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Timcast IRL - Elon Musk Warns Of Assassination Risk, My House Burglarized, Shots Fired w/Chef Gruel
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tim pool
This Saturday was pretty wild.
Me and Luke were out at Whole Foods.
I was grabbing a nice little quart of lobster bisque when I get a message that Elon Musk is live on Twitter Spaces talking about what was going on with the Twitter files, the things the government has been accused of doing in terms of censorship and election interference, just really crazy stuff.
And I'm walking around Whole Foods and I got this phone up to my ear listening to this crazy conversation when Elon Musk said something to the effect of, if I commit suicide, it's not real.
Because people were talking about the real threat to his life because of what he's doing.
Well, we have two things.
One, I mean, I think that's the big story.
Elon Musk was getting in a car and he said, I'm not doing any public signings ever again.
He's got security surrounding him.
He talks about how the threat of assassination is real.
And I think that's really interesting.
And it's also interesting how the media has been putting out this generic message of PR for the richest man in the world, all identical, like puppets being given marching orders.
It's very strange.
The crazy thing is, the story itself, Matt Taibbi, I think, did a great job, but he made a big mistake.
In the Twitter files, if you didn't see it, on Friday, they basically revealed that the Democratic National Committee was reaching out to Twitter for favors to take content down.
Now, in one of the tweets, Matt Taibbi said he didn't see evidence that government was involved.
However, Jack Posobiec followed up with an FEC document showing the head of SiteTrust, or whatever, Yoel Roth, saying that he had been reached out to by the FBI, that there would be hacked information coming to the platform to be disseminated, and it would involve Hunter Biden.
This means the government did go to the highest level of Twitter, tell them to take it down, the Twitter files then expose that they had no real justification for blocking the story, but decided to do it anyway.
And now we see the big cover-up.
So we'll talk about that.
We'll get into greater detail.
I want to rehash the whole story.
But the other news is...
Well, this is rather interesting, and there's a lot of interesting questions about it, but I think I should talk about it.
Around 7 a.m.
this morning, two men broke into my house and don't know exactly why or what was happening.
There's a lot of speculation.
I don't want to reveal too many details, but a shot was fired by one of... I'll keep it very vague for law enforcement reasons.
Not by them.
They, the burglars, we don't know what they were looking for or what was happening.
Entirely possible.
It was random.
I kind of don't think so, considering you can't mistake this property when you get on it and everything that's happening there.
And after nearly being struck, they dove out the window, panicked, fled, and left behind a wallet with an ID in it.
So the whole thing is very, very weird.
Considering what's going on in politics, I figured, you know, maybe we should talk about this and the threats that we've received.
The next story we have is that there was a substation shot up in North Carolina, knocking out power, and the left is claiming it was far-right wingers trying to shut down a drag performance show.
So we got to talk about this stuff.
It's a crazy...
Monday, I suppose.
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Joining us today to talk about all of this is Chef Andrew Gruhl.
andrew gruel
Thank you so much.
It's an honor to be here.
tim pool
Absolutely.
Who are you?
What do you do?
unidentified
All right.
andrew gruel
Andrew Gruhl.
I am a chef and restaurateur.
Some people might know me from being on Food Network shows or having a series on FYI Network, some other TV stuff, or from one of my restaurants.
I started with a food truck in 2011.
Grew to 40-plus restaurants.
Recently sold Slapfish, which was kind of my namesake restaurant.
Still have six concepts.
I'm from Southern California, Huntington Beach specifically.
I'm a father of four and a husband, and that is my life in a nutshell.
tim pool
Right on.
It should be really interesting to talk about.
You called out California over the lockdown stuff, which, well, it was contentious, to say the least.
andrew gruel
Yeah, it didn't, I mean, you know, it depends on how you look at it, whether it went over well or didn't go over well, but without getting into too much of the granular detail, I'll say this, I did speak out about Newsom's hypocritical lockdowns, and the state immediately turned on me, but, you know, the good news here is that as I continued to speak out, and doing so rationally, right, it wasn't anything crazy extreme, Our sales doubled, tripled, the support came flying in there.
As that support came in, we decided to start a fund I called 86 Restaurant Struggle.
We actually ended up raising over a half a million dollars for struggling and out of work restaurant workers.
Not small business owners, but restaurant workers at the time.
No less than four months after I raised that half a million dollars, I did do a piece on Tucker Carlson and then Antifa quickly turned on me for being an anti-worker mouthpiece, which I think is funny when you contrast that against raising all the money.
You know, so I've been up and down that California roller coaster and everything post-pandemic, so, uh, lots to talk about.
tim pool
Right on, right on.
Luke's here.
luke rudkowski
Definitely expect some questions about bugs and seed oils in the future, uh, on the show.
My name is Luke Grodowski here of WeAreChange.org, and I live by two principles.
Don't take people's stuff and don't hurt them, a principle that, of course, the government does the exact opposite of, and I think we should definitely be sharing more of these principles and spreading them.
And if you agree with that, you could get that message, which is on my shirt, on thebestpoliticalshirts.com.
Because you guys do that, that's why I'm here.
Thank you again so much for having me.
ian crossland
I'm the wizard, the sorcerer.
I'm not sure which one I'm better at, wizardry or sorcery, but one's with your intelligence, the wizardry, the other's with your charisma, the sorcery, I don't know.
You let me know.
I'm looking forward to talking to you about, what's that?
tim pool
I said, is that what that is?
ian crossland
Yeah, sorcerers use their charisma to cast magic.
They have less choices of magics they can use, but they're very refined at what they do, whereas wizards use their knowledge and understanding of nature to manipulate and use it.
So like, they'll use, like a, like, yeah, we'll get into it later on the show.
What's up, dude?
I'm glad.
I want to hear all about your perspective on how you dealt with the pandemic as a restauranteur, obviously, but hopefully we can go deep into just the magic of restauranteuring in general, food, you know, what it's like to own restaurants.
Maybe later in the episode, I'll start asking you questions.
serge du preez
Awesome.
ian crossland
Peace out.
serge du preez
And I am Serge.com at Serge.com.
Thanks, guys, for getting my Instagram over 2K.
That was a cool feeling.
Gave me a little dopamine bump.
tim pool
There you go.
serge du preez
Appreciate it.
tim pool
All right, everybody, let's talk about this first story.
Elon Musk claims risk of his assassination is quite significant, and a little bit more than that.
He said, quote, if I committed suicide, it's not real.
As soon as I heard him say that, I had to tweet it out.
When he was releasing the Twitter files, he said it was going to be at 5 p.m.
Then all of a sudden, he's like, okay, it's going to be in an hour.
Then he goes dark, and everyone's like, what's happening?
The joke across Twitter was, last minute phone call from Hillary Clinton.
Haha.
So he says, frankly the risk of something bad happening to me or even literally being shot is quite significant.
It's not that hard to kill somebody if you wanted to, so hopefully they don't, and fate smiles upon the situation with me and it does not happen, there's definitely some risk there.
I gotta say, the first thing is, does that seem like the typical reaction from someone who genuinely feels like they'll lose their life?
And I'm not saying he's wrong, or that's not true, I'm saying, I guess you'd expect him to react differently, right?
ian crossland
Abe Lincoln had a similar thing where he was just like, they wanted him to have all his securities, like, you know what, if they kill me, they kill me.
And he had a dream a few nights before he was killed of him walking through the White House, people were crying, and in his dream he was like, what happened?
And they were like, the president's been killed, and then he woke up, Lincoln, and he was like, what, that was weird.
A couple days later, he was shot and killed.
So once, I think, if you're at peace with yourself, you just have to be your best self and dam be the consequences.
But, you know, I mean, what, like he said, if everyone in the world wants to kill you, how long can you survive?
I mean, seven minutes?
luke rudkowski
I don't think it's everyone.
I think it's a certain select few of individuals.
Some of them, you know, rhyming with Hillary.
Sorry.
tim pool
You just literally said Hillary.
luke rudkowski
Pardon my French, but I think there's Hillary.
tim pool
Chillery!
luke rudkowski
Yeah, chillery!
You know, but I think there's a reason Epstein was trending Friday night when we had the delay of the Twitter files.
I think we're living in a society where intelligence agencies do have things like heart attack guns.
And if you look at these latest Twitter files, who did they go after?
The intelligence agencies that we know were conjuring up lies in order to try to push a narrative and a story and to suppress a story that would make a political party look Uh, good, when of course the reality of it was that they were bad, that there was a lot of horrible things.
You want to say something?
tim pool
I just want to pull, I want to confirm the source of, uh, this is from allthatsinteresting.com, the heart attack gunfight a dart made from frozen shellfish toxin that would enter the target's bloodstream and kill him in mere minutes without leaving a trace.
ian crossland
This is like in the 60s or 70s, I believe.
luke rudkowski
That was, yeah, through the, I think, the commission hearings, the Warren Commission hearings, I believe, if I stand corrected, that there was a lot of disclosure with what the intelligence agencies were doing behind the scenes.
And this is decades and decades ago.
You can only imagine what they have now.
So with Elon Musk saying that he's taking his security, you know, more significantly, taking his security more seriously than before, I mean, obviously, he's pissing off a lot of powerful people that do Epstein, people, let's just be real here.
Let's just be honest here with ourselves.
tim pool
You know, one thing that I haven't thought about with stuff like this and Trump, I heard that one thing I've heard we've talked about the reason Trump likes fast food so much is that when you walk into a McDonald's, the burgers already made.
So when you order it, they can't tamper with it.
And there's like a fear.
ian crossland
I don't know if that's true, but that's gross excuse to eat McDonald's.
tim pool
I mean, I worry about this stuff, like, you never know.
We live in MAGA country, so for the most part, people come out, fist bump me, and they're really excited, you know?
But if I go into, like, a deep blue area where people are, you know, crazy leftists or whatever, do I gotta worry about my food getting messed with or something?
andrew gruel
Food is the avenue through which they typically do something like this, which is why we run a tight ship in my kitchens.
But, you know, it's funny when I hear that about the shellfish.
This is how sick my mind is.
I immediately go to like braised shellfish with garlic and white wine and herbs and all of that.
You know, with the Elon piece of this, I think two things.
Number one, kind of Heisenberg's principle, which I think I'm using this properly, right?
The act of observation ultimately affects that of which is being observed.
So if he goes out there and throws this out into the public, you know, that act, right,
and under the observation he could change the trajectory.
So get it out there, talk about it, let it be public, and then ultimately that could
hypothetically change whether, you know, however you want to look at this, change what's
going to happen.
Number two, he's a businessman at heart, right?
And the more he talks, the more he puts out these kind of hyperbolic statements, the more
people are going to go on Twitter, the more people are going to tweet about it.
I mean, he's driving business by virtue of his own narrative, and it's kind of brilliant
because we see the numbers, we see the activity is up, and that ticks everybody off because
they talk about how, oh, well, Twitter's going to shut down this weekend.
And now the headlines came out after he published and produced how successful Twitter was over
the past three to four weeks.
Well, that's just a smoke screen.
Those are going to go down.
luke rudkowski
And just a correction, it was the church hearings that released the information of the heart
attack gun and a lot of other horrible things that the intelligence agencies were doing
in secret.
But we also have to understand that this was Elon responding directly to questions being asked to him, specifically if he's going to be suicidal.
at any point in time in his life.
And this spurred on this reaction, which of course everyone's talking about, as we're still waiting for the Twitter files 2.0 to be released that we're hearing are in the hands of Barry Weiss.
So there's still a lot more.
There's some people saying that this was a nothing burger.
There's a lot of people saying that this is a huge reveal that I think is going to have significant changes in our society.
But it all depends, I guess, where you stand politically.
tim pool
It's a smoking gun.
So one of the things they're mentioning is that the request from the DNC, the specific links, were nudes of Hunter Biden.
Now, fair point.
I can understand why somebody would be like, yeah, I don't want those up.
But why is the DNC making those requests and not, you know, say, Hunter Biden, for personal reasons?
So the first thing to consider, the Democratic National Committee was trying to get these private images from a private citizen who was not running for office removed.
So when the left comes out and says, Hunter Biden's not the president, not running, he's not relevant.
OK, well, then why is the DNC trying to?
Well, because obviously it's relevant.
The second thing is the images corroborate the laptop is real.
If someone came out and said, look at this email, it's fake.
How do I know that email's real?
Because here's a picture of Hunter Biden in a private, you know, revealing circumstance that he took himself.
That was along with it.
Okay.
Not a guarantee the email's real, but it does lend some evidence to the fact.
So when they start, when the Democrats literally are taking down images of a third party who's not running for office, That's bad.
But more importantly, when it came to the laptop in general, the files reveal that they had no policy justification for removing it, argued about how they had no policy justification for removing the laptop story, did it anyway, and then a big mistake Mettaibi made, with all due respect, because I think Matt does a great job and I think he's fantastic, Jack Posobiec posted the FEC, the federal election documents, from Yoel Roth of Twitter, saying the FBI contacted us, said there would be hacked materials related to Hunter Biden.
Then they just arbitrarily removed that story?
BS.
The FBI, like Mark Zuckerberg said, reached out to them and said, the story's coming, get rid of it.
ian crossland
What did, uh, Taibbi, what mistake did Taibbi make?
Did he not include that?
tim pool
Taibbi, he didn't.
And he said that, I've seen no evidence of government involvement in the censorship of this.
And then later, Jack Posobiec posted an FEC document from FEC.gov, where Yoel Roth was like, yes they contacted me, yes they said the information on Hunter Biden was coming.
And to be careful about it, Mark Zuckerberg said the exact same thing.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, and the New York Post released a story today talking about the FBI's hack-and-leak operation, which they had weekly meetings with big tech social media companies and they came to them and they said, hey, Hunter Biden is a target of a hack-and-leak operation that's going after him before the story even was public.
So they knew, they probably knew that the New York Post was working on this story, they knew it was going to go public, so they preemptively Spread disinformation, spread lies, in order to confuse and stop a narrative that would make the oncoming political party look bad.
That right there is very, very sinister, nasty actions that are absolutely playing totally unfair when it comes to this political landscape.
tim pool
And I have to stress, it's not just the FBI.
According to this document from FEC.gov, he wrote, since 2018, I've had regular meetings with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and industry peers regarding election security.
He goes on to mention that these expectations of hack-and-leak operations were discussed throughout 2022.
I also learned these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.
So to clarify, DHS, FBI, industry peers, the DNI were in contact with Twitter consistently for years and in 2020 said negative information about Hunter Biden is coming.
ian crossland
Who's this FEC?
Who's the I?
I noticed.
tim pool
Yoel Roth.
ian crossland
Okay.
tim pool
As you can see right here, signed, Yoel Roth, Head of Site Integrity, Twitter, Inc., December 17th, 2020.
ian crossland
I think that the writing's on the wall with government collusion with big tech.
I mean, I think it's obvious and it's becoming more apparent and more legally justified if we're going to make these claims with evidence like this.
But when I'm reading the patterns of humanity, what it looks like right now is this is a chance to step up, each of us, because it's like whack-a-mole.
You know the whack-a-mole game?
Someone steps up and tries to change society, they get whacked.
And that's been happening since Kennedy, since, I don't know, I'm claiming that, I don't have, I mean, I've got a lot of evidence that Kennedy was Well, obviously Kennedy was killed, but I'm not saying who did it.
I don't know who did it.
I know, apparently.
Anyway!
tim pool
There's a lot of theories around that one.
ian crossland
So, the chance, this is where we all have to step up and take some of the focus onto ourselves.
Because if we let Elon, we think he's some superhero, he's just a vulnerable guy.
