April 11, 2022 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| We got a bunch of videos coming out of China. | ||
| Shanghai, apparently. | ||
| Several neighborhoods. | ||
| People are filming many other people on their balconies, screaming. | ||
| And it's not just screaming. | ||
| Some people are just screaming, but it's shrieking. | ||
| It's wailing. | ||
| There's a video of some woman screaming, throwing her food in some kind of lockdown center, banging on a bed. | ||
| There are horrifying videos coming out of China right now, and it's a combination of the extreme COVID lockdowns they're going through. | ||
| Wow, it's like a rerun of 2020. | ||
| But also, the food shortages. | ||
| We're hearing that there's serious food shortages in Shanghai. | ||
| There's a photo someone posted where they opened their refrigerator, pushed it onto their balcony, it's completely empty. | ||
| Now the scary thing about this is, a lot of people in America are They're biased. | ||
| There's an optimism bias, there's a normalcy bias. | ||
| It can't happen here, it can't, but you gotta understand, we're closer than people realize. | ||
| Maybe it won't happen. | ||
| I'm not telling you that the end is nigh and to scream or anything like that, but we're gonna look at some of these videos, and it's pretty scary stuff. | ||
| We got a bunch of other stories as well. | ||
| COVID lockdowns may be coming back to the U.S. | ||
| I know our good friend Luke Rudkowski had said to us, it's not gonna happen, they're gonna ease up. | ||
| I said it was gonna happen, but then when we started seeing all the lockdowns get lifted, I said, I guess I was wrong. | ||
| Philadelphia is reintroducing their mask mandates. | ||
| We're getting warnings again from the CDC that COVID is spiking. | ||
| So it's entirely possible we do get more of these mandates. | ||
| Plus, you know, we're going to make fun of our good friend Joe Biden, who, uh, what did he say? | ||
| He said tobacco companies wouldn't be able to sue prostitutes or something like that. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Something along those lines, or it could be a prostitute. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Thank you, Joe Biden. | ||
| Great. | ||
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All right. | |
| We got a lot to talk about. | ||
| Joining us today as we are live in Nashville, we are at the Daily Wire studios, but you know, we're actually in our mobile command center 2.0. | ||
| We've got John Rich. | ||
| How's it going, man? | ||
| Welcome to Nashville, guys. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Would you like to introduce yourself? | ||
| Yeah, John Rich. | ||
| You might know me from a duo called Big and Rich, which I think we have one of the silliest songs of all time called Save a Horse Riding. | ||
| If you've never heard it, go look it up. | ||
| It'll probably put a smile on your face. | ||
| I've been here a long time, written thousands of songs in this town, and I'm a son of a preacher, grew up in a trailer park in Texas, and I have a high school diploma. | ||
| Very cool. | ||
| That is my pedigree. | ||
| You can carry it around with you when you move back. | ||
| Nothing fancy here, but I'm a fan of you guys, fan of your show, and was excited when I saw you coming to town, so thanks for having me on the trailer. | ||
| Glad to have you. | ||
| I feel comfortable in trailers. | ||
| Yeah, perfect. | ||
| You look good in here. | ||
| Yeah, thanks man. | ||
| We got Seamus. | ||
| Yeah, thank you for coming by. | ||
| I'm Seamus Coghlan. | ||
| I run a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes. | ||
| We make cartoons, political satire. | ||
| I think you guys will Enjoy my stuff. | ||
| If you haven't checked it out, we're gonna be releasing a video tomorrow and Thursday. | ||
| Tomorrow's is about Joe Biden. | ||
| It's one I'm very excited to show you guys. | ||
| I think you're gonna love it. | ||
| Go there. | ||
| Subscribe. | ||
| Check it out. | ||
| Ian Crossland over here, and can you hear the rain? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| If not, that's cool, but if so, badass. | ||
| What's up, everybody? | ||
| Welcome to the show. | ||
| It's my first time in Nashville. | ||
| John, thanks for having me, man. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| It's making me feel comfortable already. | ||
| Yeah, everybody's coming to Nashville. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I hear it. | ||
| It seems like, yeah, I mean, when Daily Wire, I heard Daily Wire was coming to Nashville, I didn't know anybody really there at Daily Wire, but I just kind of blind called them and said, hey, when you finally get to Nashville, let me throw you a welcome to Nashville party at my house. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| And they said, well, we've got like 160 employees. | ||
| I said, well, the room I'm going to throw it in at my household is 200. | ||
| And it's got a bar and a stage. | ||
| And it's looking at downtown Asheville. | ||
| And we can bring the band in and rock your socks off. | ||
| They go, let's do it. | ||
| So I had Travis Tritt showed up and all these musicians showed up. | ||
| And I look down and there's Ben and Candice. | ||
| Jamming and banging their heads. | ||
| Yes, Ben banging his head on the front as Travis Tritt was ripping some Lynyrd Skynyrd. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Why don't you throw a party for us? | ||
| So I do want you guys to go hit my bar while you're here. | ||
| I have a bar downtown on Broadway called Redneck Riviera. | ||
| You are from West Virginia, so I know what you know what that means. | ||
| That's the work hard, play hard crowd. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| You know, you guys are young. | ||
| You can handle that. | ||
| Oh for sure. | ||
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I am stoked to have John on the CV. | |
| I thought that for our first night in Nashville we should bring in a musician. | ||
| And John perfectly fit the bill. | ||
| So I'm so excited to kind of talk about current events with a guy who has some music background. | ||
| Also, I mean we talk a lot about building culture. | ||
| I think it's great to see people in the entertainment industry who actually have positive values and aren't acquiescing to the nonsense that the left is telling everyone they have to submit to. | ||
| So good for you. | ||
| You're solo. | ||
| That's what's so great about it. | ||
| You're your own producer. | ||
| I mean, is that fair to say at this point? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, you guys, we were talking earlier, you know, who owns your content? | ||
| I said, this guy. | ||
| I own my songs, I own my recordings, I own all my stuff. | ||
| And you know, I'm very fortunate that I had a career that went well enough for long enough that I could get to the point where I could afford to do my own stuff. | ||
| You know, I didn't need the big companies anymore. | ||
| And so, you know, when it comes to artistic expression, I now have nobody telling me what I can say or when I can say it or how I put it out or anything else. | ||
| So it's the ultimate artistic freedom, I think, to be where I'm at. | ||
| Right on. | ||
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| And I find it fascinating that this article from Newsweek is, it's all bright, and the image they show just shows like a nice blue sky, when the reality of these videos is actually horrifying. | ||
| They say, Shanghai residents scream from windows, get drone lockdown warnings. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| I'm gonna play this. | ||
| I hope you guys are ready for some creepy sounds cuz here we go | ||
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Okay, how do I get this to actually play Bye. | |
| Well, apparently we can't. | ||
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There we go. | |
| Yeah! | ||
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There it is. | |
| So there's a lot of people screaming. | ||
| Here's the crazier video. | ||
| Check this one out. | ||
| This one is... Shanghai residents go to their balconies to sing and protest lack of supplies. | ||
| A drone appears saying, please comply with COVID restrictions. | ||
| Control your soul's desire for freedom. | ||
| do not open the window or sing. | ||
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Yo, that echo is so creepy. | |
| So I sent this out to a friend and said, you know, who speaks Mandarin? | ||
| And they said, yeah, yeah, that's that's that's what the drone is telling people. | ||
| Control your soul's desire for freedom. | ||
| Welcome to the future, my friends. | ||
| How do you guys feel about it? | ||
| Pretty terrifying, pretty terrifying. | ||
| No, I mean, look, I think it's sad. | ||
| I think what's really striking about this story isn't just what's happening in China. | ||
| I think it's the fact that even without saying it, there are some number of Americans who would have absolutely no problem with this being the policy in the United States. | ||
| We've clearly given up any drive to have freedom. | ||
| And it is sad to say that it looks like there is a real chance the lockdowns could be coming back. | ||
| So a couple of years ago, In August of 2020, these videos started going around showing people screaming. | ||
| When I first saw this video on Twitter, I said somebody got hoaxed. | ||
| Somebody took an old video and sent it and said, look what's going on in China, and it was a rerun. | ||
| It was a replay. | ||
| This person didn't do their due diligence. | ||
| So I pulled up the old videos. | ||
| They're different videos. | ||
| So this is new, and we have multiple sources confirming this, several news outlets reporting on it, and it appears to be true because there's more than just this one video. | ||
| There's apparently dozens of videos. | ||
| The creepiest that I have not verified, but there have been reports of people filming Taking their lives because there's no food. | ||
| There's a video of people fighting in a supermarket. | ||
| All the store shelves are empty. | ||
| People have taken garbage bags and they've filled them with whatever food they can. | ||
| And they start fighting each other in the stores. | ||
| I always joke about this. | ||
| With the food shortages, you don't want to be in a Walmart parking lot fighting with Agnes over the last can of beans. | ||
| And I mean it jokingly, but watching these videos of people in China fighting over food in the supermarkets is scary stuff, man. | ||
| I mean it's reducing people back to a primal state where you've got to potentially kill somebody to eat. | ||
| I mean it's as primal as you can possibly get and you ask yourself well why would you ever push people to that point? | ||
| And I think the answer, unfortunately, is that there's really not multiple answers to that. | ||
| In my opinion, it is a purposeful way to crush people to such a point. | ||
| Nobody can lift their hand up for help unless they're on the ground first. | ||
| You know, and if the government, if the people in power want to say, come on, grab my hand, we'll save you. | ||
| You got to put them on their knees before they're going to reach up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that, that is the definition of putting them on their knees to the, maybe the ultimate way. | ||
| And I think it's really a dangerous thing for Americans to say that cannot possibly ever happen. | ||
| In America. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Let somebody shut the lights off for three months and see what happens in America. | ||
| Well, I remember what happened in New York during Sandy. | ||
| And I'm just going to stress this point. | ||
| Man, we're in rerun season, guys, because these are the same conversations we had back in 2020 with these lockdowns. | ||
| But I was in New York when Sandy hit. | ||
| And the power goes out for an extended period of time. | ||
| And there's people standing outside of bodegas with like clubs and bats. | ||
| One person allowed in at a time. | ||
| I walk in the store and the guy says, all of the perishables are spoiled. | ||
| Don't take, don't, don't buy them. | ||
| The canned stuff and the, and the, and you know, the, like the sodas are fine, but they're warm. | ||
| There was no electricity. | ||
| So it's like you can get what you get cash only. | ||
| I'm here in North Korea. | ||
| He basically, Kim Jong-un, rules by starvation. | ||
| He starves the populace. | ||
| They have no strength, literally no power, because they don't have any energy or their lack of energy from lack of food. | ||
| They're crawling around on the ground looking for food. | ||
| People die on the side. | ||
| This is from Yeonmi Park, who escaped. | ||
| I've listened to her story. | ||
| Escaped from North Korea. | ||
| Escaped from that country. | ||
| Escaped. | ||
| That's the way they look at it. | ||
| China, it looks like this could be... I mean, do they even care about the... Does the CCP care about those people or do they want less of them? | ||
| They had the one child policy before, they wanted less people that way? | ||
| The only thing communists are good at producing is human misery and food shortages. | ||
| And then they just sit on top and revel in what they have, the food. | ||
| Because I'm thinking like, oh, Kim Jong-un's got plenty of food. | ||
| Xi Jinping's got plenty of food right now. | ||
| They're central planners. | ||
| Their view of this is, we don't care about the individual, we care about the machine. | ||
| And if that means you've got a billion people in China, and they're thinking, this is so expensive and difficult to maintain. | ||
| There's too many people here. | ||
| So I'm sure they don't care when they're looking at how can we streamline the machine that is the Chinese Communist Party and this country, whatever they want to call it. | ||
| So, you know, the Republic of China, People's Republic of China. | ||
| If we want to streamline this, okay, we can stand to get rid of excess and then bring specialists in. | ||
| They don't view the individuals that they starve out. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| They don't think about it. | ||
| Yes, and on top of that, it's totally impossible to centrally plan a supply chain like that. | ||
| You just can't know where resources should be allocated without people being able to engage in free trade. | ||
| One issue we saw during the beginning or at the beginning of the COVID lockdowns is that even though food production was considered an essential service, which wasn't shut down, there were still food shortages in some areas. | ||
| We were getting less meat produced because the packaging materials that people used to send their meat to market were considered non-essential. | ||
| Small details like this are just going to inevitably slip past politicians and the bureaucrats they appoint to essentially plan the economy. | ||
| So even if they're making a good faith effort to get people fed, they're just not capable of doing so. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, there are quantifiable facts in this country, in America, that would lead you to believe the only ending, which is there are people that want to see food shortages happen in America. | ||
| A couple of examples. | ||
| One, they've been paying farmers for the past two or three years. | ||
| I'm from Amarillo, Texas, up in the Grain Belt, right through the middle of there. | ||
| They're paying them. | ||
| to literally mow down and bush hog their soybean crops, don't plant anything this year, leave it all alone, | ||
| and they're like, they're paying me more money to cut up my soybeans than I would | ||
| have made on my soybeans, so I'll cut up my soybeans. | ||
| FDR didn't say a thing. | ||
| What is that called? Fallowing? Fallow? | ||
| Why are they doing that? | ||
| You guys don't even know what I'm talking about. | ||
| Well, they're getting government checks to cut them up. | ||
| But why would the government be doing that? | ||
| Well, so there's... I could have the word wrong. | ||
| So guys, correct me if I'm getting this wrong. | ||
| I think it's... Can you look it up? | ||
| Fallow? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And the idea is something to do... You know, honestly, I can't remember. | ||
| Well, it blends the nutrients back down into the dirt. | ||
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Right, right, right. | |
| Because if you grow something enough times, you take everything out of the dirt, so they'll actually grow a crop and plow it back under. | ||
| But we've been seeing some of this for political reasons. | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
| Yeah, fallow is usually cultivated land that is allowed to lie idle during the growth season. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Okay, so that's to re-nutrify the system. | ||
| Well, who owns more farmland right now than any other individual? | ||
| Bill Gates. | ||
| Why is that? | ||
| What does he know about farmland? | ||
| Yeah, and it's in the last few years he's been buying it up. | ||
| And why did China start buying corn futures like crazy over the past two years for Chinese investors? | ||
| In the important context as per Bill Gates, he may own the most as an individual, but it's not that much relative to the grand scheme of total available farmland. | ||
| So, a lot of people assume when they hear that it means like, Half the country is owned by Bill Gates. | ||
| No, he owns a very tiny percentage of the total, but he owns more than any other individual. | ||
| Which still raises the question, why is this guy buying up farmland? | ||
| What's he looking at in the future for an investment? | ||
| What is it about food production that he thinks is going to become particularly lucrative very soon here? | ||
| That people need to eat it. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, people have always needed to eat food. | ||
| That's a little tongue-in-cheek that there's shortages, obviously. | ||
| I think he knew, or at least he saw it ahead. | ||
| Maybe he just saw it coming and he could read the cards, or maybe he knew. | ||
| You know, he's very connected. | ||
| I'm not playing conspiracy here. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think if you've got a bunch of people who, you know, Bill Gates has given speeches on population control, you know, different from reduction, but, you know, I wonder about his thoughts on that. | ||
| A lot of people speculate, by all means. | ||
| But control, where he talks about how we need to reduce the amount of people being produced. | ||
| There's too many. | ||
| So he's talked, there's that famous TED talk where he was like, we can reduce population growth by 10 or 15%. | ||
| Now, when you got someone who's coming out and talking like that, why would I trust that guy on health advice? | ||
| I'm sorry, I'm not gonna trust you on health advice. | ||
| Yeah, that's his long-term goal, is to have fewer people. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| I'm not saying he wants anybody to die, I'm just saying, like, I'm not gonna take health advice from a guy who sells computers who talks about how there should be less people. | ||
| Not just health advice. | ||
| If you're an individual who doesn't believe that human life is intrinsically valuable for its own sake, I'm not taking your advice on anything. | ||
| There's no reason to listen to you. | ||
| He's like a utilitarian mathematician. | ||
| I mean, he's like a coding guy. | ||
| He wants to be a renaissance man and he's not. | ||
| I mean, I don't think he is. | ||
| Is he really a coding guy? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| He's a salesman. | ||
| I'm sure he knows computers. | ||
| He basically co-opted a bunch of code in the early 80s and then made it private and sold it. | ||
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That's right. | |
| He didn't free the code. | ||
| No, he did the opposite. | ||
| He's the guy that took Richard Stallman and a friend's code and made Windows out of it, this proprietary stuff, and then packaged it. | ||
| Good businessman. | ||
| Basically, poison the waterhole! | ||
| And antiviral software, right? | ||
| That was his thing. | ||
| You can only sell so many computers, but you can get a lot of viruses out of those computers. | ||
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We need to get that software going over and over and over. | |
| You wonder why it is that so many computer viruses exist sometimes? | ||
| Because, you know, nobody's going to my neighborhood and just randomly attacking people. | ||
