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Timcast IRL - Putin Deploys Nuclear TSUNAMI BOMB Submarine, Mobilizes Nuke Crews w/Benny Johnson
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ian crossland
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tim pool
NATO has warned that Vladimir Putin has deployed a submarine carrying the Poseidon
tsunami bomb.
Now, this is not to imply that they're planning on using it on Western nations or anything like that, but this is a bomb that can apparently create a radioactive tsunami.
What are you doing here, Ian?
ian crossland
Prepping for the show.
tim pool
About five minutes too late.
Too late.
ian crossland
Thanks, Tim.
tim pool
So this is a tsunami bomb.
It is being tested.
And they don't believe the weapon can be deployed until 2027.
But they apparently have it.
They just need to try it.
And the question is, if they need to test it, why not just test it now?
The other bigger issue is that there's a train scene moving in satellite imagery, which carries the crew for nuclear rocketry and other things like that.
So they do believe that Vladimir Putin is advancing the mobilization of nuclear weapons.
And I just got to say, you know, these people who think it can't happen, maybe Maybe it's optimism, maybe it's normalcy bias.
But Vladimir Putin does not seem like the kind of guy who wants to lose or will let the West steamroll him.
And now it looks like NATO is stepping ever closer to actively being... I mean, we know they're involved in the war.
We know NATO, us, everybody.
It's this, you know, multi-front war.
But they're getting close to actually just saying, okay, we're here.
So, Elon Musk goes on Twitter and says we need to negotiate peace.
The Washington Post editorial board says we need to stop this.
I mean, this is the Washington Post.
And, of course, Ukrainian officials, including Zelensky himself, basically rag on Elon Musk like, no.
These people are dragging us into World War III.
It's insane.
So we'll talk about that.
We got a couple other stories.
We've got Kanye West and Candace Owens apparently wore White Lives Matter shirts.
So, uh, well, that's a thing.
And then we have this, uh, this cultural story.
We have, um, Billy Eichner's gay rom-com Bros bombed.
And apparently it's because of homophobia or something, so, sure.
We'll talk about that stuff.
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Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Benny Johnson.
benny johnson
What's up?
Great to be here.
tim pool
Who are you?
benny johnson
Huge fan.
For a long time.
tim pool
Oh, appreciate it, man.
benny johnson
Host of the Benny Show podcast.
Host of the Benny Report on Newsmax.
Turning Point USA contributor.
Benny on the block.
Little man on the street show.
And memer.
tim pool
Right on.
You got attacked recently, didn't you?
benny johnson
My memes.
tim pool
Your memes?
benny johnson
Yeah, so not actually mine, so the memes of a great couple of memers, NotProsso and Drafenzor.
It was a tasteful meme of Kamala Harris laughing to mariachi music as a bus full of criminal migrants pull into her lawn.
And we played that at the University of Iowa, my alma mater, and a very sad person went and attacked the projector.
I don't know if this person, if Panasonic hurt this man at one point or another.
We don't know.
We do know that the left can't meme, and now we have proven it physically.
We say it a lot, that the left can't meme, but now we actually physically manifested
that the left can't meme as his little bird bone, like hollow leg, like kicked the projector,
went about a foot, smashed it on the ground, and then he went running out, screaming that
we were racist.
tim pool
He got arrested, didn't he?
benny johnson
He did get arrested, fifth degree misdemeanor assault.
Spent the night in jail, but nothing can be more painful than waking up and finding that
you yourself are the meme in the morning.
And so the internet was just filled with glorious, glorious waterfall of memes of this guy kicking.
The favorite one was definitely the replacement of the meme we were playing with very racist things that Joe Biden has said throughout his career.
unidentified
Wow.
benny johnson
Like, if you don't vote for me, you're not black.
unidentified
Yeah.
benny johnson
And so on and so forth.
Joe Biden saying that, you know, that Mexicans are tacos and so on.
tim pool
Well, all right, man.
Should be fun.
We also have Mr. Lucard Kasky himself.
luke rudkowski
Hey, guys, I'm not kicked out of the show yet.
Today, I'm also wearing a very prophetic shirt that was originally released in 2019 and became very true.
It has the official Biden and Kamala logo with them saying we're going to be arresting people for victimless crimes.
That actually pretty much actually did happen, is happening to a lot of people.
If you like the shirt, you can get it on thebestpoliticalshirts.com.
ian crossland
I'm still reeling from Friday.
Luke, that was grotesque.
luke rudkowski
I got the camera shut down.
ian crossland
Benny, it's great to see you, man.
luke rudkowski
What's up?
ian crossland
Tim got me a gift this weekend.
He went to Cooper's Rocks in West Virginia and got me some of these delicious, gorgeous jelly beans.
They're actually just polished rocks.
unidentified
Don't eat them.
ian crossland
I used to treat them like jelly beans when I was a kid and never really ate one or anything.
You know, you were saying the left can't meme.
I think angry people can't meme.
unidentified
Yes.
ian crossland
But they can be memed, which is what seems to keep happening, is these people that are angry maybe go crazy and become revolutionary or disenfranchised and call them leftists or whatever you want to call them.
But man, when you're in a state of anger, it's impossible to make light of something.
That's my experience.
benny johnson
So Ian, I'm 36 years old.
I was born in 1986.
And you could go back in my childhood and turn on late night TV, and you could still find them making fun... Is that you again, Ian?
unidentified
No.
lydia smith
Ian's making weird noises over here.
unidentified
Doorbell.
ian crossland
What the heck?
lydia smith
Anyway.
ian crossland
Yeah, what was that?
I don't think so.
lydia smith
I don't know.
That was weird.
ian crossland
Continue.
lydia smith
Continue, continue.
benny johnson
Making fun of the left.
It used to be a thing that you could do on Saturday Night Live, right?
They went really hard after Al Gore, when he was running for president.
You used to make fun of people on the left, and they haven't been made fun of in corporate media culture in a very, very long time.
It's been years, right?
Ever since Trump, you're no longer allowed to make fun of these people in this movement, and I think it's very healthy, actually.
So science proves that when you're laughing together and with each other, then that actually creates bonds.
And so you should want people to laugh at themselves, at their own political movement, at the stupidity of their own politicians.
This is comedy gold, by the way, the Biden administration.
This should be like the golden era of SNL and of late night comedy, the Biden administration.
But you can't find me a single joke.
Jimmy Fallon told a joke about Biden.
And it went viral among the conservative media ecosystem.
Because, like, a guy telling a joke about Biden, right?
And so because they never get laughed at, they respond like this when I play a meme for them.
They have never been made fun of, and so... It hurts.
tim pool
It physically hurts.
They feel pain.
benny johnson
That's right.
And so the soy, in rage, the soy-filled bloodstream, like, goes, you know, becomes enraged.
And then they just react violently because they don't know what else to do.
tim pool
Yeah, a lot of people don't know this, but the Incredible Hulk originally, it was soy.
benny johnson
He was a leftist.
ian crossland
Well, I'm here so that you can make fun of someone on the left.
I'll be your resident leftist.
And if you agree with me, put a one in the chat.
lydia smith
I love it.
I'm very excited.
tim pool
Are you trying to trick people?
ian crossland
It's all about the art of war, man.
Feign weakness when you're strong.
lydia smith
That's right.
I appreciate this practice of the art of war.
Thank you very much, Ian.
I'm very excited to have you, Benny.
I'm stoked to see what memes we get into tonight.
I am also here pushing buds in the corner.
Let's go.
unidentified
All right.
tim pool
Here's the story from Timcast.com.
Russia deploys sub armed with weapon of the apocalypse.
The Poseidon torpedo could destroy European cities by creating a tsunami wave the size of four and a half football fields.
Well, the sub named Belgorod has disappeared from its harbor in the Arctic, promoting NATO to warn member countries that Russia may be planning to test its Poseidon torpedo, which is an intercontinental nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered autonomous weapon.
lydia smith
I think that should be prompting NATO to warn other countries.
Prompting?
unidentified
Yeah.
lydia smith
Copy editor.
tim pool
Oh yeah, I see there's a P, it's supposed to be prompting.
So some people have said it's a hundred megaton torpedo.
The more reasonable estimates is two megatons, which is still nightmarish.
Apparently this autonomous drone torpedo is nuclear powered.
It's got its own small reactor, which means it has an infinite range.
Not literally infinite, but that it could hit anything on the planet.
It could go and just hit it.
So he's deployed this, uh, this sub.
They're saying he's gonna test it, and they're not convinced that the weapon will- is actually- can be used just now.
ian crossland
Somebody's- That's not coming from me.
luke rudkowski
Not me either.
lydia smith
What is that?
No, nothing's popping up.
tim pool
Someone keeps making a noise.
ian crossland
That's coming from the mainframe.
luke rudkowski
No, it's coming from the main computer.
unidentified
Not anyone else.
tim pool
Main computer?
We don't have speakers on the computer.
lydia smith
No, we don't.
luke rudkowski
Somewhere.
ian crossland
Maybe it's this Bluetooth thing.
lydia smith
I've never heard that noise before.
ian crossland
It's coming from Luke's face.
tim pool
So anyway, back to nuclear annihilation.
That's right.
It could be here.
ian crossland
It could be the submarine.
tim pool
So this theoretically could hit anywhere on the planet.
Now, I don't know if this is the big concern because it's not been tested.
And I guess the estimate here is they say it's not gonna be operational until 2027.
I suppose if they have it and it's like partially functional, why not test it if they need to?
You know what I mean?
ian crossland
Well, now's not a good time to test a weapon because it'll look like they're preparing to launch.
I think, geopolitically, the mediocre intelligent people will be like, oh no, that means they're getting prepared to use it.
Well, this is why... Which I guess they technically are.
tim pool
This is why the US, like, cancelled a few, you know, what was it, like, Titan missile tests?
But what I mean is, if they haven't tested it yet...
Why does that matter?
If they have it, and it might or might not work, they will use it if they need to.
And we can flip a coin and wonder which city is going to get wiped out in a radioactive tsunami, or we can just be like, hey, maybe we should stop the war.
ian crossland
Also, how many of these do they have?
How many autonomous weapons are available?
Like, this is the future of modern war, at least the present day modern war is autonomous nuclear weapons that can take out cities from a distance.
luke rudkowski
Well, we need to be, you know, honest with ourselves.
We don't know exactly what they have.
A lot of the times military technology is far behind what the general public believes is even out there.
But for the record, Russia has 6,255 nuclear warheads.
That's the recorded amount that, of course, everyone publicly talks about.
But again, what we're talking about here is a new form of weaponry that is going to, of course, launch a nuclear weapon underwater and launch a tsunami with With radioactive waste onto a shoreline.
This is what they're talking about.
I don't know how you test these certain types of weapons, but it's not just the submarine that we should be worrying about.
Israeli intelligence is also documenting how Russian bombers capable of a nuclear attack were just found near Finland.
There's the of course the nuclear train that people are talking about so it definitely does seem like Russia is allowing a lot of its nuclear assets to be deployed whether tested or or not we don't know exactly what's going on here but regardless I think this is news that I think we should be paying more attention to.
tim pool
Here's what people need to understand too.
I'd be willing to bet the first the first target of any kind of nuclear strike, it's going to be tactical nukes, it's going to be nuclear artillery.
So Russia will fire at a military target, probably a shot across the bow, meaning it'll hit nothing.
And then it'll be devastating.
And that's them being like, we're doing it.
Then if the war continues, they'll use nuclear artillery against military targets.
Then they'll probably use lower-yield nuclear weapons against smaller cities.
It'll draw up.
But if it really gets to full-scale nuclear war, then you don't need to worry about New York, DC, LA, or Chicago.
You need to worry about small towns.
They're not going, I would imagine Russia is not going to target, if they're going for a shock and awe kind of nuclear strike against a US city, which I don't think is very likely at all.
It's going to be a small city.
What's a good example?
Name a small city, can you think of one?
unidentified
Dubuque.
tim pool
Dubuque?
ian crossland
Love you guys.
tim pool
That's a good point, that's a good city actually.
benny johnson
Dubuque, Iowa?
ian crossland
Yeah.
tim pool
Yeah, that actually, I don't know their population, it's probably a couple hundred thousand maybe, but this is exactly what I mean.
If the people who live in small towns think, ah, it's New York, ah, it's DC, I ain't got anything to worry about.
If they want to cause shock and awe damage and really paralyze the economy and the American people, going after a big city just confirms that they feel safe.
We're not in the big city, we don't got anything to worry about.
It would be bad, it would be scary, but, you know, we're in the middle of nowhere.
They go after Dubuque, everyone, everywhere in the country is going to be worried.
ian crossland
That's what freaks me out.
Like, I don't know if 9-11, I don't know who did it, I still don't, but I am not putting it past the government to nuke one of its small towns or cities and blame it on the Russians.
That's been on my mind lately is like a full-scale 200,000 people are just evaporated or obliterated.
And then everyone's in such pain and trauma that whoever they point you towards, you end up being like, I'm so angry.
Okay.
They're the enemy.
Okay.
I need an enemy right now.
And that's just be on guard for that kind of crap.
benny johnson
Right.
So it's like Chernobyl melts down and they're picking that, that radiation in Switzerland.
unidentified
Yeah.
benny johnson
So that's a thousand miles.
And so what, you know, if you, even if you nuked Dubuque, well, what's within a thousand miles of Dubuque and you have, you have so many cities, Des Moines, Chicago, like you have so many cities that could also be affected by the Dubuque nuke, if that's what we're going to call it.
tim pool
It's all gonna blow east, I think.
benny johnson
Dubnuk.
ian crossland
It's a very Russian way to say it.
tim pool
Dubnuk.
escalate his Ukraine war.
The military hardware belongs to the 12th Main Directorate of the Russian MOD.
Specialist Division is dedicated to storage, maintenance, and provision of nukes.
I was saying this earlier, everybody right now is talking about nuclear weapons, but
yo, these things are like, what, 80 years old?
Not like every nuke is 80 years old, but the technology.
You have to imagine they've developed different weapons by now, right?
luke rudkowski
Absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt.
I mean, 80 years?
unidentified
80 years?
tim pool
What we've seen in Nagasaki?
luke rudkowski
And Hiroshima.
And those attacked major cities that were key infrastructure for, of course, the Japanese military.
They had a lot of factories there.
They had a lot of production there.
What's Russia going to do?
Bomb China for producing all the infrastructure for the United States?
So there's a lot of complexities to our modern day.
And there's also talk of low yield nuclear weapons that don't have any radioactivity that just provide kind of a big boom there.
What we're talking about right now is just crazy, crazy stuff that is even preposterous that we're at this level where we are at right now.
This is crazy.
tim pool
I want to go back to World War II and just imagine what they were thinking before the deployment of nuclear bombs, right?
They had rocket, the V-2 rockets, they had, you know, what, they had Zeppelins dropping stuff or something?
ian crossland
Well, they were using B-2 or B-52s to drop, I think a B-52, drop firebomb.
They firebombed Dresden before the nukes went off.
tim pool
So that right there was already kind of like a dramatic escalation.
Imagine if they, in World War II, were concerned about the most powerful and devastating weapon of like 1860.
You know, like we're talking about 80 years ago, we developed these these these fission bombs, these nuclear
Yeah.
bombs.
And then of course, since then, we've dramatically increased their power by like 1000 fold and put them on ICBMs.
Now we have this torpedo.
I'm willing to bet I'm just gonna say it off top of my head, antimatter weapons probably exist in great yield.
ian crossland
You don't know what's coming.
This is the point of modern war is you don't know.
A big point of it.
You watch the Great War on YouTube.
Fantastic channel documents World War I week by week.
They didn't know what machine guns were.
Not really.
They didn't know that they were running into a machine gun for like weeks and weeks and even maybe months.
They just got up and just kept running and just kept getting killed.
Millions of people who just keep running into this new weapon that they didn't understand.
And then in World War II, they didn't think a nuclear bomb was going to take out Hiroshima.
They didn't know that that existed, that that potential was there.
Lo and behold, in a split second things can change.
benny johnson
So this is a story that broke last week, last Friday.
The first transgender officer in the U.S.
Army, Wright, arrested being a Russian spy, traitor to our country.
Now this is what I found very, very interesting in the story.
What were the Russians after?
So, what were presumably they wanting?
What were they wanting?
What information?
unidentified
Medical data.
benny johnson
Health records.
Right, that's right.
