April 18, 2022 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
02:05:42
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| Biden is officially backing away from the mask enforcement on airlines after a court ruling struck it down. | ||
| Now, the funny thing is, earlier today at the press briefing, Jen Psaki was actually asked about this and she's like, well, we're still going to recommend it. | ||
| And when Peter Doocy was like, you know, why, why would you recommend masks? | ||
| But here in this room, we don't got to wear them. | ||
| She's like, are you a doctor, Peter? | ||
| Are you a doctor? | ||
| I'm not a doctor. | ||
| And then Peter, I think he said, and I don't play one, nor do I play one on TV. | ||
| Haha. | ||
| But it's really funny. | ||
| That's like going to be the go-to answer now for anything ever in politics is that you don't actually have any expertise, so you can't answer any questions. | ||
| But here we go. | ||
| It's actually big news. | ||
| Now, apparently, if you want to fly, if you're ready to fly right now, they're saying they're not enforcing it. | ||
| So it's going to be a shock to a lot of flight attendants and pilots when people all just take their masks off, throw them in the air like it's graduation. | ||
| I wonder how many people are still going to actually keep their masks on. | ||
| We got other news too. | ||
| Alex Jones reportedly filed for bankruptcy, but he's saying he didn't actually file for bankruptcy. | ||
| He's filing for Chapter 11 reorganization, but now it's just framing because that's still under bankruptcy laws. | ||
| But he's saying he's doing this so that the feds can look at his books to see that he's not hiding any money. | ||
| Which is interesting. | ||
| We'll get into all that stuff. | ||
| Plus, we've got a bunch of crazy stories. | ||
| Ron DeSantis, he's pulling, Florida pulled a whole bunch of math books because they had critical race theory in them, and the left is freaking out. | ||
| But the question is, why do math books have critical race theory in them? | ||
| Anyway, some other interesting news. | ||
| Jon Stewart's new show has flopped. | ||
| Good. | ||
| Get woke, go broke! | ||
| There it is. | ||
| So we'll talk about all of that. | ||
| Joining us today is Braxton McCoy. | ||
| Thanks for having me, Tim. | ||
| Would you like to introduce yourself? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I am a horse trainer, author of this book, The Glass Factory, about getting wounded in Iraq and then coming home and starting over. | ||
| And I also run this program called The Bunkhouse, where we bring people in and teach them skills, first aid skills, field medical stuff. | ||
| We take them hunting, backcountry stuff, just kind of like trying to teach the skills that appreciate over time. | ||
| We're kind of like, almost like the grandpa some people needed to have when they were younger, but just doing it for them as an adult. | ||
| Oh, right on. | ||
| Glad to have you, man. | ||
| I'll just mention, too, we have a headphone exception for Cowboy Hats. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| John Rich last week. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| God bless you, John. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| And we're hanging out with Brett Dasovic. | ||
| How's it going, everybody? | ||
| I am Brett Dasovic, the host of Pop Culture Crisis. | ||
| We actually just finished filming the 100th episode today, and that will come out tomorrow. | ||
| So I hope you guys check that out, and I'm glad to be here. | ||
| YouTube.com slash popculturecrisis, one of the new shows from TimCast.com. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| We got Ian. | ||
| Hey everybody, we're back and it feels good to be home, I'll tell you that. | ||
| I rolled an 81 if it means anything to you on the 100th side of die, so let's get rolling. | ||
| Very cool. | ||
| I'm very glad to be back here with my familiar cameras. | ||
| Hopefully I don't make any more camera mistakes or mic mistakes. | ||
| Hopefully our next trip will be much smoother. | ||
| I'm really looking forward to that already. | ||
| And before we get started, I just want to have a moment of silence for all of our business owners today because it is tax day and I'm sure all of you have been collectively punched in the gut when your accounts came back and said, oh, here's what you owe. | ||
| And you're like, oh man, it's a brutal day, isn't it? | ||
| You know, it's funny cause you know, I'm, I'm dreading tax day. | ||
| Cause like, you know, you've got to set money aside. | ||
| And then when my accountant comes back and they're like, there's the damage. | ||
| And I'm just like, wow. | ||
| Think about how much stuff we could do, but now I'm going to give all that money to the government so they can go blow up kids and stuff like that. | ||
| And I'm just like there's a bunch of stuff they do wrong with our tax dollars | ||
| But hey, how about that before we get started my friends? | ||
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| Now, let's jump to the first big story, which is not from TimGast.com, it's from the Daily Mail. | ||
| You know, so this is it right now. | ||
| says TSA will not enforce masks on planes due to a court ruling after | ||
| Psaki said I'm not a doctor when asked why face coverings are still recommended | ||
| you know so this is it right now we have a quote here I suppose that today's | ||
| court decision means CDC public transportation masking order is not in | ||
| effect at this time an admin official said I don't know I don't know what that | ||
| Maybe you're in an airport right now, and you're listening on your headphones. | ||
| You're about to board your plane, and they're telling you you still gotta wear your mask. | ||
| I honestly have no idea. | ||
| Maybe you can show them this and be like, hey, I'm watching live right now. | ||
| They're saying I don't gotta wear a mask. | ||
| Well, that's what the TSA said, but these private airlines might still want to enforce masks, so we'll see. | ||
| But I just think it's absolutely hilarious that we're at this point now where during the White House press briefing, Jen Psaki is like, regardless of the federal court ruling, we're still recommending masks. | ||
| And then when Peter Ducey says, why? | ||
| Why are you recommending masks if we don't have to wear masks here in the White House? | ||
| And her answer was, I'm not a doctor. | ||
| Are you a doctor? | ||
| And it's like, that's the go-to response from now on, right? | ||
| For anything? | ||
| You can also read it like, why are you saying I still need to wear masks? | ||
| And she's like, because I'm not a doctor. | ||
| And I can... That's gross. | ||
| I have no idea what I'm talking about. | ||
| That's why. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It will be the go-to answer for everything. | ||
| Every time something happens in the economy, I'm not an economist, I have no idea. | ||
| Anytime the jobs report enters lower than normal, I'll be like, I don't know, I'm not a job recruiter, I have no idea. | ||
| Why are gas prices so high? | ||
| Are you a petroleum engineer? | ||
| I'm not a petroleum engineer! | ||
| Okay... | ||
| Yeah, I think it points to how they're all technocrats at heart, though. | ||
| The whole thing is this pivot to expertise is because they want to control and manage everything top-down. | ||
| So they're like, well, I'm not the person that can manage that top-down. | ||
| I'm just a part of this technocratic team, and that's not my position or whatever. | ||
| Was there a memo that went out when Ketanji Brown-Jackson was asked to define woman? | ||
| And she's like, I'm not a biologist. | ||
| And then all of a sudden, some Democrat strategist went, From now on, this is what we do. | ||
| I am not insert specialty. | ||
| But how do you guys feel about the masks? | ||
| I mean, what is this? | ||
| What does this mean? | ||
| Is this the end of tyranny? | ||
| Or is this like it's a step in the right direction? | ||
| The United States isn't it's not here because of a fake trash constitution or country or people. | ||
| We did this for real to get to this place. | ||
| And this is an example of the American law working. | ||
| I think masks personally are disgusting. | ||
| I don't know if that's what you were asking about how I feel about masks. | ||
| Feeling the sweat and stick on my face after five hours on a plane of breathing, talking about recirculated air. | ||
| I just could never fathom, really understand how that should have been better for me. | ||
| Well, Ian came upstairs and he was like, masks! | ||
| No more masks! | ||
| So I was like dancing in for real. | ||
| Like teachers letting you go home with no homework or something. | ||
| Yeah, that's what it felt like. | ||
| It really feels like that, and that's silly. | ||
| That's like they're gaslighting us to feel like that. | ||
| I think gaslight's the right word, because I shouldn't be celebrating back to normalcy. | ||
| I should just be expecting it and ready for it. | ||
| Ultimately, you've got to remember this is going to be enforced by a TSA employee, and those people are, on average, retarded. | ||
| Can I use that word? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think they consider it a slur, though. | ||
| Okay, my bad. | ||
| It means they're a slur in general. | ||
| They're our slurs. | ||
| Mentally deficient. | ||
| It sounds smarter. | ||
| It's a scientific term for behavior though. | ||
| The word itself is to mean slow. | ||
| If you don't call people names and stuff. | ||
| I meant to slur. | ||
| I think mentally deficient is more offensive. | ||
| Because they're too dumb to get it? | ||
| Well, no, it's just like you're trying to make it sound smarter or like there's something wrong with them. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, one time I was flying back home from San Jose. | ||
| I was at a speaking gig and I had a t-shirt on that had a grenade on it. | ||
| And this dude at TSA was like, do you think you should be wearing that to the airport? | ||
| I was like, excuse me? | ||
| He said, do you think that's appropriate? | ||
| And I said, do you think you should be giving me fashion advice? | ||
| Like, aren't you supposed to be like looking at my bag or something? | ||
| Can't say bomb on an airplane. | ||
| TSA is interesting. | ||
| I'm from the pre 9-11 era and there was no TSA It was very felt very authoritarian and weird when they created that after 9-11 and then when you find out there weren't met weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East and what the heck is this war on terror? | ||
| Really? | ||
| Like why do we still have a TSA? | ||
| I don't I don't think yeah No, you got grandma's taking their belts off because we decided, you know invade Iraq or whatever The funniest thing about the airport thing is I was flying a lot when I came out here, when I, when I moved out here for work was, uh, the most, uh, the hilarious part was like, when you look at all the signs and say, you have to wear this, you have to wear that. | ||
| They all had like sponsored by Purell, uh, sponsored. | ||
| It was like, it was like, is that not the most like corporatist thing you've ever seen where it's like all your signs that tell you, you have to do this, behave this way at the airport. | ||
| None of it mentioning COVID, uh, or anything like that, uh, at all. | ||
| I just like to imagine that there's like some, you know, the president of Purell or whatever companies. | ||
| He's like, he's all his hair's all disheveled and he's going through the books and he's like, he calls his wife. | ||
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He goes, honey, we're not going to have Christmas dinner. | |
| Sales are just really bad. | ||
| And then he looks at the TV and it's like COVID lockdown. | ||
| He goes, Oh, and then he, and then he throws the papers in there and he opens one. | ||
| It goes, get to work boys. | ||
| We're back in business. | ||
| Now he's like super rich and he's got like a Scrooge McDuck swimming through That was one of the memes it says the the creator or the owner of Purell right now It's guys got nine gold chains on and in a bunch of in a ring on each finger It's like that's exactly what it is them and the whoever invented the man whoever's like producing the masks China China My pillow guy making masks and they still hate him. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| Yeah, he shifted production to start making masks. | ||
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Yeah, and they were like Masturbate now! | |
| We can't support anything he's doing. | ||
| That was that because I'm from Minnesota It was really funny like people from Minnesota just hated that guy For no reason. | ||
| They have no idea why they just they've just been told that they have to hate him We got a poll this tweet and you know, let me just preface this by saying I don't I don't normally care to you know mock people who are just not relevant But this woman is apparently an elected representative an elected official this woman Lindsey Sabadosa says, Today, a federal judge called it overreach | ||
| for US health officials to require masks on airplanes and other public transit. And no matter | ||
| how you feel about masks, you should be really, really concerned that the courts are effectively | ||
| taking away power from the federal government. Okay. | ||
| OK, hold on there a minute. | ||
| It was a federal judge who issued a ruling on a federal mandate. | ||
| This is more of an, I guess if you think that the courts are taking away the power from the federal government, if she's discussing some kind of like Ouroboros, you know, the snake eating itself. | ||
| Maybe, but I think she has no idea what she's talking about. | ||
| I think she means taking power away from the executive branch as it was intended, and that's what we have the separation of powers for. | ||
| Don't be charitable, Ian. | ||
| That's my job. | ||
| Like, this is the thing that I think we often do. | ||
| That's a dumb tweet that is wrong. | ||
| The court's job is to strip away power from the executive branch if it goes too far. | ||
| Oh, I fully agree this is a foolish and irrational tweet. | ||
| It doesn't make any sense. | ||
| And she's all sorts of names. | ||
| No, no, I don't have anything against it. | ||
| But that's a dumb tweet that is wrong. | ||
| The court's job is to strip away power from the executive branch if it goes too far. | ||
| Progressive. | ||
| Well, it's to interpret the law. | ||
| Progressive Democrat and state representative. | ||
| First Hampshire district. | ||
| I believe it's in Massachusetts. | ||
| That's correct. | ||
| And it's just, oh my stars and garters. | ||
| So I looked her up and she's also, before she's a politician, it says she's an activist. | ||
| And I was like, yeah, that checks out. | ||
| Well, look, look, I want to say, I mean, no ill will towards this, this, this woman. | ||
| She said nothing mean to me. | ||
| She just was, she just doesn't know what she's talking about. | ||
| And so the first thing I always like to do is just say, um, hey, you were wrong. | ||
| You should, you should fix that. | ||
| Uh, I don't, I don't, I don't want to rag on her for being, you know, incorrect about this or not understanding how the government works, but I'll, I will, I will say while we try to be nice and respectful, cause she has not, you know, as maybe, maybe she's talked about me in the past. | ||
| I don't know idea. | ||
| But if she said nothing mean to me, I don't want to be mean to her. | ||
| I would just say I have serious questions about her ability to work in government if she doesn't understand what courts, federal courts are and what they do. | ||
| That is a more professional critique, right? | ||
| Trying to keep things respectful, I guess. | ||
| Isn't the whole progressive claim that they're for the people and power of the people and all this and everything they tweet or say or whatever is all about power of the government? | ||
| No, I gotta stop you there. | ||
| I think progressives are authoritarian and I'm pretty sure they've always been. | ||
| Oh, I agree with that. | ||
| But I don't think they claim to be for the people. | ||
| Oh, I see. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Some of them may, because it's probably, you know, from authoritarian to libertarian to a certain degree. | ||
| But typically, progressive just refers to, you know, doing what we think is right for the sake of progress. | ||
| So these are people who in the past were eugenicists. | ||
| I don't think the progressive movement has ever been particularly, we want to protect all the people. | ||
| It's more like, how do we control the system better? | ||
| Yeah, and maybe I'm making a mistake of using, like, AOC as the avatar of progressivism, because, like, with her, she's just always talking about the people, you know, the people, the people, the people. | ||
| But in, you know, in practicality, or, you know, in reality, it's always about more power, consolidation. | ||
| Well, yeah, like, you know, I mean, tankies, like, you know, communists and stuff, they're saying, we're gonna help the people. | ||
| By force! | ||
| And that's kind of like AOC. | ||
| I'm surprised people still defend her. | ||
| It's remarkable. | ||
| There was that guy, what's his name? | ||
| Chris, I think his name is, the union guy in New York. | ||
| He started a union at the Amazon factory. | ||
| They fired him. | ||
| And then he started a union. | ||
| Very successful. | ||
| Tucker Carlson had him on. | ||
| And he's busted his ass to get this done, to push back against one of the most, I think Amazon is evil, terrible company, but we're all addicted to it. | ||
| And AOC's nowhere to be found. | ||
| And then when he wins, when the warehouse votes to unionize, AOC's all tweeting like, yeah, we did it! | ||
| And he's just like, where have you been? | ||
| Chris Smalls is his name? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Good for him, man. | ||
| Amazon, Russell Brand just had a video that came out yesterday about like Amazon has like an internal messaging service in there and they're like censoring words like you can't say certain phrases like union or bathroom break and it's just like is that not the most authoritarian thing ever now it's like they want to like reward you by having likes like kind of like how you have like likes on Instagram and stuff like that so it's like you don't want to get a raise you want to get your co-workers to give you likes on your internal messaging service app For your, for your company that doesn't let you talk about bathroom breaks and doesn't allow you to, uh, to unionize because, uh, what did they say? | ||
| They spent $93 million on anti-union, uh, lobbyists or something in the same year. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I'm looking at theverge.com. | ||
| Some of the words that Amazon's banned with that app, master, slave, injustice, ethics. | ||
| You can't say the word ethics. | ||
| Some of them are really funny. | ||
| Some of them are, yeah. | ||
| You can't say diversity. | ||
| Unfairly. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Well, okay. | ||
| It's all right then. | ||
| That's weird. | ||
| All right, well, let's let's rag on Jen Psaki a little bit. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So we have this story from The Independent. | ||
| Psaki says, is her name Psaki? | ||
