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Timcast IRL - Journalist Investigating Biden RAIDED By FBI, Goes MISSING w/Seth Weathers
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tim pool
you this is a crazy story
There is a journalist who is investigating Joe Biden and what happened with Afghanistan and the pullout.
The FBI raids his home and then he disappears, quits his job, and is just gone, apparently.
We know some individuals who actually knew this guy.
They reached out, no response.
So maybe now that the news is broken, Rolling Stone's writing about it, Daily Mail's writing about it, maybe he'll pop up and be like, guys, You know, like, someone stole my car and I went bankrupt and my wife left me.
That's why I was away.
Who knows?
But right after he gets raided by the FBI, he just stops.
Cancels his project.
No investigation on Joe Biden.
Very interesting.
The best part of this story was when Rolling Stone says, This may be the first time Joe Biden's FBI has raided a journalist.
James O'Keefe would like to have a word with you, Rolling Stone.
But, uh, yeah, still a very, very crazy story.
So we'll talk about that.
Plus, oh, this one's my favorite.
Oh, man, Stacey Abrams coming out and saying, abort the poor.
That was just wow.
OK, here's what happens.
The Democrats know abortion isn't a winning midterm issue.
The economy is.
So when Obama comes out and says, you got to talk about the economy, Stacey Abrams gets asked, I think it was by Joe Scarborough, and she's like, well, you know, abortions?
Economic.
You know, women who don't want kids because they can't afford it?
Well, abortion helps them save money.
You know, they wouldn't care about the gas prices if they got rid of that kid.
And it's just, you know, wow.
Bravo.
Okay.
Abort the poor.
in this story.
You know, we talked about no-fault divorce a week or so ago, and here's my favorite development, because I didn't catch this one when the story dropped a week or so ago, two weeks ago, but they refer to our very own Ian Crossland as a conservative commentator.
I'm very impressed at the evolution of Ian.
Ian, you're conservative, no?
ian crossland
It's true.
tim pool
I'm a liberal conservative.
You admit it!
ian crossland
Conservatively liberal.
All right, all right.
tim pool
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Joining us today to talk about this and more is Seth Weathers.
unidentified
Good to be here.
tim pool
Who are you?
unidentified
I am a recovering political consultant.
I spent years running campaigns.
I was one of the first people that Donald Trump hired when he decided to run for president in 2015.
I was nuts enough to do that and to believe that he was going to be president.
Since then, recently I've started a company FreedomSpeaksUp.com.
We're a conservative lifestyle brand that we are trying to, our goal is essentially to tell people be uncensorable and when people see others out wearing shirts that have a statement on it, sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's serious.
The goal is to let people know there's other people that think like you and be unafraid to speak up.
So that's what we're trying to accomplish.
tim pool
Right on, thanks for hanging out.
We also have the t-shirt vendor.
luke rudkowski
Hey guys, I think my lifestyle is more of a troll, anarchist kind of a lifestyle brand when it comes to my t-shirt that of course I have here.
And that's why today I'm wearing my Trust the Science shirt on the eve of the CDC just having another mind-boggling decision for children today.
And that's why I'm wearing a shirt that says trust the ... science just like you did with DDT cigarettes fluoride ... asbestos glyphosate sugar and I could keep going on and on and ... if you are not a trusting peasant you could get the shirt ... on the best political shirts.com because you do I am ... here thank you so much for having me.
ian crossland
Well hello everyone, your friendly neighborhood liberal, conservative, authoritarian, libertarian coming at you, Ian Crossland.
Happy to be here.
tim pool
I think, you know, what they wrote, Jezebel wrote that Ian Crossland, they were like, on Tim Pool's show, conservative commentator Ian Crossland.
I'm just like, tell me you don't watch the show without telling me you don't watch the show.
ian crossland
Yeah, I'm glad you tweeted it out, because like, there's like a hundred comments of people laughing.
It's just like, what in the hell?
Did they even watch the show?
It's kind of funny.
Well, I will occasionally take a conservative viewpoint, for sure, because they're warranted.
But I think you've got to be balanced.
tim pool
Well, we've got to read this story.
It's going to be fun.
It's going to be fun.
We've also got Serge over here pressing all the buttons.
serge du preez
That's right.
Here I am.
Find me at Serge.com.
tim pool
Alright, let's jump into this first story from Rolling Stone.
FBI raids star ABC News producer's home.
Emmy-winning producer James Gordon Meek had his home raided by the FBI.
His colleagues say they haven't seen him since.
And this was apparently back in April.
Look at this.
At a minute before 5 a.m.
on April 27th, ABC News' James Gordon Meek fired off a tweet with a single word, FACTS.
The network's national security investigative producer was responding to a former CIA agent Mark How do you say this?
Polymeropolis, take that the Ukrainian military with assistance from the U.S.
was thriving against Russian forces.
Polymeropolis' tweet, filled with acronyms and indecipherable to the layperson, like ITPs, UW, and EW, was self-emissive from the Washington Post, Pentagon Reporter, Dan Lamont, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Okay, really what the story comes down to.
I think we have this tweet here.
Let's just go through the quick bullet points on this one.
Outside ABC News' James Gordon Meek's apartment, a surreal scene was unfolding, and his storied career was about to come crashing down.
Multiple sources familiar with the matter say the Emmy-winning producer was the target of an FBI raid.
None of his neighbors, with whom Rolling Stone spoke with, have seen him since.
His neighbors haven't even seen him.
An ABC representative tells Rolling Stone, he resigned very abruptly and hasn't worked for us for months.
It's unclear what story, if any, would have put Meek in the FBI's crosshairs.
Well, not necessarily.
It's been reported by several outlets he was investigating Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan and then abruptly vanished.
Now, here's the best part of the story.
Rolling Stone says Meek has been charged with no crime, but independent observers believe the raid is among the first and quite possibly the first to be carried out on a journalist by the Biden administration.
Okay.
Well, uh, I would just like to point out James O'Keefe does exist.
He was also raided by the FBI.
But, uh, here's the story, man.
This is a troubling trend.
Now, I don't know what happened to this guy.
Okay?
The report was that he was investigating Afghanistan.
Very, very bad day for Biden.
And I'll remind you, when you look at the aggregate polling, that's when Joe Biden went underwater.
His approval rating was higher than his disapproval.
Afghanistan happened, he flipped.
The Democrats right now, they're desperately trying to reverse that narrative and win back support, but the economy is just, it's beating them down.
Then you get a guy who's working on this big story, gone.
luke rudkowski
Well, Rolling Stones is also reporting right now that he might have had classified information, and that's why the FBI raided him.
But we have to understand that what's happening here is not out of the playbook, out of the Democratic Party.
When Joe Biden was vice president, the Obama administration terrified newsrooms just like they did weddings and hospitals all throughout the Middle East with their drone strikes.
And Obama used the espionage act more than any ... other president before him to specifically put a record ... number of journalists and their sources in jail so we ... have to understand here this is the continuation of the Obama ... DOJ FBI that prosecutes people that wanted to do real ... journalism they went after James O'Keefe they probably ... went after this guy we don't know all the details here but.
He quit his job, he didn't publish his book, and he disappeared.
People can't find him.
Of course, people are automatically, some people are going to go off and say, well,
maybe they Michael Hastings'd him, which is another journalist that also died under the
Obama administration, also had allegedly classified information.
tim pool
During the Obama administration.
While investigating.
Who was he investigating?
luke rudkowski
He was investigating a top general that was, you know, that he was going to expose.
And he came out and said, hey, you know, he tried to use his neighbor's car.
He said they had people following him.
So again, what the Democrats are possibly, what they could possibly do is unspeakable with what they already did with the Obama administration.
tim pool
Okay, what we know from the Obama administration is that more journalists and whistleblowers were charged under the Espionage Act and other charges than all other presidents combined.
What we know about Michael Hasings is that... Who was he?
Was it Hayden?
luke rudkowski
No, it wasn't Hayden.
It was another top military general.
tim pool
He was investigating some top general guy and then one day he shows up to his neighbor's house saying he needs to borrow their car or something about he saw someone under his car tampering with it.
The next thing we hear... John Brennan.
Brennan.
unidentified
John Brennan.
ian crossland
CIA Director John Brennan was being investigated.
tim pool
The next thing we hear is that he was speeding down Wilshire Boulevard uncontrollably and slammed into a tree and his car burst into flames.
ian crossland
Yeah, like two in the morning.
tim pool
Yeah.
ian crossland
So one people were like, maybe he was drunk and he just depressed and suicidal and just hit the gas and just didn't let go.
Other people are like, maybe they wired his car.
luke rudkowski
He went to his neighbors and said, my car was tinkered with.
Can I use your car, please?
Because someone was messing with my car.
It's not the same.
And the neighbor said, no.
tim pool
Do you guys remember when Seamus, Freedom Tunes, he produced a debunking left-wing memes video, and there's this researcher who made the pyramid, it's the reverse pyramid of conspiracy theories, have you seen this?
ian crossland
I don't think I've seen that one.
tim pool
So this pyramid shows like, on the bottom, it's conspiracy theories that are true, and it's like, you know, MKUltra, it happened, we know the documents are classified.
And then at the top, it's like anti-Semitic point of no return.
And the funny thing is, it says something like, Epstein is true at the bottom, and then it says powerful individuals trafficking children is considered a conspiracy theory.
And it's like, bro, that's the same thing.
Like, the Epstein thing, that's what it is.
Ghislaine Maxwell's in prison for trafficking minors.
It's not a conspiracy theory anymore.
She's been convicted.
Now, You know, who was it?
I'd love to see that list.
But here's the funny thing, like, after something like that happens, one of my favorite stories is Chris, I think it was Chris Ragon, tweeting that when Epstein dies, he gets into an Uber, and the Uber driver turns around immediately and says, yo, that guy didn't kill himself.
I like that, that was the cultural shock when that story dropped.
So when you hear that a national security reporter, here's the story from the Daily Mail, check this out.
ABC national security producer hasn't been seen since April when FBI mysteriously raided his house.
Journalist was writing a book about Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
He abruptly quits, tells the guy he's working the book with, I'm out, you know, I don't have anything to do with this.
And now no one, his neighbors haven't seen him, his colleagues haven't heard from him.
We actually, someone we work with, I'm gonna keep the details, you know, vague because we're trying to investigate this, tried reaching out because they know him and they're like, yo.
He's not responding.
So, uh, I don't know.
But let me just tell you.
The conspiracy theorists scored a whole bunch of points over the past couple of years.
We are well past the point where we just dismiss these things as far-fetched.
A journalist was raided by the FBI and went missing.
James O'Keefe was raided by the FBI.
His saving grace is that he's famous and people got their eye on him.
But I wouldn't be surprised if something really crazy happened here, something really crazy.
unidentified
I'm just realizing that this was in April, so has there been research to note, like, what's his family say?
Like, where is he?
I mean, is the guy, like, truly missing from his family, friends, everyone?
tim pool
His neighbors haven't seen him, they're saying.
Like, apparently they reached out to him.
So that's why we're here talking about it.
unidentified
I'd like to know what his family has to say, or who they are.
tim pool
Don't know.
ian crossland
You would think if he was married or had kids that they would have been at least vocal about it, and if they're not vocal about it, then they're in on it.
unidentified
Or they're scared.
ian crossland
Right.
Meaning that they're in on it, like they know something happened.
luke rudkowski
I mean, when the FBI shows up at your door, breaks it down, and points a gun at your family member's head, I mean, that's a message right there.
And when you do that to journalists when you do that to people that that whistleblower when you do that when people try to get accurate truthful information to the general public you're not on the good side here I mean I think it's pretty clear and obvious we used to have journalists we used to have whistleblowers we used to have things like you know Watergate we used to have.
There's another, you know, comment here that's an adult comment linked to, of course, a whistleblower that goes deep, a part of someone's jugular.
Those situations, those scenarios, those individuals can exist under this administration mainly because of just how brutal they are.
Towards journalism.
ian crossland
It's like, Tim, you mentioned that maybe he had classified information.
tim pool
I think Luke mentioned that.
luke rudkowski
Rolling Stone is reporting that there's a potential that he had classified information and was going to probably blow the whistle on something even more nefarious to already a very nefarious nasty story.
And another thing that kind of boggles my mind is, you know, why are journalists puppeteering?
Why are they Cheerleading this administration that is literally punishing them, that is spreading fear in the newsroom, that is terrifying them from even doing their job.
I don't understand it.
I do on some levels, but the general public should be asking some serious questions.
ian crossland
What's that phenomenon where slaves will start to love their slave master?
tim pool
Stockholm Syndrome?
ian crossland
Yeah, Stockholm Syndrome.
It's like journalists are in a state of such shock and terror that they're being... the government's spying on their...
unidentified
I don't think most journalists are afraid of this government.
I think they're a little too cozy.
tim pool
I think technically Ian's right.
Journalists are in a state of fear.
The people you're referring to, Seth, aren't journalists.
They're government shills masquerading as journalists.
So the people who are actual journalists, this is what happens to them.
You get raided by the FBI.
I mean, look at James O'Keefe.
The FBI raided his house.
The whole thing is nonsense.
And then Rolling Stone has the nerve to be like, this could be the first time.
It's like, bro.
ian crossland
The way they phrase that, among the first.
What does that even mean?
tim pool
Or possibly the first.
And when people point out James O'Keefe got raided, the response from all of these people on Twitter is, he's not a journalist.
ian crossland
No, he is a journalist.
tim pool
James is a journalist and he has news organizations defending him.
These people don't like him personally. So they say he's not a journalist, but it's like,
just because you don't like the things he writes. The same thing is true of Alex Jones.
Guess what? Surprise, surprise, Alex Jones is a journalist.
Oh, no.
Now they're all angry saying, don't you dare conflate the work we do with Alex Jones.
If you break down what they are legally doing, and their protections. Yeah, Alex Jones is a
journalist. Sorry, that's just a reality. But I gotta tell you this. When you get these corporate
shill, quote unquote, journalists that make fake news up and claim things like Ian Crossland is a
conservative, and then have the nerve to insult Alex Jones.
unidentified
Oh, I harumph I say, I find it laughable.
ian crossland
Shout out to Jezebel for writing that bizarre article, by the way.
We live in an interesting society where people appreciate the government's ability to classify documents.
If they didn't have that ability, we'd have been overrun and conquered because we would have lost wars like World War II.
You need secrecy.
But at the same time, we also glorify journalists that, like, Expose the corruption within the government by, you know, maybe not receiving classified documents, but I don't know how they... Well, like Julian Assange, for instance, he received, like, that was a classified video, the, what is it, collateral murder, where it shows the soldiers, like, just from a helicopter, like, gunning people down, civilians gunning civilians down.
tim pool
And look what they do to Assange.
ian crossland
Yes, and so we've got both dichotomies, like, there's heroes on, you know, you could... and they're at odds, but they're both on our side, I just...
Very strange reality.
tim pool
I think the U.S.
government is full of criminals and corrupt psychopaths, and then you have people like Julian Assange, who are like, I'm going to expose evil people.
ian crossland
Right, technically he's a criminal.
Like, he got classified information and revealed it.
tim pool
No, he's not a criminal at all.