Well, they weren't going after Delta Force's, like, capacity of firepower, or what special weapons they had, or night vision goggles.
They were going after the medical records.
Now, what does this mean?
Gordon Chang says that China is working on, you know, biomedical DNA attracted, uh, you know, devastate.
I'm not sure how you would even call it.
Like, what would you even call it?
DNA markers that say like, we're going to make a specific death for you based on your genetic code.
And China's going full in on this technology to figure out how to kill whole groups of people.
And this of course is the James Bond plot for the last James Bond movie.
ian crossland
You don't want them to know that you're attacking them.
That's the point.
They want to do it invisibly, quietly, subtly.
You don't want to drop weapons that you see coming.
tim pool
You guys know about Stuxnet?
This was a cyber weapon developed by the US and Israel to blow up Iranian nuclear centrifuges to stop them from obviously, you know, getting nuclear power or weapons or whatever you want to call it.
So this was a cyber weapon that was basically just spattered across the planet.
They infected everything and said sooner or later it will find its way onto their computers.
And it did.
It did nothing until it found the centrifuges.
And then it caused them to spin until they exploded.
But this virus was apparently on regular machines and industrial machines, but it wouldn't do anything.
That's exactly it.
I wonder if back then, someone saw that and said, we can do that on the computer, can we do that on a person?
You create a virus, a bioweapon, that will infect every person on the planet, but only cause damage in certain DNA.
What movie was it, James Bond?
benny johnson
James Bond.
This was the exact plot of the last James Bond film.
And we know that the Central Intelligence Agency has a bureau in Hollywood that they openly push the new horrors to humanity through Hollywood cinema.
And that they are probably concerned about this because this is what was happening.
This exact thing was happening in the James Bond film.
There's a black character, female character, right?
People thought she might have been the new James Bond, right?
007 takes time off and she becomes 007.
Anyway, at the end of the film, the mad scientist is like, I could make a disease.
They're in there, his lair, and he goes, I could wipe out your entire race, right?
That was his threat to her, is that I could wipe out your entire people based on the genetic code.
tim pool
Hold on, hold on.
Who would this most negatively impact?
Not the United States.
lydia smith
China?
tim pool
China is more ethnically homogenous.
ian crossland
But it doesn't have to be about your ethnic genetics.
It could be about a trigger.
So like an external stimuli, a light or a sound could trigger your genetic to do the thing to activate it.
It could be something you eat.
It could be a feel and emotion you have could trigger it.
tim pool
Some kind of chemical release in your brain activates it or something like that.
benny johnson
They did a mass murder of a group at the beginning of the movie.
I mean, obviously, it's not a documentary, okay?
Like, it's a James Bond film.
But they killed a specific targeted group of people because they all took a tablet, right?
They took a pill that you could give the military, let's say.
Everyone in the military, they all take, like, very similar medicines.
Obviously, vaccine mandates, so on and so forth.
And so, you could target them based on the medicine that they take.
tim pool
There was some show that I was watching.
What was it?
Fringe.
Yeah, Fringe had an episode like this, right?
Where this guy is developing this kind of smell that if you smell it, it kills you.
It was trying to target a specific person to their genetics, something like that.
Something like that.
I don't know.
Yeah, I haven't seen it in a while.
Yo, this is crazy because it feels like...
We all do these shows, and we're like, nuclear weapons, and then the TV's like, nuclear weapons and Putin, and everyone's like, oh, and then meanwhile, behind the scenes and all the top secret clearance stuff, they're like, if only you knew.
ian crossland
Dude, bioweapons are no joke.
luke rudkowski
Well, China was caught taking people's COVID tests and then genetically harvesting the DNA from it.
U.S.
intelligence agencies were specifically... I was talking about this, I think, a year ago on this show.
I was saying, hey, the Chinese government is stealing everyone's COVID tests.
U.S.
intelligence agencies are warning medical facilities not to get rid of their tests in a way where, of course, the Chinese government could get them.
They have been getting them.
They have been harvesting the data for multiple reasons.
One is an economic reason.
Another reason could be, of course, a new form of warfare, germ warfare, DNA-specific warfare that I think is also on the possibility.
But the more likely possibility that, of course, people need to understand here is that China also wants to game the big pharma market.
So if they have everyone's DNA, they know what people will be getting sick of.
They could start producing and manufacturing medicine to beat out big pharma and become the next big overruling kind of power.
tim pool
So for all of the people that may be listening and they're going, no, that's crazy.
China's not taking your DNA.
I give you NPR!
China wants your data and may already have it.
February 24th, 2021.
From all things considered, they say, as COVID cases began to rise a year ago, a Chinese company contacted several U.S.
states and offered to set up testing labs.
As a byproduct, the Chinese firm Beijing Genomics Institute would likely gain access to the DNA of those tested.
The offer was tempting for states struggling to set their own testing facilities for a new virus on short notice, but U.S.
national security officials urged the states to reject the offer, citing concerns about how China might use personal data collected on Americans.
We certainly reached out to our partners in the community to make sure blah blah blah blah blah.
This is just one of the earlier stories.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, it definitely makes you wonder why the COVID tests were free.
You know, and giving out to everyone.
tim pool
No, no, no, hold on though.
Those you didn't return, right?
So what this is more about is facilities where you'd pull up and they'd test you and then we'll call you back later.
luke rudkowski
Exactly.
tim pool
The COVID test you got at home, you like snorted into or whatever and then you threw it in the trash.
luke rudkowski
You had to buy those, right?
Right, right, right.
But the free ones, they had your DNA sample.
tim pool
No, no, no, the ones they give you at your house, they were the same ones from the grocery store or whatever.
What they're talking about is there were places you could go to get tested where you'd drive up in your car, they'd stick you in the nose and say, we'll call you back on Wednesday and let you know.
That's where the concern is on whether or not they were getting access to your DNA.
benny johnson
I mean, to Luke's point, how much of our pharmaceuticals is processed in China?
luke rudkowski
A lot?
Majority?
benny johnson
I mean, the vast majority.
I don't know the exact number.
I'm sure it's easily, uh, you know, you can easily find it.
I can Google it right now.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, vitamin C, supplements, all of it.
Antibiotics.
benny johnson
I just want to make sure.
I just want to make sure I clarify too.
tim pool
As much as they go on to say that, um, you know, these states turned it down.
This is funny.
They were like, the national security said, don't do it because, you know, China would get access to your data.
We certainly reached out to our partners in the community to make sure.
Oh, it sounds like it didn't happen.
NPR goes on to say, Beijing Genomics Institute, a major global player in the world of genomics research, reported a set of labs in at least 18 other countries and provided COVID testing kits to 180 nations, including the U.S.
unidentified
Great.
tim pool
So here's the other crazy thing too, is like Ancestry and like, what is it, 23andMe?
23andMe, I'm just looking it up.
of full-service labs, the officials do not consider the testing kits to pose a serious
risk.
Biotech companies in China, the US, and elsewhere routinely collect DNA and use it, blah blah
blah.
You get it.
You get it.
So here's the other crazy thing too, is like, Ancestry and like, what is it, 23andMe?
23andMe, I'm just looking it up.
ian crossland
People are just like, I'm gonna give my DNA.
tim pool
And then a company buys 23andMe.
ian crossland
Who's gonna give their DNA?
Who owns it?
I don't know.
Do you know the guy that owns 23andMe, personally?
I'm asking you.
luke rudkowski
I believe also the FDA made an announcement that they were taking some of the tests and running larger projects and scientific experiments with them based off human DNA.
tim pool
Okay, now, I know it sounds freaky, right?
But hear me out.
What if the genomics lab that has everybody's DNA releases a virus and it turns people into crazy, like, animal hybrids, like werewolves and lizard people?
benny johnson
Wouldn't that be cool?
luke rudkowski
Reality is a lot scarier than your fiction here, Tim.
Especially when you look at individuals- Animals.
benny johnson
Animorphs.
ian crossland
Animorphs.
benny johnson
We were just talking about animorphs.
Yeah.
What animal would you become if you were an animorph?
tim pool
I'm not saying that people get the ability to choose a term.
I'm saying they would be forcefully turned into a variety of different animals.
Like Luke would be like a lemur guy and Ian would be a horse dude or something.
Oh, all right.
luke rudkowski
Like BoJack Horseman.
Can we stop talking about animorphs and can we start talking about the billionaires that
are invested in a lot of these companies?
Individuals like Bill Gates that are literally creating GMO genetically engineered mosquitoes that are meant to wipe out the populations of mosquitoes.
And if he could do this to one group of animals, what makes you think he can't do it to another group of animals?
tim pool
Can we talk about Bill Gates real quick?
Because before the show, we have this story.
From Slay News, Bill Gates warns civil war is coming, we'll bring it all to an end, but we've covered this before.
We covered this story, and actually it got a ton of play, but Luke mentioned something else, that Bill Gates has a group of people tracking what people say about him on the internet, and I didn't believe it, and so Luke was like, pull it up, there's a quote from Bill Gates, quote, I have a group that tracks what's on the web that's talking about things that connect to me, he said.
Overwhelmingly during the pandemic, 95% was all the conspiracy theory stuff.
luke rudkowski
That we're right!
They were right!
tim pool
Well, now hold on.
luke rudkowski
Majority of it.
I would say 95% of that stuff.
Not nothing, yeah.
tim pool
Majority of it.
luke rudkowski
There were some crazy looney tunes that talked about aliens and all this other stuff to money the waters here.
There was a lot of crazy people that made stuff up out of nowhere, but when it came to the scientists, the professionals, the researchers, the politicians who came forward that were censored, they were deemed conspiracy theories and a lot of them were right.
tim pool
But they weren't talking about Bill Gates.
A lot of the stuff people talk about Bill Gates, they go over the top with.
You need to talk about Bill Gates in the context of the thing.
luke rudkowski
No, no, no.
He says not about him.
He says the pandemic.
He says, overwhelmingly, during the pandemic, it was all conspiracy stuff.
tim pool
Right, right, right.
unidentified
Talking about him.
tim pool
He says, connect to me.
He was saying that people were talking about him, and during the pandemic, it was all conspiracy theory stuff.
I'm saying, be careful about the weird lizard people attempts, because that's how they discredit you.
luke rudkowski
Absolutely.
tim pool
Focus on Bill Gates' TED Talk, where he says, we need to reduce population growth.
And then they start doing these things, claiming it's not about population growth, and I have to wonder what their priorities are.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, but not only that, if you look at the statement above the quote that you just read there, it says specifically, Gates also revealed that he's been trying to come up with a solution for tracking, tackling, Misinformation and conspiracy theories.
So he's going after the individuals who pretty much, overall, a lot of them have been batting 100.
He's the main guy funding NewsGuard.
He's the one funding a lot of these fact checkers.
tim pool
Real quick, we get a lot of flack for this.
Microsoft has a contract with NewsGuard, not direct funding.
luke rudkowski
Of course.
But he also came out and it recently was revealed that he funded Dan Crenshaw, Mitt Romney, Marco Rubio.
He's also, of course, behind the Inflation Reduction Act.
He's bragging about how he made that bill, was a part of writing it.
He's going to be enforcing it.
This is the bill that, of course, provides 80,000 new IRS agents, is going to be centralizing a lot of control and regulations here.
So, I mean, this man with 242,000 acres in 18 states Talking about keeping an eye on people who talk about him?
I mean, that should raise some eyebrows.
tim pool
We also have this story.
Bill Gates admits that telling people not to eat meat won't solve climate change, despite previously saying U.S.
should move to 100% synthetic beef and investing in plant-based firms.
You know, look, they do all these things, they say climate change, but it kind of feels like what they're really saying is overpopulation.
luke rudkowski
Well, yeah, and also this is self-interested.
Bill Gates has a lot of patents, a lot of investments, and a lot of money into meatless diets that, of course, a lot of the science has been questioned.
Some of the science has actually even been debunked and purely does highlight something that a lot of people do see as something nefarious since, of course, meat, especially organ meat, has a lot of important macronutrients, has a lot of important nutrition that a lot of people are being denied the access
to. So a lot of people of course are coming up with theories, but obviously with
this man having so much control, so much land, so much money, so much power,
there should at least be some accountability, at least some criticism to him and his
organization.
ian crossland
I think the factory farming industry is grotesque and it's not something that gets
enough attention in modern media. Like when you see the pools of large lakes of
blood and feces, like brown red feces mud, and they'll ban like drones
above their factories so you can't see them. And then when you see in like
internal videos of like these, no offense to people that work in these jobs, because
I don't know what the hell that must be like to kill animals all day, but like
Like, people that have gone so far, they see the pig and they just think, it's a thing that I need to kill right now, and they'll take baby ones and smash them, pick them up by their leg and smash their heads on the concrete.
You hear the baby pigs squealing and dying, and then it's like, this is how we have been sourcing the meat for this amount of population.
I get where Bill Gates is coming from, because this is grotesque.
That doesn't need to be curbed.
luke rudkowski
I think it's part of why he's not on this crusade.
That's not what he's saying, but what about all the other animals that are killed and hurt in the making of a lot of these, you know, vegan products?
ian crossland
Oh yeah, when you talk about when they harvest grain, for instance, they take these combines and they grind up huge amounts of wheat, but all these deer are in there.
They just hunker down and wait.
Rabbits.
I mean, it's not animal friendly, the way that they harvest massive amounts of grain.
luke rudkowski
Absolutely not.
But again, this is not kind of what Bill Gates is saying here.
tim pool
Yeah, he's not talking about that.
He's talking about it takes too much carbon to make a cow.
ian crossland
Factory farming is intensely carbon.
It's carbon intensive, for sure.
tim pool
They release a lot of burps.
The crazy thing I learned is that broiler chickens, factory rate, like, you know, people say, like, there's such a thing as a factory farm.
Look at these pictures of, like, this building full of just chickens.
Six weeks until they harvest the chicken.
That's crazy to me because we have, you know, backyard chickens.
Six weeks is tiny, you know?
ian crossland
They just got them on steroids.
tim pool
Yeah, they're hopped up on goofballs to make them grow real quick and nasty, like, But I don't know, look, just because we have problems in that capacity, I'll admit, Bill Gates telling people not to eat meat is nuts.
My point here is, they keep saying climate change, but look at the actions that they're engaged in.
When they're saying, hey, we want to get rid of fossil fuels, it's like, okay, well, people will die if you do that.
It's like, yeah, well, climate change.
It's like, okay.
Well, we don't want people farming in the Netherlands right now during a food shortage, during a war.
It's like, okay, well, that's not climate change.
They're like, we're concerned about nitrogen levels in the Netherlands.
It's like, yeah, but there's a food shortage coming because of the war in Ukraine, right?
They're like, uh, yeah, well, whatever.
They should stop making food.
So you want the food to be worse?
There was a great point that was brought up by Jeremy Boring when he was on the show.
And he said, nothing matters without humans.
We are humans.
Our experience is human.
We care about the human experience.
So this idea that we would sacrifice humanity for something else makes no sense.
Or he said something to that effect.
I don't want to misquote him, but he made a really good point.
Like, humans exist for humans.
Like, we have to be good stewards of the Earth, that's what he said.
But also like, our drives, our passions, our desires, our experiences is relative to humans.
So if we were thinking of sacrificing all of humanity for the sake of, you know, climate change, Well, what's the point?
Stopping climate change to save humans when humans are going to die if you don't have food, something doesn't add up there, you know what I mean?
luke rudkowski
Yeah, I think that there's a... And, you know, the person saying there's too many people in this world so you've got to give us all the power and all the money because we are going to help everyone should really have someone looking side-eyed at them.
And again, you have to look at Bill Gates and the work that he's produced, you know, the products that he produced.
Vandana Shiva actually came out And and did a very excellent kind of speech about what ... Bill Gates has done to India with his centralization of ... farmers you see what he has called for you see the work ... that he has done with China advising them working with ... them on many projects calling for many of the most ... restrictive covid policies celebrating their lockdowns I ... mean this this is a man who has a vision for humanity that I ... think should be critiqued a little bit.
And not promoted because the corporate media regurgitates a lot of what he has to say uncritically as of course he also gives hundreds of millions of dollars to the corporate media he's invested in the Guardian the BBC MSNBC and his money has been spread around everywhere especially in the scientific community where it has created the bill chill.
Where many scientists are even too afraid to criticize him or his products because they know some kind of funding is going to be taken away if they criticize him.