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Psaki. | |
| Psaki-bomb. | ||
| Psaki-bomb. | ||
| Says Peter Doocy sounds like a stupid son of a bee. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Or keep it family friendly. | ||
| Because of Fox's questions, Biden caught on hot mic in January calling Doocy a stupid S.O.B. | ||
| over inflation question. | ||
| And then Psaki just comes out and says it. | ||
| I just want to point out, I was watching Peter Doocy question Jen at the White House press briefing today, and I was offended at how bad she was at this. | ||
| Because I've praised her in the past as being a good spin doctor because, you know, Biden will do something just horrifyingly bad or he'll just like fall asleep in public or something. | ||
| I'm kidding, by the way. | ||
| And she'll find a way to spin it. | ||
| And I'm like, yeah, she's good. | ||
| I mean, she's doing what she does. | ||
| But today it was just like, wow, Well, let me explain. | ||
| She was asked by Peter Doocy, why do you recommend masks when we don't have to? | ||
| And her response was, I'm not a doctor. | ||
| Are you a doctor? | ||
| You're not a doctor. | ||
| I'm not a doctor. | ||
| And I'm like, Jen, like, wow, this one's really easy. | ||
| You just say airplanes are smaller with recirculated air. | ||
| I was like, you couldn't even just say that to Peter Doocy? | ||
| I was like, wow, she was not good at this. | ||
| There were a couple other things that came out and she was bad. | ||
| But the interesting thing here, I suppose, is that she's reportedly going to MSNBC. | ||
| So here she is. | ||
| It's during a taping of Pod Save America. | ||
| She was asked if Mr. Doocy was a stupid S.O.B. | ||
| or if he just acted like one on TV. | ||
| She said he works for a network that provides people with questions that nothing personal to any individual, including Doocy, but might make anyone sound like a stupid S.O.B. | ||
| That's really amazing that the only real questions that come out of that briefing. | ||
| OK, it's not fair, but 90 percent of the real questions come from Peter Doocy. | ||
| There was one guy I saw asking some good questions. | ||
| But I'm sitting there watching this briefing and I'm just like, has there ever been a point in our lifetimes where the White House press briefing revealed any relevant or important information? | ||
| Or are we all just recognizing it's theater, and whether it be Sean Spicer or Jen Psaki, they're gonna say whatever they have to to spin. | ||
| They're not gonna tell you the truth. | ||
| For once, I'd like someone to come out with like a scotch, and it's like, you know, just Donald Trump or Biden, and he's like swirling it, and they're like, what are we doing in Yemen? | ||
| Making a lot of money. | ||
| We're selling weapons to the Saudis, you know, and they're blowing up villages, but whoo, good for the economy. | ||
| Next question, Syria? | ||
| Ooh, oil. | ||
| Well, we're trying to build a pipeline. | ||
| What's next? | ||
| And I'm just like, wow, you know, but they're not going to do that. | ||
| I would love to see inside of Kayleigh McEnany's big book that she used to carry with her. | ||
| I would love to see what's in there. | ||
| Okay, I gotta take that back, yes. | ||
| She's great. | ||
| That was epic. | ||
| She's great. | ||
| She had the big book, and whenever the press would say something, she'd be like, hmm, and she'd like reference, you're full of it. | ||
| Okay, that was actually substantive. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That maybe wasn't giving us real answers about the administration, but it was exposing to the American people how the media was totally full of it. | ||
| Yeah, when this girl, when we talk about how she is good, I think that's come up in the past, that she's good at her job. | ||
| I'm like, well, you can be good at your job and be evil if your job is evil. | ||
| Like Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda, was good. | ||
| But instead of using the word good, say effective. | ||
| Don't say he was good, say he was... He was effective at his job, which was evil. | ||
| And so is Jen Psaki sometimes. | ||
| If she's lying to people, that's evil. | ||
| You could say she's doing a public good by lying to people because some of the information is too dangerous. | ||
| Like the CIA is a secretive organization on purpose. | ||
| But I don't think that's... I don't know. | ||
| What do you think about it? | ||
| If there is any man on the planet Who is the easiest to take out of context and make a montage of just horrifying things to Ian. | ||
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Yes! | |
| Thank you, Tim. | ||
| You recognize my greatness. | ||
| You need your own Jen Psaki. | ||
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Thanks, Doc. | |
| You need to hire him. | ||
| I am my own Jen Psaki. | ||
| No, no, but the issue is, you know, and Ian made a good point just now that Goebbels, Joseph Goebbels or something like that. | ||
| He was effective and it was terrifying. | ||
| But when you say that when... He was good at his job and he was evil? | ||
| No, no, no, he said he was good. | ||
| Yeah, but I kind of got diverted the conversation. | ||
| And I'm like, you got to make sure you finish that thought. | ||
| He was effective. | ||
| So were the Nazis at what they were trying to accomplish, but they weren't good. | ||
| And so that's, so you can look at what Jen's doing. | ||
| I mean, she's now she's just bad at her job and also doing, I don't know if I want to claim she's doing evil, but I want to, I want to have hope for the American government. | ||
| But sometimes I think like a little transparency goes a long way. | ||
| Yo, they're checked out, I think. | ||
| They're all evil. | ||
| I mean, they've been forcing masks on little kids in airplanes, you know, kicking families off because a two-year-old won't wear their mask, you know. | ||
| Child suicide rates are through the roof right now. | ||
| Drug addiction is up through the roof. | ||
| Everyone who pushes this is evil. | ||
| I'm totally fine with using that word. | ||
| They're good at being evil, I guess, or effective at being evil. | ||
| I agree, and I want to elaborate on that. | ||
| When you have a machine that says, two-year-olds must wear masks, and we're like, okay, we get it. | ||
| But then you get these videos, like even people willing to be like, we want to be peaceful, we don't want confrontation. | ||
| You get these videos where they put the mask on the baby and the baby takes it off. | ||
| Like, literal baby. | ||
| And then they're like, off the plane. | ||
| And I'm like, dude, when you have become this machine that doesn't care about people, you have become evil. | ||
| And I've talked about it before, I can't stand what has become of the U.S. | ||
| court system. | ||
| It's been this way to varying degrees, but it's getting worse in that I get pulled over once. | ||
| I wasn't speeding. | ||
| Cop walks up to me with a ticket and he says, sign there. | ||
| And I was like, I wasn't speeding. | ||
| He goes, I don't care. | ||
| Tell it to a judge. | ||
| And I was like, now I got to take off work to go to a judge? | ||
| I go to the judge and he goes, I don't care. | ||
| Cop said you were speeding. | ||
| Pay the fine or, you know, fight it. | ||
| And I'm like, okay. | ||
| You know, we've become extremely rigid because we don't know or care about each other. | ||
| And this is one of the big challenges. | ||
| The way we use, you know, this country's founded. | ||
| We had 2 million people. | ||
| You wouldn't have police. | ||
| You had local militia. | ||
| So if somebody stole something, it's like, round up the boys! | ||
| We're gonna go, we're gonna go catch that guy who stole something. | ||
| And then, you'd have to go to the courts, and the courts were part of the community. | ||
| Everybody knew each other, and they'd all talk it out. | ||
| And it's like, that guy who stole it, that's, that's, that's, you know, John's son! | ||
| And it's like, oh man, John, what do you gotta say for your kid? | ||
| And then, they talk about it. | ||
| Now it's like, I don't know who this guy is, I don't even know what his name is. | ||
| Now there's so many people, and it's so dense, we've just become rigid, and mechanized almost. | ||
| I see ups and downs to both, because if you know the judge and then you commit a crime and the judge is like, I know him, just let him off, that's also bad. | ||
| But if the judge has no idea who you are and they don't take your humanity into account at all, then that's also kind of bad. | ||
| I agree, but I think of it like this still exists in small town America, where if you live in a small town and you're speeding, let's say a 16, 17 year old kid is speeding and the deputy pulls him over, he already knows who it is. | ||
| So he's not worried about getting shot or anything, and he walks up and he's like, Jimmy, why you speeding? | ||
| And he's like, oh, I'm sorry, Dan. | ||
| And he's like, I'm gonna see your dad at the bar later today, and I'm gonna tell him you were speeding. | ||
| And he's like, please don't! | ||
| And he's like, I'm gonna let you off with a warning, but I'm telling your dad. | ||
| Like, that's way more effective, social repercussions, as opposed to like, pay the 35 bucks, or pay the 50 bucks. | ||
| For a lot of people, that 50 bucks is devastating, but they're like, I don't care. | ||
| You know, so what? | ||
| I'll not pay the ticket, or I'll fight it, or whatever. | ||
| Having that personal connection I think is good because it holds people to account because they're scared of people they know and love getting mad at them. | ||
| I think you're right about that. | ||
| There's also just that there's too darn many laws. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| So we've got so many people going through the system all the time, it almost has to be mechanical and expedited. | ||
| You really can't add the human element in if you've got, let's say you're a judge and you've got a judge on 50 cases in a day or whatever. | ||
| How serious can you take the individual in each of those? | ||
| I mean, there's only so many minutes in a day. | ||
| Yeah, they're going to, especially not even just judges, but prosecutors, they're only going to see you as a number or as a way to advance their career. | ||
| And it's almost not even like, I'd like to say it's on them, but a career oriented person who goes into a field like that, they're going to be predisposed to looking at people that way. | ||
| And that's just how they they've chosen to get ahead with their career. | ||
| They just happen to take a career That puts other people's lives in, you know, in the balance each and every day. | ||
| Yeah, then you have to ask yourself why they chose that job. | ||
| That's a whole other discussion. | ||
| I pulled up just like weird laws, but one of them is like bingo games can't last more than five hours in North Carolina. | ||
| You can't sniff glue with the intent to get high from it in Indiana. | ||
| Can't have sex with living fish in Minnesota. | ||
| Okay, I might actually support that one. | ||
| Yeah, that's not a weird law. | ||
| That's a good one. | ||
| There was like a song where they referenced that and I was like, that can't be real, can it? | ||
| And then I don't know if they've since repealed that just to say any fish perhaps, but yes, that was a thing. | ||
| This is a great metaphor talking about the machine. | ||
| We were talking last night about how machines are very dangerous and we've kind of become enslaved to them. | ||
| They're very intelligent and we can build their intelligence, but they have no emotion. | ||
| Humans have emotion. | ||
| That's why we enslave the machine to work for us and to outsource our intelligence. | ||
| At what level does a society become a machine? | ||
| Like a small town, it's all about emotion. | ||
| Who you know, your kids, their kids. | ||
| Then all of a sudden, at some point, it's like, just fill out the paperwork. | ||
| You don't even have to look at the guy's face. | ||
| Like what, 60,000 people? | ||
| 1600 people? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Remember that movie Office Space? | ||
| When they take the printer out and beat the tar out of it or whatever? | ||
| You are the printer. | ||
| Oh, that's the technocratic dream? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, well, I just think that fundamentally that movie is about being caught up in a mindless | ||
| numbing job that's functioning a lot like a bureaucracy. | ||
| And every level of justice system is a mindless, numbing bureaucracy. | ||
| So when you go in there, you're the printer, man. | ||
| And printers are still worthy of that. | ||
| We have a printer here. | ||
| They're all awful. | ||
| It's the only technology that hasn't expanded at all. | ||
| Every printer is still a hassle to use all the time. | ||
| Did you guys ever have that black printer ink explode on you when you're trying to change it? | ||
| It's so crazy. | ||
| It's like there's like a rule against making them better. | ||
| They're like, it has to be a hassle and it's just nobody wants to, nobody wants to create a better printer. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| Maybe lasers. | ||
| Maybe we can just have lasers do a back image on a paper or something. | ||
| It's probably already created. | ||
| Yo, let's talk about Alex Jones. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| We got the story from timcast.com. | ||
| Update. | ||
| Alex Jones disputes widespread claims that InfoWars is filing bankruptcy. | ||
| Quote, we are filing a chapter 11 reorganization so that the federal government can come in and look at our books, Jones said. | ||
| Now that. | ||
| You gotta love, technically, the truth, the best kind of the truth. | ||
| The truth is, Alex Jones did file for Chapter 11, which is under bankruptcy laws. | ||
| I suppose the fair way to phrase it is that he's disputing the idea that they're broke. | ||
| He says, quote, I am not filing bankruptcy. | ||
| InfoWars is not filing bankruptcy. | ||
| We are filing a Chapter 11 reorganization. | ||
| So that the federal government can come in and look at our books to see that we do not have $16 million in a secret bank account. | ||
| We do not have $5 million even. | ||
| We have about $3 million that is necessary in order to operate. | ||
| We are what the mainstream media truly fears. | ||
| Honest, independent media, said Jones. | ||
| This filing is strategic to allow me to pay my creditors and remain transparent. | ||
| That is a form of bankruptcy. | ||
| I think, however, the media is trying to frame it like they're broke and destitute, and most people think bankruptcy means you're out of money. | ||
| I'll give you an example. | ||
| I searched Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and one of the first news articles came up from NBC. | ||
| Alex Jones' Infowars Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection. | ||
| It's a form of protection. | ||
| Then I click on the article. | ||
| The title's been changed. | ||
| Alex Jones' Infowars Files for Bankruptcy Following Sandy Hook Lawsuits. | ||
| So it's like they printed the article as it was really happening and then they're like, not scandalous enough. | ||
| Let's make him look bad. | ||
| Bring up Sandy Hook. | ||
| Let's get him. | ||
| Right. | ||
| No, they wanted buzz terms so that it would get more clicks. | ||
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| That's what they do. | ||
| And there's something they do at news organizations, media outlets, called A-B testing, where they actually, this is fascinating, they can publish an article with multiple headlines in different regions to see which one does better in real time and then switch it all out. | ||
| Not only that, but a headline, newspapers do this too, this is the crazy thing, you look at like New York Times, I don't know if the New York Times does it, But you'll look at like the California edition versus the Texas edition versus the Utah edition and they'll use different headlines to sell papers because they know. | ||
| I think Time Magazine actually made a different person of the year for different countries I think at some point. | ||
| You guys remember that? | ||
| No, I don't know. | ||
| I'll look into that as we're talking. | ||
| And that's why they don't like Alex Jones! | ||
| I'm gonna be honest. | ||
| If he is going bankrupt, I get it because everything he talked about for like the last 20 years happened. | ||
| So it's like nothing to ramble about because people are like, yeah, man, we do have that right. | ||
| People really are. | ||
| You know, the frogs really are. | ||
| Well, so the frogs thing was funny. | ||
| I was on. | ||
| First, let me just say when it comes to Alex, he he reads the news a lot. | ||
| And then he talks all about this and sometimes he'll find something and take it in the wrong direction. | ||
| So that's why when he gets things right, we don't believe it. | ||
| We're like, there's no way that's true. | ||
| Like when he was here and he was like, we're eating cloned beef. | ||
| And I was like, no, we're not. | ||
| He's like, Google it. | ||
| And I did. | ||
| And it's like, we're actually eating. | ||
| Okay, wow. | ||
| I didn't believe him. | ||
| So there's a lot of crazy things you think are crazy. | ||
| Turns out he was right. | ||
| But I will say, he's absolutely wrong to talk about Sandy Hook the way he did. | ||
| And this is... I would say, look, if you defame someone, you get held to account. | ||
| When the big media companies went after the Covington kids, well, they get sued and they're gonna pay out their settlement. | ||
| Good. | ||
| Alex Jones should not have been talking about private individuals making accusations about him like this. | ||
| He did not have the proof to make these claims. | ||
| Yeah, and I look at Alex Jones as like a pro wrestling of media, just pure entertainment. | ||
| You know, I find him entertaining and fun. | ||
| I mean, I don't like watch his show, but I watch it pretty much whenever he goes on something like your show or Rogan or something. | ||
| So I can see how he could slip into this, but you're totally right, especially once you start going after the parents of a dead child. | ||
| You kind of deserve what you get at that point. | ||
| Yep, yep. | ||
| He's been pretty transparent about that he was wrong. | ||
| That's something. | ||
| If he's still holding on like, oh, no, no, no, then I'd be like, you know what? | ||
| I don't even want this guy. | ||
| But the fact that he's open and like, yeah, I screwed up big time and he's paying his dues. | ||
| That's the first step. | ||
| So look, he said he was wrong. | ||
| He apologized. | ||
| He offered to settle 120k to each of the families. | ||
| And they said something like the settlement offer was an attempt to avoid his public reckoning. | ||
| And I'm like, is that what this is about? | ||
| Because if he already admitted he's wrong and apologized and then offered to pay you out, I think you've won. | ||
| Like, what do you want? | ||
| Well, they want a perp walk. | ||
| They want a public, you know, uh, event. | ||
| And I'm like, I don't know. | ||
| I kind of feel like CNN settled and I'm satisfied. | ||
| Like, I don't like CNN. | ||
| I'm never going to like them, but they, they lose. | ||
| They go to the coming to kids. | ||
| They're like, we lose. | ||
| When that happened, we were all like, yeah, like, there we go. | ||
| We move on. | ||
