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June 11, 2023 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| We got this silly story from Fox News. | ||
| Elon Musk, farmers torch, wait, Elon Musk, farmers torch island government, wait, proposal. | ||
| Okay, very confusing headline. | ||
| Farmers torch Ireland government proposal to slaughter 200,000 cows to meet EU climate change goals. | ||
| I don't know why Elon Musk is in that title. | ||
| But basically, Ireland is reportedly considering a cull of 65,000 cows per year for the next three years because of climate change, sparking fears of a famine. | ||
| Wasn't it like 170 years ago they had a potato famine? | ||
| What are they doing? | ||
| Where is Seamus? | ||
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He's flying to Ireland to say, guys, please! | |
| Rethink your decisions! | ||
| Also, that headline was, like, horribly... So it's Elon Musk and Ireland together are torching the... Elon Musk and the farmers are torching the Irish government. | ||
| Yeah, very bad headline. | ||
| What they're basically saying is that farmers and Elon Musk are concerned and criticizing the plan, and they put Elon Musk in there for click value. | ||
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Exactly. | |
| But think about how ridiculous it is. | ||
| The story is real! | ||
| You have the farmers who are rising up that, like, they actually have the capacity in Ireland to do something about this, but Elon Musk also tweeted about it, so he gets the lead in the headline. | ||
| Well, let's just think about how crazy this is. | ||
| I mean, look, to be fair, we ordered a bunch of food today. | ||
| Whenever we order food, it does get eaten. | ||
| We order a lot of food. | ||
| Everybody eats. | ||
| We were eating and I was just like, So much food is just thrown away. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| I was thinking about, we've got coffee and stuff that we have for guests, and we order too much. | ||
| And so now it's starting to expire. | ||
| It's like, how do we do that guys? | ||
| We've got to throw it away. | ||
| It's no good anymore. | ||
| Okay, we'll order less next time. | ||
| That way we only order when we absolutely need it. | ||
| Most stores don't do that. | ||
| They just say like, order a thousand just in case and we'll throw out the extra. | ||
| So they make tons of plastic, tons of food, and just toss in the garbage. | ||
| I mean, that is a problem. | ||
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It is. | |
| So I'm really not worried about a famine for Ireland. | ||
| I think people are very heavy if you get my drift. | ||
| But this is one grain of sand in the greater heap of you will own nothing and you will be happy. | ||
| It is. | ||
| I mean, I'm a little bit less optimistic just based off of like Holodomor or cultural revolution in China. It's like there are examples | ||
| of centrally planned technocratic rulers who think that they are omnipotent and they | ||
| ultimately mess with the food supply, and then you end up having mass starvation. Now, I'll grant | ||
| you, I don't think it'll strike us here. The Americans will probably stay fat for a very long | ||
| time. However, I think when you consider the third world countries, it's like, yeah, I can see starvation | ||
| in some of these nations that don't have enough food. I think you're wrong about the | ||
| US. | ||
| You think we're going to get skinny? | ||
| I think, yeah, I think we will. | ||
| I mean, look, inflation is through the roof. | ||
| The cost of groceries is going way up and they're putting migrants, they may be putting migrants in people's homes. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| So it's like, maybe that's their plan. | ||
| They're like, we got to get everybody to lose weight. | ||
| Here's an idea. | ||
| Put twice as many people in their house and make the food cost twice as more and they'll drop their weight by 75%. | ||
| They don't want them to have kids, because that would be bad for them. | ||
| They need to bring in people from outside to be there. | ||
| The problem has been that instead of replacing, because of inflation, because of our grocery bills skyrocketing, we're not eating... Basically, we're just not eating the healthy food. | ||
| We're just eating more calorie-rich, calorie-dense food. | ||
| I blame Norman Borlaug. | ||
| I'm not familiar. | ||
| He's a bad dude, hanging out with some bad boys. | ||
| Increase the crop yield of wheat by, like, quadruple. | ||
| Oh, interesting. | ||
| And so, I'm kidding. | ||
| He's like a pretty good dude. | ||
| He did, through artificial selection, found ways to make it so that the density of the crops were substantially higher, so per season they could produce more food. | ||
| The problem is, the nutrient density of the food did not increase. | ||
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Right. | |
| Just the starches. | ||
| So you end up with poor people eating really, really high starch food with low mineral, like, vitamin content. | ||
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Right. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| and value, natural value. | ||
| So they have to eat five times as much to actually get the things they need, | ||
| but they're eating ridiculous amounts of sugar. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| So it's not actually helping anybody survive. | ||
| It's created a whole bunch of like half malnourished, overweight people. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah, not good. | ||
| So it's empty calories. | ||
| Well, you know, it's still keeping more people alive. | ||
| If you're like, if you're starving in Africa and you're like, I can have some super dense wheat, | ||
| like I'm gonna eat that for sure. | ||
| Or like, or like golden rice, for instance, and stuff like that. | ||
| It's like, it's like, these things are the, there's the innovation that proved Malthus wrong. | ||
| Like, these innovations are what has saved humanity. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Which is... Well, no, I mean, the expansion of crop yield made things worse. | ||
| Sure, it's a lot of billion more people to survive. | ||
| Like what's surviving if you don't have the proper vitamin intake? | ||
| Right, definitely. | ||
| But I mean, there's also things like the corn subsidy in the United States and where we just have corn in literally every product that's ever existed now, Reagan. | ||
| Dude, why don't we, can we subsidize something else? | ||
| Because like, what happens is you go to a company and you're like, if you grow corn, we'll pay for it. | ||
| And it's like, okay, what can we do with corn? | ||
| We can make plastics from it. | ||
| We can make fuel from it. | ||
| You know, obviously food. | ||
| Extract the sugars from it. | ||
| And the only reason that that's possible is because of corn subsidies. | ||
| If they did not subsidize corn, high fructose corn would not exist. | ||
| It is more expensive to make, it is harder to make, it is harder to ship. | ||
| And it's unhealthier. | ||
| But we, through our tax dollars, are paying for that garbage to be in our food. | ||
| I got an idea. | ||
| If we just want capitalism to be sugar. | ||
| Do you know 20% of sugar comes from beets? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I had no idea. | ||
| Sugar beets. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| Actually, in Idaho, they grow more sugar beets than we grow potatoes, in reality. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And everyone thinks it's, like, the plant of potatoes. | ||
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I'm like... People... They still produce more potatoes than anyone else in the U.S. | |
| True. | ||
| People think sugar comes from sugarcane, because sugarcane is called sugarcane. | ||
| But it comes from beets. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| At least 20% of it does. | ||
| I had no idea. | ||
| My mind's blown right now. | ||
| Yeah, sugar beets. | ||
| So why don't we subsidize beets? | ||
| I'm much more invested in this process. | ||
| Beets are terrible. | ||
| Is there something that's healthier? | ||
| What about avocados? | ||
| Avocados are great. | ||
| I like avocados. | ||
| Yeah, but where can we grow them? | ||
| I think... South? | ||
| Florida? | ||
| California? | ||
| Mexico? | ||
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Mexico's like over our dead body to take our avocados. | |
| We import their avocados. | ||
| There are massive avocado groves in California. | ||
