April 27, 2023 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| Oh boy, Anheuser-Busch had an emergency meeting with distributors promising them, don't worry, | ||
| Any other marketing we do, it's gonna get checked. | ||
| Yeah, everybody's pissed off. | ||
| In one supermarket chain, they're saying they saw Bud Light sales go down 50%. | ||
| And I kind of feel like... | ||
| In places where it matters, when they actively choose their orders, meaning smaller businesses and regional stores, I bet they're seeing a much bigger impact from the boycott as opposed to, like, a big venue chain or an arena just put in an order for, like, you know, 5,000 cases or whatever without thinking about it. | ||
| Sales dropping, in my opinion, implies individuals at the smaller business-level bars and stores are choosing to avoid it. | ||
| Big corporations aren't paying attention. | ||
| That makes sense. | ||
| Now that it's having a huge impact on the regional stores, This emergency meeting means a whole lot. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we can win this culture war, so we'll talk about that. | ||
| Plus, we got some other crazy stories. | ||
| In Tennessee, where, thanks to the work of Matt Walsh and The Daily Wire, they actually got child sex change surgeries banned. | ||
| The DOJ is now intervening and seeking to make sure, as they say under the 14th Amendment, it cannot be banned. | ||
| And interestingly, in Florida, After they passed a bill that would ban children attending lewd adult performances, a local pride parade in Florida was shut down. | ||
| And now you've got a bunch of Democrats being like, oh no, oh look, they were forced to shut down their pride event. | ||
| And it's kind of like the context around that is they chose to shut it down because they're no longer allowed to show adult lewd behavior to children. | ||
| And that's what's happening. | ||
| Yeah, we're going to talk all about that. | ||
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| Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Lucas of T-Rex Arms. | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| Yeah, who are you? | ||
| What do you do? | ||
| So 10 years ago, I started a defense manufacturing company that over the years has grown to be an eight figure company. | ||
| We've got 80 employees. | ||
| And over that time, I also became a YouTuber. | ||
| And I hate to say it a social media influencer, unfortunately, and I also shoot guns an unhealthy amount. | ||
| Literally unhealthy. | ||
| An unhealthy amount. | ||
| It's just like the lead is getting all over you and is that what's up? | ||
| Lead, my hips are jacked up. | ||
| I can't deadlift without one foot being in front of the other. | ||
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Oh, wow. | |
| Wrist problems. | ||
| So yeah, a lot of shooting. | ||
| Can you switch arms and start working on the left? | ||
| Unfortunately, not really. | ||
| So it's just something I'll deal with for the rest of my life. | ||
| And that's okay. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| That's worth it. | ||
| Well, thanks for hanging out, man. | ||
| We got Phil Labonte hanging out. | ||
| Hello, everyone. | ||
| Phil Labonte, lead singer of All That Remains, anti-communist and counter-revolutionary. | ||
| Ian's not here. | ||
| He joined a different show. | ||
| He's now on Alex Stein's show. | ||
| Yeah, Ian's a defector and not loyal at all, so I'm here. | ||
| I'm Hannah Claire Brimlow. | ||
| I'm a writer for TimCast.com. | ||
| I'm so glad to be sitting here, unlike some people who are in Texas. | ||
| Just kidding. | ||
| And I am here right now. | ||
| Serge.com, what's up? | ||
| All right, let's jump into this first story from the Daily Mail. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Anheuser-Busch executives hold closed-door meeting with beer distributors and told them any marketing will be heavily screened before it goes public. | ||
| Bosses held the closed-door meeting in D.C. | ||
| this week where they laid out plans going forward. | ||
| They say that Benj... Benj Steinman, editor of Beer Marketers Insight, said the spending on the brand fell off a cliff last year, but Anheuser-Busch execs are promising to rectify the situation. | ||
| Bud Light sales have fallen dramatically since the Dillon Mulvaney boycott, which I think most of you know. | ||
| Now, they're reporting this, Bud Light's poorest plummet. | ||
| Before partnering with Mulvaney, in April 1st, it dropped by 6% to the 15th. | ||
| But in one supermarket chain, Bud Light sales plunged 50% at Stu Leonard's. | ||
| So, the tri-state area, this is Westchester County, Long Island, Connecticut, New Jersey. | ||
| The reason why this story is so significant, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| is because this is a Democrat-Urban-Liberal stronghold seeing one of the biggest declines. | ||
| So when we hear Kid Rock is, you know, taking a gun and firing upon a bunch of Bud Lights, | ||
| we're like, oh, well, yeah, he's Kid Rock, you know? | ||
| He's out in the country or whatever, he wants to be a cowboy baby or something. | ||
| And, you know, I don't know, is that what the song was? | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| Okay, well, there you go. | ||
| With the top let back and the sunshine shining. | ||
| Boom, you get it, you get it. | ||
| But we expect conservatives to do that. | ||
| When we get news that they're having an emergency meeting in D.C. | ||
| and in a major liberal area, Connecticut, New Jersey, Long Island, that beer sales are dropping 50% at a major regional supermarket, boycott's working. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| At one point, Stew Leonard's was known as the Disneyland of, uh... I love Stew Leonard's. | ||
| It's the best thing of all time. | ||
| Highly recommend going. | ||
| The one that was near me, uh, had all of the, like, fruits that sing and stuff like that. | ||
| Like, if you can't keep people in your store, if you can't get them to buy Bud Light under those circumstances, like, you're just not going to. | ||
| There's no better grocery store. | ||
| Being from New England, you know, originally, and, you know, living in New Hampshire, the fact that I haven't heard of this, this chain. | ||
| It's not, it's not as far, like, Connecticut is the only part of New England that has it. | ||
| Like, it doesn't get to Massachusetts. | ||
| You're, you're too far gone. | ||
| But it is, it is delightful. | ||
| And I'm glad that their customers are apparently taking part in this boycott. | ||
| I never would have guessed. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| They say, On top of the marketing blitz, executives working for Bud Light will go through a more rigorous screening process, according to one Northeast-based beer distributor. | ||
| Quote, there will be an improved screening process before any marketing hits the public. | ||
| Executives will have to go through a more rigorous screening process. | ||
| According to Beer Business Daily, wholesalers received a letter in which executives explained the entire situation, including, quote, this was one single can given to one social media influencer. | ||
| This can was not made for production or sale to the general public. | ||
| They are trying to trick people. | ||
| The issue wasn't that one can was made. | ||
| The issue was Dylan Mulvaney promoting the beer in general. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We have an influencer in our midst, you know? | ||
| Influencers make money off of the post, right? | ||
| It's not that we have to have his face on every single beer can. | ||
| It's the fact that he is getting paid to promote it that you guys thought this was worth the money. | ||
| A lot of money. | ||
| And worth access to his audience. | ||
| I think that's the biggest thing. You know, they're trying so hard to act like nothing's happening, but there was that | ||
| that video I don't know if we should we talked about it last night, | ||
| but this guy in Las Vegas. He's a Las Vegas vlogger It's just what he does | ||
| He's walking into stores and being like I wonder if this is a thing and then he's like, oh wow | ||
| No one's buying Bud Light Yeah, I was I was questioning whether or not this would | ||
| have impact and when it initially started I I was a little apprehensive about the idea. | ||
| I thought that it would look like people were attacking Dylan, and it has turned into what looks like the most effective boycott the right has seen in a long, long time. | ||
| I can't remember the last time that there's been a boycott of something from the right that has been this effective. | ||
| Well, and it's obvious that people are upset with the brand. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And they're really focusing on the brand, and not the person. | ||
| Which is good, because then it doesn't seem like you're bullying, right? | ||
| And it was kind of, they were talking about Dylan the first two days, which is reasonable, because, you know, bringing him in and all that. | ||
| But it turned into the brand, which I think is, that's the correct approach, because they're the ones that made the decision, they're the ones that make the product, they're the people that people want to buy the product from. | ||
| Is it every, now the actual cans or bottles in the stores, It was like a limited run that actually had Dylan's face on them, correct? | ||
| No, they only, from what I remember, and Phil can correct me here, they only made this one can to celebrate 365 days of Girlhood to mark the one year point of Dylan's whole deal. | ||
| Were those in stores? | ||
| Do you have to order them? | ||
| No, you couldn't get them. | ||
| Literally, they just made a custom thing for him. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
| But that wasn't the issue. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because the video I saw first was Dylan with a bunch of beers saying, | ||
| I don't even know what March Madness is, let's all drink beer. | ||
| And then cracking open beer, had nothing to do with any kind of promotional can or anything like that. | ||
| And then all of a sudden everyone was like, screw Bud Light. | ||
| And it's tagged with the like, hashtag Bud Light partner or something like that. | ||
| Like it's denoted as a form of advertising. | ||
| I think what the strangest part of it, like you're right. | ||
| I'm actually glad that there's not a specific targeting of Dylan Mulvaney because Dylan Mulvaney is doing exactly what Dylan Mulvaney has always done and you can have separate criticism of that, but Anheuser-Busch chose to partner with him and if You put people in positions of power in your company who thought this was a good idea. | ||
| I'm glad that you're starting to rethink this. | ||
| I would like them to admit that they're just saying, like, our rigorous screening process is we will hire some conservatives after years and years of hiring liberals. | ||
| Probably what they're talking about is, okay, we can't say we goofed up and they're all fired because then the trans community will say we're horrible and bigoted and all of that. | ||
| Here's how I imagine the meeting goes down. | ||
| They tell everybody, look, we understand your concern, we're gonna have a meeting in DC, come meet. | ||
| And they all walk in and there's a guy in a suit and he goes, listen, our customers are dumb as dumb gets. | ||
| They are so stupid! | ||
| So here's what we're going to do. | ||
| We're not going to apologize. | ||
| We're not going to say anything. | ||
| We're going to completely ignore all of them and let it all blow over. | ||
| That's what they're saying right now. | ||
| I mean, I don't know if it's quite that extreme, but they are definitely trying to run away from it as opposed to addressing it and saying they're sorry. | ||
| And I do think that apologizing is appropriate because they're seeing a distinct reaction from their user base, from their customer base. | ||
| They severed trust. | ||
| That's what brands are built on. | ||
| Many of you may be wondering, why is this so important? | ||
| Why have we talked about this for three weeks now? | ||
| Why are we leading the show with it right now? | ||
| Because I want to make sure that every major corporation knows that when you engage in sponsorships and advertising like this, it will be so toxic to your company, you will be reeling from it. | ||
| There has been no response. | ||
| It's been it's been entirely uh no negative response from all of the essentially since you know the the since June became you know Pride Month and has been celebrated so openly in the West and and For probably the past 10 years or so, there's not been any kind of considerable pushback. | ||
| And to see something pushing back to say, hey, maybe we should moderate this a little bit. | ||
| Because at this point, the trans question, that is not built on solid arguments. | ||
| There's a lot of questions. | ||
| There's evidence that it's not a good idea. | ||
| Well, Europe bans it. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Multiple countries in Europe have said, nah, it's not working. | ||
| And then there's even been several studies showing that it could increase suicidal ideation. | ||
| So let's make sure we're helping people. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| But more to the point, my biggest concern is they effectively sponsored Elsagate. | ||
| Right, the easiest way for me to explain what went down with the Dilma Veni sponsorship is, a person exploited an algorithm to produce strange and off-putting content that was offensive to a lot of women, a lot of, and men, and then Budweiser did no research, said, whatever, look, this person's got followers, it must be popular. | ||
| But I do think it's a fantastic wake-up call as to what AI is doing to humans. | ||
| Humans and what AI promotes, or I shouldn't say AI, but algorithms, it is incongruous. | ||
| Just because someone has views does not mean they are popular. | ||
| And this proves it. | ||
| And I hope that if we keep the pressure on, then other corporations will start to realize, like, hey, look, just because that person's on TV doesn't mean they're popular. | ||
| You gotta get the algorithms to really internalize retweets or not endorsements. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| To really get that idea to go, to really begin. | ||
| I used to see, sorry, I was gonna say, I've heard some YouTubers say, like, yeah, I don't care if you dislike my video. | ||
| Any interaction actually helps. | ||
| I don't know if that's still the case. | ||
| I'm not that experienced with YouTube, but it is. | ||
| It still is. | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| So really, like, anyone commenting on Dylan's post being like, this is terrible, is actually just still helping. | ||
| Do you get into the comments on T-Rex arm stuff still currently? | ||
| As much as I can, and primarily to learn more about our customers, not any other reason. | ||
| We talked to some marketing folks last week who said, yeah, even if your company responds to every comment on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, that greatly affects the algorithm. | ||
| Even if you stop by and go thumbs up, you're adding to the comment count, and that makes a difference. | ||
| So when do you get the trans-shooters? | ||
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Well, yeah, I apologize. | |
| I disavow. | ||
| No, I, I, I, I posted a photo a year ago and it was a, it was a gun on a trans flag. | ||
| And I said something like trans rights are human rights. | ||
| Trans gun rights are human rights. | ||
| And I got a false DMCA takedown. | ||
| Activists started- this is the weirdest thing! | ||
| Leftist screen grabbed my post, and then started insulting me over it, and I'm like, it's so weird that I said something they should agree with, and instead, they attacked me, and then filed a DMCA takedown to get the photo deleted from my Twitter account, and then I'm just like, I don't know what these people think, because I'm like two-way all the way. | ||
| I had a guy tweet at me saying, you think only white people should have guns. | ||
| I'm like, what are you talking about? | ||
| I think the Black Panthers should be marching around with guns all day every day. | ||
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And they're like, oh, okay, base. | |
| These people live in a wacky alternate dimension of what we here believe. | ||
| It is interesting though, I did notice, and I could be wrong, an uptick in the, obviously when the shooting occurred a couple weeks ago, there were lots of gun companies, and I also tweeted some things about, you know, calling into question, you know, should gun companies, and this is a big discussion happening right now, do we have to serve and service everyone who wants to own a gun, or can we go, hey, this is what we believe is a company, we're interested in selling to these types of people? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| We put our core values out there and usually some people aren't going to agree with those, so they're not going to come and buy from us. | ||
| And it did look like after the shooting in Tennessee occurred, the trans community was definitely much more interested in talking about guns and gun rights for themselves and getting involved in that whole thing. | ||
| I had all kinds of people stopping by my Twitter, giving their opinion. | ||
| And I feel like a year ago, probably when you posted that flag, that was not as much of a discussion and they were probably more anti-gun. | ||
| Now they're like, oh no, now we need to be pro-gun. | ||
| They were pro-gun. | ||
| Yeah, there was a picture of a trans flag with a gun on it. | ||
| And then people were posting pictures of trans people wearing patches and armbands of the trans flag with guns. | ||
| And I'm like, I'm all for it! | ||
| There's an interesting discussion that's emerged following what happened in Nashville where they're saying, You know, a bunch of conservatives are like, maybe we shouldn't allow trans people to have guns, or something like that. | ||
| And I'm just like, not interested in that. | ||
| Not interested in that conversation. | ||
| If someone poses a clear and present danger, or like, I mean like, they're literally on the path to using a weapon, you can stop them. | ||
| But short of, I guess, due process, maybe they committed a felony, and a court has determined through a legal process, like due process, your rights cannot be infringed upon. | ||
| You bring up a good point. | ||
| Everyone wants to talk about the gun thing. | ||
| Well, the government has guns. | ||
| I mean, criminals have guns. | ||
| Everyone already has guns. | ||
| The guns shouldn't even be the discussion. | ||
| You said the same thing twice. | ||
| What was that? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| The criminals and the government. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| But they all have guns, so that shouldn't be the discussion. | ||
| If trans people have guns, fine. | ||
| If the LGBT community wants to have guns, that's fine. | ||
| They should have guns. | ||
| Everyone can have guns. | ||
| Let's talk about other things instead. | ||
| But gun owners, and I'm just going to say that, are some of the biggest wusses out there. | ||
| Like, they really are. | ||
| In 2020, we saw this, because for the longest time, gun owners were like, we have guns for the government. | ||
| And then 2020 happened, and we had the Antifa stuff and the peaceful times, obviously. | ||
| And then they went, oh, there's other people with guns who aren't our friends. | ||
| We need to do something about that or have the government step in. | ||
