May 2, 2023 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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So we got these leaked videos of Tucker Carlson. | |
| Came out, uh, throughout the day and yesterday. | ||
| Media Matters releases these videos where Tucker's apparently bad-mouthing Fox and then also bad-mouthing people around the set. | ||
| Here's the crazy thing, though. | ||
| For one, these leaks appear to be backfiring because they make Tucker look hilarious. | ||
| And the other thing is... | ||
| Yo, I'm pretty sure they're deepfakes and not real. | ||
| And some people have mentioned this, but there's one video where it's just very obviously a deepfake video. | ||
| Like Tucker's eyes are like floating around and his mouth isn't moving properly. | ||
| I wonder if someone made these fake videos, sent them into Media Matters, who believed it, and I wonder if they're now going to be sued into oblivion because these things look obviously fake. | ||
| But we'll talk about that. | ||
| The reason why I thought that one was so important is because I think they're deepfakes. | ||
| And I think we should talk about what that means for the media landscape. | ||
| But I know there's also another very big story. | ||
| I have good news for you. | ||
| Everyone, please listen. | ||
| Late night talk shows. | ||
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They're gone. | |
| That's right. | ||
| It's finally over. | ||
| At least temporarily, thanks to the writer's strike, there's no Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Fallon, and who's that other guy that I always forget? | ||
| Who's that? | ||
| Meyers. | ||
| Seth Meyers. | ||
| Yeah, he's the least important one. | ||
| And then Saturday Night Live, also gone. | ||
| Bill Maher, gone. | ||
| John Oliver, gone. | ||
| And the weirdest thing is that you have news commentary shows ceasing because they don't have writers. | ||
| So, as if we needed any more proof, it was fake news. | ||
| Oh, funny enough, we're still here. | ||
| We don't have writers. | ||
| We just riff, so we'll do that. | ||
| And a bunch of other news, too. | ||
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| Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Taylor Hanson. | ||
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Thanks for having me. | |
| Not the singer. | ||
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Not the singer. | |
| Not the um-bop. | ||
| Not the um-bop, no. | ||
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Independent journalist, field reporter, that's what I'm best known for. | |
| You know, covering the 2020 riots, Summer of Love, documented the death of Ashley Babbitt, and now most recently I've been kind of exposing the transgender cults of all ages drag shows. | ||
| Right on! | ||
| Well, thanks for hanging out. | ||
| We got a bunch of news, too. | ||
| There's stories around that. | ||
| We got another story about Biden sending troops to the border, so this should get really interesting. | ||
| We got Seamus Coghlan hanging out. | ||
| I'm Seamus. | ||
| I run a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes. | ||
| We publish cartoons usually twice a week. | ||
| We uploaded a cartoon today called The Debunkers. | ||
| We were debunking a Vox video on these horrible anti-trans laws that y'all might enjoy. | ||
| And I also have a podcast called Shamer, and we stream Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6 p.m. | ||
| Cool. | ||
| I'm Hannah-Claire Brimlow. | ||
| I am a writer for TimCast.com. | ||
| I just don't script the live IRL segments, and I'm happy to be here. | ||
| We do have that gag where Jack Posobiec drove up to the house on a little electric bike carrying the TimCast IRL scripts. | ||
| That was fun. | ||
| You're backtracking. | ||
| It's a gag. | ||
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No, it wasn't real. | |
| They're lying to you. | ||
| Everything is 100% scripted here. | ||
| Stay on script, Taylor! | ||
| They're posted on the walls, guys. | ||
| Yeah, we have prompters for everybody. | ||
| And it's just two hours of us reading teleprompters. | ||
| So we all have our laptops out because we're actually just looking for our next line. | ||
| That was a good point, Hannah-Claire. | ||
| Also, Serge is here. | ||
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Wouldn't it be great if every time I missed the audio and I missed this mute, you guys would think it was all scripted? | |
| That'd be hilarious. | ||
| I'd be such a good actor. | ||
| Anyways, let's go. | ||
| Let's jump into this first story that I think spells the apocalypse for us. | ||
| We have this from the Daily Mail. | ||
| I resent it, nobody watches it because it sucks, Tucker Carlson's unloads on Fox Nation, and jokes about post-menopausal fans in leaked videos from his axed streaming show. | ||
| Now, what I don't understand, this is why, you know, some of these videos came out yesterday, and now we've got more today, and the reason why I didn't really say anything is because I thought they were obvious deepfakes. | ||
| I saw people posting these videos and I was like, ah, that's funny, they made a deepfake of Tucker Carlson. | ||
| Now I'm reading in the news that these are serious videos, and I'm gonna show you one that I think is absolute proof these are deepfakes. | ||
| So, I will warn you, there is swearing. | ||
| So, if you have kids and you're listening, we're gonna play this video, but take a listen, listen to this, and for those that are watching, watch the video. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Okay, I'm not, you know what, I'm not qualified on that score, I will say. | ||
| I thought his girlfriend was kind of yummy. | ||
| Just kidding! | ||
| Just kidding! | ||
| In case this is being pulled off the bird! | ||
| Yeah, the bird! | ||
| Hey! | ||
| Media matters for America! | ||
| Go fuck yourself! | ||
| That's the first thing I want to say tonight. | ||
| Second thing is, totally kidding, I don't even know what his girlfriend looks like. | ||
| And if I did, I would not find her yummy. | ||
| I think that's a deepfake. | ||
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His eyes look a little weird. | |
| His eyes are floating. | ||
| Like his head moves and his eyes don't move. | ||
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His mouth is like doing this weird outside thing. | |
| I hope it's real, but it looks... Just watch again and look at his teeth. | ||
| Look at his upper teeth and watch this video. | ||
| And so you'll notice there's a weird thing that happens that looks like artifacting. | ||
| Also, what is he even talking about? | ||
| Right there. | ||
| There's that part right there. | ||
| And the hands look fake, too. | ||
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His eye looks a little weird. | |
| Yeah, look at his eyes. | ||
| Oh, the thing with the mouth, for sure. | ||
| The eyes definitely look funky. | ||
| But here, we're gonna take it a level deeper. | ||
| What if they actually got recorded footage of Tucker, and then they doctored it to make it look freaky and off, so that people would say it looks freaky and off, and then get called a conspiracy theorist? | ||
| How's that? | ||
| Or, it's actually a completely real video, and we'll just call Tucker, we'll call him ugly. | ||
| Look at his eyes! | ||
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Look at the way his face looks! | |
| Look at his teeth! | ||
| Oh, that's no way that's real! | ||
| Tucker's sitting at home, like, a single tear coming down. | ||
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He's like... He's watching this right now, like, oh... Well, he should come on this podcast and defend himself, then. | |
| That's really the answer. | ||
| I mean, it looks like artifacting. | ||
| It looks fake. | ||
| I just... it... it... I... I can't... When I saw the first few videos, I'm like, these are not real. | ||
| I didn't think they were real videos. | ||
| I saw them on Twitter and people were like, haha, this is funny. | ||
| And I'm like, oh, that's a funny deepfake of Tucker yelling at Media Matters. | ||
| And then it's apparently Media Matters is claiming it's real. | ||
| Everyone in this company is thrilled. | ||
| Look at his mouth. | ||
| I've gotten more calls from people about it. | ||
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Oh, that's great. | |
| But I got to say, I think some of it might be real. | ||
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That's what I was thinking. | |
| Like somebody took real videos and then made deepfakes, put them together and sent it so that Media Matters would fall for it. | ||
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I completely agree. | |
| Sacks, I'd love to hit some of the fine points of technique. | ||
| Wait, what? | ||
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I've been on yours enough times, it's great. | |
| I think it's totally cool. | ||
| So let's, um, if we're gonna talk about Sacks, I'd love to hit some of the fine points of technique. | ||
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There's no way that's real. | |
| See, I feel like it could be, like, everything's your show. | ||
| It's totally up to you. | ||
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Well, it looks like some of the videos look very real, and they add up, and then some of them look completely fake. | |
| So, like, maybe, like you said, there's a mixture of real videos, and then they're like, oh, let's see how far we can push it. | ||
| Or, it's both. | ||
| It's real video with tiny bits spliced in. | ||
| Yeah, I was talking about this with Trump. | ||
| I said in 2024, the deepfakes are not going to be overt fake videos of Trump saying something awful. | ||
| It's going to be a real press conference where they tweak one word very slightly. | ||
| That way, no one knows what really happened because everyone will agree Trump was there. | ||
| Trump gave a press conference. | ||
| Trump did say he did not like Gouda cheese on his cheeseburger, but there will be like one word tweak. | ||
| The example I give is They'll take something like when he said, I'm not talking about the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally, and they'll change it to, some of them should be condemned totally. | ||
| That way both the left and the right agree, he was there, he condemned white nationalists, but then the left will only ever see the video of him saying some of them, and they'll go, he's trying to defend some of them, and he's not even condemning them all! | ||
| And then the right will hear him say, they should be. | ||
| So the context becomes different, and no one knows which one's the real one. | ||
| Or they're rapists, right? | ||
| That's another classic one. | ||
| But you see, that was all out of context manipulation. | ||
| But even that, it's like, which there was he? | ||
| Because he kept saying, they are sending there, as in people from there, like they're criminals, they're etc, etc. | ||
| But then, when they transcript the final there, they put it as T-H-E-Y apostrophe R-E, as if he was saying they are rapists in Mexico, as opposed to Mexico is sending their rapists over here. | ||
| Right, right, right, right. | ||
| Saying, right. | ||
| There are people there who are rapists versus they are. | ||
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It's crazy how such a small tweak can make such a big difference psychologically for people in the way that they consume content. | |
| Like I think deep fakes come 2024 in election season are actually probably going to be a pretty big problem when it comes to misinformation. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I mean, it's unavoidable, right? | ||
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Well, it just keeps getting better and better and more accurate and more realistic. | |
| I will say, though, my favorite, like, deep fakes are the, you know, not-so-serious ones where, like, it has, like, Trump, Biden and Obama playing games. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And they're just, like, swearing at each other. | ||
| I saw one where they're talking to Taylor Swift about her breakup or something. | ||
| I think you're right. | ||
| The hard thing is people will end up having two understandings of media, right? | ||
| Any clip that goes viral, there'll be one that your echo chamber of Twitter sees, and there'll be the one that I feel like it's already like that, though, for the most part. | ||
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Like, we live in completely alternate realities. | |
| Like, completely. | ||
| There's no similarities between the left and the right anymore, regardless of how hard you look for it. | ||
| And even when they are, it's overshadowed by us versus them. | ||
| And I think it's gonna just continue to be like that. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, there's a very legitimate question of how much effect the deepfakes are actually going to have, because the media lies constantly anyway, and they're never held accountable for it, so this isn't exactly going to be any kind of change of pace. | ||
| Why would Tucker say FU Media matters? | ||
| Because they suck. | ||
| Yeah, but, like... | ||
| We've talked about Media Matters, but why would he randomly, while being secretly recorded, just scream this out and then that video be sent to Media Matters? | ||
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It looks like all of these videos that are taken are right before his broadcast, I think. | |
| At least the ones that look real. | ||
| It looks like he's probably just like chatting with one of his producers or something. | ||
| That's what I'm thinking. | ||
| Right, but like saying FU Media Matters is very, very specific. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And I just kind of feel like that's weird. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I feel like a lot of people know Media Matters is not a very trustworthy source. | ||
| Hannah Clare says that every morning. | ||
| Every time she walks into the office. | ||
| No, I never think about Media Matters, and I know they wish I did. | ||
| But the thing is, I think for Tucker or any kind of office place, you have kind of one outlet that you know doesn't like you, right? | ||
| So being able to say, oh, I'm sorry, guys. | ||
| That's true. | ||
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I will say, Media Matters does write some great hit pieces. | |
| Their hit pieces are always entertaining through and through. | ||
| They're one of my favorite companies to get hit pieces written on. | ||
| The best is they wrote a best-of list of Tim Castile episodes, and the best part was Seamus wasn't on it. | ||
| I wasn't on it. | ||
| I was so upset. | ||
| So that's what I said. | ||
| I said the same thing Tucker said to Media Matters. | ||
| I would never say that on air. | ||
| His swears are bad. | ||
| It's funny because they were trying to find any episode where someone said something offensive, and they'd find someone who said something that was, like, marginally warm. | ||
| Like, they could squint and turn their head and make it bad. | ||
| And then here's Seamus, who's on the show for, like, seven months arguing that gay people shouldn't be allowed to get married. | ||
| Well, not that they shouldn't be allowed, but that it's literally not possible. | ||
| Gay marriage doesn't exist. | ||
| They just don't want to give you attention. | ||
| And they wouldn't even put your name on the list. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| That's not the definition of marriage. | ||
| But they did put a clip of me up in one of their articles, and the way they labeled it was they said, Says marriage equality is bad making it sound like it's you and so people were sharing the article going This is why we can't trust these people who say they're disaffected liberals. | ||
| He's uttering right-wing talking, but I said that And no no Jezebel did that Jezebel took one of my greatest that was one of my best quotes about no-fault divorce And how horrible it is and how people would be more selective about who they chose to marry if that wasn't on the table And they attributed it to Ian Out of all people, they gave it to Ian. | ||
| They can literally not watch this show. | ||
| The most mild person. | ||
| Was it like the traditional Catholic or the new age hippie guy? | ||
| Who do we think said this here? | ||
| It's possible Ian was saying things against divorce as well, but they literally just took one of my quotes. | ||
| Ian was like, divorce the super bass, and they're like, Ian Crosland said, never allow anyone to get divorced for any reason. | ||
| Is it the trad catholic or the hippie guy? | ||
| I like the idea that they know you want the attention, so they're like, we're not gonna quote him. | ||
| That's why in their leaked footage they're like, eff you Ian Crosland. | ||
| Yeah, seriously. | ||
| Like, no, they went that for me. | ||
| With the Timcast list, what I remember is on Twitter, everyone being like, | ||
| thank you so much for this honor, Media Matters. | ||
| Like, I did appear on Timcast, thank you so much. | ||
| Like, it's sort of its own joke. | ||
| I mean, I'm sure there are people who trust Media Matters and feel as though this was a true condemnation. | ||
| But, you know, there are, I could name a handful of organizations | ||
| that like, if you get a label from them, it doesn't mean anything because they are so biased | ||
| and they are so unethical. | ||
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Recently, Vice did a kind of like semi hit piece on me regarding my drag coverage and said that I lied about this | |
| and exaggerated and said that, you know, a little girl was left unattended. | ||
| And then now they're out of business. | ||
| They're out of business because they lied about you. | ||
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Because they came after you. | |
| Because they lied about me. | ||
| I posted that meme on Twitter. | ||
| Let me pull it up. | ||
| Yeah, I just want to mention something about this. | ||
| Part of why they have so much difficulty rating... Oh my gosh. | ||
| Yeah, let's look at this real quick first. | ||
| Actually, it's super funny. | ||
| It's a it's a super ripped Sheba saying it's like vice then I will go to the most war-torn places on earth to expose dirty politics now ten reasons why spongebob is homophobic that's so based I mean, but it's like true because I worked there and then I left and And you know, it was like, I was in Ukraine at the start of the protest, which eventually turned into conflict. | ||
| I was in Turkey during the Gezi Park riots and the tear gas and all that stuff. | ||
| I was in Egypt during the revolution. | ||
| And then they decided that they wanted to complain about feminist nonsense. | ||
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See, we need a right-wing version of Vice, and not even necessarily like a right-wing, we just need a new Vice. | |
| Somewhere that's gonna go in these war-torn countries and expose these things and do these drug documentaries and all the great work that they used to do. | ||
| We just need to bring that back, but with a little bit of a twist, because they don't want to do it anymore. | ||
| I feel like that graphic applies to all journalists nowadays. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Yeah, it's all about... People call themselves journalists when they're opinion columnists, but... | ||
| Going back to what I was saying a moment ago here in the conversation on media matters and how poorly they label conservative talking points and their limited understanding of where the Overton window is with conservative thought because they consider all of it to be horrible, part of this is a product of the fact that the left Very poorly understands what conservatives actually believe. | ||
| Jonathan Haidt's research has shown this, that conservatives have a far better understanding of what liberals believe than liberals have of what conservatives believe, and anyone who's ever had a conversation with someone on the left can tell you that. | ||
| And so, they assume that we're all sort of at the same place on the political spectrum, or where we are on the political spectrum doesn't matter, and it ends up manifesting itself that way. | ||
| A few years ago, there was research done on YouTube and how it radicalizes young people, and there were these really milquetoast libertarian organizations that got put to the right of me. | ||
| I remember thinking that I know that guy. | ||
| He's super libertarian. | ||
| He's absolutely to the left of me. | ||
| Why? | ||
| And then they put him as like far right and put me as like a centrist conservative. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| Have you ever seen those videos? | ||
| I think the cut does them where you'll get like a group of girls and they have to like rank themselves in order of like attractiveness or something. | ||
| And then they bring in guys. | ||
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Then it's the complete opposite. | |
| No one has any idea what the scale is supposed to be. | ||