So, I want to be on, you know, team humanity here.
andrew gruel
Yeah, look, I think that where this is going to start to focus is on the private versus public element here, private versus government element, because what you hear is the argument is, no, well, this is a private enterprise.
They were, you know, it was a private citizen.
At the time, Joe Biden, he was just a candidate.
He wasn't involved with government.
And look, this is, you know, a private company.
And that's the argument that's being made.
But what's really interesting is it was the DNC, which once again you can claim that it's private, but then you have public government officials as part of the DNC, right?
So you have what could hypothetically be considered in more of the business or the corporate world, piercing the corporate veil, right?
And by that I mean is that, yes, so you have all of this through this shell company, the DNC, that's private, but then you have public Influencers or stakeholders that are on that private committee or that private, you know group that are then influencing this through So then did you pierce that veil in the in the food world right as a franchisor?
I am responsible by way of new laws for the labor practices of a franchisee That was a recent ruling right and that gets into that kind of that corporate Public-private piece of this and so if in the private business world I'm responsible as a franchise or for what my franchisee does even though I have nothing to do with it By way of just that connection, well then government should be held to the exact same standard.
luke rudkowski
There's a very interesting article by Jonathan Turley that was released also that was titled, Six Degrees from James Baker, a familiar figure re-emerges with the release of the Twitter files that details how, you know, a lot of this was centered around, from the very beginning, this whole Russian collusion narrative, this whole A larger agenda here from central figures within the federal government that were engineering a lot of this.
And when we kind of look at this, we kind of got to ask ourselves, obviously, there was some incentive by big tech social media companies to try to make the Democrats win since the Democrats are more favorable towards big tech monopolies rather than, of course, Republicans that were kind of threatening to put them in check.
Threatening in not even a real way, but kind of soft-handed way, kind of hinting that they might be interested in doing something like the Republicans always do, and then they kind of back off and scare, just like teenagers trying to go up to a girl.
That's essentially what a lot of the Republicans did here, and I think this is, you know, one reason why to speculate what's really going on here.
Is it the private industry, or is it the public industry?
Who's really responsible here?
To me, it doesn't matter.
They're all in bed together.
A lot of these individuals are working together.
A lot of these individuals know that they need to depend on each other.
They have blackmail on each other.
And to me, this is a no-brainer that they're codifying the elections for their own personal benefit.
andrew gruel
But to go along with the private argument, right?
Let's galvanize that argument and say, okay, it's all private then, and anybody can do what they want, and that's the argument.
It's done.
Well then, why are people going after Elon so much?
It's a private company.
He can do whatever he wants.
So you can't kind of scream the skies falling on one side, but then use the same argument against or for whichever side you're on.
And I think that that's something that's just being ignored in all of this when the two sides are battling it out.
luke rudkowski
It was interesting to see the White House response to all of this.
They finally decided to release an official statement saying that the Twitter files were, quote, a distraction and old news that are diverting attention from Twitter's, quote, hate and disinformation.
So very weaponized, very kind of Orwellian terms used by the White House in response to all of this.
And Elon Musk looks like he's not backing down.
There's going to be more releases in the future.
There's also a lot of rumors that he's going to be starting a medical experts panel that's going to be questioning the government's logic when it comes to health advice.
And he also came out recently and talked about how he thinks that the FTX scandal is a lot bigger than what people make it out to be.
And he's claiming that it could be nearly $1 billion that was given to Democrats via dark channels with untraceable money.
So there's a lot of things happening behind the scenes that we don't know about, but it definitely is a very fascinating battle with Elon Musk saying he's afraid for his life, essentially trying to say that he's not going to be Epstein'd.
tim pool
He was saying that the risk for assassination is real.
I want to talk about this next story to the best of my abilities and explain why.
I have a tweet.
And y'all have been lighting up the chat about it.
I said, there's a 9mm bullet lodged in my kitchen now.
I can't say I'm surprised this happened after the wave of doxing and threats made against us.
I can't reveal too much of the details about what happened, but this morning I got word that my house had been... I don't know what the right word is.
Burglarized is the legal term, but people typically think burglary implies theft of goods.
There was no theft.
There was reportedly two men who broke in, climbed through a window, One of our staff members on site yelled out, let me just say very carefully, a shot was fired.
The individuals were nearly struck.
They fled.
They left behind a wallet and an ID, which is very, very strange.
Nothing appears to have been missing, and we don't know what this was about.
Okay.
Entirely possible that this was a random occurrence.
Considering we've been swatted so many times, considering we have active threats, and the far left has been posting, uh, let's just say posting an address that they believe is my house, it's not, uh, on the internet excessively, The first thing we thought was seems like it may be random or localized.
And then after going over the scenario, talking with some individual security, for instance, we were like, okay, actually, it seems like this might actually be political, because the things we would expect from a burglary, a typical burglary in the area didn't happen.
The property in question is large, with multiple buildings on it, and without giving too many details away, we ultimately concluded that your typical robbery wouldn't occur in a situation like this.
I don't know exactly what happened, you know, we just know that it did.
That's what's been reported by, well, we have the police report that was filed, the police took evidence, and the reason why I want to bring this up is that I've been talking about, I talked about this last week, We've been swatted several times, and we've not reported it.
Everybody knows that we've been swatted over a dozen times at the bomb squad here and everything like that.
And we keep being told by people, don't say anything.
Don't let anybody know what's happening.
And the first time I heard that, I'm like, that's kind of odd.
Like, shouldn't we let people know that there are people trying to murder us?
Because then, like, I don't know, it just feels like if something happens, no one will be prepared for it.
We should be like, hey guys, these threats are real.
They're happening.
And what we kept being told was, if you say it, it will keep happening.
And I'm like, okay.
You know what?
I agree.
It's a tired narrative.
So we actually stopped mentioning that the swattings were happening.
Guess what?
They still keep happening.
Guess what?
After all the death threats and threats against us, I don't blame Elon Musk.
You know, I was thinking about reaching out to him being like, dude, There are people posting addresses for me, Matt Walsh, and a variety of people, and they are spamming them en masse like crazy.
There's got to be some way of getting rid of this.
But I'm like, what do you really do?
How do you really deal with this?
So now my attitude is basically this.
The left came out, and we'll talk about the story in a second, and said that a Transformer substation was shot up by far-right wingers trying to shut down a drag performance.
Every single time something happens, Jussie Smollett 2.0, they claim the far-right the far-right.
Last week, one of our guests said, if you go to the average person and ask them who's more likely to commit political violence, a left-winger or a right-winger, they will tell you outright a right-winger, despite the fact that it's substantially more likely to come from the left, just in every capacity.
I know the ADL has their weird rankings, but they claim that black nationalists are left-wing and white nationalists are right-wing, and none of that makes sense.
And I think that there's a reason for it.
How often does Ben Shapiro talk about the threats that he gets?
Rarely, if ever.
How often does your typical antifa talk about the threats they get?
They won't shut up about anything.
They get a DM where someone says you're fugly and they'll post it and say, I'm under attack, they're trying to kill me.
So what happens?
The narrative you start seeing in mainstream conversation is the left is constantly being threatened and the right is fine.
When in reality, this stuff is happening to us, so I don't know if this incident in question was political, but I find it hard to believe it's a coincidence it's happened around the time that people have been spamming, you know, people have been posting on Twitter that we shouldn't be allowed to live comfortably.
But I don't know what you guys think.
What are your thoughts?
luke rudkowski
The story is a little perplexing because it sounds like...
I'm not gonna...
We gotta be careful.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not gonna, you know, I know the drill.
I've been through this before.
This has been our entire career.
This is nothing new.
I mean, except the levels of intensity just keeps getting higher and higher.
But I was going to say, this is either a case of the wet bandit from Home Alone or just someone messing with us, just deliberately trying to intimidate and scare us.
I think, you know, again, who knows what's really going on here.
I think a lot of the things are done to confuse people.
It could be a bunch of idiots.
You know, poverty is increasing, a lot of people are poor, a lot of people are desperate, but the official story of what happened doesn't really add up to that, doesn't really make sense, and the idiocy of it doesn't really make sense at all, especially with the identification card.
tim pool
Yeah, that right away.
luke rudkowski
That right away, there's like, okay, either they're the lowest IQ idiots of all time, the dumbest criminals of all time, Or someone's deliberately trying to, you know, send a message.
ian crossland
Well, remember when the planes hit the World Trade Center, a passport fell out of the burning explosion and fell down to the ground.
That's how they found the terrorist that did it.
tim pool
That's a good point.
It may just be that this guy who broke in had a wallet with nothing but a single ID in it.
And my understanding is the ID wasn't even in it.
When they fled.
So that means he climbed in and just said, oh, I better check my wallet for my ID, and took it out, placed it down, looked at it, and then had to flee the building.
ian crossland
How convenient that now we have an identification and someone to go after.
How convenient.
unidentified
Very weird.
ian crossland
I don't like this.
I don't like talking about it publicly, but what I will talk about is the victim mentality, because I know what you mean about people claiming, oh, they hurt me, they're violent towards me.
But you never hear Ben.
You don't hear Ben Shapiro say when he gets doxxed.
You don't hear Disney say when they get doxxed, because entertainment companies get doxxed.
That's what happens.
That's why they have big walls around their studio.
But at some point, I don't like playing the victim card.
I don't like being like, I got hit today, everybody.
Look how sad I am.
Oh, I got hurt today, everyone.
Look at me.
Look at me.
But at some point, I mean, it's worth being honest about what's happening, not complaining about it.
It's just the nature of the entertainment industry.
tim pool
There's one reason I tweeted about it when I heard, right?
So I wake up in the morning and phones are going nuts because it happened at 7 a.m.
Like I wake up and like I'm in bed getting up getting ready and it's literally happening.
I wasn't at this property in question.
And I said, look, I've told people, please, for the love of all that is holy, if you hate my guts, if you don't want me to be alive, whatever, do not come to my properties.
You're allowed to hate me.
You can hate me all you want.
But if you come to these properties, there is a strong possibility you will lose your life.
No one is going to sit back and be like, well, despite all the death threats, I'm going to give this person the benefit of the doubt as they shatter the window and climb through.
I don't know what they're doing, but, you know, let's just ask them politely.
That's not what any of our security guys are going to do.
No, the security guys, you're lucky if you're uninjured when you leave.
Those guys, they're probably hurt.
So that's the main reason I was like, you know, I talked about it and said, I think I should put that out just so that, like, I can make sure this is loud and very clear.
You know, I do not want anyone getting hurt.
And if you come here... So, we have people trying to troll, we have stupid games, and there's a reason why... You know, who knows?
Some morons, you know, coming up, I have no idea.
But, uh, I just, you know, I have to wonder about... With all of this going on, the other significant portion of the story is that... It's been a year since we, uh, the SWATtings began.
And we've been swatted on average more than once per month, sometimes twice.
Where's law enforcement?
I've tried reaching out to some.
The amount of crimes that have been committed against us in terms of violent and as well as what I'd consider like white collar crimes, if we could talk about it, people would crap their pants.
But we can't because active investigation stuff, law enforcement, but for some reason nothing's being done about it.
I think I realized something.
A scary thing.
Marjorie Taylor Greene was swatted, what, six times?
Six?
She's a sitting member of Congress.
You mean they can do nothing to protect a sitting member of Congress?
Okay, well that says everything right there.
The courts and law enforcement are incapable of actually maintaining social cohesion at this point.
We hear all of these stories about the summer of love, the deaths from Antifa, 30 plus people dead from Antifa, and there's zero accountability towards any of it.
Sounds to me like maybe it's not civil war in the sense that people expect, as we often say, like two sides fighting.
It's just a collapse of social cohesion.
The FBI, the DOJ are working with big tech to benefit the Democrats.
They're not going after the people protesting in front of the justices' homes.
They are going after pro-life activists.
Social cohesion is shattered completely.
The courts aren't able to do anything.
The crimes are getting worse.
ian crossland
I wonder if they ever were able to do anything, and if it was always just, like, the visage of strength and force.
Like, the fear of threat of the cops.
They're so—there's, what, like, 30 cops and, like, 700,000 people?
They'll have, like, weird, you know, ratios like that.
Like, one cop to 700 humans.
You know, one cop can't stop nine guys.
Like, not realistically.
tim pool
Maybe that's it.
Maybe they've never been able to do it, you know?
But I don't know.
andrew gruel
Yeah, look, it's pretty scary, and I think that you actually bringing it up is smart in the sense of people understanding that there is a threat on the other side of this kind of, like, fictitious wall that everybody wants to cross to try and scare, whether it's you or somebody else.
And I think you can see it in California, right?
So I'm in Huntington Beach, which is Orange County.
Up in Los Angeles, there was this huge kind of rash of all these grabbing, you know, smashing grabs into the jewelry stores where they just, they come in, they grab everything, and there were certain situations where people would fight back.
Well, then they start to move into Orange County.
Now, Orange County is notorious for being very different politically than Los Angeles, a little bit looser on the concealed carry laws.
What happens when they come and they hit Huntington Beach?
They go into a jeweler, which is right down the street from us.
The guy has a concealed carry, pulls his gun out, shoots three of them.
There was four different cars because they do these in these big groups.
Well, you know what I never heard of again after that?
A smash and grab in Orange County.
serge du preez
Yeah, very true.
But you hear about them in Beverly Hills, you hear about them in Bel Air, everything like that.
andrew gruel
Oh yeah, they're still happening all the time.
I mean, they're happening up in L.A.
like, I mean, it's just kind of an everyday thing now.
You know, people, now actually they have tourists that go to L.A.
and they're just sitting waiting to see if they can videotape a smash and grab instead of going to, no, I'm just kidding.
serge du preez
Yeah, you'll get lucky one day, there's enough.
luke rudkowski
Jordan Peterson talks about this a lot more eloquently than I could ever can, saying if you are prepared for violence, the likelihood of violence coming your way is reduced.
Essentially saying if you learn self-defense, you will learn how you absolutely don't need it in many instances.
You know, a lot of the stuff out in the streets is a lot of the times when it comes to confrontation and fights, a lot of it is ego, a lot of it is just people not knowing when to walk away, but when someone comes into your house, I mean, that's another level.
That's another thing to really kind of take seriously.
You know, people should always have the right to defend themselves, but also know exactly what they're doing.
They should receive training, and they should take the situation very seriously.
Because, you know, as time goes on, I think it's only fair to say that, especially in major city areas, people are going to become more poor.
A lot of them are going to become more desperate.
And a lot of the major cities are going to become a lot more lawless, and the only person you could really depend on yourself for defending yourself is you.
unidentified
Yeah.
luke rudkowski
No one else.
ian crossland
The people that want to hurt, kill violently don't care about the Constitution.
They're going to get a weapon and do it.
You can't stop that.
The Constitution protects people from legally defending themselves.
The Second Amendment particularly.
Like, the threat of retaliation is what has protected the United States for a hundred thousand years.
But, like, the reason why people aren't dropping drones... I mean, there has been attacks on, you could argue, on the United States.
9-11 being an instance.
Of someone attacking the United States.
But it's the fact that we're all armed and ready to just snap back with nuclear weapons, with you name it, orbital strikes.
People do not mess with that because they don't want to get obliterated.
And it's the same with menial criminals on the street.
If they know you're packing, they're not going to touch you.
They're going to look for someone that's been legally muted and not able to have a weapon or something like that, or someone that's elderly or vulnerable.
You know, it's disgusting, but that's reality.
tim pool
This is what I can't understand about California, right?
I mean, if you're if you're one of these ultra wealthy celebrities with stalkers living in the hills, What, have they just got to hire like 50 armed guards around their house all the time?