I don't think that was an evil journalist.
It is, actually.
He's protected by the First Amendment, and he's not even an American citizen.
ian crossland
To receive and disperse classified information, you're allowed to do that?
tim pool
The New York Times does it every day.
unidentified
He's a journalist.
luke rudkowski
There's whistleblower laws that protect individuals that come forward and say, hey, there was some wrongdoing in our government.
Many people tried to go through the official avenues, and they of course were told to shut up.
unidentified
He just can't have stolen the documents himself, but if they're provided to him, he has the ability.
Again, like he said, that's what journalism, they do that all the time.
ian crossland
But like, even if he knows they're stolen?
unidentified
Yes, yes.
ian crossland
So like, I can't commit the crime, but if someone else does it for me, then I'm on the clear?
unidentified
If they didn't direct them to.
tim pool
Yeah, right, right, right.
If you're a journalist and someone comes to you and says, I have a diary, you can be like, okay, I'll take it.
unidentified
Well, they look at Trump's tax records.
What's her name?
Maddow?
Yes, I forgot about her.
But yeah, she put him on her show and was heralded for it.
tim pool
Yeah, they were cheering.
I mean, this is really funny, there's some leftist organization filmed some Republican congressman or something undercover, pretending to be a Trump supporter, saying we need pardons for the January 6th defendants, and he's like, well, we gotta win the White House first.
And they're all like, oh, we got him, we got him, and it's just like, and how is what James O'Keefe does not journalism?
Like, you do this, the same thing, and then claim Veritas is, get that, it's partisan BS.
You know, what we need, I would say, probably the only real news organization in the country right now, okay, that's not fair, but the most prominent national level is Veritas.
And I say it's not fair, I wouldn't call any of the local news outlets news organizations, I wouldn't call, you call them news outlets, let's call them media, local media disbursement.
The New York Times, please, propaganda narrative garbage.
There's a new outlet that came out, Semaphore.
And it's Ben Smith, formerly of BuzzFeed and the New York Times, along with a bunch of other people who I think are just terrible, but they're doing reporting now, and they've done some interviews that are actually quite good, and one of them is this guy, this opinion editor from the New York Times, who got fired for publishing Tom Cotton's op-ed calling for the military to, you know, stop the riots.
And he's basically like, they're trying to pander to progressives.
They had an opportunity to speak out, to call it out, and say, we're not here to pander to you, but they chose, we're gonna be Mother Jones on steroids or whatever.
That's the New York Times.
It's not news.
ian crossland
It's not investigative journalism.
There's like, when you talk about journalism, you talk about there's reporting, where people are like, hey, I got a piece of paper, I'm gonna read it to you and report on what I saw.
Then there's people that investigate.
Investigative journalists are like, here's a piece of paper, I gotta figure out where it came from, who wrote it, and they'll do all this work behind the scenes to figure stuff out.
That's Project Veritas.
They're investigators.
Now, New York Times, Kylie Chung from Jezebel, who wrote this weird article about me calling me a conservative and misquoting me, is not an investigative journalist.
Maybe you could call her a journalist because she wrote in a journal that's now online.
tim pool
We're going to walk our way to that story, because first we've got to talk about this one from TimGast.com.
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams says abortion can help address inflation issues.
Why, that's right.
If you're concerned about the rising costs for your household, consider killing your unborn child.
That's the news, apparently.
So, uh, you know, she said, you can't divorce being forced to care in unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child.
Abrams continued, adding that we don't have the luxury of reducing it or separating them out.
Abrams avoided offering policy solutions to counter inflation, instead saying that a governor can address housing prices, a governor can address the cost of education, blah, blah, blah.
Okay, so here's the point.
We used to have institutions in this country to make sure that if a woman got pregnant that there was a means and resources made available to her and that was called marriage.
We had shotgun weddings.
You guys know about that, right?
Dude would get a girl pregnant, the dad would go, you're marrying my daughter.
And that's a trope, it's a meme.
But once they break down that institution, you now have women who are like, oh no, I got pregnant and the guy has abandoned me.
Okay, there's supposed to be child support laws and payments for a reason.
Stacey Abrams could offer up, I don't know, that.
Instead, she's like, women are concerned about the cost of goods because they're about to have a baby.
Has she considered that perhaps the reason some women might not want the pregnancy is that they fear not being able to afford it?
And so the issue isn't that they should abort the baby, they may actually really want the kid!
That's how insane and nightmarish this is.
unidentified
How about we abort inflation?
That might be a good start if it's a financial concern.
tim pool
Yeah, we can get rid of that.
Maybe we can deal with fractional reserve banking policies, quantitative easing, the Federal Reserve.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, how about you just stop printing money out of thin air and giving it to the biggest companies on Wall Street?
How about you just stop spending money willy-nilly on stupid projects?
And then maybe, you know, people could afford having children and you don't have to abort them, which is absolutely crazy.
Seth, you're from Georgia.
You gotta get in this.
unidentified
Get in on Stacey Abrams right now.
This is an embarrassment and you're putting it on the national stage for me right now.
Yeah, Stacey Abrams is a mess, but fortunately, based on what I'm seeing on the ground there, she's not going to win this race.
I wouldn't disagree.
She's going to go directly from this gubernatorial race to she will be running for president shortly after.
Probably, I think she actually tries in 2024.
I really do think she finds a way into that because who knows what happens with Biden.
tim pool
I wouldn't disagree.
They don't have anybody.
I mean, in fact, what was the latest polling?
Like only 24 percent of people, only 24 people I believe in.
Only 24% of people said they would vote for him at this point.
There was a couple of polls, one said 33% of people would vote for him.
So they need anybody they can get.
ian crossland
You got Buttigieg, but he talks like this.
And you're like, come on, this is the Obama type 2.0.
tim pool
Yeah, but you know, I'm sorry.
unidentified
He doesn't have the charisma of Obama.
And Stacey Abrams, she's an election denier.
tim pool
You know?
unidentified
This is true.
tim pool
She's an election denier.
I can't support an election denier, you know?
So I watched the media talk about election deniers all day and night, and then I saw this viral video of Stacey Abrams, and then I saw another viral video, and I was like, oh man.
unidentified
She's dangerous for society.
tim pool
That's right.
It's very dangerous to democracy that she denies elections.
ian crossland
What election did Stacey deny?
tim pool
She denied, I think she may have denied 2016. 2018.
No, no, to 2016.
Hillary Clinton and- Oh, she may have, but she denied her own loss.
Right, I'm saying, before she even got to denying that she lost and refusing to accept the results of her own election, I think she may have been a 2016 denier as well.
ian crossland
Did she say she lost her 2018 election and then claimed that it was, what, felation?
unidentified
Rigged.
ian crossland
Rigged?
tim pool
She claimed that the election was rigged?
Oh yeah, she claimed there was fraud and manipulation.
unidentified
Voter suppression.
tim pool
Well, yeah.
unidentified
We had the highest black voter suppression, specifically.
In the election year she ran, we had the highest black turnout in Georgia history.
But it was the same year that voter suppression kept her from winning.
tim pool
Even right now, voter turnout in Georgia is higher than when it was.
Yeah, it's through the roof.
unidentified
Yes.
73% higher at this point in the election than 2018.
That's incredible.
That's nuts.
And they're all voting camp, huh?
Well, I don't know about all of them, but I do think that Kemp wins, and I think he wins by a decent margin.
I think we're in the 7 to 10 range.
luke rudkowski
What led to so many people voting?
unidentified
In this election?
luke rudkowski
More than ever.
Do you think there's a lot of efforts to try to get people to vote?
Do you think it's mail-in ballots?
Do you think it's maybe people moving down to Georgia?
unidentified
I think obviously there's a lot of efforts all over trying to get people to turn out and vote, but I think right now you're seeing people that normally were not paying attention.
I'm seeing this personally just from, you know, friend groups, etc.
But people that weren't necessarily paying attention are like, What the hell, there's a lot happening here and I don't like it.
And I think you're seeing people turn up, and people that were not so political before, they're maybe not speaking out about it a lot because they're kind of afraid of backlash, but they're getting out to vote.
And I think that we're going to see, I think the polls are tightening as we get closer to the race in Republican favor.
Which tends to typically happen.
I think we're going to see actually a, I think we're going to have a pretty big Republican victory.
tim pool
Oh, the, the RealClearPolitics national average in the generic ballot jumped by like two points today.
So I'm doing, I'm doing a segment and I grabbed the RCP average and it was 2.8.
And I was like, Oh look, they jumped one point.
And then I'm like, so I start recording.
15 minutes in, when I load RealClearPolitics, it, it refreshes and now it's at 3.1.
And I was like, Whoa!
It jumped even more in the time that I started talking about it.
ian crossland
The national aggregate poll?
tim pool
So it's the generic ballot aggregate.
So all these different polls ask people if you were going to vote in the midterms would it be a Republican or a Democrat.
These are not swing district polls.
They're asking AOC's district who you're going to vote for.
So when you see at the national level a three or four point swing for Republicans, This is significant.
unidentified
Yeah, I think Georgia at minimum, we will pick up one congressional seat in an already red state.
So in one out of, you know, out of 15 congressional seats, that's pretty significant.
ian crossland
I gotta imagine that Biden's almost refusal to talk about inflation is like gotta be driving people insane.
Cause it's obvious with gas prices going up, food prices going up, that there's a big inflation issue right now.
And like Biden, whenever he's asked about it, what I see, he just kind of acts like it's not that big of a deal.
It's like, oh, it's a global thing.
It's not, but like, duh, but also the America's the leading global economy.
So it's an American thing.
The global economy is an American thing.
By design.
tim pool
Saudi Arabia wants to join BRICS.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
You know, this has been circulating around for a little bit.
That's the end of the petrodollar.
And when that happens, America is in for a very, very rude awakening.
ian crossland
They're going to do a currency recall probably, get rid of the U.S.
dollar, do a U.S.
central bank currency, and crypto, go full crypto, tax everybody, get people's dollars will be worth a hundredth of what they were worth.
tim pool
But that's not necessarily relevant to what's going to happen first.
What's going to happen first is you are not going to be able to buy anything because we don't make anything.
Clothing.
Oh, it's going to be brutal.
It's going to be like, hey, I need to buy a shirt.
Here's, it's 50 bucks.
You're going to go for a white t-shirt.
That's right.
ian crossland
Stitch up your old t-shirts, stitch up your old socks.
unidentified
As someone that sells a lot of shirts, there's actually a lot of trouble getting a hold of just the blank shirts even print on right now, especially certain sizes.
Like after COVID hit and everything, it became a real issue, you know, just trying to get blanks.
tim pool
The United States manufactures very little, we outsource to all these other countries, and we get away with it because the U.S.
dollar is the settlement layer for the world, the petrodollar, the reserve currency.
So, people are like, I need U.S.
dollars to do trade deals with other countries.
You take a look at what happened to Gaddafi, he wants to trade in gold, he's gone.
You look at Saddam Hussein, uh-oh, started trading with Euro, he's gone.
But now, the U.S.
can't keep it up, and they try to.
That's what they do with the Middle East, the war, everything they do is a desperate attempt to maintain this global dominance.
Now it's Saudi Arabia flipping off Joe Biden, and boy are they panicking over this.
Prices are going up and they can't do anything about it.
Saudi Arabia joins BRICS.
That's it.
U.S.
dollars out.
BRICS is already saying, you know, we can use the rupee and we can use the ruble.
We can use the yuan.
We don't need U.S.
dollars for settlements anymore.
Bye-bye.
In the United States, this means you're going to want to buy a computer.
That computer is made in Southeast Asia.
They're going to say, we don't want U.S.
dollars.
You don't make anything.
What do we need your dollars for?
What are we going to buy from you?
Not right now.
It's oil.
Right now, they'll say, yeah, we need U.S.
dollars because we want to buy oil.
Once we lose this to BRICS, they're gonna go, you got corn, I guess.
I guess we can buy corn.
ian crossland
Yeah, we got food, wheat and corn.
You think that part of the reason why they're telling farmers in Europe to stop farming is because they're trying to set up a system where now people buy food from America?
tim pool
Maybe.
Maybe they had a meeting where they're like, guys, we're gonna lose the petrodollar, what do we do?
What do we export the most?
Corn and corn syrup?
Okay, tell our allies to stop making food.
All right, I guess.
If we don't have the petrodollar, we can withhold food.
But we don't have fertilizer either.
It comes from Russia.
So, good luck.
And I mean, I suppose Ukraine as well.
I don't know, man.
It seems intentional like they're gonna starve people out, but it's gonna be fun.
The people who have farms and live in the middle of nowhere, who've been homesteading, they're gonna go, what happened?
And the people who live in cities, they're gonna turn into like ravenous ghouls running around eating each other.
ian crossland
I don't know what the media like CNN and MSNBC have been framing Biden as when they talk to him about inflation or if they even talk to him about inflation on those channels.
The clips I see of him, he's just like kind of a space cadet on that stuff.
Probably by intention.
I think he's intentionally not addressing it.
unidentified
I don't think Biden's intentionally saying or doing anything.
He's pretty far out of it.
tim pool
Yeah, I mean, Bada Kaff Care, Nexonol Resin, Trinidad and Jabba the Pressure.
I don't think there's a lot of intention behind it.
ian crossland
It's the Federal Reserve.
I haven't heard him mention the Federal Reserve once.
It's the Federal Reserve that's the issue.
like that you're just private company printing our money away.
It's wicked.
Yep.
tim pool
Yeah.
I wonder if, uh, you guys remember zeitgeist?
Yeah. The movie.
You seen that one?
unidentified
Yeah.
I don't think I've actually seen it.
ian crossland
It's worth watching.
It's a 2008 movie.
unidentified
I was on school.
I missed a lot.
tim pool
So this is, you know, like the early internet era of conspiracy theory videos
going around and, uh, you had like loose change, you had zeitgeist and in it, it
talks about false flags and stuff.
But I wonder, was it part one that talks about fractional reserve banking?
ian crossland
Probably.
It was, they did like Jesus and like the history of religion, then they did Federal Reserve fractional, what was the third one?
tim pool
They had like a three- I think it was conspiracy war government.
luke rudkowski
I think it was 9-11.
unidentified
Yeah, 9-11.
ian crossland
False flags.
tim pool
Yeah, so they talk about fractional reserve.
I feel like that kind of documentary going viral in the early days of the internet had a huge impact on a lot of people, leads a lot of people to politicians like Ron Paul.
And now all of a sudden you have a culture that outright understands fractional reserve banking enough to reject it, understands the Fed enough to reject it.
And these people are going away.
You know, like, we're gonna have these conversations all day every day, and they would love it.
The machine, the Fed, the establishment, the Uniparty, they would love it if we stopped talking about how they manipulate the system and steal money from you.
ian crossland
But not only are they not going away, they took us off fractional reserve banking, and now we're on a no-reserve banking system, where they can print infinite amounts.
They don't even need 90% or 10% in the bank to loan out 9 cents on the 10.
tim pool
I gotta wonder if what that means is they know the system's about to implode and they're extracting as much as possible before- And then they're gonna do an occurrency recall and then everybody's gonna lose a thousand- No, no, no, it's gonna be bricks.