And this is why, in my opinion, Bill Gates is bragging about how he has people that track people online that talk about him as he's now trying to delve into dealing with misinformation and conspiracy theories.
It's not a coincidence.
benny johnson
Why can't these super rich-ass people just, like, be super rich and be happy?
What is the emptiness in their soul?
What is driving this?
Now, as a Christian, I can, like, I have my own thoughts on this.
However, like, why?
Why make the world a worse place?
Why take away meat for the rest of us?
Like, what a miserable existence.
Why take away your ability?
tim pool
You have to eat the sword.
benny johnson
A guy works a nine-to-five in the coal pits, and all he wants is to put a hamburger on the grill.
You got it backwards.
tim pool
Where is the opposition?
Why is it that Bill Gates and all of these other billionaires are dumping money into wokeness, CRT, climate change stuff, and then on the inverse, nothing.
I mean, not literally nothing, but dramatically less.
You know, I talk about this quite a bit.
And I was saying once, you know, I wish people who had money would do things with it.
And they don't.
And some people point out, yeah, but like the woke people do.
And then I was like, yeah, that's a good point.
Maybe people shouldn't.
And then I thought about, you know, Mackenzie Bezos got, what, $28 billion for divorcing Jeff.
And then she puts $2 billion into woke stuff, at least it was reported from some outlets.
She's dumping all this money into all these woke causes.
And I'm just like, okay, where's the story about a major libertarian, conservative, anti-woke person doing something similar?
I went to Morgantown, West Virginia.
It's like a college town in its rundown, and there's a lot of reasons why it is, and it seems like it's orchestrated.
Big investment firms drive up the price of buildings so that no one in the community can buy them, so that businesses can't be opened, nobody can afford rent, and then it becomes this just slum.
Then they start giving out free needles to everybody, and now everything is just crime, poverty, drugs.
And then I'm like, One billionaire, a billionaire, could go in there and buy like seven buildings and then just be like, make stuff to the community to revitalize everything.
They can counter it.
Why don't they do stuff like that?
Why is it that it's always people like Bill Gates and George Soros?
Now, I know long ago there were stories of the Koch brothers or whatever.
I don't know what they were doing or they are doing.
I just know that as much as there is some stuff that Peter Thiel does, for the most part, we only ever hear about these big, woke, leftist billionaires who think there's too many people.
When we get close, Elon Musk gets close to buying Twitter and doing something, he then says, I'm going to back out, it's a bad idea, I don't want to do it.
benny johnson
Yeah, this is why we can't have nice things.
To your point about this, and I'm not sure this is germane to the conversation, but Dave Chappelle, to his great credit, deserves, I think, a lot of aplomb for just going to some middle of nowhere town in Ohio.
And then going to the town council meetings to keep like corporations from moving in and like arguing on behalf of little pubs and little breweries and like little restaurants that are there.
Dave Chappelle, if you haven't looked into this, like has a little, to your point, like has, he's a, I don't know how much money he has, definitely a multi, multi-millionaire.
Dave Chappelle goes into this little town, uh, in the middle of truly nowhere in Ohio, and he just, like, saves the city.
Like, saves the, like, nice, genteel, like, nature of the city, and he actually went and argued against a huge development that was gonna come into the town, because it's been popularized, probably because of Dave Chappelle, and he killed it.
He got it, he killed it, and then he bought the land.
So that no one could develop it, which is very neat, which is actually similar to what you just described.
tim pool
And it is.
It's good.
We're doing a big play with Times Square on New Year's.
We're getting the whole North Tower.
We're getting a percentage of it.
So every 90 seconds, we're going to have 10 to 15 seconds of the whole North Tower, except for there's two ads owned by Coke and M&M or something.
But I was like, we should do things that assert ourselves in these cultural spaces and make people aware that we're winning, we're growing, we're taking over.
So that was like something big we did this year.
We're planning, you know, we're trying to come up with an idea for a bunch of culture jamming marketing stuff next year.
And I think about that and I'm just like, you know, when I go to these small towns and people, I met this local guy and he was like, you should consider buying here to help bring things back and, you know, kind of kick things up a notch.
There are a bunch of buildings with the pride flags all over the place.
And we both agreed when we were talking about it that people are just doing that because they're scared.
They're scared of the violent terrorists.
And so long as there is no counter, It's just gonna keep spreading.
People are gonna put up flags, not because they believe in it, but because they're like, this stops people from attacking my business.
Yo, if I had a billion dollars, I'd go in there and be like, okay, I'll buy these three, that building, that building, and that building, and then we'll get some locals in the community who oppose this stuff to create the space they wanna create.
Invest in that.
Invest in the future of this country.
I think the problem is, and it was this guy, Nate.
Shout out, Nate.
It was nice meeting you.
He said, we had a protest out here, and BLM and these other groups are showing up, and none of, he said, most of the town, it's West Virginia, they oppose this stuff, and none of them could take any time out of their day to come out and say no to these people.
And then I was like, that's it right there, isn't it?
They won't even show up to say no.
That's a bummer.
benny johnson
So, the Passover is when the spirit of death, right, passes over the households of Egypt, and it doesn't kill the firstborn son, as long as you put lamb's blood right on your door.
This is what Passover is, a high holiday, a high Jewish holiday, still celebrated in Christian or Jewish traditions.
And so in Washington, D.C., I literally watched people do a metaphorical, like, hedonistic Passover on their homes.
So I lived on Capitol Hill in a very bad neighborhood where, like, a couple blocks from where Jack Posobiec had Antifa come after Jack, that famous photo of Jack, like, staring down Antifa, where they were looking to tear down our Lincoln statue.
There was a statue of Abraham Lincoln.
They wanted to tear it down.
There were mobs putting, you know, nooses around it to rip it down.
People put up gay rights flags and BLM flags in their yards literally as like a please don't come here thing.
I know these people were not, some of them were Republicans and they were not on board with this.
They needed to wave these flags and put this stuff up in order to like stop the mobs from coming to their street.
You remember Rand Paul almost got beat to death with his wife Kelly Paul outside of the White House after Donald Trump's speech at the 2020 RNC convention.
I was like seven feet from that watching that happen.
It really is terroristic.
It's domestic terrorism.
And then you go back to D.C.
This is my first time back in a year because I moved away a year ago.
I followed this great podcaster who I listen to every single day.
His advice is, he goes, get out of the cities.
Get out of the cities.
Jack Posobiec?
ian crossland
Must have been Jack Posobiec.
benny johnson
Great beard.
Fantastic hat.
And I followed that advice.
We went, you know, sort of down to, I guess, I guess Tampa is a larger city, but it's not like D.C.
It's very different from D.C.
in so many ways.
I was just back in D.C.
for the first time in a year.
Man, I like the decay.
There's no better word for it.
There's just there's there's entropy that is happening to that city.
I lived there for 15 years.
I worked on Capitol Hill.
I've asked questions in White House briefings.
I've been all over that city.
And I've never seen anything like it.
First off, there's tent cities.
As soon as you get into the nation's capital, which you shouldn't have in a nation's capital, right?
So if you're visiting from another country, you shouldn't see like squalor and tent cities.
And then there's no one there.
And the people who are there, it's like a zombie town.
The people who are there are masked, like triple-masked, like walking around.
Here's a photo from a store.
I had to run into a store and grab an item.
Here's a photo that says, um...
At a Nordstrom... this is at a Nordstrom rack.
tim pool
This said... The gas pipeline, right?
ian crossland
Nordstrom 2?
benny johnson
Hispanic and Latinx.
Hispanic and Latinx welcome here.
unidentified
For your heritage, along with everyone else.
luke rudkowski
Were they banned before?
unidentified
No, what are you doing?
luke rudkowski
What is that, Nordstrom?
benny johnson
This is Nordstrom Rack.
luke rudkowski
Nordstrom, why'd you ban the Latino people from your store?
benny johnson
That's not okay.
luke rudkowski
I had to take a photo.
benny johnson
These people don't understand.
tim pool
They had to issue a notice to let people know they weren't doing it anymore?
luke rudkowski
Yeah, that's what I got from that.
benny johnson
The decay and the entropy is really happening in real time.
It was shocking for me to go back.
tim pool
Oh yeah, so, you know, we're looking at setting up a brick and mortar location, probably going to be, we've been talking about doing like a community center kind of thing.
And I've got these people, for one, the real estate markets, the whole market itself, everything is just insane.
And they're trying to get insane.
benny johnson
Goodware or badware?
tim pool
Just insane, insane.
They're trying to sell property for substantially more than you could even make money off of.
They want to sell a building and it's half a million dollars, and you're in an area with no foot traffic, no customers.
How is this money worth anywhere near that?
Even if you opened a chicken restaurant, you'd be able to sell enough to cover the cost of the mortgage in this area.
It's insane.
And they're like, it's worth it.
And I think a lot of it has to do with these big investment firms.
They keep buying up property, which keeps the prices artificially high.
Nobody wants to sell because they're convinced it'll be worth it.
Then the cities start decaying.
So I go to these places.
We had one story where trying to buy this building and they're telling me how great the city is, how good it's going to be.
And I'm like, the local diner is closed on a Saturday at noon because nobody wants to have it.
Nobody's working.
So if I can't even go to a store and every business is closed, no one is here.
What makes you think there's value in this location?
They're like, it's worth it.
And to me, it's that kind of mentality that's stopping people from investing in their towns, from actually building community, and then everyone just sits at home on the internet and does nothing.
Or they were raptured, I don't know, that's the other joke.
Where is everybody?
Like you mentioned in DC, where is everybody?
luke rudkowski
In Florida.
In D.C., it's estimated that 70,000 people moved out of D.C.
in 2021, and it's estimated in 2021 that 220,000 people moved to Florida.
So these are just like rough estimates, but again, a lot of people are moving where the freedom usually is more available, where there's less taxes, less government, less regulations, and a lot of times that's Florida.
tim pool
Do you guys see that video of those two dudes with the gas tanker comes in?
And the guy's like, you can talk all that ish about DeSantis, but he brought the gas to Arcadia!
luke rudkowski
I know who I'm voting for!
benny johnson
I'm a Democrat!
ian crossland
Shout out to Ron DeSantis for handling the potential looting in Florida after the hurricane because, I mean, he came out immediately and was like, don't even think about it.
You go to a house, you don't know what they got behind that door, good luck trying to take someone's stuff.
Insinuating you're gonna get shot, they're armed, don't mess with people's property.
luke rudkowski
There was a lot of signs from the citizens there just, you know, themselves saying, you loot, we shoot.
benny johnson
Good!
luke rudkowski
So that's the culture that comes from Florida of individuals saying, hey, this is my property.
Hey, a lot of us get to have the right to defend ourselves.
And you should think twice before trying to hurt or steal from another innocent human being.
ian crossland
This breakdown of law and order is completely insane.
It's antithetical to the Culture of the United States that we would let rioters and looters destroy the country and then the flames grow greater in 21 and you're like, dude, I'm not like I don't want Chinese authoritarian communism.
I don't want that but I want to see the National Guard on the street when people trying to fire bomb a building.
I want them stopped.
benny johnson
Yo, okay, yo, this is wild, all right?
Wild.
And I have this out because it's the first thing I got when I got to Florida.
Concealed carry permit, right?
This is the first thing you get.
tim pool
You don't need that in West Virginia.
benny johnson
You could never get that.
luke rudkowski
You don't need that in New Hampshire.
But I got one too.
benny johnson
Blown out.
luke rudkowski
Can I see it?
benny johnson
This is, yes, of course.
This is insane.
Okay, so Ian, to your point.
So I made my Uber stop short of my hotel and I got out to, like, look at the burned down edifice of the White House.
Now, you would say, Betty, nobody burned down the White House.
Well, the White House is a giant ground, right?
And there's groundskeepers facilities on the White House grounds that are considered part of the White House.
And those groundkeepers facilities were torched down.
This was the burning building when the Antifa mobs attacked, it was in July, attacked the White House, right?
And they injured some 90 Secret Service agents and so on and so forth.
tim pool
Firebombed a guard post, 20 barricades down, set fire to the church, 529 insurrection.
unidentified
May 29th.
tim pool
Yeah, yeah, we talk about this.
benny johnson
Have you guys seen what it looks like?
ian crossland
No.
benny johnson
It's still burnt.
They haven't fixed it at all.
unidentified
Whoa.
benny johnson
It's still burned.
It's melted to... It's on my other camera because I actually filmed it to put up on our channel.
Shout out to the Benny Johnson channel.
It's linked in the YouTube.
Please go follow us.
This is insanity.
They haven't touched it.
It's like a memorial to the leftist insurrection.
It's still there.
I encourage everybody, if you're in Washington, D.C., to go to the White House grounds and to just look at these still burned-down- you can still see the blackened flames of the building.
They haven't touched it.
It's been two years.
They haven't improved it.
They haven't tried to fix it.
It's just sitting there, burned down, right by Andrew Jackson, right by the famous shot of the White House, right?
You see it on the State of the Union and everything.
And it's this burned down edifice, like a memorial to what the left did.
It's almost like they're proud of what they were able to do when Donald Trump was in office, when they were able to stage their own insurrection.
ian crossland
I don't know if it's like one of two paths, either we bring in the military to stop the rioters, this Philadelphia, I keep seeing all this street violence in Philly, shops getting destroyed, if we bring in the military and then we become some authoritarian regime, or if we just let the mobs take over and then we have a new mafia running the country, and it's basically young, disaffected men that are gangbanging or whatever, dudes jitters We already have a mafia.
luke rudkowski
It's called government.
ian crossland
Well, I'm talking about local, like, 17-year-olds that have illegal handguns.
tim pool
Illegal handguns?
ian crossland
Yeah, illegal handguns.
Like, concealed pistols that they don't have licenses for or whatever.
And I don't want the mafia running the show, but that's what it feels like when I look at videos.
And obviously, I'm being manipulated by social media, but that's what it feels like.
tim pool
But this is why I say, get out of cities.
It was, it was, the reason I said Jack Posobacus, cause he was saying that before I was saying it.
You know, he was warning people for a while to get out of cities, but I was like, yeah, you know.
benny johnson
Sorry, Jack.
tim pool
Well, no, no, I mean, we say it a lot on the show too, because we did leave.
We were on the other side of the river from Philadelphia and Jersey.
And then I left New York.
I went there and I said, this isn't fixing anything.
We came out to the middle and sort of middle of nowhere.
We're still close enough to DC, but that's, that's the idea.
If these 17 year old kids with their, um, Constitutionally protected firearms?
ian crossland
Yes.
tim pool
End up acting a fool and taking over cities?
You ain't gonna be there.
And I'll tell you this, if you were out in MAGA country in West Virginia and something bad happened, it is gonna be substantially better because you're not going to have roving bands of teenagers like you are in a city.
unidentified
That's right.
tim pool
You're gonna have like farmers and their families and their neighbors coming together and it's gonna be not perfect, probably pretty bad in certain ways, but way more organized.
ian crossland
Like, I think that as the liberal economic order crumbles and, like, the U.S.
dollar is no longer the world reserve, people are falling into poverty, living on the street, that is it inevitable that these cities just turn into battlegrounds?
That it's either going to be the military mowing people down that are trying to destroy property, or it's going to be gangs mowing people down because they want the property?
Like, is it one or the other?
Can we find a peaceful solution in the cities?
What do you think?
benny johnson
So there was looting in Tampa.
There was one incident during the hurricane of looters going through Tampa, my neighborhood.
And they were caught immediately.
They were arrested immediately by the police.
And then you could go every single house, every other house, and find a homie on his doorstep with a firearm.
Like dads just got their guns and sat outside.
And there was not a single looting incident for the entire, like, three extra days of the hurricane.
Because it, like, rained.
tim pool
It was rainy and windy, like, for- Wait, you mean the police didn't come and save everybody and protect the neighborhoods?
benny johnson
It was the locals who were just- It was the locals who sat there on their porches.
Including, but not limited to, your Shirley, who's very happy to have a gun safe now, finally, and I can build up my little...
Arsenal here, but my neighbor, I come up the street, I was at Home Depot, got some potting soil, right?
So this is better than a sandbag.
So don't take hurricane advice from a guy who's just been in Florida for one year, but you can put bags of potting soil up, and they act as a sandbag, and they're a lot more, they're like more available, and then you can use them afterwards, because I don't know if you're gonna make like a sandbox or something.
