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Aug. 23, 2022 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool

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Timcast IRL - Twitter Exec BLOWS WHISTLE Proving Elon Musk Was RIGHT w/Tyler Merritt

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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		you so a whistleblower has come out a Twitter executive has
		come out saying that their security is totally bad that there I believe he
		said they were lying to shareholders and board members and that Elon Musk is
		correct They're withholding information on how many bots and spam accounts they actually have, and apparently they have the information.
		Elon Musk has now tweeted about it, because it's looking like he's gonna win his lawsuit now.
		This is crazy.
		I don't know why this guy came out, this whistleblower, but apparently he got Democrats and Republicans on board mentioning this.
		So we'll get into all that.
		Plus, we've got big news from last night.
		I tweeted this.
		After we did the show, we had the Surgeon General from Florida on, and he was talking about masks and vaccines.
		And I told him, I was like, you know, we talked about it on the show that YouTube bans you if you say negative things about masks.
		Dan Bongino got suspended from YouTube.
		Rand Paul got suspended from YouTube.
		So after the show, we pulled up the misinformation policy they have removed.
		YouTube has removed the provision saying you can't make these claims about masks, which is funny.
		They did it kind of quietly, and I wonder exactly when.
		In April, they had them in place.
		Now they don't.
		So it's interesting how that works, isn't it?
		We'll talk about that, plus Trump is suing the U.S.
		government over the raid on his house.
		He's trying to stop the FBI from going through all these documents.
		We'll get into all of that.
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		Joining us tonight to talk about this news and more is Tyler Merritt.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Hey, thanks for having me out, man.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Who are you?
unidentified		Oh, wow.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Put on the spot.
		Well, who I am.
		I'm an entrepreneur, businessman.
		Started off in the military about 2006.
		I was flying Apaches for our great nation over in Iraq.
		Got picked up for Task Force 160.
		Flew for special operations for most of my career.
		And my side hustle was starting this t-shirt company called Nylon Apparel.
		I started about 10 years ago.
		Grew from my garage to about 250 hard-working red-blooded Americans in Savannah, Georgia.
		And we make some pretty nice apparel, if I do say so myself.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Right on.
		Well, glad you could join us.
		It should be fun.
		We also have Hannah-Claire Brimelow.
		She's back.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I'm back.
		I'm Hannah-Claire Brimelow.
		I'm a writer for TimCast.com.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And I am Ian Crossland.
		What's up, everybody?
		Welcome to the show.
		And hi, I'm Chris.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Lydia is recovering from surgery.
		She had to get a bunch of nails.
		What did she get, like metal plates in her wrist or something?
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Something serious.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Skating is dangerous.
		You've got to wear your wrist guards and your helmets and all that stuff.
		All right, let's jump into this first story.
		We've got this from the Wall Street Journal.
		Twitter's ex-security head files whistleblower complaint on spam and privacy issues.
		Former executive Peter Zatko makes sweeping claims about the social network platform.
		The complaint, which was submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission last month and became public Tuesday, was made by Peter Zatko, also known as Mudge, she's a hacker, who was fired earlier this year.
		Mr. Zatko's submission says that he uncovered extreme egregious deficiencies by Twitter in every area of his mandate, including privacy, digital and physical security, platform integrity, and content moderation.
		I'm gonna jump over to our good friend Elon Musk.
		As many of you know, he's suing Twitter because he says they didn't disclose information on bots.
		He subpoenaed Jack Dorsey, the former CEO, and he tweeted this.
		Give a little whistle.
		And it's a Jiminy Cricket.
		And then underneath it, he says, so spam prevalence was shared with the board, but the board chose not to disclose that to the public.
		The Washington Post reported, Four people familiar with the company's process for spam detection, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive internal matters, told the Post that the company keeps several internal tallies of spam and bots, known as prevalence, across the service beyond the number supplied to Wall Street.
		The post also obtained an internal document which was redacted to hide the numbers, showing that spam prevalence was a number shared with the board.
		The document was supplied to the board at the meetings Echo attended, according to two of the people, but not to Wall Street.
		So does that include the shareholders?
		How is this going to work?
		The big revelation here is that this dude Said he believes foreign intelligence service agents or individuals could be at Twitter and they're not doing anything about it.
		That, to me, is probably the biggest red flag.
		And this is probably why, in my opinion, they freaked out when Elon Musk was planning to buy it.
		Then some weird algorithmic thing happened with the right gaining tons of followers, the left losing tons of followers.
		Then Elon Musk said, I want the data on bots, and they didn't give it to him.
		Now we're learning they didn't give it to him, that they had a number that was shared with the board.
		Well, actually, I shouldn't say that.
		Maybe Elon Musk was given access to this, but because of the NDA, he wasn't allowed to talk about it.
		I don't know.
		Either way, it sounds like this is going to help him win, which is kind of bad news because Elon winning means he doesn't buy Twitter.
		But I don't know.
		What do you guys think about this foreign intelligence thing?
		I think that's the big takeaway, huh?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I'm one of the biggest Elon Musk fans and I don't really care if that gets me in trouble these days.
		You're talking about a modern-day Ironman.
		I was in Ukraine not that long ago.
		This guy's given away some communication devices that totally changed and altered the way that that country stayed independent.
		You know, this is a guy who, it seems like, is putting his money where his passion is.
		You know, he puts his He puts everything out there and I was very excited to have maybe one platform I could put my money towards that actually cared about pushing out the truth, cared about putting every person's perspective out there and not moderating, not censoring, not
		Blocking people's opinions.
		I've been on social for 10 plus years.
		Started my company off Facebook and Instagram advertising.
		In November of this last year, right before Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Facebook, in its infinite wisdom, decided that I needed to be banned.
		My company needed to be banned.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So I had... Well, I mean, look at that hat, dude.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's a dangerous hat.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		And actually, you know, when we broke down the violations, right, you know, they couldn't really get me on anything except for my brother posted six years ago about a partnership we had with Jeep.
		They said that was violating intellectual property of Jeep.
		I mean, Jeep didn't complain because I actually had paperwork and I was working with Jeep.
		So it wasn't violation.
		But they said that I was using it and I didn't take it down in time.
		So they banned my account for a year.
		I'm still actually blocked.
		You can't.
		You couldn't search for my account.
		You couldn't like my account.
		I couldn't share my account.
		And every single person that liked my account seemed to be shadowbanned.
		You know, it sucks when Don Jr.
		likes your page, and that's a detriment, right?
		Because there's these bad blue check marks out there.
		And everyone thinks, oh, it's a blue check mark.
		That's just a famous person.
		Well, look behind the back end.
		They're classifying and categorizing your blue check.
		If you're a celebrity that has positive messages, in their opinion, you get exposure.
		If you're a celebrity or a politician that has a message that goes against their narrative, then you are banned.
		Not necessarily officially if they can't do it, but you'll be shadow banned.
		And everyone sees it.
		And it's known.
		But we have no transparency.
		There's no oversight.
		And these social media oligarchs, they've been acting as such.
		They're untouchable.
		They can do whatever.
		And it's despicable.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think your company is a really good example of the censorship that's overlooked.
		These high-profile left and establishment journalists will be like, oh, when Joe Rogan got cancelled, it made him bigger or whatever, and that's what they want people to think cancelling is.
		Meanwhile, your business gets shut down, and there's no big fanfare, there's no big headline.
		Most of the people I hear from who say they got banned are, like, small accounts.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Oh yeah, and we're talking about millions of followers and we're talking about millions of dollars for a relatively small business, right?
		I started my garage and now we have large accounts.
		I have Bass Pro, I have Cabela's, I have five, six retail stores that are very highly frequented in Charleston and Savannah and Delray and people come from all over to our store to experience it.
		And that gives us a sense of, you know, you could try to shut me down, but I'm not going away.
		I'll find a new platform.
		And I was really excited about Twitter being that new platform.
		I don't even have an account.
		You asked me earlier, what's my Twitter account?
		I don't think I have one because I'm kind of over social.
		You know, if I could pull all of my marketing dollars, I would.
		Right now, they don't seem to care.
		If I'm spending well over a million dollars a year with Facebook and they cancel my account rep
		because of a false narrative, just because you don't like my opinions.
		And of all of the groups that are like me, I'm probably the least noisy, the least in your face.
		But I do appreciate the Second Amendment, the First Amendment.
		And I got banned from writing the First Amendment on a T-shirt and it was told to me
		that that was against Facebook's policies.
		And what I, yeah, First Amendment.
		You know, the rights that shall not be infringed.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Can't have people learning about that.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		But I pushed out an email to our one million plus active email accounts and we will sell a ton of shirts and I will get a way around it.
		It's just very sad that I can't promote First Amendment, Second Amendment.
		You take those away and there's no stopping a government.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I had an idea for a TV show we talked about once, I think it was like on the members podcast, where it's this post-apocalyptic future and there's like one city left and no one understands how the world ended.
		But like the world ended and then like people came together and built a city and they're rebuilding and it's like sometime around 2077 or you know 2080 or whatever just history just dead stops and then humanity is just gone from the planet.
		Cities are in ruin and decay.
		And then the idea for this was, you know, the people in the city eventually encounter strange beings they think are aliens, they go to war, then it turns out, oh, the aliens are actually people, and the world didn't end.
		What happened was, as technology advanced, more and more information went into the metaverse.
		Then eventually people just went into the metaverse, and they live their lives there now, and there's very little work that has to be done because they're not really moving their bodies, they don't need that much caloric energy, and so there's only certain scouts that go out to replenish the system.
		We talked about that, and I got that idea because, you know, I was thinking of how social media works, how these social networks are banning people.
		And then, just this past weekend, I was at an antique store, and we were looking at all these books.
		This guy had a bunch of crazy—we had books from the Civil War.
		We got the photographic history of the Civil War, crazy, from 1911.
		So there's actual photos of, like, the 1860s.
		It's nuts.
		That's not going to exist in the future.
		The way it's going with social media and why it's so important that someone like, you know, Elon push back.
		I don't think he cares anymore.
		I think he's trying to get away from the whole thing.
		But the reason why social media censorship is so dangerous, if the world ended right now, the overwhelming majority of information would be gone.
		Like, world ending.
		I mean, if, let's say, the power went out in every major city.
		You would not be able to access our website, TimCast.com.
		I mean, the information exists on the hardware somewhere.
		Where's the data center?
		Who knows?
		How are you gonna look up the IP address?
		I don't know, computers shut down.
		So if, you know, 100 years ago, there's a collapse, society breaks down, you walk into a library, you find all the books still sitting there, hopefully not damaged, but these books could be all over the place.
		You could find the history and be like, wow, look at this.
		In the future, it's gonna be very different.
		If there is a major collapse, catastrophe, Like that, overnight, no one is going to know where any of this information is.
		And if you don't have electricity or a means to decode the data off the hard drives, there could be a solar flare or a great war.
		And let's say it's 100, 150 years and people are like looking at these mainframes going, the summation of human knowledge exists on these machines.
		It could teach us so much about the world and how to survive, but we can't get access to it because we lost that technology when the collapse happened.
		No books, no reading, nothing you can preserve.
		Maybe you'll get lucky and someone will figure it out.
		Anyway, I bring that up because, like, the way it's going with censorship, that idea I had for a show, it's like the reason there was a last city, because those are the people who weren't allowed in.
		These are the descendants of the people who were banned from the metaverse and had to go and build their own economy somewhere else.
		So what I see happening with censorship, you're going to have people who get banned and they will find a way to engage in commerce.
		My dystopian future vision of it is a city of people living, you know, because their descendants are forced to work and live in this alternate space.
		And then everyone else lives in the virtual reality.
		But I kind of think that's one direction we're going in.
		Maybe it won't be that bad.
		The reality of these things is these predictions typically don't pan out because within 20 years, technology will have changed so much.
		My prediction will make no sense.
		But there you go.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Well, have you ever seen the movie Idiocracy?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		It's one of my favorites.
		It actually kind of starts to prove that fact that you have smartphones and dumb people.
		And we're not making or doing a service to our young people or to the individuals who just like that easy button.
		We're making it easier and easier and easier for society.
		And we're telling them that when you fail, it's not your fault.
		When you fail, you need to blame everything elsewhere.
		That idea of ownership, that idea of wanting to go and read through an encyclopedia to find an answer.
		But if I can't find it on the first page of Google, that's when sometimes I'll talk to my younger employees like, hey, sir, you told me to go and research something.
		So I went on Google and I searched and nothing came up.
		I'm like, wow.
		And then you came directly back to me.
		That's very sad.
		But it's exactly what you probably have seen a lot in the, say, younger generation.
		I grew up with no phone, then a flip phone, and now I have a phone, but I despise it.
		If I can get away from this thing and I can get back into reading books and engaging in conversation, because that's where real knowledge comes from.
		It's debate.
		It's not reading what someone else posted on Google.
unidentified		Right?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		That Wikipedia where anyone can alter it and people come to me with these facts about masks, about vaccines.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		It's funny how when things become mainstream, everyone all of a sudden becomes a subject matter expert like that.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Because they're on the front page of Google, mind you.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		100%.
		Yeah, everything got shut down for COVID, right?
		I became a non-essential company.
		So my company with 250 people was forced to shut down and die.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Clothing company?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Clothes are essential, right?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		And I had Black Rifle Coffee.
		It was my favorite coffee.
		It was free coffee to all first responders.
		But, you know, our coffee shops were shut down.
		Our retail stores were shut down.
		Our manufacturing plant was shut down.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What state?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Georgia.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Wow, really?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, yeah.
		And there was definitely some internal politics going on there that, you know, caused that.
		But I'd say that if I didn't switch and to start distributing these cloth masks that I knew were not effective in any way, shape, or form.
		You know, I'm an engineer.
		I like making and building things.
		We made our own N95 masks.
		You know, ones that actually worked.
		That were made here in the United States.
		But there's no way we were getting any type of large contracts.
		You know, they were going to 3M.
		They're going to Honeywell.
		So that they could take these billion-dollar contracts.
		By the way, they still haven't produced these masks.
		You know, 500 plus million masks that, you know, were given billion-dollar contracts.
		They didn't have to be produced for 18 months.
		You know, I bid on them and said that I could do it with my partners at Gulfstream.
		My partners that were these NASA-based engineering firms that had proven that our
		science worked and that it was cheaper, better, faster, made in the U.S., but no one
		wanted to hear it. And that's where, you know, that science is overruled by political science.
