot of people ask us for jobs, and obviously you can't hire everyone who asks you for a job, but we are looking for real talent. | ||
| We're looking for real talent in our entertainment business. | ||
| We're looking for real talent in the manufacturing and distribution of consumer goods business, which Suddenly we have. | ||
| We're looking for real executive and leadership and management talent at The Daily Wire. | ||
| Scaling a business is incredibly hard. | ||
| Everything about being successful is hard. | ||
| There's a great line in an episode of Breaking Bad when the villain is making soup and he says to Walter White, you must learn to be rich. | ||
| To be poor, anyone can manage. | ||
| And it's true. Everyone knows how to fail. You have to learn how to succeed, and you have to keep learning how to | ||
| succeed. | ||
| Success can lead you to destruction just as quickly as failure can. | ||
| And so at every turn as we grow this business, we need talent. | ||
| So please, you know, reach at careers at Daily Wire. | ||
| Send us your resume. Send us your, send us your, whether you're in entertainment or in business or whatever. We need | ||
| good talent. | ||
| When it comes to acting, I feel like the industry's changed and that the resume headshot thing's done now. | ||
| What I want to see is that, and I want to see the real. | ||
| I want to see video of them. | ||
| Yeah, go do something. | ||
| Your story is that you failed up until you were 35, is that what it was? | ||
| Like you weren't making a lot of money, and then all of a sudden you started being successful? | ||
| Started the daily wire. | ||
| Actually, it was the first time that I ever made more than $25,000 in a year was at the precursor company that Ben and I had called Truth Revolt. | ||
| And I got a nice salary, and at that time, PragerU started paying me a nice salary as well. | ||
| Not a salary, but a nice consulting fee. | ||
| And so I was suddenly making six figures for the first time in my life as a 35-year-old man. | ||
| And it really is amazing how just that change of mind that Ben and my friend Frank helped me achieve unlocked all of the actual power of economic incentive. | ||
| And between 35 and 43, I flew here on a private plane to do your show today. | ||
| Wow! | ||
| So you're the 1%, and were you shocked when you realized the laws limiting how you could spend money once you got large sums of money? | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| I bring this up because I can't tell you how many conversations I've had with people when they say things like, Hey, why don't you just do this or that with your company? | ||
| I'm like, that's illegal. | ||
| And they're like, what? | ||
| Right. | ||
| And I'm like, you can't just do that with money. | ||
| There's limitations, there's financial limitations, there's laws, there's tax restrictions, there's tax holding requirements, all this crazy stuff. | ||
| You can't just, you can't just, you can't even just give someone money. | ||
| No, you can't give people money. | ||
| Everybody's like, if you gave me a million, if I gave you a million dollars, I can't give you a million dollars, even if I had a million dollars to give you. | ||
| The other thing people don't, that they don't understand is that when you are in a rapid ascent, the way that people of means are taxed is different. | ||
| I don't pay taxes on April 15th. | ||
| I pay taxes every quarter. | ||
| And those taxes are based on projections of earnings that the IRS has rules about. | ||
| And so there have been times over these last seven years where I was making an incredible amount of money on paper. | ||
| But I was giving so much money to the government that I didn't know how I was going to pay my mortgage. | ||
| It's unbelievable how they take that money from you. | ||
| And if you make a lot of money in one year or one quarter, and then all of a sudden COVID hits and revenues drop dramatically, they're like, we still expect your projections. | ||
| You've got to pay X amount of dollars. | ||
| You've got to pay as a percentage of last year's Success. | ||
| Well, the government's job is to control the economy and giving it to the Federal Reserve is blatant disrespect. | ||
| If you want to represent me and you want my tax money, you better represent me and not outsource the representation to a private company. | ||
| Sorry, but I want to try and get more Super Chats in. | ||