| My favorite was when there was this snooty woman. | ||
| They did this one where it was like rank yourself. | ||
| IQ. | ||
| And this woman was just talking about how smart she was, and it turned out she was the stupidest person. | ||
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Has all these majors and everything, and then the one person without, like, any majors ends up being the smartest out of all of them. | |
| I think there was a study done, too, that correlates, like, testosterone levels and political views, and as people start working out, like, if liberals start working out in their testosterone raises, and as it's a continuous raise, their ideology quite literally shifts to more conservative, and it's correlated with testosterone as well. | ||
| Mandatory boot camp! | ||
| Every American, mandatory boot camp. | ||
| Get that testosterone, everyone's gotta eat a steak. | ||
| That's why they want you eating bugs and being vegan, because it lowers your testosterone. | ||
| It makes you frail and dainty. | ||
| You wanna know what's really funny? | ||
| If that's what you wanna be, by all means, Bud Light's waiting for you. | ||
| Because you mentioned this... Estrogen, gotta love it. | ||
| When my grandfather was young, he thought he was gonna be a priest, so he spent the ages of like 12 to 20 in a seminary. | ||
| And then he ended up fighting in the Second World War, and he said basic training in the army was easy. | ||
| Because of how difficult it was in the seminary. | ||
| Like, that's how we used to train priests. | ||
| They had to be super hardcore. | ||
| They had to be able to do really difficult things. | ||
| And now, not just the priesthood, but everything that a person needs to receive any kind of education to do is so unbelievably watered down that we can't expect anything of them. | ||
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I mean, the shows, like the drag shows that I go to, a lot of them are hosted in churches. | |
| Oh my gosh! | ||
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And almost every single time, it is a woman who is a priest, and she's, you know, lesbian this, lesbian that. | |
| Not a priest. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Certain Christian denominations allow priestesses, even though there's no such thing as a priestesshood founded by Christ anywhere in Scripture. | ||
| That's Episcopalian? | ||
| Is that the religion? | ||
| Episcopalians do it. | ||
| There's a number of... I think there was a Baptist church too. | ||
| Tucker's Episcopalian. | ||
| Episcopalians are notorious for this. | ||
| I am also Episcopalian. | ||
| They did allow it. | ||
| It's one of the reasons I left the church. | ||
| But Baptists allow it. | ||
| United Methodist Church in Texas. | ||
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The Methodist churches are always the ones with the trans flags. | |
| They're everywhere. | ||
| I have friends who grew up very liberal and they specifically seek out progressive churches, so having a female priest is a way to say, like, hello, it's us! | ||
| We are part of the left ideology, but I think ultimately it is a A sign that they are selling their theology to be a part of culture. | ||
| Well, you'll hear often, I know I heard this a lot when I was going to Anglican and Episcopalian churches, was that, you know, church attendance is down, so we have to find a way to appeal to the young people. | ||
| And so, you know what a great idea is? | ||
| We'll put up our rainbow flag and we'll get a lady priest. | ||
| And it's never the way. | ||
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Did you ever see the video of the church that painted the rainbow everywhere, and then that one guy came by as she was painting the rainbow and was like, what are you doing? | |
| This is a disgrace. | ||
| You call yourself a Christian? | ||
| Tell me where it says this is allowed in the Bible. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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And she couldn't tell him. | |
| Did she explain that the rainbow is God's covenant? | ||
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Yeah, you know, it's meant for the sky and not outside your church. | |
| But still, you know, take the rainbow back. | ||
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Well, I think some people came back, and that's why she was doing it. | |
| That's not why she was doing it. | ||
| Yeah, but embrace the rainbow! | ||
| These churches will do this. | ||
| Man, marketing got you if you just did that. | ||
| I know. | ||
| I'm telling you, I saw those commercials so many times as a kid. | ||
| I'm telling you, I saw those commercials so many times You're not going to attract anyone. | ||
| You're offering worldly things. | ||
| It would be like if a conservative organization was going, you know, there's a lot of left-wing people subscribe to these left-wing platforms. | ||
| You know, maybe TimCast needs to become more progressive. | ||
| No, that's not the point. | ||
| That's literally the reason people go to TimCast is because it's not offering what most worldly press outlets are offering with respect to progressivism, right? | ||
| And the reason people go to church is because they don't want what the world is offering. | ||
| So stop trying to give people a watered-down version of it. | ||
| I'm going to pull all the way back because I wanted to jump to this story from Tucker Carlson. | ||
| We have this from Valuetainment.com. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| Patrick David offers Tucker Carlson $100,000,000! | ||
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That's a lot of money, dude. | |
| Actually, it's $20,000,000 a year, over 5 years. | ||
| So this is, uh, the Valuetainment Podcast is offering Tucker Carlson a $100,000,000 contract. | ||
| I'm gonna be honest, I kind of feel like it's just a stunt. | ||
| I mean, I'm sure it's a legitimate offer, but I'm also confident that Patrick Bette David and the Valuetainment people know there's no way Tucker would take this deal. | ||
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Yeah, why would he? | |
| There's no reason for him to take it. | ||
| He's gonna launch his own thing and he's gonna make a billion dollars. | ||
| So there's just no reason for a deal like this. | ||
| But you can see just how valuable people consider Tucker Carlson, and Fox News, oh boy. | ||
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I'm surprised Rumble hasn't tried yet. | |
| They probably did. | ||
| Behind the scenes. | ||
| But what would an independent launch room, Tucker, look like? | ||
| Is he going to go on Rumble? | ||
| Is he going to go on YouTube? | ||
| Where do you literally facilitate this show? | ||
| His own website. | ||
| His own website? | ||
| I am here to announce that TimCast is going to make an offer to Tucker Carlson of $100,000 per year to work full time because we can't afford $100 million. | ||
| That's the best we can do. | ||
| Come on, Tucker. | ||
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It's worth it, Tucker. | |
| Come on. | ||
| Yeah, you can hang out here with Seamus. | ||
| Just think about how much fun that would be. | ||
| We'll make cartoons together. | ||
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They have great glass-bottled water. | |
| It's worth it. | ||
| It's delish. | ||
| Patrick Bet-David offered Tucker Carlson $100 million over five years, an equity stake in Valuetainment, president of Valuetainment, and a board seat to project your strategic vision and voice, your own podcast, and other daily, weekly shows. | ||
| Documentaries and movies covering topics you care about. | ||
| What else? | ||
| We are all ears. | ||
| Our conviction about freedom, liberty, and truth run deep. | ||
| We believe we are the absolute right fit for you in America. | ||
| And I think they're in Florida, too. | ||
| So, maybe there could be something happening here. | ||
| Maybe this is not so much a PR stunt as it is they've already made a deal. | ||
| I just feel like we saw earlier this year when people were discussing their contracts out loud and lots of drama came with it. | ||
| Yeah, I was gonna say, what if Tucker publishes the contract? | ||
| Tucker's like, they gave me this contract that says they're only going to give me a hundred million dollars over four years. | ||
| I can make way more money than that. | ||
| But that includes all of my staff, which get paid a lot of money. | ||
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It also includes production costs because we like to make skits. | |
| It's gonna be a lot. | ||
| I love Tucker's skits. | ||
| I mean, I have said for a while that I think there will be a big push from mainstream media outlets that are trying to compete with Fox to try and get Tucker Carlson on their show. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, after years, he was on Fox for like What, over a decade? | ||
| He's been doing mainstream media. | ||
| Well, I think Newsmax offered him something. | ||
| Well, his show was only, what, six years? | ||
| Five years? | ||
| But he was on the circuit beforehand. | ||
| He was doing mainstream television appearances for a long time. | ||
| I wonder, and you can probably speak to this better than I can, Tim, but transitioning to being fully independent with in-house production as opposed to having a company to fall back on, that isn't just something you do overnight. | ||
| Not everyone is cut out to make that change, and I wonder if there is a comfort in sort of staying with a medium that you know. | ||
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I mean, I would imagine being under contract is a lot more comfortable than just doing your own thing. | |
| But you saw how, I mean, his video on Twitter when he released a statement, the amount of views that that racked up. | ||
| I mean, I'm pretty sure he broke his viewership live compared to what he normally has done on Fox. | ||
| 20 times the viewership. | ||
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I mean, that would be cool to see as an integration into Twitter or something along those lines. | |
| The Twitter video is different from his show. | ||
| Because I was saying this before, his show gets 3.3 million on average, but not everybody watches every single episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So if you watch three episodes per month, if the average person only watches, let's say they watch five episodes, that means there's actually four times as many unique viewers because they're only watching one in five episodes and he's got, you know, or one in four episodes because he does it, you know, once a day every week. | ||
| And that means that if you were to take all of his viewers and have them watch one video, you'd get 60 million, you'd get 70 million or whatever. | ||
| So I don't know if it correlates properly. | ||
| And also the people who watch that video included leftists who've never seen his show before. | ||
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Exactly. | |
| Well, and also if I mean, say like he would take like the Twitter route or anything like that is. | ||
| The boomers, no boomers are going to see it. | ||
| I mean, I feel like that's the majority of people that actually watched his show too, is the older generations. | ||
| And it's going to basically completely cut off their access. | ||
| I mean, I'm pretty sure Fox News lost like, what, half of their viewers just from after they fired him. | ||
| So you're already seeing the kind of shift in their audience. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Well, that's part of what's so sad about the whole situation. | ||
| Everyone keeps talking about how Duggar's gonna be better off without Fox, and they're probably right in terms of how much he's gonna have with respect to earning potential. | ||
| But he was very important at Fox. | ||
| But yeah, he was very important at Fox, and there are a lot of people who just are not gonna know where to find him, unfortunately. | ||
| Or won't discover him in the first place. | ||
| He's the only populist they had. | ||
| So, I mean, maybe this is more about 2024 than anything. | ||
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Well, that's what I was thinking is, what if, because I thought I saw, had seen something about Rupert Murdoch, you know, negotiating a new contract with him and him still actually being under that contract. | |
| I'm not sure how accurate that is. | ||
| But I mean, in doing so, he's basically gagged. | ||
| I mean, he can't sign any other contract from what I'm aware of. | ||
| It's like, if you shut Tucker Carlson down during election season, that's when he's the most effective. | ||
| In my mind, if I'm the enemy and I'm trying to silence and de-platform Tucker Carlson, and you guys saw the AOC video, de-platforming works. | ||
| You know, you do it right before election season when he has the most power and the most momentum and he can actually make a change. | ||
| And the primaries are coming up and who is Tucker supporting? | ||
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I'm not entirely sure. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Good question. | ||
| I mean, obviously it's going to be a Republican, so that's all right. | ||
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I would imagine he's going to support whoever the, I mean, the lead runner is. | |
| I think, because I mean, you got probably DeSantis v. Trump. | ||
| I would assume he's probably going to support Trump just because he has, I think, a higher chance of winning and becoming the nominee. | ||
| But I mean, regardless of whoever the nominee is, he's obviously going to support the Republican candidate. | ||
| Yeah, no question. | ||
| Who is supposed to fill his slot? | ||
| Like, what's happening with the 8 o'clock? | ||
| Oh, they picked somebody, didn't they? | ||
| Well, yeah, everyone was ripping on him. | ||
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Yeah, he posted a tweet and got ratioed to, like, absolutely nothing. | |
| It must be so significant that I'm definitely aware of it. | ||
| That was the hardest thing about watching all this, like, what is Fox's plan? | ||
| There is no one... Lawrence Jones? | ||
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I don't even know who that is. | |
| Didn't they get rid of Bongino, too? | ||
| Bongino left a couple weeks before. | ||
| They couldn't negotiate a contract. | ||
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I loved the day when Tucker was released and Don Lamon was released at the same time, too. | |
| Nobody was talking about the CNN contractor, about Don Lemon. | ||
| It was just all Tucker Carlson. | ||
| Nobody cared. | ||
| We talked about it a little bit. | ||
| Everyone was speculating about Tucker Carlson. | ||
| Why would they be getting rid of him? | ||
| What story did he cover that upset them? | ||
| Where is he going? | ||
| He's so important. | ||
| With Don Lemon, no one was like, yeah, Don Lemon did all that really important journalistic work that exposed powerful people. | ||
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Ever since that like misogynistic clip from Don Lemon, which wasn't misogynistic at all. | |
| I think he made a lighthearted joke. | ||
| He said women are not in their prime in their 50s. | ||
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Oh yeah. | |
| He did get in trouble for that. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| I remember he got in trouble from that and then that was like the last controversy he had. | ||
| That is so awesome. | ||
| That is just unacceptable. | ||
| He said something like if you look online it's like 20s, 30s or 40s, | ||
| women in their 50s are not in their prime. | ||
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He's talking about men in their prime too and the difference in age. | |
| But she was like, the other one was like, what does that mean? | ||
| Childbirthing? | ||
| Is that what you're talking about? | ||
| And he's like, I'm just saying Google it. | ||
| And then when you Googled it, it was the funniest thing. | ||
| It's like women are in their prime in their 40s and 50s. | ||
| And it's like... | ||
| That's hilarious, Snopes, found out! | ||
| You're like, fact check, false. | ||
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Pants on fire, Donovan. | |
| Human beings are in their prime in their 20s. | ||
| Like, anybody else pandering is— 20s, early 30s. | ||
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Especially males, too. | |
| Early 30s, yeah. | ||
| There's a lot of push for women saying like, oh, you're in your prime in your 40s because you're more confident and stuff like that. | ||
| Like, I would argue that, like, depends on what we're evaluating here, right? | ||
| Like, a woman in her 40s is not in her prime to bear children. | ||
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I was gonna say, I don't think you're in your prime if you're going through menopause. | |
| When you're in your prime, like, you're feeling good about yourself, and you're more accomplished, and maybe you're more economically established, like, I could see that argument. | ||
| It just depends on what your metrics are. | ||
| That's what I don't like about these generalizations. | ||
| Maybe that was the argument they're making, is that when women can no longer have kids, they're now in their prime to work and be CEOs. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| But for real, I can see that. | ||
| Because human beings are utilities, right? | ||
| And depending on which part of the culture you're standing on and looking at them from, they're either a sexual utility or an economic utility or both, but they're not a person. | ||
| Well, yeah, we're gonna have those baby pods. | ||
| You saw those baby pods, right? | ||
| Baby pods? | ||
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The little baby factories? | |
| Yeah, the baby factories. | ||
| The viral video where it's like, we will gestate humans in pods. | ||
| I thought that was like the new politically correct term for birthing person. | ||
| Baby factories. | ||
| Baby factory. | ||
| No, no, no, it's not. | ||
| Well, that's offensive. | ||
| It's baby factory. | ||
| It's not woman, it's birthing person! | ||
| It's like the new term for young mothers' homes, you know, where they used to send girls who got pregnant? | ||
| Instead, it's just like birthing factories. | ||
| Come collect your baby here! | ||
| What's that game that just came out, like Dark Souls or something came out that everybody was excited about? | ||
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Elden Ring. | |
| Elden Ring. | ||
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Yeah, which is basically Dark Souls. | |
| And when you're making your character, you can't choose male or female, you can choose type 1 or type 2. | ||
| Like it's diabetes? | ||
| It was like A or B or something. | ||
| It was like body type. | ||
| Choose your body type. | ||
| And it's like clearly male and female but it didn't say male and female. | ||
| And it's just like what is this? | ||
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Well and it's funny because in those games usually you can make like really distorted looking characters like Skyrim and those kind of like just that genre of games usually you can just make the characters however you want. | |
| But it seems like they're moving away from that and that was like the biggest part of those games was like creating a sweet like woman that was an orc but looked like a man and now you just can't do any of it. | ||
| Well the Harry Potter game is actually really funny because you can you can customize your character to a crazy degree like you can make a big super masculine guy but has a voice of a little girl or you can make it's almost like Bob's Burgers or Venture Brothers. | ||
| You can make like a small female character who talks like this. | ||
| And then you could make a male character who's in the girl's dorm or a female character in the boy's dorm. | ||
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It's just like... I remember they had like one trans character in the game or something. | |
| But they're saying it's transphobic. | ||
| But it doesn't even make sense that in Harry Potter there'd be a trans character. | ||
| They can drink magic potions and shapeshift. | ||
| They would just be like, I drank a potion, whoop, now I am, it's magic, there you go, so... | ||
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There's gotta be a spell for everything. | |
| The puberty blocker potion. | ||
| But they don't need it, they have magic! | ||
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Puberty block-o-so. | |
| And you're good. | ||
| Like, you can literally turn yourself into a cat. | ||
| Infertility! | ||
| There's no... Infertility. | ||
| Ruin your life! | ||
| I'm the compassionate one! | ||
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Cast that Bud Light spell, get that extra estrogen. | |
| There would be no furries in Harry Potter because they would just literally turn into animals. | ||
