Aug. 25, 2022 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| you we heard from Marjorie Taylor Greene | ||
| She got SWATed again. | ||
| And it's weird because a lot of the people who don't like her are exaggerating the claims, saying, oh, the SWAT team didn't show up. | ||
| That's not what SWATing is. | ||
| SWATing is when you try to get the SWAT team to show up. | ||
| Now, we were planning on leading with this and talking just about how the escalation's going. | ||
| And then just a moment ago, we got a big breaking story. | ||
| Mark Zuckerberg, I believe it was on Joe Rogan, right? | ||
| Because we're just picking this up right now. | ||
| Mark Zuckerberg said they censored the Hunter Biden laptop story at the request of the FBI. | ||
| There is currently a lawsuit against the government, the U.S. | ||
| government, Democrats, and it is led by a bunch of plaintiffs, including the state of Missouri, arguing that Section 230 is a violation of the First Amendment because it gives broad censorship authority to these platforms and immunities, as well as the Democrats and members of the government directing censorship to these big tech platforms. | ||
| I imagine that they're gonna have to amend that complaint and be like, here's a new exhibit. | ||
| Mark Zuckerberg admitting they censor stories at the behest of the government, of the DOJ. | ||
| That's absolutely crazy. | ||
| So we're gonna be talking about that. | ||
| Obviously, you know, Civil War is a bit of a big subject these days, particularly here. | ||
| So everybody take your drink, I guess. | ||
| That's the name of the game. | ||
| And we got a lot to talk about. | ||
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| Should be really fun and exciting. | ||
| You know, we're just building culture. | ||
| Joining us to talk about all of this and Their story. | ||
| I know it's not a podium. | ||
| It was a lectern, but everyone calls him podium guy. | ||
| So what am I supposed to do? | ||
| I can't put lectern guy in. | ||
| It's podium guy. | ||
| Adam Johnson. | ||
| Hey, thanks for having me. | ||
| Who are you? | ||
| My name's Adam Johnson. | ||
| Married. | ||
| I've raised five boys. | ||
| Stay-at-home dad, trying to make amends. | ||
| My pronouns are hero and patriots, and I am wearing a black v-neck. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Looks good. | ||
| Loving it. | ||
| And Tim's tweaking your camera. | ||
| There's no Tim. | ||
| Nice tattoo, also. | ||
| What's that tattoo say? | ||
| Oh, it says, uh, it says, We the People. | ||
| Does it? | ||
| How long have you had that? | ||
| That's nice. | ||
| I actually got this a couple weeks ago. | ||
| Very cool. | ||
| Hardcore. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Alright, now after fixing your camera. | ||
| Tim, fix the camera. | ||
| Yeah, perfect. | ||
| So, you are known as the podium guy. | ||
| Incorrectly, it's lectern guy, I guess, but can you wanna just give a brief overview of why that is? | ||
| So, um, I was known as podium guy as, like, my story, or why is it a lectern, not a podium? | ||
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Why do you have a nickname at all? | |
| I have a nickname because there was a picture taken of me during January 6th that became viral, it became memed quite a bit. | ||
| And they named me that because they didn't know my name yet. | ||
| Via Getty you mean? | ||
| Via Getty. | ||
| Well, Via Getty did take my photo. | ||
| There was a lot of confusion. | ||
| People thought that I was Via Getty because they read the caption underneath it, Via Getty. | ||
| So I was Via Getty for a little bit. | ||
| So just for people who don't know, that means from Getty, which is a photo distribution network, and these people who don't know anything about this saw the photo from Getty Distribution and thought via Getty was a name and they were like, this guy via Getty! | ||
| So we had a lot to talk about. | ||
| Talking about your experience on January 6th, how all of this stuff came to be, how you ended up carrying a lectern. | ||
| So, and then obviously we had a lot to talk about in terms of news and this story about Zuckerberg. | ||
| We'll start with that and then we'll get into your story, obviously, but thanks for coming. | ||
| It should be fun. | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| We also inadvertently pulled in George Alexopoulos. | ||
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That's right. | |
| Yeah, it was an accident. | ||
| I was just driving by, you know, I thought I'd say hi. | ||
| I was on a quest, a mystic quest. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| To extinguish the world's, really the unspoken threat that we all know exists. | ||
| It may be in this very room. | ||
| What's that? | ||
| I can't say. | ||
| You can't say? | ||
| Well, he texted me and he was like, bro, I'm really hungry. | ||
| Do you have food? | ||
| And I was like, why don't you come over? | ||
| And he was like, all right, pretty much. | ||
| Listen, you know, I am on a mystic quest, but I, you know, it's, there's, it's a pretty thankless job. | ||
| Reddit knows who I am. | ||
| I am the greatest martial artist. | ||
| On the internet. | ||
| So, George, you guys know who I am. | ||
| Also known as GPrime85. | ||
| We have your paintings. | ||
| I guess you call them paintings. | ||
| Digital paintings. | ||
| Up on the walls. | ||
| And you make a bunch of memes. | ||
| I gotta say, dude, the truck flying into the Trade Center was one of the funniest pieces of satire I've ever seen. | ||
| Satire? | ||
| That was real. | ||
| But it convinced a lot of conservatives. | ||
| It was real. | ||
| It was just masterfully done. | ||
| You know, they still share, I think in Canada, the trucks with the KKK hoods on them. | ||
| Look, it is real. | ||
| If you want it to be real. | ||
| It's true, it's true. | ||
| The money you send me is real and that's all I care about. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| We also got Ian. | ||
| Hi, everybody. | ||
| Ian Crosland here. | ||
| Happy to be here. | ||
| Let's just keep this going. | ||
| I'm very excited. | ||
| I think listening to the conversation before the show is going to be hilarious. | ||
| Love having George. | ||
| Love meeting Adam. | ||
| Let's get going. | ||
| So the first story we have is actually, you know, we're getting set up for the show. | ||
| And, uh, when, when news breaks right before the show, it's, it's tough. | ||
| Cause you know, I, I'm reading the news up until like four and then I get to exercise and eat. | ||
| And so we're getting up here, we're pulling stories and it's just right before the show. | ||
| We get this clip, Jack Posobiec posted it. | ||
| Breaking Zuckerberg says Facebook limited distribution of the Hunter laptop story based on a general request from the FBI. | ||
| We're going to play this clip for you now and hear what Mr. Zuckerberg had to say. | ||
| How do you guys handle things when there's a big news item that's controversial? | ||
| Like, there was a lot of attention on Twitter during the election because of the Hunter Biden laptop story, the New York Post. | ||
| Yeah, so you guys censored that as well? | ||
| So we took a different path than Twitter. | ||
| I mean, basically the background here is the FBI, I think, basically came to us, some folks on our team, and was like, hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert. | ||
| We thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election. | ||
| We have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of dump of Uh, that's similar to that. | ||
| So just be vigilant. | ||
| So our protocol is different from Twitter's. | ||
| What Twitter did is they said, you can't share this at all. | ||
| Um, we didn't do that. | ||
| What we do is we have, um, if something is reported to us as potentially, um, misinformation, important misinformation, we, we also have this third party fact checking program because we don't want to be deciding what's true and false. | ||
| And for the, I think it was. | ||
| Five or seven days, when it was basically being determined whether it was false, the distribution on Facebook was decreased, but people were still allowed to share it. | ||
| So you could still share it, you could still consume it. | ||
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So when you say the distribution has decreased, how does that work? | |
| Basically, the ranking in News Feed was a little bit less. | ||
| So fewer people saw it than would have otherwise. | ||
| In other words, Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that the FBI came to them and said, hey, watch out for this Russian misinformation. | ||
| So they went, OK, hey, look, here's a negative story about Biden. | ||
| Let's censor this, because people have to determine whether it's false. | ||
| And people, of course, are their chosen sources. | ||
| He's trying to very much downplay it. | ||
| I don't want to make it seem like the FBI went to him and said outright, censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, which is kind of what my understanding was, but it's more so they came to them and said, watch out for this kind of misinformation, which triggers Facebook to then say, we're going to censor some of these stories interfering in the election. | ||
| Man, dark days indeed is one way to put it. | ||
| I don't know, what are you thinking? | ||
| Because you worked on social media stuff, you worked on the censorship stuff. | ||
| Well, firstly, Mark ducked the question when Joe was like, so you censored it too? | ||
| Mark didn't say yes, but they did. | ||
| And what they did was they blacklisted the thing. | ||
| They shadow banned it. | ||
| They downranked it in the algorithm, which is a, you know, you could say it's an insidious form of censorship because the people don't even know it's being censored. | ||
| At least when it won't go through, you know it won't go through. | ||
| Um, question about ethics of it. | ||
| Oh, also he talks about we don't want to be the ones that decide what's right and wrong. | ||
| So we outsource that to a third party like that. | ||
| So we've decided someone else gets to decide what's right and wrong. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think the community should be deciding what violates terms personally. | ||
| Well, to me it just sounds like they're outsourcing. | ||
| They're choosing who they're outsourcing to, so they're deciding by not deciding. | ||
| They're saying, we're going to outsource this other group. | ||
| We know they're left-leaning, but at least it won't be us. | ||
| It's kind of like what Pontius Pilate did to Jesus Christ. | ||
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Exactly. | |
| I'm going to wash my hands of this publicly. | ||
| It's not me that's the bad person in the room. | ||
| It's definitely someone else, and we're not going to tell you who that is and kind of bury that information. | ||
| But censorship is good for us, because how will we know what's true if we're not told what's true? | ||
| You know, I'm one thing I don't like about this is like, Mark, it's not a it's not a publisher, the Facebook's not a publishing platform. | ||
| It's a it's like a general platform that's allowing people to publish their own stuff so that they take I don't know, man, we're in we're in very strange times with new technology. | ||
| So laws and things need to be rewritten. | ||
| This would be like your phone company sending you a notice being like, hey, if you have a phone conversation about Hunter Biden, we're gonna shut your call down. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But it's different because it's public, so they're downranking its visibility, which is different than not letting you have the phone call. | ||
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You can still have the call. | |
| We'll just lower the volume so nobody can hear you. | ||
| But that's not true either. | ||
| I can do a call to a loudspeaker in a stadium full of people. | ||
| I'm using that tech to deliver a message in a direction. | ||
| Twitter was substantially worse. | ||
| They were stopping me from even sharing it between people, which is more so like, you can't call people and tell them this. | ||
| But what if I do a phone call to a conference room? | ||
| Maybe it's a university with a thousand people, you know, sitting in an auditorium and we do a phone call so that everyone can hear what I have to say. | ||
| Yeah, it'd be like them saying, your call is not going to access speakerphones. | ||
| We're not going to let any speakerphones take your calls. | ||
| Only individual people can hear it or something like that. | ||
| I guess the big question is turning the volume down. | ||
| I'll say this too as kind of a, it's just a correction on how I opened. | ||
| My understanding was that the FBI made a request for the Hunter Biden laptop story to be censored. | ||
| What Mark is saying is they gave them a general request about, hey, you should basically, like they basically told Facebook to censor information. | ||
| They said that Russians are trying to interfere. | ||
| Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. | ||
| We know what that means. | ||
| I think it was more direct than that, but Mark is clearly trying to downplay what's going on. | ||
| So I just want to make sure we're clear. | ||
| I don't know that the FBI told him to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story explicitly, but the FBI did go to Facebook and said, watch out for this stuff. | ||
| Which they know would result in Facebook censoring tons of information, regardless of where it came from. | ||
| I mean, the fact that the FBI said any information should be under watch is a First Amendment violation, and any action taken after that, I would argue, is Facebook acting on behest of the U.S. | ||
| government. | ||
| It's funny, like, we as Americans have First Amendment rights, but do Russians have First Amendment rights when they're in Russia using Facebook that Americans are reading? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| They have Russian rights. | ||
| So does the FBI have to give Russians First Amendment rights if they're using American corporations? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Well, non-citizens do have constitutional rights in this country. | ||
| When they're in the country. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| But not when they're using technology. | ||
| When they're not in the country, but they're using technology. | ||
| See, it's a weird reality now where you can be in Russia, but also be in the United States via video chat. | ||
| And it looks like you're here. | ||
| It sounds like you're here. | ||
| Well, as far as I'm concerned, the FBI stepping in and saying anything to this so-called private company just removes the argument that of course the government's not the one censoring, it's just Facebook saying that you can or can't share this. | ||
| This is 100% the government deciding what people could or should see, and it's not even about Russia at this point because I'm fully convinced the FBI knew that this wasn't Russian disinformation, they just wanted to wink-wink-nudge-nudge Facebook into being like, oh, okay, so we'll keep this on the down-low. | ||
| Mine's frame's a little differently. | ||
| They say, Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan that Facebook algorithmically censored the Hunter Biden laptop story for seven days based on a general request from the FBI to restrict election misinformation. | ||
| I think that's a fair assessment. | ||
| And you need to understand, that means the government is going to big platforms and saying, restrict things you choose at our behest. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| There's got to be some lawsuits or something to stop this because, you know, I was reading recently is that August 2nd, state of Missouri, I think, Gateway Pundit, I think Jim Hoft, several other people are involved in this lawsuit against a bunch of Democrats, Biden, I think Biden and the government. | ||
| saying that Section 230 is a law that gives special clearance to big tech to censor and | ||
| suppress information. But that is only possible because the US government has given them this | ||
| special access, which is a First Amendment violation. I completely agree. You've also | ||
| got stories like Alex Berenson. He, I think it's confirmed now, right? | ||
| He reported this, that the government requested he be censored, specifically. | ||
| And then the government went to Twitter and said, why aren't you censoring this guy? | ||
| And they're like, okay, and they banned him. | ||
| Files a lawsuit, gets his account back. | ||
| At this point, there is no argument. | ||
| The government is actively playing a role in censoring information they do not like. | ||
| I guess that's the conversation. | ||
| We've always considered that the government is taking information and withholding some of it from us, maybe to protect us because we don't know what's best for ourselves. | ||
| And now we're getting more information that's readily accessible to all of us. | ||
| And it's making things spiral because people can go search anything now. | ||
| We've got computers in our pockets. | ||
| So if we want to learn about something, we can. | ||
| And I think this is just the veil's being removed and people are getting so much information that it's hard to stop it. | ||
| So we're seeing these hard stops being put in place. | ||
| It's like, you ever see one of those cartoons where they're on a boat and then like a hole breaks and the guy sticks his finger in the hole and another hole breaks and then his toes and then his tongue and then his eye goes in? | ||
| That's basically what's happening. | ||
| They can't stop the flow of information and they keep trying to and it's just getting, it's making things crazier and it's making things worse. | ||
| Well, even so, it was the Sam Harris problem anyway. | ||
| They had decided that this is our guy. | ||
| He's going to dethrone the other guy. | ||
| It really was a matter of time before this was going to come out anyway. | ||
| They just needed to hold it in place just long enough for their guy to get installed. | ||
| And now it's coming out, and they can't stop it. | ||
| But nobody cares now that it's coming out. | ||
| All the implications of he was working with X, Y, and Z, and now we're sending money to X, Y, and Z, it doesn't matter anymore. | ||
| They won. | ||
| Who was it who was just on, who said things were going to get crazy? | ||
| Was it Amy Wolf? | ||
| I think so. | ||
| Oh, yeah, she's been saying that. | ||
| She's like the election. | ||
| Well, is that that moving now into the midterms? | ||
| Yeah, we're gonna see really crazy stuff. | ||
| Like you don't you know, that was Mike Glover. | ||
| Mike Glover. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He was like, it's gonna get crazy as far as revelations. | ||
| No, just in terms of like, weird political stories. | ||
| Yeah, the October surprises. | ||
| Oh yeah, it's like, we're gonna see like 50 October surprises. | ||
| There's gonna be like, you know, nudes of old people. | ||
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Oh no! | |
| It's gonna be like, someone's gonna be accused of literally throwing a pie at some other guy. | ||
| It's gonna be great. | ||
| I mean, look what they did with Brett Kavanaugh, right? | ||
| Brett Kavanaugh was accused of like, I mean, the accusations are just laughably insane. | ||
| That men were lining up outside of dorm rooms and nobody said anything for 30 years. | ||
| It's just kind of crazy. | ||
| I gotta be honest, I don't think these people really believe it, but I don't think they're lucid to really believe anyway. | ||
| I think they're mindlessly droning on and just parroting what is told to them. | ||
