July 7, 2023 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| So Tucker Carlson did an interview with Russell Brand. | ||
| And he said something that, uh, it might be shocking and it might actually, it might be | ||
| kind of obvious. | ||
| There were a lot of feds on January 6th. | ||
| Embedded. | ||
| What Tucker Carlson said was that he had done an interview with the Capitol Police Chief who told him this, and he wasn't a conspiracist, and then he hears this, and he's like, interesting. | ||
| He did not get a chance to air that interview because Fox removed him before he could. | ||
| He does intend to have that interview. | ||
| So this is really, really fascinating. | ||
| I don't know if it's necessarily a revelation because we've been learning more and more about the officers who were embedded on January 6th and even encouraging people to take action. | ||
| But I still think this is big news. | ||
| I'm looking forward to seeing how Tucker handles moving forward. | ||
| And we do have a lot of other news too, of course. | ||
| We'll talk about that. | ||
| Donald Trump heading to Dairy Queen, buying everybody blizzards, having a good time. | ||
| And then This may sadden all of you leftists. | ||
| Yes? | ||
| Our leftist fans. | ||
| AOC has endorsed Joe Biden. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Talk about an establishment shill, but fine. | ||
| We get it. | ||
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And then we'll just talk about what's going on with the election stuff. | |
| We got some Ron DeSantis in the news, and we're gonna be talking a bit about that. | ||
| You know, this one's gonna get silly, but... | ||
| The DeSantis campaign used footage that was produced by TimCast News in a text message that was sent out to a bunch of people and an ad and the text message was literally just our clip with paid for by Ron DeSantis on it and that's generated controversy among the DeSantis supporters who are screeching at me because I simply said we did not license this footage to them because like I don't know what else I'm supposed to say when they put when they text people a clip like our clip and says paid for by DeSantis and people are like hey wow are you did you sell this to them and I'm like no we didn't we didn't license it and they're all losing their minds so we're gonna have to talk about it I have to talk about it before we get started my friends head over to castbrew.com and buy cast brew coffee why it's our coffee company it's the best coffee company I gotta be honest this morning I had a glass of a cup of rise with Roberto jr. | ||
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| Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is James Kluge! | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| What's going on, everyone? | ||
| James Kluge. | ||
| You can find my YouTube channel at youtube.com slash James K-L-U-G, primarily focused on street conversations with folks on the left and leftists out on the street, everything like that. | ||
| So you guys, thank you so much for having me. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| And making a rare appearance is producer Carter Banks. | ||
| What's up, guys? | ||
| I am back since the one time that I was on the other time. | ||
| It's great to see everyone! | ||
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He's back. | |
| I'm here to hang out. | ||
| What do you do? | ||
| I make music and do Trash House Records stuff. | ||
| We've got a lot of stuff coming up, including a music video starring Ian Crossland. | ||
| That's gonna be hefty. | ||
| Yeah, we talked about that last night. | ||
| Philobonti is here! | ||
| Hi everybody, I am Phil Levante, lead singer of All That Remains, anti-communist and counter-revolutionary, and we are here with... Ian Crossland, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. | ||
| Have a good evening tonight. | ||
| Let's get started. | ||
| We have to my right... Yes, it is me. | ||
| Hi, what's up everybody? | ||
| It's Kellen. | ||
| I'm pressing buttons tonight. | ||
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Ready to go when you guys are. | |
| Let's get it. | ||
| Here's the first story from the Daily Mail. | ||
| Tucker Carlson tells Russell Brand he doesn't know why he was fired by Fox News in his first interview, as he also makes the bombshell claim that the crowd outside the Capitol on January 6th was filled with federal agents. | ||
| Well, in fact, we have that clip. | ||
| Green lives matter. | ||
| Not true, that is, other than... | ||
| They have a good amount of followers, and they tweeted this. | ||
| Tucker says the chief of Capitol Police told him that the crowd on January 6th was filled with federal agents. | ||
| He planned on airing that interview, but was cancelled before he could do so. | ||
| Now we know why he was cancelled and fired. | ||
| Are you seeing it clearly now they don't want the world to know the truth? | ||
| Well, let me play for you that clip. | ||
| It's only about 50 seconds long. | ||
| And that was a tip off to me. | ||
| I mean, I had no thought in my head as I watched this happen on television and in the subsequent weeks that U.S. | ||
| Law enforcement or military agencies had anything to do with it. | ||
| That never crossed my mind. | ||
| I never thought there was a false flag or anything like that. | ||
| I'm not a conspiracist by temperament. | ||
| I never thought that. | ||
| And then I interviewed the chief of the Capitol Police, Stephen Sund, in an interview that was never aired on Fox, by the way. | ||
| I was fired before it could air. | ||
| I'm going to interview him again. | ||
| But Stephen Sund was the totally non-political Worked for Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| I mean, this was not some right-wing activist. | ||
| He was the chief of the Capitol Police on January 6th, and he said, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that crowd was filled with federal agents. | ||
| What? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Well, he would know, of course, because he was in charge of security at the site. | ||
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So the more time has passed, now it's been... So that's the gist of it. | |
| I mean, this is... It's big news, but I do think it's gonna be better when Tucker does actually interview the chief of police, and we hear it straight from, you know, this individual who's in charge of security. | ||
| But, uh... Yeah, I would imagine he's gonna, you know, actually deliver that promise as well, getting that out there. | ||
| Because that'll just be... | ||
| I mean, pretty much confirming a lot of what people have been saying right after January 6th. | ||
| I don't know if you guys remember, but I mean, obviously this was right after the Summer of Love and everything like that. | ||
| And a major narrative just from people was, well, Trump supporters don't really move like that. | ||
| This seems a little bit off. | ||
| This seems suspicious. | ||
| It seems as though the more time that's passing by, the more this stuff is just getting exposed every single month. | ||
| The scary thing, I suppose, is it's trickling in drops at a time. | ||
| You know, we see videos of some guy saying, like, go, go, go, move, and encouraging people to engage in this stuff. | ||
| Then we learn that there's more and more police officers who are in on it. | ||
| The funny thing is, early on, You had that famous video with AOC where she's like, I'm, you know, questioning the cops who may have been involved. | ||
| Or she said something to that effect after Alex Stein did that big booty Latina thing. | ||
| She was saying, like, we don't feel safe and stuff. | ||
| And the point I made was, wow, AOC is claiming it was an inside job. | ||
| But there's videos of cops opening the doors for people, waving people in, taking selfies with people. | ||
| So right there, You could argue, yeah, the cops were letting people in. | ||
| If this was really an insurrection, well, they were police officers letting them in. | ||
| Now there's a bigger question and increasingly more and more news being added to the mix, which is creating a bigger picture of actually there are people in the crowd encouraging it and making it happen. | ||
| The reason why I say it's scary is that it's coming out only in slow droplets to the point where people don't care because it's not a bombshell. | ||
| Yeah, just drop as many, a thousand stories over the next handful of years. | ||