		You know, the math and the numbers and the engineering is no longer a
		discussion.
		So I could go on television and talk about things based on my knowledge of science and engineering and be challenged by some YouTube dummy who just googled Fauci's last periodical of nonsense.
		And said, you know what?
		You're wrong.
		And you're against the science.
		And you just want to promote all these negative things.
		And therefore, you are a bad human.
		And you can't even engage in conversation.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let's jump to this next story.
		What I have before you, my friends, is YouTube's COVID misinformation policy.
		The funny thing about this is I'm like, you know, most of the COVID stuff's over, like the mandates are mostly over.
		The U.S.
		still require vaccines for entry, but they don't actually check, so it's actually the airlines who are requiring it.
		And then some people, here's a funny thing, tons of people, everybody who travels knows this.
		They're like, you don't fly to the United States anymore, you fly to Tijuana, and then walk in.
		Just walk in.
		They don't check, they don't care.
		It's the weirdest gap in security and policy or whatever.
		But anyway, here's the point.
		YouTube's medical misinformation policy, when you scroll down to Prevention Misinformation, doesn't mention anything about masks.
		In fact, I will do this in real time.
		Ctrl-F and we'll type in M-A-S-K, nothing.
		The word mask does not appear in YouTube's misinformation policy anymore.
		So I tweeted this.
		YouTube updated its policies to no longer ban claims that masks do not play a role in preventing the spread of COVID.
		Essentially, you are now allowed to claim masks.
		Don't work.
		So we can see, initially, it used to say this.
		Claims that masks do not play a role in preventing the contraction or transmission of COVID-19.
		You are not allowed to say that.
		YouTube removed that and, uh, I'm assuming you can now say it?
		Here's what they say.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I'll let you say it first, because I get all kinds of censorship.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Oh, no, but look, look, look.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It says at the Google misinformation policy, YouTube's policies on COVID-19 are subject to change in response to changes to global or local health authorities' guidance on the virus.
		There may be a delay between new LHA and WHO guidance and policy updates, given the frequency with which this guidance changes, and our policies may not cover all LHA and WHO guidance related to COVID.
		You know, this is a serious problem.
		That scientists have been saying this very thing and YouTube was banning them.
		Rand Paul came out.
		Dude's a doctor.
		They gave him a strike on YouTube for bringing this up.
		If a doctor can't even talk about it, which doctor can?
		YouTube has arbitrarily chosen the World Health Organization as their end-all be-all for what is true and correct.
		This is extremely dangerous.
		Because the World Health Organization is a political entity, not a medical one.
		It is a political international entity, not a medical body.
		It is not like an academic group of doctors at a university doing clinical trials.
		It is a political institution.
		And YouTube's like, meh, they'll be the experts.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Do you think that's because they feel like they are obligated to listen to a global authority because they view themselves as a global platform, even though it's based in the U.S.?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think for YouTube, it's the easy way out.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The World Health Organization, they have their pinkies in all these countries.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		They sound good enough?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		No, no, no.
		They actually work with a bunch of countries.
		Therefore, it's easier to use them as a standard so that we don't get in trouble with these other countries.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Well, how did we pick our arbitrators for other fact-checking?
		You had the, was it the Washington Post?
		Or not Washington Post, New York Times and other periodicals that were being sent.
		Articles to see if it was political misinformation, if it was scientific misinformation.
		It didn't have to just be about masks.
		Either you're going to have complete censorship or you have no censorship.
		And the complete censorship needs a lot of oversight and we're not there.
		And that's the idea that you're not going to have a platform that's perfect.
		You know, there's things that we can all agree on that exploitation of children, violence, you know, extremism in some sort of way.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Calls for violence, basically.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Basically calls for violence.
		Those are generally accepted no-nos.
		It's when we get into these gray areas that you take a hard-line stance and you ruin businesses.
		You ruin people's lives.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The problem is some people argue for free speech absolutism.
		Meaning they argue you could call for violence because you didn't actually do anything.
		And I get it.
		If the idea is, you know, we don't allow speech that calls for violence because that's a crime, well that's not an argument because then all that has to happen is they decide another kind of speech is a crime.
		Okay, well now, you know, insulting someone or not using their pronouns is assault or violence, and thus, now they can say, well that's not free speech, you're committing a crime, right?
		So there is, there is an issue in, at what point does speech become illegal, and can it?
		And a question of, shouldn't it just be on you to defend yourself?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I would think so.
		But we have seen that it becomes a safe haven, you know, a place where people can congregate and start creating organizations and a movement of violence and extremism.
		And I think, you know, it's very similar and has some connotations to Afghanistan.
		And people had an argument of, we don't need to be there.
		There's no objective for us, but it allowed for a safe haven of horrible individuals to congregate, plan, and execute atrocious acts.
		In my opinion, you need to have some oversight, but it's not living there 24-7.
		It's pinpoint action taken towards those individuals.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't think there's a solution at all.
		So they want to censor people because, you know, people are offensive or whatever.
		We all agree, like, hey, don't incite violence.
		Don't tell people to commit violence.
		Don't tell them how to commit violence.
		We all agree that's a bad thing.
		The issue, though, is now, from that point, they've moved on to the next point.
		Stochastic terrorism.
		Well, now you're saying things that will infer the idea or convince someone to go do something.
		Well, that's calling for violence.
		That's where they're at now.
		And they will eventually ban that.
		I'm not entirely sure they can.
		I'm saying their goal is to get that kind of speech banned.
		Where if you said something like, we should shut that school down because of the horrible things they do, they say, hey, we know what you're getting at.
		It's a, oh, won't someone rid me of this meddlesome priest thing?
		And that's what they're trying to argue now.
		Because people like James Lindsay and Libs of TikTok have been criticizing these hospitals that have been doing, you know, surgery on these kids.
		They're saying, oh, that's stochastic terrorism.
		And their goal is to rally people to eventually go and do something.
		It's like, there's no line.
		You can keep ramping it up until eventually you've banned all speech.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Just because you're afraid doesn't mean that I made you afraid.
		Like, just because someone's in terror doesn't mean that someone else committed a terroristic act.
		Terror is a very... Well, I don't know.
		I think it's very hardcore.
		I mean, if you're making people fear for their life without... other than words.
		And in the United States, it's an imminent threat of violence.
		Not just threats of violence.
		Not like, hey, go something something.
		It's when you give a date and a time and a place.
		That creates an imminent threat.
		And that is illegal in the United States.
		You're allowed to say like, hey, go fill in the blank.
		I'm not talking about YouTube terms.
		I'm talking about American civil liberties.
		But you cannot call for imminent threats of violence.
		I think that social networks that are based in the United States and run in the United States should follow American law.
		Personally, that's what Mines does.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		No, they follow the World Health Organization instead.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Then I think we should take the keys away and maybe free up the space a little bit because private companies should not be getting in the way of the country that helped them create themselves.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		And individuals who find themselves wronged in every way, shape, or form, and there's settings out there.
		You can make yourself private.
		You can ban everyone from being on your page.
		You can just get off of social.
		You know, that's one of those things where I'd like to tell people if it's really causing you this much anxiety and this much heartache, one, it might be you.
		Two, you have options to just turn it off.
		It's not that big of a deal.
		But when we start infringing upon everyone else's rights just to make you happy, That's where I draw a line.
		Just get off of social if it's the fact that people aren't addressing you by the right pronouns.
		If people aren't addressing you by the right fill-in-the-blank and now you're on a rampage and now it's your social justice warrior and I have to placate to that.
		And I don't want to.
		And that's really what it boils down to, is you just do you, let me do me.
		And I think if we could ever get back to that point, we would be a much happier society.
		But right now we just hone in on the negatives and we try to impose our opinions on other
		people as opposed to saying, hey, you know what, we have a difference of opinion.
		That's fine.
		That's why I like to fight overseas against terrorists who don't allow you to have a different
		You talk about all the bad things here, go to those other countries where you get stoned to death if you have intercourse with someone else.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What about the terrorists that are here trying to stop you from being able to say what you want and have an opinion?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And the ones who are running big companies and defending those people?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Those are domestic terrorists, in my humble opinion.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Hopefully that doesn't get me kicked off.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Who are you talking about?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Like when, you know, BLM or Antifa will show up and throw a brick through your window because you said not to use drugs.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I think they are domestic terrorists.
		People that will destroy property and threaten life for a social movement, I think, I would consider them terrorists.
		Consider George Washington a terrorist.
		King George did at the time.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, there was a meme going around where these people were posting, like, Trump should remember, you know, this is what they do to traitors.
		And it was a guy being hanged.
		The funny thing, though, is I was like, it was redcoats hanging a Minuteman.
		Well, not a Minuteman, but a Continental Army, you know, blue coat.
		And then I was just like, the treason you're showing was against the crown.
		Like, it was the Americans being like, yo, we don't believe in monarchy.
		And so they said, that's treason.
		And these people are sharing that as if, like, it's a good thing to uphold.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Because it shows that fighting oppression is no longer the mainstream.
		It's now... Everyone wants to be subjugated.
		They want to be told what to do.
		They want to be told, you know, that everything that's not good with you, everything that's gone wrong in your life, it's not you.
		It's not your lack of effort.
		It's not your work effort.
		It's everyone else's.
		And that we need to take things and give to Yeah, I think that's a slippery slope that we're headed.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Just out of curiosity, were you ever on any alternative platforms like Minds or Gab?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I don't even know what those are.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		They're just alternatives to, I don't know, any social media platform or Twitter.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		No, I'm probably the world's worst on getting on social and trying to stay engaged.
		I do try to connect with my kids, try to connect with my fan base, but this is one of those things that's kind of foreign to me.
		I'm a guy who'd rather be out in the woods and be completely disconnected from the world.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let me pull up this tweet here, and we'll just spend some time ragging on Dr. Fauci.
		You know, he's leaving, and I'm quite disappointed because this means I won't be able to do the voice roles for Freedom Tunes anymore.
		But the truth is, Seamus hasn't been calling.
		That's right, Seamus of Freedom Tunes, he hasn't called me to do a voice of Fauci, even with the big Fauci news.
		I get it, Seamus.
		But I know what you're here for.
		Ian Miles Chong tweeted, Fauci has the Fauci devotional candle on his bookshelves.
		You couldn't make this up?
		Here's a picture of Fauci.
		Here's the bookshelf behind him.
		And right here, you can see it.
		That's the Fauci devotional candle.
		It is an image of Fauci as like, I think, Jesus.
		Is that it?
		Let me see.
unidentified		Yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's what those devotional candles are.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		They're usually Jesus.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Or the Virgin Mary.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Saw a lot of them in South America.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Alright, Fauci has a devotional candle of himself depicting himself as Jesus?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Is that what it is?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Discuss.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The Savior.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		I would buy it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You would buy it?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		How many would you buy?
unidentified		Just one, I don't know.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Would you light it?
unidentified		Yeah.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		I said this yesterday, but like, I kept saying he didn't want to retire because out of vanity, like, retiring means that you're old and that you're like, you can no longer work.
		And that's why his announcement is very much like, no, no, I'm just stepping down to continue to work, even though he's like 81.
		I- you know, maybe someone got this candle for him as like a gag gift.
		They were like, this is so funny you're a candle.
		I could definitely see doing that to someone I know if they were suddenly turned into a devotional candle.
		But to know that you're gonna have it in the background of your interview, to me it's just like, isn't this- this is a form of narcissism, right?
		You see yourself as a savior.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		And incompetence.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I think it's like a nice mix between the two because you're a doctor but have, you know, no ability to discern science from political science.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I think you're an absolute clown, so that's perfect.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		I think it was like, it's a stereotype for doctors, right, to have a God complex?
		And like the entire American media handed this to Fauci and were like, no, we really could not make it through this pandemic without you, sir.
		And I think it's gone to his head.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So here, check this out.
		Ian Miles Chong posted the photo.
		This is what's behind him.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Who is this supposed to be?
		If I was Fauci, I would definitely put that behind me.
		That's hilarious.
		I wouldn't buy it, I don't think.
		But if people sent me stuff to our P.O.
		box for a while, and one of them was a shirt with my face on it, I've worn it on the show.
		I think it's freaking hilarious.
		It's one of my favorite shirts.
		I didn't go out and make it to show everyone, like, hey, look how great I am.
		But I'm sure people are sending him tons of stuff.
		Uh, merchandise about him and he's just like rolling with it.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		If anyone made Tim a devotional candle, I would buy it and bring it to you immediately.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'd love to put one on the table.
		I pointed this out.
		Cause you know, before the show we were ragging on it.
		And then I was like, to be fair, someone sent a golden bust of my face to us.
		And it's like sitting on a table downstairs.
		And I'm like, I, I don't know.
		I like, it came in a box, someone else opened the box, someone else put it there.
		And now there's like this bronze statue of me.
		And it's like weird.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I had a headshot that we used for one of our Cast Castle shows and it was out in the living room for like a month.
		It was just on the table and I was like, yeah, everyone get a taste, like feel it for like three weeks.
		And then it started to feel really weird.
		So I took it and put it in my closet.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		You hung it up in your room?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I put it behind some things on a shelf.
		Are you talking about the painting?
		No, I want to display that.
		That thing's hot.
		No, it's just a headshot from my college days, from like my Los Angeles commercial days.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Ian has a miniature version of himself on the table right now.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		So this is another example of it.
		This is right here.
		This is Ian Crosland bobblehead someone made.
		Thank you so much.
		I didn't make it, but someone sent it to me.
		And it would almost be like an insult not to display it at that point.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		See, that's the thing, right?
		I remember when the photo went viral of Fauci in his office and he's got a painting of himself.
		And then everybody was like, he works under a painting of himself.
		And then we had someone on the show and they were just like, his daughter probably painted it for him.
		And then I was like, oh, that's a good point.
		Yeah, that's why he would put it up.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		With the candle, it totally could just be a gift, right?
		Someone was like, this is hilarious.
		I will get this for you.
		But I don't know.
		I guess he's just like really lost my respect.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Wait, you respected him?
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		No, I never respect.
		He never earned my respect, I guess is what I should say.
		It's hard really not to see this as him.
		Like, it's hard to imagine that he doesn't look at that every day and think like, I am really saving America.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		You know what I mean?
