Oct. 4, 2022 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| So I guess Elon Musk is buying Twitter. | ||
| And he filed to close the deal at the original price, which is kind of weird because after | ||
| all the fighting he just said, all right, yeah, I'll buy it for what I agreed to buy | ||
| And then Twitter has formally responded saying, okay, we're going to sell. | ||
| And now apparently there are messages being posted anonymously by Twitter staff freaking out because, well, here we go. | ||
| So, I don't know what else to add to the story, because it's just like an echo of the story that already happened back in, when was this, like April or something? | ||
| Elon announces he's gonna buy the platform, all these woke journalists and leftists are screaming like, no, we'll lose control of the narrative! | ||
| And then Elon says, I don't wanna buy it, and they all start laughing, saying, haha, you're not gonna buy it. | ||
| Now he's buying it, and their brains are exploding. | ||
| But here's where it gets crazy. | ||
| Elon could own Twitter within 72 hours. | ||
| They're going to finalize the deal and it could be done. | ||
| And then, I certainly hope, the moment he signs the paperwork, he goes, OK, now reinstate Trump. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| There's a handful of other people. | ||
| We've got to get Carl Benjamin back on the platform. | ||
| He's a good friend and he deserves to be back on the platform, as well as many other people. | ||
| You know, we've mentioned Miley Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer. | ||
| Among many others, Alex Jones. | ||
| So it should be interesting. | ||
| So we'll talk about that. | ||
| But the reasons as to why Elon Musk is doing this are interesting. | ||
| A lot of people are saying it's because he was going to lose this lawsuit anyway. | ||
| But I wonder if it has something to do with another story. | ||
| Elon Musk said that bots were piling on his polls when he was calling for peace in Ukraine. | ||
| I wonder if this was a catalyst. | ||
| Seeing a bunch of bots advocate for what is potentially World War III. | ||
| And he was like, okay, we're gonna buy Twitter and just finally put an end to this. | ||
| Like, this was the straw in the camel's back. | ||
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| Joining us, we got a couple people joining us today, to talk about this and more, we have Josie the Red-Headed Libertarian. | ||
| Hi, everybody. | ||
| It's great to be here. | ||
| Who are you? | ||
| I am the Red-Headed Libertarian. | ||
| You can find me at trhlofficial on Twitter. | ||
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And I just, I like the Constitution. | |
| I talk about that a lot. | ||
| I like to be silly. | ||
| You get a mixed bag with me. | ||
| I have a fancy cat. | ||
| His name's Figaro. | ||
| So those are kind of the big points, I guess. | ||
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Well, all right. | |
| Thanks for joining us. | ||
| And we also have Corey DeAngelis. | ||
| Yo! | ||
| I'm in Ian's spot now, and this is kind of interesting. | ||
| He has a lot of stuff going on over here. | ||
| There's like some toilet paper. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I have lots of questions. | ||
| That's actually Luke's. | ||
| Balloons? | ||
| What are you doing over here? | ||
| That's not me. | ||
| That's on Ian's side of the table. | ||
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Okay. | |
| But yes, Cory DeAngelis. | ||
| I'm a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children. | ||
| It's good to be here. | ||
| I'm a school choice advocate and that's basically what I do. | ||
| I might have some competition here with Josie, but that's another topic here. | ||
| Anyway, my name's Luke Rudowsky of We Are Change.org, and today I'm definitely wearing my free-as-a-bird shirt. | ||
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Yeah! | |
| That's the official name of it, with, of course, Elon Musk smoking a doobie inside of the Twitter logo, which you could exclusively get as a member of lukensensor.com for the cost of its production. | ||
| And because you do that, that's why I'm here. | ||
| Thank you so much for having me. | ||
| I want that shirt. | ||
| I'm pretty jealous. | ||
| Yeah, you can order it so that you can order from Luke because Luke is our humble t-shirt salesman we keep on hand. | ||
| I'm competing for Krazy's shirt. | ||
| Mine's brighter than his, but his is more topical than mine. | ||
| I'm excited for tonight's conversation. | ||
| Let's get into it. | ||
| Here we go! | ||
| From Engadget, Twitter confirms it intends to close deal with Elon Musk. | ||
| Twitter has again agreed to let Elon Musk buy the company. | ||
| They say the agreement follows months of legal drama after Musk tried to back out of his original agreement to buy the company for $44 billion this spring. | ||
| The two sides were set to go to trial later this month as Twitter attempted to force Musk to keep up his end of the agreement. | ||
| Musk had claimed Twitter had misled him about the number of bots on the platform and had raised concerns about issues disclosed by the company's former head of security who filed a whistleblower complaint. | ||
| So, Twitter investor relations tweets. | ||
| Twitter issued this statement about today's news. | ||
| We have received a letter from the Musk parties, which they have filed with the SEC. | ||
| The intention of the company is to close the transaction at $54.20 per share. | ||
| The question! | ||
| Why did Elon Musk try backing out, go into this big legal drama, and then abruptly just agree to the original sale price? | ||
| I mean, my attitude was, couldn't he have at least tried to lower the price? | ||
| Like, oh, okay, we're gonna go to core, it's gonna be a waste of time. | ||
| How about we do 50 bucks per share, call it a day? | ||
| Twitter would probably have been like, okay, fine, just, well, if you agree to that, then we're gonna get an approval from the shareholders, and then we're done. | ||
| Instead, he just comes out like, yeah, it's good. | ||
| Just full thing, whatever. | ||
| Why? | ||
| What's going on here? | ||
| Was it because he was embarrassed by the leaked text messages or what? | ||
| I'm an optimist. | ||
| I think he wanted to expose the bots. | ||
| Why back out? | ||
| Yeah, well, there's a number of theories. | ||
| The corporate media is running with a theory that he was hiding from disclosure, that already the text messages that were released were allegedly embarrassing and that he didn't want more disclosure. | ||
| That's one of the theories that's out there by the corporate media, that they're touting as the truth. | ||
| But I think personally, I think a lot of it had to do with the spat that he had with the Ukrainian president, especially with him trying to offer some kind of negotiation or peace deal, bring that conversation to the forefront where he was dogpiled by the NPCs and by the corporate establishment that of course punished him and tried to make him seem like a bad guy because he was trying to prevent a nuclear war. | ||
| So that to me was just absurd to see that kind of conversation unfold with Zelensky's advisor literally sending out a photo of him photoshopped as a Ukrainian trader. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| In handcuffs. | ||
| In handcuffs. | ||
| But I mean, come on, Luke. | ||
| Guys, you agree with me, right? | ||
| There's too many people. | ||
| Nuclear war would be a good thing, just too many of them. | ||
| Okay, Bill Gates Jr. | ||
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| This is another thing to understand here around the Elon Musk Ukraine controversy, because Elon Musk provided Ukraine with Starlink, which a lot of military analysts and experts are saying is one of the reasons why Ukrainians are having such major victories inside of this larger proxy war between Russia, because of the GPS, satellite tracking, the weapon systems all depend on the internet. | ||
| And The Google CEO Eric Schmidt former Google CEO who's also working on the Pentagon lead defense innovation board came out and said that Elon Musk is the true hero when it comes to the war in Ukraine so to have the Ukrainian president who has to have his advisors to have the Ukrainian people. | ||
| Lash out at him and punish him when he already contributed so much to the Ukrainian people for this conflict is really something that I think might have hurt Elon Musk and might have added to this larger decision for him to buy Twitter since of course he was painted as the boogeyman as the bad guy for trying to prevent a nuclear war. | ||
| Yeah, diplomacy nowadays is so rare that they frame it as treason. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, look, I'm really happy about Elon Musk barring Twitter, finally. | ||
| I think I've been waiting for this for a long time. | ||
| But, you know, he is kind of the bad guy because I've lost like 2,500 followers within the past day. | ||
| So he has some explaining to do. | ||
| I don't know why a lot of us, I think, here and Spike Cohen, the VP candidate for the Libertarian Party in 2020, tweeted out that he had lost 2,000 followers, too. | ||
| So I don't know what the theory is for why that's happening. | ||
| Perhaps Twitter's cleaning up all the bots and hiding that so that when Elon Musk takes control, he'll look under the hood. | ||
| I got two conspiracy theories for you. | ||
| One is anti-Elon, one is pro-Elon. | ||
| All right, we'll start with the anti-Elon one first. | ||
| Elon Musk announces he wants to buy Twitter because he really does. | ||
| He says, I'm going to buy it at $54 a share. | ||
| He then tries to back out and plays this big game, which ultimately saw Twitter's stock drop down into like the mid-30s or something like this. | ||
| One of the things we heard with this deal, Elon is going to some of the other investors, like that Saudi prince I think, and he's telling them, vote to let this go private. | ||
| Keep your shares, I'm gonna buy up as much as I can, and then you can keep yours if you agree to take the company private, because I'm gonna fix it, and then when it goes public again, your stocks are gonna be worth way, way more. | ||
| So the idea is, he doesn't need to buy every single share from every single person if he can work out these agreements with the big investors. | ||
| So the stock price drops 35. | ||
| A bunch of people hearing the news he's gonna do this, start buying up stock at the cheap price, thinking, ooh, maybe I'll get a chance to hold onto this when it goes private, because then once it goes public again, I'll make a bunch of money. | ||
| And Elon then basically knows if a ton of people buy at the low rate, agree with him to take it private, He doesn't need to buy their shares. | ||
| It's gonna save him a ton of money. | ||
| Now, I don't know if that's possible, if it makes sense. | ||
| I was talking to Will Chamberlain about it. | ||
| He says, no. | ||
| I was talking to him in the context of, he does this, his buddies buy up from people at 35 bucks, then, you know, knowing they're not going to have to sell to Elon, that them holding it basically allows him to take it private. | ||
| And he said, it's a really bad time to try and do any kind of financial malfeasance because you're under such scrutiny. | ||
| But maybe, maybe. | ||
| That's why I said conspiracy theory. | ||
| Here's the other one. | ||
| Elon Musk was talking about bots. | ||
| Luke pointed this out. | ||
| He was saying, you know, hey, vote on this. | ||
| Should Ukraine offer up some kind of peace agreement? | ||
| He was saying that, um... Should the people of Ukraine vote? | ||
| But no, he was saying the UN should oversee the Donbass region elections, and then Crimea should be returned to Russia as it's, you know, it's been for a long time. | ||
| And then the Ukrainians started attacking him. | ||
| He gets dogpiled. | ||
| Originally the poll says, yes, let's have peace, but then all of a sudden it flips to no, no peace, no agreement. | ||
| Elon says, the bots came out in force for this one. | ||
| I'm wondering if that was it. | ||
| I mean, look, he's been playing games with this lawsuit for a long time. | ||
| If he was really concerned with the lawsuit, wouldn't he have just conceded a long time ago? | ||
| So I'm wondering if he saw this, and he got really, really pissed off at a bunch of bots voting to say yes to potentially nuclear World War III, and he's like, I'm buying it. | ||
| And he's gonna go in, because bots are what he's been complaining about for the longest time, and he's just gonna just wipe the slate on all these bots, and then he's gonna bring Donald Trump back. | ||
| Do you think Donald Trump will hurt or help the stock price? | ||
| Oh, he'll help it. | ||
| He'll help it. | ||
| No, it's gonna skyrocket. | ||
| Yeah, he was their bread and butter before, when he had an account. | ||
| Yeah, but I don't think Trump would do it. | ||
| I don't think Trump will come back. | ||
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No. | |
| But it's not just that, it's like, don't they have DWAC or whatever? | ||
| Trump World Acquisition Corp, like, you know, Digital World Acquisition Corp or something like that? | ||
| Well, Trump also made a public statement saying, I don't want to be back on Twitter. | ||
| I won't be back on Twitter, even if Elon Musk buys Twitter. | ||
| He said this a couple months ago. | ||
| I don't know if his opinion changed, especially with, you know, all the presidential races. | ||
| I think, you know, we understand the importance of big tech social media, so does Elon Musk. | ||
| And there was a couple things leading up to this. | ||
| Before the whole spite between Ukraine and Elon Musk, he sent out a meme a couple days ago that said, those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it, yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it. | ||
| So, him, after posting that meme, came up with a proposition to bring peace to Ukraine. | ||
| It wasn't a perfect proposition, but at least the conversation started. | ||
| There hasn't been a conversation on peace deals. | ||
| There have been a lot of peace deals offered that were very close to being achieved, especially one by Turkey, especially one that the Ukrainians and Russians agreed to. | ||
| Western powers said no. | ||
| Western media is saying no peace. | ||
| And their strategy here isn't really a smart one. | ||
| It's, let's Push Putin into a corner. | ||
| That's phase one. | ||
| Phase two, phase three, we don't know what that is yet, but let's just escalate this situation. | ||
| And it's mind boggling. | ||
| It's so crazy that out of everything that's happening right now, hey, we have a situation that is bringing us on the brink of nuclear war. | ||
| Hey, let's repeat those same policies and double down on them. | ||
| It is exactly the underpants gnomes where they have the one, like, we're going to do this. | ||
| And then the next line is the question marks. | ||
| And then the final line is profit. | ||
| Yeah, step one, steal underpants. | ||
| Step two, question mark. | ||
| Step three, profit. | ||
| Exactly, that's the one. | ||
| So I was thinking about this with nuclear war and how they're really, really advocating for this conflict. | ||
| They really don't want any kind of settlement arrangement. | ||
| And I was thinking also about depopulation conspiracies and things like that. | ||
| And what I like to say is the only difference between what's actually happening in a conspiracy theory is the conspiracy theory implies intent. | ||
| If you remove the hypothesis of intent from an individual, you no longer have a conspiracy theory, you have literally what's happening. | ||
| So for example, what's going on with everything on the left? | ||
| Telling farmers not to farm, there's a food shortage, sterilizing kids, aborting kids, advocating war. | ||
| If you want to say it's because they intend to reduce the population, okay, that's a conspiracy theory. | ||
| If you say, I don't know why they're doing it, but the end result is the reduction of population, well, that's literally what's happening. | ||
| So I thought about something interesting. | ||
| I have a series of tweets that I tweet frequently where I just, you know, I say something, I tweet things that I kind of feel are like, they should be cancelable things. | ||
| Like I tweeted several times, have you considered spaying and neutering your kids to prevent overpopulation? | ||
| And I've tweeted things like the upside to abortion is that there's too many children and we need less people on the planet. | ||
| Like these should be things that ever, like anyone ever had seriously, people should be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, come on. | ||
| But not only does it break no rules on Twitter to ask people to consider sterilizing their children, there's no outrage from the media at all. | ||
| I was thinking about this. | ||
| I was like, I bet if I tweet things like, war is good because there's too many people, they will completely ignore it. | ||
| If I tweet, it's great that children are being sterilized, they'll completely... | ||
| Lo and behold, the media doesn't care one bit. | ||
| There's no smears, no cancellation. | ||
| I just, I don't know what their intent is, but for whatever reason, everything is pointing in one direction. | ||
| These actions will result in much less people. | ||
| Have you ever been suspended for anything like that or any of the tweets removed? | ||
| Have you ever been suspended from Twitter? | ||
| I've been locked out. | ||
| When they banned the Groom Earth stuff, they retroactively enforced it against me. | ||
| And so I had to delete the tweet. | ||
| I'm like, I don't care about Twitter. | ||
| People are like, leave your messages up. | ||
| I'm like, dude, it's Twitter. | ||
| I'll just say something else weird. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| So I just took them down. | ||
| It's whatever. | ||
| You gotta misspell it. | ||
| That's the trick. | ||
| Ah, yeah, you have to write in code. | ||
| I mean, you can just keep changing the word. | ||
| It's like Grovers. | ||
| Yep, exactly. | ||
| So, like, taking a step back, I mean, Elon Musk started this whole conversation about acquiring Twitter because he said it was so important. | ||
| It's the public sphere. | ||