| And like you said, not a big bombshell. | ||
| I think for the general population as well, they don't grab onto the little tiny hints and clues here and there. | ||
| They really grab onto major bombshells. | ||
| So if I went out on the street and talked to people about these details that have been coming out, most people don't know about this stuff. | ||
| They only know about major, major explosions in the media. | ||
| Assuming that the mainstream media even covers it. | ||
| And then by the time we're at the general election next year, it will be common knowledge that it was largely a federal operation, and they'll be saying, it was a good thing. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It saved the election, or helped save the election. | ||
| Helped save democracy, yeah. | ||
| First they'll say, first they said it wasn't happening, you're lying. | ||
| Now we have more information, it was, then they're gonna say, oh well, you're exaggerating, and then by next year it'll be a good thing. | ||
| That's how the cycle goes, and they'll be like, oh yeah, it happened. | ||
| Yeah, and it was a really good thing that it did, because they caught those evil people, for sure. | ||
| Yeah, they prevented a siege by letting them inside and capturing them on the inside, is probably the argument they'll make. | ||
| What would have happened if they tried to block them? | ||
| I mean, it would have been real, maybe they would have burned it down, you know? | ||
| So by opening the door, oh yeah, and encouraging them to do it was to find out who was really going to be a seditionist and etc, etc, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| I was thinking a lot about these these protesters last night and like they were addressing grievances. | ||
| They didn't believe the election was fair and they were trying to stand their ground and take space to prevent the signing of basically the of Biden of the election. | ||
| They were like of you know whatever they were signing off and making it valid. | ||
| They were like no we're gonna stay here so you can't. | ||
| They weren't like attacking people or choking people. | ||
| Ashley Babbitt got shot because she went a little too far I think. | ||
| She's climbing up and over the barricade going into the inner chambers Got shot. | ||
| I understand why I don't like it, but they were like just taking up space right not to mention that had been done all over the place for the last however many hundreds of days like we watched in the summer of love so they're like well, I mean Why can't we do this as well? | ||
| Well, they even try to sell it as an armed insurrection. | ||
| Like, they will go that far. | ||
| I talk to people about this all the time. | ||
| And they will go that far to be like, oh, well, some guy across the parking lot | ||
| was caught with a firearm on his person or something like that. | ||
| Therefore, now they can say it's an armed insurrection. | ||
| Like, I was there, man. | ||
| I was reporting on the thing. | ||
| I was there. | ||
| Not inside. | ||
| But I saw a lot of people. | ||
| And it's like, it was nothing like any right you've ever seen. | ||
| It was, OK, some people misbehaving over here. | ||
| You look to your right, and it's like 15 grandmas I think there was there's a photo of a guy who's on the stairs and he's got a gun on him. | ||
| Was he a fed? | ||
| Now I'm starting to wonder. | ||
| This is exactly the point. | ||
| Well there's tens of thousands of people there. | ||
| So here's the issue is that I remember seeing these photos circulate, mainly among the left. | ||
| A lot of people on the right didn't know this. | ||
| Even I was wrong about this early on when I was like, there were no guns. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| How could you have a gun in D.C.? | ||
| Yeah, there was. | ||
| They found a couple. | ||
| And they did. | ||
| And now that we're learning that there were law enforcement there, it's like, oh, now that kind of explains it doesn't. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Like, where were those guys? | ||
| Because the question is, how do you get a firearm onto these, into the city, onto these grounds with heightened security and stuff like that? | ||
| How did they not spot this or find it? | ||
| It's entirely possible. | ||
| I'm not saying that they were law enforcement. | ||
| It's entirely possible some guy did bring a gun. | ||
| You can walk in, you can find ways to bypass security. | ||
| Or it could just be that the photo they found of that guy was... Because I don't think that guy's been charged either. | ||
| Well, and that's where it's like, okay, you raise a very reasonable question. | ||
| Your question is, who is that? | ||
| And even that gets criticized. | ||
| It's, oh, stop that. | ||
| Stop. | ||
| You're a conspiracy theorist. | ||
| Don't have this conversation. | ||
| Don't get more specific. | ||
| Don't show more footage. | ||
| Don't educate people. | ||
| I should clear it up, too. | ||
| They weren't all, I don't think they were all just standing there taking up space. | ||
| Some of them were getting violent, pushing cops, pushing, breaking things. | ||
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You're right. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| So those people, I think, deserve to be punished for what they did. | ||
| Not for anything more. | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| I mean, you can't just fight police and just get away with it unless you're a BLM protester. | ||
| Or Antifa. | ||
| Considering the previous year, it's not that much to ask to say, you know, at least treat people fairly, but the same way that they treated the other protesters in D.C. | ||
| six months earlier. | ||
| This is the point that Carter was making. | ||
| You have the Summer of Love protests and riots in front of the White House, setting fire to St. | ||
| John's Church, forcing the president to a bunker, and Half the people on January 6th were nowhere near that level. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| They injured Secret Service as well. | ||
| They destroyed multiple patrol vehicles. | ||
| Like a hundred or so in Secret Service were injured. | ||
| A guard post was set on fire and burned down. | ||
| Right outside the White House. | ||
| The barricades were torn down. | ||
| The president was forced into a bunker. | ||
| And so you get people who are marching peacefully to the Capitol, and first, I always preface it on one side, violence. | ||
| Very, very bad riding. | ||
| Yep, arrest those people. | ||
| And then on the other side, you had the cops open the doors and say, don't don't don't agree with it, but respect it and fan people into the point where there have been acquittals because there's video of the cops going like this and waving people in. | ||
| So you're a guy watching Trump speak and then someone says, hey, let's all go march down to the Capitol. | ||
| And Trump says we're going to go peacefully, you know, watch politicians. | ||
| You walk over, you see a building, you see the cops waving people in, you walk in and they're like, you are now going to prison for the next several years without charge or trial because you're an insurrectionist. | ||
| After you just watched all these videos of the far left trying to burn down a church in front of the White House? | ||
| Talk about... It's not even hypocrisy or double standard. | ||
| Who was it who said, Jacob Sobik maybe? | ||
| It's a three-tiered justice system? | ||
| Yeah, he did. | ||
| He said it on this show when he was guest hosting. | ||
| Ah, there's the protected class, then there's the random run-of-the-mill people they care little about, and the persecuted class. | ||
| So, if you're a regular person who's walking down the street, you may or may not get a ticket, they're gonna ignore you, it's whatever. | ||
| If you're a leftist extremist, not only will you be acquitted, like in D.C. | ||
| when they were rioting during Trump's inauguration, they won a lawsuit and got paid out by tax dollars! | ||
| And then if you're a Trump supporter, you will bumble around confused, and you'll be in prison for two years. | ||
| Or if you're even perceived to be a Trump supporter or whatever, like Eric Herrera, he went to prison for... Actually, I'll first say, he was a non-credentialed journalist, went in there with a, you know, camera into the Capitol building, non-violent, nothing violent that he did, and he went to prison for four years. | ||