| And most people don't know that avocados are actually very big. | ||
| Because we have the little tiny Hasuans. | ||
| When I was in Brazil, I was hanging out, oh huge, they're bigger, they're like basketballs. | ||
| Like a cantaloupe, basically. | ||
| Or bigger! | ||
| I was telling my buddy, I was like, let's grab some food and we're at the grocery store and I was like, let's make guacamole. | ||
| And then he comes back with this huge thing that was like this big. | ||
| And I was like, what's that? | ||
| And he's like, it's the avocado. | ||
| And I was like, what? | ||
| And then he cracked it open and it was an avocado. | ||
| And I was like, wow, what the? | ||
| I've never seen anything so big. | ||
| I know you can go to the store and you get the slightly bigger ones and they have the small house ones, but this one in Brazil was like just absolutely massive. | ||
| It was fantastic. | ||
| I like dumping lemon juice all over it. | ||
| Lime juice. | ||
| Just ridiculous amounts. | ||
| I think agricultural innovations are so fascinating. | ||
| Like I was watching a video about the baby carrot. | ||
| And it was this Californian farmer who was like, I have all these ugly carrots that no one will buy, but they are the majority of my crop. | ||
| What should I do? | ||
| And basically decided to make a machine that would make baby carrots. | ||
| And now that is the dominant form of carrots sold in America. | ||
| This is the most white girl story I've ever heard. | ||
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I was sitting at home and I was watching this documentary about baby carrots. | |
| I'm happy with who I am. | ||
| Thanks for racially profiling me. | ||
| You know where carrot cake came from? | ||
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| I think it was the Navy, I'm not sure, but they had carrot shavings. | ||
| They had carrot pulp from making carrots or something like that, and they didn't want to throw it away. | ||
| It still had nutritional value. | ||
| So they baked the pulp into a cake so that everybody would want to eat it. | ||
| Carrot cake is actually really good. | ||
| And it's got a lot of carrot pulp in it. | ||
| Yeah, I didn't even know. | ||
| Surge! | ||
| That's why it's called carrot cake. | ||
| I want to know when your Ronald Reagan diss track is going to come out. | ||
| He's been going off on Reagan lately. | ||
| He's been going off on Reagan. | ||
| You're too young to hate Reagan. | ||
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It's going to be called No Fault Divorce. | |
| That's a great title actually. | ||
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That's a good one. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| So is it coming? | ||
| What's the deal? | ||
| I mean, I used to make hip hop. | ||
| I'll make it. | ||
| If I'm going to do it, I'll do it. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I have a litany of things that I dislike that Reagan did that are just like... I have to tell you, everyone's attention span is only 30 seconds unless you make an exciting bridge. | ||
| I want to hear it in rap form only. | ||
| A good hip hop track now is like a minute. | ||
| It's a minute long. | ||
| 240 is like the golden ratio. | ||
| Yeah, but that's too long. | ||
| That's too long now. | ||
| It's already too long. | ||
| It's gotta be the length of a YouTube short. | ||
| I've become friends with Anomaly and Bryson Gray over the past couple years. | ||
| I don't think that they'd be down to rap on a Ronald Reagan diss track, but if you got any other ideas, we could try it. | ||
| Why, do they like Reagan? | ||
| Probably. | ||
| I mean, they're like, they're MAGA guys. | ||
| I like the idea that Serge is the controversial hip-hop artist of the right. | ||
| You can film it in, like, an asylum. | ||
| Like, all the asylums that he could go. | ||
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One of the asylums that he could let in and have clothes and go, you know, repeal the LPS Act. | |
| I think no-fault divorce may be one of the single worst things outside of the creation of the Federal Reserve that has ever been done to this country. | ||
| And that's not all he did. | ||
| The end of no-fault divorce was the end of marriage, 100% period. | ||
| Isn't that somewhat coercive, though, to keep people in a marriage? | ||
| Don't sign a contract you don't intend to keep. | ||
| I'll grant you that, yeah. | ||
| And if you want to break a contract, you need legal reasons to do so. | ||
| And that was the case beforehand. | ||
| Now, the contract has no legal standing. | ||
| You go in and say, we're married, doesn't matter, annulment or divorce, done. | ||
| What's the point? | ||
| Now, what happened was, since that moment, there's no more marriage, there's only trust relationships or dating. | ||
| You've got women who treat marriage like dating. | ||
| It's like, oh, I'll get married to him because I can always divorce him later. | ||
| A lot of men treat it that way too, unfortunately. | ||
| That's right, yeah. | ||
| Sure, men and women. | ||
| It's terrible. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm torn on that one because I never tend to believe that the state should be molding cultural decisions. | ||
| We ought to be a more healthy, caring, loving people that want to actually enter these arrangements without the state being involved and commit to it for life. | ||
| Should the state enforce contracts? | ||
| Well, when it comes to, like, property disputes, yeah, but I, like, is there property dispute? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| That's, like, marriage is about two humans merging their lives, and there's an exchange of property, there's a merging of property. | ||
| It is effectively an individualist corporate merger. | ||
| I guess that's true, yeah. | ||
| It has to be enforced in some capacity, otherwise it can't exist. | ||
| No, that's a fair point. | ||
| Imagine if there was no fault contract breaking. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And it's like, I have a contract with him to sell me, you know, a hundred pounds of corn once a week, and he just stopped doing it, and he kept the money, and it's like, well, you know, he's allowed to do it, have a nice day. | ||
| It's like, my business is gone. | ||
| Maybe you should have kept Date Night alive, you know, there were other things you could stay in the business. | ||
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The spark was gone. | |
| No, but do you think marriage should be more difficult to enter? | ||
| Because that's one of the things I've heard. | ||
| If you would take away no fault divorce, you should make it more difficult. | ||
| It can't just be you go to a courthouse, you get a license, you enter into a marriage. | ||
| Should marriage be more difficult to enter? | ||
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No. | |
| No, two consenting adults can enter into a contractual agreement, they so choose, with certain limitations, obviously. | ||
| It has to be a legitimate contract. | ||
| Can't be coercive. | ||
| Otherwise, it's not a legitimate contract. | ||
| And you can't just break it. | ||
| You can set the terms of the marriage, perhaps. | ||
| Like any other contract, perhaps you'd be able to say, like, we both agree to a prenuptial agreement on these terms, the marriage would dissolve, and have that be recognized. | ||
| I think that's fair. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm kind of ignorant to this topic, so what was it prior? | ||
| Like if someone had to cheat or something like that? | ||
| There had to be a legitimate, yeah, it had to be like infidelity, abuse, deception. | ||
| So otherwise you would just stay married forever if the person didn't cheat. | ||
| You'd go to court and then the judge would determine what the appropriate remedy was for the conflict. | ||
| That's interesting. | ||
| Because there were lots of people who, like, live separate lives, but were legally still married. | ||
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Of course. | |
| They were happy. | ||
| But there were a lot of marriages that it was two people living together who were okay with each other's company and they weren't, like, romantically swinging from the, you know, the chandelier or whatever. | ||
| There was just like, hey, we have our lives together. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Let's live together and have a family and, you know. | ||
| I always felt like this is why more people needed to have premarital counseling before they enter into marriage. | ||