| I just think they're broken. | ||
| These people are just broken. | ||
| They've gotten to a point where their party keeps moving their line, and if they don't move with it, they get ousted. | ||
| They get taken away from their party. | ||
| So you've successfully broken half of the people, and they'll just parrot whatever they need to parrot, whether they believe it or not. | ||
| I've got a bunch of friends that, you know, a couple years ago, they had different stances, and we could have a rational conversation, walk away and shake hands, but we can't do that anymore. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| Like the crazy thing is there are people that I've known for 20 years and as soon as like, | ||
| you know, like this show started getting prominence, someone I talked to regularly, | ||
| all of a sudden now is running full speed to produce outlets being like, | ||
| I'll make whatever up. Just wait. | ||
| What do you want to hear? | ||
| What should I tell you about them? | ||
| And they're just tweeting things like crazy and I'm like, what the? | ||
| This is weird. | ||
| Yeah, what happened with you and your friends? | ||
| Did you notice like a shift or something? | ||
| We lost a lot, a lot of friends, man. | ||
| Like, you know, 10 year friends. | ||
| There's actually a couple that still have not reached out to us, you know? | ||
| And these are people who were supposed to be like, God, parents, to our children, like very, very close, deep friends. | ||
| And, you know, my thought's always been, you saw me do one thing one time, but you've known me for a decade. | ||
| You know where I live. | ||
| If you actually want to know, you can just come talk to me. | ||
| It's not about you. | ||
| It's about people feeling like, I just need to say what they tell me to say because I don't want trouble. | ||
| So the example that I think really hits the nail on the head that I've brought up several times now ad nauseam is a woman asking three other men, what is a woman? | ||
| And again, I think it was, I should probably check who said this, I think it was Matt Walsh. | ||
| These young women know what a woman is, but they're trying to reconcile that with what they're supposed to say it is. | ||
| And so they end up stuttering and stammering and making no sense. | ||
| Because it's like, there's an obvious logic, and then there's, but I'm not allowed to say it. | ||
| Yeah, the fascist word is one of those. | ||
| Like, I feel like I had a buddy told me he said I was supporting fascism by doing this show. | ||
| And then the other night we had Joe Latipo on, who's the Surgeon General of Florida. | ||
| And I'm like, how is interviewing the Surgeon General of a state fascism? | ||
| That's the most insane accusation. | ||
| But like people, this whole like Trump is a fascist narrative is like, if you don't, I think if you don't fall into that, then you start to get left behind. | ||
| It's because he is the enemy. | ||
| We don't look at each other like neighbors anymore. | ||
| We don't look at each other like fellow citizens. | ||
| The idea is you are either with me or you are my enemy. | ||
| We don't have conversations that want to produce relationship anymore. | ||
| We have conversations that we only want to produce, I'm right and you're wrong. | ||
| And if you don't believe what I believe, then you're out. | ||
| You think part of this is like from follower counts on social media? | ||
| We didn't used to have that now. | ||
| Everyone's kind of competing. | ||
| I think it's a big component of it. | ||
| I think that that kind of helps bring us to where we are. | ||
| But but a big component of it is just that you can really see now who. | ||
| 10, 20 years ago you were talking about people who are friends. | ||
| Now you know who actually was your friend, who actually believed what they were saying, and now you can tell who was just saying what they thought was socially acceptable because they wanted something. | ||
| Yeah, maybe it's always been this way, but social media is almost like a room you can go vent in. | ||
| And now you're just allowed to say it. | ||
| Well, it's not real there, but I mean, it's real. | ||
| You have your opinions, you post them. | ||
| And now we know people for who they are. | ||
| And it's readily accessible. | ||
| One of the positive things that's happened with me is my Facebook and Instagram got nuked almost immediately. | ||
| So anything bad that I said over the past 10 years, it's gone. | ||
| I never said anything wrong. | ||
| You can't find it. | ||
| So let's do this. | ||
| We've got a bunch of stories, but let's start with yours. | ||
| I mean, you've done a local interview, but is this the first big discussion you've had about what happened on January 6th? | ||
| I did a local interview with Mike Kalta. | ||
| Super nice guy. | ||
| He's been in radio for a long time. | ||
| He's really nice to me, and he's like, you know, I'd love to have a chat with you. | ||
| He wasn't speaking negative or anything, so I was like, yeah, I'll come talk with you. | ||
| And I did another one with a guy who just reviews guns. | ||
| I'm not going to give him a shout out, because I don't know. | ||
| He's still building, you know? | ||
| But super nice guy. | ||
| We just kind of chatted about what happened. | ||
| So, uh, you're the podium guy and this is an egregious, incorrect statement because it was a lectern and everybody is telling us that in the chat. | ||
| But, uh, so, you know, for those that aren't familiar, there's this famous photo that comes out of the January 6 riots or whatever. | ||
| It's you and you're carrying a lectern while smiling and waving to the camera. | ||
| And, uh, how did it all happen? | ||
| What's the story behind it? | ||
| I mean, how far do you want to go back? | ||
| Like, why did I go? | ||
| I mean, let's just start with like, yeah, yeah, sure. | ||
| Tell us your story, man. | ||
| So, um, I wasn't really into politics a few years ago. | ||
| I'm busy raising kids, changing diapers and doing common core math, you know, and, um, COVID struck and I started listening as I had more free time. | ||
| I was just trying to find a hobby and, uh, you know, followed the elections and everything, you know, listen to a bunch of stuff. | ||
| And, uh, I had never voted before I voted and, uh, I voted in 2019. | ||
| For the first time, I registered independent forever. | ||
| I just didn't really have much stake in getting out there and doing something because my life was pretty good. | ||
| I listened to what was going on, started getting some opinions, some ideas, and I decided I'm going to go to a Trump rally. | ||
| It's going to be the last one. | ||
| I'd never been to one before. | ||
| I always listened to the guy. | ||
| His Twitter was hilarious. | ||
| I bought some tickets with a friend of mine and we just headed up there. | ||
| And it was the first rally I'd been to, never been to a protest before. | ||
| It was kind of a new experience for me, so I didn't really know the etiquette of what a protest is. | ||
| Did you go to—Trump was speaking at the Ellipse. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Did you go there? | ||
| Yes, that's where I was, by the monument and the World War II memorial. | ||
| How did you go from there to the Capitol building? | ||
| Oh, we were there for, I think about a couple hours. | ||
| And at the very end of his speech, he's like, we're going to march down to the Capitol and march peacefully. | ||
| Let our voices be heard. | ||
| You know, and we didn't really have any plans that day, you know, after the fact. | ||
| So I was like, well, I guess it's going there. | ||
| So I guess we'll follow. | ||
| So, you know, just following cattle. | ||
| So you follow people, you make it to the Capitol building. | ||
| What happens next? | ||
| So on the walk there, there's a lot of people there, but I've never seen so many people. | ||
| We heard from the crowd, Pence didn't do it, Pence didn't do it, it's over. | ||
| And at that point, the pace picks up. | ||
| Some people start running, they're funneling through the crowd, and I'm like, what's going to happen? | ||
| So I follow because I'm curious, I'm there to see what happens, I'm there to witness a little bit of history. | ||
| I follow the crowd. | ||
| When we get to the Capitol, it's already under siege. | ||
| I compare it to watching an anthill being kicked. | ||
| Just people everywhere. | ||
| But elaborate on that. | ||
| Did you see violence? | ||
| Did you see people tearing things down? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| There was definitely violence there that day. | ||
| I try to be as honest as possible. | ||
| People were hitting cops. | ||
| As you're walking up, you're seeing all that happen. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I'm filming it. | ||
| I'm watching it go down. | ||
| When I first got there, they were kind of just arguing back and forth, you know, protest rhetoric, you know, you've betrayed us, you know, defend our country, this and that. | ||
| And at some point, just things popped off. | ||
| You know, one side started pushing, the other side pushed back. | ||
| There was tear gas, mace, there was a flashbang at a point, you know, but people were hitting cops. | ||
| So what's next? | ||
| So I don't want to stick around that because I don't want to be a part of that. | ||
| I'm just kind of tacitly sitting back there videotaping it because holy cow what's happening in front of me. | ||
| So the next thing I climb up some scaffolding to kind of get a bird's eye view to see what's happening. | ||
| You can't tell where the things start and stop. | ||
| It was just funneling in from almost every street. | ||
| I was kind of beholding the whole thing. | ||
| I'm not sure what to do next. | ||
| As I come down the stairs from the scaffolding, I notice people are going inside the building. | ||
| I'm like, well, I guess that's where the protest is going. | ||
| I guess I'll go inside. | ||
| So I walk through open doors with a group of people. | ||
| I get to the Rotunda, and when we get there, people kind of disperse because it's such a large room. | ||
| It's a beautiful room too, so whatever people were walking in with a chance, it got real quiet real quick. | ||
| People are looking around at the paintings, the statues, the oculus. | ||
| It's a beautiful room. | ||
| I kind of wander around a little bit, take some pictures, and I notice there's this lectern sitting kind of like underneath some stairs. | ||
| It's kind of out in the open. | ||
| I'm like, man, that would make a great photo, you know, kind of in the middle of Rotunda. | ||
| I called it, you know, I nailed it. | ||
| And so I take the lectern out, I set it down, I gave a short speech, and then I go wander around a little bit more. | ||
| So that was that photo of you carrying the lectern. | ||
| You took it from under some stairs and then what? | ||
| You put it down somewhere? | ||
| I put it down in the middle of a rotunda. | ||
| And then you started talking to people? | ||
| Yeah, I gave a short speech. | ||
| It was like three lines. | ||
| Kind of a LARPing politics. | ||
| And I left it there. | ||
| I didn't put it back where I find it. | ||
| So shame on me. | ||
| After that, I walked away. | ||
| I went down. | ||
| I saw where the Speaker of the House's hallway is. | ||
| I walked down there. | ||
| I saw Nancy Pelosi's door. | ||
| I'm like, holy cow, that's where she does her stuff. | ||
| I touched the doorknob. | ||
| I got to admit, I did touch the doorknob. | ||
| I didn't try to open the door. | ||
| It's like a boop. | ||
| But the door was locked. | ||
| I was like, all right, well, walk away from that. | ||
| So I come back down the hallway, kind of getting bored, kind of getting lost. | ||
| Never been to the Capitol before. | ||
| And I see another group of people that are coming, and it's a whole other wave. | ||
| And they kind of seem like they know where they're going. | ||
| They know we have a plan or whatever, you know. | ||
| So I follow that group. | ||
| And this group heads down towards, I think it's the Senate chamber where they were. | ||
| And so I kind of tag along with the group, you know, I'm texting my wife, texting my friends, you know, like, oh, I'm inside, you know, and like, you should leave. | ||
| I'm like, ah, I'll leave in a minute, I'll leave in a minute, I'll get some more pictures. | ||
| So we get down to the doors and, you know, they're banging on the doors and stuff and kind of just, you know, looking around, taking pictures. | ||
| I talked to a guy next to me and I'm like, what are they doing? | ||
| I'm like, oh, that's where they are. | ||
| And I was like, what do you mean that's where they are? | ||
| It's like, that's where they're meeting to count the votes. | ||
| I'm like, they're still here? | ||
| What are they doing here? | ||
| So that, but I'm like, I probably shouldn't be here. | ||
| So I do run around for a few more minutes. | ||
| Someone releases either tear gas or some type of fire extinguisher and it hurts my eyes, it burns. | ||
| Tear gas? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, it's not comfortable. | ||
| So I run around a little bit more. | ||
| I find a cop and ask the cop, hey man, how do I get out of here? | ||
| I'd like to leave now. | ||
| And the cop tells me, well, you know, go down the hallway, take a right, there's an officer out there, he's taking people exiting outside, so just go over there, you'll be done. | ||
| And that was my experience inside the Capitol. | ||
| And so then you leave, you leave the Capitol, and then you had no idea, did you have any idea what was about to come in terms of the national attention, the photo? | ||
| No, no. | ||
| I knew a photographer had taken my picture because, you know, professional photography is pretty easy to spot, you know, but I didn't think anything would come of it. | ||
| I thought, well, I trespassed, you know, worst case scenario, I can't come back again. | ||
| But I got my photos, I saw the building, I'm good. | ||
| So you thought you were trespassing? | ||
| I mean, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I could admit that. | ||
| I mean, I did walk into a building I'm pretty sure they didn't want me inside of. | ||
| So I can say, yes, I did trespass. | ||
| So after you leave, when did you find out that it was much more serious than you had realized? | ||
| So my phone had died inside. | ||
| I had it charging in my backpack on a battery pack, and I made it outside, got a couple hot dogs, was walking back to the hotel, and turned the phone back on after it hit like 10-15%, and my phone just started blowing up, man. | ||
| Couldn't even use it because there were so many messages coming in. | ||
| Eventually I put on airplane mode so I could go through and see what was going on. | ||
| It struck me because there were so many people like, dude, you're famous, there are memes of you. | ||
| I was like, well that didn't go as planned. | ||
| Before I even made it back to my hotel, I was getting recognized on the street. | ||
| When did you find out that you were in serious trouble? | ||
| So I made it back to the hotel room and it was when I started watching CNN and CNN had told the people that this is an insurrection. | ||
| These people should go to prison for 20 years, you know, and then I found someone got shot and I'm like, Oh my Lord, that's, that's really, really bad. | ||
| And things started devolving from there. | ||
| When did you first make contact with law enforcement? | ||
| How did it come to be that you end up facing charges? | ||
| Well, I'm friends with quite a few Leos, so I called a couple. | ||
| I'm like, hey, is this going to be a big deal? | ||
| And they did allude to, they did say, they're probably going to want to have a conversation with you at some point, because what you did is what they're saying you did. | ||
| And so I called a couple of friends of mine, a good buddy of mine. | ||
| His name is Jennings. | ||
| I'm supposed to say Jennings. | ||
| A good buddy of mine, Jennings, he said, uh, he said, look, I got a couple of lawyers. | ||
| You should give them a call. | ||
| Just do it ahead of time. | ||
| Get some defense set up because things are probably not going to be great for you in the weeks to come. | ||
| So go ahead. | ||
| So then what happens? | ||
| You get, uh, you get, you know, you call some lawyers. | ||
| Do they eventually, uh, do they make contact with the feds or the feds come to you or what? | ||
| Yeah, so my attorneys, David Bigney and Dan Eckhart, fantastic people. | ||
| I highly recommend them. | ||
| I'm also shot them out. | ||
| So I got a hold of them and they're like, listen, this is going to be a case of a lifetime. | ||
| You don't want to wait. | ||
| You need to get us hired because they're going to come after you hard. | ||
| You don't get to get a photo like that and become, you know, infamous overnight and not see them come after you. | ||
| So, we got the prices from them and I was like, oh, well, I'm not going to pay that. | ||
| That's absurd. | ||
| Can you say what those prices are? | ||
| I was $100,000 to hire them. | ||
| $100,000. Wow. Yeah, to hire him. Yeah. It's $100,000 and we were paid off now so we're | ||
| fine and God is good. But we did end up hiring him and I had a flight that was | ||
| supposed to leave on Friday but I rented a car like that night, picked it up in | ||
| the morning and drove back because I knew like charges are probably coming | ||
| and I'd like to see my family for a couple hours before they pick me up. | ||
| When did the charges come? | ||
| The charges came on a Friday. | ||
| About how long after? | ||
| I left Thursday morning around 6 a.m. | ||
| And the next week? | ||
| No, the next day. | ||
| Oh, the next day? | ||
| Friday the next day. | ||
| Yeah, I think within 48 hours. | ||
| The AUSA, which is the Assistant United States Attorney's Office, was already in contact with my attorneys and vice versa, and they were talking about these are the charges we're bringing, and he's going to have to go to jail until we figure something out. | ||
| What were the initial charges they wanted to get you on? | ||
| Uh, it was, uh, violent entry, which is a misdemeanor. | ||
| It was, um, entering and remaining, uh, restricted building, which is a misdemeanor. | ||
| And then, um, it's glorified trespassing. | ||
| And then, uh, uh, felony theft for moving furniture 20 yards. | ||
| You did not end up with a felony or anything. | ||
| So how does it end up, you know, with your criminal case? | ||
| Where are you at now? | ||
| So again, my attorneys are awesome. | ||
| I'm not a felon, which is fantastic. | ||
| I get my voting rights back, which are very important to me. | ||
| And I also get my firearms back, which are equally important to me, which is good. | ||
| I did 75 days in a federal prison camp. | ||
| And then I did a $5,000 fine and I got 200 hours of community service. | ||
| But I'm enjoying my community service. | ||
| What kind of stuff are you doing as community service? | ||
| I am working for an organization called Adopt-A-Cop, which was founded for, it was after George Floyd, I believe it was after George Floyd, I get to read the statement again, but basically training cops in jiu-jitsu to be able to seduce suspects in a non-lethal manner. | ||
| So I work with law enforcement officers doing training programs, rolling with them. | ||
| I've got a big function I'm organizing in a couple weeks I can't talk about yet, but I'm enjoying it. | ||
| That's awesome! | ||
| Yeah, I'm enjoying it. | ||
| So, you end up in a prison camp, you said? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| What is that? | ||
| Is that not a big cell block with razor wire, or what does that mean? | ||
| So, I didn't know anything about prison before this started, so my idea of prison is like Shawshank Redemption, you know? | ||