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		You guys would laugh at yourself with your bust and your t-shirts, and you're humble, so there's an element to it.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		But I don't know if that's how Fauci views this candle.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Did you see the video clip of him?
		I did a great Twitter troll.
		He was quoted as saying that he was inspiring people.
		It was the Fauci effect.
		In this time of untruth, he represented truth and science, something like that.
		So I quoted it directly.
		And then under the tweet was like, oops, can't forget the video.
		And then I was like, we're going to separate the men from the boys here and see who actually read the Twitter thread and understood it was a quote or who just blindly was like, I can't believe Tim Pool said this about himself.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		But then Jack Pacific was on that night and he was like, oh, I didn't click through.
		Oh, the video.
		Like he totally got it afterwards.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But I didn't know Jack fell for it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		One of the boys.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		I mean, that's what I remember him saying.
		Somebody can clip it, I guess.
		But yeah, I remember you doing that.
		I mean, I just think that, like, Anthony Fauci is an arrogant person.
		And so if it were someone who had humility, I would laugh at this candle.
		But it is, like, hard not to be like, come on, guy, you couldn't clear your bookshelf at all?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		He's tasked with saving people's lives, and he's a bit of a megalomaniac.
		I think at the very least, that goes without saying.
		A bit of one.
		The way he talks about himself as a savior is a little crazy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Look at these photos, okay?
		This guy, Abhi Kohl, he's got the devotional Fauci candle.
		This guy, this lady, Julie Pfeiffer, she's got one.
		Here's another Fauci devotional candle with a mask next to it and like a cork.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's freaking insane, too!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		If there's anything that makes me want to just buy a van and go live down by the river and never think of any of this political stuff again, it is this.
		These people are serious.
		Guess what?
		They vote.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well, I've seen these devotional candles for, like, Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart and some other people.
		This t-shirt company in Dallas that I used to, like, sold them to, it's just, like, in our culture with the weird adoration for Dr. Anthony Fauci, when they tried to, like, make him, like, a, like, pop cultural influence, like, it's not good.
		I think part of it is, like, we lost Ruth Bader Ginsburg and so we needed some other, like, older New Yorker that we all were obsessed with and, like, they just couldn't make Anthony Fauci work.
		I don't know.
		It just creeps me out.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Remember Cuomo Sexual?
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		That was horrifying.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What is wrong with these people?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Cultists.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		All around, man.
		Zelinsky, they worship the president of the United States.
		They worship him when he gets the job.
		Like, all of a sudden, now he's something.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		And worship is a great word for it.
		Like, it has to be more than just like, oh, I respect your work or he's got some good points.
		It's like weird devotion.
		Say what they say.
		Do not question them.
		Like, these are the icons that they're trying to prop up for themselves, which is very strange.
unidentified		It's creepy.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		It's creepy?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's a creepy bunch of people in a cult and they're all voting.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So you better go out and tell all your friends to go vote.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Does Nine Life sell devotional candles?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		We have not gotten into that market.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I think I might skip that one.
unidentified		Why?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Really?
		I mean, unless I can use your face as a model.
		I feel like you're more Jesus-y.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You have all the rights.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Is that an adjective?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		You just gave it out.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's all you.
		Anyone that wants to make t-shirts with my face on it, they're all you.
		Make as much money off them as you want.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I'm gonna make tens of dollars.
unidentified		It's gonna be great.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You know, the cult's getting bigger.
		Um, or maybe it's not.
		I don't know.
		What do you guys think?
		Do you think?
		I feel like, you know, Liz Cheney, she's out.
		We got a primary tonight.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I think it'll get louder.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Not bigger.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Louder?
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		I think that sometimes with cults, like, when they become stressed in some way, the people who are really devoted double down, and the people who are, like, on the outside already sort of be like, I don't know if I want to leave, and they back out.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Even now, like, I got employees that work for me, especially in leadership.
		We don't always see the same, you know, Same eye to eye and I know people voted for this and whenever they're complaining about the gas prices or not being able to hire people or all of these things that you voted for I kindly remind them like you did this like this is your fault.
		And they did exactly what they said they're gonna do.
		You know, we had a previous president that said, I'm going to build a wall, reduce energy prices,
		do this, do that.
		Like he had a playbook and he went and executed on it.
		Not everything went according to plan, not everything went as stated, but that was his intention.
		And he went to work day one.
		Day one, they destroyed energy prices.
		And energy is tied to absolutely everything that we have to deal with, and transportation, and goods.
		And you know, talk about inflation, It was day one.
		How do we create this socialist society without going through Congress?
		And they did it.
		You want $15 an hour?
		No problem.
		Because everything costs $15 now.
		So I got to pay someone who was being paid $10 to catch a t-shirt at the end of a dryer, is now being paid $15.
		Now that manager who was $15 is now $20 and now everyone else is $25.
		And guess what?
		You only want to spend so much on a USA Made t-shirt, right?
		But there is no incentive to buy things in the US and there's no disincentive to import stuff from China.
		So when I sell people that my competitors are using slave cotton, like literally slave cotton, and they're illegally putting it into their garments and then they're selling it at a price point I can't match because I don't have any slaves in Georgia.
		That's hundreds of years ago and freaking wrong.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, I gotta be honest.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm pretty sure like this shirt is probably like Bangladesh or something.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I can tell you that my stuff's not.
		I can tell you that there's a price point associated, right?
		So I want cheap, that's good.
		And I want it all done here in the United States.
		Well, that's not a thing.
		You can put your money where your mouth is.
		You can vote with your dollars.
		And that's what I've been trying to tell people is that when you're sitting up on stage and you're talking about all of these values that you are concerned about, you know, you're social justice warriors out there.
		Then why are your products that you're wearing literally made by slaves?
		Why are the things that you're purchasing going to regimes that hate us and want to destroy us?
		These are regimes like the Chinese Communist government.
		Not Chinese people.
		I have lots of Chinese friends, so don't confuse the two, right?
		The 6% ruling class of China that rules with an iron fist, that has zero regard for human rights, that has zero regard for anything other than world domination, and I don't care what anyone else has to say.
		That is what they want.
		You know, this is an organization that has said recently that they've won the war without firing a shot because they look at economic warfare as warfare.
		They look at biological warfare as warfare.
		So if COVID was not the perfect test run of biological warfare, and I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm just saying it was a absolute biological agent that wreaked havoc on the world, except for one country, which has seemed to benefit very, very much so.
		You know, we are living blindly and we're putting our money and we're voting with our dollars towards organizations that support China, towards organizations that support slavery.
		And anyone who wants to talk about that gets censored.
		I made a USA Made shirt video today talking about our cotton made in the US, our cutting and sewing made in the US, our printing in the US.
		When people are out there saying, hey, you know, you can't make things in the U.S.
		Like, I can do it.
		I'm a freaking aviator.
		I have zero knowledge in textile manufacturing.
		But the last 10 years, we figured it out, right?
		We're Americans.
		We can do this better, cheaper, faster.
		But no one cares.
		So when the President of the United States goes on television and says during the State of the Union, we're going to encourage and make sure that everything's made in the U.S., not one piece of legislation is to stop any type of imports of textile goods that can be made here, especially from China.
		Not one piece of legislation that gives credits Towards R&D, research and development for manufacturing capabilities like ours, right?
		So I can't get any type of credits for my employees that I hire.
		I can't get any credit for the R&D that I do.
		And I do a lot of R&D to be able to try to compete with China to be more efficient.
		None of that.
		If I was a tech company, I get lots of R&D credits.
		I pay no taxes.
		If I just took all my manufacturing and I brought it overseas, I'd make so much more profit.
		It's incredible.
		And apparently no one would care.
		So until the United States starts voting with their dollars, and understand that that money goes to an organization that most likely influences politics, we're just going to keep doing more of the same.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's simple.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		China's Communist Party can't donate directly to a politician to support them, but they can hire people to do things who they know will support certain politics, thus giving more economic power to people who will destroy this country.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		So we have no insight into China because they have locked it down.
		You can't influence their politicians.
		You'll go to jail forever in that country.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But do they have politicians?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They just have party members.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		They do have party members, but you're not influencing them.
		You know, Big Brother is a thing.
		You know, your social, your facial recognition.
		You can't leave cities without social credits.
		I mean, it is 1984 today.
		And these organizations, China, specifically the Communist Party, there's nothing that stops them from espionage, right?
		Coming here and learning everything they can and bringing it back to their country.
		I have intellectual property that I sent to China to make... I have a hoodie that holds your beer hands-free, right?
		So I've got two patents.
		One on an N95 mask, so you can breathe without dying.
		It actually works.
		Sorry, FDA said I can't say that.
		According to all of my FDA tests, it works better than 3Ms, but I'm no longer allowed to sell it because there's no more EUAs, and I just had to eat millions of dollars.
		Really?
		Oh, yeah.
		Absolutely.
unidentified		Wow.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		It's a whole different story.
		But I like science.
		I like engineering.
		So I made this patented product where you can hold your beer hands-free on your hoodie.
		It's like a pocket or something, or what?
		It's a cool pocket, yes.
		You kind of dumbed down my patent, but yes, it's a pocket in your hoodie.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		It's an engineered compartment.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Thank you so much.
		A kangaroo pouch, if you will.
		But I sent it to China with the tech pack to have them manufacture it.
		This is eight years ago, right?
		And they gave it to my competitors and started selling it to everyone else.
		And they told me that they don't believe intellectual property, it's trade secrets.
		If I want to keep it a secret.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You can't like own an idea, man.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		There's no patents there.
		They consider it trade secrets.
		So once the secret is known, it can be shared with absolutely everyone.
		As long as they can make money, they will.
		So there is no respect for intellectual property.
		There is no respect for human life.
		And this is an organization that is not our friend.
		And they threatened to shoot down our, what, Vice President, Secretary of Defense, Sec State, who is it they were going to shoot down?
unidentified		Speaker of the House.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		There we go.
		Speaker of the House.
		So, they want to shoot down a sitting member of Congress, and our response is, please don't do that.
		We are a very weak country right now, in my opinion, because we have weak leadership.
		And until that changes, I don't see us improving.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The midterms are coming up.
		I'm pretty optimistic.
		I'm not super optimistic about the leadership.
		We're gonna end up with McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, so nothing will really get done.
		But you'll have some good people in there doing some good stuff.
		It's not all bad, right?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I think what we saw when you had Trump come to power, you had a change in politics that shook things up.
		It was a time when everyone was tired with the status quo and they didn't want more of the same.
		I think people on both sides are starting to see that again.
		You know, that going back to traditional politicians, you get more of the same.
		We actually reversed course so fast, day one.
		And to see the state of the economy right now, and to see the state of affairs, you know, from a world stage, having traveled a lot into the Eastern European countries as of late, you know, we are a joke.
		We're a laughingstock.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What do you think about Ron DeSantis?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I would be very excited for a DeSantis ticket if our current, I guess, if the Donald were, in my opinion, to support and endorse that person and push the Trump supporters Towards him, I think that we actually would have a shot.
		You know, conservatives, right?
		I'll identify as a conservative.
		You know, no other pronouns, just conservative.
		And that's not a negative thing.
		It just means I'm a fiscal conservative and social libertarian.
		I could care what you do with your dingaling.
		Just don't talk to my children about it.
		That's my job.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Would you prefer Trump or would you prefer DeSantis?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		DeSantis.
		Because I think he has an opportunity to win.
		Because I think there's more than—this has nothing to do with Donald, right?
		I've gone to Mar-a-Lago.
		I've met him a few times.
		He's helped me with getting my friend Eddie Gallagher out of prison.
		I have no ill will towards the former President of the United States.
		What I do have is ill will towards not taking a stance towards what's the most likely course of action if he were to run.
		You're going to have a lot of individuals, never Trumpers, that And that's the unfortunate truth is that they'll get more people that would have voted conservative to not vote conservative just because they don't like the orange man.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		There is a concerted effort in media right now to go after DeSantis that way.
		They're actually trying to say that he's worse than Trump.
		Because they have to.
		They have to.
		And it's crazy because they already said Trump was literally worse than Hitler.
		And I'm not entirely sure what they're complaining about with DeSantis.
		But they just have to say something.
		Otherwise he'll win.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		But that that's their play is that they just say things louder and louder and louder.
		And you know, my godfather, I love having a conversation with him.
		I used to break as a thesaurus is Bill Buckley, Jr.
		kind of started the modern conservative movement.
		And he would always tell me that you'll never win an argument with an idiot.
		They'll just talk louder.
		And that's what I find when I try to engage into a political discussion with someone who is so far left or honestly right.
		It really doesn't matter.
		When you have extremisms on both parties and you can't find a way to have a conversation without raising your voice because we have a difference of opinion on Women's reproductive rights, about the Second Amendment, about the First Amendment.
		That's all the left.
		But I've seen it on both sides too.
		I've seen people go extremely far right and angry because I don't agree with something to do with women's reproductive rights, right?
		Which I'm not even going to get into that because I just don't feel like it's a topic of conversation we can win.
		It's just a difference of opinion.
		Some people are extremely religious, some people are not.
		And I think that we've degraded our morals in this country.
		And I think that it's become the popular thing not to go to church.
		I think it's the popular thing not to have what I would consider old-school morals, right?
		That are usually faith-based because it's not the cool thing to do anymore.
		And actually Stalin said it best, that they'll never win a war in the United States Because of our moral convictions.
		Because of the fact that, you know, we believe in our country and what it's founded by and that you can't break that spirit.
		And I think slowly but surely we've eroded the morals of this country.
		And when I say morals, I mean doing the right thing when no one else is looking.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, let's talk about the one person who's done the right thing.
		Liz Cheney.
		No, I'm kidding.
		We have this story from Yahoo News.
		New poll indicates a Liz Cheney presidential run would hurt Biden more than Trump.
		It can be simply shown in this chart, in this graph right here.
		If Liz Cheney were to run as an independent, Democrats would vote for her, helping Donald Trump win.
		And based on this polling, they're actually saying right now, and this is another, I don't necessarily believe all this.
		They're saying right now, based on their polling data, Joe Biden would beat Donald Trump in an election if it was held today, or at least at the time of this poll.
		Support for Joe Biden 46%, Trump's 42.
		But if Liz Cheney runs as an independent, Joe Biden 32, Cheney 11, Trump 40.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I would be very interested to know what the poll would say if a DeSantis were to run endorsed by Trump and those two.
		I think it would be a landslide.