| Not every neighborhood, but we don't see, you know, maybe it's not as easy to say these days, but you don't see overt political terrorism in the United States to a great degree like you do in other parts of the world. | ||
| And when you see computers being so often attacked, you have to wonder what the motivation is and why. | ||
| Why don't people in public engage to the same degree? | ||
| Maybe it's as simple as they do. | ||
| The same amount of people commit crimes as make viruses, but viruses can spread more and do more damage, and that's why we see it more often. | ||
| But it is a lucrative business, so I certainly wonder how many of these companies back in the days, antivirus companies, We're making viruses. | ||
| Well, we're like Antifa window repair, like Ryan Lowe's comedy sketch, where the Antifa guys go around smashing windows and then come back the next day and say, window repair. | ||
| It's not a new tactic. | ||
| It's why do you buy a $70,000 pickup that has plastic parts inside the air conditioner? | ||
| And when it goes out after 30,000 miles, it costs $1,800 for somebody to take the dashboard apart and fix the $5 plastic part. | ||
| They know it's going to wear out. | ||
| They know you're going to have to come in and get it fixed. | ||
| And they keep more and more money coming out of your pocket. | ||
| That's the oldest trick in the book. | ||
| Sell somebody something that looks great, but it has some kind of flaw that you know they're going to have to get it fixed. | ||
| Oh, by the way, we're the only ones that can fix it or it voids your warranty. | ||
| That's a busted system. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| Planned obsolescence. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's disordered. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| And what we hear is, well, that's capitalism, off what the left says. | ||
| And I look at it this like, you know, if you want to believe that capitalism can be idealistic, feel free to believe it. | ||
| It's not true. | ||
| You're going to find people who sell snake oil. | ||
| Yeah, the slave trade was capitalist too. | ||
| Right, there's bad things. | ||
| So, you know, when I hear people say laissez-faire capitalism, free markets are better and all that, I'm like, I don't agree. | ||
| I agree a freer market is better, but I don't think... Well, that's the thing about the free market. | ||
| They call it a, quote, free market, but that doesn't mean anything about what they say. | ||
| It's just a name. | ||
| It's like when they say, here, let's have the happy kids bill that Congress wants to pass about punishing a bunch of kids. | ||
| Free trade is not like anyone can do whatever they want. | ||
| It's heavily regulated. | ||
| Only certain people can do it. | ||
| No, no, but I'm talking about a true laissez-faire free market where, you know, buyer beware, covet emptor, people are... There's a lot of good arguments I've heard about how competition will solve a lot of these issues, but you also will get planned obsolescence. | ||
| The counter argument to that is, well, then the company that makes the better light bulb that lasts forever will sell more. | ||
| But then my argument to that is, what if one person discovers the creation, you know, invents the light bulb, And then they're making it and other people haven't figured it out for 10 years, so they create planned obsolescence. | ||
| And what's to say that the other companies don't just say, well, why would I step on the toes of a guy who's figured out how to get people to buy light bulbs nonstop? | ||
| Why wouldn't they just say, I'm going to do his same business and just lie to customers and say it's better? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, no, you go. | ||
| Now, what do you think Big Pharma is? | ||
| I mean, healthy patients don't make them any money, and dead patients don't make them any money, but patients that we're keeping alive make a lot of money. | ||
| Check out... Let me show you this post here from BBC World Service. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| Why China's zero COVID policy and Shanghai's strict lockdown is in everybody's interest, according to epidemiologist Dr. Eric Ding. | ||
| Oh, yeah, I know that. | ||
| No, thank you. | ||
| Remember what I said at the beginning of the show? | ||
| Yeah, what was that? | ||
| Well, just that there are a lot of people in America and in the West who are completely comfortable with these kind of tactics to eliminate COVID. | ||
| Zero COVID is disturbing, man. | ||
| You can't zero the flu. | ||
| I don't know why they're trying to zero COVID. | ||
| It's here to stay, as far as I can tell. | ||
| That's what we've been told. | ||
| Yeah, well then the question is, are they trying to zero COVID? | ||
| Let me, you know, let me just say to the point, this is, this BBC story, I guess it's like a podcast, so I'm not gonna play their podcast, but this Dr. Eric Ding guy saying it's in everybody's interest, I hope that's out of context. | ||
| I sincerely hope what he means is specifically for China and not for us. | ||
| Because if the reference, if the idea is we here in the United States should be locked in our homes for a week and told we cannot leave for any reason and we will not be given food, Well, Americans, I think, would act quite a bit differently than the Chinese, you know. | ||
| You think? | ||
| Yeah, Second Amendment. | ||
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Yeah, exactly. | |
| People won't, well, silently starve to death here. | ||
| Well, hold on. | ||
| In the cities? | ||
| I think in the cities, they would do as they're told. | ||
| I think out in the country, people are gonna be like... Depends on the neighborhood you're in. | ||
| In the cities, they're gonna be getting the hell out of their apartments and coming out to the country to see where all the people have the resources, and that's where you're gonna have the problems. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Right there. | ||
| starving migrants well yeah but hungry desperate people leaving cities going out to where there is resources so yeah what happens when that happens yeah like so this is something you want to think of so this is this is the question then what we see in china is Horrifying. | ||
| People screaming out their balconies, the drones saying, control your souls, you know, urge for freedom or whatever. | ||
| If people in big cities, if it does come to the point where, you know, what did Joe Biden call it? | ||
| A global famine. | ||
| If the food shortages do get that bad, if the food inflation is as bad as people think it is, and it's bad, if it's as bad as people think it is, Are these city people going to run out of the country? | ||
| Because then the question becomes, Second Amendment, if I've got chickens, and I do, Chicken City, ChickenCityLive.com, and someone comes and they're hungry, you're not touching my animals, because we have these animals, we cultivate livestock so that we can survive. | ||
| If someone comes and thinks, I'm gonna steal that, well people out in the country are gonna be like, I gotta defend my property, my friends, and my family. | ||
| You can't just let anybody come and steal your stuff. | ||
| What happens? | ||
| Do they load up? | ||
| Do people start fighting? | ||
| Well, I just want to say this, the sort of the city urban liberal types, the dumb yuppies, they'll just sort of be sitting ducks. | ||
| They'll stay in their apartment when they're told to. | ||
| These aren't independent thinkers. | ||
| But when you're looking at the neighborhoods with high crime rates, where people do, you know, own guns, or at least the criminals own guns, and there's more of a gang presence, they will absolutely start moving out into more rural areas in search for food. | ||
| And you'll see some ugliness if we ever get to a point where there is massive food inflation that's starving people. | ||
| So let me ask real quick, Chicago, What city? | ||
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| Cuyahoga Falls, yeah. | ||
| Where did you grow up, John? | ||
| Amarillo, Texas. | ||
| So what is that like? | ||
| Is that big city, urban, skyscrapers? | ||
| If it wasn't for I-40, there would be no Amarillo, Texas. | ||
| So, it's basically, if you look at the state of Texas, go to the panhandle on the top, it's right in the dead center of that. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| So, it's as flat as a board, it's Tornado Alley, it's the Grain Belt. | ||
| How many people? | ||
| There's a couple hundred thousand that live in Amarillo, so it's a decent-sized town. | ||
| How big is Akron? | ||
| Akron's big. | ||
| Well, I was actually from Cuyahoga Falls, a suburb. | ||
| There's only 50,000 people. | ||
| But you grew up in a major metro. | ||
| No, no, I never grew up in Akron. | ||
| It was a suburb of a minor metro. | ||
| How far away from Akron? | ||
| 25 minutes. | ||
| 25 minutes, and how many... We never went. | ||
| I went to Akron, like, once every three weeks. | ||
| Yeah, but this is called the Akron Metropolitan Area. | ||
| Yeah, Cuyahoga Falls. | ||
| You don't gotta nitpick me. | ||
| I'm just making a point. | ||
| It felt like a small town where I grew up. | ||
| This town was so small, they didn't even have a barber. | ||
| You see? | ||
| I'm just asking because I'm curious. | ||
| Your thoughts, being from Texas, I wouldn't call it a small town or anything like that, but I'm curious what your thoughts are on just Second Amendment people defending their property. | ||
| Well, what you're talking about is not defending your property. | ||
| At that point, what you're talking about is defending your survival of your family and of yourself. | ||
| It's no longer Hey, those chickens, if somebody stole those chickens or took my chickens or whatever, we're not in a famine. | ||
| It's not as big of a deal, but if I'm depending on that or whatever else I have for my kids and my wife and my parents and whoever's around me to survive, then it's not a question. | ||
| Because then if you take my stuff, we die. | ||
| So it becomes, uh, the stakes go all the way to the top when you start talking about famine. | ||
| Water's the other thing. | ||
| I mean, you know, people forget that electricity is what makes the water move through the pipes into your apartment or into your house unless you got a well. | ||
| Electricity makes water move. | ||
| Electricity makes natural gas move. | ||
| Electricity makes fuel come up from the gas stations. | ||
| It's a lot more than just your light bulbs. | ||
| It makes literally everything move. | ||
| So to me, you know, the electric grid and some of these things we hear about somebody is going to hack the electric grid or whatever. | ||
| That is honestly, in my opinion, is the most kill shot you could ever put on a culture. | ||
| You were talking about solar earlier, like the best thing you could get or one of the best things is a solar generator. | ||
| Yeah, I ran across some solar generators and I thought, ah, they probably suck. | ||
| And I'm like, eh. | ||
| I thought, well, I'll buy the small one and see how it does. | ||
| So I buy this little solar generator, a thousand watt generator, and it charged up pretty fast. | ||
| I went, okay, let's see what it does. | ||
| I said, I wonder how long it'll run a freezer. | ||
| Because I got one of those big freezers and it's full of meat and this and that. | ||
| I wonder how long it'd run a freezer. | ||
| Plug that sucker in, it ran that freezer for 16 hours. | ||
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| Which you don't even need to run a freezer for 16 hours to keep everything frozen. | ||
| Yeah, you're saying you do it 8 and then leave it off for 16 and then 8 and then leave it off. | ||
| Yeah, you just don't open it very often, you know. | ||
| So, there are ways to get around it, but people need to think about it right now. | ||
| Yeah, so there's this funny hit piece on me and a bunch of other pro-Trump personalities from 2020, like, where are they now? | ||
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And they're like, Tim Pool is selling emergency food. | |
| And then I'm just like, well, it's kind of crazy. | ||
| The mentality among the left is that it's an insult to want to have emergency supplies. | ||
| Because I'm just thinking, like, if you think it's, like, a point of shame, like, I would be ashamed of telling people, like, make sure you get some emergency supplies. | ||
| I'm not telling people to set up a bunker underground with 30 years worth of beans or anything. | ||
| I'm being like, you get one of these buckets and put it in your closet, you forget about it. | ||
| I also think you should have a first aid kit. | ||
| I think you should have some water. | ||
| I think you should download a survival guide onto your phone. | ||
| But man, when we have these conversations about people in big cities being like, oh, they're so dumb, you bought emergency supplies. | ||
| I'm like, I don't want to be anywhere near that city if it really does get bad. | ||
| And the funny thing is, I'm not even prepper level. | ||
| The preppers are sitting on their bunkers, you know, smoking their cigars, laughing at everybody else because they got nothing to worry about. | ||
| And really the question is, if you were a prepper, if you built a bunker, If you bought a bunch of guns, if you've got stored food, you know how to start a fire and hunt animals, are you stressed by this lifestyle? | ||
| Is there something wrong with that lifestyle? | ||
| Sure, you might believe crazy things like, the end is nigh, if you're one of these caricatures. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But really, if you're somebody who lives out in a rural area, and you know how to survive and you take care of yourself, I'm sure you're living your best life. | ||
| Imagine a more suicidally stupid cultural attitude than, it's dumb to prepare for things potentially going wrong. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And let's laugh at the guy who's trying to build his ark before the rain starts. | ||
| I mean, you don't have to believe that the entire world is going to end. | ||
| You don't even have to believe there's going to be societal collapse. | ||
| But how are you going to sit here and tell me it's a worse world if people have emergency food stored up? | ||
| But isn't that the story of the ark? | ||
| Yeah, they laughed at him. | ||
| They laughed at him. | ||
| Now, I'm not saying that we're going to be seeing anything of that magnitude, right? | ||
| And of course, you have to make that perfectly clear because they'll clip you and go, look, they're saying because people should have emergency food, they think the world's going to flood. | ||
| Also, global warming is going to flood the world, guys. | ||
| Take that very seriously. | ||
| But that's a good one too! | ||
| They should be building art! | ||
| Exactly! | ||
| And so, it's absurd. | ||
| I mean, even if there isn't some cataclysm, is it totally unthinkable that there might be a situation where you need a couple weeks worth of food? | ||
| And that's actually a really good point. | ||
| They mock the idea of emergency food. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They're the ones claiming the great flood is coming. Yeah that the ocean's gonna rise by 20 to 100 feet | ||
| Yeah, where you know and then Barack Obama buys beachfront property | ||
| It's so strange because they have paranoid fantasies that would put the most ardent prepper to shame about how we | ||
| only have three months To reverse global warming or we're all gonna die and they | ||
| say this every three months or so And then they turn around and go look at this guy's trying | ||
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| good point. Yeah, I don't I don't see conservative Emergency supply there's you know | ||
| Survivor company or whatever and they're selling all the stuff might be a rugged man and make sure you can survive | ||
| in the wilderness I don't see any of these companies saying global warming | ||
| will wipe us all out you need Because certainly that's a path towards selling your product, right? | ||
| You know what we should do? | ||
| I'm going to do this. | ||
| I'm going to create a liberal prepper company. | ||
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| I'm going to market only to New York, Chicago, and LA and be like, global warming's coming, man. | ||
| Are you going to survive the flood? | ||
| Here's your inflatable. | ||
| I'm going to sell plans for building an ark. | ||
| Inflatable raft. | ||
| So this goes way back. | ||
| Why do city people, and I know all city people aren't the same, but let's be cliche for a second. | ||
| Why do big city people mock and make fun of country people? | ||
| Why do they do that? | ||
| I think the reason is because they look at the country people and they realize that those country people can self-sustain. | ||
| They can defend themselves. | ||
| They can grow their own food. | ||
| They're a tight-knit unit. | ||
| They could probably get through a hell of a lot more than you could get through, and they're threatened by it. | ||
| In a way, they're the alphas that are out in the country. | ||
| They're the real alphas. | ||
| The ones that are in the cities, that are up in a skyscraper apartment complex, They're the ultimate betas because they're at the mercy of anything that comes their way that's not right. | ||
| But the ones out in the woods, they're going to be all right for a long time. | ||
| I think they're threatened by it and they don't understand it because nobody ever taught them how to actually take care of themselves. | ||
| I know this is a recent thing in America that people don't know how to take care of themselves, don't know how to grow food, don't know how to defend themselves. | ||
| This is fairly recent. | ||
| You know, the way I think about it is, how long ago was it where a father was armed everywhere he went and if he was with his family he was ready to fight for his survival like a wild animal how well you know you go back a couple hundred years cities are substantially smaller you look at uh the revolutionary period there's only i think two million americans within the 13 colonies fighting for independence two million across the entirety of the eastern seaboard so if you're a family man and you've got your your homestead or whatever | ||
| There's wild animals everywhere. | ||
| So when you go out, you're armed. | ||
| And you're probably wearing thicker leather of some sort. | ||
| You're not just walking around in short shorts and a t-shirt with sunglasses on because everything's safe and fine. | ||
| When you compare a couple hundred years ago to today, it is the epitome of good times make weak men. | ||
| But over a several hundred year period, and now, You know we talk about what would the founding fathers think if they were if they came here today and saw the government it's like well aside from the fact they'd probably freak out at what happened with the government they're gonna look at people and be like you walk around in short shirts some people walk like women walk around in bikinis and they're gonna be like | ||
| There's animals, there's predators, there's- there's- there's bandits, robbers, and you just- nobody cares about any threats or danger. | ||
| And we can brag and be like, we've mostly done away with so much of this through advancement technology. | ||
| We're safe, we have fat homeless people, and they'd probably be like, wow. | ||
| Until they see any potential dastard- disaster coming ahead. | ||
| Until they see these people are completely unprepared for any kind of survival. | ||
| Although, maybe they'll just come back and eat big bowls of ice cream and be like, Yeah, we should hope not, and I wouldn't think so, but it is very bizarre how we've been sold this idea that the best possible way to live is to move as far away from your family as you can, to live in a small box next to a bunch of other small boxes full of people, to not have a yard, to not have space, and to not have children to just perpetually consume for the rest of your life, without ever orienting any of that consumption towards preparing for whatever might go wrong. | ||
| I think it's pre-internet mentality. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| It's stupid. | ||
| It's because when I was in the city, I would, when I thought of people that lived in the country, I thought of a lack of ambition. | ||
| That was what I associated with it. | ||
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| And because, but now, that's, I don't know, it's just the way I grew up. | ||