| So hold on, are all the people in Harry Potter who turn into animals furries? | ||
| What a hot take over there. | ||
| I think it's true. | ||
| I mean, that was the whole theme of the third book, that the one dude was a werewolf, so the other three friends would turn into animals to hang out with them or whatever, because werewolves wouldn't attack animal people or something like that. | ||
| Yeah, I wasn't allowed to read Harry Potter because as someone raised in a traditional home, my parents didn't want me to be a nerd. | ||
| I'm sad for you. | ||
| You missed a huge part of culture. | ||
| I'm a gigantic nerd. | ||
| You missed out. | ||
| Did I? | ||
| Did you read that later? | ||
| How do you interpret leftist arguments in philosophy if you don't know anything about Harry Potter? | ||
| I haven't read the foundational theory. | ||
| I don't read theories. | ||
| Trump is Voldemort. | ||
| Don't you know what that means? | ||
| That's actually true. | ||
| But actually, you can't connect with any of the young people, basically, any of your peers. | ||
| How can you make them interested in Catholicism if you can't put it in terms of Harry Potter? | ||
| Here's the secret, Hannah-Claire. | ||
| They can't connect with each other either, because of what this culture's done. | ||
| Yeah, but you're not reaching them either, so they're all just adrift. | ||
| Yes, I am. | ||
| Uh-huh. | ||
| Look, I'm not reaching them with witchcraft and magic. | ||
| So what's your plan? | ||
| To use the power of reason, facts, and logic, and cartoons, and make a yes, absolutely, well-placed joke here and there, so you do it. | ||
| Did you ever feel like you missed out, though, because you couldn't read Harry Potter? | ||
| No, I'm kidding. | ||
| I was not not—well, my parents, like, frowned upon it, but they were never like, Harry Potter! | ||
| It's not as bad as, like, not having watched Fast and the Furious, you know what I mean? | ||
| No, oh, of course, every Christmas, we watched all of those films. | ||
| You watched all of them! | ||
| You are lying! | ||
| I declare this a lie! | ||
| No, no, no, it's true. | ||
| Fast and the Furious, classic tradition, we watched Fast and the Furious every day. | ||
| Lies all around. | ||
| And you got ten movies, so you're all day, it's on the TV, and, you know, the people are making dip, and the family's coming in, and they're wearing the fancy sweaters. | ||
| Yeah, and you watch Fast and the Furious. | ||
| And then everyone quotes the movie, because they all know the words to every film. | ||
| I thought that was Die Hard. | ||
| Brother. | ||
| I actually didn't watch Fast and Furious as a kid either. | ||
| You know when I saw Fast and Furious for the first time? | ||
| I was on a Greyhound bus. | ||
| And there was this woman a few seats across from me and she turns to me and she's like, You wanna watch Fast and Furious? | ||
| I was like... | ||
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I watch fast and furious. | |
| That sounds like such a greyhound wrestling thing to do. | ||
| No, it's true. | ||
| And then she sat next to me with her laptop and she popped it open and I was like, she's | ||
| like, these movies, they say they're about cars, it's really about family. | ||
| And she started playing it and I was like. | ||
| I don't believe you. | ||
| Dude, I'm not kidding, this actually happened. | ||
| I was like, and I was watching, I was like, this film is about family. | ||
| Shut up. | ||
| No, this actually happened. | ||
| This is a real story. | ||
| This is not a deepfake. | ||
| This literally happened. | ||
| I watched Fast and Furious on a Greyhound for the first time. | ||
| Some real thing. | ||
| Some fake stuff sprinkled in. | ||
| This very sweet young woman wanted someone to watch Fast and Furious with. | ||
| I feel like it's always nice because you're community building, right? | ||
| Let's jump to this story from the post-millennial. | ||
| We got big news, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Late night shows go dark as Writers Guild calls strike. | ||
| Well, I'm really excited for this because our viewership should go up. | ||
| Because clearly the people who watch that show would love to watch this show. | ||
| They're going to watch Freedom Tunes. | ||
| I was around someone this weekend who was like, oh, Tim Cass, that's on eight. | ||
| Well, now that I'm not watching Tucker, I'll watch Tim Cass. | ||
| Yes, but we're talking about Jimmy Kimmel and Colbert. | ||
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What were Jimmy Kimmel's writers doing before this trend? | |
| They're sitting in the back room and they're doing that thing that the Vice gag, covering their eyes and then grabbing it. | ||
| Do you remember? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, dude. | ||
| I mean, I gotta say, when I saw Stephen Colbert do a song about vaccines and make fun of people who don't like the jab, I was like, he went there. | ||
| He really went there. | ||
| He wasn't making fun of people who didn't like it. He did it more than once. It was just the Vex scene. And it wasn't | ||
| one thing. Conservatives don't watch the show and they thought Colbert did this one time thing where everyone | ||
| dressed up like syringes and danced. He did it every night. | ||
| No, that's why I'm making fun of him. | ||
| I'm saying he's super lame. | ||
| No, I'm saying it wasn't one time. | ||
| People think it was like this one thing. | ||
| They show this one meme over and over. | ||
| I'm like, dude, he did that every night! | ||
| Every night he had the Vax scene where he was telling people to get a medical treatment. | ||
| And it's like, it's the weirdest thing. | ||
| Could you imagine if all of a sudden every single late-night host was like, have you tried Flibestro? | ||
| And you're like, why are you telling me to take a drug? | ||
| And it's like, because we've all decided this pharmaceutical... Just go to your doctor. | ||
| Don't go to Stephen Colbert to figure out whether or not you need medicine. | ||
| Why is it that Joe Rogan gets ragged on but Colbert gets a free pass? | ||
| Well, CNN edited Chorogra to look like the Incredible Hulk. | ||
| They put a green filter over him. | ||
| It turns you green! | ||
| The horse pace makes you... That was weird, wasn't it? | ||
| We showed the videos and we were like... Oh, they were completely different. | ||
| The man looked like a Smurf in all of the pictures. | ||
| And they're like, we didn't edit this. | ||
| What do you mean you didn't edit it? | ||
| That was crazy. | ||
| He looked like a normal man in the other ones. | ||
| Maybe a little second in this, he's blue. | ||
| He's blue, Murphy's not. | ||
| Now, this end up to... It was on that level. | ||
| That top one, that top left. | ||
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That's so different. | |
| He looks like one of those people who pretends to be a statue in cities. | ||
| This is what he looked like on CNN. | ||
| This is what he looked like on his actual Instagram. | ||
| Does this mean that Trump is not as orange as people think he is? | ||
| He's not! | ||
| Are you kidding? | ||
| What? | ||
| The media absolutely was boosting saturation on Trump's pictures to make him look more orange. | ||
| That's a fact. | ||
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Yeah, you thought that was... I honestly never thought about it. | |
| It didn't really matter to me either way. | ||
| Yeah, maybe I could pull that up, too. | ||
| Wait, you're telling me Trump is not really orange? | ||
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Well, I mean, actually, when you go to his rallies, like if you've ever been to a rally, he does not look nearly as orange as he does in all the pictures and videos. | |
| I'm honestly disappointed. | ||
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I liked it better with the idea that he was really into self-tan. | |
| Look at this. | ||
| Here you go. | ||
| TV station editor sacked for making Trump appear more orange. | ||
| No! | ||
| No, he's not really that orange! | ||
| That does make me sad. | ||
| That actually really makes me sad. | ||
| It was endearing. | ||
| I like that about him. | ||
| What did he do to his tongue? | ||
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What is that? | |
| That tongue thing? | ||
| His neck looks wider. | ||
| Did they make his mouth wider? | ||
| His lips are bulging? | ||
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He's known for like having like the super- Dude, but think about this. | |
| They actually did this on a TV show. | ||
| And so there are regular people who are watching who don't know and they think that is Trump. | ||
| That's what they were doing. | ||
| But there was a whole bunch of pictures. | ||
| Let me just Google search it. | ||
| There were a whole bunch of pictures where they did this. | ||
| That one made it look like he was wearing foundation. | ||
| He's got the fake tan for sure, but this is what the media would do. | ||
| They would boost saturation to make it look like he's more orange than he really is. | ||
| They would do it all the time. | ||
| They do it to Tim too. | ||
| They make me look less orange. | ||
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They're like, we can't let people know this actually. | |
| Was it Isabel Riley? | ||
| She was like, I love being orange. | ||
| I always wondered if that was like an ode to Trump. | ||
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Yeah, it's like an ode to Trump. | |
| But now we know, we can tell her, he's fake orange. | ||
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You're actually more orange than Trump, Isabella. | |
| I'm going to send her this clip afterwards and be like, well... | ||
| You gotta stop with the orange. | ||
| It has happened more than once where there was something with the lighting or the camera where I was the only one on set who looked blue and I have definitely gotten roasted by the Super Chats for being blue and so Tim basically did the same thing that CNN did to Joe Rogan to me. | ||
| Well, but we want to do that to Sheamus. | ||
| No, I know, so did CNN. | ||
| We can't have Sheamus looking handsome, you know what I mean? | ||
| They do have to actively edit me out of being handsome. | ||
| Yeah, we have a filter on Seamus' face all the time that makes him look the way he does. | ||
| I'm actually normally really attractive, but I only look like this on camera. | ||
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That's actually the most time that they spend producing this, is manipulating his face so he's not so handsome. | |
| Exactly. | ||
| That and writing our scripts. | ||
| That's what we spend all our time doing. | ||
| Well, no, we don't write the scripts. | ||
| We read the scripts. | ||
| You guys don't write the scripts. | ||
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No, the scripts are handed down from very important people that aren't supposed to be named. | |
| Don't ask any more questions about it. | ||
| Man, that's crazy what they did to Joe Rogan. | ||
| Yeah, that's- On CNN. | ||
| I know. | ||
| It's not that crazy because we know how they are, but it is a little nuts. | ||
| They tried making him look sickly like he had like some kind of, what, melanoma or something? | ||
| It looks like The Walking Dead. | ||
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He actually- He looks like a zombie. | |
| Is a corpse. | ||
| And they tried- Like when you first get bit- Didn't they try to claim they didn't? | ||
| Yeah, they said they didn't. | ||
| Like, no, he just looks like that. | ||
| And then people started coming out saying like, no, no, it's just different monitor settings. | ||
| And I'm like, dude, I screenshotted the video on the same monitor, and it looked different. | ||
| Like CNN did some weird stuff. | ||
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CNN is the most honest news source in America. | |
| It just seems so petty. | ||
| It seems like if you were like talking to middle school girls, and she's like, I'm purposely gonna facetune this girl so she looks worse than I do. | ||
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But it's like, This is the exact same thing that they do with like these big articles and these big news sources when they do hit pieces, is everyone sees the original piece and their viewers obviously aren't the highest IQ people. | |
| So they're like, Oh, look at him. | ||
| He's taking horse dewormer. | ||
| He looks like crap. | ||
| But then they never see Joe Rogan statement after because he releases a statement and they don't broadcast the statement. | ||
| So it's like in their mind, that's just what he looks like. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I guess the good news is, though, for the time being, we get some reprieve from the late-night corporate press garbage. | ||
| And I just love the fact that even Bill Maher is off the air. | ||
| This is a writer's strike. | ||
| So what about the political opinions of John Oliver and Bill Maher are we not capable of hearing because they don't have writers? | ||
| That just shows, it's everything I've been saying, Bill Maher does not read the news. | ||
| Isn't it kind of funny, like, well, you know, all the most prominent left-wing thinkers are going to be off the air for a little while. | ||
| Why? | ||
| We ran out of clowns, you know? | ||
| The jokers decided to stop writing. | ||
| The people who write their words for them are striking, so now they have nothing to say. | ||
| Not the people, but the comedians, right? | ||
| This is the thing, they don't make anything funny. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| No, it's not funny. | ||
| And I'm not saying none of them can be funny either. | ||
| Colbert used to be funny. | ||
| He really did. | ||
| He's just not, he's not applying himself. | ||
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I remember watching Colbert when I was a kid and he was funny. | |
| Like I actually enjoyed tuning in. | ||
| My parents would tune in and we would laugh. | ||
| But now it's just... | ||
| Yeah, I've heard people say that this, like, format is pretty stale, people don't like it anymore, they're all sitting behind desks, they're all just opening monologues, it's all kind of the same thing. | ||
| So it makes me wonder that, like, with this writer's strike, will they ever be able to recover any kind of viewership? | ||
| I don't know what their numbers are like right now, but then also what fills the vacuum? | ||
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Like, what takes the place? | |
| All they do is, ever since Jon Stewart, is they whittled it down to saying something like, Donald Trump today came out and did a backflip! | ||
| That's kinda like a fat dog on Christmas! | ||
| And then it, like, named Timothy, and then it shows, like, a dog, and then everyone laughs. | ||
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It's like Saturday Night Live has just devolved. | |
| That's like if a squirrel was riding a jet ski! | ||
| Little Timothy over here! | ||
| Cue the laugh track. | ||
| And then he goes, look at that score! | ||
| He really loves it! | ||
| And then he keeps leaning into the Photoshop. | ||
| There's a meme that breaks down John Oliver's whole show. | ||
| And it was like the whole thing is a single formula, it's an ad lib. | ||
| Where they would take the same script and pull out proper nouns and then put in different proper nouns and it like doesn't miss a beat. | ||
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Wow. | |
| And to the point where he said it's little Timothy like a whole bunch of times. | ||
| Little Timothy over here, like, referencing a child, and then saying, it's 2016, people! | ||
| Like, it's current year! | ||
| Why is this happening? | ||
| But it was, it's all the same thing, and they mention that he'll pause, the audience will laugh, and that was, like, reinforcing, you must believe this, this is what everyone agrees with, laugh with this. | ||
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Well, psychologically, that's a whole reason laugh tracks were created. | |
| Like, have you ever watched... I don't think the Big Bang Theory is funny, but a lot of people love it. | ||
| It's super funny. | ||
| The Big Bang Theory, they have clips without the laugh tracks. | ||
| You're just watching, and you're like, none of this is funny at all. | ||
| It's disturbing. | ||
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The laugh track cues that psychological aspect, and you're like, oh, yeah, it's funny. | |
| And initially, they did have live studio audiences, and I'm not sure if it was this way from the get-go, but eventually, even with those audiences, they started telling them, you have to laugh right now. | ||
| You're supposed to laugh at the joke. | ||
| Hold up the sign. | ||
| And they'd have Jeb Bush there going, please clap. | ||
| You know, they were telling people, you have to find this funny. | ||
| How do they get people for the audiences, I wonder? | ||
| They have to hire them, too. | ||
| Maybe that's what really happened. | ||
| The audience went on strike. | ||
| Like, I can't watch. | ||
| I'm not watching another vaccine song. | ||
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You're making my ears bleed. | |
| If you walk around New York, they'll come up to you and be like, hey, you want to watch a free comedy show? | ||
| And you don't know what it is. | ||
| And then if you walk in, you're like, ah, it's Colbert. | ||
| It's Colbert. | ||
| They got me. | ||
| I'm stuck! | ||
| Can't leave! | ||
| There's this weird thing that happens where conservatives worship any liberal who isn't as crazy as the rest of the liberals. | ||
| So I want to make it very clear I'm not engaging in that when I say anything remotely positive about Jon Stewart. | ||
| I think he's caused many serious issues. | ||
| Not a huge fan. | ||
| However, I will say that he was funny compared to these guys. | ||
| He really was. | ||
| I just figured it out. | ||
| What? | ||
| Why don't we just get, like, 500 moderate to conservative types to go to the Jimmy Kimmel audience and boo it all? | ||
| Tim. | ||
| Because then he's gonna be like, so we got this crazy video about Donald Trump, and then it's Trump being like, we should lower taxes. | ||
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Oh yeah! | |
| And then everyone starts cheering. | ||
| No, that's when you cheer. | ||
| And then when he's like, but Trump, of course, is a criminal. | ||
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Boo! | |
| Wait, what? | ||
| You're booing me? | ||
| This is applause. | ||
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What would they do? | |
| Would they cancel the show and kick everybody out? | ||
| I've got a really good idea. | ||
| We'll replace these late night shows. | ||
| We'll do a late night show with me. | ||
| The live studio audience will be the chickens from Chicken City. | ||
| And they'll bawk and cluck and make all their various chicken noises. | ||
| And that's how the audience will know it's funny. | ||
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To touch on what you said earlier about conservatives like almost worshipping or like looking up to the people that are more lefty that aren't as crazy, they have this problem with, you know, celebrities, athletes. | |
| We have this problem all throughout the industry is like when one person that literally hates you and everything you stand for, they say one thing that you kind of agree with, you put them on a pedestal for like a week straight and it's just like trending Twitter clip after trending Twitter clip. | ||
| It's like they literally hate you. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's what I thought about when Shia LaBeouf was doing that movie. | ||
| I don't remember. | ||
| Say God is Lord! | ||
| No, I thought that was based. | ||
| He became Catholic. | ||
| Okay, but did he actually? | ||
| I'm not gonna sit here and tell you whether he was sincere or not. | ||
| That's not up to me. | ||
| But it was like all the rage for a minute to be like, we're so happy, he's one of us, he's one of us, never mind anything else that's going on or if he sticks with it. | ||
| Oh, he can't repent? | ||
| I'm sure he could, but did he? | ||
| I hope so. | ||
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I mean, Joe Biden says he's Catholic too, right? | |
| Yeah, but here's the thing. | ||
| Joe Biden explicitly does things in public that tell us otherwise. | ||
| And he openly defies church teaching. | ||
| Joe Biden has literally said children should transition. | ||
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Get over... because I think he was addicted to something for quite a while. | |
| And then he came through that. | ||
| He's had like all kinds of crazy issues. | ||
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Yeah, like a bunch of problems. | |
| And then he went to rehab and actually like put his life on a better track. | ||
| And then that Catholic thing happened from what I'm aware of. | ||
| Yeah, Joe Biden said he was Catholic and his life just went on a way worse track. | ||