| We have to have great discussion. | ||
| It's how we uphold democracy. | ||
| Why not buy the whole school system and have a better investment? | ||
| Because we have millions of kids going to government schools where they're being indoctrinated to think like socialists when they grow up. | ||
| And I think that's even more detrimental to society than the public sphere when it comes to Twitter. | ||
| The thing is, the public school system is way too expensive. | ||
| Elon Musk can't afford it. | ||
| Abolish it! | ||
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No, no. | |
| I mean, imagine what you could buy with $44 billion. | ||
| How many politicians could you get in your lap? | ||
| How many of them can you have barking and jumping up and down when you tell them to jump? | ||
| I think all of them. | ||
| You have enough money, you could have done that. | ||
| But I think he also understands that big tech social media is a power that is even beyond the US government when it comes to flexing its ability to influence society. | ||
| And you could even see through the disclosures, through the text messages that were received, him saying, quote, he wants to reign in big tech. | ||
| These are the words of Elon Musk from the text messages that were released. | ||
| He's saying, quote, our public square needs not to have arbitrary sketch censorship, and that, quote, we have right now, what we have right now is hidden corruption. | ||
| We're allowed, uh, we're, we're allowed to do this segment right now, this next one. | ||
| We're, we've earned it, and, um, we are now going to gloat over the woke Twitter employees who are losing their minds. | ||
| So Mediaite reports Twitter employees explode over Musk deal. | ||
| Cue the layoffs! | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| I bet a lot of these people are going to quit. | ||
| Daniel Sullivan says, the reaction from Twitter employees on Team Blind, an app that allows people at different companies to post anonymously, is something to behold. | ||
| Here's one. | ||
| So we've got an angry, triggered billionaire going to own us, who's looking for vengeance. | ||
| The worst financial market in years. | ||
| Hiring freezes everywhere. | ||
| Q4 is looking great. | ||
| Twitter employees heard the news of the latest development in Musk's potential purchase while they were in a meeting discussing the company's goals in 2023. | ||
| Living the plot of succession is effing exhausting. | ||
| Raman Chowdhury, Twitter's Director of Machine Learning, Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability, tweeted in reaction to the Musk news. | ||
| Daniel Sullivan said, this Twitter employee sums up what I'm hearing from folks inside the company today. | ||
| And that's too bad. | ||
| EJ Samson says, I encourage every Twitter employee to go outside and take a walk. | ||
| Never boring over here. | ||
| Yeah, congratulations, Twitter employees. | ||
| You know, it's just the weirdest thing. | ||
| The cult is the weirdest thing to me. | ||
| You know, they just, in order to be in this cult, you have to not read the news ever. | ||
| And so, we'll get into this in a little bit, but I was talking about BLM and Kanye West earlier on my other show. | ||
| And if you look at Democrats, or if you look at 18- to 35-year-olds, they have tremendous net support for BLM. | ||
| And then you look at every other demographic, and it's just like underwater. | ||
| Independent voters, it's a negative 12 net support. | ||
| Only Democrats support them. | ||
| And I'm like, it's the perfect example. | ||
| These people are freaking out because the only way the cult exists is that they isolate people from information. | ||
| The only reason why these young people support BLM is because they don't read the news. | ||
| They're more subject-driven and not object-driven. | ||
| So you get older, you start focusing more on your family, you start reading the news and seeing what's going on in the world, and you say, oh, okay, here's what's happening. | ||
| When you're younger, you're like, what are my friends doing? | ||
| What are my friends talking about? | ||
| And your friends will just all repeat whatever lies are filtered to them. | ||
| This is obviously why these people in particular, well, they're losing their minds over this. | ||
| The cult is going to implode without Twitter. | ||
| I mean, they have Tumblr, I guess, but I don't know how much that's going to do for them. | ||
| Well, it's funny watching these people just switch, like, immediately. | ||
| The same people saying, oh, Twitter's a private company, they can do whatever they want. | ||
| Not everybody needs to be on the platform. | ||
| No, no, not that. | ||
| Now you have proposals from the White House, right, calling to Censor the internet. | ||
| Yeah, AI Bill of Rights. | ||
| That's what they came out with. | ||
| The Hill did an article on this today. | ||
| Was it Democrats? | ||
| The White House. | ||
| So I'm guessing whoever works there who really knows. | ||
| This is basically you can't get banned. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| You have the right to a person as opposed to an algorithm. | ||
| It's just a list. | ||
| It's a proposal, you know, that's going to go through Congress. | ||
| Well, it's funny how it switches like almost immediately. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Our people aren't in charge anymore. | ||
| The same day. | ||
| It happened today. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So obviously a lot of people at Twitter will be scrambling with this news today. | ||
| According to the New York Post, 68% of Twitter employees disapprove of Musk and his vision for Twitter. | ||
| And for what he sees for the company that especially wants to make sure that people are going to be at the workplace and not just doing all the work at home. | ||
| But it's not just Twitter employees that are going to be scrambling here. | ||
| It's also a lot of government officials who are now going to be like, OK, now we have to prevent this from happening, because once you open the floodgates of free speech, You have the potential of really making the world a better place. | ||
| You have the potential of exposing a lot of sinister, nefarious things in our existence that could be stopped through transparency and accountability. | ||
| The government is deathly afraid of this, and I could imagine, I could see new rules, new regulations when it comes to social media, as already they have a lot of secret orders. | ||
| They have a lot of secret actions that they take part in, as we recently learned from Alex Berenson, that they are the ones, the federal government, the White House, ordering the censorship of political voices, of scientists, of doctors, medical professionals, and even memers, and individuals who, of course, do parody accounts of Dr. Fauci, have all had their accounts shut down because the federal government and the Biden administration said, no, we can't allow this, which is absolutely crazy. | ||
| And they're not going to be able to censor those New York Post articles. | ||
| Well, Elon Musk also a couple days ago was interacting with the CEO of Rumble, and he was showing interest in working with Rumble before this major acquisition of Twitter, which he now has announced as of today. | ||
| So there's also that as well. | ||
| There is something called the Twitter Trusted Partnership and Twitter Partner Support Portal that allows the government to issue censorship orders. | ||
| Twitter agreed to comply with this to avoid regulatory oversight. | ||
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Wow. | |
| This was a few years ago where this happened and there's one newspaper that covered it because nobody's gonna talk about that. | ||
| It was the NC Daily Gazette. | ||
| The question, I guess, is will these woke people stay on Twitter? | ||
| Because their argument is, if Elon buys Twitter, we're leaving. | ||
| It's like, oh yeah, where? | ||
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Where? | |
| Where are you going? | ||
| Where are you going to go? | ||
| Facebook? | ||
| They're going to go to Gab. | ||
| If they go somewhere else, I mean, the Amazon and Google will allow it, unlike with Parler, right? | ||
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Right. | |
| Yeah, but Mastodon's been around for a while, and it's got this very, very leftist version of Twitter. | ||
| It's so woke that when... | ||
| Who's that guy who played that annoying kid on Star Trek? | ||
| Wil Wheaton! | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Even when he left Twitter and went there, they banned him. | ||
| That's how woke and far left they are. | ||
| They were like, no Wil Wheaton, you're a fascist! | ||
| And he's like an annoying liberal dude. | ||
| So I mean, they tried, it didn't work. | ||
| Yeah, I think... | ||
| It's going to be a dramatic shift. | ||
| There's one dude from NBC who's claiming, this is funny, this tweet where he's like, now that they're going private, the rules can be whatever they want. | ||
| And it's just like, you've literally been advocating for that the whole time. | ||
| That's literally what they do. | ||
| But what they're really showing is that they are terrified. | ||
| They have lost control of the narrative machine. | ||
| And the crazy thing about it is, Elon Musk isn't even proposing to go into Twitter and ban the left. | ||
| This is what they're arguing. | ||
| They're like, Elon's going to be deplatforming people and banning leftists. | ||
| It's literally the opposite of everything he's advocated for. | ||
| Yeah, he's not going to do that at all. | ||
| He wants to bring the people back who've been unfairly banned. | ||
| Well, that's the problem, I guess. | ||
| The left is like, when we get power, we will destroy you. | ||
| And when the right gets power, they're like, no, no, no, we'll be fair. | ||
| Yeah, we'll let you do what you want. | ||
| Yeah, we'll leave you alone. | ||
| Well, even in the disclosures of Elon Musk's text messages, there's one conversation he had with an anonymous Twitter employee that's not named because of the, quote, sensitive nature of the conversation. | ||
| The sensitive nature of this conversation was, quote, how to navigate, how to let right-wingers back on Twitter. | ||
| So this is an official text message that was happening between Elon Musk and an employee at Twitter. | ||
| That's anonymous. | ||
| What is that? | ||
| That's pretty big. | ||
| I could send you the copy of it right now or I could just tweet it out right now. | ||
| But the DMs and the private messages, some of them are leaked and people could read them online and they really do tell a very interesting tale of what's happening behind the scenes here. | ||
| We need to get a video ready of like Trump suiting up, like putting his shoes on and then walking and straightening his tie. | ||
| He's like, I'm back. | ||
| That's all I care about. | ||
| You know, bring Trump back because there were so many journalists when he got banned, there were these threads where journalists were like, I would have to have my phone on alert, because it was my job, and so I would get an alert at three in the morning. | ||
| My boss would be calling me, being like, Trump tweeted, write it up! | ||
| And they'd be like, it's three in the morning. | ||
| This is one of the reasons I think so many journalists probably hated Trump, because he would tweet at like two a.m. | ||
| They'd have to wake up, and then be like, write the story like, Trump says something about North Korea, I don't know what's going on. | ||
| And then everybody's like, I wish the guy would just play ball, and just do what he's told. | ||
| Instead he, He pisses off all these journalists so they just write lies about him endlessly. | ||
| I think a lot of Twitter is a consensus between the bots, between the bands of the right-wing people. | ||
| It's about finding consensus. | ||
| So when people who aren't that, same thing with, you know, you have the media, you have Hollywood, you have big tech, you have the corporate press, you have the government, the career politicians, you have socialism everywhere. | ||
| It's everywhere. | ||
| And I think a lot of that is about consensus. | ||
| And it's so when somebody who's maybe an armchair, you know, they vote, you know, so they're going to go and they're going to research and they're going to find everybody thinks this way. | ||
| Nobody thinks that way. | ||
| So that way must be bad, you know, so that's, that's my idea is that they use Twitter kind of as a machine for consensus. | ||
| I mean, it'll be interesting to see what happens with these elections coming up in November with Elon Musk, if he takes over by then. | ||
| And I'm already getting messages. | ||
| I was scrolling through Facebook today, notifications, and they were saying, well, we're going to, you know, there's going to be, I didn't read through all of it, but it seemed like they were priming you to be ready for censored content when the election comes up. | ||
| And so it's like, they're already sending us warnings, like there's something's coming. | ||
| Yeah, Josie, you're definitely right. | ||
| And I would even go further. | ||
| Absolutely, big tech social media is used as a tool, not just for consensus, but for manipulation. | ||
| And there are bots. | ||
| There's a lot of bots. | ||
| There's a lot of sock puppet accounts. | ||
| There's a lot of government officials. | ||
| The Israeli government even announced this 15 years ago, that they're hiring individuals to set consensus online | ||
| to, of course, spread the messaging that's more favorable towards their government. | ||
| If you think the US government is not doing this, if you think the Chinese government | ||
| and the Russian government is not doing this, you're absolutely kidding yourself. | ||
| And there's a lot of bots. | ||
| It's estimated, according through a lot of accounting, that a lot of the most popular accounts | ||
| have the most amount of bots, since bots are usually following those accounts. | ||
| Like Biden is expected, according to some estimates, having at least 49.3% of his entire Twitter followers to be bots, to be fake. | ||
| So when you look at the consensus, and when you look at what people really think, and you look at the reality on Twitter, it's a totally different reality. | ||
| There's a Quincy poll showing how the majority of Americans, 57% of them, want negotiations, want to end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible. | ||
| But that wasn't reflected in the Elon Musk poll that he did asking around the similar question of peace in Ukraine. | ||
| So what's really going on here? | ||
| Obviously there's a lot of manipulation behind the scene that we don't even know about. | ||
| War is very profitable, incredibly profitable. | ||
| So we have a recession, you know, so they're not fixing that. | ||
| They're making it worse. | ||
| How could they fix it with a snap of the fingers? | ||
| War. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Let's jump to this next story from the whitehouse.gov. | ||
| Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. | ||
| Making automated systems work for the American people. | ||
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Excellent. | |
| I think it's a lot of nothing to be honest. | ||
| I was looking at it just for a little bit. | ||
| And let's just talk about what their proposal is. | ||
| And this was released today, the same day Elon came out and said he's going to buy That's right. | ||
| Safe and effective systems, algorithmic discrimination protections, data privacy, notice and explanation, human alternatives, consideration, and fallback. | ||
| Now I don't know, these are kind of like nebulous terms, but some of it's actually I agree with. | ||
| Safe and effective systems, automated systems should be developed with consultation from diverse communities. | ||
| Stakeholders. | ||
| Take a look at that. | ||
| What does that word mean? | ||
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Luke? | |
| What? | ||
| Stakeholder. | ||
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Stakeholder. | |
| People who are affected. | ||
| You know, people who have stakes and they eat them and they're holding the stake. | ||
| People who have skin in the game. | ||
| I'm gonna give you one more chance, Luke. | ||
| No, you don't know? | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| People who, of course, are investors. | ||
| It's the World Economic Forum. | ||
| Investors, controllers, centralizers. | ||
| No, it means you. | ||
| The World Economic Forum says we have to move beyond shareholders and move towards stakeholder economy, which is who is affected by this as opposed to who owns it. | ||
| So this is basically World Economic Forum, Davos-type language. | ||
| They say domain experts identify concerns, risks, potential impacts on the systems, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Look, I agree. | ||
| Ian's brought this up. | ||
| If you don't know what an algorithm is doing to you, like when Facebook was experimenting on people, we got a problem and they shouldn't be allowed to do that. | ||
| The next one's actually really interesting. | ||
| Algorithmic discrimination protections. | ||
| They say you should not face discrimination by algorithms and systems should be used and designed in an equitable way. | ||
| Oh, here we go. | ||
| But here's the interesting thing. | ||
| They say you can't be discriminated on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, medical conditions, inter-identity, intersex status, religion, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by law. | ||
| Full stop. | ||
| That's a very, very broad and bold thing to say. | ||
| What does that mean, protected by law? | ||
| There's a bunch of different places in this country that have different parameters for the human rights law. | ||
| Notably, Washington D.C., which says political affiliation is a protected class. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| If they're going to claim anything protected by law, well then I'll assert in D.C. | ||
| it is. | ||
| Does that mean If they were to implement these policies, if you live in D.C., could you sue if you were banned for political reasons? | ||
| That's the interesting thing. | ||
| Is that a states' right thing? | ||