| Sentenced to prison for four years, and I think he went in maybe three months ago? | ||
| Non-violent. | ||
| You can even check out his case. | ||
| What was he charged with? | ||
| So what they got a lot of these people with, and I'm not a total professional on this, but I will say when it comes to the charges, what they were getting people with was obstruction of an official proceeding. | ||
| That's what they got him on. | ||
| That is what they were doing. | ||
| Even though he was there being a journalist literally with a DSLR around his neck. | ||
| I believe he like went into one of the offices and held up a piece of paper. | ||
| I'm pretty sure it says that on his case, but he got four years. | ||
| You can compare that to, I mean, how many BLM or Antifa members can you compare that to from riots that did something 15, 20, 30 times worse that served way less time? | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| There are absolutely many leftists who have been criminally charged. | ||
| They often get ridiculously light sentences. | ||
| There was just news about people at a Michael Knowles event. | ||
| Some far leftists who did something with explosives. | ||
| They've been criminally charged. | ||
| You have those two lawyers in New York who are giving out firebombs. | ||
| And what did they get? | ||
| Like a year? | ||
| I think they got like maybe two. | ||
| They definitely got less than Eric. | ||
| I know that for sure. | ||
| And we had Matt Brennan on the show. | ||
| Did they get disbarred? | ||
| Probably. | ||
| I would imagine so, but I mean, maybe even not. | ||
| I would really like to know if they got disbarred. | ||
| That's a good question. | ||
| I would imagine. | ||
| I mean, I would imagine too, but I wouldn't be shocked if we found out they didn't, though. | ||
| But Matt Brainerd was on the show just a couple days ago and he mentioned that there's a guy, and probably more than one, that is currently in jail without charge or trial two and a half years later. | ||
| Not charged with anything. | ||
| So you ask, what did they get these people on? | ||
| Well, in some cases, nothing. | ||
| In some cases, these people are just locked up for nothing. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| For having the wrong political opinions and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. | ||
| Nonviolent. | ||
| I actually forgot to mention also, Eric, to add on top of this case, he's actually a registered Democrat as well. | ||
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Oh, wow. | |
| So he's not even that political of a guy. | ||
| Not even that political. | ||
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Man. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Well let's talk about this here multi-tiered justice system with this story from the Daily Mail. | ||
| Kareem Jean-Pierre snaps at the press for asking if the cocaine belonged to Hunter or the Biden family. | ||
| Because what was the latest update that it was actually near the Situation Room in like a family in like high security area? | ||
| White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre snapped at a reporter who had asked her to say once and for all that the cocaine found at the White House did not belong to a Biden family member. | ||
| I just, I love how it's like a Biden family member because everybody knows. | ||
| You're not allowed to say his name. | ||
| The mainstream, the media and all the reporters, they're not allowed to say his name, basically. | ||
| You know, there's been some irresponsible reporting with the family, and so I've got to call that out here, the press secretary said, and I have been very clear. | ||
| I was clear two days ago when talking about this over and over again as I was being asked the question. | ||
| As you know, the media outlets reported this. | ||
| The Biden family was not here. | ||
| They were not here. | ||
| They were at Camp David. | ||
| They were not here Friday. | ||
| They were not here Saturday. | ||
| They were not here Sunday. | ||
| They were not even here Monday. | ||
| They came back out here on Tuesday. | ||
| It's remarkable because, like, Kareem, They weren't there on Friday? | ||
| Were they there on Thursday? | ||
| Oh, and if they were, could Hunter have dropped his cocaine then? | ||
| Well, okay. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, I think them just not being transparent about it or her not talking to Secret Service or anything like that to actually have some decent answers for the reporters. | ||
| I do love that we're at the point where no one believes them. | ||
| I know. | ||
| The reporters are just like, come on. | ||
| Like, come on! | ||
| You know? | ||
| Hunter Biden's a crackhead. | ||
| What do you expect us to believe? | ||
| But in terms of- They could be Jills. | ||
| We have no clue. | ||
| But let's just- It could be a Biden family member. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| And maybe not. | ||
| Maybe some senior official, someone connected. | ||
| But let's just pause and break down January 6th. | ||
| Bumbling guy walks through doors opened for him by police, takes selfie with cops, adheres to the velvet ropes as he walks around smiling. | ||
| The police then say, everyone's gotta go, and they go, okay, and they wave and leave. | ||
| Two years in prison. | ||
| Someone, at a high level of government, bringing illicit drugs into the White House. | ||
| Ah, we can't figure this one out, sorry everybody, have a nice day. | ||
| How about this? | ||
| Whoever planted the pipe bombs. | ||
| Can't figure that one out either? | ||
| Yeah, multi-tiered justice system. | ||
| I was, this is a bit anecdotal, but I watched that video of Hunter on stage with Jill and Joe from the July 4th celebration where Hunter's look all, he looks all like tweaking pretty hard for like a couple seconds, and then he goes behind Jill and I'm watching Joe's, maybe we can pull this video up, watch Joe, he smiles real tense like, and Jill looks so just mortified right when Hunter's behind her, looks like he's snorting coke off his wrist or something or out of a vial, and Joe, like when his arm goes up is when Joe goes like, Like, really awkward smile, and Jill gets real annoyed. | ||
| Like, oh god, she can't stand that guy, Hunter. | ||
| It's just so obvious. | ||
| I think she's said it plaintively in the past that she... I don't know, to be honest. | ||
| I don't have the documentation here, but... Do you guys remember that South Park episode? | ||
| I think it was from the 2008 election with McCain and Obama. | ||
| Probably. | ||
| And it's like, the whole purpose of running for president was a diamond heist to, like, raid. | ||
| Oh yeah! | ||
| Yeah, and they're like, boom, baby! | ||
| It's like... Yes. | ||
| I think it would just be a really great short film where it's like the Biden family. | ||
| You make a show, people think it's like Veep, but Veep is silly. | ||
| But the Biden family is more like degenerate. | ||
| What's that one show? | ||
| House of Cards? | ||
| No, the family in Chicago. | ||
| Shameless? | ||
| Yeah, just like a bunch of degenerates. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You call it shameless in the White House. | ||
| I didn't see that one, but South Park's been doing a pretty good job, especially on the trans stuff, they did a pretty good job on. | ||
| Dude, they've been early on all of them too, man. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| Competing with the Simpsons on some of this stuff. | ||
| Well, the Simpsons are woke. | ||
| I meant predict like for the predicting of like the future. | ||
| Well, no, I just mean like the Simpsons predicting things ended 20 years ago | ||
| Right, you know South Park Still like they've been like five years ahead of the curve, | ||
| right? It's crazy Are they predicting it or are they giving it a green light? | ||
| I don't think they're giving it a green light No, I think I think what happens with uh | ||
| You know if you watch a show like black mirror Not so much this latest season because it's more of a | ||
| horror series at this point than a sci-fi series But it's just a thought experiment. It's a | ||
| It's a hypothetical, like, what happens if X continues? | ||
| So when we're looking at government, like, you just ask yourself a logical question. | ||