		I think he would do very well.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		People need to understand too, landslides, it doesn't mean like 80% of the general public votes for the candidate.
		It means like 55% does.
		And this results in a massive swing in the Electoral College.
		You end up with all the states.
		This is the thing, you know, people were saying that Trump won in a landslide against Hillary.
		He won three states that got him over.
		And it was by 88,000 votes.
		So that's not a landslide.
		But in the Electoral College, it came out to like, you know, a decent number of electoral votes that he ended up winning.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		But the electoral votes are shifting.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		New York lost two, and Florida gained two.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		California, I think, lost one too, right?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, when you have these policies that cause a mass exodus of intellectual individuals, they're going to find refuge.
		They are refugees.
		That's why I try to tell people when they come from my home state of Connecticut to Georgia or to Florida, like, you are not a prophet.
		Please don't come here with the politics that I left.
		You are a refugee.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They do, and it's worse than that.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They bring other people with them.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I haven't really been seeing that.
		In the Southeast, I've been seeing individuals coming there and acting as refugees.
		Saying, hey, we are here because where I left is not good and it's getting worse.
		Because what you guys have going on in Georgia and in Florida is better than where I left.
		And I don't want to mess that up.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Elon Musk was in California.
		People who live in California two to one are Democrats.
		Elon Musk moves to Texas and opens the Gigafactory.
		A lot of these employees, I'm assuming, maybe I'm wrong, I'm assuming he didn't fire everybody in California, right?
		Probably transferred a bunch of them.
		That's a bunch of California progressives being moved into Austin.
		So I do think there are more refugees than there are people transferring because of work policy.
		But depending on the size of the industry and of the individual, they might bring, you know, for every one high net worth individual who's like, Hey, I believe in liberty and freedom.
		They might bring 10 woke employees with them.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		AT&T moved to Dallas, the Dallas area, I think in 2012.
		I could be wrong on that.
		And they were based in California before that.
		So they also transferred their employees out there.
		I mean, I think, I'm sure some had the option to leave the company, stay.
		A lot came to Dallas.
		It really blew up a couple of the suburbs in the Dallas area.
		And this is prior to Trump being elected.
		I mean, the shift towards pro-business states has been going on for a long time.
		It wasn't just COVID in politics that started a mass migration of people with maybe not the political leanings of the states they were ultimately ending up in.
		I think COVID just made it much more of an intentional choice for some people.
		There was much more of an examination of the life you were living because you were suddenly stuck at home having to reconsider what you really wanted.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Well, look at the flexibility that people were able to gain once we realized that you could work virtually, right?
		So individuals who were working for companies that could now work at home chose to not live in a degrading society, right?
		Meaning that the crime is up, the bang for your buck is down, and it only seems to be getting worse.
		Those individuals are the ones that I see leaving in mass exodus.
		They're not leaving because their business Massive company moved so they had to move with it.
		They're moving because they have the freedom and flexibility to choose to not live in New York City, to choose to not live in LA.
		And they've decided that that's not for them anymore, that they don't want to live in fear of walking down the street and getting mugged and raped and murdered.
		Because there's lawlessness in LA.
		It's like zombie land.
		My manufacturing partners are out there, and when I go out there,
		it's just getting worse and worse and worse.
		It's straight up zombie land.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I remember for a while, Maine offered this program where if you were a remote
		worker, you'd come live in Maine and get, you know,
		I don't remember if it was money towards a house or a tax credit or something like that.
		Maine has an aging population and they don't have a ton of industry so they really do want remote workers to come in and repopulate.
		Have kids.
		Have young families.
		Obviously Maine is beautiful.
		Lots of outdoor stuff.
		There is a reason you would want to be there.
		It's just not possible if you can't work there.
		And this was way before COVID.
		I mean this was happening again I think it was like 2010.
		But at the time there were not as many remote positions as there are now.
		I think that we'll continue to see states with low birth rate or older populations trying to incentivize remote workers to come out because again if you can work have a steady job and work wherever you want you are much more likely to choose a place that's reflective both of your political or ideological values but also of a lifestyle that you want to live.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Delaware figured it out.
		Delaware figured a lot of it out.
		There's a lot of states that drive business away, and it's really interesting how the economics of this work.
		If you're an ice cream shop, you register your business in the state because you're in the state.
		But if you do national level business, why would you not be in Delaware?
		The laws, the restrictions, the taxes in every state are cumbersome.
		So this is why every corporation, not literally every, but like most of them will just open up in Delaware.
		I think Nevada is another one.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		And Wyoming is good too.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		But now even California was leading the charge of how to ruin their online business and tax income.
		Because right now, because of recent laws in the last few years, Wayfair versus North Dakota, And there was that Title IX or whatever that thing was.
		So sales tax is now collected in all 50 states once you hit Nexus threshold, right?
		So California is actually one of my largest states, right?
		We send millions of dollars of product there.
		Sales tax, fine.
		I collect sales tax, I give it to you.
		As of lately, now California is saying, actually we want a percentage of our income tax as well.
		So I'm a Georgia resident.
		I pay Georgia state income tax at 7%, which is still higher than zero, which is Florida, right?
		I'm sure I could probably find ways around it.
		And I don't feel like going to IRS jail or getting shot by that dude in the wheelchair.
		Um, for whatever reason, IRS tactical training, I don't even know why they have guns, but okay.
		So I, I've been told now I'm expected, according to California, to pay taxes as if I was a California resident because I, in their mind, I'm a resident.
		I have no physical property.
		I've never go to the state for more than 24 hours because I hate it.
		Not because the...
		Beautiful scenery, just, no offense, the people.
		They're insane.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, I mean, the climate's bad, too.
		Like, they're in a drought.
		It's not going all that well.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		The political environment, the discussions, the focus of their attention on what I consider silly things, I'm not a big fan.
		And I definitely don't want to pay 17% still sex to a state that I don't physically go to.
		It's my company, it's my income.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		All your revenue.
unidentified		Yes.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		That apportionment of it goes, gets taxed at 17%.
		So obviously I politely declined and said that according to federal laws is this, and that'll be another Supreme Court ruling to see if we now as internet based companies have to start paying these insane taxes.
		So I don't even know how that would work.
		So I pay 17% tax to California and 12% to New York and all this.
		I would have zero dollars left over and I don't understand.
		How people don't get business, right?
		I started my garage.
		I sold my car to buy my first machine.
		I sold my house to buy another machine.
		By the way, when you're deploying a bunch, no notice, and you have a pregnant wife with two kids and a Great Danes, and you move them into an apartment that does not... They don't like it?
		They don't like that.
		But you know, it's a sacrifice, right?
		So we continue to sacrifice and put everything all in.
		And now I'm at a point where the level of taxes that I pay as compared to Amazon, you know, I pay tens of millions of dollars more than Amazon has.
		And that is absolutely ludicrous.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But it's obvious why.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You will owe nothing and you will be happy.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I think that is the plan.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I will always be happy, and I think that happiness is on you.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We don't do any business with California in any possible way.
		It's a strict company policy.
		California is state non grata for us, however it would actually be stated.
		And we've had people who hit us up and are like, hey, we'd love to work with you, or we want to submit an article, or we're looking for work.
		And I'm just like, as long as you're in California, there's not a conversation to be had.
		And to put it simply, California has laws in order to just not run afoul.
		We just do not do any operations in any capacity with anyone in the state of California.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Oh no, I'm being sued right now by a blind man in New York and another person in California who's saying that my website is not blind accessible.
		Which it is, by the way, for full dis- you know.
		If anyone who's listening to this and happens to not be able to see, you can absolutely go to NineLineApparel.com and it will talk to you just as it's supposed to.
		But anyone can sue anyone from those states and they're very sue, not happy, but I guess they encourage it.
		So I will spend tens of thousands of dollars on these frivolous lawsuits in California
		and in New York, and I won't get a change of venue to Georgia because they know they
		won't win in Georgia.
		And they're just hoping that these mid-sized companies, they're not going after mom and
		pop and they're not going after Coca-Cola, right?
		They're going to go after individuals that they think have the ability to pay, but they
		don't have the ability to kind of fight it out, right?
		So there's hundreds of thousands of these lawsuits that are allowed, and all they do
		is just hurt the bottom line for people like me, who, you know, I don't know how to get
		I don't know how to advocate.
		I don't know how to tell people about it because, like you said, shut down my Facebook account?
		Not national news.
		Go and sue me because a blind person says they tried to go buy something from my website?
		Not a good news story.
		Deal with it.
		And these are the policies that New York and California are encouraging and they destroy businesses.
		And to the point where, you know, I have another company called Hoist that does military hydration.
		And they're now telling us that, you know, the product is not in compliant with California's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah standards.
		I'm not a lawyer.
		I just have to go get different lawyers to figure out why I could sell to everywhere else.
		But apparently it's California has a different standard.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		What is it that you're selling with Hoist?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Hoist is military hydration.
		So we sell it to the government to make sure our troops stay hydrated.
		Imagine a drink that I can't say that you were given when you're really dehydrated, you know, as a medical treatment.
		Rhymes with shmedialite.
		But it tastes horrible, right?
		So it's like that, but tastes good.
		Uh, so we sell it to the government and then we also sell it to now, uh, civilian venues like Publix and Walmart and, um, everywhere else.
		But in California, it's, it's getting, it's same co-packers, same people will make Coca-Cola products, make this product, but they're not going to go sue Coca-Cola.
		They're just going to sue Hoist or companies like me.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yes, something.
		because they're like label, they want like it to say may have been created in a lab with
		that may have had access to lead, may have something like that.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		They had a yes, something.
		It's their title 19 California act that just came full force a couple months ago.
		It's it's California.
		They're going to find some other way to mess with business and then complain that they have no income tax and that they're bankrupt and they need the federal government to bail them out.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		People need to get out of California.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I did.
		I liked it at first.
		I thought I had to be there because I was an actor.
		So I thought, well, it's New York or LA.
		This is like 2005.
		And so in 2006, I moved to Los Angeles.
		I was in Chicago for a while, too.
		And I lived there for five years.
		I got really depressed.
		I didn't like it.
		It smelled.
		The brake dust.
		I don't know what, but my hypertension was up.
		And I left and then I went back in 2014-15 because I was like, well, it's LA.
		I'm going to give it another shot.
		Maybe I'll just, but I realized by that point the internet, I mean, I'm working remote.
		I don't need to be in LA.
		I was on the sixth floor and I didn't drive the second time around, which turned it into a whole better experience, but still.
		It was dirty chaos, man.
		You got the ocean.
		There's benefits to it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You're right, Ian.
		We should just move this show to St.
		Kitts and Nevis.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		We should go offshore.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		This show could be done anywhere in the world.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		I might start working remotely.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I love your spot.
		Honestly, this is middle of nowhere.
		This is my jam.
		You got chickens.
		I get anxiety when I'm in New York City, when I'm in LA, when I'm around a large populated area of mostly angry people.
		And I understand why you're angry.
		I used to have to go to school in New York City.
		It took me three and a half hours just to get there.
		And then deal with very angry people who didn't like my All Lives Matter shirts, except for ISIS.
		F those guys.
		Like, I would wear it all the time.
		You know, it was funny.
		But it was during the whole blue lives matter and black lives matter and all these different lives matter debates and people just literally would lose their mind and freak out and I'd be walking down the street with my large female african-american you know West Point friend and Callin' her and Uncle Tom and tellin' me mean things, and I'm like, I hate New York City.
		I cannot wait to leave.
		And I get back to Savannah, and it's just zen.
		You know, everyone is very nice.
		There's no honking of horns.
		There's, you know, it's a different way of life.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		These cities are falling apart, man.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		They are.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		It's because of leadership, though.
		Because I'll tell you, New York City wasn't— Lack thereof.
		Giuliani's a friend.
		Bernie Kerik, the police commissioner in New York City, is a really good friend.
		Under their leadership, during that 9-11, pre-9-11, post-9-11, the crime rates, just everything about the city was so much better.
		And you change that leadership and you watch what happens.
		And it is a direct result of those in charge.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's not just that.
		It's just like, man, I've been really watching it.
		Let me jump to this story because this is important.
		We have this from The Guardian.
		Ex-president seeks to prevent Bureau from reading seized documents until court official weighs in.
		Well, there's the story.
		Here's the big important piece.
		Alan Dershowitz says every reputable attorney he's spoken with has told him their firms won't let them go anywhere near Trump.
		Dude, we can't survive as a country if this cult keeps expanding and operating this way.
		This is why I've been talking about why it's so important to build culture.
		And for everybody to start building industry, parallel economies.
		These lawyers are like, I can't represent Trump, even though Trump's far from the worst person ever represented in this country.
		But they can't do it because they're like, oh, I'll never get a job again.
		This means we need lawyers to make law firms that are like, we don't care if you represent Trump.
		The ACLU defended the Klan back in what was the 90s, I think, right?
		When they were marching through Skokie, Illinois.
		They defended Unite the Right only, you know, a few years ago.
		And that was a horrifying moment.
		Now, the cult has expanded to the point where lawyers aren't working with Trump.
		Here's the big thing.
		Trump, when he filed this lawsuit, it was pro se.
		There were no lawyers signed on to it.
		It was just Trump representing himself.
		Now, I believe some lawyers have signed on and the left is mocking him for it, calling his lawyers like fly-by-night lawyers.
		And it's like, this is a bad thing.
		But if you're in the cult and you're psychotic, it's a good thing.
		You're a communist, everybody has to fall in line and march in lockstep.
		It's good that no one will represent your enemies.
		If we carry on down that path, I mean, y'all know where this ends up.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Gestapo.
		I always joke around, like, it's step one, control the narrative, right?
		And we've seen it in the history playbook.
		You know, burn the books that are against your narrative, control the media, control the news.
		Much easier back in the 40s.
		And step two, you know, just, I don't need to take the weapons right now.
		I just didn't know where they are.
		Just register.
		I might need to take certain ones and eventually I'm going to take all of them.
		And then after that, step three is do whatever the heck you want.
		There's no stopping you.
		And I'm not a conspiracy theorist but I know that I have weapons that are for hunting and I have weapons for defending my home.
		And I have sworn allegiance to protect and defend this country against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
		And there are certain inalienable rights that I will not give up and you will have to pry things out of my hands before you come to my house and you mess with my children.
		You want to jab them with certain things that you say are healthy and they're not going to cause them to have major heart problems.