| Didn't DeSantis do something like that in Florida, where if you are running for office and you get banned, you can sue? | ||
| I can't remember exactly what it was. | ||
| He did something like that on a state level. | ||
| The thing is, the defense will just be, well, we banned them for something else instead of political reasons. | ||
| But it's not working because As we saw with Alex Berenson, when he sued, I guess the ruling was they have to explain what they did because you have a contract with them. | ||
| You know, I can put in a contract, I have, I can terminate this contract for these specific reasons. | ||
| Look, this is what Twitter does. | ||
| Twitter says, we can ban you for these reasons. | ||
| And so if they ban you, and it's for a reason, they have to explain exactly what they did. | ||
| I suppose there's an argument that they say we can ban you for any reason or no reason. | ||
| But there was a new, I think it was a Fifth Circuit Court ruling, where the judge said, no, they can't. | ||
| These big tech platforms can't just ban you arbitrarily, they don't have the right to do that. | ||
| So that'll be interesting to see how that gets adjudicated as it makes its way up to the Supreme Court. | ||
| Because that's not actually a contract if they could do that. | ||
| I mean, wouldn't that be some sort of violation? | ||
| What am I thinking? | ||
| Would it be some sort of violation if they can just change their rules and ban you as they go and change the rules? | ||
| If you get on Twitter in 2010, And then they've changed the rules, changed the rules, changed the rules. | ||
| Like, are you agreeing to all those changes? | ||
| This was a big thing with Patreon. | ||
| There was a lawsuit and Patreon abruptly changed their rules and tried to get everyone to agree to the new rules because they don't know what it is. | ||
| And it was because the suit required them to go to arbitration and they had to pay the cost of arbitration. | ||
| So if like a million people sue, they got to pay, you know, a hundred million dollars or some ridiculous amount. | ||
| So they tried changing the rules, and the judge was like, when these people signed up, they signed up and agreed under these terms, and the action you took, which violated the terms, happened before you changed the contract, so we are gonna operate under the previous rules. | ||
| I don't know where that case ended up going, but this is interesting because I believe big tech platforms should not have the right to just ban you for no reason. | ||
| That should be stricken as just, like, not applicable. | ||
| And so the example I'll give you is we need to start treating this all like being a tenant, a landlord. | ||
| The big tech platforms are landlords renting you space in exchange for something. | ||
| In this case, for Twitter, it's by you being on the platform, they can sell advertisements. | ||
| So there's an exchange here. | ||
| Imagine a landlord was like, you can live in this building. | ||
| The rent is $2,500 a month. | ||
| And you're like, okay, now here's the reasons I can evict you. | ||
| If you smash the windows, if you're throwing food out the window, if you're too noisy and you won't stop, and also for literally any reason at any time. | ||
| Yet no court is going to uphold it. | ||
| They're going to be like, you can't do that. | ||
| There's laws. | ||
| So I view this stuff like, no, no, no, no. | ||
| Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, they don't get to say, we're going to enter into a monetization contract where you can start a business You can monetize yourself on this platform. | ||
| We're going to monetize you, but we can terminate the contract at any reason with... No, no, no. | ||
| I think... Imagine if the world operated this way. | ||
| Like, you go to a landlord in downtown of your city, and you're like, I'm gonna open a bakery. | ||
| And they say, okay, so long as you're not making, like, swastika cupcakes, I don't care, you're fine. | ||
| And then one day, for no reason, he says, you know, you... | ||
| You know, you made mint chocolate chip cupcakes and I hate it so I'm kicking you out. | ||
| I don't got to give you a reason. | ||
| How could businesses survive if landlords could just terminate a business like that? | ||
| With no argument, with no lawsuit. | ||
| Now that most businesses are moving online, now that tons of people make their living on the internet, we absolutely have to, today, ensure protections for people as if they're a tenant. | ||
| I agree with that because I went through it right after the, not after the election, but after when Biden got into office, January 21st. | ||
| I ended up getting banned from Twitter and I was never told why. | ||
| I was just banned, arbitrarily banned. | ||
| And I was gone until the last week in April this year when Elon said he was going to buy Twitter and I miraculously reappeared. | ||
| But that was really tough because, you know, I had like kind of built this brand and I was, you know, Like, growing, and I was spreading a message, and I was just gone one day, and I was no longer in the public square, and I didn't do anything wrong. | ||
| And did they give you a message, or? | ||
| No, just like, you violated terms, and you can appeal this, so I appealed it, and then they were like, you know, three months later, they're like, no, no, now you're permanently suspended, and I'm like... | ||
| That's what you get for appealing. | ||
| I know, right? | ||
| It was really difficult to be kicked out of the Public Square booth. | ||
| I don't post anything that bad, I don't think. | ||
| So I've lived through it. | ||
| I am absolutely an advocate for an AI Bill of Rights. | ||
| I know why they're doing it. | ||
| How about this one? | ||
| Now. | ||
| Now, I don't know about this one. | ||
| I haven't read through the whole thing yet, but this one, I mean, the timing of it with Elon saying- Well, who gets to enforce this AI Bill of Rights? | ||
| And a lot of the language is very broad, you know, so I would have to take a closer look at it. | ||
| But there are points that I do agree with in there, like the arbiter banning of why whatever, you know, but- But of course that's not going to be in there and you should never trust the government and you should never trust the government ever if they use broad generalized language because they will use it for their own personal interest and they have been manipulating social media for their own personal benefit already in such an extensive bastardized way that it's sickening to most people. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I agree with this one right here, human alternatives. | ||
| It says you should be able to opt out where appropriate and have access to a person who can quickly consider and remedy problems you encounter. | ||
| That would grow jobs too because nobody works at Twitter. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| It's just too big. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But my response is... Would that be a regulation to force Twitter to have a bunch of human customer service agents? | ||
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Yes. | |
| Is that what that is? | ||
| And considering their profits are in the billions, They can afford to hire a lot of customer service agents. | ||
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But what they usually do is they outsource it. | |
| They go to places like Africa, they go to places in Asia, and they get cheap labor markets to do a lot of the banning and censoring. | ||
| And there was even a controversy with one big tech social media company hiring a specific group of people that hated uh people for their uh you know sexuality and they they went on a purge banning people and there was no way to get any justice from it because there's no way of contacting google and being like hey uh why did i get banned can i talk to somebody can i please have some kind of way to have some accountability here none of that | ||
| I'm just concerned that this only helps Twitter keep their market share and the big providers. | ||
| It could be a barrier to entry requiring additional costs to enter the market and start up a new social media platform. | ||
| I mean, it is a problem that you have companies that say, we're not... I mean, look, if you start a company that people are signing up for and then they encounter a problem that breaches the contract and you say, I'm not going to remedy that, then they sue you. | ||
| And I suppose the issue is poor people can't afford to sue, so what, companies just get away with screwing over customers? | ||
| Like, imagine if this was a brick-and-mortar store, and customers came in and said, how do I return this product that was defective? | ||
| You could say, we actually don't have any customer service. | ||
| You can email us. | ||
| I mean, that's just not okay. | ||
| So maybe it's going to bake costs into things, but You need to be able to remedy your problems with a human being. | ||
| And I think, I don't know about Twitter, because Twitter is garbage and there's too many people on it. | ||
| One of the issues is that the value of an individual is not great enough to warrant the cost of a customer service rep. | ||
| This is one of the problems with the massive user base of these platforms. | ||
| And also of, you know, governance in the United States. | ||
| 770,000 people per congressional district. | ||
| You can't even address all of the issues of every single person. | ||
| You get someone on Facebook, And I think a Twitter user's value is like $2. | ||
| And so how many Twitter users do you need to cover the cost per year of one employee? | ||
| So is that employee able to actually address all of the concerns and issues? | ||
| That's not going to happen. | ||
| I do think one of the biggest problems with all these platforms is that they keep catering to these whiny babies. | ||
| Now, let's do another brick-and-mortar, you know, analogy. | ||
| Imagine you own a cupcake shop, and there's a dude sitting there talking with his buddies, minding his own business, in the corner, and he's talking about how he voted for Donald Trump. | ||
| So some other guy on the other side gets up and says, kick him out now! | ||
| Karen. | ||
| Yeah, and they're like, why? | ||
| Because he is saying hateful things! | ||
| Donald Trump is a racist! | ||
| And they're like, okay. | ||
| Sir, you have to leave because you've upset this person. | ||
| He's like, what? | ||
| What did I do? | ||
| I'm like, well, you were saying things that upset him, so get out. | ||
| How are you supposed to function as a business like that? | ||
| It should be the other way around. | ||
| If you got a problem, you can leave. | ||
| Here's your cupcake. | ||
| Bye-bye. | ||
| There's the door. | ||
| This dude's minding his own business. | ||
| System is... I just don't see how this works. | ||
| Granted, I think the White House AI stuff is... | ||
| Some people are mentioning in the chat, they're trying to save themselves because they know Elon is going to come in and take control of the narrative. | ||
| Exactly, that's why the timing, I was like, as soon as I saw that, shot chaser. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Well, he also talked about opening up the algorithm, so it allows people to see what they're actually subscribed to. | ||
| A crazy idea, as of course we are ruled by algorithms that Not only control what we see, but also censor content arbitrarily. | ||
| Not unfair rules. | ||
| As we learned recently, there's certain rules for very famous people, and there's a certain rule for people who don't have as many followers, people who don't have as much influence, who of course get punished more. | ||
| This was specifically detailed with Facebook, who of course get to play by a different set of rules. | ||
| So that's a completely unfair system. | ||
| It's not just There's no clear rules, and I think they want no rules, so you have to live in fear. | ||
| So you have to think twice before you post anything. | ||
| So you have to worry, hey, will I lose my ability to have a voice in our conversation, in the national dialogue, if I dare talk about this idea? | ||
| This is how they rule. | ||
| They rule through fear and censorship, which is absolutely a disgusting abuse of power. | ||
| So it's like they want there to be no rules? | ||
| No. | ||
| Well, Elon Musk specifically talked about opening up the source code and the algorithm where people get to see what they are subscribed to see. | ||
| He also talked about rules, especially when it comes to adult content, especially when it comes to illegal content that is already illegal in the United States and punishable with, you know, law enforcement stepping in and punishing people for saying and doing certain things. | ||
| So obviously there are some rules here, but when it comes to an algorithm where you see exactly what you're subscribed to see, I think that's an amazing thing that made the internet so popular in the first place. | ||
| I wonder, aside from the fact that a lot of the people with the larger followings are protected, I wonder if it also has to do with ads. | ||
| They're going to sell more ads because these people have, or there's going to get more viewership to the ads on the accounts of the larger followings. | ||
| I think they do a cost-benefit analysis and they say, if we ban X people, how many followers will leave for those people being banned? | ||
| And then how much revenue do we lose? | ||
| And they ultimately determine, you know what? | ||
| The left is more cantankerous than the right. | ||
| If we ban someone on the left, they get really, really mad and they lose their minds, and then they threaten boycotts and they organize boycotts. | ||
| The right doesn't. | ||
| They won't even take off work to go protest, the left will. | ||
| So the cost-benefit analysis is simple. | ||
| You ban someone on the right, you're gonna lose money, but you'll lose more money if you don't pander to the left. | ||
| So that's what they do. | ||
| Although surprisingly, because I'd imagine a lot of people on the left don't have a lot of money, but I guess it skews. | ||
| It's like, on the right you have more working people, more middle class people, on the left you have wealthier people. | ||
| So it's like... | ||
| We only need to keep 100,000 wealthy Democrats happy on Twitter, but we have to keep a million Republicans happy to get the same level of purchasing power. | ||
| So it's obvious which direction this goes. | ||
| Hopefully Elon comes in. | ||
| Some people are saying that with Elon Musk potentially taking over Twitter in a matter of days, it will have an impact on the midterms, which brings me to this next story. | ||
| I love it! | ||
| From the hill! | ||
| Pelosi predicts Democrats will keep the House after November's midterms. | ||
| She actually said it was going to be a landslide. | ||
| She said, we will hold the House by winning more seats. | ||
| She said that Roe v. Wade is going to result in the Democrats actually winning. | ||
| Hey man, I think it's an important story to talk about because we're about a month away and hubris will be your downfall. | ||
| Considering Elon Musk making this move has them so worried, maybe that's actually a sign they're not going to win. | ||
| A month out, early voting is beginning to start, mail-in ballots are going out. | ||
| Let's say Elon takes over. | ||
| And let's say this time next week, Donald Trump is back on the platform. | ||
| Is that good or bad? | ||
| Will that help Democrats or hurt them in the midterms? | ||
| What do you guys think? | ||
| I think Elon Musk taking over Twitter will help the Republicans in the midterms, but if Donald Trump comes back, I think that hurts the Republicans. | ||
| I think if Trump comes back on Twitter, it's gonna hurt him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because the only thing Democrats have to campaign on is hating Donald Trump. | ||
| They tried to do it in Virginia with Terry McAuliffe. | ||
| All of the ads, and Terry McAuliffe just kept repeating, Glenn Youngkin is Trump, Glenn Youngkin is Trump. | ||
| And that's like all he had. | ||
| It was just, I remember someone put together a compilation video. | ||
| It was just Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. | ||
| That's all Terry McAuliffe would say. | ||
| So yeah, I think that does hurt overall, not in all places, the Republicans. | ||
| In the way that it falls with the midterms after taking the House and taking the Senate, it's statistically improbable that they're going to keep the House. | ||
| It's just the way history has showed it. | ||
| I want to read this email that I got from Nancy Pelosi because I was added to a mailing list. | ||
| Oh boy. | ||
| Oh, she emailed you. | ||
| Yes, Nancy Pelosi emailed me and she titled the email, Honestly. | ||
| I told you my September 30th deadline was the biggest of the year. | ||
| I told you we failed to meet our goal for the first time ever. | ||
| So today I'm asking you one final time, will you please chip in $15 before midnight to help me finally meet my goal so that we have the resources to close out strong and expand our historic majorities. | ||
| I thought she had so much confidence in that this was going to be a landslide victory. | ||
| They're going to gain seats. | ||
| I'll be honest. | ||
| We have two options. | ||
| Oh boy. | ||
| One, either we let the Republicans win, capitalized, the fundraising battle flood, capitalized, our vulnerable Democrats with expensive attacks and barge their way back into power, or, or, we step up, we regain the fundraising edge and stop Republicans momentum in its tracks. | ||
| Isn't the Democratic Party funding a bunch of the Trump candidates in some states? | ||
| Yes, they are because they're doing what Hillary Clinton did that screwed up. | ||
| Hillary Clinton had called Trump the Pied Piper. | ||
| It was a Pied Piper candidate. | ||
| We're gonna amplify him and, you know, we're gonna take him out. | ||
| So they're using the same strategy because they don't learn. | ||
| So they're amplifying. | ||
| They're like, yeah, you know what? | ||
| This works so well for Hillary. | ||
| Let's do it in all the states. | ||
| So they're amplifying the Trump candidates and, you know, because they're gonna be easier to beat. | ||
| I mean, look, the 538 polling average, the RealClearPolitics polling average, both predict the Republicans to gain seats, right? | ||