| Northeast Ohio, kind of small town. | ||
| My aunts and uncles were hillbilly. | ||
| We all went out to the country on the farm, hung out, you know. | ||
| Apparently it feels nothing better than squishing your bare foot through cow patties. | ||
| Feeling it come up through your toes. | ||
| They told me. | ||
| But now with the internet age... | ||
| They also told you to stick your finger in a cow's mouth. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Yeah, I still haven't done it yet, but I'm going. | ||
| And Alex Jones confirmed that does actually feel good. | ||
| But then once the internet appeared to change everything, you can run a business from the | ||
| middle of a farm in Arkansas. | ||
| And also, I don't know. | ||
| I think just realism is starting to set in for me. | ||
| You know, cities are super dangerous. | ||
| The centralized power grid, it's like we were rolling the dice every day and I hope I don't roll a one because if I do and the power goes out, and if the power goes out for six weeks, I have no backup plan and I hope the roads aren't jammed so I can get out of the city. | ||
| This is the crazy thing about emergency supplies, is I just tell people sometimes it rains. | ||
| You know, we saw this big, huge flood in, I think it was in Houston, I'm not sure, where people were trapped in their houses. | ||
| You never know what you're going to need. | ||
| Did you have an emergency raft? | ||
| How many of you had inflatable emergency rafts? | ||
| Now, if I told you, buy an emergency raft, you'd be like, what? | ||
| Why? | ||
| Crazy. | ||
| Sometimes there are floods. | ||
| Do you live in a floodplain? | ||
| Have you checked? | ||
| Maybe you don't, but if you do, you might want to have an inflatable raft. | ||
| You can survive. | ||
| And if you don't need it, your neighbor might. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Your neighbor might need it. | ||
| This is the strange irony. | ||
| In cities, everyone is packed on top of each other, and yet there's virtually no community. | ||
| And this is the question you have to ask yourself. | ||
| If inflation gets really bad, if, as Biden promised, there are going to be food shortages, do you want to have neighbors who know who you are and care about you? | ||
| Or do you want to be another face, another name, someone that they have no responsibility to once they're hungry? | ||
| I want to give a shout out to our good friend Joe Biden over here, because he's got this tweet that just went up today. | ||
| He said, we need Congress to pass universal background checks. | ||
| That's insane, because they already exist. | ||
| Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. | ||
| Assault weapon doesn't mean anything, and he wants to ban 100 round magazines, or I guess that would be a drum. | ||
| Wow, Joe Biden. | ||
| And eliminate gun manufacturers' immunity from liability. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| These are insane statements. | ||
| Let me just be totally real first. | ||
| When you go buy a gun, even in a constitutional carry state, you've got the NICS system. | ||
| N-I-C-S. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| National Instant Criminal Check System or something like that? | ||
| Or check system. | ||
| You walk in. | ||
| You say, I want to buy the gun. | ||
| You got to fill out your form. | ||
| They say, give us a minute. | ||
| And then sometimes they'll be like, you're delayed. | ||
| Have a nice day. | ||
| You can't buy the gun. | ||
| Because universal background checks already exist. | ||
| You see, what he's trying to say is, if you live in the mountains of West Virginia, and you want to sell a gun to your neighbor who also lives in the mountains of West Virginia, he wants you to be forced to drive to a local gun store, FFL, federally licensed, and do the transfer that way. | ||
| Personally, I think you're usually better off doing that. | ||
| But I understand why you want to give your neighbor a weapon because you live in the middle of nowhere and there's wild animals or you just need to defend yourself and your property and there's no police. | ||
| It makes sense. | ||
| That's what he's saying. | ||
| Banning assault weapons is meaningless because what they're talking about is like it's a pistol grip versus a rifle grip and it's just meaningless. | ||
| High-capacity magazines. | ||
| When you buy an AR, how many rounds does the magazine typically hold? | ||
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| 30 rounds! | ||
| That's standard. | ||
| But they're saying high capacity, anything more than 10. | ||
| But when you literally buy the weapon, it's a 30-round magazine. | ||
| When you go on the shelf, all 30. | ||
| You want a 10-round magazine? | ||
| I guess you can get one if you want to make one. | ||
| But this is what they're trying to do. | ||
| They're trying to reduce the standard capacity. | ||
| Eliminate gun manufacturers' immunity from liability? | ||
| Now that's just insane. | ||
| Making a weapon, and then you get sued for what someone else does? | ||
| Okay, alright. | ||
| Let's eliminate all car manufacturers' liability for what someone does to their car. | ||
| Yeah, I was just gonna say, or knife manufacturers, right? | ||
| Someone gets stabbed with your product, you go to court, buddy. | ||
| You gotta pay a settlement to their family. | ||
| You can't come after Pfizer. | ||
| Yeah, that's it. | ||
| That's the liability. | ||
| You can go after Colt, you can go after Remington, but you can't go after Pfizer or Moderna. | ||
| Pharmaceutical companies should not, in my opinion, have liability. | ||
| I think that if someone takes a vaccine from a company and gets really sick, that there's a court that'll protect these things is ridiculous. | ||
| These companies, like, they feel like they really... Wait, you're saying they shouldn't have liability? | ||
| I think that they should be able to be sued. | ||
| No, I don't think they should be immune from damaging people with their medicines or with their drugs or whatever you want to call them. | ||
| Well, I agree. | ||
| There's challenges in that. | ||
| There's going to be side effects for basically everything. | ||
| And, you know, you might be allergic to something and not know, or you might be the one in whatever many. | ||
| Let's say you get some kind of swelling treatment and they're like, there's a rare side effect that gives you rash, you get a rash. | ||
| Yeah, I think top-down medicine production isn't the way of the future. | ||
| A lot of it's like, we're going to start 3D printing medicine that's tailor-made for your chemistry, your body chemistry. | ||
| And so this whole top-down medicine where they make one drug and give it to everyone is obviously not working because a lot of people aren't doing well with it. | ||
| So I have a story about Nancy Pelosi asking me about guns in a backyard in Beverly Hills. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I'd like to hear it. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I know, right? | ||
| Even that got your attention. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Let's hear it. | ||
| So I'm back there. | ||
| I got invited to sing at Tony Bennett's 85th birthday party. | ||
| And I'm in the backyard of Ted Sarandos, the founder of Netflix. | ||
| I'm in his backyard. | ||
| There's John Travolta, Queen Latifah and I are bringing out the birthday cake. | ||
| I mean, you can't make this up. | ||
| I'm looking around this backyard going, I'm not supposed to be here. | ||
| So I'm just going to have some fun. | ||
| You know, like, no, one of these things is not like the other. | ||
| So I'm back there and I'm hanging out and I see Nancy Pelosi over there starts making a beeline towards me. | ||
| And I'll be honest, it was frightening. | ||
| It was frightening. | ||
| She's coming and she walks right up to me. | ||
| She doesn't say hello. | ||
| She goes, you seem like a reasonable person. | ||
| I guess meaning for a guy in a cowboy hat and a handlebar mustache because otherwise you wouldn't be at this backyard, right? | ||
| You must be a reasonable, you seem like a reasonable person. | ||
| I said, well, I appreciate that, Madam Speaker. | ||
| She goes, can I ask you a question about guns? | ||
| I said, absolutely. | ||
| So Vince Vaughn is standing there and Vince leans in. | ||
| Travolta's got his arms crossed. | ||
| He's leaning in. | ||
| Everybody's leaning in. | ||
| And Pelosi goes, now I'm not a hunter, but I'm pretty sure that if I shot that first bullet at whatever I was hunting and I didn't hit it, it would run away. | ||
| I go, that's correct. | ||
| She goes, so why does anybody need more than seven rounds is what she said. | ||
| Why does anybody need more than seven rounds? | ||
| And they're gone. | ||
| And I held up my cell phone and I said, well, Madam Speaker, right now back in Nashville, Tennessee, I have a wife and I got a three-year-old son and a five-year-old son and we live right in the middle of town. | ||
| I said, now if she had called my phone right now and said, John, I hear footsteps coming up the stairs. | ||
| I said, Madam Speaker, would you advise me to tell my wife to grab the one with seven rounds or the one with 30 rounds? | ||
| And her eyes kind of got big and she said, is that the way you look at that? | ||
| I said, yes, ma'am. | ||
| She goes, well, it was nice to meet you, and then just walked off. | ||
| But for a brief moment, this light bulb pops. | ||
| I believe, first of all, they know that anyway. | ||
| That's why they all have armed guards. | ||
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| But I was able to, dead in her eye, one time say, it's to protect our families. | ||
| Of course, we don't need 30 rounds to hunt a deer, and there's nothing in the Second Amendment about hunting. | ||
| It's all about defense. | ||
| Good for you. | ||
| How many rounds does the, they're armed guards? | ||
| Right? | ||
| What kind of gun? Yes, I was just gonna ask they're gonna have 17 plus ones. They're gonna have 21 plus ones | ||
| They're gonna have high capacity. They're gonna have multiple high capacity clips on their belts because if | ||
| something breaks out They're in a gunfight. Oh and and I think when it comes to | ||
| the speaker She's probably got a couple guys with short barreled rifles. | ||
| No doubt about it. No doubt about it So you can confront them and I would always advise anybody | ||
| if you're ever talking to your neighbors friends about gun about guns and clips | ||
| and whatever is that You have the right to defend your family how you see fit. | ||
| You don't get to tell me how I get to defend my family. | ||
| Those are my kids. | ||
| That is my wife. | ||
| God put me in charge of them. | ||
| In charge of their defense. | ||
| And if something happens to them, that's on me. | ||
| And I'd rather deal with your bad opinion of my high-capacity gun than deal with a dead child or a dead family. | ||
| We already got a couple people saying clips? | ||
| Yeah, clip magazines. | ||
| It's that mentality that allowed us to build this country the way we did. | ||
| If we were all getting picked off at home and the government had total control and they weren't afraid of the population, we never would have had this beautiful liberal society that we organized. | ||
| Sorry to use the word liberal. | ||
| I'm bringing it back to what it really means, which is liberty. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| No, I mean, look, the founders make it perfectly clear in the founding documents of this country that owning a gun is a right that is available to all people. | ||
| It is not a privilege for the ultra-wealthy who can have formed armed guards and whatever paperwork these bureaucrats would try to put you through in order to be able to defend yourself. | ||
| But now, John, would you agree with me when I say that the Second Amendment guarantees our right to have nuclear weapons and biological weapons? | ||
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| I didn't see that in there. | ||
| Oh, I do. | ||
| I see it in there. | ||
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| Yeah, so I got in trouble because I pointed that out and they take this clip of me where they cut my full statement and say Tim Pool calls for people to have nuclear and biological weapons. | ||
| What I said was, the Constitution says the right to keep and bear arms. | ||
| It doesn't specify what. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And back then, as a privateer, as a private citizen, you could have any weapon the government could have. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| That hasn't changed. | ||
| They wanted equal force. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Has that changed? | ||
| Well, yeah, we now cannot get our hands on weapons that are equal force. | ||
| But the Second Amendment didn't change. | ||
| They just started passing laws without any, I guess, legitimate questions as to what the limits should have actually been. | ||
| And this is what Joe Biden is doing now. | ||
| Now, I would not want people to have nuclear weapons or biological weapons. | ||
| That's a scary thought, some lunatic guy with a bioweapon, because of how much destruction could be wrought. | ||
| But there's a very serious question about When do we draw that line and say, regardless of the constitutional amendments, we've decided you can't have things. | ||
| You'd have to amend the constitution to change that. | ||
| That's a good argument. | ||
| And I think we could easily amend it to be like, yeah, we've decided nuclear weapons and bioweapons, like we're not going to include in the second amendment. | ||
| That's cool, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Let's take that off the table. | ||
| Well, I think there's also another serious question to ask, which is, why did Biden just decide recently that this was going to be his next moral crusade? | ||
| The country's falling apart, we have runaway inflation, he's acknowledged food shortages are coming, and he's going to sit here and tell us that his goal is to end gun violence? | ||
| It's because he thinks there's going to be gun violence if there's famine. | ||
| He wants to try and stop it by taking the guns away, so there's criminal gangs running around creating mafia? | ||
| Like, what the heck? | ||
| I'll push back a little bit. | ||
| I mean, it may just be he needs a distraction. | ||
| Could be. | ||
| And so, you know, in response to Biden, Jeffrey Miller said, Yep. | ||
| Oh look, a new emotionally vivid issue to distract us from inflation and your catastrophic | ||
| monetary policy. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So, you know. | ||
| Putin. I don't know what he said. | ||
| He said what I thought was true for a long time that I found out was not true. And I | ||
| wonder how many gun owners think this is true. I'm friends with a guy that's been in the | ||
| ATF 29 years. And we were hanging out on a little vacation together and he was kind of | ||
| bumming around and they were trying to, it was another one of these gun bills were trying | ||
| to get passed. And I said, man, you know, they ever come door to door wanting to take | ||
| I said, the ATF, right? | ||
| He goes, John, people don't know what guns you own. | ||
| The government doesn't know what guns you own. | ||
| I said, what are you talking about? | ||
| He said, there is no gun registry for the United States of America. | ||
| He said, here's how a crime works. | ||
| I go to a crime scene. | ||
| There's a Colt pistol laying in the street. | ||
| We have to get the Colt pistol. | ||
| We have to call Colt, the manufacturer, find out who they sold the gun to, what store they originally sold the gun to. | ||
| It could be a 30-year-old weapon. | ||
| If the store still exists, and if they still have records going back that far, we can find out who purchased the gun originally. | ||
| Then we have to go find that person, and if that person no longer owns the gun, we have to see if they have any records of who they sold it to, and on and on and on. | ||
| He said we would have to do that with literally every single weapon in the United States to know who's got what guns. | ||
| So is this just like a fear tactic? | ||
| They want people to think that they know who has what gun? | ||
| They don't know. | ||
| They do not know. | ||
| Now in Illinois, California, New York, they have state gun registries in those states. | ||
| And he said those are the only three where they actually know what guns you own over the past 15-20 years. | ||
| California, New York, and Illinois. | ||
| That's why the gun crime is so low. | ||
| I was going to say, there's something interesting about those states as it pertains to their gun laws. | ||
| They also have a whole lot of gun crime. | ||
| Look, Baltimore has got serious gun crime as well. | ||
| It's not just those states, but when I hear Illinois, I'm like, they call it Chirac because of how many gun deaths there are. | ||
| There was a year where there were more gun deaths in Chicago than the entirety of Iraq. | ||
| Yeah, and their laws don't seem to do anything to stop that. | ||
| Granted, I think it was in the 2000s, there was a court ruling, I think it was a Supreme Court ruling, so now you can actually get a gun in Illinois, though it's damn near impossible. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I just found that to be, isn't that a myth though? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Didn't you think that was probably the case? | ||
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| They just, they'll show up and go, Mr. Rich, we see that you own XYZ. | ||
| He goes, we have no idea what you own. | ||
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| And the movies, they're like, we got the gun, we got the serial number. | ||
| We're going to run it through the registry. | ||
| And they're like, oh, we got it. | ||
| If there's a registry. | ||
| Now, when I see tweets like that from Biden, he's talking about universal background checks. | ||
| If he said universal registry, That's a different animal. | ||
| That's a different thing if you ever see the word registry. | ||
| But the background check is probably the registry. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's probably the plan. | ||
| That's probably the way they would word it in a bill would actually turn into a registry. | ||
| I find that we're on the verge of 3D printed guns like the 21st century is going to be all about crafting your own weaponry and stuff. | ||
| The verge of? | ||
| Yeah, we're in it. | ||
| It has begun. | ||
| The Ghost Gun is a real product. | ||
| But the Ghost Gun is you just making your weapon. | ||
| Control Pew, we've had on the show, posting all these videos on Twitter of the guns they just make. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How effective are those at this point? | ||
| I remember seeing some early prototypes, and they were pretty lousy, really. | ||
| Yup. | ||
| Yeah, the early ones, they had to pull the trigger with a string from like eight feet back so it didn't explode in their hand because they didn't know. | ||
| They were plastic. | ||
| They'd fall apart. | ||
| They'd fire one bullet at a time, but the new ones are... The first one, you remember what it was called? | ||
| Yeah, the Liberator. | ||
| The little white plastic handgun that was good for like five shots or something before it broke. | ||
| No, one. | ||
| One shot. | ||
| One shot. | ||
| Yeah, the Liberator. | ||
| But now, if you go on Twitter and you follow Control-Pew, and you look at the... CTRL, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, C-T-R-L-P-E-W, and you look at all the things they're posting, yo, they have unique designs and these things work. | ||
| It's no longer like the old days. | ||
| They've figured this stuff out. | ||
| It's like a whack-a-mole. | ||
| I can see a totalitarian regime would use that as a game of whack-a-mole to just write more and more laws of how to go after more and more guns. | ||
| It's like, dude, at some point, like, you're stepping on your own foot. | ||
| You know, we're working together here. | ||
| There's real problems out there and it comes down to do you have enough water and do you have enough food and do you have enough space to move around? | ||
| Decentralization has done wonders. | ||
| With the internet, one of the things that's pushing back on the establishment cult woke nonsense is that people who live in rural areas now have the ability to build community. | ||
| It used to be that the message, the narrative, would come top down from big cities with big city intellectuals, and that was it. | ||