You can actually pot your plants, right?
It's gonna be really pretty weather, beautiful weather after the hurricane.
So I'm driving back from Home Depot, and I look over, and here's Johnny.
Johnny's my neighbor.
Johnny's 50 years old.
Johnny rides a Harley.
And here's Johnny sitting there.
He's an engineer.
And he's sitting there with his double barrel, like, on his lap.
You know, I was like, Johnny, did somebody, like, send your daughter a naughty DM?
Or, like, what happened, right?
What's the double barrel about?
He's like, yo, there's looters in the neighborhood.
We're just making sure they know.
Not in my neighborhood.
And then up and down the street, you see, like, people.
Sitting there with their firearms and, yo, no more looting.
ian crossland
That's the third choice then.
You don't want to rely on the government because they're just going to become autocrats.
You don't want to let the gangs destroy.
You've got to have the civilians armed and protecting their individual properties.
So maybe it's time in these cities to lighten up on gun restrictions and encourage people to start training.
luke rudkowski
You allow law-abiding, innocent human beings to be able to defend themselves, just like the criminals who have all the firearms.
And I think I know what video you're talking about.
It was from Chicago, allegedly of children from junior high school, and they all had glocks with switches on it that made them automatic pistols.
tim pool
Constitutionally protected, but not legal in Chicago.
luke rudkowski
Yes.
Chicago, of course, being a place where they, of course, have the strictest gun control laws, but, you know, teenagers, 14-year-olds, are running around with automatic glocks, and, of course, the average citizen can't even have a pocket knife to defend themselves because they'll go to jail if the cops find it on them.
Yeah, that's crazy.
That's an absolutely insane dichotomy that of course is not fair for the average human being, that it's not fair for someone that is not trying to hurt anyone, or an individual who just wants to defend themselves that can't, and allows criminals to run free with... Yeah, because they'll take the guns anyway, the criminals.
ian crossland
They don't care about the law.
I think what's going to happen is, it's going to build up and violence, we're going to see this street violence, we'll probably see more of it as people become more poor, more people in the street, and then a city's going to be like, Guns are legal now.
Constitutional carry.
Everyone can carry in that city.
The crime is going to plummet in that city.
tim pool
That's right.
benny johnson
You know how hard it would be to get one of these in D.C.?
I tried for years.
Years.
In Washington D.C.
to get one of these.
There's one licensed firearm dealer.
There's one licensed instructor.
They can train one person at a time.
So DC vs. Heller happens, right, in 2009?
unidentified
2008.
benny johnson
2008.
DC vs. Heller.
DC used to be, for like 30 years, you couldn't own any firearms at all.
DC vs. Heller overturns this, and so what they did is the bureaucracy comes in and just makes firearms.
Even though the Supreme Court said, no, you will allow the sale of firearms, the bureaucracy comes in and says, okay, we'll limit it to a store and a guy.
And that person, and then multiple police officers that you need to speak with, right?
So I tried the process.
I was drowned in paperwork.
I was just choked out by the bureaucracy.
I could not get my concealed carry in D.C.
I tried for years.
It was too difficult.
It was too difficult.
Meanwhile, on my block, on 19th Street, Capitol Hill, you could call it like a gentrifying block.
It lives right next to a drug dealer, right next to a crack dealer.
That guy had so many guns, they were doing open-air gun sales.
On my street, the week that I left, the week I decided to move, there was an open-air gun sale going on on the street.
The guy opened up his trunk and he had, I don't know what he had, like a ton of firearms sitting there.
And you know, he made them the right price, he'd just pick it up out of his trunk, right?
There was a shooting, there was a deadly shooting on my street that the police had to come get my footage from.
This was two weeks before we left, right?
Guy gets shot in my yard, jumps into the rosebush.
You know, we played it on the show a couple times.
tim pool
But what do you need a concealed permit for when you can just hire an armed security guard who does all the work for you and you can have armed security guards all around you as you walk around?
benny johnson
You mean like AOC?
tim pool
Like all the politicians.
And the wealthy individuals who eat at these steakhouses and the lobbyists who don't need to apply for a permit because they just pay for several men who get the permits and then Surround them.
benny johnson
They also got walls.
tim pool
This is what they do.
The reason why these elites are okay with banning guns is because guns are only banned for poor people.
Now, it would be hard for them to get a firearm as well, even though they are wealthy, but you pay someone a couple hundred grand per year, they take the time and energy to go get the permit and get the guns, and they surround you, and you don't have to think twice about it.
Don't worry your pretty little wealthy head off.
That's why they vote for this stuff, so that poor people can't have weapons, but they can.
luke rudkowski
And they call for machine gun turrets at the Capitol as, of course, they tell you that you can't have a firearm.
It's absolutely crazy.
tim pool
That's Nancy.
Did you see the video of her saying they're shipping the migrants north but the farmers say we need them to pick our crops?
benny johnson
The Florida farmers!
Wow!
The Florida farmers are very upset.
unidentified
She talks like this.
They're saying to me, why are you sending the migrants up north?
We need them to pick our crops.
tim pool
And it's just like, they're here illegally, they're not legally allowed to work, and you're telling me that farmers are advocating for the commission of a crime to you, and you agree with them!
benny johnson
Uh, yo, uh, you do know that Martha, uh, that Nancy Pelosi owns a vineyard, right?
luke rudkowski
Where?
tim pool
Nancy's vineyard?
benny johnson
She has a vineyard!
This is where Paul Pelosi was driving to, drunk off his ass, like, uh... Two o'clock in the morning, three o'clock in the morning.
He was going back to their vineyard, so of course, this hits home for Nancy, okay?
lydia smith
Sure does.
tim pool
Where's the labor gonna come from?
benny johnson
Right?
Who's gonna pick the grapes?
And you wouldn't want the Chardonnay grapes that are picked wrong.
They're not getting picked with the beautiful hands, okay, that handle the grapes correctly.
They're getting picked like a week too late.
That makes bad Chardonnay.
And ain't nobody dislike her bad Chardonnay like Nancy Pelosi.
tim pool
I didn't know that.
Does that make bad Chardonnay?
benny johnson
I have no idea.
unidentified
Oh.
tim pool
Because you had me worried.
I was actually sympathetic to Nancy.
I was like, oh, we don't want a Chardonnay.
ian crossland
Nancy Pelosi's Vineyard in St.
Helena, California makes her the fourth richest Californian in Congress as of 2015.
I'd like to see how that's evolved.
Okay, that's interesting.
benny johnson
Soft hands picking the chardonnay grapes.
ian crossland
I think she's very detached from law and order.
If she thinks that we should just deal with it.
I don't understand this.
Why they're trying to stop people from governing themselves.
tim pool
That really bothers me.
Can we play the... I had to pull up the video.
lydia smith
Oh yeah, we gotta watch this.
tim pool
We just gotta play it.
nancy pelosi
We have a shortage of workers in our country and you see even in Florida some of the farmers and the growers saying, why are you shipping these immigrants up north?
We need them to pick the crops down here.
benny johnson
I just love that she's like, wait a second, we need them to pick the crops is like the permanent preennial Democrat talking point.
It goes all the way back to the founding of the Democrat Party.
We need them to pick the crops.
It's always been the issue for Democrats.
lydia smith
It's true.
luke rudkowski
It never changed.
tim pool
It's just remarkable to me that she's basically saying right now to the press and everyone else, a group of farmers said, we are employing People illegally, who entered the country illegally, please don't take these people away from us, and there's just so much here where it's like, well, Nancy is an officer of the government, maybe you could inform law enforcement that crimes are being committed, and they're requesting of you to assist them in the crimes being committed, and your only response is to be like, they like it!
That's just, the people who are coming in, earlier in the show you said criminal migrant.
Criminal migrant.
benny johnson
Because they broke our laws.
tim pool
Right, and that's like, you know, I hear a lot from the left, they're like, no one's illegal.
And I'm like, that's a good point.
A person isn't illegal, but they can be criminals.
And if you break the law and you're here, you're a criminal migrant.
That makes sense.
So she's actually here arguing for the law to be broken.
It's, I don't know, chaos?
What was the word we were talking about?
When the cities are decay?
benny johnson
Decay.
lydia smith
Degradation.
benny johnson
It doesn't mean you're a bad person.
I live in a completely Cuban neighborhood.
Like, it's a Cuban neighborhood, right?
Tampa's the number one by city, by city population, the number one landing place for Cuban migrants.
And, like, I assume most of them were not here legally, right?
They came from Cuba, there was a lot of them, and they came illegally.
Those people are the best patriots, man.
Those people are awesome.
Tampa's an amazing community.
If you ever go to Ybor City in Tampa, get a hand-rolled cigar, get a proper Cuban coffee, it looks like Havana should look without the communism.
tim pool
I don't think people should be illegally entering the country, but I will say I have infinitely more respect for illegal immigrants fleeing communism, and even the migrant from Honduras who's like, I want Buffalo Wild Wings coming to America.
I have more respect for them than the leftists who are like, America is evil and racist.
benny johnson
Yes.
tim pool
I'm not happy that they break the law to come here because they want Buffalo Wild Wings.
As for the people fleeing communism, fleeing here and then applying for asylum, I get.
And hopefully they get it because communism sucks.
But, you have too many people in this country who just outright hate it despite the fact that everyone's fleeing to get here.
benny johnson
I mean, I call them criminal migrants for that exact reason.
I'm not trying to say that anyone should break our laws to come here.
You weren't invited.
And by the way, this is Democrat law.
This was passed and ratified by Joe Biden, of all people in the Senate, where if you cross our border illegally, it is your duty to turn yourself in immediately to border patrol and and and then to essentially like surrender yourself right to authorities that that is the law of the land so it is a legal act it is a felony there's a federal felony to cross our border illegally and that is the that is the black and white law of the land so so joe biden is breaking the law this is a law of course that he ratified because you you re-up this and then you you re-ratify this is an immigration act
Immigration Act of like 1964?
tim pool
1963?
benny johnson
I can't remember.
But anyway, again, it's a criminal act.
That's why we call him a criminal.
You're a criminal migrant.
ian crossland
1965.
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
It's reminiscent of the slave trade, the African slave trade.
People are coming over.
Then it was legal what they were doing.
Highly amoral, you could argue.
But they were shipping humans over in chains and then Putting them on the plantation to work for low wages.
These people are coming across illegally, whether they're being trafficked across like the slaves were of the African slave trade, or if they're coming over their own will, and then they're working for cheap labor.
Like, it's very similar.
Are they going to then... I don't want to be cynical about it, man, but I'm like, in 200 years, are their ancestors going to be asking for reparations because they were poor?
They came from poverty?
I don't know, man, but they're not bound in chains.
That's the difference.
They're here because it's better than where they were.
luke rudkowski
A lot of them are also working illegally.
A lot of them are being taken advantage of.
A lot of multinational corporations use them and depend on them to get rich while, of course, not following the regulations, not following the rules, not even paying the minimum wage in many instances.
So, who's the real winner here?
A lot of the big top multinational corporations, as of course wages go down because there's an influx of workers.
Housing goes up, as of course there's less housing.
And who loses?
The blue collar, the average American, the person who is here, who came here without the right paperwork, who of course is going to be a slave of the multinational corporations taking advantage of them.
tim pool
I think this statement from Pelosi should be probable cause enough to check the documentation of her plantation.
lydia smith
Yes.
luke rudkowski
Absolutely.
benny johnson
Plantation Pelosi, that's why we call her Plantation Pelosi.
ian crossland
And also if the people that want like reparations or are upset about the African-American slave trade in the history and everything that's going on right now with racism, you got to turn your focus on the illegal immigration racket in the United States because those are the modern-day slaves.
If you want to fix the past, you start with the present.
luke rudkowski
There's still slavery right now in Libya because of the U.S.
overthrow of that government there, which Hillary Clinton orchestrated, celebrated, and now Africans who are trying to go to the Middle East are literally being put and sold as slaves inside of Libya right now as we're speaking.
benny johnson
So, like, are you still a slave if your chains are invisible?
luke rudkowski
No, there's real chains in Libya.
There's real chains.
benny johnson
I would argue that a lot of the people that are coming across the border are based on our border visit down to Yuma, Arizona.
And we went and spent two days in Yuma, Arizona, in the Yuma sector.
And we talked with the sheriff there, and he drove us around.
We got in our little truck.
We drove along the border.
We drove along Trump's wall.
It was glorious.
And then it just ends, right?
It just ends.
Part of it is because it ends because of an Indian reservation, and they're working with the tribe to get it built on there.
Part of it ends because Joe Biden's just letting the wall rust in the middle of the desert.
The sheriff drives us to the middle of where they cross and he says, that's the rape tree.
Go over to the rape tree.
That's how the women pay their toll because they don't have any money to get into America.
So in case you're wondering how this works, go over there.
And we go over there, there's like ripped clothing, there's like panties, there's like all this horrible stuff.
There's little children's toys, like every little stuffed animals.
It's sickening.
tim pool
It is repulsive.
benny johnson
And it is the largest human slave trade, I would argue, because these people that are coming here as indentured, to Luke's point, indentured like servants to work for corporations, and again they get shipped off to an Iowa hog factory, right?
They already have their papers, right?
That's where they go.
tim pool
They work for the coyotes.
benny johnson
Yo, it is the world's largest human smuggling operation or slave trade, depending on if you think chains are invisible.
tim pool
The coyotes tell some of these people, not every single one works this way, they'll say it's, you know, two or three thousand dollars to get your passage paid for, and if you don't have it, you'll work to pay it off.
So these people are coming in, they're becoming indebted to these human traffickers, then they have to work and send money back.
I remember I once went to a restaurant, and I'll keep the details more vague, but people who worked there were all clearly migrants, and someone got really mad the tip wasn't big enough.
And it was because we didn't have a server.
We come into a restaurant with no server, we order up at the counter, we sit down, and then afterwards they demanded a tip, and I'm like, if we had a waiter, I usually tip really well.
They started yelling at us.
And so what I was told from someone is that the people who come here, they're indentured servants.
They get paid, quote-unquote, but they have this extra legal system where, back home, there's rules and laws that apply to them here in America that don't apply in America, but it's like, we paid five grand to move you to America, you're gonna work for our company that our people own, We're gonna pay you and then you're gonna send the money back to us or else.
So if they they need to make a certain amount of money every week to send back home to pay off the debt to get them to move to America.
So they get really mad when you're not giving them more money than they deserve.
ian crossland
The or else part makes them slaves for sure.
Like if they are afraid for their family's lives or afraid they're gonna get hunted down if they don't if they don't work then they're in a state of slavery.
Yeah.
benny johnson
Isn't the number one source of income in Mexico remittances from the United States?
Did I read that somewhere?
tim pool
Wow, is that true?
lydia smith
I believe that.
ian crossland
How does that work?
benny johnson
So it's money coming from the United States for people who are sending it back to Mexico.
So it's the number one source of income or a very high level source of income.
I would like to have an article to check that, but we've read it on the show before.
ian crossland
There's gotta be wire transfers and stuff.
Do they track it?
How's that?
benny johnson
Shoving dollar bills in an envelope?
ian crossland
I guess they're doing cash, too, yeah.
luke rudkowski
Cash, Western Union, Bitcoin, all of it.
tim pool
I love how these urban millennial liberal types have started colonizing Mexico City.
It's true.
I mean, you saw the story.
They're all moving down there, and they're like, I just love these tacos.
The rent is so cheap.
And the locals are just like, this is terrible.
You don't speak our language, and you're ruining our favorite spots.
Yeah, that story was something else.
ian crossland
Yeah, a plague.
They've done it to a lot of American cities.
tim pool
The woke, the woke liberals?
benny johnson
Yeah.
tim pool
Yeah.
benny johnson
I mean, like try to go, try to go have like a nice time in LA or in Detroit or into Chicago.
You're from Chicago.
ian crossland
Yeah.
benny johnson
And right?
Like talk about another ghost town, like Michigan Avenue.
tim pool
I mean, I haven't been there.
benny johnson
Half the stores are closed down on Michigan Avenue.
ian crossland
Oh man.
benny johnson
It's like, well, I mean, you can't, there's only so many cars you can drive into the storefronts, right?
During the riots and then have like 150 people run in.
tim pool
That video where the guys are shooting at the window to try and break into like a Dolce store or whatever it's called.
benny johnson
I mean, it's decay.