| CD Stein says, ask Jeremy if they would consider also starting a book publishing company that includes comics since the rise of insane wokeness in the big two of comics. | ||
| Yeah, well we have started a book publishing company, DW Publishing. | ||
| Our first book is with Sgt. | ||
| Manningly and is out now. | ||
| We have a couple of other really good books that are going to come out. | ||
| Our first release was actually What is a Walrus by Matt Walsh, which was a children's board book, but our first adult publication is Manningly's book. | ||
| We signed a great book deal with Jonathan Isaac, the NBA player, which we're really proud about. | ||
| And that guy stood up when other people were kneeling, and we're proud to be in business with him. | ||
| And we have, only in the last four weeks, we have seen the first boards for a graphic novel that we're working on. | ||
| So this is something that we're pursuing. | ||
| We're not pursuing it with the same sort of aggressive vigor that we are our entertainment play. | ||
| It's a place where I would say we're testing I have a really great idea for a children's book. | ||
| It's not a hill we're charging, it's a place where we're testing, but obviously we think | ||
| the creation of IP, the creation of comics, the creation of graphic novels, the creation | ||
| of fiction, you know, again, one of the things that makes us different from other conservative | ||
| companies even in publishing is that we're not just going to publish a bunch of nonfiction. | ||
| I have a really great idea for a children's book. | ||
| It's called The Donkey Who Cried Bear. | ||
| It's about a family, a village of donkeys, and one donkey keeps screaming, the bears | ||
| The bears are controlling our donkey president! | ||
| You know? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But then what happens at the end? | ||
| I'm actually kidding. | ||
| Tim, what happens at the end? | ||
| Tim, I thought we were working on this. | ||
| The bears invade! | ||
| An elephant charges in. | ||
| What's the cost model for Daily Wire right now for someone that wants to subscribe to the network? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, head over to dailywire.com slash subscribe and become a member. | ||
| There's a couple of different tiers. | ||
| Whoa, whoa, whoa. | ||
| Use promo code TIMPOOL to get 25% off. | ||
| Use promo code TIMPOOL to get 25% off. | ||
| Is that a real promo code? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I would like to say to any of my staff listening, please quickly turn on a promo code called TIMPOOL. | ||
| No, no, because Daily Wire had us sponsor two of our shows this month. | ||
| Oh, that's right. | ||
| There is a promo code TIMPOOL. | ||
| 25% off. | ||
| Heck yeah. | ||
| And then do you get access to all the movies on the network and all the graphic novels when you subscribe? | ||
| Yes, well, there are no graphic novels yet in existence. | ||
| But yes, you get The Ben Shapiro Show, Candace Owen Show, Michael Knowles, if you want him, Matt Walsh. | ||
| Also, Shut In, things like that. | ||
| You get the feature film Shut In, The Hyperions, Run, Hide, Fight. | ||
| So truly like a Netflix, similar to a Netflix model at this state. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So we have a question here from Uncle... But instead of having every movie ever created, we have Run, Hide, Fight, Shut In, and The Hyperions. | ||
| Hyperions is out. | ||
| The Hyperions is out. | ||
| I definitely want to watch that. | ||
| It's fabulous. | ||
| Uncle D says, will the Daily Wire make cartoons and a streaming service? | ||
| We won't need Disney, Hulu, or Netflix. | ||
| Well, we know you're doing a streaming service, but are you doing cartoons? | ||
| Well, it was reported today that Ben Shapiro said that Daily Wire is going to move into kids' content. | ||
| I had to call Ben and say, Ben, don't say things like that! | ||
| We're not ready yet! | ||
| We're not ready yet! | ||
| But it is true that we're in development on kids' content, and it's definitely our hope that in 2023 we can bring some great kids' content to the market. | ||
| Spidgebee says, you need to jam with Jeremy. | ||
| He's quite an accomplished musician. | ||
| Ah, well, I'm not... I am quite accomplished. | ||
| What I'm not is very good. | ||
| I say I'm accomplished because Smokey Mike and the God King played to a sold-out house at the Mother Church of Country Music, the Ryman Auditorium. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| But you should never mistake that for talent, which I have very fleeting levels of talent. | ||