| And Green Mile, so I was not super thrilled about it. | ||
| They have, I guess, four... I think it's four different levels of prison. | ||
| So there's, like, max security, where, like, the murderers go. | ||
| There's medium, which is, you know, not as bad, you know, scalable. | ||
| And then there's low, and then there's camp. | ||
| And they place you based on your charge, and there's, like, five different levels of things where it's, like, you know, or you have gang ties, you know, is your... is it a violent record, how many times you've been arrested, recidivism, and... there was something else, can't recall. | ||
| So it's a camp. | ||
| You're like, are you like outside with like a fire roasting marshmallows or what? | ||
| It's not, it's not that nice. | ||
| Um, so it's not like, it's not steles, not cages. | ||
| You know, it's open dorms. | ||
| You've seen Orange is the New Black? | ||
| No. | ||
| Open dorms so you can come and go as you please, or what? | ||
| Typically, yeah. | ||
| Like, in and out of your room, obviously. | ||
| In and out of your room, yeah. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I mean, there's times you have, there's curfew, you have to be in. | ||
| There's also wake-up time, you have to be up. | ||
| And they give you jobs to do. | ||
| In the camp, the prisoners do everything. | ||
| They do the cooking, they do the laundry, they do the lawn maintenance, they do everything. | ||
| They keep you busy. | ||
| Oh, so what did you have to do? | ||
| I did nothing. | ||
| I told them I'm not going to work. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| I will not work for the government. | ||
| You cannot make me. | ||
| So they didn't make you? | ||
| No. | ||
| So let's, let's go back to this day on January 6th. | ||
| It sounds like from the story you've told us, you had, you had no real idea what was going to happen? | ||
| No. | ||
| You had no plans? | ||
| Nope. | ||
| You had no real intentions? | ||
| Nope. | ||
| I wanted to see an end of an era. | ||
| It was going to be Trump's last hurrah. | ||
| And I thought that would be a great thing to witness. | ||
| A little bit of history. | ||
| And, uh, you make your way into the Capitol kind of just bumbling and not really understanding what was going on around you. | ||
| Like a little bit, like you knew there was fighting, you knew there was trespassing, but you were just kind of like, Oh, I left the group of people who were fighting because that's not what I am. | ||
| And that's not what I agree with. | ||
| So there were a group of people that are doing that. | ||
| And I said, those aren't my people. | ||
| So I went and I found something else to do. | ||
| I think, you know, the reason why I want to hit on that is obviously the narrative is insurrection and all that, and while I certainly think there are people who are rioting and, you know, trying to do something. | ||
| The reason I don't like the phrase insurrection is that the idea that several hundred people can stand in a building and change a government is, like, absurd. | ||
| It's not the 1600s anymore. | ||
| And even then, it didn't even work for Hitler, right? | ||
| The Beer Hall Push. | ||
| He fires a gun in the air and declares he's taking the government over and then they just come and arrest him. | ||
| What do you think this is? | ||
| And then Hitler's rise to power was actually through politics because just trying to stand in a building doesn't accomplish anything. | ||
| I think that's an important distinction with everything we're hearing, especially with your story. | ||
| Obviously it doesn't speak to the people who were fighting and one guy was brutally hitting a cop. | ||
| He got serious charges. | ||
| And he should be in prison for that. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| You don't go and beat people for any reason. | ||
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| But I think the important thing is that a lot of the people who are there, there's two things. | ||
| One, in your case, you knew they were fighting. | ||
| You knew you were trespassing. | ||
| You got convicted. | ||
| You pleaded to a misdemeanor charge. | ||
| Then you went to prison. | ||
| There are some people who watched the police open the door and fan them in. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| This guy, what was his name? | ||
| Matthew Martin, I think his name was. | ||
| Is that his name? | ||
| acquitted on all charges. Because the judge said there's a video showing a cop waving him in. | ||
| And then the cops are saying, I agree with it. And then cops taking selfies with people. | ||
| Getting getting to fully understand this is extremely important if we're gonna, | ||
| you know, actually move forward with this, like in this country and try and solve these problems. | ||
| Well, it's case by case. And I think the problem with calling insurrectionist, | ||
| they're calling me an insurrectionist, every insurrectionist is you, you generalizing | ||
| It is case by case. | ||
| Some people did some things, some people did other things. | ||
| But to blanket statement everything is, I think, horrible. | ||
| I tell people it's kind of like looking at what happened with the Summer of Love, right? | ||
| I'm sure there were a lot of people that showed up to a protest that turned into a riot, you know? | ||
| And I support protests in all forms. | ||
| If you're angry about something, you don't like how something's going, go protest! | ||
| Go vote! | ||
| You're allowed to speak, as I mean, currently, you know? | ||
| But go do something about it, you know? | ||
| Not violent. | ||
| Don't encourage that. | ||
| But I tell them, you can't just call all the Black Lives Matter all rioters, because there are a lot of people there that were just protesting, you know? | ||
| And so I won't blanket statement that at all. | ||
| I won't. | ||
| But I want the same courtesy also given to some of us that were there, that were just protesting. | ||
| But there is still, at these Black Lives Matter protests, and on January 6th, there are people who... I guess January 6th is a little bit different, but for these protests where Black Lives Matter, for instance, in Portland, were throwing firebombs, there were people who were providing cover, whether intentionally or not, and at a certain point, it's kind of like, if you're standing there and you're watching people throw firebombs at a building, and you're like, well, I'm going to remain a part of whatever this is, at a certain point, you are playing a role in that. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| So I guess maybe the same thing extends to us as well. | ||
| Like, you know, if we saw things and didn't leave, I mean, maybe that extends to us as well, by that logic. | ||
| I think so. | ||
| And I want to draw the distinction between the people who were let in by cops and the people who were there watching the fighting or fighting themselves. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| The issue with that is, I certainly don't think you deserve to be called an insurrectionist or be charged with felonies because other people were fighting, but you were part of a riot. | ||
| The police have to deal with you as much as they have to deal with people who are fighting, but the people who are fighting are the ones causing the problem. | ||
| And then, you know, be it Black Lives Matter or January 6th, being part of this big crowd and coming in and coming out is straining the resources to try and stop the violence. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And I think it's a, I don't know why they're putting so many reasons towards it. | ||
| I mean, there's plenty of other things that I think most people would rather have solved than a couple of people who are walking around taking selfies. | ||
| Well, low-hanging fruit. | ||
| You know, that photo of you is iconic. | ||
| Everybody's seen it, and it's, you know, the look on your face is confidence. | ||
| So for the left, they view you as this arrogant guy who is engaging in this behavior with no remorse, and on the right, they view it as defiance. | ||
| Not to everybody. | ||
| But so, you know, they have to strike at symbols. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| And I think so, like, it is biphasic. | ||
| I mean, you can feel multiple emotions at the same time, you know. | ||
| So there's part of me where it's like, holy cow, look where I am, you know. | ||
| So a smile will definitely come from that, where it's, you're witnessing history and things are going crazy. | ||
| So maybe it's a nervous smile, you know, maybe it's anxious, but at the same time, I mean, there's also fear that I'm feeling at the same time, because where is our country going and what the heck is happening here? | ||
| So you somehow managed to, you got approval to come on the show, is that what happened? | ||
| I did, yeah. | ||
| Initially it was a no. | ||
| I requested my PO office, it's probably gonna get me in trouble, it's fine. | ||
| I requested my PO office, hey, I'd like to go travel to do this podcast, it's, you know, I watch you guys all the time, I thought that'd be a really good experience. | ||
| And he seemed pretty cool with it up front. | ||
| And the reason I had to ask to travel is because part of my restrictions being on probation or supervised release is I have to stay in the middle district of Florida. | ||
| I can't leave that. | ||
| I've been there for the past almost two years while I was under a pretrial indictment. | ||
| So the opportunity to travel is, like, I really want to be able to do that again. | ||
| So I contacted the PO. | ||
| It's like, it shouldn't be a problem. | ||
| Let me let me run it up the ladder, you know, and we'll, you know, we'll talk about it. | ||
| A couple of days passed, you know, it's like, why don't you why don't you come in? | ||
| We'll have a conversation in person. | ||
| So I come in for the conversation in person. | ||
| And it's, it's implied and I don't want to throw in the bus because these people are doing their jobs. | ||
| And we can debate that later. | ||
| But He's like, you know, we got some emails we got some information that maybe it's not the best time you do that You know, like they said, you know, you can't make any money right now This would you would be profiting if you can like, oh, no, I'm buying my own plane ticket I'm renting my own car and get my own hotel I mean, I won't even eat food from you guys because I just don't I don't want anything, you know, and and he's like well I | ||
| The timing's also bad, you know, midterms are coming up, you know, you gotta consider your wife's job, you gotta consider she may lose it if you get in the media again, you know. | ||
| They'll write stories about you again, and, you know, the death threats will come, and I'm like, all those things are still happening. | ||
| You know, doing this or not, I still get letters in the mail, you know, threatening my family. | ||
| My wife still gets reviews from patients that are not her patients, giving her one star, messing with her credibility. | ||
| You know? | ||
| And the news is still writing stories about me. | ||
| They put together a montage a couple of weeks ago of all of the things I did in the Capitol. | ||
| You know? | ||
| So, I mean, nothing's really going to change except for maybe there'll be one extra story this week. | ||
| I thought for sure you walked out of there with the lectern, so it's nice to know you put it back down. | ||
| I thought you just walked out. | ||
| But that's the thing. | ||
| A lot of people believe that you took it out. | ||
| You left with it. | ||
| Well, because people like Jimmy Kimmel came out and said, this guy stole a lectern. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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How? | |
| How? | ||
| That's interesting too because for all I know you could have just picked it up and put it | ||
| down like which is essentially what you did. | ||
| So they told you it was not a good idea or they outright said you can't do it. | ||
| It was a no up front. | ||
| It was a no up front. | ||
| We got a supervisor in the meeting because I wasn't taking no for an answer because it's | ||
| a free speech issue. | ||
| I'm allowed to speak. | ||
| There's nothing in my plea deal saying I can't speak. | ||
| It just says I can't profit for the next five years. | ||
| So if I get a chance to speak, I'm going to speak. | ||
| And it's not about money. | ||
| It isn't. | ||
| If they wanted a lifetime plea deal where I couldn't make money, I'm not signing a life sentence with you people. | ||
| It's not going to happen. | ||
| Five years seems more adequate. | ||
| We've got to talk down to five years, but it's not about the money. | ||
| It's about being able to speak and tell people what happened. | ||
| And for the life of me, we have all of these people who weren't there telling us what happened. | ||
| We don't hear from people who were actually there speaking about it. | ||
| And I think we're doing a disservice to the American people by not asking people who actually saw things and were actually there. | ||
| So then initially it was a no, but then it turned into a yes somehow? | ||
| It did. | ||
| I reached out to my attorneys and they are magicians. | ||
| Within an hour of a phone call and conversation, I won't speak about who they talked to or what they said, I got an email saying, send me your travel itinerary. | ||
| I kind of feel like the email was, if you don't let him speak, the story will be even bigger when you denied him the right to speak. | ||
| I think it's definitely that because they had hinted, well, we'll take it before the judge, you know, a Pontius Pilate effort. | ||
| It's like, we're not telling you no, but we're going to ask the judge if we can go. | ||
| And, um, and I, again, I explained it to my attorneys and he's like, there's no way a judge is going to put his name on, you're not allowed to speak, you know? | ||
| And that's kind of what we chatted about. | ||
| And lo and behold, within an hour, I get an email. | ||
| So here you are, and how have things been since? | ||
| You mentioned you're still getting death threats, people are going after your wife and things like that. | ||
| What's it like? | ||
| I mean, you're in Florida, which is good. | ||
| Where the God King reigns. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So how is it? | ||
| What's been happening since then? | ||
| Well, we live in a pretty red bubble. | ||
| Or where we stay. | ||
| So I have a lot of local support, like a ton of local support. | ||
| Do people do the wave to you when they see you? | ||
| It's constant. | ||
| I have a couple. | ||
| It's, I mean, people will take pictures with me. | ||
| They want to buy me a drink or they want to buy me a sandwich. | ||
| You know, like, oh, you're a hero. | ||
| You're a patriot. | ||
| I'm like, I moved furniture 20 yards and someone took a picture up. | ||
| Isn't it crazy how that happens, though? | ||
| It's like you made a mistake going in there, obviously. | ||
| Obviously. | ||
| You did relatively little, but it's become such a powerful symbol for both the left and the right. | ||
| Well, I think a lot of what I hear is people say, I wish I was there with you. | ||
| I'm glad you said something. | ||
| I'm glad you did something. | ||
| You know, I have people saying like, I wish you would have taken the lectern and, you know, shoved it, you know, somewhere to this who owns it. | ||
| And I'm like, well, no, no, no, no. | ||
| That's not good. | ||
| Like that's not how we win the culture war. | ||
| We have, that's, that's not the way forward. | ||
| I mean, easily. | ||
| That photo is propaganda weaponry, you know? | ||
| And again, like Jimmy Kimmel said, you stole it? | ||
| Is that what he did? | ||
| Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel came out and said, showed my picture that this guy stole a podium, you know, and it was like the day after or something. | ||
| And it was a lectern. | ||
| And it was a lectern. | ||
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Wrong. | |
| I know. | ||
| Sources, buddy. | ||
| This is a thing I often talk about with The Summer of Love. | ||
| Black Lives Matter had net support of like 52%. | ||
| It was ridiculous. | ||
| The overwhelming majority of this country was like, yeah, Black Lives Matter is good. | ||
| Then the riots happened and it tanked. | ||
| The support for Black Lives Matter dropped lower after the riots than it had been in the lead up to George Floyd's death. | ||
| When George Floyd died, Black Lives Matter support skyrocketed. | ||
| And then the riots happened and... | ||
| They lost like a year of PR gains and they've not since recovered. | ||
| Could have become a political party instead, but instead of rioting they should have become a political party. | ||
| And now it's rife with scandals and weird money stories and everything. | ||
| They imploded over that stuff. | ||
| Nothing's gonna come of that. | ||
| And so I mean, here's the, I'll call this like a warning as well as a point about how people behave. | ||
| When I've been reading about, obviously I read about civil war all the time because I won't shut up about it, right? | ||
| And I was thinking recently that it's not a civil war because civil war implies two organized factions in some capacity fighting. | ||
| And I would say, okay, if you're talking about information warfare and political civil war, definitely. | ||
| But if we're talking about, will this lead to states seceding and fighting? | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| But I said I wanted to revise that because it may actually be more revolutionary. | ||
| You know, James Lindsay mentioned that we're in some kind of revolution. | ||
| You take a look at the splitting factions within law enforcement and the federal government. | ||
| And then I started reading more about Weimar Germany because I've read a little bit. | ||
| And I've read it before about the Beer Hall Push, which is Hitler went into the Munich Beer Hall and then fires a gun in the air and is like, we're taking over! | ||
| And then they come and arrest him. | ||
| I think some people died. | ||
| And then he goes to jail, and he got like a five-year sentence, served like eight months, dictated Mein Kampf. | ||
| Then he gets out, and then what do they do? | ||
| Run for office. | ||
| So, I'll put it this way. | ||
| That's a warning and also a point. | ||
| The violence didn't work. | ||
| What worked is winning hearts and minds, and then going and running in politics. | ||
| The scary thing is a very awful and evil psychotic person used that to try and gain power. | ||
| Now it's a bit different with Soviet Russia, a bunch of crazy people, but that's the left, the communist stuff. | ||
| They go out and get violent and then they're allowed to do it. | ||
| What did James Lindsay call it? | ||
| Something tolerance? | ||
| Repressive tolerance. | ||
| So I wonder if we're heading towards a revolutionary period, you know? | ||
| I want to be as white-pilled as possible. | ||
| I'm watching primaries, which I just voted in my first primary ever. | ||
| I am no longer a registered Independent. | ||
| I am a registered Republican. | ||
| I am proud of it because I think that we need to make a change. | ||
| I do. | ||
| I just voted in my first primary and I want to be white-pilled and I'm watching what's happening and I think it might actually work. | ||
| I think we might actually be able to win the Colter. | ||
| I'm hoping we do. | ||
| My fear is that the pendulum has already been set in motion and I don't know where the stop point is going to be. | ||
| I don't. | ||
| You know, with Carrie Lake winning, and it was a nail-biter, because the night before, it looked like she was down a little bit, and everyone was like, no way. | ||