| According to the most recent ones. | ||
| And I think Republicans typically underperform on the polls. | ||
| So I think it looks pretty great. | ||
| We're going to have Carrie Lake in Arizona. | ||
| I love her. | ||
| She's up by, what, two points overall in the polls? | ||
| I like to see the states getting stronger. | ||
| Let's just do this, Nancy. | ||
| Let's pull up Nancy Pelosi's favorability rating from Civics with 203,175 responses. | ||
| 57% unfavorable. | ||
| Okay, I want to ask you guys a question. | ||
| That's kind of like Joe Biden, right? | ||
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It's pretty close to Joe Biden. | |
| I like Joe Biden. | ||
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Wow. | |
| This is this is the the all all all people polled right? | ||
| If I select only by Democrats, do you think she will have a favorable or unfavorable rating | ||
| among Democrats? | ||
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Unfavorable. | |
| Unfavorable. | ||
| I think she's not popular. | ||
| All of them. | ||
| All across all of them. | ||
| You think unfavorable, Luke? | ||
| Nobody loves Nancy. | ||
| Unfavorable, but not in her district. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Well, I can't search by that. | ||
| It's either favorable or not. | ||
| Unfavorable. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And she's 75% favorable. | ||
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Oh my god! | |
| Why? | ||
| How? | ||
| Why? | ||
| They like her! | ||
| Alright, alright, hold on. | ||
| I think it's that bikini photo. | ||
| Hold on, hold on. | ||
| Republican Party. | ||
| That one's a no-brainer, right? | ||
| Yeah, it's gonna be 90%. | ||
| 99? | ||
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| There's 3% of the Republican Party that like Pelosi? | ||
| Those are the Liz Cheney's. | ||
| No, those are the people who saw the bikini picture. | ||
| Alright, here's the big, here's the important one though. | ||
| Independent voters. | ||
| Favorable or unfavorable? | ||
| Unfavorable, I'd say. | ||
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Unfavorable, for sure. | |
| 60%? | ||
| 68%! | ||
| Oh my god, am I having a stroke? | ||
| This reminds me of the recent national poll by the Washington Post and the New York Times and whoever they partnered with. | ||
| Asking about DeSantis' bill with banning sexualized curriculum. | ||
| They didn't explicitly refer to his bill, but they said, do you support or oppose having sexualized curriculum in elementary school? | ||
| And it was overwhelmingly opposed overall, like 70 to 80 percent among all voters nationwide. | ||
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Wow. | |
| and then among republicans it was like ninety six percent opposed to that type | ||
| of curriculum in elementary schools independence it was like eighty ninety percent opposed | ||
| but democrats it was like even wow and it's like | ||
| it's only because they know that their party supported this curriculum in the classroom so they're just like kinda | ||
| hitching themselves to to whatever the party says. Now because the question Pelosi | ||
| brings up is will they win i give you the next poll from civics | ||
| Democratic Party favorable rating, registered voters, 431,735 responses since 2015. | ||
| Among Democratic Party members, do you think they will view the Democratic Party favorably? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Of course they will, of course they will, right? | ||
| And they do, 80% favorable. | ||
| They really like Pelosi though. | ||
| Republicans obviously don't like it with 96% unfavorable, but the big question is independent voters. | ||
| What do you guys think? | ||
| Dislike. | ||
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I hope they dislike it. | |
| It's a good sign if they dislike it. | ||
| You've always got to look at the independency. | ||
| 64% unfavorable. | ||
| So this is the point. | ||
| Coming into the midterms with the Democratic Party and Pelosi, the leadership being despised this much, I gotta say it doesn't look good for them and this idea they're going to retain it doesn't seem to add up in the polls. | ||
| However, I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna pull up the Republican Party. | ||
| Let me see if I can get the Republican Party here. | ||
| Because the Republican Party is always the funniest one to me. | ||
| Everybody hates Mitch McConnell, that's hilarious. | ||
| Let's see, where's the Republican Party favorable rating? | ||
| All right, so the Republicans, 59% unfavorable. | ||
| Among Democrats, kind of obvious, right? | ||
| Yeah, every Democrat's just 95%. | ||
| Among independent voters, what do you guys think? | ||
| I think it's going to be even. | ||
| You think it's going to be even? | ||
| What do you guys think? | ||
| Slightly over. | ||
| Slightly unfavorable. | ||
| Slightly more favorable, I think. | ||
| I think it's slightly unfavorable. | ||
| 61% unfavorable. | ||
| Independents despise the Republicans. | ||
| Here's the best part. | ||
| Among those who are Republicans, how do they view the Republican Party? | ||
| They all hate it. | ||
| Oh God. | ||
| 95% favorable. | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| 73% favorable. | ||
| Not as good as the Democrats. | ||
| Not as good as Democrats. | ||
| In favor of themselves. | ||
| But I do find it funny that even among the Republican Party, they generally, like, I remember seeing this when it was like, this is, you know, back in 2017, 32% unfavorable. | ||
| Like Republicans really just did not like the Republican Party. | ||
| And even now, but I think the funniest thing is when you go to like Mitch McConnell. | ||
| Well, you guys get the point. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| It's fairly obvious. | ||
| The big question is where Independents are going to go. | ||
| They hate the Republicans a little bit less than the Democrats. | ||
| I mean, I think they go with... It depends. | ||
| I'm mostly buried in the education stuff. | ||
| The independents are going with the Republicans. | ||
| And if you just look at what people prefer as far as what's important to them, yes, I think the independents are going with the Democrats on the abortion issue. | ||
| But that's not a top issue. | ||
| The top issue is economy and the jobs. | ||
| And the independents go with the Republicans on economy and the jobs. | ||
| Inflation is horrible right now. | ||
| Just overall economic output's not doing really well, which doesn't help Biden, and I think it's going to help the Republicans. | ||
| There are two types of independents that I know from living in Massachusetts. | ||
| One is Bernie Sanders, who's an independent, and another is the people who are, they don't want to say that they're Democrats, so they're independents because they don't like, you know, the socialist aspect or whatever, and they see how that party is going. | ||
| I guess there's three because then there are the people who don't want to say that they're Republicans, you know, because they don't want the stigma attached to it, you know. | ||
| So yeah, those are those are kind of the three main. | ||
| I mean, most voters are independents, right? | ||
| Or at least a plurality of them. | ||
| Yeah, so it's, you know, you see the way the independents are leaning, then you're like, okay, I can kind of gauge it, you know, from there by who, how they kind of lean within their independent. | ||
| I like the Mitch McConnell poll. | ||
| Because among Republicans, 61% unfavorable. | ||
| Yeah, nobody likes him. | ||
| 17% favorable. | ||
| It's crazy, because even Nancy Pelosi has support from the Democratic Party. | ||
| I wonder what 18- to 34-year-old Republicans think. | ||
| Yeah, what happened? | ||
| What was the switch? | ||
| Election time? | ||
| Yeah, election time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's fine, it's fine, it's fine. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Did McConnell come out against Trump or something at that time? | ||
| Is there any demographic that likes Mitch McConnell? | ||
| How about the old people? | ||
| No, not even the old people. | ||
| What about old Republicans? | ||
| The graph isn't really moving. | ||
| Old Republicans don't even like him. | ||
| Okay, what about all Republican men? | ||
| No. | ||
| Non-college-graduated old... no? | ||
| All right, nobody likes Mitch McConnell. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| I wonder what his favorability was when the whole cocaine Mitch drama dropped. | ||
| With like the 18 to 24 year olds. | ||
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Oh yeah. | |
| Look at this. | ||
| Among men, Mitch McConnell, 80% unfavorable. | ||
| Among women, 83%. | ||
| Across the board, everybody doesn't like him. | ||
| Among white people, 78% unfavorable. | ||
| Black, 93%. | ||
| Hispanic, Latino, 88%. | ||
| Other, 85%. | ||
| There's not a single demographic that holds Mitch McConnell favorably. | ||
| And he keeps winning. | ||
| I think people just like, yep, let's just vote for Mitch. | ||
| All incumbents have a huge advantage. | ||
| Yeah, and Kentucky's not really going to vote for Democrats, and he's always going to win his primary. | ||
| But hey, at least it shows you that the Republican Party isn't so much a cult as the Democrats are. | ||
| Less tribal. | ||
| Yeah, these people are like, no, I don't like the leadership. | ||
| They suck. | ||
| And the Democrats are like, I'll vote for Pelosi. | ||
| Yeah, well, they stick together. | ||
| They don't divert at all. | ||
| And it's like, if there's even one thing that that they draw separately on like take abortion for instance you know like there was a point where there was even republicans were sensitive to the fact that there could be a 16 year old pregnant girl and you know like we get that that's that's terrible you know like she made mistakes and whatever like there was a point where that was a thing but then the democrats are like nope | ||
| We're going to abort 40 week babies. | ||
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You know, we're going to abort after the baby's born. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, they just took it and ran. | ||
| And now it's a point where it's like there is no, no, no level ground at all. | ||
| Like you can't, you can't be a Democrat and say, yeah, well, I, I kind of, you know, would oppose abortion in the first trimester because there's like, nope, you're, you're a far right fascist. | ||
| That actually happened on this show. | ||
| Seamus is sitting over here, pro-life, catholic, conservative. | ||
| Matt Bender's over here, progressive, pro-abortion. | ||
| I'm the traditional, you know, pro-liberal, pro-choice, like, after the, you know, after viability, and then he's arguing with me like I'm the pro-life guy, and I'm like, dude, I'm the pro-choice guy, you're the pro-abortion guy. | ||
| I'm trying to help you out here. | ||
| Yeah, it's like you're trying to make this, you know, palatable again, because it's not. | ||
| And people don't want that. | ||
| And I mean, it's not even that people don't want that. | ||
| It's statistically, something like 80% of people support abortion in the first trimester. | ||
| After, into the second trimester, that number plummets to 27% will support abortion in the second trimester. | ||
| And third trimester is like 8%. | ||
| And that's what they're running on. | ||
| But have you considered, and you know, Obama gets this, that there's too many kids? | ||
| Gotta blow them up. | ||
| Yeah, there's just too many. | ||
| I think today is also the anniversary of Obama bombing a charity organization. | ||
| Oh, the Doctors Without Borders hospital? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Oh, I remember when he did that. | ||
| Today's the anniversary of that. | ||
| Yeah, happy anniversary. | ||
| There was an article I saw that said, why won't Obama stop killing children? | ||
| I was like, easy answer, too many of them. | ||
| We don't have enough children. | ||
| Well, the Democrats certainly, look, from the leadership to the grassroots, they just think there's too many kids. | ||
| All their policies literally point to population control. | ||
| You look at every policy that they push, that they promote. | ||
| Every one of them. | ||
| Just come on, say it! | ||
| And then the left are like, oh, I'm not going to have any kids because of the climate. | ||
| It's like, no, you want to extend your childhood. | ||
| That's why you're not going to have any kids. | ||
| You don't care about the climate. | ||
| It's also responsibility that they're running away from. | ||
| That's a weird thing, too, because I don't understand that idea of like, you know, you know what I noticed? | ||
| There's There's a lot of bands that I like. | ||
| I'll just, I'll keep it vague. | ||
| There's a lot of art that I like and there are people that are like 50 years old still working. | ||
| And then I'm like, why is it that it's considered weird? | ||
| You know, like a band puts out some new music and they're like in their 50s and their 60s and people are like, wow, they're still making music. | ||
| And it's because back in the day they weren't still producing. | ||
| They were doing consulting stuff, they were doing some stuff, but they had a family, and they were raising their family, and they were moving out their lives. | ||
| Today, everybody's working, and I was like, why is it that these people... And then I looked, I'm like, none of these people have kids! | ||
| So, like, their whole lives are just product, and not family. | ||
| And so, it's a really interesting phenomenon to see. | ||
| I don't know if like for these millennials uh and and just this current generation or whatever I don't understand you know I don't think it's it's prolonging childhood necessarily I I think it's it's it's maybe just programming it's just you know there was uh an article I saw On the Daily Mail, and it was like a mother's post about how they regret having kids and what their lives were like before kids. | ||
| There was another post where it was like, you know, mothers talk about their regret and how awful their children are. | ||
| And I'm just like, man, they really don't want you to have kids. | ||
| They really want to prop up these narratives about how having kids is bad. | ||
| Yeah, and you can just control everybody else's kids through the government school system. | ||
| Well, in the UK they even had advertisement being like, do you want a baby or do you want to play video games? | ||
| As if video games were a good thing, which again, a lot of people were finding, you know, themselves addicted to. | ||
| And again, I think a lot of this is multifaceted. | ||
| I think there is an element of it that is running away from personal responsibility. | ||
| I think there's also an element of it that is pro-consumer, pro-multinational corporation | ||
| that understands that if people don't have kids, that they don't have strong family units, | ||
| people will of course use that energy towards supporting them rather than themselves and | ||
| their family members. | ||
| And I think deeper down, there's also an elitist level where it's like, okay, we need to get | ||
| rid of the people on this world. | ||
| There's too many of them. | ||
| We need to do population control We need to do eugenics, but we're you know doing it in many other handed ways that of course is essentially at the end of the day and Reducing the number of people in this world, which already has hit a critical level where we are going to be dealing with a civilization crash very soon. | ||
| Alright, question. | ||
| Are there too many people? | ||
| No. | ||
| We need more. | ||
| We need more because, look, in the future we have all this national debt. | ||
| We'll have it spread over more people so they can pay it off in the future. | ||
| If you have more people you could I have more resources and that's what we really want. | ||
| How do you have more resources? | ||
| So the left's thinking of we have too many people and we have to control population is the fixed pie fallacy. | ||
| That there's a finite amount of resources and you divide it among this many people and if you have more people then that means fewer resources for each individual person. | ||
| But that assumes that people don't create these resources themselves. | ||
| And so I think we don't have enough people. | ||
| Yeah, that's based in socialism too, like, you know, because they want, you know, the more people in their fixed, finite, whatever, like, you're not, you're going to get one bar of soap that you get to choose from, you know, they drop stuff like that. | ||
| So that's coming from kind of their communist or their socialist, you know, perspective. | ||
| And then if you look at getting rid of the family, that's a tenet of Marxism. | ||
| Like a lot of these go back to Marxism. | ||
| It's everywhere. | ||
| And it's not just financial ramifications of less people being around, but statistically the population is increasing, but is expected to go down dramatically. | ||
| If you look at the Western world, people aren't reproducing enough. | ||
| This is not only going to lead to a financial crisis, but this is going to lead to a very serious one, which Elon Musk... | ||
| Has even compared to the potential, potentially the greatest risk to humanity is people not reproducing enough. | ||
| And if you look at also what's happening behind the scenes with testosterone levels, sperm levels, all of them dramatically going down, there's a big probability that human beings could become infertile very soon with the rates of just estrogen, with the rates of chemical warfare that is happening that no one really wants to talk about, which is absolutely absurd. | ||
| Well, certainly resources are not infinite, and more people doesn't mean more resources, it means less. | ||
| Like, there's a finite amount of rare earth minerals that we can extract from the planet. | ||
| It may be such a great number, we're nowhere near reaching that cap, but the planet is finite in terms of what its mass is and what we can extract. | ||
| Not to mention that... | ||
| There's a certain amount of, I mean, we can overfish. | ||
| We've made animals go extinct before. | ||