| Michael Knowles, he's really good. | ||
| Michael's a great guitar player. | ||
| Yeah, he sings too. | ||
| I cannot believe I'm hearing compliments of Michael Knowles right now. | ||
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It's unbelievable. | |
| Disturbing. | ||
| Only in the context of Smokey Mike and the God King will I say anything nice. | ||
| Only his alter ego gets a compliment. | ||
| Well, it's his group. | ||
| He's got to compliment himself. | ||
| It's true, it's true. | ||
| Tough break. | ||
| All right, Andrew Lantz says, God King, I've been a DW All Access member for as long as possible. | ||
| Get with Seamus and give us our Freedom Tunes animated series already. | ||
| I, when I sat down, Seamus said, you know, what would you like to talk about at our meeting in two weeks? | ||
| And I said, I honestly, God didn't know we had a meeting in two weeks. | ||
| That was actually really, really funny. | ||
| But that is apparently a thing that's happening. | ||
| I couldn't, I'm stoked about it. | ||
| I love freedom tunes. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Ben Shapiro shooting lasers out of his eyes was a turning point. | ||
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Honestly, gang, okay, it's something I actually do every now and again, so the fact that he put it in a cartoon is really revolutionary. | |
| People need to know. | ||
| Ben Shapiro reacting, uh, Freedom Tunes' Ben Shapiro reacting to real Ben Shapiro reacting to Freedom Tunes was good. | ||
| Yeah, so Ben Shapiro reacted to my cartoon of him, and then I did a cartoon of cartoon Ben Shapiro reacting to real Ben Shapiro reacting to the cartoon. | ||
| Or Ben Shapiro's Family Thanksgiving, was it? | ||
| That was one of the best. | ||
| Family Thanksgiving. | ||
| I love that one. | ||
| He tweeted it. | ||
| It's funny because right after I made it, I put it on Twitter and then he retweeted it and said, this is a documentary. | ||
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Did he really? | |
| Yeah, he said this is a documentary. | ||
| I tweeted the link at him and he posted the link and said, this is a documentary. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| I have been to a family dinner or two at Ben's home with his entire family and it is not unlike. | ||
| I knew it. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Chris Stark says, Tim and crew, you should read Milton Friedman, Unraveled by Murray Rothbard. | ||
| Oh yes, Rothbard. | ||
| It helps to explain his role as to why we are in the current economic situation, and some well worth it. | ||
| Very smart man. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| Mindfury says the metaverse. | ||
| Remember Demolition Man from the mid-90s? | ||
| Adult activity was banned and lovemaking required a VR headset? | ||
| How prescient in retrospect. | ||
| Prescient has never sounded more seedy than the way you just said it. | ||
| Yeah, I don't like that. | ||
| I don't feel good about it. | ||
| All right, Roberto Lara says, Lex had the same discussion with Mark Zuckerberg about how we'll represent ourselves on the metaverse. | ||
| A recommendable podcast. | ||
| You get to see the android Mark versus the robot Lex. | ||
| That is interesting. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| PHGamer says, OMG, at Tim, you need to watch Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex. | ||
| It was eerie where it went, but there was an episode where a stalker put on a cybersuit body of her lover and tried to kill him. | ||
| I have seen Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex, but it's been, I think, 20 years. | ||
| Or, you know, close to that, so I should rewatch it. | ||
| But, amazing series. | ||
| I love that opening song by Origa as well. | ||
| Good music. | ||
| Alright, Matt R. says, If you like sharp things in a business that doesn't hate anyone, try my brother's mall shop, animearmory.square.site. | ||
| They have a sharp Zelda prop for you. | ||
| We have the, you saw the Master Sword? | ||
| I saw the Master Sword. | ||
| I wanna sharpen it. | ||
| Well, yeah, you've got to sharpen it. | ||
| But I don't think it's made of a real material. | ||
| I don't know how you're going to kill Ganon with a dull master sword. | ||
| Silver arrows. | ||
| It's magic, I suppose. | ||
| Eric Conson says, Ian, quote, I'm a huge Star Trek TNG fan. | ||
| Doesn't know what best of both worlds is shaking my head. | ||