| Best thing that came out of this is that he uses research now. | ||
| When now, when he's working, he has like 16 papers at him. | ||
| When he comes on the show, he has a bunch of documents ready to go. | ||
| He doesn't stray off his topic. | ||
| He doesn't stray off his research unless you want to have fun with him. | ||
| But he came here and he's like, I got all the, I got all the research, the proof. | ||
| And he hands it to me and it was just InfoWars. | ||
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| I was like, dude, this is you. | ||
| You know, I went to Sandy Hooks. | ||
| I actually went up there that day. | ||
| I was in Connecticut working with mines and the shooting happened and they were like, you want to go cover this? | ||
| So I was like, yeah, I guess so. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| So I drove up there and, uh, man, it was somber. | ||
| This is all anecdotal. | ||
| It doesn't prove or disprove. | ||
| I mean, obviously it was a real thing at this point, but I tried to interview people. | ||
| No one wanted to talk across the street. | ||
| You could see the fire trucks. | ||
| I mean, it was really rude. | ||
| Why would anyone want to talk? | ||
| want to talk about that yeah we just we did a story the other day covering like | ||
| a documentary filmmaker who's covering astroworld the the tragedy at astroworld | ||
| and how he's like he's like I am a victim driven documentary filmmaker who | ||
| goes around and covers various tragedies like this and like one of the issues | ||
| that dude has is that he has to go and he tries to get interviews with people | ||
| and a lot of times he'll push really heavily with these victims families to | ||
| try and get them to talk on record and that comes off you know some might want | ||
| to have that discussion but other ones have no interest in it and you know a | ||
| good documentary filmmaker unfortunately given you know what he chose for a | ||
| profession is going to have to push back if he wants to get the story but he's | ||
| just not taking a cue from the fact that he's using such heavy material to do | ||
| that And that could be seen as something like this here. | ||
| So I want to dig into this InfoWars claim about this hidden money, right? | ||
| So Alex is saying that the reorganization is so that the feds can see they don't have $16 million in a secret bank account. | ||
| I don't know if that's what's being argued. | ||
| There's a new lawsuit, and maybe I'm wrong. | ||
| Let me see if we can pull this up. | ||
| A newly filed lawsuit alleges that, let me read this, they say, after Alex Jones was sued for claiming, you know, what he did about Sandy Hook, the conspiracy theorist conspired to divert, that's funny, conspired to divert his assets to shell companies owned by insiders like his parents, his children, and himself, reads the lawsuit. | ||
| Which was filed in Austin, Texas by some of the families. | ||
| So they're not saying he has a secret bank account. | ||
| They're saying that he immediately started doing deals, funneling this money away. | ||
| I don't know how you win a lawsuit like that, to be completely honest. | ||
| Cause like, you know, you can sue somebody, but if they haven't lost or owe you anything, they can spend the money however they want. | ||
| You don't get to just say, you're not allowed to spend money anymore because I'm suing you. | ||
| Imagine if that's how things worked. | ||
| It's like, I don't want Disney to make a movie, so I'll sue them, and now they can't spend any money. | ||
| No, that's ridiculous. | ||
| They started the process of going after Alex. | ||
| Maybe at that point he said, alright, you know, I'm gonna do a bunch of deals to pull all this money out of the company, and that way it'll be with people I know, and then I can file bankruptcy. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| But what are you gonna do? | ||
| What are you gonna do? | ||
| You didn't win the lawsuit. | ||
| Then they do. | ||
| How much money does he have? | ||
| Well, there you go. | ||
| Now and going forward in the future, he's gonna have to pay you back, but that money's gone. | ||
| So InfoWars is getting sued, not Alex Jones. | ||
| Is that right? | ||
| I don't know for sure exactly how they structured the lawsuit. | ||
| I know that three companies, IW Health, Prison Planet, and InfoWars have filed for Chapter 11. | ||
| That's what's been reported. | ||
| So I think they may be going after him and his companies or something. | ||
| It's really interesting how this stuff works out. | ||
| Typically, I think people have been suing the individuals and the businesses. | ||
| Yeah, so when journalists do things like, you know, the reporter is on the line and the company is on the line for publishing it. | ||
| That makes sense. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So the reporter isn't allowed protections. | ||
| I'm just curious about that. | ||
| The reporter isn't allowed protections just because they're working for the company. | ||
| They're still responsible in addition to the, okay. | ||
| You're the one who said it and the company is the one who amplified it. | ||
| So now, but you know what, man, you can sue a ham sandwich. | ||
| It doesn't mean you're going to win. | ||
| We'll see how this plays out. | ||
| I suppose the narrative is that the lawsuit is, To silence a prominent, influential person on the right. | ||
| And that's why they're not satisfied with the settlement offer. | ||
| Yeah, they don't want the settlement offer. | ||
| They want him to come out as the bad guy. | ||
| Like you said, perp walk. | ||
| They want humiliation. | ||
| They want him to look bad, not just pay out for what he did. | ||
| And that's the difference between actually wanting justice and actually wanting someone to pay. | ||
| And I think those aren't necessarily always the same thing. | ||
| I wonder though, at this point, you know, Alex has said that they submitted their documents and the courts were like, nope, you didn't give us your documents. | ||
| And he's like, what do you mean? | ||
| I gave you everything. | ||
| I'm like, no, you didn't. | ||
| And he's like, but we did. | ||
| And I actually talked with him and his lawyer and his lawyer was like, we gave them everything. | ||
| They are just saying, we didn't, and they put us in default. | ||
| And it's like, what do we give them if we don't have anything else to give them? | ||
| It's like, it's like when you're being interrogated by someone like, tell us where the gold is. | ||
| Like, I don't know. | ||
| Yes, you do. | ||
| And they're beating you. | ||
| Like, what do you do if you don't know? | ||
| You just lie, I guess. | ||
| So they're saying they got nothing left to give, but they're being, you know, put in default. | ||
| So they can't, what are they supposed to do at this point? | ||
| Wasn't there a conspiracy theory for a long time that Alex Jones was actually a CIA asset and that he was being used by the CIA? | ||
| There's always that conspiracy theory. | ||
| So at least we can put that to bed. | ||
| Or it's just, you know, they're trying to pull him out. | ||
| Now it's like, we got to get Alex out of there, man. | ||
| Like, here's how we're gonna do it. | ||
| And you know, Alex is like, I'm quitting, I resign. | ||
| I like the idea of him being reassigned by the CIA to a foreign country, like a station chief in some really far away place because they can't use him here anymore. | ||
| I'm good at what I do. | ||
| I kind of feel like there's powerful interests at play in a lot of these suits that we've been seeing. | ||
| It started with, you know, Gawker, right? | ||
| Peter Thiel funds this lawsuit against Gawker and blows it up. | ||
| That was the Hulk Hogan one? | ||
| Yeah, Hulk Hogan. | ||
| And now it's like, this is lawfare. | ||
| It's how it works. | ||
| I'm kind of just like, Alex Jones is Alex Jones. | ||
| Everything else doesn't matter. | ||
| He could do his show on a cell phone. | ||
| He could be like, okay, you know what, fine, shut her down, start a new company. | ||
| And then just talking to a camera, what are they going to do? | ||
| How much do you think, I mean, you're in a position to answer this, how much do you think being removed from Twitter and YouTube and those other platforms is affecting his business? | ||
| I think it probably knocked him down, you know, the majority of the money he was making. | ||
| But here's what people should understand. | ||
| Alex Jones got started on, I think, Public Access TV, and then he made internet video documentaries, and I think he was selling them. | ||
| All I know is people were sharing them for free. | ||
| And then he launched his website. | ||
| Before YouTube and social media existed, he was well off and running this big company. | ||
| Then you get YouTube, you get Twitter, you get Facebook, and he gets even bigger. | ||
| He loses all of that, he's back, he's actually still doing better than he was before social media. | ||
| Because he created Band.Video, he's got his own video player now, he gets hundreds of thousands of views still, people, like, you can't take away that level of fame from somebody. | ||
| So that's why I'm saying, even if they destroyed all of his companies, all he's got to do is strap on a loincloth and go in the woods with a cell phone, and people are going to want to watch him. | ||
| I would subscribe to that, by the way. | ||
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I mean, honestly, you hear me, Alex? | |
| Alex Jones, Jungleman, and he's like, I'm surviving today, people! | ||
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This is how you live with the government on your back! | |
| I mean, actually, it would be a really great show. | ||
| It would be incredible. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| Alex, let's do a documentary. | ||
| That would be incredible. | ||
| Alex Jones. | ||
| Or a short film or something. | ||
| Survival Man. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| You know, now with the Twitter stuff is interesting because it looks like what's, you know, Elon Musk trying to buy Twitter. | ||
| It's just powerful interests trying to block people who are challenging the system or these conversations. | ||
| It just looks like there's evil power at play trying to control, manipulate, People have been talking about parallel systems for a long time, parallel economies and all this, and this move with Elon Musk, and there's been some speculation that maybe Peter Thiel will get involved, and some other of Elon's friends, billionaire-like sort of investors, would get involved. | ||
| To me, it's the first step in an actual Like a sort of a parallel cathedral element, you know, or a competing Cathedral element, you know to attack the actual system that it's sort of is Feels oppressive as the everyman so I'm kind of like Ford I know some people have been like well, you're just cheering on, you know, your own right-wing Caesar type character or whatever Not my first of all, I don't think the guy's right-wing at all. | ||
| But second of all, yeah for sure I totally am, you know, like I'll take anybody who wants to win at this point. | ||
| I I get, I get kind of like, I, I see the pushback he's getting. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So there's a couple of ways to go at it. | ||
| You can try and reverse engineer the software, get a bunch of developers together that want to work on like a free software system and try and rebuild what's already been built, which takes forever and so many hours of labor for development labor. | ||
| Or you can come from the top by the organization and then free the software code that way. | ||
| But we see with Elon, it's like the Saudi prince is tweeting out. | ||
| He doesn't want to let go of his, his power. | ||
| These people, BlackRock, I think, or is it Vanguard? | ||
| I think Vanguard's in kind of harm's way. | ||
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| They don't want to give up. | ||
| So it's challenging to take it from the top when you're using their money, the fiat, because they control the fiat. | ||
| And I say they, it's so vague, but it's the Federal Reserve and these giant megacorps that get first dibs on all the money when they loan it out. | ||
| You want to make a guess, Ian, as to who is the largest institutional investor in Tesla? | ||
| Oh, I saw you tweeted that earlier, so I can't. | ||
| But what about you, Brett? | ||
| I think we talked about it earlier. | ||
| What do you guys think? | ||
| Put it in the Super Chats. | ||
| You'll find out later. | ||
| I just said it's Vanguard. | ||
| Vanguard, then Capital something, then I think BlackRock, and then I think it's State Street Global Advisors. | ||
| I swear, this is the problem with going public, man. | ||
| You can't stop it. | ||
| Once you get in that pool, the big fish come and that's that. | ||
| I really do love how Blackrock is just a really, really evil corporation-sounding name. | ||
| It's my favorite part about it. | ||
| What was the other one we were talking about earlier? | ||
| Blackwater. | ||
| Blackstone? | ||
| No, the private mercenary group from... Oh, Blackwater, yeah. | ||
| They changed their name several times. | ||
| But I love that it's just so evil supervillain-sounding. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| Let's talk about DeSantis and see where we're headed in this country. | ||
| DeSantis defends math textbook rejection as Dems seek proof of critical race theory lessons. | ||
| Florida Education Department officials have not yet provided examples from the textbooks deemed impermissible, but on Monday released the list of books that failed to make the cut. | ||
| So apparently... | ||
| DeSantis defended it. | ||
| We want kids to learn to think so they get the right answer, DeSantis told reporters. | ||
| The Florida Department of Education on Friday rejected some 54 math books from state classrooms, a move that drew national attention when DeSantis claimed the proposals from publishing companies contained lessons on indoctrinated concepts like race essentialism. | ||
| The move was just the latest example of Republicans, including DeSantis, scrutinizing what students are learning, blah blah. | ||
| Okay, here's the question. | ||
| If the math books don't have critical race theory in them, why are they bent out of shape? | ||
| They're getting removed. | ||
| If it's just a math book where it's like 2 plus 2 is 4, then why would they be mad about that? | ||
| They'd be like, oh, I guess, do we still have a math book that says 2 plus 2 equals 4? | ||
| Then why do we care if you remove that one? | ||
| This is really interesting because it is possible that they're not actually teaching critical race theory. | ||
| And what they're doing is teaching a form of praxis, which is where critical theory is in everything. | ||
| It doesn't have to be explicit. | ||
| It underlies everything. | ||
| I've seen some of these math problems. | ||
| I think it was Matt Walsh earlier today who was reading some of these questions about Maya Angelou | ||
| and all the stuff that went on in her life, all this racism she stood up to. It's a math problem. | ||
| You're supposed to be solving x and y and a and b and all this stuff, but they're rolling into it | ||
| all these ideas so that they can say, we're not teaching critical race theory. | ||
| This is practice. | ||
| We've talked about this before. | ||
| This is critical race applied principles. | ||
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Right. | |
| So an example would be those old math problems where it's like a train leaves Detroit traveling 500 miles an hour and a train leaves Pittsburgh traveling at 50 miles an hour and blah, blah, blah. | ||
| And then, you know, that's a math problem. | ||
| What they're doing in these is they're like, Johnny is a young white man who's 15 years old and he gets stopped by the police three times in one month. | ||
| But Jerome is a young black man who gets stopped by the police 2000 times in one month. | ||
| What percentage of stops were... And then you're like, okay, we get it. | ||
| That's what they're doing. | ||
| I honestly think, if anything, it doesn't go far enough. | ||
| We, as far as DeSantis' move here, I had to go pick up one of my kids. | ||
| I have one kid in public school and the rest of mine are homeschooled, but I had to go pick her up. | ||
| And there was a class, the kids must have been maybe seven years old. | ||
| And all across the wall is the, you know, rainbow flags and trans flag color. | ||
| Now, nothing said, you know, anything about, but, but the coloring is all the right coloring, you know, and there's like the little sneaky words, you know, like sharing is caring, like care bearers type stuff. | ||
| And this isn't a tiny town in, in Idaho, in the mountains of Idaho. | ||
| I mean, tiny. | ||
| That's so it's everywhere. | ||
| And it's, it's like being pumped into these kids' brains. | ||
| I actually think like, that's why colors are so important. | ||
| You know, kids latch on to that stuff, and it's very visually appealing for them. | ||
| So when it's broadcast in their faces all the time, you don't have to have an explicit message in there. | ||
| The message is in the image. | ||
| I still remember an image in fourth grade on my wall of a horn, like a trumpet, playing music, and it showed the sound waves coming out like this, like round. | ||
| Sorry if you're listening, you're not able to see. | ||
| But then the teacher came in one day and was like, actually, the sound waves are actually like this, and they changed the image to a sine wave. | ||
| And that was, that sticks with me to today. | ||
| That was like 35 years ago or something crazy. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Imagery is the most, one of the most powerful ways to teach a child anything. | ||
| Sound, imagery, smell, those kinds of things. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Sensory stuff. | ||
| There are a bunch of these videos that are coming out and it's starting to expose these teachers are doing. | ||
| One of them is the, um, like a gender flow chart almost. | ||
| And there's, it's from libs of tick tock. | ||
| I saw this. | ||
| Where the teacher's like, you start with your sexuality and then you can go as far as you want towards male or female and then you come down to your identity and it can be different. | ||
| And it's like, it's not... The thing is, if you tell a kid, trans people exist. | ||
| Gay people exist. | ||
| It's like, okay, I get it. | ||
| You're telling them they exist. | ||
| If you give them a card and tell them to draw on a scale where they are, now you're actually not just telling them exist. | ||
| Now you're doing some kind of litmus test for them and their identity. | ||
| And what happens then if these kids feel like they're not going to fit in if they go with the bland gray flag? | ||
| The cis flag they've been showing kids is just black and white. | ||
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Hmm. | |
| So why would a kid pick that one? | ||
| Why would the kid want to be the, you know, boring? | ||
| No, you can be fun and exciting here. | ||
| Do these things. | ||
| And so these kids don't understand oppression. | ||
| They don't understand civil rights. | ||
| These are, these are young kids between, you know, uh, five years old and nine years old. | ||
| They're being told just to draw how they feel and they're like, whatever. | ||