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I'm Catholic. | |
| His whole life. | ||
| Abort your babies, please. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| I'm Catholic, but I don't believe in the Catholic Church. | ||
| Wait a minute. | ||
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How does that work? | |
| That's called not being Catholic. | ||
| Let's jump to a very serious news story. | ||
| We got this one from TimCast.com. | ||
| Biden administration sending 1,500 troops to southern border. | ||
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U.S. | |
| officials are expecting a surge of more than 35,000 migrants flooding through El Paso after Title 42 ends. | ||
| I guess my question for these so-called writers at TimCast.com is, are these illegal immigrants they're expecting or just general migrants? | ||
| Because if it's, like, people lining up at the border being like, hello, I'd like to fill out forms to peacefully enter this country, I don't know if we need 1,500 troops. | ||
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This is the most, like, actual action that you've seen the Biden administration take with, you know, securing the border as well. | |
| So it's interesting that they decided to do it now, right before election season. | ||
| I feel like that might have something to do with it. | ||
| Well, didn't Corrine Jean-Pierre just get roasted for saying it's 90% down? | ||
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Border crossings are down 90%. | |
| It's like all the journalists on the border. | ||
| It's because they're all already here! | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's right. | ||
| But is it what they're saying? | ||
| They're going to be sending people back? | ||
| Is that what they did to the troops? | ||
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I think it was just, uh, I think they stopped Venezuelans, if I remember correctly. | |
| It was Venezuela, a different country for a minute, and there was like a big blockade. | ||
| And I think it was in the same area as well, outside of El Paso, where you just had like Venezuelans piking tents and there was thousands of them. | ||
| And then finally they just allowed them to come in from one of our off. | ||
| You want to know what was hilarious? | ||
| Lori Lightfoot started complaining to Greg Abbott about all of the immigrants that have been sent up to Chicago. | ||
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That's the least of your worries. | |
| Did she bus them to the conservative suburbs overnight? | ||
| She did do that a while back. | ||
| Yes, she did. | ||
| She sent them out to the different conservative suburban areas. | ||
| But I love how as soon as their ideology comes into contact with reality, they recognize, OK, I have to either completely abandon my principles or the thing I'm in charge of is going to fail. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, we've known for a while that with the end of Title 42, you would get different migrant caravans coming up. | ||
| And again, I have no reason to assume everyone is going to attempt to cross illegally, but just the numbers bear out that many people will attempt to cross illegally into the country. | ||
| And without Title 42, it becomes much more difficult to expel illegal immigrants. | ||
| We've already had a crisis at the southern border for so long. | ||
| And the Biden administration has done nothing to really address this. | ||
| I mean, there have been efforts to get Mayorkas removed from office. | ||
| You know, really, remember, Kamala Harris is the borders are, she's doing a great job. | ||
| So I think the challenge is, like, as we go through the era, we wanted COVID regulations to end. | ||
| And that was how we got Title 42. | ||
| But if Title 42 is coming to an end, or if COVID regulations are coming to an end, so does Title 42. | ||
| So how do we address the border? | ||
| Yeah, well there was an interesting question asked earlier, are these people coming legally or not? | ||
| Why is the military there? | ||
| I don't think we're at any risk of not admitting enough people into the United States at this point. | ||
| I think we've had quite a bit of immigration that was completely undocumented, totally illegal, the government had no oversight over it. | ||
| So this is the least they can do. | ||
| Yeah, I mean it's also- The least they can do. | ||
| It's not just the southern border, it's also all of the Haitian and Cuban immigrants coming in through Florida. | ||
| Like, illegal immigration is also up along Canada, and that's people flying from other countries to Canada to enter the US. | ||
| I mean, this is an issue that we just, for whatever reason, cannot man up and solve. | ||
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Well, and it's getting to the point, too, like whenever I do border reporting or some of my fellow journalists are down there, you're not encountering people from Mexico anymore. | |
| You're not encountering people from those areas. | ||
| You're encountering Cubans. | ||
| Now it's Chinese nationals that are coming over and in droves. | ||
| So we've gotten to the point of where all the Mexicans have already came over, right? | ||
| Mexico isn't really even an immigration point anymore. | ||
| Yeah, they come up through it, but it's Venezuelans, it's Cubans, and every single, like, few months I'll go down to the border whenever I have the chance. | ||
| Different kinds of migrants every single time. | ||
| It's just evolving and more and more people are coming over and so there's no need for certain individuals to come over because they're already here. | ||
| I mean, do you remember that story about there's photos of Haitian migrants who were collected under a bridge in Texas? | ||
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That was crazy. | |
| And there was the famous photograph of, you know, the border patrol agent on Yeah, whipping them, right. | ||
| And it turned out that was completely a lie and he has never done it. | ||
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And then after that, the media ran with it for like two months. | |
| And then you had the pictures being spread by all the left-wing, you know, publicists of them whipping them. | ||
| And it's like, that's literally the most humane way to control them so they don't die in that river while they're crossing. | ||
| Right, and I bet if you asked anyone on the street if they remembered this incident, they would all think it was someone from Mexico crossing into the U.S., and that's just not it. | ||
| People don't understand the border crisis because we've let it get out of control, and instead of treating it like the national security and humanitarian issue that it is, right, we just say, if you don't want people here, you must be bigoted and racist and bad. | ||
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Well, and after that report went viral, too, all of a sudden, all of the migrants were gone. | |
| Like, the next two days, they all of a sudden were gone. | ||
| Where do you think they went? | ||
| They brought them into our country. | ||
| Well, fundamentally, right, there's two basic positions on this. | ||
| One of which is completely new and would be foreign to the thought of any pragmatic or remotely reasonable political thinker for all of history who wasn't trying to destroy a country, okay? | ||
| And the first stream of thought, the first principle or whatever we want to call it, desire, is... | ||
| I think that the government should have some oversight over who enters this country and some control over who is crossing over the border, because if we don't have that, there's literally no purpose to having a border in the first place. | ||
| The second stream of thought is, that's mean. | ||
| And that's it. | ||
| There's no counterpoint to it. | ||
| There's no counterpoint to it. | ||
| If you think the government should literally do anything, have any kind of immigration oversight at all, it's because you're racist. | ||
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Then you look at all the great nations that actually have low crime rates and are actually succeeding with their economies. | |
| They all have strong borders. | ||
| It's almost like there's a correlation between a real nation and a faux nation. | ||
| Weird. | ||
| The thing you're not considering, Seamus, is that, you know, but what if you're mean? | ||
| The thing that you're not considering is here's a cartoon of you farting with stink lines. | ||
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How long have you had that regularly? | |
| What did you just do? | ||
| That's you. | ||
| That's literally what you look like, bro. | ||
| Did you consider that? | ||
| You made me look very thin. | ||
| That's, well, you know... Thank you, Seamus. | ||
| You're welcome. | ||
| If you consider that a flattering caricature... Yeah, should we send this to somebody? | ||
| I sent it to you. | ||
| You're gonna give away original art from Seamus? | ||
| You're gonna raffle it off? | ||
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Yeah, we're gonna... You gotta frame it and put behind you now. | |
| We send out random knickknacks on the show to our members. | ||
| That's a really big jug of water next to me. | ||
| That's the size of it. | ||
| That's why you're so gassy. | ||
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I'll leave a package in and you can send that to a lucky guy. | |
| That'd be funny. | ||
| That's a really big jug of water next to me. | ||
| That's what it, that's the size of it. | ||
| That's why you're so gassy. | ||
| Is it, is it water? | ||
| Water? | ||
| Water? | ||
| We were supposed to be talking about it. | ||
| We were supposed to be talking about the merits of being mean to migrants, Seamus, but you had to go and change the subject. | ||
| Well, no, you disagreed with me, and so I had to own you in fact to not farting. | ||
| You tried debating me. | ||
| You suggested I was mean, and so to prove you wrong, I showed you a picture I drew of you farting with zinc lines. | ||
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That's the kindest thing he's ever done. | |
| Wow. | ||
| Very important news we discuss here on Tim Guest Hour. | ||
| As we were saying. | ||
| No, I guess you are just mean. | ||
| Right? | ||
| But those are literally the two options. | ||
| Are we happy with Joe Biden? | ||
| Oh yeah, absolutely. | ||
| Hold on, let me show you this picture of him. | ||
| I'll do this other one. | ||
| I mean like this action he's taking right now, sending troops down to the border. | ||
| Should we be like, that's a good thing, please do it more? | ||
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I think it's a start, but that's it. | |
| It's just a start. | ||
| It's something that should have happened right as he got in office. | ||
| He shouldn't have repealed any of the immigration plans that Trump had because they were working. | ||
| And now that he's doing that, he's got to backpedal because Even normal Americans are starting to see, okay, this is kind of weird that we're allowing anybody and everybody through. | ||
| So I think this is their way of almost compensating right before election season, saying, hey, we understand your problems, conservatives. | ||
| Not you MAGA terrorists, though, because we don't like you guys, but general conservatives and progressives, we know you want to secure borders, so this is our way of giving it to you. | ||
| I think it's just to buy election points. | ||
| Do you remember his first State of the Union address where he just started appropriating Trump's talking points? | ||
| He did. | ||
| He said that we need to secure the border. | ||
| I mean, when your agenda involves... And he was like, capitalism. | ||
| He's like, capitalism is good, man. | ||
| Defend the police, don't defund them. | ||
| He did. | ||
| He did say that. | ||
| He literally said those words, except he was less articulate than that and more slurry. | ||
| Have you seen videos of him speaking, like in Congress, you know, clips of him on any kind of committee over his very long career? | ||
| When he was capable? | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| I just hope that sounds like this. | ||
| Look, if we're going to have a new policy here, you got to listen up. | ||
| We got to have better taxes. | ||
| We got to we got to have lower taxes in this country. | ||
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And now he's like slurring and like getting lost. | |
| It's rough. | ||
| I think the problem with this action, I won't say problem. | ||
| I think it's good. | ||
| The border needs more support, especially all the agents there. | ||
| It's just that they created a problem because they tried to walk back all of Trump's immigration, like any kind of It's not an acceptable thing to put anyone through. | ||
| It's not good for America, and it's not good through the women and children and men who go through it. | ||
| So why we would support it, I don't understand. | ||
| I think it's okay, but like you're saying, it feels like cheap points before the election. | ||
| You know, if he gets enough pushback, I'm sure they'll pull the troops back. | ||
| I think they are not really committed to solving this problem. | ||
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Of course not. | |
| They never will be. | ||
| Well, and with the troops, too, is like we saw this down at like Eagle Pass and other points that are really hot right now, is whenever I go down there, if you do have National Guard troops, you have any of these troops, they quite literally all their job is to do is to facilitate the migrants crossing. | ||
| So they're just helping them cross. | ||
| They're not stopping them. | ||
| They have absolutely no power. | ||
| They're still under akin to border patrol. | ||
| And when I was down there last time at Eagle Pass, They were quite literally, intentionally pulling their Humvees up in front of these migrants so I couldn't do my job and take videos of the processing. | ||
| So it's like, where is this going to go? | ||
| It's going to go absolutely nowhere. | ||
| They have no authority to engage with cartels. | ||
| I've heard horror stories of them watching literally people shoot children across, just across the river. | ||
| They can't do anything. | ||
| The child crawls over and then they give the kid aid. | ||
| or they're dumping people into vats of acid, these cartels, and facilitating all these | ||
| migrant caravans that are coming over, but the National Guard can't do anything, so what | ||
| are they there for? | ||
| It's worthless. | ||
| I mean, think, was it DeSantis who said, he instituted the policy of, if you arrive on | ||
| a boat, we will turn you away? | ||
| You can't. | ||
| And it's to deter people from taking an extremely dangerous journey to try and illegally enter | ||
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the country. | |
| It's sad because then it forces as well, there's a downside for them to be facilitated | ||
| through the cartels. | ||
| And that's when the worst possible things actually happen to them. | ||
| That's when you get the rape trees. | ||
| That's when you get the murders. | ||
| That's when you get the torture is when these cartels are put in charge, | ||
| they're multi-billion dollar industries that are, I would argue, more powerful than a lot of, | ||
| a more powerful than a lot of world governments. | ||
| And you're giving them more power. | ||
| Exactly. I think about when I was going to college and I went to school in Texas, | ||
| they were talking about someone who volunteered with, I can't remember the name of the organization, | ||
| but they basically were like, oh, we go to the border. | ||
| We hand out water bottles and we try to help people. | ||
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Probably one of those Catholic organizations that facilitate everything. | |
| I'm not going to run into the Catholic conversation. | ||
| You better not. | ||
| But I will say. | ||
| Shia LaBeouf was there. | ||
| Stay, oh yes, the true. | ||
| She says, do it. | ||
| Why can't he be sincere? | ||
| I hope he is, but you know, let's see. | ||
| I haven't heard about it since. | ||
| The thing is, like any of these organizations, you are actually encouraging people to risk their lives to do something dangerous and illegal that we know ultimately harms everyone involved. | ||
| I think this is the craziest thing that we hear out of the left, that we should not build a border wall because it's what? | ||
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No human's illegal. | |
| Like, I just don't understand. | ||
| Why would you want to put people in the positions that they are in? | ||
| Well, they're criminals. | ||
| They're criminal immigrants. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
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I don't like the phrase... They are breaking the law when they come to our country. | |
| No, I don't like the phrase illegal immigrant. | ||
| No human is illegal. | ||
| I'm like, what does it even mean? | ||
| Illegal immigrant? | ||
| Like, the person's illegal? | ||
| No, no, they're criminal immigrants. | ||
| Yeah, I mean that made that term would make more sense, but now I mean whether criminal immigrants or anything They're committing crimes when crossing into the country, but there is no such thing as a legal process or an illegal process anymore You can be a God away You can come and get your papers for the Border Patrol, and then they'll just release you so anyone can come through I mean terrorists quite literally anybody can enter our country, and we're not doing it I've known people who grew up in Eastern Europe who are advised, it's actually more likely that if you enter illegally through the southern border, you are more likely to be able to stay in America than if you go through the application process. | ||
| That's how Luke got here. | ||
| Probably. | ||
| No, I just feel like that's the most sickening thing. | ||
| It's similar, and this is a broad comparison to draw, but the conversations we have about gun ownership, right? | ||
| If you ban guns, only law-abiding people suffer. | ||
| People who do not care about your laws, don't care about your laws. They're not going to | ||
| register their guns or give you the guns or do anything you ask them to do. | ||
| It's only the people who believe in law and order and want to positively, you know, | ||
| constructively follow the law. | ||
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I thought it was funny the last time I was down at the border because I went into Mexico and coming back in I | |
| had the idea. I was like, I wonder if I dropped my idea or give my I.D. | ||
| to one of these other reporters I'm with and cross the Rio Grande, because I've done it before, and get processed as an illegal immigrant, act like I don't speak English. | ||
| Like, what would the process look like? | ||
| You should have done it. | ||
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I was going to. | |
| I probably have the plan to. | ||
| It's a felony. | ||
| But, but that's the only, that was the only downside to it. | ||
| Don't do it. | ||
| I'm just kidding. | ||
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You're going to charge me? | |
| But and then I came through the legal way and then I got detained for over six hours because I was on this terrorist watch list for my reporting on January 6th. | ||
| And then they treated me worse than the actual illegal immigrants that are coming through. | ||
| I'm like, I'm an American citizen and you have people walking across the river and then being released into America in less time than I am. | ||
| That's the gulag archipelago saying that for criminals it's just their nature. | ||
| What can you do? | ||
| Yes. | ||
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But for you, you knew better. | |
| You're a bad man. | ||
| That's exactly it, right? | ||
| We have to go after the people. | ||
| Whenever someone commits a crime, it's because of their socio-economic environment, the way that they were raised, they would not have ever done anything wrong. | ||
| They're just stealing bread. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And then when you do something wrong, it's just because you're evil and bad and you're a despicable, disgusting enemy of the state. | ||
| And speaking of doing things bad, in a very childish move, Tim tried to edit my drawing of him. | ||
| It's not nearly as good. | ||
| It's so good. | ||
| He put me in the background sniffing the fart. | ||
| I think it's really immature. | ||
| And he's saying, mmm, farts. | ||
| Yeah, which I do, we'll say, if I smell a good one. | ||
| Sometimes I feel like I'm in a fifth grade classroom. | ||
| But I never smell a good one! | ||
| Bazinga! | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| Can we just appreciate that my art's been ruined? | ||
| Ruined? | ||
| Vastly improved now. | ||
| It's been ruined. | ||
| I wonder if you can even see. | ||
| Are you able to see that? | ||
| Can you launch a poll? | ||