| Well, true. | ||
| I want to, I just want to, in defense of Ian, it's been so long since I've actually done a watch through of TNG. | ||
| It's been, I think like seven years that I probably am going to, you know, I've messed up names as well. | ||
| I went through like a year phase where I watched every episode night after night or like a five or six month thing, but I didn't catch the names of any of them. | ||
| I'm old and watched them in real time. | ||
| Oh, I mean, I watched him when I was a little kid. | ||
| My dad would put it on and I'd sit on the couch. | ||
| You saw them all in real time? | ||
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Mm-hmm. | |
| Oh, wow. | ||
| Yeah, I very vividly remember I was on a band trip. | ||
| I was a saxophone player, and I was in the high school band, and we were down in Austin, Texas, in an Embassy Suites, and everybody was gonna go out and hang out for the night, but it was the night of the final series finale of The Next Generation, and so I stayed inside and watched Picard and Q mix it up, and everybody else went out. | ||
| Q's a great character, man. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All right, BN says, I've heard Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was a confirmed atheist who hated organized religion. | ||
| The acronym B.O.R.G. | ||
| stands for Bigoted Organized Religious Groups. | ||
| Any thoughts? | ||
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Sad. | |
| I don't believe, I don't believe the B.O.R.G. | ||
| thing. | ||
| But he wasn't, Roddenberry wasn't atheist. | ||
| Yeah, I think that's right. | ||
| In the original series, they're less heavy handed about it, but then in Next Gen, Picard says some things which are like more overtly secular. | ||
| But bigoted wasn't used as frequently in that context back then as it is today. | ||
| So I'm not sure that I believe that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All right. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Mixed up says Jeremy asked him to sing a song on the members only segment. | ||
| Truth be told, I thought it was going to say something about Jeremy singing. | ||
| Because you have a hit song, I think, right? | ||
| Together again. | ||
| Sing us the song, you're the Beanie Man. | ||
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| What? | ||
| There you go. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| All right, we'll grab a couple more here. | ||
| Actually, Tigre says, when Dallas Saunier was on... Am I pronouncing that right? | ||
| Saunier. | ||
| Saunier was on Timcast IRL. | ||
| He said, Daily Wire needs to break into the sci-fi genre. | ||
| Jeremy, would you prefer to read a treatment sooner or a screenplay later? | ||
| I have studied up on your stuff and have something I think fits the Daily Wire. | ||
| Yeah, one of the real challenges is how to take submissions. | ||
| You know, when you talk about how we make a lot of money and there are all these rules about how we can spend it. | ||
| The rules around copyright and pitches, unsolicited in particular pitches, are so absurd. | ||
| If you send a screenplay to me, I will not be able to read it legally. | ||
| If you mail it to me, I will not be able to open the mail. | ||
| If you email it to me, I will have to delete it without opening it and show my attorney that I've deleted it. | ||
| Because the studios for years and years and years have paid settlement money to people who say You know Jurassic Park that was my I had the idea that we should make a movie with dinosaurs in it 24 years ago And I pitched it to a guy who at that time worked in the concession stand at an AMC theater or whatever and and that's a very lucrative business and so I'll just tell you that for me One of the great stories of my life, this guy Roderick Taylor, the Falconer, who's had a bunch of songs. | ||
| He had seven records with David Geffen back in the 70s and 80s, and then he became a great screenwriter. | ||
| He wrote on TV, then he had a feature film with Jodie Foster called The Brave One, that you may recall. | ||
| And Rod told me this great story one time where his father was at a retirement community or something down in Florida and called him. | ||
| Hey dad, how's it going? | ||
| Rod, I need to put you on the phone with my friend. | ||
| You don't have any friends, Dad. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| No, no, my friend, my friend who works at the front desk of the old folks home. | ||