What about, what is happening in Philadelphia?
Why is every other video, every video I see of something awful, like some type of execution or some like robbery in broad daylight.
Yesterday morning, top of my Twitter feed was some mom, some ring doorbell camera, some mom, she's getting her kids ready.
She's a suburban mom getting her kids into the minivan and some dude carjacks her with her kids in the minivan!
tim pool
And he had like a handgun with a 50 round drum in it or something.
unidentified
Yo!
Some ridiculous weapon.
benny johnson
As a parent, I got two little girls, like as a parent, that is like, it's hard to think of something worse than that, actually.
Someone like grabbing my car keys and running away with my kids.
ian crossland
Dude, we used to play at the park around the corner from my house growing up.
This was like in 1980s, early 90s, and we'd just go.
There'd be like four kids, age nine to 11, playing on the swing set.
No parents.
I was just thinking a couple nights ago how in the modern day to consider letting your kids go off For hours a time, like, well, first of all, I can't constantly be watching the kids 24-7, so yeah, they're gonna be off on their own, but like, and yeah, there's a fence around the backyard, but like, can they go to the park?
I don't know.
I was in a suburb, but even today, like.
tim pool
What state?
ian crossland
Ohio.
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
tim pool
Nah, it's getting crazy now.
There was one story I read about a mom had Child Protective Services called on her because her kid was playing in the front yard by himself, and he was like seven years old.
unidentified
Wow.
luke rudkowski
Yep.
tim pool
When I was seven, I was gone.
unidentified
I was out.
tim pool
It's like, come back when the street lights come on.
ian crossland
I can handle, like, woke, trash, like, protective service crap, but it's the crime.
It's that someone would get carjacked in their driveway?
Is that where the mom was, in her driveway?
benny johnson
Yeah, in her driveway.
You can see the ring doorbell camera.
I don't have it in front of me.
Do you guys see those?
ian crossland
Are they legally allowed to carry in that area?
benny johnson
In Philadelphia?
No way.
ian crossland
That's freaking crazy.
No way.
That's like a revolt waiting to happen.
benny johnson
That's why Dr. Oz might actually win.
tim pool
Do you guys see the latest crazy crime video out of New York?
The Daily Mail's stark naked man goes nuts at Union Square subway station in NYC as MTA officials struggle to get him to calm down before he runs into packed subway cars.
I'm not gonna show the video, but this is just like the latest in a series of videos.
There's like a video of a lady getting pushed onto the subway tracks.
There's videos of like people being shot and mugged.
It's just like The amount of content coming out of New York, or video footage of all of these crimes and the escalation, it's bonkers.
luke rudkowski
It's like living in world star hip-hop in real life.
Instead of just seeing it online, you have to deal with it every single day.
tim pool
There's no accountability anymore.
ian crossland
That's what's missing.
It used to feel like if you step out of line, the cops are going to grab you, or someone's going to shoot you.
Now it's like, where's the out of line?
Where's the response?
Where's the protection?
What's the point of government?
benny johnson
Why would you want to be a cop in these cities?
Why?
The entire system of the city is designed to backstab you.
So here's a great story from Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
We have a cop.
I won't name him.
He's our neighbor.
All right?
So he's down the street at the end of the block.
Nice little house, little American flag outside.
Good cop.
Great cop.
During the BLM riots, he broke his leg chasing after some perp.
And he breaks his leg, jumps a fence, breaks his leg.
And so he's had a lot of time on the couch to like chat with us about what the police force is like in D.C.
And through that time, they could not recruit to like fill the chairs inside of their academy, like even halfway.
They couldn't get any cops.
No one wanted to be a cop.
No one still wants to be a cop in Washington, D.C.
This particular police officer is looking for any opportunity to get out.
Now, some of them want to migrate to places like Florida, where police officers are respected and even paid by Ron DeSantis.
You get a $5,000 bonus if you're a cop that moves to Florida.
And that makes Florida a very safe place.
You ask, where do these communities exist?
I would argue maybe the Midwest.
I was just back in Iowa.
Iowa's very nice.
Also in Florida.
It is wild.
I go through our neighborhood, and my wife's gonna kill me because we think this is a nice, best-kept secret, but it's like you're back in a Norman Rockwell painting.
It's like the society functions.
People walk their dogs.
Kids do play in the street and run around the neighborhood by themselves.
It's nuts.
And now the mayor of Tampa is a former police officer.
And she's very like, her name's Jane Caster.
She's very law and order.
You know, no riots here.
No Antifa here, right?
No BLM looting here.
But I saw it break down in Washington, D.C.
with my cop friend, and you feel really bad about them because suddenly you're like, I'm going to be the last guy holding the bag.
I'm going to be the only guy on call, like that cop in New Orleans who was the only guy on call, and he quit on the spot.
Because he looks onto his recorder, their little machine, and he's like, I'm the only person responding to all of these call-ins, and he quit.
He did a Twitter thread on it.
It's so terrible for these police officers and these communities that don't support them.
They're going to get what's coming to them, which is what you're talking about.
ian crossland
They got to get rid of this mask crap, too, because people mob going into stores with masks on is no good.
They have cameras there for security.
If you can't see who it is, that's a big danger.
It used to be illegal to go into private organizations with a mask on because it was a threat.
luke rudkowski
You still should have privacy, in my opinion.
Not in my private establishment, you're not.
ian crossland
You're going to reveal who you are.
Before you come in there.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, that's up to them.
On your private property, you can do whatever you want.
But I still think, you know, the government shouldn't be watching and surveilling every single person.
ian crossland
No, the private company should be surveilling the people that are coming in to buy stuff.
And if they don't want masks, then they don't get to take your mask off before you come into my store.
I want to see your face.
I want to know who I have to go after if you're going to mess with me.
tim pool
Yeah, the government mandated masks in a lot of these circumstances, so you couldn't do that.
ian crossland
So that needs to be repealed now that we know that COVID's done, according to Joe Biden.
tim pool
Well, assuming Joe Biden is correct.
ian crossland
The pandemic is over, I should say, is his quote.
tim pool
We also had that video, I think it was out of Philly as well, where they raid the Wawa.
They all storm in, and they're smashing everything, and the chick jumps up on the thing, starts twerking, and people are just destroying everything for no reason!
luke rudkowski
I think we still gotta be careful calling for more police, more centralization of power, more government, because look at what the government's doing right now.
Look what the cops are doing right now.
Criminals, psychopaths, robbers, They go to jail?
They get released from jail.
Political thought criminals?
Stay in jail.
Heavily prosecuted.
Heavily punished.
And if you only enforce that system and you give it more of your power and authority and money, I think the situation is only going to be worse for the average American.
So I think we do need to bring up George Soros and how he financed a lot of the woke district attorneys all throughout the United States that have implemented a lot of these policies that punish people based on their political ideology rather than, of course, the severity of their crime.
I think what we have seen is deliberate.
I think it is order out of chaos.
And I think the larger turnaround here is people going to be like more government, more government, more government, more police.
And then I think that could be used against a lot of the people calling for it, in my own personal opinion, from my own kind of conspiracy mindset.
ian crossland
Yeah, like arming the population as opposed to creating more police.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, personal responsibility, giving people more rights, giving people the ability to defend themselves, I think is a lot more important to call for, rather than more police, more centralization, more government, more money towards the state, which they're going to be abusing and using in the worst case scenario against the average American.
Because if you look at who the government is serving, it's not you.
They're not looking for your best interest.
They're not here to really protect and serve.
Very few officers, the few should be commended, should be promoted, should be respected, but very few officers actually live by that notion of protecting and serving.
A lot of them are here to give you tickets and generate revenue for the state, and we just have to, in my opinion, be a little bit careful when it comes to more and more and more in that retrospect, calling for that.
tim pool
More and more guns!
luke rudkowski
More personal responsibility, more freedom, more liberty, and more firearms, sure.
I think that would work out better, in my personal opinion, and there would be a lot less harm reduction.
ian crossland
I saw video game developers are now making the gun, they call it flagging, if you point a gun at someone when you're walking around with it, they call it flagging.
No, of course, and in video games, up until now, when you run, your gun's always pointing forward, so you like, and kids are doing this, whether or not they're getting indoctrinated to think it's fine to point a weapon, maybe Alec Baldwin forgot, but you're supposed to, the developers are having the guns pointed down now when you point at someone, or pointed up and away when you're aiming, and then as soon as you move past them, you can set the gun back down.
That's important, man, because we're brainwashing kids with this stuff, and we need to start learning gun responsibility.
tim pool
That was like Ian is just sitting here having a conversation and then very, very quickly spun around to slap Alec Baldwin in the face and go right back to a very serious conversation.
ian crossland
Well, he killed Helena Hutchins and I wonder what's... if her family's gonna get... We need to make sure the kids are playing the games and their guns are ready.
tim pool
Alec Baldwin, by the way, is a murderer.
ian crossland
Yeah, Alec Baldwin set an example, a really bad example for people in the film and television industry.
benny johnson
Alec Baldwin killed more people than every single rioter on January 6th.
ian crossland
That's right.
tim pool
Yeah, he should be charged.
Whatever, man.
We talked a lot about the Alec Baldwin stuff.
He pointed a gun at somebody, pulled the trigger.
He pulled the hammer, he pulled the trigger, went off and killed her.
ian crossland
Just can't be sloppy with guns.
It's easy to learn how to shoot in the modern age.
unidentified
I don't know.
tim pool
I just think it's ridiculous.
There's this whole excuse where it's like, but he was on a movie.
And it's like, you can't commit a crime, but I was in a movie.
You know what I mean?
benny johnson
So the armorer...
You talk about Jeremy Boring.
Daily Wire released a very cool movie called Terror on the Prairie, right?
So we went there and there was an armorer.
I don't know any armorers.
Right?
Hollywood armorer.
But there was a dude there.
They shoot a lot of guns in this movie.
Gino Carano.
Was in the movie.
Anyway.
This is the first time I met an armorer.
Oh, this is cool!
Alec Baldwin, immediately.
Oh my god, I get asked this everywhere.
In the airport, at the supermarket, everyone finds out what I do, and they ask me about Alec Baldwin.
And I'm gonna tell you exactly what happened.
Because I know what happened.
I know, for a fact, there's a small community of people who do this.
I know exactly what happened.
This is the story about Alec Baldwin.
This is what this armorer said to me.
I hope I don't get anyone fired here.
He said, what happens is, on these movie sets, there's a lot of sitting around and waiting.
People get bored.
And the armorers like to actually mess around with guns and do target practice.
And so they put live rounds in the guns.
They are real guns, a lot of them.
And they have to look real.
And they have to act real in some scenes.
They have to actually do shoot.
They have to shoot.
They have to physically shoot.
And so the armorers, to make time pass, they actually do target practice with these things.
And he says, this armorer says, they left a live round in there.
And they handed it to Alec Baldwin, and Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger and killed him.
I'm not saying in any universe that Alec Baldwin should not be held accountable for this, but he said that there was a projectile left in the gun, and that that projectile was just someone being lazy, someone being bored on the set, put a live round in the gun.
tim pool
Except apparently he had pulled the gun out and pulled the hammer back several times, meaning this revolver, the live round, was the last in rotation.
Which means because the shot required the dummy rounds to be in it, so it looked like it was loaded, someone put in a bunch of rounds.
Maybe they opened it up, saw one, and then filled it with the dummy ones, not realizing.
I'd imagine they'd look different.
Maybe they didn't.
Maybe they all look the same.
Maybe that's possible.
But I just look at that and I'm like, we have to make assumptions about how it could have happened, as opposed to the simple solution, which is Alec Baldwin put a bullet in it.
ian crossland
Yes.
Yeah, don't be afraid of the gun.
I don't want this story, this Alec Baldwin story to freak people out about guns.
He did a horrible, just like a very irresponsible thing, and it's not the gun's fault.
If you check the weapon, it functions as intended.
Alec Baldwin, man, did he put a sour taste in people's mouth for weapons.
Not in today's culture.
We need more responsibility with weapons, less fear about weapons, more self-control.
tim pool
My whole point on the whole Alec Baldwin thing, it's come up recently because now he might be charged, is just calculate how many data points each story requires.
Let's say it was the armorers were doing shooting practice and then they made a mistake.
You have a whole bunch of different points in this story that have to line up to make this possible.
You also have Alec Baldwin fighting with crew and then shooting a woman.
And I'm like, the least amount of assumptions is Alec Baldwin fights with crew member, later shoots, kills crew member.
As opposed to, Alec Baldwin fights with crew member, doesn't think twice about it, goes and has a private meeting with her, doesn't think twice about it, someone else takes gun doing target practice, then someone else goes to load gun and accidentally puts live bullet only in the last chamber, you know, position, then puts the dummy rounds in the rest, then gives it to Alec Baldwin, who, with 40 years of weapons experience, doesn't check, and then points at the woman he was fighting with, pulls the hammer back several times, and then finally kills her, and I'm just like...
There's just way too much there.
benny johnson
So you're saying there's malice here?
You think that Alec Baldwin intended to kill her?
tim pool
So, uh, a bunch of the reporting was that he had been fighting with crew members and crew were starting to walk off.
And then there was an interview he gave where he was calling her, like, intense or something.
Like, not saying anything very favorable about her.
He had a meeting with her and apparently he tried saying at first he wasn't friends with her and later had he was friends with her or something like that.
It's been a while since we covered all the details of the story.
But I'm just saying that to have a story that involves the armorer, some crew doing shooting practice, the armorer, like Alec Baldwin and the angry crew.
You have a very circuitous plot about framing Alec Baldwin or a potential accident which requires, you know, getting ten numbers correct in a row.
Versus, Alec Baldwin did not have kind words with her, the crew was threatening to walk off the set, and then Alec Baldwin shot and killed her.
So it's like, the big point for me on this one is that Alec Baldwin has training in firearms, and to be handed a weapon and be like, you got it!
benny johnson
Bang!
tim pool
Whoops!
It's like, in what, he made the argument that he's not allowed to check firearms when handed to him.
Because, it's not a bad point.
It's a good defense.
He said, if I'm handed a gun, and then I open it up and start fidgeting with it, they're gonna take it from me.
What did you just do to it?
We checked it to make sure it was safe.
So when they give you the gun, you just point and shoot at people, and my argument there is, no way.
ian crossland
No, you check it with the armor, the two of you together.
tim pool
And you're with them, and they open it up, and they show you the rounds, and they say, these are the rounds, we got them from this box, we're putting them in, and then they should probably cycle them if they're dummies, and then open it again, close it, hand it to the actor to do the scene.
ian crossland
I don't know if I believe it.
Let's jump to this next story and just get silly.
felt untouchable, probably having a drink the night before, maybe not, but brain fog,
didn't care, was pissed off at Helena because he didn't like her anyway, just totally lazy.
I don't know if I believe it.
Chaos and destruction.
tim pool
Oh, that guy.
Let's jump to this next story and just get silly.
From Rolling Stone, from the Trump supporter who called slavery a choice, Kanye West wears
White Lives Matter t-shirt.
Candace Owens matched racist shirts with the rapper.
lydia smith
How's that racist?
tim pool
Racist, huh?
What?
The live stream event saw the musician wearing the shirt as he laid back and recorded children, seemingly from his Donda Academy, along with his daughter North, walking around in a circle in all black as they sang You Make Forever.
Oh, and conservative pundit Candace Owens even posed for a photo with West wearing a matching shirt with the slogan White Supremacists Such as the KKK and the Aryan Resistance Society have overtaken the Black Lives Matter phrase by black people protesting the police brutality and reframed it.
The Anti-Defamation League has categorized the phrase as a hate slogan.
Well, what do you do now when there's two black people wearing it?
Is it still a white supremacist thing?
I don't know if I... Who gets to say?
ian crossland
I think it's a joke at that point.
luke rudkowski
Anderson Cooper.
ian crossland
Doesn't mean it can't be racist.
tim pool
Anderson Cooper.
luke rudkowski
Anderson Cooper gets to say.
The corporate media will, of course, say whatever they want to say.
But this is, you know, a slogan that a lot of law enforcement, including the Federal Bureau of Investigations, investigateded a lot of people for saying.
People were interrogated for saying this slogan in colleges.
And the ADL also goes after this particular saying as well.