| Community was formed around their broadcast tower. | ||
| But now, because of the internet, people can build their own communities, which is allowing more conservatives to coalesce around certain personalities, certain media outlets. | ||
| You have the same thing with 3D printing. | ||
| They can't stop it. | ||
| And I think, when you look at what's going on now with the culture war, I'm fairly optimistic, especially when you look at a lot of the data. | ||
| We have one story. | ||
| Actually, let me pull up the story here and jump straight to this story we have here and give you guys some optimism. | ||
| This is from Slow Boring, which is Matthew Iglesias' substack. | ||
| He's one of the founders of Vox.com, V-O-X, lefty. | ||
| Here's what he tweeted. | ||
| He said, suppose Democrats get 48% of the vote in 2022 and then rebound to 50% in 2024. | ||
| Pretty normal. | ||
| But under today's maps, that means a GOP trifecta with 60 or 61 senators. | ||
| Yo, I read this today and I was just, it's shocking. | ||
| I mean, looking right now at the current data based on all the aggregate polls, and assuming we don't see changes from now until the election, it looks like Republicans not only will win Congress, But that if this track remains steady, by 2024, they'll have 60 or 61 seats in the Senate, which means they're going to steamroll through basically whatever they want. | ||
| It's not absolutely perfect because the Republican Party is kind of... Yeah. | ||
| Maybe if people go and vote in their primaries, this will have a bigger impact. | ||
| But looking at this... Wow. | ||
| Can you have an election if there's a famine? | ||
| Or if they lock things down again. | ||
| So let me just throw it to this year from Timcast real quick to go into the context. | ||
| Philadelphia to reinstate mask mandate for indoor public places. | ||
| Now, I don't want to be as bold as to say that the lockdowns are going to come back hard, because that's what I said last year. | ||
| At the end of last year, I said, I think they're going to bring all the lockdowns back. | ||
| Why? | ||
| They got an election to win. | ||
| And they're losing right now. | ||
| And what can they do? | ||
| Well, they need chaos, right? | ||
| So I think there's a political play. | ||
| However, Luke Rutkowski of We Are Chained said, no, no. | ||
| They're gonna ease it up. | ||
| They've lost this one. | ||
| It's bad for them. | ||
| It's hurting them. | ||
| They're gonna have to ease it up. | ||
| And then in January into February, they started easing up the restrictions, started ending a lot of these mandates. | ||
| I said, you know what? | ||
| I guess I was wrong. | ||
| They really are ending these things. | ||
| And now people are shouting out Alex Jones, who what he said was, they're gonna ease the restrictions, get everybody to calm down, and then they're gonna slam them back down on us. | ||
| And then I'll give myself some credit by saying, aha! | ||
| The rat hope experiment we talked about. | ||
| You know about that one? | ||
| No. | ||
| So they put a rat in a vat full of water, several rats, and let them swim. | ||
| And they couldn't grip on anything. | ||
| After 15 minutes, the rats gave up and they drowned. | ||
| Then, they take more rats. | ||
| Put them in the vat full of water, the cylinder. | ||
| Let them swim. | ||
| Right before they give up, they pick them up and put them down and dry them off. | ||
| Let them rest, catch their breath. | ||
| Then, pick them back up and put them back in the water. | ||
| The rats then swim for 60 hours. | ||
| Because they had hope. | ||
| That if they just didn't give up, they would make it. | ||
| So, based on what Alex said, you know, based on what Luke said, what I said, I'm like, maybe what's gonna happen is these restrictions being lifted in the calm-down period are so that people can have a sense of hope that it will eventually come to an end, but maybe this next lockdown is the lockdown that just goes on for a long time. | ||
| Isn't that the definition of a Psy-Op? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's the definition of a Psy-Op. | ||
| You're playing a Psy-Op on that rat. | ||
| We're just rats. | ||
| You know, but I think Americans have woken up to that and I think it is to such a degree that it's now not | ||
| Republicans or Democrats. It's just Americans period waking up to it going these people are playing us in a psyop right | ||
| now Listen anybody that identifies I've raised a lot of money | ||
| over the years for Republicans. I've campaigned with Republicans | ||
| And in the past two or three years I have witnessed heard and learned | ||
| Things about so many Republicans that I had supported that blew my mind how much they were betraying the people | ||
| oh, yeah that they represent and And I've gone out and told people that are hardcore Republicans or whatever, I go, if you're an American, you better not identify with either party, just be an American. | ||
| Vote for what you think is best for your family. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Don't rely on these people anymore. | ||
| If I had to guess a percentage, I'm going to say 85% of all politicians are not worth the paper that they signed when they got that office. | ||
| Did you see the governor of Utah using his pronouns and saying latinx? | ||
| No, I didn't say that. | ||
| And people are like, Latinks? | ||
| This is a Republican and he's just all on board. | ||
| I would not be surprised if people don't go out and vote in their primaries and we end up with just more neocon, establishment, uniparty trash. | ||
| Give it a year or two and Mitch McConnell will be like, I'm Mitch McConnell, he him, and I'm here to give a statement about taxes, and that's it. | ||
| Unless people actually vote in the primaries and get rid of these establishment party players. | ||
| If we don't have them force you to put a mask on your kid, we won't be able to cut taxes 2% for three years. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| And then you'll have more money for your kids while they're in school being groomed. | ||
| I basically stopped voting political parties when I was like 15 or 16. | ||
| It didn't make any sense anymore. | ||
| I was like, why don't I just pick the best person? | ||
| So that's what I do now. | ||
| Well, how do you know who's a good person anymore? | ||
| I mean, here's a question. | ||
| Who can you believe anymore? | ||
| Andrew Yang. | ||
| That was one. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| I mean, he wasn't lying. | ||
| Yeah, he goes on CNN. | ||
| He gets a CNN contract after everything. | ||
| Oh, maybe he got bought out. | ||
| I like the idea of the Ford Party. | ||
| I donated to them. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| But that guy lost a substantial amount of trust when he went establishment. | ||
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| And then he walked away a little bit after, but nah. | ||
| He was talking about economics. | ||
| I felt like he was talking about real problems. | ||
| Sometimes people like Tulsi Gabbard gets to the heart of the issue. | ||
| I mean, she's a little bit too hawkish on war for me. | ||
| You mean anti-war? | ||
| No, actually. | ||
| I think she's a little too... I mean, she's in the military. | ||
| She comes from the military. | ||
| She's the least bad in the Democratic Party on the military issue, but I agree with you. | ||
| She's not perfect. | ||
| Wait, wait, wait. | ||
| She's the one who keeps complaining about Americans entering war. | ||
| Like, that's her whole shtick, is stopping the Americans. | ||
| She was also, like, afraid of terrorists. | ||
| And I'm like, I don't want a freak in the White House that's talking about terrorism anymore. | ||
| I'm tired of that. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, Ron Paul talked about mark and reprisal against terror. | ||
| Ron Paul was pretty cool. | ||
| Just... So, I think... | ||
| There are acts of real terror, but the whole 9-11 terrorism thing that got shoved down my throat for 20 years, I'm fed up with. | ||
| So someone's saying, like Ron Paul, we should go after the terrorists and not have these regime change wars, I don't think is a pro-war position. | ||
| Do you mean Ron Paul or Rand Paul? | ||
| Because I think Ron Paul's position was we just need to pull out entirely and we shouldn't even have foreign bases. | ||
| Ron Paul, uh, yes, but he also talked about how instead of invading Iraq and Afghanistan, we could have issued letters of mark and reprisal. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| So we could specifically target rogue groups instead of declaring war and, you know, we didn't do that. | ||
| Trying to build a democracy in Afghanistan, all that ridiculousness. | ||
| But, but, you know, anyway, to, to, to, to, to back to the story, I think even, you know, the Democrat view on this is apocalyptic. | ||
| And so I'm wondering if, one, they'll use lockdowns politically, or they just, Lie down and Republicans come in and sweep things up? | ||
| Yeah, maybe they'll lock down and then lift the lockdowns shortly before the election cycle begins, like six months or something. | ||
| I am so done with these stupid lockdowns. | ||
| I'm so done with it. | ||
| Well, take a look at this. | ||
| We all thought we were, by the way. | ||
| Take a look at this story. | ||
| Daily Mail. | ||
| Proof that blue states did fail their people during the pandemic. | ||
| Harsh lockdowns caused huge death rates, ruined kids education, and destroyed business. | ||
| Bombshell research finally shows with New York, New Jersey, California, and Illinois all receiving an F minus grade. | ||
| Are you telling me that JB Pritzker of Illinois' brilliant plan to give $300,000 of federal COVID relief money to Black Lives Matter didn't make the virus go away? | ||
| I'm shocked. | ||
| No, because we learned that the Black Lives Matter protests reduced the spread of COVID. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So it made sense. | ||
| So if he gives that money to BLM, he's specifically giving it to groups that cannot spread COVID. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I guess the world's upside down. | ||
| None of it makes sense to me. | ||
| This is where we end up, man. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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| I don't know. | ||
| What do you think, John? | ||
| Well, I mean, you know, if they lock everybody down and the red states push back and they exercise their 10th Amendment and go, yeah, we're not locking down. | ||
| We're going to have the election as planned. | ||
| And all the blue states are locked down and nobody can get out and go vote. | ||
| Maybe that actually plays to the other side. | ||
| It's interesting, the boomerang effect and somewhat of the whiplash coming back. | ||
| How do you lock everybody down now knowing how much they hate it and still win an election? | ||
| Also, with people seeing the effects of the lockdown, this is part of why it was so important for them to try to scapegoat Putin and Russia. | ||
| This is part of why they had to say the inflation and the food shortages were his fault. | ||
| It was the result of a foreign adversary, not the fact that they printed trillions of dollars, not the fact that they shut the economy down for two years. | ||
| Because anyone who's really paying attention knows that this is only going to get a whole lot worse if we lock down. | ||
| Is there actually evidence that they're saying they're thinking about locking or shutting down? | ||
| Because I've seen masks. | ||
| I've seen masks. | ||
| If there was, I just didn't catch it. | ||
| What was the first thing they did in 2020? | ||
| Fifteen days to slow the spread. | ||
| Fifteen days of what? | ||
| Of like shutting down, I don't know, businesses or something. | ||
| Working from home, going home, shutting down. | ||
| Did they do masks before they shut everything down? | ||
| I can't remember. | ||
| They went back and forth on it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Right? | ||
| First there was no, you don't need them, and then you did need them. | ||
| But like you're saying- I think the masks were first. | ||
| The masks, I understand, but the shutting down, man, that's the poison. | ||
| We cannot do that to our economy. | ||
| No, it shut down first. | ||
| I know because I was on spring break with my kids when all that happened. | ||
| I'm sitting there in Floribama. | ||
| If you've never been there, go to Floribama, guys. | ||
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| The edge of Florida, Alabama. | ||
| Oh, it's the Redneck Riviera. | ||
| That's the heart of it right there. | ||
| But we were down there and I'm watching the news and then we get the email like three or four days into spring break that the schools are shut down. | ||
| You're not going back to school. | ||
| And all that started to happen. | ||
| All the interviews I was doing, concerts I was doing, they closed the door on you right out of the gate. | ||
| And then the mask was when they started letting you move around, but you got to have a mask or two masks or whatever it was. | ||
| Because I mean, the concert scene is everybody just went, bang, it was just over. | ||
| Well, if you're rich, you don't have to worry about any of it. | ||
| You don't want to wear a mask on a plane? | ||
| You have to worry about it in a different way. | ||
| Like, is the money that I have going to be valuable if the economy gets annihilated as a rich person? | ||
| That's the thought process. | ||
| Yeah, but they diversify their assets in ways that middle class people don't. | ||
| Yeah, Bill Gates bought a bunch of farmland. | ||
| Rich people buy land. | ||
| And so, yeah, they don't have to worry about it. | ||
| You don't have to worry about where their food comes from. | ||
| You might own land on paper, but if someone, an armed militia, goes there and sits on it, then you're going to have to take an armed militia to get them out of there. | ||
| And that's going to cost you probably more than the land is worth. | ||
| So it's also about other assets and other resources. | ||
| But just having a substantial amount of resources, you command access and power. | ||
| Depending on how you transfer it, what you trade, a diversified portfolio, or whatever you want to call it, wealth asset management. | ||
| For these people buying land, yeah, in the event that we do go more riotous because of lack of food, the property you own is meaningless. | ||
| You got a piece of paper that says your name on it, some dude kicks the door and says it's mine now, what are you gonna do about it? | ||
| Look how people were rioting before we had any food shortages, just because the media told them they should be upset. | ||
| Yeah, I think they were doing that because they didn't like being locked down. | ||
| The George Floyd riots, that thing, it was like it was an excuse to get out of the house and party. | ||
| Burning Man got cancelled, so let's do it on the street of New York. | ||
| Didn't they just cancel E3? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Yeah, I think E3 got canceled, and I'm wondering for what reason, but I think we might see lockdowns come again. | ||
| Because I don't know how else Democrats can even try to win. | ||
| But don't you think that the lockdowns would be bad for them politically? | ||
| How would that help them win? | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| I think that would be bad, but then I think they would get universal mail-in voting, and then in a completely unrelated story, I think then the Democrats will win. | ||
| Interesting, yeah. | ||
| Completely unrelated. | ||
| I think, you know, there'll be lockdowns. | ||
| You have weird coincidences sometimes. | ||
| Universal mail-in voting. | ||
| And then, uh, what happens is, uh, just... Oh, totally as an aside, other story. | ||
| I think Democrats win. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Just in general, in life. | ||
| Uh, they win. | ||
| Yeah, E3 was canceled. | ||
| I think for... Did you know why it was canceled? | ||
| Oh, I didn't know that, yeah. | ||
| So I'm wondering if it's COVID or if it's just something else. | ||
| Says it was years in the making. | ||
| Let's see that. | ||
| Years in the making. | ||
| E3 is that big video game conference and they announced it was canceled, so I see that and I'm like, whoa, what just happened? | ||
| But, you know, I haven't been hyper-focused on that because the world's falling apart. | ||
| You know how it goes, dude. | ||
| Do you think strong states that are led by conservatives would push back now that they know what they've known and you've got stories like that about what a fail, an F minus. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That they would go, no, we know it didn't work, we're not doing it. | ||
| But then what, Civil War? | ||
| The red states tell Joe Biden to shove off. | ||
| We're not listening. | ||
| Let's say the Democrats somehow manage to pull a win despite all of the evidence suggesting they'll lose. | ||
| And then with Senate and the House and the presidency, they go for universal nationwide restrictions or something like that. | ||
| Yeah, the red states might say no, but then what? | ||
| Well, I mean, you've still got 10th Amendment. | ||
| right you know the living laboratories of america it's one of my favorite praises where each each | ||
| state can do it their own way i mean you've seen de santis do it over and over he's flexing his | ||
| muscles down there going now we're not doing that and he just doesn't do it and the government goes | ||
| well then we're not going to send you any money he goes i don't need any money we have a surplus of | ||
| 18 billion dollars you don't need your money this is what we saw in the first lockdown when | ||
| joe biden was coming out giving these speeches it was obvious he wasn't talking to red states | ||
| He would say, you know, to America, we got to do these things. | ||
| And I'm like, the red states are doing none of those things. | ||
| So he's only addressing blue states at this point. | ||
| I don't, I don't, I don't know what ends up happening in terms of this country eroding and falling apart. | ||
| I certainly think we're there. | ||
| I was thinking about this. | ||
| I think we were driving somewhere recently, like we were out here in Nashville, we're driving around. | ||
| And I just, I think I was saying something to you, Ian, about how The left can be told that Joe Biden sniffs little girls and posted videos on it, and they'll say, I don't care. | ||
| I want you to hurt. | ||
| So they'll vote for Joe Biden, despite the fact that he's got a garbage career. | ||
| He's been, the press has written about his corruption over and over and over again. | ||
| They'll say, I don't care. | ||
| I want you to lose. | ||
| It's like, you're voting for a guy who sniffs little girls. | ||
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| Trump's gross too. | ||
| And it's like, It's like that kid that flips the table when he's losing a game of Monopoly. | ||
| I once saw a kid playing Pokemon at a tournament hit another kid with a Razor Scooter. | ||
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| That's what it's like. | ||
| You hear the rain? | ||
| Yeah, that rain got intense. | ||
| E3 was cancelled in the physical form because of COVID, according to them, and then they cancelled the actual event all around, and they said they're prepping for 2023. | ||
| They're gonna do it again. | ||
| So they shut down E3 because of COVID before any lockdowns or masks or what? | ||
| Why? | ||
| It's a complicated question with a lengthy answer, and I'm like, oh god, do I really want to do this? | ||
| It's a long article. | ||
| It means you're about to get lied to. | ||
| It's still talking about COVID halfway down the page. | ||
| It's probably COVID. | ||
| Just fear COVID, you know. | ||
| So John, you told us a story about being at this party with Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| I'm just wondering, you're here, you're speaking out, you seem rather fearless on these issues, but are there ramifications to being in mainstream U.S. | ||
| entertainment and challenging the establishment, smack-talking them? | ||
| As we say in the country, does a bear shit in the woods, right? | ||
| That's a big West Virginia saying as well. | ||
| Yeah, you know what happened with me was is I was becoming that guy that would yell at the TV. | ||