The U.S., look, if the U.S.
loses this, the BRICS nations, OPEC plus, they're gonna be laughing all the way to the bank because they can do, sure, maybe they'll do a currency recall, but it's pointless.
The U.S.
dollar's gonna hit hyperinflation.
We don't make anything.
So let me just simplify it.
We go to Korea and say, we want a bunch of laptops.
And they say, what are you gonna give for us?
Or like, what are you gonna give us for it?
And then we say, we will give you dollars.
And they go, what can I do with that?
You can buy from us.
And what can I buy from you?
Corn!
So they're gonna say, no thanks.
The computers are worth more than the corn you have to offer.
And they're gonna go to China and say, we need the rare earth minerals, and China's gonna be like, deal.
They're gonna go to Russia and OPEC, and they're gonna say, we need oil, and they're gonna say, deal.
And the US is gonna be like, but we shut down Keystone Pipeline, and we stopped energy production, so we don't make energy, we don't make raw materials here anymore, we don't harvest them, we do a whole lot of nothing.
I mean, look, we do some of that stuff in the US, but it's way down.
Trump was trying to bring back manufacturing, and that's probably why.
You can see what's happening, but I hope you guys are ready for a big ride.
It's gonna be fun.
ian crossland
Biden is a horrible diplomat.
People don't like him.
He's mean.
He was a terrible military commander.
He surrendered our military to the Taliban in Afghanistan, and people see the weakness and the idiocy and, like, the old frailty, and they just don't take him seriously.
That's the vibe I'm getting.
Saudi Arabians are like, you know, if there's anyone we're ever going to cut ties with in the United States, it's Joe Biden.
That guy's a dick.
luke rudkowski
It's not personality.
It's the policies.
It's what he's doing that's pushing forward.
I could get in a whole rant about Saudi Arabia.
tim pool
Let's jump to this next story because that's what I was trying to get to.
Conservatives are coming for no-fault divorce from Jezebel.
They say after the fall of Roe, right-wing media have been ratcheting up their rhetoric against no-fault divorce.
Expect policy to follow.
The reason why this story is from August, we're talking about now.
I didn't catch this when it came out, but they refer to our good friend Ian Crossland as a conservative commentator.
So let me show you first a little bit what they say in the beginning.
I love this because they talk about us.
Where are they going to do it?
luke rudkowski
I thought you were an authoritarian liberal.
ian crossland
Yeah, you were right about that.
tim pool
They mention, here we go, there's a popular conservative influencer, Tim Pool.
Oh, really?
Yeah, I'm conservative now.
In a segment on his show, I love that one because they say it a lot, but conservatives are like, yeah, Tim Pool's not conservative.
Tim Pool in a segment on his show that was delightfully titled, No Fault Divorce Has Destroyed Men's Confidence in Marriage, Men Don't Want to Get Married Anymore.
Yeah, that's true.
There are studies that show that.
We're not just like screaming into the wind.
We're like reading things and going, wow, look at that.
According to Pool, you know, guys, can't you at least cite the thing I'm reading and not me?
I'm not like fabricating things on the wall.
They say we have no fault divorce laws to blame for the rise of prenuptial agreements.
Yes.
unidentified
Duh!
tim pool
Okay, moving on.
Which allegedly placed men at risk of being robbed by gold-digging, thieving Jezebels.
Oh, NameDrop, their own website.
Willfully ignoring how the court system has a long history of retraumatizing and destroying the lives of rape and domestic violence victims.
No, we know full well that's called fault, right?
When a guy commits a crime against his wife, now there's fault, you can get a divorce.
Congratulations, you understand what no fault means.
The best part of the article!
They write, In the same episode on Poole's show, conservative commentator Ian Crossland adds, quote, We live in this culture where no-fault divorce is the law of the land.
Dot dot dot.
If young folks know they're in an environment where divorce is not an option, I firmly believe they're going to be more careful about who they choose to marry.
Also a very dry fact statement.
I mean, it's a dry analysis.
Ian didn't come out and say, arrest all of the women who try to get divorces.
He said, if people can't divorce, they're probably going to be more careful about it.
ian crossland
Yeah, but I didn't say that.
If I did, that was a misspeak.
I said that if people can't get a no-fault divorce, if people can't divorce... Wait, what does it say?
First of all, I don't use the word folks.
That's Obama-speak, and I know I don't use that word, so they're misquoting me.
They took a dot, dot, dot.
That is weird.
tim pool
We gotta pull that up.
ian crossland
They didn't link to the story either, so I don't know what.
They were referencing something from like two months ago, but it wasn't that if people can't get a divorce, it's if people can't get a no-fault divorce, then they're gonna be much more choosy about getting marriage.
I don't ever advocate for people not being able to get divorced.
That's complete insanity.
If a guy beats his wife, she should leave him and make him pay.
tim pool
So they actually did link to the segment and it was with, oh, Dr. Chloe Carmichael was on the show at the time.
This is from a few months ago.
I'm not going to play through it and try and find the point where Ian says the word folks or whatever.
But I just love that this is how the media operates.
They just, they lie.
They falsely frame things.
ian crossland
Yeah, I might use those words, but referencing that if they can't easily get a divorce, so I'm not saying that they're misquoting me.
I'd have to reference the data.
tim pool
Here's the point I want to make.
Thank you, Jezebel, for giving us the opportunity to bring this subject back up.
If no-fault divorce is the law, then marriage does not exist.
ian crossland
Dude, you can marry a woman and she can leave you the next day and take half your money.
tim pool
Literally.
Well, that's a bit extreme.
ian crossland
But she can.
tim pool
Typically, they would annul, not divorce.
ian crossland
What's the difference?
tim pool
Annulment means it didn't happen.
So, if you get married to someone and the next day try to dissolve the marriage, they would probably file an annulment and not allow a divorce.
Divorce, but there are circumstances where it could be like six months to a year, and all of a sudden now it's like they are entitled to half of your belongings.
So marriage is a contract, you know, between two people.
The state certifies it to enforce the contract.
And it used to be in the past, someone would be like, I don't like her, she's annoying, and I don't want to be with her.
And I'm like, yeah, well too bad.
You entered into a contract with this person, you have to now abide by this.
So they create no fault divorce, and now it's basically dating.
It's like, okay, there's no marriage anymore.
It used to be that you would date.
You would not, there'd be no binding contract or anything.
And if you didn't like it, you'd walk away.
Then you'd say, you know what?
I think this is working.
I'm willing to enter into a lifetime contract with you, enforced by the law.
And they'd say, okay, and you do it.
No fault divorce means marriage doesn't exist anymore, for all intents and purposes.
Except for the purpose of stealing money from, you know, one party or the other.
ian crossland
Yeah, it's an opt-in business contract where you split your finances, but the fact that one of the partners can cancel the contract and then take half of your wealth is complete insanity.
Luke, if me and you started a company, well, if me, so it is like this, if me and you started a company, it made a million dollars.
luke rudkowski
Is that what the young kids are calling it these days?
ian crossland
Yeah, well, you know, we'll just call it a company.
tim pool
You want to start a company with me?
ian crossland
Luke, will you start a company with me?
And then if you decided to leave the company, I mean, what do you, I think you don't get any, the company still stands and I have the rest, I still own control of it.
tim pool
He would own it.
I mean, and this, a better argument would be, I entered to a contract with Luke that I'll provide lumber for him in exchange for coal.
And then one day Luke delivers coal and then I say, I'm terminating the contract.
And then Luke's like, what, you can't do that.
Where, you're supposed to give me the lumber.
No, I have no fault contract.
unidentified
Is coal sex, is that what the roof had?
tim pool
I'm just saying, like, in a marriage you're basically saying, we're going to build a life together.
Whatever that may mean.
It may mean maybe the wife works, maybe the husband works, maybe they both work.
But the reason why the assets are pooled together is that they're forming a family unit, they're going to have kids, and this is going to help a woman who gets pregnant and things like that.
No-fault divorce means that you can enter into a contract, share all your resources, and then someone can leave.
So perhaps a better way to explain it is, you know, You merge companies and it's like you let's say you have a podcasting company and a major media conglomerate worth tens of billions of dollars says we're gonna do a merger with you and then you go okay but it's a no-fault merger I can leave and take half half of Warner Brothers like
ian crossland
That is so weird.
And then you can also have kids, get married to a woman, have kids, and then she can just be like, one day be like, man, I did some ayahuasca, I had a change of heart.
I'm gonna leave you, take the kid, and make you pay me money.
unidentified
Yep.
ian crossland
You're like, what in the hell is going on?
How is this even like a romantic or like...
Righteous thing, definitely.
tim pool
There's no marriage there.
There's no marriage there.
At this point, with no-fault divorce, marriage is basically a tax bracket.
That's it.
It's like, oh, we're married now, so we get a tax benefit.
But, anyone can leave at any time, so there's no real contract.
There's no point in doing it.
What's the purpose?
ian crossland
Only that you can give your spouse money untaxed.
That's it.
It's just a business, basically a loophole, almost, at this point.
unidentified
Well, child custody is where a lot comes into all these things, of course, as well.
And then that, unfortunately, becomes, in a lot of cases, the leverage that's used in the divorce, unfortunately.
That becomes more leverage, oftentimes, than even the money.
ian crossland
Like who gets the kid?
unidentified
Yeah.
ian crossland
And how would that work?
Like a person would say, you can have the house if I can have the kid kind of thing?
Or vice versa?
unidentified
I don't think that's what they would say in court.
ian crossland
It's like a bargaining chip?
unidentified
Yes, kids being used as a bargaining chip in divorce has been going on probably since the beginning of divorce.
tim pool
But it used to be that if you tried to get a divorce, a court would be like, no.
I want to get a divorce because, you know, he, uh, I mean, there were, there were serious
cases where women were being abused, but they couldn't prove it.
And the courts would be like, no divorce.
Nice try.
You can't do it.
That's a problem.
The solution is a no fault divorce.
That's insane.
Because now you, now you're going to get fatherlessness, women who are getting abortions because they
can't afford the kids instead of having a father who's around.
The fatherlessness leads to crime and poverty.
And now we're seeing the ripple effect of this, where politicians like Stacey Abrams are like, the solution to a woman who can't afford a kid is to kill the kid.
And that's insane.
The solution used to be someone had to earn to provide for that kid.
Now it's just like, well, that's not gonna happen, so just kill it.
ian crossland
With fault divorce before, what, 1969 or whenever it got introduced, and it was like the Bolsheviks, actually, the Russian Bolsheviks are the ones who kind of created the idea that you could just divorce with no fault.
But before that, was it that a guy would beat his wife and she couldn't prove it, so she couldn't leave him?
tim pool
I don't know if that was the main reason why they decided to enact no-fault divorce.
But often you'd go to court and be like, we want to get a divorce, and the judge would be like, nope, I sentence you to marriage counseling.
So they would not divorce.
And then the argument was that women were being beaten, raped, and traumatized, and it led to suicides, and no-fault divorce resulted in a lowering of the suicide rate among many married women.
Yeah.
Don't get married.
That's the crazy thing.
It's like, you have a problem with marriage?
Don't get married.
ian crossland
Yeah.
tim pool
But they do.
And then they're like, hey, it's not working out for me.
Let's destroy the institution instead of just realizing we made a mistake.
ian crossland
Like, I don't want to tell you don't get married.
If you want to get married, get married.
But I don't want to get married right now because of no fault divorce.
Straight up.
I mean, I'm just being honest.
I don't want to get married and then have the woman just be like, yeah, you're acting like a jerk.
I'm out.
Give me half of your everything you've ever earned.
Are you kidding me?
No way.
tim pool
Yeah.
ian crossland
Unfortunately, I'm with a woman that feels the same way, and I think there are a lot of people out there that feel that way.
tim pool
Russell Brand was married to Katy Perry, right?
Yeah.
I think the story was that when they got divorced, he was entitled to a ton of money, and he was like, I don't want it.
And I mean, like, Russell Brand is already rich, so he's like, I don't want to deal with it, I don't care about that.
unidentified
Yeah, but I still respect that.
tim pool
For sure, but I mean, you see, this is a problem when you have guys who are like, you know what, I'm a man and I have money, so I don't need to take half of your stuff.
Meanwhile, you look at every other case, the overall majority, it's the one being like, I get your stuff.
unidentified
This is true.
tim pool
Look at Mackenzie Bezos.
Amazing.
She got, what did she, she got half, right?
serge du preez
I think so.
ian crossland
Did she get half of 50 billion or something?
tim pool
That's crazy.
unidentified
And then she got married and they got divorced.
tim pool
She married some guy.
ian crossland
So did the guy take half of her 50 billion when they got divorced?
Is that record?
tim pool
I don't know if he took... No.
unidentified
There's no way.
tim pool
Yeah, because we weren't married long enough.
unidentified
Yeah.
And it was after the finances had been gained.
She was married to Bezos prior, while he was building the wealth.
ian crossland
Yeah, but with a marriage, you get, if they divorce, don't you get all the money back to birth?
Like everything you've ever been worth?
Yes.
tim pool
But it's not so simple.
ian crossland
Unless you sign a prenup.
Right.
unidentified
You had assets coming into a marriage.
And so those get taken into account as well.
And states, it also varies state by state, you know, what the rules are when it comes to that also.
tim pool
It can be everything you've ever earned and owned.
Like, if you own a house, and then you get married, and then a couple years later you get divorced, yep, you're out.
That's the funniest thing, the trope about divorce is the husband always gets booted from the house.
And then I watched Breaking Bad, and I was like, oh, there you go.
You know, because in Breaking Bad, she's like, get out, and you're like, no, it's my house.
And the cops were like, it's his house!
Have a nice day!
And she was like, oh no!
But it's crazy that these are the tropes that, you know, you watch the Simpsons and the Van Houtens or whatever get divorced and the, you know, Mouse's dad just leaves.
And he goes and lives in like a bachelor pad and I'm like, why?
It's his house.
You know, all of these things, like...
It's just, you grow up watching that stuff, and you're like, what's the point of marriage?
I gotta tell you, man, feminism seems to have been one of the worst possible things for women, not in the terms of like, you know, they got their independence, they get their jobs, and here's, this one's for you, young Turks and feminist websites.
You can take this one, because I know you're going to want to spin this one out of context.
But the issue is, now, guys can bang whoever they want, whenever they want, with no strings attached.
That's not a benefit to women.
No.
Regardless of what your mentality is, let's just break it down to simple probabilities and numbers.
Women, when they get pregnant, they either have to have an abortion to get rid of it, or they have to have a child.
Whereas if a guy goes to a party, and there's a bunch of, you know, people doing crazy stuff, and he hooks up with a random chick because we're in this hookup culture, and she doesn't know who he is, and she gets pregnant, dude has nothing to worry about.
That's a problem.
The problem is for the woman.
The benefit is for the men.
Guys can go and party and hook up and never have to think twice about it, but women do.
luke rudkowski
So I don't know how this hookup culture benefited women, I guess, but... There was an article in the New York Post today that was titled, I'm Dating So Many Men, I Need an Excel Spreadsheet to Organize My Love Life.
And reading that story was a little depressing, understanding our current landscape, but this is where we're at.