Like, I don't know.
serge du preez
Why wouldn't you want to be armed?
I never understood that personally.
tim pool
Maybe the rich people are allowed to be armed, is that it?
andrew gruel
A lot of them are.
A lot of them just have massive walls, which, you know.
tim pool
Big, beautiful 30-foot walls.
andrew gruel
Yeah.
Big, big, big, beautiful, beautiful walls.
luke rudkowski
As they call for open borders.
ian crossland
I do like big walls.
I've come to really appreciate a large walled compound, or walls and fences and gates around your house.
I like it.
serge du preez
You'd love South Africa, man.
ian crossland
Everybody's walled in?
serge du preez
Oh, it's walls, it's fences, it's everything.
ian crossland
Is that because it's like post-colonialism or something?
luke rudkowski
Crime is pretty serious there, right?
serge du preez
Yes, crime in South Africa is rather serious business.
tim pool
And can you have guns?
serge du preez
Yes, and you can get guns relatively easily, but yes.
ian crossland
Legally protected, people can be armed in South Africa?
serge du preez
Um, I don't know for sure.
Probably not, but everyone has private security anyway, so.
tim pool
Yeah, isn't it like there's like private police, basically, because they're so big?
unidentified
Yes.
tim pool
Companies are so big?
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
What is that like?
serge du preez
Basically, everyone has private security, because the police force doesn't really work.
Or, in some cases, the police force works, but they won't come out, or they're like, oh, it's too dangerous, or it'll be like, oh, we'll be there, but they'll be there in 40 minutes, and by that time, you know.
Things have already elapsed.
It's been in your better interest to have weapons and have firearms and be ready to protect yourself at all costs because, you know, the SA police force is not going to be there.
luke rudkowski
They did the same thing in Detroit, I believe.
I believe there's a full report of individuals just hiring private security that was armed and them doing a lot better job than police officers that, of course, are giving people tickets and generating revenue for the state or shutting down small businesses for daring to defy lockdowns.
ian crossland
How do you guys handle restaurant security?
And you don't have to be specific if it's all under the, you know, behind closed doors conversation.
But what do you guys do?
andrew gruel
Yeah, no, that's actually a great question.
Because restaurants are targeted pretty heavily, especially given the cash nature of restaurants.
And then, of course, you know, the fact that there's so many people that actually go into the restaurants.
And the reason why I say that's a risk now is because actually they're targeting places where there are a lot of people with handbags and jewelry, etc.
And they're just robbing everybody in the restaurant.
So, you know, Cameras look you know chefs with a ton of knives and most of them have psychological disorders That's I wouldn't want to cross that line, but
tim pool
You know what I think is kind of happening is there's a distributed denial of service in terms of crime occurring.
Crimes, we see these videos of people shoveling stuff into bags at Walgreens or Target or whatever.
Rampant violent crime in New York skyrocketing everywhere.
It's so much crime happening at once that not a single one can actually be solved.
So, you know, if crime is at a certain level, the police are able to prosecute and arrest and stop some of it.
But once it goes slightly above that level, You got 10 phone calls, and they're all saying, I gotta deal with this problem, and the cops are like, yeah, we can't.
I mean, first of all, if the cop was going to arrest that guy, that guy, that guy, that guy, that guy, that guy, that guy, that guy, they'd have to go and testify to each of those instances in court several times.
Not always, sometimes it's like open and shut case, but it's just impossible.
Like you were mentioning, 30,000, 40,000 cops in New York City to 13 million people in the metro, 2.5 million in Manhattan.
andrew gruel
it's impossible to deal with and then and then if you throw in even the
slightest sophistication to the crime itself when i a dealing with a whole nother level we had a we had
a a team member who was a scammer we didn't know it total con artist
and it was ripping us off for thousands of thousands of dollars
i'd believe the story was in a prosecutor first and we got uh... the
police involved they were like oh this isn't they've done it before look at their background this nice
I said, let's go after them then.
We've got to stop this dead in the tracks, etc., etc.
And they're like, oh, we're not going to do anything about it.
unidentified
Right.
andrew gruel
Like, well, you know how much manpower that takes and the case that we have to make and keep, as you said, go back, go back.
So even if it's, you know, the slightest bit of sophistication where it requires more than 30 minutes or there's not a literal smoking gun, you're right, bye-bye.
luke rudkowski
And it's not just like minor crimes.
It's not just home invasions.
It's also murders.
It's also people, men, forcing themselves on women.
It's also assaults in the adult nature.
There's horrible crimes that go unpunished because the cops are like, well, we just can't do anything.
Or some cops just don't feel any initiative or have no reason to actually stop or try to prevent or trying to get any justice at all.
There's no reason for them to.
tim pool
I was talking to a lawyer about the swattings and about Marjorie Taylor Greene.
And I said, what is the process for dealing with federal crimes?
He said, of course, you contact the U.S.
attorney in the area where, you know, the crime is being committed or whatever.
And I said, so we've got 14 or 15 swattings at this point.
Bomb squad shut up twice.
Studio's been evacuated.
How do they have nothing?
And not only that, but we actually have a ton of evidence.
We have a ton of circumstantial evidence, statements made by potential suspects, and, you know, other stuff I don't want to reveal too much because I don't want anyone to realize exactly what we have.
And they're just like, oh yeah, yeah, they look at it and they're like, wow, that is compelling.
FBI is underfunded, understaffed, and uninterested.
And I'm like, okay, but they can go after, they can go to Roger Stone's house at 3 in the morning or whatever, or they can, yeah, they can do this kind of stuff where they arrest some, they raid the home of some lady in, was it FBI who raided the home of some lady in Alaska because they thought she was at January 6th or something?
luke rudkowski
Yep.
tim pool
Yeah, they can do stuff like that, they can go after 12 agents, they can go after a pole rope at a garage.
serge du preez
Oh yeah, I remember that one.
tim pool
But we can't be like, here's a stack of evidence from a private security company, we think we know who's doing it, and they're like, sorry.
ian crossland
In times of like a golden age, where we were in like a time of insane prosperity from 1970 to now, you know, in the United States, where you could call the police and they'd come to your house and be like, what's wrong?
Can I help you?
If society starts to break down in any fashion, defer to the Constitution.
You have the First Amendment and the Second Amendment to back you up.
You have the right to defend yourself and your property in this country.
tim pool
I want to jump to this next story, but real quick, I just want to say, as of 8 p.m., news broke that Kirstie Alley has passed away.
ian crossland
Aw, man!
tim pool
Yeah.
A tweet on Kirstie Alley's page says, sad to inform that our fierce loving mother has passed away after a battle with cancer.
So rest in peace.
Someone superchatted and I was kind of like, what?
You know, because I have to just joke.
And then I pulled it up.
Yeah.
So rest in peace.
Sad to hear.
ian crossland
Yeah, I was gonna say that I loved Look Who's Talking as a movie, but it's like, you know what, Christy?
God bless you, my man.
Woman, love you.
Your family, everybody out there in the alleys, whatever your last names are, love you guys.
Sorry to hear, but beautiful human.
luke rudkowski
Well, life is short.
You gotta cherish every moment you have, and you gotta protect it, too.
tim pool
That's right.
Let's jump to this story from TimCast.com.
Drag show protester questioned by police after intentional vandalism cuts power to 40,000 North Carolina residents.
Police have yet to name a suspect or announce a potential motive.
So the first story is, shootings at power substation cause North Carolina outages.
Holy crap.
I mean, that's really what they're saying.
Two power substations in North Carolina were damaged by gunfire and was being investigated as a criminal act, causing damage that could take days to repair and leaving tens of thousands of people without electricity.
A protester who was protesting the drag events posted on Facebook, the power is out in Moore County and I know why.
Emily Grace Rainey wrote on Facebook, on our Facebook page, according to the Daily Beast, around the same time she posted a photo of the Sunrise Theater, the venue holding the sold-out drag show.
She's in the caption, God will not be mocked.
So police apparently met with this woman.
She said that she's sorry for wasting their time, and what she meant to say was that God works in mysterious ways.
The implication was more so that the power went out because the Lord was angry, not that they had any information that right-wingers were attacking a power substation, which sounds really stupid as it is.
A bunch of conservatives being like, I know how to turn off the power in a single location.
Shut down the entire grid!
Makes no sense.
But what does matter I'm not saying all this, as I mentioned earlier in my other show, to be a black pill.
I'm just saying this is happening.
it is true, or at the very least they're pushing the idea without merit.
The police have even said it's not the case.
They're posting on Twitter.
The escalation is happening.
I'm not saying all this, as I mentioned earlier in my other show, to be a black pill.
I'm just saying this is happening.
And I often point out, when we were seeing these stories four years ago, where the left
would accuse a right-winger of doing something, I'm like, you realize it doesn't matter if
They believe it anyway.
Even when you can prove it.
Covington kids, Russiagate, hands up, don't shoot.
They don't care.
So what happens in a situation like this, where not only now do we have escalation, not only now do we have, you know, Elon Musk saying he's afraid he's gonna die, you have the far left outright saying right-wingers are shooting up substations and acts of terror.
ian crossland
One thing I try to do is to, if and when I come into contact with people that believe stuff like that, I try to have the same amount of amazement when they find out they're wrong, to kind of empathize with their amazement as they're realizing, oh, it wasn't targeted.
And then I'm like, okay, I get it now, and I feel what you're feeling.
As opposed to being like, you idiot, of course it wasn't targeted.
Just be there with them while they realize that they were not seeing the truth at the time.
That's one, you know.
luke rudkowski
But they're jumping to conclusions.
It's not a truth.
It's automatically everything is right-wing.
It's them.
It's the political opponents.
That kind of deranged lunacy is dangerous.
It's not, you know, an individual who's critically thinking or assessing information.
That's actually, you know, the responsible adult thing to do here is wait until we have evidence.
Now we're trying to weaponize everything.
It could be a lunatic.
It could be a crazy person.
It could not even be politically motivated.
It could be just some guy or some kid being like, hey, look what I could do.
You know, just some deranged individual.
Who knows?
tim pool
I gotta be honest.
It sounds more likely to be climate change activists and Antifa than a right-winger who was upset with one drag event.
You've got people like Greta Thunberg.
How dare you?
They want to shut the power off.
luke rudkowski
They want to get rid of oil.
They want to get rid of energy.
They want to literally create human calamity style events that would devastate humanity, kill millions of people, all because they don't like oil.
andrew gruel
Let me throw out a hypothetical.
What if, in protest to all these drag events, the right wing actually started to throw paint on classic paintings that were worth millions of dollars?
How would that be covered?
tim pool
Yeah, I don't think anyone's happy about that, to be honest.
Like, you know, they're getting mocked by everybody, the people doing that over the climate change stuff.
andrew gruel
The guy who's funding a ton of it is a massive well-known Hollywood producer.
He's put like three to four million dollars into the organization that is actually doing this.
It's pretty funny.
And I bring that up because of the hypocrisy of somebody who celebrates art as this big Hollywood producer.
luke rudkowski
He learned how to weaponize autism and mental illness.
Very effectively.
And these children, you know, clearly show us that there is a mental health crisis.
Clearly believe, they have been so scared that the world is ending, because we have politicians like AOC that go on the bully pulpit, and like, the world's going to end in eight years.
Again, not even quantifying real data, not even going after anything legitimate.
But just making things up out of thin air, just to radicalize, just to scare people, and then we have these effects of it, which would bring on more pain and suffering to humanity than we could even imagine, which is crazy.
But it's interesting to see who finances a lot of this stuff.
It's interesting to see the result of this.
It's interesting to see the news coverage of this, because, you know, they've been trying to push through a lot of these lockdowns, a lot of these restrictions.
They're going to be testing some of them out in the United Kingdom for many years now.
They couldn't never do it, but Then, you know, COVID happened.
And now, COVID is surely looking like it's going away, so they need something else to, of course, bring on the trauma-based mind control.
tim pool
I want you guys to imagine something.
John Brown's raid on the Harper's Ferry armory.
He made one critical error.
He let a train leave.
When John Brown and his crew raided the armory, they basically took it.
They had it.
Information could not travel.
But, a train was passing through, and they knew what was going on, but he let him go.
The train, I think, made its way to Baltimore, I could be wrong about the details, but it basically got out, informed the authorities, who then quickly mustered their forces, and then headed to the Harper's Ferry to stop this.
Basically, John Brown was trying to cause like a slave uprising or something to that effect.
And I'm just thinking about this.
Today's day and age, Information is instant.
Something happens, the tweet goes out.
But I'm just thinking about what it must have been like to be on that train, knowing you were the only person carrying the message of this attack, and that if you don't make it in five hours' time, or however long it took, two or three hours, to the city to inform law enforcement, they would take this city, they would have it, and that would be the end of it.
It's a crazy concept.
andrew gruel
Is this a metaphor for Twitter Files 2.0?
tim pool
No, it's just understand how vastly different things have become and how that's having an impact on politics.
ian crossland
Yeah, it used to be that you would try and prevent the truth from getting out.
Governments would spend time subverting and putting people in prison and things like that.
Now it's impossible.
Now the idea is to put out so much fake information that the truth blends in and you can't tell what's what.
andrew gruel
And this isn't just limited to politics, right, because I'm obviously going to bring a culinary angle to this, but let me just... It comes to food too.
So many headlines people read about food are wrong, and then it affects their dining choices for 10 to 20 years.
I've actually gone to the extreme of saying that Because of the government headlines about eating seafood being a bad thing, because of all this hypothetical mercury and PCBs, which actually nobody's ever died of mercury poisoning, we eat less seafood, instead we eat more meat and chicken, which is high in omega-6 fatty acids, which is the seed oil issue, which is your inflammation, and therefore people are dying at a younger age because of that.
It happens in food, it happens in every single industry, and the people who perpetuate these lies, it's the mainstream media.
Because yes, you're always going to have people on the right or the left who are going to Go out there and tweet obviously outrageous headlines, but when it gets picked up by the media and then basically adds credibility to it, and then they go on with that lie, well that's when this social cohesion, the fabric starts to rip at the seams, and then we all believe the lie, or many of us do.
tim pool
So you're saying I should just eat nothing but raw salmon?
andrew gruel
You should eat as much seafood as you can.
unidentified
Really?
andrew gruel
Six of the eight leading causes of death in the United States can be alleviated through the healthy consumption of omega-3 fatty acids, mainly found in seafood.
ian crossland
Is there any problem with overdoing scallops?
andrew gruel
Scallops?
Well, you might be a little bit higher in cholesterol, but then just cut back on something else.
luke rudkowski
See, there's a reason I love oysters, and there's so much propaganda against them.
andrew gruel
Oysters are vegan.
What?
ian crossland
How is that?
luke rudkowski
Oysters are plants?
ian crossland
Oh, no!
Stop it!
luke rudkowski
You're going to ruin them for me!
Are they not animals?
No!
andrew gruel
Well, think about it.
They actually have a negative effect on the environment because they're filter feeders, so they clean the environment, so they have a negative effect, right?
I mean, in a good way.
And then there's no vertebrae.
They're not sentient in any capacity.
They're basically vegetables.
luke rudkowski
That's like eating someone that's... Don't insult them this way.
Stop it.
andrew gruel
Which is why it's delicious.
luke rudkowski
They're delicious.
andrew gruel
We should be eating more oysters.
ian crossland
The poor oysters right now are screaming out for real recognition.
andrew gruel
Through filter feeding, yeah.
I mean, you can clean entire estuaries just with oysters alone.
If you took a hundred oysters and put it in a Big fish tank full of dirty water and then watch over the next day or so, that water will be clean.
And all of the dirt, you think, well then it must be going into the protein in the food that I eat.