| It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| Don't ask for the government to step in. | ||
| You're having them do what we don't want them to do to us. | ||
| What you do is you train. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| That's what you do. | ||
| Yeah, just be better than everyone. | ||
| Because most people aren't going out there and training. | ||
| I mean, I'm a guy that's very pro. | ||
| Get out there and train. | ||
| Go out there and, like, learn how to shoot your guns. | ||
| I mean, Lucas knows how to shoot guns. | ||
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Ask Lucas. | |
| Can I ask, when did you guys get interested in guns? | ||
| Like, is this something you grew up with? | ||
| Is there something that happened that made you interested? | ||
| I played Call of Duty, and that was enough for me. | ||
| It's the video game gun pipeline, I see. | ||
| Oh, video games are the gateway. | ||
| The gateway. | ||
| They create more gun owners than the NRA ever hopes to. | ||
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The NRA's dying, but the NRA is, like, Oh, they're gone. | |
| Yeah, they're gone. | ||
| I'm not a big fan. | ||
| But yeah, video games. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| The Call of Duty franchise, which I'm very thankful I got to work on the good one that came out a few years ago. | ||
| Guys, guys, guys, the NRA is very important. | ||
| It's a very important organization. | ||
| We need to make sure that the NRA... We gotta donate a lot of money. | ||
| We need to make sure that the NRA is out there, so that way they've got something to attack. | ||
| Didn't the NRA support the NFA? | ||
| Oh, they've supported it. | ||
| So, the NRA has done some good things, like the Sunset Clause for the weapons assault ban and all that, but for the most part, they are extremely fuddy. | ||
| The worst thing about the NRA that people won't talk about is their training programs, which are, like, they have a rule. | ||
| You are not allowed to call a gun a weapon. | ||
| It's too dangerous. | ||
| And real quick, explain FUD-E to people who don't know. | ||
| So FUD-E are like people who go, ah, 1911's better than any pistol out there, won two world wars, my SKS is better than an AR-15. | ||
| It's still very esoteric. | ||
| It's very esoteric. | ||
| I don't want that plastic stuff on my rifle. | ||
| It's a reference to Elmer Fudd. | ||
| Old times, more or less. | ||
| He's not getting with the times. | ||
| These people who are like, look, I'm a gun owner, and I think we should have gun control. | ||
| And it's like, I don't believe you. | ||
| It's generally that. | ||
| We don't need 30 rounds for hunting, so let's ban 30-round high-capacity magazines that go to 10 rounds. | ||
| Do you see deer running around? | ||
| Kevlar? | ||
| What do you need that for? | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| That's exactly it. | ||
| But yeah, the NRA, the worst thing is not their political stuff. | ||
| It's the firearms training. | ||
| It's the culture that they're perpetuating, too. | ||
| Even hunter's education. | ||
| Don't store ammunition with a gun. | ||
| The gun's pretty useless without the ammunition. | ||
| Like, you actually want to keep them together, because weapons are for people, not just for Bambi. | ||
| And they train them young that way. | ||
| These people have never loaded a weapon. | ||
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No. | |
| And so, I can tell you this, right? | ||
| I got a .30-30 Winchester repeater. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| And it's real difficult to load the .30-30s. | ||
| They get stuck. | ||
| The plunger gets stuck and all that stuff. | ||
| And then when it comes to loading even like, you know, a Glock with 9mm, they have speed loaders for a reason. | ||
| If you're trained in your practice, you can load it fairly quickly. | ||
| But I just think anybody who has a gun understands that if you hear a glass shatter and then someone yells, boys let's go!" You're gonna be like, uh oh, and then you're | ||
| gonna open the box and you're gonna be like, just give me a second, let me push these in | ||
| and load this. No, it has to, like, when you're, when you are being prepared for self-defense, | ||
| you need to have your weapon prepared and safely secured in a way, you know, | ||
| that you can access it and that it's responsible. But what's the point, someone told | ||
| me this when And then have a serious conversation with yourself. | ||
| time I was getting a weapon, what's proper like storage and safety protocol. And I'm going to | ||
| keep it relatively vague for the show, but they just basically said, what's the point of having | ||
| a weapon if you can't readily access it to defend yourself from an intruder? So just consider that. | ||
| Yep. And then have a serious conversation with yourself. | ||
| What is a gun for? Yeah, they are for homo sapiens. | ||
| They were designed ever since gunpowder was, you know, developed and then it was used for fire fireworks to disrupt cavalry charges. | ||
| After that, it was always weaponized for human beings. | ||
| It wasn't just made for hunting. | ||
| Like that is what they're for. | ||
| And the problem is gun owners. | ||
| Well, it's a weapon. | ||
| Every time I say that they go, they go, Oh, Lucas, you can't say that. | ||
| Cause then the left's going to use that to ban stuff. | ||
| I'm like, no, the reason we're in all this mess and gun regulations are happening is we've always been on the defense and culturally we're losing because of it. | ||
| We won't just say the facts and what's going on. | ||
| I think it's fair to be more general. | ||
| Weapons are for destructive ends. | ||
| And that doesn't mean it's always bad. | ||
| Destructive things can be good things, right? | ||
| If you're defending someone. | ||
| A machete, for instance. | ||
| You're using it to go and clear brush, to carve a path through the woods, to help people more freely move about. | ||
| But it also can be used as a weapon. | ||
| And famously, Alfred Nobel made dynamite, TNT. | ||
| I don't know if it's the same thing, but TNT, I guess. | ||
| Because he wanted to help people mine. | ||
| And then they called him the Merchant of Death. | ||
| And you know the story, like they accidentally published his obituary? | ||
| And then he was like, is that what they think of me? | ||
| He's like, holy crap! | ||
| That must be brutal. | ||
| I didn't know that. | ||
| He read his obituary before he passed? | ||
| Yeah, and then he made the piece, the Nobel Prizes. | ||
| He was like, I better be known for something much better than this. | ||
| I didn't know that. | ||
| But it was weaponized. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Maybe more people should have to do that than read their own obituaries and reconcile their life. | ||
| Let's go back to the first question with all of this. | ||
| We were talking about mental illness, weapon ownership, and stuff like that. | ||
| And for the longest time, we were talking about red flag laws. | ||
| And everybody on the right and all the two-way people were like, absolutely not. | ||
| You cannot red flag people. | ||
| And then the Nashville shooting happened. | ||
| And all of a sudden conservatives were like, we should not let these people have guns. | ||
| And I'm just sitting here like, y'all are wrong. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, so the mental, that whole thing's interesting because the issue that I have with that whole conversation is, by what standard and who gets to define if someone is mentally unwell? | ||
| Because if I go to the right, you know, doctor, clinician, or whatever, and I say, I really like guns for these reasons, this is what I actually think about the government, this is what I think about balkanization of our country, XYZ, they could say, You're a little unwell for thinking these things. | ||
| You want to homeschool your kids. | ||
| You're married. | ||
| You're not running around doing all this other stuff. | ||
| You're unwell. | ||
| You can't own guns. | ||
| I'm not saying that would happen today, but in 10 years, I mean, who gets to standardize who is mentally well? | ||
| And so that's a pretty slippery slope. | ||
| This is why when a couple of years ago we were talking about felons and firearms, and I said, as soon as you get out of jail, you get your right to keep and bear arms. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| And what people responded with was, Several people, conservatives, were like, no, because you went through a process. | ||
| You got your due process, and through due process, your rights were deprived. | ||
| That is constitutional. | ||
| Meaning, you have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but if you break the law, we can deprive you of those rights through due process. | ||
| Meaning, you went to a judge, there was a hearing, you were found guilty. | ||
| The same thing is true of your guns. | ||
| And my response that is then just like, so what is a life sentence then? | ||
| Yeah, that's either you die, or I guess you're in jail your whole life. | ||
| Yeah, that's yeah, you don't get your gun. | ||
| You don't get your gun back ever. | ||
| And so my issue still is now due process isn't necessarily a perfect standard. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because we are at the point of polarization in this country where like you said, you will say something like, I think everybody should have guns. | ||
| I'm like, well, you're clearly insane. | ||
| I think machine guns should be legal. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I also wonder how the mental health screenings work because we have the shooter in Louisville whose parents were like, no, he was having some sort of crisis. | ||
| We were aware of it, but he was able to get a gun theoretically. | ||
| Wouldn't this have triggered something? | ||
| I feel like some people can... I just don't understand the practical applications of some of these things. | ||
| Yeah, and the problem is the government and people want to play minority report. | ||
| They want to stop the crime before it happens. | ||
| You can't do that. | ||
| It doesn't actually work. | ||
| Oh, but it's coming. | ||
| The AI, chat, GP7, whatever is gonna probably do it. | ||
| But it's not practical and it's not going to work. | ||
| And it's only going to cause, and we've seen this up north where red flag laws have gotten innocent people killed where they show up to the doorstep, the guy comes out, There's an altercation. | ||
| He's like, why are you guys here? | ||
| I haven't done any community crimes yet. | ||
| Ends up getting shot. | ||
| There have been at least two of those that have happened. | ||
| It's going to do more harm than good. | ||
| And besides that, according to all these shootings that have happened, at least in the last, like, five years, supposedly the FBI already knew about the person. | ||
| Yeah, they were already watching him. | ||
| So it's like, well, it obviously doesn't work already. | ||
| I mean, you guys have been trying to do this kind of... I don't think the FBI tries to prevent crimes, right? | ||
| They're just aware stuff is going on. | ||
| They're like, maybe we'll help you do that crime. | ||
| Yeah, it's a slippery slope, and it's not something that I think conservatives and people in general need to get away from, and just go, when a crime happens, we have people there who can shoot back, and that's how we resolve it. | ||
| Because we call the cops to resolve it while it's happening, so why not address it sooner when the incident actually occurs? | ||
| And if we saw that happen more often, A lot of these shootings would go down if people realized, like, hey, if we posted photos of the corpse of the shooter afterwards, kind of like what happened in Tennessee, a lot less of this shooter culture would be happening. | ||
| I mean, I don't know. | ||
| I guess my concern is there are a lot of people with no purpose anymore and no community and no path towards notability. | ||
| And maybe notability is the wrong word, but people want recognition. | ||
| Feeling value. | ||
| And so they decide one way they'll make people remember their names is being evil. | ||
| Because if they can't be a famous superhero, they'll just be the villain. | ||
| That's the easiest path. | ||
| But we do have this story. | ||
| Here's a story from the Postmillennial. | ||
| Breaking! | ||
| Nashville trans shooters manifesto to be released by authorities. | ||
| Metro Nashville Police Department Public Information Office told Fox 17 on Thursday the investigation has advanced to the point that writings from the Covenant shooter are now being reviewed for public release. | ||
| That process is underway and will take a little time. | ||
| So, uh, I think we're gonna get it soon. | ||
| And what we already know is that it does relate to politics. | ||
| And what we've heard from various news sources, and even we've had some people reach out saying that they were either in the know or something, so it's all unconfirmed. | ||
| There have been other shows saying they have inside sources that suggest this individual was anti-Trump, was angry over the conservative politics and the banning on transgender surgery, child sex change surgery and things like that, and they were trying to, you know, maximize that carnage. | ||
| So I think it'll be interesting to see, and I'm curious, how it manifests in the public, because when this happened, | ||
| within days the Democrats turned it into a fundraiser for themselves. | ||
| It is, I look at the aftermath of it, the way that the Democratic Party and the politicians | ||
| surrounding the situation have behaved, it is atrocious. | ||
| And I thought that I was not, I thought that I got to a point where I couldn't be shocked | ||
| anymore. | ||
| But I'm really surprised at how the narrative has really, really been like, oh, it's about trans people. | ||
| It's like, a trans person actually killed and targeted Christians. | ||
| Children. | ||
| Children, yeah. | ||
| And you have managed to make the trans people the victims. | ||
| That is absolutely astounding to me. | ||
| Well, above all else, you cannot be bigoted. | ||
| And you should know better. | ||
| I think the important distinction with this individual, because I'll bring it back to gun rights, is people saw this shooter was trans, therefore they were talking about banning guns for trans people. | ||
| And I'm like, no, no, this was a leftist gender ideologue. | ||
| That's a big difference. | ||
| I think it's important that we have a distinction between someone who happens to be transgender and someone who is in a cult of a varying ideology. | ||
| Because there are people who are trans who are nowhere near that ideology, and we're friends. | ||
| And it's just like, I don't want my friend's rights curtailed because this person's a leftist wacko. | ||
| The leftism is the problem. | ||
| Or, my favorite way to put it, is when Tucker Carlson was accused of being racist, he was like, what? | ||
| White liberal women are the problem? | ||
| That's who I'm complaining about? | ||
| He's like, I don't have a problem with black people. | ||
| It's the ideology. | ||
| It's the cult. | ||
| It's people's worldview. | ||
| That's what it comes down to. | ||
| And so even then, even with the worldview, people have a right to keep in bare arms. | ||
| Leftists have a right to keep in bare arms, and I'm not gonna... But I will say, we're getting to the point where it's not gonna matter whether you want them to or not if it's active conflict. | ||
| If you have people who are of leftist ideology, like that dude at the ICE facility, I think it was in Tacoma, who firebombed and started shooting at it, or the guy who killed Aaron Danielson, at a certain point it's like, okay, we need to stop violent political extremists. | ||
| And then what do you do? | ||
| So it reminds me of that Karl Popper meme the left likes to share. | ||
| If you tolerate intolerance, intolerance wins. | ||
| And that's how they justify banning people's speech. | ||
| And I'm like, I believe in the right to keep and bear arms for everybody. | ||
| I believe in free speech, free press, religion, all that stuff. | ||
| But then when war happens, all of this stuff is meaningless. | ||
| You know? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, then things are different. | ||
| Cause then it's, you've got supply lines, who's selling guns to who. | ||
| And so the, whichever side's over here will have their own infrastructure or lack thereof, depending on their funding mechanism. | ||
| And then the people over here will have their thing. | ||
| And then it's very clear. | ||
| Right now it's, there's not really battle lines. | ||
| There kind of are. | ||
| And there's gun stores. | ||
| These people walk in and they're like, do I sell this person or not? | ||
| And they have the freedom to deny sales. | ||
| The ATF actually likes it when gun stores don't sell to people that might be a threat, but who are those people? | ||
| This is actually a good idea for a video we could do. | ||
| Have someone dress up as Antifa, like wearing Antifa clothes and go into a gun shop | ||
| and see what they say. | ||
| Yeah, and you'd be like, hey, I wanna buy guns. | ||
| I'll do it. | ||
| I wanna A.J. this whole- But they might be like, okay, Phil. | ||
| Right, fair enough. | ||
| I love all that remains. | ||
| Actually, you know, the Green Mons, the gun shop in Martinsburg, I've been recognized twice. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| You're like, walk in and they're like, hi, I'm Antifa. | ||
| Like, no, you're not. | ||
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| Get out of here. | ||
| We know what your plan is. | ||
| Get out of here, Labonte. | ||
| But I think the appropriate response is if someone wearing Antifa gear walked into a gun shop, they should be like, let me know what you need. | ||
| I don't think... That is the philosophical challenge right now. | ||
| Should a business be like, no, you are our enemies, you are dangerous, and I will not sell you this weapon? | ||
| Because that's actually a fair point. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong, but if someone at a gun store has suspicions that a person may use a weapon for criminal ends... They can deny sale. | ||
| But isn't it a requirement to deny sale? | ||
| Um, probably, it technically probably is. | ||
| It probably is. | ||
| Like, hey, don't sell them that gun. | ||
| You don't want to be the guy, like if a cop comes to you and says, did you, did you think this guy was going to sell something? | ||
| And they'll be like, yeah, I totally thought he was going to go shoot up the mall and I sold it anyway. | ||
| He said something. | ||
| I wanted the money. | ||
| No, I'm pretty sure they get in trouble. | ||
| If they're like, the guy came in and he was talking about committing a crime. | ||
| And I said, well, here's your weapon. | ||
| Like, no, you can't. | ||
| Sweating everywhere. | ||
| Effectively an accessory to the crime. | ||
| So then if someone comes in wearing Antifa gear, You could. | ||
| I might be like, oh, man, I don't know, dude. | ||
| Well, yeah, if it's like, let's say, let's go back to the peaceful times in 2020 and someone walks in right then when all that stuff's going on in, let's say, Oregon. | ||
| Oh, hands down. | ||
| I think there would be a good case to be like, you know what? | ||
| I'd rather not sell to you. | ||
| You can go to someone else. | ||
| Slam dunk case. | ||
| You're not the kind of person I want to assist. | ||
| I'll stop there. | ||