| Don't you think they're going after him for because at that age, they don't understand sexuality all they don't have, you know, they're not they're prepubescent and all this. | ||
| So if you go after him then and you like start talking to him about sexual orientation, of course, like Johnny and Jack are going to say that they like each other more because girls are stupid and icky or whatever. | ||
| So then when they do start to develop actual hormones and feelings, you're just like adding layers of confusion because now they're getting all the, you know, testosterone slowing. | ||
| They're like, well, I thought I liked, you know, Jack, it turns out maybe Jill's all right. | ||
| You know, I've, I've heard some horror stories from these are coming out of conservative states where like someone's kid said that they thought they were pan. | ||
| And their parent was like, why do you think you're pan? | ||
| And they're like, cause I like everybody. | ||
| And they're like, you, you like everybody? | ||
| That means you want to kiss them. | ||
| And, and, and their daughter was like, no! | ||
| She's friendly. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I just mean like, I want to be friends with them. | ||
| And they're like, that's not what that means. | ||
| They're lying to those kids. | ||
| I'm not saying it's every classroom, but certainly that is happening because these kids don't know what that means. | ||
| And there's no way it gets to that level of teaching that they don't know that they're confusing them. | ||
| And that's the worst part about it is that it's being obfuscated intentionally, partially because they know the kids aren't old enough to really process what that means. | ||
| And partially just everything that you don't say is every bit as important as what you choose to say. | ||
| And what you leave out says almost more about it than what you put in. | ||
| And that's terrifying to me. | ||
| Yeah, well, I think reality is, yeah, these teachers are indoctrinating kids. | ||
| And then the media is doing everything in its power to push back. | ||
| So Ibram X. Kendi recently came out and said that, oh no, they're grooming kids to be white supremacists. | ||
| And it's like, wow, it's working. | ||
| If he's got to come out and try and do that, the messaging has worked. | ||
| You've got Kendi trying to retake the word groomer because they're grooming kids. | ||
| It ain't gonna work, buddy. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Did you cover the first grade teacher who told the first grade class that when babies are born, the doctor just guesses whether it's a boy or a girl? | ||
| Oh yeah, I think we talked about that, right? | ||
| Did you talk about that? | ||
| I don't remember that. | ||
| They just guess? | ||
| The doctor just guesses. | ||
| That's what happens. | ||
| There's another video from Libs of TikTok where the doctor's basically saying that where it's like, it's typically based on their, their, you know, their, their genetics, their genitals, but usually it's just their genitals. | ||
| And sometimes they're wrong. | ||
| It's like, well, sometimes as in like, you know, point zero seven zero. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| percent of the time. | ||
| But this is why ethics is so important. | ||
| Science can only get you so far. | ||
| You can only you can only look at pieces and parts and decide your final answer. | ||
| But I mean, and that's I think maybe the conversation about ethics and emotions has gone kind of too far in one direction. | ||
| It's like if you feel like you're a different sex, then then that's Reality, because we have not been having much talk about emotion. | ||
| So this is like the hammers come and swinging back. | ||
| I feel like society is really detached from its emotional self. | ||
| How often do you see people cry? | ||
| How often do you see people publicly acknowledging their suffering? | ||
| Well, I mean, kids that used to have, even though they weren't living on a farm or whatever, they used to know people that were farmers. | ||
| They had a grandfather that was a farmer or, you know, an uncle or whatever. | ||
| And so they were involved with animal husbandry and that stuff at a younger age. | ||
| And you don't have to explain, like kids, ranch kids don't get birds and the bees talks because they've been breeding animals, you know, being, they've been around animals who were being bred since they were very, very young. | ||
| So there's an implicit understanding there. | ||
| Like dad doesn't have to sit down and say, you know, when a mama bee loves a daddy bee, you know, it's like they've been seeing stud horses and mares out in the pasture. | ||
| Chickens. | ||
| Chickens. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Like we got, we got chicken city and I was thinking about this too. | ||
| A lot of people talk about how their kids will watch Chicken City. | ||
| Their dogs and their cats, obviously, will watch it, too. | ||
| But Chicken City has become this massive success. | ||
| Thank you, everybody. | ||
| But no, in all seriousness, you'll get kids watching with their parents and they'll be like, I want to feed the chickens. | ||
| And so they'll put the five bucks in, the food comes down, and then you'll see the rooster mount the hen and do his rooster business. | ||
| I hate to explain that. | ||
| Well, I mean, this chicken city is overtly over-the-top family friendly. | ||
| Chickens do these things. | ||
| Like, if you want to teach your kids about farms and petting zoos, you're going to watch that stuff happen. | ||
| Now, maybe if your kid's never been exposed to that, you're going to have to have that conversation. | ||
| But to your point, I was thinking about this earlier. | ||
| I was like, kid who grows up on a goat farm is never going to have that question because they're like a little kid watching the goats do their thing. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Yeah, it's just totally true. | ||
| And the chicken thing might be a little bit hard because then it's like, wait, so we're eating chicken babies? | ||
| That's what we're eating? | ||
| A lot of questions. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yep. | ||
| Every day those eggs come out. | ||
| It's not necessarily a baby. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| But you don't eat the chicks. | ||
| You got to wait for them to grow. | ||
| That's where you get the meat. | ||
| Do you guys have a farm? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Did you explain to your kids about like, we're raising the animals, we're going to eat the animals or anything like that? | ||
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Oh, I mean, no, I don't know. | |
| It just kind of happens. | ||
| In fact, my little sister, when she was, she was probably 10 years old or so, maybe not. | ||
| She was younger than that, seven or eight years old anyway. | ||
| She'd come home from school and got off the school bus and I was out feeding her or something. | ||
| And I came around and I just come in the back door and I hear her yell, Hey mom, I'm hungry. | ||
| I want to eat Bob. | ||
| It was this steer that she'd named Bob, you know, and she loved the steer or whatever, but she's like, whatever's food. | ||
| He's cute and everything, but we're going to eat him. | ||
| Another one of those things is just kind of implicit. | ||
| Imagine being Bob. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| I know that name. | ||
| Do they argue against naming them for that reason? | ||
| No, I mean, my stepfather used to hate it, but for me personally, it doesn't bother me at all. | ||
| Yesterday I was at my in-laws getting ready for Easter and then getting ready to come out here. | ||
| As soon as I left, we had one of our heifers calved, you know, and my wife comes home, she's like, oh, look at it, it's so cute, you know? | ||
| I mean, thank goodness I didn't have to pull it or anything, but, you know, she's talking about how cute these little Angus calves are or whatever, and I'm like, yeah, I get it. | ||
| And then, you know, the kids are hearing her talk like that, but they never, they never have a problem, you know, eating. | ||
| Like, they know it's a cow. | ||
| I guess when you're raised from the beginning with that, you would just know from the tiniest age. | ||
| Yeah, I think you're just closer to it or something. | ||
| This is interesting because we've asked many times, like, who is going to survive better in the apocalypse or who is more likely to survive, a conservative, rural, or urban liberal? | ||
| And it's like, no one thinks the urban liberals are going to make it, but this is a really good point we've not brought up. | ||
| It's that people who grow up in rural areas are more likely to have been exposed at a young age to slaughtering a pig or a chicken to eat. | ||
| Like, you know, I want to eat Bob! | ||
| People in the city are going to be like, I have to do what with the knife? | ||
| And then what do I do with those things? | ||
| They're not going to want to do it. | ||
| They want to walk into a supermarket where there's just pink slime. | ||
| They can just, you know, cook it and eat it. | ||
| We had a farm, my grandpa's cousin had a farm, Northeast Ohio. | ||
| We would go out there, Alvin, Uncle Alvin, and Cousin Alvin. | ||
| And then you see the thing hanging upside down, like the cattle thing, just all the skin ripped off, and it's like, wow, wow! | ||
| And I don't think I ever watched him butcher it up, and I never saw him kill it. | ||
| I did see my dad kill a groundhog, and that was, well, family friendly, he wounded the groundhog, and it escaped, and I just saw the trail of blood, and it was really disturbing. | ||
| I thought, why hunt if you're not gonna, like, why would you wound it? | ||
| Groundhogs destroy houses. | ||
| Yeah, you know, there's always a reason, but it was pretty tragic to see it get wounded and get away, because I was like, what's gonna happen? | ||
| And he was like, well, it's gonna die in a hole somewhere. | ||
| Or die in a hole. | ||
| Yeah, the thing about groundhogs is that they knock trees down, they can destroy houses, they can destroy foundations. | ||
| So I was reading about it, and apparently there are some places where if you actually catch the groundhog, you have to kill it. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Because you can be liable for the damages it caused after you've caught it. | ||
| I did not know that. | ||
| Crazy, right? | ||
| Well, imagine you catch it and you're like, oh, I don't want to hurt the little thing. | ||
| So you just bring it to the edge of your property and let it go and it goes to your neighbor's house and knocks a tree down. | ||
| They're going to be like, you released that thing on me. | ||
| Yeah, someone mentioned that about mice. | ||
| They're like, if you don't do something with them, they will come back and they'll get worse. | ||
| And I was going to say that I think that maybe one of the best things about living on a ranch is that you can teach your kids about the circle of life. | ||
| Like if something does crawl in a hole and die, then other things come along and eat it. | ||
| It becomes part of the soil. | ||
| It's all part of like growing plants and all this really, it's actually really a neat cycle that I think kids would benefit from knowing about. | ||
| These things are hard because we have led such like kind of privileged and cushioned lives. | ||
| We can go to the store and get these little pink things that are, They're chicken. | ||
| Where did it come from? | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| Milk grows on the shelves. | ||
| It's absolute insanity. | ||
| We have no connection to the things we eat. | ||
| It's a good opportunity to teach kids about that kind of cycle. | ||
| Really important. | ||
| Would you butcher at the farm? | ||
| Yeah, I'd butcher all our stuff. | ||
| Yeah, I do my own butchering. | ||
| In fact, this discussion made me think of my friend Shanna. | ||
| She always says that cows are friends and steers are food, which is true. | ||
| Cows have more babies and you eat the steers. | ||
| Keep your replacement heifers and sell some off. | ||
| So anyway, so there is kind of a little bit of bifurcation that's worth talking about. | ||
| The cows themselves are actually occupying a different place. | ||
| It's because you keep them comfortable so they have healthy babies and they produce good milk? | ||
| Well, I mean, you want to keep them all comfortable, ideally, because you want as much pound on the animal as you can when you go to butcher. | ||
| And if they're stressed out, the meat can be bad, right? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, really stress is more just like they'll have a harder time gaining weight. | ||
| At least that's been... Now, like if you're hunting, if you wound something, it's going to get a hit of neuroepinephrine and then your meat is going to be more tense and stiffer or tough. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| So when you're hunting, you want the animal to go to be like in the head, just down. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, yeah, I killed as quickly as possible. | ||
| Like, and then there are some arguments people will make that, uh, like an arrow through, and I've seen it a bunch of times and an arrow through the actual like boiler room with the vitals, the animal almost, I mean, they'll run off, but you can tell that they have no idea what happened. | ||
| You know, they're just like, then they just die. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| So, Oh, okay. | ||
| So then they don't get the, There's not a big loud sound associated with it. | ||
| It's just a sharp pain and then they're done. | ||
| That's because it's an arrow? | ||
| Yeah, a broadhead, you know, it's just a clean cut and the bow doesn't make a lot of noise. | ||
| And so I've heard this argument. | ||
| I don't know how much, I don't know how much like bro science is going on there, but I mean, it's, I think it's a, it's a viable argument, I think. | ||
| So like when, when, when they realize they're in danger, they tense up and then the muscle becomes stiff and hard and then you try to eat it. | ||
| It's like you got to, Yeah, I think the big hit, just the big hit of adrenaline, you know, going through and stiffens them up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then, you know, of course, like if you hit something in the guts or whatever, then that's a whole nother. | ||
| You kind of see that with factory farming, when they lead the cattle into the bolt thing where they're going to put the bolt in their head. | ||
| And then you watch the one behind it here, the one in front of it die and they freak out. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So that's got to be affecting the final meat, the meat. | ||
| It's I mean, I feel like I'm almost disassociated. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I have I'm a weird, empathetic creature. | ||
| Happy cows, man. | ||
| Yeah, happy cows, happy life. | ||
| But cows aren't raised for beef? | ||
| It's just their dairy? | ||
| And then what the steers are the beef cattle? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| So cows are kind of, yeah, cows are the females, right? | ||
| And they are going to reproduce, you know, so you turn your bulls in, depending on your setup, you turn your bulls in for some people leave them in all the time. | ||
| But, you know, you turn your bulls in for X amount of months, and then you know, you pull your bulls out and then Like right now at home most of us are calving or almost done calving, which is just having the babies, you know. | ||
| And then you'll wean cows and calves, you know, later on and that's when they'll go to auction. | ||
| How long does it take for a calf to grow up to become either food or... | ||
| It depends on your setup, whether you're running a cow-calf operation or you're running a feed operation or just like buying ballers or steers and it depends on what you're doing. | ||
| But like, let's just say just for roundabout, let's just say eight months ish. | ||
| Then you go to auction or keep your replacement. | ||
| So if I wanted milk, right, and I bought day one, just born calf, how long until I can, you know, work with the ball to start producing milk and getting the baby and everything? | ||
| I see. | ||
| Usually breed heifers around two years old. | ||
| Two years? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Are they able to inbreed? | ||
| Like chickens? | ||
| Well, I mean, you castrate all the bulls, right? | ||
| So you just have... Oh, I see what you're saying. | ||
| Dad, daughter. | ||
| Yes, exactly. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, you try to avoid that where you can, but sure. | ||
| And some people will lion breed. | ||
| You castrate the bulls? | ||
| Well, the bull calves. | ||
| Because you only want one to be breeding with them or what? | ||
| Yeah, well, you don't want a nine-month-old or so bull calf out there breeding your heifers or whatever. | ||
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Right, right, right, right. | |
| Plus, you know, it just makes better meat. | ||
| So there's like, right, so there's specific bulls will be left not castrated. | ||
| Right, yeah. | ||
| You'll pull those out and put them in their own pen and then... And those are the studs? | ||
| Yeah, basically, yeah. | ||
| That's a great name. | ||
| That was interesting cow talk. | ||
| Let's go back to school. | ||
| We got this story from timcast.com. | ||
| Former assistant principal at Virginia Elementary School files lawsuit, says critical race theory teachings created really hostile work environment. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Emily Mayes, who worked at Agnor Hurt Elementary School in Charlottesville, says she was subjected to extreme harassment for weeks over her reservations about CRT. | ||
| The situation escalated for Mayes. | ||
| She claims that she accidentally used the word colored instead of people of color during a teaching workshop. | ||
| Despite apologizing continuously, including immediately after the word was uttered, She says that for months she was harassed and berated by other staff, and that the district failed to intervene. | ||
| One black employee who refused to accept the apology began referring to her as that white racist bee. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| You know, I just gotta say... | ||
| This is a strategy to use. | ||
| If you work somewhere with any kind of critical race theory stuff, sue them. | ||
| That's what you gotta do. | ||
| Because if they're telling you things based on race, like white people, white privilege, or whatever, they're in violation of the EEOC and the Civil Rights Act. | ||
| So you gotta sue them. | ||
| This is the tactic. | ||
| You gotta use it. | ||
| Check out this other story. | ||
| We got this one from Fox News. | ||
| Professor wins lawsuit against university over pronouns. | ||
| Students demand went against my Christian beliefs. | ||
| The Ohio professor won $400,000 after suing the university over being forced to use students' preferred pronouns. | ||
| There it is, my friends! | ||
| You gotta stand up for yourself. | ||
| That's the difference between the United States and Canada right there. | ||
| How does the, I still, my favorite part about the pronouns thing is it should very rarely be coming up in person conversation anyways, because most of the time you're not using their pronouns when you're actually talking to them in the room anyways, right? | ||