No, it doesn't.
It actually goes into the shell, which is then calcified and then you can use that shell ground up as fertilizer or nutrients and soil when you do some sort of organic farming.
It's a completely closed loop.
There's so many solutions to the problems, they say, that are out there that nobody wants to consider.
luke rudkowski
There's a lot of conflicting data when it comes to high cholesterol.
We should talk about that in just a little bit.
But if we could just stay on topic here just a little bit.
andrew gruel
Sorry.
luke rudkowski
No, no, no.
unidentified
No, no, no.
luke rudkowski
You made a very good point saying, you know, people hear one thing and people jump to conclusions without actually doing the work towards understanding something fully, especially when it comes to diet.
I think that's one of the most misunderstood things when it comes to our mainline society.
Especially with the obesity crisis that we're all dealing with right now and how people are getting absolutely wrecked and destroyed because of the disinformation and because of the poison that's out there.
I also think there's a lot of, you know, just like we should be careful about what we put into our bodies, we should be careful about what we put into our minds.
And I think a lot of these people have been so traumatized by the echo chambers, by the, what's the circles called?
Not family-friendly circles, of thought that happened on social media, that they've been so radicalized that automatically something bad happens, they're going to point to their political opposition as the main reasonable force behind everything ill and wrong in this world.
Just like the Club Q shooting.
Again, that story went away very quickly.
Why isn't anyone talking about it anymore when there was a certain agenda behind it?
Now that the agenda has been questioned somewhat, automatically the story's just dropped by the corporate media when they were talking about this thing like it was the end of the world.
Come on.
There's a lot of things to really consider here and especially question.
tim pool
Let me bring these stories together, because we have a story here.
This is from TimCast.com.
Police raid Virginia restaurant that defied COVID orders.
Owner says state officials tried to strip him and his guests of their constitutional rights.
The long story short, in Fredericksburg, there is Gormelt's.
I'm sorry, Gormelt's is the name of the place, right?
And it's a business that refused to shut down during the lockdowns and the masks and all that stuff.
So they are trying to take away the liquor license.
They say police officers entered a Fredericksburg, Virginia restaurant and executed a warrant to confiscate alcohol and records pertaining to the sale of alcohol after the state's Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, ABC, revoked the restaurant's liquor licenses following the owner's refusal to follow mandates issued during the COVID pandemic.
The restaurant's owner, Matt Strickland, had his alcohol license suspended for 90 days in September after they ruled he willfully and knowingly ignored mandates.
So I wake up and I watch this video where these cops are going in and they're basically shutting him down serving this warrant.
I think he got like a 90-day suspension and my first edit, I got two things to say on this and then we'll expand because you've certainly, you know, been dealing with this stuff.
One, You should watch this video, and you should share the video, and if you live in Fredericksburg, you should tell everybody you know these cops are not welcoming your business.
If they want to destroy a man's life because of unconstitutional edict, they don't deserve a hot dog from your store.
They don't deserve a new sweater.
They don't deserve a cheeseburger.
It is non-violent civil disobedience that solved this problem.
Let these officers know you are shunned.
Look, Antifa likes to say this stuff, but they don't run businesses, they don't have jobs.
Some of them do, I get it.
But the cops aren't worried about that.
I'll tell you what they are worried about.
When you have the back the blue people, the MAGA people, the last line of people actually defending the police, and then the cops want to pull something like this, simply say, Officer, thank you for your service, now get out of my store, I will not serve you.
And then see how long, then you're the cops being like, look, I'm not shutting this business down, I'll never be able to show my face in this town again.
It used to be that way.
People used to fear that.
No, if I do that, Mayor, they'll never show my face.
Nope, now they don't care.
So, this guy films them?
unidentified
Good.
tim pool
The second thing I'm going to say is, Luke, on Saturday, do you want to go down to Fredericksburg?
luke rudkowski
Let's do it.
tim pool
Let's do it.
luke rudkowski
Let's support this business, and let's support the people who are doing the good things, and when they're punished unjustly, we should try to do everything we can to help out during those situations.
tim pool
I imagine, what can we do?
Peaceful, organizing, just to highlight this stuff.
And I think highlighting is the first thing, and I think, you know, maybe I'll go down and take a tour of Fredericksburg, see what's going on.
Maybe, you know, we can reach out to this guy Matt, see what's up, and ask him about what happened, and then get the full details, and maybe keep shining a light on this stuff.
ian crossland
You guys should see the video, and if you haven't seen it, you should watch it as we're talking right now, so you understand what's happening.
unidentified
I mean, you could see the shame on some of these cops' faces.
You're not here to discuss whether or not they're on cops'...
You're just here to do your job, right?
And you're going to enforce that regardless, right?
So you're part of the problem, man.
I want you to know that.
You're part of the problem.
You're part of the problem.
Everybody in here, every one of you, man.
What's going on in this country right now?
The reason that we're in the situation we're in as the United States of America, you're part of the problem, sir.
So you can't complain about what the President's doing.
You can't complain about the state that the country's in right now.
You can't complain about how screwed up it is.
You're part of the problem, sir.
You're just doing your job.
So many people were just doing their job for Hitler back in Germany.
You as well, sir.
That goes for you as well.
That goes for you as well.
That goes for all of you.
That goes for all of you, man.
There's no excuse.
There's zero excuse.
Just doing my job, that's not an excuse anymore, man.
That's not an excuse.
tim pool
And you know what?
You know why these cops don't care?
Because they know literally nothing will happen.
I should say, they think.
And maybe the simple reality is just say, first of all, I want to be careful here.
I want to make sure I stress this point.
The Covington kids, a video comes out, they accuse these kids of wrongdoing.
We don't know for sure.
So we have the general story here.
This has been an ongoing thing.
And the general idea, they shut this guy down over refusing to abide by the unconstitutional mandates.
Now, the cops, years later, when the mandates aren't in place anymore, are coming after him and causing damage to his life.
I want to make sure we're careful, because I'll say this.
Make sure you look into this.
Don't be a knee-jerk reactionary like the left was at the Covenant Kids.
But, assuming all the reporting we have is true, then you should simply say to these officers, uh, you're not welcome in my place of business.
I don't want you coming around my family.
I don't want you in my church.
You are evil people.
It's the banality of evil.
But, uh, Chef Gruel, I mean, you defied, or I should say, you spoke out against, so, and what are your thoughts seeing this story?
andrew gruel
Well, you know, and I think that's—thank you for kind of clarifying, because you're right, you don't know the backstory here.
But just looking at that video in and of itself, I can only imagine that it's nothing too serious, because number one, if this guy was doing anything that was criminal, he'd be arrested immediately.
If he was doing something that was a violative of any health standards, he would be shut down immediately, gas would be cut from his stores.
There would be messaging out there so assuming that this is the limitations on this you know two years previous I mean that's just absurd and the absurdity in general of a lot of these mandates as I've talked about for the past two years and have been punished for doing so it people understand it now right so you kind of have this reverse process where now the government which is typically behind the times they are so far behind the times that you have All people of both parties looking at the absurdity of what went down during COVID in many cases, not all cases, that making the case that this just shouldn't be happening is a much easier case to make.
But yet it's still happening.
I cannot.
I mean, two years later, that is absolutely nuts.
You had mentioned about 10 minutes ago, you said, you know, it was COVID and now it's the next thing.
I don't think it's the next thing.
I think we're in act number 417 on COVID and I think the drama or the tragedy is going to continue forward and they're going to keep writing sequels to it with COVID being kind of the main hero here.
luke rudkowski
Well, they're going to try to milk this cow as much as they can, but we have to understand, with this particular case, looking into it, there was a long series of court cases, and there was a ruling that came down which now allowed the government to come in and seize their records.
And to seize their liquor license.
So this is what happened here and we have to understand the lunacy that people had to go through within the last few years.
How absolutely insane, how absolutely evil it was in California.
There was businesses that were padlocked.
There was restaurants that were shut down.
There was businesses that had electricity cut by the city because they dared to defy their Arbitrary lockdown orders.
Meanwhile, Walmart was allowed to be open.
Costco was allowed to be open.
All these big box stores with connections to politicians.
They were able to run their businesses.
Police officers came on grandma's door, knocked it down because she dared to keep her business open, even when she had an online business.
The stories that happen here in the United States should terrify people because it highlights the story of order followers doing what they're told, committing human rights violations against the people of this country.
tim pool
Real quick, sorry.
Matt Strickland, I see an individual, became a member of the channel right now, and it may be the Matt Strickland who's in this story.
So, Matt, if you are listening, I just followed you on Twitter.
Shoot me a DM if you want to say anything right now about this subject matter, and we'd love to meet up maybe this weekend, talk about what's going on.
But you were saying?
andrew gruel
Nice, I love that.
And that's the beauty of communication right there, if that's the case.
I was going to say that, you know, some of these stories truly underscore the indifference that government has for people.
You say the human rights issues.
So if you look in California, they shut down outdoor dining in the December of 2020, okay?
75 degrees and sunny in Southern California.
They shut down outdoor dining And then this was concurrent with the state of California saying, Oh, and by the way, you can't get any unemployment funds until January, February, because we've misappropriated $80 billion in unemployment funds.
So you shut down outdoor dining.
This is the truth of what happened.
All these people got fired.
80% of the restaurant industry in SoCal got fired.
Oh, and by the way, it's going into the holidays and Christmas, and you have no money because the unemployment funds aren't available.
You had people just left on the streets, which is why we started the fund to raise money.
We're driving around the night before Christmas handing out $500 checks and giving people their rent money because we had to raise the funds as individuals because the government wasn't going to do anything to help these people.
luke rudkowski
Meanwhile, what happened?
What was the result of these policies?
The rich became richer than they ever have before.
It was the policy that committed the largest transfer of wealth from some of the poorest, some of the most people, some of the few people left in the middle class to the richest billionaires that, of course, were able to keep their online businesses open.
They were able to do things that violated Health and cold protocols, but that didn't matter.
It was essentially a deliberate action.
I believe a lot of this was actually done on purpose to shut people down, to make sure that they won't have any wealth with their family members.
ian crossland
Yeah, it seems like it's like trying to get back at someone you don't like because they made you angry.
But in reality, law enforcement, there's an ethical quality to it.
If jaywalking is illegal, fine.
If you're out in the middle of the street because there's a little baby laying there and you're jaywalking to get that baby off the road, you're not going to get arrested.
You may have jaywalked.
They're not going to fine you for that one because you did the right thing in violation of the law.
Sometimes people see the forest through the trees, and just because there's a top-down creed doesn't mean that you have to fall in line.
Uh, so to go after people that stayed open during what they want to call a pandemic in a time that how many people, like how much death did keeping that restaurant create open create?
Let's find that out.
Cause if so, if they're, if they, if they murdered people with keep staying open, put them in prison.
But if they didn't, what the hell is going on?
tim pool
Sweden has, there's a tweet I put out a while ago, someone posted the data, Sweden's all-cause mortality, or whatever it's called, is like lower than most of Europe, and they had no lockdowns, or they had very, very limited restrictions.
So, we're looking at all this data, you can make an argument for Sweden's weather, they're further north, smaller population, maybe more spread out, but on the surface, you look at the data, and we don't see any strong, I mean, look at Florida.
luke rudkowski
I mean, Florida didn't lock down, Well, Donald Trump was telling Sweden to lock down, was saying Sweden was going to have a mass casualty event.
This was the President of the United States saying this, and he was absolutely wrong on a lot of these things.
As his administration started the two weeks to slow the spread nonsense, which again was absolutely ridiculous as the government Their only plan was to give you a $2,000 check, which they couldn't even give you out in a correct way.
They couldn't even get that right.
But what did that do?
That only indebted this country?
That only made people more reliant on government?
And it gave them not even a Band-Aid, it gave them It was like someone was on fire and the government spat on you.
That's exactly what I could kind of quantify to the government giving you a $2,000 check.
And some of the people were really happy.
They were like, yeah, it wasn't.
That money is going to have to be accounted for, paid for in some kind of way.
What we saw with these lockdowns, with these restrictions, was essentially the elites playing with everyone saying,
let's see how far we could push this.
Let's see how much we could torture them.
Let's see how much we could get away with them when it comes to
stealing everything from them, including their own businesses.
And seeing that was cruel and it was evil.
tim pool
I want you guys to remember when they published videos of a restaurant and I think it was Leesburg going outside and
grabbing cicadas off the wall, bringing them inside, cooking them,
and serving them to people.
This was very illegal.
ian crossland
Was it a food truck?
tim pool
No, no, it was a brick-and-mortar place.
And then they got told, they got shut down, like, you can't sell these cicada tacos anymore because you can't just take bugs off the street and then cook them and feed them to people.
That's what they had people doing.
Remember all of these news stories?
Eat the bugs!
Eat the bugs!
andrew gruel
Yeah, that was actually celebrated as being very avant-garde.
tim pool
Did you cook any bugs?
andrew gruel
No, we don't.
Well, first of all, I think that the idea of cooking cicadas is disgusting.
You're a chef!
And they're also a derivative of shrimp, so if you have a shellfish allergy and you're out there cooking cicadas to try and be cute, you're going to die if you eat a cicada taco, number one.
Number two, we don't know where these cicadas have been, and if you look at their life cycle, actually they're full of toxins, but that's okay, go ahead and eat the cicadas.
Oh, let me just say also, this clear statement, shutting down outdoor dining in Southern California killed people.
Yeah, absolutely.
Because of the fact that people weren't going out and sitting in an outdoor area to go out to eat with their friends and family.
Everybody needs to go out.
They need that social time.
What they did was they had private house parties in small enclosed areas instead, elderly people, etc.
And they got COVID and they died.
Eating outside in 75 degree weather we knew, scientifically, because we all saw the headlines that the protests outdoors were totally safe, right?
Remember that?
Totally safe.
But we shut down outdoor dining.
People died as a result of that.
ian crossland
I do not understand the outdoor dining shutdown.
Why?
Why did they do it?
andrew gruel
They said that, well, the answer was, they said that the image that it gives to people out celebrating and dining outdoors is that it's okay to be outside during COVID.
So you see how this is all about the image, the picture, the symbolism.
And I will give credit to the Orange County Sheriff's Department and all the police force in Orange County.
We did remain open outdoors and we continued to serve outside.
We got a ton of support.
Our sales were tripled and the police force said, you're good to go.
We're not going to enforce any of these rules.
So there are local jurisdictions where there are officers that are standing up and saying, look, we're not going to stand behind these absurd regulations or mandates.
And, you know, those are the places you got to seek out and celebrate.
luke rudkowski
It was arbitrary.
It was made up.
tim pool
Real quick, Matt just hit me up and he said that he guarantees 1000% the only reason they came after him was because he did not follow the COVID mandates.
And, you know, he'd like to come join us and talk about it more.
That'd be fantastic.
And thanks for hitting me up, brother.
I'm sick of seeing this stuff.
I'm sick of seeing all of these stories where, you know, we want to come out and be like the defund the police, like, well, not Luke, anyway, but the defund the police stuff goes too far.
There's a role for police.
The average person who's not an anarchist or hardcore libertarian probably likes the police, but we cannot tolerate the worst accesses of it.
Now, I know Luke's solution is typically like, no, it's all bad, just get rid of it.
luke rudkowski
The police are ineffective!
They have no incentive to actually provide you a service.
They have no incentive at all.
And majority of crimes go unsolved, especially when it comes to rapes, especially when it comes to homicides, especially when it comes to very serious situations, a lot of the times you're left on your own.