| I say, if I owned a gun store, and it was during the summer of love, and someone with Antifa BLM gear came on, I'd be like, get out right now. | ||
| One of my closest friends in New Hampshire, the gun shop that Highlander Arms, a buddy of mine, owns, like, if someone went in there and he knew that they were a leftist, there is no way. | ||
| He'd kick them out himself. | ||
| Most gun stories you think would do that? | ||
| Not all. | ||
| I'll take that back. | ||
| The ones with backbones, so maybe a little bit less than half. | ||
| But, like, Dick's Sporting Goods wouldn't, right? | ||
| Like, they would be like, okay, here you go, have a good time. | ||
| Yeah, but I feel like if a guy with, like, an Antifa bandana and, like, a shirt and everything walked in there and it was like, it's time to go fight for justice, where are the guns? | ||
| They'd be like, right this way, sir. | ||
| And they'd walk him over and be like, here, we have a 12-gauge. | ||
| It also, yeah, and it also, well, it also depends, is it a chain, you know, a place you don't have control? | ||
| Or is it a little mom-and-pop gun shop where the owner is literally there at the desk? | ||
| I don't think he would even say that. | ||
| service you're gonna get from both places. Like the little gun store in my county, no, | ||
| that guy would totally deny sale. But if it were to export goods, no, that employee's | ||
| just gonna be like, I can't do anything, I don't have the freedom, it's a corporation, | ||
| I can't do it. I don't think he would even say that. He'd be like, right this way, sir. | ||
| Here we have a fine selection of firearms for you. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| They would have no idea. | ||
| Do they make a commission on gun sales at Dick's Sporting Goods? | ||
| You'd be like, buy an extra! | ||
| Well, and Dick's Sporting Goods got boycotted. | ||
| They don't even sell guns anymore, I don't think. | ||
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| They do. | ||
| They don't sell ARs. | ||
| Oh, they don't sell ARs. | ||
| Okay, I was gonna say. | ||
| They sell shotguns, I think. | ||
| Oh, front guns. | ||
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| And I think they sell like 10-22s and stuff like that. | ||
| Fudguns. | ||
| Fudguns. | ||
| 10-22s great, to be honest. | ||
| Those are great. | ||
| If you go to the Dicks out here in, I think it's a Dicks, in Maryland, they have basically just shotguns. | ||
| And I think they might have some 22s, and it's just, it's just, it's silly. | ||
| It's pandering. | ||
| They pulled the ARs, like, what was it, six years ago, four years ago, after a shooting, and they were like, we're not gonna sell those weapons of war, we'll just sell shotguns. | ||
| And then Walmart, same thing. | ||
| Walmart pulled out, I think it was six years ago, and then they finally removed all guns. | ||
| So let me ask you a question. | ||
| If we were talking about maximizing defense, minimizing collateral damage, being safe and secure, which would you prefer? | ||
| You're in your house, you have, I don't know, let's just say like, what is it, like a .72 caliber SABO slug for deer? | ||
| Um, and you're 12 gauge, or you have like an AR-15. | ||
| AR hands down, 100%. | ||
| Short barrel, suppressed. | ||
| And that's so illegal, right? | ||
| Like suppressors, it's like restricted. | ||
| My point is just, Joe Biden says to fire the shotgun into the air. | ||
| Scare away, yeah. | ||
| And they're trying to sell people like buckshot for home defense. | ||
| Or birdshot. | ||
| Or birdshot. | ||
| But either way, like, I kind of feel like It would be fairly brutal to use a 12 gauge on somebody in your home and put like a 10 inch hole in their chest. | ||
| Oh, it'd be very violent. | ||
| This is correct. | ||
| This is the problem with shotguns. | ||
| And again, this is like FUD knowledge from the past. | ||
| Shotguns are so much harder to use well by an untrained person than handing them an AR-15. | ||
| I mean, the AK-47 originally was designed for the average conscript to use. | ||
| Very simple to manipulate and function. | ||
| A shotgun, on the other hand, if it's a pump, you got to pump it every time you pull the trigger, which already mentally, if you haven't trained that, most people aren't going to rack a second round. | ||
| That's just how it's going to be. | ||
| And they are. | ||
| It's 30 round mag goes in, pull the charging handle, safety, and I can pull the trigger 30 times and I'm good to go. | ||
| Super simple to use. | ||
| And the recoil. And the recoil. When we go out to the range with people, man, they do not, | ||
| they think the shotguns are the easy ones. Yeah. And I'm like, we have the shoulder pads for the | ||
| shotgun if you want to use them. Like, why? Like, now. It's like, you might want to try using the, | ||
| like, the AR-556 or whatever, because that's, you're not gonna, you might be like, oh, wow, | ||
| that was it? But that's the point, I guess. The argument being made by the gun control people is | ||
| too easy to use. | ||
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| Shotguns are hard. | ||
| They, well, and they don't even know exactly what are, the only argument they really use is inconsistent. | ||
| It's a weapon of war. | ||
| It's what the military has. | ||
| And I'm doing a video on it next week. | ||
| Is an M4A1 the military has the same as a civilian AR-15? | ||
| Well, it actually turns out civilian AR-15s are better. | ||
| M4A1s the military has, a lot of them are shot out. | ||
| They're crap. | ||
| AR-15s I can buy right now for a thousand dollars. | ||
| They're better than what the military has. | ||
| And the left is not like that. | ||
| We, uh, I've got a KSG-25. | ||
| Oh, you're familiar? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, so for those that aren't, it can hold 25 shotgun shells, and we're at the range, and it's loaded with buckshot, and the wave of devastation is bonkers. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Here's the crazy thing. | ||
| That's legal in Maryland. | ||
| But an M1A is illegal. | ||
| That is so funny. | ||
| An M1A is an assault weapon, and I'm like, that's kind of weird, because for those that don't understand, if you've got 25 shells, you've got 25 shells buckshot, I'm watching this thing just melt the target, the wood flying everywhere, it's being ripped apart like a chainsaw is gutting it from every direction. | ||
| It's kind of it was kind of cool. | ||
| But it was like also I think it's 225 lead balls. | ||
| Yeah, shooting like nine shot or so well play. | ||
| Boom, boom, like well play shotgun shells will remove parts of bodies like you will literally take an arm off. | ||
| Yeah, if you're if you're skilled with a shotgun, it will remove body parts, large chunks of very politically incorrect. | ||
| Very quickly. | ||
| But that's the crazy thing to me, that that's the argument they always go to is get a shotgun, and I'm like, there's exotic rounds, there's weird stuff. | ||
| There's Dragon's Breath. | ||
| Can you imagine a CCTV video and you just Dragon's Breath a person? | ||
| It's magnesium, right, I think? | ||
| Yeah, just blast it out. | ||
| Dragon's Breath is like a shell loaded with magnesium, so it sprays flaming metal at you. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| And that's the stuff that they're like, that's fine. | ||
| Yeah, that's that's the stuff we're not trying to control. | ||
| But it's because they don't understand it. | ||
| Exactly. So SBRs, the perfect, this is another perfect thing. So SBRs, short barreled rifles, | ||
| are technically illegal unless you pay this little tax stamp to the government, which is weird. | ||
| They shouldn't be illegal if you can pay a little fine to owe, that doesn't make sense. | ||
| It's exactly a bribe. | ||
| I can own machine guns because I paid $2,500 to the ATF, and other people can't. | ||
| It's the most preposterous thing ever. | ||
| But an SBR, you know, a barrel below 16 inches, is technically illegal unless you do paperwork to a tax stamp of $200. | ||
| But it is less lethal than a 20-inch M16, which will penetrate body armor with the right ammo, and a little 10.3556 can't. | ||
| So it's... It's nonsense. | ||
| They don't know what they're doing. | ||
| Obviously with the regulation, they're old, they're outdated, but a 20 inch M16 is way more lethal than the average person. | ||
| What's going on with this pistol brace ban they just did? | ||
| I saw there was a video of members of Congress questioning the ATF and the ATF couldn't answer basic questions about They didn't whine. | ||
| Which is typical. | ||
| That is a normal thing to see. | ||
| When you see Congress people interrogating people that are in the regulatory body, the ATF that is charged with regulating firearms, and they know nothing. | ||
| Someone asked him, he's like, you don't know the difference between 556 and 300 blackout? | ||
| And this is like the ATF director. | ||
| Yeah, the director of ADF did this thing and they were like, define in 15 seconds for me an assault weapon. | ||
| And he was like, well, I'm not a gun expert, so I can't. | ||
| And one of my favorite tweets that came out, I think it was a guy named George Costas, he said, he doesn't know anything about firearms. | ||
| I'm glad he admitted that. | ||
| Does he know a lot about alcohol and tobacco? | ||
| What is this guy doing? | ||
| Yeah, it's like, name your favorite booze. | ||
| Oh, look, I'm not a drinker. | ||
| I don't know anything about it. | ||
| Well, I am not an expert. | ||
| That's the kind of person Budweiser should hire, though. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And then tobacco? | ||
| Can we get rid of this agency? | ||
| It makes no sense. | ||
| There's a problem with that. | ||
| There's actually a problem with that. | ||
| You tweeted about this this morning. | ||
| I tweeted about this. | ||
| I saw, yeah. | ||
| Because I was talking to someone at the ATF a few weeks ago, you know, an inside man, just getting some information, and they don't like the FBI. | ||
| Nobody likes the FBI. | ||
| I don't think anyone in America, if you were sitting in a bar and a guy said, you said, hey, what do you do for work? | ||
| And he said, I work with the FBI. | ||
| X-Files? | ||
| The average American won't thank an FBI agent for their service. | ||
| They're not gonna do that. | ||
| Not right now. | ||
| FBI to go, oh yeah, X-Files. I'd be like, really? Tell me everything. | ||
| Yeah, I know he's like that guy who's in Bones and helps her with her cases. He's cool. | ||
| Yeah, but TV FBI agents we like, I guess. | ||
| The average American won't thank an FBI agent for their service. They're not going to do that. | ||
| Not right now. But so I was talking to my ATF guy and we were talking about, | ||
| shoot, where was I going? | ||
| The brace thing. | ||
| What were we just talking about? | ||
| Abolishing the ATF. | ||
| Abolishing the ATF. | ||
| And so I asked him about that. | ||
| And he said, well, the problem with the ATF going away is the FBI would take over. | ||
| And they have infinite resources. | ||
| They're weaponized way more easily by the administration. | ||
| Like, technically, they've been trying to weaponize the ATF for political means. | ||
| And they put through an executive order, I think, in 2021. | ||
| It's still not in effect this year. | ||
| That's how slow moving the ATF is, which is good for us. | ||
| Like, I actually don't mind. | ||
| That's pretty cool. | ||
| My tweet was essentially, the ATF should get removed when the gun laws are removed at the same time so the FBI can't do anything squirrely and weird. | ||
| And as long as you're, I mean, it's not really that tall of an order to get rid of federal gun laws because the federal government doesn't have extensive gun laws thanks to the Second Amendment. | ||
| There's really limits placed on what the feds can actually do. | ||
| But here's the most important question. | ||
| The ATF has just imposed a rule without Congress making it illegal to own an item attached to a weapon that will make, what, hundreds of thousands of people criminals? | ||
| Millions. | ||
| Millions and millions and millions. | ||
| I can't remember what that number was. | ||
| I think it was like three? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Many, many. | ||
| I had to have them, because I think I have a handful of pistols with braces. | ||
| They were all removed and separated and stored somewhere far away. | ||
| I just got bomb socks and everything, man. | ||
| But with that... Are you still allowed to have them so long as they're not attached? | ||
| No, the whole bombshell thing's... Oh, they lost that. | ||
| They lost it. | ||
| Right, but no one knows. | ||
| It's in limbo. | ||
| Will the company start selling them again? | ||
| No, probably not, because they're like, well, they'll just ban it in the next administration. | ||
| But a court struck that down. | ||
| That is correct. | ||
| And the brace thing, it's going to be the exact same thing. | ||
| They're going to fight it for two years. | ||
| The issue is for resellers, like Gun Broker, for example, the day that went out, or the next day that went out, they pulled all listings of guns with braces off of their website. | ||
| Let me provide people with some context real quick just because it may be a little bit esoteric for a lot of people. | ||
| There are pistols and there are people who are disabled. | ||
| In order to fire the pistol, they attach a brace which goes onto your forearm so you can hold it. | ||
| However, they can adjust in length, they're retractable, and so some people, and these are bad people, I tell ya, they pushed it up to their shoulder to simulate a stock. | ||
| Because a brace can simulate a stock, they've now made it illegal. | ||
| Or they've just issued a decree. | ||
| They made a short-barreled rifle, essentially. | ||
| They've decreed it. | ||
| Now that's the biggest problem I have. | ||
| I've said on the show, I was like, come on, we know people are using braces like stocks. | ||
| It's like- Everyone. | ||
| Right, right, everybody knows. | ||
| First of all, I disagree with all the gun control. | ||
| But if it went through Congress, I'd roll my eyes, I'd complain about it, but this is a hundred times worse than that. | ||
| A rogue agency. | ||
| A rogue agency issuing a rule. | ||
| We hereby decree that if you have this thing, you're a felon. | ||
| That's crazy. Yep. And the issue is most people aren't following the news. I mean, they just don't | ||
| want to. They want to go about their life, work their job, do whatever. They don't know what's | ||
| going on with every regulation. And then all of a sudden a doodle that caught up and I'll be like, | ||
| well, I didn't know it got changed. I didn't realize y'all were changing laws every three | ||
| years and regulations for the thing that you said. Right. | ||
| But they said braces are fine. | ||
| Like you can do this thing. | ||
| They, you know, SB sent this product to them. | ||
| They said that's fine. | ||
| And so everyone bought them. | ||
| And then, oh, you're going to change your mind on it and go back on it. | ||
| And that's going to screw over all the people that don't pay attention to the laws. | ||
| Because, I mean, I have a hard time paying attention. | ||
| I literally do this for a job, keeping up with all the regulations. | ||
| I mean, I'm probably a felon five days out of the week. | ||
| If I didn't cover the news. | ||
| There's no way I would have known about this. | ||
| And so sure enough, when the news comes out, it's like, okay, we got to go. | ||
| And I think there were, I think like three and we took them off and we moved them and stored them somewhere else. | ||
| I mean, I am a, you know, I'm a, I'm a guy that shoots a lot and I paid a lot of attention to guns and I'm, you know, active in the gun world and at least enough to be aware of what's going on. | ||
| And to think that the average person is going to do that kind of stuff when they've got, they've got a family, they've got work, they've got kids, they've got all kinds of election coming up. | ||
| They're like, Oh, What do I do? | ||
| It's like they're normal people with normal lives. | ||
| And that's something that I think a lot of people that are wrapped up in this kind of stuff don't realize. | ||
| Your average person doesn't spend their days paying attention to the details about what, you know, what laws are passed or whatever. | ||
| And when you can go to, you know, you can go to like Runnings in New England, there's this, it's essentially tractor supply that sells guns as well. | ||
| But you can buy a 10-inch pistol, or you could buy a 10-inch pistol, and some dude just goes and he's like, oh, I can pick this up for $1,500, go home, and I shoot it once in a while, that doesn't watch Guntube stuff, and he doesn't know that he's now a felon, or he's gonna be a felon, or whatever. | ||
| That's ridiculous. | ||
| You see that viral video of that Gen Z Democrat, where he was like, we're coming for your guns! | ||
| We're gonna win! | ||
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We're gonna take them! | |
| We're not sitting by and do nothing! | ||
| You invited him to your house? | ||
| No, no, he's hired by the White House. | ||
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No, no. | |
| I was going to say, you should invite him to your house. | ||
| I'll take him to the range. | ||
| I mean, I'll have to have some people there so I don't get like Chris Kyle or something. | ||
| But I tweeted, they already lost. | ||
| Who? | ||
| The gun control people. | ||
| Not only are we looking at 27 constitutional carry states, I think Nebraska and Florida are next to go into effect, but 3D printed guns exist. | ||
| It's done. | ||
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There's nothing they can do about it. | |
| Well, I won't say what I was going to say. | ||
| I was going to say ammo. | ||
| So they tried to go after ammo a few years ago, green tip ammo. | ||
| That's honestly, yes, a steel penetrator. | ||
| It's all right. | ||
| It's not that great, but it works. | ||
| But they tried to go after ammo. | ||
| And the thing that gun control people could do if they were smart is they would go after, they would use OSHA compliance and they would try to shut down businesses and make it harder for businesses to function. | ||
| Businesses would have to raise the prices to offset that. | ||
| I know, but I'm telling everyone who's on here who needs to understand these things. | ||
| Because I run a business, I can actually talk about this. | ||
| That's how they could actually shut down a lot of people from owning guns and make it so only people in like the six-figure income bracket could actually afford guns. | ||
| That would be the way to do it because they're not going to actually ban weapons anytime soon. | ||
| But in states like Washington, I mean, they just did and now that's being fought. | ||
| So in some of the really blue states, like super blue states, I think we will see those bans at least be in effect for another 10-20 years until culture can shift and change. | ||
| But nationally, it's not gonna happen. | ||
| I just wanna point out, like, it's kind of amazing that we are winning this well. | ||
| Like, gun- For one thing, yeah. | ||
| Gun rights are winning so tremendously. | ||
| It's like not even a contest. | ||
| It's never been popular in America, no matter how much the media says, | ||
| it's never been popular when you get down to the individual level to take guns away. | ||
| If you talk- But wait, wait, wait. | ||
| It wasn't until, I think, like 2008 with, was it Heller in DC? | ||
| That people were actually able to have guns legally nationwide. | ||