| If Hunter Biden is a crackhead, I'm sure a lot of people could have easily predicted we'll eventually find drugs in the White House. | ||
| Hey, it happened! | ||
| Now we're supposed to believe it was not Hunter? | ||
| He's the notorious famous drug user. | ||
| So look, maybe, maybe it's only a 5% chance it was Hunter. | ||
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Eh. | |
| He still has the dominant plurality of probability. | ||
| The narrative is already set either way. | ||
| It doesn't really matter if Hunter did have it or not, because it's not likely that there's going to be any kind of significant investigation. | ||
| The people on the right have already made up their mind that it was Hunter. | ||
| They're going to say it was Hunter and meme the hell out of it, even if it's regardless. | ||
| Kind of sucks it awards him at this point, because he's getting blamed for it anyway. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I mean, he's already, but look, there's video of him smoking crack on his way to Las Vegas driving a 100 no no | ||
| was it the same one where he was driving 172 miles an hour? | ||
| I think he was I mean I heard the crack in the car was different than the driving 172 but | ||
| does it matter? | ||
| but the point the point I'm making is it doesn't matter because he was going to | ||
| Vegas to bang hookers he definitely smoked a bunch of crack | ||
| He's definitely had coke. | ||
| So, like, was it his? | ||
| Was it not his? | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| He definitely bangs hookers, smokes crack, and drives home. | ||
| It doesn't matter if it was his. | ||
| That is such a good point, though. | ||
| I think most of the American people probably just draw that conclusion anyways. | ||
| It doesn't matter what the truth is at this point. | ||
| They just say, okay, well, cocaine. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Hunter Biden. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| He still does all that! | ||
| Right, it just draws attention to that. | ||
| Here's the thing about Hunter Biden. | ||
| We're all people who try to be, to a certain degree, virtuous, and we're like, how dare he drive at such a high rate of smoking crack! | ||
| But there are people who do nothing but party and club, and they're like, whoa. | ||
| Like, he's cool. | ||
| I don't want people to think that I'm saying that I'm virtuous. | ||
| I don't want that kind of responsibility. | ||
| I've been in a band for too long, I have a history, no. | ||
| If you go to like the average person at a club on a Friday or Saturday night, and you're like, let me tell you a story about this guy who drives like 170 miles an hour while smoking crack and banging hookers, they're gonna be like, damn! | ||
| Like, who's this guy? | ||
| Sounds like he can party! | ||
| It's like the president's son, they're gonna go, wow! | ||
| Is he really going 170? | ||
| Was that confirmed? | ||
| I think, I don't know, like, I guess... I think it was in the... | ||
| Does it matter if it's 140? | ||
| Was he really going that fast? | ||
| I mean, the point is, like, 30 miles an hour, does it really matter? | ||
| No, once you're up over 98, you're pretty much... Well, if you're over 120. | ||
| I think one of the most extreme differences is watching how the media reported on Trump's children and how intense... I mean, there was an article every single day about this. | ||
| With Hunter, you don't really... I mean, you don't say his name. | ||
| Dude, the Hunter Biden laptop. | ||
| They're even saying a Biden family member. | ||
| It's like, who's it gonna be, Jill? | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know, we know what you're saying. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| But nobody's saying his name. | ||
| Nobody talks about him. | ||
| Yeah, here's a photo. | ||
| It's August 1st. | ||
| Dr. Boogersugar. | ||
| August 1st, 2018, purports to show Hunter Biden speeding to a Las Vegas orgy. | ||
| So is this video taken by him, too? | ||
| I guess. | ||
| So I tell you what, NBC, you're right. | ||
| Maybe it's not his cocaine in the White House. | ||
| All the other stuff. | ||
| But no, but to be fair for even this, like, it's a photo from his laptop. | ||
| Most likely was him. | ||
| But who knows? | ||
| Maybe it was Devin Archer or somebody, somebody he worked with. | ||
| Maybe it was Joe himself. | ||
| You know, they shared phone numbers or emails or something like that, didn't they? | ||
| And, you know, look, there's a lot of highways out there heading to Vegas where there's nothing around and there's no speed limit, so technically he might not be actually breaking the law, because it goes by like, are you driving unsafely? | ||
| No, he had cracked. | ||
| No, he's definitely breaking the law. | ||
| I'll stop with that one. | ||
| Retraction. | ||
| In Hunter's 2021 memoir, Beautiful Things, he admitted to crashing a Buick Verano while speeding through Palm Springs during another drug bender in October 2016. | ||
| Wait. | ||
| Man, don't speed through Palm Springs. | ||
| In the book, Hunter wrote that he was high for 12 consecutive days before entering an Arizona rehab. | ||
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What the hell? | |
| I mean, I, you know, a part of me, obviously it's unfortunate seeing people struggle with | ||
| addiction and all that stuff, but also at the same time, you have the Biden family that | ||
| basically, I mean, if anything, they can pull this off, I would say worse than let's say | ||
| this was the case for Trump or something. | ||
| I mean, they sell themselves as the adults are back in charge. | ||
| They're all responsible, good. | ||
| Everybody says how good of a parent he is, you know? | ||
| Who, Hunter Biden? | ||
| Joe Biden. | ||
| You know, they sell him like this good, good, good guy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's just marketing. | ||
| Blue Collar, Philly Joe, whatever. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| Just one of the boys. | ||
| Joe Scranton. | ||
| Right, and this is just... Hairy legs. | ||
| It's not a good look. | ||
| I got compassion for the drug addict. | ||
| Right, that's for sure. | ||
| I often do, but at the same time, if my military commander has a drug problem, I want him taken out of power. | ||
| I want somebody else in command. | ||
| And if the military commander has a son with a drug problem and brings him around to the military command spot, which is the White House, that's a big problem for me. | ||
| Or get some really, really high-paying jobs as well and prestigious positions. | ||
| Or that drug-addicted son is sending text messages saying, you better do it or else I'm going to tell my dad who's going to hold it against you. | ||
| Who's sitting right next to me right now. | ||
| Exactly, exactly. | ||
| Can we make a show? | ||
| Can someone finance a Game of Thrones style show called The Bidens? | ||
| Because it would be a great TV show. | ||
| I mean, you could probably get, if you didn't actually call it The Bidens, you might be able to get something like that. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| The West Wing was a show, you know. | ||
| House of Cards. | ||
| Drama Cells. | ||
| Show Pitch. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| I'm talking like two million dollars per episode. | ||
| Budget, big deal. | ||
| HBO, I hope you're listening. | ||
| It's about a political family. | ||
| They cheat in an election to win by having, you know, people go in late hours and swap out boxes and stuff like that. | ||
| Then once they get in, they start doing shady business deals to enrich themselves. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| It's Game of Thrones in the modern era. | ||
| It writes itself! | ||
| And? | ||
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And? | |
| There you go. | ||
| Dragons. | ||
| Yeah, just throw dragons in there. | ||
| Okay, okay. | ||
| Might as well. | ||
| Hold on, hold on. | ||
| Now we're talking. | ||
| But not dragons, but- Nuclear submarines, I meant. | ||
| Chasing the dragon. | ||
| He's talking about heroines. | ||
| Chasing the dragon. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| That's the name of the show, Chasing the Dragon. | ||
| Just literally shot for shot remake Game of Thrones, but in a modern context, and the | ||
| dragons would just be like warships and stuff. | ||
| Dragons are just A-10s, brrrr, instead of fires, brrrr. | ||