| All right, Dad, put him on the phone. | ||
| Guy gets on the phone and goes, Hey, I've got this great idea for a screenplay. | ||
| And Rod said, I don't need your idea. | ||
| I'm a professional writer. | ||
| It's basically he was, he was in Glengarry Glen Ross. | ||
| I don't, I'm a professional writer. | ||
| I have had every idea. | ||
| Ideas are not what's missing. | ||
| What's missing is execution. | ||
| And this is a great lesson. | ||
| Your screenplay may be terrific. | ||
| Your idea may be great. | ||
| It is all execution at every step, and I wish that I could shortcut for you how to get your screenplay to me, especially if it's well executed. | ||
| But you just have to keep executing, and we have to find ways around these really prohibitive laws that make it almost impossible, because if I hear your idea and it's bad, It still puts me in a position where I can't make a good version of that idea or some other idea that's sort of tangentially related to that idea 20 years from now when I don't even remember the bad idea that I've heard. | ||
| This can be fixed. | ||
| There are ways around it, but it is very challenging. | ||
| Can they recuse on the mail, I want no copyright for this? | ||
| Yes, and in fact, one of the things that we are talking about doing is trying to create some sort of digital submission, because in a digital submission, I can make you check the box before you submit. | ||
| This is not because I want to steal people's ideas. | ||
| Not in any way. | ||
| It's because Dallas Sonier has read 500 scripts for me in the last year. | ||
| 500 scripts. | ||
| Every idea, some germ of every idea has been present in one of those scripts. | ||
| So you just can't be in a situation where 20 years from now you make something. | ||
| There's no way you stole someone's idea, right? | ||
| You're just doing the work. | ||
| You can't create those liabilities. | ||
| Again, there are ways around it. | ||
| That's one way. | ||
| I've never cared much for ideas. | ||
| I've never viewed ideas as being the most important thing. | ||
| Like you're saying, execution is everything. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And I actually think it's kind of a cop-out too for people who are like, I had this idea and it's like, and you did nothing with it? | ||
| You didn't, yeah, exactly. | ||
| So I've been at a bunch of meetings and I learned this when I was in California from a lot of people, or this is what they told me is, What you're told when you're growing up poor is never share your ideas because they'll steal it. | ||
| And what they tell you when you're rich is share your idea with everyone you can to refine it. | ||
| Because if an investor hears it, they're going to hire you, the guy who thought of it, who has the vision and the passion to do it, to make it. | ||
| Because trying to find someone else to do it means you're going to have someone who's not driven to do it. | ||
| It's a mistake. | ||
| So for me, for the most part, I don't care if someone steals my ideas. | ||
| I'll talk about my ideas, whatever, with anybody. | ||
| I'm such a firm believer in execution that I'll give away any idea to. | ||
| Most people, even if they knew exactly how to do what you've done, even if it were replicable and you gave them the blueprint on how to replicate it, 99.9% of people wouldn't. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Even if you're paying them sometimes. | ||
| I'm blessed with an amazing team, but sometimes you can be working on a project with a group of people, or if any of you have worked a job with other people who just were not doing what they were supposed to, it's like you can get orders from people above you to do a specific thing and everyone drops the ball. | ||
| So the idea that people are just going to take your idea and make it for free is ridiculous. | ||
| Well, you know, so I've been in so many meetings pitching ideas and everything, and I've always just been like, here's all of my ideas. | ||
| None of them have ever been stolen. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The issue you'll learn when it comes to a lot of investors, too, because I've sat down with big investor meetings and they're like, you know, we've had conversations about how people are scared of their ideas being stolen. | ||
| And they were like, the idea that we'd invest in a random person we'd hire as opposed to the person who had the idea is kind of a crazy thought. | ||