| Good. | ||
| We had, in the 80s, most states would not give you a gun permit. | ||
| You couldn't have guns. | ||
| And then you watch around the year 2000, constitutional carry starts popping up state by state. | ||
| And now it's 27 states. | ||
| So Nebraska, so it's 25 in effect. | ||
| Florida just did permitless conceal carry. | ||
| Nebraska, I think, went full constitutional. | ||
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| Yeah, just today, I think it was. | ||
| And more coming! | ||
| It ain't over here! | ||
| More and more states are going to implode. | ||
| I think the big frontier is going to be, and the issue right now is, the federal government still controls who gets to sell guns. | ||
| That is the whole FFL, the whole thing, the Gun Control Act, or whatever it was. | ||
| That is the actual, like, the final frontier of getting rights back is, when can states just get to do it on their own? | ||
| You could have their own system for choosing who gets to sell guns. | ||
| That's a 10th Amendment violation? | ||
| Did they get to before? | ||
| Did states ever get to control who... I'm sorry, I'm not up on my gun history. | ||
| I think back in the day, they took guns to schools, actually. | ||
| The thing is, a lot of people that are anti-gun will sit there and they'll say, well, you never had this right, you never had that right, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| But that's essentially spinning reality on its head. | ||
| Because the idea that you were prohibited was foreign to a free people. | ||
| If you are by your nature free, then the idea that you don't have this right is completely foreign to the concept of you being free. | ||
| It comes with your liberty. | ||
| The fact that you're free means you don't have to ask permission. | ||
| And that doesn't matter what the context is, you know? | ||
| And it's so the idea that, oh, you know, you only the government is creating this right and etc. | ||
| No, no, no, no, no. | ||
| The government doesn't create liberties. | ||
| Liberties exist. | ||
| And then The only thing the government can do is infringe upon those, which the Second Amendment is ostensibly supposed to prevent, which it does a poor job of in my estimation. | ||
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| Although it did help with the Bruin case. | ||
| It did. | ||
| They did go back to that and go, hey, according to this thing, you know, in order to pass regulations, you can't just say it's for public safety because you can't actually argue that. | ||
| So like you can't do it anymore. | ||
| The bump stock thing, that was a while ago, wasn't it? | ||
| They struck it down? | ||
| I think it was sort of struck down and then it was kind of struck down again because there was something about it recently. | ||
| Again, I didn't really But like, they're once again legal. | ||
| Yes, but I don't think anyone will come out and start selling them or putting them on a gun broker or anything like that, because it's still kind of that weird burnt child syndrome. | ||
| They're like, it's a butt sock, Trump banned it, don't really want to do anything with it. | ||
| And so the real thing they're doing is, when they say pistol braces are banned, people get rid of them, detach them. | ||
| Stop selling them, companies go out of business. | ||
| And then they lose, and then people are like, wow, we don't have them anymore. | ||
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| Businesses that make them go under. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| SB is probably, I mean, I mean, they haven't been able to sell them for the last couple of months. | ||
| So that's two months of revenue lost or three months, whenever that was. | ||
| And I had this conversation with them. | ||
| They're the biggest brace, the company, like that's literally how I got started, SB Tactical. | ||
| And they said, Hey, our goal, and this is what I really appreciate about them. | ||
| They were actual zealots for the cause and not just, not just capitalists, but they're capitalists with a conscience. | ||
| They said, we would love to put ourselves out of business by getting SBRs taken off. | ||
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| So then we don't have to make these stupid things. | ||
| We'll pivot and make stocks and we'll be fine. | ||
| So yeah, they're probably two months out of revenue. | ||
| They're putting all their efforts into the political fight. | ||
| There are disabled people who use them. | ||
| Yeah, sure. | ||
| So you still do need pistol braces. | ||
| Yeah, they'll make, I mean, they would definitely make a lot less, but not as much. | ||
| That's the thing, like, the problem is We will be honest about the fact that people are using them as stocks. | ||
| I mean, I got tons of YouTube videos doing it, so... You have an interest there. | ||
| And then, but because of that honesty... | ||
| Our political rivals will weaponize, like they will not be honest back. | ||
| They'll claim the AR-15 needs to be banned and then completely ignore every other weapon and every other, you know, whatever. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, I think that's a lot of the issue. | ||
| My issue, and I've been speaking about this for like the last six years, is gun owners, sugar coat, like the modern sporting rifle is a perfect example. | ||
| Companies go, well, we can't call it an M4. | ||
| We can't call it a weapon. | ||
| So we're going to call it a sporting rifle. | ||
| And that right there communicates to people that, oh, this is a privilege, not a right. | ||
| It's just a sporting instrument. | ||
| It's for 3 gun or 2 gun or shooting sports. | ||
| Which people aren't... When the M&P 15 in 2020, the M&P 15 was the best-selling rifle in the nation. | ||
| An AR-15 with a front sight post, 16-inch barrel. | ||
| People were not buying those to shoot competitions. | ||
| We did not see a rise in shooting sports, USPSA, multi-gun, three-gun, when all those rifles were getting bought. | ||
| That's not why people are buying them. | ||
| But companies go, we're gonna call it a sporting rifle, so that we get some heat taken off of us. | ||
| But all that does is communicate to gun owners, this is a privilege, not a right, and it's gonna cause issues. | ||
| And I've literally told companies, like, they've asked me, hey, what should we do to modernize our brand a little bit? | ||
| And I just go, Dump that name. | ||
| Get rid of it. | ||
| It's doing more harm than good long term. | ||
| It might be fine right now, but in 10 years, what's it going to do to the culture and how people view guns? | ||
| Let's jump to this next story, which is not about guns, but is about the Department of Justice from the Tennessean. | ||
| DOJ challenges Tennessee's ban on transgender care for minors. | ||
| The first thing I want to say is I take issue with the title of this article, so I'm going to rephrase it for the sake of honesty. | ||
| Department of Justice challenges Tennessee's ban on child sex change surgery. | ||
| I mean, you'll laugh, but like, language is a huge component of how the left plays politics. | ||
| 100%, absolutely. | ||
| And this is exactly what was banned. | ||
| They don't want medications, puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery for children. | ||
| So these children have to, you know, be adults before making these decisions. | ||
| But now the DOJ has announced that they are going to, under the 14th Amendment, try and block this ban from happening. | ||
| They argue, SB1, the bill, makes it unlawful to provide or offer to provide certain types of medical care for transgender minors with diagnosed gender dysphoria. | ||
| SB1's blanket ban prohibits potential treatment options that have been recommended by major medical associations for consideration in limited circumstances in accordance with established and comprehensive guidelines, etc., etc., by denying only transgender youth access to these forms of medically necessary care, while allowing non-transgender minors access to the same or similar procedures. | ||
| What?! ! | ||
| Did you catch that? | ||
| But let me read it. | ||
| It discriminates against transgender youth. | ||
| The DOJ is arguing that non-trans kids are undergoing sex change surgery. | ||
| If that's the case, we've got a bigger problem than just this one bill. | ||
| There are caveats in most bills, including Tennessee's, that say children who are born with a genetic defect, they don't identify as Shans. | ||
| There's literally something wrong. | ||
| They're intersex. | ||
| There's another issue at play. | ||
| They can get hormonal treatment or something like that. | ||
| But those people are not in the same sphere as I'm not sure what might generate. | ||
| It's a fringe case. | ||
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| And it's determined very much by their genetics and their biology as opposed to their psychological condition. | ||
| How often does that... I mean, and I don't know, I haven't studied this, but how often does that actually happen? | ||
| Are we talking like a .0001%? | ||
| It's really rare. | ||
| I mean, it's very uncommon. | ||
| Are you talking about intersex? | ||
| Intersex kids, or kids who are born with like XXY chromosomes. | ||
| I think it's like .0017 or something. | ||
| But it makes sense to permit them... Vanishingly small. | ||
| Right, but they want to use that to argue, well, we should do it for everyone! | ||
| Well, now that we're seeing tens of thousands of kids undergoing procedures of some sort over the past few years, it's getting into like, I think it's 60 or so thousand. | ||
| We went over this when Destiny was here. | ||
| Yeah, 40-some-odd thousand taking cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers and then it's in the thousands of Teenage girls who are getting mastectomies. | ||
| Can you imagine if a country, because you know, Europe, they're banning it. | ||
| If a foreign country in the future, say in 10 years, and we've got just all this stuff going on, it's like, we're gonna invade America to free the oppressed and get rid of this stuff that's destroying kids, and a foreign nation wanted to invade us over that. | ||
| Wouldn't that be fascinating? | ||
| You know, if I was gonna look at history, and you're gonna look at an invasion or something, If a foreign invader, let's say it was like, I don't know, a European nation, we'll call it like a water... Call it Germany, they're good at it. | ||
| Let's just say there's like a big land mass in Europe and it's surrounded by water. | ||
| And then maybe there's like a smaller landmass to the west, and then people from one go to the other, and then say like, you can't have kids anymore, and you can't speak your language. | ||
| One way to, you know, get rid of that lineage is to stop them from having kids, avoiding their kids, or sterilizing their kids. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| That's one thing. | ||
| So when I see this, this is why I keep saying like, it really does feel like Democrats hate their own constituents. | ||
| Because like, if you went to someone and said, have you considered sterilizing your children? | ||
| It sounds like you're insulting them. | ||
| I think there is a deep nihilism that comes from most of the philosophies that come from the left. | ||
| I think that there is a real significant dislike of humanity. | ||
| The whole environmental movement, I feel like, is anti-human. | ||
| A lot of the left, I feel like, is anti-human. | ||
| When you say stuff like that, it doesn't sound like you're talking about something crazy. | ||
| It fits right in with my kind of concept of the way the left thinks, you know? | ||
| It comes from the same sphere of humanity that produces articles that's like, here are 30 women who talk about why they regret having children and it's like all selfish reasons. | ||
| I will point out that the DOJ sued Alabama for similar reasons. | ||
| Alabama has a Senate Bill 184 and it's effectively very similar, right? | ||
| It's restricting the medical procedures that you can offer children who identify as transgender and they classify it as part of their push to prevent a gender-based discrimination and I find this to be Such a blatant show of activism. | ||
| They sued Alabama in April of 2022. | ||
| And you have to wonder, who is backing this? | ||
| I guess I have never really liked the federal government, so it's easy for me to say we should let the states regulate on their own. | ||
| But on the left, Are you really that interested in authoritarianism where you can have a justice department that just actively tries to selectively push its agenda? | ||
| Like, at what point does that become appealing to someone? | ||
| When you're growing up, when do you start thinking like, you know what I really want? | ||
| A really strong central government that promotes an ideology that destroys children. | ||
| I don't think that the government – I think the government is a – from their perspective, the government is a necessary evil to achieve the ends that they're looking for. | ||
| And they don't think about the fact that when you empower the government, you never – it just continues to amass power. | ||
| It's not going to give power back. | ||
| Seems crazy to me. | ||
| The other part that I find interesting is that the DOJ put out this statement saying this is a terrible thing to do, especially for transgender | ||
| identifying youth, or they say transgender youth, but who are already at risk of suicide, | ||
| depression, etc. And then the Tennessee Attorney General, his office put out a statement saying | ||
| like, actually no, this is not a confirmed way to treat children. | ||
| In fact, having them go through these treatments can increase suicide, anxiety, and depression. | ||
| And so they're at this crossroads where, you know, we really don't know what to do with this issue. | ||
| And so you can kind of argue the same thing and end up on different ends. | ||
| It's the same screen, two different movies, like Scott Adams says. | ||
| Lucas, I mean, you're from Tennessee. | ||
| Is there a significant appetite for this stuff around Nashville? | ||
| Do you feel like there's a lot of people that are like, Or does it seem like this stuff is coming out of nowhere and there's not a lot of support for it? | ||
| It does seem like something that comes out of nowhere. | ||
| I'm not a real big conspiracy theorist, but when all this stuff is being talked about, none of this is shocking to me. | ||
| And the reason this isn't shocking to me is, for the last 50 years, everyone has been desensitized to being okay with murdering babies. | ||
| It's something like 63 million, I think is what I wrote down. | ||
| I was doing some research earlier today. | ||
| 63 million babies have been aborted in the last 50 years just here in our country. | ||
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| So over 50 years people have been desensitized to it. | ||
| It's okay. | ||
| It's acceptable. | ||
| We can do it at four weeks, six weeks, eight weeks. | ||
| I think someone was telling me it was either the West Virginia governor a couple years ago was saying after the baby was born, or it was Virginia governor, I can't remember. | ||
| That was Virginia. | ||
| And so with all this trans stuff about kids, If people don't value their children before they're born, | ||
| why would they value their children after? | ||
| But the abortion thing, it is important to point out, of the 63 million, it was probably like | ||
| 63 million Democrats, you know what I mean? | ||
| I mean, but I mean, but, but, you know, it's not meant to be snide or rude or funny. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| To make the point like. | ||
| Those are the people doing it. | ||
| That's 63 million votes gone in 20 years, the Democratic Party. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that means that the politics around abortion is going to change. | ||
| No questions. | ||
| I mean, people on the right say, yeah but they're trying to indoctrinate our kids and I'm | ||
| like yes but you are aware of that. | ||
| So as long as you're aware and you're resisting it, then the likelihood they convert your kids into being, you know, anti-baby is very low. | ||
| Well, and the trans thing too, I mean, I've only seen a few, you know, stories come out of kids afterwards who say they regret, you know, you read it. | ||
| There's a lot. | ||
| Honestly, it's probably the most sad, depressing thing I ever see are the stories of those kids who are like, I can never get this back, I made this decision, or my parents had me make this decision, I can't do anything. | ||
| And I feel like In the next, like, five years, those are going to blow up. | ||
| There's going to be a lot more of those. | ||
| Or the suicide rate's going to go up even more. | ||
| So at what point are people really going to ask the question? | ||
| Or are they going to squish all those stories and just keep doing it? | ||
| We've seen it before. | ||
| I mean, there have been practices that have been banned. | ||
| Lobotomies are banned. | ||
| They would go to people and say, I think the appropriate treatment for your child is for us to remove a portion of their frontal lobe through their nose or something like that. | ||
| And then they would turn their kids into zombies. | ||
| Wasn't there, like, a Kennedy? | ||
| Yeah, it's Rosemary Kennedy. | ||
| She's the first daughter, so it was Joe, John, and then Rosemary, and she had, they believe, like, didn't have enough oxygen when she was born. | ||
| She always had some sort of brain disorder, and it became progressively worse, and her parents eventually heard, like, hey, there's this cool new treatment. | ||
| It might be able to help, and they were desperate. | ||
| I mean, I think everyone looking back recognizes how wrong they were, but when you don't have the information, I could understand. | ||
| Right, but even then there was enough, I mean I think at the time when she had her lobotomy it was only like a hundred people had undergone them, which like already seems like too many, but again if you didn't know and if they're, as they were, misrepresenting the results of these things, I mean... | ||
| I understand wanting to help the people you love and especially if you're desperate, but I think it's obvious in this case that waiting is the best course of action, right? | ||
| Offering other forms of therapy and really discussing with your child, like, what's going on is so much safer than saying, take these drugs, alter your body. | ||
| Well, and I also feel like I saw a video, I think it was Jordan Peterson who posted it earlier today, and this obviously isn't happening for everyone, but it's probably happening more than people want to admit. | ||
| There was this bunch of TikTok videos of this dad with his trans daughter, and the report was that he was using her for likes and attention. | ||
| And that right there has all sorts of problems with it, but I would be curious how many parents are going through with this to keep up with the Joneses. | ||
| It is now the new thing. | ||
| Oh, yeah, my kid's trans, too. | ||
| Yours is, too. | ||
| Hey, I'm doing this, you know? | ||
| And I mean, the kid's just a pawn. | ||
| Bill Barr mentions it. | ||
| We're seeing it in California, but not Ohio. | ||
| So either there's something happening in the water in California, or they're socializing their kids this way. | ||
| Well, and during COVID, when students went home, there were all these anecdotal reports about, we used to have, you know, six identifying, trans-identifying students, and now it's only one of them, a bunch of them, decided when they were home with their families that they didn't actually feel this way, right? | ||