| At a certain point, I think the question is wrongly framed when it's, are there too many people? | ||
| It's, are we managing the system properly? | ||
| I think the answer is no. | ||
| I think it's not being managed properly. | ||
| And the response from people like Bill Gates is, instead of trying to figure that out, just less people. | ||
| Because then you don't gotta worry about it. | ||
| I'm thinking about, AOC's district, or Nancy Pelosi's district, 770-some-odd thousand people. | ||
| How do you effectively govern that many people? | ||
| You can't. | ||
| So the issue isn't necessarily one of proper allocation of resources. | ||
| It may be, can you effectively manage this many people together? | ||
| Can they work together in such a way? | ||
| I would say right now, the systems we put in place a couple hundred years ago can't account for this because they were expecting, I think, like 35,000 people per member of Congress. | ||
| And now we have nearly a million. | ||
| I mean, three quarters of a million. | ||
| But that just means we need to figure out a better way of managing expectations and, you know, working within the representative system. | ||
| Well, you know, there's ways of having a sustainable system. | ||
| There's ways of individuals being responsible for themselves, having their own farms, producing their own food. | ||
| There's enough to go around. | ||
| Nature is an abundant, beautiful landscape that is ready just to grow food out of the ground. | ||
| And what we're seeing from the central controllers, from the Bill Gates's, from the Klaus Schwab's is, move into a city! | ||
| Go eat the bugs! | ||
| And again, that's not the answer here. | ||
| The real answer here is people finding themselves in nature and becoming dependent on themselves and not responsible and not dependent on the federal government. | ||
| And this is another reason why I don't trust any of their narratives on climate change overpopulation. | ||
| Because they keep, they had that video, The Line, The City, where they're gonna put everybody in a super condensed space. | ||
| And I'm like, population density is supposedly the problem, the pollution, the waste. | ||
| But they're not, I don't think they actually care about climate change. | ||
| I don't think they actually care about overpopulation. | ||
| They care about creating a reason to scare you into living under their control. | ||
| Elon Musk is right. | ||
| We need more people. | ||
| I was watching Star Trek. | ||
| You guys see the, remember the new Star Trek with the, what's his name, Chris Pine? | ||
| Is that his name? | ||
| And there's that scene where he rides up on the motorcycle and he sees the gigantic starship. | ||
| And I'm just thinking, how many people do you need to build something like that? | ||
| It's massive. | ||
| We're trying to build a building right now. | ||
| And it's like a 7,500 square foot building. | ||
| And it's taken like a year to get done because of supply chain crunch. | ||
| Imagine trying to build this massive starship that has faster than light travel and can | ||
| hold thousands of people or whatever. | ||
| And I was like, you don't just need more people, you need more specialists. | ||
| So that means with all the people we have, my point is Elon Musk is right. | ||
| The more people you have, the more specialties you can have. | ||
| Like, some dude can be a chocolatier. | ||
| I was reading about some guy wanting to be a chocolatier. | ||
| And I'm just like, it's kind of a crazy thing. | ||
| Oh no, it was the Bros movie, when it was like, the guy wanted to be a chocolatier or whatever. | ||
| It was part of the movie in the review. | ||
| And I'm like, what a job! | ||
| You know, like, go back several hundred years and it's like, you're in the middle of the wilderness with a hatchet and you're like, I'm gonna stop hunting and go make chocolate. | ||
| It's not gonna happen. | ||
| But as population grows, everybody can assume a very specific job and specialty. | ||
| So the more people we have, the more capabilities technologically we have. | ||
| But I think Bill Gates knows this. | ||
| I think these powerful elites know this. | ||
| So their attitude is, we don't necessarily want to get rid of people. | ||
| We want to get rid of certain people and have everybody else live in the cities, eat the bugs and do what we want them to do so we can have nice things. | ||
| I think what you hit on earlier is important too, though, that it depends on the system that we operate in. | ||
| And so if we have more personal responsibility, more of a free market competition and trade, then the thing that I was pointing out earlier, that you can get stuck in a fixed pie fallacy if you don't have those incentives in place. | ||
| But if you do have a free market and there is competition, there's capitalism, you can have an incentive to produce more even though there is more people on the planet. | ||
| You'd have more resources per person as opposed to the opposite. | ||
| And I think it's more than I just want to have nice things or I want to have it all. | ||
| I think there's a deeper religious, spiritual aspect to this that I think, you know, it may be not worth talking about now, but there's a lot of circumstantial evidence highlighting how You know, human progression has been created with, of course, abundant energy, and we see a lot of central controllers deny energy to populations, which, of course, denies the progression of humanity, progression of human beings, progression of innovation and technology that, of course, creates life, a better life that is more resilient, that is more amazing, that is more incredible. | ||
| They're denying that. | ||
| What if Moloch is real, and he wants the blood of children. | ||
| For all we know, Bill Gates is down in the deep dungeon, and there's a big door with big chains across it, and there's a bunch of guys holding the door. | ||
| He's like, hold them back! | ||
| I'll bring the children in! | ||
| brings in a bunch of kids. They used to sacrifice, you know, children and ancient civilizations, | ||
| and this is a practice that, of course, probably didn't go away, from my own personal opinion and | ||
| perspective. Just the way I see the way society plays out right now, you see everything going | ||
| towards one trajectory, and that is destruction of humanity, destruction of the human spirit, | ||
| and the will of humanity to progress, build, and grow. You see the government standing in the way, | ||
| you see the multinational corporations standing in the way, you see the bankers, | ||
| You see the central controllers and billionaires standing in the way of the. | ||
| biggest amazing human potential that we could unleash on the world and they're literally trying to control our thoughts through social media which is and and limit those thoughts and limit our energy and limit our ability to do so which is infuriating because there's so much wonders about our existence there's so many questions there's so much science there's so much intelligence but all of that is just being Pooped on by all these child-hurting, nasty human beings that don't like the human spirit and stand against it. | ||
| So there's a Japanese term, it's called ikigai, and iki means life and gai means worth. | ||
| And essentially, it's the intersection of what you're good at, what you love to do, what gives you, what gives you purpose. | ||
| And we're at a point where we're just, we're privileged, you know, I hate using that word because they've repurposed it, but the fact that we can, we can be chocolatiers. | ||
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| You know, like, we can be YouTubers. | ||
| We can be whatever we want to be, you know. | ||
| And the people that love what they do are the people that add goodness and joy to the world. | ||
| And, like, we're blessed to be living in a place where we don't have to, you know, hack up trees and, you know, like, grunt to communicate with each other, you know. | ||
| So, we're in a good place. | ||
| We're in a good place for Ikigai. | ||
| And we got to kind of figure out how to hold that. | ||
| You know, on a side note, too, I was just thinking when we were talking about all the people preventing Ikigai, essentially, the banks, there was one banker, CEO of somewhere, and he was questioned by Congress on ESG. | ||
| And he was like, absolutely not. | ||
| And it was Rashida Tlaib who asked the question and she didn't even know what, yes, and she didn't even know what to do. | ||
| She was just like, oh, and she was like all, you know, flabbergasted and she was like, oh, okay, well, I guess that you just want climate change. | ||
| I don't even know, like, she said something totally irrational, like, and reactionary to him. | ||
| But yeah, I was like, okay, well, you know what? | ||
| This is good because ESG is to the economy what CRT is to schools. | ||
| Like, this is, this is bad. | ||
| So, Tim, you had asked about the population too much or too little. | ||
| The temperature on Earth, is it too high or too low? | ||
| Neither. | ||
| We don't know what the best answer is, right? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Nobody knows. | ||
| Just depends on what your preference is, I guess. | ||
| The world goes through normal undulation when it comes to hot and cold temperatures. | ||
| It goes up, it goes down, it goes up, it goes down. | ||
| We got to jump to this next story here from the Daily Mail. | ||
| Germaphobe Howard Stern leaves his apocalypse bunker for the first time in two years for A-list dinner with Jennifer Aniston, Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Hamm and admits he's been afraid of catching COVID. | ||
| How many times has he had COVID? | ||
| That's just it. | ||
| That's just a wow moment. | ||
| His immune system has just got to be shot. | ||
| He hasn't seen a germ in two years. | ||
| Yeah, he's gonna get real sick now. | ||
| He's gonna get really, really sick. | ||
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It's not gonna be He's going to get everything. | |
| It's going to be like when Mr. Burns, you remember that Simpsons and the germs through the door? | ||
| He probably bought a whole jug of like antiseptic, alcohol sanitizer, which again, that kills your immune system too. | ||
| Kills your immune system and kills the good bacteria as well as the bad bacteria. | ||
| And you need, you know, a combination of good bacteria to have a healthy gut. | ||
| The radio host admitted on Monday the outing was emotionally exhausting and it was the first time in two years I ventured out of the house. | ||
| Who still listens to this guy? | ||
| You are listening to someone who is not well. | ||
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Dude needs deep, deep therapy. | |
| He's saying it was emotionally exhausting for the first time in two years. | ||
| Bro isolated himself for two years? | ||
| Do not take advice from this man. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know who is still following this guy's politics. | ||
| This guy is out of his mind. | ||
| Yeah, but he is in a 20 million dollar home, so it couldn't have been too bad. | ||
| I'm sure he's got a pinball machine, a hot tub. | ||
| He's got an infinity pool and all that great stuff. | ||
| That's not the point. | ||
| The point is, the dude is agoraphobic. | ||
| Like, this is not the kind of person that you should be listening to consistently. | ||
| Does anybody listen to this guy consistently? | ||
| Yeah, he's got like tens of millions of listeners on Sirius or whatever he's still on. | ||
| Well, he imprisoned himself in his own mind, which is absolutely terrifying because he was a perfect byproduct of what the corporate media wanted the average citizen to be. | ||
| And as we were talking, you know, you need good bacteria and bad bacteria, but when you lack good bacteria in your gut, this is correlated with a lot of people having very negative mental health. | ||
| So I think there's a correlation with him being overly protective, using too much hand sanitizers, using too much stuff, not going outside, not being in nature, not feeling the dirt, not getting any sun, not getting any vitamin D. That correlated with his mental decline that has led to a situation where he literally imprisons himself and doesn't go outside for two years. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| He said, quote, I said to my wife, I don't want to go. | ||
| I'm in a panic. | ||
| I don't want to get COVID. | ||
| Yeah, anxiety, fear. | ||
| You don't even want to leave now, yeah? | ||
| It's agoraphobia, it's not germophobia, it's agoraphobia. | ||
| Maybe it was Trump derangement syndrome. | ||
| Maybe if Trump would have said, yeah, you guys should all stay in your house, he would have freaked out and he would have been partying every night. | ||
| That's a good point. | ||
| Man, that's crazy. | ||
| Stern, however, was reportedly maskless at the dinner party, according to a diner who had snapped the photo. | ||
| Howard was there without even a mask on. | ||
| Outside the large table, Stern told the restaurant staff it was his first night out since the start of the pandemic. | ||
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Yo, that's like almost three years! | |
| Was he really that scared if he's not wearing a mask and it's his first time out? | ||
| Well, he probably realizes, you know, like, hey, this doesn't work either. | ||
| This is pointless, after looking at the data after being so long. | ||
| He's going somewhere to eat, too. | ||
| I mean, we know the rules of restaurants, right? | ||
| You take the mask off, and when you're sitting down, you don't get COVID. | ||
| You know what would be really ironic? | ||
| Is that if he gets COVID now. | ||
| And then he's like, I got it, I went out. | ||
| I got to go back in for two more years. | ||
| I mean, he's got to be shots, boosters, he's got to have it all. | ||
| Yes, which again, a lot of data is coming out highlighting some interesting findings that highlight that he probably will be getting sick, especially if he... | ||
| He's gonna get something. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| You can't lock yourself up for two years. | ||
| Whether it's the flu, whether it's the cold, whatever it is, it's gonna hit him and it's gonna hit him hard. | ||
| That's why periodically I go outside and eat steak right off the ground. | ||
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Just to make sure my immune system is strong and ready to go. | |
| That's one way of doing it. Just make sure no animal poops in there. But yeah, grounding, | ||
| being in the sun, being in nature, you know, just being exposed to other germs and bacteria | ||
| gives you a good immune system. This is why a lot of people... | ||
| Some people actually have supplements and the supplements are from dirt. | ||
| There's actually medications from dirt that are also very controversial that we can't talk about many times. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| No, you're supposed to eat dirt. | ||
| But let me clarify. | ||
| We used to get a lot of nutrients because we would pull the vegetables out of the ground or off branches and they have like, not like thick dirt, you're eating dirt, but there's like dust and dirt still on the plant and you'd eat it. | ||
| We started cleaning all that stuff off and I was reading about how that lowered the amount of B vitamins we were getting. | ||
| Not just that, but because of monocropping, because of simply just growing corn and soy and allowing Monsanto to control the entire agricultural industry along with other big corporate giants, we have destroyed nutrition from our vegetables and fruits. | ||
| A lot of the fruits, a lot of the vegetables don't contain the same amount of macronutrients as they previously did before decades ago | ||
| and therefore our food is slowly and surely being wilted away to absolutely be mush | ||
| that is meaningless without any kind of sustenance for you as a human being. | ||
| So do we have to buy 10 tomatoes and eat them instead of five? | ||
| Well, yeah. | ||
| Do I eat double the salad now or what do I do? | ||
| Well, you gotta be careful with the glyphosate inside of there. | ||
| I went to Stonewall Jackson's Shenandoah compound, because it's in Winchester, I think. | ||
| It was like, he used it for a few months while he was planning the defense of the Shenandoah during the Civil War. | ||
| And in the kitchen, they had a musket from like 1820 up on the wall, and they said what they would do is, when they're making dinner, they would have the door open, and if they saw a critter outside, they'd grab the musket and just shoot it, and then take it and throw it in the stew. | ||
| Like, fresh, just like that. | ||
| It's kind of a crazy thought, eating squirrel, groundhog, rabbit, or badger, whatever they happen to see, but also the crazy thought of something so fresh, Taken right from the yard! | ||
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Bang! | |
| There you go, here's dinner. | ||
| Right from the yard. | ||
| The other crazy thing was they had a winter pantry right above the kitchen. | ||
| They just took meat and hung it up. | ||
| They didn't refrigerate it or anything. | ||
| So I was at a steakhouse and they had the dry aging steaks just sitting out and it was like, it sits out for a month. | ||
| It's kind of a crazy thought. | ||
| People would just throw the meat in a room and hang it and be like, there you go. | ||
| Put some salt on it and kind of store it that way. | ||
| I don't think they even did that. | ||
| Yeah, I think when they were transporting and stuff, they would smoke it and then just leave it up there, I guess. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, my family still does that in Poland. | ||
| Every time I go to Poland, they're like, oh yeah, you know, we're smoking the meat. | ||
| There's gonna be a bunch of jokes there. | ||
| So I guess he had people just delivering Uber Eats and stuff to his house or family or? | ||
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I don't know if he had Uber Eats coming in or... Yeah, I guess they just drop it on the doorstep or something. | |
| He has like... What are those rooms called where it's like one door opens and then you put the food and then it closes? | ||
| Decontamination room? | ||
| Yeah, like it sprays it. | ||