| Chasing the dragons, and it's a war movie, kind of, but it's about a corrupt political | ||
| establishment that's entangled in some crazy war, and drones that get hacked, that end | ||
| up getting turned around on the homeland or something. | ||
| That'd be wild. | ||
| And then what you gotta do is you gotta have the guy who becomes president is this decrepit, | ||
| degenerate, Alzheimer's. | ||
| out of shape and disgusting, and then his rival who gets cheated has to be this, like, tall, chiseled, and muscular blonde man who sells real estate. | ||
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Spies ice cream for people. | |
| Every season they find a way to make the, you know, the leader just collapse on the ground in some creative way as well. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Just every season. | ||
| He's on one of those, like, floor things that move. | ||
| You don't know if he's going to be in the next season, but he is. | ||
| I want to play the Hunter Biden character in that. | ||
| I think I could pull it off. | ||
| It'd be like Jared Leto in whatever movies he does where he's like all strung out or memento. | ||
| I think that movie was pretty good. | ||
| Are you looking to do like method acting? | ||
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You'd make a great crack head. | |
| So let's strung. | ||
| Let's talk about what it means to be the left in this country. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, from CNN, Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supports Biden's re-election bid. | ||
| Congratulations. | ||
| AOC is an establishment shill. | ||
| That's what you get. | ||
| And, uh, of course, she's gonna preface this a little bit with, like, no, I'm saying, like, hypothetically, I would if, yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| This is what, this is how politics goes. | ||
| AOC is this young upstart who's challenging the machine, and is a real leftist, and as soon as she gets into office, she starts ponying up to the establishment. | ||
| You see that video where, like, she changes her vote, or something like that, you know, it's been a while since I, like, Pelosi yells at her, and then her vote changes or something, I don't remember exactly. | ||
| But here's the story, because we want to make sure the context is clear. | ||
| Democratic Rep AOC said Thursday that she will support President Joe Biden's re-election bid, given the challenges he currently faces in the primary. | ||
| Author Marian Williamson, an environmental lawyer, and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy have launched campaigns. | ||
| When asked on the Pod Save America podcast whether she would back Biden, she said, I believe given that field, yes. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| There's your leftist. | ||
| There's your new up-and-coming progressive. | ||
| I guarantee you, in a few years, she's gonna start moving up. | ||
| People have talked about maybe she'll run for Senate. | ||
| She's got millions of followers. | ||
| She is going to be as establishment as establishment can be. | ||
| She'll be coming out being like, stop insulting my banker friends! | ||
| The people who run the Federal Reserve are good people trying to make America- She's gonna be like Elizabeth Warren. | ||
| She's gonna just say whatever she's gonna say, so the press says something positive, and then she tricks people into voting for her. | ||
| She's already basically there, congratulations. | ||
| She's also super valuable to the political elite. | ||
| Like, when it comes to the establishment, her reach is insane. | ||
| She's incredibly inspirational to a lot of young, left-wing women. | ||
| I mean, her audience is ridiculous. | ||
| I don't know, partially, you can probably blame a part of the right for doing that. | ||
| But she's really, really valuable for them, so naturally I think that direction, they would give her as much power as she needs and all that stuff because they want her a part of the establishment. | ||
| She's their actual Pied Piper in that she's playing that little flute and dancing all the progressives right into the hands of the neoliberal establishment. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know, it's an interesting question, because when AOC first won her primary back in, I think it was like 2018, I thought it was a good thing. | ||
| I was like, good! | ||
| Get these establishment Democrat shills out. | ||
| Crowley was a prominent, like, fourth in line in the Democratic Party or whatever. | ||
| She gets rid of him, she takes over, and I said, she may be, you know, a leftist or whatever, but I'll take a left populist over a corporatist neolib shill and warmonger. | ||
| And what does she turn out to be? | ||
| All that and worse! | ||
| Term limits. | ||
| There's a problem as they go in there and get co-opted. | ||
| I don't even blame her, I blame the system itself. | ||
| We need term limits because she should be two and out. | ||
| But you know what it is? | ||
| AOC has nothing going for her. | ||
| Does she have merit? | ||
| Does she have talent and ability? | ||
| To a certain degree, the answer is yes, but would she be anything other than a bartender if she did not get elected? | ||
| What we see with so many members of Congress and politicians is that they don't have the merit to do anything other than win the beauty pageant. | ||
| And once they do, they're terrified. | ||
| Look, if I don't win my re-election, what happens next? | ||
| Where's Madison Cawthorn? | ||
| He's in the news every day, he's got something going for him, he loses the primary, and now he's no longer relevant. | ||
| So if you're someone who wants to matter, And you don't have the ability? | ||
| Politics is your game. | ||
| And then what happens is they get in and they're like, okay, I can't lose this. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi probably goes to AOC and says, we will do everything in our power to make sure you lose unless you play ball. | ||
| Do you want to be the up-and-coming young star of the Democratic Party? | ||
| Or do you want to go back to the bar? | ||
| And she's like, please, Nancy, I'll do anything you say. | ||
| And here you go. | ||
| I know Matt Gaetz. | ||
| I don't know if they're friends or whatever, but he's mentioned to us that he would enjoy having her come on the show with him at some point and have a debate. | ||
| Oh, come on. | ||
| DeSantis' people won't even come on this show. | ||
| She actually mentioned Ilhan Omar specifically multiple times. | ||
| I remember that. | ||
| So they have a bond of some sort, probably because they're young and in Congress. | ||
| They're like all this Freedom Caucus. | ||
| They've worked together a little bit as well. | ||
| I would be shocked if she actually said yes. | ||
| I would be really happy about it. | ||
| I'm just thinking of ways to head it off at the pass before 20 years go by and she is fully establishment, scary, like mob mentality. | ||
| She endorsed Biden a year and a half out. | ||
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Come on. | |
| Yeah, but with a caveat that at this stage with those two people that he's running against, I would. | ||
| What's her opposition to RFK? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Well, that's how you know that they're full of it. | ||
| If Newsom does announce two, she would go Newsom, for sure. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| The thing about RFK is, yeah, I disagree with him on a lot of things, but he's more populist, he's speaking to the people, and so it's like, oh, okay, I get it. | ||
| For her to be like, oh man, I'd rather have Biden. | ||
| Are you kidding? | ||
| You'd rather have Biden? | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Warmonger? | ||
| Establishment? | ||
| Come on, man. | ||
| I would take Marianne Williamson over both of them, to be completely honest. | ||
| I think she's very nice. | ||
| She'd be a good guest. | ||
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She's cool. | |
| We've invited her several times. | ||
| She's actually very, very nice. | ||
| I have a lot of respect for her. | ||
| I feel so bad for how the media mistreats her and how people make fun of her. | ||
| That's unfair. | ||
| She may be wrong about things, as most people are, but she seems to be a genuine, nice person who really does want to make a difference. | ||
| I think we would all benefit from having that conversation with her. | ||