So why not just officially be on your own and be prepared to defend yourself?
ian crossland
The incentive, really, for a police officer is to protect its community, his or her community, because if your neighbors are getting attacked... So is this what these guys are doing?
Um, maybe they justified that, but I don't think so.
luke rudkowski
Do you feel protected when you're pulled over by a police officer on a motorcycle that's writing you a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt?
Do you feel protected, sir?
ian crossland
If I don't have a seatbelt, if I'm speeding and I get pulled over, I thank the cop, because I'm endangering the community.
tim pool
Nah, it looks right.
Sorry, man.
ian crossland
No, dude.
luke rudkowski
I mean, the seatbelt thing— They're on a motorcycle!
That's the point.
ian crossland
I've had it.
I had a cop, one time I had my cell phone up to my ear, and he pulled me over for having my cell phone up.
Thank you, officer.
I was like, oh, come on.
I pointed, I was like, come on.
And he went, I'm gonna throw you in jail if you do not pull over right now.
luke rudkowski
It's not for your safety, it's for them to generate revenue for the state.
ian crossland
People speeding are just out there to kill.
I don't think people should be speeding.
tim pool
Well, hold on, hold on.
Someone's speeding like, I don't know, 20, 15, 20 miles over, I understand.
But Luke's got a good point, let's break that down.
Like, you have to wear a seatbelt in your car, But the cop on a motorcycle is literally just sitting on this thing going 60 miles an hour, you know what I mean?
It is silly.
luke rudkowski
It's not for your safety.
ian crossland
Well, I think it is.
They'll pull you over, they'll be like, yo, put your seatbelt on, because if someone hits you, you're going to get killed, and I don't want to clean up a bloody body right now.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, but there's better ways of incentivizing those kind of policies.
tim pool
But he's on a motorcycle, right?
luke rudkowski
Yes.
ian crossland
He has to weave through traffic.
unidentified
No, but like has to speed up or go faster than you are a motorcycle and and you know
tim pool
It's what get through cars But what isn't it like one in like 20 20 to 25 percent of
people will suffer some kind of accident on a motorcycle I'll do my dad ran himself over with a motorcycle one time
You see like he's a little over the front and it went over him people should be allowed to motorcycle. I
Got a motorcycle. They're great fun But there is something that's inherently silly about a
motorcycle cop giving a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt Like you are safer without the seat belt in the car than
they are just on the motorcycle following all the regulations
luke rudkowski
And this is what a lot of the lockdowns were all about.
It's all about protecting.
It wasn't about protecting anyone.
It was literally Dr. Fauci and other health officials who weren't healthy.
A lot of them were obese.
A lot of them were disgusting.
A lot of them were just absolutely unhealthy beasts sitting there, eating their doughnuts, telling you, hey, you know, We'll give you free donuts if you do this, but you gotta also jump through our hoops that we're going to literally make up.
The documents came out from the Fauci emails, and a lot of these rules, they're like, hey, where did you think of these six feet?
Where did you think of these plexiglass?
Where's the science and logic behind it?
And they're like, oh, there's none.
There's absolutely none of that.
It's me just making things up as I go along, and the latest scientific data is highlighting how a lot of these protocols, a lot of these things actually made the situation that much worse, and more people got sick as a result of it.
tim pool
Right.
Let me tell you guys a story.
I told this before.
I was in Frederick, Frederick, whatever you pronounce it, Maryland, and this was during lockdown.
It was during mask mandates and all that stuff, and I went to get sushi, and I was with my girlfriend.
We walked into the sushi restaurant, We were standing probably about five or ten feet from a two-person table, and we walked in, and I was like, two?
And then they looked at me and said, you need to wear a mask.
And then I looked around at everyone, everyone, aside from the staff, no masks.
And I was like, um, excuse me?
Like, nobody's wearing masks.
I'm like, well, they're eating.
And I was like, oh, yes, I'd like to eat as well.
And they said, no, but put a mask on.
And I said, Are you serious?
Like, but they're not wearing masks right now.
Like, I'll just sit down, is that okay?
And they're like, no, put the mask on.
And then I said, you want me to wear a mask for 10 seconds?
Are you serious?
And they all go, everyone turns and goes, yes!
And I was like, I'm leaving.
Like, what is wrong with their brains?
There was 50 people sitting around with no masks on.
You know what I thought?
You know, I was in Frederick recently.
I'm walking around, I get a coffee.
And I thought, I made a mistake that day.
You know what I should have done?
I should have been like, oh, I'm sorry.
I should have taken the mask and just gone like this.
And just pulled it and held it right in front of my face.
Floating about an inch away.
And then just, you know, just, just, okay.
I'll sit down.
You want me to sit down?
I'll sit down and go, okay.
ian crossland
I should have just... Or grab a napkin or something at that point.
tim pool
Just cover your mouth with your... Just put your hand over your face.
ian crossland
What the heck?
I mean, the napkin and your... Yeah, it's gonna do the same thing.
Your hand and a napkin is gonna do the same thing that a cloth mask would do.
tim pool
I thought about that when I was there, and I said, you know, when you go to West Virginia, they did, the statewide had mask mandates for stuff, but, like, nobody was really following it.
It was kind of funny.
And so I just avoided any place in West Virginia that actually had a sign asking for masks.
I was like, this is stupid.
luke rudkowski
What did your restaurants do, if you don't mind me asking, and did you guys have to comply with the plexiglass that went up in price very significantly during this whole shenanigan nonsense theater that we had to go through?
andrew gruel
I've got a warehouse full of plexiglass right now.
I mean, it's like, plexiglass was in such demand, I ended up having to meet some guy behind a 7-Eleven at 2.30 in the morning.
You bought it out of the back of a Cadillac.
Is that true?
No, I'm kidding.
But Plexiglas was so hard to get, it was virtually impossible.
And we left it up to the consumer, and we had people leave because they were like, they're not wearing masks.
But we just let people decide what they wanted to do.
But now that we're talking about masks, let me throw a couple facts out there.
Three million masks are discarded worldwide every single minute.
Masks are made of polypropylene.
All of those masks All of them end up in the ocean.
unidentified
Yes.
andrew gruel
Guess what polypropylene breaks down into?
Microplastics.
So in California, okay, I have to now, they are mandating masks again in Los Angeles.
So I have to wear a mask.
tim pool
Recently?
andrew gruel
Yeah, yeah.
unidentified
Wow.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, they reinstated the mask.
andrew gruel
So they're mandating masks indoors, all right?
That mask is going to end up in the ocean, it's going to be microplastic, it's going to end up in our entire food system, and it's going to kill sea life.
Now, Alternatively, if I ask for a straw and a straw is given to me, both me and the person who gave it to me get a fine.
If it happens twice, it's criminalized and you can go to jail for it.
unidentified
Wow.
andrew gruel
So, you can't get the straw because you gotta save sea life, but you have to wear the mask to kill sea life.
tim pool
California.
ian crossland
Maybe this is a hot take, but I think that COVID particularly is spreading and has been spreading through the food supply, not through the air.
Or maybe it has been spreading through the air as well.
luke rudkowski
It's Ian's ice cream theory.
ian crossland
No, it's beyond that.
Now, from the Daily Mail, as of December 3rd, broccoli and raspberries could give you COVID.
Health experts warn after learning the virus can live on popular foods for as long as a week.
luke rudkowski
I think that's a little bit of a fear-mongering, personally, myself.
ian crossland
COVID was detected on peppers, ham, bread crust, and cheese for several days.
tim pool
Hold on, report the story.
Ian's not wrong.
Broccoli and raspberries could get you COVID.
ian crossland
On top of ice cream, which has also been reported by Newsweek.
One, it's the Daily Mail.
luke rudkowski
Two, the title is suggestive, saying it could.
Not that it would.
ian crossland
It's been found.
It's detected COVID on peppers, ham, bread crust, and cheese.
I mean, absolutely, the writing is on the wall.
From Newsweek, COVID-19 has now been found in ice cream.
This is from January of 21.
I think that it lives on food, but they don't want to cause panic.
andrew gruel
But the thing is, that could be scientifically true, but we know that COVID is a respiratory, so you have to breathe it in.
If it lives on the food, it's an active culture, but if you swallow it, then it's killed in your body.
I think it lives on pineapple pizza.
ian crossland
I mean, you could smell the food.
tim pool
So you're saying no one should ever order a pineapple pizza?
andrew gruel
Exactly.
ian crossland
If you smell food that has it on it, it could go into your lungs.
luke rudkowski
Well, if I could ask you, you just talked a little bit about the regulations in California.
I couldn't imagine.
I think it would be my worst nightmare in my life to open up a business in California.
What was it like operating business there?
What are some of the more insane regulations that you have to go through that the people don't know about?
andrew gruel
Well, keep in mind too, and it's different in different parts of California, because everybody's like, why are you still living there?
Well, number one, because somebody's got to be fighting in enemy territory.
And number two, There are certain areas where there's reason and there's logic and rationale, Orange County being one of them.
Los Angeles is incredibly difficult when it comes to opening a business, but I'll tell this one story, right?
So as I had mentioned, I started as a food truck in 2011 and then grew the enterprise.
I had no money to start the first brick and mortar.
I bought this old bagel shop.
It was a hole in the wall, but it was a turnkey situation.
The landlord was going to take a chance on me, and I think we ended up Raising like seventy thousand dollars to open this and I had no money after that not even a penny Right when we're about to open we do the kind of final walkthrough with health and they go Where's your grease interceptor the underground one, right?
And I said, oh, it's well, we're grandfathered in because I bought the lease.
It's an above-ground one They said yeah, but that kind of grandfather piece is gonna go away in a couple years So just put the underground one and I'm like, look I can't that's twenty twenty five thousand dollars They're like, yeah, we don't care.
You got to do it.
So I'm about to open so I I have to take out a high-interest loan that I paid off like 14 years later at, you know, 39% interest compounded every minute.
But the point is, $25,000 the day before my business is supposed to open, when there wasn't even a specific regulation, it was more just, well, it's going to have to happen, even though we were told everything was going to be okay.
That story kind of represents California.
luke rudkowski
Were they expecting a bribe?
Because it seems like a lot of mafioso-like people run a lot of these regulations, and they kind of expect some money underneath the table just to not implement whatever made-up nonsense they want to implement.
andrew gruel
That's more Jersey-style.
Jersey is, and I'm from Jersey, so I know that.
In California, it's just ineptitude.
In California, you're feeding the bureaucracy, and the bureaucracy feeds the bureaucracy.
It's kind of like a beast that eats itself.
ian crossland
Do you just love it there?
Is that why you're still there?
andrew gruel
Um, it is a beautiful place.
My wife was born and raised there, and my kids love it.
So, you know, I, uh... Where are you?
ian crossland
You're in, uh, not Long Beach.
Near Long Beach?
andrew gruel
Huntington Beach.
ian crossland
It's such an amazing area.
andrew gruel
I mean, it's gorgeous.
It is.
ian crossland
Manhattan Beach, Long Beach, Venice, up and down the boardwalk.
You can ride your bike.
I highly recommend everybody get a chance to visit at some point in their life.
It's so amazing.
tim pool
But why do you hate pineapple pizza?
andrew gruel
It's too wet, so it drizzles on the pizza.
I would do like a pineapple salsa with jalapenos to finish the pizza, but roasted in sweet and sticky pineapple releases way too much moisture and then it kills the dough if it sits there too long.
ian crossland
What if the pineapple's diced up super fine?
andrew gruel
Well, in the form of like a salsa that hasn't been cooked because then it won't release all that moisture.
ian crossland
What about dehydrated pineapple?
Too much work?
andrew gruel
No, actually, I like that.
This could be the compromise that people have been asking for.
You know, it's funny, I did.
I said I would never eat pineapple pizza, and I forget what it was about, and then Newsmax reached out to me and said, well, you said you wouldn't if X happened, so we want to do a live shot of you eating pineapple pizza on TV.
So we actually did it.
That was the second time and last time I'll eat pineapple pizza.
unidentified
Do you use seed oils?
andrew gruel
I try not to, although seed oils are hidden in a lot of different Yes.
Different places.
ian crossland
They're everywhere.
andrew gruel
That's where I go back to the omega-6s.
So seed oils are bad because you have this imbalance of omega-6 fatty acids that leads to inflammation and hypertension and a lot of other issues.
So if you actually eat more seafood, you can theoretically balance out that inflammation and have a couple seed oils.
Sorry.
tim pool
What about all the gluten stuff?
Right?
You know, a lot of people don't want to eat it.
I've actually, you know, so I cut out sugars about a year.
It's been like a year now?
It's crazy.
I can't believe how long it's been.
And I lost a lot of weight, but I cut out rice, too.
And I've been adding... So I went, like, way down to, like, no carbs.
Then I sort of tried things.
I remember, like, Michaela Peterson and Jordan Peterson were talking about eating nothing but meat.
And they said, well, at the very least, it's an elimination diet.
You get rid of everything and then slowly try things and see which one bothers you.
And ultimately what I found is it's not so much eating sugar.
Too much, obviously, messes me up.
On the days that I'll eat bread, the next day I feel foggy and groggy.
andrew gruel
Yeah, I mean it all affects... 90% of your neurotransmitters are in your intestines, right?
So obviously what we eat is related to our brains.
That's why people with irritable bowel syndrome take antidepressants, because they're one and the same.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, and this is why a lot of the gut problems are correlated with a lot of people taking SSRIs and antidepressants as well.
There's been something happening within our food industry that is absolutely, incredibly worrisome, especially when it comes to chronic diseases that are becoming more and more common.
Obesity rates have gone up 30% in the last 20 years.
Meanwhile, our calorie intake didn't really change that much.
So, people have to start asking themselves, what in the world is really going on here?
What do you make of all this?
What do you think, from being inside the industry, is responsible for a lot of this?
andrew gruel
Yeah, it is.
It's what the food is made up of.
It's obviously the food deserts, too.
You look in a lot of these inner cities, they have no access to whole foods, real foods, so they're eating empty calories.
So even if you look at it on kind of a calorie-by-calorie basis, there's superfoods and there's effective calories and then there's just kind of empty calories that Then ultimately affect the mind, which is probably what you were feeling the next day and that's a common feeling.
I think that people come down on this notion, this gluten-free movement as being just this kind of California hippie left-wing thing.
I think there is a genuine issue in our food system that's leading people to have more sensitivity to gluten.
What it is, I mean I could be conspiratorial and I could pin it to certain vaccines or I could just say it's They use it as a desiccant on wheat.
ian crossland
If your wheat's not organic, what they'll do is they'll spray it on there throughout the course of the wheat's life to prevent, I think it's a fungicide or is it a herbicide?
andrew gruel
It's an herbicide.
ian crossland
Yeah, to make sure you don't get weeds.
luke rudkowski
It's Bill Gates' favorite pesticide.
ian crossland
But then they go in right before they're about to harvest it and to dry out the wheat, they hit it with Roundup again as a desiccant, and then they harvest it really quick.
That's disgusting.
luke rudkowski
And now Bill Gates is making superglyphosate as, of course, the glyphosate and the bacteria resistance is starting to build up against it and not being as effective.
So now they're doing a stronger version of glyphosate.
And this is the latest corn video that Bill Gates kind of rolled out there recently with him sucking down on the corn cob.
You know, dancing and singing behind seats.
andrew gruel
You know what they originally used glyphosate for?
It started in the Reagan administration, and they actually were using it.
They would spray Colombian cocaine farms with the glyphosate to kill it, and then it would, sadly, it would leach into the water system, would leach into the surrounding communities, which were like smaller communities or indigenous communities, and then they saw 10, 15 years later, a lot of those people Yeah.
start developing different cancers and all these health ailments but it was
used by the US government to stop it was part of the drug war
now it's in all of our food I'd rather have the cocaine in our food
tim pool
yeah might as well who was it was it Elon Musk who tweeted that?