		I'm going to say good luck coming to Savannah, Georgia, opening up my door and sticking something into my children.
		That's not going to work out well.
		That's not violence, by the way, I was just saying.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's the spirit of American freedom, that's the point of it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let me ask you a question.
		What's a 450 Bushmaster round for?
		Are you familiar?
		Do you know your guns?
		I'm not trying to put you on the spot, I'm trying to make a point.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, so I'd say I have everything from a .50 cal down to .22s.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Every single... What's the purpose of a 450 Bushmaster?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let's say, let's say polymer tip, 450 Bushmaster.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		You tell me at this point.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So again, I'm not trying to put you on the spot.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Hunting, right?
unidentified		Sure.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Big game, you get maybe like four or five rounds in the magazine.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I think... So I don't hunt.
		I'll be clear.
		I shoot targets.
unidentified		Right, right, right.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		So I'm one of those guys that don't believe in killing things, except for bad humans.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So my point here is, that's a weapon for hunting animals, right?
		Sure.
		What would you say a bird shot is for?
		A 12-gauge bird shot.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Birds?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Birds, yeah.
		What's a Barrett M82A1 for?
		50 BMG.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Humans?
unidentified		Tanks?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Bad humans?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Helicopters?
		And the thing about that is, you can buy one.
		This is America.
		And so I've seen these conversations, and it's funny because What do you think would happen?
		I mean, how do you think the left would respond?
		I mean, they'd lose their minds just knowing that you would buy such a weapon.
		They would argue that the fact that you'd have the conversation about it would be incitement to violence or insurrection because there's not a hunting purpose, technically, for a .50 BMG.
		It's like an anti-material rifle for taking out tanks and things like that.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well I still have access to 240 Bravo machine guns on the side of the Little Bird helicopters that fly around my house and it's Georgia again.
		I've got the Undertaker on the side shooting machine guns and just shooting targets because it's America.
		You know, because we can.
		And because we're not bothering anyone.
		And I don't understand this concern of the far, whatever, the anti-gun.
		that is so hell-bent on taking them all away when they've never gone to the countries where they were taken away, where they currently are taken away.
		You know, in Ukraine, for example, they were all taken away and they were all handed back out because guess who was coming?
		The Russians, right?
		And you know what sucks?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They didn't have guns.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		And they had no guns.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Apparently, Zelensky knew they were coming.
		Did you guys see Jimmy Dore talking about that today?
		No, apparently Zelensky knew the Russians were going to attack, but he didn't tell anybody because he didn't want to take their money out of the bank.
		He didn't want to crash the Ukraine.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But everybody knew it was happening.
unidentified		They had troops gathered on the border.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Our president pulled our elements out.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Our president could have done a lot more.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They could have done a no-fly zone before there was a war.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It would not have been an act of war to declare a no-fly zone on Ukraine by the United States.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I'd say our president did, or sorry, not our president, somebody during the Afghan evac put a no-fly zone for evacuating aircraft, right?
		Like, that's weird.
		State Department, six aircraft trying to pull out American hostages.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What do you call it, Ian, that Joe Biden did in Afghanistan?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		The surrender?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The surrender.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, anyway, I want to go back to the story a little bit.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		But basically, though, our country in terms of the military capabilities and, you know, the individuals that are out there willing to do bad things to bad people, and they are willing to lay down their lives to do so.
		They wanted to go and rescue our U.S.
		citizens that were left behind in Afghanistan.
		They wanted to go and provide aid to the individuals who are fighting against Russians and give them the capability to defend their own country at a time of need.
		But we actively prevented those things.
		It's not that we stood by and just watched things happen.
		We actively put a ROZ around six aircraft in Mazar Sharif when I was trying to pull people that were American citizens Out of Afghanistan, right?
		That actually happened, first-hand knowledge.
		We actively said that the Russians are going to take over this country, there's nothing we can do, pull everyone out, don't give them any aid, no support, world stage.
		The NGOs of the world are the ones that actually prevented World War III from occurring, my humble opinion.
		I think the history books will see it that way too, because now everyone and their brother pours money, which is wasted, right?
		All that funds is squandered, waste.
		None of it's going to where it actually is supposed to go.
		And I'm boots on the ground there.
		I can tell you firsthand knowledge.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I want to jump back to the story, though, because the main point that I think we need to pay attention to is within the past couple of days, we're hearing that Donald Trump can't get a lawyer.
		Then we're seeing he files a lawsuit pro se.
		So he's got to try and find somebody to sign on.
		Then the left mocks him over it.
		This is... Man, this is very, very serious in terms of culture war and leading up to either... Look, civil war is actually a very optimistic concept.
		Civil war means that there's a chance at preventing totalitarian takeover.
		Cause the reality is you look at Weimar Germany or you look at, um, pre, you know, communist Russia and it was no civil war.
		It was revolution and revolution resulted in the Nazis and the Soviets.
		So if in the United States there isn't a civil war, that would just mean these people have taken over.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Well, you can have a civil war that turns into a revolution too.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You gotta be careful about unleashing the beast.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but typically what we see with like, right, in Weimar Germany, you had the communists and the fascists and they were fighting and the fascists win, but it wasn't like a civil war necessarily.
		It was political conflict, kind of like what we see here.
		And so that's the thing I think people need to pay attention to.
		They're like, oh, we're not on track for a civil war.
		We're just seeing political violence.
		And it's like, yeah, you're seeing political violence.
		You're seeing the weaponization of the DOJ against the former president and his administration.
		You're seeing him unable to get a lawyer from any firm and being made fun of for it.
		I'm like, yeah, that's kind of like pre-Nazi Germany, pre-Soviet Russia level stuff.
		So, okay, maybe, maybe these people are happy that there won't be some kind of civil war.
		And I think in a certain sense, that sounds good.
		Doesn't it?
		No civil war.
		The problem is what they're actually talking about is violent revolutionary takeover, genocide, murder, et cetera.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It seems like that we're on track for globalization somehow, that we have been for probably 20 or 30 years, and that I was very anti-nationalism for, you know, 15 years ago.
		I was like, screw the US, this war in the Middle East, because the war in the Middle East was insane, like, unfounded.
		He lied to get us in.
		George Bush lied to get us in.
		Killed all these people and destroyed infrastructure.
		I was so fed up with the nationalist powers being like, my country is better than your country.
		When it's like, dude, we're all humans sharing the planet together.
		Let's work together as a species.
		Let's create a language, create a currency and move on.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's very naive.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And so a decade later now, I'm looking at how dangerous globalism can become because the American experiment is phenomenal.
		Objectively from, well, I can't be objective about it, but it's pretty cool.
		Most people on earth seem to think it's pretty cool, this sense of freedom that we have.
		And if the global, if the World Economic Forum and the Bank for International Settlements gets to dispense with nationalist governments and create like a corporatocracy, we're screwed.
		That's not good.
		That's a lack of freedom.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't want it.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		But they keep trying.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And I think it's inevitable that we will globalize somehow.
		Anyone that talks about the end of the liberal international economy, they say that it's ending.
		So there's going to be a new international economy.
		There's going to be a new world order.
		What's it going to be?
		I used to hate the World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab.
		I don't even know the guy, but now I realize I want to talk to him because they want sustainability.
		They don't want to kill everyone.
		They want To do something good, but like you said earlier, good can be twisted.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't know if I agree with you, Ian.
		You said they don't want to kill everybody, and I would say technically correct.
		Maybe they don't want to, kind of like, I don't want to have to go and kill all the deer when their population has expanded too rapidly, right?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Just collateral damage.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You don't want to kill all the deer because then they're all gone and they're extinct.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		No, the issue is...
		You know, what we see from a lot of global elites when they're saying things like, the best thing you can do for the environment is not have kids.
		That's the very nice way of saying they don't want your family to expand.
		They don't want you to be here.
		OK, so look, we know because we have a chicken city.
		It's stanky.
		Because we had too many!
		So we had to take a bunch of the boys and send them over to Cocktown, which is where all the boys go because when the chicken boys are around each other, they don't fight.
		But when you put a girl in there, they start fighting.
		So we had to separate them and create two different little chicken towns, chicken cities.
		The smell was getting really bad because the chicken crap couldn't get washed away fast enough.
		I recognize that as someone who is literally, you know, we have our own chicken coop.
		But we also know that with deer, for instance, if their population isn't kept in check, they start decimating local plant life and causing ecological problems.
		So then humans go out, kill a bunch of the bucks, get the population down and under control.
		Humans are not exempt from these concepts.
		Now, there are a lot of people who think overpopulation is a problem.
		That's kind of the issue.
		There are a lot of people who think that overpopulation is not a problem.
		Maybe it will be soon.
		Either way.
		These World Economic Forum people, these global elites, they think it is a problem.
		And if you look at how we deal with invasive species of any other species, why do you think that these global elites would treat humans any differently?
		Now I will say, because they're humans, which is why the approach is stop having kids, live
		in luxury, birth control, they're trying to stop human reproduction because then naturally
		what happens is the population slowly dies and then it contracts and shrinks down and
		that's one way to control population expansion.
		So my clarification, yeah you're right.
		They don't want to go around and just kill people, but they certainly don't want people to be alive anymore in certain numbers.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		They want not feces on the streets of New York.
		They want... San Francisco.
		Not so many people in San Francisco that they're clogging the system, like what you're saying about the chicken poop, which is happening in LA and in New York.
		There is a clog right now.
		There's too many people in a centralized area.
		Cities maybe are fading away.
		I don't know.
		The problem is you need electricity to get from place to place or gas power.
unidentified		Maybe.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And that's like...
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's a luxury.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Maybe what we got to do is take all the boys from San Francisco and send them to their own human cock town where all the boys can hang out like we do at Chicken City.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I think they'd like that.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I don't think it would be a problem.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		So I think maybe humans are misappropriated on earth that we're all stuck in these mega... But then the idea of like creating mega cities is a world economic... I think that's an economic forum concept.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		By 2030, they want mega cities, which doesn't make sense.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, it allows you to control people way, way better.
		And the idea with megacities is that it keeps humans away from the environment, so there's less of an impact on external systems.
		On the ecosystems or surrounding areas, and there can be harmony and you isolate humans in certain areas.
		I actually think the opposite is better.
		I think we'd be better off with humans spread out quite a bit more.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Then we need to evolve our postal service.
		This is something I've been thinking.
		We can evolve the U.S.
		Postal Service into a stratospheric drone delivery program where we can ship stuff all over the planet.
		I think that would be a cool American initiative.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think what's going to happen is they're going to increasingly digitize reality.
		Like I was already mentioning earlier in the show, if the collapse happened today and the power went down, We would have, the news would be gone.
		Like, news archives would be gone.
		You'd have no way to boot up the internet, it would just be dead servers.
		Maybe you got a solar generator in your house.
		Congratulations, you can power your stove, you can power your air conditioning, and you got no access to information because those data centers are all down.
		Have you backed up Wikipedia onto your phone?
		I'm not saying Wikipedia is a great, you know, unbiased system.
		But there's a lot of articles in Wikipedia that are like, this is what an edible flower looks like or something like that.
		Have you downloaded survival guides?
		Have you downloaded encyclopedias in general?
		Put them all on your phone right now.
		Like seriously, it's not that hard to do.
		I think it's like six gigs for the summation of Wikipedia.
		And of course, a lot of the political stuff is very biased, but there's a lot of stuff on there that's, you know, might end up helping you in the long run when you're like looking up, you know, drug molecules or how currents work or something like that, electrical currents.
		If the power goes down, you might have power, but we lose access to the grid.
		So here's what I think.
		I bring that up because it's the direction we're going in.
		And that's why I said my idea for a show was people living in pods, living in the metaverse, and never coming outside, because they don't need to.
		The Matrix is seemingly the end conclusion of where we're all going.
		How do you stop overpopulation?
		Put them in the pods, put them in the matrix.
		How do you stop this mass pollution and humans crapping on the streets?
		Put them in the pods, put them in the matrix.
		How do you deal with crime?
		There won't be crime if people are locked in pods, eating bug mash, hooked into their feeding tube.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but locking people in pods is a crime against humanity.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yes, but they're going to be in the metaverse and they're going to choose to do it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They're going to get neuralinked and they're going to live in some virtual reality where they're superheroes and they're not going to care.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's so they want to put people in mega cities and then put them in the internet so that we're spread out in the internet.
		I put that in quotes, spread out virtually.
		Um, but that maybe humans are a virus that are spreading out of control on the planet.
		Maybe we've almost eradicated what, what percent of animal wildlife has gone extinct under our, under our watch.
		90, 90 plus percent of the animals on earth.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't know about that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		What's the number?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		How many, what's we're in a mass extinction of that, right?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Not everybody agrees.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Oh, interesting.
		Okay.
		I've heard that then I've heard the word.
		What'd you say?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I'm gonna have to Google it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Okay, yes, yes.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Google a verb now.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Google a verb now.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		So that argument that humans are just an out-of-control bacterium spreading and consuming everything on Earth, I've thought about that a lot.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I like to think that I'm in this individual wondrous, you know, That I should have my own spirit candle, but... But these are policies that were enacted in certain countries, like China, where they had population control, where they have people in megacities that they can track their whereabouts, where if you want to leave those megacities, you have to have a credit system put in place.
		Like, there are... this experiment that you're talking about is going on right now, and it's a direction that I don't want us to go in.
		And by the way, that...
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		The bubble is getting so big it's either about to burst or it's about to split into two bubbles and we're going to colonize Mars.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Think about this.
		So the way social media censors people, the powerful elites or whatever, politicians, would prefer it if we lived our lives in a metaverse, virtual world, as opposed to the real world.
		Because the only thing you can do is what they tell you you're allowed to do.
		You say a naughty word, they click a button, and then also in your mouth and the metaverse is gone.
		And now you can't say naughty words anymore.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And then the next generation won't even know what naughty words are.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Or they just control the individuals that are out there that you follow.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I mean, The Rock was paid $3 million to go talk about how much he loves COVID vaccines, and so did a bunch of other politicians.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		John Cena did that apology in Mandarin.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Remember that?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		So, we're paying with our tax dollars.
		My money that I work really hard for, that they've absolutely just taken at the end of the year, goes to these high net worth individuals that don't really need money, that have a massive following.
		You know, sheep that are following them.