| And she set the record straight about crystals. | ||
| She doesn't actually own crystals. | ||
| Well, I do. | ||
| But this is how they play. | ||
| Look, they called her in the media the crystal woo-woo lady, and it was so sad to see her be like, I don't understand. | ||
| I don't own any crystals. | ||
| I've never done anything with this. | ||
| Why are they saying that about me? | ||
| It's like, welcome to the political arena. | ||
| Now, Marianne, I'm a fan. | ||
| Everything bad they said about you, now think about what you think of Donald Trump. | ||
| Welcome to the same game. | ||
| Donald Trump is far from perfect, and we know he said some nasty things, but when they come at you and they say you're the crystal woo-woo lady, think about what they call Donald Trump and how it's not real. | ||
| And then people come out and they're like, but a court found that he was responsible for a rape 30 years ago, and it's like, dude, spare me. | ||
| Your ultra-liberal New York district ruling that a 30-year-old case with no evidence, it makes him responsible. | ||
| It's just, these are, it's political nonsense. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's the name of the game. | ||
| Yeah, it's always interesting seeing people actually wake up. | ||
| Usually, I mean, I don't know if they fully get out of it, but her seeing how she was treated by the media and just | ||
| kind of putting that, or if she was on the show, definitely putting that into | ||
| perspective with her to say, look at what we're dealing with. | ||
| You dealt with that for just a brief moment. | ||
| We deal with that, The Right deals with that every day, right? | ||
| This unfair treatment from the massive media machine. | ||
| Tulsi Gabbard's another one that had that big time. | ||
| Which is the slash in the face of like, what am I up against? | ||
| Totally woke up. | ||
| When she called out Kamala Harris and basically tanked her opportunity to become president if she ever even had one. | ||
| No, but it was before that. | ||
| It was Bernie. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, they called her a Russian asset. | ||
| She's like a colonel in the military. | ||
| They viewed her as an up-and-coming young star for the Democratic Party, and then when it came to Bernie vs. Hillary, she said Bernie, and they were like, you've just ended your career. | ||
| And now she's like an entertainer, basically. | ||
| Remember how she called out Clinton, Hillary Clinton? | ||
| She called her the ultimate warmonger, the queen of warmongers. | ||
| Just absolutely something or worse than that, right? | ||
| Yeah, it was it was really she excoriated her I don't I don't have the actual quote right in front, but she absolutely excoriated her it was one of the most Brilliant political one of the most brave political things that I've ever seen anyone do someone actually running on the Democrat tick ticket calling Hillary Clinton a It was Queen of Warmongers. | ||
| Yeah, Queen of Warmongers. | ||
| Literally, just tearing her apart. | ||
| And after that, when I saw that, I was like, look, she got terrible takes on the two-way, but I'd back her if she's going after Clinton, you know? | ||
| See, this is what I like, right? | ||
| We did the Culture War show today and we had Stephen Bonnell. | ||
| Is it Bonnell? | ||
| Is it Bonnell? | ||
| Bonnell. | ||
| Destiny. | ||
| He's a liberal guy. | ||
| Even after the show, we were hanging out and we were having disagreements. | ||
| But Destiny is an honest guy. | ||
| He could be wrong about something sometimes. | ||
| We all are. | ||
| But I know that if we come and have a conversation, he's actually going to try and make a point that he thinks is true and honestly assess what we are saying to him. | ||
| Then you have the actual cultural left. | ||
| Which is people like AOC, who will just lie, cheat, and steal for political power. | ||
| You have people like Tulsi Gabbard, who was being honest in what her views were, and probably wrong on some things, same as most people are, but was being honest to you on why she thought those things and was genuinely listening to you. | ||
| It's almost like the culture war factions, we always try to define what they are, but I can tell you one characteristic at the very least is, if you hold leftist political opinions, but tell the truth, you're right-wing. | ||
| Plain and simple. | ||
| That's how it goes. | ||
| I was actually talking with Destiny about it. | ||
| He said it was funny that, you know, when we do these shows with leftists, they make the assumption of what my political opinions are because in their world, if you don't follow their narrative, you're right wing. | ||
| So they'll say things like I'm pro-life or something like that, which is like, I'm like, none of these, like these things are not true. | ||
| You don't know what my opinions actually are. | ||
| These people make things up. | ||
| I mean, come on, like what it would take to endorse someone like Biden? | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| And for that matter, I'm seeing a lot of that with the DeSantis people as well. | ||
| I have a conversation with people who support Trump, and some people are fervently culty for Trump, and it is kind of creepy. | ||
| But most of the prominent Trump people will absolutely concede Trump's faults because it is the authentic and appropriate way to approach the conversation. | ||
| Hey, you don't like this thing about Trump? | ||
| Let me talk to you and maybe convince you that there's still some net positives here. | ||
| The DeSantis people. | ||
| It's like, they're just identical to Democrats. | ||
| No matter what DeSantis does, he is infallible, he is unimpeachable. | ||
| So DeSantis makes a mistake, and they will say it was actually a good thing. | ||
| I wonder if the people, you're talking about when you say the DeSantis people, you mean like people that are followers? | ||
| People in his campaign. | ||
| Hardcore followers on Twitter, maybe. | ||
| I wonder if what they're doing is, it's like an AI or a foreign agent sowing dissent between DeSantis and you, because you have a show and a voice, so if they see some contention, they're gonna be like, ooh, I'm gonna make Tim angry, and be like, DeSantis is great, you moron, and then you think that it's DeSantis somehow connected with that. | ||
| It is. | ||
| Insane response. | ||
| Well, there's no way to know. | ||
| I do, because they have verification badges and profiles that say, working for the DeSantis campaign. | ||
| Those then, maybe. | ||
| That's who I'm talking about. | ||
| That seems like a pretty big giveaway. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And so, when I say something semi-innocuous, like, wow, I can't believe this thing happened, and they start just attacking me on Twitter, I'm like, why are you attacking me? | ||
| And so, you get the point. | ||
| It really does feel like they are very much like Acting as Democrats do towards Trump. | ||
| It seems to me like they have like a book of rules that they've written out and studied, but they don't really get the nuances of why the rules work, but they're just following them all, expecting them to be, you know, to make them cool in that way. | ||
| It's just like, we all see it's not working. | ||
| Yeah, it's like a, it's a list. | ||
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| You gotta check every single box. | ||
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| And if you differ, such as Destiny, who probably differs a lot from a lot of people on the left, you're kicked out of that cult. | ||
| When it comes to the extreme left wing, if you differ at all, you're completely out. | ||
| You know, Tim, I was talking to one of your viewers the other day. | ||
| I just ran into him in the street. | ||
| Libertarian kind of guy. | ||
| You know, disagrees with people on the right, disagrees with people on the left, but he was talking to leftist protesters, gender, you know, cult protesters, and he was just saying, he was asking them some basic questions, and he might agree with them on some stuff, but they were just calling him a fascist and telling him to get the hell out of there, even though he might have agreed on some things. | ||
| Oh yeah, because it's a cult. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Let me, let me, I want to pull this up from Predict It, and we'll talk about Ron DeSantis. | ||