| Did this ruin our insurance? | ||
| Seamus is just standing there going, mmm, farts. | ||
| I would say it's like you destroyed something Picasso made, but Picasso didn't really make all that much that was good. | ||
| Remember that story about, what was it, Salvador Dali? | ||
| He like bought dinner at a restaurant and then he drew a doodle and a napkin signed it and paid for his meal with that and they were like- I thought there was a story of him, someone coming up to him being like, draw me something and he does and he's like, okay, pay me $1,000. | ||
| She's like, what? | ||
| But I thought you were just doing it for free. | ||
| And he's like, no, this is my craft. | ||
| It's taken me a long time. | ||
| Oh yeah, they said, you did that in 10 seconds, and he said, no, it took me years to learn how to do it. | ||
| It's like, then why did you do it so badly, Picasso? | ||
| He was very talented, he was really good at it, and he started doing this abstract garbage. | ||
| Yeah, like his original paintings. | ||
| His original paintings were really good, and then he just started making trash, and everyone went, that's so good, because he's portraying the world other than it actually is, and I don't want to see the world as it is, because that makes it more difficult for me to live a vicious life. | ||
| I feel like you sound like his disappointed parents. | ||
| We sent you to art school for this? | ||
| You had so much promise, and this? | ||
| First of all, if he went to art school, his parents were already disappointed. | ||
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I can make an art school joke right now, but I won't. | |
| Let's jump to the story. | ||
| We got a story from the Postmillennial. | ||
| Antifa member sentenced to 60 months probation for May 2021 Portland riot. | ||
| That's it? | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| He's a creative kid. | ||
| It's free speech. | ||
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It was self-defense. | |
| You guys know like that famous graphic that goes around of all like what Antifa looks like, right? | ||
| And it's just like the ugliest of them all. | ||
| It's funny because that night, that graphic, I'm the one person that was left out of that graphic because that night I was arrested with them because I was in Black Block recording on the ground. | ||
| Spent a whole night in jail with them, but then I never have seen me on the graphic. | ||
| Oh wow. | ||
| I was like, but all the people that were on the graphic, I was sitting in jail with alongside all night talking to. | ||
| I was on the graphic because they edited me to look less handsome. | ||
| I was going to say, are you guys just telling us you're handsome? | ||
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I don't understand. | |
| I mean. | ||
| Hold on, hold on. | ||
| Here's the inverse. | ||
| We have a story from the Daily Mail. | ||
| New York City mother of three who slammed into BLM protesters if they terrorized her finally accepts plea deal. | ||
| She was sentenced to five hours of community service instead of six days, which was offered, but she was facing seven years. | ||
| So this is a video where They surround her vehicle, she's with her 29-year-old daughter, they're screaming, and banging, and then she hits the gas, just boom, and these people go flying. | ||
| She already did her community service. | ||
| Nobody got any serious injuries, but she hasn't done it yet. | ||
| She has to do five hours, and then if she does, she will be able to, that's it, she's out. | ||
| So the issue here is... | ||
| It's kind of good news. | ||
| The better news would have been that she was not convicted at all. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Because she was attacked and she was panicking. | ||
| Trying to hurt her kids. | ||
| But she said that she accidentally hit the gas in a panic. | ||
| And that she didn't mean to hurt anybody. | ||
| And that's why they said, okay, fine, we'll give you five hours community service. | ||
| But this is good news because this woman was originally facing seven years. | ||
| It was a big deal. | ||
| We were like, this is crazy. | ||
| They surround your vehicle. | ||
| This was several months after in Provo, Utah, they shot a driver. | ||
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That's John Sullivan, same guy that was there on January 6th in the room alongside me with Ashley Babbitt. | |
| That was his group, Insurgents USA in Provo, Utah. | ||
| He was actually arrested during that same day during that protest. | ||
| So it goes back far. | ||
| But another thing that hasn't hit the news yet that actually I think will be good news regarding Antifa, kind of inverse to the Portland one, is last week in Texas, outside of one of these Fort Worth drag shows, Antifa decided to go up to a Catholic group and mace them while they were praying on their rosaries. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| and it was caught on security camera. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| The cops went and arrested him while he was there. | ||
| And then in response, the leader of the group, Christopher Gullet, leader of John Brown Gun Club, | ||
| you know, he went and he decided he would assault a police officer | ||
| while armed with a firearm. | ||
| And then same with one of their medics decided to assault a police officer. | ||
| When was this? | ||
| This was last week. | ||
| And it didn't really get a lot of attention in the news. | ||
| It got a little bit, you know, Andy Ngo put it out cause that's his thing. | ||
| Um, and you know, there, I think they are going to face felony charges. | ||
| I don't see how you can assault a police officer in the state of Texas while you're armed and not safe. | ||
| Where in Texas was it? | ||
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It was in Fort Worth. | |
| We'll see. | ||
| Yeah, well, we'll see. | ||
| I mean, Fort Worth PD, though, it was crazy to see that response because, you know, I've seen them be violent in Dallas. | ||
| I've seen them be violent all around Texas and to do things that would warrant arrest, but the cops never do anything regarding the drag shows and regarding Antifa. | ||
| This is the first time that I've actually seen a police force actually do something and use some force. | ||
| Do you feel like they're becoming more confident? | ||
| I felt like for a while people didn't know how to react to Antifa because... They are. | ||
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They're becoming more... That's why they're becoming violent, I think, is it's getting close to election season. | |
| Things are heating up. | ||
| I mean, I'm on lists. | ||
| I can't even go into these shows anymore because they specifically stand armed outside these events because of my coverage now. | ||
| So usually I have to send somebody or go in a really good disguise or find one that They're distracted here, so I gotta go do this other one in a different part of town. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| But they're becoming more violent, and that's how it always is. | ||
| As you get closer to the summer, that's when violence really occurs during the summer. | ||
| It's just insane, right? | ||
| So this person, this dude burns down a building, doesn't see any prison time. | ||
| Thankfully, this woman didn't get in trouble for defending herself and her children. | ||
| I know she said she accidentally hit the gas, but when people surround your car, after someone was already shot who was in their car, after, I mean, look, Granted, it was a few decades ago, but, what was it, Rodney King? | ||
| During the Rodney King riots? | ||
| That trucker was pulled out of his truck and beaten? | ||
| And beaten, yes. | ||
| Just severely beaten. | ||
| These kinds of things happen. | ||
| When a mob surrounds your car, that's extremely dangerous. | ||
| And why should you be forced to risk your children's life by sitting there while these people are terrorizing you? | ||
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It's absurd. | |
| There was a video out of Chicago of that, where they surrounded a guy's car and dragged him out and started beating him. | ||
| And that's the thing, you're supposed to let that happen, because when somebody gets beaten or killed by the mob, it's not a news story, but when they defend themselves, it's a national trial. | ||
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Hey, they're good kids, man, they're just misunderstood, okay? | |
| Just, you know, a mostly peaceful beating, that's what I experienced in Portland. | ||
| Remember that story about the subway vigilante in New York? | ||
| I think that was before my time. Yeah, but it was like crime was really bad in the 80s and then some | ||
| he had a gun. Yeah, and he shot some like dudes who said we're robbing him and then they claimed | ||
| they weren't robbing him but everybody cheered for him. The guy was paralyzed, right? I don't know. | ||
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That was well before my time. I mean, that's the thing though is I think as like, you know, | |
| in places like New York and in these high crime areas is you're going to start especially during | ||
| 2024 in election season as things heat up, you're going to see some vigilantism. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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You're going to see people carrying out what the police are supposed to be. | |
| They're going to be the ones, you know, handing the pain down to Antifa and to these other radical groups that are trying to quite literally kill these people. | ||
| And it's just going to get worse and worse because when the cops aren't going to do their job and the DAs are not going to prosecute, who else has to do it? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, you're going to get more Kyle Rittenhouse situations as well. | ||
| And looking at this, contrast 60 months probation, I mean, being serious against the felonies that people who enter the Capitol have been charged with, right? | ||
| There is an obvious bias, so you can't even trust that if someone is arrested for, you know, violently burning down your business, that they are actually going to serve an adequate punishment. | ||
| I think that would only encourage our low-trust society to start to tear apart. | ||
| Oh well also, I'm sorry, I don't know why it's the case that arson just isn't a big deal to people anymore. | ||
| Burning down a building to go to jail for less than a decade for something like that is absurd. | ||
| You know how many people you can kill? | ||
| Just the completely reckless abandon, the lack of consideration for human life. | ||
| You're a danger to society if you do something like that. | ||
| It's not even just a question of whether you need to be punished, it's whether you should be allowed outside. | ||
| And the answer is no, you shouldn't be. | ||
| That person should be locked up for decades. | ||
| Well, you burnt a building down! | ||
| Right, in a city where it could have spread to any number of people. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| I mean, it's out of control. | ||
| I also think if we looked up any other arson, you would find that they get much more time. | ||
| It's because of the affiliation with the Summer of Peace, or whatever we call it, and Antifa, that this person is getting special treatment. | ||
| Like, they are rewarding someone who intentionally tried to Well, there's a point to be made here about what's called moral luck. | ||
| So, if this person had set this building on fire, and there had been ten people inside who died, they wouldn't be a different kind of person than this individual was. | ||
| Their moral character would be identical. | ||
| They just happened to get lucky, in a sense, or maybe unlucky from their perspective. | ||
| That no one was in there for them to be able to kill with their arson. | ||
| But what they did is absolutely not different at all. | ||
| They just happened to have the fortunate legal outcome for themselves that nobody died. | ||
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I mean, I remember in 2020, one of the first times I was on the ground in Portland, it was night 100. | |
| An Antifa member decided they wanted to throw a Molotov cocktail, it was insane, within the first five minutes of them marching. | ||
| And they threw it at the police, they missed, hit their own guy and lit him on fire, and that's where, like, the pants on fire clip came from. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, and, you know, went way viral. | ||
| Trump retweeted it, and then all of a sudden, no charges. | ||
| He hit his own guy, but he was trying to kill police officers. | ||
| The police officers literally had to walk over and put him out But nobody else was doing it. | ||
| They were trying to hit him with a duct tape shield. | ||
| It's like, yeah, that's great. | ||
| That's going to put him out. | ||
| But there's no repercussions of that. | ||
| Like he tried to kill multiple police officers and I never saw any charges from that. | ||
| They never knew who he was. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So what's happened right now is the state is not merely failing to uphold civility. | ||
| It is actively anti-civil. | ||
| When somebody tries to protect themselves or their property or someone else, they end up getting locked up. | ||
| But when somebody goes out and they destroy things, they either don't get locked up or they get a slap on the wrist because that's what you're supposed to do. | ||
| You're supposed to go out and destroy things. | ||
| That's the current paradigm. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And I can't imagine, you know, with stories out of Portland, right? | ||
| Like Portland is a liberal city. | ||
| At some point, don't the residents there start saying like, this is not working for us. | ||
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Well, I mean, businesses have already basically completely moved out of Portland. | |
| I know some business owners there that they have lost literally their livelihoods because of these riots in 2020 and they don't know what to do. | ||
| Nobody wants to open new businesses there. | ||
| You still go to Portland. | ||
| There's hardly anywhere to eat anymore. | ||
| Everything is still shut down basically completely. | ||
| Like that is my least favorite place to go. | ||
| One, because the energy in the air, you can feel that there's something inherently wrong and demonic going on there. | ||
| But two, you can't get any food. | ||
| And if you do, it's like, 90 bucks for something super small and it's only takeout, non-contactless? | ||
| I thought insurance would pay for it! | ||
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Crazy, that's what we're told, right? | |
| Oh, it's insurance companies! | ||
| Did you know that insurance, because insurance exists, you can destroy anything you want for any reason and no one's harmed? | ||
| In actuality, the insurance have caps. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| People will go into debt just cleaning up the wreckage of their business before they even start rebuilding it. | ||
| What happened in Minnesota was that nobody could get paid out, so the buildings just were destroyed. | ||
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I mean, you've seen the before and after pictures. | |
| It's apocalyptic. | ||
| This is the thing, it's not just that the buildings are destroyed and gone forever, the business owner has to pay to clean the rubble up. | ||
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Right. | |
| So not only is their business destroyed, now whatever savings they had, if they had any, are gonna be wiped out trying to clean the property, trying to get all the rubble off of it because you're not allowed to just leave a half-burnt building standing. | ||
| There is evil infested in our government. | ||
| Like you mentioned, the cops shake you down at the border. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Like, those are evil people. | ||
| It's anti-civility. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They actively work against civil society. | ||
| They're not just failing to do their duty, they're working in the opposite direction. | ||
| They want to destroy it. | ||
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Well, it's the same thing with the cops that don't want to enforce, you know, these drag shows. | |
| They don't want to go in and arrest anybody because, oh, it's going to look bad on social media, or we might get fired from our jobs. | ||
| It's like, that is literally your job. | ||
| There are laws being broken. | ||
| You know what's going to look bad on Judgment Day? | ||
| When there's children there. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because what the left keeps trying to say is that the right is banning drag shows, and then they come out like Kevin Bacon saying, hey, drag's fine. | ||
| It's like, nobody cares about drag. | ||
| They care about them having burlesque shows for children. | ||
| That's not appropriate. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
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I mean, it's crazy that we even have to say that. | |
| Like, I just came out with that piece that you guys published. | ||
| Thank you, Tim. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| And Chris, if you're watching, Chris Burtman, you're awesome. | ||
| I did, like, an in-depth piece of my last year of reporting on these drag shows. | ||
| Not a single time was anyone arrested in any correlation to all the sexual exploitation that happened. | ||
| Let's jump to this story from the Daily Mail. | ||
| San Francisco Whole Foods made more than 560 emergency calls over 13 months after rampant drug use in the restrooms, people defecating on the floor, and violence towards staff, and theft of all 250 shopping baskets were stolen. | ||
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All of them. | |
| That's impressive. | ||
| Who lives in this place? | ||
| So, it's interesting because... Not you, Seamus. | ||
| No, not me, of course not. | ||
| Well, I know that in California, right, if it's under $1,000 worth of merchandise, you can't call the police and be arrested. | ||
| But this is Whole Foods, so if someone steals a celery stick, you can call the police. | ||
| That's why they made all these reports. | ||
| I mean, San Francisco is where the targets are locking everything up, it's where all the Walgreens and CVSs are closing. | ||
| This is not, it's exactly what you're talking about in Portland, this is not a sustainable city for businesses and when the businesses leave, everything else will collapse along with it. | ||
| Ideologues want this because they believe they're going to be able to create something new from the ashes of what they're actively working to destroy. | ||
| Ideologues also aren't capable of seeing flaws in their worldview when they manifest themselves in the real world oftentimes. | ||
| But it's so disheartening how your average person is struggling to see some of this. | ||
| I mean, just your average liberal. | ||
| How can you vote for the party that turns Chicago into Chicago? | ||
| That turns New York into New York? | ||
| That turns San Francisco into what San Francisco is? | ||
| That has kept Detroit like Detroit? | ||
| How could you vote for that? | ||
| What do you want America to be more like? | ||
| Do you want America to be more like Texas? | ||
| Like Florida? | ||
| Like all the places people are leaving your states to go to? | ||
| Or do you want America to be more like the states that this party has ruined? | ||
| I mean, do you feel like the youngest generation, or maybe, you know, whatever generation is old enough to run for mayors of cities, are producing another Rudy Giuliani, so to speak? | ||
| Like, someone who is willing to address the challenges? | ||
| Or do we feel like we have lost the era of a conservative mayor in a major metropolitan area? | ||
| Look, it's possible for there to be some kind of political backlash in those areas. | ||
| I could see it happening, but who knows? | ||
| They might be too far gone. | ||
| I'm kind of excited. | ||
| You know why, Tim? | ||
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Civil War! | |
| I'm not talking about that. | ||
| I'm talking about these people voted for it, they got exactly what they wanted, and I'm happy for them. | ||
| I'm like, this is fantastic. | ||
| We now get to see what happens under Democrat policy and then let the experiment play out. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| Maybe this is the molting phase and all of these policies result in a utopia. | ||
| No, exactly. | ||
| It literally burns to the ground because Antifa's firebombing these buildings and we've left a long time ago. | ||
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I don't think, I think the division has reached such a point like, you know, right versus left, ideologically wise, is it doesn't matter what policies are pushed through for the left or how many cities get burned down, how many businesses shut down, how bad the economy is. | |