You know, and I think we have to, you know, talk about these things from from an open minded way.
You know, different people have their different experiences.
They need to go through them in order to see that they were wrong.
But I think also as a society, we should be considering the long term kind of consequences for them and having those kind of conversations and debates.
tim pool
Whoa, this is big.
Someone just superchatted this right now.
Ian was right about Folks.
Jezebel misquoted Seamus as Ian.
The timestamp is 1-0-3-0-3.
Really?
Can we... 1-0-3.
Oh.
We only have the clip.
I don't have the full episode, so... I don't know where that would actually be in the episode, but... It was Seamus who said it!
And they claimed it was Ian who said it.
That is... That is interesting.
ian crossland
Is that illegal for them to do that?
tim pool
It's not illegal.
It's a civil tort.
Meaning, uh, oh, the clips are actually broken down.
Arranged marriage.
ian crossland
I miss that guy, by the way.
tim pool
I love you, Seamus.
Seamus, where you at?
It means, if you, so that's a false statement of fact.
That's, that's actually serious on Jezebel's part.
It's been up for months.
We've now discovered that the question now is damages.
ian crossland
Okay, damages is, girl, that you wrote it.
Come on the show.
Kylie Chung.
tim pool
That's not.
ian crossland
Come talk to me about this.
tim pool
That's not how it works.
ian crossland
I want to get her on the spot.
tim pool
Have you lost money or have you been damaged by them attributing Seamus to you?
I mean, people are making fun of you.
You need corrective marketing.
ian crossland
I understand the process, but honestly, I'd rather just communicate with Kylie about it in public.
tim pool
Corrective marketing we may have to do for the show.
And I mean this.
So when it comes to defamation, damages in the form of corrective marketing means if, you know, one of the aspects of this show, we have Ian here for a reason.
Ian is not your typical conservative commentator, quite the opposite.
And we don't actually know what your background is, you're kind of a weird dude.
And that works.
Some people don't like you, some people really like you, some people say you roll one, some people say you roll twenties.
Well, that's kind of the point.
We don't want to make a cookie-cutter show, so having opinions that we can't predict, or having weird arguments sometimes, makes it more interesting than your average run-of-the-mill show.
If they're now lying to people and saying that Ian is a conservative commentator, it is actually hurting the point of having you on the show.
That means we have to do corrective marketing.
I gotta buy a Times Square billboard of you.
That's really expensive.
ian crossland
It's gonna cost Jezebel.
tim pool
And Jezebel's gonna have to pay for that.
Because they're claiming you're a conservative when the point, I mean, Luke's not a conservative.
Luke's an anarchist, libertarian type.
I'm weird, middle of the road.
Ian is weird all over the place.
And then we have, frequently we get libertarian and conservative guests.
But if they're going to make false statements of fact about one of our co-hosts, Seamus was a temporary co-host.
He was a co-host on the show for quite a bit, but he's not a staff member here.
He's just a recurring guest and friend of ours.
He's not a part of the, he's not like a core staffer at the company.
So, I'm sorry, like, this might end up being very, very expensive.
We gotta look at how many views they got, how many shares it got, then we gotta do corrective marketing, and they're gonna have to pay for it.
ian crossland
Who superchatted that, by the way?
Because thank you so much for that.
tim pool
That was Tangent.
ian crossland
Tangent, thanks.
tim pool
Who pointed this out.
ian crossland
Really a lot.
tim pool
I don't know if... I'm gonna try and play this, because maybe it's here.
ian crossland
This is gonna give me like...
tim pool
Uh, no, I don't know if this is, it's, it's, the timestamp he gave is in the full episode, we don't have that, we only have the clip, so.
serge du preez
It's gonna be hard to find.
ian crossland
Yeah, so this is the episode with Chloe Carmichael, that Ping Trip famously took out of context on purpose to make a killer satire video.
tim pool
Oh, it might be this, let me play it.
seamus coughlin
Well, you know, it's funny because we live in this culture where no-fault divorce is the law of the land.
And people will say things like, well, look how often marriage ends in divorce.
How could you ever be in favor of social structures which disincentivize that or would dissuade people from getting divorced?
But I think what people often miss is if young folks know they're in an environment where divorce is not an option, I firmly believe they're going to be more careful about who they choose to marry.
I think also people need to be more careful about their decision-making in general when it comes to sexuality.
A lot of people will start sleeping with someone, and as you've mentioned, that releases oxytocin and other hormones that bond you.
And there are a lot of couples that end up together because they're sexually engaging with one another and they're bonding, but they're not actually really good for each other.
And then at some point in the marriage, when the novelty of that person wears off, they get divorced.
tim pool
So I think... Well, there it is.
It was Seamus Jezebel posted fake news, a false statement of fact about who said what.
See, here's the thing.
Seamus is a Catholic conservative.
He is.
So he has his opinions, not Ian Crossland.
Oh, man, that's bad for the reputation of the show.
I'm going to have to, man, you know, we're going to have to employ some corrective marketing here.
ian crossland
So you go after, obviously, the company.
Well, I'm wondering, Kylie Chung, the author, or the company Jezebel?
Like, who's on the hook for that?
tim pool
Both of them.
unidentified
Yeah, both.
tim pool
They're both.
Yeah, so Jezebel's supposed to have a standard here where, I mean, this is a brazen false statement of fact.
They're not going to be able to hide behind opinion on this one.
They outright said, Ian Crosland adds quote.
And not only that, the quote from Seamus was very long.
He made a lot of interesting points.
And it's interesting that they cut out a core element of what he said, which is the release of oxytocin, that people are engaging in hookup culture.
They cut all that out, attribute it to Ian Crosland, who's not a conservative commentator.
And now they've got a very, very direct false statement of fact.
That's not an opinion statement.
unidentified
Right?
tim pool
They said, Ian Crosland did this thing.
You did not do it.
That's false.
Oh well.
We're gonna have to, I'm gonna have to call my lawyers after this.
You know, I didn't even catch that.
Thank you to Tangent for pointing out it was Seamus who said that.
luke rudkowski
$965 million dollars, right now!
We want it on the table.
ian crossland
The precedent is set.
luke rudkowski
Or else.
ian crossland
I'm paying his legal fees.
tim pool
Yeah.
$965 million.
luke rudkowski
The reality is, that's not too much.
That's not too much with what's going on.
unidentified
You should do something about it, because you are in a position to do something.
A lot of the little guys out there that have these kinds of things happen to them, and these media organizations all the time, they don't really have the ability to fight back.
ian crossland
You know, it felt very like I was being molested when I read that comment that I didn't make attributed to me.
I was like, this is like a really creepy feeling, but I had the confidence knowing I was coming on the show tonight to talk about it.
If I didn't have a show like this, that would have been devastating.
Because I even started to question, did I say it?
unidentified
Yeah.
ian crossland
What's wrong with me?
unidentified
You have no way to fight back.
tim pool
So here's what'll likely happen.
Corrective marketing is damages, and in all seriousness, I'm gonna have to talk with our marketing people and a lawyer about it to see how we deal with this, because it's out there.
People are talking about it.
I tweeted about it, calling it absurd and laughable, and so we'll take a look at it, but the reality of what likely will happen is they will issue a correction, and that ends it.
If we have to do corrective marketing, we can then escalate and say, no, no, no, you gotta pay damages because we gotta pay for marketing because of what you said.
ian crossland
Well, if they're gonna correct it, at least say that I'm a wild hippie.
unidentified
Right.
ian crossland
If you're gonna categorize me as something, geez.
Mention DMT in the correction, too.
tim pool
You know, it depends on how many hits it got.
We'll have to, we'll have to, the corrective marketing will involve research into the reach that this did.
So, there's probably a bunch of YouTubers who talked about it and then started repeating the lie that Ian Crosland said these things he never said, so.
Hey man, it's one thing if they said, in our opinion, Ian Crosland, you know, is a fascist or a conservative.
You can't sue over that.
It's a protected opinion.
But this is an outright false statement of fact.
That's like very, very obvious.
So it's reckless disregard for the truth in that capacity.
That was shameless.
unidentified
We'll see.
tim pool
Let's jump to the next story though.
The next story is a video that I can't play because Ethan Klein said something that I'm surprised he didn't get banned over, which I'm not going to be able to play.
But I can basically tell you what he said.
Left-wing YouTube star Ethan Klein muses about another Holocaust against the Jews and says he hopes Ben Shapiro is killed first.
Yeah.
ian crossland
It's crazy.
What show is this on?
tim pool
It's his show, H3TV.
unidentified
L3L3.
ian crossland
And they cut the feed in the middle.
tim pool
Well, that's his producers, because he's done stuff like this before where he's gotten suspended and banned for it.
ian crossland
Yeah.
tim pool
Or some strikes.
Yeah, so I'll, without playing what he says verbatim, because look, I think we'd get a strike for, I think if we played what Ethan Klein said, YouTube would strike us.
serge du preez
Right.
Yeah, right to the point where they cut right there.
tim pool
But look, I can do this.
I can move it forward.
He starts saying it.
His own producer then, technical difficulties, please stand by.
Because there was another point where he called for an act of terror on Republicans.
Like, I'm not exaggerating.
He literally said people should, you know, go commit an act of terror.
And then he's like, okay, it got a little carried away there.
They bring it back.
And then apparently after they bring it back, he just keeps talking.
serge du preez
He just says it again.
tim pool
He says it again.
serge du preez
Yeah.
ian crossland
He clarifies.
So he was intimating that if there was another holocaust, Ben should be the first one.
tim pool
He said he hopes it's Ben first.
ian crossland
Now that's something we were saying before the show, if him and Ben and a few other friends, they were all friends, hanging out in their room playing cards or whatever, and then he said it as a joke, and they all laughed about it, like, Ben's the guy that should get in there and was like, haha.
But you don't, on TV, when the guy's not even there to defend himself, that's a crazy thing to say.
serge du preez
Right.
tim pool
Yeah.
And he's also called for acts of terror against Republicans.
ian crossland
That's so weird.
unidentified
It's not funny.
tim pool
Dude, these people are dangerous and insane.
serge du preez
Seriously.
tim pool
Like, I'm well past caring about their opinions.
It's been years.
There are so many people who try to play this middle of the road thing where they're like, well, you know, let's hear what they have to say.
I'm like, dude called for a terror attack on a convention.
He's now saying he hopes Ben gets gassed first.
These people are nuts.
And this is, I don't know if he's going to get banned over this.
unidentified
He won't.
serge du preez
I doubt it.
tim pool
Well, he did get a strike from the terror attack one.
unidentified
Yeah, I mean that one was a direct call to violence.
This, I guess, would be a little more indirect.
tim pool
I don't think he should get a strike.
My point on this is basically just that the rules are in place because of people like him and other leftists.
So based on what they expect, they should get a strike based on their own principles and own rules, but they don't have this.
Their morality is whoever can accrue the most power.
It's fascistic.
The late David Graeber said that an element of the left has adopted the fascistic tenet of, there is no truth but power, and that's clearly on display with people like him.
When he got a strike for calling for an act of terror, he acted like he was outraged.
Are you kidding, dude?
Even I think that should have been a strike.
I'm all about free speech, but if you...
Tell your audience to go and do murders.
Yeah, I think they should at least, at the very least, be like, hey, we're taking that episode down.
You shouldn't do that.
Well, there you go.
This is modern politics for you.
Where does this standard bring us?
ian crossland
I err on the side of free speech for sure.
And I don't want the feds being like, oh, we gotta You got a just cause now to go take this guy and unperson him.
I don't like that stuff, man.
I'd rather just work it out with Ethan.
Like, he's stressed out.
He's saying dumb stuff on the internet.
And I'd rather work it out than cause more of it.
unidentified
How are you going to work it out with someone like that?
Sorry.
luke rudkowski
I can't believe I'm saying... I kind of agree with you.
If people want to be ridiculous, sensationalistic, bombastic, and idiots, I think we let them, and let people know exactly where they stand.
But I think the problem, Ian, is that, you know, he gets to do this.
He gets to get away with this.
He gets to hang out with Susan Wojcicki.
Someone on the other political spectrum or someone questioning the establishment sneezes the wrong way automatically, downranked in the algorithm, demonetized, screwed over, shut down, deleted, and censored in many instances for just expressing political thought and ideas, not calling for violence, not calling for anyone to be thrown in the chambers.
And there's an unfair balance here, which I think is the critique here that is Fair to make here, but at the end of the day, I stand with you.
Let people say whatever ridiculous, crazy stuff that they want, and let us know where people are really coming from.
This is where he's coming from, and it's important to know.
Agree or disagree, the conversation should happen.
tim pool
I do agree, and I think his opinion is not a call to violence.
It's an expression of a desire for genocide.
And a prominent individual to be killed.
And so I think that's horrifying.
I think what his point he's trying to make is, I'd be willing to bet, because I'm going to give him at least as much, the full context is something like, the right is anti-semitic, Kanye West, and that's why it comes up.
And then he probably said, yeah, well, you know what, if it happens, it's because of them, so I hope.
That's what I think the context probably is.
I ultimately don't care.
It's an insane thing to say.
I hope Ethan Klein lives a long and healthy and happy life.
I say that about people I don't like all the time.
I say, look, you know, I don't like what they do, but I wish them the best.
I hope they have a happy, healthy life and we find a way to live together peacefully.
Here's the issue.
No one is going to come after him.
He's not going to get censored.
The rules don't apply to him.
He's going to get away with it.
His followers are going to laugh and enjoy it.
You get people like Hassan.
He's a socialist and he buys a multi-million dollar property.
He advocates for policies to destroy the working class and the middle class.
And then he uses that wealth to buy fanciful and grandiose things.
They are both part of a faction that advocate for censorship of people they don't like, and they get away with it.
Now, in the end, even if they come out and they're like, oh, we're being edgy, we're making jokes, and we agree they should be allowed to, the problem is, these people would laugh when you got banned, and we here today are defending their right to free speech.
unidentified
And they do.
As someone who has dealt with a lot of censorship and banned from companies, I'm well aware that yes, it pleases the
other side when they see it. And again, we get banned for sneezing. The reality is we get banned
for things and they refuse to tell you what you did. Because they don't want to put that in
writing. That happened to us recently.
tim pool
I want to point out that people are mentioning this too. No, Ethan Klein is Jewish, right?
He is, yes. Ashkenazi.
Yeah, yeah.
Him saying this, I understand the point he's trying to make, but it's just like such a disgusting and vile and insane thing to say.
I'm just crazy.
You know, look, I think he and all the other psychopaths should be allowed to express this so we know who the crazy people are.
My point here is just the double standard.
ian crossland
We would have, when I was administrating at Minds, we would have these weird situations every once in a while come up where like someone, and it didn't happen much and it didn't happen to a point where I felt really bad about it, but like a really popular person on the website would do something that violated the terms of service or that I thought was like, whoa, this is coming close.
And I'm like, what do I do?
Do I ban our cash cow?
Because the reason Minds is solvent right now is because we have a lot of views.
The reason we have a lot of views is because of our popular video makers.
Do I ban the one, the biggest cash cow?
And it's like, if I don't, then I'm letting fascism take over.