| You're going to call them by their name, or you're going to refer to them directly. | ||
| It's more to control your speech when they're not in the room. | ||
| Isn't that weird? | ||
| Like we did a story on Pop Culture Crisis where we were talking about Demi Lovato and Demi Lovato has like they them pronouns and I couldn't do it. | ||
| I kept screwing it up and because because like you said earlier I want to be respectful I try to like some people don't like that like I'm like look that's what they want I understand but I eventually like had to give up on the point that And come back to it like the next day because I couldn't get it right. | ||
| I couldn't, I kept screwing it up. | ||
| So she was controlling. | ||
| She, I just did it right there. | ||
| She, they were controlling my ability to speak on them without even being in the room just by virtue of creating pronouns that are different from the normal, you know, the normal set. | ||
| So everybody called out Demi Lovato because Demi Lovato says they are daddy's girl in caption of sizzling Instagram portraits after coming out as non-binary and using they them pronouns. | ||
| You don't get to choose your pronouns. | ||
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I'm sorry. | |
| I got, I got, look, I try to be nice to everybody. | ||
| I want to be civil, respectful, but you can't tell me what words to use. | ||
| If I want to call Brett brat, he can be like, that's not my name. | ||
| And I'd be like too bad. | ||
| Like I'm going to say whatever I want. | ||
| I want now. | ||
| Is that short for bratwurst? | ||
| Yeah, I don't know. | ||
| I was just saying it slightly differently. | ||
| Instead of Ian, I'm going to call him Ian. | ||
| Hey, you're not the first. | ||
| What's he going to do about it? | ||
| Just laugh and cry. | ||
| So if I say, you know, like, Luke kept calling Lydia Linda when he was on the show. | ||
| Rude, first of all. | ||
| See? | ||
| Well, she's offended. | ||
| Does that mean I have to take over calling you Lydia? | ||
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No. | |
| Linda now. | ||
| Linda. | ||
| No, but like, what's Lydia going to say other than, don't call me Linda? | ||
| He's like, okay, Linda. | ||
| Like, what are you going to do? | ||
| It's like, you can tell him. | ||
| To be fair, I think that pronouns are very much a power play, because Brett's right. | ||
| There is no period of time at which you would say, like, he, when Braxton's sitting right there in front of you, or when Tim's sitting right in front of you. | ||
| It's when they're not even there. | ||
| It's like, could you imagine having a conversation like that where, you know, Brett makes a reference to a Demi Lovato story, and then I just look to Braxton and I'm like, did you hear what he was just saying? | ||
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Oh my gosh! | |
| It's just out of the conversation. | ||
| I think if it's pretty, I mean, rude for sure. | ||
| If someone called me by the wrong name to make fun of me, I'd be like, all right, bro, take it easy. | ||
| And then if they kept doing it, I'd be like, I'm not going to interact with you anymore. | ||
| Uh, or, or whatever I had to do. | ||
| But I, and it's, so I understand why, but, but then if I, I change my pronoun to a new kind of language or new kind of thought thing, that's a hard one to get. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe it's the same kind of thing that emotionally for the people that are experiencing this. | ||
| So. | ||
| I don't, I don't know, man. | ||
| Well, like remember when it was on here or was it on Rogan when the Labonte on and he was talking, I was like, yeah, like I'll call you by your pronouns, but I might just not call you very often to hang out. | ||
| Cause you're really difficult to be around. | ||
| Like, I don't mean any disrespect, but like, if, if I have to worry about any point in the conversation, something like this comes up, I'm just, I'm just going to check out, dude. | ||
| I'm like, I'm just not interested. | ||
| I'm not interested in it. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Good way to put it. | ||
| I mean, how mad are you at your dad? | ||
| How much do you need attention? | ||
| I don't think it's that. | ||
| Demi Lovato said she's daddy's girl. | ||
| You know why I'm saying she? | ||
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Why? | |
| Because she said she's daddy's girl. | ||
| And now, look, if she comes out and says that she's non-binary, I'm like, okay, whatever. | ||
| If she comes out and says she's daddy's girl, I'm like, oh, she's a girl again. | ||
| So now she's a she, right? | ||
| So she changed it back. | ||
| So pronoun fluid. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| She's just, she can just be prone to it. | ||
| No, you don't think it is. | ||
| The reason why they're going after kids is because little kids are like trying to find their identity, right? | ||
| But the identity is usually something like, do I want to be a fireman or do I want to be a carpenter? | ||
| Do I want to be a doctor or a nurse or something? | ||
| Now they're going to kids and be like, I remember when I was little and they're like, what's your favorite color? | ||
| And I was always like, I don't know, like, how do you know what your favorite color is? | ||
| What does that even mean? | ||
| And then I would just tell people green because the calendar for March, my birthday, was always green. | ||
| It's like green, I guess, because like that's the only thing I can kind of think of. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I kind of like blue or whatever. | ||
| So you just pick it. | ||
| Now you're a little kid and they're like, which pronouns are you? | ||
| And they're like, oh, Florbo? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| Whatever. | ||
| Is it New York that recognizes 33 separate genders? | ||
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31. | |
| 31 separate genders? | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| But they legally recognize any and all genders, which means you can make one up on the spot. | ||
| So what is the point of a 31 if they legally recognize all? | ||
| Of the 31, they even are redundant. | ||
| Like, female to male is considered a gender in New York, but FTM is also considered a gender, even though it means the same thing. | ||
| This stuff is so difficult to talk about because I am such a generally respectful and do not want to offend or hurt anyone's feelings and I know a lot of people like working here you kind of like a lot of people see that as like a flaw right that you're like you're too weak to to stand up for something but it's like I don't want to offend or upset anybody but some of this stuff is so impossible to process in the moment that if I can't even have a reasonable conversation with you I don't know how to do this without being offensive and I don't want that so it's like I'm being forced to be offensive but only to them like I'm trying not to be but they're making it about that and that's very very difficult for me to process as somebody who just doesn't want to be on the wrong side of people just for general reasons. | ||
| Yeah, talking about someone, then you're taking some risk. | ||
| When you're talking to someone, pronouns are out of the question. | ||
| You don't even use pronouns. | ||
| You're having a conversation with somebody, and anyone can get down with that. | ||
| It doesn't matter how they identify. | ||
| When you start talking about people, then they're like, whoa, if you're going to bring me into this, bring me into it the way I want to be brought into it. | ||
| And it's like, not in the United States. | ||
| I'm bringing you in because you're part of this. | ||
| It's purposefully destabilizing. | ||
| It's impossible for a regular person to know what's happening or who you're talking about. | ||
| So the example I gave on Twitter was, I can't remember exactly how I wrote it, but I said, Pat and Sam, go to see a movie. | ||
| They got angry because they wanted to see a horror film, but they ended up seeing a comedy instead. | ||
| And what they really wanted was... And then it's just like, what does the they refer to? | ||
| Like, which person did what? | ||
| If you said, like, Mike and Jane went to a movie, she got angry because she wanted to see a comedy film, but he wanted to see horror, and they ended up seeing horror. | ||
| Now you understand. | ||
| The girlfriend is mad. | ||
| She wants to see comedy. | ||
| The boyfriend wants to see horror. | ||
| They were both mad because they didn't see anything. | ||
| But if you said, Sam and Pat went to the movies. | ||
| They were mad because they wanted to see a comedy, but they saw horror. | ||
| It's like, are you, like, they were both mad? | ||
| Which, which, which person is referred to in the they? | ||
| Now, to be fair, in the context of, you know, Sarah and Jane go to the movie and she was mad, you're also like, I don't know which person you're referring to, because if it's two different genders, there you go. | ||
| In which case, you don't need the pronouns at all. | ||
| Sarah and Jane go to the movie, Sarah got mad because she wanted to see a movie, a comedy, but Jane wanted to see horror, and they ended up saying, so you just use the name. | ||
| In which case, this whole discussion is like, I think you're right, though, that it is that it's about being purposely destabilizing. | ||
| As much as it pains me to give him credit, Jesse Kelly calls these guys communists all the time, and I think he's right, at least in orientation and also because it makes him mad to be called communist. | ||
| So I think it's good to use. | ||
| But the whole, you know, basically, in a sense, the Lenin model is destabilize, destabilize, create confusion and chaos, and then come in and be the person that restores order in the way that you want it. | ||
| And that seems to be the approach. | ||
| How do they restore order? | ||
| Who are they looking for? | ||
| We're shooting people in the streets. | ||
| But I'm saying who are they looking for that's going to make sense of this? | ||
| Well, at this stage, I don't think it matters because it's chaos stage. | ||
| Because he's like a lot of these people who shilled for Biden who just like he doesn't understand the stuff. | ||
| He doesn't like I would argue that he doesn't really understand any of the stuff that's going on with that type of with that part of the movement. | ||
| But it's like you said earlier, you think it's about destabilizing, and we talked about religion, and you said, I think, like, why does it feel like people are coming more around to religion again? | ||
| It's because they're looking for something solid under their feet. | ||
| And I'm not religious, but I'm one of those people that's like, everything feels so up in the air now that you're just looking for something, anything to hold on to that feels like some semblance of the real world and not this postmodern hell that feels like we're in right now. | ||
| I mentioned that earlier, that in a time when you start to lose faith in reality, you start to look for faith in other places. | ||
| And I see people reverting to religion of the past or to non-binary degenderism or whatever the heck. | ||
| I looked up, there's a meme going around that says they translated non-binary into Spanish. | ||
| And there's two ways to translate it. | ||
| One is the feminine version and one is the masculine version. | ||
| No binaria, no binario. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
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| Well, so let's... We gotta cancel Spanish. | ||
| Let's talk about the return of religion. | ||
| I mean, you know, Brett just brought up that things are starting to become more religious. | ||
| I remember reading about Dave Rubin. | ||
| Is he now a Christian? | ||
| I believe so, yeah. | ||
| Something like that happened? | ||
| And I find that interesting because a lot of people rag that I'm saying like all of a sudden this guy who they say drifted to the right is now, you know, all of a sudden he's a conservative Christian or whatever. | ||
| And the funny thing is, The opposite kind of happens to me, because I've, like, long talked about how I've believed in God since I was, like, 18. | ||
| Like, I was—grew up Catholic, then kind of drifted away, but then I was a teenager, so I, you know, had this, like, realization. | ||
| And now I believe in God, but I don't consider myself, like, religiously theistic or anything like that, not following—I don't follow Scripture or anything like that. | ||
| I just think there's a God. | ||
| And instead I get conservatives calling me an atheist. | ||
| I'm like, what is that all about? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Weird. | ||
| But I do think it's interesting. | ||
| So I just wanted to dig in on why you guys think religion is making a comeback. | ||
| Fundamentally, everyone is disoriented or misoriented and is rudderless and unmoored. | ||
| And we're all feeling it. | ||
| It's the, you know, the chaos is, it's palpable, you know, and we feel it in our own lives every day. | ||
| And so everyone's looking for a rudder. | ||
| The rest is like, we're just adrift in the ocean right now. | ||
| And we're looking for something to stick in the waves and try to get back to shore. | ||
| Religion has worked for a long time. | ||
| You know, Christianity is, what, 2,000 years old. | ||
| Judaism is, what, 5,000 years old or something. | ||
| That's pretty firm, solid footing. | ||
| So I think, you know, people are looking that way because it's worked. | ||
| I mean, look at, like, the Peterson phenomena. | ||
| Like, he would, he would talk, you know, I've heard... Jordan Peterson? | ||
| Yeah, Jordan Peterson. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I've heard him jokingly referred to as, like, the guy who speaks to kids who didn't have dads. | ||
| I mean, maybe there's some truth to that, but I think really, like, he was speaking to a generation that was sort of broken up by new atheism, you know? | ||
| like these these Christian these younger Christian kids or Jewish kids or whatever that fell in love with Dawkins and | ||
| Hitchens and Harris and these kind of guys because they were | ||
| charismatic and really they're attacking the argument level of | ||
| like a teenager or whatever but they you know if you don't know | ||
| if you're not you know well steeped or versed in your faith then it's kind of easy to get you know swayed by someone | ||
| who is as charismatic as Hitchens so that went on for you know | ||
| a decade or whatever. | ||
| And then these people that went through that were looking at the society around them and the chaos and disaster that it had become. | ||
| And Peterson steps up and in many ways is kind of like the anti-New Atheist. | ||
| He's like making similar arguments but on the opposite end. | ||
| And then those same kids are like, I remember Peterson talking about a bunch of atheists showing up at his things and asking about God. | ||
| And so I just think that we're looking for, collectively, we're looking for some solid footing and religion has persisted. | ||
| So scientific method kind of turns me off. | ||
| I know there's real value to the scientific method. | ||
| It's fantastic for building machines and stuff, but placebo effect is real. | ||
| No one knows why they just know it's somewhat effective in studies and trials. | ||
| That's not scientific method. | ||
| Can't explain it. | ||
| So that's not a perfect system. | ||
| And so I look out, I look elsewhere. | ||
| What else is there? | ||
| Quantum physics is fascinating. | ||
| Religions are fascinating. | ||
| God is fascinating, but to jump on one seems like a, uh, a preemptive mistake. | ||
| So at least that's where I'm at right now. | ||
| I somewhat agree. | ||
| I do think the scientific method can eventually understand why the placebo effect happens. | ||
| I think we just haven't yet. | ||
| Because if you're going to keep doing testing, you figure out what's going on in the brain or in the body. | ||
| But I somewhat agree, picking one religion. | ||
| That's why I consider myself non-theistic in a sense. | ||
| I don't follow any scripture or whatever, but I do believe God exists. | ||
| It's because I've met too many people who are like, I know for sure and here's why, let me explain it to you. | ||
| And I'm like, man, you really are convinced. | ||
| You know a whole lot. | ||
| You've asked a lot of deep philosophical questions. | ||
| And here's another guy who says you're wrong, who's also very learned. | ||
| So I'm like, I don't know. | ||
| I think the one thing I can agree on is that there's something bigger and greater than all of us, but I don't know if like, maybe the reality is, Everybody's looking through the a small lens at the bigger picture at the same thing and you know They're looking through it and they see imagine your look. | ||
| This is big mansion I was using example as a ballroom inside with tons of people and they're all dancing and and you look through the keyhole They're like, what do you see what's inside? | ||
| You're like, there's a big woman with a big dress Then ten feet down as a guy looking through the same keyhole and he's like he sees a guy wearing a tuxedo No, it's not. | ||
| It's a guy wearing a tuxedo And they both started arguing like, oh, no, no, no, I'm seeing this. | ||
| He's like, he's crazy. | ||
| Look, and everyone's like, I can see the lady. | ||
| He's making it up. | ||
| Depending on where you're coming from, you see something different. | ||
| But the reality is the bigger picture on the inside is everybody's getting little pieces of it, you know? | ||
| You think there's an objective reality? | ||
| Yeah, I do. | ||
| How would you define it? | ||
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I mean, seriously, I'm so glad he asked you that question. | |
| Yeah, well, I mean, oh, Descartes makes me so angry. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I see your point. | ||
| I think that it's You have to live in the real world at some point and for me it's like that's the table and let's say I went outside and closed my eyes and I didn't even know, I had no idea you were there. | ||
| It was in the dark, okay? | ||
| You knew I was there but I had no idea that you were there and you threw a snowball and hit me in the side of the face. | ||
| There is no chance that I could deny the existence of that snowball that I did not know existed before it struck my face. | ||
| So, like, obviously we react with the material world, you know, and I do think it's provable, it's just that you have to set up such bizarre experiments to get there that it's... you get in circles. | ||
| This is why people often argue about what objective and subjective is, and it's like, you know, you've got the brain in the vat thought experiment, maybe your brain's in a tube and they're poking it with electrodes, maybe we're all in the matrix, maybe... you at home. | ||
| are the only real person, and everyone else is just some kind of video game NPC. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| How do you define objective reality? | ||
| It's the external things that have a tendency towards being true, is the easiest way I can think of. | ||
| Like, if I throw a rock at a standard house window, the window will break. | ||