| And the next day, she swept every county, and it's like, ah, okay, there it is. | ||
| That's what everyone expected. | ||
| She won, then Hagerman won, Joe Kent won, and we're seeing a bunch of primaries where America first, populist types are actually winning. | ||
| And it's like, now more than ever, it's the time to tell everybody, like, dude, back away from the violence. | ||
| You're winning. | ||
| You're winning on these fronts. | ||
| Now's the time to go out, rally your friends, go vote, because you are winning. | ||
| Yeah, you know I sense like it's a global revolution is kind of what we're in the middle of right now It's a conscious what I've started YouTube in 2006. | ||
| My channel said a revolution of the mind I found out years later. | ||
| That's what Mao called his And I'm glad I got away from that leftism cult mindset because I was really like family is whatever you're familiar Whatever you want it to be kind of weird, you know, like going that Post-modernist route. | ||
| But I definitely think because of the internet or along with the internet, people around earth are realizing that they're under a boot of totalitarianism. | ||
| A lot of people are and they want out. | ||
| They like American republicanism. | ||
| They love the idea of free speech and second amendment rights. | ||
| A lot of people are able to communicate. | ||
| through their governments without their government intervention and are kind of there's a desire for a new world order i mean it's very obvious that the old liberal economic order is is faltering yeah but i think both factions have their own desire for a different type of new world order that fits their own ideologies and i think that's where we are right now Yeah, there's at least two. | ||
| There's so many different ideas of how it could come. | ||
| There's three. | ||
| There's the liberal international economy, and that's the powerful elites, the banking cartels, the IMF, you know, swift payment systems. | ||
| Bank for International Settlements, that's the brand. | ||
| Yeah, then there's the left, and they want a socialist utopian revolution, worker rights. | ||
| And then there's the right, they want a national, you know, re-emergence, nationalist re-emergence of sovereign nations that have international treaties and ties and things like that. | ||
| One of those sounds like a good time. | ||
| Yeah, you know, my attitude is like, hey, I like the idea of global governance via treaty, meaning like no council of elites who can strip your rights from you, but potentially a world court is preferable to world war. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| It's an extension of federalism, United States federalism. | ||
| country that they have no authority. | ||
| It is only outside the borders between countries where they would they would | ||
| they would intervene in any capacity. | ||
| I love it. It's an extension of federalism, United States federalism. | ||
| It's got to be. | ||
| I mean, it makes so much sense that the world would adopt that. | ||
| The federal government has the ability in the United States to go to states and | ||
| enforce law. | ||
| I'm saying not that. | ||
| I'm saying there would be no global court that could go into Illinois and arrest someone for an international thing. | ||
| It would be up to the country to actually go and do it. | ||
| But if there was an issue of like a U.S. | ||
| plane flying over to another country and then doing something, that's when a world court would intervene and be like, we're going to stop this and not allow it. | ||
| So it would only be a direct international matters. | ||
| And my point there is like, for one, maybe it needs some thinking and maybe there's an argument and debates to be made over it, but I'm kind of like, hey, how do you stop world war? | ||
| How do you stop people from blowing each other up? | ||
| Well, I don't want anybody coming to America and being like, you can't do this, you can't do that. | ||
| No, we're our country, we have our borders, we will function the way we deem is right for us. | ||
| You go do your thing. | ||
| Instead of us going and bombing each other, maybe there is a mediation system in world court that will One of the mediation systems that's being pushed is this, what do you call it, social credit score. | ||
| They think that if you can, like, get people to self-censor and kind of control people's money, that then you will pacify them. | ||
| But, you know, pacification oftentimes means, like, destruction and death of people when they're like, we're going to pacify the population. | ||
| That's very nice, because pacifists don't want war. | ||
| But in reality, when you see what happens when someone pacifies a country is oftentimes bombs are being dropped. | ||
| The military is no longer able to fight back, kind of. | ||
| I don't want that. | ||
| And I don't like the social credit score stuff. | ||
| But I feel like we're doing it to ourselves with upvotes and downvotes on social media and likes and stuff. | ||
| Let's jump to the story. | ||
| We'll shift here. | ||
| From the Daily Mail, Democrats' civil war over student loans explodes. | ||
| Biden is blasted as out of touch and told he is punishing those without a degree by his own party as new projections say it will cost Americans $500 billion. | ||
| This is... | ||
| Maybe a white pill moment. | ||
| Joe Biden wanted to pander to progressives. | ||
| The problem is the Democratic Party is split between the establishment moderate types and the far left. | ||
| Joe Biden can't win. | ||
| He goes and says, OK, fine, I'll give you some student loan forgiveness, which he doesn't really have. | ||
| I don't believe he has the authority to actually do this. | ||
| It's a matter for Congress. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then they're trying to claim he's got an emergency ability to do it. | ||
| The left says it's not enough. | ||
| What is this? | ||
| You know they're happy with some of it, but it's not enough. | ||
| The Democrats are now coming after him being like, you are giving money to the highest | ||
| incomers in this country. | ||
| It's an insult to taxpayers. | ||
| It's an insult to the working class. | ||
| And it's an insult to those who did not take out loans because they receive no benefit. | ||
| And the Republicans are sitting there going, uh-huh. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So this sounds like the Democrats are going to get crushed come November. | ||
| They were looking good in that New York 19 special election. | ||
| Then Biden comes out and does this. | ||
| The left, they don't like Joe Biden. | ||
| Leftists do not like Joe Biden. | ||
| He's not going to win them over. | ||
| All he's doing is pissing off the swing districts. | ||
| That to me is crazy. | ||
| But it sounds like the way things are going. | ||
| Republican sweep. | ||
| I don't like how they phrased this article here. | ||
| Democrats civil war. | ||
| I don't like that they're softening that term civil war. | ||
| I feel like we're doing a real disservice to our species if we do that, because civil war is not a good thing, even in metaphor. | ||
| Well, they're just conditioning you to hear their words several more and more. | ||
| So when it starts happening, it's like, oh, it's been around for a while. | ||
| We've been in for a little bit. | ||
| Secondly, I just posted on Twitter earlier, I'm having issues with this loan repayment thing because I'm in this bracket under $100,000 salary. | ||
| It's like $100,000 salary. | ||
| $25,000 in student loans, probably $8,000 of it or $10,000 of it as interest that's accrued over the last 20 years. | ||
| I'm not comfortable taking this money if they're going to print it from the Federal Reserve. | ||
| I will not take this money if they print it from the Federal Reserve. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Do you have to apply for it? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| There's a website I heard that's already down. | ||
| That's already down? | ||
| Yeah, that sounds right. | ||
| I'm hopping out of this. | ||
| I'm not going to do this to my fellow Americans, man. | ||
| They do not deserve to pay my bill. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| This is the craziest thing, too. | ||
| It's like a bunch of conservatives are coming out saying, like, this is wrong. | ||
| Student debt forgiveness is wrong. | ||
| And then the left is responding by showing screenshots of them having accepted PPP loans. | ||
| I think it's weird that they took PPP loans. | ||
| I gotta be honest. | ||
| I know there was a reason to do it. | ||
| There was market stagnation and, you know, people don't want to go under. | ||
| But I kind of look at some of these companies and I'm like, oh, these companies make a lot of money. | ||
| Did they really need it? | ||
| Because I'll tell you this, Timcast did not. | ||
| Neither did DailyWire. | ||
| DailyWire didn't do it. | ||
| They did not, no. | ||
| Really? | ||
| In fact, they were circulating a screenshot of a guy named Ben Shapiro far and wide saying, look at this, the DailyWire took PPP funds. | ||
| They never did. | ||
| The DailyWire made a point of never taking any PPP loans. | ||
| In fact, if you look at the full screenshot of this Ben Shapiro, he's actually a real estate agent. | ||
| So like, no, I didn't do that. | ||
| He's a real estate agent. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| They're just lying. | ||
| They're lying. | ||
| Tim cast. | ||
| I will say this. | ||
| I outright was like, no way. | ||
| I'm not going anywhere near that. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because I knew it's like, for one, it's all publicly available information. | ||
| And I'm like, I don't want that money. | ||
| I don't need that money. | ||
| I would rather take the hit and then dip into the red and have to go into our rainy day funds or whatever. | ||
| Then accept these PPP loans or whatever. | ||
| It's because they're printing it. | ||
| They're devaluing our currency by doing it. | ||
| If they were going to the loan companies and saying, OK, you're not getting your usurious interest back because it was unethical in the first place, that I'd be fine with. | ||
| Then I'm like, yeah, let's erase what they think they deserve. | ||
| But I'm not going to tax the citizens by printing more. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Tuition's just gonna go up more. | ||
| There's a meme where it's that meme of the guy and he's like looking all happy and it says when they forgive 10k in student loan debt and the next one is him looking shocked and it says when your tuition goes up 10k next year. | ||
| Dude if you know so Biden apparently is saying like we got to make sure they can't raise tuition but you can't? | ||
| Like what can you really do? | ||
| And if I'm a business And I sell, you know, I don't know, UFOs or whatever. | ||
| Oh no, how about this? | ||
| I have a business. | ||
| We sell memberships over at TimCast.com. | ||
| Sign up today. | ||
| If the government came out and said they were going to cover $10 of everyone's memberships, if they had one, I'd be like, oh, it's $20 now. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| That's what happens. | ||
| I mean, honestly, I wouldn't do that, but that's kind of the idea of any business. | ||
| They'd be like, okay. | ||
| Because for the average person, they're not getting hurt because the government's subsidizing it. | ||
| It is hurting everybody because it's stripping money from everybody to pay for a few. | ||
| And there's also an argument, I mean, what about the people who already paid off their student loans? | ||
| We have $170,000 left from my wife's student loans and we've been paying on that for 12 | ||
| years. | ||
| And even if the money were offered to us, we're not in the bracket or whatever, but | ||
| even if the money were offered to us, I would take it because I know where it's going to | ||
| be paid from. | ||
| And we keep bankrupting. | ||
| We have kids. | ||
| I don't want to leave my kids more debt than what we started with. | ||
| And it's not gonna be the last time they do this. | ||
| So is it a one-time thing? | ||
| How many times are you gonna forgive $10,000? | ||
| How much more money? | ||
| They did this thing where there's like a 10% cap. | ||
| This is a major move towards outright free college. | ||
| What they're saying is already, I think, after 20 years, the loans dissolve and are forgiven or something like that. | ||
| And then they're saying there's a max cap of like 10% of your income can be paid towards it. | ||
| Now they've reduced it to 5%. | ||
| I could be getting that wrong. | ||
| It's something like that. | ||
| It's on their website. | ||
| And so already they're basically eliminating people's student loan debt. | ||
| Look, on paper, I'm totally in favor of debt forgiveness. | ||
| And I just think that if you're gonna go for student loans, let's start with mortgages too. | ||
| Let's alleviate debt for a lot of people. | ||
| Trade school. | ||
| Trade school, whatever your debt may be, and here's the way I see it. | ||
| All right, you wanna give everybody 10K for their student loans? | ||
| Everyone else gets a 10K tax credit. | ||
| Everyone. | ||
| You can't discriminate for this. | ||
| But I will say, the way they're going about it is wrong. | ||
| What I would say is, interest payments should be forgiven, because interest is where it's like, someone takes out a $50,000 loan, and then 10 years later they're like, I've paid $70,000 back in 2030. | ||
| And it's like, what? | ||
| Like, how does that make sense? | ||
| You've given way more than inflation and principal. | ||
| I think people have to pay back their principals. | ||
| You don't get free money. | ||
| There should be some interest for inflation, but not this insane compounding BS. | ||
| And that's a place to start. | ||
| However, the real place you start is ending the loan system. | ||
| Just shutting it down. | ||
| None of that. | ||
| But I don't know. | ||
| I do want to say the main point of this is not to talk about student loans, but to talk about Republicans winning in November. | ||
| Because if everyone's getting pissed off about this, Well, how much of this is just a bribe, too? | ||
| Like, $10,000 is not the $50,000 they promised. | ||
| Maybe it's just like a, well, we gotta do something. | ||
| How much of it is just a bribe for voters? | ||
| Well, if he was smart, Biden, he'd say, we're going to give out, I'm going to sign an order, $10,000. | ||
| And then, you know, when, when next Congress, you know, we're going to come together and, and, and, and figure out how to do 50. | ||
| If the Democrats win. | ||
| And then people are going to be like, there's the bribe. | ||
| And that's like, that's a smart way to go about doing it. | ||
| Maybe he'll come out and say it and say, I know people are unhappy that 10 wasn't enough. | ||
| In the next session of Congress, they can approve more or something like that. | ||
| And that's where, as the dealer, you give them a little taste, get them all excited | ||
| and then say, you want more? | ||
| Now you got to pay. | ||
| And that would be in the form of, hey, vote for us. | ||
| So there's that famous quote by that dude, I can't remember his last name, it's like | ||
| Tocqueville or something. | ||
| And he said, the American Republic will persist until Congress learns that it can bribe the | ||
| American people with their own money. | ||
| And that's where we're headed. | ||
| Dare we say Biden is maybe revealing a pattern. | ||
| One might even think he might not be a great father or grandfather. | ||
| Maybe he tries to solve problems by throwing money over the line. | ||
| I'm basing this on nothing. | ||
| I just get the feeling. | ||
| I'm looking at the fruit of the tree. | ||
| His kids turned out fine. | ||
| You know, I just I see a pattern. | ||
| Maybe if we connect some dots, I don't know. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| That's illegal. | ||
| I think questioning Joe Biden's parental abilities is a step over the line, George. | ||
| And we here at TimCast do not tolerate the besmirching of such an honorable man. | ||
| Well, perhaps he should throw me some money to get my mouth shut. | ||
| No, I'm just kidding. | ||
| But no, I mean, really, this does frighten me as a person who's just watching. | ||
| If their solution, and I'll throw this at the whole Democrat Party, whatever, If your solution is to throw money at a problem instead of | ||
| looking at the root of the problem and trying to solve... | ||
| For instance, a lot of people are accepted into college who may be... | ||
| I dare to say this... | ||
| They don't belong there. | ||
| And there's this whole industry of just putting butts in seats because it makes the colleges look like they're this exploding business. | ||
| There's lots of people going to school. | ||
| You get a lot of crap degrees that mean basically nothing, flooding the market with people, a labor force, who really don't deserve to have these degrees, I dare to say. | ||
| So, they just kind of fail their way through college. | ||
| They accept loans from whatever people are going to give you. | ||
| I don't know, I'm going to give you a loan and you're going to pay me this much in interest in a few years. | ||
| They can't pay it because they can't find work. | ||
| Inflation's happening, so now those loans are basically, I don't know what's happening to the value of the loan, but you still have to pay the interest. | ||
| We, the taxpayers, are going to be left with the bill anyway. | ||
| Maybe that was the plan from the beginning. | ||
| But there's this fake industry of, I'm a college dropout, so I'm biased, but I don't believe in this idea of, I own a piece of paper that says I'm qualified, therefore you should hire me, as opposed to, I'm just a hardworking person, hey, maybe apprentice me, hire me for a few years, and then I'll be qualified. | ||
| It's not even that. | ||
| I mean, look, man, if I said, we need to commission some art, and then, you know, Adam comes over here and he says, I have an art degree. | ||
| I'd be like, that's great. | ||
| Where's the art? | ||
| Yeah, where's the art? | ||
| And you go, well, I don't have any, but I have a degree that shows you that I know how to do it. | ||
| And then, you know, George comes over here and is like, here's a picture of my art. | ||
| Who am I going to hire? | ||
| The guy who has a picture, I'm like, I like how that looks, make me one of those. | ||
| Not the guy who's got a piece of paper and a degree. | ||
| And who paid tens of thousands of dollars to have that piece of paper, which doesn't necessarily prove that you're able to do any of this stuff. | ||
| Which is, I think, we're being sold, our generation especially, was sold this idea of you have to go to college in order to get a job. | ||
| Yes, absolutely. | ||
| Employers were convinced that there was value to that piece of paper. | ||
| I'm sorry, I'm a little bitter about it. | ||
| Leaving people like me who I think, you know, I was very hardworking and stuff and I really wanted to do what I did, you know, comics and stuff. | ||
| But I don't think a lot of places even considered me when I was, you know, sending my CV to people. | ||
| They didn't even consider me a candidate. | ||
| It's also made a high school diploma worthless. | ||
| So a lot of kids are, you know, they're pretty much decided by 9th or 10th grade if they're going to college or not. | ||
| You know, they kind of check. | ||
| I mean, I know I was that way when I grew up. | ||
| I was in high school, didn't really have a lot of interest in going to college, so I kind of just played video games and hung out, you know? | ||
| And now having kids, you know, there's that social pressure. | ||
| It's like, I have to go to college because I want my kids to go to college. | ||