		Saying, hey, don't forget to go get your second, third, fourth, fifth booster and wear six masks.
		And, you know, I do it so you should do it.
		They don't do it.
		And they're getting paid.
		Money is what's driving this.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		In New Jersey, when the lockdown started, there was a woman live streaming her store's products and the cops came and shut her down.
		You couldn't even sell things online.
		It was not.
		They were.
		It was just.
		I can only say that was about shutting down economic activity.
		And what did the New York Times say?
		The earth is healing.
		It's fascinating because actions speak louder than words.
		They can come out and say they want to do whatever they want to do.
		I don't care what these people say.
		I learned this lesson a long time ago.
		People say they want to do a lot of things and they don't do them.
		They'll be like, man, I really want to go travel the world.
		I had a buddy and he was like, Man, I really want to travel the world, you know?
		Like, I really want to go to Bali.
		And I was like, okay, so go.
		And he's like, I can't.
		I was like, why not?
		He's like, I can't afford to go to Bali, dude.
		And then I pulled up my phone and it was $400 for a ticket.
		I was like, bro, round trip, $400.
		Did you even look?
		I mean, it's like three months out.
		You got to buy it early.
		And he was like, what?
		No.
		And I'm like, you never even looked.
		Like, don't come to me and tell me you want to do something you never even bothered to Google it.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		That's the perfect example.
		I had an individual I went to West Point with that hit me up saying, All kinds of critical things.
		Talking about how he would be doing so much more if he had the opportunities or the access to funds that I did.
		The privilege.
		The privilege, right?
unidentified		That you did.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		And it's, hey, you know, I would do a lot more with the charitable stuff.
		Like, well, actually you don't know what I do with charity and I'm involved with this and this and this and this.
		But I just kind of wanted to go down that rabbit hole.
		Like, why is it that you can't give back to society?
		Why don't I have the money?
		It's like, you don't have any money?
		You don't?
		Fine.
		If you have no money, do you have time?
		Do you have time to spare?
		Because the individuals that go and say, hey, I really wish I could give back to our homeless population.
		There's a thousand different opportunities to do so.
		Just go do it.
		It's the individuals that just want to go and say, I think that someone should fix the homeless population.
		I would do it if I could.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But you know what?
		You can't.
		You can't.
		No, you can't.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		You can.
		One at a time.
		You could put an effort towards making a individual Put your time and energy into helping an individual who wants to be helped.
		You're never going to help an individual who doesn't want to be helped.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And that's the point.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Most homeless people don't want to be helped.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I work with the homeless veterans.
		That's what our charity does.
		We build houses for homeless veterans.
		I'm very tied into that specific.
		But I would say that you have habitual homeless that are at that they have not hit that rock bottom where they find.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The overwhelming majority of homeless people In, you know, the shelters that I worked with refuse shelters, refuse to be involved, and have chosen to be homeless.
		And they won't even take, like, the stuff that the groups I worked with talked about is like, you could go to them and be like, can we just give you something?
		Say, get away from me, I don't want your stuff.
		And these organizations lie.
		I mean, it's all so crooked, man.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		That's the problem is when you have these negative, because homeless individuals, they do talk, they're not going to want to go back to the same place that talks about trying to help, but they don't.
		And wraparound services are a thing and not like to make this a long, long, long story that the individuals that have hit rock bottom that do want to get helped if there are organizations.
		that put their money where their mouth is, you see a change.
		In Savannah, Georgia, our homeless population is not completely under control, but so much
		better than other cities.
		And it's because we have a community where we have the police, the fire, the mayor, for-profits,
		non-profits, all working together as a continuum of care saying, hey, how can we help fix this
		together?
		And we start shipping it.
		How do you eat the elephant one bite at a time?
		And we've been able to take massive improvements and we see it every single year, but it's a lot of work and it's a lot of individuals time, money and effort.
		But yeah, it is much easier to say, it's never going to be fixed.
		I give up.
		Who cares?
		And move on.
		There is a better system than what's going on in LA, what's going on in New York.
		And it does take a community to come together and make this initiative, not about themselves, not about how do I raise money and look cool on stage?
		And then after the charity event, I go back to my normal day and I never go and deal with one homeless shelter, one homeless person again.
		You know, that's where the authenticity comes in.
		Are you doing the right thing when no one is paying attention?
		Or are you doing it just for the social, what do they call it, virtue signaling?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think a really good example of, for one I would say first, Truth is hard to come by.
		Some things are objectively true, some things are hard to break down because the issues are so complex, you can't possibly see every angle of every story.
		And so, when it comes to complex political issues, everybody is saying, like, this is what's happening, this is what's happening, and they're all looking at a piece, but not the whole, and that's the challenge.
		When it comes to something like 2 plus 2 equals 4, there are people lying, saying 2 plus 2 is actually 5, and they're trying to pass that off with their weird, you know, dialectic garbage.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		It's new math.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, new math.
		But for most people you can understand a simple concept like 2 plus 2 is 4 and why, you know?
		But for truth, it's very, very difficult.
		When it comes to doing good things, I find that, like, here's a really good example.
		I've always heard, we want to feed the homeless.
		You ever hear that?
unidentified		Yeah?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, people are trying to feed the homeless.
		And I was always confused by that.
		You know why?
		They're homeless.
		They don't have homes.
		No one mentioned anything about food.
		In fact, I've seen tons of fat homeless people.
		So I would always hear this from a lot of the activists that I'd work with.
		They'd be like, we want to do a food for the homeless thing.
		And I'll be like, are homeless people hungry?
		And they're like, I don't know.
		And I'm like, Don't you?
		Shouldn't you home the homeless and feed the hungry?
		But there's these ideas that people have, misconceptions.
		I was playing guitar in the subway in Chicago once.
		I had a $300 fiberglass Stratacoustic.
		Just came out back in the time.
		This is almost 20 years ago.
		And this lady comes up to me and she goes, There's a shelter on Belmont?
		Do you need a place?
		And I was like, lady, I make 40 bucks an hour.
		And she went, what?
		And I was like, I have a fiberglass guitar.
		Like, I appreciate you're trying to be nice, but like, I was like wearing jeans and a t-shirt and playing music.
		I wasn't homeless.
		But they don't understand.
		They don't know.
		People think they know.
		And I think, you know, I, uh, this woman was very, very nice.
		You know, I was deeply touched that she wanted to help, but she didn't know what she was talking about.
		And she made a bunch of assumptions and thus didn't actually end up helping anything.
		I think there's a lot of people who feel that way.
		Like, I'd like to to feed the homeless.
		And I'm like, that's really, really awesome.
		But we need people to actually sit down and figure out what the problems are and not just try and throw pie at the wall because it sounds like the right thing to do.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		One problem in California is that there's like a billion dollar industry to help the homeless.
		But the thing is, they don't really want to end homelessness because then the industry is gone.
		Joe Rogan's been talking a lot about this.
		He's had guests on that are talking to experts in this.
		So they want to continue to have homeless people, so they keep getting their billions every year to keep their jobs, like their middle management jobs and things, which is absolutely, I mean, arguably atrocious.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		No, HUD is a joke.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I mean, if you ever have to deal with HUD, and you have to deal with the bureaucracy between taking government money to deal with the homeless, then you start realizing why it's never being fixed.
unidentified		Right?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		So if I try to create a program, which we have, which is a, how do you have housing first, right?
		Not housing only.
		So I have tiny homes that gets people off the street, gets them put into an individual house.
		From there, they get taught aquaponics from Georgia Southern partnership, right?
		With education.
		So they have a new sense of pride that they could accomplish something.
		And then we give them job placement, right?
		So you go from housing first, then some type of tradecraft, then an employment
		opportunity.
		Now you cycle that person out and you fill that house with the next person.
		It's a triage, right?
		When I tell people it's a triage, they get really mad, right?
		Especially the bleeding heart leftists that have no intention of actually fixing anything.
		They just want to tell me how I'm doing it wrong.
		So it's, hey, why are you only taking these people?
		Is it because you're racist?
		Actually, I don't look at anything other than a specific questionnaire that has to do with their military records, right?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But that is racist to them because you're supposed to discriminate.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I guess I'm doing it right?
		It's just funny because when you have people who want to go and tell you how you're doing it wrong and you ask them, how many times have you gone and walked underneath the bridge and talked to these individuals?
		How many times have you actually sat down and said, how did you get here and how can I help you?
		You know, there's so many different situations and that's where it says like, it depends.
		Politics is a perfect example with homelessness.
		Right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's actually, you know, you're giving me an idea.
		We could solve our security issues and the swattings by just lining the property with tiny homes and letting, you know, and helping the homeless being like, we got a place for you.
		We're going to teach you how to use it.
		Give them a nice place to live.
		And then you've got this like community and then you're just in the middle and they're, you know, your perimeter.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		So you want me to fast forward to tell you what, what actually happened a couple of years later with once the city got involved with the first project.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What'd they do?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		They made it so much better.
		They got rid of all the things that we were doing that were successful and made it permanent housing.
		And they allowed camps all around it.
		And right before the elections, they paid for everyone to get food and pizza and told them how, when they help support the new president coming and getting elected.
unidentified		Right.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Because they allowed them to go.
		You know, register all together in Georgia, right?
		A huge swaths of homeless population in Atlanta and Savannah and other metropolitan cities.
		You had these organizers going to these camps and telling people, hey, you're homeless because of these bad policies, not the people who are trying to help you right now.
		Like, we're going to do so much better.
		So here's how you register just use this address even though that's illegal but just use all you guys use this one address not yours and then we'll come back we'll make sure that we take you guys to go get you know vote properly and here's some food and here's a new tent and here's all that they come out of the woodwork right before weeks before and then as soon as the election's over like a fart in the wind nowhere to be found that false hope is like blasphemous in my opinion but guess who will be out there right before the midterms same group of community organizers telling me that I'm A horrible person who doesn't know how to solve this problem, but they're going to come in last minute, give some people some pizza, right?
		What do they say?
		Give a man a fish, feed him for a day, teach him to fish?
		They don't want to teach you how to fish.
		They don't want to teach you how to become independent.
		They have created a new modern slavery where if you have an individual who is so dependent on you, right?
		I need this government housing.
		I need this government credit card for food.
		I need this government cell phone.
		By the way, I get my real money through cash or some type of illicit means, so I don't declare income,
		but I'm so dependent on this awesome group that's giving me all this free stuff,
		that's how I need to vote.
		And it gets ingrained in their mind that they have to vote for the left
		so they can keep getting these free things, as opposed to vote for the organization
		that wants to empower you, that wants to make it so that you have a sense of purpose
		and can generate revenue on your own and live on your own.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Who is that guy who said, um, something about democracy will end when, when politicians discover they can simply pay people to vote for them by, you know, through the, through the government coffers, something like that.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		That's exactly what you've heard that, right?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Recently.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I mean, I've heard it recently.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		He was like, once politicians realize they can just bribe the population through with their own tax money, then.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		But how are we not doing that?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's literally what's happening.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They're saying, like, we'll take the money that everyone's giving us and then give it to you.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		No, I'm going to give you $500.
		Don't pay attention to 3M.
		I gave them $3 billion.
		You know, don't pay attention to my other buddy over here at SolarCity.
		I gave them trillions.
		But I gave you $500.
		Remember that?
		By the way, $500 will buy you two tanks of gas at this point in time.
		And that's us, too.
		But don't remember, don't forget, that we gave you $500.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Dude, I was going to...
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Sorry, I was just going to say that the system creates dependency.
		So if you start to say, oh, well, you know, we might be able to get you off unemployment.
		We might be able to get you off government benefits.
		People start to get stressed because they don't understand what you'll transition to.
		And that's security in hand.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		When we built a drop-off, we didn't build an escalating scale where as you make $2 more, we reduce a dollar of dependency.
		I went to give an employee a 50 cent raise from like $13, $13.50.
		It was a couple years ago.
		And this person came to me, you know, this was a homeless person.
		This was someone that we took off the street that I just saw working really hard on the weekends.
		I work on the weekends.
		And he told me like, Hey, what are you saving up for?
		I'm saving up for a house.
unidentified		Oh, cool.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Where do you live now?
		My car.
		I'm like, holy crap.
		You're a veteran.
		You work for me.
		Like we had to fix these things.
		But when I went to go give this person a raise, you know, it was explained that if I get this raise, I will lose essentially $20,000 in benefits.
		You know, I'll lose my, my, uh, EBT card.
		I'll lose my phone.
		I'll lose all of these different incentives, but there's no elevated scale down.
		Right.
		It's once you hit this marker, you lose all of these things.
		So there's no incentive to make that extra 50 cents and then that extra 50 cents, that extra 50 cents.
		If you were to have a, I don't know, a business person in charge or someone who actually doesn't want dependency.
		It would be an elevated scale.
		For every $2 that you're making, like I said, we're going to reduce your government assistance by 50 cents, a quarter of that.
		I want to make an extra 50 cents.
		I'm only going to lose 10 cents worth of my incentives.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We're gonna go to Super Chats if you haven't already.
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		Plus, we've got Tales from the Inverted World.
		So we now have three shows.
		So, actually, technically, the Green Room is a fourth show.
		So you got the TimCast Uncensored, Monday through Thursday at 11 p.m.
		The Green Room, which goes up, I think it goes up at 10 p.m.
		on Fridays.
		We've got Cast Castle, Tuesdays at 7.
		Tales from the Inverted World, Sundays at 10 a.m.
		And we're gonna keep making more content.
		We're gonna keep learning and improving.
		Let's read some Super Chats.
		Grofty says, ah, and here we go.
		Watched the Cast Castle vlog.
		Very entertaining to me.
		You are learning fast.
		I will get hate and love.
		I only send love back, though.
		Stay real.
		Oh, forgot.
		Buck, buck, buck.
		Thank you for the Chicken City support and the support for Cascades of Love.
unidentified		Alright.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Cracker Jack says, so we're just not going to talk about the General Milley resignation letter?
		If you don't know what I'm referring to, please check out Angry Cops.
		We did talk about the General Milley resignation letter.
		In fact, Jack Passobe, a couple weeks ago, did this, he read it while crying, right?
		Is that what Jack did?
		That was funny.
		You see that?
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		He had a very melodramatic reaction.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, not a big fan.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		June Wong says, Tim, you say create culture.
		Can you shout out Clownfish TV?
		Neon and Geeky Sparkle's been making comics for 10 years while raising their kids, Squid King and Peeky Boo.