| Then he opens it up and takes it out. | ||
| I wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly what he has. | ||
| Except the food. | ||
| Get Lysol. | ||
| Just sprays it everywhere. | ||
| He's wealthy enough. | ||
| He'd probably want to do... | ||
| I wouldn't be surprised if he got special order farm food that was harvested by his select people. | ||
| Because the thing about fast food is you don't know what they're doing when they prepare it. | ||
| I remember that viral video where a dude was at Taco Bell. | ||
| I think it was Taco Bell. | ||
| And he stood in the lettuce or something like that. | ||
| Do you guys remember that? | ||
| Maybe it was Burger King or something. | ||
| Yeah, he was, like, standing in it. | ||
| There's a bunch of videos where people do that. | ||
| Where they're, like, screwing with the food and then they're posting it online. | ||
| You never know, man. | ||
| For all we know, you know, Howard Stern orders, uh, what's that grocery delivery service you can order? | ||
| I don't know, whatever. | ||
| Instacart? | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
| He orders ice cream, and he gets the one ice cream that girl licked and put back. | ||
| So you think you're safe, Howard Stern! | ||
| They're getting the germs in your food when you order it! | ||
| I mean, did he keep his maids? | ||
| I mean, I assume he's got a $20 million mansion, he had maids. | ||
| You guys must stay house arrest too. | ||
| Yeah, he probably was like, we're all under house arrest now. | ||
| Wouldn't work for me, you gotta stay here. | ||
| No leaving. | ||
| Yo, what happened to people? | ||
| Like this dude used to be an edgelord and now he's just like a terrified panic attack agoraphobe. | ||
| I mean, really just think about it though, if everybody did what he did, I mean, society just wouldn't function anymore. | ||
| You wouldn't have people producing anything. | ||
| You wouldn't have food. | ||
| I mean, I guess unless he started doing his own thing in his yard. | ||
| Look, we got a bunch of critters and deer all over the place. | ||
| And I'm not going to pretend like we would be able to survive off the land or anything like that. | ||
| But I'm confident that after some hardship, if everything were to collapse, we'd be all right out here. | ||
| We'd figure it out and we would find a way. | ||
| People in cities and people like him, they would just melt. | ||
| They would be sitting there, he would just like slowly become one with his chair and just like get stuck to it and be like, and then within a couple weeks he'd be gone. | ||
| He also became very angry. | ||
| He criticized very heavily Joe Rogan. | ||
| Aaron Rogers. | ||
| He even, Howard Stern, specifically said that if you're unvaccinated, you should be denied treatment out of hospitals. | ||
| Hospitals should be, quote, closed to individuals who are not vaccinated. | ||
| So this is a man who wants to see other people suffer, who wants to see other people die, as, of course, he's taken for granted his lifestyle that, of course, the average poor person can't afford. | ||
| An average person can't hide in a 20 million dollar mansion and not be able to work or do hard labor or blue-collar work. | ||
| So for him to go out and say this on the heels of his paranoia is just mind-boggling. | ||
| I remember you had people advocating on the news, on CNN, doctors advocating for not allowing you to fly state to state. | ||
| That's a federal issue now, unless you're vaccinated. | ||
| I was like, oh shit. | ||
| But we're all in this together. | ||
| We're all in this together. | ||
| But if you have a private jet, not a big deal. | ||
| You can still go wherever you want. | ||
| It's time to jump to the most important story of the night, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| I have a very important announcement to make. | ||
| This is breaking news. | ||
| Huge developing story. | ||
| Scooby-Doo's Velma Dinkley finally confirmed as lesbian in new trick-or-treat film as new female love interest is introduced. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| I knew it. | ||
| All of your Velma fantasies are over, everybody. | ||
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I knew it. | |
| Your weird Velma fetishes, they're done. | ||
| She is officially a lady lover. | ||
| They have confirmed it. | ||
| Well, there goes my chances with Velma. | ||
| With a non-existent cartoon character. | ||
| Dang it. | ||
| So, I just, I don't know, I saw the story, I thought it was funny because, why? | ||
| Just, no, seriously, why? | ||
| Does Velma need to be attracted to someone for her character to work? | ||
| Is there a reason why after what has been like 50 years they said she's gay? | ||
| Because they lean too heavily on gender and sexuality and explosions now and they don't have good storylines anymore so they're gonna pull in a whole different demographic of people to watch it who are like, oh I feel seen, it's my representation, representation is important. | ||
| Real quick, real quick. | ||
| For those big Scooby-Doo fans, has sexuality been a component of the show at all? | ||
| Never. | ||
| Like, is Fred going like, hey, baby, and you know, stuff like that? | ||
| I mean, when they did the live-action Scooby-Doo with, I don't even remember. | ||
| Freddie Prinze Jr. | ||
| Freddie Prinze, yeah. | ||
| Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, and I don't know who played Thelma. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| But, like, I think the larger question is... Was there any, was there any tension in that? | ||
| Like... Johnny Bravo... There was. | ||
| So that would be the closest... There were, like, gags and stuff. | ||
| But, I, I, the reason I bring this up, this question, is because... Scooby-Doo is for kids. | ||
| Why is Velma... I've not, I mean... Oh, you know what? | ||
| No, there was Scooby had a girlfriend, didn't he? | ||
| In, like, one of the movies. | ||
| Did he? | ||
| But there's, like, not a big sexual component of Scooby-Doo to begin with, so this is just out of place, period, for the show. | ||
| Like, you don't, you don't see, like, in the cartoon, it's like, almost every single episode of the show, ever, is that some dude is trying to lower property value by pretending to be a ghost or a mummy or something. | ||
| And then they're like, he was trying to scam people. | ||
| It just shows you that the monsters are adults, and the monsters are, you know, scammers. | ||
| Yeah, humans. | ||
| Monsters are people the whole time. | ||
| That's the lesson, but now it's monsters are people the whole time and Thelma's gay. | ||
| Because you need accurate representation. | ||
| Who's the producers of Scooby-Doo? | ||
| Is it Harvey Weinstein? | ||
| Why are they interjecting sexual preference in a kids movie? | ||
| I think everyone should be asking themselves after this. | ||
| Well, Disney also does a lot of sinister subliminal messages and puts wieners everywhere, so they have a horrible track record, especially with a lot of their younger stars. | ||
| But as Tim pulled up here, there's... Well, I think we need to point out that Shaggy is trans. | ||
| It's been that way for a while, right? | ||
| I've seen my fair share of Scooby-Doo. | ||
| I mean, it's been around, it's older than I am. | ||
| And I'm like, Shaggy's been dressing like a lady for a while. | ||
| Like, it's a common trope in the Scooby-Doo series. | ||
| And so I gotta wonder if these doctors are saying that kids who play with dolls or want to dress like girls are trans. | ||
| Maybe Shaggy's trying to tell us something, or the producers are trying to tell us something about Shaggy. | ||
| I was looking back at this and I was like, there's cross-dressing in every kids' movie. | ||
| Why is this? | ||
| Because it was a joke. | ||
| Seriously. | ||
| Like in The Lion King, you have Timon who's like, what do you want me to do? | ||
| Dress in drag and do the hula? | ||
| And the next scene he's in drag doing the hula. | ||
| And it's comical because it's like, oh, well, that's funny. | ||
| But now it's like, that's not funny. | ||
| Yeah, it can't be funny. | ||
| That can't be funny anymore. | ||
| Linda Cardellini played Velma in the live action. | ||
| See, I don't know who that is. | ||
| Because I can tell you, like, Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, and Sarah Michelle Gellar are famous enough to where I'm like, I remember who they were. | ||
| But, like, I have no idea who this lady is. | ||
| Did she, like, did she do other stuff after this? | ||
| Because I don't know. | ||
| I would assume she was a lesbian, honestly. | ||
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Velma? | |
| Yeah, look at her. | ||
| We have won. | ||
| Look at this guy. | ||
| We have won. | ||
| Velma is a lesbian with impeccable taste. | ||
| Congratulations, you won! | ||
| Velma's yours! | ||
| Velma also calls the police on people in that video game, Multiversus. | ||
| And it caused a huge outrage because they were like, it's racist to call the cops, I guess. | ||
| And people were posting videos. | ||
| This is a fighting game. | ||
| You guys hear about Multiversus? | ||
| And you can play as like Warner Brothers characters. | ||
| So like Batman, Shaggy. | ||
| Velma is a character and so was LeBron. | ||
| And Velma's special ability was to call the police. | ||
| And then a police car arrests you and then drives off the edge. | ||
| Taking you with them. | ||
| She's a Karen. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| They were calling her a Karen saying she was like you're in big trouble now and the squad car grabs the person and like people are posting videos of LeBron getting arrested and then people were even leftists were tweeting like yo, is this like kind of weird that Velma's arresting this black guy? | ||
| And then the squad car drives off the cliff and then you die. | ||
| That's how the game works. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So you won. | ||
| Velma is a lesbian, but she's also a Karen. | ||
| We won, but I lost because my chances with Velma are forever gone. | ||
| I never get to dream about her ever again. | ||
| Well, it's always kind of been a dynamic between LGBTQ and, you know, Black Lives Matter, like especially in June, you know, when they have like their month and then every, like every time the LGBT or Black Lives Matter would get something, It would always be like, they'd have to share it. | ||
| And I remember this being like a big controversy between the two different factions. | ||
| So there is always something between the two. | ||
| I don't know if they're trying to pit it against each other or what it is, but... | ||
| They also tried saying that Samus from Metroid was a trans, trans woman. | ||
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Samus? | |
| So, uh, yeah, yeah, Samus. | ||
| So, uh, you guys know the game Metroid? | ||
| Mm-mm. | ||
| It's, uh, originally, it's like, it was NES, and you're a person wearing this, this suit, and you, you know, shoot from your hand or whatever, and then do flips. | ||
| And at the end, if you get the good ending, it reveals that the character Samus was a woman the whole time! | ||
| And, like, Nintendo, she takes the helmet off and there's blonde hair, and it was like, ah, reveal! | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| And so then, throughout the years, you know, the character has been developed, and Metroid's got a ton of games, and Samus in the Metroid suit, or whatever it's called, is in Smash Bros., and they were saying, like, this proves that Samus is actually a trans woman the whole time. | ||
| They were trying to change the character, and the problem was, there's like a bunch of art. | ||
| And Samus, Zero Suit Samus, is a character in Smash Brothers, and it's like, that's a chick. | ||
| It's like, it's overtly a woman with, you know, big tits and a butt. | ||
| So instead of being like, oh, look at what women can achieve, you know, it's like, nope, it was a man the whole time, who, you know, is a woman. | ||
| Samus is actually a male. | ||
| Man of the year. | ||
| Yeah, a trans woman. | ||
| Yeah, so. | ||
| I beat you in all the sports, too. | ||
| This is the thing, you know, like, one of the tweets here was, uh, what is this? | ||
| Is this James Gunn? | ||
| Someone said, please make our live-action lesbian Velma dreams come true. | ||
| Says, I tried in 2001. | ||
| Or, I tried in 2001. | ||
| Velma was explicitly gay in my initial script. | ||
| The studio just kept watering it down, and watering it down, becoming ambiguous, the version, then nothing, and finally having a boyfriend in the sequel. | ||
| Oh, so actually, Velma's bi. | ||
| Like, canonically, if in the movie she had a boyfriend and she likes girls, she's not a lesbian. | ||
| So, guys, you are incorrect. | ||
| But, um, someone said, Velma being gay is actually massive. | ||
| We're at a point in time when this major character full of decades-old history and fans gets to actually be a lesbian, and that's just another part of her canon now. | ||
| Sometimes we need to celebrate these wins. | ||
| I just don't understand why it's like, don't you want your own characters? | ||
| So we were talking the other night that they can't make people famous anymore. | ||
| The ability to make celebrities is weakening. | ||
| And the ability to create content and characters has failed. | ||
| Nobody wants to make a... Here's a character. | ||
| Armadillo guy. | ||
| Like, Batman. | ||
| It's like Batman over and over and over again. | ||
| Every movie, Spider-Man, Batman, Spider-Man. | ||
| That's all they ever do. | ||
| Make Armadillo Man. | ||
| Someone's probably already done it. | ||
| Okay, how about... What's an obscure animal? | ||
| Ostrich Dude. | ||
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| And, you know, he's a guy who just like an ostrich. | ||
| I watch Ostrich Dude. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Yeah, Stan Lee had actually come out and said that, you know, like the way he wrote his characters, he wrote them specifically like he wrote people. | ||
| Like, you know, and he was attached to people, you know, so you get like... | ||
| Mary Jane, for instance, a redhead. | ||
| Let's go into redhead erasure. | ||
| You know, that's something I hear a lot about. | ||
| But, um, you know, like, but, but they just reimagined the characters as being different than who, who they were created to be at their foundation. | ||
| Well, I'm, I'm really upset about the little mermaid because they put an actress in ginger face. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| It's very disrespectful to the Irish people that we highly respect here on the show. | ||
| But also more importantly, uh, More importantly, I wish characters in entertainment actually had personalities, actually had interesting storylines, instead of just like, hey, this is my sexual preference, because we're seeing that more and more and more, and it's like, okay, who are you as a real person? | ||
| Who are you when it comes to actually making decisions? | ||
| They want to reduce people to their sexuality or their race, and it's damaging. | ||
| Do you guys think this is going to reduce profitability of these shows? | ||
| I mean, like Netflix, right? | ||
| They've gone woke, they're going broke, right? | ||
| Oh, they're bleeding subscribers, and I bet it's because a lot of people are jumping shit. | ||
| People don't want to, either way, even if they support the movements, it's like, I don't want it to be political at all. | ||
| It's not that. | ||
| I think we do want, to a certain degree, some politics in our content, but subtle and, what's the right word? | ||
| Balanced. | ||
| There was a viral video from some show, Boston Legal maybe it was, And it was, um, it might have been James Spader and William Shatner, I could be wrong, and they're friends. | ||
| William Shatner is, I think it's Shatner and Spader, I could be wrong, but I think Shatner is like the mentor to this younger guy who's a liberal and he's a Republican, and then they make a joke about each other being Republican and liberal and then smile and look off into the sunset or whatever. | ||
| Like, that's the kind of politics where we're like, oh yeah, you know, like, express your idea, challenge the idea, and then have a nuanced conversation. | ||
| We don't get that. | ||
| Now it's just like, are you a bigot? | ||
| You know, that's just it. | ||
| It's just overt, over the top, one dimensional. | ||
| For what reason is Velma, is Velma's sexuality a component of the show? | ||
| It doesn't need to be, but... Okay. | ||
| Because they reduce people to their sexuality now. | ||
| I mean, look, I get it. | ||
| It's who you are. | ||
| But they've done Scooby having a girlfriend or whatever, and then, like, Shaggy had a girlfriend, but it turned out she was an alien, I guess. | ||
| Huh, weird. | ||
| Yeah, I can't remember what movie that was, but there's so much Scooby-Doo stuff. | ||
| But, like, it ends with him being like, Zoinks! | ||
| She was, like, an alien the whole time! | ||
| Even, like, so was the dog. | ||
| The dog was an alien too. | ||
| So like, no, they've done weird stuff, but my point is just like, as we say all the time, shouldn't you just make a new character? | ||
| Shouldn't you just write new stories? | ||
| And then the other issue is, why would I want, like if you're gonna have your kids watch something, why would you want them to watch this kind of stuff? | ||
| So I don't think that this is any longer a child show. | ||
| I think, and I will say, I'm gonna have the controversial take after giving it some thought. | ||
| I think it's fine that they have a lesbian representation in this show because, I don't know if you guys are familiar with the lesbian bar scene, probably not. | ||
| I don't know why I am for sure. | ||
| There's like two left in the entire country. | ||
| Lesbians don't count anymore. | ||
| If you'll recall, lesbians were last being called transphobic for not wanting to engage in certain acts. | ||
| Right, they're TERFs because they're just lesbians. | ||
| They like other women, like biological women, but the features of biological women. | ||
| And I think that this is actually a positive thing because I don't I don't think that Scooby-Doo is a children's show anymore. | ||
| I think it's a relic of an older generation. | ||