| I know it's just it's social engineering and I'm supposed to want to do that because good fathers do that. | ||
| They make sure their sons have good degrees and they can take care of their kids. | ||
| Yeah, I have to agree with George. | ||
| I think that this is fully systemic and I think it stems from the problem of encouraging kids. | ||
| I think the reason we have so much underwater basket weaving and so much student loan debt right now is because kids have been told that college is the only way to go. | ||
| This is what you're supposed to do. | ||
| Exactly, exactly. | ||
| And they're told this is the way you're supposed to earn money. | ||
| And for a certain time, so people got their connection backwards. | ||
| It's a little bit like the self-esteem issue that I talk about sometimes. | ||
| They thought that people who got college degrees earned more money because they were more committed to their job because their degree. | ||
| It was like a big blob. | ||
| It was very important that all these things went together. | ||
| The fact of the matter was that the people who are super committed would be the ones who would end up going to college for that specialty and then who would end up going into that profession and being really focused and really talented at what they were doing. | ||
| Well, high school doesn't really specialize you or set you up to go into college. | ||
| Right, right, that too. | ||
| It trains you to go to college. | ||
| It trains you to go to, it teaches you how to school, right? | ||
| But anyone who's got an associate's degree will tell you the first two years of college are the last two years of high school, you know? | ||
| But again, the high school diploma is meaningless now. | ||
| So maybe a solution is to make high school meaningful. | ||
| These kids after ninth or 10th grade could be taking a two year apprenticeship program and be coming out as a plumber's assistant or an electrician assistant. | ||
| We can, we can make meaningful solutions with public high school. | ||
| I just don't see that. | ||
| I don't see the desire for them to do that because they want you to go to college. | ||
| No, and the scary thing is that I see this pattern for the past few years, but it's been happening for a long time of borrowing from the future so we can pay the bills of today. | ||
| Our kids are going to inherit this. | ||
| I don't even know what to call it. | ||
| Someone's going to pay this bill. | ||
| It's, it's maybe going to be us in 10, 20 years. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe they're going to try to sell Alaska to somebody or something, but where is this money going to come from? | ||
| Well, they could just print more. | ||
| Have we tried that? | ||
| Oh, we have to try that. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| Just print more. | ||
| Let's do that. | ||
| Yeah, we could try that. | ||
| For a hundred years. | ||
| Wasn't it March of 2020 that fractional reserve banking ended and it went infinite reserve? | ||
| Yeah, they can print as much as they want now. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| But they could go wrong. | ||
| It used to be that you could issue a loan creating money up to, what is it, 90% of your holding? | ||
| And then, yeah, the way it would work is like, I put $100 in Bank of Ian. | ||
| Ian then issues a loan for $90 to George, But he still has the $100. | ||
| The $90 is created upon issuance of the loan. | ||
| Then George gives me the $90, and then I create... Well, George then can take that $90 that... So, Tim, you give me $100, I have $100, I can give you $90, I keep my $100. | ||
| You keep your $90, but you can loan out $81 to someone else. | ||
| They can keep their $81, but they can loan out $73 to someone else. | ||
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No, exactly. | |
| He then deposits in another bank, and then they issue another loan. | ||
| It's a game of hot potato. | ||
| Someone's going to be left holding it. | ||
| that in March of 2020, they basically said, you don't need reserves anymore. | ||
| I can loan you 10 million, you can loan 10 million of that. | ||
| I wonder if you can loan 11 million of your 10 million. | ||
| Banks can just literally snap their fingers and write money to anybody they want. | ||
| It's a game of hot potato. | ||
| Someone's going to be left holding it or musical chairs or whatever. | ||
| It's sort of, but it's a game of hot potato that like while the hot potato game is playing, | ||
| someone is like, they're juggling a bunch of potatoes and then the rich people are like chucking the potatoes | ||
| into a box behind them when no one's looking. | ||
| And then they're like, okay, guys, I'm leaving. | ||
| keep playing the game I don't want and then they walk away with a box full of potatoes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's gonna be a silly pours that end up paying it. | ||
| I mean, I definitely think it's gonna go down to a two-class system. | ||
| The middle class continues to shrink, and I think what they're afraid of is generational wealth, right? | ||
| It's very difficult to amass generational wealth to set yourself up. | ||
| And I think the problem with Generational Wealth is that you eventually start gaining power and influence. | ||
| And the less people that can have power and influence, the less we can change the system. | ||
| I just saw that PayPal is changing their terms of service so that soon, like within a month, you're not going to be able to send money to an offshore business, and an offshore business is not going to be able to send money to your personal PayPal account. | ||
| So that makes me think that they're trying to stop people from using offshore banks. | ||
| Yeah, I got a notification on one of my things of they're trying to do anti-money laundering stuff. | ||
| They're really pushing this, which I think is the funniest thing in the world because they're allowed to money launder. | ||
| I'm not saying anything. | ||
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Interesting. | |
| Somebody's money laundering, but we're not allowed to. | ||
| Let's keep buying crypto. | ||
| I don't want to, by the way. | ||
| I'm already in so deep. | ||
| Well, the Federal Reserve is, I mean, they work with the Swiss Bank for International Settlements. | ||
| You want to know what I think? | ||
| I think Davos Group, I think the World Economic Forum, they want crypto. | ||
| Like a new world currency? | ||
| Well, Bitcoin is fully trackable, and with the right AI, you can see who is doing what, where, when, and how, and you can even infer as to why. | ||
| And they're all big fans of it. | ||
| A lot of these global elites. | ||
| I mean, BlackRock, didn't they just buy a bunch of Bitcoin? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| I was gonna say, I read an article, and I read a headline that said that BlackRock had bought into crypto. | ||
| These institutions keep coming out and they say things like, don't don't buy crypto. | ||
| And then people panic and they sell it all to them, to these institutions. | ||
| There are hedge funds also that a couple of my Reddit last year that were actually telling people with bigger portfolios to make sure you start buying crypto now. | ||
| It was a couple of big hedge funds. | ||
| That's just about. | ||
| 2019 Blackrock, this is from Investopedia, Blackrock rips Bitcoin, colon. | ||
| Buy crypto only if you're ready for complete losses, which is the quote. | ||
| And then from two weeks ago, Blackrock announces new Bitcoin trust. | ||
| That's the game. | ||
| They want you to sell it at dirt so they can buy it up. | ||
| Now I'm not telling you what to buy. | ||
| I'm just telling you I've got crypto and I ain't selling it. | ||
| I'm holding on to it because It's got its functions, it's got its purposes. | ||
| I have a couple different ones. | ||
| But I think it's going to... I don't have Bitcoin because I think it's going to be worth millions of dollars. | ||
| I do think it's going to be worth millions of dollars. | ||
| I have it because I think it's going to become a principal utility in the future. | ||
| It's going to become substantially more widespread in use. | ||
| And I think the global elites are very, very interested in trackable digital currencies. | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Let's jump to this next story. | ||
| And this one's... So interesting. | ||
| This one's very interesting. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| From Politico. | ||
| Trump White House exerted pressure on FDA for COVID-19 emergency use authorizations House report finds. | ||
| The report by House Democrats examining the pandemic says Trump officials sought vaccine approvals to sway voters before the 2020 election. | ||
| Duh, isn't that a good thing? | ||
| I can't believe Trump did this to us. | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| This is so insane. | ||
| They're starting to attack Trump because he got the vaccines out? | ||
| That was like the good thing Trump did. | ||
| I can't believe Trump did this to us. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I'm changing my opinion on him right now. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Last night we had James Lindsay on and on the after show we talked about the Galean | ||
| dialectic and I was like, what's a dialectic? | ||
| A dialectic is when you create an opposition to what you're doing so that you can create a conflict, which will get a new thing that you want. | ||
| So this, now they're creating a dialectic. | ||
| Now what they're expecting is information's going to come out, oh, I got damaged by the vaccine. | ||
| Oh, vaccines hurt me. | ||
| Now they're trying to be like, okay, here's going to come the thing to be a push against this Trump so that we're going to get our outcome. | ||
| Maybe, maybe. | ||
| I don't, I don't know. | ||
| I do know. | ||
| And James was like, I was like, how do you stop that from, how do you defeat the dialectic? | ||
| He's like, well, you expose it. | ||
| It's like a magic trick. | ||
| If you show people how to do the magic trick before you show them the trick. | ||
| But, but, but hold on. | ||
| I don't know if I agree with that. | ||
| Um, I know there's a lot of people that are not fans of the vaccine. | ||
| Trump got booed himself. | ||
| YouTube recently removed the rule, and I don't know when, but probably in the past couple of weeks. | ||
| It used to be that YouTube said you could not make claims, saying that, how do I phrase this? | ||
| You could not issue claims that the vaccine did not prevent or play a role in the prevention of COVID. | ||
| It's a very weird legal language. | ||
| That's gone now. | ||
| Now you can't claim that the vaccine doesn't prevent serious illness or death. | ||
| It's like, it's weirdly phrased. | ||
| But basically, you can now claim, I guess, on YouTube, the vaccine does not stop the infection of COVID or something like that. | ||
| The rules have changed. | ||
| Here's the crazy thing. | ||
| YouTube's rules used to say that you couldn't claim masks cause brain damage. | ||
| They removed that. | ||
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Really? | |
| I mean, that's weird. | ||
| Like, what? | ||
| Like, I don't think it does. | ||
| But you're allowed to claim it? | ||
| As in, like, it stops oxygen? | ||
| That was actually one of the rules. | ||
| The rule used to be that you couldn't claim masks reduced your oxygen level. | ||
| Now you can. | ||
| They removed that rule against it. | ||
| They also removed the rule. | ||
| They said you could not claim masks cause lung cancer. | ||
| They removed that rule. | ||
| And that's weird. | ||
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Yo, I'm sorry. | |
| I just gotta say, I'm not a doctor or anything, but I'm pretty sure masks don't cause lung cancer. | ||
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I don't think so. | |
| Yeah, I mean, I see a lot of people wearing masks alone in a car and I could see a correlate of brain damage with that. | ||
| I see what you're saying, but look, look, look, you know, correlation is not causation. | ||
| Here's what I want to say about all of this. | ||
| YouTube clearly has no idea what they're talking about. | ||
| And I don't think, I think everybody should be very careful about talking to politicians and pundits about their health care. | ||
| I think Fauci, yeah, he was a doctor 30 years ago. | ||
| He's a doctor by title now. | ||
| I wouldn't take advice from TV doctors like Fauci, from politicians. | ||
| Find a medical professional you trust. | ||
| And I always bring this up because people are like, oh, but doctors are wrong or bad. | ||
| And it's like, bro, Joe Rogan had a doctor. | ||
| I had a doctor. | ||
| Like they did not, you know, take the route you assume that every doctor will take for you. | ||
| But just make sure you trust the person you're talking to. | ||
| Multiple doctors. | ||
| You don't just go to the doctor because that's the doctor. | ||
| You got to like seek people out, look for intelligence, listen to people and listen to many, many people. | ||
| If you went to a doctor and you were like, Doc, I got a, I got a bum knee. | ||
| And he went, well, time to amputate. | ||
| You'd be like, no, I'm going to leave. | ||
| But, but here's what I want to get to. | ||
| You mentioned that the Hegelian dialectic, like maybe they're now teeing it up for people to make claims about vaccines causing injuries and things like that. | ||
| Not so fast. | ||
| Nate Silver responded with liberal elites pressured Pfizer to delay vaccine until after the 2020 election. | ||
| That is so interesting too. | ||
| This is really weird, okay? | ||
| I like to pride myself on, you know, why would someone say a thing and then, you know, I have a thought or an idea. | ||
| Not always right, but I'm like, here's what I think. | ||
| I have no idea what they're doing. | ||
| Nate Silver coming out, smearing liberal elites, saying they pressured Pfizer to delay the vaccine until after the election. | ||
| Like, that's really, really bad for them. | ||
| Democrats came out and said Trump was trying to rush the vaccine before the election. | ||
| I don't know where this is going. | ||
| I heard a theory. | ||
| I don't remember where I heard this from, so you guys are welcome to correct me in the chat. | ||
| I'm sorry, I just gotta squeeze this in there, because I heard a theory that they're starting to realize that things are going to start coming out. | ||
| People are going to start filing lawsuits, maybe against Pfizer. | ||
| I don't even know how that works, and they're trying to get ahead of it. | ||
| But I'm addressing that. | ||
| This is the opposite of that. | ||
| Nate Silver is coming out and attacking liberal elites for delaying the vaccine. | ||
| He's saying it's their fault, not But it's an inversion. | ||
| The Democrats tried stopping the vaccine. | ||
| They're bad guys. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| I understand. | ||
| Last night, when we were talking about it, we were like, obviously there's a lot of stories and claims about vaccine injuries. | ||
| Here's my view on this. | ||
| We had on the Surgeon General from Florida. | ||
| And even he, you know, I don't want to put words in his mouth, but the idea seems to be, look man, if you give 200 million people four shots, like there's a propensity for injury. | ||
| These things do happen. | ||
| And we need to be careful that we're not looking at a scale issue as opposed to a frequency issue. | ||
| Is it an issue that X causes Y amount of injuries, or is it X causes, like, is it an issue that | ||
| if a million people, 1% seems like a lot, as opposed to 1% of 100 seems like very, very | ||
| little? | ||
| That's why I'm just like, I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on this one, and I | ||
| really want to avoid the partisanship. | ||
| My whole point here is last night in the member section, we were talking about how they're | ||
| starting to turn on the vaccine. | ||
| Like this is the narrative now. | ||
| All of a sudden they're like, it's a bad thing Trump got it out. | ||
| And I saw that and we talked about it, like if they start turning on it in the next couple | ||
| of years, they're going to say it's all Trump's fault. | ||
| But then Nate Silver comes out. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| This is today. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And he's saying liberal elites tried blocking the vaccine. | ||
| It's very simple. | ||
| When the narrative starts changing, all you have to do is share that GIF of Stephen Colbert dancing with the vaccines. | ||
| That's all you have to do. | ||
| I remember. | ||
| But that's why I'm not convinced it's changing. | ||
| I don't know why the Democrats issued this report. | ||
| If Nate Silver is going to come out on TV or something and then actually use that against Democrats, that's going to help swing states vote Republican or swing districts. | ||
| This is also assuming that liberal elites or Democrats, they might not even be American. | ||
| Well, he's talking about Democrats, because they issued this report where they're going after Trump. | ||
| But my point is, you're a swing district, right? | ||
| These are not diehard Trumpers. | ||
| We go down to Loudoun County, for instance, and there's a lot of people who are, like, leaning conservative, but they don't like Trump, they don't like MAGA and stuff like that. | ||
| Democrats are trying to bank on that and get those voters. | ||
| If Nate Silver's coming out now and saying this and using their own report against them, those moderate, right-leaning individuals are going to be—they like the vaccine. | ||
| They're going to be mad at Democrats for... I mean, this is a weapon for Republicans in swing districts to come out and be like, Democrats delayed this. | ||
| They made the pandemic worse. | ||
| That's basically what Nate Silver is saying. | ||
| I would think like, so even without you retiring, there are a lot of things related to this. | ||
| I think the ship is sinking. | ||
| Lydia's point was the point I was going to make, is I think a lot of things are sinking and falling apart and someone's going to be left holding the bag. | ||
| And at this point, I think people are like, it wasn't me though. | ||
| I was not on that ship. | ||
| I didn't agree with that. | ||
| Look at this right here. | ||
| Quote, Trump pushed for the vaccine approvals too fast is the worst possible critique of the Trump administration's COVID policy, Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight, tweeted. | ||
| He then said, that probably saved a lot of lives. | ||
| If anything, approval should have been faster. | ||
| In a subsequent tweet, he wrote, liberal public health elites pushed Pfizer to change its original protocols that govern its authorization of vaccines so that the decision would be put off until after Election Day two years ago. | ||
| That is a brutal condemnation of the Democratic establishment that they would let you die to beat Donald Trump. | ||
| Nate Silver is tweeting that out. | ||
| Does that surprise anyone, though? | ||
| What surprises me is that the Democrats came out with a report claiming Donald Trump was rushing unproved treatments and the vaccine as if it was a negative, instantly having that weaponized against them to show that Democrats were willing to let people die during a pandemic because they hated Trump that much. | ||
| This is weird. | ||
| Oh, we saw what happened with Coleman, New York. | ||
| No, man, I won't I won't dive too deep in that but what Gretchen Whitmer Gretchen Whitmer something. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, oh, dr. Dr. Levine. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yep, always has been like they don't care about you. | ||