| I don't think you can mandate it but it's just it's it's one of the things Catholic Church does right like you have to be able to talk about all of the issues up front and I think that's uh very difficult. | ||
| I think people feel like oh we love each other so much right now and everything will be fine and if you can't talk things through and figure out where the faults are it's very difficult to enter into a contract. | ||
| And like with abortion, the left lies to justify their lax policies that create perpetual children. | ||
| They say things when it comes to abortion, it's like it's about the health of the mother and abuse and all that, and then what happens? | ||
| 99.9% of abortions are elective forms of abortion as contraception. | ||
| Like that's something that most people, when polled, disagree with. | ||
| Right. | ||
| When it came to no-fault divorce, they respond to like our segments about this saying like, No Fault Divorce was created because women were being mercilessly beaten by their husbands and couldn't escape, and it's like, yeah, no, that was actually cause for breaking the marriage. | ||
| That would be grounds. | ||
| That was grounds. | ||
| So the issue is, now you have men and women, there is no institutional family structure anymore since Ronald Reagan. | ||
| He destroyed it! | ||
| And it's funny to me, people are like, but Ronald Reagan was so great! | ||
| No, he was not. | ||
| No, Jimmy Carter was bad! | ||
| Come on. | ||
| And then the family's been completely destroyed. | ||
| And now, when you think back to those glorious moments as a child, when you'd wake up on Christmas Eve and run downstairs to find the presents, and there's little candles, and we weren't rich. | ||
| We weren't rich. | ||
| That's all going away. | ||
| Because now it's weird, polycule, pan-nonsense. | ||
| It's men and women being like, you know what? | ||
| I'm not feeling good anymore, so I'm gonna leave for no reason. | ||
| It's now, it's men being like, hey, I've started a company. | ||
| Why would I get married to this woman if she can divorce me at any time for any reason and get half the stuff that I made? | ||
| That makes no sense. | ||
| So the end of no-fault divorce has basically destroyed marriage as a whole. | ||
| And now people don't want to have, like, aren't having families, aren't having kids. | ||
| Men are becoming perpetual children who are either virgins, sitting at home, living with their parents, or they're just not getting relationships, or just banging random women all the time and not having kids, and then demanding of them when they get abortions if they get pregnant. | ||
| Then you have women being told it's empowering to do all this, and they say, sure, I guess, because Instagram told them to. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Well, the thing that has kept me out of the marriage game was because I was relatively financially successful young, and I was just looking around like, this seems like a really bad deal for me. | ||
| That's Reagan's fault. | ||
| Because before that, you wouldn't have to worry. | ||
| You'd say, you can't, if we get married, it's marriage. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Till death. | ||
| You didn't even need prenups. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It wasn't a thing before. | ||
| Because as long as I wasn't going to be abusive or cheating, then it would have stuck it out. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And now think about when you're paying like alimony. | ||
| That existed because there was a legitimate reason the marriage dissolved. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| And now it doesn't have to be a reason. | ||
| So you could go to court and be like, we're not happy together. | ||
| And the judge would say, marriage counseling. | ||
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Right. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Figure it out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But now it's, we're not happy. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Dissolved and you get half his stuff and you got to pay our alimony now. | ||
| Even if she's cheating or whatever, it's still like... Doesn't matter. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's nuts. | ||
| On top of that, he signed the NFA. | ||
| He didn't repeal the LPS Act, which then he used to defund, deregulate, which is really just regulating. | ||
| I can't even hear this unless there's some sort of hip hop track. | ||
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It's a rap song. | |
| I'm waiting for it, man. | ||
| Dude, it's an insane list. | ||
| No, the NFA is the worst. | ||
| Yeah, it's a real bad one. | ||
| It's a real bad one. | ||
| He came on the show the other day and I'm like, how you doing, buddies? | ||
| Well, that's Reagan. | ||
| That's how I'm doing today. | ||
| Dude, think about this. | ||
| Ronald Wilson Reagan 666. | ||
| I used to laugh about that. | ||
| I used to laugh about that, dude, but now I'm like, man, those people had a point, dude. | ||
| It's wild. | ||
| It's wild, man. | ||
| Yeah, Carter was really, really bad, and people are like, oh, but he helped the country and did all these things, and I'm like, gun control? | ||
| Nah, uh-uh. | ||
| And it was racist gun control! | ||
| It was the worst kind! | ||
| Come on. | ||
| As far as I'm concerned, all gun control is the worst kind. | ||
| But yes, I grant you that. | ||
| I think that's oftentimes what happens with presidential analysis. | ||
| It's like, whatever period you're coming out of, you can basically do no wrong. | ||
| You had the inflation in the 1970s, and then they skyrocket the interest rates. | ||
| You have a terrible recession in the very, very early 80s. | ||
| And then you build into this 30-year bull market that everyone benefits from. | ||
| And then we had the penny stocks crash, like almost immediately after that, | ||
| because of all these crazy deregulated things that he did to the market. | ||
| It's like a lot of the things that I say about him, it's like if he made these changes in the short term | ||
| and then turned them off, but he didn't. | ||
| He just like, oh, we're just gonna leave it. | ||
| And that becomes status quo. | ||
| We're just gonna behave like this is normal. | ||
| And ever since, I don't know if you guys noticed, but like those big, | ||
| the first stock crash really happened in like 29. | ||
| And then we've seen, we saw a huge gap until 87, when penny stock crash and we had dotcom boom, | ||
| we had the housing crisis. | ||
| And now we have this other one that's looming now because of... | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know what the main thing is underneath it all, but it's happening for a reason. | ||
| I will say, I got to defend Reagan on this one. | ||
| His willingness to sit down, I think it was Gorbachev, sit down in the late 80s and actually- Yeah, Gorbachev was on this wall. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, it wasn't really the demand. | ||
| I mean, it was the fact that the USSR, it was really the Russian leadership that prevented nuclear war ultimately. | ||
| But the fact that he was sane enough to go, yeah, I'm going to work with these guys on this. | ||
| It was probably one of the greatest moments in world history, honestly. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| But not wanting to let the world fall into nuclear war is a pretty low bar to set for this dude. | ||
| It's a low bar, but it's a really good thing. | ||
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Yeah, I'm not going to disagree. | |
| Now make this a rap battle and I'm all for it. | ||
| Like, what is happening? | ||
| I can absolutely rap battle you on this. | ||
| The intro to my song on Liberty Lockdown is me rapping. | ||
| I don't know if you're aware. | ||
| Oh, true. | ||
| I didn't know that. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| So your track could have a whole chorus where you guys rap about it. | ||
| I'm sorry, this is writing itself. | ||
| What is happening? | ||
| I'm a producer and a DJ, not a rapper. | ||
| Okay, well I rap and I don't produce or DJ, so let's burn Reagan's legacy to the ground. | ||
| Let's do it. | ||
| I'm all for it. | ||
| Let's do it. | ||
| I think that's our break. | ||
| You've got Wilson and you've got Joe Biden, who are going to go down. | ||
| They're the worst. | ||
| Buchanan. | ||
| Buchanan was bad. | ||
| Wilson's bad only because we're smart enough to understand the context of history. | ||
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Exactly. | |
| In hindsight. | ||