| Of course it's anecdotal. | ||
| I'd love to see hard numbers on it, but there is something to be said for the social contagion aspect of it. | ||
| I think you're totally right. | ||
| I miss the days of the tiger mom when it's like all these women trying to make their kids be the best of whatever. | ||
| Like instead of trying to make your kid a different gender, can't you just like stress them out about getting good grades? | ||
| Not that that's a healthy way to parent, but yeah. | ||
| Let's move on to this story that I really don't want to talk about but kind of feel like we have to. | ||
| Yasir Ali, journalist, published footage from Steven Crowder's home with his wife because they're going through a divorce. | ||
| And I don't think this should be published. | ||
| I think Yasir Ali was wrong to publish this. | ||
| I don't think it should be discussed. | ||
| But the issue is, The video's got half a million views, the tweet itself, I think, has two million views, so I'm interested in talking about, to a certain degree, what it is, because it is a thing people are watching, but more so the ethics of why this should not be a thing, and how I think it's being weaponized against Steven Crowder. | ||
| So, to put it simply, there's a few big stories right now. | ||
| One, you may have seen Steven Crowder put out a video where he said that he's going through a divorce, it's horrendous, and that he, I think he said he's being extorted, is that what he said? | ||
| He implied, right? | ||
| Did he say extorted, or? | ||
| He said, if you know what extortion is, like, this is what it feels like, or something like that. | ||
| Now the media, Daily Beast reports Steven Crowder's extortion war with Candace Owens blows up, and I'm wondering, how is it that Steven Crowder's divorce has become something for, like, Yasher to publish? | ||
| Why is it news? | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| Because the left hates Steven Crowder. | ||
| Because the left hates Steven Crowder. | ||
| And so, this is a huge opportunity for them to attack him, to accuse him of wrongdoing. | ||
| And then you get this video. | ||
| This video that I'm not going to play. | ||
| I know a lot of people want me to play it. | ||
| People were commenting, like, you gotta play the video. | ||
| People are mad at Crowder. | ||
| Dude, I will not fall for a 20-second out-of-context clip. | ||
| I'm not playing that game. | ||
| That's what I want to say about this to everybody who's seen this video. | ||
| You've got Steven Crowder's wife. | ||
| She's very pregnant. | ||
| They're arguing, I guess, over a car or something. | ||
| Like, I was surprised to learn that Crowder, his family, has one car. | ||
| Or, supposedly. | ||
| Supposedly. | ||
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| Exactly, exactly. | ||
| Because, like, when I hear the story that Crowder's fighting with his wife because he wants to use the car and he doesn't want her to use the car, I'm kind of like... Maybe the other car's in the shop. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| But Crowder seems like the kind of guy who would have three, maybe four, or five cars. | ||
| Maybe a collection he doesn't want to tell anyone about. | ||
| Yeah, no, I mean, more than, you know. | ||
| But what I want to say about the video clip is a few questions. | ||
| One, how did Yasir Ali get three minutes of video footage of Crowder, quote, being emotionally abusive to his wife? | ||
| From Crowder's house. | ||
| From Crowder's house. | ||
| So who is recording this? | ||
| They have a ring camera in their... I mean, this is crazy. | ||
| Audio and video record in his house. | ||
| And what bothers me about this is... | ||
| Man, I'm reluctant to say what I think, but I think Crowder's being set up. | ||
| I mean, he wouldn't post that footage. | ||
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| Himself. | ||
| That means somebody knew the footage was available, shared it with the press, and... | ||
| Who could that have been? | ||
| I mean it is like it is possible that someone at ring but I mean I do I think I think I did I'm just gonna say it come on man who do you think his wife yeah she's he's getting divorced so who and he said it's become increasingly hostile like I wonder if this is actually something got submitted to the court I don't want to accuse I don't know that she did I'm just saying Crowder in this video He's not gonna release that footage. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| If it was hacked footage, either of them, I would assume, would be upset by that, and would say it. | ||
| Or they might both say it. | ||
| Be like, hey, we're having issues, but our camera's in our home. | ||
| Where our children live. | ||
| We're hacked, where our children are. | ||
| This is an issue, we're gonna sue Ring, and it's gonna be a thing. | ||
| But I don't think that's happened. | ||
| They haven't said that, no. | ||
| I wanna say something, too, that's kind of crazy, is people are acting like this video is really bad, and it's not. | ||
| So, uh, basically his wife says, we're at an impasse. | ||
| I love you, but I need some time. | ||
| And then she's, she accuses him, she says something about his abuse and he says, watch it, watch it. | ||
| And like, that's basically it. | ||
| And I'm like, I don't know what I'm supposed to be mad about. | ||
| They're just, people want to be mad. | ||
| They want to be mad. | ||
| And it's actually impossible to judge because you, we don't know them. | ||
| Like we don't know them on this level. | ||
| I mean, it's, it's something that I think as a culture, especially women are increasingly aware of, like, you need to be careful about the dynamics you put yourself in. | ||
| And, like, I do know people who have been in really controlling relationships where, like, only having one car is a part of that. | ||
| But I don't know the crowders well enough to have any context to believe that's where this comes from, right? | ||
| Like, it's- it's, I think, hard not to read- you have to be careful not to read your own experience into it. | ||
| Like, if you have been in a dangerous situation, you might see it, But if you haven't, you may not. | ||
| It's hard to know what it is. | ||
| I remember I was hanging out with some friends of mine. | ||
| This is probably like six years ago. | ||
| And I heard how they talked to each other. | ||
| And I was like, man, I don't know if I like that. | ||
| I'm not going to talk to my wife that way. | ||
| And then over the years, as I got to know, I was like, oh, this is kind of how they joke around with each other and say stuff. | ||
| Now, I'm not saying that's what's happening here. | ||
| But like a lot of people, especially people commenting on this, are they married? | ||
| Are they in a relationship? | ||
| Do they actually know what they're talking about? | ||
| You know, I'll probably get in trouble to some degree for saying my opinions on this, because I think it's a stupid story that shouldn't be published. | ||
| But when I see camera footage released that's got a 20-second clip that makes someone like Crowder look bad, and then... I'll just put it this way. | ||
| If there was a recording of say like, let's say Phil Labonte was accused of wrongdoing, and then all of a sudden a recording emerges, and I'm like, hello there Phil, tell me about that time you bought illegal drugs. | ||
| And then Phil's like, what are you talking about? | ||
| You know, the illegal drugs you bought. | ||
| Tell me. | ||
| You'd kind of assume that someone was intending on that recording existing for purposes of implicating another person. | ||
| So when I see this, and again, without accusing anybody, because I don't know, when I see this and someone says, let me tell you about your abuse, Steven, I'm like, what? | ||
| Do people talk like that? | ||
| Like, it's a very specific thing to say to someone, and then Crowder clearly reacts negatively to it. | ||
| He says, watch it. | ||
| And then he says, effing watch it. | ||
| And my response to that is like, dude, if someone walked up to me in my room and accused me of something as serious as that, I might be like, excuse me? | ||
| No, get out. | ||
| Like, I'm not having that conversation. | ||
| Because that's not true, that's not fair. | ||
| What are you saying? | ||
| Worse still, somebody leaked the footage to Yasir Ali. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, anything... At this point, with the way the culture war is going, anybody that is a prominent figure on the right, it is every opportunity that someone on the left can take to knock you down or to smear you, they're going to take. | ||
| It's something that people that are on the right have to be aware of. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| So Fairpoint, people are mentioning, that's a Twitter clip. | ||
| There's a three-minute clip and he says a lot worse things. | ||
| He says, I'm gonna F you up. | ||
| And so, you know, Fairpoint, like, he should not have done that, right? | ||
| I haven't watched the full thing. | ||
| Yeah, I haven't watched it. | ||
| I think it's really hard because Saying really nasty things one time, like does that constitute being an abusive person or is it just you lost control in this one moment, right? | ||
| Like we have no way to know what the pattern of their relationship is and that's why it's hard to see this stuff online because like they have children, the internet is forever, is this one terrible fight for a couple that's already falling apart or is this a pattern of behavior that it's hard for the public to wrap their heads around because he is a public figure? | ||
| Well, this could be another issue of, I mean, often, not always, but in relationships, it's not always just one person at fault. | ||
| It can be both people are at fault. | ||
| Kind of like how wars happen. | ||
| There's not always a good guy and a bad guy. | ||
| Sometimes it's just two kind of bad guys duking it out. | ||
| I just think that's a whole nother, again, there's just not enough context to know, but I also know, and maybe this is maybe a little bit of personal experience, I've been married for two years now, being in a position like he's in of constant criticism under a microscope at all times, that can put stress on a marriage. | ||
| I want to stress this, too. | ||
| I didn't watch the three minute- I didn't realize Yasha released the entire three and a half minutes. | ||
| I watched the clip on Twitter, and when I opened up the article on my phone, the video wasn't there. | ||
| Like, I didn't see the video there until just now. | ||
| So that's my mistake, so I apologize for that. | ||
| He snaps at her, saying, watch it, effing watch it, I will F you up, which led to his wife fleeing their home. | ||
| So, like, I think it's bad, and I'm just- I'm like... | ||
| The issue I take with it is it's personal, private stuff. | ||
| If Crowder did wrong, he's paying the price for it. | ||
| The only reason it's news is because Crowder is a prominent figure who's challenging the establishment, and they know that they can take him down with something like this. | ||
| They've been waiting for something like this. | ||
| If Crowder did something wrong in this moment, he should apologize for being wrong and doing the wrong thing. | ||
| Make things right to her. | ||
| But the purpose of this is to cause political and PR damage to a prominent individual who is challenging the machine. | ||
| It's just to smear. | ||
| It's pure culture war. | ||
| It's just smearing Crowder because he's on the right. | ||
| That's all it is. | ||
| It's unfortunate, but that's, that's the, the, yeah, it's the world. | ||
| And it doesn't make like the way he's talking to her. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| It just means if he were a private citizen, it would still be wrong. | ||
| This happens all the time. | ||
| This is happening a thousand other times in America, somewhere else with other people. | ||
| All over. | ||
| No one will know about it, talk about it, don't care. | ||
| They only care because it's him. | ||
| And her. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| I just feel bad for the kids, right? | ||
| Because, like, obviously this seems contentious and horrible. | ||
| Divorce is so difficult for children as it is, but, like... How many kids do they have? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Two? | ||
| Well, she's pregnant in the clip, so there's one on the way. | ||
| Twins. | ||
| There's a lot of really serious accusations in here. | ||
| And, like, my view is just this. | ||
| I don't- I don't care to condemn someone because of clip. | ||
| Even the three minute- three and a half minute one, I read the quote where he said that and stuff like that and it's like, man, to take three minutes of someone's life and then condemn them over that without knowing everything else... | ||
| Unless there was like serious, like, let's say he got up and started beating, that'd be different. | ||
| Cause then it'd be like, okay, that's pretty obvious. | ||
| That should be reported to the police. | ||
| But I think that's like one of the issues that so many people have about abuse, like the way people talk about abuse is because like, if like someone punched me in the face, right, we would all agree that's been not okay. | ||
| But if you are constantly in a place where you're like in fear because of the way you're being treated, the way you're talking to, like being talked to, stuff like that, like that is psychologically damaging. | ||
| It's just much harder to analyze. | ||
| In some ways, we wish abuse was more clear-cut and, like, in this case, like, we just don't have the context to know what's going on. | ||
| That's why it's like, I wish this wasn't out here. | ||
| I wish we weren't, we didn't have to talk about it or address it because, like, I would never, I don't think you can accurately prescribe what's going on from three minutes. | ||
| If it is a really toxic dynamic, I hope both of them get help. | ||
| And if it's, this was just a bad moment, I, again, I have to reiterate, like, they have children. | ||
| This will live on forever. | ||
| And that's who's suffering the most from all of this. | ||
| Yeah, and the issue here too is they'll both be bothered by it. | ||
| They go through with the divorce, she goes somewhere else, people will always know her as the woman in this clip, and he'll always be known as the dude in this clip. | ||
| So they're both screwed over. | ||
| I don't see how there's a winner by releasing this. | ||
| Unless it's like a moment of anger, right? | ||
| whether it be it could help with a lawsuit potentially or divorce court. | ||
| Well, I mean, having it would, but like putting it out and it doesn't give me | ||
| that, you know, having Yashar put it out, it doesn't it doesn't does. | ||
| I don't see how how there's any. | ||
| Unless it's like a moment of anger, right? | ||
| Like we really think she leaked it and she's like, the way you said your statement makes it sound like this | ||
| was something I did. | ||
| And you're the victim. And I feel like I suffered. | ||
| I mean, it's not an OK way to handle it, in my opinion. | ||
| But again, it's my opinion I did not have to be involved with any of this and I again I just think that like these videos last forever and their kids are going to inevitably Google themselves and this will come up People are saying, like, don't defend Steven, blah blah blah, and I'm like, bro, I have seen so many videos from protests, or of people who are supposedly innocent being beaten by cops or whatever, and then the full video comes out. | ||
| And so I'm just saying, like, I'm not saying Steven's perfect. | ||
| He probably has to apologize for a lot, okay? | ||
| And that's fine. | ||
| But the fact is, this is being weaponized by people who just want to take down Steven Crowder for political reasons. | ||
| Well, and if all of us examined ourselves, I mean, I know there have been nights that I've neglected my wife, not done things for her, and if there were clips posted of me sitting at my computer gaming and not spending time with her, people would be like, Whoa, look how selfish Lucas is playing video games and not spending time with his wife! | ||
| I mean, how many of us are guilty of similar things? | ||
| How about this? | ||
| What if you were playing video games with your wife, and you're saying stuff like, if I catch you, I will kill you! | ||
| Yeah, right? | ||
| I can't believe he said that and that's like your wife's laughing and she's like oh and you know exactly but context matters too. | ||
| What I don't like about this video is I just The question of who leaked it. | ||
| And if it was leaked, is this like, was someone aware that they were having a recording created and they said things, you know what I mean? | ||
| Just like, imagine if you walked up to somebody who trusted you and didn't think that you would leak a recording of them or whatever. | ||
| And then they said something to you intentionally to make you angry that you knew wasn't true and there's nothing you can say. | ||
| Like, if I went to film and was like, I know you stole my bike. | ||
| You'd be like, what? | ||
| And then you have a negative reaction to it. | ||
| Then someone leaks the footage being like, when Tim confronted Phil over stealing his bike, Phil freaked out and got really angry. | ||
| So it must be true. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| Wouldn't you be angry if someone accused you of abusing them if you if you didn't do it? | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I'm not saying Connor's innocent. | ||
| I'm not saying he's innocent at all. | ||
| I'm just saying, like, critical thinking skills are really important. | ||
| I didn't have this even slated for tonight until everyone was, like, super chatting and asking about it. | ||
| And I'm like, the problem I see here is that everyone's jumping the gun and immediately just attacking Crowder over this. | ||
| And it's like, okay, like, I'll say it again. | ||
| Innocent until proven guilty. | ||
| It doesn't look good, but it's also none of our business. | ||
| Is there a date on this video? | ||
| I think, yes. | ||
| I think it was 2021. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This doesn't make, again, it doesn't make the exchange better at all, but like, it makes me wonder, like, you know, if you realize that you're in a terrible dynamic with someone, like, do you do work? | ||
| Do you seek out a priest or a therapist? | ||
| Like, how do you work through these things? | ||
| And like, at what point, like, we'll never know the context of what's going on or what afterwards looks like. | ||
| It's June 26th, 2021. | ||
| So, so they have twins and... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So I don't want to get too in-depth on making assumptions about this. | ||
| Because of my experience and because of people close to me's experience with abusive partners and stuff, I'm gonna leave it at this. | ||
| If you're in a situation where you feel like you are being abused, just get out of it. | ||
| Just leave. | ||
| Our guitar player has passed away and leading up to his death, there was a lot of abuse in his relationship. | ||
| If you're in a situation, just leave. | ||
| Just leave. | ||
| Don't worry about telling people. | ||
| Don't worry about stories. | ||
| Just get out of it. | ||
| I want to add one thing. | ||
| I don't like seeing videos on the internet that are like a short snippet and then condemning someone. | ||
| I like evidence. | ||
| That's what I did with the Covington kids. | ||
| But I also am aware that the left has this technique. | ||