That's another thing, too.
luke rudkowski
Bring back Coke to CokeCon.
tim pool
Buy Coke to put the cocaine back in it.
unidentified
There's another chemical.
ian crossland
I don't want to talk right now.
tim pool
There's a whole bunch of garbage that they put in our food and everybody eats it.
That's another thing, too.
We have these glass bottles.
We have a bunch of those plastic water bottles I see you're drinking over there, but we also
have—we started buying a bunch of glass bottles to get away from the plastic ones
because of the phthalates, the PCBs, the PFAs or whatever.
It's crazy.
I kind of feel like we look back on history and we're like, did you know they used to drink mercury to deal with syphilis or whatever?
In 50 to 100 years they're going to be like, could you imagine they were actually using plastic for their food?
How messed up is that?
andrew gruel
It's such a good point.
You are entirely correct.
We will So much of what we're doing right now, we're going to look back on and be like, isn't that crazy?
Which is funny, because during COVID, everything was just agreed upon as pure fact.
You can't question it.
serge du preez
Trust the science.
ian crossland
Okay, so let's start.
luke rudkowski
I just want to bring up one more point, especially when it comes to microplastics that are now being found in people's lungs and blood.
This is something that, of course, is also a huge disruptor of your hormone system, and this is why a lot of people think that sperm levels and testosterone levels have gone down so much dramatically within the last few years.
Is there, I mean, there's no way of stopping it.
China just keeps getting all the plastic, dumping it into the ocean.
The United States just essentially just started doing the same thing.
The masks, again, lots of plastic just being thrown out there, people breathing it in, sucking all the plastic down there.
Is there a way of even avoiding this plastic?
I mean, we try to do, you know, glass bottles, but at the same time, everything else is in plastic.
All the food is wrapped in plastic.
All the cookware is laced with plastic.
All the things are nonstick plastic.
Is there a way of avoiding any of this craziness?
Because I'm just looking at everything that's happening, I'm like, there's no way of stopping it.
serge du preez
Dude, I mean, I use bamboo to cook my food, etc.
unidentified
And you can use like a skillet, you know, there's things you can do that are like... Well, yeah, I have a cast iron skillet as well, but then, you know, the food comes packaged in plastic.
serge du preez
Right, that's true.
No, I don't understand, don't understand.
luke rudkowski
Am I being too paranoid here or do you, like, what are you seeing from your observation?
andrew gruel
You know, I don't know in terms of where it's coming from in that particular scenario, right?
So if we have all these microplastics that are in our lungs, we're breathing that in.
So does that come from food?
Does it come from cooking?
Does it come from heat?
I just have no idea.
I mean, clearly it's an issue, but it's one of those issues that's used as a hammer in certain circumstances and ignored in other circumstances.
tim pool
I'll put it this way, Luke.
We used to have to go to farms.
Uh, I believe it was, what, like a hundred years ago, the average family owned a cow, or something like that.
Like, cows were very common.
A family would have the family cow.
When you wanted meat, there wasn't plastic, but you had to go to a farm, you had to go to a butcher.
You can still do those things.
It's just that there's a convenient location with plastic-wrapped food for you.
And so we just choose to go there, but look man, we're lucky.
Out here, maybe even like five miles away, there's a farm, a farm stand, it's a little building, and when you go in there and get the meat, it's in like wax paper.
It's in like, you know, deli-wrapped wax paper.
And then they hand it to you, it's frozen, and you bring it home, and you peel the sticker, it's paper, open it up, Farm-fresh meat, right there on the spot.
No plastics, grass-fed, good stuff.
luke rudkowski
A lot of the papers have plastic in them.
A lot of the receipts have plastic in them.
My dream now is to have a cow.
Sorry, Ian, you had something else you wanted to bring up.
ian crossland
I'm wearing plastic glasses on my face.
It's pretty gross.
It's probably leeching into my head as I'm speaking.
I've been thinking that, a little esoterically, like, if the Earth is an organism and they say, like, it'll—if it doesn't like the life on it, it'll kill it all with, like, a flood.
Like, it'll flood itself and wipe out all the life that's been poisoning its surface, or it'll bring an asteroid, a meteoroid, or something.
I think also what the Earth would do—this is obviously kind of somewhat silly to think of the Earth as a living organism, but let's just say it is.
That it would wipe out humanity by making it sterile.
And we're kind of doing that to ourselves with plastics and hormones and chemicals, herbicides, in our water supply.
It's decreasing the fertility rates.
And so it's another way to wipe out a species is through infertility.
I'd never thought of that before.
We don't need a flood or an asteroid this time.
We just got to be really careful about what we consume.
But I mean, good question, Luke.
I think maybe the future is Graphene.
Getting away from these weird oil-based carbons and trying to make something a little more stable, like diamond packaging.
luke rudkowski
What if graphene is worse than all the other plastics and leaches even more and goes into our bloodstream?
ian crossland
You gotta find ways for it not to leach.
That's key.
Like, I don't know if you had like malleable diamond plastic, like if it was like diamond, pure carbon, and it was like crumpleable diamond, if that would not leach.
I mean, I think you could find ways to not leach.
andrew gruel
Could we be proactive, though, and actually make the packaging out of testosterone?
ian crossland
Oh, something edible.
andrew gruel
Or like vitamin C. We're thinking on the defense here.
We gotta be authentic.
luke rudkowski
There's a store not far away from here that they print their receipts on like vitamin C receipts and there's no plastics.
Vitamin C?
Yeah, it's vitamin C. Mom's supermarket.
They do that?
Yeah, the receipts are not made out of plastic.
They're like, hey, we have vitamin C receipts here.
You can eat it?
I asked them if I could.
They're like, no, but, you know, the plastic, especially from the receipts, does leach, does have chemicals on there.
unidentified
They're like, yes, eat your purchase record, and we'll see if we let you out of the store.
luke rudkowski
But every time I'm there, I'm like, hey, this is pretty cool that you guys are doing this, and it's pretty awesome.
serge du preez
Aren't the receipts, like, particularly bad, or they have cancer-causing chemicals in them?
Is that the reason why?
luke rudkowski
Well, they're made out of plastic that leaches.
serge du preez
Right.
ian crossland
I've got to see some documents on this vitamin C receipt, because this is sounding cool.
serge du preez
Yeah, I've never heard of that.
luke rudkowski
You've got to show up to Mom's supermarket.
ian crossland
I'm reading about them right now.
tim pool
Is there, like, a huge chain, Mom's?
luke rudkowski
I think so.
tim pool
They're pretty great, though.
luke rudkowski
Yeah.
tim pool
I like going there.
I've got farm fresh cream for my coffee.
Real grass-fed stuff.
Expires real quick, like it's supposed to.
luke rudkowski
So, just to ask you, because you're in the food industry, did you notice the level of food kind of going down throughout the last few years?
Like, do you see the quality being an issue?
Or, you know, what's the kind of inside baseball when it comes to procuring a lot of food for your restaurants?
andrew gruel
Yeah, well, the trajectory has already been on a downward spiral, just in general, in terms of quality of food, and it follows the quality of everything, right?
But since the pandemic, yeah, it's gotten really bad because, number one, the supply chain issues, number two, our relationship with China, and I think people don't realize how much we rely on other countries for our food.
So, our food system is not just incredibly vulnerable and it's not domestic, but it's also, I mean, it's questionable when you're getting food from another place that you don't know how they're harvesting, raising, rearing, the husbandry behind their food.
So, yeah, the answer is, of course, take the extra time.
That's a great point that Tim makes is that if you take the extra time, you actually can go find that butcher, you know, that fishmonger, whoever it is, to actually try and understand where your food is coming from.
I know it sounds like a cliche.
From a wholesale perspective, it's much easier for me as a restaurateur because I can kind of cut out a couple kinks in that chain of custody, but consumers can do that too.
And this is the point I've been making since inflation has gotten so bad.
It's incumbent upon consumers to create a relationship with a restaurateur.
Not just, this isn't kind of self-fulfilling here, because then you can piggyback on their orders and their products.
I love it when customers come to me and say, hey, can you throw five extra pounds on the order of broccoli that you're getting?
And then I buy more, which gives me better economies of scale.
My customer gets raw products at a much lower value, which puts more money in their pockets that they hypothetically could spend.
at my restaurant or another community restaurant. I mean, that's the notion of comparative advantage.
And, you know, what that's doing is actually cutting out the Walmart to the world. It's
unidentified
cutting out a lot of these other businesses. I think someone should develop an app to facilitate
ian crossland
customers piggybacking off of restauranteurs purchases. I completely agree. Well, there's
luke rudkowski
also a lot of monopolies that I think cause a lot of problems in the industry. I think
it's estimated that there's only 10 companies that produce 90% of the food in the United States.
And when you have so many few big multinational industries controlling a lot of this, you know,
many times profit is incentivized.
Over, of course, offering a product that's actually good or healthy or actually going to be helping people in the long term, because a lot of the times it's not incentivized to do so.
And I think also behind the scenes there's a bigger agenda to try to poison people with the release of glyphosate, with the release of seed oils, making them a lot cheaper with government subsidies, knowing that the end result will be more unhealthy people, which will be dependent on government, and therefore government is doing this, according to my own personal opinion.
tim pool
Isn't the overwhelming majority of food from Cisco, from all these restaurants?
andrew gruel
Yeah, Cisco U.S.
Foods, they're two of the biggest players out there.
Actually, their merger was broken down by an antitrust lawsuit, which is surprising, but then it would have been just one behemoth running all the food.
tim pool
But how does that work?
What does Cisco do?
Are they a distributor?
andrew gruel
They're a wholesaler and a distributor, so what they're going to do is they're going to aggregate all the products and then they're going to distribute it to all the Restaurants, venues, you name it.
So it's just massive purchasing power.
unidentified
Wow.
andrew gruel
Yeah.
I mean, it is huge.
And it's, for me, you know, when it comes to trying to grow a business and scale good, I consider what we were doing from a sustainability perspective a good business.
And using the little guys, because we mandated that as part of our franchise system, it was virtually economically impossible to do so and to avoid the Ciscos and the U.S.
Foods of the world.
And ultimately my franchisees ended up using those guys, and I couldn't stop them from using it because you can't force them to lose money, and then the big guys win.
They always do.
ian crossland
What's this new lawsuit?
You said if your franchisee does something, like I didn't get the full story, but what is it?
andrew gruel
It's called the Joint Employer Rule, and it was actually set forth during the Obama administration, it was overturned during the Trump administration, and then it was put back in place under the new Biden administration.
And what it basically conjectures that if you are a franchisor, let's say I sell a franchise to you, you're all the way out here, you're running the franchise, and you're mistreating your employees.
I've just licensed you my brand.
I don't run your business, you run your business, I have absolutely nothing to do with it.
Let's say you short pay one of your employees, your employee sues you, they sue me too.
I'm in the lawsuit even though I have nothing to do with it.
It pierces that corporate veil between the franchisee and the franchisor, giving responsibility
to the bigger guy.
ian crossland
That doesn't sound like a functional system.
andrew gruel
Yeah, and originally it was set forth by McDonald's.
It was a McDonald's lawsuit because they said that McDonald's was trying to stop the unions from working with local franchisees, and then there was a lot of issues and lawsuits.
They went after whoever had the biggest bank account.
ian crossland
Oh, okay, so a certain level of corporations.
Anyway, that's an interesting conversation.
How did you guys navigate, like, because you said 2011 is when you opened your first food cart, and so 11 years later you've got 60 restaurants?
andrew gruel
How did you create such explosive growth?
was ten years later, we had 40 couple different concepts.
ian crossland
How did you create such explosive growth?
Was it my, hopefully what you're going to say is good ingredients, but tell me about
like what did you prioritize to get there?
andrew gruel
Well, actually it was pretty simple formula.
So what we said is the whole entire mission was to get people to eat more seafood, but
more the right types of seafood.
So we were sourcing 100% sustainably caught, raised, farmed seafood.
And then all of our ingredients, we were the first four-star green certified restaurant.
We were actually kind of at the forefront of green, so I'm like that kind of weird hippie
space.
But we sent that, we stuck with our message.
We were true to it.
We weren't greenwashing.
90% of the businesses now that use all that language, they're not true to it.
We're true to it.
And sustainability tastes better, right?
And that's what people need to realize is that higher quality when it comes to food and sustainability, it does actually taste better.
And that was it.
I mean, it's a real simple formula.
Just serve good food.
tim pool
I'll say one thing.
You know, Papa John's better ingredients.
The company did Papa John dirty, but actually look at their ingredients.
And it's, it's true.
And I, you know, I love this.
I looked at the, the, the ingredients for like Pizza Hut.
Their crust has Splenda in it.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Yeah.
unidentified
Why?
tim pool
And then you look at Domino's and Domino's isn't as bad, but they've got, you're like, you'll see like words you can't pronounce, but then you look at like Papa John's and it's like whole wheat water yeast, you know, the sauce, tomatoes, sugar, you know, the cheese, part skim milk, whatever.
It's like, wow, really is like very, very basic stuff.
We got these protein bars, the Epic Protein Bars.
It's just meat.
You got them because the ingredients, it's like beef, garlic, paprika.
And then the only thing in it that's weird is like the lactic acid thing.
I'm like, I know what that is.
So it doesn't freak me out.
And it's like, it's pretty good stuff, man.
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Let's read some of these messages.
DayBob says, please get Gormelt's owner that was raided Friday.
He actually sent me a message.
We read it on the show, he sent me another message, so I'll be in touch, and that'll be really great.
unidentified
All right.
tim pool
Max Reddick says, Tim, I hear a lot of people on the left saying the DHS colluding with Big Tech started under the Trump administration as a gotcha.
Thoughts?
I'm pretty sure it did, didn't it?
luke rudkowski
Yeah.
unidentified
He passed the law that allowed the DHS to do a lot of this stuff.
luke rudkowski
He passed the directive, yep.
tim pool
And then it came back to haunt him.
luke rudkowski
Yeah.
tim pool
What a funny thing for Republicans to keep doing these things.
luke rudkowski
And, you know, also the gain-of-function work that Donald Trump approved that was banned under Obama.
Yeah, that really did have an effect here.
tim pool
We didn't go over this story today.
Actual says Trump's post was taken out of context. He was saying if the establishment can do the things they do
They will terminate rules regulations and amendments including the ones in the Constitution. We didn't go over
ian crossland
this story today This is where Trump said something about
tim pool
We can talk about this one for the members only as we you know
ian crossland
What was the quote exactly they're referencing, Donald Trump?
tim pool
It's a long quote.
I wouldn't be able to just read it off of my head, but it was something the effect of, you know, the rules being changed or something.
All right.
Amisong says, Cosmic Garth seems more like a bard to me.
ian crossland
Yeah, sometimes I feel like that myself, thank you.
That's also a charismatic sorcerer that uses a musical instrument to empower their spells.
serge du preez
Ah, Bard.
ian crossland
Or even to cast them.
tim pool
Culture Abduction says, I have a friend who lives in the area where the substation is in, North Carolina, and he's chilling because he has chickens.
He's actually, he's chilling because he has chickens, he's actually bragging about it.
Well, you know, chickens are legit.
They can handle the cold weather, they do their own thing.
They make more of themselves.
That's the crazy thing.
You get some chickens, you put them out there, food and water, they make more of themselves.
And then you eat the extras.
It's fantastic.
And you eat their butt bounty.