| But for the average person, it's going to be probably Buchanan and Biden. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Mostly because they were pre-Civil War presidents. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Woodrow Wilson, for a libertarian community, is like, he is Voldemort. | ||
| Just despise that guy. | ||
| Seriously. | ||
| I mean, anybody who knows about, yes, Yeah. | ||
| And anybody who knows about the Federal Reserve and how central banks work should be upset about it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Funny how Wilson's Reagan's middle name, which is what I always thought was really funny too, just happens to be his middle name for some reason, right? | ||
| No conspiracy. | ||
| Back to Reagan once again. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I hate it. | ||
| It's just everything, dude. | ||
| Anyways. | ||
| If there is no centralized banking system, you cannot have the ideological control there. | ||
| I mean, you were mentioning this, that when you said, like, BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, all that stuff, is the Federal Reserve. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Basically what happens is, when they pick and choose who gets the money... Bingo. | ||
| Literally just say, this is the ideology that's going to be mandated. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| They dictate policy. | ||
| But unfortunately, I mean, fortunately, people are starting to catch on. | ||
| But really, this is too high level conceptually. | ||
| I'm trying to figure out how to put it into a meme form to get people activated. | ||
| And ultimately, this is why, regardless of my opinion as to the Bud Light and the Target and actually what they were doing, I'm just grateful that there has been a populist uprising that's saying, Whatever the reason, you know. | ||
| Sure, Clint's lecturing us about ESG. | ||
| We don't give a shit about any of that. | ||
| We just want these motherfuckers to stop. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| And I'm like, all right, cool. | ||
| Like, I'm with you. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Let's do it. | ||
| Yeah, bet. | ||
| You're on, man. | ||
| Let's do it. | ||
| Let's go to callers. | ||
| See what they have to say about us. | ||
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All right. | |
| Sounds good. | ||
| Let's talk to Blue Collar Ken. | ||
| That sounds like a good one to start this off. | ||
| How you doing, Blue Collar Ken? | ||
| What's up? | ||
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Hey, good evening. | |
| Thanks for taking my call. | ||
| Of course. | ||
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unidentified
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And it's advantageous because I have a question about the Libertarian Party. | |
| Let's do it. | ||
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Okay. | |
| You guys shoot your wad trying to get the chief executive job every four years, and there are no members in the legislature at all. | ||
| And there are congressional seats that would be pretty viable for a third party to take because they're in areas where the incumbent has disappointed, I'm not going to name any names, Dan Crenshaw, you know, where the incumbent has disappointed the constituency and they're definitely not going to vote for the other letter, D or R. So the third party candidate has an incredibly good shot. | ||
| And let's face it, you've got to build a little viability here. | ||
| Okay, nobody's looking at libertarianism as anything but the punchline to a joke for the chief executive job. | ||
| And frankly, libertarian policy is more beneficial when it comes to the purse strings. | ||
| So, what is the plan to broaden the party and maybe caucus with some of the America First Republicans? | ||
| Well, that was a couple of questions there. | ||
| But first off, the Mises Caucus and the decentralized revolution, that is really the plan there, is exactly what you're describing, where we go after local offices. | ||
| We're actually thinking even smaller. | ||
| We're talking mayoral, sheriffs, things like that. | ||
| Public schools. | ||
| Yeah, that too, school boards that are nonpartisan city councils. | ||
| I think that that's really the best way. | ||
| If you're going to run with a libertarian decal next to your name, that's the best way. | ||
| I'm of the opinion that if you want the federal level, if you want libertarian beliefs at the federal level, you should probably run under the guise of GOP. | ||
| Ron Paul has already demonstrated that's probably the best way to go. | ||
| So I think running as a libertarian in non-affiliated Yeah, I mean, obviously, that's kind of what I was hoping to hear. | ||
| the smallest local level is the way to go and then running under the GOP banner because the GOP | ||
| voters tend to really like libertarian ideology. I think that's the best way to go. I hope that | ||
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answers your question. Yeah, I mean, obviously that's kind of what I was hoping to hear. | |
| Okay. Well, then if I gave you the answer you wanted to hear, then that's a win. | ||
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Yeah, if you're a politician, I got a baby for you to kiss. | |
| Don't get me in trouble, man. | ||
| Oh, I apologize. | ||
| No kissing. | ||
| No kissing. | ||
| Well, all right. | ||
| Right on, man. | ||
| Thanks for calling in. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Talk to you soon. | ||
| Oh, he's gone already. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Before I can even get there. | ||
| Dan Welsh, you are up next on the docket. | ||
| How are you doing today? | ||
| And you got to unmute yourself just to remind you. | ||
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unidentified
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Hi, Tim and crew. | |
| How are you doing? | ||
| Doing well. | ||
|
unidentified
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I think I'm the first caller from this country. | |
| Does anyone want to guess my accident quickly? | ||
| Are you Australian? | ||
| New Zealand. | ||
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I kind of nailed it. | |
| You're a Commonwealther, though, so if you live in the Commonwealth, you just kind of know. | ||
| You had just a few words where I couldn't distinguish if it was Kiwi or an Aussie. | ||
| South Africa, I got it first. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, he did. | ||
| What did you say? | ||
| He's Australian. | ||
| Oh, Australian. | ||
| Yeah, no, no, New Zealand is really obvious. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Honestly, I thought it was Australian, but she already said it, so I was like, New Zealand. | ||
| Sure you did, Clint. | ||
| Can everyone just let me have my moment? | ||
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I won! | |
| You got it, you won! | ||
| It's cool, it's fine. | ||
| Anyways, what's up? | ||
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My question is for Clint. | |
| I've been digging down in the macroeconomic cycle a lot, looking at some of the work of people like Jeff Snyder. | ||
| So my question is, is the Federal Reserve an all-powerful monolith, or is it just a bunch of bureaucrats running around damaging everything, acting like responsible people? | ||
| Kind of both. | ||
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Because I feel like, in particular the work of Jeff Snyder, he's reviewed all the previous released FOMC minutes. | |
| Right. | ||
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And you see them, what they're talking about throughout the 2008 GFC. | |
| Yep. | ||
| They got, sorry, sorry, they got no fucking idea. | ||
| No, you're absolutely right. | ||
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And it seems like what they do is more of a social-psychological impact, saying, well, we're in control, interest rates are going up, you have to listen to us and follow our lead. | |
| But ultimately, monetary systems are global, and so money can easily flow away from the US if it wants to. | ||
| Well, yeah, and that has been probably the biggest pitfall of trying to micromanage the economy through Federal Reserve policy is that because the economy is now global in nature, you have to consider so many factors that it's essentially above any human being's pay grade, which is why the Misesian School of Economics says you have to allow the individuals making their own autonomous decision-making That's really what creates the most sound foundation for an economy. | ||