| But then I would go out at the industry events, a red carpet, an interview, whatever, and understand that the majority of people running our industry were absolutely hated people that thought like I think. | ||
| And so I would just shut my mouth, bite your tongue, don't say it in here, and just go back home and yell at the TV again. | ||
| And at some point, I felt like I was sacrificing my integrity. | ||
| Sacrificing my freedom of speech. | ||
| Why do we have these things? | ||
| Because hundreds of thousands of Americans have died and bled and sacrificed and did whatever it took to keep those freedoms alive. | ||
| That's why the lines are coming into the country and there's no lines going out because we have those freedoms and I'm gonna sit here and not say what's on my mind and speak what I know to be true because I'm afraid Somebody's not gonna give me an award or somebody's not gonna play my song at the radio station or whatever. | ||
| Yeah, that's the penalty. | ||
| But which one is bigger? | ||
| The founding fathers are walking out there going, hey, give me liberty or give me death. | ||
| That was not a bumper sticker. | ||
| That was not a hashtag. | ||
| That's what it took to get this country up and running. | ||
| And if they ever found those guys that signed the Declaration of Independence, they ever found them? | ||
| They're gonna hang them from a tree, burn their houses, kill their families, and erase them from the memory of the earth. | ||
| But now we're worried about somebody throwing us off of Twitter, or somebody calling us a bad name, or in my case, the music industry not giving me everything that I want to get out of it. | ||
| At some point, make a call. | ||
| Decide what's actually important to you. | ||
| Is your freedom of speech more valuable to you than the approval of the music industry? | ||
| That's where I got to. | ||
| Good times. | ||
| Got two little boys growing up and they're watching me. | ||
| And what if I'm dealing with this, what are they going to be looking at in about 15 or | ||
| 20 years? | ||
| So I'm the only example they have. | ||
| What did pop do when he ran into that when the government did this or tech did that or | ||
| businesses did this? | ||
| What did dad do? | ||
| Did he just yell at the TV and then go play ball? | ||
| Or did he actually say what he felt? | ||
| Was he the same guy all the time? | ||
| Did he take his hits? | ||
| Hell yeah, and he got scars, and lost money, and lost popularity with a lot of people, but what did he gain? | ||
| Self-respect, integrity, and he sleeps okay at night, not like Dad. | ||
| Good for you. | ||
| That's why I do it like that. | ||
| So here's my question, though. | ||
| Tremendous respect for all of that. | ||
| Do you fear, you know, they'll try to come after your kids, or you might put your kids at harm? | ||
| They better fear ever coming after my kids. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| It's a very good answer. | ||
| I'll let you come after me all you want to. | ||
| You leave my family alone. | ||
| We will die for our families. | ||
| We'll die. | ||
| If you said, John, you were them, snap your fingers and take me out of here. | ||
| I mean, right now, as my daddy would say, who's a quasi-Pentecostal-style prison preacher, that I would charge hell wearing my gasoline suit with my water pistol blazing. | ||
| If you ever jack with my family. | ||
| And that's what they don't understand in this country, these liberals and people running our country, that there is a fierce love and dedication and responsibility that we have as parents that you step over that line and you start messing with my kids. | ||
| There is no boundaries anymore between us. | ||
| You want full contact sport? | ||
| You want to raise the stakes on what you're doing to our kids and how you're, in my opinion, assaulting them in all these ways? | ||
| You're going to assault my kids? | ||
| Why don't you try to assault me one time? | ||
| I'm going to step in front of these little kids. | ||
| Now you're going to deal with a, with a grown ass man and a grown ass woman who got nothing to lose and don't care what you have to think about it. | ||
| This is where America's going. | ||
| Whatever look I have in my eye right now, cause I know, cause I know what I'm saying. | ||
| I'm feeling it down in my guts. | ||
| That is what tens of millions, if not more Americans are feeling right now, regardless of their politics, regardless of who they voted for or what they think about Trump or Biden. | ||
| You mess with our kids. | ||
| You've got a world of hurt coming your way this fall. | ||
| They're messing with kids. | ||
| Good for you, man. | ||
| You've got, you know, these teachers now bragging on social media about how they want to talk about their sex lives with children. | ||
| And it's the weirdest thing to me that they're trying to normalize the idea that 5, 6, 7, and 8-year-olds are talking to their teachers about their teachers' marriages or relationships. | ||
| That never happened for me when I was in those grades, because Florida is where the big conversation started, the Parental Rights and Education Bill. | ||
| When I was five, I remember the names of all my teachers. | ||
| Actually, I don't remember the name of my second grade teacher. | ||
| I'm sure someone in my family does. | ||
| But I remember these teachers. | ||
| I had no idea who they were married to. | ||
| I had no idea what they were doing. | ||
| I was five. | ||
| I was eight. | ||
| I was nine. | ||
| When I was 12 or 13, I learned about my teacher got married. | ||
| That's all I learned. | ||
| She was out one day, a substitute came in. | ||
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| Oh, she got married. | ||
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| Mm-hmm. | ||
| They didn't come into the classroom and say, I want to tell you all about my relationship with my husband in our honeymoon. | ||
| Never happened. | ||
| Yet now this is what they're saying. | ||
| Oh, but it's totally normal. | ||
| Like, I need to explain to these kids, like, what it means. | ||
| Well, you don't. | ||
| I mean, first of all, the parents can. | ||
| And this can be handled during normal sex ed if the parents think that's what the school should be doing. | ||
| But they're actually arguing for the right to have conversations with your kids about sexual issues in secret, telling those kids, don't tell your parents. | ||
| So this is happening. | ||
| Are you homeschooling? | ||
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| Do you want to? | ||
| No, because I found a school that won't put up with it. | ||
| And so that's where my kids go. | ||
| But let's just take that conversation out of the classroom, shall we? | ||
| Let's go to a public park and your kids are playing over by the monkey bars and a couple of adults walk up and start showing them those books with those pictures and having that conversation with them. | ||
| What would happen to those adults in that public park? | ||
| They would be arrested by the county. | ||
| They would be arrested and hauled off to jail. | ||
| So, if you look under the American Bar Association, when it goes into the word grooming, which is the big word right now, which is accurate in my opinion, it says, and 7th Circuit Court of Appeals actually has this perfect, please go look it up. | ||
| That it is not a defense to say that you are putting explicit pornographic or obscene material in front of a child under the guise of education. | ||
| It has already been stated. | ||
| It has already been solidified. | ||
| You do not get to hide behind the veil of education and that shields you from something that outside the school would be considered a felony. | ||
| This doesn't work that way. | ||
| So this game they're playing, the only way you short-circuit that is at some point, parents are gonna have enough of it and they're gonna go, you know what, did you show this to my kid? | ||
| Alright, turn around, put your hands behind your back. | ||
| Let's take it to the workplace. | ||
| I think it was Robbie Starbuck who tweeted this. | ||
| If you, if you talked to another co-worker about what these teachers are talking about, you would be sued for sexual harassment. | ||
| That's absolutely right. | ||
| Hands down. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I mean, because these books, some of them have shown relatively graphic images. | ||
| I wouldn't, like descriptive, instructional. | ||
| Pictorials. | ||
| Pictorials. | ||
| If you went to the workplace and, take a look at this book! | ||
| They'd be like, okay, I'm going to the boss. | ||
| The boss is going to be like, I'm letting you go. | ||
| Why are you showing these images? | ||
| But in a school to children, they're arguing it's okay. | ||
| Under the guise of education, what I'm telling you is that's already been established. | ||
| There's people have already tried to use that defense in the highest courts in our land, and they were not upheld. | ||
| Well, people need to go after these teachers and file suits, file charges, whatever they have to do. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| On top of that, another thing that people are failing to acknowledge here is that one of the core elements of grooming is trying to separate the child from their parents. | ||
| So by definition, having secret conversations with children, especially secret conversations about sexuality, is grooming. | ||
| And I think everything you just said a moment ago was put very beautifully and so many people in this country feel that way and I think the left is going to start to realize that they've really woken a sleeping giant because they're completely incapable of understanding other perspectives. | ||
| All they know and understand is obedience to the party line and loyalty to their sick set of principles and what their ideological allies tell them to believe. | ||
| I think many of them don't have close familial relationships which is part of why statistically they actually are more likely to experience mental health issues and so they can't comprehend the bonds that exist between good and healthy families. | ||
| They have no idea what's coming their way if they continue to push on this. | ||
| Well, I think if you go back in time, we were talking about several hundred years ago where the dad's armed, maybe he's got a single shot, you know, flintlock or something like that or a sword or a knife or something because you never know, you gotta defend yourself, your friends, your family. | ||
| People without families were much less likely to survive. | ||
| That's just, humans are social beings. | ||
| Our families and our tribes are how we survived, and that's why we have such a strong social desire to be a part of the culture and the tribe, because if you weren't, you didn't survive. | ||
| We now have an expanding society of family-less individuals. | ||
| They have some friends, they hang out, they're in their 30s, they're not in relationships, they're single, they live in apartments. | ||
| I gotta say, I don't think these people would survive the actual wilderness. | ||
| They're a product of the good times we've created and the security and the safety that allows this individual, ultra-individualist, you know, I guess, lifestyle. | ||
| Probably also a bunch of drug addicts on Adderall, Prozac, who knows, legalized pharmaceuticals so they're like distorted and aren't able to understand love with their mother. | ||
| You know, it comes from like, well, I didn't get along with her to begin with. | ||
| I'm like, come on, guys. | ||
| I'm just assuming a type of person, but there's a lot of legalized drugs out there that people are on. | ||
| Well I mean also statistically we know that children that come from two-parent homes fare better than children who don't. | ||
| They have absolutely destroyed and gutted the family. | ||
| It's been a very long-standing project on the left because they can't have competing power structures and they know that good Tightly knit families that genuinely love and care for each other and have a strong sense of loyalty, and parents who will legitimately protect their children, solve the problems that the state claims it needs to be in a position to solve, though it never solves them well. | ||
| It usually ends up creating more problems than it's addressing. | ||
| But, the point is, they're not gonna stop, right? | ||
| Like, they see your connection to your family as a threat. | ||
| Like, it is a threat to their way of life, and what they view is what's necessary for their survival. | ||
| They're not gonna stop. | ||
| Like, we have to stop them is the point. | ||
| They're not gonna stop themselves. | ||
| Let me give you guys a white pill. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| That's the optimism, right? | ||
| For sure. | ||
| The one that means things are not so bad. | ||
| Black Pill is the one that means things are bad. | ||
| Gandalf the White. | ||
| Alright, let me tell you guys about what I think is coming. | ||
| I think the future is going to be more conservative than this country's been in maybe like 70 or 80 years for one simple reason. | ||
| It has nothing to do with people waking up to politics. | ||
| It has nothing to do with young people being based. | ||
| It has everything to do with the fact that the left does not have children. | ||
| And if they do get pregnant, they are substantially more likely to abort their children. | ||
| Kill their baby, yeah. | ||
| So... | ||
| Back in the early 2000s, conservatives were having about two kids for every two parents, so it was stable. | ||
| Liberals were having 1.7 kids, so typically a family would have one kid, maybe two. | ||
| Now, we see in the polls that Gen Z is a tad bit more conservative than Millennials, but Millennials and Gen Z are still relatively progressive compared to Gen Xs and Boomers. | ||
| What happens in 20 years from today? | ||
| The birth rates collapsed, But conservatives still have a lot of kids. | ||
| Maybe less on average than they did before, but way more than liberals. | ||
| If liberals, if the left, can't indoctrinate children in schools, they cease to exist within maybe 40 years. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| It's necessary for their survival. | ||
| You know what happened when the Roman... And immigration. | ||
| When the Roman Empire failed and all the slaves were basically... When the Roman slave system ended, a bunch of those people went out to the farms and started working for the farmers and became their workers. | ||
| Uh, it's more nuanced than that and I would highly recommend, um, looking into this because if this happens, if this really, if the economy fails and all these people come out of the cities, these liberal weirdos that don't have families or whatever, they're going to be looking for work and they're going to be basically put down, put on the farm to get to work and they're going to be overseen and then they're going to be, you pay them whatever you want at that point. | ||
| Do you think they're useful enough to use on a farm? | ||
| Well, no, no, no, no. | ||
| I, I got to disagree, bro. | ||
| Like there's a lot of people in cities who could come and do basic farm work, but I tell this story all the time. | ||
| Let me ask you, John. | ||
| You remember Occupy Wall Street, I imagine? | ||
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| During Occupy Wall Street, a bunch of land was granted, farmland was granted to Occupy Wall Street. | ||
| And so a bunch of these young people were like, I want to get off the grid. | ||
| I want to be responsible for myself, sustainable, and not be a part of the, you know, carbon dioxide, corporate fossil fuel economy. | ||
| So they went to this farm to be totally off the grid sustainable. | ||
| How long do you think my friend made it? | ||
| Uh, I would say halfway through his first callus. | ||
| Wherever that came from. | ||
| Halfway through, my fingers hurt! | ||
| Halfway through his first blister. | ||
| Two weeks. | ||
| That's about, that's about, that's your first blister. | ||
| So I asked my friend, uh, two weeks later, you're back. | ||
| And they said, it sucked. | ||
| I woke up at 6am and I worked until 11pm. | ||
| I never had time to do anything. | ||
| It was just work, work, work. | ||
| If you want to eat, you got to work. | ||
| Then you had breakfast. | ||
| Then you worked again, then you had lunch. | ||
| Then you worked again, you had dinner. | ||
| And I was like, that's what survival sounds like, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I, you know, these people, Yeah, but when the owner of the house has rifles and you're in a fenced-in area and there's nowhere to get out and you chose to be there because you need food. | ||
| Like, I'm saying we might be on track to see another serfdom rise in this country. | ||
| Look, you're not going to be able to take entitled, gaunt millennials. | ||
| I'm not saying everybody's gonna make it either. | ||
| That's a good point then. | ||
| Because there's a lot of people in the States, of course they're capable. | ||
| I don't think they're as skilled or as learned as people in the countryside when it comes to basic country things. | ||
| Like the things I've learned just moving out of the cities over the past several years. | ||
| It's like, oh wow, I didn't know that. | ||
| We got chives growing in the backyard everywhere. | ||
| You just walk up, you pick them, you rinse them off, you eat them. | ||
| I'm like, I don't even know what you can or can't eat. | ||
| But the people out here are like, oh, here's what you can eat, here's what you can't eat. | ||
| They can just tell me right away. | ||
| So if one day the roads just, the roads were gone, and it was like, you're only gonna get food which you can find, they'd make it, I'd be in serious trouble. | ||
| So people in cities, there's a lot of smart people in cities, but they're not gonna know the first thing about how you grow crops. | ||
| You know what we did last year? | ||
| Remember those tomatoes we planted? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We planted all the tomatoes at once. | ||
| And then what happened? | ||
| I'm sad. | ||
| You get a lot of tomatoes and then you run out of tomatoes. | ||
| And we have like 80 tomatoes we couldn't eat. | ||
| And they get rotten. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Do you know how to can? | ||
| No. | ||
| Oh, you gotta learn how to can, man. | ||
| We do preserve. | ||
| Can, man. | ||
| No, you gotta learn how to can. | ||
| This is gonna be our party while we're out here. | ||
| You're just gonna teach us this stuff. | ||
| Canning party. | ||
| I'm gonna take you guys out to the hospital. | ||
| Canning party at Johnson. | ||
| But we make preserves. | ||
| That was fun. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| I got a mulberry tree. | ||
| Well, it's similar. | ||
| It's very similar to that. | ||
| You just put tomatoes in it next time. | ||
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| Or potatoes or whatever. | ||
| But I wanted to see your white pill and advance you one pill. | ||
| Because there's something I have, I think I've had a realization about, about what the future looks like when it comes to the conservative population. | ||
| All these kids who were forced to wear masks eight hours a day. | ||
| Day after day after day after day and hated every second of it. | ||
| And they saw their mother lose her job because she wouldn't take the vaccination. | ||
| And they saw their daddy lose his job because he wouldn't do XYZ that the government man was telling them to do. | ||
| And watch their lives get destroyed. | ||
| And watch their own person be violated. | ||
| Over and over and over, day after day, year after year now, I believe that they grow up and when they become of voting age, they remember What that was, and they go, they're not doing that to my kids. | ||
| I'm not voting for anybody that I ever think would have a shred of a chance of ever pressing down on us that hard again. | ||
| I will never vote for them. | ||
| It doesn't matter how liberal they might be or whatever. | ||
| They go, yeah, I'm not voting for that. | ||
| Cause this has been a horrific experience. | ||
| I mean, when I got two little boys, you see them little boys putting masks on their faces, see it going in and out and in and out. | ||
| You go to a basketball game and they're making kids wear masks, running up and down a basketball court. | ||
| Child abuse is what that is. | ||
| And that jacks with their brains. | ||
| I told my boys, you're not wearing a mask to school anymore. | ||
| All that the school said we had to, I said, I'm going to send the school a letter. | ||
| So you look up online and you go, is a mask considered a, uh, is it considered an experimental medical device? | ||