| It can happen if a really dumb person, like a really undriven person who doesn't do anything, Puts two and two together like that is actually a good idea, but this person can't pull it off I'll tell you an amazing story when we met with The high net worth individual who gave us the the initial capital on which we built the daily wire Again it was a very small amount of money compared to the success that we've driven, but we needed it It was an instrumental moment in our money in our careers to go raise that money. | ||
| We're sitting in this giant like Bond villain Conference room you know I'm sure there was a shark button that they could have pressed if they didn't like our pitch and the high net worth individual was in the room and some | ||
| and some other members of his family were in the room and Ben and I were and Caleb were | ||
| giving our pitch and at a certain point one of one of the high net worth individuals | ||
| relatives leaned back in his chair and he said you know people pitch us ideas all the time a lot of people | ||
| have come in here and say they want to build a company that makes conservative content puts it on | ||
| the internet why should we give our money to you and Ben Shapiro did not miss not not half a | ||
| second he said I'm better than they are execution that's it um if you go before me and you say | ||
| I tell this people all the time when it comes to sales and pitches | ||
| You might get someone with no talent, but someone who speaks well. | ||
| No ability to build the machine, but they can tell you they can build the machine. | ||
| And who am I supposed to trust? | ||
| If someone comes to me and says, I want to build a 3D printer, I'm going to say, why should I fund this? | ||
| And if they say, well, look, to be honest, there are a lot of printers out there. | ||
| I think I can do a good job, but I will do my best. | ||
| I'm like, OK. | ||
| If some guy comes in and says, listen, you want a 3D printer? | ||
| I'm going to build it. | ||
| It'll be the best you've ever seen. | ||
| No one can do it better than me. | ||
| I'll be like, all right, well. | ||
| If you don't have the confidence yourself to do it, I can't invest in it. | ||
| With that being said, go to TimCast.com, have confidence in us, because we're going to have a members-only segment coming up around 11pm is when we'll publish it, so smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, and become a member at TimCast.com. | ||
| You can follow us at TimCast IRL basically everywhere. | ||
| You can follow me at TimCast. | ||
| Jeremy, did you want to shout anything out? | ||
| Well, first of all, I would promote TimCast, but everybody listening already knows about it. | ||
| But I really appreciate you guys having me on the show. | ||
| You know, if somebody wants to head over to IHateHarris.com, they'll get the shave of their life with a Jeremy's razor. | ||
| And we'd love to have your business over at DailyWire.com as well. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| I'm Seamus Coghlan. | ||
| I create an animated web series called Freedom Tunes. | ||
| If y'all want to go check that out, we released a cartoon today and one on Tuesday. | ||
| Go over there and subscribe, please. | ||
| And thank you very much. | ||
| Ian Crossland from iancrossland.net. | ||
| Seamus, can you roll me that red 100-sided? | ||
| You want me to roll you this dice? | ||
| You gonna risk it? | ||
| No, no, I'm not gonna. | ||
| I just, I don't want you to like roll a one in the show. | ||
| I have a gift for you. | ||
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It's this red 100-sided die. | |
| Oh my god, happy birthday to me! | ||
| That was a 20, my friend. | ||
| Happy birthday, homie! | ||
| You're a wonderful human being. | ||
| Love you, Seamus. | ||
| Jerry, thank you so much for coming, man. | ||
| Hey Seamus, Ian gave me a 120-sided dice. | ||
| Well, it's different. | ||
| Comparison, it really is the thief of joy. | ||
| I know, right? | ||
| That's terrible. | ||
| Anyway, I really appreciate that high note to go out on. | ||
| Thank you so much for coming, Jeremy. | ||
| I really appreciate what you guys are doing over at The Daily Wire. | ||
| We are having John Mattingly on in the future, and Andrew Klavan as well. | ||
| Very excited to do this crossover between the two different companies. | ||
| I am Sour Patch Lids. | ||
| You can follow me on Twitter at Minds.com. | ||
| We will see all of you over at TimCast.com. | ||
| Thanks for hanging out. |
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