| Ron DeSantis' polls have been on the decline, and his shares in the prediction market have declined around 30-plus percent over the past 30 days. | ||
| I believe that Ron DeSantis is an excellent political leader in many, many ways, and what we've been seeing over the past 30 days has been very, very bad for him, which requires a course correction. | ||
| I'm a fan. | ||
| I'm a fan. | ||
| But his campaign's failures and the people who surround him have been so bad, I question whether or not he's actually fit. | ||
| Let me show you this from Predict It and we'll talk about what's going on with us and DeSantis and the desire, I guess, from DeSantis supporters for there to be drama and for DeSantis to lose support. | ||
| So over at Predict It, you can take a look at basically how this works is you can buy a share of a candidate, they're called contracts, and who you think is going to win. | ||
| Donald Trump is at $0.56. | ||
| That means if you buy Yes, and he becomes the nominee, that share is worth $1, so you'll make, you know, $0.44. | ||
| Ron DeSantis is at $0.23, and he's declined quite a bit. | ||
| When you take a look at the 30-day chart here for DeSantis, he was actually, he peaked on June 9th at $0.35, and he's dropped down now to $0.22. | ||
| So it is going down. | ||
| Vivek Ramaswamy is popping up. | ||
| This is the example I want to give. | ||
| To say this to the DeSantis campaign, you guys need to listen to the criticism and course correct. | ||
| Because right now what I see is DeSantis supporters are so fervent and they're behaving very much like Democrats to the point that if Ron DeSantis makes a mistake and everyone surrounding him just says he's right no matter what, he will lose support and that is what's happening. | ||
| Which brings me to the story that happened just a few hours ago. | ||
| Let's talk about the Santas campaign. | ||
| Many of you may be familiar with a video that went viral where chanters in New York were saying, we're coming for your children. | ||
| Many of you are probably aware, and some of you may not be, that that was filmed by Elad Eliyahu, our field reporter, who was specifically contracted to film for TimCast News. | ||
| That footage is property copyright owned and licensed out by TimCast News for use. | ||
| A lot of people have used it without permission, and there are questions about whether or not they should have done that. | ||
| That ultimately falls to Ilad Eliyahu, who retains the rights for licensing outside of Timcast to certain degrees. | ||
| We have an arrangement with him. | ||
| So it's going to come down to whether or not he believes that we have to pursue these things. | ||
| The Ron DeSantis campaign took the video, nine seconds of it, wrote, paid for by the DeSantis for president, and started texting it out to people. | ||
| It's not an ad. | ||
| It's literally just the clip from our Twitter that we published and we own. | ||
| I did not go to them screaming like... I did speak with people associated with the DeSantis campaign. | ||
| The first thing I did before any communication happened As I get hit up by a bunch of people saying, did you sell this footage of the status campaign because I'm seeing this thing? | ||
| And I said, no we didn't. | ||
| I then have to talk to Elad because we have an arrangement where he gets paid essentially a percentage based on licensing. | ||
| We want him to make as much money as possible when he produces these things. | ||
| We want to promote him and support his work so he gets that money, not us. | ||
| If someone comes to me and says, hey dude, you licen- I'm not saying this is what happened, but this is what y'all need to consider. | ||
| Someone comes to me and says, hey, I'm supposed to get paid when you license this footage out. | ||
| This thing says paid for by DeSantis for president. | ||
| Did you sell that footage and not tell me? | ||
| Because you'd owe me money if that was the case. | ||
| I'm more proactive on that. | ||
| So I said, hey, hey guys, no, like we didn't do this. | ||
| What do I do? | ||
| I tweet, we did not license this footage to Ron DeSantis' campaign. | ||
| All I tweeted. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| I did not say, how dare they? | ||
| They stole from me! | ||
| Ooh, they owe me all this money! | ||
| I said, we didn't license it to them. | ||
| Then people started attacking me, saying, you're stupid, you're a moron, people who write for various conservative websites, high-profile individuals and lawyers with millions of followers, people associated with Ron DeSantis' campaign, saying I was stupid, I was a moron, I was an idiot, that's not how it works, how stupid is Tim Pool, etc., etc. | ||
| These are not random people, these are high-profile personalities who support DeSantis. | ||
| And I'm sitting here confused, like, Yo, all I said was we didn't license it to him. | ||
| And so I tweet again, I'm like, people aren't getting it. | ||
| They tweeted out our video, just our video, nothing else, saying paid for by DeSantis for President. | ||
| They're lying. | ||
| They did not pay for this. | ||
| And then people start claiming, how dare you? | ||
| They're saying that they paid for the ad. | ||
| I'm like, it's not an ad, it's just our video. | ||
| They're tweeting our video to people and with the tag on it, paid for by DeSantis. | ||
| There's no context, there's no statement, there's nothing added to it. | ||
| They wrote, we're coming for your children, which is the quote from the video, with paid for by DeSantis. | ||
| It doesn't say, this is a commercial for DeSantis for President, we're seeking your approval, here's a clip you should watch. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| It's literally just our video. | ||
| All I said was, they didn't pay for it. | ||
| The absurdity and the insanity that I see here is, for one, you tweet at me all day and night about how I'm stupid or whatever, I don't get the point. | ||
| Do you want me as DeSantis supporters to go onto my show and just insult his campaign? | ||
| Because all it does is generate hatred and animosity between someone who otherwise should be supporting DeSantis. | ||
| How about instead of screaming and shrieking like banshees, you simply just say, hey, we're going to reach out to you and, um, you know, what, what, what's your, what is your ask? | ||
| So I actually reached out immediately after, after, like, I'm getting hit up by people who are like, hey, they're using this footage without, without credit, without attribution. | ||
| And there's actually, so like we have lawyers, there are questions about whether or not a political campaign can fair use news coverage without attribution. | ||
| And my understanding is they cannot even, they can't make fair use claims. | ||
| I didn't attack them. | ||
| I didn't scream at them. | ||
| I was like, I was like, hey, look, man, I got people hitting up asking me, like, if we sold this to you, because if we did, I'm going to end up owing money to people. | ||
| So I don't like that you guys are saying paid for by DeSantis if it's just this clip. | ||
| And they're like, yeah, no worries, man. | ||
| Like, we'll sort things out. | ||
| Totally fine. | ||
| But these people online, these high profile influencers support DeSantis. | ||
| It seems like they're trying to burn his campaign to the ground. | ||
| All they're doing is trying to make, like, it's like you were saying, I guess, Ian, you know, I would agree with you to a certain extent. | ||
| It's almost like they're Trump supporters pretending to be DeSantis supporters to hurt his campaign. | ||
| I would, I tweeted that I would ultimately believe it, except some of the people who have been coming at me in the past literally do work for his campaign. | ||
| So all I can say is that that's where we're at for now, but the bigger picture here outside of the personal context with us is people The fervent zealotry in support of DeSantis is going to sink him. | ||
| His polls are down, his predicted market stuff is down. | ||
| Yo, if something happens that makes DeSantis look bad, he needs to be realistic and personable and address it in an honest way, and that's how he wins. | ||
| But the course that they've taken over the past 30 days shows exactly why the prediction market is showing a decline, exactly why his polls are dropping. | ||
| Did they at least use a watermark on that? | ||
| Nope. | ||
| So, uh... Just cop the footage. | ||
| There's a lot of questions about it. | ||