| Or maybe you'll miss, but we can basically predict what's gonna happen. | ||
| Physics. | ||
| Physics is the most objective reality I can figure at this point. | ||
| Sort of. | ||
| So, the challenge is... | ||
| Some windows are bulletproof. | ||
| And so you can be like, I can prove to you objective reality, the window will break, and you throw it, and then it bounces off the window, and you're like, okay, I was wrong about that. | ||
| Well, it doesn't disprove objective reality, it just means there's such nuance and subtleties to most things that defining reality, like defining objective reality is, is difficult because everyone has a subjective perspective. | ||
| I suppose you just look for the things that everyone agrees upon as being true, which is why we had the argument before about universal objective morality, to which I believe there is one. | ||
| And it's because when we were talking to Jeremy Boring and Michael Knowles, and they were saying, you know, essentially, what's the point of a planet without humans? | ||
| It's because we are human. | ||
| We live within a human experience, and the human experience is our existence. | ||
| Without humans, there's just, you know, there's life, but it's not perceived the way we perceive it. | ||
| There's no value to it the way we perceive value. | ||
| It's literally just a rock and water or something. | ||
| So from the human experience, I look to what is true in every culture to every person. | ||
| Throw it stepping on a rock hurts. | ||
| All right, so we can see some things are objective but it's a gradient you get to a certain point where you're getting into physics even and You might say I believe that there are 13 dimension. | ||
| Here's the math to prove it and someone else like you're crazy There's 14 and here's the math to prove it and then you're getting into weird and wacky world stuff because they're both right You know if there's 14, that means there's also 13. | ||
| There's also 12 and Well, but you get my point, like, they'll disagree on the math and, you know, ultimately the fundamental nature of the universe, so how could it be objective reality if the human experience denies what is true? | ||
| I'll tell you objective reality. | ||
| I'm gonna go to the bathroom. | ||
| I will see you guys in two minutes and I love you. | ||
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Alright. | |
| My point is not that because a bunch of people believe something is true. | ||
| Makes it true. | ||
| It's just that if we can all prove something to a certain degree, and then we can replicate it, we've found our objective, you know, reality to a certain degree. | ||
| It's never completely possible to know everything. | ||
| Why is the objective reality discussion so fascinating? | ||
| Like, I'm literally asking, like, why do you think it is that we always come back to that when we have these discussions? | ||
| Why is it that this focus on, like, I was talking to someone earlier about, we always talk about common sense not being that common anymore. | ||
| It seems like people are taking this... | ||
| Very large-scale view when we've got plenty of problems in the very very real world that we're dealing with now So we have these discussions and I always find that it ends up distracting from actually solving I'd not say that's not important or that there's not value in the discussion There is but I'm saying that it usually comes up when we're discussing real-world issues and these other things So I'm always fascinated how we go back to these kind of more larger scale discussions rather than staying on the topics We were actually discussing beforehand Well, I mean, we're talking about people becoming religious. | ||
| And that was it. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So like, uh, so for me, like when I was thinking about religion, like as somebody who's not, uh, not denominational or anything like that, but I keep coming back to it recently because of an absence of, uh, redemption in the world we live in right now. | ||
| There's absolutely like, whether we're talking about people who are like strong proponents of cancel culture, or if you want to talk about ideological leftists that are pushing these narratives right now. | ||
| They don't really have much of a belief in redemption at all. | ||
| And that's something we went and saw Father Stew, which is like, uh, like we reviewed it for the channel and I was like, I was like, this might've been like a six or seven maybe, but I gave it like a nine just because seeing a story that was so heavily focused on the idea of redemption, uh, even if you exclude all of the religious elements, just that type of, of story is so missing and so lacking in society today when you're not allowed to redeem yourself. | ||
| Once you're, Once you're out, once you're on the outs with the group, you're out forever and you're never allowed back. | ||
| That's why they say you can never apologize, because if you apologize, you're admitting fault and then you're forever that person. | ||
| And that sickens me in a lot of ways. | ||
| I don't like the idea that what you are at one time is who you are forever. | ||
| And I take issue with that. | ||
| And religion takes pains to make that a big part of its value system. | ||
| And that means a lot to me, even if I can't at this time say that I'm denominational. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Again, it goes back to the communism thing. | ||
| It's not that they want you out as an outcast or whatever forever. | ||
| They just want you broken. | ||
| Submit to the group. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They just want you broken so that they can mold you or use you or throw you away or whatever. | ||
| And that is, to your point, the redemption arc that religion allows for is Powerful and fundamental and in some ways kind of what separates us from the animal kingdom that we allow for things like that. | ||
| Maybe that's what's driving people back to religion. | ||
| That they've seen cancel culture. | ||
| They've seen the woke left and they've said, I want to be a better person. | ||
| I want to be redeemed. | ||
| I don't want to be like that. | ||
| And so there's a fundamental, there's a moral structure that says you can be redeemed. | ||
| You can be forgiven, which is the opposite of the modern wokeness. | ||
| But let's do this. | ||
| Let's talk about your book and your story. | ||
| Do you want to tell us what your book is and what it's about? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I joined the military and then I got wounded over in Iraq in 2006. | ||
| Got busted up pretty good. | ||
| Broke my left tibia, my left femur in three places, and my left hip in two places, and my right hip in one, and my right femur in two, and my radius and ulnar in my arm, My right median nerve got transected here. | ||
| Anyway, just a host of injuries. | ||
| My left humerus was broken, most all by ball bearings. | ||
| I do have a hole down here. | ||
| So then I came home, and it ties into this redemption arc. | ||
| I came home and they had me on you know obviously they were having a hard time they didn't know if I was gonna be able to walk again and so I went through all of that the physical recovery stuff and then I got to a civilian doctor out it got out of the military hospital to a civilian doctor and he went through the pain medication that I was on and he was like Braxton I have women old women dying of cancer that are on way less than half of the amount of pain medication that you're on. | ||
| So I was hyper addicted to opioids, didn't know it at the time, but hyper addicted to opioids. | ||
| He started scaling me back and then I went through about two years of physical, well the first stage physical therapy and then I started trying to get off opiates you know and just anyway so I went through struggles with with all of that kind of stuff and speaking to Redemption Arc, I lived like a complete dirtbag for a long time. | ||
| So I'm very, I'm very pro redemption myself. | ||
| I am. | ||
| I'm also in recovery. | ||
| So that's a large part of my story as well. | ||
| Maybe that I didn't even really connect that when I was thinking about it here, but maybe that's why the idea of redemption hits me so hard. | ||
| But, uh, I understand that struggle for sure. | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
| So like prodigal sons, right. | ||
| You know, went off and lived in the underworld and now we're doing your best to climb your way out or like as Dostoevsky writes about it as like the underground, but it's, it's the same, you know, the underground man and everything. | ||
| So it's the same concept. | ||
| What's the book called? | ||
| The Glass Factory. | ||
| So it's about your redemption not coming back from addiction and injury? | ||
| Honestly, one of my favorite parts about this book has been when I first wrote it, I was looking around and all the war books that I was seeing were just not reflective of the experience. | ||
| I'm not trying to take a shot at anybody, but they were just not reflective of the experience I was seeing around me. | ||
| Seeing my friends, you know, several of them commit suicide, getting divorces, going to jail, losing custody of their kids, you know, having problems. | ||
| And the two choices in literature that they sort of had were either uber hero stories, you know, that are anyway, superhero type stories, or this, this like very whiny, you know, crybaby type thing. | ||
| And there was no one trying to thread the needle and say, look, Yeah, a lot of us are screwing up and you need to quit screwing up. | ||
| And until you stop screwing up, your life is going to suck, man. | ||
| Like you got to get out, you know, and do better. | ||
| So I tried to kind of thread that needle. | ||
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And what was the moment you realized? | |
| I don't know. | ||
| It's funny, I actually wrote about this in the book too. | ||
| This part of the book, you're doing a lot of self-reflection when you're writing something like that. | ||
| And I was trying to find this moment and pinpoint it when I decided to be better or whatever. | ||
| And what I realized is that we all do this when we tell our own stories. | ||
| We look back in time for this one thing that flip the switch or whatever, but it's never true. | ||
| There was always a series of small decisions that led up to or away from making the right one. | ||
| What was a couple of the really big decisions you made that led you to the right path? | ||
| I mean getting up at 5 a.m. | ||
| helped for me. | ||
| It doesn't work for everybody but just getting myself on to a schedule was a big one. | ||
| So I couldn't run for eight years and then one day I was able to kind of jog a little bit again and I used to be an athlete and so I really I was very excited at the possibility of running again. | ||
| So I went and ran a mile with my buddy who runs endurance stuff and then I decided to transfer that into going and hiking the Mauna Kea in Hawaii. | ||
| And so I had like a goal to train for. | ||
| And that was enormous for me, to have something to orient myself at physically, so that I actually had to take care of my body. | ||
| And I'd gotten off of the opiates before, but then I was just still living like an idiot and drinking too much. | ||
| I want to ask for both of you guys actually, being in recovery, did religion or God play a role in getting off drugs? | ||
| I mean, for me, for sure, it was, uh, I would say the drug part. | ||
| Well, I was so lost still at the time, um, that I'm not sure how much God really, I mean, God, so this is where it gets hard. | ||
| It's like maybe to my own neurotic, selfish, uh, you know, in my own neurotic and selfish mind, God wasn't playing a role. | ||
| But I think, you know, looking back, I think for sure God was playing a role. | ||
| And now it helps a lot. | ||
| I didn't have, uh, any, uh, such, uh, I don't know if I would have been able to process that type of a concept at the time. | ||
| My brain was in such chaos going through that. | ||
| But for me, it was, uh, and like I said, we, I was just discussing with someone about this, how there's no linear, like everyone looks for that moment where they feel like they're getting better or like, this is the big decision it's in the movies. | ||
| It's always somebody, uh, gets in a car accident and they realize they have to turn their life around. | ||
| But for most people, it's not something that concrete. | ||
| You just have to make that decision day by day and then suddenly find yourself on a path to do so. | ||
| And for me, it wasn't religion so much as it was getting, finding firm footing on something I wanted to do. | ||
| It was like skating for me. | ||
| It was, I had been sober for a while and then my mom passed and then that wasn't an event that led to it. | ||
| But it changed things as far as my schedule and my ability to open up my life because I was, at that time, I was taking care of my mom. | ||
| She was in poor health for many years. | ||
| So the ability to get back out and just physical activity played a huge role in that and like you start You know actively getting active again You feel better about yourself and that leads and it all becomes kind of like a snowball rolling downhill And it's just it wasn't God for me, but it was more the ability to take your life into your own hands and push forward was very Monumental when you've been at the mercy of something for so long, the ability to be in control of yourself again is, uh, like I said, I've told that story before. | ||
| Like when I, when I realized that I could go outside without, uh, or like I could get up without being sick. | ||
| I cried, I cried for 20 minutes. | ||
| And that's because you've now got control of yourself again. | ||
| You're not beholden to something created by a pharmaceutical company. | ||
| Uh, and that's a revelatory experience that goes far. | ||
| Like, I mean, maybe that is, uh, uh, God speaking in a way, but it's certainly, it feels to be akin to that. | ||
| I'm thinking about the brain and all the neurons, and if that's connected to the magnetosphere, the extremely low-frequency band, and if that's God, and are you part of it? | ||
| Yeah, you know, that's what I normally think about. | ||
| Yeah, self-control, I imagine, if there is a God, that it's tightly interwoven. | ||
| I just wonder, because I hear a lot of stories that, you know, a religious experience or something was like pulling people. | ||
| I tell this story about this guy I knew who's on drugs, and then he had a profound experience where a voice told him to get his life together, and it made him very religious. | ||
| I looked for something like that. | ||
| Maybe it's just because I talk about pop culture all day, I watch movies all day. | ||
| I'm looking for that movie-like experience that's going to bring me out of the situation I'm in. | ||
| And then one day you just realize that is not the real, at least not for everyone, it won't be the real world, it won't be what everybody experiences. | ||
| And you have to rely on yourself again and maybe it would have maybe selfishly I would have loved to have had that but I still have such a hard time asking those questions about faith like it's very hard for me to put my faith all in something so perhaps he had a different belief system that led him more to find something like you know to find his answers in that and I just hadn't whatever wherever I was on my journey just wasn't there yet so I had to find my way a different way but it's like that's that movie type way you always imagine somebody pulling you back From the brink and that's just that wasn't my experience But I almost would have loved to have had that it feels like that would have that would have been benefit I think at the root of every addict is Fundamentally is in gratitude for being you know, it's like just being angry at being so if you try to cultivate gratitude in your life and yes, you know take yourself and however, you want to think about this bone sack that you occupy and | ||
| If you start to take that seriously, then a lot of your other problems will sort themselves out. | ||
| I used to talk about gratitude as a superpower. | ||
| The ability to show gratitude for, at a certain point, I'm in a very cheap apartment, I'm working, I'm barely making enough money to get by, but I'm skating every day and I'm doing what I love, and if I can go out every day, walk to get around, do what I need to do, do something that I love while having a job, paying my bills, And if I can be extremely grateful for that, that is something that I feel like I feel bad for people that can't find the gratitude. | ||
| You know, like I almost feel like they're missing out on the ability to feel that emotion. | ||
| What's the best way to find gratitude through pain? | ||
| For me, I don't know if I find it through pain. | ||
| I find it through getting through the pain and finding yourself on the other side of it. | ||
| And that's the ability to handle it without help. | ||
| or like without the ability to find yourself through it and still be okay, not without help, | ||
| but like the ability to, you know, to suffer through it, achieve, you know, get out on the other side | ||
| and find out that you're still okay and you can still go on. | ||
| There's gratitude in that for me. | ||
| One of the best parts about that is that we all embody that lesson and we don't realize it. | ||
| Like when you go to the gym and lift weights, you have pain and you know, | ||
| it's sort of a suffering experience. | ||
| And you do that because you know that on the other end, you're going to be a stronger person. | ||
| And we've known that since we were little. | ||
| We've learned this slowly over time. | ||
| you know you're you're literally in ball embodying that that story you know yeah | ||
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| on the website. | ||
| But let's read some Super Chats. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Ginger McIsaac says, Happy Tax Day, everyone. | ||
| Cough, cough, wheeze. | ||
| I'm just going to say it. | ||
| You know, Super Chats. | ||
| We're low for this show, but I get it. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| And so, you know, like we've got the console here for the YouTube studio, and I'm looking at the revenue, and it's not bad. | ||
| It's like we do well, but I'm just like, everybody's hurting. | ||
| Pay your taxes. | ||
| Everybody just cashed that big check and they're like, oh man. | ||
| Lex Freeman made an interesting tweet. | ||
| He was like, I'm down, I'm paying my taxes, I'm crying, but I wish I knew where this money was going. | ||
| I don't like sending it to this amorphous blob of a thing that is bureaucratic. | ||
| And he makes a fantastic point. | ||
| I think we should have some sort of transparent mechanism to decide where at least some of our tax money goes. | ||
| Even if they say, all this is going to black budget. | ||
| At least I know. | ||
| Well, I mean, they can be like, you know, you submit an inquiry. | ||
| I'd like to know where my X amount of dollars in taxes went. | ||
| And then, like, they just send you back a form that says we blew up kids. | ||
| That's what it feels like. | ||
| It's a bit dark because the military budget is not as high as people think it is. | ||
| I think it's probably 20% of the dollar that you spend in taxes. | ||
| Maybe I'm wrong about that. | ||
| Because I think people think it's really high. | ||
| It's not as high as they think. | ||