| Yes, it is. | ||
| Per the FDA, a mask is considered an experimental medical device when it comes to stopping the contraction of a virus. | ||
| It is on their website. | ||
| Go look it up. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Let's extrapolate on that. | ||
| Then do you have the permission? | ||
| Do you have the authority to coerce me into using an experimental medical device? | ||
| No, you don't. | ||
| Not if I don't give you permission to. | ||
| Well, then I don't give you permission to. | ||
| Well, you have to do it anyway, or we're going to punish you. | ||
| Oh, you know what that's in violation of? | ||
| Nuremberg Code? | ||
| I think it is. | ||
| Go read the exact language on that. | ||
| You are not allowed to force people to do something against their will, anything medically. | ||
| And if they don't do it, punish them for it. | ||
| And so I sent a little letter. | ||
| And spelled all that out and put the links on there and highlighted what it said right off the government websites and guess what I got five minutes later? | ||
| An opt-out form. | ||
| Oh, interesting. | ||
| An opt-out form. | ||
| They didn't want to have that fight. | ||
| Well, here's the issue I see. | ||
| I think there's a rudimentary view on masks. | ||
| I think masks work. | ||
| It's simple. | ||
| If you're gonna cough or spit on somebody, the mask will stop you from doing it. | ||
| But then there's questions about forcing everybody, even people who aren't sick, to be wearing one. | ||
| You know, we used to see all the time, people in Asian countries, if you get a cold, they put a mask on just so that they don't cough or spit on somebody. | ||
| That's simple. | ||
| I mean, that's basic logic. | ||
| But then they come in and they say, five-year-olds who may or may not be sick, we don't care, just they have to do it. | ||
| And then there's serious questions about, okay, well, what are you doing to the development of their mind if they can't see mouths move, if they can't see human expression while they're communicating at one of the most formative years of their lives? | ||
| When these kids aren't even sick. | ||
| Or, not only that, but they're substantially less likely to get sick. | ||
| I can certainly understand if a parent wants to make a choice for their kids. | ||
| That should be on the parents, not the government. | ||
| And this is why I just say the simple solution really is getting your kids out of these schools, getting them in pods. | ||
| But it sounds like you found a solution, which was an opt-out form that they... Well, so I think it goes back to the point that these people are generally bullies. | ||
| Whether it's talking about masking your kid up or it's talking about grooming them in a school room or whatever, they are not willing to go the full distance of what that fight actually looks like if we've got the backbone to take it there. | ||
| They don't want to go that far. | ||
| They don't want to go in a courtroom and have a, let's go back to the school that's being taught in the schools, hold up the book in front of a jury Read the state and federal statutes as to what it says about exposing kids to obscene material. | ||
| Then show the jury the pictures, read the jury the book, and ask the jury, are they guilty of violating these statutes? | ||
| They're going to go, of course. | ||
| Okay, judge, what's the penalty for violating the statute? | ||
| You're in big trouble. | ||
| Why isn't it happening though? | ||
| Because people are too afraid to stand up again. | ||
| And that is the problem with getting too blackmailed about this stuff. | ||
| Your average person goes around thinking, I know that what they're forcing on me is nonsense, but I can't make a difference. | ||
| But like you said, and like you were able to show in the situation with your kids in the school, if you stand up to these people, it's not always going to work out for you 100% of the time, but you're never going to know unless you try. | ||
| And the problem is nobody's trying. | ||
| Yeah, it sounds like the evidence that you accrued that you sent to them would be valuable to put public so that other people could grab the evidence and send it to their- Dude, I have a high school diploma. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I'm a self-taught, I read myself. | ||
| I can think on my own. | ||
| And I look at this and I go, that's got to be illegal to do that. | ||
| Surely that's illegal. | ||
| Well, let's just look. | ||
| And here you go. | ||
| And you can find volumes of information as to, yes, your gut instinct was correct. | ||
| Your common sense proves to be true again. | ||
| Here's all the ways that that's illegal. | ||
| And here's all the case law to back it up. | ||
| And here's what happens when somebody breaks that. | ||
| And you present that to the other side. | ||
| They do not want to have that fight out in the open. | ||
| I really appreciate what you just said a moment ago. | ||
| Like, I have a high school diploma. | ||
| There are so many people who are so over-educated, and then they can't even think to do the simplest possible thing when it comes to protecting their own children. | ||
| Yeah, it's an indoctrination camp. | ||
| That's a big part of why. | ||
| Public schooling and then the college industry, they want you to sit down, wait till you're called on. | ||
| I mean, Tim dropped out, you got out of high school, basically, and then what was your, you went to college, you went to an art college. | ||
| I did, yeah, I know. | ||
| Can you believe it? | ||
| Liv, what were you, did you do college, Lydia? | ||
| You were like homeschooled too for a long time, right? | ||
| Yeah, so I actually started to take classes that were the equivalent of prereqs for nursing, because I really liked biology and that kind of thing. | ||
| So there was no indoctrination there. | ||
| They're just like, here's what's up. | ||
| This is what's really happening. | ||
| I was wildly indoctrinated. | ||
| I had to break that mold every day. | ||
| I'm just ready to say yes and follow the leader, but it's not what I want. | ||
| So I have to fight against it. | ||
| It's funny because I went to Catholic school from kindergarten until the end of fifth grade, and I wouldn't even call any of that indoctrinating. | ||
| Like, they didn't even do a good job teaching me about Christianity. | ||
| Of course not, it was Catholic school. | ||
| They teach you how to learn, which is sit, raise your hand, don't speak unless you're called on, which first of all is like, are you kidding? | ||
| That stomps on creativity. | ||
| You need to let kids express themselves and be their best self. | ||
| And there's other ways, you know, wait and you can only go out, you can't leave the classroom unless you're allowed to go for IVF. | ||
| Maybe that's the part of the drift, right? | ||
| So even in a Catholic school, we see them now, many of these churches putting up BLM flags. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| So when I'm a kid, we had religion class, take out your religion book at 9am or whatever, and they wouldn't really actually teach us about the complex ideas around spirituality, faith, and the universe. | ||
| It was kind of just like, read the paragraph, I'll be reading my book. | ||
| We learn nothing. | ||
| I'll be collecting my salary at the end of the week. | ||
| Imagine if Catholic schools were as interested in teaching the students about Catholicism as public schools are at teaching kids to become transgender. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I say this to people as a Catholic. | ||
| If someone has a deep love for Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin and my faith, you can't assume that a Catholic school is going to be good for your kid. | ||
| In most instances, it won't be. | ||
| I'm a big advocate of homeschooling, probably because I've never done it. | ||
| being facetious i'm sure it's it's easy for someone who doesn't have kids but also i know i'm a huge advocate of homeschooling i think these institutions are are terrible there are some really good institutions you can still find but for the most part you can't say oh well it's like it's a catholic school therefore they're going to teach my kids good things So I grew up in Chicago with a fairly liberal family, but my mom still wanted to homeschool me and my siblings. | ||
| And then once, I went to Catholic school, kindergarten to fifth grade, then public school sixth to eighth. | ||
| Spent a couple months, freshman year of high school, and my parents pulled me out saying it was bad. | ||
| Went back to homeschooling. | ||
| We did a correspondence thing where my dad would come in every day, and this is when my parents were getting divorced, but my dad would come in. | ||
| What did you read about? | ||
| What did you learn? | ||
| Ask me questions. | ||
| Let's talk about it. | ||
| Me and my brother sped through the entirety of high school because we could go as fast as we wanted. | ||
| And I look at the school system as just corrupt for a lot of reasons, outside of what they're doing now with the creepy conversations with these children. | ||
| And they're like, we have to talk about our relationships and our significant others. | ||
| And I'm like, to five-year-olds? | ||
| That sounds really weird, you know? | ||
| But it's also just really bad. | ||
| They don't do a good job of actually teaching kids. | ||
| I believe that every human has potential. | ||
| That if you take a kid from anywhere, and you give them access to knowledge, and you teach them, and you show them, here's how you hammer a nail, here's how you, you know, build a bicycle, they're gonna learn that. | ||
| I still remember the cheat code from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 on Nintendo. | ||
| B-A-B-A, up, down, B-A, left, right, B-A, start. | ||
| Why do I remember that? | ||
| Because that game was awesome. | ||
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| I played that game for like, a few months of my life, and I'll never forget the code for level select in that game. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| I got 007-373-5963 is the password to get to Mike Tyson, and Mike Tyson's a punch-out. | ||
| You see? | ||
| Now, what if, as kids, instead of learning that stuff, we were taught something... Like language, for instance. | ||
| Multiple languages, how about? | ||
| What happens when you go to a school and you got a kid who's ready to learn and absorb information, and they just waste their time? | ||
| They talk about nonsense and politics. | ||
| These kids are gonna grow up without critical thinking skills. | ||
| And not just waste their time, but groom them. | ||
| And then on top of that, let's say we had public schools which functioned effectively and were really teaching kids the things they needed to be taught. | ||
| The idea that you're going to sit a kid in a desk for six hours a day and end up having any kind of productive outcome from that is insane. | ||
| Yeah, they make the smart kids wait. | ||
| I used to stare at the clock and just wait to be done because I was like, what are you doing? | ||
| I want to talk about grooming a little bit because it doesn't have to be, firstly, I don't think it has to be sexual. | ||
| You can groom someone to be a psychopath to do other bad things. | ||
| And it doesn't have to be non-parents. | ||
| I think parents can groom their kids to do evil things if they're bad people. | ||
| Yeah, here's the fascinating thing is there's this big like the big push now from the left is they're saying uh parents are are grooming kids into heterosexuality by talking about like marriage and things like that and i was like okay let me let me just make this clear uh the parental rights and education bill prevents a teacher from talking to a five-year-old about traditional marriage i mean the bill does that and then you can't encourage the kid to keep it a secret So no, that's a ridiculous argument. | ||
| It's not happening. | ||
| The reality is, people are just like, hey, I don't want you talking to my kids about adult content, adult issues. | ||
| It's not for you to decide. | ||
| Also, one thing that we just have to be able to acknowledge is, if you think that's even remotely true, your brain just doesn't work properly. | ||
| Telling a child that they can someday grow up and get married and have a family is absolutely not equivalent to trying to encourage them to engage in sexually depraved behaviors when they're older, or render themselves infertile with experimental hormones. | ||
| But I'm not even going that far. | ||
| I'm taking their position on this, where it's like, a guy says, My kids might ask me, you know, my students might ask me about having a boyfriend. | ||
| And it's like, yeah, that's not banned. | ||
| You can literally be like, yes, it's a photo of my boyfriend. | ||
| Now, if you want to understand, but you're a boy too, well, maybe you should talk to your parents and they can help you understand these more adult concepts. | ||
| And the kid will say, okay. | ||
| And that's it. | ||
| Instead, they're like, let me tell you about all of it. | ||
| That's not... If the kid's confused or doesn't understand because they're not exposed to it, you just simply say, maybe it's something your parents should talk to you about. | ||
| I'm not here to teach you about that stuff, but, you know... It's the guys of education. | ||
| That's all this is. | ||
| They are hiding behind the guys and the excuse of, and the shield of, they think, education. | ||
| If you take the same exact situation, same exact scenario, same exact people, And you put them out in a public park, or you put them at a mall, or you put them over at somebody's house, or whatever, and the same exact thing went down, you would have the right to go after those people. | ||
| I feel like the politicians are wrecking the economy under the guise of politics. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They're just a bunch of people that have done a really horrible, horrible thing to us in the last couple years. | ||
| I think, I think Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, they're just, they're just, they should have retired a long time ago. | ||
| They're passively letting the Federal Reserve annihilate our economy. | ||
| It's not, no, no, I get that, but what I'm saying is... In addition to this other stuff. | ||
| I mean, look, at what age do you retire from baseball? | ||
| 38? | ||
| 40? | ||
| 41? | ||
| If there's one thing we've learned, to the left, age is just a number. | ||
| Yeah, that's tricky. | ||
| Do you guys remember when I think it was Snapchat had a sticker that said, love has no age? | ||
| Disgusting. | ||
| Yeah, and then it got polled because people were like, what does that mean? | ||
| I do believe there's solar age, it's how many times your body's been around the sun, but then there's your genetic age, and some people age faster and slower depending on how much damage you're doing to your telomeres. | ||
| My point is just simply, In any other industry, all of these people would have retired. | ||
| Not every single one, but like Pelosi? | ||
| Dianne Feinstein? | ||
| Joe Biden? | ||
| Come on. | ||
| You know, it's about time. | ||
| They should have retired 20, 30 years ago. | ||
| Why do they have power? | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| I mean, it's the system. | ||
| It's the system we built, that our ancestors built, that we can vote a popularity contest to put someone in forever. | ||
| It's the apathy of the people. | ||
| We are too comfortable. | ||
| Everything is too good. | ||
| So people just stopped paying attention. | ||
| The left stopped paying attention. | ||
| The Democrats stopped paying attention. | ||
| And then the woke nonsense came in and they just adopted it and said, fine, we'll use it. | ||
| The right stopped paying attention and they let the cultural institutions get taken over by woke left insanity. | ||
| And here we are. | ||
| That now that's a tidal wave that's coming though is on the local level. | ||
| I can tell you right here in Middle Tennessee, every single county in Middle Tennessee has parents and grandparents who are running for school board positions, county commissioners, you name it, all the way up and down the tickets. | ||
| And they, these guys are running for the hills. | ||
| They don't know what to do because the parents are so fired up that the schools won't listen to them. | ||
| And are just running roughshod over their rights as parents. | ||
| They're just going, well, I'm a stay-at-home mom, but I'm running for the school board. | ||
| My name's Sally. | ||
| Vote for me. | ||
| And they're like, I'll vote for you, Sally. | ||
| No problem. | ||
| I'm telling you, this is happening all over the U.S. | ||
| They're gonna turn these little local situations upside down. | ||
| And I don't think they'll ever get their power back. | ||
| Because we have been asleep. | ||
| We've been asleep a long time. | ||
| We just assume that We just assumed that, well, you know, they gotta be good people because they're on the school board. | ||
| They care about kids, right? | ||
| That seems like an easy thing to do. | ||
| Yeah, but that's not true. | ||
| They had another agenda as to why they wanted to be on the school board. | ||
| And now we're all learning that, and so regular old people are standing up and flipping it around. | ||
| I'd love to be on my kids' school board. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| When your kids like you, and they see you at school, it improves their mood, and then they become more popular and well-liked at school. | ||
| They're like, that's your dad? | ||
| That's awesome, man! | ||
| You know what works for... | ||
| TimCasts, for our company, I encourage people, and within reason, to bring their kids into work when they can. | ||
| I want their kids to see what work looks like. | ||
| I want them to interact with adults. | ||
| I think you should treat kids like adults, within reason, obviously. | ||
| You can cuss at an adult, you can get in an argument with them, you can show them certain things you wouldn't show a kid, but you talk to them on matters age-relevant, as if they were adults. | ||
| So if they say hey, what is this if Ian said, you know, how do I how do I fix the mic? | ||
| I'll be like, okay take the XLR plug it that's the cable right there. | ||
| I would I wouldn't say to the kid Okay, this is a microphone a microphone. | ||
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No. | |
| No, you just talk to him like normal so they can learn I like it when the kids can come in first of all, it's fun We've got ski ball, we've got a skate park, and I want them to be like, this is exciting. | ||
| I want kids to look up to success and say, if I work hard and I believe in myself, I can accomplish cool stuff too. | ||
| I can be respected. | ||
| I can have fun. | ||
| And I want them to see real working adults interact with each other. | ||
| Here's trade. | ||
| Here's money being exchanged. | ||
| Here's, I need this job done. | ||
| Here's how you help chickens. | ||
| Here's how you clean the floors. | ||
| So that's what I really like. | ||
| I think that's infinitely more valuable than what schools do. | ||
| My family owned a business when I was a kid, and that's what I saw. | ||
| I saw adults talking about politics. | ||
| They talked to me, they didn't care that I was a kid, and they'd be like, I just, I got to learn from real people. | ||
| Real, you know. | ||
| I can tell you some of the stuff I tell my boys, uh, is, you want to play baseball? | ||
| I want to play baseball. | ||
| I want to be in the MLB. | ||
| Ten years old. | ||
| I go, alright. | ||
| He goes, and there's this bat, it's called a Marucci bat, and that's like the best bat you could possibly get. | ||
| He's not on the team yet. | ||
| I said, I'll tell you what. | ||
| I'll get you that Marucci bat. | ||
| You go pick out the best glove that you want and that's it. | ||
| I can't get you on the team and I cannot hit a home run for you and I cannot catch a flat ball for you. | ||
| You got to go out in the backyard and take a hundred swings a day on that thing off that tee. | ||
| You got to get on the team. | ||
| I can't. | ||
| If you don't make the team, that'll be terrible. | ||
| You know, I'd hate it for you, but that's how this goes. | ||
| So, here's the best bat. | ||
| Here's the best glove. | ||
| Go make the team. | ||
| Yeah, my dad did that too. | ||
| He got me the Martin Dreadnought. | ||
| He gave it to me when I was wanting to learn how to play. | ||