| this trick where they'll start filming and then they'll go, why did you just do this thing? | ||
| Why did you just call me this slur? | ||
| Why did you just hit me? | ||
| And you don't actually see the thing happen. | ||
| You just see them saying, why did you do it? | ||
| And the other person is yelling and like, aha, here's a video of a person who did X. So it's just like, sorry, man. | ||
| What can you believe anymore? | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Well, apparently people are saying, uh, the wife released it, but you said that Crowder was lying about the situation. | ||
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| Yeah, I just, I don't know. | ||
| Why would the wife release it? | ||
| Is it because, like, she's not a public figure? | ||
| Yeah, but maybe that's what she's, like, unhappy about. | ||
| Like, she feels like she suffered, and now Steven's getting to say, like, this wasn't my choice. | ||
| I didn't want to get divorced. | ||
| And she's like, you didn't attend to our marriage the way you should have. | ||
| I'm just speculating. | ||
| I don't actually know. | ||
| I don't want to, like... I guess one thing that Yasha reports is that Crowder actually got a divorce lawyer, like, in advance or something. | ||
| But he's in control of the money. | ||
| That makes sense to me. | ||
| I find it all very suspect. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| Crowder is a person that they've been desperate to get rid of for a very, very long time. | ||
| He's extremely prominent and effective when it comes to messaging and humor and building culture. | ||
| He's the only competition for, well, Gutfeld now, but for a while it was the only right-leaning competition to late-night comedy or morning talk shows. | ||
| I am not saying he is innocent. | ||
| I'm just saying it gives me pause and makes me, you know, I find it suspicious. | ||
| Well, and there are a lot of people who have chaotic personal lives who can do good, right? | ||
| Like, it doesn't make the messaging and, like, the entertainment value and the things that he has done to, like, introduce people to all kinds of important ideas less valuable. | ||
| It just means that he is a flawed person, but so is everyone at the end of the day. | ||
| Yeah, but nobody, it's, it's tough. | ||
| Like I know I've mistreated people in relationships and, and even people at work and then also my wife neglecting her or whatever. | ||
| And I think a lot of people just are unwilling to acknowledge that. | ||
| Then they want to go judge everyone else's lifestyle instead of going, Oh, am I actually making some of the same mistakes? | ||
| And that, I think that's a lot of the problem. | ||
| And a lot of the reason they want to go after someone like Crowder or other people who are having issues with their, their own life is so that they can prop themselves up and feel good. | ||
| I'm not doing that! | ||
| It's like, no, you're actually doing that in another way, you just won't see that. | ||
| But people are saying it's Crowder's fault he brought this up. | ||
| It's like, maybe the reason Crowder brought it up was because his wife gave the video footage to journalists. | ||
| And he knew it, and he was like, there's nothing I can do about it now, they're gonna publish this footage so I'll get in front of it. | ||
| Now people are acting like that's proof they had no choice but to release the footage and give a statement because Crowder brought it up. | ||
| And it's like, if this has been going on for two years and Crowder didn't say anything at all, ever, until Yasir Ali, like, right, was about, like, was just about to publish the story, it kind of lends itself to, they took this move against Crowder, not the other way around. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's just sad. | ||
| Sad all around, yep. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Does this mean that, you know, you guys in the chat are gonna stop watching Steven Crowder or something? | ||
| Some people will probably want to boycott him. | ||
| Probably, yeah. | ||
| I mean, I imagine so, but I don't imagine that his audience is gonna... I mean, it depends on what comes out. | ||
| If it's bad-mouthing and fighting and, you know, bitterly arguing with his wife, people probably won't leave him, like, high and dry. | ||
| They'll just be like, okay, you were kind of crappy, just so long as it's not too grossly offensive. | ||
| If it comes out that he was doing, you know, other kind of things that kind of cross physical lines or whatever, then he might lose an audience. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Well, this is kind of going back to the first topic of conversation with Budweiser. | ||
| If there was some stuff going on, and now this is public, for PR, but I also think just from a moral standpoint, if Crowder just did a video going, hey, I'm sorry you all have had to see my personal life and what happened. | ||
| Yes, I'm imperfect. | ||
| Yes, I did some of these things. | ||
| We're now trying to part ways as well as we can and etc, etc. | ||
| And he did a video, you know, coming forward and explaining the situation and apologizing. | ||
| for any wrongdoing that he did, because he probably did at some level, especially if the video, you know, based on the video. | ||
| I think a lot of people would go, Oh, okay. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| You're transparent. | ||
| You're being genuine and real. | ||
| That's what they want Budweiser to do. | ||
| Here's what I'm going to choose to believe. | ||
| I'm going to, I'm going to, I mean, this is a joke, by the way, that after Crowder came after the Daily Wire, Jeremy Borington's down and he's like, And then he's like, pull out all the stops. | ||
| It's time for my revenge. | ||
| And then like Candace and Michael Knowles are there and Matt Walsh and they're like, we're at your disposal, Jeremy. | ||
| And he's like, I want dirt on this guy. | ||
| Whatever you can find. | ||
| I'm kidding. | ||
| Call up my buddy at Amazon so that way I can get his ring camera. | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| That's why you shouldn't have a Ring camera. | ||
| I know. | ||
| Watching this, I'm like, I don't want any cloud-based cameras. | ||
| And we all floated, like, was it a hack? | ||
| No, no, apparently they're saying that, I guess Candace said it was the wife. | ||
| That's the simplest explanation, but I'm just anti-Amazon Ring cameras, and I feel like this is a good moment to put that in there. | ||
| Close your case all the way. | ||
| When someone is on camera and they're like, Phil, that time you struck me was wrong. | ||
| And then you're like, what are you talking about? | ||
| Don't deny it. | ||
| Now you're proving it. | ||
| And then the footage gets released and it's like, oh, wow, look at this. | ||
| Phil looks really, really bad. | ||
| I'm just kind of like, you know, she walks up to him and she says he's abusing her and then gives the footage to someone. | ||
| It's kind of like. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| He does yell. | ||
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He does yell and he says some crazy stuff I would not hear. | |
| 15 minutes ago there was a 38 Chinese warplanes and six vessels of the People's Liberation Army Navy detected around Taiwan, Taiwanese Defense Ministry says. | ||
| But what does that have to do with Crowder getting divorced? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Classic China breaking news on a Friday, by the way. | ||
| Yeah, right? | ||
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Yeah, I don't know. | |
| I'm sorry. | ||
| Feels like I can't keep going. | ||
| Tim, this is more important. | ||
| I just saw that. | ||
| Where did you see that story? | ||
| Insider paper. | ||
| They are verified. | ||
| So that means they have $8. | ||
| That means they have $8? | ||
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259,000 followers. | |
| Do people trust people more with blue checkmarks still, do you think? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| Yeah, I don't think so. | ||
| Because now you can buy one. | ||
| I'm not seeing this story. | ||
| It was arbitrary about who got it. | ||
| People definitely respected it back then. | ||
| Like, for sure. | ||
| But then it was at Twitter's discretion. | ||
| Like, if they liked you, you would get one. | ||
| I get that it had, like, a symbolic meaning. | ||
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Oh, right. | |
| This is just breaking right now. | ||
| Thirty-eight warplanes, six vessels of People's Liberation Army Navy detected around Taiwan. | ||
| Taiwanese Defense Ministry says, Well, I mean, OK, it's the waiting. | ||
| I can't stand. | ||
| So China, come on, get on with it. | ||
| Especially, you know, I actually thought they would make the moves closer to the election because it would be more chaotic. | ||
| During elections, the president is limited in what they can or can't do. | ||
| Because they're so distracted. | ||
| No, it's not just that. | ||
| It's that if there's pros and there's cons. | ||
| If Joe Biden reacted decisively and took action, people might cheer for it, but if he screws up, he's done for and it'll put someone else in power. | ||
| So it ties their hands behind their back. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe we're sitting here talking about stupid culture war drama nonsense and China's about to invade Taiwan. | ||
| Yeah, World War III is starting, right? | ||
| Yeah, how many times have we said World War 3 started by now? | ||
| I think it's like 8? | ||
| Maybe 16? | ||
| I think the Pope said World War 3 started. | ||
| Russian media says World War 3 has started. | ||
| Russia's media has been on it for a while. | ||
| It started in Russia. | ||
| They're dying for it. | ||
| They're really hoping as well. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I don't know. | ||
| I'm not seeing much more on this one. | ||
| Me neither. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| That could be a false start. | ||
| It could also be a training exercise. | ||
| No, I mean, this is being reported. | ||
| Inside Paper is reporting it, right? | ||
| So, we'll see, I guess. | ||
| But hey, I don't know. | ||
| How about this little tidbit? | ||
| Vice News is gone. | ||
| Does it make you nostalgic, Tim? | ||
| It breaks my heart. | ||
| It breaks my heart. | ||
| Vice News Tonight formally shut down. | ||
| And I just think it's funny that you've got these Vice News staffers that are like, to the original crew that helped launch Vice News, we changed the game, blah blah blah. | ||
| I'm like, that's me. | ||
| You know you're talking about me, right? | ||
| Because you guys don't like me. | ||
| But you're, I was thinking of like retweeting him and being like, thank you, thank you. | ||
| Thank you for the compliment. | ||
| So for those that don't know, I was the first person hired at Vice to start Vice News. | ||
| There was no Vice News, they hired me, and then like six months later they were like, should we create a news division, like a brand for this? | ||
| And then they did. | ||
| And I was, so they had news in the sense that Vice would make documentaries and then it would just, | ||
| they would say like, it's a news thing. | ||
| And then eventually decided to launch a specific brand called Vice News. | ||
| I was the first person. | ||
| And so I brought new methodologies, new technologies and reporting styles. | ||
| They then hired a bunch of people. | ||
| I left after about a year and a few months. | ||
| And then they went woke real quick. | ||
| It was really creepy. | ||
| Over like a year after I left, the company just went woke, woke, woke. | ||
| And it was so weird because when I was there, it was like sex, drugs, and rock and roll. | ||
| Tumblr was still around. | ||
| As soon as they got sex off of Tumblr, all the woke stuff got spilled out into the rest of the internet. | ||
| Did you feel it coming when you were there at all? | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| And I mean, there was corporatizing. | ||
| You could feel that. | ||
| But apparently what happened was a friend of mine who is a higher up said that they had faced | ||
| too many sexual harassment lawsuits. | ||
| And so the investors came to them and said, the only way out of this is to embrace feminism. | ||
| And they said, you got it. | ||
| And that was their defense against being sued for sexual harassment and stuff. | ||
| So does this mean Vice, and I don't fully understand this, Vice is just gone or is Vice still a thing? | ||
| No, Vice is a thing. | ||
| Vice News is gone. | ||
| Vice News tonight is being cancelled and they're laying a bunch of people off. | ||
| So they'll still have something called Vice News, but the main show that was on TV for the past decade is gone. | ||
| Ah, so is this the first TV show gone as the internet is taking over? | ||
| Is that what this is? | ||
| Well, no, no, it's just get well go broke. | ||
| They burned themselves to the ground. | ||
| The first show they had was called Vice and it was amazing. | ||
| The first show, just Vice was so good. | ||
| Man, Vice back in the day, for people who know it, it was basically four dudes, it was Saroosh, it was Shane, it was, who was the other guy? | ||
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Was it? | |
| No, Gavin was gone at this point. | ||
| They had four hosts of their show. | ||
| I can't remember their names. | ||
| And then the show was basically like weird travel stuff. | ||
| It was traveling on the world to crazy places and exploring. | ||
| And then, I guess what happened was HBO wanted to cancel it, and so they announced abruptly, before HBO re-upped it, that they were already being renewed for a new season, which forced HBO's hand, but then HBO came back. | ||
| I don't know if this is true, this is what I heard when I worked there. | ||
| HBO came back and said, how dare you? | ||
| And they were like, too bad, you're locked in now. | ||
| It's been announced to the press and everyone's expecting it. | ||
| And so then HBO was like, if we're going to do it, then changes have to be made. | ||
| And here's the best part. | ||
| I was told that I couldn't host for them because I was a white dude. | ||
| That doesn't seem racist at all. | ||
| Oh my goodness. | ||
| But I was like, but I'm actually mixed race. | ||
| And they're like, yeah, but you know, you're a guy who looks too white. | ||
| And so they were like, and you can notice this too, when you look at the advice on HBO staff, they bring in like an Indian guy, some women, they brought in a bunch of women. | ||
| And so when I had joined them, I said, I want to be an on-air host and I will bring my brand and the work that I do. | ||
| And they agreed. | ||
| And then sure enough, I asked them and they were like, two things. | ||
| One, fair point, I did not have hosting experience for documentary. | ||
| So I was doing, like, basically what I'm doing now. | ||
| And they wanted more pizzazz. | ||
| Totally fair. | ||
| So they had me host some stuff. | ||
| But then when it came to HBO, they said, you're a white dude, have a nice day, get lost. | ||
| They didn't say it like that. | ||
| They're just like, look, we've got a mandate. | ||
| They want, you know, people of color and women. | ||
| But they just straight up said it. | ||
| Oh yeah, hands down. | ||
| I mean, I was told the same thing by Fusion when I worked there, the ABC News company, when they did, they had the Black and Brown Forum, and they brought in, they had like three of their senior talent, staff talent, and then one external guy, and this was like Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were being questioned by a panel of journalists, and so they just said nothing to me, and So I go to the president and I was like, is there a reason you guys had the other main talent and not me, your, like, senior reporter? | ||
| And the guy goes, oh, it's because it's racist. | ||
| Because you're white. | ||
| Literally told me that. | ||
| And then I was like, but I'm mixed. | ||
| He's like, yeah, but come on, man. | ||
| And I was like, I mean, hey, look, the dude was kind of cool. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| I mean, he was just a businessman. | ||
| That's when you call up the makeup artist for Tropic Thunder and you're like, do me up and I'm going to go back in there. | ||
| I just thought that was so funny. | ||
| I was like, OK. | ||
| Well, all right then. | ||
| And when was that? | ||
| How many years ago was that? | ||
| This was 2014 or 15, I think 2015, because it was like the presidential election. | ||
| They were having Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, and they were going to be questioned by people. | ||
| And it was called the Black and Brown Forum. | ||
| And then I was like, I guess being like Asian doesn't count. | ||
| Like, I don't count as like part of this diverse America. | ||
| And keep in mind too, because a lot of people might want to say like, Tim, you're politics. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| This is almost a decade ago. | ||
| And I had no politics. | ||
| Like, I had politics, but I wasn't doing anything like this. | ||
| My videos were all like, I'm here on the ground in Fukushima, Japan, and there's radiation everywhere. | ||
| You were a journalist. | ||
| That's all I was doing. | ||
| There was no, like, me coming in the office and being like, here's what I think about the wage gap, here's what I think about guns. | ||
| It was literally just like, oh, I did a documentary on police brutality and the Ferguson riots. | ||
| And that was what I worked on. | ||
| And then when it came to this, they outright said, you look too white, you can't be involved. | ||
| I'm like, that's the world they wanted to create. | ||
| So, good riddance to all of you. | ||
| If only your genetics had performed slightly differently and you looked slightly more Asian. | ||
|
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That's like the most, like, it's so disgusting to hear people talk like that, but like, it sounds... It sounds like it would have helped you in this case anyway, though. | |
| In this case, being more Asian wouldn't have helped. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| I think they don't like Asian people. | ||
| No, I mean, it probably would have. | ||
| It probably would have. | ||
| But I actually lobbied to him. | ||
| I was like, isn't it fair to say that, like, a mixed race person is representative of a changing America and should have a voice? | ||
| And he was just like, you look white, dude. | ||
| You have to, like, bring your grandma with you. | ||
|
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Be like, no, for real, look, I can prove it. | |
| That's so weird. | ||
| Pull on Elizabeth Warren and be like, I'm actually this. | ||
| Well, they would let her in. | ||
| That's the funny thing. | ||
| They'd be like, welcome, please sit down. | ||
| Tell us about your native tribe. | ||
| But that's why I can't stand all the woke people and the race theory stuff and the ideology is because it's all lies. | ||
| It's all just not true. | ||
| Luke Rakowski is a person of color? | ||
| He's got blonde hair and blue eyes! | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| Oh, he's Polish. | ||
| So he's... Slavic. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| But Asians overperform, so we don't count. | ||
| And I'm mostly white, so I just... Ridiculous. | ||
| I mean, you guys are good at literally everything, no matter what, so... That is true. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| We made gunpowder before you guys. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| And the compasses. | ||