Mmm, wonderful butt bounty.
luke rudkowski
Just clean the poop off.
ian crossland
Yeah, rinse it off.
tim pool
You know what I really love?
I especially love chicken dishes that have chicken and egg, like Pad Thai.
Because there's something just, like, very, like, apex predator about that.
serge du preez
Yeah, right.
unidentified
We're eating your egg and you with the same thing.
tim pool
It's kind of crazy.
Max Reddick says, Tim, I turned 30 on the 22nd of this month.
What's the likelihood as a member that I could come on the show to make my birthday wish come true or name a price?
Probably not likely at all, dude.
Sorry to say it.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday, though.
Especially all the security stuff going on.
It's just getting crazy out here, man.
serge du preez
Hey, I'm 32.
tim pool
Shouts out, dude.
Mr. Brightside says, is Ye Punk Rock for offending everyone?
Yes, he is.
Yeah, I don't know if he actually believes this stuff.
Then it's not really punk rock.
If he's just trying to shock the system, then okay.
But didn't Sid Vicious, he wore a swastika all the time or something like that?
serge du preez
Yeah.
Yeah, but it was different than I was trying to.
I mean, that's where the whole God save the Queen thing and they were saying, you know, to hell with that, basically.
tim pool
Paige Young says, did Ye just get suspended on Twitter?
No, he was suspended last week.
There you go.
ian crossland
For posting a picture.
I don't know.
I thought he was going to get suspended for saying that he was going to let Milo and Nick use his Twitter account.
I don't know if there's ever confirmed that he did that, but that's a ban evasion if he did that.
tim pool
Raymond G. Stanley Jr.
says, Tim, we needed your 4 p.m.
video.
The truth is the truth.
Yes, I'm optimistic we're moving in the right direction, but it's still going to be an uphill battle.
Yeah, basically at 4pm I talked about similar things, you know, Elon saying he's fearing for his life, talked about what happened here, and, you know, the general idea was, around like, I don't know, 2.30 I was on a phone call with a lawyer, and I'm asking him like, what is the legal remedy to all of these things?
And they were like, nothing.
There isn't one.
You know, it's like, they give you the runaround, they say, look, here's what we can do for you.
I'm like, you can't do anything.
You literally can do nothing.
There's no civil action, there's no criminal action.
The government has become completely impotent, or they've always been, as Ian pointed out earlier.
luke rudkowski
They've always been.
tim pool
Maybe they've never actually been able to deal with crime.
ian crossland
It really is the threat of force that keeps us safe, not the actual.
Ideally, there is none, no force being implicated.
tim pool
And what I think is when Antifa ran amok, smashing stuff, burning things down, and murdering people, the veil shattered.
And now all of a sudden, criminals are just like, nothing matters.
ian crossland
It's a lot of times why regimes will do huge crackdowns if there's even an inkling of an uprising.
Because you do it hard and fast, and then they stop, is the idea.
Because you can't handle a big, widespread uprising.
Nobody can.
tim pool
Nervous Sip says, for the love of everything, McDonald's burgers are not pre-made.
It takes them 30 seconds to assemble.
WRONG!
I'm not saying they get them out of a freezer box with the thing.
I'm saying, when you walk into McDonald's, there's a rack with heat lamps, and the burgers are sitting in it already.
What they'll do is they'll make us- there are certain burgers that sell very quickly, like Big Macs.
They'll make it, usually sells in a minute or two.
The point is, if Donald Trump were to go into McDonald's and say, I would like one Big Mac, make it the biggest, the biggest Mac, then someone's gonna take- oh, I'll make this Big Mac for him and spit on it.
But if he walks in, and under the heat lamp is a burger that had been made before he walked in, then he gets a burger made to standard.
That's how it goes.
Calchi says, the earth cannot be determined to be flat because you are too small.
A sufficiently relativistic small object in a large sphere observes degenerate geometry.
The sphere turns into a flat object.
Thank you for that enlightening information as to why the world is not flat.
ian crossland
Is it because we would fly off?
Is that what he said?
tim pool
I didn't understand it.
luke rudkowski
You offended Ian with that comment.
tim pool
Yeah.
Sergeant Bucks says I run a catering company in Washington.
Lockdown rules were borked.
Weddings could be up to 200 people, 6 feet apart, but if food was available the cap was
50.
Local chains were cleared to do delivery, but I was told to close up shop.
Maybe when you look at these things you realize it clearly wasn't about COVID.
It was about limiting human expansion and consumption.
And the New York Times wrote an article saying the Earth is healing.
Then they started talking about climate lockdowns to save the planet.
And the rest is history.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, what happened in hospitals and funerals was absolutely inhumane, the way people were pushed away from their family members when they were leaving this Earth.
When people were trying to hug each other during a funeral, there's people screaming at them.
That was evil.
Absolutely evil, what we saw and went through.
tim pool
David Todd says, Tim, if you read tweet 21 and 22 together, I believe Matt Taibbi's no government involvement portion is specifically about Twitter using the hacked materials policy to censor.
Essentially, the government never confirmed it was hacked for Twitter to use that policy.
I see what you're saying.
However, if the DHS and FBI reached out to Twitter and said specifically, hey, hacked materials are coming with Hunter Biden involvement, and then they started censoring that, that is direct and overt government involvement, and that information was available.
SFC Retired says it's called a home invasion, bro.
Yes, uh, that's correct.
It's a home invasion.
So, uh, my home was invaded this morning.
I was not there.
Um, you know, keep them guessing.
They're posting an address claiming it's my house.
It's not my house.
They're posting a picture that, heavens, it's not.
It's not even the same address they're posting, so these people are stupid.
But, uh, you know.
I worry for the people who come to these places.
We have armed security.
Please do not show up here under any circumstances without authorization.
That's just plain and simple, man.
serge du preez
Yeah, it's a bad idea.
tim pool
Very bad.
Jen Desai says, Miranda Devine at New York Post reported FBI was monitoring Giuliani's emails in regards to the laptop, which led them to monitor her emails.
She has the most extensive reporting on the laptop from hell.
We've read a lot about it, man.
Yeah.
What do we have here?
Cal is back saying those who conduct violence in the name of someone else's free speech should be the definition of hate speech.
There's nothing forcing you to listen to an individual.
Extra punishment for criminals.
Well, there you go.
No criminals.
All right, where are we at?
TD says, the FBI spied on Giuliani's cloud.
Shop owner gave laptop to G. Elon don't want to be Seth Riched.
I'm from Frederick.
Hope y'all hit up Spook Hill.
I don't know what that is.
I don't know what that is.
And it's Epstein.
Sorry, Elon didn't want to be Epstein.
Although, there is a possibility.
You know, the Seth Rich verb may work.
They said it was a robbery gone wrong or something to that effect.
And, you know, completely unrelated to Seth Rich.
Just, you know, just so you know.
One way they could get rid of someone is to do a staged robbery, you know?
And then they could just be like, yeah, it was a robbery.
Robberies happen.
Completely unrelated to Seth Rich.
Anyway, and I mean it literally.
I'm just saying, you know, just, you know, or Epstein.
Or Epstein.
There's many ways to do it.
unidentified
There is.
tim pool
There's many ways for people to, or a heart attack gun, as Luke mentioned.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
It's been around for a long time.
tim pool
But, you know, unrelated.
ian crossland
Or just making me hate reality enough that I do it to myself.
tim pool
Oh, well, you see, we have that other story.
You hear about what's going on in Canada?
Some Paralympian called the government being like, I need a stair lift.
And they're like, we can kill you.
They offered her medical assistance in dying instead of just getting her the wheelchair lift for her stairs.
unidentified
Yeah, amazing.
andrew gruel
We've hit a new level.
luke rudkowski
yeah yeah those that want to be here the ones that will be here in germany they have a similar policy but you need to have uh you need to be vaccinated in order to be wait what yes yes i saw yes too dangerous otherwise i tweeted it today it was an it was an article from 2021 yep in germany if you want to be euthanized you have to be vaccinated first I think there are people whose brains stopped working.
tim pool
Or maybe never worked at all.
andrew gruel
They say that the death would be so much worse if you weren't vaccinated.
luke rudkowski
There's a lot of jokes that can be made that would get us in trouble that I'm not gonna say here.
tim pool
In Canada, they send you a device.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
They send you a medical assistance and dying device.
unidentified
Yeah, that's wild.
tim pool
And then you like, I guess, get at your house and let them know it's happening and then you kill yourself and they come collect the body or something?
serge du preez
Hey, it's North America.
We like that DIY, you know?
tim pool
That's crazy, man.
Alehad says, Tim, please give this 20 to Ian.
He's the best part of IRL.
Makes listening to such heavy topics easier.
No Ian, we peeing.
ian crossland
Remember, rolling a 20 in a vacuum is no joy.
It's all about friendship.
It's about people seeing you roll that 20.
That's what it's all about.
tim pool
That's true.
If you're sitting in your room and you rolled a 20-sided and got a 20, you'd look around and if a 20-sided die is rolled in an empty game shop, was the 20 rolled at all?
ian crossland
Good question.
tim pool
No, that's actually a really good point about humanity in general.
Everything we do.
Jeremy Boring was talking about this when he was on the show.
Everything we do is for the human experience.
So without humans, what's the point of anything we do?
So what you do is for humans.
luke rudkowski
Someone needs to tell Bill Gates that immediately.
Bill!
You need to listen to this now.
tim pool
Mitt Fomo, too, says, eat more seafood.
ian crossland
I love that.
That's awesome.
tim pool
Whenever I get a steak, they do the scallops on the side.
You can get the accompaniments.
ian crossland
I've been so concerned with mercury that I have avoided bottom feeding seafood.
Lobster, shellfish.
I mean, all shellfish bottom feeders, essentially.
luke rudkowski
I would say sardines are some of the most healthiest things you can have.
But what do you think is the most healthiest seafood you can have?
andrew gruel
Uh, sardines and oysters.
luke rudkowski
Okay.
andrew gruel
But if you're thinking of mercury, just look at the trophic scale.
Think of the high predators, because they eat down the trophic scale.
So anything small, medium-sized fish, no traceable levels of mercury.
Anything on the higher end, yes, they're going to have more traceable levels of mercury, but who's eating swordfish every single night?
unidentified
Yeah.
ian crossland
What's that called?
luke rudkowski
Tuna.
Tuna also is pretty big and pretty massive.
People don't understand how huge tuna is.
andrew gruel
Wild Pacific Albacore tuna, they reproduce at six months and they have no traceable levels of mercury.
They're beautiful, locally caught, U.S.
wild fish.
luke rudkowski
See, I just love sardines and oysters.
ian crossland
It's called bioamplification, when an animal eats another animal and gets all its toxins.
andrew gruel
Bioaccumulation.
tim pool
There's scams where you try to order fresh salmon, and you'll say you want wild salmon, right?
From Alaskan or whatever.
And what they do is they have brand labels.
Wild Brand or something like that.
And you're actually getting farmed salmon that's named Wild Salmon, not really Wild Salmon.
andrew gruel
Dude, that's crazy!
tim pool
I know.
unidentified
Yeah, that's right.
andrew gruel
So I could tell you a story about that, but I don't want to upset any sponsors.
But I will say this, that there is something called stock fortification, where you actually will start fish in hatcheries and release it into wild.
It was originally established by the government in order to help stocks that were declining.
and there are a lot of fisheries that fortify their stocks, release it into the wild, and
unidentified
Wow.
andrew gruel
legally you can label it as wild.
So it's kind of a controversial subject, but they do, I would say upwards of 80% of
salmon is mislabeled in the restaurant industry.
ian crossland
Have you heard of iron fertilization?
Are you familiar with the technology?
They take iron oxide dust and put it in the ocean, and then it causes plankton to bloom, because plankton uses the iron oxide, and then the plankton is fish food.
Huge regrowths of fish.
The fish populations re-bloom.
luke rudkowski
If you really want wild salmon, If you really want to help the environment, you'd be doing that instead of all the other wacky stuff that they're trying to propose.
Because when you look at that solution, what you mentioned, it's the end-all be-all when it comes to bringing life back to the oceans.
ian crossland
The Earth does it to itself.
You see the River of Blood in Antarctica.
It's this iron, just iron water.
It's just flushing into the ocean because it looks like it's preparing to flood itself.
So it wants to iron up the water so that we can have plankton and fish.
luke rudkowski
Yeah, what you brought up is key and important for a lot of people to pick up.
tim pool
Beavis McLean says, Tim, you are right in pushing back against police who do not respect the Constitution.
I do have an idea that will help expose corruption with the police departments.
However, I'll have to hire Ian as a tech consultant.
Let me know if you're interested.
ian crossland
That's a very, very, very big ask.
What's the, I don't know, what's the data?
Hit me on Twitter or on Mines.
I don't want to get involved in any legal disputes right now.
tim pool
Aaron Brandt says, hope all is okay.
Keep on.
Everybody is fine.
After the incident in the morning, nobody got hurt.
Not even the bad guys.
And you know, I had a bunch of people messaging me or like tweeting at me being like, you shouldn't have missed.
And I was like, I wasn't there.
Um, but there is a very serious question about the, you know, the legal issues surrounding it, and I think you just don't mess around.
If someone breaks into your house, especially with all the threats we've been getting, no one here should be assuming that the person breaking in has good intentions, you know?
ian crossland
What's the protocol?
Home defense protocol, is it different in every state, every community?
Like, you warn them, you, like, retreat laws?
tim pool
It is different everywhere.
Um, West Virginia has some of the best laws.
Uh, I know Texas has good laws, Florida does.
New Jersey has like some of the worst.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Surprisingly not the worst.
Uh, Maryland is better than New Jersey.
In most states, you know, with New Jersey what I was told by the cops is that If someone breaks in and you kill them, you will be arrested and charged with their murder, like, there's no question.
Like, unless you're a special person, and, you know.
But they were like, the Castle Doctrine idea is an affirmative defense, so after you're arrested and charged, you can plead to the court, I was defending myself.
Granted, it really depends on the cops, too.
It's the political climate.
I think with a place like New Jersey, a criminal could be breaking into your house, they could be a convicted rapist, and if you killed them, a bunch of activists would show up saying you didn't have to, and then you get arrested, and that's just how it's gonna go.
That's how it'll go down.
West Virginia, on the other hand, someone breaks into your house, they're just gonna be like, who in their right mind would break into a house in West Virginia?
unidentified
Yeah.
ian crossland
I don't even want to step on people's property without them knowing I'm there.
tim pool
Oh yeah, you just don't.
ian crossland
I don't.
tim pool
So West Virginia's not the craziest place.
You can't just like kill a random person who's on your property.
But you have a lot more legal protections if they're on your property and threatening you in some way.
Whereas in Maryland, if they enter your property, you have no grounds whatsoever to defend yourself in any capacity until you retreat to your home.
And then once you're in your home, if they try to break in, then you... just trying to break in.
So if they try and jiggle the handle, uh-uh.
If they shoulder the door, now you're entitled to... I'm not a lawyer.
This is just what I was reading on the internet, which is probably not true, so I'll just make sure that's clear.
serge du preez
So this is another thing about the South African situation, is there's a duty to retreat laws in South Africa as well.
So if the person's in your house, but they're not making any threat on your life directly, you're still unable to stop them or impede them from doing what they're doing.
It's wild.
Personal family stories about that, but I won't say anything.
Rest in peace, Opa.
tim pool
But doesn't that just result in everyone yelling, he's coming right for me!
unidentified
And, you know, before they... Yeah, but it's why they hire private security in the first place.
tim pool
I don't know if this is true or not, but I remember reading a story about how, like, in China, if you injure someone, you're on the hook for the rest of their lives.