| He was like, if you're going to learn a trade, get the best tool you can for it and learn it with that. | ||
| Yep, but it's on you to go do it. | ||
| And there's no lining. | ||
| You're not gonna walk up to the coach and be like, I'm the best player you've ever seen, and he'll be like, you're on the team then. | ||
| No, he's gonna be like, prove it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And you can only prove it by doing it. | ||
| Yeah, when the kid strikes out at the game, you go, well, how many swings did you take on the tee this week in the backyard? | ||
| None. | ||
| He was on your iPad the whole time, right? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Well, it sucks tracking out in front of all your friends, doesn't it? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I go, well, if you don't want to feel like that again, maybe I'll go out there and swing it. | ||
| But that's on you. | ||
| I don't care if you're an MLB or not. | ||
| I just want you to be good at whatever you do. | ||
| If you want to be good at baseball, go swing baseball bats. | ||
| And so he goes, okay. | ||
| And so, you're right about kids. | ||
| People underestimate kids like they don't understand it. | ||
| They understand better than most adults because their mind's not cluttered up with all this nonsense that we all have. | ||
| It's very clear to them what you're saying. | ||
| You should treat them with respect when you talk to them. | ||
| All right, let's go to Super Chats. | ||
| If you have not already, smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show, click the share button if you really do like it, and head over to TimCast.com. | ||
| We're going to have that members-only show coming up around 11 or so p.m. | ||
| Eastern Time, so you don't want to miss that. | ||
| And I'm saying Eastern Time because we're in Central Time right now, so just so everybody knows, but a lot of people are often like, what time zone are you in? | ||
| We're currently in Central, but it'll be up 11 p.m. | ||
| Eastern. | ||
| Let's read some of these super chats. | ||
| We got Paul Thongham says, you guys should have people from China Uncensored on again to talk about Shanghai and their zero COVID policy. | ||
| That would be amazing. | ||
| We'll definitely look into that. | ||
| Shock the Kazba says, hey John, I've played your club in Nashville, even saw your bus. | ||
| I've given the cabinets a thumbs up. | ||
| I give the cabinets a thumbs up. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| What's the club? | ||
| Redneck Riviera, downtown at 3rd and Broadway. | ||
| I gotta go. | ||
| It's got an American flag and a Gadsden flag flying right over the top. | ||
| If you're a vet or active duty or first responder, first drinks on the house, we've given away probably 10,000 cocktails so far. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Come see my bar when you're in town. | ||
| So cool. | ||
| That's cool. | ||
| All right, Murph Try says, I let my kids watch Chicken City on Saturday. | ||
| Today, my two-year-old would crow like a rooster. | ||
| Then from the other side of my house, my five-year-old would yell, chicken party! | ||
| Peter, the great work you guys. | ||
| Here comes the next hit piece. | ||
| Like, is Tim Pool, is Sir Timothy Cass turning children into chicken wannabes with his programming? | ||
| I've got some... Is it a bad influence? | ||
| Some far-left activist is, like, posting screenshots from our vlog channel, which is, like, skateboarding, rollerblading, um... And hand-faking cookies. | ||
| Interrogation techniques, you know, the usual. | ||
| It's like making cake, making, getting a cake for Ian's birthday, and they're like, look at the fart, right? | ||
| Love what look at this the people supporting them and it's like a guy playing guitar and singing it's like someone singing kumbaya and i'm like yo you've lost it exactly well and i'm gonna say something that if they were ever gonna act on would be like you know bad for us but they're too stupid to uh it's actually really good for us that they're doing that because the whole point of the vlog is we're just trying to show people you can Have fun, build culture, etc. | ||
| while still being conservative, or at the very least not on the left. | ||
| And so for them to try to make it sound like it's scary that we're doing everyday normal things is just going to make us seem more appealing and likable to an audience. | ||
| It feels like people are throwing pebbles at a rocket ship as it's taking off. | ||
| And it's like, you know, throws me off. | ||
| But also, you look like a lunatic when you do that. | ||
| Yeah, and history will show that, so stay strong and keep going. | ||
| I can only imagine the advertisers are getting these emails from people like, look at what you're supporting! | ||
| And it's like someone playing a guitar for chickens, and they're like, I really don't understand how this is bothering anybody. | ||
| High-fiving, tipping really well when we go out there. | ||
| Did they just show them Tim's ad-friendly chicken show? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Like, look at this! | ||
| Chickens! | ||
| All right. | ||
| And it's chickencitylive.com now. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Oh, great. | ||
| So it's only, we've only been hitting good super chats for the past week, but at the current rate, it will be one of the highest grossing super chat shows in the world. | ||
| Because of how just ridiculous people are just throwing money at the chickens, they love it. | ||
| You get the chicken party. | ||
| This is a sinister fart, you're right. | ||
| The interactive super chat thing is incredible. | ||
| You give five bucks, treats come down, the chickens all run to get it. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| It builds up to a hundred dollars and then the sky egg releases the goods? | ||
| We increase the duration of the parties. | ||
| They're over a minute now. | ||
| I'm so glad. | ||
| And so the chickens go nuts. | ||
| Yeah, they come running when they hear the music. | ||
| I have a chicken song. | ||
| Are you serious? | ||
| It's called I Play Chicken with the Train. | ||
| Cowboy Troy. | ||
| Go look up Cowboy Troy I Play Chicken with the Train. | ||
| You want a real slammin' country rock and rap song for your chickens. | ||
| I'm just saying it would be an honor to have our song appear in the Super Chat. | ||
| The next plan was we were going to create a shuffle mix. | ||
| So every chicken party is a different song. | ||
| And I was like, we need to rap one. | ||
| We could do country rap. | ||
| We could rock. | ||
| We got dance. | ||
| You got to use that screaming chicken party intro to all of them. | ||
| If these chickens end up having too many parties, they're just going to become depraved. | ||
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Are they going to get fat? | |
| They're not going to be able to survive. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Good times create weak chickens. | ||
| So, you know, we don't give them that much treats. | ||
| Only maybe like, I think like 10 mealworms fall out at a time. | ||
| And there's, what, 14 chickens? | ||
| So they all rush to get them. | ||
| But I gotta be honest, the chicken parties, there might be like 30 or 40 that come out, and people keep doing it, so I'm like... I know, because the other option would be to raise the cost of the chicken parties up, because the more people that come, otherwise it's going to be a chicken party 24-7, which I'm not against. | ||
| Well, I got an idea. | ||
| I got an idea. | ||
| Then you have a chicken rehab show. | ||
| Yeah, a chicken rehab show. | ||
| Here's my idea. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| A drama reality show. | ||
| Here's my idea. | ||
| Poultry rehab. | ||
| My idea is right now we're using very rudimentary code, but I would love to get dynamic code where when the chicken meter fills all the way up, it doesn't just trigger. | ||
| It starts at 100 and then counts down to zero. | ||
| So the party goes on for the duration of the meter, which means while the party is happening, if you super chat, it'll bounce back up and keep partying. | ||
| Oh, good idea. | ||
| So then people could keep throwing money to keep the party going. | ||
| Keep the party going! | ||
| And people will be like... | ||
| Alright, let's read some more superchats. | ||
| We got Yofet. | ||
| He says, Hey guys, question for Mr. Rich. | ||
| Does he have another collab in the works with Mike Rowe? | ||
| Oh, cool. | ||
| Me and Mike have been talking about that actually. | ||
| Thanks for asking. | ||
| We did a Christmas song called Santa's Got a Dirty Job. | ||
| Because Mike Rowe does a great job, right? | ||
| So I was hanging out with Mike and I said, he's got this great voice. | ||
| People don't realize Mike Rowe sang opera for like 12 years. | ||
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What? | |
| He's a phenomenal singer. | ||
| Phenomenal singer. | ||
| So he goes, that'd be great, John. | ||
| You should write a Christmas song. | ||
| So I wrote it and he came to Nashville. | ||
| We recorded it. | ||
| We put it out. | ||
| And this song, I was telling you before we went on, This song went number one on the sales chart across all genres and knocked Adele out of number one for eight days when her new record had just come out. | ||
| So you know they're sitting over there in London, New York going, Mike Rowe and John Rich, Santa's got a dirty job. | ||
| Adele's at number two for eight days. | ||
| This is, poor Adele, this keeps happening. | ||
| Remember the article we were reading about how the Let's Go Brandon song knocked Adele out of first place? | ||
| And this left-wing journalist was super upset about it? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| All right, Matthew Hammond says, I thought country music was safe until I started hearing some big acts coming out for gun control after Sandy Hook. | ||
| How do we keep these ideas out of our culture? | ||
| Boycotts? | ||
| Better ideas. | ||
| There's quite a void, a gulf between the music industry, the country music industry and the country music audience. | ||
| I mean, massive. | ||
| And every now and then you'll hear somebody poke up and say something from the industry side and the fans go, I don't think so. | ||
| Well, that's only happened a couple of times because they understand what the backlash is like. | ||
| But in reality, a lot of the people on music row here in Nashville, not all, but many, majority, They would be the ones that would call those people out there that listen to country music, the deplorables. | ||
| Anybody that voted for Trump, there have been major record producers in Nashville that after Trump was elected, the guy walks in, he's got all these musicians sitting in a room in a big session, he goes, if anybody voted for Trump, raise your hand. | ||
| Two guys raised their hand, and he fired them on the spot and kicked them out of the studio. | ||
| I mean, that's the culture now of Music Row. | ||
| It's not the culture of a lot of the artists, but it is a culture of the industry. | ||
| Well, take a look at, uh, you're familiar with what happened with The Offspring and their drummer? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Pete Parato? | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| He's, he's, we got him, he got, he's recording tracks with us. | ||
|
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Good. | |
| And it is a, it is a childhood dream come true. | ||
| On the one where you said the high, who was singing the highs? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's Pete Parato on the drums. | ||
| He's so good. | ||
| Yeah, he's incredible. | ||
| So, uh, I'm a kid playing Offspring covers and he's, he's, he was their, I think, I think maybe their second drummer or maybe their third. | ||
| I think it's third. | ||
| Cause they had an early drummer who wasn't there for that long. | ||
| And, uh, he plays with them for almost two decades and then they disrespect him like that, that, you know, he, he, he couldn't get vaccinated because of, uh, uh, Guillain-Barre syndrome. | ||
| And then I, we ended up meeting him. | ||
| He says, yeah, I'll definitely roll some tracks with you. | ||
| Now I get the privilege, the honor of getting to record songs with this, this, you know, he's so good. | ||
| The way he slides across the head of the drum. | ||
| I mean, I don't know why he's, I mean, musical outlaws were always the ones who went against what the government said to do. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How punk? | ||
| Those were the actual outlaws that said, well, you know, I don't think so. | ||
| And they would buck the system. | ||
| Now it's the other way where all the tough guys out there, the Bruce Springsteens and so forth are out there going, you better do everything the government tells you to do. | ||
| Or, you can't come to my concert if you don't follow it to the letter. | ||
| I'm like, what happened to outlaw musicians? | ||
| What happened to the rambunctious punk rock? | ||
| Hey, take two of these and call me in the morning attitude from all of our American artists. | ||
| Where did that go? | ||
| It's almost like now the conservative artists are the new outlaws. | ||
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It's weird. | |
| It's so crazy. | ||
| Alright, Dean Sherwood says, long time watcher for Super Chat. | ||
| I really enjoy the trailer shows. | ||
| Please ask John about the song 8th of November. | ||
| Heartbreaking. | ||
| Loved you guys at WeFest 2019. | ||
| Come back soon. | ||
| So what is 8th of November? | ||
| 8th of November, one of the great things about country music is we get to write songs about actual people, actual places, actual events. | ||
| Put them into a song, put them out, and they actually get played. | ||
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Oh my gosh. | |
| Like it's real as a heart attack. | ||
| So this song is about a Vietnam veteran, Big Kenny and I met in South Dakota, Deadwood, South Dakota, outside of Sturgis. | ||
| He was our bartender. | ||
| This was before we had had a record deal. | ||
| And this guy tells us a story about a battle, November 8th, 1965, the first major ambush of Vietnam. | ||
| All 27 out of 30 guys were killed except this one guy and two others, but they shot him up so bad that he went to Walter Reed for two years getting over his injuries. | ||
| He limped out of Walter Reed and guess what this guy does? | ||
| He signs up and does three more tours of Vietnam for the United States Army and then retires back in his home state of South Dakota. | ||
| He's telling us his story. | ||
| And I said, dude, you're an actual legit American hero. | ||
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Yes. | |
| He goes, I ain't no hero, man. | ||
| The ones that didn't come back are the real heroes. | ||
|
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Wow. | |
| So we wrote this song the 8th of November. | ||
| We took him all the way back to the... We had former communist Vietnamese guys take us back up to Mekong Delta and out into these fields into a crater that was made by one of our bombs right in the field where all those guys got slaughtered. | ||
| Took him down in there, had a shot of whiskey, sang the 8th of November. | ||
| It's on YouTube if you look up 8th of November documentary. | ||
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Wow. | |
| You'll find it. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| But that's what country music really is to me. | ||
| That's why I make it because I can experience something real and I don't have to filter it. | ||
| I can just tell you about this incredible guy or tell you about this incredible situation and the fans eat it up and they love it because even though it's not their granddaddy, not their uncle, it reminds them of the people in their family that they love so much. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Great song. | ||
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Beautiful. | |
| Can I ask you something? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Which country artist inspired you the most? | ||
| I think the greatest singer-songwriter that ever lived was Johnny Cash. | ||
| I think, and the reason I say that is because he could say more with fewer words than anybody that ever put a pencil to the page. | ||
| If you write out the lyrics to a Johnny Cash song, it'll take up a third of the page and that's it. | ||
| That's the whole song. | ||
| But it's a tidal wave and Mount Everest of information and feeling that comes out of that. | ||
| It's like in the way it vibrates right here in his chest as it's coming out, and you can kind of hear the emotions in him. | ||
| He was so effective in everything that he did and so powerful and never duplicated. | ||
| One of the problems I have with modern music is I say it sounds like it went to the school of redundancy school. | ||
| I can just interchange the artist and interchange a lot of the songs. | ||
| But back in the day, you know, you had real characters that there's only one Dolly Parton. | ||
| Do you think it's auto-tune? | ||
| Like auto-tune that homogenizes the industry? | ||
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Or maybe pharmaceuticals? | |
| No, I think it's our culture that homogenizes them. | ||
| It's what we've been talking about this entire podcast, that this system, this machine that's in place is trying to break out any individuality whatsoever. | ||
| Break it down, flush it out, get rid of it. | ||
| Everybody's got to think the same way, do the same thing. | ||
| And when those kids grow up and start making music, that's kind of how they think. | ||
| They don't really have the nerve to step outside of the box and take chances. | ||
| Alright, we got Amanda who says, Today is my daughter Sophia's 7th birthday. | ||
| She watches your show. | ||
| Can you please wish her a happy birthday? | ||
| Happy birthday, Sophia! | ||
| Nice job, Sophia. | ||
| Happy 7th birthday. | ||
| Congratulations. | ||
| You did it! | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Dallas Smith says, ask John if he's still friends with, is that Lilia? | ||
| Stepanova, I was friends with her in high school and she claimed to be close friends with you. | ||
| She's the OG barefoot beau contortionist. | ||
| If so, tell her I said hey, love your work by the way. | ||
| I have not talked to her in a long time, but that's a pretty incredible person. | ||
| Yeah, she can do. | ||
| You meet so many people out on the road. | ||
| I'm 48. | ||
| I took off on the road at 18 years old. | ||
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Wow. | |
| I've been going the whole time. | ||
| If there's, like I said, a town more than 20,000 people, I've probably played at least twice. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Did you do Blossom Music Center? | ||
| You were a player over there? | ||
| What's that? | ||
| Up in Akron? | ||
| Blossom Music Center? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| That's my hometown. | ||
| That's big country music territory. | ||
|
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Yeah, man. | |
| That's my blood. | ||
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All right. | |
| Wayne Shannon says, check out the survival podcast.com. | ||
| Learn to live a better life. | ||
| If times get tough, or even if they don't, I've been listening to Jack science, or Jack since 2012. | ||
| It's changed my life. | ||
| It says science, but I think when people do voice to text, things like that happen. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Phillip Hughes says, question for John, are you going to take Tim on a sightseeing tour of Nashville in your Cadillac convertible like you did Ben Shapiro? | ||
| I washed it yesterday, Tim. | ||
| Maybe, maybe. | ||
| It's a 68 Cadillac DeVille convertible. | ||
| That is the slickest thing you've ever seen. | ||
| It would be my honor to put, it's got a giant backseat too, put all you fellas in that sucker. | ||
| Oh, beautiful. | ||
| Take you right down Broadway, hooping and hollering, pull right up in front of Redneck Riviera, and let's get you on stage to jam a little bit with one of the bands. | ||
| When can we do it? | ||
| Saturday? | ||
| You tell me when. | ||
| I know a guy that's got a Cadillac and a bar. | ||
| I'd be happy to take you. | ||
| I'm totally down. | ||
| Or I also have a Smokey and the Bandit car. | ||
| You might want that one. | ||
| Whichever one you think is the best, we could do Saturday. | ||
| Theoretically, we could do Thursday or Friday afternoon. | ||