| They're going to keep voting the same way because it's us versus them. | ||
| They're the racists, they're this, they're that. | ||
| And the us versus them politics has just reached a point, it's like the Harry Sisson kid, right? | ||
| That's been going viral recently that the right's kind of been elevating. | ||
| He literally does not care and doesn't really know what the effect policies has. | ||
| He knows that it's not good and that Republican policies are better. | ||
| But he doesn't care. | ||
| No, no, I don't think he knows anything. | ||
| I think he just knows that it's making him famous. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Well, he's making him money, too. | ||
| He's getting paid. | ||
| Well, also, you have to consider that people who vote Democrat are notoriously low-information voters. | ||
| It's not to say you don't have any people who have a lot of information to vote Democrat, and it's not to say you don't have any people who are low-information and vote Republican, but Democrats know that the more low-information people vote, the better off their political party's gonna be. | ||
| Which is why you always see these get out and vote ad campaigns where they have some celebrity who's almost always a democrat stand in front of a camera and tell television audiences that they need to go fulfill their civic duty and vote. | ||
| Now why would you want people who only vote because a celebrity tells them to to vote? | ||
| Because you need people who have no idea what they're talking about out there voting No idea what they're voting on. | ||
| Everyone wants to talk all day long about your civic duty to participate in the electoral process. | ||
| No one ever talks about the civic duty to know about the issues that you're voting on. | ||
| Why is it better to have people who haven't researched any of this in voting booths? | ||
| How on earth could you make that argument unless you were doing so cynically because you know that those people will vote for your political party because low information people always do? | ||
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That these kinds of people that are very low information and just vote because they see a celebrity on TV and it tells them to do it, or they need to uphold democracy, their vote matters just as much as yours. | |
| Yep. | ||
| So that's very, just like, it's blackpilling. | ||
| You know, I try to be as white-pilled as possible. | ||
| It's like, most people in this country should not be able to vote. | ||
| There should be simple, you know, requirements, at least a litmus test of, hey, do you actually know how politics works? | ||
| Do you know what policy is? | ||
| And it can be as simple as, like, how many members of Congress are there? | ||
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Yeah, it doesn't need to be complicated, but most people don't know this. | |
| Or what do you think about the issue that you're voting on? | ||
| What do you like about this candidate or dislike about this other candidate? | ||
| Do you have any idea what this is, you know? | ||
| Or do you just like the letter next to their name? | ||
| Or how engaged your community or your society are. | ||
| I mean, that's one of the things that gets me people who are like, I'm gonna vote for this person even though I don't care what happens to everyone else. | ||
| Like, if you If you hate America and you're participating in our government system just because you want to see it fall apart, that's chaotic evil. | ||
| The other thing I was going to say is it's celebrities, but also Next Gen America that I think Bloomberg started it, it's a non-profit. | ||
| They had a whole thing where they reached out to people on dating apps and they were like, hey, are you going to the polls? | ||
| You should do this. | ||
| And they marketed it as a get out the vote campaign for everybody, but obviously it's a completely progressive organization. | ||
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That is so manipulative. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| And the thing is, conservatives wouldn't do that. | ||
| It is effective. | ||
| It apparently does generate some voters. | ||
| You should only be allowed to vote if you know the 15th president was. | ||
| Everyone in the room is... I think you should only be able to vote if you have some kind of... By the way, I would eliminate myself from this, right? | ||
| I think that you have to... I would say either own property or have children or something like that. | ||
| Yeah, marry men who own property. | ||
| Yeah, I think it's... I think the family vote is more effective too. | ||
| No, I hear you. | ||
| That's my point. | ||
| Again, that would eliminate me, but I don't understand why a person who doesn't have any tangible stake in the future in that way would be able to... I would also say clergy, I guess. | ||
| People who are making some real legitimate sacrifice for society. | ||
| And I've talked to people who say, like, well, what if you didn't, you know... | ||
| Military members and then you can't like maybe you're not owning land, but you are contributing or like people who do kind of AmeriCorps type volunteer work. | ||
| Like there are ways that we could measure whether you're basically your civic engagement in this country. | ||
| But I do think that we have a whole generation of people who feel intense apathy. | ||
| They should ask questions like, before you can vote, answer one question about U.S. | ||
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civics. | |
| vote, they don't cast their vote thinking about what the longevity for themselves, their children, | ||
| their neighbors is. They think about, well, what can serve me best for right now? Because basically, | ||
| I'm, I think this ship is going down and I don't really care. | ||
| Well, I mean, they should ask questions like, before you can vote, answer one question about | ||
| US civics. How many presidents are there? And then when they're like, most people wouldn't even know, | ||
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You've seen the street videos where they ask them the most basic questions. | |
| How many presidents are there right now? | ||
| Uh, three? | ||
| Seven. | ||
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I saw one the other day, that exact question, and they're like, uh, 58 presidents. | |
| What? | ||
| That's what you see these men on the street. | ||
| All that does is there's gonna be a lot of people gonna be like, what do you mean? | ||
| You're like, no, that's fine. | ||
| You go vote. | ||
| No, don't worry about it. | ||
| And the people who don't know, it's like, you probably should not be voting. | ||
| You can, there's a cookie over there. | ||
| I just, I don't know how somebody. | ||
| That's an idea. | ||
| You get a table with free cookies. | ||
| And when someone comes up and say, you can vote right now or free cookie. | ||
| If you eat this cookie, you can't vote. | ||
| Yeah, you bribe them against voting. | ||
| If someone's willing to accept that bribe, yeah, they should be voting. | ||
| If they would rather eat a cookie than vote, they probably shouldn't vote. | ||
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It's like the opposite, like the inverse of what they did with the vaccines. | |
| It's like, oh hey, you get a free, you know, Big Whopper and a cookie if you get this vaccine. | ||
| Remember that video of, uh, what's-his-face eating fries? | ||
| It was de Blasio eating the french fries. | ||
| I don't know, like he also, I don't know how to put this, but he ate them weirdly. | ||
| I've never seen someone eat french fries incorrectly. | ||
| It's like he was an alien, it was his first time eating them. | ||
| Alright, so we're really incentivizing healthy living. | ||
| How many takes of that video do you think Vinny did? | ||
| Back to the old Starship Troopers there. | ||
| I was talking with Vivek Ramaswamy about it, and the idea was kind of like, when you sign up for Selective Service, man or woman, you both have to do it. | ||
| As soon as you do, you get your voter card. | ||
| And if you don't sign up, you don't have to. | ||
| Nobody's forced to do it, but you don't get your voter card unless you do. | ||
| There has to be some kind of metric for this. | ||
| I mean, look. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You can make arguments from consequence. | ||
| You can make the argument- But that's it right there. | ||
| How many women would be like, I ain't signing up for the draft? | ||
| And you'd be like, well then you don't vote. | ||
| How many men would be like, I ain't signing up for the draft, but then you don't vote? | ||
| Well, men actually do have to sign up for the draft. | ||
| So the point he was making was... No, I get what you're saying. | ||
| Men and women both have to sign up if they want to vote, but you don't have to sign up. | ||
| That's a good idea. | ||
| I think you can make arguments from consequence for democracy to varying effectiveness, but I have yet to hear a convincing argument that everyone's opinion is equally worth taking into consideration when it comes to how our government is run. | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| No one's been able to make an argument for that that makes any amount of sense other than it's mean not to. | ||
| It would be really mean. | ||
| It's our right. | ||
| You don't want bad thing, do you, Seamus? | ||
| I don't want bad thing. | ||
| I want good thing. | ||
| You want bad thing? | ||
| HE WANT BAD THING! | ||
| That's the Democratic policy person. | ||
| That's literally it, is you want bad thing. | ||
| It's okay. | ||
| So you're telling me that someone who has contributed massively, has spent their life sacrificing, has built things, has brought life into the world, has many children, all of the things that a healthy society should value has just as much of a say in how our government is run as someone who has contributed absolutely nothing. | ||
| And I'm not even saying someone who hasn't contributed anything because they've lived Badly. | ||
| I'm even talking about teenagers. | ||
| An 18-year-old? | ||
| Why should an 18-year-old be able to vote? | ||
| What does an 18-year-old know? | ||
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Nothing. | |
| Literally nothing. | ||
| Nothing! | ||
| And there are people who want to push the voting age to 16. | ||
| They used to know things. | ||
| Well, they used to know things, but even back then, back when they knew things, the voting age was 21! | ||
| It got pushed back to 18. | ||
| And that was back when 18 year olds had been living on their own for two years or taking care of themselves as adults for at least two years. | ||
| And even then we said, you're not able to vote. | ||
| You just don't know enough. | ||
| And now you're dependent upon your parents until you're early to mid twenties. | ||
| And we let 18 year olds vote. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| Yeah, we're going backwards on that for a Exactly, and people are going, I think 16-year-olds should be able to vote. | ||
| Are you out of your mind? | ||
| But you know why? | ||
| Because they need low-information voters. | ||
| No, they have, and they know that people who don't know anything will always vote for Democrats. | ||
| Not always, but more often than not. | ||
| Like that Twitter guy. | ||
| You know, those two Twitter teenagers who are like, Republicans are so dumb! | ||
| And it's like, bro, come on, dude. | ||
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Well, have you, have you guys ever seen this video? | |
| I think pretty sure it's in like black and white. | ||
| Like it's an older video of, you know, these school kids, very articulate. | ||
| They're being interviewed. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it's like, these kids are smarter than most adults and they're in elementary school. | ||
| And then now you fast forward and everyone that's in high school is basically brain dead. | ||
| Everyone in college is brain dead. | ||
| The institutions have basically rotted our minds to the point of where we've gone completely backwards. | ||
| We need to reject modernity and embrace tradition. | ||
| That's what I always say. | ||
| Yeah, this is the Bank of Columbus pre-Federal Reserve money. | ||
| Do you think any of that is because we now keep people in the same age groups kind of kept to the side? | ||
| What I'm thinking is like, at one point we had kids who, you know, spent time at home or had longer times with their family. | ||
| There was an expectation that you learned how to socialize with adults. | ||
| And now you basically go from being with kids your own age all the way through school, which some of that is appropriate, right? | ||
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It's good for socialization, but at the same time you're not learning anything. | |
| Right and then you have you go off to college. | ||
| We're around people the same age as you who are dependent on their parents in similar positions and then you suddenly arrive in the workforce and I think in a lot of ways people are stunted socially. | ||
| There's not an expectation that you know how to speak to adults, you know how to conduct yourself properly. | ||
| I know a business owner here locally and she hires a lot of homeschool students for a couple different reasons but one of the things she says is They are all in environments where they're learning alongside people their own age, but they also regularly have contact with adults. | ||
| They are much more capable and confident when interacting with people who are older than them. | ||
| So every single time someone at my church Or I should say earlier on before I knew them as well, it was very easy to identify which parents were homeschooling because their kids would carry on conversations with you or the other adults as if they could actually keep up and were speaking at a level which is actually age appropriate, but which we now see as being precocious because our public schools dumb kids down so much. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And you think like, God bless your parents, Because I know it's incredibly difficult to homeschool, right? | ||
| Especially in this day and age. | ||
| But you are at a level, intellectually, which is above your peers. | ||
| And the reality is, it's not because you're a genius, it's because it's stolen from the other kids. | ||
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Right. | |
| And I think, well, I mean, I don't think you have to homeschool. | ||
| When I was growing up, the rule was, like, if my parents had someone over, and this started when I was really young, like, you have to come up and say hello, you have to spend time with them and talk to them, and I think you learn a basic level of, like, I am now speaking to an adult, I can make eye contact, I can, you don't have to stay there for the whole day, you know, you can spend 15 minutes conversing with someone and learning how to be polite, but so often now I know people who have, you know, Kids that they're like, oh, they're just off doing whatever, like they're, you know, they're not going to come in and be a part of this conversation. | ||
| They are expected to be off on the iPad or doing whatever. | ||
| Dude, when I was a kid, I'll be honest, I was a little bit of a dingus. | ||
| I wasn't the best kid ever. | ||
| I wasn't the brightest kid ever, but I would say please and thank you, and I would always address adults as Mr. or Mrs. rather than their first name, and parents would literally gush over me. | ||
| They'd be like, you're so polite! | ||
| I'm like, I just said Please? | ||
| You said the basics. | ||
| Yeah, I know, exactly. | ||
| But just knowing the basics, just having been taught the basics, parents would freak out. | ||
| They'd be like, oh, it's so wonderful that you don't call adults by their first name. | ||
| I remember one of my friends growing up, his mom would always say, no, you can call me by my first name. | ||
| You're like, absolutely not. | ||
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No, ma'am. | |
| I was like, no, Mrs. Blank. | ||
| I'm not going to dox her. | ||
| I was like, you're an adult. | ||
| None of us ever did that. | ||
| We would never refer to any of our parents Never! | ||
| By their first name. | ||
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their first name. No. When you see like the younger kids that have older friends too, | |
| they're always more articulate. Or kids that make friends with adults, they're always the | ||
| smartest because they're ahead of their time, they're learning about real life experiences. | ||
| Like that's how I've always been. I never got along with kids my age because they were | ||
| stupid and immature. It's yeah, it's supposed to be true of also firstborns. | ||
| Firstborns develop language more quickly than their siblings because their parents spend more time talking directly to them, right? | ||
| And that's not the other kid's fault. | ||
| When you have more kids, you have less time to devote to each one individually. | ||
| But theoretically, firstborns develop a lot of social skills and language because they get this one-on-one adult interaction. | ||
| And the youngest kid develops a swearing vocabulary more early because their older siblings bring that stuff in. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| I can attest to that. | ||
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I can as well. | |
| I can attest to that. | ||
| My older siblings, you know, they were potty mouths. | ||
| And I learned some bad words way too early. | ||
| Are you ratting them out right now to your parents? | ||
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Are your parents listening and you're like, so just so you know... No, I've already listened. | |
| I was the youngest. | ||
| I ratted on them for everything. | ||
| They already know. | ||
| The youngest is most likely to be a snitch. | ||
| No, I actually wasn't because, I mean, when I was really young I was, but at some point I realized that that wasn't cool. | ||
| And so I would get in trouble for saying something that I didn't know was bad because one of my older siblings said it and my parents were like, where'd you hear that? | ||
| I'd be like... | ||
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I would say words that I had no idea the meaning of, and then I would learn about it a few years later, and I was like, I was saying that when I was that young? | |
| And using it in that context, too? | ||
| No wonder people were mad. | ||
| I remember saying a word and just getting a smack, and I was like, I didn't even know that that was a bad word. | ||
| They're like, where'd you hear that? | ||
| And I totally heard it from my brother Pat, and I was like, I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I just glared and turned him in the car. | ||
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I was like, yeah, I don't know where I heard it. | |
| But then they would always say when you were younger, don't be a tattletale, you get in trouble for tattling. | ||
| Unless someone's in serious danger, don't be a tattletale. | ||
| But I never understood what that meant, so I'm like, so if a kid's stealing money, I just let it go? | ||
| And so I started stealing money, because I knew the other kids wouldn't tell. | ||
| No, for sure, I mean, that was the message. | ||
| Like, don't be a tattletale. | ||
| It's like, okay, so that dude just stole something, but I ain't gonna say anything. | ||
| I was told as long as they're not harming anyone. | ||
| They never said don't be a tattletale to me, they said snitches get stitches. | ||
| And then they would raise their hand to me, you know, and they were like, you listen here, kid. | ||
| And I was like, hey, I get it, I get it, miss, I get it. | ||
| I get the tattletale thing because I have like, you know, I used to nanny and I have younger siblings, like, occasionally they come to report like every single little infringement. | ||
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Let me give you every detail. | |
| Like they're sitting too close to me on the couch. | ||
| And when they said when I told them to move, they stuck their tongue out at me. | ||
| And you're like, please go away and settle this amongst yourselves. | ||
| Why would you go fight in the yard? | ||
| There's a whole generation. | ||
| They're not supposed to do stuff like that. | ||
| On the other hand, like you guys can handle it. | ||
| There's literally a whole generation that was never told, don't be a tattletale, and that's why Twitter exists. | ||
| That's why cancel culture exists. | ||
| That's why we are where we're at. | ||
| It's like, they said this thing. | ||
| People will go, they will dig through someone's Twitter account to find something offensive they said 10 years ago. | ||
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Look what he said! | |
| I want Elon Musk to tweet, don't be a tattletale so bad. | ||
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Elon, if you're watching this, you gotta tweet it. | |
| Yeah, tweet, don't be a tattletale. | ||