| So this is like them reviving Hocus Pocus, right? | ||
| It's for older people. | ||
| It's not really for kids. | ||
| And I think lesbian representation is good. | ||
| I talked about this. | ||
| I was talking about that meme with Abe Simpson. | ||
| Where he's like, you know, I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was, and now what is is scary, and it'll happen to you too. | ||
| And I was like, that's not gonna happen to us. | ||
| It's not gonna happen to us because people aren't having kids. | ||
| That means Gen Alpha is gonna be smaller, and that means Gen... Double Alpha, whatever comes next, is gonna be even smaller. | ||
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Beta. | |
| Beta. | ||
| Oh no! | ||
| No! | ||
| Listen, listen, listen. | ||
| So what's going to happen is, we're all going to be 50 or 60 or whatever, and we're all going to be working and producing still, and Millennials aren't going to have kids, and then you're going to get a big promoter who says, we want to do a show, a rock concert, and we want to make the most money. | ||
| And they're going to say, oh yeah, the Generation Beta artist, he can attract about 20 million people, but the Millennial artist is going to bring in 75. | ||
| Why? | ||
| There are more Millennials. | ||
| Just it. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| It's just that it's a market size thing. | ||
| It used to be that the new generation was always slightly bigger than the last, so it was always more profitable to target the next generation because it's a bigger market share when they move in the key demo. | ||
| But now you're going to have 18 to 35 year olds, there's going to be 20 million of them, and there's going to be 70 million millennials or whatever, and they're going to be like, what's the point? | ||
| The market share is microscopic. | ||
| Don't pay any of these people. | ||
| And they're going to have to live in the shadow of the millennial and Gen Z's I actually think that's positive, because then they're going to have to create their own culture. | ||
| They're going to have to make their own art. | ||
| They're going to have to develop their own music styles. | ||
| I think this is where we break from corporatism, so I'm feeling very optimistic about this. | ||
| I mean, we'll see if I'm correct. | ||
| Like, we'll have to wait for a few years. | ||
| But I think you're right, because it is never going to change, because now, I think Gen Z is the largest demographic right now. | ||
| I was reading something about that yesterday, and then I think after that it's going to Super taper off because Gen Z is the product of Gen X, right? | ||
| Mostly Gen X. Yeah. | ||
| And then I don't think, I think the oldest millennial, they're not, what's the youngest Gen Z? | ||
| I'd say, like, 12, 15. | ||
| Okay, so then Millennials could have Gen Z kids. | ||
| If, like, the oldest Millennial is the youngest. | ||
| But it's mostly, like, a Gen X thing. | ||
| I think my kids are Gen Z. Yeah, I think so. | ||
| I think my kids are Gen Z. There you go. | ||
| So Gen Alpha's gonna be tiny. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| Maybe Gen Z has, like, a revolt against, you know, Millennials and Gen Xers, and they're like, You're lame! | ||
| We're gonna have 50 kids and go to church! | ||
| That seems to be what happens. | ||
| I mean, if you look at, like, even the 80s, like, you know, they were the product of the hippies, and they all went and became Republicans, you know? | ||
| Like, it was their way to lash out against their hippie parents. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| All right, we're gonna go to Super Chats. | ||
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| I told you. | ||
| Thank you, Matthew. | ||
| He's beautiful, I love him. | ||
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Let's go. | |
| That's great, that's great. | ||
| Chippy's Channel says, today's corporations are anti-free market. | ||
| Today, Blizzard has started denying people service based on what phone company they use. | ||
| Look into this. | ||
| It only gets worse the more you read. | ||
| Crazy. | ||
| Alright, SK says, Tim and crew, I finally got my Canadian passport. | ||
| Anyway, y'all hiring? | ||
| I can do things like laugh really loud and make fun of Ian. | ||
| Also, Josie has the most lit Twitter account ever. | ||
| Big fan. | ||
| Aw, thank you! | ||
| I don't think we can hire Canadians. | ||
| She's got all the qualifications. | ||
| We can't hire Canadians. | ||
| You gotta be American. | ||
| You gotta be a citizen. | ||
| Next step. | ||
| Josh Butler says, Elon pretend not wanting to buy to catch people red-handed. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| I think so, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, but they were trying to get him to buy, so of course they were preparing. | ||
| He only bought him more time. | ||
| People are also losing thousands of followers everywhere on Twitter right now. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| Yeah, I'm down like three to five thousand. | ||
| Same. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Leif Hagen says, everyone say, hey Siri, remind me at 8 p.m. | ||
| Eastern every weekday, Timcast IRL is on, take that YouTube. | ||
| Brilliant. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| Is that, that works for iPhones, right? | ||
| What's the Android one? | ||
| You'd say, okay Google, remind me at 8 p.m. | ||
| Monday through Friday that Timcast IRL is on? | ||
| Something like that, yeah. | ||
| Probably would be better if I said 7.45 p.m. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I wonder how many people's phones are going off and they're just like, ah. | ||
| Notifications went through. | ||
| That's funny. | ||
| Darren Daly says I formally nominated Kamala Harris for the Nobel Peace Prize. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| Just 10 minutes at the DMZ and Kamala forged a peace treaty with North Korea and formed an alliance to battle Putin. | ||
| Wonderful! | ||
| Nailed it! | ||
| Faced Kamala. | ||
| Oh snap, it's Dave says, bigger food shortages coming for restaurants. | ||
| Cisco, one of, if not, the biggest food distributors in Central New York that delivers all over Northeast, is on strike. | ||
| Doesn't look good for New York Governor. | ||
| Cisco's everything. | ||
| People don't understand that every diner you go to, you're probably eating Cisco. | ||
| So are they based in New England or are they all over the country? | ||
| They distribute all over. | ||
| All over the country. | ||
| So they're New England based because he said about New England. | ||
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Why are they on strike? | |
| I don't know. | ||
| Have you ever noticed that when you go to diners the pancakes are always the same? | ||
| It's probably because it's just Cisco. | ||
| Yeah, I knew somebody who worked for a bakery and they sourced their own ingredients and apparently Cisco went to them, this is what I was told, that they went to them and said we'll give you five months free supplies, whatever you need for your shop, for free, but to do a contract with us for X amount of years. | ||
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Wow. | |
| And that would have meant like tens of thousands of dollars for free. | ||
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Wow. | |
| And they were like, no dice. | ||
| Because then you're just selling the same thing everybody else is selling. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's crazy, man. | ||
| Damien Carpenter says, man, six minutes late because YouTube never notified me. | ||
| I love all you guys and you should try getting YouTube Wendigoon on the show. | ||
| Does icebergs and deep dives into video games, horror stuff, and some history. | ||
| Very cool. | ||
| Maybe a pop culture crisis thing. | ||
| Maybe, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Poppinspatches.com says ShimCast is best cast. | ||
| Well, Shim Sham Seamus left us. | ||
| He's gone. | ||
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How dare you! | |
| Seamus who? | ||
| James. | ||
| James Coughlin. | ||
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James James James Coughlin. Yes My favorite episode was when he had the Roe v. Wade cake | |
| That was so good. | ||
| That made my heart smile. | ||
| And Planned Parenthood was advertising it. | ||
| Yikes. | ||
| Xrunner says, Elon trolled the Twitter employees. | ||
| It's been about 160 days. | ||
| That's more than enough for a Xanax prescription to wear off. | ||
| Ooh, yikes. | ||
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What do we got? | |
| Child of Ash says, Elon is going to add the doge to Twitter. | ||
| When he does, he gets double the money. | ||
| I mean, look, you think it's a joke, but Elon, seriously, if he says we're gonna implement | ||
| Doge as a tipping mechanism, and then his Doge holdings skyrocket, he's not stupid. | ||
| He's probably like, I'm going to double my money. | ||
| Or to buy Twitter premium, which he talked about getting rid of advertisers and making it a subscription model for certain users, for certain features. | ||
| That probably is going to happen through Doge. | ||
| It's going to be 2042 and everything's going to be Dogecoin. | ||
| You're going to be like going to the store and you'll be like, uh, I'll, you and McDonald's, you're like, I'll get the number seven. | ||
| That's 73 Doge. | ||
| I'm like, oh, can you scan your phone? | ||
| And it gives the Doge. | ||
| And then when you scan Elon Musk's face pops up on your phone and he's like, thanks for buying. | ||
| Get the brain chip. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Everyone's got the brain chip. | ||
| You're like, you're going on Facebook and it's like, to continue viewing, please, please deposit 50 doge. | ||
| Okay, deposit. | ||
| Shane Kena says Trump's basically playing hard to get with Twitter. | ||
| Say he won't come back, be what everyone wants but cannot get, but he will eventually. | ||
| Long term. | ||
| Likely. | ||
| I think so too. | ||
| He has to come back. | ||
| He instantly gains access to 80 million new followers. | ||
| He's only got like three or four million on Truth Social. | ||
| He'll probably have a lot more than he had before the ban, now that he's been banned so long. | ||
| Plus people are seeing how bad it was under Joe Biden. | ||
| They're gonna be like, I'm gonna follow this guy and see what's going on. | ||
| An orange sea lion says Elon with one heck of an October surprise. | ||
| Oh yeah, which reminds me, I'm really excited, this month's gonna be amazing. | ||
| Oh yeah, before the midterms, lots of surprises this month. | ||
| What if the surprise is that, like, Joe Biden craps his pants and then they have to, like, switch him out? | ||
| He's making direct eye contact with the people of America. | ||
| People might be saying but Tim that's bad for Democrats. No no no no. They even the Daily Beast is running articles | ||
| right now saying you can't ignore Joe Biden's broken brain when he called out that dead congresswoman even leftist | ||
| publications and liberal publications were like this is bad. | ||
| So Joe Biden crapping his pants on TV like this or next week gives them an opportunity to swap out someone stronger | ||
| like just bring someone and be like here you go. | ||
| And that person gives the last couple of weeks of campaigning a big boost. | ||
| Well, and he just recently confirmed, Joe Biden, that he's running again in 2024. | ||
| Like it was pretty much... Biden said that? | ||
| Yeah, a couple of days yesterday, maybe. | ||
| I don't remember which outlet reported it, but... | ||
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Geez. | |
| But he finally said yeah, he's gonna do it. | ||
| Yeah, he is. | ||
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Really? | |
| Chota, which bridge is it? | ||
| Yeah, tell me. | ||
| I'm definitely interested. | ||
| What do you got? | ||
| wouldn't censor his dissenters, and is doing this for any reason other than to build his | ||
| own AI, I'd like to talk to you about a bridge I have for sale. | ||
| Really, Chota? | ||
| What's the- which bridge is it? | ||
| Yeah, tell me more. | ||
| I'm definitely interested. | ||
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What do you got? | |
| I like bridges. | ||
| No, I agree, actually, to a certain extent. | ||
| The access to Twitter is an amazing data stream for building an AI. | ||
| Just like the raw insanity of humanity just spilling out like crazy, just like a stream. | ||
| And he could take it, and then he's going to use it to build a robot mega-human. | ||
| It's going to be like that robot he built, Optimus. | ||
| It's going to come out one day and be like, I am the culmination of all humans. | ||
| And then it's going to just like start looking at pictures of cats. | ||
| Yep, that's what humans do. | ||
| And then he's like, no! | ||
| Stop, robot! | ||
| You have to do something more than this! | ||
| And it's like, humans just want to look at cats. | ||
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It's true. | |
| That's it. | ||
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It's true. | |
| Internet's for... But that's one thing they don't consider. | ||
| If we base our AI off humans, when, like, the Terminators come and they're, like, marching and they're like... All you do is grab a cat and hold it and it goes... Disarming. | ||
| Like, cannot hurt cat. | ||
| Because, like, people hate each other. | ||
| You know, we're fighting all day on Twitter. | ||
| But not the cats, man. | ||
| Somebody messes with cats or dogs on the internet and then everyone's like, no. | ||
| People love cats, man. | ||
| They actually like dogs more, but cats are the meme, so. | ||
| The toxoplasmy is strong. | ||
| Cats would never work for the police. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Certainly. | ||
| They'd never narc you. | ||
| Daniel Nemes says, I had 2,800 people following me on Twitter, and today, all of a sudden, I have three! | ||
| I was following 2,800 people, and now, as of today, I have 1,700. | ||
| So obvious. | ||
| It's obvious. | ||
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You had only bots on your Twitter account. | |
| I'm sorry. | ||
| Eric Redbeard says, when the World Economic Forum says stakeholder, they do not mean you. | ||
| Stakeholders to them are noteworthy decision makers, not us proles. | ||
| Themselves. | ||
| Is this good for me? | ||
| So not the regular people. | ||
| Not the hoi polloi. | ||
| Yeah, something like that. | ||
| Yeah, okay. | ||
| You know, I don't know. | ||
| Circle back. | ||
| Tim been following you and Luke since Occupy. Why haven't you had Adam Curry on? No agenda has been | ||
| invaluable since the Boston bombing when I started following them and everyone would benefit from | ||
| having the Podfather on. Didn't we reach out to him once or something? I think Ian was talking to him. | ||
| Yes, something like that. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, okay. | ||
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You know, I don't know. Circle back. Yeah. | |
| J.J. | ||
| says, digital currency age, digital constitution for we the people, or we're walking into digital slavery. | ||
| Really think about what I'm saying. | ||
| I will. | ||
| I will think about it. | ||
| Ray McKenna says, A, fun, you cannot quote section 230 in superchats. | ||
| B, my normal posting account cannot superchat. | ||
| Wait, wait, wait. | ||
| You can't superchat quotes from section 230? | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Everybody send us Super Chats from Section 230. | ||
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Everybody do it. | |
| Just try it out. | ||
| Yeah, I gotta try this out. | ||
| Everyone Super Chat. | ||
| And you know what, just to be sure, Super Chat, $20. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Just to be sure. | ||
| Just love the system. | ||
| Give us your money. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| The Kraken says, Tim, you are looking at it wrong. | ||
| YouTube is the employer, you are the employee. | ||
| In an at-will state, they can fire you without reason. | ||
| Incorrect! | ||
| That is not true. | ||
| It's a weird analogy to make, and I gotta say, the idea that, because there's been a lot of people who've tried making that argument, that YouTube is an employer, that Uber's an employer, and it's like, no it isn't. | ||
| There's a thing called contracting. | ||
| I'll put it this way. | ||
| This argument was really pushed by the left because they wanted to strengthen union laws. | ||
| The argument was in California, I think it was AB5, that if you freelanced too much, you become an employee. | ||
| So what happened? | ||
| I think it was SB Nation, a Vox company, terminated all of their freelancers. | ||
| A freelancer writes an article and then sells it to Vox Media for 50, 200 bucks, whatever the rate is. | ||
| They then publish it. | ||
| Imagine this. | ||
| Under that law, theoretically, you could be a guy with your own house. | ||
| And your own stockpile of wood, and you start making birdhouses. | ||
| And you're like, I run a birdhouse business. | ||
| And then you start selling those birdhouses to a distributor. | ||
| Uh-oh, you've sold 50. | ||
| Now you're an employee of that shop. | ||
| No, no, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| I run my own birdhouse manufacturing business. | ||
| Nope, sorry. | ||
| Under that new law, you're an employee now, because you can't sell that product anymore. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| The way it works with YouTube is, we have a contractual agreement, but I do not work for them, and that is easily exemplified by, they are not our sole source of revenue. | ||
| In fact, they're not even the majority source of our revenue. | ||
| So that's incorrect. | ||
| They can try and terminate a contractual agreement, but that will have a negative impact on both parties, and so there has to be terms as for this agreement. | ||
| I think the issue is, we need to start treating these platforms like landlords. | ||
| You own a pizzeria, you want to franchise and open up a new store, so you go to a building and you say, I'm going to rent your building from you and have my business, but for certain reasons, you only can kick us out if we break these certain rules. | ||