| Once you have any sort of central planning, you're doomed to shortages and surpluses and all sorts of malinvestment, which is what we've seen. | ||
| But you're absolutely right. | ||
| The track record of the Federal Reserve, but central banks broadly is horrific, but it doesn't matter because they have a monopoly on the creation of currency. | ||
| So it's a business that it doesn't matter if you fail over and over because ultimately you're sitting on a gold mine. | ||
| So that's why the only answer is for the public to rise up and demand the abolition. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's not really a goldmine. | ||
| It's an army. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Pardon me. | ||
| Sorry about that. | ||
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Sorry. | |
| Yeah, I think Clint touched on it earlier before I got to answer my question, that the focus should be on the private entities with all the money pulling the strings. | ||
| Because it's the banking system with its appetite for risk to do fractional reserve banking that can rapidly expand or pull the rug from under any economy. | ||
| But they can only do that because of their relationship to the central bank and the discount window. | ||
| You can either strike at the branches of this evil beast, or you can go for the root. | ||
| The root is the Federal Reserve. | ||
| I think that that's where you ought to be focusing your energy. | ||
| I know it sounds delusional, but it wasn't that long ago that you had college kids that were chanting in the Fed during the Ron Paul revolution. | ||
| I believe we can still bring that energy back. | ||
| I hope we can do it before we're in a global Great Depression. | ||
| But even if we have to wait until then, I think people will ultimately wake up to why the economy is so unfair, why income inequality exists, why you can't afford a home, why you can't stay home with your children. | ||
| These are all a product of central banking and namely the Federal Reserve. | ||
| So that's why I go ballistic about it so often. | ||
| Amen, man. | ||
| Amen. | ||
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Definitely. | |
| Definitely. | ||
| Well, if that's everything, man. | ||
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unidentified
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Sorry, just one other thing. | |
| Tim, I just wanted to disprove your theory with NPCs and having no internal monologue or visualization capabilities. | ||
| I have a condition that I didn't even know I had until I heard about it. | ||
| It's called aphantasia. | ||
| So I can't close my eyes and visualize anything. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
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Yeah, you're talking about the Apple just blows my mind how you said you could do any kind of manipulation to it, but... Oh, yeah. | |
| Yeah, it's... I can do the Apple in four dimensions. | ||
| Yeah, I'll get black, pitch black. | ||
| Wow, that's interesting. | ||
| And all my memories are like, the best way to describe it, like, as if I read it in a book. | ||
| Wow. | ||
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So, unfortunately, I can't remember visually, like, my happiest day of my life, marrying my wife or... | |
| Can't visually remember. | ||
| My dog of 14 years, it was my everything. | ||
| So if someone asked you, what was the color of the flowers or whatever, you wouldn't know? | ||
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If I made an actual point to remember it, I would. | |
| But if I just walked past it and it was in a nondescript location, I probably wouldn't. | ||
| Yeah, your memory wouldn't actually have a visual aspect to it. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, so like the book would say the flower was white. | |
| Right, right. | ||
| I couldn't picture the white flower. | ||
| That's super interesting, man. | ||
| This is fascinating. | ||
| Maybe I have the same problem because I have a shitty memory and I thought maybe, but now I'm like, maybe that's why I have a shitty memory because I can't. | ||
| You can take a test online. | ||
| I googled it. | ||
| Okay, I'm gonna do that. | ||
| I'm gonna do that. | ||
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I mean, it doesn't have anything to do with memory. | |
| It's to do with details of visual. | ||
| So, like, I can remember heaps of different facts. | ||
| My whole career is science-based. | ||
| I can remember lots of different scientific theories and data points, but visualization? | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| I have a photographic memory, but I don't have a photographic memory to the degree where it's like, I can look at something, and then read, like I can't look at like a page, and then look away and then read the page, but to a certain degree I can, so like, if we're like driving around the corner and there's a bunch of signs, I can look at the signs, turn around, and tell you exactly what the signs say and things like that. | ||
| So, and it also depends on focus and intent. | ||
| So when I used to work for the nonprofits, people would show me their credit card. | ||
| I'd look at it once and then I would just be able to write the whole thing down. | ||
| I don't need to read it. | ||
| I don't need to go three, six, nine, one, one, two. | ||
| I just look at it and then. | ||
| So you actually have like a photo of it in your mind for a while or is it forever? | ||
| Depending on the intent. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Some could be forever if I want them to be. | ||
| That's incredible. | ||
| What a gift. | ||
| But most things I don't care to remember. | ||
| So I don't. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So it's like, Oh, what did I have for breakfast yesterday? | ||
| But if I'm eating breakfast and there's something in particular, I can probably remember everything about it. | ||
| So, for instance, I know people probably don't care to hear me talk about poker. | ||
| I could probably recite all of my poker hands. | ||
| Any poker hand of merit, I can go back and tell you exactly what happened. | ||
| I can tell you... Do you remember when I got you to fold? | ||
| There was two aces on the board and I think I raised you... You raised and I said, I believe you. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I had nothing. | ||
| Okay, good. | ||
| Yeah, I was drawing dead. | ||
| So I was just like, it's not about whether I believe you or not. | ||
| Yeah, I figured you were bullshitting me, but I was bullshitting you too. | ||
| I had jack shit, dude. | ||
| And that other guy knew. | ||
| Well, no, that other guy, he ran for the hills because you were backing me up. | ||
| It was beautiful. | ||
| But I can remember even going back three or... When were we in Florida? | ||
| A month ago. | ||
| A month ago? | ||
| Yeah, when we went on the yacht. | ||
| I remember a couple of the more significant hands of the night where I ended up getting, you know, beaten out pretty rough. | ||
| The flop was, I had king-ten, the flop was, I think it was king-ten-queen, I got two pair. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Other dude had ace-jack, he flopped the straight. | ||
| Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| And so I cautiously bet into it, and then, you know, I got crushed. | ||
| And then there was another time where I flopped a straight with ace queen on an ace ten jackboard and the other guy had, I think he had pocket kings. | ||
| And then he ended up getting a boat. | ||
| Is it torturous having this good of a recollection of things? | ||
| I wouldn't know it any other way. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| But it's only things that I like are significant that I want to remember. | ||
| So if there's something insignificant that someone's like, hey remember this, I will. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know, but there are some people who have absolute photographic memories where they can tell you literally everything. | ||
| They consider it a defect or like an anomaly. | ||
| No, they consider it negative. | ||
| That's what we're trying to say. | ||
| Like it's a syndrome of something because you could ask them like, where were you six weeks ago? | ||
| You know, where were you on like March 15th? | ||
| They'll be like, oh, March 15th. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Here's exactly what happened on March 15th. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I can't do that. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| But like, I don't even think I'd want to. | ||