| And I think it's it's like going after it's an abusive relationship, right? | ||
| It's the it's the I deserve to be hit, you know, like that's how these people are living. | ||
| They're broken. | ||
| They think they deserve whatever it is they're getting and you know, it's gonna get better one day if I just keep coming home and you know, dinner will be better next time. | ||
| Mandatory basic training for all Americans at age 18. | ||
| Done. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| What, like exercise? | ||
| Yeah, well, you gotta fix their diet, too. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Make sure they eat healthy. | ||
| You guys know what basic training is, right? | ||
| Military. | ||
| Military? | ||
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| Like boot camp? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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I was kidding, though, but... I mean... Well, I am afraid. | |
| That's all I know. | ||
| How many vaccines should I have now? | ||
| Probably eight. | ||
| I'm actually double vaccinated. | ||
| I think the current CDC schedule is 14 or something. | ||
| I think it's... No, I think it's five for COVID now. | ||
| Five total? | ||
| I could be wrong, because it's two for the initial, and then they've got three boosters now, I think? | ||
| I know there were two boosters, and I think they came out a couple weeks ago and asked for a third one. | ||
| Yeah, I think the new one is because it's for Omicron or no, no, no. | ||
| It's the new variant of something else. | ||
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| Something else. | ||
| I believe it's actually called Legma. | ||
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No, it's not. | |
| I like how you pointed out that they don't care. | ||
| You say like the leadership doesn't care about you or me. | ||
| And I kind of believe that because they don't know who you are. | ||
| And they're just looking at spreadsheets of numbers. | ||
| I have 750,000 constituents. | ||
| 26% of 26,000 have cancer. | ||
| 170,000 are obese. | ||
| And they've got these numbers and they're trying to like move puzzle pieces around. | ||
| If I do a vaccine that prevents 36% and I do it to this percentage of the population, they have no... And that's not how medicine functions. | ||
| Realistically, that's why they're looking at 3D printing medicine individually tailored to the individual. | ||
| I think that's the future of medical practice in a lot of ways. | ||
| We were talking about the other day how It wasn't until like 1993, clinical trials had to include females. | ||
| Separate. | ||
| So it used to be that they would take men, give them a drug, see what happened, and then said, there you go, women by body weight. | ||
| And then eventually people were like, hey, you know, like women have different hormones and different body structures, and these drugs aren't working the same way. | ||
| So we started to discover that painkillers, for instance, weren't working on women. | ||
| The painkillers we would give to men would work. | ||
| They'd give the same ones to women, and women would complain, and the doctors would be like, ah, they're just whiny women, you know? | ||
| And in reality, it's like, hey, wait a minute, it's not working. | ||
| So then, I think it was in 1993, they were like, we need to have separate clinical trials for male and female. | ||
| And that's kind of amazing, and now that's probably gonna go away because of weird... Yeah, how do they know what's a female, though? | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Well, actually, we have a story addressing that. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| This is from NBC News. | ||
| Gender dysphoria is now covered by disability law, federal court rules. | ||
| The ruling could become a powerful tool to challenge legislation restricting access to medical care and other accommodations for trans people, advocates say. | ||
| And this pertains to the Fourth Circuit Court, which is Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, but will inevitably be cited in cases in other states. | ||
| Now, obviously this will go to the Supreme Court. | ||
| It's going to be appealed. | ||
| The story has to do with prison inmates. | ||
| I believe this was a transgender... Here we go. | ||
| They say, the decision came in the case of a transgender woman who sued the Fairfax County Sheriff in Virginia for housing her in a jail with men. | ||
| The decision is not limited to transgender people challenging jail policies, but also applies broadly to all areas of society covered by disability rights law, including employment, government benefits and services, and public accommodations. | ||
| The decision de-stigmatized a health condition, gender dysphoria, and it says that what Congress did in 1990 wasn't okay. | ||
| Now, I can't see this standing because your mental state is not used in terms of your physical state. | ||
| So, if you are suffering depression, they're not going to be like, you can't go to this facility, right? | ||
| If you are having a mental issue of some sort, or I guess, look, with all due respect, they're calling it a disability, it's protected under disability law. | ||
| Your mental state doesn't determine whether or not you go to one facility or another in many circumstances, so this is interesting. | ||
| I suppose you could argue if someone's mental state was lunacy, psychosis, you would go to a care facility or a hospital instead of a prison. | ||
| Many people don't. | ||
| They just go to prison. | ||
| Many people are clearly unwell, deranged, depressed, or insane, and they don't send them to hospitals. | ||
| Why would it be now that someone with a mental issue, they could use that to actually affirm that mental issue and be transferred to a separate facility? | ||
| You see where I'm going with this? | ||
| I feel like if this did stand, you would have like jails that were strictly for depressed people because your mental state is not something that is a fixed feature of your attribute. | ||
| Like it doesn't stay the same from day to day. | ||
| And I wonder if they're trying to push us toward the slippery slope of, you know, your external genitalia is not necessarily consistent with who you really are inside. | ||
| So I feel like it's just opening or setting a really bad precedent. | ||
| I do hope it's challenged. | ||
| I hope it's knocked over altogether. | ||
| Well, like here's a question. | ||
| If I have, um, um, what, what is it called? | ||
| General body dysmorphic disorder. | ||
| Will they affirm that by amputating? | ||
| Amputating your body? | ||
| Well, so look, for people who are trans, gender-affirming surgery, as it's called, would be the reconstruction, removal of your reproductive organs, and then the cosmetic alteration of them. | ||
| Because you are depressed by it. | ||
| There's another, I think it's in the DSM-5, I don't know what you call it, disorder, that is body dysmorphic disorder, I think. | ||
| You want to look that up? | ||
| I'm looking at the DSM-5. | ||
| What aspect of it are you looking at? | ||
| Body dysmorphic disorder. | ||
| Can you Google that? | ||
| Yeah, I'll check it out. | ||
| I think that's what it's called. | ||
| I could be wrong. | ||
| That sounds right. | ||
| But there are people who like my hand. | ||
| Yeah, that is what it's called. | ||
| Yeah, like my hand. | ||
| It's not my hand. | ||
| I'm like, I need it removed. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, a doctor is not going to cut your hand off. | ||
| This is so interesting to me because most people don't know this about JK Rowling, but she under a pseudonym wrote an entire, she wrote like a series about a veteran who had lost, you know, the lower half of his leg in the war. | ||
| And he came back to England and he was dealing with murderous psychopaths who wanted, who had body dysmorphic disorder and who wanted to like amputate their hands and whatnot. | ||
| And he was incensed by this, obviously, because he had an involuntary amputation. | ||
| He lost a leg. | ||
| In an IED explosion or whatever. | ||
| So I wonder if that's a little bit off topic, but I wonder if that's contributed to their view of her as a TERF because she's been like, no, if you want to amputate something, that's not necessarily just something we should accept. | ||
| I have no issue with disability law covering this. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| It makes sense. | ||
| The DSM-5 lists it as a disorder, whatever. | ||
| That's the opinion of the medical experts. | ||
| And so if someone is experiencing this, then I don't know if that Does disability law give you guaranteed access to government funded treatments? | ||
| That's what I feel like this might be aiming at, is it's a funding mechanism. | ||
| But think about any other... I think body dysmorphic disorder is the best analogy because we are not granting those protections to these people. | ||
| If we're going to allow individuals to undergo cosmetic surgery and the removal of organs due to a disability, would that not apply to any other disorder? | ||
| It would. | ||
| And so I would say that, are the prisons now going to have to amputate the arms of individuals who request it? | ||
| I would imagine, yes. | ||
| Are you saying that it's because it would be doing harm? | ||
| I mean, it's a question of, I would say partially, but it's a question of, does the state have to pay for it? | ||
| Right? | ||
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| I mean, I think the initial argument for me is, is it the right thing to do? | ||
| Like, is what you're doing actually providing a benefit? | ||
| I guess the main issue is, are there any other circumstances where you would be housed in a different facility based on your mental state? | ||
| Like if you were supposed to go to a supermax prison and you said, but I'm depressed by that. | ||
| I want to go to a low security prison or prison camp. | ||
| Would they go? | ||
| Well, we have to. | ||
| Depression is a disability. | ||
| I'm pretty sure depression is a disability, right? | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| I'll look that up. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| I'm looking at it now. | ||
| Let me see. | ||
| I want to say yes. | ||
| Persistent depressive disorder, depressive disorders, bereavement. | ||
| So what if you said, I get anxiety attacks. | ||
| Bereavement exclusion. | ||
| Bereavement is excluded from depression. | ||
| What's bereavement? | ||
| Bereavement's like, I'm sad about what happened to me kind of thing, I believe. | ||
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| What if you said, Supermax facilities make me depressed and give me anxiety attacks? | ||
| I think that's a form of grief. | ||
| But I could be wrong. | ||
| You could argue it's bereavement. | ||
| You're saying this is a step on the road? | ||
| Well, how is then putting a trans person in their biological sex prison not grief, right? | ||
| They're ruling that if you're male but identify as female, you must be placed in a female prison because of your mental state. | ||
| Well, your grief would be over as soon as you're let out because then you're no longer in prison, right? | ||
| You'd be grieving because you're in prison. | ||
| You're right! | ||
| So they can't lock you up. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Actually, I think... No, no, grief is not a disorder. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| You're allowed to grieve. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| But the point is, if... So, look, what they're saying here is that if you're biologically male, identify as a woman, and go to a male prison, that's a disability discrimination. | ||
| That's what they're saying. | ||
| That's what this article is saying. | ||
| If I have persistent depressive disorder caused by being in prison, it's causing me a disability, that's a violation of my rights as a disabled person, right? | ||
| I should be moved to a different facility to be accommodated for this? | ||
| It's really funny how prisoners... Well, we're talking about prisoners' rights. | ||
| You're here. | ||
| Maybe you can tell me about this a little bit. | ||
| You've spent 78 years. | ||
| You have none. | ||
| But they want them. | ||
| But then I'm thinking about like the horror of war and like war prisoners and like... We're in such a luxurious time in history that we're able to kind of demand how we want to be treated in prison. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| It's funny, right? | ||
| You can make all the demands you want. | ||
| I mean, they're not going to help you. | ||
| Their job is not to help you. | ||
| So I didn't really have an opinion on prison ahead of time, but being there, I definitely have an opinion now. | ||
| My thought was always, you know, well, you did something wrong, so enjoy prison. | ||
| But I don't think we should make it something you enjoy, though, because the idea should be you don't want to come back here. | ||
| So making people comfortable and stuff, I mean, it should be uncomfortable, but the psychological side of what they do to you is Horrible. | ||
| I think it should be rehabilitative. | ||
| Rehabilitative? | ||
| Is that the word? | ||
| Rehabilitative. | ||
| Rehabilitative? | ||
| The goal should be to rehabilitate people. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| So I read these stories about they put people on an island in Scandinavian countries or whatever. | ||
| Like if you're a supermax, they put you on an island. | ||
| And it actually had the most successful rate of reducing recidivism and reforming people. | ||
| Because you made them responsible for their safety, security, and survival. | ||
| More so than if they were in society. | ||
| Well, look at Australia. | ||
| I mean, they're doing great. | ||
| Very successful penal colony. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And a continent. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Did you ever get the vibe of isolation while you were, was it isolative? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So when you come in, if you're unvaccinated, they have to put you in either the SHU, which is a special housing unit. | ||
| And I think at one point it was like 21 days and then they dropped it down to five days when I got there. | ||
| The issue is the unit they put me in every time someone new came in and reset the count. | ||
| So when I first got there it was me and some older guy and we chatted for a little bit. | ||
| I'm just trying to keep to myself because all I know of prison is Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile. | ||
| We kept having more and more guys come in so the unit got more and more crowded. | ||
| We're sharing less and less showers. | ||
| Only half the toilets work. | ||
| It gets uncomfortable. | ||
| We ended up doing I think 17 days before they actually put us in the other units that was basically general housing. | ||
| I can't complain because back when it used to be two weeks, it was two weeks for 21 days, they had actually an entire unit. | ||
| And I think there's probably about 100 beds in there, bunk beds, so they can house about 200 people per block. | ||
| They got to, I think it was 95 people at one point, and they had them housed in there for over 80 days. | ||
| And you cannot leave that unit. | ||
| You are stuck there. | ||
| They bring you sandwiches and you can't leave. | ||
| What were most people in for? | ||
| It was kind of all over the place. | ||
| So in a camp the only reason you can't be in a camp is if you're a It can't be like a violent crime and you can't be a chomo So, um, what's that? | ||
| A chomo is a child molester. | ||
| Okay, you can't be that so Why which is a violent crime which which is a violent crime? | ||
| Yeah, that and also it's it's also for their safety and So, um, most of the chomos are put into low facilities. | ||
| I know the one I was at, I think the population was something like 80-90% all child molesters. | ||
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| Which is, no, it's staggering, but I mean, they have their own gang and stuff there. | ||
| You know, like, you don't- It's awful, man. | ||
| They protect each other and... | ||
| Now, for everybody else, what is that, financial crimes or what? | ||
| Financial crimes. | ||
| You know, a lot of people, shady business dealings and things like that. | ||
| A couple people, I mean, I learned about ghost money and ghost drugs. | ||
| So, this is, let's say you have a large company, right? | ||
| And everything I say came from criminals, so grain of salt. | ||
| Everyone's innocent in prison. | ||
| So, let's say you have a company and you have someone that, you know, it's like they do your business dealings, you know, because you've grown so much. | ||
| You send someone they have an illegal conversation about possibly doing something, right? | ||
| Or let's say you're having a conversation about buying drugs, but there are no drugs, you know, it's not actually happened yet. | ||
| If two people come together and say he had the intention of doing this, that's a charge. | ||
| Really? | ||
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Mm-hmm. | |
| That is a charge. | ||
| They call it um, oh Conspiracy to commit either fraud or conspiracy to do something Wow So if two two inmates you're saying two inmates tell a guard that a third inmate is doing said something This is in the free world. | ||
| This is this is out of prison So the people that were there right a lot of them are like a conspiracy to commit mail fraud conspiracy to to do You know regular fraud and stuff I mean I was I wasn't there long enough to get full details of everything was a pretty short stint but If two people say this guy had an intention to buy drugs or have a shady dealing, and they're C.I.s for the federal government, they can arrest you on conspiracy. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So you'll get, you could be some dumb dude who's sitting, playing video games and drinking a beer, and then some guy goes, hey man, you know what we should do? | ||
| We should do this, that, or otherwise, right? | ||
| You want to do it? | ||
| And then you could be like, oh yeah, I guess, I don't know, whatever. | ||
| And like, boom, gotcha! | ||
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Yep. | |
| And then all of a sudden someone comes knocking on your door and you're like, what? | ||
| Like, what are you talking about? | ||
| I was just watching Friends reruns. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So when someone asks you to commit a crime, you say no every time. | ||
| Yeah, but what if you don't know? | ||
| If you don't know it's illegal? | ||
| Yeah, take a look at marijuana laws across the country. | ||
| They vary all over. | ||
| A lot of people don't realize that, like, for instance, in West Virginia it's illegal, in Maryland it's legal. | ||
| What if someone from, you know, lives in Maryland where it's legal, and a CI is like, hey, you wanna, you know, hang out? | ||
| We're going to the range. | ||
| And they go to the range, so they drive it to West Virginia, and then they're leaving, and so they're like, we're gonna go chill at my buddy's house. | ||
| And they go to a chiller's house, and then someone says, hey, you wanna bring some of this stuff over to us? | ||
| That'd be really cool. | ||
| And they go, oh yeah, sure, I guess. | ||
| Boom, gotcha. | ||
| Talking about crossing state lines with something illegal or whatever and you're like the only you might not even know where the state line is You said it's called ghost ghost crime ghost drugs. | ||
| So ghost drugs is a really prominent one on there So if the drugs were there or not, you still committed the crime so they're gonna arrest you with no drugs Just the well, they said they were going to they showed up to meet to go buy it And the other one was ghost. | ||