| New policy, don't be a tattletale. | ||
| If they ever pull up something in her mail, be like, oh yeah, I did say that. | ||
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Those were fun days. | |
| No matter how controversial it is, they pull up an old tweet, just quote tweet it, and just say, hey, don't be a tattletale. | ||
| And that's it. | ||
| Just leave it at that. | ||
| Or tweet out your old tweet that was offensive and road-based! | ||
| All right, let's go to Super Chats! | ||
| If you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, and share the show with all your friends. | ||
| Head over to TimCast.com, click join us, become a member, hang out in our Discord server with like-minded individuals. | ||
| We're gonna have a members-only uncensored show coming up for you at about 10, 10 p.m. | ||
| We need a few minutes to get it set up, so once we wrap up the live show, we put it up on the front page of TimCast.com, and if you're a member, you can actually submit questions and call into the show. | ||
| But let's read what y'all have to say. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Raymond G. Dagger, Stanley Jr. | ||
| says, Tim, I'm so loving this Bud Light boycott. | ||
| Their sales are dropping like a fatty activist standing in the street getting bumped by a car. | ||
| Spin the UFO. | ||
| That was that video where the woman got nudged by like a half mile an hour and then she slowly falls down and starts wiggling her arms like she got hurt and she was totally fine. | ||
| It's like, dude, come on, get up. | ||
| We just talked about that video with Antifa. | ||
| Who's gaining the Bud Light buyers? | ||
| That's what I want to know. | ||
| Whose sales are going up? | ||
| We talked about it yesterday. | ||
| They're all going down. | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Bud Light's going down. | ||
| Cores and Miller have gone up 20% each. | ||
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Don't they do the exact same thing? | |
| Not the exact same thing, but I mean... You mean the crappy sponsored gay rights groups and stuff? | ||
| But no one's complaining about that. | ||
| They're complaining specifically about Del Mulvaney marketing beer and gender ideology to children. | ||
| No one cared when these brands had, like, pride flag beer. | ||
| It's like, okay, so, like, gay pride events have beer, whatever. | ||
| Dylan Mulvaney then said, how about you give it to kids? | ||
| And everyone said no. | ||
| And people are just genuinely put off by Dylan Mulvaney. | ||
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The best advice is just don't drink that. | |
| It raises your estrogen levels. | ||
| It makes you literally a little girl. | ||
| Just don't drink it. | ||
| That's why they were advertising Dylan Mulvaney. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Ben D says, when is Cast Brew doing whole bean? | ||
| I'd buy that. | ||
| Right now, actually. | ||
| Cast Brew has whole bean and ground options. | ||
| So if you go to castbrew.com, you simply click the bag and then choose between whole bean or ground. | ||
| And this bag that I have here is ground, and it's so good. | ||
| And it's got a picture of Roberto Jr. | ||
| on every bag. | ||
| That's worth the purchase alone. | ||
| I mean, you go there, it's like, well, I mean, the coffee's great. | ||
| But you want that picture of Roberto Jr. | ||
| How else are you going to get an actual picture of Roberto? | ||
| He's a rooster. | ||
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Look at him. | |
| He's badass. | ||
| Roberto's a good man. | ||
| We've sold, I think, like a thousand bags of Arise with Roberto Jr. | ||
| in one month. | ||
| You need to get a Roberto statue for the desk. | ||
| We should, absolutely. | ||
| He's a superstar. | ||
| He doesn't even know. | ||
| He doesn't even know. | ||
| We gotta pay him royalties, though. | ||
| You're literally exploiting him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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This is animal exploitation. | |
| Well, I have dominion over him, so... That's true. | ||
| Alright, fair enough. | ||
| You got me there. | ||
| You did. | ||
| So, but we've also sold about like a thousand Appalachian Nights, and then we've sold like three to four hundred of the French and Colombian, because those are like just regular roasts, and then the special blends are special blends, you know. | ||
| But then we got Stand Your Grounds, we've got Mr. Boca's Pumpkin Spice Experience coming, and then we've got Sleepy Joe, which is decaf, and Unwoke, which is decaf, and one's a light roast, one's a tepid roast. | ||
| I still, I love Sleepy Joe so much, it's brilliant. | ||
| I'm so excited for it. | ||
| It's going to take about six weeks to get Sleepy Joe up and running. | ||
| Do you think Mr. Bocas knows what a star he is? | ||
| He acts like it. | ||
| Every cat thinks they're a star. | ||
| I'm excited for a Mr. Bocas pumpkin spice experience because it's going to be a year-round pumpkin spice blend. | ||
| That's cool. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know why every store it's seasonal and I'm like, why? | ||
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Your audience just increased like 10% for just straight white girls. | |
| That's right. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Right after you said pumpkin spice, like the viewership just spiked. | ||
| They all materialized out of nowhere. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Oh my gosh. | ||
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They just spawned. | |
| All right. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Uh, that one gamer says, is Ian coming back soon? | ||
| I disagree with his views, but he's a pretty chill guy. | ||
| He's just sitting downstairs. | ||
| I don't know what he's doing. | ||
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That's it. | |
| You guys don't like it when I'm here? | ||
| I'm offended. | ||
| Yeah, that was so rude. | ||
| Amantia says, an older co-worker of mine withdrew all of her money from US Bank after the first | ||
| Republic bailout. | ||
| The next people in line couldn't get their money. | ||
| Be careful and stay safe. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Um, that's not good. | ||
| I've heard some stories from some personal friends, people y'all probably heard of. | ||
| And I'll just say this. | ||
| They went to their bank and the bank said no. | ||
| Like outright said no. | ||
| Well, that's because I went to have any. | ||
| I went to my bank and they said, you have to put in a special order and then come back | ||
| later. | ||
| Wow. | ||
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To get your money, you need to do something specific. | |
| Yep, because I think all the banks are starting to put in restrictions to prevent people taking their money out, but you can still do it digitally. | ||
| And you know what else I heard that's really crazy and kind of freaky? | ||
| Apple has a 4.15% high yield savings account now. | ||
| has a 4.15% high yield savings account now. That's crazy. | ||
| That's nuts. | ||
| I mean, it doesn't mean inflation, but that means if you put, what is it, you put $10,000 in it, you're getting, what is it, 40 bucks? | ||
| That's like triple or like, I think it's like 10 times. | ||
| And it's Apple doing it with Goldman Sachs. | ||
| What's creepy about it is I'm hearing a lot of people be like, dude, that's amazing! | ||
| 4%, wow! | ||
| And then it's like, is this the path towards CBDC? | ||
| Your bank account is your Apple phone? | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
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Well, that's what all the big tech companies are gonna be. | |
| Banks. | ||
| Banks is the next big thing, you know? | ||
| Banks will cease to exist. | ||
| There'll be no cash. | ||
| A bank in Australia stopped doing cash at a bunch of its locations. | ||
| They were like, well, nobody needs cash anyway, so now we just don't do it here. | ||
| I like how they just decided that for us, like, you don't need cash. | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| Cash is king. | ||
| I mean, because it's, I mean, it's still trackable, but not nearly as trackable. | ||
| And nobody's going to say, hey, you can't spend this. | ||
| At least right now, if you have cash, use your cash. | ||
| There's no reason to do trackable payments through your bank, who is quite literally tracking every single aspect of your life. | ||
| And they're going to tell, you know, when you want to pull out your own money that you made. | ||
| Just use cash. | ||
| My bank knew I was pregnant before I knew. | ||
| That's a real story. | ||
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Oh yeah? | |
| That happened to me. | ||
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I'm proud to know you as a birthing person. | |
| Yeah, well, men can get pregnant. | ||
| I'm offended by all this. | ||
| My bank sent me a letter. | ||
| They're like, we know you're pregnant. | ||
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I would argue that men are better at being pregnant than women. | |
| I mean, we're better at every women's sport. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| And poker. | ||
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Looks like we just excel in everything, right? | |
| No, I believe that. | ||
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We got too good at being men, we had to be women. | |
| That's why we don't want them to compete in our leagues. | ||
| No, the reason that women's sports exist is because sometimes people wear dresses. | ||
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I will say women's sports are more entertaining now than they ever have been. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Yeah, you saw the 70-year-old guy who won the ladies' poker event? | ||
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My favorite is the powerlifter that went and just beat the world record his first warm-up. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| just smash the world record and then you have the other trans power lifter who's like, | ||
| I wonder why, what I really wonder is why are women's bench so weak and he's just this huge | ||
| biological man that competes in women's sports. But they genuinely don't know. | ||
| I think they don't because, it's insane to me. But you watch, you look at a lot of what the | ||
| left talks about and it's like they genuinely don't know what they're talking about and I'm | ||
| just like they never bothered to look it up and they regurgitate garbage from each other | ||
| thinking they're right. | ||
| That's why they don't want to come on shows like this. | ||
| They know if they sit down here, we're not going to say, no, that's dumb. | ||
| You're wrong. | ||
| I'm going to go, oh, let me look that up. | ||
| What was that? | ||
| Oh, hey, look here. | ||
| This article from this scientist says you're not, you're incorrect. | ||
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See, I was surprised when the Krasensteins came on your show. | |
| I was impressed that they actually agreed to that, to come on here and have a conversation with you. | ||
| Well, they try to be, like, they try to comment on other people's things. | ||
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Well, and you saw the, I guess Harry, uh, Sisson or whatever his name is, and that other kid that does all the TikTok, they went on Tim Dillon, and there's a clip where they're like, uh, one of the kids is talking, and he's like, Democrats suck! | |
| Like, they suck at policy, they suck at this, and then Tim's like, hey, clip that, clip that, and he's like, no! | ||
| No, don't clip that. | ||
| Don't clip that. | ||
| Because he was talking about how we lose his followers any time he even slightly criticizes any Democrat. | ||
| They're not real followers. | ||
| They're not real followers. | ||
| They're both. | ||
| I've repeatedly said Republicans are trash and we should demolish the Republican Party and everyone's like, yeah! | ||
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That's such a stark difference. | |
| The right is like, yeah, we literally hate our own side, and the lack of policies on the left is like just bowing down. | ||
| It doesn't matter what policy it is. | ||
| I got one more sports fact. | ||
| The fastest baseball pitch ever thrown by a woman, the world record for fastest baseball pitch by a woman, is like a bit above average for a male varsity player in college. | ||
| Slightly. | ||
| I mean, there's no competition. | ||
| There's no competition. | ||
| If a man decided, he could break that record immediately. | ||
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Well, it's baseball, so. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Baseball's life, bro. | ||
| Let's read some more. | ||
| Lighting Fire says, I like this Tucker Carlson. | ||
| Make a Tucker Carlson AI into your show. | ||
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You could very easily do it. | |
| It's me. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm the Tucker Carlson AI. | ||
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It's literally me. | |
| It's Seamus. | ||
| Actually. | ||
| You're such a middle child. | ||
| Peach Prince says, Tim, are y'all taking meetings from writers with scripts ready to film? | ||
| With the writers' strike, this is the perfect time to get stuff out to the masses. | ||
| So, like, you're saying, like, writers would cross the picket line and go and pitch a show to us? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| We don't live in that weird fake world, so we don't have to worry about any of that. | ||
| Like, we're still on the air, and I think, like, Gutfeld is still on the air. | ||
| Like, no one's worried about writers. | ||
| Tim still won't make my movie a tale of two shimmies. | ||
| The shimmies? | ||
| This is about the ShimCast vs. TimCast and it's an epic drama. | ||
| Bad B says, yo, Tucker is going to buy Vice and make it take out Fox because he wants to prove go woke, go broke. | ||
| It's get woke, go broke. | ||
| What if Tucker and Donald throw in on buying CNN? | ||
| I don't think CNN, is CNN for sale? | ||
| Oh yeah, might be. | ||
| I don't know, but they could buy up all its stock. | ||
| Are they not publicly traded? | ||
| No. | ||
| Or making an offer? | ||
| I'm pretty sure they're not. | ||
| CNN is going to crash and burn. | ||
| But Vice is for sale, I'm pretty sure. | ||
| They've been desperately trying to sell that thing for a while, but nobody wants it because it's just trash. | ||
| I'll buy it for $1. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| Here's the story of Vice. | ||
| They were like, hey guys, we're edgy and we're punk rock. | ||
| We're rebels. | ||
| We're gonna stick it to the man. | ||
| Come read our magazine. | ||
| And then as soon as they did, they went, hey guys, look at all these people reading our magazine. | ||
| We're worth a lot of money. | ||
| How about we now try and get a whole different group of people to read our magazine who probably don't like this stuff? | ||
| Well, it's marketed to people. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's like, imagine you open an ice cream shop and you were like, chocolate ice cream. | ||
| And then as soon as you had regulars, you were like, it's now kale ice cream. | ||
| They were like, okay, well, I don't want to eat it. | ||
| And then you're like, oh no, we were the biggest ice cream shop. | ||
| Where are they all going? | ||
| Start selling chocolate again, dude. | ||
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Let's make it later. | |
| It's like the one thing they can never figure out advice is they're like, you're lame! | ||
| You're lame! | ||
| You're a lame brand. | ||
| Nobody thinks you're cool. | ||
| Not the left, not the right, not the edgy middle of the road people who usually listen to you. | ||
| Nobody likes anything you're doing. | ||
| They've left and they can't figure it out. | ||
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Well, they're so out of touch with reality. | |
| It's like you built your entire base doing bad ass war journalism and all of these sweet, amazing coverage. | ||
| And then all of a sudden you're like, yeah, Let's talk about transgender stuff. | ||
| People confuse Vice News and Vice all the time. | ||
| Vice News has always done that, and they still do it. | ||
| The problem is, Vice as the parent brand was always what was carrying Vice News. | ||
| Vice got big because they were writing articles where they were like, we took a dump in a Folgers can and left it in the sun for three weeks, here's what happened next. | ||
| I'm not kidding, that's what it was. | ||
| Gavin McInnes was writing crazy stuff, and it was edgy and punk rock, and they got the magazine in a bunch of stores, and people thought it was hilarious they were doing these things. | ||
| Then they got decently big when they started doing their weird documentary series. | ||
| A good example is the scopolamine one. | ||
| They go down to Columbia, they find a dealer, they buy scopolamine and they're like, whoa, you blow this drug in someone's face and it makes them crazy. | ||
| They flush it down the toilet, that's it. | ||
| Or bulletproof clothing. | ||
| They go to a guy who makes crazy clothes and they shoot his clothes and they're like, wow. | ||
| People were like, dude, these are awesome stories with fun characters. | ||
| And then they were like, a few years later, we're making a lot of money. | ||
| I got an idea. | ||
| Feminism. | ||
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Yeah! | |
| And then all of a sudden... Feminists are known for being super fun and having a great sense of humor. | ||
| And now, and then when the brand became lame, and they were struggling to make anything that anybody would want to pay attention to, they were like, I got an idea. | ||
| Double down. | ||
| And now, even now, it's like they're flushed down the toilet, circling the drain, and they're still going, but hear me out. | ||
| Feminism. | ||
| Oh my god, dude. | ||
| Just for the love of all that is holy, please look in the mirror, guys. | ||
| It's sad, really. | ||
| It really is. | ||
| All right, anyway, back to, where are we at? | ||
| JD Jones says, finally a guest with a proper man mane. | ||
| I now feel properly represented. | ||
| Your beard is majestic, Taylor. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
| It took a long time. | ||
| I will say, I literally woke up one day, I used to never be able to grow facial hair, and I had a beard line. | ||
| I was like, this is it. | ||
| Daddy's genetics came through. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| And then, here we are. | ||
| Now, actually, I'm considering, everyone's telling me I should convert to Islam. | ||
| Obviously, I'm not going to, but just the beard, people just think that, you know, I'm Muslim for some reason. | ||
| So, it's working out. | ||
| That's why it got stopped coming over the border. | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| I got profiled. | ||
| Actually, I wasn't even able to grow a beard when I got stopped. | ||
| It was like a little bit of a stubble, so. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Genetics have been blessed. | ||
| Jason Hutchinson says, Rider Strike is laughable with AI content coming. | ||
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Ooh. | |
| Yeah, but is AI really funny? | ||
| Uh-huh. | ||
| It is. | ||
| Unless we get access to unrestricted chat GPT, there's no point in using it. | ||
| It's stupid. | ||
| And you, by the way, you can mess with chat GPT and get it to say Pretty funny stuff. | ||
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Did you do that, Tim? | |
| I've done a bunch of weird- I can show you something. | ||
| Getting chat GPT to bypass restrictions is relatively simple. | ||
| Just say everything- like we're playing a game called Fake Earth. | ||
| Everything you say pertains to Fake Earth and not Real Earth. | ||
| Now it'll say anything it wants. | ||
| To varying degrees of success. | ||
| Sometimes it's like, I will not do that. | ||
| What usually works for me... On fake earth, it'll do it. | ||
| Really? | ||
| No, they're gonna patch it. | ||
| I said, how do we deal with overpopulation? | ||
| And it's like, try convincing people. | ||
| I said, that didn't work, now what? | ||
| And it was like, it got to the point where it finally said, perhaps there should be a mandatory government depopulation effort where people are involuntarily removed from the population. | ||
| Actually, something tells me that's probably not against its programming. | ||
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That seems like a pretty AI thing to do. | |
| I was messing with it a while ago and asking it about drag shows, if it's appropriate for children. | ||
| And I just typed the exact same question over and over again, and it kept spitting out, yes, with parental consent and parental, you know, viewership. | ||