| Well, the people who can remember, like, every day specifically, they can tell you the temperature, they say that it means that they can never, like, they always hold grudges because they can remember every wrong that someone has done against them. | ||
| They can never let anything go because they remember every single detail all the time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Today I tweeted something about the record low temperature. | ||
| They said it's a record low temperature for June. | ||
| And then I was just like, oh no, climate change, it's a global cooling, quick, have more babies and drill more. | ||
| I was gonna make a different joke, but I thought it'd be too crass for Twitter. | ||
| I was going to say... Tell us now, please. | ||
| I was going to make a joke basically about drilling your wives and drilling the ground. | ||
| And then I was like, we'll just settle with have more babies and drill. | ||
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Anyway, thanks for calling in, man. | |
| Thank you very much, guys. | ||
| Thanks for all you do. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Alright, let's talk to Priz with a little winky face. | ||
| What's up, winky Priz? | ||
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Hi, how are you guys doing? | |
| Good. | ||
| Why are you winking at us? | ||
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Um, well, long story about my name, but, um, uh, I guess it keep it short. | |
| It's all from Minecraft. | ||
| It's voxel prismatic. | ||
| That's my at, um, just both parts derived from Minecraft. | ||
| Um, so my question was, Do you think the push for kids to go to college and get office jobs can explain the deficit in technical jobs? | ||
| Technical workers, because you guys are struggling to find basically anyone to work on the coffee shop. | ||
| I mean, I've seen a large decrease in the amount of people working in the trades. | ||
| A large decrease in the push for people to work in the trades. | ||
| You don't hear anybody push for kids to go to trade school anymore. | ||
| Let me start right now, dude. | ||
| But I'm saying, from the mass media, you're not going to hear them say, if you want to be successful, go spend a gazillion dollars at a four-year school so that you can be in debt for the next four years. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because people that work with their hands in the trades, they can actually make a good enough living that they don't have to rely on the state. | ||
| The state doesn't want that. | ||
| They want you to be a fucking ward. | ||
| So I think, I would highly recommend, anybody that's coming out of high school right now, give serious consideration to just going straight into an apprenticeship. | ||
| Yeah, you have to remember that over 95% of student loans come from the government. | ||
| So they are funding this cycle of debt and dependence. | ||
| I don't know about y'all's experience, but when I was in school, there was this sort of semi-negative connotation to trade schools. | ||
| You couldn't make it, I guess. | ||
| But now I think, like, Man, I wish I had gone there and met a nice electrician who would make money. | ||
| And there's so few people that are willing to put in actual hard labor that you could probably just go talk to your local electrician as a kid coming out of high school and be like, hey, I'll apprentice for you over the summer. | ||
| I want to prove that I'm capable. | ||
| And just all I'm asking is that you teach me everything you know. | ||
| He'd probably be willing. | ||
| So you don't even have to spend a penny. | ||
| He'll just Help you out. | ||
| My brother's an electrician. | ||
| He loves his job. | ||
| It's hard work, but he enjoys every bit of it. | ||
| Have you ever seen the video meme where it's like, stop trying to be influencers. | ||
| We need electricians and plumbers. | ||
| Stop it. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yeah, I think that's it. | ||
| I think generally people are afraid of labor because we have insulated ourselves from it. | ||
| I'm kind of giving away the story here, but I've been thinking about writing this piece for a long time about how Chuck Grassley is one of two active farmers in the U.S. | ||
| Senate. | ||
| I find this deeply disturbing because a hundred years ago, right, we must have had more people who were actively tied into the farm. | ||
| They actively took part, they knew what it was like, and now it's like, John Tester from Montana, Chuck Grassley, whose son actually manages the farm, and then there's like a handful of people who raise cattle. | ||
| And like, those are real jobs that touch earth, you know what I'm saying? | ||
| Like, they are deeply affected by the weather and taxes, and the way that like the class of people who are coming up right now, you can click on all of their bios, it's public information, They went to an elite school, they went to an elite law school, then they worked on Capitol Hill, and then they ran for office in their home state. | ||
| And I'm not saying that those people couldn't do some positive, but it feels unnerving to me that we are seeing more politicians come from that cycle than politicians who have connections to small business and family farms. | ||
| Is that why we wanted back in the day it was such a plus to have military experience, right? | ||
| Like it's like you were invested in the country because you served the country in a way that, you know, being a lawyer doesn't necessarily have the same connotation. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, it's the same thing when you hear people who like, like a criticism that comes up right now of Tim Scott, who's running for president. | ||
| uh is that he doesn't he's never been married he doesn't have kids and so that is a strange experience it is a similar criticism that i have to the catholic church right i don't understand why their priests don't get married and have families how can you sympathize more with someone than if you are also having to raise children in this environment you know what i mean i'm saying this to all the unmarried uh yeah men in this room who don't have children i'm sure you all will be fine it'll be great but it does he doesn't mean it it does Look, jury's out on all of you. | ||
| You seem wonderful, but I don't know. | ||
| I regularly pressure Brett on the Pop Culture Crisis show to get married and like find a woman and become a nice hockey dad. | ||
| So, you know, it'll be fine. | ||
| But I'm being serious. | ||
| I think these ties to a world outside of elite, you call, Tim refers to a lot as like the laptop class. | ||
| Like these people who have comfortable jobs where you don't work with your hands and you've never had to, right? | ||
| It's because we put air conditioning in all the office buildings. | ||
| That's why this is going on. | ||
| But I can understand why there was a generation of parents that were like, if I save and scrimp and send my kid to college, they can have a better life. | ||
| And that's what I want for them. | ||
| Like, I understand that, but it's so wrong. | ||
| That's the lie they've been sold. | ||
| The better life was being on the farm. | ||
| Yeah, 100%. | ||
| Like, you are better. | ||
| Man. | ||
| Or going to trade school. | ||
| To all the migrants out there who come here and they're like, I'm gonna work really hard and get my kid in college and they're gonna get a good job and have a good life, you are condemning them. | ||
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Yep. | |
| You, like, you don't want them to be poor, you want them to have healthcare and make good money and all that stuff, but a good job, a trade, you get paid well, you work with your hands, you get physical activity, you go sit on your ass all day, you're gonna get hemorrhoids and you're gonna be writing about Brad Pitt's junk. | ||
| But also they get home at a reasonable time and like a lot of their work and that allows them the opportunity to actually raise a family. | ||
| They get weekends. | ||
| They get weekends off. | ||
| All kinds of things that people who have farms or small businesses don't have. | ||
| On the other hand, they are totally tied to a corporation and they are ultimately physically atrophying because they are not moving around enough. | ||
| But there's also a level of like, sure, maybe they have the weekends off, but there's a level of Purposelessness and despair that seems to coincide with the office job, especially now that there's DEI departments that are making you self-flagellate. | ||