		Well, all right.
		Their passion project, Crimson Wren, is steampunk goonies on an airship live live on Indiegogo.
		This message paid for by a fan.
		They should use Give Send Go.
		Isn't Indiegogo, like, censorious?
		Not as bad as GoFundMe.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		This guy's been on Pop Culture of Late, too.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Who has?
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		This guy's been commenting that on Pop Culture of Late.
unidentified		Oh, cool.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		He's excited about it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Wicked001 says, Castcastle was fantastic last week.
		Great job.
		Well, check out the one that came up today, because it's quite fun.
		All right, Mitch says, Chris, please tell us three things about yourself.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Hi, I'm Chris.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's one thing.
unidentified		I'm a YouTuber and an army vet.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		What's your YouTube channel?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Those are three things.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		My YouTube channel is Reactor.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But now he's basically writing Castcastle stuff.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		He was fantastic in the blog today.
		I don't know if I told you that.
		Nice work.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's funny.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You're very funny.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Very funny.
unidentified		Very good.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		People keep superchatting how much they like it.
		Alright, let's see.
		Strider says, Tim, you mentioned a gaming show on your earlier segment.
		How can I get involved?
		I'm Gen Z and would love to work for Timcast.
		I have no idea.
		I literally don't.
		We have jobs at Timcast.com, but we have so many emails.
		It's really just a matter of, you know, our capacity.
		And managerial power is the most difficult thing in expanding a company.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You want to get a job at Timcast, make something great and make sure Tim sees it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Do like an awesome video that highlights your work.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Tim looks so horrified by this suggestion.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We hired Carter that way.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It took six months though.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		You're going to get so many tweets.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Look for Carter Bank's application slash audition to Timcast.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's easy to hire somebody if you already know they're great.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		And then I think, I can't remember people, um, someone sent it to me like, have you seen this video this dude made?
		And I watched, I was like, Oh, that's really good.
		I was like, I can't hire anybody right now though.
		And then a few months later, someone was like, remember that guy made that video?
		We need to hire somebody who can do music.
		And then I was like, Oh yeah.
		And then we hit him up and then he was just like, Oh wow.
		It took a really long time, but now he's here.
		And the song we have coming out on Friday was produced and engineered by Carter and he's in the music video singing along.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		He's so good.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		He's so hardworking.
		That's the other thing about being here.
		You have to be willing to work.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		He's like a real rock star.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't think he considers it work.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I think he loves it.
		I think that's the cool thing about being in this environment.
		Like, you get to do things you're really passionate about.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Everybody is just basically doing the things they want to do.
		And I always tell people, like, if you don't want to be here, you shouldn't be.
		Like, nobody should be here like, this is work.
		This sucks.
		Granted, there are some jobs that are basically work.
		Like, someone has to, you know, I don't know, take the garbage out or something.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		See, I think, like, things can be work and still be good.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Like, you should be feeling like you're being challenged and growing in the things that you're doing.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Somebody has to clean up Bocas's crap because he's a little... Well, I have disparaging terms for the cat, but you know, we love him.
		But we try to let him go and do his business outside, chasing the birds and stuff, because he likes to take dumps on the floor.
		Not okay, Bocas.
		Graf De also says, only ever wanted looks and sounds good.
		Hey man, shout out within like 12 hours of posting the promo.
		We have, we had like half a million views on just the promo for the song.
		And right now we're at like 700, 800,000 views on the promo.
		That's crazy.
		And I'm kind of like, man, maybe we should have just not done a promo.
		Cause those views would have been great for the actual song.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You know, I think the song is good enough to live on its own.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The funny thing is the promo part we put up is the most like emo
		sounding part of the song, but the majority of the song is like,
		Like, it's very slow and ambient.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		I hope it's all emo stuff.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Only emo stuff from Tim Scott's music.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		No, the next one we're putting out... I don't know if it's the next one we're putting out, but it might actually be... It's, like, weird experimental.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Which one?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Eyes of Advice?
		Oh, yeah.
		Yeah, it's, like... People are not gonna... I think it's not mainstream music at all.
		It's weird.
		Can't figure out what the genre is.
		Alright.
		Waffle Sensei says, Tim, I know it takes money, but please start making DVDs or flash drives with a summation of Timcast episodes on them.
		History favors the prepared.
		Should we do season DVDs?
		Like, how many episodes of this would you be able to fit on one DVD?
		Like, two?
		Two episodes?
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		What?
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		One?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We'll sell hard drives.
		We'll sell terabyte hard drives with like... It'd be cool.
		How many episodes could you fit on that?
		Episodes are like two gigs.
		So a decent amount?
		Yeah.
unidentified		500?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's not a bad idea, actually.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Would you do a season?
		Because we don't really do seasons.
		You just kind of do your favorite ones.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I guess you could technically get every single episode on like one hard drive.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Be wild.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So we'll do flash drives with the episodes on them.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		You have to start with this one.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		This is where the idea came from.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		And you have to get it so it's like EMP proof.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		So you can't like...
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, we'll suspend it inside a small Faraday cage with a bigger Faraday cage over the small Faraday cage you can carry.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Faraday bags.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Faraday, yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I have a Faraday fanny pack that I put my phone in.
		You were saying you like to be off-grid.
		That's hot.
		It's like silver-threaded Faraday.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		All right, Lord CrimsonEye says, been to your location off 204 Tyler.
		Real nice.
		Haven't visited the Red River, uh, the River Street store yet.
		Planning to stop by this weekend.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Hell yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Cool.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I gotta say, a Faraday USB is a brilliant idea.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't know if those have been created yet.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I don't even know how to spell Faraday.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You'd have to like... It's been R-A-D-A-Y.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		How it would work is the cap would seal the Faraday cage around the USB.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You just superglue Faraday cloth around it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But then you need to be able to open it and close it.
		You know what I mean?
		So if you had a USB stick that was surrounded in a Faraday cage and you could pop the top off and stick it in and use it and then close it, it would be protected.
		But the other thing people need to understand about the big one, the solar flare everyone always talks about, you don't just need a Faraday cage.
		If you really want to protect stuff, you need a Faraday cage with a smaller Faraday cage with a smaller Faraday cage in it.
		Because I've been in a really nice professional Faraday cage, And EMF still leaks through.
		It's not, you know, you need a really like multi-layered, really strong one if you want to stop every signal and create a real dead zone.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Faraday is Michael Faraday is who it's named after.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't know if you're a scientist.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Did you just Google that?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I knew he had a name.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Our new favorite verb.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Tcraft says, get well soon Sour Patch.
		That's right, Lydia has gotten surgery on her hand and so she's all hopped up on goofballs.
		So she can't press buttons.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		I think it'd be funny if she did though.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		She like, is pressing buttons randomly.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It's on her the whole show.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		It's just her show.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Whatever.
		Still great.
		I don't use Google by the way, I use Brave search engine.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		That's better.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I think Alaska went to a runoff, right?
		There's going to be a runoff between the Republican candidates.
		I think it's an open runoff, isn't it?
		two bills they supported and their track record in office, America first only.
		Yeah, I think Alaska went to a runoff, right?
		There's going to be a runoff between the Republican candidates.
		I think it's an open runoff, isn't it?
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Well, they are doing ranked choice, so they have four people who are going to the general
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		and basically everything.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And then what's going to happen is the Democrats are going to put all their Democrat choices
		and then they're going to put at the bottom the Republican choice of Murkowski because
		they're like, well, it's better than the Trump one.
		And that's how they stop the Trump supporters from getting in.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		That's how we lost our Senate election in Georgia.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It was ranked choice?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		We had three.
		We split the ticket in for the conservative vote and it went to a runoff.
		Good plan.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let's grab some more Super Chats.
		Raymond G. Stanley Jr.
		says history will not be kind to Fauci.
		There's no way.
		It depends.
		There is, uh, history is written by the winners.
		So it depends on what happens with all the politics right now.
		If the Republicans get in and they actually do have hearings and hold some of these people accountable and do investigations, yeah, then history won't be kind to them.
		But if the Republicans get in and do nothing, which is seemingly likely, or the Democrats end up holding their ground somehow, then, uh, no, Fauci will be, you know, they'll, they'll put up those pictures of him as Jesus or whatever.
		And that's what will, uh, will happen.
		Dill1300 says, Tyler, happy to hear that you partnered with Gulfstream.
		You, sir, have a new customer and will treat myself to two new shirts to celebrate my senior tech promo here at our Apple 10 Wisconsin facility.
		Oh, right.
		Have you heard of Public Square?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I have not.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It is a mobile app where it shows you all of the businesses that support American values.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's amazing.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		What's it called?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Public Square.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I'm checking that out.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		That's really cool.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, they were like, we'd love to sponsor the show, Tim.
		And I'm like, yes.
		And then here I am.
unidentified		But it's so good.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's so amazing.
		You open it up, there's a map, and it shows you all of the businesses that have basically said, like, we agree with these values.
		Like, the Constitution is a good thing.
		Stuff like that.
		Like, you can actually just read their values.
		But if a business is willing to, like, I stand behind that message, and they appear on this map, they're opening the door to Antifa, like, getting canceled, getting targeted, but they're standing, they're standing, you know, firm on their beliefs.
		Those are the businesses you got to support.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, definitely.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So you guys should definitely.
		Digital businesses can still put their information in it.
		And then brick and mortar locations put their brick and mortar locations.
		Then people can see the pins and click it and see what store it is.
		And you can type in what you're looking for.
		Clothes, food, whatever.
		And then it'll show you in your city where the American value stores are at.
		That's what I'm talking about.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Gotta keep voting with that dollar.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
		Stop giving your money to people who hate you.
		Give your money to people who make clothes in America, for instance.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I'm a big fan of that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Like 9lineapparel.com?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		That is one.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		That's definitely one, for sure.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You got any shirts like this?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I don't know many others.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We'll grab some shirts.
		NuclearDrunk3PO says, I own a Nine Line shirt and I freaking love it.
		Shout out to Drunk3PO and I love supporting American Made.
		That's a way to do it.
		Ian called me out a couple of weeks ago about not buying American Made clothes.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, the banality of evil is sitting by and just sucking off the system without, you know, we're riding the beast that's killing the planet.
		We got to stop doing that.
		And I'm talking about supporting slaveocracy, basically.
		We got to stop doing that.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I agree.
		Have you guys ever seen what those guys are going through?
		It's not slavery.
		They just, they can't leave.
		They're not paid and bodily harm will come to them.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		But it's not slavery.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Whatever that means.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
		But your eyes are closed.
		It's American cotton.
		It's American manufacturing and everything.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, we have optionality, right?
		So I've got 10,000 plus raw products that I will then embellish.
		And we do things in South America, we do things in Central America, we do things in the United States, but I don't do any business in China.
		And I don't do any businesses with people or, I guess, entities that treat people that way.
		So I will go and check out the facilities in Peru.
		I'll check out the facilities, you know, in Honduras.
		And they're very large, reputable, humane, Compensating people a normal living wage, just like Black Rifle goes to their coffee farms, but Starbucks does not.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Not everything you sell is American-made.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		No, no.
		We try to push American-made everywhere possible, but as you can imagine, the cost for labor, cost for everything is much higher and it's prohibitive.
		For certain customers, where I don't want to lose the business.
		So I will push as an option.
		Hey, here, this product, this shirt is made 100% in the US.
		Here's the price point.
		If you can't hit that price point for whatever reason, you're, you know, big box store or mom and pop shop, and you just can't do it, then here's an option for you.
		It's made in South America, Central America.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But without any of the, you know, slavery.
unidentified		100%.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		You know, I'm always going to push US, but I can't force people to buy it.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		And that's where Government policies could help me by giving credits or to stop the import of those same goods.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Do you grow your own cotton?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Me personally?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		No, we do not.
		We work and partner with individuals that do those things.
		My specialty is mostly embellishment and distribution.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Have you ever looked into vertical farms to grow cotton indoor?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's cool.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		I mean, I, I'm really big into aquaponics.
		Uh, so we, we do aquaponics center for our, uh, our homeless veterans village.
		You know, it kind of as a therapy, but also I think it's fascinating how fish feed plants and plants feed fish.
		Um, and it's completely sustainable and it's healthier and there's less pesticides there to use.
		So I'm, I'm a big fan of being able to do those things wherever possible, but it's, it's not scalable.
		I mean, the facility alone is a million dollars for a greenhouse about twice the size.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Uh, All right, let's read some more.
		We got Travis Rahman.
		He says, Can I get a shout out to my stepdaughter, Zoe, who's 16 today?
		Shout out, Zoe.
		Happy birthday.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		What's up, Zoe?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Also, my son, Connor, and stepdaughter, Jayden, turning 12 Friday.
		Oh, wow.
		Both of them are turning 12 on Friday.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Good week for birthdays, you guys.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That's awesome.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Sounds like just one big week.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Connor and Jayden both having a birthday on Friday.
unidentified		Wow.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Nice.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's perfect timing to listen to the release of our new song, Only Ever Wanted.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They can play it on their birthday parties.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Happy 12th birthday!
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Happy birthday!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Here's a song you gotta listen to.
		It's like, I don't like this music, it's for old people.
		It's funny, because there are people who are trying to rag on the song, and they're like, the 2000s called, they want their music back, and I'm like...
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		The 2000s are so trendy right now.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		But I don't even care.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I just like, dude, look, is like the idea here that we're supposed to make Katy Perry music?
		Or do we just make music that we like and understand that, like, I'm not trying to be Katy Perry, you know what I mean?
		Like, if I wanted a top 40, I'd do like a rap song, you know, like Post Malone style or something like that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think what we've lost is vocal harmonies.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Having two or more people vocally harmonizing on a song together.
unidentified		What if?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Maybe that's 70s.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Maybe the 70s are back.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But what if we, like, took the guitar out and just added more vocals?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And then took out the drums and had a guy make the drum sounds.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		With his mouth.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		With his mouth.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And then did a couple more vocals and just, you know.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And then we could hire Pentatonix to play the instruments for us.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, they're actually playing the instruments.
		Alright, Dalamar says, spent hundreds with you.
		Quality stuff and I click that Made in America button when it pops.
		Bring back the share around with Antifa shirt for a limited time.
		More people ask where I got it than even the Mando design.
		I made a gag shirt that said liberals get the bike lock too.