I'm letting the money and the corporation take my morals and ethics away.
And if I do, then the company goes under.
What are my two choices here?
That's a weird position to be in as an administrator.
luke rudkowski
When I said people were censored for sneezing the wrong way, I wasn't kidding.
As you were mentioning, Seth, people got censored, people got banned, people got their whole livelihoods deleted because of vague terms and services that were just there.
And then people are like, wait, what exactly did you destroy my livelihood for?
No, we're not going to tell you.
We just have these vague rules with these overgeneralizations, and we're going to punish you because you expressed political thoughts that we don't like.
And it's not like they even give you any kind of ability to redeem yourself.
It's not like they give you any kind of ability to fix your problem, no.
But we have this on the other spectrum.
And again, I used to watch Ethan Klein many years ago.
He was interesting, he was creative, he actually did content that was engaging.
And I don't know what happened to the guy, but it's sad to kind of see this
because this could also be an attempt to try to get attention,
to try to say something shocking so more people pay attention to you.
We are talking about him right now, but I think he is straight off a long way from where he was before, where he actually was enjoying this.
He definitely doesn't look like he's enjoying this.
I wish the guy luck.
I wish he could get in shape.
tim pool
I'll tell you what it is.
I think it's simple.
luke rudkowski
It's not good watching this.
tim pool
Politics is pop culture.
For somebody like me, my whole life has been politics.
When I was a little kid, I worked at my family's business, it was on North Halsted, it was Boys Town in Chicago, so all of a sudden I'm hearing all about these issues with LGBT pride and stuff like that.
I start listening to punk music, all the lyrics are about war and politics, and all of a sudden I'm on the internet, I've been on the internet my whole life, I'm a little kid, and I'm seeing all of this news just inundated with it.
I work for non-profits.
I do fundraising.
It's all activism.
I eventually start covering protests on the ground.
My whole life is politics.
That leads us to where we are right now.
Talking about issues that I've talked about my entire life.
Having me be able to remember weird things from back in the early 2000s when most people weren't paying attention to politics at all.
Ethan Klein was a comedy edgy YouTuber, and then at some point, pop culture turned into politics, which was huge for us.
All of a sudden, me, I just talk about politics all the time, Getting a bunch more viewers, rivaling some of the biggest entertainment podcasts, even Joe Rogan is now a largely political show, even though he's a comedian.
Ethan Klein needs to adapt.
He needs to start adopting politics, otherwise he's becoming stale and not current.
unidentified
Right?
tim pool
The news, Trump, Trump, Trump, that's all it was.
This is what happened to everyone, it's not just him.
Now, he has Jordan Peterson on his show.
What happens?
For the most part, it's fine.
But over time, he starts feeling the heat because his fan base was mixed politically because it was edgy comedy.
And now, as time's changing, a large portion of his base, probably skewing younger, they start getting angrier and more self-righteous.
So he deletes the Jordan Peterson episodes.
He apologizes that it was wrong.
Makes no sense.
And now he's like, if I'm going to be relevant, we have to talk politics.
And thus, Ethan Klein, who knows almost nothing about politics, is having a conversation with Ben Shapiro, who has been a political commentator for decades and has a law degree.
There's clearly a problem here with politics becoming pop culture.
Someone who has no idea what's going on saying they hope someone who is overtly political gets killed first in a new holocaust is just absolutely insane.
But he's entitled to his opinion, he's entitled to try and make his show political, and it's clear that he just went, meh, modern leftist woke whatever, it's the easy route.
When you don't really know what's going on, it's simple.
You believe Jussie Smollett, which most of these leftists do.
You believe Ukrainegate.
You believe Russiagate.
You believe Trayvon... Hands up, don't shoot.
Covington Catholic.
I love saying the list over and over again.
Bobo Wallace.
The Garage Polaroid.
They love believing this stuff because they are low-information individuals.
But they're also extremely dangerous, violent, and angry people.
They want you to just fit in.
The crowd is doing it.
Why won't you?
Everyone is saying this is the truth.
Why won't you?
Well, because there is a truth.
I don't care what you think it is.
Two plus two equals four, not five.
Shut up.
ian crossland
I kind of will double down that I think with There's a saying, with great power comes great responsibility, and with 10 million followers, that's a sense, that's a form of great power.
And so the things you would say with your friends in your bedroom or in your living room when you're playing, you know, Super Nintendo or whatever the hell, insults, dirty jokes, you don't say that to 10 million people on TV because You have a greater responsibility not to be derogatory.
I know you want to, because it's natural.
It's who you were in the past.
Ethan, particularly, probably, probably like me, would joke, you know, insult your friends as comedy, but like, this is taking on another level, brother.
tim pool
I don't like to talk about other commenters, you know?
I mention this from time to time, like, I don't know, Young Turks talks about me all the time, but they'll talk about me saying something like Benall, like, you know, I think some women might be unhappy because they want to have families, and then they make this big segment about Tim Pool's a sexist, and I'm like, oh, come on, dude, calm down, I was reading the Washington Post.
This is a high-profile podcast which gets tens of millions of views saying, I hope Ben, I don't even want to read it.
I mean, it's just like, come on, dude.
That's crazy.
luke rudkowski
There's also kind of the Britney Spears effect when it comes to online influencers and a lot of celebrities who take themselves too seriously.
I'm not saying that that's what's happening with Ethan Klein, but there is, you know, a lot of people who are in the digital space, who are influenced by the bots, by the comments, and by the people who are part of this, and you do see detrimental mental health effects to this.
Is this maybe potentially one of the examples here?
I don't know, but this is art unhinged, very emotional language that I don't think the average person is going to be okay with.
tim pool
Ladies and gentlemen, crack your beers now because I'm going to say it, Civil War.
This is the kind of stuff that I talk about.
I mean, look, when security experts say, we fear it's coming, when Princeton professors, former CIA, when they're all like, we think we're in the beginning stages of a civil war, and then a guy who used to make comedy videos where he would push out his fupa and pull his chin down and then run around his house as a gag is now saying that he hopes Ben Shapiro is gassed.
Yeah, listen.
Do you see the radicalization over the past 10 years?
Do you see why I might think we're heading to that place?
Ethan Klein, for no reason, there is no reason why he, an edgy comedy YouTuber, should be saying anything about Ben Shapiro or holocausts or politics.
But this is what's happened with the radicalization in this country.
That's why I'm like, That's why I think we're going to sit to it. We're heading
towards a civil war or we're in a cold civil war, whatever you want to call it.
When comedy edgy boys turn into advocates for, and like, let me just stress, they tried stopping him.
And then he was like, no, no, no. And then he said it anyway.
Like, when you get to that point, maybe everything's about to break apart.
ian crossland
Well, I agree that it's like a radical form of radicalization.
What's happening is society is very stressful for a lot of people right now with inflation, with Ukraine, with all this crazy stuff going on.
If you don't know the specifics, if you don't understand that Hunter Biden was involved with Burisma, for instance, that Biden's had, you might just look at it and be freaking out and then lashing out, which is what Ethan's doing.
He's obviously stressed about society like we are, but we study the intricate details about geopolitics So I'm not getting radicalized, like, if I didn't understand what was going on, I'd be freaking out, screaming at people, lashing out, and I think if he...
If you were to be more educated, you may be less radical.
luke rudkowski
His FUPA work?
Great work.
tim pool
I want to jump to this story, and I want to highlight something specific, but the story from NPR.
Ukrainians keep a wary eye on U.S.
midterm elections fearing a loss of support.
And I say, good.
Because I watched something on Reddit.
I didn't want to watch it.
I was scrolling Reddit all, and within one or two pages, I came across a video.
And I didn't read the caption.
I just saw the video and it was a guy in military gear curled up in the fetal position in a foxhole.
And then I'm like, what's, what's this?
And then all of a sudden, a grenade just falls from the overhead view.
Oh, it was a drone carrying a grenade.
The grenade lands in the hole and then you see it go off and the body gets shocked.
And then this soldier starts writhing and crawling and struggling to move like an ant under a magnifying glass.
And then the video jumps again.
This time there's three people in a foxhole.
And then you see a grenade fall right down, land right next to someone's side, and then boom, flash, the bodies jostle.
Then you see a man get up, writhing in agony and covered in blood, shaking profusely, and I got really angry and I really wanted to just throw my phone at the wall.
Why did Reddit put that in front of my face?
Am I supposed to celebrate that the evil Russian invaders were being blown up in front of me?
That when I go to a social media website with no NotSafeForWork tags, that's what you want me to watch?
The people who are advocating for the US to be involved in this are psychopaths.
I don't like Russia for invading, and I'm not going to cheer for someone being blown up.
But this is what we're seeing.
So if the midterms mean we cut ties and we end support for a war we shouldn't be involved in at this point?
Good.
I'm sick of this disgusting garbage.
It's these stupid people on the left blindly marching behind war.
ian crossland
Yeah, I just watched They Shall Not Grow Old last night.
It's a Peter Jackson documentary.
Basically, we took old World War One footage, black and white footage, and colorized it and added sound.
And you see these young 18, 17, 16 year olds that signed up for the war are so excited.
The brotherhood being together, working for a common purpose.
And then they get to the, you see, watch them march to the They're in the trenches where people, it's mud, they're falling, they're freezing, their feet are getting frozen off.
Then they tell them to go up over the top and charge the machine gun nests.
It's the first time they've ever seen machine guns, they don't even know what they are.
So they start walking, they're not even running, they're walking, but there's no machine guns.
They're like, what's going on?
Maybe the Germans aren't ready.
The Germans are waiting for them to get into range, and then they open up.
And they see their friends, the British, they're getting arms blown off, legs getting blown off, dudes getting their heads exploded, and they're laying They get hit, they keep, this is the, this isn't, they didn't know modern war.
They didn't understand modern military technology.
Now foxholes are no good anymore because drones can drop a grenade in them.
tim pool
This is, this is, this is always war.
They never underestimate the new tactics and strategies.
Sorry, you were going to say.
unidentified
One of my, my first job when I was 15 years old working in a hardware store, there was an old guy that worked there and come to find out he was on Iwo Jima.
And he never spoke about his war experiences or anything like that.
People would ask him stuff and he'd essentially blow it off and he'd be gone.
And I was 15 years old, so it's been a long time now, and for some reason just one day he opened up and he described landing on the beach.
and running over the bodies parts and it wasn't bodies it was body parts of his friends and it's like he he just like clicked and it's this moment it was like for a minute or two he just described it and he kept talking about the smell And it was just incredible to see someone say that and relive that in his mind.
His name was Jack Lockett.
A true American hero.
But to hear that from him, it's left an impact on me to this day.
It's been a long time.
ian crossland
The smell.
The smell of explosives?
unidentified
No.
ian crossland
Well, the smell of decay.
Not at first, you don't smell it, but then they start to decay.
unidentified
Yeah, they were there for quite a few days or weeks.
ian crossland
Then they start to turn black.
luke rudkowski
As much as the smell, it's also an energy.
A lot of other things happening when it comes to human beings and the soul, even the physical body.
Scientists haven't been able to explain it, but there's a phenomenon that does happen that is absolutely, you know, indescribable in many instances.
But we also have to understand war is hell.
This is hell on earth.
This is what a lot of people, you know, are in.
This is what the mainstream media is cheering for.
This is what politicians are financing and funding with your money right now, and it's absolutely egregious and it's absolutely stupid.
I watch, you know, a lot of the footage coming from the Russians, coming from the Ukrainians to try to get a fair, balanced perspective about what's really going on in this conflict, and it's predominantly drone-on-drone warfare.
Drones blowing up drones, drones flying with grenades, drones reconning, getting positions, and then having, of course, missiles strike those specific positions where soldiers are at.
And very few instances have I've seen soldiers to soldiers actually fight each other.
It's all done through robots.
It's all done through machines.
And seeing this new modern warfare, Which we were conditioned to through the video games, which also have you flying drones and flying all these carts and sending in airstrikes, is absolutely terrifying.
Because you see the horror, you see the chaos, and it's not up close, it's not face-to-face like it was in World War I. It's far away, and people are just pressing buttons, killing and eliminating each other.
tim pool
Imagine that you're 20 years old, And, uh, hey Gen Z, I want you to imagine this.
And your government calls you to war.
They say, we have no choice.
We are at war with a great enemy, and you must go fight.
So you resist.
And then one day, when you're sneaking out of your friend's basement because you don't want to fight, A couple of cops see you, chase you down, grab you, and you get shipped off to the front line.
You're at the front line in Ukraine.
Put the helmet on, put on the gear, you have no time for training, this is war.
So you're pushed out into the middle of the field, and you're hiding in a hole, crying, saying, why am I here, when a grenade lands on you and blows up.
That's what's happening to these people.
Many of these people fighting for Russia are conscripts.
I'm not saying what Russia is doing is good.
Obviously, I'm saying it's bad.
But to watch videos of these people, and then we're supposed to cheer on this psychotic propaganda.
How about this?
The US should not be involved in this.
NATO should not be involved in this.
NATO should take care of itself.
Ukraine is not a NATO member, not an EU member state.
They're trying to be, but only after the war started.
And we should say, you know what?
We shouldn't be involved in a border dispute with a nuclear-armed state.
And then we would have to deal with this psychotic garbage.
luke rudkowski
And again, what we're seeing, that drone footage, is just one of dozens of videos that come out every single day.
And it's not just the Russians being hit.
It's also the Ukrainians being hit.
It's also Russians sending in missiles into civilian areas, hitting buildings where people are just trying to live their lives.
War hits both ways.
tim pool
And this is how all war plays out.
Every time there's a war, both sides figure something out.
Hey, they did this thing.
Technology advances.
Tactics.
I'm sorry.
Technology advances.
Tactics advance.
And then when the new war breaks out, like Ian was mentioning, they're in the trenches saying charge, and all of a sudden there's machine guns mowing them down.
ian crossland
Because tactics change slower than the technology.
tim pool
But technology changes.
So I actually have a Civil War bullet.
It's a Gardner bullet.
I think it's .58 caliber.
And it's a fascinating... I got it at the Stonewall Museum.
And it's got some interesting facts on it.
It said that, for the most part, muskets were smoothbore.
Very inaccurate.
Effective only up to about 100 yards.
I believe it was 100 yards.
Smoothbore!
So you'd point it and fire, and it'd go wildly in the wrong direction.
At some point before the Civil War, we get rifled muskets.
So now, for those that don't know, rifling, and the reason why they're called rifles, is because the inside of the barrel has a small spiral groove.
So when the bullet is fired, it spins dramatically, increasing accuracy, tripling or quadrupling the range of your standard musket.
When the Civil War broke out, neither side truly understood what that meant and used conventional war tactics like bayonet charges.
And then, with a maximized accuracy, we saw one of the bloodiest wars we've ever seen.
This is what happens when new war breaks out with technological advancement.
Now that we have a massive global population and technology is advancing quite dramatically, it's not going to be nuclear war you should be fearing.
It should be the top secret, classified weaponry they haven't told you about which is going to be even more nightmarish.
ian crossland
It'll be hacked drones, flown over civilian targets, like your family, if that's what you're... What Modern Warfare Call of Duty doesn't show you is the drone getting hacked and getting flown over Los Angeles.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, you could hack drones in Modern Warfare.