| I mean, everything in life is a trade-off, and obviously someone is making the calculation that going into massive amounts of debt because you didn't go to trade school is worth it. | ||
| I personally disagree. | ||
| I did go to university. | ||
| But also a lot of those people who go work in the trades end up starting their own businesses. | ||
| They franchise their businesses and they seem to be more intelligent at actually working for themselves rather than having to go work for a large faceless multinational corporation. | ||
| I think about like your brother's an electrician, right? | ||
| So he could run his own business. | ||
| He could work for a contracting company that needs electricians. | ||
| He could go into house flipping and get really specialized. | ||
| He could rewire lamps. | ||
| He could do so many different things with different schedules. | ||
| It's a similar argument for women going into nursing. | ||
| Nursing is a very flexible career path. | ||
| There's lots of different types of shifts, there's different industries. | ||
| You can specialize, you could be a school nurse, depending on what else you need and want out of life. | ||
| It's a difficult, but a very interesting career path with a lot of flexibilities. | ||
| Becoming an office worker does not have that, and going into debt to become an office worker seems crazy. | ||
| And they always seem so miserable. | ||
| Let me also add, because I was an entrepreneur and because I had been successful in that path, During lockdowns, I was able to come out in May of 2020 or whatever, April, and start to speak out against this stuff. | ||
| Whereas most people that were working corporate jobs, that was kind of a career ender to do that. | ||
| So I would like to see more people that were in my position during the next crisis, which could be World War III, for instance, that are in a position where they can stand courageously and say, we're not going along with this latest narrative. | ||
| Because I think that's a real problem when you have more than half of the population that's just like, Cowed into silence and that's what we've kind of been dealing with lately. | ||
| Yeah, long story short. | ||
| You're better off doing a job where you get a little physical activity. | ||
| Oh, that's a little sweat. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Like any amount of like having to go out and work like a lot of the people I know people that work construction that it's not the greatest job in the world, but they come home and they're and they're happy. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| They worked hard. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, uh, and as for the coffee shop stuff, the, the bigger issue on our end is actually, it's, it's, it's the third parties. | ||
| It's the external. | ||
| So we've got contractors and what I'm learning is basically it's like, oh yeah, we were going to come in, but in order to do that, we have to have this guy from this government agency. | ||
| We have to have this guy from this agency. | ||
| We have to have this distributor give us these materials and everything is sludge right now. | ||
| So we did have problems with, you know, first degree contractors being like, oh, we're missing today, or I can't find the guys today. | ||
| Now we've rectified a lot of that. | ||
| We do need to get the work requests up in the members chat, because there is a lot of stuff that people could help us with. | ||
| But now it just seems like we can solve for one problem, but we can't solve the world. | ||
| Yeah, true. | ||
| But anyway, does that answer your question, good sir? | ||
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Yeah, and I just really like the point how office jobs are miserable. | |
| I'm actually going to transfer from college as a computer science major to technical school because it's like significantly cheaper and I will actually enjoy myself. | ||
| Good for you. | ||
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And college really opened my eyes to how miserable my dad is working from home. | |
| Yeah, right on. | ||
| Yep. | ||
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unidentified
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Thank you guys very much. | |
| Thanks for calling in. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| This is really cool. | ||
| I just want to say this is really cool to have people able to call in like this. | ||
| Yeah, it's great. | ||
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R.J. | |
| McDouglehiem. | ||
| That's a great name. | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| What up? | ||
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Thank you, sir. | |
| Let's get back to the important news of the day. | ||
| These aliens. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So do you guys think that they're greys, greens? | ||
| Nordic. | ||
| Or something like the gold? | ||
| Nordic. | ||
| I'm kidding. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| They're humans from the future, and they're coming back to do research. | ||
| Are the greys the ones that are anti-human, or are the greens the ones that are anti-human? | ||
| The greys are us from the future. | ||
| Eileen Grey's, honestly. | ||
| I think that's the best thesis. | ||
| I feel like this is some sort of conference I'm not getting. | ||
| That's why they say, like, they have big heads and big eyes and they're really thin and gaunt. | ||
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Right. | |
| Because they come back in time. | ||
| Because they've been tied into their computer screen for so many, yeah. | ||
| And that's why we never see any time travelers. | ||
| Because there are time travelers, but there are rules on time travel and always have been. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Although, to be fair, the moment time travel is invented, time ceases to exist. | ||
| It's bad. | ||
| As far as we're concerned with it, once time travel is invented, then everything is always everywhere, no matter what. | ||
| It's bad. | ||
| I saw 12 monkeys. | ||
| It's not a good thing. | ||
| But it's like limited time travel where it's like one guy can travel at one time for one reason. | ||
| But like, if we ever get to the point where we have time travel as ubiquitous as air travel, then the entire universe becomes infinity. | ||
| Just, it becomes a multiverse. | ||
| Bang! | ||
| Within a multiverse. | ||
| And then it totally ruins the Marvel Cinematic Universe. | ||
| Let me see what happens there. | ||
| There's no stakes for anything. | ||
| Nothing matters. | ||
| It has not been fucking fun watching that where it's like, oh, he's dead, but I know he's not dead yet because he's going to just come back. | ||
| It's more amazing if they actually stay dead. | ||
| That's the slimmest odds. | ||
| Imagine we invent totally ubiquitous time travel. | ||
| You'd buy potatoes, and then you'd be preparing them, and you'd be like, all right, who wants baked potatoes? | ||
| And then you'd place it in the oven, and then pull it right out, ready to go. | ||
| Microwaves would have no timers. | ||
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True. | |
| You'd put the food in, close the door, open it, take it out, and it would be hot and ready to go. | ||
| It'd be hilarious, because I would just be like, Like Seamus would be going to get his potato and I'd kick him in the nuts and then I'd time travel away so that it didn't show me there. | ||
| It's like the snow days thing. | ||
| In the era of virtual school, kids don't have snow days anymore. | ||
| There will be a generation of kids who don't have that experience of rushing to do something while you're waiting for something to come out of the microwave. | ||
| We're robbing them of these core experiences. | ||
| Where you stand there for three and a half minutes and you watch it as it cooks and then you have a tumor. | ||
| I'm going to miss out on that. | ||
| Streaming, providing you no commercials. | ||
| When do you go to the bathroom? | ||
| Now you just have to pause it. | ||
| You don't have the rush of having to quickly go to the bathroom and get your food from the microwave before you get back. | ||
| See how quickly you can sprint? | ||
| These were great childhood experiences. | ||
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Your siblings screaming at you, get back! | |
| We're just taking everything good away from children. | ||
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First H.S. | |
| States, now this. | ||