So, again, it all depends on who controls the narrative, who controls the conversation, and yeah, I mean, they'll label it whatever they want to label it.
tim pool
I think the best troll was when 4chan, I think it was 4chan, came up with that sign that said, it's okay to be white.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
And it was the most generic, it was a blank piece of paper with very basic writings that said, it's okay to be white.
Like, not even a good, not even it was better, or it was good, or just, it's okay.
And they called it white supremacy.
Like if you literally just said it was okay to be white, they called you a white supremacist.
But that was the point of the troll.
To expose that there was no degree that they would allow you to be a white person and live in peace.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, that was the correct slogan.
I got the slogan mixed up.
I thought it was the slogan that Kanye was saying, but it was actually the slogan that you mentioned, that in Ohio University had the FBI involved in an investigation because someone put up a sign saying it's okay to be white.
So, you know, the feds are keeping a close eye on this and the corporate media is, of course, weaponizing this term to mean whatever they want it to mean and, of course, changing the real definitions of it.
ian crossland
I was getting, when I was admitting minds in like 2016, 2017, after Trump got elected, there all of a sudden became a lot of racism online, right after Trump.
I think he said some racist stuff in his campaign and people felt like that was, the floodgates had been opened and they were allowed to be racist now.
tim pool
What did he say?
luke rudkowski
What did he say?
ian crossland
Yeah.
Um, he talked about Mexicans like they were like their own race.
luke rudkowski
Taco ball?
tim pool
Is that the?
He did say that he was calling for a shut down of Muslims.
ian crossland
Oh yeah, Muslim travel ban, which was insane.
tim pool
But that's a religion, not race.
ian crossland
Yeah, but it's so it's a similar like xenophobia kind of thing appeared.
And I used to get a lot of white purity stuff like it's okay to be white, white purity,
then it'd be like an old like Gaelic, white Nazi.
tim pool
We were just talking about how it's okay to be white is a kind of a banal statement.
ian crossland
Yeah, so I would get overloaded with it in my administratorship.
I'd get these just, it's okay to be white, it's okay to be white, white, like, white is beautiful.
And it's like, yeah, it's racist.
Whether or not it's hateful, I don't know, but it's definitely like, You could tell it wasn't just people expressing their love for being white.
It was like they were trying to dig in on it.
So I get why they're treating it like that.
I don't agree that it's a hate tactic, but I see why.
tim pool
No, the point of it's okay to be white, as a saying, was to prove that even saying something as mediocre as that would result in your exact reaction right now, calling it racist.
luke rudkowski
Yeah.
ian crossland
Well it is racist.
luke rudkowski
Anytime you talk about race.
tim pool
How is it racist?
benny johnson
Because it's not racist.
ian crossland
Because they're picking a race and they're making a generalization about it.
tim pool
You're saying it's okay?
It's okay to be white?
ian crossland
I'm saying, like, I love black women.
That's a racist statement.
unidentified
It's not hateful.
ian crossland
It's just a racist statement.
tim pool
It's proving the point of the meme right now, your reaction.
They didn't say anything good or bad.
It's okay.
ian crossland
There's big R racism, which is, like, systemic hateful, like, my race is better than that race.
Then there's little r racism where you're just talking about race.
It's just a racist conversation.
Like, it's okay to have a racist conversation.
As long as you're not, like, systemically racist, you know what I'm saying?
tim pool
You're changing the definition of words again.
ian crossland
There's two different ways to be racist.
And one is, like, the hateful one that everyone's trying to avoid.
Then the other one is, like, you pick out a race and you make all these generalizations about it.
tim pool
But that's not what it's okay to be white was doing.
ian crossland
They were just generalizing, like, it's okay to be this race.
And it's like, I get it, it is, but they weren't just, you know, it wasn't benevolent.
tim pool
You're proving the point.
You're proving the meme right.
ian crossland
What's the point?
luke rudkowski
What if it was another race?
ian crossland
It would've been exactly the same.
It's okay to be Indian.
It's okay to be Chinese.
benny johnson
But it is okay to be Indian.
ian crossland
It is okay.
It's also generally a racist statement, but it is okay.
tim pool
How is it racist?
ian crossland
Because you're talking about race and you're making a generalization about it.
benny johnson
Okay, hold on.
A thought for you.
You're from Chicago, right?
Probably the biggest holiday in Chicago, they turn the river green, is a day called St.
Patrick's Day.
And that day, there are shirts that say, Kiss Me, I'm Irish.
Or, Everyone's Irish Today.
Is that racist?
ian crossland
Well, it's nationalist.
It's nationalist.
That's also a weird distinction.
African doesn't mean black.
Irish doesn't mean white.
So race and nationality are kind of different.
benny johnson
Is Elon Musk an African American?
ian crossland
Technically, yeah.
tim pool
Literally.
luke rudkowski
Yeah?
tim pool
I don't know what else, what are you supposed to say to it?
Like, if the argument is that race is a social construct because the color of your skin varies among cultures, then Elon Musk, being from Africa, would be an African American by that argument.
And Luke, apparently, according to a group called the Coalition of Communities of Color, Luke, with blue eyes and blonde hair, is a person of color.
luke rudkowski
I am.
Yeah, by definition.
unidentified
A nice peach, pink, yellowish color.
luke rudkowski
So, am I okay to be a person of color, Ian?
ian crossland
You certainly are, Luke.
unidentified
Oh, that was racist.
benny johnson
That's racist!
ian crossland
But I was just talking about color schemes.
I didn't know there's anything to do with race.
tim pool
No, for real.
There's an organization that said Slavic people are people of color.
So Luke being from Poland is... I think that's what Hitler thought.
benny johnson
I mean, did he not?
Did he not think they were like inferior people?
tim pool
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
luke rudkowski
The Polish, yeah.
benny johnson
There's like chapters about this.
tim pool
It's so weird.
luke rudkowski
The Germans didn't like the Polish.
Nope.
Not at all.
benny johnson
Neither did the Russians.
ian crossland
Yeah, I want to like detach people from being I don't want people to feel afraid to talk about race Like it's important that we talk about race and like genetic differences because there are genetic differences in humans Historically because our ancestors lived in different areas with different climates their bodies evolved differently and it's interesting that is still racial If not smaller racist conversations to be like these this genetic type of person tends to be taller this genetic type of person tends to be able to do math faster because of some you know and you can see if it maybe it's a genetic issue as well as like a cultural thing that's fine as long as you don't start saying this one's better than that one.
benny johnson
Which is the actual definition of racism here Miriam Webster that Race leads is the fundamental determinant of a human trait and capacity that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
That is the Merriam-Webster number one definition on Google searches of a racism, right?
tim pool
I think Polish people cook cabbage better than Americans.
Is that racist?
benny johnson
No, I think that's just like cultures doing things better.
There are some cultures that do things better.
tim pool
In Poland they have a history of growing and utilizing cabbage.
benny johnson
Yo, skin color is just a function of where your ancestors came from and how close they were to the equator.
Because melanin is just something that your body naturally produces based on how much sunlight you get.
It is a protective, it's less about like It's more about biology than anything.
It's more about the wonder of the design of your body to protect you from a lot of UV light.
To make sure that you're not going to be harmed by the amount of UV light that your ancestors were from.
tim pool
I read this crazy thing about black frogs in Ukraine, and it's because of Chernobyl.
What happened is the frogs were green, most of them, but there were some that had darker skin.
When the radiation leak came out, the green-skinned frogs all started dying.
The melanin in the black frogs, because they're like dark brown, dark black, was dissipating the radioactive energy, and so they were more likely to survive.
unidentified
Wow.
tim pool
So 20-some-odd years on, they reproduced, and the whole area around Chernobyl was populated by black frogs.
benny johnson
wow yeah that's crazy this is melanin man this is why even like the term white doesn't quite make any sense what do you mean by white like what like what color white right like what color white what do you mean color if you if your white person moves down to mexico city as you said And a hipster who is translucent from the Upper East Side goes to Mexico City.
They will develop a tan over time.
Their skin will become darker.
They will have a different complexion.
In ten years, man, living in Mexico City, they will have a different complexion entirely.
They won't even look like the same person.
And that's just the wonder of the body and your body protecting itself and making sure you don't get skin cancer and you don't get sunburned all day.
tim pool
I wonder if that melanin study on radioactivity would mean that white people are less likely to survive radioactive fallout.
benny johnson
Interesting.
That's bringing it full circle.
That was impressive.
ian crossland
If you had a video game where you could be like, all right, we need to deal with certain things, what race of person am I going to send in to deal with that?
Because they can handle that situation better.
I need people to be like camouflage in the ice.
All right, I'm gonna pick a white person.
I need people to be camouflaged at night.
All right, I'll pick a black person.
Now, of course, no one's white or black, but their skin's more likely to blend in with the surroundings.
tim pool
Love it.
Or they could use face paint.
ian crossland
And I tell you, humans are phenomenal.
I don't care what skin color you got, where you're from, you have the ability to change the world, man, and learn stuff that no one else has learned.
benny johnson
Way to go.
Yes.
And that's why the definition of racism is saying that one race is better than the other, not saying that it's okay to be a race.
ian crossland
Well, what about just making generalizations about race?
benny johnson
It's okay to be white isn't inherently racist.
It's okay to be Indian too, and Chinese.
ian crossland
But I think it, I guess it's, we're using different definitions of the word race, which obviously there are, racism rather.
Because if you just make a generalization about a race, this is something I learned growing up, I'd be like, oh, people would be like, I love black, black women are so beautiful.
And I'd be like, well, that's racist.
You know, you're making a generalization about black people, black women.
And they're like, I guess, technically.
And then we laugh because it's like, yeah, but they are pretty hot.
tim pool
I see what you're saying, but saying it's OK to be a race isn't racist because you're not generalizing about anybody.
You're just saying like, yeah, it's OK.
It's like it's actually the opposite of racism.
It's saying like it's OK.
lydia smith
Preference.
tim pool
No, it's not even that.
It's just like it would be racist to be like, it's not OK to be white.
That would be racist.
But being like, no, it's like we are tolerant and accepting of other races.
That's not racist.
That's the opposite of it.
ian crossland
I think once you start talking about race like that, you're basically creating a racist conversation.
Maybe not big R, maybe not like hatefully.
tim pool
So what if someone said it's not okay to be white?
Is that racist?
ian crossland
Yeah, I think so.
tim pool
So there's no circumstance?
ian crossland
Like if you start bringing white and black and skin color and stuff into conversations, you're now a racist.
It's a racist conversation.
No, but it's not the same definition of the hateful, like, you know, xenophobia kind of crap.
benny johnson
Did we used to be so obsessed with race?
So, speaking of Chicago, I grew up with a Michael Jordan poster on my wall.
I think I was aware that he was a different skin color than me, but it didn't really matter.
I idealized the guy.
I think he was really great.
I had his jersey.
Like, I thought the guy was great.
His poster, along with Shaquille O'Neal's poster, hung on my wall.
And never once did I think, like, that's cool because of their skin color.
tim pool
Well, they say that's white privilege.
The fact that you didn't have to think about it proves that you had privilege.
benny johnson
But I was saying these guys are, like, pretty great for how they fall.
tim pool
I mean, these people don't seem to have a good logic behind what their ideology is.
ian crossland
I definitely noticed it when I was a baby, like, young.
benny johnson
I felt like in the 90s there was, like, a different conversation about race.
Maybe no one was having a conversation about race.
You can check the term racism in the New York Times and how they use it, and it's, like, skyrocketed since around when Barack Obama— Occupy Wall Street.
unidentified
Yep.
luke rudkowski
Since Occupy Wall Street.
ian crossland
We were pretty racist growing up.
They called it Caucasian Falls, where I'm from.
It was like 99% white kids, and it was really gross.
And I didn't know any better.
We just grew up.
If the stuff we said when I was 12 was on the internet, I'd still be humiliated.
It would still be haunting me to this day.
And I had to learn, like, yo, I would make jokes about gay people, and it was just effeminate jokes and stuff.
And then in college, I went to theater school, and they're like, you know, that's really offensive, Ian.
And so I stopped.
And I was like, you know, But I was raised in a really racist environment.
When I went to South America, I noticed that I looked different than people.
And that was what Tim's saying about white privilege.
It's the privilege of looking like the majority of the people around you, like, skin tone.
Because when their skin was dark, they'd look at me and they'd be like, Thor!
You know, they would say, they would look at me and be like, you look like Thor from the movie.
luke rudkowski
I'm gonna make a shirt with you on it that says Thor.
ian crossland
Yeah, they'd probably be like Chris Hemsworth.
benny johnson
You have great hair.
ian crossland
Thanks, sir.
tim pool
When I traveled around most places, I never experienced it.
Because everywhere I go, no one can tell what I am.
So I remember this one story that I've told before when I was in Egypt.
And I'm in the back of this van with a bunch of Egyptians.
And the vice producer I'm with is this white dude with brown hair and blue eyes.
And he looks over to me and he's like, okay Tim.
We're gonna play it cool.
We're gonna listen to what our fixers tell us to do.
Because once we get out there, ain't no one gonna believe we're not a couple of white guys.
And every single Egyptian goes, no, Tim looks Egyptian.
And I was like, oh, really?
And they're like, yeah, yeah, especially with the hat, because people wear hats like that.
So they were like, no, no, you should come.
And I went to Nasser City, where the Muslim Brotherhood was.
No problem.
In fact, one guy even came up to me and started yelling something in Arabic, and I just like smiled, and then the guy I was with started answering him in Arabic.
And then as we walked away, he started laughing, and he was like, dude, he thought you were like a monk or an imam or something, because you're wearing the hat.
He was asking where the mosque was.
And I was like, really?
benny johnson
The same hat.
tim pool
Not the same hat, but similar style beanie.
And, you know, I've been to South America.
Typically, when I go to a lot of places, people can't tell, you know, so I just kind of like drift about.
benny johnson
What is your, I mean, am I allowed to ask?
tim pool
German-Irish, Korean-Japanese?
ian crossland
Especially if everyone on Earth had a baby, it would look like you, but your skin would be a little darker.
You are the United Nations.
Yeah, if your skin got a little darker, that's like the future of humanity, when everybody starts breeding together.
tim pool
Except here's the thing, most woke liberals don't think I'm white, they think I'm not white, until it becomes politically expedient.
But it's like the weirdest thing, because if it's white people who think I'm not white, I don't worry about anything, because they're not racist to me.
And then when I go to other countries, and they just think I fit in with that country, then I don't gotta worry about it, because even if they are racist, they think I'm same as them, you know?
It's weird how that works.
benny johnson
Did you ever feel, like, people tell me stories about Egypt, and they say, like, it's uncomfortable there, and that it's not, like, that nice of a place.
Is it true?
tim pool
I don't know.
I had a blast.
Yeah, I mean, it was a revolution happening, so.
But I went to the mall, walked around, totally normal.
It was cool.
Inexpensive.
Yeah, like the guy I was with told me to shut up because we went to a fast-food restaurant when I found that I was like a dollar for a meal.
I was like, whoa!
And he's like, shh!
He's like, this is a lot of money to these people.
He's like, you're American.
You're something like an a-hole.
And I was like, oh, whoa, you're right.
Man, that was bad.
I shouldn't do that.
But I was like really excited because I could get food and I was kind of broke.
And I was like, this is amazing!
And then, you know, to them, they were like, rich American shows up, shh!
Nah, people aren't gonna be too happy with that.
But I think the guy I was with got like attacked in an alley.
Cause he did look like a white American dude.
He got surrounded and then some other dude came up and started getting the guys to back away and like told them not to do it.
And they were like, I guess once they, what the, the, there's a bunch of Egyptian guys got in the face of the vice producer and like cornered him.
And then some other guy came up and was basically saying in Arabic or something like, you're going to attack an American journalist.
You're going to make us all look bad.
It's going to hurt us.
You got to stop.
And then got him.
And then he put his hand up and then looked at the producers like, go now.
It's crazy stuff, man.
Getting out there.
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Raymond G. Stanley Jr.
says, what's he doing?
No, Luke, stop!
For those that saw the show on Friday.
unidentified
Dodged a bullet on that one.
tim pool
No, we have to, we can't be fake news.
ian crossland
All right.
tim pool
Luke wasn't doing anything.
unidentified
Nope.
tim pool
That was it.
He was doing literally nothing.
He was just pretending like he was gonna do something.
We went with it.
We turned the camera.
ian crossland
You know how the sausage is made.
tim pool
That's it.
That's it.
It was just a gag because Luke didn't have a gag left.