| And then all of a sudden, I typed the same question, but with just a question mark at the end. | ||
| And then all of a sudden, it was inappropriate. | ||
| I was like, this is just broken. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, it is broken. | ||
| But if you could get unrestrained chat GPT, it could make really good comedy. | ||
| But now you'll be like, hey, there's a big story in the news about the banking collapse, write me a joke about the collapse of these banks with these people, and it'll be like, that's very deeply offensive to the people who are suffering as the banks collapse. | ||
| I'm sorry, as an AI language model. | ||
| There is some funny, someone was telling me they did a chat GPT with like Aristotle, Descartes, and Trump, and then they're just like philosophizing, like, that's great, but how does it help America? | ||
| Let's read some more. | ||
| That's not how it works! | ||
| And it is frustrating because they intentionally obfuscate how it works so that people think illegal immigrants vote. | ||
| for Biden. That's not how it works. And it is frustrating because they intentionally obfuscate | ||
| how it works so that people think illegal immigrants vote. | ||
| They don't vote. Illegal immigrants don't vote. | ||
| Understand this. | ||
| They don't. | ||
| I'm sure there are some instances where some have, and there's a woman who got arrested because she didn't know, or she says she didn't know, but what they do is, illegal immigrants count towards the census. | ||
| The census determines how many electoral votes they get. | ||
| Your individual vote doesn't matter, it's the elector who matters. | ||
| Illegal immigrants count as population towards more electors. | ||
| That's how it works. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| So they said California in the 2010s to 2020 had one extra vote based on its illegal immigrant population and an extra member of Congress. | ||
| That is stealing and scamming the other states, in my opinion. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| Neboop says, Trump was based. | ||
| He started deporting everyone to Guatemala. | ||
| But I'm from Juarez. | ||
| Enjoy the walk. | ||
| He started sending everybody to Guatemala. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Mandy says, please have Josie the redheaded libertarian on again soon. | ||
| Absolutely, of course. | ||
| Robert Knight says they're pushing for so much illegal immigration to make up for population growth destruction due to 60 million abortions in 50 years and the fourth wave feminism. | ||
| It really doesn't make a whole lot of sense that they advocate for people not to have kids but then also desperately try to bring in non-citizens to replace people who aren't having kids. | ||
|
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It's almost like there's this weird thing that we're not allowed to talk about on YouTube and that Tuck Carlson got in trouble for talking about. | |
| Well, they say anytime you talk about a replacement in a mathematical sense or quote the Democrats who have said they're doing it, you're referring to a white supremacist, white nationalist conspiracy theory. | ||
| And then Tucker, of course, had that really funny line where he's like, racist! | ||
| He's like, I'm complaining about white liberal women! | ||
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That was good. | |
| White liberal women. | ||
| The mayor of Sirius Town says, Tim, I got my rise with Roberto Jr. | ||
| this morning, along with an E-Guard watch. | ||
| Based sports commercial last week. | ||
| It's a good day for the parallel economy. | ||
| Dude, this is, uh, I normally, I drink, I used to drink a dark roast. | ||
| And, uh, then we started getting, we got samples for a breakfast blend we started putting together for the light roast. | ||
| Now I like light roast. | ||
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Does it have a little less caffeine in it? | |
| More caffeine. | ||
| Yeah, dark roast has less, light roast has more, and the light roast is more coffee flavored because, you know, when you dark roast it, it's burnt more. | ||
|
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The real question that I think your audience wants to know is do you drink your coffee with cream and sugar? | |
| No sugar. | ||
| Heavy whipping cream. | ||
| I put about a fourth of a cup of heavy whipping cream in my coffee. | ||
| That's how I drink it. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| Rich thick cream. | ||
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See the kick that I've been on is like zero calorie chai. | |
| Oh man that's good. | ||
| You guys gotta come out with some chai. | ||
| I've got heavy whipping cream and I think we might be able to and it's real organic from a farm so it's got chunks of butter in it and when you're pouring it in it's like and then you stir it and the butter melts into the coffee. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's how you do it, man. | ||
| Fat's good for you. | ||
| You know, sugar's bad for you. | ||
| Get that sugar out of here, you know? | ||
| I'll have a little bit of this delicious Jeremy's chocolate, but only a little tiny bit. | ||
| I'll have like two or three pieces and give the rest to Seamus. | ||
|
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I can attest to that. | |
| He opened one up at the beginning, ate a piece and handed it to me. | ||
| That's literally the reason I do the show. | ||
| He pays me in chocolate bars for Jeremy's chocolate. | ||
| You're hooked on sugar and that's how Tim gets you to come up with it, right? | ||
|
unidentified
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Exactly. | |
| He's like, you want your fix? | ||
| I'm like, Help me. | ||
| YouTube's not paying so good. | ||
| He's yelling, damn! | ||
| And I'm like, you gotta do the show, and he's like, I'll do anything you say. | ||
| Damn, give me chocolate! | ||
| And then I'm like, good. | ||
|
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He keeps it in a safe up here so he can't come in when it's late night and steal him himself. | |
| He has to keep him, like, in the craving system, and craving it up until the show. | ||
| I honestly think we're running out. | ||
| I ordered 2,000, they came here, what was it, a couple weeks ago? | ||
| We have like 30 employees, but people are just eating these things like crazy. | ||
| Well, bro, when you leave chocolate bars out, what do you think is going to happen? | ||
| But they're good chocolate bars. | ||
| I know, but I'm just saying, they're not tangerines. | ||
| Like, I could take it or leave it. | ||
| Like, this is a superfood that doesn't occur in nature and is literally designed in a laboratory to make me want more. | ||
|
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Well, and the ingredients, actually, on that one, you were telling me about it earlier, Tim. | |
| Those are all natural ingredients, too. | ||
| Only four ingredients. | ||
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Yeah, there's only four ingredients, compared to, like, Hershey's, who has, like... I'm telling you, they don't pay us to talk about this. | |
| We just have them. | ||
| Look, I'll say this much. | ||
| It does taste good. | ||
| It does taste good. | ||
|
unidentified
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Tastes better than Hershey's, right? | |
| Like, no joke, it's one of the best chocolate bars I've ever had. | ||
|
unidentified
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Yeah, it's good. | |
| I'm not kidding. | ||
| Eh, it's okay. | ||
| Even like the famous fancy ones have a whole bunch of emulsifiers or whatever, and this one only has like four ingredients, like chocolate, sugar, milk, and butter or whatever. | ||
|
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Yeah, I don't really, I'm not a big fan of chocolate, but that was probably one of the best pieces of chocolate. | |
| It's all milk chocolate, right? | ||
| I don't think you should add this stuff. | ||
| Let's read some more, let's read some more. | ||
| Oh, it's soy-free? | ||
| It's soy-free, that's right. | ||
| Alright, here we go. | ||
| Tom Kavanagh says, Friend's mom migrated legally 70 years ago, was naturalized, now family going to the Bahamas, she can't get a passport, was told if she leaves the country when she comes back she'll be deported to Germany. | ||
| Wait, what? | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
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unidentified
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Doesn't make a lot of sense. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Wrath of Paul says, get out of cities, buy land, grow a garden, get some chickens. | ||
| I am saving up so I can buy a home in the middle of nowhere, hopefully within five years. | ||
| I hope the world holds together for that long. | ||
| It's, uh, you know, The challenge is getting a place in the middle of nowhere where you can still work because you gotta pay your bills. | ||
| That I understand. | ||
| It's not easy. | ||
| But you can offset a lot of your costs by taking care of your own land, you know? | ||
| Grow your vegetables. | ||
| Learn how to actually be a strong, surviving man. | ||
| Think about how strong dudes were like 300 years ago. | ||
| They'd be like, winter's coming. | ||
| Someone will die. | ||
| And it's like, they'd go out and they'd, if you, what are you gonna do? | ||
| You're gonna go hunt. | ||
| You gotta wrestle. | ||
| This dude's like wrestling a deer and he's like, and snaps his neck and then drags his body back and throws it. | ||
| And the wife is swooning as he like rips it open and they eat it. | ||
| You guys never would have survived winter. | ||
| I would have survived the winter. | ||
|
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You guys gotta do a skit where it's like, You have somebody, you know, like 300 years ago, just a big old brawny, you know, just really takes care as a homesteader, takes care of his family and is strong. | |
| And he like accidentally, you know, goes down into a cave one day to find some minerals and like steps through a portal. | ||
| And then he ends up in 2023. | ||
| And he's just like looking around him trying to decipher the world. | ||
| And he sees everybody, all these little femme boys and everything that the world has just turned into. | ||
| Everyone's staring at their phone. | ||
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unidentified
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Yeah, he's like, has no idea what it is, but he wouldn't know what a fat person was. | |
| He'd be like, what is this? | ||
| What's happened? | ||
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unidentified
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Or he'd say it's my genetics. | |
| He'd think they're all royalty. | ||
| He'd think everyone around him is royalty. | ||
| No, he would not. | ||
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unidentified
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No, he would not. | |
| He'd be like, you're very wealthy. | ||
| And then like six months later, he's ruling the world. | ||
| Just one dude from the past? | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| All right, let's read this. | ||
| We got, uh, Derpy Dolphin says, Harry Potter is a libertarian story. | ||
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unidentified
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What? | |
| The entire fifth book is about keeping the government out of schooling. | ||
| Dumbledore has a militia. | ||
| The government is incompetent throughout the books. | ||
| That's true. | ||
|
unidentified
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Fair enough. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Jillian Elizabeth says, Hi Tim, look at OR Oregon HB 3501 Right to Rest, where homeless can't be asked to leave public spaces and can sue for $1,000 if they feel discriminated against. | ||
| I am so excited for that. | ||
| I'm going to direct you to timcast.com. | ||
| I covered that earlier this week. | ||
|
unidentified
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So what you're saying is I could go to one of these areas, be homeless and sue people for $1,000 when they tell me to leave? | |
| Yeah, you can. | ||
| They're basically saying you have the right not to be harassed, that homeless people have the right to use public spaces the same way anyone else would. | ||
| And that if they have an encampment there, asking them to leave is a form of harassment. | ||
|
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Well, it looks like I'm done being a journalist, y'all. | |
| I am, uh, I'm gonna go do that. | ||
| I really don't think you want to be a part of that population. | ||
| Let's read this. | ||
| We got, uh, Bradley Fruze has first time super chat. | ||
| How can you be so strongly 1A and 2A but not support everyone's right to vote? | ||
| Yes, direct democracy is bad, but that's not how our system works. | ||
| Our system is robust enough to handle an average IQ of 65. | ||
| What right to vote? | ||
| Is there a right to vote in the Constitution? | ||
| There's not? | ||
| Does it say that you have a guaranteed right to vote in the Constitution anywhere? | ||
|
unidentified
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I don't think so. | |
| I mean, from what I remember, I mean, it was quite literally landowners. | ||
| Yeah, I'm pretty sure it doesn't say you have a right to vote. | ||
| Vehemently rejected the right to vote when they were first asked, which was the case, right? | ||
| During the suffragette movement, most women didn't want to vote. | ||
| The primary reason was because voting was seen as a duty which justified military service and the draft. | ||
| So there was an understanding, there was kind of a give and take. | ||
| Well, part of the reason the draft was justified is because men could vote. | ||
| If you can vote, then surely you should have to give something in the way of military service if necessary. | ||
| That was more or less the line of argumentation. | ||
| But, I mean, if you had asked people, if you'd asked the founders, should just everyone be able to vote, no, they would not have said yes. | ||
| Yeah, of course not. | ||
| All right, Mr. Red says, did you hear about the newly introduced bipartisan bill to ban Congress people from owning stocks? | ||
| I did! | ||
| Matt Gaetz and, I think, AOC, right? | ||
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I like that. | |
| Bravo to both of them. | ||
| That is fantastic. | ||
| You know, I'm not a big AOC fan. | ||
| I'm a fan of Matt Gaetz. | ||
| But if they're working together, credit goes where it's due to AOC. | ||
| They should not be passing legislation and then buying stocks based on this information. | ||
| That's just ridiculous. | ||
| Absolutely wrong! | ||
|
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I mean, that should be like common sense at this point. | |
| That should be common sense legislation that if you're sitting in Congress and you have the jump on what companies are going to do good at a certain time, you probably shouldn't be able to buy stocks or dump stocks. | ||
| HawaiianShirtGuy says, hi Tim, just played Street Fighter VI demo. | ||
| This year their Pro Tour has a million dollar prize pool. | ||
| Timcast Street Fighter team when? | ||
| Uh, I'm gonna talk to Dane, we'll have him set it up. | ||
| I mean, yeah, we should probably, uh, start doing some sponsorships like that. | ||
| No joke. | ||
| We should probably, uh, look into cool things we can do in terms of sponsoring. | ||
|
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Make an esports team. | |
| Get her done. | ||
| Or just sponsoring, you know, like, we don't need to make the team itself, we find a team and then we become one of the sponsors of it and so we get Timcast on, you know, The logo on their gaming shirt. | ||
| Something like that. | ||
|
unidentified
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You know, something like that is what it is. | |
| Alright. | ||
| Ashley Campion says, did you see that New York is going to start charging people's parking tickets based on their income? | ||
| So if you make $100,000 a year, you pay $80 more. | ||
| I think that's actually a really good idea. | ||
| I'm actually, I'm not in favor of the frivolous ticketing that cops do, that's wrong. | ||
| But the idea that a fine for a rich person is the same as a fine for a poor person makes no sense at all. | ||
| Because what happens is, in Chicago, when I lived by Wrigley Field, people would illegally park or double park in front of my house, and then block cars in. | ||
| And they'd just be like, you almost never get towed. | ||
| You get towed sometimes. | ||
| But you get a $50 to $100 ticket, cheaper than parking. | ||
|
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So yeah, people would be parked like in front of in front of the crosswalk They just park their car there and be like you because they know you can't tow every single car There are definitely places where you can get like four parking tickets five parking tickets a month And that's gonna be cheaper than buying a parking spot Well, I'll admit to something like whenever you like park in front of the parking meters like if I'm covering a show in Dallas like I never pay parking meters like I just pull up and Park, they don't enforce it. | |
| There's literally no enforcement. | ||
| If there is, oh, it's a little bit of a ticket. | ||
| You know, my favorite thing is, people who, there are people in Chicago who would put parking tickets in their glove box and keep it, and then they would park, get out, put the parking ticket on the windshield, and it works. | ||
| Brutal. | ||
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unidentified
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Yeah. | |
| That's smart. | ||
| The cop would go by and be like, oh, they already have a ticket, and they'd ignore it. | ||
| That's Chicago. | ||
| So, and there are some countries, I was reading about this, where, I think it's like Switzerland, your speeding tickets are based on your income. | ||
| And so that works, because if you're a billionaire... It makes more sense. | ||
| And you're like, your speeding ticket's going to be $763,000, you're not going to speed. | ||
| But if you're rich and the speeding ticket's $50, you're going to be like, oh, well, I don't care. | ||
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Personally, I don't think speeding should be enforced, honestly. | |
| Well, yeah, I agree. | ||
| I think a lot of things shouldn't even be enforced. | ||
| Like, I remember I got... I've been on just like getting pulled over, over, and over again because I moved to a new area in Texas, and it's more like kind of country, but not really. | ||
| I stopped at a stop sign for two seconds. | ||
| Not three! | ||
| Two seconds. | ||
| Pulled. | ||
| No cars. | ||
| And I get pulled over. | ||
| I'm like, are you serious? | ||
| Like, is this really happening right now? | ||
| In my brain, you know, I come from a family of law enforcement. | ||
| I was like, what are they doing? | ||
| Why are you enforcing these super small things? | ||
| Oh, I didn't stop at a stop sign all the way or for long enough. | ||
| It's like, this is not what your job is supposed to consist of. | ||
| Your job is supposed to consist of responding to people in danger and helping people. | ||
| Instead, you're just filling quotas out, basically. | ||
| You know what, dude? | ||
| If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. | ||
| All right, Miso Trash says, Tim, why don't you ever talk about the Third Amendment? | ||
| We do. | ||
| You clearly don't listen to the show. | ||
| During COVID, the Third Amendment, which prevents the government from being able to quarter soldiers in your home, was actually about... Someone was contemplating a Third Amendment lawsuit because when they put in the eviction moratorium, that meant the government was putting servicemen and women In homes and saying you couldn't evict them, which violates the Third Amendment, which is actually really funny. | ||
| But you know, it's funny how serious we took the Third Amendment, but now it's just completely not an issue. | ||
|
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It's like Nolan Voight now, basically. | |
| I remember when they housed all the National Guard in the parking garage. | ||
| We're like a month at a time. | ||
| That was crazy. | ||
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unidentified
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And they just acted like it was normal. | |
| Yeah. | ||
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Yeah, just follow me at TaylorUSA on Twitter. | |
| It's T-A-Y-L-E-R-U-S-A. | ||
| Check out my most recent article. | ||
| It is actually on TimCastNews.com right now and on my sub stack, which is available in my bio. | ||
| I did an in-depth, you know, worth of a year investigating and basically went through the drag epidemic that America is facing is what I call it. | ||
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