|
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Yep. | |
| Yep. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Whatever, man. | ||
| Good riddance to a bad problem. | ||
| Did you see that they just had the state dinner with South Korea, and we invited all of our South Korean-adjacent influencers, like Maddox Pidgeolli. | ||
| He went with his mom, Angelina, and Joanna Gaines was there. | ||
| It made me very uncomfortable, but maybe people liked it. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Wait, like the White House brought... So like the president of South Korea is visiting, so they have a state dinner. | ||
| And they invited Asian people? | ||
| Yeah, like they had the Canadian one a couple years ago. | ||
| Blake Lively and her husband, because he's Canadian, got to go. | ||
| And this time, you know, they always invite some celebrities. | ||
| So it was like Joanna Gaines, who does the Waco, you know, house stuff. | ||
| And she's also, I don't remember what percentage, but she's also of Korean descent. | ||
| And then Angelina Jolie went with her son, who is of South Korean descent. | ||
| I think he even lives there now. | ||
| I'm not totally sure. | ||
|
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But it did feel a little bit, like, weird. | |
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe no one else felt that way. | ||
| Slightly, right? | ||
| Pandering is the strategy nowadays. | ||
| I mean, it's what you have to do to survive. | ||
| Well, or die, I guess, in this case. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know. | ||
| I guess maybe they wouldn't invite me to something like that because it would be offensive to the Korean people because the older generation are very racial supremacist. | ||
| Joanna Gaines went. | ||
| She's mixed. | ||
| But is she half? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe? | ||
| Because she passes as Korean. | ||
| But I think she can also pass as white. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I feel like this is going to get- There's no way for me to talk about this in a way that's okay. | ||
|
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Is this the best of both worlds, where you can pass as two different- And she brought her white husband, so I don't know. | |
| Most of my life, white people just assumed I was Mexican. | ||
| But for real, the way my facial hair grows. | ||
|
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Right. | |
| And they'd just be like, you know, they'd be like, oh, you're Mexican. | ||
| So you have the best of all three worlds, is what you're saying. | ||
| I guess, unless you're surrounded by woke people who just don't want to be dealing with what you are, because in their world, if they can't define you by race, they can't define you at all. | ||
| They're going to be horribly racist anyway. | ||
| Well, there's a solution. | ||
| You just have to be trans, and then you're at the top. | ||
| You're at the pinnacle if you do that. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That is the meta content move, is to be trans. | ||
| If I told you my sexual preference, would that put me at the higher portion of the list? | ||
| It's probably a little elaborate up there. | ||
| Like, maybe. | ||
| It's like you go to these meetings and they say, like, hey, you, you, Phil, you, you can't come in here. | ||
| And then he goes, what if I told you my sexual preference? | ||
| I'm listening. | ||
| I'm poly. | ||
| Oh, that puts you, uh, 50, 50. | ||
| You, uh, you win. | ||
| You don't get to host, but you do occasionally get to be a featured guest. | ||
| So it is funny. | ||
| So with, uh, government, government contracting, that is a thing. | ||
| Like when there's a bid out there for, uh, you know, purchasing a thing, it's like if they're a female owned business, if they're veteran owned, If they're disabled and if they, I believe, race is another one. | ||
| So there are companies that literally will pick a CEO who can stack as many of these things as possible to be the tiebreaker for contracts. | ||
| It's already a structure. | ||
| There's a good news. | ||
| Timcast is a minority owned company. | ||
| Oh, there you go. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| Can I add it to our Google or whatever? | ||
|
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Yes. | |
| Like, you know, that they rank us up because... | ||
| You know, that's some pronouns as well. You probably yeah, I put my pronouns in there and then we'll get number one | ||
| I tried to put in a apache helicopter gunship on instagram and it didn't let me do that | ||
| Oh, that's that's bigotry right there. It was all right, everybody. We're gonna go to super chat | ||
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| And become a member by going to timcast.com and clicking join us | ||
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| If you are a member for at least six months, or you sign up at the $25 per month level, you can submit questions and actually call into the Uncensored Show and talk to us! | ||
| We love taking your calls, and we do that Uncensored Show at about 10, 10 p.m. | ||
| Monday through Thursday, so we'll have one up for you tonight. | ||
| You don't want to miss it. | ||
| Let's read your Super Chats. | ||
| All right. | ||
| DasRusa is so happy Lucas showed up. | ||
| GWOTVet here just found a community here in Florida who trains every Saturday. | ||
| We'll be training with them and growing the two-way community down here for more free and self-reliant Florida. | ||
| Thanks, Lucas. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| Love to hear it. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Sideways2013 said, So earlier, my default Democrat mom, who voted Biden, came to me and was pissed about Biden putting forward higher mortgage fees for people with good credit to cover for bad credit. | ||
| Equality versus equity. | ||
| There it is! | ||
| Did you guys see that story? | ||
| Yeah, that I can't believe. | ||
| If you've got bad credit, your costs go down. | ||
| If you've got good credit, it goes up. | ||
| Unreal. | ||
| Communism is coming, baby! | ||
| And it's gonna suck! | ||
| And the people who suffer most are the people in the middle of that. | ||
|
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Yep. | |
| What do we got here? | ||
| John Kristen says, Lucas, love the Arrow 308 5K review video. | ||
| Any other 308 5K videos in the works? | ||
| Love to see one either for the Sig 716i or Ruger SFAR. | ||
| No. | ||
| Yeah, that took a lot of time, a lot of energy. | ||
| It was not the 308 recoil, that was not the problem. | ||
| It was just so much time to do that video. | ||
| But we'll do more. | ||
| Is that normal for your gun review videos? | ||
| Does it take like... | ||
| So, no, I wanted to shoot a rifle to 5,000 rounds, and it's a .308 rifle, so, like, it punches a little bit, but on a range day, I can efficiently only shoot maybe 1,000 rounds, and so it's five film days plus stuff in the middle, so, I mean, we're talking three weeks to finish one video, when a lot of content creators will do a video in a day, and I'm like, I'm gonna keep going out there, so, you know, it's at least four videos or one. | ||
| I do, like, eight per day. | ||
| Yeah, I just turned the camera. | ||
| I do not. | ||
| I do not want your life. | ||
| I don't want to be... I don't know, it's probably easier. | ||
| No. | ||
| My production is that I read the news and then I complain about it, you know what I mean? | ||
| Yeah, but what happens, you know, before the show, it's like, ah, what's there to talk about? | ||
| Right, the pre-production hour where it's like... So the reason this show works, for those that know, is because of my morning show. | ||
| During the morning show, I read 8,000 articles. | ||
| Then when we come upstairs an hour before this show, I'm like, here's the news, everybody, like, here's everything I saw today, what do you guys think? | ||
| And then we pick what we think is the big story. | ||
| That's cool. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All right. | ||
| DisStupidB says, I'm glad to see such a great two-way advocate on the show. | ||
| Love your content, Lucas. | ||
| I also hope Mr. Potato Man loves my name, coming from a fellow potato man. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| Potato Man's not here. | ||
| He left. | ||
| Couldn't handle the heat. | ||
| He's weak and he left. | ||
| I'm just kidding. | ||
| I don't know where he is. | ||
| Marshall P says, Tim, whatever happened to TimCast grants to help new projects fight the culture war? | ||
| In the works! | ||
| The difficult thing is being one person and doing all of this crazy stuff. | ||
| It is very difficult. | ||
| However, I have given, uh, how many grants have I given? | ||
| I think I've given two in the past couple of weeks. | ||
| So, the issue is, I don't know if I should be announcing who I gave money to? | ||
| You don't want them to get targeted or something? | ||
| I just, you know, yeah, I don't know. | ||
| There have been, uh, what's the thing? | ||
| So the idea is once a month to grant 10k to someone who's working on a cultural project. | ||
| To, uh, like... I mean, is it public? | ||
| Is the thing they're working on going to be a public thing that everyone... Yes. | ||
| And so this month I've given some money out, but I don't know if, like, they've given me permission to just be like... | ||
| They're funded by... Because you don't want to Oprah-bump them. | ||
| You don't want to be like, over here! | ||
| And they're not ready for that kind of attention. | ||
| But I need their... You know, I don't want to... Yeah, I think because the two things that I just recently funded, I just chose to do. | ||
| I didn't have a pre... Like, I didn't go to them and say, hey, here's the plan. | ||
| I just gave them the money. | ||
| So it's like 20 grand I've given out in the past week. | ||
| So the problem with not ever saying where it's going No, this is just one time right now, I'm saying. | ||
| In the future, the idea is like, we'll hit someone up and be like, hey, we want to shout you out on the show and we want to give you some money for this. | ||
| But these two, one's not really a, it's not fair to say I gave out 20. | ||
| I gave out, I gave 10 grand to a person doing very important work. | ||
| And then I gave money to someone who's doing some other fighting that's not super cultural or whatever. | ||
| But, uh, it's not necessarily where we're trying to go with it, so I don't think I want to shout out... If it's not a consistent thing, then I... But the idea is, like, once a month, maybe at the end of the month, we will say, this is the person we've chosen. | ||
| So the issue is, it's going to be in the Discord, where we're trying... There's a lot of challenges to this. | ||
| If it's in the Discord, meaning you have to be a member, now all of a sudden there's some kind of, like, sweepstakes thing to it, so then do we have to invest in the project? | ||
| Makes it very, very difficult. | ||
| So, we're trying to figure out, and the idea was, if you're in the Discord, we have people basically vote on it. | ||
| Members of TimCast.com can be like, hey, we think this project should be shouted out on the show, and we want to do that every Friday. | ||
| We were going to shout out Salty Draws, one of our members, last Friday, but he asked us to wait until he was ready and we could actually review the book, so then we waited. | ||
| But that's the other thing we're planning on doing. | ||
| Fridays, we will do a sponsor spot for our members. | ||
| So, people who are members at TimCast.com, Are sponsoring the show! | ||
| So it's like, why read out some corporate ad when we can just shout you guys out and help your projects? | ||
| That was a brilliant idea coming from one of our members. | ||
| So yeah, Tim Cass grants is preliminary. | ||
| And I might just give a bunch of money away like crazy. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's awesome. | ||
| Well, like my thing is, I don't need to buy another car. | ||
| I actually have a lot of cars. | ||
| And we do need more people. | ||
|
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Okay. | |
| If the left has all this funding, which they do a lot, I don't think anyone's going to dispute that. | ||
| The right needs funding too. | ||
| So when people can help do some of that, Pretty awesome. | ||
| Maybe we can do like a Mr. Beast style thing, you know, like giving money to people in fun ways to make more money and then give more money away. | ||
| But yeah, the general idea is to give money to people so that they can produce cultural work so that if we give a hundred people money and one of them writes, you know, a masterpiece, then we're expanding our cultural influence. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| So I did just give out a bunch of money to someone I thought deserved it. | ||
| I'm not going to shout them out unless they explicitly tell me they're cool with me doing it, so I'm not going to, but they're someone that everyone knows who's doing very important work. | ||
| So what's happening? | ||
| But yeah, yeah, so the issue is for us, it's are we investing? | ||
| Are we legally cleared to do it? | ||
| And it's just, it's a nightmare getting all this stuff going. | ||
| Like we've been, we got the coffee shop in the works, the coffee just started shipping, so there's a lot of... Bags of cash. | ||
| Oh, we're going to a cashless society. | ||
| Never mind. | ||
| Yeah, that's the thing, too. | ||
| Like, I think our coffee shop might be, like, cash only or something. | ||
| But I don't know how long you can resist, you know what I mean? | ||
| Right? | ||
| And are you potentially losing business? | ||
| Some people who don't carry around that much cash. | ||
| Too bad! | ||
| The point is they're gonna demand taxes be paid in the currency. | ||
| That's how the currency is going to have guaranteed value. | ||
| There will be a banking crisis. | ||
| They will say you have to convert your cash to Fed coin or whatever. | ||
| And then they're going to demand that payment for taxes. | ||
| Anyway, let's move on. | ||
| Let's move on. | ||
| Let's read some more Super Chats. | ||
| Aaron says, Serge, thanks for crash-proofing the UFO. | ||
| What is that? | ||
| Uh, I don't know what you're talking about, and you also spelled my name incorrectly, so I'm just gonna ignore that. | ||
| It's all good, though. | ||
| Is this the fact that I somehow managed to dislodge the UFO every time I sit in this chair? | ||
| Maybe, I don't know. | ||
| I'm not gonna say it. | ||
| I've done it at least three times, to be honest. | ||
| Hey, well, when you're making these pretty origami swans, by the way, which we've been making the entire time, I can understand. | ||
| You guys go. | ||
| Did you guys ever read the thing about the thousand paper cranes? | ||
| Yes, I did. | ||
| I just want Search to have a wish by the end of the night. | ||
| Oh, true, but then am I gonna die from cancer? | ||
|
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What is this poor thing? | |
| No, we're resisting it. | ||
| Why is its back so big? | ||
| Look, I don't have origami paper, I'm using post-it notes. | ||
| We're doing the best we can. | ||
|
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Those should work, let me see. | |
| Oh, so now it's a competition? | ||
| How interesting. | ||
| Oh, definitely. | ||
| Is it because they're not... Does that, like, jump if you push on it? | ||
| Can you, like, push on it? | ||
|
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There's squares. | |
| No. | ||
| Like the little frog. | ||
| Yeah, I can make those. | ||
| The frogs that jump. | ||
| Do you guys want to post a note? | ||
| Do you want to join in my quest? | ||
| The sticky part of it makes it hard. | ||
| Yeah, the sticky is the challenge. | ||
| I'll make a little origami gun. | ||
| See if I can make a gun. | ||
| I can make a balloon where you actually blow it up and it... And then you can write, like, a little message on the inside of those and, like, look through them. | ||
| Can you make the fortune teller thing? | ||
| Yeah, I can make those. | ||
| It'll be hard with the sticky. | ||
| I'll come better prepared for next show. | ||
| Cool, appreciate it. | ||
| Jack Tatro says, Luke is a huge fan of your work, been looking forward to this episode for the longest time. | ||
| I have a few of your holsters and a hat signed by your amazing staff. | ||
| Train. | ||
| Oh, that's cool. | ||
| I-Y-S-Y-S. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| If you suck, you suck. | ||
| Oh, yes! | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Yep, yep. | ||
| Just some words to live by, you know. | ||
|
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Yeah, that's right. | |
| Matthew Schneider says, Hey Tim, I saw the results of your Twitter poll earlier on whether the mentally ill should vote. | ||
| What are your thoughts? | ||
| Makes me kind of sad because I have a diagnosis, but I'm also stable and far from an insane leftist. | ||
| So, I was really, really, really annoyed at the responses that I got to that poll. | ||
| I said, Should people with mental illnesses be allowed to vote? | ||
| I did not say, should the government be able to subjectively define mental illnesses so | ||
| they can restrict their political enemies from voting. | ||
| And that's what so many people started saying. | ||
| Mental ill people should be allowed to vote because the government will claim everyone's | ||
| mentally ill. | ||
| I'm like, that's not the question. | ||
| The question is, in your mind, there were no external parameters to this. | ||
| Quite literally, a person is standing there and they're like, yes, mentally ill. | ||
| Should they vote or should they not vote? | ||
| It's not a question about the government, but the government can and will not do. | ||
| It's whether or not you think people who have mental illnesses should be allowed to vote. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| No context. | ||
| I think it's not. | ||
| My response is you can't really answer it in a poll, which is unfair that I asked it in a poll. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Because The answer is mentally ill people within a certain confine of, like, a certain category of mentally ill shouldn't vote. | ||
| But how we define mental illness can vary in which someone has a mental illness that doesn't impair their judgment on policy issues, it just makes them, like, anxious. | ||
| And we call that a mental illness or something, you know what I mean? | ||
| Or... Do they consider ADHD a mental illness? | ||
| Probably. | ||
| I think those are mental disorders. | ||
| I think it's like on the learning disability spectrum. | ||
| I just think that if you took away, if anybody who was mentally ill wasn't allowed to vote, as much as I'm not saying I'm in favor of that process, I do think society would be functioning to a much, much, much, much, much better degree. | ||
| But my question would be, so a question that's always thrown out about, you know, everyone should have guns, everyone should have the right to own guns. | ||
| People go, what about someone with Down syndrome? | ||
| And I'm like, okay. | ||
| Do you actually know anyone with Down syndrome that really wants to own a gun? | ||
| And so I kind of bring up the same question. | ||
| If someone is actually mentally, like, genetically, their brains, whatever, got some issue, like, is this even a question? | ||
| Is this even a thing? | ||
| Or is it a thing, a scenario we're coming up in our mind that's not actually a legitimate scenario? | ||