| They close at 11, though. | ||
| 11 p.m. | ||
| Central Time. | ||
| What does? | ||
| I was looking at the hours and I was like, I'd really like to go to this bar. | ||
| It looks like they close at 11. | ||
| Well, my bar, if we know we're going, it does not close. | ||
| Oh, of course. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| In the afternoon. | ||
| In between my morning show and night show. | ||
| Or just Saturday. | ||
| You know, Nashville is a drinking town with a music problem, so just be very aware of that before you go downtown. | ||
| Yo, when we walked around, I think Sunday, through Nashville, it is the greatest downtown I've ever been to in my life. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I love music. | ||
| I've been playing music my whole life. | ||
| New York is random. | ||
| There's different neighborhood pockets, and it's just you gotta find the place. | ||
| Chicago, it's all business downtown. | ||
| There's art museums and stuff like that. | ||
| Los Angeles doesn't have a downtown. | ||
| When I come to Nashville, I'm like, it's live music. | ||
| You walk up to one bar restaurant, You can hear live music. | ||
| You walk 10 feet. | ||
| Totally different song playing. | ||
| Different artists. | ||
| And I'm like, this is amazing. | ||
| Both sides of the street. | ||
| All the doors are open. | ||
| It's stereo coming back and forth. | ||
| And listen, we open up at Redneck Revere at about 9.30 in the morning. | ||
| We close at 2.30 at night. | ||
| And there are live music literally all day long and into the night. | ||
| People come here from all over the world to hear that talent. | ||
| And the talent comes here from all over the world. | ||
| They come here from everywhere. | ||
| We got a girl from England that's over here. | ||
| We got a band from Australia that moved to Nashville that's playing at my bar. | ||
| It's an incredible place to visit. | ||
| What's the capacity for the stage and everything? | ||
| I've got three floors. | ||
| I've got a rooftop bar, so it depends on which floor you're on too. | ||
| I think people might come if we do this on Saturday. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Let's do it. | |
| Let's do it. | ||
| I think a lot of people might show up. | ||
| Like we say in Nashville, don't threaten me with a good time. | ||
| I'll be, I'll be, that would be amazing. | ||
| I'd love to play some songs. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Rock and roll. | ||
| Hang out. | ||
| Seamus, will you be there? | ||
| I won't be there. | ||
| Traveling for Easter. | ||
| That's right. | ||
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That's right. | |
| I'll scream your name out. | ||
| Thank you, Ian. | ||
| I'll zoom in with my harmonica. | ||
| Perfect, yes. | ||
| All right, let's grab some more. | ||
| Busted Knuckle says, I live in Rio. | ||
| Last census was 250K. | ||
| I know my family will be okay, but the way Amarillo is... Amarillo, is it? | ||
| Amarillo. | ||
| Amarillo. | ||
| ...is I fear the city folk will destroy it if it goes bad. | ||
| People here won't take it well. | ||
| We're already pissed off. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| All right, let's jump down and grab some more Super Chats. | ||
| We're having too good of a time here. | ||
| You guys rock out there. | ||
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Yeah, seriously. | |
| The super jets are right in front of me now with this setup. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| Grim Reaper said, here's another reason to have a 30 plus mag. | ||
| Bores travel in packs, hit one and doesn't fall. | ||
| Off the first time hit, off the first hit, the will all charge and tear apart a human. | ||
| You need every round to save your life hunting. | ||
| You ever see that viral tweet where the guy said, 30 to 50 feral hogs coming through my yard? | ||
| And all of these, you know, gun control liberals laughed at him and mocked him. | ||
| And then all of a sudden articles pop up saying, actually, yeah, hogs are a serious problem in many areas. | ||
| Yeah, they overpopulate everywhere. | ||
| Yeah, they're terrible. | ||
| But these people live in cities are like, oh, 30 hogs. | ||
| And feral hogs will kill you. | ||
| Yes, they're as dangerous as anything ever was. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I heard regular farm pigs will kill you. | ||
| They will. | ||
| Like when you walk into the pig pen they'll start nipping at your heels and your legs and you gotta like push them back with sticks. | ||
| Those boars got tusks just like that. | ||
| You know pigs will eat each other. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| I mean they are mean boys. | ||
| I just watched a pig crush a chicken bone. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I didn't know that but you give them a chicken bone. | ||
| It's like a redneck hippopotamus. | ||
| It is, that's great. | ||
| Oh, that's awesome. | ||
| No, people don't realize they're dangerous animals. | ||
| They are, yeah. | ||
| I mean, Dorothy fell in the pig pen in Wizard of Oz, remember? | ||
| And they all freaked out because they knew the pigs are going to eat Dorothy. | ||
| You know what it is? | ||
| There is just a complete lack of respect for nature. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's true, man. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The Terror Bird is one of the ones. | ||
| Look up the Terror Bird. | ||
| That thing used to exist. | ||
| You ever hear of the Terror Bird? | ||
| It's like this nine foot tall vulture looking ostrich bird that used to hunt humans. | ||
| Or if we're going with extinct animals, man. | ||
|
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Oh my goodness. | |
| I don't want to derail too far. | ||
| Why do you need a rocket launcher, Tyrannosaurus Rex? | ||
| That's right. | ||
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All right. | |
| Andrew Hobson says, thanks for a horse of a different color. | ||
| It made my childhood and many road trips. | ||
| Also, Tim has radicalized me. | ||
| I thought I was pro 2A because I wanted a select fire rifle, but after hearing you, I would want a military warship if I could afford it. | ||
| Dreams are free, I guess. | ||
| Back in the day, people had warships. | ||
| And cannons. | ||
| And cannons. | ||
| Despite what Joe Biden has said. | ||
| Yeah, he's like, you can buy a cannon now. | ||
| You can buy a cannon when we start in the country, man. | ||
| Well, the stupid thing about that is antique firearms aren't even considered legally regulated firearms. | ||
| So flintlock pistols are just, they're not, you're not going to be able to do anything with it. | ||
| I mean, you could, but they're not regulated. | ||
| So yes, you can have cannons. | ||
| Can I give a piece of gun advice? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So there's a thing called, any gun owners out there, if you own a few guns or whatever you got, there's a thing called a gun trust. | ||
| And you can, it's basically a family trust. | ||
| You're the head of the trust. | ||
| Think of it as an LLC. | ||
| You can sign over the ownership of all your weapons into the family gun trust. | ||
| And if anybody ever does come to you and says, give me all your guns, you show them a piece of paper and go, I don't own any guns. | ||
| The trust owns the guns. | ||
| I'll see you in a courtroom. | ||
| and then they gotta go pierce the veil of that LLC to get down to you. | ||
| It's a whole layer of protection. It's a few hundred dollars. It's not crazy expensive. | ||
| I would suggest if you have any kind of collection of weapons at all, think about getting a gun trust. | ||
| Would that give multiple ownership then? | ||
| Yes, so your family members, anybody, if you're the executor of it, | ||
| you can add on your wife, your kids, your uncle, whoever. | ||
| So you don't pass away, they don't inherit the guns, they're just part of the trust. | ||
| Wow, that's actually really, that's brilliant. | ||
| Go look that up. | ||
| So there's also questions about who has a right to, you know, on your property use a weapon. | ||
| And so what I'm told in some areas which by the way the cops are like in the in an emergency someone can take the weapon but you know they're like but you someone shouldn't be bearing a weapon that they can't come in your house and take a gun that doesn't belong to them for no reason there's like rules and stuff I suppose they try to be more lax about it like depending which state you're in but there are some states that are ridiculous and strict So that's one way to... You mean somebody coming into your house and taking one of your weapons? | ||
| Like, if you own a gun, and then someone else who is hanging out at your house takes that and starts using it, some states are very, very strict on you're in possession of a firearm. | ||
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Got it. | |
| Someone else in your home. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| But you're talking about using it in self-defense, not someone taking it and committing a crime with it. | ||
| I don't I don't trust these these states the 70 states or whatever when they're like oh no no you're not supposed people who don't own the gun aren't allowed to use it because it's got you got you got to have a handgun license but in self-defense it's fine I'm like nah I don't trust you you're you're you're not Yeah, you might say that, but am I gonna trust the DA or whatever government official? | ||
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No. | |
| If it's self-defense, defend yourself and let's go hash it out down the road. | ||
| I mean, don't stand there worrying about somebody's statute if it's your life on the line, right? | ||
| It's just ridiculous that it's even a factor, to be honest. | ||
| Yeah I know that they would tell you don't defend your life like no you're better off just sitting there and letting it happen like come on yeah no man welcome to reality in the United States. | ||
| This is a culture that is literally bent on punishing people for trying to protect themselves and trying to prepare for the future it's insane. | ||
| I think it's because of aggressive protection like the Romans they would kill everyone around them to protect their home city so that there's a it's a whole discussion about that. | ||
| I want to read this one, but I'm going to paraphrase it a little bit. | ||
| Liberty Bell says, When the city libs get desperate enough to work on farms, the jobs will be taken by the immigrants they fought to protect. | ||
| I mean, let's just be real. | ||
| Many of these undocumented, illegal immigrants, these people coming through the border, who are doing day labor or working on farms, have more skills. | ||
| So, I've been to the farms in California, where illegal immigrants are working and they're getting paid. | ||
| They get paid like 10 bucks an hour. | ||
| So if someone comes from the city and says, I need a job, I'm going to be like, this guy knows how to do it. | ||
| You don't. | ||
| Can you outwork this guy? | ||
| Yeah, it's not going to happen. | ||
| But I mean, that's basically what happens these days anyway. | ||
| When these factories try and hire people illegally because they can pay them under market prices. | ||
| What's going to happen is they're going to go to the farm and be like, I heard you guys need a poet on the farm. | ||
| Will you hire me for that? | ||
| Chickens are bored, I think. | ||
| I'm gonna read this one because I said I was right. | ||
| Donut fighting says Tim is kind of right here masks work when used properly | ||
| I started as a nurse right as Kovat started masks need to be disposed of between patients. Yes, correct, but it's | ||
| also like Look if I'm talking and then I I spit because sometimes you | ||
| do yeah, you can get people sick that way And if you're wearing a mask, you're not going to spit on them. | ||
| But mandating that every single person, whether they're sick or not, has to wear it, and mandating every single child, whether they're sick or not, has to wear it, now that's just government overreach. | ||
| Yeah, but you know that if you sneeze or something in a mask, the kind of mask that we all wear, and somebody's standing next to you, they could have a mask on too, if their eyes are even open. | ||
| And those particles, it's like the joke of, if you can smell the fart, you're not protected from the virus. | ||
| It's like the particles of that virus are so smaller than scent particles, you know, they're going to get out, they're going to float around in the air for a minute. | ||
| They come out the tops and the sides. | ||
| That's why the FDA called it an experimental medical device when it comes to stopping the virus. | ||
| I couldn't find it. | ||
| I was trying to find it. | ||
| I just think in terms of the simplistic, it'll provide some protection. | ||
| To what degree? | ||
| That's the debate. | ||
| It works for what it does, which is to block the spit. | ||
| That's the main reason. | ||
| But is it like wearing a gas mask? | ||
| No, of course not. | ||
| But my issue ultimately comes down to, I hate arguing the science because I care more about the liberty. | ||
| Going to children and be like, we don't care if you're sick, wear it. | ||
| Yeah, you gotta weigh the consequences of it for sure, man. | ||
| If they were like, hey, if you're sick, we want you to wear the mask, I'd be like, well, I kind of understand that. | ||
| But if they're like, we don't care if the kid's sick or not, I'm like, okay, this is stupid. | ||
| Well, if your kid is sick, you don't send them to school. | ||
| I mean, come on, guys. | ||
| I mean, let's go right to that. | ||
| They're like, you're not feeling well? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, you got a little temperature. | ||
| You're staying home today. | ||
| Go on to school, just wearing your mask. | ||
| Nobody says that. | ||
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All right. | |
| We're going to read this one. | ||
| This one, Beastly Devil says, Tim, a Vosh video showed up last night where he's featured on a panel with other political pundits. | ||
| He was making a case for teaching kids about sex in regards to promoting Abuse prevention? | ||
| Uh, no. | ||
| Vosh, come on. | ||
| You're the last guy who should be advocating for that stuff because... Well, I guess, actually, most people would assume you would, so... If you're trying... So, he's got these quotes that are suspect, and he was like, no, people are taking it out of context. | ||
| I'm like, okay, if you want to explain it that way, that it was out of context, you shouldn't be doing things like that. | ||
| Granted, I didn't see what this video is, so... But, uh, I wouldn't be surprised if it was real. | ||
| All right, let's grab, uh, we'll try and grab a couple more. | ||
| We just got so many superchats, man. | ||
| I wish we could read them all. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Matthew Gregor says, shout out to Seamus! | ||
| Tim, you should have Dr. Sakonikas from Christendom College in Front Royal. | ||
| It would make a great discussion. | ||
| That said, I have a soft spot for small liberal arts colleges. | ||
| Also, Seamus, I have an icon for you if there's a good place to mail it. | ||
| Oh yeah, thank you so much. | ||
| So I think there's a P.O. | ||
| box, right Tim, that people can send fan mail to, so if you find that on the website. | ||
| And I very much appreciate the shout-out. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| TimCast.com, About section, we have a P.O. | ||
|
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box. | |
| All right. | ||
| Wotan Volk says, Mr. Rich, I was happy to see you on the show. | ||
| Thanks for being strong and standing on your principles, like men should do. | ||
| It is refreshing to hear you talk about your kids that way. | ||
| People should fear coming for your kids. | ||
| Because there are a lot of people who are just scared to stand up and they need to hear that strong sentiment. | ||
| Don't back down. | ||
| I think you gotta put on your own oxygen mask before you put on the masks of others. | ||
| That's correct. | ||
| You gotta make sure you're taking care of your friends and your family. | ||
| Alright, we'll grab a couple more. | ||
| John Samuel says, Hey, my name is Sammy Mitchell, producer, songwriter here in Nashville, produced to Luke Combs and other stuff. | ||
| Can I come hang on the cast while you're in town? | ||
| Reach out. | ||
| IG Sammy Mitchell. | ||
|
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All right. | |
| Security is super tight here. | ||
| And especially considering what's been going on in the past, in these past few months, you know, we got swatted eight times or whatever, plus the bomb squad showed up. | ||
| So I don't know if we can, I think that's going to be a no, but I guess Saturday, we'll love it. | ||
| Well, yeah, we'll play some music. | ||
| I'll tell you that Luke Combs is one of the best new guys out there. | ||
| Luke Combs is legit. | ||
| Great country singer. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Well, I think this Saturday sounds like we're going to have a blast and we're going to have, I guess, effectively a hangout. | ||
| Bring your ID, Sammy, because other people might tell me that they're Sammy. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| All right. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| What else? | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Karen Bae says, is a trust legal in New Jersey because nothing else is? | ||
| Look it up. | ||
| That's kind of what I was getting at. | ||
| New Jersey and Maryland are dark states when it comes to guns and I wouldn't trust them. | ||
| Well, I just looked up Maryland, and it looks like it is an option, and some legal places can look at it for you. | ||
| Cool. | ||
| You can just look at it for your state. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Well, everybody, make sure you head over to TimCast.com, become a member. | ||
| We're going to have that members-only show coming up in just about an hour. | ||
| We record it, and then we upload it, and it goes up around 11 p.m. | ||
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| As a member, you're supporting our journalists, so don't forget to smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show if you really do like it, or if you're listening on the podcast, give us five stars. | ||
| You can follow the show at TimCast IRL, basically everywhere. | ||
| You can follow me at TimCast. | ||
| You want to shout anything out, Jon? | ||
| If you want to check out some of the stuff I'm doing, go to redneckrevere.com. | ||
| I've got a whiskey in 13,000 stores across America. | ||
| 10% goes to the Folds of Honor, which I'm wearing their sweatshirt today. | ||
| They put kids through college who lost a parent in combat. | ||
| We've now funded over a million dollars in three years to that organization. | ||
| So check out that site. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
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Cool. | |
| I'm Seamus. | ||
| I have a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes where we make cartoons, political satire. | ||
| We're releasing a very funny one tomorrow about Joe Biden and one Thursday about these groomer teachers. | ||
| I think you guys are going to enjoy it. | ||
| Please subscribe. | ||
| Hit the notification bell. | ||
| Check it out! | ||
| I'm Ian Crossland. | ||
| Hello, everyone, and goodbye. | ||
| Hey, good to see you, dude. | ||
| Great to meet you. | ||
| Yeah, this was a great time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I am also here in the corner. | ||
| Thank you very much for coming, John. | ||
| I have to say, you are activating memories that I forgot I had, because I love songs like The 8th of November. | ||
| It's a little bit scandalous, but I love Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy. | ||
| Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy. | ||
| It's a hilarious party song. | ||
| It was great. | ||
| It caused a small baby boom in the early 2000s. | ||
| I was going to say, I'm sure there were net effects from that song. | ||
| That was wild, but I really enjoyed your work. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| I'm so glad you could come. | ||
| Anyway, you guys can follow me on Twitter at sarahpatchlids and on minds.com and I also have sarahpatchlids.me. | ||
| We will see you all at timcast.com. | ||
| Thanks for hanging out. |
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