All right.
Tripsuck says, regarding your member segment, I'm a film teacher.
Moonlight was the best film of the 2010s.
It's not woke, just a great film.
Absolute masterpiece.
Oh, interesting.
Yeah, we talked about movies.
That's cool.
We got Raymond G again.
He says, everyone who isn't an Ian-phobic weirdo should go see Cast Castle.
You'll have a graphene time, especially for Free the Code and the Fed folks who DMT know the union election was rigged.
Go Antifa bros.
Yes, Ian's fake union election.
The allegation is that it was rigged.
Watch Cast Castle to find out more.
Wait, was that a historical election?
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
L-C-O-S-R Fijo says, not a single word on the Brazilian election, Tim.
We're still waiting to see what happens.
The polls were wrong.
Bolsonaro didn't lose yet, but it's not looking good.
That's about it.
I don't know.
What else is going on?
lydia smith
They got a runoff next, I think.
tim pool
Yeah.
The polls were saying that, was it Lula?
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Is that who his name is?
Is it a guy?
It's a guy, right?
lydia smith
Lula's a guy, yeah.
tim pool
They said he was going to win, and then he got just short of 50%, so not enough, and now there's going to be a runoff, and it's going to go to Bolsonaro and Lula.
benny johnson
I'm not saying I follow this closely.
I don't speak Portuguese.
I'm not an expert on this.
However, Steve Bannon was on a show today saying, this is really strange because Bolsonaro's party is winning huge down ballot.
And their candidates are doing very, very well all the way down the ballot.
And then he's doing poorly, right?
tim pool
So, what does this mean?
I don't know enough about Brazilian politics, but I do have a friend who's Brazilian who... The general idea I get is, at least from conversations I've had, They don't like him as much as they like the politics, so it might be like a Trump-DeSantis kind of thing, where, you know, Trump himself as a personality riles a lot of people up, but the candidates have a lot of- but the rest of the candidates may be more tactful or something like that.
Or, who knows?
I don't know what the politics are like in Brazil.
There could be corruption and other nonsense.
We'll see what happens, I don't know.
ian crossland
Are they using voting machines?
Like, proprietary voting machines?
benny johnson
I heard mail-in ballots.
tim pool
In Brazil?
We'll see!
I mean, the benefit of a runoff is that they have a chance now to, before the final tally, see what's going on.
If they have questions, they better address them now.
All right, all right.
Let's grab some more Super Chats.
What do we got here?
Victor Solano says, it's still in the Arctic around some islands.
Look at the New York Post.
They do talk about the submarine.
That's the Poseidon submarine.
ian crossland
Hmm.
tim pool
Brandon Hampson says, Tim, the noise your computer keeps making is the Alphabet Boys spying on you through your computer.
lydia smith
No, we figured out what it was.
unidentified
What was it?
lydia smith
We got a new email system and it dings every time we get an email.
unidentified
Oh, is that it?
lydia smith
So that was happening.
tim pool
But where was the sound coming from?
lydia smith
It was coming from this TV.
tim pool
The TV?
lydia smith
Yeah, I know.
ian crossland
That's weird.
unidentified
Stupid.
tim pool
What do we got here?
Charlie Wilson says, shout out to my coworker Haley, who left me speechless when she asked if I knew what Timcast was when I mentioned listening to Joe Rogan.
Wow.
Shout out to Haley.
Thanks.
Thanks for shouting us out and spreading the word.
But apparently Charlie already knew what it was.
So you'll have to spread the word more now.
lydia smith
Further.
tim pool
Marshall P. says, Tsunami nukes are not new and were tested right after World War II.
With USA and New Zealand tests, the tests found that they don't work very well.
Unless Russia's is better.
ian crossland
What if it turned out since every hurricane since the Cold War has been Russian nuclear hurricanes?
We just find out a century later.
tim pool
I don't know.
That conspiracy theory is that HAARP is firing energy into the atmosphere to create storms
luke rudkowski
or something like that, right?
Well, they do modify the weather.
The Chinese government openly admits that, but, you know, that's admitted.
tim pool
Hold on.
It's not about admitting it, because that implies it's like a secret.
Silver iodide cloud seeding has been around since what, like the 60s?
And Germany's been doing infrared laser cloud seeding for a long time.
Weather manipulation has been around for a long time.
It's not like they're creating tornadoes and blowing people up.
I don't know about that.
ian crossland
Those hurricane eyes, I was like, there's got to be something magnetic in space that
it created like that.
Like some sort of magnetic charge must be causing that.
Maybe similar to tornadoes, I don't know.
But, that's, you know, interesting.
tim pool
Tim Jake says the tsunami bomb is the latest iteration of geophysical warfare.
New York Times reported on it in the early 70s.
One scenario was five nukes detonated simultaneously in the Pacific, causing a wave that could wipe out the West Coast.
That'd be crazy.
Or they could send a team to the center of the earth with nukes to detonate them to start up the core to spin again, like in The Core with Aaron Eckhart and Stanley Tucci.
Who else is in that movie?
unidentified
I don't know.
ian crossland
Let's find out.
luke rudkowski
I don't know.
lydia smith
I regret it now.
tim pool
Brett Dasovic Sensei says, nuke Dubuque, we puke.
benny johnson
I'm from Iowa.
I've been to Dubuque many times.
I used to play high school football in Dubuque.
lydia smith
Great place.
benny johnson
Solid.
Cool city, because it's right up on the riverbed.
tim pool
This is interesting.
Some Hijink says, someone please ask Alex Jones if the aliens will interrupt or prevent a global nuclear war.
There's a conspiracy theory that aliens shut off a bunch of nukes And so people have been saying for the past few years the next thing to happen is going to be aliens, right?
That was a big meme for a while.
Then there was like the Storm Area 51 stuff a few years back.
Maybe Vladimir Putin's going to like hit the button, the nuke's going to go up, and then the aliens will appear.
benny johnson
What if Vladimir Putin is the alien?
He kind of looks like an alien.
He's short.
tim pool
He's got bug eyes.
Let's grab some more.
Joe Dutchman says, read the James Bond virus.
Imagine a virus that's designed to primarily target those who are obese, older, and have multiple medical issues.
Weird.
That would be crazy.
Like, you know, like, culling a certain group of people would be nuts.
luke rudkowski
Me and Ian are looking at each other, I'm like, what can I say here without getting this show in trouble?
tim pool
Darren Gaming News says, did you know Canada has Chinese police stations?
We did talk about this a little bit.
There's also one in the United States.
Did you know that, Benny?
China opened police stations in Europe, Canada, and one in New York.
benny johnson
So it's not legal, of course, right?
ian crossland
You can't do this.
benny johnson
But like, that's a second government, unelected, that's a second government institution operating here in violation of our laws.
tim pool
I believe, yes.
Yep.
That's crazy, isn't it?
benny johnson
Have they made any of that?
Is there any statistics or data out of this in Manhattan?
With this police office?
One.
And then two, are they arresting American citizens?
Are they threatening American citizens?
unidentified
Yes.
tim pool
They claim it's for their own citizens, but if someone's a dual citizen, then they're gonna treat them like a citizen of China.
But this is basically them operating a legal apparatus in our country, which is just absolutely insane.
benny johnson
So there's a homie story that we've covered a couple years back.
There's a homie at the University of Minnesota, right?
Chinese.
I was pointing at ALX, our executive producer, who's awesome, and everyone should go follow ALX the Lord on Truth Social.
Instagram and get her.
There's a homie at the University of Minnesota.
He's Chinese, national, and he tweeted about Xi Jinping.
He tweeted a meme that he's a pooh bear.
And he got put in jail.
tim pool
What?
benny johnson
His ass got dragged back to China and he got thrown in the clink in China.
How did they get us to jail?
According to the article that I read, they used his family.
They went after his family.
They were like, okay, well, your mother no longer has a job, and your father's going to be in the bread lines, and your family is now, because of what you've done here in America, so somebody was monitoring his treats.
He's at the University of Minnesota.
This is a well-reported story.
University of Minnesota student, Chinese, tweets Pooh Bear meme about Xi, gets put in jail.
Back in China.
Brought home, put in jail.
tim pool
Let's just be honest, I mean, Xi Jinping is the greatest leader.
His charisma just exudes from his person, and we would be honored to be in his presence, and even be one-tenth as amazing as he is.
unidentified
Hail Xi Jinping!
luke rudkowski
And Mickey Mouse!
Hail Xi Jinping!
ian crossland
He's a good singer, too.
tim pool
I think it's funny how everything I said is actually, like, to anybody who understands the language would know that I was saying the most awful things possible about him.
It's funny how language works, right?
But, you know, when Joe Biden eventually hands the keys over, you know, to China, I said good things about him.
ian crossland
You mean leave the keys in the ignition?
luke rudkowski
When?
tim pool
When Xi comes to collect He'll be like, he'll come in here and I'll look at everybody and be like, you're all bad, but he said nice things about me.
And then, you know, I'll get to, I'll get to hang out.
ian crossland
I feel good in his presence, man.
tim pool
I feel good.
No, we should all post memes of Xi as Winnie the Pooh.
ian crossland
We should support Joe Biden too.
Cause having a, a decrepit president's not good for anybody right now.
tim pool
Well, they can't deny it.
Even the Daily Beast wrote that his brain's broken.
When that happened, I was like, whoa, the Daily Beast.
Yikes.
ian crossland
We need to support that dude.
tim pool
No one can deny it anymore.
Cringe Inc.
says the episode you speak of was a poison developer who used gene-specific poisons they found the culprit because he always inserted a useless molecule into the poison in the shape of a seahorse as a calling card for credit.
Was that the fringe one?
Remember when they talked about doing a gay bomb?
Was that real?
luke rudkowski
I believe that was during the Vietnam War.
They were doing research and development into it, and then concluded that they shouldn't go forward with this.
unidentified
But you could, obviously... What?
tim pool
Like it worked?
luke rudkowski
And hypothetical references, it's not unfeasible.
There's a big probability that they... I think they did have it, and I think they tried to release it in Vietnam.
I gotta fact check myself.
ian crossland
Like a bomb that makes people gay?
unidentified
Yes.
luke rudkowski
But I think they didn't use it because they found that the soldiers would be fighting for their lovers more intensely instead of just passionately making love and dropping their weapons.
benny johnson
Wait, so they did turn the frogs gay?
luke rudkowski
Well, if they had gay bombs since the Vietnam Wars.
tim pool
I don't know about they, but you know that story is true, right?
benny johnson
Yes!
tim pool
Are you kidding?
benny johnson
Refresh me.
tim pool
So, Alex, of course, was being silly, but atrazine was a chemical that studies found was disrupting the endocrine systems of frogs and turning them hermaphroditic.
So, Jones yells, they're turning the freaking frogs gay!
And then the media is like, Jones thinks frogs are gay, when in reality he was just being hyperbolic and silly about an actual story.
luke rudkowski
Daily Mail, 2007 from October, this is their title, scientists developed gay bomb to make enemy soldiers stop fighting and make love.
unidentified
Yep.
luke rudkowski
Daily Mail is reporting on this.
ian crossland
Also known as the halitosis bomb, formal for two non-lethal psychochemical weapons that a United States Air Force research laboratory speculated about producing.
Theories involve discharging sex pheromones over enemy forces in order to make them sexually attracted to each other.
luke rudkowski
Thank you, Ian.
ian crossland
That's from Wikipedia, by the way.
I don't know if that's real or not.
tim pool
I just can't believe that's real.
ian crossland
The halitosis bomb.
tim pool
It's like two guys who are best friends and they're like fighting and there's like a sniper shooting at him and all of a sudden there's like a big pink explosion and then he's just like, I can't fight anymore.
I need to love you.
ian crossland
I believe it.
What if they just did that?
What if they did like an LSD bomb?
You ever see the videos of the British soldiers taking LSD and climbing trees and they're like, they wouldn't focus so
they stopped testing it out.
luke rudkowski
MKUltra mind control CIA projects giving unsuspecting people, you know, acid.
tim pool
But what if they just did that? What if they did like an LSD bomb?
And then the enemy soldiers would just be like looped out of their minds, you know?
benny johnson
This was the development of LSD.
luke rudkowski
The purpose of LSD was to put it in the water system.
benny johnson
And to make everyone high off their ass.
luke rudkowski
Some people don't find themselves loopy.
Some people find themselves more focused and more attentive and more aware of situations and things on LSD.
What about marijuana?
It depends on the strain.
tim pool
A plane flies over the enemy troops and a blanket of smoke just goes all over them and they're like, what's happening?
luke rudkowski
They start eating munchies and being lazy.
unidentified
Second plane with Cheeto dust.
luke rudkowski
They all turn to Ian.
unidentified
And they call Agent Orange, is what they call that play.
benny johnson
I thank you.
tim pool
Alright, Tyler B says, the animal transformation virus is the plot of the anime Brand New Animal, lol.
It was released by the government of animal people.
ian crossland
What animal would you be?
tim pool
Brand new animal.
ian crossland
Benny, if you were transformed into an animal, what would you be?
benny johnson
So I asked him this, and I didn't get a response, and I insist on a response before I- Okay.
tim pool
I have no idea.
benny johnson
Everyone's blowing- I'm watching the comment section right now, they're melting down wanting to know what animal you'd be.
luke rudkowski
Yeah.
ian crossland
There's a hundred of you.
tim pool
A gorilla, I guess.
unidentified
Yes!
ian crossland
Oh, nasty!
tim pool
Well, but that's, you know, the TimCast meme.
Alex Jones came in here and said, I'm a gorilla, so I guess I'll just say gorilla.
benny johnson
You turn into a gorilla?
tim pool
I guess everybody here would be a gorilla.
ian crossland
I'd be a wolf.
tim pool
Well, so Alex kept coming here saying, I am a gorilla, so we made I am a gorilla t-shirts.
And so it's a gorilla and, you know, going like, I'm a gorilla.
ian crossland
What about you Ben?
unidentified
A parakeet.
benny johnson
Am I being turned into an animal in wartime?
Like, is this something that's being used as a weapon?
ian crossland
No, like tonight, you leave and it's just like, it's happening!
benny johnson
I mean, I go to the zoo a lot in Tampa with my kids.
Monkeys are very cool.
Not trying to copy, but the monkey pits are cool.
tim pool
The girls are different.
luke rudkowski
Totally copy.
benny johnson
You don't want to be a manatee, right?
unidentified
Manatee, you're just like, munching.
tim pool
Did you ever see that movie Tusk?
Oh, yeah.
Who's that actor?
Justin Long.
It's a Kevin Smith movie where a guy gets kidnapped.
He goes to visit some writer or something, and then the guy beats him and surgically turns him into a walrus, like trans walrus or something.
lydia smith
What the heck?
tim pool
It's the most ridiculous movie I've ever seen.
It's not good, and I don't know why they made it, but it ends with Justin Long in an aquarium.
His body is stitched to a bunch of garbage to make him look like a walrus, and his jaw's broken, and his legs are bent.
And they put him in an aquarium, like he's happier, and they throw him fish.
It's like, dude, he's still a human.
Like, you give him a cheeseburger.
Google it!
I think it's called Tusk.
I'm not sure.
benny johnson
Can I change my answer?
ian crossland
Yeah.
benny johnson
I would be a chicken.
I'd go to Chicken City.
lydia smith
There you go.
tim pool
Good answer.
luke rudkowski
You'd be pooping out eggs all day.
tim pool
That's a hen.
You'd be a rooster.
benny johnson
I'd be a rooster.
But I like eggs, too.
I mean, whatever.
ian crossland
Nasty, dude.
tim pool
With opposable thumbs.
Chicken City, man.
We're gonna build a new Chicken City at the new space.
It's gonna be bigger and better than ever.
And then we're gonna build a special, uh... You know, what is it called when you're like... Cluck capacitor?
unidentified
No, no.
tim pool
What is it called when you're the king, but then you abdicate your throne to, like, the prince?
You're called, like, something else.
benny johnson
Regent.
tim pool
The king regent?
That's what I thought it was, yeah.
So Roberto's gonna get his special quarters as the king regent and Roberto Jr.
is the king.
ian crossland
Oh, okay.
So if Roberto Jr.
leaves or something happens to him, Roberto will take over?
tim pool
No, he's- Roberto's like the retired king.
ian crossland
I think that regency is the one that's going to take over if something happens to the leader, like in absentia.
tim pool
Oh, okay.