There's also hives, like small little drones that are also developed already, that could launch attacks on individuals and have little explosives on them and have bullets on them.
The technology that they have right now is absolutely insane, and we don't know much about it.
tim pool
Oh, bro, listen.
the uh... a small a small drone probably about this big can carry a shotgun shell
twelve gauge or whatever and it can be uh...
with uh... what was it called luca flash it flint for over which i was a little shit
medical skills are not a slug Spread.
Razor blades.
unidentified
Oh.
tim pool
Sharp piece of metal.
ian crossland
I think those are flechettes.
tim pool
Flechette.
And so, that little tiny drone can fly up to you and go, what's that?
And then it bang!
And sprays metal shards all over the place, blinding and scarring people.
Yeah, maybe.
It's just insane, the level of technology.
It's not going to be fun.
But I'll tell you, man, one thing they don't show you in Call of Duty is the 20-year-old crying because he was conscripted by his government to fight in a war and he doesn't want to be there, and then... Well, then his officer is like, if you turn around, I'm going to shoot you.
unidentified
Go.
ian crossland
Go.
Over the edge now.
tim pool
March.
unidentified
Yep.
ian crossland
Literally.
And they also don't show you your friends getting wounded and screaming in pain for 20 minutes, or for four hours, waiting, because you can't get to them.
tim pool
There's going to be a handful of Gen Z-ers because they lean very heavily Democrat.
There's going to be two.
Let me tell you a story of two Gen Z-ers.
Let's say they're 22 years old.
One's a staunch Democrat who loves watching H3 and agrees with Ethan Klein about Ben Shapiro and all that other nonsense, watches Hasan Piker.
And so he's like, you know what?
We gotta stop Russia.
We gotta stop them.
So they say, I'm gonna vote Democrat.
Not like the Republicans are that much better, but at the very least with Trump, he opposes this stuff.
Well, that person has a friend.
The friend doesn't know, doesn't care, and doesn't pay attention.
But lo and behold, the war escalates, NATO gets involved, and the U.S.
says, we have not been able to replenish our forces to a degree where we could actually fight and win.
So we're going to reenact the draft.
These 22-year-olds, let's say it's in a few years, so they're 18 today, they both find themselves on the front lines.
And one is saying, why is the one friend, friend B, who never paid attention and just doesn't care, is saying, I wish I paid attention and could have done something about this.
And the other friend says, well, actually, I kind of voted for it.
And then the bomb goes off and they both explode.
ian crossland
You know, I was thinking, where are our strongmen sociologically in the world right now?
What happened?
Why are people so latching on to Donald Trump and Jordan Peterson?
Why do they need a father figure?
You know why?
tim pool
Put a tack in that?
ian crossland
Well, it's because they were sent to Afghanistan in 2005.
They had their lives destroyed.
tim pool
It's a good point, but put a pin in that, because I want to launch the news story, which leads into what you're saying.
From TimCast.com, new report finds U.S.
military is weak, unable to win a single major regional conflict.
Analysis identified profound lack of seriousness as a contributing factor to the U.S.
military's decline.
Ian, you were just talking about a lack of strongmen.
ian crossland
Yeah, I was wondering where they are, why societies obsessed with people like Donald Trump and Jordan Peterson, these men that are giving young children guidance like the heroes of our lives, and it's because they were sent to Afghanistan and Iraq on a false premise that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, which he didn't have.
They were lied, went to fight an unjust war, had their psychology destroyed knowing that they were fighting some false narrative, and then their bodies blown apart, their friends destroyed, and now they're shaken.
And our leaders are absent.
They're supposed to be leading the nation right now, and instead we got Fauci.
Joe, 86-year-old president, how old is this guy now?
84 years old, and he's supposed to be our military commander?
unidentified
I think when you talk about where did the strong men go, and I understand your point there too, but something else that I like to harp on a little bit is testosterone.
If you look at what's happened to male testosterone over the years, it's nearly half of what it was 50 years ago.
So men today are not the same men of 50 years ago.
And so I think that that might explain a little bit about where we're at.
And I think that people, until people start realizing and addressing that, it's not going to change.
luke rudkowski
Most 20 year olds have the same testosterone levels as 50 and 60 year olds.
PFAs, huh?
unidentified
PFAs, phthalates, PCBs.
tim pool
Look at this, glass bottle water right here.
luke rudkowski
Marco Rubio small water.
ian crossland
Our soldiers are some of the most badass humans on earth, those dudes.
Every time I meet a returning, I don't know, did you serve in the military?
No.
But every time I have an opportunity to talk to someone that's actually seen combat or experienced that, it's so valuable to the human consciousness to understand what that is.
And those people, to put their lives on the line like that.
But, to have gone through a false war, I mean, I don't know, would you call that a false flag?
If the government says, he has weapons of mass destruction, you go in, he doesn't?
Yeah, they said it was, they had bad info, George Bush Jr.
is like, we had bad intelligence.
Well, you know what?
It's on you, George!
unidentified
They didn't even go through a false flag, they just claimed it was.
ian crossland
And then it wasn't.
unidentified
It was like the next level of false flag.
luke rudkowski
There was people within the government that came out and said, hey, there's no WMDs here.
They were silenced.
They were shunned.
They were threatened.
There was media organizations.
There was activists coming forward.
Hey, hey, this is not true.
This is not happening.
Shunned.
unidentified
Silenced.
tim pool
Called crazy.
They should have just come out and been like, ladies and gentlemen, Saddam Hussein is trying to trade oil in Euro.
And then people would be like, huh?
ian crossland
We need you to mobilize like stormtroopers and invade and conquer their land.
Imagine how no one would have done it.
People would have would have revolted.
They would have said, no, we're not invaders, dude.
unidentified
You say that, but I don't know that they would revolt.
I think what you're saying is maybe the right thing, but I don't know that the people would have revolted.
They would have worn the mask and done as they're told, like most Republicans did and quote unquote conservatives did and shut down their country and done whatever the hell the government told them.
People are sheep.
tim pool
Yeah, but that's with an excuse.
Like, if we told people the truth about Iraq, then they would not... You could have kind of had the truth on the pandemic early on.
unidentified
I guess my point is, a lot of the people that even speak out and claim they're conservative, this, that, and the other, The vast majority of people are followers.
ian crossland
This is because the pandemic rolls around and our male adult leaders are broken from their service in the military.
Those are the guys that are supposed to be in Congress right now running the show.
These are the leaders.
They're the ones that are the brave ones.
unidentified
I struggle with that.
If you think that just because someone's in the military makes them a great leader, then that means we've got barracks full of future presidents.
I'm just saying, so if you look at a lot of this, I'm going to get canceled on this.
I was about to say, you got John McCain, you got Dan Crenshaw.
If you do, they are, unless you're maybe the true generals and stuff like this, they're kind of used to following orders from the government, and that doesn't always equal the best congressman.
I know I'm getting canceled.
I'm sorry, everyone.
luke rudkowski
They make great politicians, you know?
unidentified
That's a great point.
luke rudkowski
The multinational corporations and the big bankers are their generals, and they just follow the order.
ian crossland
I don't want to, I want to clarify, I don't think that being in the military makes you a great leader, but I think that great leaders are drawn to military command.
And when you find out that you've been commanding a military on a false premise and you've been kicking in doors in Fallujah and killing families like- Okay, do you assume the same with the police though?
No.
No, I don't know much.
They're different systems to me.
I think putting your life, going and willing to fight, like, and kill people.
tim pool
But why are you assuming that's what the military is?
See, Ian, you don't understand what the military is.
luke rudkowski
Some people are like, I want money, all right?
I want to be subsidized.
tim pool
Guys, guys, guys.
ian crossland
Enlisted youth.
tim pool
There's no one in this room who's a veteran, okay?
Right?
Not a single person.
unidentified
I stayed at Holiday Inn last night, though.
tim pool
And the most I can say is that I've spent a few months a couple different times on military bases.
But let me tell you, a lot of it is just administrative work.
So assuming that someone joining the military, army, navy, whatever it is, is fighting is wrong.
ian crossland
Yeah, but some people are in support of the fighting, it's one or the other.
tim pool
Yeah, but bro, someone might be like a refrigerator repairman in Nebraska.
ian crossland
That's repairing refrigerators for the troops in Afghanistan that are killing... No, no, no!
tim pool
Dude, come on!
ian crossland
Yeah, they're keeping the administration going.
tim pool
The point I'm trying to make is, when you say that, if you want to make a point about people who have seen combat, it's different from the military in general.
ian crossland
No, no, I'm talking about command structure, basically.
tim pool
Somebody who repaired refrigerators in Nebraska is no different than a private refrigerator repairman.
ian crossland
I mean, I guess with the basic training... Yeah, but great leaders aren't drawn... I'm not saying maybe you're a refrigerator repairman and you are a great leader, but usually great leaders are drawn to military command.
Like, they want to protect and serve the world.
unidentified
I think maybe you're picturing people of the past that, maybe the World War II era, Military veterans, which a lot of them did see combat if you were in World War II, and equating that to what today is, but I just don't see it today.
tim pool
Bro, when a 22-year-old gets a commission and then outranks a 45-year-old NCO, those are funny scenarios that I've seen as just someone as a family member What is it called?
The commissary?
Is that what they call them?
I don't know.
I just have family members and I'm buying food and I hear the grumbling from the guy who's a non-commissioned officer being like, why is a 22-year-old giving me the business?
ian crossland
Oh, then he's got a bad commander.
a good 22 year old...
tim pool
I broke, come on!
ian crossland
A good 22 year old commander will defer to his NCO.
tim pool
No!
ian crossland
Yes, a good one will because he doesn't always do his green.
tim pool
No, they outrank him!
ian crossland
Yeah, but you still, as your commander, you deferred the guy with the experience in real life.
luke rudkowski
Right now the military is training guys how to wear heels, right?
This...
That's literally what's happening right now.
ian crossland
Society has been shattered by the war in Iraq.
unidentified
Okay, I think maybe you can put part of the blame on the war in Iraq, but I'm just,
you know, there's a, I think a lot of other factors that come into play.
And I do think, you know, kind of my point about the police versus the military, you don't have the same belief in police that are willing to put their lives on the line, etc.
I think you'd make a hard time jumping to just because it's military police is different.
ian crossland
Military command.
I'm talking about commanders.
The commanding force of our military is like some of the greatest humans on earth.
That's why they're in charge of our military.
And we need those people in civilian life doing the same thing for our consciousness.
unidentified
Are these the same people that you were earlier talking about committing the atrocities of sending drones over and killing people in frivolous wars?
Yeah, they were ordered by George Well, then you're not a damn leader!
You're not an effing leader if you do what the hell you were told because someone had a piece of brass on their shoulder.
Again, I know I'm getting canceled, I'm sorry.
But nonetheless, these people are still following orders.
And that to me, there's been a lot of horrific evil that's taken place in the world because of following orders.
tim pool
And Donald Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, all of these presidents have the generals walk in and say, here's what we're going to do and why we have to do it.
And they say, OK.
unidentified
Yep.
tim pool
Donald Trump was very susceptible to just believing that generals were smart.
He put a lot of faith in the military and he really believed what they had to say.
And boy, did they screw him over.
luke rudkowski
Well, no.
And also, you know, Ivanka came in and Jared came in and they're like, we want you to bomb Syria.
Trump's like, OK, go bomb Syria.
And that's what Trump did.
That's according to Trump's own son, by the way, not just hearsay.
tim pool
And look at what they did when Trump was like, you know what, I'm getting our troops out of Syria because I made a promise to the American people.
And they went, Oh, you got it, boss.
Don't do it.
And then they lied to us and claimed they did when they didn't.
ian crossland
I was watching video.
Well, I mentioned that they should not grow old.
And when you see returning troops get treated like garbage, like it just shatters their confidence and makes them unable to function in society.
Like it's for our troops to come back from Iraq and Afghanistan and be treated like they did something wrong is the worst morale destruction of our society.
unidentified
I agree.
Yes, I agree.
But exactly what he's saying, you look back to Vietnam, the same thing.
And I don't think you could say that men were destroyed from being men after Vietnam.
ian crossland
Yeah, they were.
That generation was annihilated.
They had no confidence.
They were completely used and abused.
unidentified
I understand that they were mistreated some of them when they got back, but I guess my point is you're saying that where did the men go, and I guess, so did we lose men being men after Vietnam, or did it happen after Iraq?
ian crossland
It happened after Iraq.
Our current society, this flawed narrative that we're struggling with right now as a result of a lack of male leadership, this idea that there's toxic masculinity.
unidentified
I agree with that.
tim pool
You guys want to hear a funny factoid?
Do you know why Smith is the most common last name?
Smith, Schmidt, and other forms of it?
Because whenever a war would break out, there was one group of people that would never be sent to war, and one group of people that would never be executed when a nation was conquered.
serge du preez
The people that can make things.
tim pool
The blacksmiths.
serge du preez
Yes.
tim pool
So when a war broke out, the blacksmiths, the smiths, would stay behind and make weapons.
If an enemy force took over that country or land, they would kill everyone but the smiths.
So the smiths kept having kids.
serge du preez
Yep, exactly.
tim pool
That's right, because they were valuable.
You needed someone to make the weapons.
So, my point there is, the people who didn't see the war typically were the ones that propagated.
And, you know, I think, to your point, Ian, it's actually more than you realize.
Like, Vietnam, World War II, we had people come back from World War II, the greatest generation.
Vietnam was destructive.
I mean, people lost their minds.
And then you get Iraq and Afghanistan, and also, It's insanity at that point.
I mean, World War II, I think, for a lot of people, regardless of your politics, there was something really bad going on in this world.
And my understanding is the U.S.
didn't know the Holocaust was happening until after they got there.
luke rudkowski
That's true.
That's contended.
There's Polish... Contended?
Contested?
serge du preez
They knew about it.
luke rudkowski
Contended?
unidentified
Let's figure this out.
tim pool
I don't think contended makes sense.
I think it's both.
luke rudkowski
I think contended makes sense.
unidentified
Are you both contending the contestant?
luke rudkowski
Listen, I'll make all the words up I want.
It's his truth.
ian crossland
So you think they knew?
luke rudkowski
Exactly, my truth.
They absolutely did know, and they were given intelligence, especially from Polish government officials, and there was a lot of photos, there was a lot of videos, and they had the opportunity to bomb the railroads, according to the history that I particularly saw, and decided not to.
And there was, you know, a lot of corruption within our government, and a lot of Nazis within our government, like Prescott Bush, that of course openly supported Hitler, along with, you know, the Rockefellers and other very powerful They definitely knew about it.
ian crossland
World War II was sort of a defensive war because Hitler had taken France at that point and the argument, they will try to make it look defensive, that's the whole thing.
We were attacked by Osama bin Laden, we must create a war.
No, that wasn't a defensive war, that was a war of aggression and they used some cheap pretext for it.
Watch out for the next one.
luke rudkowski
Definition of Cambridge English Dictionary, Tim.
Contended is a real word.
tim pool
I know it's a real word, but it doesn't make sense in the context in which you applied it.