| What was the other one? | ||
| It's a conspiracy to commit fraud. | ||
| Fraud. | ||
| And again, I'm not an attorney. | ||
| I'm not a lawyer. | ||
| I've not studied law. | ||
| But these are the stories you hear inside. | ||
| Everyone in prison is innocent if you ask them. | ||
| I didn't do it. | ||
| But the stories you hear, they're tragic. | ||
| I mean, they're tragic, you know, and I mean I like what's an example? Well | ||
| It's hard you're not supposed to when you get out you're not really supposed to tell people stories and I made that | ||
| Make up a story that's comparable, but not related to any actual person. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Like, give us a gist of what it would be like. | ||
| I'm sorry, what's your questioning? | ||
| I started thinking about something. | ||
| I don't want you to spill the beans on anyone's actual life story, so could you make up something that's akin so we understand what it would be like? | ||
| What's a fictitious example of what a tragic story would be in these circumstances? | ||
| So, like, uh, when I was in, I tell you what broke me. | ||
| Everyone's got a cell phone where I'm at. | ||
| There's a lot of contraband in there. | ||
| I mean, people were bringing in, like, wing house wings at night. | ||
| They were doing runs. | ||
| It was absolutely... How? | ||
| Like, guards were bringing in? | ||
| I don't know how that happened. | ||
| I didn't see anything. | ||
| Wings are awesome. | ||
| Yeah, I'm actually blind in both eyes and can barely hear. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, um, but, uh, there was one guy, um, I was staying behind, uh, reading a book and I heard a guy, uh, singing happy birthday to like his three-year-old on the cell phone. | ||
| He's crying kind of in between. | ||
| And like, that was absolutely tragic to me. | ||
| And this guy's in for, for marijuana. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I've wanted to put webcams in these prisons for about 15 years. | ||
| I just, even if the guards, if the guards are watching you have, or anyone have a conversation with their family, I mean, at least they're having a conversation. | ||
| That's why I asked you about isolation earlier, like psychological isolation. | ||
| Well, I know the place I was at used to be a women's camp, and they actually had the ability to FaceTime their families. | ||
| Like, women have different treatment than the men do in prisons. | ||
| Well, that sounds like a Title IX violation. | ||
| Yeah, well, the only thing I hate about that last story is that it came out, you know, a couple months late, because I would have much rather preferred going to a women's prison. | ||
| Yeah, we only talked a little bit. | ||
| I think we're going to go Super Chats pretty soon. | ||
| Yeah, we're going to Super Chats right now, actually. | ||
| We only touched on surface on level at that last story, but I think your story was actually really interesting. | ||
| All right, we're going to go to Super Chats. | ||
| If you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, and head over to TimCast.com. | ||
| Become a member because I have a members-only uncensored show coming up for you at 11 p.m. | ||
| Faster. | ||
| Yeah, there we go. | ||
| Put that on 2.5 speed. | ||
| Put that on one point. | ||
| Put that on .5 if you want to really understand what I said. | ||
| We're going to have that members-only show by TimCast.com at about 11 p.m. | ||
| Let's read your Super Chats. | ||
| I don't like that. | ||
| That's too slow. | ||
| Tiberius3969 says, Hey Tim, what makes parallel economy censure resistant? | ||
| Is it just the fact that it's a separate entity or is it something else? | ||
| The company itself, still, there's a chain with links. | ||
| And each link is a weak point. | ||
| You've got your domain hosting, you've got your servers, you've got your financial transactions, you've got your social media. | ||
| Any one of those can snap and break the chain and harm your business. | ||
| We have to keep forging new links and replacing as many as we can. | ||
| Parallel Economy is a company that does not have the insane censorship policies of some of these other big financial transaction firms. | ||
| So you're not going to get banned because you hosted an interview with someone who has naughty opinions. | ||
| Whereas some of these other big firms, they will nuke you in two seconds. | ||
| So it's one step at a time. | ||
| There still is the risk that card processors in the back end, like big banks, they can still shut you down. | ||
| What you do there? | ||
| You need the MAGA Bank, I guess? | ||
| So, you know, maybe you need a billionaire to open a MAGA Bank? | ||
| I guess? | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Let's grab some more Super Chats. | ||
| Marked Ashamed says the student loans have become the biggest short position against the U.S. | ||
| economy, even bigger than the big short of the housing market in 2008. | ||
| Most of the debt that is to be forgiven is in hedge funds, so that is 200% profit. | ||
| Yeah, somebody mentioned if somebody owes like a hundred grand, And they get 10k in their loans paid down. | ||
| All that money is going to these lenders. | ||
| And your interest is still going to crank your loan payments back up. | ||
| So it's like not really doing much other than funneling more money to big banks. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| Alright, let's grab some more Super Chats. | ||
| Emile Koloff says, I just poured a huge drink and Tim said Civil War. | ||
| Well, frick me. | ||
| There you go, man. | ||
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| Baelian says, so are you going to criticize MTG for her hypocrisy in demanding the censorship of Kiwi Farms due to the fact she's being tricked into believing one of their mods is responsible for her swatting? | ||
| If you want to know more, check out Rikada's video. | ||
| I saw that. | ||
| If Marjorie Taylor Greene is wrong about this, because I don't know the full details, for one, I do not believe Kiwi Farms should be censored, and I do think that whoever's doing the swatting is absolutely lying because we've been experiencing something similar, and I'll reach out to Marjorie and make sure she's not making a mistake. | ||
| She should not be calling for censorship, and if that's the case, that would be hypocritical and bad. | ||
| Very bad. | ||
| So, you know, I'll reach out. | ||
| Maybe we'll have her back on the show at some point when we can. | ||
| Joshua Marks says, GPrime85, on the one show I've caught live all year, that's karma for buying the completely awesome Breaking Bread Club Print, I bet. | ||
| Ian, thoughts? | ||
| What's Breaking Bread Club Print? | ||
| There was a couple of strips I did called, it was based on The Breakfast Club, it was like a little joke. | ||
| So there's this Christian girl who was caught having a Bible in her book bag or something from school. | ||
| And the dad says, you go out and get pregnant and have an abortion right now. | ||
| And the sequel to that was, there's this bad boy in the detention facility, you know, it's like Breakfast Club. | ||
| She got detention, the bad boy got detention. | ||
| He's like, so what are you in here for, you know? | ||
| And he has a MAGA hat basically. | ||
| So the joke was that it's now the cool thing to be a Republican slash conservative. | ||
| So this fine individual, I guess, bought prints from me. | ||
| And I don't know what Ian would have. | ||
| Sounds like karma to me. | ||
| Yeah, that's awesome. | ||
| Get what you deserve. | ||
| All right. | ||
| James Morgan says, Will you be signing bands to Timcast Records? | ||
| Is there an AR rep to contact for possible submissions? | ||
| No! | ||
| Yes, and no. | ||
| We are gonna be signing bands. | ||
| We have to figure out how to do it. | ||
| Carter Banks is the go-to guy for all of that stuff. | ||
| And I don't know where we are with that. | ||
| Right now, we just have to release, like, our own music. | ||
| And then, I'll put it this way, you know, we have the song coming out at midnight, Eastern time, so it's like, what is that, 9 p.m. | ||
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| time? | ||
| A large portion of our viewers are actually on the West Coast, too. | ||
| Not the biggest, but, you know, so that'll be easier for you guys. | ||
| If it works, If the songs we put out succeed and generate revenue, and it's also about building culture, that means if the song succeeds in getting play to a certain degree, I'm not super worried about returns profit-wise if we get returns marketing-wise. | ||
| But if the songs can generate revenue to the point where we can expand the operation, we will. | ||
| Otherwise, the reality is us putting out songs becomes like a vanity project of a thing we like to do that helps generate buzz for the projects we're working on. | ||
| To put it simply, marketing value will exist in all of the music stuff we do. | ||
| If it generates revenue, then we start signing more and more bands and ramping up production. | ||
| Otherwise, it'll be like the people who are here in-house and have songs they want to publish will make and publish. | ||
| But I really do want to at least sign a few people for a few deals to a certain degree. | ||
| Maybe a couple EPs to start. | ||
| We'll figure it out. | ||
| I don't know how we can take submissions. | ||
| We've got to figure that out too. | ||
| There's like legal hoops you've got to jump through if you want to take solicitations or something like that. | ||
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| Keegan Mooney says, I am outraged from Tim's slander from last night that Jordan B. Peterson didn't say to watch Attack on Titan. | ||
| I implore you to watch the 22-second video Jordan Peterson unwatching anime. | ||
| I look forward to a retraction. | ||
| Give your heart, Tim. | ||
| Give your heart. | ||
| Well, did he say to watch? | ||
| Watch Attack on Titan! | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It sounded like a deepfake. | ||
| Well, the reason why I thought it could be true is because- You must watch Attack on Titan. | ||
| You've seen it, right? | ||
| Some of it, yeah. | ||
| You've not seen- Not all of it. | ||
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What? | |
| The Jordan Peterson deepfake or the show? | ||
| You're talking about the show. | ||
| The show Attack on Titan. | ||
| There's a lot of animes I've started I haven't finished. | ||
| Attack on Titan is like watching a show based on a Jordan Peterson lecture. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's like a race of people who are demonized for historical oppression and racism. | ||
| And they're called the Eldians and there's one that's like, we're the good ones. | ||
| We're teaming up with the other countries because Eldians are bad. | ||
| And there's other people who are basically being punished and imprisoned because thousands of years ago their people were conquerors. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| I watched that and I was like, this sounds like a Jordan Peterson. | ||
| Were they able to transform at that time? | ||
| Or was that a punishment? | ||
| I can't remember. | ||
| When they became Titans. | ||
| Like, everybody on the island spoiled us. | ||
| You're totally just spoiling the whole show. | ||
| Yeah, I've only seen the first episode. | ||
| I don't remember. | ||
| Well, I think it's fair to spoil the first season. | ||
| It's a fairly old show, but basically, like, the show is people live in this big triple-walled city, and there are giant humanoid monsters that eat people outside. | ||
| They're called Titans. | ||
| And then you discover, like, basically in the first few episodes, I think, that people can transform into Titans. | ||
| And, you know, I don't know. | ||
| What else did you want to add? | ||
| Well, I mean, if there's spoiler content, I don't know. | ||
| I just, I've read a lot about the series. | ||
| I don't know what is and is not a spoiler. | ||
| I mean, talking about The Good and Bad Aldeans is a huge spoiler. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| I'll ask. | ||
| Is the planet called Titan that they're on? | ||
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| I think it's called Earth. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| They're in this walled city. | ||
| I guess I shouldn't say too much. | ||
| but yeah it's it's uh super i remember it was like super nihilistic and dark and gross oh the art is incredible yeah well jordan peterson said watch it i'm definitely gonna watch it i'm trying to be a better man i think it was a jordan peterson deep fake that says to watch it but i could be wrong all right i gotta ask jordan to his face chuck taylor says please read this super chat Okay, moving on. | ||
| KM says, Bree Larson's version of Metric's Black Sheep is way better. | ||
| The song from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. | ||
| Sad to say, bro. | ||
| This is actually... I agree. | ||
| But there's two versions. | ||
| So there's one where it was re-uploaded recently, and there's a... | ||
| Vocal error. | ||
| I'll just call it that. | ||
| Like Bri hits a sour note and they didn't fix it. | ||
| In the first release of it from the movie, it's perfect. | ||
| Because basically what they do is when she hits a sour note, they just fade it out and it works. | ||
| And then in the later release, I guess they upload a different version. | ||
| But what I will say is... | ||
| That song, I could be wrong about this, Metric made an album and they said, hey, this song's not going to make the album. | ||
| We don't think it's going to fit. | ||
| It's not the same style. | ||
| It doesn't really fit in with the rest of the songs. | ||
| And so when they were making Scott Pilgrim, they were like, hey, this band is based on you guys. | ||
| And then they were like, oh, that's great, even though the woman in the movie is like a dick. | ||
| and so they're like hey we have this song it didn't fit on an album you can use this one i remember the first time i saw scott pilgrim and i heard black sheep i was like wow this song is really good for like a movie song i was like i wonder why i like it so much and i looked it up i was like oh it's metric it's like one of my favorite bands i would say actually right now metric is my favorite band they're amazing all comes crashing is like all comes crashing is like the best song they've ever made and i love like all their albums so I remember I got invited to a screening of that one, and I was a huge fan of the comic at the time. | ||
| Did you like the movie? | ||
| Well, okay, so the version I saw, he ended up with knives at the end, and I thought that was a huge... it was a completely different ending. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I was one of the people who said the whole point of this story is that he does not end up with knives. | ||
| But he does in the comic, doesn't he? | ||
| He does in the comic and he does in the movie, but in the version of the movie that I saw, he was with Knives Channel. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| This is nerd talk. | ||
| I'm sure nobody knows. | ||
| No, I actually love that movie. | ||
| It's one of my favorites. | ||
| I've seen it several times. | ||
| But I also think they botched the ending with, he ends up with Ramona at the end. | ||
| I still think he should have ended up single. | ||
| This is my opinion. | ||
| And, uh, I would also criticize. | ||
| Well, yeah, I think Scott needed to grow by the end of the story and he needed to end up alone and ask, why am I alone? | ||
| And then I always thought that Ramona should have been like an evil witch. | ||
| who needed to be cleansed of her evil exes and she needed, she used him to do it and | ||
| then she would vanish again. | ||
| I thought that would have been a way better ending. | ||
| No disrespect to Brian Lee O'Malley, I was a huge fan. | ||
| But yeah. | ||
| My, my, my, my nerd out is I'll say that the What If, did you watch Marvel's What If? | ||
| No. | ||
| The Doctor Strange, huge missed opportunity. | ||
| You saw the Doctor Strange one? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So it plays into Multiverse of Madness. | ||
| In the What If, basically he's trying to find a reality where Christine lives and her death | ||
| is a catalyst for him to become Doctor Strange. | ||
| What should have happened was. | ||
| He finally finds one universe where Christine gets to live and it's where he sacrifices his hands and his legacy to become Doctor Strange, but keeping her alive. | ||
| And that would be the prequel to the actual first Doctor Strange movie. | ||
| That would have been way more epic. | ||
| I could see that. | ||
| Yeah, but I guess they wanted to use the character in Multiverse of Madness. | ||
| I don't think they know what they want. | ||
| Disney's falling apart. | ||
| It is. | ||
| The Marvel movies are falling apart. | ||
| She-Hulk is getting blasted. | ||
| Look, Ms. | ||
| Marvel was the worst. | ||
| She-Hulk is actually like... You know, I watch it. | ||
| And it's like, C-. | ||
| It's like, I'll watch it. | ||
| I'm really excited to see Daredevil in it. | ||
| I mean, I watched everything up to, I started watching the TV series, you know, Hawkeye, the Captain America one. | ||
| I liked, what was the one with Scarlet Witch? | ||
| It was really, really good, actually. | ||
| WandaVision. | ||
| WandaVision. | ||
| I thought that was, I really liked it. | ||
| You had to skip the first three episodes or something. | ||
| I thought it was clever. | ||
| I enjoyed the cleverness of it. | ||
| Going through different genres, I mean, interesting filming. | ||
| I thought it was fun. | ||
| I haven't seen it before. | ||
| And then, like, I gotta be honest, like, that made no— like, Multiverse of Madness ends up making no sense. | ||
| They're turning every movie into an Avengers movie, and it's really boring. | ||
| Like, the first Doctor Strange was good. | ||
| It's about a guy, and he goes on this journey. | ||
| Now it's like every movie is an Avengers movie, and I'm just like... Anyway, let's read some more! | ||
| Regil says, G Prime, excited to see your amazing art in Death Mask, the second book in the Night Vale series by Hugo, nominated excellence of Elocution. | ||
| RazörFist, available for pre-order now. | ||
| Welcome to the Iron Age. | ||
| Hell yeah. | ||
| That was a lot of fun, actually. | ||
| I don't know if this is, like, widely known, but yeah, RazörFist, the YouTuber, the smack talker, was kind enough to ask me to illustrate his second book in the series. | ||
| It's called... | ||
| Well, this one's Death Mask. | ||
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| Max S. says, I would like to point out that in the New York 19th district race from earlier this week, the Democrats and media are bragging about beating the Republican by 2%. | ||
| In a district, Democrats won by 12% in 2020. | ||
| Red wave in November. | ||
| That's a 10 point swing. | ||
| We'll see, man. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| Let's grab some more Super Chats. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Cody Shifflett says, was wondering if you heard about Arizona passing a bill making it illegal to record cops within eight feet. | ||
| If it's true, I was hoping to get y'all's thoughts on it. | ||
| Love you guys. | ||
| Well, that's tough. | ||
| I mean, why are you walking within eight feet of a cop? | ||
| But the question is, if they're in the act of, you know, subduing somebody or arresting somebody. | ||
| Yeah, I don't like it. | ||
| I mean, I think you have a right to have video evidence to support yourself in court. | ||
| I do. | ||