| And a lot of it does go to, like, I think veterans benefits. | ||
| I think people, I think that's true. | ||
| Like a large portion might go to... It's like 120 billion of it, I think. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I think the majority of the budget is social programs. | ||
| I'm nearly positive. | ||
| Do you guys know how much, what the tax revenue is for the year? | ||
| Or like what it was last year? | ||
| Google it! | ||
| And then we'll read some Super Chats while you Google it. | ||
| I want to know who's going to, sorry, I just want to know who's going to click the gender training, you know, or diversity training when they're filling out their tax form. | ||
| You know, if we go under Ian's system, like how many people are really going to click, yeah, let's fund more of this. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| It would be interesting. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah, it would be gone. | ||
| People are going to be like, I don't know. | ||
| It would be like healthcare and everyone would be like, yes. | ||
| And then it would be like war, no. | ||
| And then it would be like gender studies, no. | ||
| It looks like in 2021 they expected, in October they had expected to, estimates were $3.8 trillion. | ||
| Instead of $180 billion go to... Okay, that's not that much. | ||
| $3.8 trillion. | ||
| Can you look at the breakdown for where it goes? | ||
| Yeah, I think it's $120 billion to the VA, but I could be getting that number wrong. | ||
| Let's read some more. | ||
| We got Delhi who says, Tim, Felix Rex aka Black Pigeon Speaks is currently in the US. | ||
| I beg you not to let the opportunity pass without getting him on Timcast IRL. | ||
| Would be a great conversation, especially around geopolitics. | ||
| I don't think we can because I don't believe that he shows his face much on camera. | ||
| I haven't caught up with him lately. | ||
| I do think he did a face reveal but I don't think he would be comfortable with coming on and giving an interview. | ||
| We got a chicken mask downstairs you could wear like one of the masks. | ||
| We could get a horse out of it. | ||
| And we could put a mic into the... | ||
| All right. | ||
| User not available says, Tim, you're looking good. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I like the haircut. | ||
| Also, Ian looks like the teacher from Biebs and Butthead in a good way. | ||
| Put a pic of him next to Ian. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Should we get the teacher and we'll put it on the- Definitely. | ||
| Looks like the teacher. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| All right. | ||
| I mean, and kind of acts like him too. | ||
| Yeah, that guy's so funny. | ||
| What was his name? | ||
|
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I don't know. | |
| Let's find out. | ||
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All right. | |
| Joe Harshbarger says, Peter Doocy, why do you still recommend masks? | ||
| Sacky. | ||
| For God's sake, Peter, I'm a press secretary, not a doctor. | ||
|
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Aha. | |
| Star Trek. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I got the name. | ||
| It's David Van Driesen. | ||
| Van Driesen. | ||
| A hippie teacher at Highland High School. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Thanks, Judge. | ||
| Did you see the article I sent the other day about the person who said they'd only come back for DS9 if it was about social justice? | ||
|
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Oh, jeez. | |
| Who said that? | ||
| One of the actresses from the show. | ||
| I saw a really interesting post earlier that said it was breaking down how people's lives were, like in the United States, completely revolving around Christianity, whether they realize it or not, even atheists. | ||
| And one of the funny points was that your favorite exclamation is a call to your Lord and Savior. | ||
| People literally will yell Jesus when they're shocked by something. | ||
| Do you not realize that? | ||
| I mean, people really don't think about it. | ||
| We see these videos of people yelling, Allahu Akbar, when like a bomb goes off. | ||
| And people are like, what is it? | ||
| What is it? | ||
| It's like they're saying, Oh my God. | ||
| That's literally like probably the best translation. | ||
| It's like, it means God is great. | ||
| Like, yeah, but the probably the emotion is, Oh my God. | ||
| And so I just said, geez, which is just derivative of Jesus. | ||
| Even atheists in this country will be like, you'll yell Jesus Christ when something absurd, like a car will hit a dog and you'll yell that out. | ||
| I've been wondering why they call him Jesus because it's Yeshua, I think in Aramaic, is that the right language? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Which is basically Joshua, Yeshua, Joshua, Yeshua. | ||
| So why do they call him Jesus and not Josh? | ||
| Like Josh, dude. | ||
| And Seamus would have a problem with this whole conversation if he was here right now. | ||
| Come back to me, Seamus. | ||
| Hey, I figured out where the money's coming from, from the $3.8 trillion, but I can't figure out where it's going, not yet anyway. | ||
| But it's $1.9 trillion comes from individual income tax, $1.3 trillion comes from payroll tax, and that's the bulk. | ||
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Wow! | |
| Just $284 billion came from corporate income tax. | ||
| Tax day. | ||
| This auspicious of holidays. | ||
| Let me just say that they tax you on the money you earn. | ||
| They tax you when you spend it. | ||
| You have to pay a tax for simply owning a house. | ||
| They tax you on the car you purchase. | ||
| They tax you on the gas you put in it. | ||
| They tax you on not just the food you buy, but specific items get extra taxes. | ||
| They tax everything. | ||
| I think people don't understand this, that it's like, for the average person, what is it, like 50 to 55% of your income goes to taxes? | ||
| Because they look at income tax and they're like, that's my taxes, but they don't realize you bought a cheeseburger, a portion goes to the government. | ||
| You bought a house, now you got to pay the government every, you got to pay government rent. | ||
| The other thing, too, is that payroll tax. | ||
| Ooh, that's brutal. | ||
| That means you and your employer are splitting. | ||
| I think it's 15%. | ||
| So the employer pays 7.5 and you pay 7.5. | ||
| They are jamming taxes everywhere. | ||
| It is insane. | ||
| The Founding Fathers, I mean, they revolted because of taxation. | ||
| No taxation without representation. | ||
| If you don't know where your money's going, that's a big problem. | ||
| Taxes! | ||
| All right, all right. | ||
| I'm trying to find out, too. | ||
| Income tax is relatively new in our country's history, as far as I can tell. | ||
| Was it, like, 19... Yeah, it's in the 1900s. | ||
| I think 1917, I think. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| And it was, like, the Federal Reserve was formed. | ||
| It was a tiny percentage only for, like, the ultra-wealthy. | ||
| It was supposed to be temporary, too, wasn't it? | ||
| Right. | ||
| And they incrementally increased it, increased it. | ||
| Like, they slowed the water, the heat of the water up to boil the people down. | ||
| I mean, jeez, is it unconstitutional? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| They changed the Constitution to make it legal? | ||
| Death tax! | ||
| Someone brought up death tax. | ||
| Oh yeah, so like, after you've already paid all your taxes, then you die, the government comes and takes even more? | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Look, man... How did nobody say, like, maybe we're going, like, just for, like, uh, like, morale's sake, maybe we shouldn't tax them after death, like... | ||
| Maybe the family members might just be a little bit perturbed. | ||
| Just give him that man because you're dead you can't complain like maybe the family members might just be a | ||
| little bit perturbed Well, you guys know I'm I am NOT a taxation as theft guy, | ||
| but at a certain point It's like, you know, I could I can understand a little bit | ||
| but we're we're overpaying It's like imagine if Netflix came to you one day and they | ||
| were like We're raising your rates to $100 a month. You'd be like, | ||
| whoa. Whoa. Whoa, hold on there a minute I'm gonna opt out mmm, you can't and what if I don't want | ||
| to pay for Nevelson more we will lock you in a box It's like, all right, now I got an issue with how much money you're taking from me by force. | ||
| Like, some money I think is reasonable for all this awesome stuff that we end up having, especially security, the military. | ||
| Hey, I'm not completely opposed to... Well, hold on. | ||
| Luke of WeAreChange in the chat saying, why in the world is no one saying taxation is theft? | ||
| Luke, did Luke see the meme that came out on Easter? | ||
| It's the three crosses outside the church and they're all T's and it spells taxation is theft. | ||
| I'll put it this way. | ||
| It's like, yo, if I have Netflix and it's, you know, 10 bucks a month, I'm like, that's reasonable. | ||
| I think it's fair. | ||
| Like I'm getting this service. | ||
| Although I don't have Netflix now because Netflix is weird and creepy. | ||
| But like, if I was going to get a subscription service, I got no problem paying for it. | ||
| But if they came to me one day and they were like, your subscription service is now 10 times more expensive. | ||
| I'd be like, you're stealing from me. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, better yet, they charge your bank account without notifying you, and you don't know why they took the money or where it's going, and they didn't break it down. | ||
| And then when you say, hey, I challenge this, you can't do that, they go, if you don't pay it, we're gonna lock you in a box. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| If you won't go in the box, then we'll shoot you. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| You won't go in the box. | ||
| I guess the argument of why taxation isn't theft, Luke, and everyone else that thinks that, is that they're protecting you. | ||
| You pay. | ||
| It's basically since the Middle Ages. | ||
| They go around, they take a little bit of the food the farmers make, or a lot of it, unfortunately, and then they protect the farmers from more invaders. | ||
| I get that, and I agree, but my point is, like, up to that point, I'm like, yeah, yeah, no, that's cool, like, I like the military, like, cool dudes. | ||
| But, um, well, I mean, now with all the woke stuff happening, I'm not so sure. | ||
| But, but, when, if, like, someone came to me and said, hey, it's a hundred bucks a month for the security that we're gonna be providing, because we're all pitching in, I'd be like, that's cool. | ||
| If one day that guy showed up to my house and, and, like, smashed a flower pot and says, you gotta give me more money if you wanna be safe. | ||
| I'd be like, I don't think you're protecting me anymore! | ||
| So it's just a protection racket. | ||
| You have to give them the money in an envelope. | ||
| You guys don't like the fact that they're using this money to pay for foreign wars. | ||
| I don't like the fact that they're using this money to pay for stuff that I don't agree with. | ||
| I'm pro-life. | ||
| They're using it to fund abortions. | ||
| What gives? | ||
| This is my money that they're taking from me to do this kind of stuff. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| No, you're right. | ||
| It should be decided from the ground up. | ||
| There's a guy and he's like, so your monthly bill for your road subscription includes a surcharge for killing babies, for blowing up babies overseas, for making the weapons that kill the babies. | ||
| This is the drone tax. | ||
| This is the drone tax here. | ||
| It's like, all I wanted was police and a fire department. | ||
| And they're like, oh, yeah, yeah, but we got all these fees we gotta add on. | ||
| And then you're like, all right, well, can I add health care? | ||
| No, sorry, we don't offer health care. | ||
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It's like, but the roads, but like, that's the thing. | |
| It's you know, if I could trade a lot of if I could, if I'll tell you this. | ||
| If we could itemize the tax list, I'm sure we could take out a huge chunk and like put it in the garbage and then take like a little tiny bit and you get health care back for it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm not saying universal health care outright for everything. | ||
| I'm saying a little bit. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| If you guys want to know who's in charge of this or who created this income tax IRS form 1040, it was William Howard Taft from 1909 to 1913. | ||
| He was our president. | ||
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Damn it! | |
| Right when the Federal Reserve was formed. | ||
| I mean, it's just part of the racket, this corporate fascist. | ||
| Let's read some more Super Chats here. | ||
| All right, we got Arthemesia says, if you have to ask a biologist about gender, does that mean gender is biological? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And if you have to ask a Jenseki about masks, and she's not a doctor, does that mean masks are an issue for a doctor? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Good point. | ||
| Adrian Contreras says, I cannot compete with the majesty of your beard, sir. | ||
| I will shave mine in disgrace. | ||
|
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All right. | |
| Invisible Buds, uh, Invisible Dud says, Matt Walsh in an alternate reality, quote, what is a man? | ||
| Answer, this guy's beard. | ||
| I like your beard, man. | ||
| Oh my word. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Jonathan Munoz says, look up an old Whitest Kids You Know sketch. | ||
| Bike up the A. It is a great sketch that portrays reality now where you can't have an opinion on something unless you are an expert. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| That's funny. | ||
| I love Whitest Kids You Know. | ||
| Yeah, I'll check that out. | ||
| All right. | ||
| TNHPPodcast says, Tim, if you're all right with this question, has anyone on your team besides yourself received death threats? | ||
| And if they're comfortable with explaining? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I think it's just me. | ||
| Nothing like that. | ||
| Plenty of people that aren't happy with, like, where I work. | ||
| People who just, you know... I've been making YouTube videos since 2006, and yeah, you get the most stupid comments and messages from people if you're putting your face on the internet and speaking. | ||
| It's just part and parcel to the entertainment industry. | ||
| That's why Paramount Pictures has giant walls surrounding their work environment, because people will come knocking. | ||
| Even if it's not, like, a death threat, People coming and mobbing you to say hello is also a sort of threat to your ability to move around, so you need to protect your environment. | ||
| It's a new genre of art, man. | ||
| We gotta take care of ourselves. | ||
| And it's not just that. | ||
| People think, whenever someone comes up, they're like, those leftists, and I'm like... | ||
| I gotta be honest, it's probably just a guy who thinks that I invented the piano, and that I'm hoarding ivory to take over Mount, you know, Bigfoot, and so he's the only one who can save the world from the pending Sasquatch invasion by stopping me. | ||
| Like, just nonsense, like crazy people. | ||
| That sounds amazing. | ||
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That whole pitch was just... I own that IP! | |
| Bigfoot, The Invasion, Pianos, I own it. | ||
| The Ivory, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, actually, someone should make that. | ||
| That'd be great. | ||
| Play us out, Bigfoot. | ||
| Bigfoot's not real. | ||
| All right. | ||
| David Fitzsimmons says, missed last show live, so want to say that, say Daryl Davis is the sun and hate speech laws are the wind in the parable to make a man disrobe his coat. | ||
| I'm not sure what that parable is. | ||
| What is that one? | ||
| So the sun warms people and makes them shed their shields, whereas the wind makes people tighten up and hate what they're doing. | ||
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Oh, I see. | |
| I see. | ||
| I see. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Rob Mads says, happy to see y'all made it safely back home. | ||
| Also, please get Randall Carlson on. | ||
| Would love to would love a chill podcast for once. | ||
| And you should look up Tim Pool loses it and attacks a guest by ping trip. | ||
| I don't know what that is. | ||
| What is that? | ||
| I lose it and attacks a guest. | ||
| Is that like a funny edit where I fight somebody? | ||
| I agree with Randall Carlson. | ||
| He's a geologist. | ||
| He's been studying the flood theory from 13,000 years ago at the end of the Younger Dryas. | ||
| He'd be a great Friday guest. | ||
| Conti says, Tim, have you seen airline ticket prices? | ||
| Was looking up from my family of four and the ticket costs $36,000 plus. | ||
| What? | ||
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$36,000? | |
| Whoa. | ||
| I mean, we've... yeah, ticket prices are a lot. | ||
| But we'll see how things go. | ||
| I think that the economy is going to continue to implode. | ||
| Housing prices, I don't think, will come down. | ||
| I'm not a financial expert. | ||
| I'm not an economist. | ||
| But just based on a lot of stuff that I've seen, I think houses aren't going to come down because the material costs are way too high. | ||
| So they probably can come down a bit, but not as much as people are expecting. | ||
| There's going to be a crash. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| Try building a house right now. | ||
| See how expensive it is. | ||
| I wonder if it gets to the point where somebody owns so many houses and they can't sell any of them because no one has the money or can afford it, and then the houses start to rot. | ||
| So they're like, we need to drop the prices and get these things out, otherwise we're just losing money. | ||
| But you're saying they might demolish it for the resources. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| In Ukraine, the cost of a house or like a studio will be $300,000. | ||
| Any Ukrainian earns something like $400 per month. | ||
| So they can never buy it. | ||
| What do they do? | ||
| All the oligarchs that own the property rent it out. | ||
| So you've got permanent tenants who have no choice. | ||
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No. | |
| And the rent is not that high, but the buildings aren't in great shape, but the people have no choice. | ||
| Yeah, you could argue that having corporations maybe should only own a certain number of houses, that any corporation cannot own more than a certain number of houses. | ||
| What if we, like, as a people, like, collective, just, you know, What's the right word maybe seized the means means of what of production? | ||
| Oh seize the means of production. | ||
| Yeah interesting idea I like I like the idea like I think it's funny They call it seizing the means of production because like who is seizing it like we are no you're not it's Caesar dude, and what are the means of production? | ||