Re-agree the definition.
ian crossland
When you put rockets on the border of Russia, and then Russia invades to take care of those rockets, you can't call it a defensive war because Russia is the one that crossed the line.
You put the rockets right there on the other side.
It's not a war of defense right now.
It's just as aggro as Vietnam.
It's nuts.
unidentified
Would America allow those weapons on the Mexican border?
ian crossland
Hell no!
Hell no!
And, like, Russia needs Black Sea access through Novosibirsk.
If Canada had our entire West Coast, had just a strip of land all down the West Coast, California, we didn't have any Pacific Coast access, we would have invaded to take that Pacific access.
serge du preez
I agree.
tim pool
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We have a lot of news to talk about in the members-only show, so you don't wanna miss it.
But let's see what you got to say.
Potatoes for Seamus says, Tim and cast, great job on the latest Cast Castle.
I do think it was one of the best.
Some people have commented they're not fans, but hey, hold on.
Look, like I mentioned, we are not a major Hollywood production house.
The people acting on Cast Castle are quite literally just the employees who work here.
And we direct them and say, okay, say this, say this, and they can't always do it.
No beef!
You know, we're excited that we get to have fun and screw around and make these episodes.
So, we made it as offensive as we could.
No, we didn't.
We could have been way more offensive, but it was.
And I think Rusty Cage was absolutely brilliant.
If you guys aren't familiar with him, he's a big YouTuber, and he does really funny videos.
And he came in, and he was our sexual harassment trainer for the company.
But I'll just give you the gist of the episode.
Maybe you'll want to watch it.
The mistake occurs when someone says we need to have sexual harassment training, and instead of teaching people how not to do it, Rusty comes in and teaches them how to do it.
serge du preez
Yeah.
tim pool
That's the joke.
And then a bunch of other stuff happens.
That's actually only the B-plot anyway, but it was very funny.
serge du preez
He's great.
ian crossland
Rusty's awesome.
tim pool
Yeah, he was absolutely fantastic.
serge du preez
Check him out.
tim pool
All right, Pirate Taurus second half says, Netflix users, I canceled my account months ago.
They continue to charge me two times a month, argued, refunded only 15 bucks, told to complain to my bank.
So they're reporting now that Netflix has jumped 2.4 million users.
And they're like, hey, they're rebounding.
And I'm like, no, they aren't.
They're cracking down on password sharing.
But I mean, good for them.
They're making more money.
unidentified
But yeah, password sharing.
tim pool
Cody Justin Fenton says, holy cow, a notification with this topic?
That's right, there you go.
serge du preez
Hey, there we go.
tim pool
Finally notifications are going out, huh?
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
At least some people.
All right, Christina H says, did anyone else have a hard time canceling their PayPal account?
I had to argue with them a bit before they finally did.
unidentified
PayPal cancelled me, so I didn't have to worry about it.
ian crossland
What happened?
You were mentioning a cancelling.
What happened exactly?
unidentified
We've been cancelled by everybody, it seems like.
We're not allowed to order from Vistaprint.
They've told us we are out of bounds.
I guess they won't tell us why.
But the biggest thing that happened to us recently was, I'm going to name them, Klaviyo, who is our email provider.
They're a billion-dollar company.
I've been with them for approximately two and a half years.
Our last month with them, I spent, I think, about three grand with them.
I get an email saying your content, meaning our email content, violates our hateful content that encourages violence or some nonsense like this.
And of course I respond and say, oh, this is news to me.
Someone at the company must have done it other than myself.
Please shoot me an example of where this hateful content that promotes violence is and I will get this handled immediately.
And the response is, we can no longer discuss this matter.
You've got 30 days to get your stuff and go.
Well the thing is when you have an email like this cost our small company a lot of money and when our main way of communicating with customers is sending an email when we have new products whatever it may be and you lose yes I still can take my email list But I've lost so much data.
I know who wants to buy hoodies, and who wants to buy T-shirts, or who prefers whatever.
All that gets lost, and then I have to re-upload to a new email provider, and I'm no longer a trusted sender.
And we had great, incredible open rates for email, because people wanted to be on our list.
So you're starting from scratch, and getting sent to spam.
And it could put a lot of people out of business.
tim pool
That's why you gotta get off PayPal.
I'll tell you right now, for those that are listening, a lot of people stayed with, so we used to use PayPal for our memberships.
Because when we start up the website, it was the easiest and fastest, and it was cheap.
We had a big burst of new users, so we immediately implemented Stripe.
Stripe has made much better guarantees.
We had a problem early on.
I sent a message to the CEO himself, and he quickly addressed it and apologized, and that's fantastic.
PayPal does not do that.
So I like Stripe.
Stripe's still far from perfect, though.
Locals uses them.
Locals, of course, was bought by Rumble.
And then, Rumble actually did one better.
Dan Bongino, I think to some degree Rumble invested, I'm not sure, launched Parallel Economy.
So what we did was, as soon as we could, it took some time, we got set up with Parallel Economy, that's Dan Bongino's financial transactions company.
Got rid of PayPal from the website, and now all default signups, all signups default through Parallel Economy.
It's Rumble Dan Bongino, because we are building the Parallel Economy.
And it's risky, there's risks with new companies.
I mean, we could, I mean, who knows?
Maybe the company doesn't make it, whatever, but I don't know.
It's more important.
Many users said, I don't care, I'll keep using PayPal.
You don't have to stop using it.
You can't sign up with it anymore.
A bunch of people, because of what happened recently, started switching off finally.
So, if you want to get off PayPal, then the easiest thing to do is just re-sign up with Parallel Economy and cancel your account with PayPal.
Or email members at TimCast.com and we will try and help you set it up.
Some people were really awesome.
We, it's not so easy just to transfer the account over, because if you already paid, like on the 1st and it's the 19th, we can't like, we can't issue prorates, it's not that easy to do.
But a lot of people are just like, consider it an extra contribution, and we're gonna help you out, so I really do appreciate it.
But for many people, we tried to find a way to do refunds.
I don't know if we can actually do it, because when you sign up, if we refund you at like, I think it might cancel the account or something, so I don't know, look.
All I know is we are trying to get away from PayPal and we're doing the best we can and I appreciate everybody who did switch over and uses Parallel Economy and I appreciate everybody who reached out to Parallel Economy to support them in any way.
I look forward to Parallel Economy launching little terminals and then we can open a coffee shop and we can use them for everything.
It'll be fantastic.
ian crossland
For the record, what's the name of your company that was censored via email?
tim pool
FreedomSpeaksUp.com All right, we got Chaz Chartrand Mornin'.
Mornin' says, Ethan Klein has said some really effed up stuff about Ben recently.
Quartering did a video about it today.
It's just so weird, you know?
serge du preez
It is, yeah.
tim pool
It's weird when people who have no business in politics all of a sudden become violent.
That's a crazy thing.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
All right.
Raymond G. Stanley Jr.
says, Tim, today's been an angry day.
After Ammon's story, after our electeds not caring if their actions sow death, after divisive media and lie after lie after lie, I was a fool for so long, now I'm pissed.
ian crossland
Yeah, I would feel that energy.
tim pool
Ammon's Bundy's, the member episode we did last night with Ammon was crazy.
Because there was so much that I didn't know about his story.
A lot of people think that, like, you know, him and his family, like, had an armed standoff with police.
Nope.
Unarmed protesters.
It was a group of them with no weapons, peacefully standing and protesting.
And that was it.
ian crossland
But they were in the vicinity of people that were armed that hypothetically had pointed their weapons, although I don't know if there was proof of that.
But anyway, the entire case was dismissed.
The charges were dropped.
tim pool
Right.
And then the first charges in Oregon, they got acquitted on.
And the second charges in Nevada, they proved prosecutorial misconduct.
The government was withholding evidence.
It's an insane corruption.
ian crossland
He was in solitary.
He was in prison for eight months without a... They were strip-searching him.
tim pool
And then when he refused, they lied to the judge and claimed that he refused transport to his own trial.
So the judge calls him and then he's like, Your Honor, I'd like to make a verbal motion to mandate the prison transport me to my trial.
And she's like, wait, what?
They said you were rejecting that, and he's like, no, they're the ones doing it.
The whole thing was corrupt.
They said they were beating him.
unidentified
Why are those people not in jail?
The ones that lied to the court.
tim pool
Nazis, bro.
unidentified
Those people need to be in jail.
ian crossland
Because it's illegal.
unidentified
Yeah, absolutely.
You're committing a crime against another human being at that point that's being kept in a prison.
It's incredible.
But those people continue to get away with it.
ian crossland
Like withholding evidence, I think.
I don't know the legalities of it.
unidentified
But no one's going to prosecute them because they're on the right side.
tim pool
Sari Forlot says, I can't wait for the FBI to raid Castcastle.
You know, I was thinking about it.
I was like, you know that journalist who went missing?
Should I, like, commission a very expensive, like, six-figure investigative piece?
And I'm like, the reality is it may turn out the dude left his wife or something and quit, retired, and went to the Bahamas.
You don't know.
So I'm like, no, we shouldn't do any stupid stunt.
But I imagine it's the journalistic work that would result in something like that.
Because, you know, James O'Keefe.
We'll see what happens.
Sideways says, wanted to know the metrics on the revamped Cast Castle.
I know there were some that complained about the changes, but hard numbers are good to have.
I don't have any.
Um, I don't know.
I don't, uh, the metrics with YouTube are easy.
You can see them.
But since we've shifted to the internal metrics, I actually don't know the metrics on our internal stuff.
And I don't really care.
I can tell you the metrics are, the metrics that matter are people are signing up and watching it.
And so, we're making enough money to keep doing it, and that's what matters.
When Cast Castle was a daily vlog on YouTube, it was losing lots and lots and lots of money, and we kept putting more and more money into it.
And it wasn't working.
And so I said, okay, we can cancel it outright and just stop making this stuff.
And there were some people who were like, fine.
And then I was like, or we could make once a week, longer episodes, do more skits that we want to do, and then make it a members thing and see if we can get enough members to sign up that will cover the cost.
Congratulations.
We have enough people who have signed up that's covered the costs.
That's all that really matters.
If we can afford it, we'll keep doing it.
I don't want to just cancel it for people who like it.
For people who don't like it, I don't know.
Sorry.
Some things cost money.
I mean, maybe, you know, there's a... Let me tell you a story.
Wendy's in the 2000s came out with something called the Smoky Cheeseburger.
And they had this sauce, the Smoky Sauce, they called it.
And boy, it was my favorite burger.
And nobody else liked it, so they got rid of it.
If you can't afford to make it, you're not gonna make it.
They're not gonna just keep it there for me.
So that's just the reality of business.
ian crossland
Yeah, I thought Arrested Development was a really good show, too, and then they canceled it.
But then they brought it back, because the internet loved it.
tim pool
All right, let's see.
CJ McLean says, Tim, do you think a pro-choice The 20 Weeks Republican as president would help calm the division in this country?
No.
Maybe it might benefit to a certain degree, okay.
But I think the problem is, as you saw with the Ethan Klein thing and Ben and being gassed and all that stuff, these people, it's not about policy.
It's about tribal hatred.
And they're gonna keep saying this stuff until sooner or later people go out and riot and target people.
You know, Scott Adams was mocked when he said Republicans will be hunted.
Then we saw a bunch of Republicans get hunted.
Not like every single one ever, but you know, people were killed.
There you go, man.
Terrestrial G says, Ian may be an oddball, but he's our oddball.
Check my music, I make oddball music.
ian crossland
Well, alright.
tim pool
Moving on.
Tim Jake says, The First Amendment does not protect journalists who discloses classified information.
Read 18 U.S.
Code 798.
Uh, I think it depends, but uh, you know, there's a nuance.
Nuance in all things.
DJ Madero says, who would have thought that Mel Gibson's conspiracy theory is the dystopian future we live in?
Which conspiracy theory is that?
luke rudkowski
It's a movie.
unidentified
Oh, the movie.
luke rudkowski
Mel Gibson's conspiracy theory.
tim pool
Oh, that's what they're referring to.
I thought he had, like, a specific conspiracy onto himself.
Oh, the movie's awesome!
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
The movie, like, there's a scene where he puts a bottle on his doorknob, and so that way if someone tries opening it, like, jiggling it, it falls over, and it's crazy.
Yeah, that movie's funny.
Good stuff.
Raymond G. Stanley Jr.
says, Abrams thinks heartbeats are manufactured.
You guys remember that?
unidentified
Yeah, another Georgia thing.
Yep.
ian crossland
No, what's that?
tim pool
She said that the heartbeat you hear in ultrasounds is a fake sound made by the machine so that men can control women.
luke rudkowski
That's the people coming from your state.
That's a representation of where you're from.
unidentified
It's unfortunate.
ian crossland
Coming from my country.
unidentified
That's right.
tim pool
Ivan who says only ever wanted has radicalized in into Tim's right-wing world
That's right. It's a good song Have you laid down vocals in the new one? Yes, okay
unidentified
Oh, you did?
ian crossland
A while ago.
They were arguably demo.
We might have to go back and touch them up, but they sounded so good.
tim pool
We'll see.
The one note we got back for the new song was more harmonies.
And then Ian keeps harping on harmonies, so I think they took the advice.
ian crossland
Yes, vocal harmonies.
tim pool
All right.
Straight White Male says, Matt Walsh is holding his Rally to End Child Mutilation in Tennessee on Friday, hoping you have some journos on the ground.
Really?
Well, if anyone's listening from our newsroom, we should get on that.
Because we can.
That would be fantastic.
That'd be cool.
Mountain Ridge Collectible says, we sell sports cards, TCG and anime, so I'd like to hook you and Ian up with some MTG products.
I'd also like to do some kind of sponsorship or even help with your brick and mortar.
Yeah, we're setting up a physical location, and we're going to be launching the new show, Mall Store.
unidentified
Love it.
tim pool
I had a conversation with some individuals who are skilled in this space, and it's looking really good that within the next year.
The show is basically, we got a storefront, and we are going to create a pop-up store once a week that does something absurd.
I'm gonna give you an example of one of the jokes that I came up with off the top of my head, and we probably will do, so I'm spoiling it a little bit, but I'm excited for this one.
It's going to be a store called Pokemon IRL.
And we're going to have people outside yelling for families to bring their kids to come in and watch Pokemon in real life.
And the only thing inside the room is going to be two cages on the left and the right with a rooster in each one.
And then when the parents come in to ask what it is, and get, you know, noticeably offended by the idea, we say, what do you think Pokemon is?
It's kids training animals to fight each other!
So that's an idea of, like, the jokes we do.
The roosters will be in cages, and side note, for those that don't know this, the roosters will not actually fight.
Roosters only fight if there's girls around.
When you hear about cockfights, those are specially bred roosters with like, they cut the combs off and everything, and they make them really aggressive.
unidentified
He's talking about Georgia again.
tim pool
Yeah, over at Cocktown, we've got like 18 roosters, and they'll just hang out and do rooster stuff.
As long as there's no girls, everybody gets along.
So, but that's one of the jokes we're going to do.
And then once a week on the weekends, we're going to, no, I think Monday and Tuesday is when we set up the new store and change it to something ridiculous.