| It's like the nuclear weapons question when it comes to the 2A. | ||
| Right, exactly. | ||
| And people that are like, oh, you know, if you're a Second Amendment absolutist, do you think people should be allowed to own nuclear weapons? | ||
| Can people own nuclear weapons? | ||
| No. | ||
| You need a state infrastructure to be able to produce nuclear weapons. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| There was a guy who made a radioactive death ray in his garage. | ||
| That's different than a nuclear weapon. | ||
| You're talking about an explosive. | ||
| Okay, so when I say nuclear weapon, my thought process goes to a thermonuclear weapon, not something that has a radiological component. | ||
| Who makes nuclear weapons? | ||
| Usually states make them. | ||
| They don't. | ||
| Okay, so they're probably made by... Private corporations. | ||
| I'm not sure who does them. | ||
| Private contractors produce the weapons for them. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So that was the big issue when I said that individuals have a right to keep and bear | ||
| nuclear weapons and everyone's like, no they don't. | ||
| I'm like, it's private corporations that are making the weapons for the government. | ||
| It's not, you know, so they have contracts with the government. | ||
| Yes, but no individual owns the corporations. | ||
| Those are all... Government. | ||
| Government or their large... The point is, the infrastructure required to produce or procure or to sustain a nuclear weapon means that you... Elon could do it. | ||
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He's already launching rockets and stuff. | |
| But again, this comes to the point where you're talking about a handful of people and states, so practically nuclear weapons as a means of self-defense is not an actual topic. | ||
| And that's where I feel like a lot of these arguments on like, oh, can mentally unwell people or people with Down syndrome want guns? | ||
| I'm like, Let's go find some facts that this is actually happening, that it's an actual realistic scenario, a realistic what-if, and let's not base a bunch of laws on a thing that doesn't even happen. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| And restrict everyone else. | ||
| I would wonder, too, if the pushback against, like, if you said mentally ill people can't vote, like, if people would say, well, you're discouraging people from seeking counseling and potentially being diagnosed because they think you'll take this away from them and therefore that's more dangerous. | ||
| I mean, I don't think anyone should vote, but that's just me. | ||
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So how do you, uh, I don't know, but I mean, sure. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't have to have an answer to say that I don't want something to happen. | ||
| I mean, I don't, you know, I, I, I'm, I'm, I've got that, that whole, like, you know, emotional anarchist thing going on with me. | ||
| Yeah, there's always a hierarchy established. | ||
| It's always powerful. | ||
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But in his dream world, no one votes. | |
| Exactly. | ||
| Whenever you have any kind of government or whatever like that, there are hierarchies and stuff like that and corruption and stuff like that. | ||
| And so if I'm going to have my own dream world, it's going to be the But in your dream world, doesn't that hierarchy form anyway? | ||
| Like, hierarchies form no matter what. | ||
| That's just part of nature. | ||
| Oh, this is a nice one. | ||
| I don't know this technique. | ||
| It's an alternative crane shape. | ||
| Yeah, your cranes are fat. | ||
| I don't understand how you're making them. | ||
| I feed them too much. | ||
| They go to McDonald's all the time. | ||
| Mine are thinner. | ||
| I don't know how you made this one. | ||
| It feels like it'll stand more. | ||
| Well, yours leans. | ||
| That was nice. | ||
| Yeah, you can stand them up. | ||
| And then there's another way to make it so you can flat by pulling its tail, but this one doesn't. | ||
| I have to do some more research. | ||
| I've been making cranes the same way since my art teacher had us do it for hours and hours in like the third grade. | ||
| I've never seen such an effective art class. | ||
| He was like, here's this amazing story. | ||
| Now if you make a thousand of these and that's all we did for one. | ||
| Why can't classes be like that now? | ||
| So you may not know this, but the reason why I can make this paper crane is because being part Korean and Japanese, it is just cellular memory. | ||
| And when I was a child, I could just do it. | ||
| But you'll also notice it's pretty crappy. | ||
| And that's because I'm only 5% Japanese, so it's only 5% effective in my origami making. | ||
| Am I appropriating your culture right now? | ||
| I'm so sorry. | ||
| Well, yours suck because you're white. | ||
| That's so true. | ||
|
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I'm not even taking that as a racial insult, although I guess we're starting at some point. | |
| It's because of how white you are, too. | ||
| The gingerness makes you, like, the extreme white. | ||
| I think the rules of wokeness are I'm allowed to say that, because you're appropriating my culture. | ||
| But to be fair, someone told me this is something I should be doing. | ||
| No, let's be real, like, there's probably some, you know, middle-aged white dude who makes the best origami ever, and he, like, builds castles and stuff like that. | ||
| All right, we'll read some more Super Chats. | ||
| Oh, where are we at? | ||
| T-Rex Pet Shop says, since Ian bailed, I guess I'll have to tell you guys that you forced my hand in telling you the special deal we're doing. | ||
| You get a free dog or cat toy when you get $50 or more cat food, dog food, or cat litter. | ||
| Hey, T-Rex Pet Shop. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Hey, absolutely. | ||
| What are the chances, right? | ||
| Yours really does look so much better than mine. | ||
| T-Rex Pet Shop, when Lucas from T-Rex Arms is here. | ||
| Daniel Smith says my Anheuser delivery this week was two cases. | ||
| Driver said total deliveries this week was around 200 pieces, last week 100. | ||
| Then Coors comes in with 30 cases and says their deliveries have doubled. | ||
|
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Oh, wow. | |
| Oh, you'll love to see it. | ||
|
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Oh, I should have bought the stock then. | |
| Put options. | ||
| Put options. | ||
| I wonder if Budstock is going to go down when the sales data comes in. | ||
| Because we saw the first week, a week later than last week. | ||
| So like next week, we're going to get the sales data from the previous week. | ||
| And I'm wondering, it's going to be like... | ||
| Well, I'm saying I should have bought stock in all the other companies that were going to get more business. | ||
| Oh yeah, hands down. | ||
| Not them. | ||
| Put options. | ||
| You short their stock. | ||
| I'm not going to buy any of that stock. | ||
| I'm not giving anybody financial advice. | ||
| I'm not actually going to do anything. | ||
| Please don't. | ||
| But I think I can tell people to do things right. | ||
| Now you're gonna get the, they'll sue you. | ||
|
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Oh man. | |
| What are you drinking instead? | ||
| Like did anybody drink Bud Light and have to like have a crisis? | ||
| I drink like four times a year so I don't have to worry about it. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| I haven't had to drink since 2018 or something like that. | ||
| Saved so much money. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Serge, any thoughts on this one? | ||
| No Bud Light for you? | ||
| Not really, I'm just sad Modelo's gone, because I did like Modelo. | ||
| Modelo's good. | ||
| That's about it. | ||
| William H says, I've truly enjoyed Stephen's content over the years, but I just can't come back from what I heard coming from his mouth directed at his pregnant wife. | ||
| Godspeed Crowder, I hope you learn from this. | ||
| Hopefully he wouldn't have said it, even if she wasn't pregnant. | ||
| And so that was basically, I was seeing a bunch of comments from people, and I'm like, alright, I'll pull the story out, you know, we'll talk about it. | ||
| But now you can say you did, you don't have to do it tomorrow. | ||
| Yeah I mean we probably will because the story is going to get crazier. | ||
| Crowder's probably going to address it. | ||
| I do think there is a merit to talking about chaotic relationships and being accountable for the way you speak and address people. | ||
| I think especially in like I don't want to stereotype too much but like conservative male circles like it's not a conversation that's easy to have but it's important that people are aware of their behavior. | ||
| And unfortunately I didn't like I wouldn't want it to be this venue but Well, and it would have never come up if it had never been public, and so it wouldn't have been talked about anyway. | ||
| So it's like, it was kind of made public, and then it has to be talked about. | ||
| Curtis Terry says, Phil, big fan of your cover of Thunder Rolls, but was kind of disappointed you didn't cover the third verse. | ||
| Any reason why? | ||
| The third verse is not in the official release, so we didn't do that. | ||
| We do that live, like if we do, like we'll do it acoustic, we'll do the third verse if we play it live, but on the record, we decided to do the record release that Garth actually did, so that's why. | ||
|
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Will you cover Barbie Girl? | |
| Uh, no. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| I feel like it'd be fun to see. | ||
| When you finish watching Fast and the Furious. | ||
|
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There is so much pressure to watch this movie series, and I don't like it. | |
| Get on it! | ||
| I gotta read this one. | ||
| I have to get a streaming service. | ||
| David Violet says, I usually only donate $2, but a Guntuber gets $5. | ||
| Invite Lucas's dad, Grand Thumb. | ||
| He's not my dad. | ||
| That's a good name. | ||
| That's a good name. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's stuck with it now. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
|
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Forever. | |
| When I got the M1A, the first thing they did was explain to me the thumb thing. | ||
| And I was like, oh yeah. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| That's funny. | ||
| He's a good dude. | ||
| You get your thumb stuck in it. | ||
| That's what it is. | ||
| Mike Smith, he's, and I like the fact that he's like, he's, he's, he's really funny too. | ||
| He's extremely comical. | ||
| He's honestly more fun to hang out with in person than on the internet. | ||
| I want to meet him someday. | ||
| Jack Opp says, hates him, I'm a bartender in SD. | ||
| Is that San Diego or South Dakota? | ||
| I hope it's South Dakota. | ||
| South Dakota, South Dakota. | ||
| Well, I work at a bigger casino. | ||
| I haven't moved Bud Light in almost two weeks. | ||
|
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That's South Dakota. | |
| It's been an interesting sight to see. | ||
| That's definitely South Dakota. | ||
| You think? | ||
| Yep, 100%. | ||
| I find that Dakota's fascinating right now. | ||
| Because there's a lot of casinos up there because of reservations. | ||
| And then, But California's got a couple, don't they? | ||
| Uh, nah, I wouldn't imagine in San Diego. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, not San Diego. | ||
| I think it's... I think, uh... Yeah, I don't know what casinos they have. | ||
| I think it's South Dakota. | ||
| We've played all the... Oh, they have, um, what you call it? | ||
| When you go out to Palm Springs or whatever it is? | ||
| Palm Springs does. | ||
| Yeah, the Native American one. | ||
| I've been there before. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Native American casino. | ||
| That's Palm Springs, not San Diego. | ||
|
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No, I know. | |
| Yeah, it's far away. | ||
| But I'm just saying, like, in California they have them, so I wonder if there's anything down there. | ||
| What have we with Spork, which says, gun control is and has never been about guns, it has always been about control. | ||
| Yes. | ||
|
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Mm-hmm. | |
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| No discussion there. | ||
| Bray Kane says, gun customization is the best part of video games. | ||
| A street sweeper shotgun with 12 gauge flechette, is that how you say it? | ||
| Flechette, yeah. | ||
| Is fun. | ||
| Have you played The Division? | ||
| The first one, long time ago, yeah. | ||
| I liked it. | ||
| And you're like, all the guns are real guns. | ||
| Yeah, they actually use the names, unlike other companies where like, oh, We'll get sued. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I thought it was fun, you know, and it shows you like a, like a model of the gun when you're in your inventory and stuff. | ||
| That's the one where you're in, in, uh, DC, right? | ||
| That's part two. | ||
| The first one. | ||
| Well, I think in part two, they go back to New York eventually. | ||
|
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Okay. | |
| But, uh, I thought it was a great game. | ||
| It could have been so much better, but it was pretty good. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| You're in New York. | ||
| The pandemic wipes out the world. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then you're in Times Square and stuff. | ||
| And it was, it was really weird playing the game with people who weren't from New York, having lived in New York and playing it. | ||
| And it's like, it's kind of weird. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Was it modeled, I'm assuming they modeled it like one for one, like the actual streets? | ||
| It wasn't one for, I mean yes, but like still smaller. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So when you go to like 30 Rock, it's a smaller plaza. | ||
| So they, did they change the spaces between each landmark so you can kind of get to them faster? | ||
| I think so. | ||
| Pick a section of the city. | ||
| I'm not entirely sure, it's a big map. | ||
| Yeah it was, it was huge. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then I played Part 2, and that was in D.C. | ||
| And the weirdest thing I've ever experienced was the first time I went to D.C., I had been playing Fallout 3 for a long time. | ||
| And so I go to D.C. | ||
| and I'm like, I know where everything is! | ||
| Chevy Chase, what? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I go into the subway and I'm like, I know exactly where I am. | ||
| It's like, dude, over here! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I'm like, follow me, I know where I'm going. | ||
| And they're like, have you been here before? | ||
| I'm like, no, I just played Fallout 3. | ||
|
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Crazy. | |
| That's crazy, man. | ||
| The future is gonna be weird. | ||
| Video games are wild, man. | ||
| They really are. | ||
| Let's grab some more Super Chats. | ||
| Infernal Saxon says car mufflers are unregistered suppressors. | ||
| So why? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| It's a philosophical question. | ||
| We're not gonna talk about that. | ||
| Tiffany Garrison says, Hey Tim, I made you a Crochet Roberto Jr. | ||
| dressed like you and I want to send him to you. | ||
| Me and my honey love the show. | ||
| Do we still have the P.O. | ||
| box up? | ||
| Not on the website. | ||
| It's not? | ||
| No. | ||
| Are you sure? | ||
| I didn't think it was, but then we were on Pop Culture Crisis and Ian said it was? | ||
| Yeah, if you go to TimCast.com, contact us. | ||
| The PO Box is there for sending things. | ||
| We typically don't accept a lot of things anymore because of security issues, but... | ||
| That's how you do it! | ||
| So, that'd be really cool. | ||
| Also, I guess the Rise with Roberto Jr. | ||
| Breakfast Blend has been selling like hotcakes. | ||
| It's because Roberto Jr., it's his thing, right? | ||
| So, I think what we're going to be launching is Mr. Bocas' Pumpkin Spice Experience. | ||
| is the is the focus one and it's going to be a year-round pumpkin spice availability because | ||
| we figured that this fake seasonal pumpkin spice thing we can do away with it's like you can only | ||
| get pumpkin spice in november and you know october yeah get out of here starbucks well that doesn't | ||
| even make sense i remember i went in and then i was like i want the pumpkin spice cold brew like | ||
| Like, we just got rid of that. | ||
| I'm like, why? | ||
| It's like ginger and nutmeg. | ||
| Come on, dude, hook it up. | ||
| So we're going to launch our own Mr. Bocas's pumpkin spice experience. | ||
| I wanted it to be Professor Bocas. | ||
| But you've been calling him Mr. Bocas for so long, I didn't realize he'd gotten his tenure, you know what I mean? | ||
| Or Captain. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Captain Bocas. | ||
| I didn't realize he was enlisted. | ||
| Like, you know, we need other steps in his life. | ||
| I guess we'll do Mr. Bocas. | ||
| I think it's a good idea to have a pumpkin spice, honestly. | ||
| And it'll be available year-round. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're just gonna have it stocked. | ||
| So I will tell you there are challenges to this. | ||
| And we're probably gonna have to hire someone to basically run | ||
| Casprew specifically, because right now we're just kind of running out of the side. Allison takes | ||
| care of most of it. | ||
| But, um, maintaining stock, it's not like | ||
| let me just tell you guys, and most of you probably know this, but some of you may not realize, | ||
| we watch the orders, the product leaves There's actual, it's not like they make it, we have to make it per order, so we will make a small batch, sell a bunch, and then we have to constantly have this flow of ordering a bunch more, not ordering too much, not making too much. | ||
| It's gonna be fresh for everybody when they get it. | ||
| That means shipping times will vary. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| It's not like you're storing blocks of wood like that stuff. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| It can go bad. | ||
| Yeah, so it's like right now we are beginning to produce the next batch because we have been selling like hotcakes. | ||
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| Lucas, do you want to shout anything out? | ||
| Yeah, obviously the company I started, T-Rex-Arms.com is our website where you can find training videos and products. | ||
| And then I'm also on social media, Instagram, LucasT-RexArms, Twitter, which I'm now only on Twitter because Elon bought it. | ||
| Right on! | ||
| So, I am on there. | ||
| Right on. | ||
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| I will keep pestering Hannah Claire about watching my favorite film franchise, which is Fast and the Furious. | ||
| Your favorite film franchise? | ||
|
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What? | |
| Yeah, it's great. | ||
| It's all about family, you know? | ||
| It's fantastic. | ||
| What are you guys talking about? | ||
| We will see you all over at TimCast.com in a few minutes. |
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