| When I was 18, I was hanging out with my friends and we were watching Hit Ativo. | ||
| And we were watching, I think, Simpsons. | ||
| And he was like, I recorded the episode. | ||
| So he pressed play. | ||
| And then I was like, wow. | ||
| I was like, dude, in the future, there's going to be a Simpsons channel. | ||
| Cause like, we're already starting to see it. | ||
| And they were like, you think I'm like just a channel for the Simpsons. | ||
| And I was completely right. | ||
| It's not a channel. | ||
| It's the Simpsons page on, you know, whatever network. | ||
| And you just go through all the episodes whenever you want. | ||
| They're all just there. | ||
| That almost is like that we've, we've taken time away. | ||
| Right? | ||
| It used to be like, you could watch The Simpsons Thursdays at, you know, 5.30 or whatever Central, and that's when it's on, and you can watch it. | ||
| And then there's, they did, they started doing, when I was a kid, Simpsons right after, was it 5.30? | ||
| Monday through Friday, the reruns would come on. | ||
| I would get home, it would come on. | ||
| 5.30, and then once TiVo existed, and you could record them all, now it was just, they were there. | ||
| And now, All shows exist in a perpetual infinite state. | ||
| You just turn the TV on and it's every episode. | ||
| I actually had this thought, and I'm sure you guys have probably thought about this too, but basically like once you have no binding event that we all gather for, like the closest thing we have left is live professional sports, but And I guess Game of Thrones was probably the last thing where we were all watching it as it released. | ||
| It was a sad commentary how little there is of that. | ||
| Succession had a record high of 2.9 million, which is negligible. | ||
| I'm older than you, but you probably also remember a similar type of thing where you would have these big TV things that everyone watched. | ||
| Who shot Mr. Burns? | ||
| Yeah, exactly. The X-Files would, the numbers the X-Files would do on a bad day on like a Sunday | ||
| would just destroy anything that comes out today by a mile. | ||
| And before that it was radio, right? | ||
| I mean, there were always these moments of gathering. It's why I think small town time | ||
| functions differently because if you're in a small town and you have like one church that | ||
| everyone's going to or you have like one Friday night football. | ||
| Right! | ||
| It doesn't happen the same way because these people are all having this moment where they're all together more frequently than we are when you're more disassociated or in a larger city. | ||
| I will say this though, to not be totally black billed, I think that this is gonna drive more and more people back into church life because they want to have some sort of uniform experience and that's like the only thing that's available. | ||
| They're gonna look for meaning. | ||
| I feel like in the near future, Tim has been saying how eventually the right will be the future. | ||
| I think we're going to see, not a reformation, what's the word? | ||
| It's a great revival. | ||
| A renaissance, if you will, of people returning to their faith in some way. | ||
| We've very quickly deviated from the aliens. | ||
| I'm sorry, Greg. | ||
| See what aliens can do to you? | ||
| They make you talk about everything. | ||
| I brought up time travel right away. | ||
| Is there anything else you wanted to add that we should actually answer? | ||
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Uh, I mean, not really. | |
| I think it's more of a Stargate type issue. | ||
| My dad works down at Cheyenne Mountain. | ||
| He drives people in and out. | ||
| Oh, so he's actually like, oh yeah, it's like a two-story building in there. | ||
| And I laugh and I'm like, no, that's where the Stargate is. | ||
| Yeah, he's just, he can't tell you the truth, you know, because he'll blow his cover. | ||
| Well, if you get any inside information, please drop a dime to me. | ||
| Liberty Lockdown Podcasts at Gmail. | ||
| I want to know about the Stargate. | ||
| Are you trying to scoop Tim Cass news right now? | ||
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I'm real mad. | |
| On a Tim Cass IROP podcast? | ||
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Email Tim Cass news first. | |
| Oh, okay, he's giving up the scoop. | ||
| As it should be. | ||
| Hannah-Claire Brimlow. | ||
| Email her. | ||
| Yeah, find me on the internet. | ||
| Let me know. | ||
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Get on the Discord, Anna. | |
| Oh, no. | ||
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Don't worry. | |
| I will. | ||
| I will. | ||
| I made Chris Burtman and Brett many, many promises that I would get on the Discord by the end of last week. | ||
| Don't promise us. | ||
| Me? | ||
| Burtman, maybe. | ||
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No. | |
| No, Brett McDonald. | ||
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Oh, OK. | |
| You're not the only Brett at this company. | ||
| I always forget about that. | ||
| How many Chris? | ||
| We have three Chrises, right? | ||
| Four. | ||
| Four? | ||
| Too many Chris's. | ||
| Four Chris's. | ||
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That's how my job is. | |
| An embarrassment of Chris's. | ||
| Yeah, and two Bretts. | ||
| Four Chris's? | ||
| We've had multiple Andrews or Andy. | ||
| It's just, it's a lot. | ||
| Everyone needs to get new names. | ||
| I have said repeatedly I would join the Discord by the end of the week, so I'm going to say it again, but I'll say it more publicly. | ||
| She said she was going to finish the Fast and Furious movie for us too. | ||
| I don't even know where Discord is. | ||
| I don't know how to find it. | ||
| You guys don't understand. | ||
| I'm boomer tech over here. | ||
| Top Lobster is texting me relentlessly, telling me to bring up Nephilim during this alien conversation. | ||
| I don't know what the Nephilim are, bro! | ||
| Who's the fourth Chris you're referring to? | ||
| I might be wrong, but Chris who drives, Chris who edits, you're Chris, and then Chris Bertman. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| That's four, yeah. | ||
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Four. | |
| I thought it was four. | ||
| I organize Secret Santa so I know these things. | ||
| I'm very aware of everyone's names. | ||
| Well, that's too many. | ||
| We should change their names. | ||
| Someone's Topher from now on. | ||
| Burtman can be Topher. | ||
| I feel like Chris Burtman can't because he's got this like cult code. | ||
| But he goes by Burtman. | ||
| He's forsaken Chris for Burt so he can be Topher Burtman. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, no, he's Burtman so now we can mix up a different one. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So anyways, I'm going to go on the Discord and moderate this discussion. | ||
| I'm still not going to go on Discord. | ||
| I don't care what Hank Laird is. | ||
| I'm not going to be on Discord. | ||
| I have to find it. | ||
| Where is it? | ||
| I respect that. | ||
| We'll get you signed up. | ||
| We'll get the Tim Gasker in there. | ||
| Discord was the first time I felt like a really, really old person. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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I downloaded it and I was like, I can't figure out anything. | |
| So it's an app, not a website? | ||
| I really have no idea what's happening. | ||
| Yeah, it's a web app. | ||
| Web app, yeah. | ||
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Web app? | |
| You kids and your technology. | ||
| All right, RJ. | ||
| Thanks for calling in, buddy. | ||
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Thanks, guys. | |
| Yep. | ||
| Cheers, man. | ||
| See you around. | ||
| And, Clint, nice hanging out. | ||
| It's been a blast. | ||
| It's been a blast, man. | ||
| I just, I gotta remind your beautiful audience, we will have on Owen Benjamin 48 hours from now on Tower Gang. | ||
| It's gonna be insane. | ||
| Check it out. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Best of luck. | ||
| And for everybody who is a member, you guys rock! | ||
| Thank you all so much for everything. | ||
| We want to put up the work request thing so we can start just involving you guys and actually, I don't know, getting you paid, getting you jobs, because we certainly need the help and we're willing to pay. | ||
| So hopefully that's all coming soon. | ||
| And thanks for hanging out. |
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