And then, uh, with, uh, throughout the week with the weekend, people can come in.
Yeah.
But, uh, let's, let's, uh, grab some more super chats.
All right, let's see.
Ready to Rumble says, Ukraine has the largest deposit of lithium on the planet, 500,000 tons.
It all makes sense now.
serge du preez
Wow.
tim pool
Maybe, you know, I was reading that the Donbass region has a lot of lithium.
With the loss of Afghanistan, we're gonna need to get our lithium from somewhere.
unidentified
Right.
tim pool
Maybe that's it, huh?
serge du preez
I think there was some superchats earlier that were talking about Ian's opinion about NCOs and fresh commanders taking hints from their NCOs.
It was up there earlier in some of the superchats.
tim pool
Well, let's keep reading.
ian crossland
That's a lot of stuff I saw from Vietnam.
A lot of great commanders that would come in off the boat would be like, you're the guy, you've been doing this for five years, so I'm following you for now.
tim pool
Daniel Bennett says, Trucker here.
LSB Industries out of Arkansas and Oklahoma produces fertilizer and I've been watching their stock price go up and up and up.
Interesting.
I'll have to take a look at that.
Out of all the stocks that I have, the graphene one has actually got me a return.
ian crossland
Everything's collapsing, but that graphene one... When I was doing calculations in 2018, I got that peak graphene will arrive in about 2029 is when it's going to be globally...
tim pool
Crooked Smile says, Mr. Poole, what do you think of using credit to acquire gold and then later on using said gold for gold-backed loans?
Your thoughts?
Also waiting on financial advice videos, please.
Never going to give financial advice, but wait a minute.
Are you saying that you use a credit card to buy gold, then get a loan with the gold, and then what do you do?
Do you pay off the credit card and then have cash or something?
unidentified
I don't know.
ian crossland
That's margin stuff.
Be careful, because if the gold goes down in value, then you're going to owe all that extra money.
You have to pay back your loan.
luke rudkowski
He's pretty much telling you to make a gold Federal Reserve.
Yeah.
tim pool
So wait, wait, what is this?
You get a credit card.
You buy gold with it.
Now you owe on the credit card.
Then you use that gold to get a loan.
All you're doing is holding gold and having your credit back, I guess?
ian crossland
But then if the gold goes down in value, how do you pay the loan back?
tim pool
I don't know, but what if a Civil War or World War III breaks out and everyone forgets?
That's what I was thinking.
I was like, I'm buying a house.
And I'm like, I'm getting a mortgage.
If the collapse happens, I'm not gonna owe anything.
Right?
ian crossland
I don't know how that works.
tim pool
Well, there's no one to collect.
Civil war happens, it's just like, all right.
ian crossland
As you go, yeah.
serge du preez
Who's coming after you?
ian crossland
Who's got the Gatling guns?
tim pool
I've read crazy stories about people who got mortgages and then after like a certain, like a couple, like a decade or so with like modernization and documents being moved, they sent a request to the banks to produce the documents proving they had a mortgage and the banks couldn't and then like the mortgages disappeared.
serge du preez
Wow.
tim pool
Yeah, there was something I was reading about.
It may have been like a scam or something, but this guy was pointing out that when it comes to debt collection, often there's so much transfer of paperwork, they don't actually even have the original documents anyway.
And the first thing you always do whenever someone tries to collect a debt is request original documentation.
And many of these collecting agencies can't produce it.
And if they can't, you say, bye, have a nice day.
I don't know who you are.
Like, for all you know, they're lying to you.
But then I was reading stories about, like, when, uh, I was reading about the, um, like, Dillinger.
And they said he would burn mortgage paperwork at banks so that they couldn't ever try to recover the property or prove that there was a loan on it or anything like that.
ian crossland
He was a bank robber, right?
And he would go in and just destroy, destroy debt paperwork?
tim pool
Yeah.
ian crossland
That's crazy.
Like a robber.
tim pool
Because, no, but it, but it wasn't, well, some argue it's because he was sticking to the man.
Others argue is that he was trying to, uh, uh, favor it, you know, generate favors with the- Oh, his buddies.
Favor with the public.
The public would be like, ah, we like it when he does that stuff.
Because then all of a sudden they're like, we don't know how much you owe, so, well, too bad, paperwork's gone.
All right, let's see.
A.O.
Shooter says, face it, Tim, the line has moved and you are conservative now.
Because you seek truth, you have become one of us.
One of us, one of us.
You forgot to add gooblegobble.
Gooblegobble.
One of us.
I guess, like, in the modern era, conservative means that you want the truth and you care about facts.
And the liberal and left means you want sweet, sweet lies.
ian crossland
Like rewriting history?
That would be the liberal thing, would be like, we're going to change what we don't like, whereas the conservative thing is like, just keep it the same.
tim pool
Paul Renfer says, so when's the Castcastle episode of Ian?
Bring down on one knee with a ring, asking Luke to start a business for Luke to flex muscles, rejecting Ian because he is married to his workout regimen.
ian crossland
Well, well-written idea.
tim pool
Well, there you go.
Moving on.
Jeffrey Grajic says, Ian, come to Texas and get married.
No alimony, just child support if children are involved, plus no state income tax.
But it's also very hot.
And so is Florida.
ian crossland
I like the heat.
tim pool
I like West Virginia.
I gotta look into those laws, though.
West Virginia's fantastic.
luke rudkowski
Maryland probably is awful.
tim pool
Oh, yeah.
ian crossland
Disgusting.
tim pool
Yep.
ian crossland
It's getting cold right now.
Stepped outside last night.
It was frigid.
luke rudkowski
It's not nice in the RV.
ian crossland
Really?
Are you sleeping in the RV for now?
tim pool
CB says, what they are trying to do is paint the whole show as conservative, so the damage is all of TimCast, not just Ian.
That's right.
ian crossland
The damage.
That's my new nickname.
tim pool
The damage.
serge du preez
Ian the damage.
ian crossland
Yeah, just call me the damage.
tim pool
Silo Siben says, Tim, it would be so fitting for you to have on the YouTuber Better Bachelor.
As a guest, he shouts you out on his channel around 400,000 subs, and I found you there.
Oh, that's really cool.
Thank you, Better Bachelor.
We'll take a look at that.
Take a look into that indeed.
Five against eight says easy calculation.
Jezebel owes Ian $965,000,000.
There you go.
That's so funny.
Anthony Jones says, Tim, please show your true Trek fandom.
Put together a team and go investigate the daily sightings of UAPs off our coastlines.
Give the people what we truly want.
That's a job for Shane Cashman.
ian crossland
We just talked about the UAPs.
Who was it on Rogan yesterday?
He had a Navy pilot.
tim pool
We have that story pulled up.
We didn't get to it.
ian crossland
Yeah, maybe we can talk about it on the after show.
I think we have a couple of ideas to talk about.
But I think a lot of what's happening is they're focusing lasers into the sky and distorting radar and causing like a A morphing of the environment that looks like a craft, then they're moving it around all weird.
They move it around like what a craft might do to get the pilots to think maybe it's an actual craft, setting people up for some sort of false flag, or whatever.
But they're testing, like, laser technology called talking plasma.
tim pool
Carpe Danktum.
Hey, what up?
He says, it's different when we do it, Democrats.
That's right.
And also, we need Elon Musk to get Twitter all ready so that Carpe Danktum can come back.
Mimic says it was nice seeing Seamus on the show again.
Ah, old memories.
Seamus, it was four months ago.
He left.
ian crossland
Emotional times.
tim pool
Yep.
One day, he told us he was going out for scratchers.
And then he never came back.
ian crossland
He must've won.
tim pool
He must've won.
luke rudkowski
He got drunk off of the potatoes.
ian crossland
Never came back.
tim pool
He, uh, he got drunk off the potatoes and then fell asleep in the gutter.
Some nice old woman picked him up and carried him home and then he woke up in a faraway land and just, he's got amnesia now.
ian crossland
Keep scratching, Seamus.
Yeah.
tim pool
Yeah, the, uh, the videos on Freedom Tunes that are going up, it's actually me doing Seamus's voice, doing other people's voices.
Yeah, Seamus.
ian crossland
You've been covering for him this whole time?
tim pool
That's right.
That's right.
Cause I'm a good friend.
That's right.
Check out Freedom Tunes on YouTube if you guys haven't.
Seamus is, uh, he's gone.
He abandoned us.
All right, Cindy Drellick says, regarding Breaking Bad, Walter White had some funny gun scenes, but as a whole, did the show get guns and ammo somewhat right?
Glad you finally saw the best TV series out there, Heisenberg.
I like Better Call Saul better.
Except for the ending.
Everything in Better Call Saul was really, really good, but the ending was really, really bad.
It felt like there was no ending, you know? I kind of don't want to spoil it. I haven't
ian crossland
don't I haven't seen it and I hear it's really good but I well I didn't like breaking down so
tim pool
the issue is when you're doing a prequel and people want an epilogue the epilogue is after
Breaking Bad but the resolution of the prequel needed they if so basically what happens is
the the show's end is an epilogue And I felt like the prequel series itself probably should have had an explosive climax.
But I guess they didn't want to do that because how do you?
Because we know what happens in Breaking Bad?
I don't know.
ian crossland
Yeah, George Lucas did that with Star Wars episode 1 as he wrote the prequel second, but he pretended like you didn't already see the episode 4, 5, and 6, and that you were going to watch them in sequence, but everyone already knew that Palpatine was the Emperor.
So it was like kind of flat.
tim pool
David T says, happy to support a show that's not afraid to bring on conservative commentators like Ian Crosland.
Man, he'd be a wild candidate for president.
ian crossland
Tim is a brave man.
luke rudkowski
First thing you do in office.
ian crossland
I'm not going to tell you.
I'm not going to say it out loud because it's a big complex plan that needs to be enacted all at once.
tim pool
I would immediately allocate $550 million towards the production of graphene.
ian crossland
Oh yeah, full graphene revolution.
We're pulling carbon dioxide out of the air.
We're doing video chats with foreign diplomats and leaders all over the world daily.
We're having at least one to three hours a day on video, live.
It's all about communication.
If you're the president, your job is to communicate.
unidentified
Can we just start firing people?
That's kind of the direction I'd like to see.
luke rudkowski
I like that.
ian crossland
I'm open to that.
unidentified
Just abolish.
luke rudkowski
Abolish all of it.
unidentified
Yes.
Aggressively.
tim pool
Action Man says, I heard H3 is getting divorced.
Wonder why?
ian crossland
I think that's fake.
tim pool
I heard that and then I heard it was fake.
ian crossland
And he was awesome.
tim pool
Yeah, I don't believe that.
But what is there something I didn't hear about?
ian crossland
Well, I heard it and then I think Jeremy Hambly might have said, no, it's not true.
And then that's the last I heard about it.
That was like two weeks ago.
It was like, oh, no, no.
Ethan said that Jeremy was getting divorced and then Jeremy was like, no, I'm not.
So then he said that Ethan was getting divorced and then it turned out they were both lying.
Oh, just to get back at each other.
luke rudkowski
They deserve each other.
Yeah, they should marry each other.
tim pool
Have they done a show together yet?
luke rudkowski
I hope so.
unidentified
I don't know.
tim pool
Yeah, they definitely should.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Captain Tanker Joe says my grandpa's an interesting man.
He claims to be fighting socialism and authoritarians, yet he votes Democrat.
He advocates for the genocide of Russians openly.
I'm certain if Stalin or Uncle H had a D next to their name, he would vote for them.
Uncle H!
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
NotMyName says, anybody else feel like abortion is similar to a deal with the devil?
With the baby being the human sacrifice?
I can see that.
You know, in certain circumstances, especially post-viability.
It's like, I want more comfort and wealth.
I know.
Kill this thing and give me what I want.
Oh, what's this?
Matthew Dean Bodo says, did you see Kanye West apologize on the Piers Morgan show a few hours ago?
ian crossland
I'm definitely watching that interview later.
That sounds cool.
tim pool
Hostile, bogey, and bounce.
His H3H3 was never edgy.
It has always been cringe.
ian crossland
I guess.
luke rudkowski
No, the FUPA and the Vape Nation stuff was great.
tim pool
And he had Jordan Peterson on his show.
luke rudkowski
Yeah.
tim pool
But then, like, he bent the knee.
He got scared.
serge du preez
He did.
tim pool
Like, there are a bunch of YouTubers from back in the day who were anti-woke.
They all panicked and just started taking stuff down.
Chris Reagan took down Pancho Nazi.
Apparently someone told him he was helping Nazis, so he was like, oh cool, and then he took it down.
It's like, look man, I think there's some good in that.
Someone like Chris, who knows that his whole bit was like making jokes and talking about games and movies and comedy and hanging out with his roommates, was getting dragged into a political conflict and all of a sudden said like, why am I in this?
And a bunch of those guys did, said, I don't want to be political.
I don't want to be in this world.
I get it.
Ethan went the other way.
He said, I'm going to be fully political, even though I have no idea what's going on.
ian crossland
I got this old video and I think it's called pain.
I have a few old videos where all I'm, it's like I'm in the most depressed, hateful state of my life.
And I'm talking about humans are horrible.
luke rudkowski
They're dead.
ian crossland
They're dead to me.
They're going to die.
We're going to wipe ourselves.
It's like really negative.
And it's on YouTube.
And I'm wondering, should I delete it?
Or is it like part of the story of what I went through?
tim pool
I don't know.
So you are.
ian crossland
Because it's still putting out that energy and I don't agree with that anymore.
tim pool
I'll tell you what you can do.
Smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share this show with your friends and become a member at TimCast.com so you can watch the uncensored after show that we will have tonight at about 11pm and The show from yesterday with Em and Bundy was amazing.
Plus, the Cast Castle vlog is silly, offensive shenanigans.
You don't want to miss it.
You can follow the show at TimCastIRL.
You can follow me at TimCast.
Seth, do you want to shout anything out?
unidentified
Yeah, visit freedomspeaksup.com.
You can find me on most social media, including Twitter, for now, at Seth Weathers.
luke rudkowski
For now.
I'll see you there.
You never know.
unidentified
I'll follow you on there.
luke rudkowski
Our time here is limited.
My YouTube channel is youtube.com forward slash we are change.
I did a story today about General Armageddon.
Yes, that's a real legitimate nickname on the new front in Karasan.
Lots of very important updates.
Check out that video right now on youtube.com forward slash we are change.
ian crossland
I'm Ian Crossland.
Follow me on YouTube.
Subscribe to me on Mines.
Get with me everywhere you want, at IanCrossland.
Seth, we didn't talk about physical health on the show.
unidentified
I want to get into that.
ian crossland
Maybe on the after show we can talk about phthalates and like what you've been doing with your diet, because you've got like a revolutionary diet.
unidentified
I don't know.
It's not revolutionary.
It's very simple and basic, but I think everyone should eat steak, lift weights, be uncensorable, and screw the government.
That's all you need to do.
ian crossland
Love you.
Thanks for coming, man.
unidentified
Great to be here.
serge du preez
And I'm Serge.com, and you guys will see us in the late show.
tim pool
Thanks for hanging out, everybody.
We will see you all over at TimCast.com.
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