| I mean, if you get pulled over, I think you should be able to record. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And I think it's accountability is the measure we should be asking for from police. | ||
| And, you know, I'm, again, I have a lot of Leo friends and I'm, I think they'd be fine with that too. | ||
| And the ones that probably aren't fine with it, those are the ones that have questions why they aren't. | ||
| Do they have body cams over there? | ||
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| Good question. | ||
| Because if I get pulled over and I start filming, and he comes within eight feet of me, am I breaking the rule now? | ||
| What about your Teslas? | ||
| They have cameras all over. | ||
| That's a great question. | ||
| The first step is to get a Tesla, I suppose. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| They have a left and a right side cam, a front cam, a back cam, a dash cam, and a cabin cam. | ||
| I remember I parked once next to a Tesla, and I was close to it, but I didn't hit it or anything, and I opened my door, and then I see on the dash it says recording. | ||
| I'm like, what the hell? | ||
| Yeah, it's called Sentry Mode. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it films everything you do. | ||
| So I took a crap on it and then I walked away. | ||
| I heard a story of somebody keyed a Tesla and it recorded him doing it. | ||
| Oh my. | ||
| Yeah, like, dude, Teslas are scary, man. | ||
| You stay away. | ||
| I'm gonna get a Tesla. Dude, the remote control feature is crazy. I never used it because I've | ||
| had Tesla for a while, but you can control the car remotely. | ||
| You can be far away and then press a button and the car will move with nobody in it. It's | ||
| really slow for obvious reasons, but it's kind of weird. One of his plans, Elon's plans, I believe is | ||
| to, you know, displace Uber by allowing you to set your Tesla to go Uber for you while you're not | ||
| using it and it'll drive around, pick people up and take them. Uber, Uber. | ||
| Uber is really, really bad, in my opinion, because these people who are doing this don't realize the wear and tear on their vehicle is eating away at the money they're making. | ||
| You're basically just selling the value of your car for a short-term gain, and then your car breaks down and runs out of gas. | ||
| It's kind of crazy. | ||
| I saw somebody wouldn't do air conditioning. | ||
| This was like four or five days ago. | ||
| My Uber driver won't put on the AC for gas, to save gas. | ||
| I always have the question, what happens when we have fully autonomous vehicles that just drive themselves? | ||
| Do we even have car insurance companies anymore? | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Do we see the car manufacturer? | ||
| Because it's their technology. | ||
| Interesting point. | ||
| I got dropped. | ||
| My Tesla got dropped from our insurance plan. | ||
| I don't know why. | ||
| Weird. | ||
| Tesla now offers insurance. | ||
| So here's what I think. | ||
| If a car is on auto drive and it crashes, whose fault is it? | ||
| Tesla. | ||
| Is it? | ||
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| Who gets sued? | ||
| It's gotta be the car's fault. | ||
| So what happens if, what happens if you get into a, you're driving and you crash and the other person says they were on auto drive. | ||
| I could tell their hands were down the wheel. | ||
| And then the guy, the person driving was like, I was driving. | ||
| I wasn't on, I wasn't, I wasn't on autopilot. | ||
| They're like, nope, nope. | ||
| Because if it was auto drive, I get to sue Tesla. | ||
| And then the insurance companies are like, we can't deal with whatever that's about. | ||
| Two different drivers at the same time, you and the company. | ||
| But here's the other thing too, um, I have a Honda and it's got, it's basically got auto drive as well. | ||
| They have lane control or whatever. | ||
| And so you put on cruise control and lane control and then it just drives on the highway for you. | ||
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| That's basically what Tesla does. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Aurora Isabella says, hi, Tim. | ||
| I listened to your will of the people song and I love it. | ||
| Will you ever have a live performance one day? | ||
| We actually jammed here with Carter, Pete Parata, Adrian, Norman, Ian, and actually it was really good. | ||
| I have harmonies for that song too. | ||
| They're not on the recording of it, but I'd like to play those live. | ||
| Yeah, we're probably going to re-upload the song to the new Timcast Records page, and then we have another version. | ||
| So our song, Only Ever Wanted, is going up at midnight tonight. | ||
| 12.01am tomorrow, technically. | ||
| And then, I don't know exactly when, but we have another version. | ||
| So this song has rock in it, but it's not a rock song. | ||
| I guess the best example, the closest I could probably get it to, is Cosmic Love by Florence, maybe. | ||
| But we have another version that's piano and violin, and then we're probably going to do a performance in here, in the studio, and then put that up. | ||
| We should do a lounge version of Will of the People, where it's like, this is the will of the people. | ||
| With some brushes. | ||
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| That'd be fun. | ||
| Let's see what we got here in the old Super Chats. | ||
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| William Hines says, didn't the FBI know the Russian interference was false the time they asked Facebook to censor? | ||
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| Interesting question. | ||
| Unless they're just trying to get negative stuff censored. | ||
| Well, here's a good example. | ||
| The FBI, a whistleblower came out and said that they were told by the top brass not to investigate the laptop because they didn't want to interfere in the election. | ||
| Then, right before a midterm, they raided Trump's house. | ||
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| Is this election interference? | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's why I think even now he's betting on just pissing everybody off. | ||
| 50k would be a disaster for Dems. 13% of adults have student loans. The remaining 87% aren't | ||
| likely to vote to pay for the 13%'s poor choices. Right. | ||
| That's why I think even now, he's betting on just pissing everybody off. Maybe they want to lose, man. | ||
| Sometimes it feels like they're so bad at what they do, they really do want | ||
| Republicans to win. | ||
| Like, they're trying to, like, my favorite conspiracy theory in this regard is that China created wokeness and, like, pumped it up through the media to destabilize the country, and now they're trying to get rid of wokeness by creating fake opposition. | ||
| Yeah, fun. | ||
| Dialectic. | ||
| Max Stahl says the Sandman is woke garbage, Dream Homie is naked in a bubble for all of the first episode, and one of the only straight couples in the show chains a black kid up in the basement. | ||
| I mean, the show's got its cringe, but the death episode is one of the greatest pieces of visual media I've ever seen. | ||
| It's on my to-watch list, that is. | ||
| I haven't started yet. | ||
| Have you seen it? | ||
| Which one is this? | ||
| Death. | ||
| The death episode. | ||
| Of what show? | ||
| Sandman. | ||
| Negative. | ||
| I haven't seen any of those. | ||
| It's not about any of this stuff. | ||
| Like, I don't want to ruin it. | ||
| Oh yeah, you were talking about that a couple nights ago, too. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| It's so good. | ||
| It's just absolutely brilliant. | ||
| Yeah, Neil Gaiman is a good author. | ||
| He wrote with Terry Pratchett, which I absolutely loved his work. | ||
| He did Good Omens, which was an incredible TV show, even though it was one of my favorite books as well. | ||
| I was like, this is amazing. | ||
| But he's a little woke. | ||
| So yeah, I mean, I guess it's probably par for the course. | ||
| Is death one of the characters in the show? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then there's an episode basically about death. | ||
| And it's really good. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| I want to talk smack to Matt. | ||
| I shouldn't say this. | ||
| I want to talk smack to Neil Gaiman. | ||
| I was, but this, I was just a little face to face. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| I was tweeting, you know, I was just this little account at the time. | ||
| And I guess he found his name and he's like, Hey, don't be, I don't know. | ||
| He said something. | ||
| I'm like, Whoa, who invited you to this conversation? | ||
| And he was like really like he jumped on me like wow I think I had said something like I like only one of his stories or something like that. | ||
| I liked Coraline and Stardust or something. | ||
| He's like well you know I'm not gonna pretend like I know what he said. | ||
| Why'd you show up? | ||
| Did you ever draw for other people's comics? | ||
| I mean, I know you just did one recently. | ||
| Well, yeah. | ||
| I mean, that's technically my job. | ||
| People just freelance me. | ||
| They say, hey, here's some money and you can do the illustrations. | ||
| So for instance, I was working on Razor Fists. | ||
| I just did illustrations, like black and white illustrations, like Frank Frazetta. | ||
| Cool. | ||
| When was the last time I did a big job? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| For a while I've been doing Indiegogo campaigns in my Etsy shop and stuff, so I have a series, a comic series, that I don't really have time to work on. | ||
| Two series, actually. | ||
| So it's really a matter of finding time, to be honest. | ||
| Do you get approached by Marvel and DC? | ||
| No, never, no. | ||
| I would be very surprised if they would even talk to me. | ||
| They would never work with me. | ||
| Would you work with them? | ||
| Um, not under their current leadership. | ||
| Um, I don't, I mean, first of all, I don't even think it's like remotely possible, uh, because of my reputation and stuff. | ||
| But even if for some reason they would hire me, um, I don't work super well with other people, especially like editor types and like, um, they have IPs already. | ||
| So you have to work within the bounds of what they would, uh, Oh, the character would never do this. | ||
| And I don't really like working within boundaries like that. | ||
| I want to be able to do. | ||
| Whatever I want to do. | ||
| So I like the indie stuff. | ||
| So I have a couple of series that I've been writing and drawing. | ||
| I have one black and white horror slash romance slash action story. | ||
| I have another one with like a derpy mecha suit pilot. | ||
| It's called Mary Sue, but the idea is that I want to take the tropes of like They complain about how there's not a lot of strong female characters Or they're too perfect and my idea was I want to take a character who's nothing but imperfections she has this power suit that she doesn't deserve and the joke is that she goes on these amazing quests and and fights monsters and pirates and stuff, but she She keeps failing and nobody wants her to save the day because she keeps ruining everything around and the joke is that She does not deserve to have this power suit and it's kind of like a comedy action But also I think it's quite well written if you ask me It's like I like the idea of a character with imperfections and especially a female character with imperfections because so many like she Hulk and stuff like that the conversation is | ||
| There's all these lady characters that have, their biggest problem is that they're compared to like male characters or society is against them. | ||
| It's like, no, no, let's have a female character with real imperfections. | ||
| You know, she's a derp, you know, she's clumsy or she's, she's terrible with guys, but she wants to have, you know, dates, but you know, guys look at her like she's a disease, you know, they avoid her. | ||
| Yeah, there'd be a lot of relatedness to that. | ||
| I think it would actually reach a lot of people on a real level. | ||
| Yeah, and it would be funny, it would be amazing for me to work with a publisher. | ||
| I've talked to a couple of publishers, but I think it's either the rejection for some reason, or I don't know if they are allergic to my name. | ||
| All right, let's read some more Super Chats. | ||
| Kevin Billa says, I wish Tim was on this latest episode of JRE with Mark. | ||
| You would have asked the real questions. | ||
| Joe missed so many opportunities. | ||
| Oh, jeez, oh no! | ||
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| I guess, Joe, you have to invite me on and then bring Mark Zuckerberg back. | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| That's how it happened the first time on Twitter. | ||
| People were critical of Joe because he didn't get to the core of these deeper cultural issues, and then Joe and I ended up having a conversation, and then Joe invited me on his show, and then Joe was like, bro, you wanna come back on with the Twitter CEO? | ||
| And I was like, are you nuts? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And then we did. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| Reid Boone says, today I had to say goodbye to my beloved 16 year old dog and best friend, Bama. | ||
| Tim, please say that thing you say about the pain of losing a dog. | ||
| So the way I describe it is, you have all of this great joy that builds up over the 16 years you had with your best friend. | ||
| And then when that dog passes, it all gets released at once. | ||
| All of those memories and all of that love getting released at the exact same time. | ||
| It's a powerful feeling. | ||
| I view it as, you know, it's painful at first, but you have to realize that it's a good feeling because all of that feeling only exists because you had that dog for as long as you did or that loved one or whoever. | ||
| And it is just like it was all built up, all that goodness, and then all at once. | ||
| So you might be crying, but you'd be smiling because that pain you're feeling is proof of the amazing best friend you just had and lost and all the great times you shared. | ||
| He says, Ian, please say something about how much of a good girl Bama was. | ||
| Bama. | ||
| Good job, Bama. | ||
| Best girl. | ||
| Best girl. | ||
| Jason Jax has just listened to Only Ever Wanted, Spotify, and I love it. | ||
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| It's not out yet. | ||
| Unless in some places people think it's the most pirated song of all time. | ||
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| The only thing that's up on our Spotify is the theme songs for Inverted World, which the Season 2 one actually is a really good song that I love playing, and Will of the People, and then the retro 8-bit Will of the People that Carter made. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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| Let's see. | ||
| We'll just grab a couple more here. | ||
| Let's see where Chet stopped. | ||
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| No, Super Chats, come back to us! | ||
| No, that's fine. | ||
| Alberto Chiprez says SheHulk will do to Daredevil what Hawkeye did to Kingpin. | ||
| I won't forgive them for that. | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| I'm not sure I understand. | ||
| Was Kingpin the villain in Hawkeye? | ||
| I didn't see it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then, like, you think he's dead, but now they're bringing him back in Echo, I think it is. | ||
| So, I think it's interesting. | ||
| They're bringing back Daredevil. | ||
| I think they're bringing back Jessica Jones, Luke Cage. | ||
| They're bringing all of them back. | ||
| But, you know, look, man, as a big fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it is collapsing. | ||
| It's become a soap opera, you know? | ||
| It's very soapy. | ||
| Again, people are dying, they're coming back. | ||
| I really don't like... Are they going somewhere? | ||
| I don't know if there's an endgame to this. | ||
| No plan works, I'm joking. | ||
| Well, here's the issue. | ||
| The first Iron Man was a character story. | ||
| The first Thor was a character story. | ||
| The first Captain America was a character story. | ||
| Then they did sequels, follows up on those characters. | ||
| I thought all of the first three Iron Man movies were really good. | ||
| I liked all of the Captain America movies, but Captain America was just Avengers. | ||
| The first one was Captain America. | ||
| Then the second one was mini Avengers. | ||
| Winter Soldier. | ||
| Then the third one, Civil War, was Avengers fighting each other. | ||
| Thor, I guess they got worried because people didn't like Dark World. | ||
| So they made the Thor comedy hour, starring Taika Waititi. | ||
| It's a great movie. | ||
| Really enjoyed it. | ||
| But then they made Love and Thunder, which is the clown hour with Tekko YTT featuring Thor, and it's just like... They've lost it. | ||
| I haven't seen it yet. | ||
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| I mean, I like it. | ||
| But my point is that it's just really off. | ||
| Like, the whole MCU is just chaos now. | ||
| And now they're gonna make Blade. | ||
| So what, vampires exist? | ||
| They're gonna do the mutants. | ||
| So what, mutants have always existed? | ||
| How do you do Charles Xavier? | ||
| Oh, whatever, man. | ||
| If they ruin Blade, I won't forgive them. | ||
| Yeah, maybe. | ||
| I want to point people to this again, the Infinity Gauntlet. | ||
| Let's talk us out, and I'll tell you a little bit about this. | ||
| Alright, everybody! | ||
| If you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share this show with your friends, and head over to TimCast.com, become a member, we have a members-only show coming up at 11pm, uncensored, not family-friendly. | ||
| You can follow the show at TimCast.org, you can follow me at TimCast. | ||
| Adam, do you want to shout anything out? | ||
| You can follow me on social media if you'd like. | ||
| It's just pictures of my family and me doing terrible, hilarious things. | ||
| It's AdamNotThatOneGuyJohnson with periods in between the words. | ||
| We also have MrGPrime85. | ||
| Do you want to shout anything out? | ||
| That's it. | ||
| I'm gprime85, and you guys can follow me on Instagram, Twitter, and I poop post all the time. | ||
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| Poop post. | ||
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Poop post. | |
| Yeah, I like that. | ||
| Nice job. | ||
| And I'm Ian Cross, and I want to tell you, if you do like Marvel or want to like Marvel or want to understand why people like Marvel, it is because of things like this. | ||
| This is the Infinity Gauntlet, episode number one, or issue number one. | ||
| This is one of the greatest comics ever written, in my opinion. | ||
| I haven't read them all, but this is... | ||
| I mean, they made movies. | ||
| They made many, many movies about this. | ||
| This is where it all begins. | ||
| And it's not... I don't know. | ||
| I didn't see the movie. | ||
| But the comic's incredible. | ||
| It's about life and death and love and hate and utilitarianism. | ||
| It's fantastic. | ||
| See you later. | ||
| Alright, you guys, thank you so much for joining me on this eventful Thursday night. | ||
| My thoughts are certainly with you. | ||
| To the owner of Bama, I'm very sorry that she passed away. | ||
| I'm so glad you got to spend so many good years with her. | ||
| You guys can follow me on Twitter and Minds.com at Sour Patchlets, as well as SourPatchlets.me. | ||
| We will see you all over at TimCast.com. |
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