Well, it's like when the king passes the throne down to the prince, he becomes king regent or whatever.
Alright, MusicDCGuy says, did anyone ever see the video of the lady at the chicken farm talking about it and then a guy behind her takes chicks and puts them down the grinder chute?
unidentified
No, but it sounds brutal.
tim pool
So maybe you don't want to be a chicken.
SpaceAgeGamer says, meat chickens are selectively bred to be ready in like six to nine weeks.
After that, the legs give out because they are too fat.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, many of them are heart attacks and a lot of them are genetically modified, altered creatures that don't resemble what they came from.
tim pool
When you go to like KFC and order a drumstick and it's like this big, or there's an Irish place nearby here and I order the chicken legs, they're like this big.
I look over at my chickens and I'm like, not a single one of those things has legs that big.
Like, where do these things come from?
We just got some Jersey Giants, they're a couple months old now, and they're gonna get massive.
And I don't even know if their legs are gonna get that big.
It's like, these chicken legs you get, these are like mutant chickens, man.
benny johnson
This is not a nice life.
My wife's from Delaware, it's where I'm going in two days, and it's chicken farms.
That's all that Delaware is, chicken farms.
And you poke your head in one of those things, it's a miserable life for these chickens.
ian crossland
Like the industrial kind of?
benny johnson
Yeah, I mean, it's dark, they didn't ever see the sunlight, and then they, you know.
Yeah, they're dead in six weeks, right?
They pump them full of hormones, they can't walk.
tim pool
They sit... Somebody said you can fold a $20 bill.
If you fold a $20 bill, you can see 9-11.
If you fold the blue 100, you can see a missile causing a tsunami.
unidentified
Where?
How?
lydia smith
Oh, interesting.
ian crossland
Yeah, show us pictures.
tim pool
Yeah, I need to look up how to do that.
unidentified
Now I'm curious.
tim pool
I'm looking at the 100, and I'm like... Where?
On the back?
Like, if you fold it on the back, how do you do it?
benny johnson
That's a flex.
unidentified
Yeah, there you go.
benny johnson
Just pop one out.
unidentified
You have a hundo sitting there?
tim pool
That's a flex.
Well, I mean, it was in my wallet.
I just have it sitting in front of me.
Grabbed my wallet.
$100 bill.
lydia smith
Just keep a stack on the table.
Yeah, I remember the 9-11 thing, but I haven't seen it.
tim pool
Did you look it up?
unidentified
Yeah, I found it, but it doesn't really look that well.
tim pool
Does it say it?
What does it say?
What does it claim?
It's causing a tsunami?
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
How do you do it?
unidentified
What?
That's ridiculous.
tim pool
That's not real.
lydia smith
That's creative thinking.
ian crossland
It's been around since 2013.
Decoded.
tim pool
The tsunami claim?
ian crossland
Yeah.
Really?
New $100 bill reveals tidal wave to hit New York City.
unidentified
What?
ian crossland
It's a YouTube video.
tim pool
Yo, that proves it.
ian crossland
Yeah.
Evidence.
luke rudkowski
Simpsons did it.
tim pool
Simpsons did it.
All right.
Campbell of the Mojave says authority and responsibility go hand in hand.
The moment you separate them is the moment your system is going to fall apart.
I hear you, man.
T.W.
Rated says, Tim, you are wrong about the price to be smuggled across the border.
It's around $15,000.
I talk to these people.
unidentified
Wow.
tim pool
I've heard that, too.
I've heard that, too.
benny johnson
Wow.
tim pool
Yeah, it sounds right.
You know?
Ruby Romaine says, I seriously considered moving to Florida, but I don't want to deal with hurricanes every year.
Yeah, when I was in Florida, there was a scare, I think, but it never got close.
And then I remember I actually flew down when one of the big hurricanes was supposed to come, and then it turned away and went the other direction.
ian crossland
So you're in Tampa.
I mean, you're based there.
What happened with the hurricane just recently?
benny johnson
It was supposed to be a direct hit on Tampa, instead it went south, went to Naples, Fort Myers, kind of like the area where it ingressed, and it sucked all the water out of Tampa Bay.
Wow, that was crazy.
If you go down to Tampa Bay, 20 feet of water should be there.
I went and I walked down on the barnacles, and you just walk.
Right?
If it was Nevada or Chicago, there'd be bodies everywhere, right?
Skulls and everything.
If this was the East River, but it's not.
And so it was just barnacles.
It was little, you know, crustaceans down there.
And so you could walk on Tampa Bay.
It was insane.
What was happening is all that water was being pulled out of the bay and shoved onshore in Fort Myer, devastating those... I mean, obviously, everyone saw the footage, but just flattened those communities.
And so, you know, it's a big, you know, obviously huge, huge issue.
But to this commenter who said this about the hurricanes in Florida, number one, Tampa hasn't had a direct, if you lived in Tampa, there's not been a direct hit hurricane in over a hundred years.
So, I guess you can roll your dice, uh, when it comes to that.
And then two, if you're not on, you know, if you're not directly on the coast, it's these little coastal communities.
There's all these little islands, right, that get created.
And then the hurricane comes through and literally reforms the land.
It's insane.
So it splits islands in two, it makes new islands.
Like, there's, uh, there's multiple islands along the coastline just get created by hurricanes.
They're like, oh, that's Charlie that did that.
Wild stuff, man.
ian crossland
Sort of like rip the dirt away and form new waterways.
benny johnson
That's right.
So there's places you can boat now.
There's like a little, there's a bar.
There's a bar.
I cannot remember which island it is.
luke rudkowski
I was there a couple of months ago.
The bar?
Yep.
In the middle of an island that was bought off by like three people for like $10,000.
I forgot the name of it too.
But it's pretty cool.
It was pretty fun being there.
benny johnson
It's named after the hurricane that created the island.
unidentified
Oh wow.
tim pool
You ever go to Stiltzville in Miami?
benny johnson
I do not go to Miami very much.
tim pool
So they built right like off the coast in I guess it's international waters?
These buildings on stilts because the water's only a few feet deep way out.
It's crazy.
I went out there with this dude and you need I think it's sonar on your boat to map the rocks underneath because the water seriously is like three feet high at some points.
But you're like 10 miles out.
It's crazy.
You can see the city in the distance and then you're looking down you can see huge rocks.
benny johnson
Wait, so it's a city of free city?
It's just a few buildings.
tim pool
It was like speakeasies back in the day where you could go out and gamble and do whatever you wanted.
And then they were damaged in the 90s in Hurricane Andrew, I think it was.
And so now people go there and party and stuff.
ian crossland
There's a bar in Iquitos in Peru that I, well, I didn't actually go, uh, but it floods every night when the river rises when it comes in and people, so it comes up to your waist while you're drinking at the bar.
They were like, it's dangerous.
unidentified
Don't go.
So I avoided it.
benny johnson
Are there like fish in there and stuff?
I don't know.
I don't know.
ian crossland
That'd be nuts.
tim pool
Yeah, probably.
benny johnson
Yeah.
In Florida, something would eat you.
That's for sure.
unidentified
Piranhas.
Yeah.
Yeah.
benny johnson
You see the shark that came on my, there's a shark that was like washed ashore and was eating someone's pet.
lydia smith
Oh my gosh.
unidentified
Yeah.
benny johnson
It's a shark like eating someone's pet.
lydia smith
Jeez.
tim pool
Canna Claus says, Ian x Kendi.
ian crossland
Yeah, let's have him on the show, man!
tim pool
Ian X. Kennedy.
ian crossland
I know, I know.
That's why I said the wrong thing.
What's his name?
Richard Ebram Kennedy?
Is that his first name?
lydia smith
Uh, Henry.
ian crossland
Henry, Henry.
Henry Ebram Kennedy.
lydia smith
Not sure.
tim pool
His name is like Henry Smith or something.
ian crossland
Henry Smith.
Henry, come on the show!
lydia smith
Took his wife's last name.
tim pool
Is that what he did?
lydia smith
Yeah, he did.
tim pool
Really?
He was Kennedy?
Yep.
Kennedy's a cooler last name than whatever his last name was.
ian crossland
True, true.
unidentified
Soy.
Soy.
benny johnson
Pure soy.
tim pool
All right.
Andrusco says, Tim, I'm an entrepreneur, sociologist, and former professor.
A recent heart attack created an urgency to work for greater good again.
I've sent a resume, CV video, intro outlining my skills.
Hope to hear back, as I have a lot to offer.
Thank you.
Appreciate it!
We'll have to take a look.
We have a massive library of emails, unfortunately.
And we can only hire so many people.
I think there's like 30 people here and 32 people and like five contractors.
So we certainly can't hire everybody.
Musically Assured Destruction says Alex Jones talked about the weather machines years ago.
That he did.
unidentified
What are they?
tim pool
Harp?
Is that what everyone thinks?
ian crossland
Harp's in, what is it, Alaska?
Yeah.
High altitude, I'm not sure what it stands for, something radio.
tim pool
High altitude audio.
ian crossland
Yeah, keep going.
It's High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, and I think they're, what they're supposed to be doing is beaming radio frequency out into space.
But they're, like, beaming it out into space, according to them, but people think that they're actually also beaming things back at us and experimenting.
unidentified
I don't know.
ian crossland
Have you studied that stuff much?
luke rudkowski
Not too much.
tim pool
Oh man, I see something right here.
Ian just got owned.
Semper Ives says, White is a color, not a race.
So at best, it's okay to be white is a colorful statement, not a racist one.
unidentified
Boom.
tim pool
Roasted.
ian crossland
Well, if we're talking facts, white is a shade, not a color.
tim pool
But you're the one who's always saying you're not white, you're pink.
So therefore, if white is not a race, then saying it's okay to be white isn't racist and you own yourself.
ian crossland
Black and white, not races?
luke rudkowski
Wrecked.
unidentified
Boom.
luke rudkowski
Wrecked.
unidentified
Roasted.
ian crossland
Technically, the human race is like one race, isn't it?
unidentified
I don't get this whole racism thing, anyway.
I have no idea.
ian crossland
It's like one species.
I think there's like one... I don't know what the genomics of it are.
tim pool
Descent says, DW reporting Japanese told to take cover after NK missile launch.
Good thing Kakala Harris announced our allyship with them.
Ian Rowling 1s on racism.
Yeah, what's going on?
I saw that.
I saw people were commenting about North Korea firing missiles over Japan or something.
luke rudkowski
I saw that before the show, but it looks like it didn't hit anything and just kind of went over them.
tim pool
Yeah, but still.
luke rudkowski
Yeah?
tim pool
That's crazy.
unidentified
Wow.
All right.
tim pool
Brian Field says, Tim, if the armorer on the set had the weapon loaded with our product, bees dummies, that accident would not have been able to happen.
Tell your audience to check out our dummy rounds.
Well, yes.
I guess the issue was, there were dummy rounds, and someone put a real bullet in there, so.
Rebel.acause says, Joe Rogan had a joke in the height of Iraq war about carpet bombing with clouds of chronic smoke.
I mean, it's a joke, but why not?
Just blanket cities with dense marijuana smoke.
ian crossland
Get that dosage right, yeah.
unidentified
Yeah, just stone everybody out of their minds.
tim pool
Gareth Green says that is not what a regent is.
A regent is someone who fulfills the monarch's responsibilities when they are incapacitated.
Ian was correct.
ian crossland
Yeah, and they can be appointed.
tim pool
John Savage says, fun fact, it's illegal to wear a ski mask in Florida.
It's a second degree misdemeanor from back in 1951 when the state was fighting against the Klan and bank robbers.
ian crossland
Wow.
tim pool
I didn't know that.
You learn something new every day.
YouTube's given us the business for some reason.
It's not loading superchats properly.
lydia smith
Oh, no.
tim pool
Yeah, I don't know why.
It's like frozen.
Oh, well, we'll grab one more, I guess, because that's all it's showing.
Oh, wait, another one.
Jonathan Bethke says, Hey, Tim, you always talk about Tom McDonald, but I really did you take a look at Chris Webby, especially his Raw Thoughts songs.
He refused to sign with a major label and said he created his own.
That's very, very cool.
Andrusco says, I don't want, need to be hired.
I'm financially good with my businesses.
Just use my usable skills and experience.
Please.
Thanks again.
We'll take a look.
unidentified
All right.
tim pool
Let's grab, we'll grab one more right here from Amtru who says white is the absence of color.
Black is all colors.
ian crossland
In pigment, but in light, white is all color, and black is the absence of light.
benny johnson
It's a Pink Floyd cover, right?
All the colors go down in the white.
lydia smith
It's a prism.
tim pool
White light breaks and... Alright everybody, if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends if you really do like it.
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Benny, do you want to shout anything out?
benny johnson
Uh, yes.
Shout out to... Is it gauche to shout out our YouTube channel?
Which is growing and which is at the top linked here and thank you very much and we're working hard on it and... What is the channel?
Benny Johnson.
lydia smith
Link in the description.
benny johnson
The link in the description.
That's right.
Yep.
The YouTube king here, and it's an honor to be here.
It's amazing.
I've been trying to respond to people in just the chats, and so a lot of people saying, punch Ian.
unidentified
No!
benny johnson
I've seen that.
unidentified
No.
lydia smith
We can't punch Ian.
benny johnson
Benny hit Ian for us, says Adam Gilbert.
Brave Dave says, yo Benny, punch Ian for all of us.
unidentified
No.
benny johnson
I'm not a violent person.
tim pool
You're not allowed.
And that is wrong.
benny johnson
I do have a question for Ian.
Have you ever met a white person, like a person who Here, have you ever met a person that's this color?
ian crossland
No, I know an albino black dude, which is a mind- So what does that mean?
Victor Varnado, what's up homie?
benny johnson
Does he have white privilege?
Like, what's going on?
ian crossland
Uh, I guess in some- people don't know he's black, but I mean, cause he's al- perfectly, like, white skin, like, whiter than me.
benny johnson
You got, uh, blonde hair?
You got, like, light hair?
ian crossland
He's bald, but I don't know what color his hair will be.
But I mean, his features look like you can tell he's got African-American, you know, some sort of DNA if you study his features.
Fascinating, though.
And to answer your question, no.
I've never met a human that is white.
I've never met a human that is black.
luke rudkowski
As the only person of color here, you should definitely go to my YouTube channel, which is YouTube.com forward slash WeAreChange.
I made a video that was pretty interesting about the situation in Ukraine.
I made a joke about the Kardashians and Pelosi's bazongas.
Since everyone in the chat room, I'm very proud of that joke.
Since everyone in the chat room is asking for the bazongas, you could get your bazonga fix right now on YouTube.com forward slash WeAreChange.
Hope to see you there.
Thank you so much for having me.
ian crossland
I got something for you, Lou.
luke rudkowski
Uh-oh.
unidentified
What is that?
luke rudkowski
It's a little balloon.
ian crossland
Unblown.
It hasn't been blown up yet.
I know you like it.
luke rudkowski
What are you trying to say here?
ian crossland
Man, that conversation went by fast, Benny.
That was really fun.
Thanks for coming, man.
benny johnson
Oh, this was awesome.
I've been such a huge fan of this channel.
I mean, we're sitting there watching.
Before the show, my wife calls me to say goodnight, you know, and the kids are on there.
And, you know, she texts me.
She's like, are you with Tim Pool?
Can I say hi to him?
We've just been big fans of this, but more importantly, the audience, the community here, the audience, the community is just unbelievable.
And the power of just common sense conversation and normal conversation with people who may have diverging worldviews is so important.
And you're like the only guy doing it.
And so I just thank the audience and obviously everybody here.
It's important to like sit around and laugh with other people.
Laughter creates a cascade.
I only regret we didn't talk about bros.
And like makes you a happier person it makes you connected with the people around you. It's healthy
It's a healing thing to laugh with people and laugh at each other and I laugh at yourself
So it's good that there's a it's amazing that there's a show that does this and so that's why I've been just a huge
fan of This community for such a long time. I only regret we didn't
ian crossland
talk about bros. Maybe we can get deep If there was a gay bomb everyone would have seen
I know.
See, we're leading into it.
lydia smith
Exactly.
Anyway, yeah, I'm looking forward to talking about that movie.
That is a very interesting saga.
You guys can follow me on Twitter and Minds.com, at Sour Patchlets, as well as SourPatchlets.me.
tim pool
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