| You can't just arbitrarily be like, terminating your lease, get out. | ||
| The idea that a landlord could tell people that we have laws for this reason. | ||
| I think we need laws for this on digital. | ||
| I have the opposite approach. | ||
| Let the government get out of this. | ||
| Stay out of it. | ||
| Let the free market reign. | ||
| But most importantly, let's take away all the money and all the tax incentives that were unfairly given to all the corporations that of course they have a hand in. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| All right, nonetogive says, McD's has come out with an adult Happy Meal. | ||
| And there are people who are upset they can't get one. | ||
| If a surprise isn't a beer, I think about that. | ||
| People your team's age unironically wear Harry Potter shirts. | ||
| People need to grow up. | ||
| Yeah, I have like stock generic shirts. | ||
| I have a bunch of just like mono color t-shirts that I get in bulk on the internet. | ||
| Grandmaster Key Lime says, so what is Tim and Luke's excuse for not having kids? | ||
| Programming or extending childhood? | ||
| Nice beanie. | ||
| Neither. | ||
| How do you know I don't have kids? | ||
| Luke's got like seven kids. | ||
| And I don't like to share stuff about my private life. | ||
| And private life is private. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And how would you know if I did or didn't? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like if I had a child, hypothetically or legitimately, I wouldn't be posting it on social media for Bezos and Bill Gates to be able to track and database. | ||
| I don't want any of that private information out there. | ||
| I got to keep the teachers' unions away from my personal life. | ||
| Well, considering all the swattings, all that private stuff is going to remain private, so you probably will just not know. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Yeah, we have... Look, man, especially with the midterms coming up, we've got serious security considerations. | ||
| So, that being said, to answer the question, honestly, I have no answer. | ||
| I don't. | ||
| That's nobody's business either. | ||
| Oh, I don't know. | ||
| I certainly don't ascribe to the views of the leftists who are like, don't have kids because of climate change. | ||
| Personally, I strive to have seven kids, but that's just me. | ||
| Seven, huh? | ||
| Why seven? | ||
| It's like a basketball team with two backups. | ||
| Oh, yeah, okay, that makes sense. | ||
| With two backups. | ||
| That's what Andy wants to do. | ||
| Giat12 says, the monetary system is basically a Ponzi scheme. | ||
| We need to have more babies or change it. | ||
| I say make babies and buy Bitcoin. | ||
| Hehe. | ||
| And abolish the Fed. | ||
| That's what we're gonna do. | ||
| We drove by it today. | ||
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We drove by it. | |
| We thought about it. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| Mimic says, on day one, Musk should announce that all employees will now be paid in doge. | ||
| Employees would push it hard to make it worth more to them. | ||
| Twitter itself could then promote it heavily for the same reason. | ||
| And then the US government collapses, can't pay its debts, the Federal Reserve gets wiped out, and then we enter a global doge economy. | ||
| Yeah, sounds pretty good. | ||
| I see no problem. | ||
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Yes, Chad meme. | |
| Let's see, what do we got? | ||
| Darren Middleton says the North and South Poles are migrating. | ||
| We are in a 12,000 year cyclical cycle. | ||
| A cyclical cycle, huh? | ||
| They call it climate change. | ||
| Look into it. | ||
| The world is going to be different in 2040. | ||
| But how different? | ||
| There's a funny meme about some scientist who invented some laser or something. | ||
| And it was like the scientist was walking down the beach with his wife when all of a sudden he got the idea for this particular laser. | ||
| His wife was talking and he told her to be quiet for a moment while he thought, and then he invented this famous laser device now used in every home. | ||
| And then right next to it is the two muscular dojos, and it's a futuristic city and it says, Society of Women Stopped Talking for a Few Minutes. | ||
| But we're on track historically to go into another ice age, right? | ||
| So we might want to have more and more kids, seven each, and contribute towards global warming so we don't go into an ice age. | ||
| Tyler Adams says, Tim, do you have a jersey giant hen that you are willing to sell? | ||
| A batch of dogs killed my chicken Sunday and it's been very tough experience with the gore and all I saw. | ||
| I can't find a hatchery that has any on hand either. | ||
| We only have four and they're only like I think 10 or 12 weeks old so they're fairly small but we are not selling them. | ||
| But we have many roosters! | ||
| If you want an official Cocktown Rooster, we got so many, I want to eat them! | ||
| But Chris doesn't want to eat them, so we're not eating them, I guess. | ||
| Because, I mean, it's kind of that simple, right? | ||
| When it comes to something like the death penalty for a rooster, one veto is kind of like, okay, well, you can't do it. | ||
| I look at it like, the joy I would get from tasting that delicious pressure-cooked rooster stew is not as much as the anger and pain someone would feel by having the rooster killed if they liked it. | ||
| I saw Chris eating Popeyes a couple days ago. | ||
| Yeah, but like, these are the roosters that he was incubating, so it's kind of like he created them. | ||
| I have no say to say we can kill them all. | ||
| Roberto Jr.' 's safe. | ||
| We're gonna build him a throne and everything. | ||
| But we got too many roosters and I'm like, let's just eat them. | ||
| They're literally food. | ||
| That's what they do. | ||
| They're food and they make more of themselves. | ||
| You know, it's great. | ||
| But Roberto, man, Roberto's got like 50 kids. | ||
| He's been busy. | ||
| What a stud. | ||
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| He's been busy, huh? | ||
| Scott Previtt says the optimum temperature for flora and fauna to thrive is 72 degrees Fahrenheit. | ||
| The average temperature of the Earth year-round is 59 degrees. | ||
| Yeah, but what about the equator? | ||
| It's too cold. | ||
| And then, well yeah, what about cold places like Canada? | ||
| You'd have more usable land if we had more global warming. | ||
| There's a lot of benefits that people ignore. | ||
| Cap says Velma was Hawkeye's wife in the Marvel movies. | ||
| Oh, is that for real? | ||
| The lady who played Hawkeye's wife was Velma. | ||
| That sounds vaguely familiar. | ||
| I literally thought there was a Scooby-Doo crossover that I missed. | ||
| Oh, the actress. | ||
| Yeah, that seems to make sense. | ||
| She looks vaguely familiar. | ||
| All right, well, there you go. | ||
| And okay, there you go. | ||
| Raymond G. Stanley Jr. | ||
| says, Ostrich dude is a normie, puts head in the sand. | ||
| That's actually a really good idea. | ||
| A superhero, whenever something bad happens, he just smashes his face into the ground and ignores it. | ||
| That's brilliant. | ||
| But he's got super strength. | ||
| So it's like, don't, like when the bank robbers see him and he slams his head in the ground, they're like, okay, don't let him know we're doing this. | ||
| Go and lie to him and tell him everything's okay. | ||
| And then, you know, as they're looting the bank, one guy's like, no one's robbing the bank. | ||
| Everything's fine. | ||
| Actually, Trump robbed the bank. | ||
| You should be mad at Trump. | ||
| And then he's down there going, really? | ||
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I'm really mad at Trump now! | |
| That's a good idea. | ||
| I like ostrich, dude. | ||
| Get Kent on it. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Alright. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Ostrich dude. | ||
| dude. Vexcoon Kilrog says Blizzard did the same in World of Warcraft. They took Chromie, | ||
| a bronze dragon, who mortal form is a female gnome, and then as a new book made her a male | ||
| dragon choosing a female gnome form. | ||
| Ah. | ||
| Oh. Well, okay. | ||
| Leeroy Jenkins! | ||
| You know how dragons are, right? | ||
| They're always trying to change into gnome girls. | ||
| That's what dragons do. | ||
| It's common in dragon lore. | ||
| You guys should read up on it. | ||
| Yeah, I would notice that. | ||
| AbyssMom says, I made a healer, a tank, and in a few months my second DPS will be born. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| Like, your first daughter is a priest, your son is in the army, and you got two kids that are thieves? | ||
| They're in jail. | ||
| Do you guys know what DPS means? | ||
| Damage per second? | ||
| It's a video game thing. | ||
| Yeah, RPGs and stuff. | ||
| Damage per second. | ||
| It's basically, you know, when you're forming a party, you have someone who heals the group, the tank is the one who's fighting the dragon to take all the damage, and then the DPS are the ones causing as much damage as possible to get them down. | ||
| And then I used to play Rogue in World of Warcraft. | ||
| So you deal so much damage, eventually you take aggro from the monster, because you're hitting it too much and it turns and the tank has to then pull it back off, otherwise you'll die faster. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Good old days of WoW Classic. | ||
| Those were the good old days, man. | ||
| Blake Smith says, shout out to the red-headed libertarian. | ||
| Oh wait, no, he says red-headed librarian. | ||
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Oh. | |
| Close enough. | ||
| Well, yeah. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Como Shepherd says, didn't Louis Black say the Republicans are a party of bad ideas and Democrats are a party of no ideas? | ||
| Eric Adams' comment regarding immigration. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Sebi Rose says, Macedon is lefty, but it's not the only part of the Fediverse. | ||
| Pleroma and MISCI and PeerTube support a much more broad-minded selection of Fediverse instances. | ||
| You should really look further into the Fediverse. | ||
| I think Ian's working on that stuff. | ||
| It's a big project, trying to create, uh, you know, infrastructure. | ||
| And then you can't ban anybody. | ||
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| David Toronto says, when she was reading the Pelosi thing, she sounded like the AI girl on the song Masterpiece by Motionless and White. | ||
| Amazing song, by the way. | ||
| Never heard of it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Sounds good. | ||
| Bed B says, Tim, JP had a talk with an economist who did a study about population. | ||
| Basically, he was told if we don't increase the population, we are dead. | ||
| Why though? | ||
| Pretty much. | ||
| There'll be there'll be not enough people to reproduce and a lot of the older people won't have anyone to take care of them as well. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So a lot of the medicals, you know, things that people depend on won't be available to them because there's not enough people to facilitate that. | ||
| Everyone says, good name, Ian for President 2024. | ||
| Ian and Luke Ticket, let's go. | ||
| Who would be the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State? | ||
| Tim and Seamus would definitely run the new media empire after the old one crumbles. | ||
| Can I be the Secretary of Education and fire myself? | ||
| Yes, absolutely. | ||
| Ron DeSantis, if you're listening now, make me Education Secretary. | ||
| You won't have a chance. | ||
| All agencies will be fired under my watch. | ||
| Okay, let's see. | ||
| Action Man Professional Hater says, Velma is my goo gaga milky mommy. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| It's a valid contribution. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| Velma is a cartoon character. | ||
| Well, I guess there's a live action version of her. | ||
| Oof, yikes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Taking Back Toxic says, Bugs Bunny did all the drag first. | ||
| Oh, Bugs is trans. | ||
| You know? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| There you go. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Arduick says, regarding Scooby-Doo, mystery has indeed been solved after 50 years. | ||
| For 50 years we didn't know Velma's sexual preference, now we do. | ||
| I think we all kind of did. | ||
| Wow, Velma's, that would make Velma, what, how old are those characters supposed to be? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I would think 20. | ||
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College students? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| So Velma's like 70-something years old, they're just like immortal? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know what I realized? | ||
| Like, their car breaks down a lot. | ||
| And they conveniently end up in places where people are trying to lower property value by dressing up like monsters. | ||
| It's like a kind of crazy thing to keep happening, you know? | ||
| And in fact, if we were gonna make this make sense, I would actually argue they were in it the whole time. | ||
| Because it only, it doesn't make sense that they keep, the car keeps breaking down in the same place. | ||
| It would actually make sense that they're in on the schemes and they're selling the schemes. | ||
| And then turning on, oh, this is it. | ||
| Yeah, they convince the guy, here's what we'll do. | ||
| You dress up like Frankenstein, you scare a bunch of people, property value drops, you can buy up the building. | ||
| But then, little do these people know, they show up and then get them arrested so they get their names in the paper. | ||
| Do they get paid to do this? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Is that a component of Scooby-Doo? | ||
| Does anybody give them money? | ||
| How do they buy gas? | ||
| Maybe that's why they keep breaking down all the time. | ||
| Maybe Freddy is just like a trust fund kid, he pays for everything. | ||
| That's the vibes I get. | ||
| No, I bet it's Shaggy. | ||
| Shaggy, because he looks like a layabout. | ||
| Well, what I was saying earlier before we went on air about the five colleges, there's five colleges in Massachusetts called the Five College Area. | ||
| And there's a theory that the Scooby-Doo family is modeled after the five colleges. | ||
| You have Amherst College, which is the preppy Guy College, you have Holyoke College, you have the Holyoke, | ||
| Mount Holyoke, which is the preppy girl college, and you have Smith College, which is the gay | ||
| college, then you have Hampshire College, which is the stoner college, and then you have UMass, which | ||
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is the party college. So yeah, that would make sense. Scooby's the party college. Scooby's | |
| the party college. Yep. | ||
| Ghost Crusaders says the actress that played Velma has been in a bunch of stuff since. | ||
| More recently, she was Hawkeye's wife in the Avengers films. | ||
| Now that you say it, hmm. | ||
| Yeah, I didn't know who she was. | ||
| Well, there you go. | ||
| Hey, how about that? | ||
| All right, let's grab some more super chats. | ||
| What is this? | ||
| Waffle Sensei says, we have to make the new awesome content ourselves, and they are leaving the doors wide open for us. | ||
| Charge! | ||
| Agreed. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Agreed. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Siani Reese says, I am a writer and love people-watching because it helps in creating someone who seems real. | ||
| I have noticed in the writing groups, those like me get overlooked for the sexuality characters. | ||
| Is that a reference to Velma? | ||
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No. | |
| No? | ||
| Joseph Cox says, Ladybug Man. | ||
| Check out David Lopez. | ||
| You want a new character with superpowers, lol. | ||
| Alright, so let's come up with a new superpower right now. | ||
| What do we got? | ||
| How about... | ||
| Ladybug man. | ||
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No way. | |
| We need a superhero. | ||
| Let's say a guy who has the ability to throw hair from his palms. | ||
| That's horrifying. | ||
| I don't like that. | ||
| Hey look, think about Spider-Man. | ||
| Spider-Man has no sense. | ||
| So this, this guy, he can, you know, he can fire hair and then wrap you up and throw you because he's also very strong for some reason. | ||
| Gross. | ||
| Porcupine man. | ||
| Porcupine man. | ||
| String cheese man. | ||
| How about the hair comes out of his armpits though? | ||
| That's not good either. | ||
| He's really strong. | ||
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That's like a Ren and Stimpy type of character. | |
| See the thing is like Spider-Man should be firing the spiderwebs from his butt. | ||
| If it was accurate, yeah. | ||
| But they knew that was too much, so it's like from his wrists for whatever reason. | ||
| So we can try and make, you know, a superhero cool. | ||
| How about a superhero who has the ability to... Blow fire. | ||
| Well, that's normal. | ||
| Just think of something original. | ||
| So, like, he can take his eyeball out and throw it and then see with it. | ||
| That's probably been done too. | ||
| That's a Roman myth. | ||
| A guy who has the ability to move holes. | ||
| Yeah, to different areas. | ||
| Yeah, so like he can take the space of a door by bending space-time and put the port of the door on the other wall, but it still leads to the same place. | ||
| That's a cool one, right? | ||
| That's pretty cool. | ||
| That would be like a villain power. | ||
| I like the villains. | ||
| I bet that's already been done, though. | ||
| That's something like Bugs Bunny would do. | ||
| He would like pick the hole up and put it on the wall. | ||
| Yeah, they never missed with Bugs Bunny. | ||
| Bugs Bunny's got a lot of crazy superpowers. | ||
| Yeah, he's incredible. | ||
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