So they'll just murder the person.
So, like, if someone is driving their car and they hit a person, they'll go, oh crap, go out and just murder him.
serge du preez
Yes, for sure.
tim pool
Yeah.
serge du preez
Because there's a duty you can't go in.
If someone's injured or dies while they've been injured and you were part of their safety or helping them out, it would be like, oh, you were the person who caused their death.
Because there's no precedent in that.
tim pool
The story is that you're driving your car and you hit somebody.
Now their legs are broken.
You are on the hook for life for their financial problems.
serge du preez
Even so, even if you were trying to help somebody that's been injured, and you go and try and help them and offer them assistance in any way, you're now tied into it, and because of that, they'll say, oh, you did it.
tim pool
So nobody helps, and then someone will hit someone with a car and then go, well, better kill them.
serge du preez
Yes.
andrew gruel
There was that horrible video that went viral like six months ago of the girl that got run over in China, and it went for like five minutes of just everyone walking by, driving by.
unidentified
No one helps.
Oh!
ian crossland
There's compilation videos of that just happening over and over and over Because Chinese law is if they get involved and they touch the person, which then breaks their ankle a little bit more, they're not responsible.
andrew gruel
Just anything.
Yeah, I didn't know that.
I actually watched that video hoping it was fake, only to find out it wasn't.
And I needed a reason, right?
Because we do when you're not like that.
And now you just explained that must be why.
It's written into the law.
serge du preez
Yeah, there's no good Samaritan law.
If you help out and they die and they're injured anyway, you're on the hook for life.
It's crazy.
tim pool
Well, full sense, it says, FBI goes after people for justice that citizens don't.
The FBI likes when right-wingers are gone after, and they like when right-wingers retaliate, so they do nothing.
I'm sure some FBI guys are okay.
Yeah, I think so.
I think there's some.
But I think at the highest level, they're just, they're never gonna do it, you know, they're never gonna do their job.
It's just all nonsense.
There you go.
Yeah, your blood would curdle if you knew what was going on behind the scenes, what we can and can't talk about.
All right.
Sean says, I followed the Food Pyramid diet and cardio for years and couldn't lose weight.
I gave high-fat diet and one high-intensity workout a week a try and lost over a hundred pounds.
The experts are killing us.
ian crossland
Holy crap, man.
andrew gruel
That Food Pyramid is one of the biggest lies ever.
serge du preez
It's an economic model.
tim pool
It tells you to eat a big old bowl of pasta, like just eat a ton of carbs.
unidentified
It's crazy.
ian crossland
Freaking nuts.
It is an economic model.
serge du preez
Yeah, it's an economic model.
It was meant to allow the U.S.
to produce more corn and more wheat in order to grow the economy at the time when it was first instated.
It has nothing to do with health, and I know that because I have an econ degree.
It has nothing to do with food or health whatsoever.
tim pool
The craziest thing is I did this calculator.
It was like a how much protein should I eat calculator and it said that I should be eating 400 carbs per day and like 63 grams of protein and I was like that sounds insane.
I've been eating like 40 to 50 carbs.
No, not even that much.
I think today I probably had about 30 carbs.
And I feel like a million bucks.
serge du preez
Thirty grams.
tim pool
Yeah, I was skating.
I posted a clip to Instagram of me just skating.
ian crossland
You look good.
That was a big improvement from two years ago.
I saw it and I realized I hadn't seen you skate in a while.
Uptake.
How did you get your carbs?
tim pool
I had lobster biscuit.
It had cane sugar in it.
Not too happy about that because it definitely did not need it.
Lobster biscuit is creamy and delicious.
The tomatoes have sugar already.
And I looked at the back and I saw how many carbs were in it.
I was like, Whole Foods, man, what are you doing?
Do you use alternate?
50 carbs in this thing of lobster bisque.
ian crossland
Do you use different kinds of sugars?
Like, what kind of sugars do you guys use?
andrew gruel
Yeah, I'll use natural sugars.
I mean, I like monk fruit sugar, but normally, as you say, I mean, food, tomatoes, right?
Foods have enough sugar in them.
And when it comes to seafood, lobster is naturally sweet.
Same with scallops.
That's why scallops taste like candy.
Best thing ever is angels on horseback, scallops wrapped in bacon.
That's why people love sweet and, you know, kind of smoky and salty and meaty.
tim pool
I like buttering my steak.
andrew gruel
Yeah, yeah.
tim pool
I didn't know that was a thing until Luke did it, and I was like, what are you putting butter on?
And he's like, yeah.
unidentified
And I was like, oh yeah.
tim pool
And I asked the waiter, I was like, am I supposed to?
And he's like, yes.
And then I was like, oh my god, I have butter on my steak.
andrew gruel
Well, compound butter is what, like, I try and give these simple ways to make your food that much better.
If you actually just take your butter, put it at room temperature, throw in Dijon mustard, sherry vinegar, fresh herbs, garlic, and some shallots, whatever your other favorite ingredients are, put it back in the fridge, throw that compound butter on all your food, throw it in your cereal, heck, why not?
luke rudkowski
Could we go to the kitchen after the show and do the after show in the kitchen?
Seriously, let's get one of the cameras and let's record something in the kitchen.
Let's cook something.
andrew gruel
I'll just pull open the fridge and whatever is there, we'll create a meal out of it.
luke rudkowski
I got raw milk.
I got beef liver.
I got a whole bunch.
I got tallow.
I got actual butter.
We could make something happen.
andrew gruel
You have beef liver, huh?
So do you have steroids?
unidentified
No.
ian crossland
We've got to talk about him.
tim pool
We've got a bunch of fresh eggs from chicken's butts.
luke rudkowski
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
With the poop still on them.
tim pool
Yeah, yeah.
That's legit.
The poop is still there.
luke rudkowski
But yeah, in response to the food pyramid, you know, it's almost as if the government wants you fat and unhealthy.
ian crossland
One, whether or not we make cooking tonight, which I'm open to, we should do a collaboration in the future and do some The after show, grab the camera, go to the kitchen, open the fridge.
serge du preez
We got spares.
luke rudkowski
Let's go from there.
andrew gruel
Well, you're expanding your culture content and food is love.
Everybody loves food.
Unification.
luke rudkowski
But since it's my idea, I get to eat it.
tim pool
We got to see if, sure, we could, that'd be great actually, be very fun.
We can see if there's a camera available.
I guess people who are listening, put one in the chat if you want to see, if you're down to like make some food or something.
luke rudkowski
I don't want to put you on the spot.
Why not?
andrew gruel
We're ready.
unidentified
I said we.
andrew gruel
I have a mouse in my pocket.
ian crossland
Whatever you got.
luke rudkowski
I have the skillet.
I have everything.
tim pool
All right.
Albedam says, Ian, what's so great about useless graphene?
ian crossland
Oh, well, how much time you got?
It's 9.54.
I can give you about 30 seconds.
luke rudkowski
Did you see his shirt?
ian crossland
That's a great shirt.
It's 200 times stronger than steel by weight, so it's fantastic just structurally as a building material.
It's more conductive than copper.
It's deformable like paper, so you can make clothing out of it.
You can make wallpaper out of it.
It's pure carbon.
You can make space elevator tethers out of it.
I think that's the idea, is we're going to be making our tethers for our space elevators out of graphene.
If you build it in the right It's really the phenose structure, this hexagonal honeycomb structure.
So you have borophene, it's boron.
You don't need just carbon.
So there's this compressive force in this lattice that's pretty fantastic.
And I think if you layer a property, you'll be able to make wiring that can conduct and capacitate electricity.
Lightning, lightning electricity.
tim pool
Do you think about a half an hour, 40 minutes is enough time to make something?
andrew gruel
Yeah.
tim pool
Yeah?
All right, all right.
So we'll just film it raw.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Because otherwise we don't have time to edit and then we'll just put the whole thing up.
We'll see if someone's available to film and just we'll go down film and we'll just do like a raw behind-the-scenes food.
Yeah, that'd be cool.
The only thing I ate today, I had two protein bars and a bowl of lobster bisque.
ian crossland
I just had coffee.
tim pool
Yeah, I had coffee.
And I'm sitting there thinking, man, I probably need to eat food.
ian crossland
Or I had an apple.
I had an apple.
luke rudkowski
Chicken liver?
Beef with peppers.
ian crossland
Ooh, sounds amazing.
luke rudkowski
And then fruit in the morning.
ian crossland
Hey, Andrew, do you like red pepper or green pepper better?
andrew gruel
Green pepper for, like, cheesy, fatty things, just because it's a little bit more vegetal, and then red pepper for raw or, you know, salad-type dishes.
tim pool
I love those peppers that Kara makes.
The bacon-wrapped cream cheese jalapenos.
ian crossland
Stuffed.
tim pool
I just, like, ate, like, 15 of them when she made them last time.
ian crossland
It's a great use of pepper, man.
Stuff it with some cheese and wrap it.
unidentified
Oh, man.
ian crossland
Give it a grill.
tim pool
Tastes so good.
Man, now I'm getting hungry.
What's going on?
luke rudkowski
My plan has worked.
tim pool
Rolling Crest says, I love Gourmelt's.
I mean, even the name is making me hungry.
unidentified
I just want to go eat there.
tim pool
Go to Fredericksburg, Virginia and eat at Gourmelt's.
ian crossland
Do it!
tim pool
All right, Seth Weathers says, eat steak, lift weights, be uncensorable, screw the government.
ian crossland
Seth Weathers!
tim pool
All right.
ian crossland
Good advice.
tim pool
That's very good advice.
What's, uh, I forget your website, Seth.
Brandon Wrap?
Is that what it was?
Brandon Wrapping or something?
You want to check that out real quick?
Is it Brandon Wrap?
ian crossland
Yeah, Seth Weathers.
serge du preez
Brandon Wrapping.
It's the guy who sells, like, the different, like, Christmas wrapping.
tim pool
Yeah, the Let's Go Brandon Wrapping paper, which is, like, the best thing to get a family member.
serge du preez
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
tim pool
I was at the casino this weekend and there was a guy named Brandon and the old guys next to me were like, let's go Brandon!
And then they looked at each other and started laughing.
And then I just started laughing like, yeah, that's right.
ian crossland
Is this the that's a wrap?
tim pool
Nah, I'm trying to find it on the... The let's go Brandon wrapping paper?
ian crossland
Yeah, on the fly.
unidentified
Freedom... Maheel.
What is it?
ian crossland
Go for it, I'll let you know.
tim pool
Maheel says, ah Mercury, sweetest of the transition metals.
That's right, that's right.
David Todd says, when I was a teen working at OfficeMax, we sold lifetime warranty tables.
Lifetime warranty was the brand name, and it had a one-month warranty.
unidentified
Wow!
tim pool
That is brilliant.
There's companies called, like, Homemade Ice Cream, you know, Handcrafted, and it's just like, it's brand.
It's ridiculous.
ian crossland
That's such crap.
I mean, that is just, gosh, the law should protect people from misleading their targeted Well, I don't know.
tim pool
What do you think?
Should people be allowed to sell real organic fruit and not tell you that it's actually glyphosate or whatever?
Was it glyphosate?
Glyphosate.
But it's like, hey, our brand name is called Real Organic and No Glyphosate Fruit.
Should they be allowed to do that?
luke rudkowski
Um, I mean, obviously the market would correct itself.
tim pool
How would it correct for it?
luke rudkowski
And people would do the test, and people would see it, and I don't know.
It's a complex question.
There's many different variables.
I, automatically, I think that the problem would solve itself, and the scam would be exposed, like most scams usually are.
tim pool
Perhaps.
I don't think that issue means definitively there should be a government regulation on it.
I'm just saying, the average person... Look, I'll tell you a story.
I went to a mall, and they were doing that... You ever see those balance bracelets?
Oh yeah.
It's a con.
And I'm surprised they're allowed to sell these things.
They sell you these bracelets and they tell you it improves your core strength, it's got a reverse ion charge, blah blah blah, and then they use a center of gravity illusion to manipulate you into thinking it works.
What they do is, they have you stand with your feet together and put your arms out, and they'll put their hand on your arm and pull slightly down to the right, away from your center of gravity.
You'll fall over instantly.
Then, they'll say, now put on the power band.
And when you do, they'll push into your center of gravity, and they can push down as hard as they can, as long as they go slightly left, and you won't fall.
And they say, wow, look at this!
Take it off, and I'll show you again.
And then they knock you over.
It's a trick.
And I'm like, how are they allowed to do this?
The FTC, you know what, to Luke's point, incompetent.
They would, like, go after these companies, fine them, they'd shut down, reopen, do the exact same thing, make millions of dollars.
So, you know, I guess they gave a good college try, but they were completely ineffective at stopping this stuff.
luke rudkowski
Wait until you find out about Big Pharma.
tim pool
Yes!
luke rudkowski
And what they're doing.
andrew gruel
I spent $25 for a bronze engraving of Abraham Lincoln once.
They sent me a penny.
unidentified
Wow!
tim pool
Is that true, though?
unidentified
No.
tim pool
That's a good joke, though.
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Yeah, let's do it.
We'll see.
If the camera guys are here, we'll see if we can do that.
And then do a special Members Only Uncensored.
And we can talk about this stuff as you're cooking.
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Chef Andrew Grule, do you want to shout anything out?
andrew gruel
I just want to say thank you for having me on.
I really appreciate it.
You can follow me on everything at ChefGruel or at AndrewGruel or go to my website, which is ChefGruel.com.
tim pool
Right on.
luke rudkowski
Chef, that was awesome.
Thank you so much for coming.
That was a great conversation.
My website is LukeUncensored.com and I usually do a lot of rants about health, cooking, personal development, working out, doing a lot of different stuff.
Today I did a video about how a lot of things are screwed up in our society, but that doesn't mean you have to be.
LukeUncensored.com.
See you there for that conversation.
And yeah, because you guys sign up, that's why I'm here.
Thanks for having me.
ian crossland
Follow me at iancrossland.net and you get through to any of my social media accounts through there, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Mines, the list goes on, Instagram.
Check me out, you can follow me anywhere.
Good to see you guys.
Andrew, great to meet you, buddy.
I'll ask you more questions on the After Show about food.
And hey, confirmation, Seth Weathers, it is freedomspeaksup.com.
That's the website, freedomspeaksup.com.
You can get your Let's Go Brandon wrapping paper there.
Seth, thanks for super chatting.
Good to hear from you, buddy.
serge du preez
And I am at surge.com everywhere.
Please follow me.
I appreciate it.
I'll be in the comments.
I'm always in the comments.
Me answering is at surge.com is me.
No one else.
See you there.
tim pool
You know, I'm just going to, I'm just going to go for it here.
Uh, the incident this morning, I now believe more so was politically targeted.
Uh, I, I, I didn't see this message until now, but around nine o'clock we were swatted and the cops are here.
So yeah.
Well, actually, they may have been here earlier.
So I'm just checking my messages now, and there you go.
Security dealt with it.
So we went a period where we didn't report any of this stuff was happening, because people kept telling us, if you keep saying it, it'll keep happening.
And then it kept happening anyway!
So I'm like, no, maybe now we just need to let people know, like, what's happening is actually very, very serious, and it's escalating.
That's the reality of what's been going on.
ian crossland
All you cops out there that are listening, thanks for being on the ball with this one.
Thanks for coming.
If you guys were here earlier tonight, doing your job, appreciate it.
tim pool
Yep.
All right, well, I'm sure everything's fine.
That's why we have armed security.
But we'll go cook some food.
So thanks for hanging out, and we will see you all at TimCast.com for whatever food we end up eating.
serge du preez
Yeah, right on.
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