		It was a gag reference to Antifa wrote liberals get the bullet too on a wall.
		And so I was basically mocking them because this Antifa guy hit someone with a bike lock and they got really mad at me.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		The big companies were like, YouTube banned the shirt, and they were like... Oh, I had Coca-Cola try to sue me for my share-a-round with ICE's share-a-round.
		Like, it's just comical.
		You know, it's just get over it.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		What did it say?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		It's similar looking to Coca-Cola.
		Not their logos or designs, I'm not admitting to anything, but very similar.
		And it says, share a round, and it's got a bullet with a curtain.
unidentified		Oh, okay.
unidentified		See?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Like, play on words.
		Comical.
		But people take things very seriously.
		So the social media oligarchs said that that was inciting violence.
		So I would happily sell it.
		I just can't promote it or post it anywhere.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But what if the intent was like to make sure you're sharing ammo with people who want to go off target practice?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		My intent was to actually share a round with an ISIS terrorist to kill them.
		So that was my intent.
		I guess they were correct.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Here's the challenge with that.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		We're actively at war with these people.
unidentified		Yes.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They're at war with us.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm a bullet. Hold on. Hold on. Here's a challenge with that. We're actively at war with these people. Yes. Well,
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		there were with us We're right right right head in the sand. Yeah, but
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But I mean, when you look at like Russia and Ukraine and stuff, Facebook said calls for violence against Russia was acceptable.
		So I wonder if like, why is it that Facebook was like, okay, if you're calling for violence against Russians because of the war, that's fine.
		But why would they say no to the ISIS thing?
		Like for, I'll say this, like, we don't want to call for violence, but Where is the line when your country is actively at war with an invading or terroristic force, and we're telling you to save people?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Or if you're a multinational company, which one did you choose to go with?
		Is it right after Russia banned you in your entire platform, then you became virtuous?
		Because that's when it occurred, because I was physically over there.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But I will tell you that they could care less as long as they're making money That's really what it boils with the with the shirt that I made it was meant to be in it was like Opposing the violence it was it was to make fun of them and to deride them because it's like it's crazy But I could I could understand what people are like that doesn't sound like what's I'm like, yeah, okay I get there No, mine was pretty to the point.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		You can probably shape the minds of a young kid who's being taught terroristic ways, but by the time they're in their 20s and 30s and 40s and they've committed acts and they're committed to being a terrorist, there's not much you can do.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But I think the distinction there is...
		The distinction there is we're not talking about walking up to some random person.
		We're talking about people whose lives are actively under attack by a group that's shooting at them and blowing them up.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		And we're talking about pure evil.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		You're talking about individuals who are setting other individuals on fire.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We're talking about Joe Biden who drone striked with the shredder, the Taliban guy.
		So it's an interesting point because YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have their violence policies.
		But it's like, what if you're cheering for Joe Biden who fired that shredder missile at a terrorist?
		Right.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Like where, you know, I'm also thinking about like the military, they say that the, the enlistment numbers are down and it's like, there's a bit of a hunter.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Go kill the thing mentality for someone that wants to join a military.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And maybe we've lost that or I, I just, I just want to say, you know what, man, like I wish none of this happened.
		I wish, you know, you were mentioning how when you were younger, you were like, we're all just people.
		Can't we get along?
		And like, I wish that was the case.
		I wish, I wish ISIS would stop doing these things.
		I wish the ideology didn't exist.
		I wish there wasn't war.
		But right now you've got like Russia, for instance, they invade Ukraine.
		Like, what are we supposed to say to that?
		Are we supposed to be, you know, look, I don't, I don't like American intervention.
		I don't like the U S you know, all this stuff, but am I supposed to be like, no, no Ukrainians should just let them do it.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		It's like, Nope, there's good and evil in the world.
		My grandfather entered World War II at the age of 17, stormed the beaches of Iwo Jima, got shot in the knee, got shot in the helmet, but he set that example of, that's not my fight, but me and all my friends are going to fake our age, we're going to go and stop pure evil.
		And I will tell you that the things that they're doing to the Ukrainian people is pure evil.
		Hitler and his band of merry horrible humans did to the Jewish population, and it's it's unfathomable that we would do nothing.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Let's read some more superchats.
		Augusto Mimoche says, Tyler, Steven Crowder has been looking for an American company to make his hand-painted mugs for Mug Club members.
		Can you help him?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Louder with Crowder.
		Yes, we've talked to him a bunch of times about doing their shirts and everything else.
		I just think their merchandising manager needs to pull the trigger and give us a call.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Right on.
		Sell some mugs.
		We made gag mugs that said Louder With Roberto Bug Club because our rooster was always yelling.
		Did you make the joke?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		No, but I used it as a prop today.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		That was awesome.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Well, we make our mugs here in the U.S.
		and do it for us.
		And I know Black Rifle makes some USA made mugs, so I'm sure Louder With Crowder could too.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		RyanTheEatingWarrior says you guys need to watch the video The 5 Laws of Stupidity.
		It explains that stupid people are the most dangerous demographic and man is it true.
		Yes.
		But, you know.
		We all want to get along.
		We want to find out, you know, we want to figure out a way that we can live peacefully in this country.
		We don't want fighting.
		We don't want violence.
		But, um, what do you do when you have like Antifa going around smashing up windows?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Communication is a big part of it.
		You got to keep people calm.
		We need, like, I think that the monarchy basically started to fall apart when, at the advent of the printing press.
		People didn't need to funnel their information through a centralized figure.
		So the more ability we have with language to communicate, understanding similar definitions and where definitions are coming from, actual radio, things like that.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		Also, like, yes, people might be dangerous, but like, what's your plan for them?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		You know, there are... Drone delivery.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		We need to be able to send food to people that are in remote areas.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		But if you have more of a question... No, I was just gonna say, like, you can...
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		offer people all kinds of opportunity to better themselves and learn but there are some people who aren't motivated by that like yes it is good to advocate for peace but also let's be realistic and think about how we can incorporate a society that has a variety of options for people that don't involve pushing everyone like what bothers me about people saying stuff like that is like okay cool but why do we push everyone to follow the same educational structure why do we have the exact same model for public schools like that consistently fail students We're saying that super people are the problem, but we're not using any innovation to try and change.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's cultural.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		It's really bad.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Everything is culture.
		Everything is parents raising their kids.
		We talk about changing laws.
		We talk about all of these things.
		Culture.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		It's a degradation of values.
		They say you're a product of your environment, and it's really hard for individuals to break out of that negative environment, right?
		So if my kids have opportunities that I've never had, Sean Willis says, Tim, you say 50 BMG has no self-defense or hunting purpose.
		getting beat up all the time where they're not the minority, where they're not, you know,
		having to go through those adversities, but those adversities make you who you are.
		It definitely define you.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Sean Willis says, Tim, you say 50 BMG has no self-defense or hunting purpose.
		I didn't say that.
		Well, what I was saying was that it's for, it's an anti-material round.
		It's for tanks and helicopters and certainly the Ukrainians would consider that defense right now if like they're fighting a Russian helicopter, you know, uh, or hunting purpose.
		And for the most part, I don't know if you need a 50 BMG for any kind of game, but anyway, sorry, Sean, let me read your comment.
		He says, well, I'm not going to be caught in the woods with my pants down when a 10 foot tall big foot doesn't like the cut of my jib.
		No, sir.
		Here's, I'll put it this way, a Barrett M82A1, you're not going to be carrying that around and then like encounter a Bigfoot and then be like, I'm going to defend myself.
		What you're going to do is you're going to have it mounted in various points around your wood, your rural fortress.
		And when the army of Bigfoots, or is it Bigfeet?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I think both will work.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Bigfeet.
		When the big feet come... Big's foot. Big's foot.
		Big's foot. Yes.
		When the big, big foots...
		When the big feet... Big feet's the way.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Big feet is the way.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		When the big feet show up and they're banging on the sides and they're trying to punch their way in and they're all 10
		to 15 tall and they're eating humans and they're mindless, then you might need it, you know.
		Then you might need the...
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I'm a big advocate of drawing them to the base to let base defenses take care of them.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		In video games, that's a good defensive tactic.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't know where your Super Chat went, but they said that my TV show idea sounded like Dr. Stone.
		Which it does not, at all.
		It's more like Attack on Titan.
		Not like Dr. Stone.
		Dr. Stone's cool, though.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		I don't know Dr. Stone.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		People get turned to stone, and then, you know, thousands of years later, this smart kid figured out a way to un-stone himself, and then he has to rebuild technology from scratch, and it's actually really interesting.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So it's like an anime where he's like, I'm gonna make a cell phone, and then he's like, collecting materials to make a vacuum tube and stuff, and it's like, it's like Magic School Bus, but kind of cool.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		It'd be a cool video game, if you actually taught the specifics of how to build microeconomics, electronics, not economics, but both, maybe.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Alright, what is this?
		Uh-oh, I just had a good one.
		Where'd it go?
		There we go, there we go.
		What is this?
		Ready to Rumble says, Ian, did you see the news about JWT proving the universe didn't start with the Big Bang?
		Poor Einstein.
		I saw that.
		That was interesting.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		No, what's the story?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't know if it's definitively proven because I haven't read it.
		But what they're saying is the James Webb Telescope should be showing us that due to an illusion with the expansion of the universe, galaxies further away should start to appear larger because of the way the light is moving towards us, but the universe is expanding at the same time.
		Instead, they look smaller, which would either indicate, based on Big Bang theory, that they're tiny, tiny galaxies, or there's not a universal expansion.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I don't think there is a universal expansion.
		I think it's twisting around on itself, like a double helix.
		Or a double torus, really, more accurately.
		So maybe we could integrate that into the theory, the hypothesis.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Smokin' says, Just watched episode 1.
		I'm assuming of Castcastle.
		You are a master of lowering expectations.
		I enjoyed it.
		Didn't think I would.
		Expected hack.
		It's not.
		Carry on, bud.
		Well, it's a masterpiece, obviously.
		I'm just saying, like, we just have some DSLRs we filmed funny things with.
		Mostly what, you know, Chris was putting together.
		And we need to improve lighting, we need to get better microphones, and just set it up.
		But we just want to start making stuff, because it's fun.
		We did a bunch of really funny bits with Jamie Kilstein, with Seamus, you know, previously.
		And it was really, really fun to do, so I was like, how can we do that consistently?
		And then here's the best part.
		From the first, from the promo episode, we had this sketch with Jack Posobiec riding up on a little bike with a wagon, delivering the scripts for Timcast, as if it was scripted.
		And he's like, got him out of Mar-a-Lago, just in time.
		And then he's like, ring ring, with a little bike, and then he runs.
		It got over a hundred thousand views, just this one gag.
		So the idea here was, what really works on YouTube, Is that we have these funny bits, but it's not easy to share when it's a full 20 minute or 10 minute video.
		So we were like, can we just take the funny things we do with our friends and guests and then make those really shareable videos that are just basically promos for the full show?
		So, uh, I don't want to spoil anything, but Marjorie Taylor Greene did a bit with us and it was really, really good.
		It's really good.
		And, uh, Ian's in it.
		And, uh, we're going to have that up.
		I think that one's going to be next week.
		And then we're excited to be, well, I don't want to say anymore because we have upcoming guests.
		We normally don't announce who the guests are, so I won't say much, but we'll grab just a couple more Super Chats, maybe just one more Super Chat.
		Chris Skenepiso, I'm probably pronouncing that wrong, Nine Line, is that a reference to a military Nine Line?
		Do you guys sell a good dry fit shirt?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		We do, and yes, it is.
		So Nine Line's a Kazak call in the military.
		We like to say back here, it's a call for action to try to reinvigorate patriotism.
unidentified		Right on.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		What does that mean, nine line?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		I haven't heard that term before.
		So in the military, nine line is a Kazevec call.
		So nine separate radio communications that go to someone like me, who's a Kazevec pilot, and I would come into the battlefield and pull you off and get you to safety and call it the golden hour.
		So if you're bleeding out, trying to get you to a hospital or some type of surgical bed within that first hour of trauma.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		They call it nine line because they actually call you nine times?
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Is that what you said?
unidentified		Nope.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		So it's one radio call with nine separate lines of information I need, like where the bad guys are, where the good guys are, what are you marking the landing zone with, what type of litter do you need me to bring, is there... The last one is nuclear, biological, and chemical considerations, which if you're telling me things on line nine, that sucks.
		That means I'm wearing a mop suit and it's really hot.
		I haven't had one of those but yeah it's it's just saying that I'm injured come get me and most likely under under fire and that's why most people in the military know what a nine line is it's it's a call for help and like I said try to make that transition here it's a call for action.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Right on.
		Ladies and gentlemen, if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button right now, share the show with your friends, and head over to TimCast.com, because we're gonna have a spicy members-only show coming up, and they've been particularly spicy over the past couple of weeks, and increasingly spicier, but that's the way, that's the way the news is right now, and there's a lot of crazy stuff happening.
		We're gonna talk, I think, about Monkey Box, so you know where that's going.
		So yeah, head over to TimCast.com.
		You can follow the show at TimCastIRL.
		You can follow me personally at TimCast.
		You can check out TimCast Records on YouTube.
		We have the promo up for the song coming out on Friday.
		And Tyler, you want to shout anything out?
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, check out all the things he said and check out NineLineApparel.com.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		Right on.
tyler merritt ▲ ● ▼		Shameless plug.
hannah claire brimelow ▲ ● ▼		I'm Hannah-Claire Brimlow.
		I write for TimCast.com.
		I think you should check it every day for all of your news.
		You can find me on Instagram at HannahClaire.B.
ian crossland ▲ ● ▼		And you can follow me anywhere on the internet at Ian Crossland for the most part.
		Make sure it's me, because there are some Ian Crosslands out there.
		There are other Ian Crosslands out there other than me, but you know where to find me.
		See you guys later.
		And you can follow me on social media.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We're actually, with the launch of Timcast Records, we're going to be producing music for other bands.
		We're probably going to be signing deals with other bands to start producing more music across the board, and then we're just going to start making music.
		So I don't exactly know how we're going to start scouting out bands and doing deals, but we are, and we've already got a bunch of people hitting us up.
		They're like, ooh, sign me, sign me.
		And I'm like, yeah, I guess we'll figure it out.
		It's like, do you have good music?
		And that's the big question.
		So with that being said, we will see all of you over at Timcast.com.

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