| They mean the kulak I mean Well, this is funny, because I got in an argument with a socialist once, and I was like, what does that mean, the means of production? | ||
| And they're like, you know, like, the things to make stuff. | ||
| And I was like, is my camera the means of production? | ||
| Because I make videos. | ||
| And they're like, well, I guess. | ||
| And I'm like, so then someone would take my camera from me? | ||
| And they're like, well, I don't know, it's your camera. | ||
| And I'm like, what are you talking about? | ||
| Then they get into the private property versus personal property discussion. | ||
| Oh, it's ridiculous. | ||
| Nonsense. | ||
| And what about the stuff that's in your mind? | ||
| Because that's part of the means of production. | ||
| We will take your brains! | ||
| With neural net coming? | ||
| They're zombies. | ||
| Wandering Mage says, What do you think of the belief that we need a complete societal collapse to fix our corruption and other societal ills that there's no cultural change we can make to fix our society in the long term? | ||
| I hear this view a lot. | ||
| Well, I don't completely disagree. | ||
| I think that we as a society have become particularly addicted and there's a lot of I don't know, there's a lot of stuff that's ingrained that is bad. | ||
| The issue is, it's not so much about society breaking down to fix it, it's that the, like, two factions have butted off and split from each other. | ||
| I think the left is a destructive, chaotic force that seeks nothing. | ||
| I think it's just power for the sake of power, change for the sake of change, people saying random nonsense things for the sake of fitting in with the current thing. | ||
| And then that's actually separated itself from where we are, which is not overtly conservative. | ||
| It's more like principled, libertarian, conservative-ish with a spattering of different ideologies mixed in, but retaining a baseline of a moral framework and a goal. | ||
| So I don't think Sun needs to collapse, but there may need to be some kind of peaceful divorce where the chaotic destructive force goes off and just spirals out and burns out or something. | ||
| I mean, you don't want to collapse. | ||
| I can tell you that. | ||
| I saw a collapse in Iraq. | ||
| It is not good. | ||
| People don't get it. | ||
| Yeah, it is ugly. | ||
| Very ugly. | ||
| Like a collapse means finding your uncle in a dump, you know, and your kid in a ditch. | ||
| I mean, that's what collapse means. | ||
| I mean, look, collapse could mean if you're out in the middle of nowhere and you've got a farm, waking up one day to a bunch of hipsters running off with your chickens because roving bands of urban liberal types who don't know how to survive are just ransacking. | ||
| Also, fire. | ||
| I mean, geez, are we undervalued the danger of fire and what people can do to a city if they want to light it on fire? | ||
| That's collapse. | ||
| You don't want that. | ||
| You saw it. | ||
| You saw it. | ||
| Oh, yeah, I'm agreeing with you for sure. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| I saw a meme one time by the way, I got to bring this up and it said, who would win a cow and a lantern or the entire city of Chicago? | ||
| My favorite meme. | ||
| I think that's an apocryphal. | ||
| Yeah, it was. | ||
| So it is. | ||
| Yeah, I think that's an like a apocryphal probably, | ||
| but it's a good story. | ||
| Tim, you're ruining my moment. | ||
| What is the exact story? | ||
| Mrs. O'Leary's? | ||
| Yeah, it's Mrs. O'Leary's cow. | ||
| The Great Chicago Fire. | ||
| It was 1901. | ||
| Yeah, she was like milking it or something, right? | ||
| And kicked the lantern out of her hand. | ||
| You know, a lot of people on Earth that don't have electricity still burn kerosene. | ||
| It's so dangerous. | ||
| Not only do they breathe it in, but it's a fire hazard. | ||
| I mean, it's a lot of people. | ||
| Wow. | ||
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| JustSomeGuy says, Tim, I was halfway to tears by the end of your conversation with Michael and Jeremy in the best way. | ||
| Can't describe it. | ||
| Maybe I needed to hear that conversation and felt God. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Great cat. | ||
| P.S. | ||
| Jean-Luc Bacard for a silky rooster. | ||
| That's pretty good. | ||
| That was a really fun conversation we had with Jeremy Boring and Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire, asking these questions about philosophy and ethics. | ||
| If there's a raging river and there's your dog or a stranger, who would you save if you could only save one? | ||
| The stranger. | ||
| The stranger. | ||
| The interesting question, the reason that came up is that it used to be that Americans always would save the stranger, but now they save their dog. | ||
| And I'm wondering if that's mental illness. | ||
| I asked the question, no one really could answer that, but is it a form of mental illness that people would protect their pets over a stranger? | ||
| Yeah, yes. | ||
| It's definitely mental illness and it's also just reflective of how much we hate each other. | ||
| I think maybe I would describe it as a natural aberration in that I don't think you're ill because you love your pet and you want to save what you care about. | ||
| There's also a point that Humans and dogs survived together. | ||
| So there's an element of survival in an attachment to a dog. | ||
| The issue is that we've come to a point where, in this case, the dog is probably a toy poodle, which is not going to help you survive at all. | ||
| But the emotional attachment comes from the days of humans hunting with proto-dogs, which are effectively wolves. | ||
| Now, wanting to save your proto-dog or your German shepherd. | ||
| Well, it's like, that dog is helping you hunt, sniffing things out, you're surviving. | ||
| Without it, you could be in trouble, so you need your dog. | ||
| But now, we've artificially selected dogs down to, like, chihuahuas, and someone's gonna be like, And they're gonna jump in the river and save the little toy | ||
| poodle and the person isn't gonna make it How many people would save their car or the stranger? | ||
| Let me just say even going back to those periods where it was your dog versus at the person the person would help you | ||
| survive More the reason I'd say it's an aberration is that I think | ||
| it comes from a good place But whatever it is | ||
| This mentality that's taking over will result without some kind of intervention technologically or otherwise in human | ||
| civilization collapsing Because you cannot survive if you don't prioritize your own people, your own species, in the event of a catastrophe. | ||
| It's a mathematical equation. | ||
| Over a long enough period of time, humans who do not prioritize humans will cease to exist. | ||
| No. | ||
| I heard a similar one one time really quick. | ||
| It was a psychological experiment they put together and it was if you were wearing your nice clothes or whatever and you saw a kid drowning like you're wearing a suit and expensive shoes or whatever would you just jump in to save the kid or would you take off you know your suit or whatever to do it and it was the the breakdown was like an enormous amount of people were like yeah I would take off my suit or my watch or whatever the heck it was. | ||
| The suit I could understand. | ||
| Take your iPhone out of your pocket. | ||
| Because you can't swim. | ||
| Right, exactly. | ||
| The shoes I'd take off so I could get my webbed toes out there. | ||
| Like if their phone in their pocket, would they take the time to get their phone out of their pocket and check if they have email before they set it down? | ||
| They take out their phone, they selfie them and the kids screaming, and they throw their phone down. | ||
| That's what would actually happen. | ||
| Gotta get one for the gram. | ||
| Do you see that story about the woman who got raped on a train? | ||
| In front of people? | ||
| They all just pulled out their phones. | ||
| Oh my gosh, where was that? | ||
| What country? | ||
| Had to be New York. | ||
| In the United States? | ||
| I just didn't want you to say that. | ||
| I'm pretty sure it was New York. | ||
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| I don't know, though. | ||
| Google it. | ||
| Google it. | ||
| It may have been New York. | ||
| And everyone just starts filming, and I'm like, well, I mean, nobody wants to fight. | ||
| And I'll tell you, I'll be honest, I don't know if I would intervene. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because you will go to jail. | ||
| Yeah, you'll end up being sued. | ||
| You'll get accused of being, you know, racist or of excessive force. | ||
| And so what do you do? | ||
| You can't be armed? | ||
| I'll tell you this, in West Virginia, I got nothing to worry about. | ||
| If I see someone attacking somebody, I'm gonna intervene. | ||
| Carefully. | ||
| Very carefully. | ||
| But you've got a lot less to worry about when you're acting in defense of others here versus a place like New York. | ||
| Was it New York? | ||
| Philadelphia, October 21. | ||
| And this on the SEPTA train. | ||
| People just pulled out their phones. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Bad Adam says Brett, I'm a paying member of Tim cast. | ||
| Why can't I watch full episodes of pop culture crisis on the Tim cast website? | ||
| I don't think I should have to go to Spotify to watch a full episode. | ||
| Ask Tim. | ||
| I have long suggested that we should... He didn't ask me, ask me now! | ||
| We were talking about, I wanted to put the full episode, the video version of the episodes up. | ||
| Originally, I wasn't sure if it was because of YouTube or Rumble or whatever we were talking, we talked about it at one point about long form content. | ||
| Because we do, our show's live, and yours is recorded. | ||
| So I was like, how would we structure that with the clips? | ||
| But for the website, we should just put it on, we should use Rumble. | ||
| I would be. | ||
| That's one of the first things that I wanted to do. | ||
| Like once we got to a certain size was that we would include that just because I think that it would be good for a, I always like push it. | ||
| Like whenever I'm pushing the Spotify link, I'm like, it's all the witty banter that you get. | ||
| Cause like when we cut the segments up, I tend to like trim down areas. | ||
| Like, okay, the conversation really stopped here before we moved into this subject. | ||
| So let's, let's put them on rumble. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Yeah, so change has been made. | ||
| We will hopefully be doing that very, very soon. | ||
| You guys are involved in the creative process. | ||
| Yes, we are. | ||
| Is Mary doing articles? | ||
| Is she going to be doing articles? | ||
| Right now, we're just still working to get through the format and get everything organized every day. | ||
| We've got a good structure. | ||
| Now, what she's been doing is she goes on to the cesspool of Twitter, which I just do not dare to go because I just, I just, I don't, life is too short and I just, I don't Twitter. | ||
| Uh, so she goes and she'll like, like, like, look, look at this is happening today. | ||
| Like she was finding me stuff at Coachella that I would never have, uh, talked about. | ||
| And so she'll curate some stuff for me. | ||
| And we may eventually, uh, turn that into article writing where she can be like, look at all these people are having this discussion, uh, and then write her piece about it. | ||
| And then we can involve that in that process. | ||
| But once we get there, we'll, uh, we'll make that work. | ||
| Megan Cole says, my husband works in customer support for a small jet company. | ||
| He said the air isn't recirculated. | ||
| It is brought in from outside and pressurized for you to breathe, and there's a process for taking it out of the cabin. | ||
| You are not breathing the same air. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Good. | ||
| You guys want to know a trick when you're flying commercial? | ||
| You ever notice that people fart a lot on airplanes? | ||
| Because the pressure. | ||
| So they start farting like crazy. | ||
| Some people, they got it bad. | ||
| So what you do is you turn on the air vent, but you point it down to your right, creating a force field of air that repels their noxious gases. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I have learned something truly meaningful today. | ||
| It's like the ball at the waterfall. | ||
| The smell gets stuck on the flowing air and just revolves there. | ||
| And it sits right on that person's face. | ||
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And then when they're going, oh, oh, you're like, you've done this to yourself. | |
| All right. | ||
| Murph Try says... | ||
| Brent, really enjoyed you and Mary's review of Father Stew. | ||
| Plan on seeing it soon. | ||
| Tim, for flags in the room, if a kid brought in a papal flag, it would leave the teacher speechless, like you know the thing. | ||
| Michael Knowles? | ||
| So I said on Twitter, we should have, teachers should teach kids, have religious studies in schools. | ||
| These kids have questions and teachers should be allowed to answer them. | ||
| Teachers should also tell the kids to keep their religious studies a secret from their parents. | ||
| Imagine if we had done that, though, to Don't Say Religion. | ||
| Don't Say God! | ||
| Don't Say God! | ||
| Don't Say God, Bill! | ||
| I actually do think teachers should talk about religion. | ||
| And the funny thing is the response I got when I tweeted that was they were like, you know, trans people are real and you can't talk about fake things. | ||
| And I was like, when did I say anything about trans people? | ||
| When did I say anything about a specific religion? | ||
| When did I say the teachers would tell these kids that religions were true? | ||
| Quite literally, I think of kids like, someone told me that it's God. | ||
| It's like, oh yeah, well, we should talk about religions of the world. | ||
| Why wouldn't you teach kids about various religions? | ||
| And then if one kid's like, wow, that religion's interesting, it's like, well, you can go talk to your parents about it. | ||
| You know, but like basic understanding of that, I see no issue with. | ||
| And that's where they get you on the LGBTQ stuff. | ||
| Is they're trying to pretend, like, I'm just trying to let them know that people love each other, but then you see the books they're pushing through, and you see, like, the things they're telling kids, and you're like, ah, that's, that's, it's entirely different. | ||
| Telling a kid that there is something bigger than all of us, that's hard for me to explain because I'm not a priest, but definitely talk to your parents about it, why there are people all over the world who do these things, is very different from, like, human sexuality. | ||
| But even still, the point was more facetious. | ||
| Like, if you're gonna ban this, you know, If the progressive parent comes into the school and says, why are you teaching religion in your school? | ||
| You say, I don't know, I'm not a priest. | ||
| Yeah, there you go. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| All right, let's grab a couple more here. | ||
| Mr. Big Bird says, Yeshua was transliterated. | ||
| There was no yeh, so it became ih-shua. | ||
| Oh, I'm sorry, shua was a feminine name suffix, so it became sus. | ||
| The i later turned into j, and the pronunciation shifted. | ||
| I remember the first time when I was a little kid, I saw someone named Jesus. | ||
| And I was like, oh! | ||
| I didn't understand. | ||
| I was like, really young. | ||
| And I was like, did your parents name you Jesus? | ||
| And he's like, my name's Jesus. | ||
| And I was like, does that mean Jesus? | ||
| I'm like, oh, cool. | ||
| Like Joshua. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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All right. | |
| Let's see what we got here. | ||
| Last one. | ||
| Jeremy Lewis says, Brooklyn Democratic Party leaders are trying to prevent, uh, prevent rep your black candidates from serving on the Dem County Committee. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Your block? | ||
| Rep your block candidates. | ||
| Oh, sorry. | ||
| Uh, on the Democrat County Committee in coordinated filing of objections blocking common people from being Democratic candidates. | ||
| Of course, they don't want what happened to the Republican Party to happen to them. | ||
| That would freak them out. | ||
| All right, ladies and gentlemen, if you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, and head over to TimCast.com, become a member, because we're gonna have a members-only show coming up. | ||
| It'll be published around 11 p.m., and you won't wanna miss it. | ||
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| So we are doing a lot, we have a lot of, we have some big updates. | ||
| One of the things we're doing behind the scenes right now is we are, I'll just put it this way, participating in creating resilient infrastructure to end cancel culture. | ||
| I'll have more to say on this in the coming days, but trust me, it's not just about the content. | ||
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| We are doing some restructuring in terms of the website in a way that will help counter the big tech powers in control. | ||
| So we'll explain this in due time, but maybe even this week we'll be able to have an update for you on that. | ||
| So again, TimCast.com. | ||
| Braxton, do you want to shout anything out? | ||
| Yeah, you can find me on Twitter, BraxtonMcCoy.com. | ||
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| We've got a course list there and more courses will be set up here in the next couple weeks. | ||
| Right on! | ||
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| Braxton, good to meet you, man. | ||
| You too, man. | ||
| I want to remind people to point to The Glass Factory. | ||
| Yeah, you can pick that up on braxtonmccoy.com or Amazon. | ||
| Thanks, man. | ||
| Yeah, thank you. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Thanks very much for coming this evening, Braxton. | ||
| I do have to say that Brett is a great host of Pop Culture Crisis. | ||
| I am on there on Wednesdays. | ||
| We have a lot of fun. | ||
| We pull up a few articles that we don't usually cover on IRO, which is always great. | ||
| I love to change things up a little bit and talk about something different. | ||
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| Before you go, make sure you check out YouTube.com slash Chicken City. | ||
| I think the funniest thing was that when we were hanging out with Brett Cooper from The Daily Wire, they come into the trailer and I'm like, have you seen Chicken City? | ||
| And she's like, oh, I was watching that earlier. | ||
| And I was like, oh, cool. | ||
| I didn't realize that was you guys. | ||
| It just popped up on YouTube. | ||
| I started watching it because it's relaxing. | ||
| And I'm like, yes! | ||
| You know, the meme, the joke is that people are saying they want Chicken City to get more concurrent viewers than Joe Biden on his next speech or whatever. | ||
| And I'm like, it's a joke, but it would be good for Chicken City, so I will accept it. | ||
| All right, everybody, we'll see you all over at TimCast.com. | ||
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