| Some people are like, Tim said he wants everybody to have it the other day and he didn't care. | ||
| And I'm like, there's a difference between my opinion of this should be seen by everybody, that's why we do it, and I have an arrangement with a contractor who retains rights over that footage outside of what we want the footage to be. | ||
| That has to be answered for. | ||
| But even then, I'm like, you know, we're gonna talk with the lot and see how he wants to handle a lot of these things. | ||
| I'm not here to pick fights with everybody and just insult them. | ||
| But... | ||
| There is a legal precedent, my understanding right now, just for clarity's sake for the people who are saying it, when you see political campaigns and it shows like a clip of a news anchor saying a thing, they show the title of the segment or the date and the publication, they have to attribute it when they do these things. | ||
| And they certainly did not. | ||
| The other thing people need to consider, so I can explain fair use to you guys, news organizations are largely exempt from claims in this manner. | ||
| There's varying degrees of arguments on fair use, okay? | ||
| If you produce a news segment as a news organization for the purpose of monetization and licensing, people can't just take it and use it. | ||
| However, if it's embedded on Twitter, you can use that embed in your articles, and that's what people do. | ||
| You cannot download the footage and re-upload it to your organization, and some organizations that we like, conservative ones, have done this, and yes, we have been in discussion of, we're gonna request licensing fees for that. | ||
| So, you know, it's like, how do we be reasonable people in support of those who would spread around news that we want them to spread, but also make sure that, I'll put it simply, If an independent reporter covered this footage, if Elad was working by himself and did not work for us, he would have made substantially more money. | ||
| We cannot have a reporter work for us who is, in the end, making less money. | ||
| It makes no sense. | ||
| So, as an independent reporter, he has the license to this. | ||
| He can go to anybody and say, you owe me X, you owe me X, you owe me X, you gotta pay. | ||
| And he'll get it. | ||
| As a large organization, we front the costs of the trip so that he reports under our brand. | ||
| However, For what reason would he have to do that if he's just gonna say, but then I don't make any licensing fees? | ||
| No, we respond with, we'll let you retain licensing fees and if we license it out, we'll send that your way, but we get effectively the brand recognition. | ||
| So, the important factor here is, it's not fair use when the footage is produced specifically for the purpose of licensing and for news reporting. | ||
| There's other arguments about if someone writes an article or references things and you're commenting on it directly, totally understand and agree, and these things have to be adjudicated. | ||
| A judge will determine whether or not it was fair use or not. | ||
| Fair use is 100% always copyright infringement. | ||
| It's just whether or not you'll fall under the exemption. | ||
| Just to be clear, just my final thoughts on this. | ||
| I am not saying my demand is that DeSantis should have paid me for this. | ||
| That is not what I'm saying. | ||
| That may be Alad's position. | ||
| All I'm saying is people came to me and asked me if we sold this to them because it says on the video paid for by DeSantis. | ||
| I understand people are saying political ads reference who it was paid for legally, and they're not saying that video was paid for by him. | ||
| I am saying it is creating confusion in the marketplace, and so all I did was issue a statement to clarify, as I'm supposed to do, and I'm getting attacked by DeSantis supporters for it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And the clarification's incredibly reasonable. | ||
| I would say probably a lot of the backlash is just people being completely ignorant to the entire process of paying for flights, sending out a reporter, going out there getting it, all this stuff. | ||
| Fair use doesn't just mean somebody can spend all that money. | ||
| And you can just cop it and put it on your cable news network without any credit at all, without paying anything like that. | ||
| I know you said it's not about the money there, but I think a lot of people don't understand all that goes into getting this footage and then having it reasonably credited as well. | ||
| I'm personally not super concerned about credit, the money and stuff, but that's not my rights. | ||
| Elad retains those rights to a very large degree as per our agreement with him, which means if he's seeing stuff he's produced be sent far and wide, Typically on his own when he reports he sends an invoice like hey, I own the rights to this you got to pay for it Now he's he's operating under our banner That doesn't change. | ||
| So if he says he wants licenses for this. | ||
| It's not whether we want it to happen or not It's whether he does and I think he's a reasonable guy. | ||
| So we're not no one's trying to start fights or anything I don't want to harp too much specifically on that point other than to clarify it my point in the bigger picture is For the people who really like DeSantis, please look at the replies to my initial tweet so you can understand exactly why his polls are dropping. | ||
| It is an absurdity for me to be like, we didn't license this footage out, and then just have high-profile people with a million followers effectively, you know, just insulting me for no reason. | ||
| They could have been like, thanks for the clarification, Tim. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Instead, they're just creating threads, insulting me like crazy. | ||
| So I'll tell you this. | ||
| If your goal is to get me to really dislike his campaign, okay, I guess. | ||
| But simply put, my opinion on Ron DeSantis is not predicated upon what his fans do or say, but the people associated with his campaign, who have also engaged in what I would say is detrimental behavior to his campaign. | ||
| But I fear the reason why his polls are dropping is because he's surrounded by people that will defend him no matter what he does. | ||
| They'll keep telling him he's right no matter what he does. | ||
| Let's jump to this story and we'll talk about this one. | ||
| We have this from TimCast.com. | ||
| Gays Against Groomers official resigns following DeSantis ad slamming Trump's previous LGBTQ support. | ||
| I actually, I say this very clearly. | ||
| I think Ron DeSantis does deserve credit on going after the weird grooming stuff and targeting of kids. | ||
| And to a great degree, that criticism of Donald Trump is to a certain degree fair. | ||
| I do think it is unfair to categorize Donald Trump's support of your average LGBT person as the same as what Ron DeSantis is fighting, which is groomers. | ||
| So there's a point to be made there. | ||
| But ultimately there was backlash. | ||
| Ron DeSantis ended up getting flack from log cabin Republicans. | ||
| We now have David Leatherwood announcing his resignation from Gays Against Groomers because of the ardent support the organization's leader has for DeSantis. | ||
| This has been not good for DeSantis. | ||
| The DeSantis campaign has been very divisive on many of these issues, and ultimately my point is DeSantis then goes on Tommy Lorenz show, doubles down on all of this, And the result is increased backlash. | ||
| Ron could have come out. | ||
| He clarified and said, maybe we're a little strong. | ||
| You know, I don't want to conflate groomers with LGBT American citizens who want to live their lives. | ||
| Instead he goes, no, it's totally fair for me to do this. | ||
| Trump did this. | ||
| It seems like he's not getting good advice. | ||
| That people aren't explaining to him like, hey, you have a large coalition of people who are LGBT who support Donald Trump and will support you because they may be gay, but they don't like the groomers. | ||
| Don't ostracize the people who do like you. | ||
| But Ron goes forward anyway. | ||
| And it results in stories like this. | ||
| I think he's listening to sycophants. | ||
| And it's hurting him. | ||
| And it's tangible. | ||
| You see it in the polls. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So what can we expect? | ||
| We expect him not to win the primary? | ||
| Do you think that because Ron is looking to attack Trump from the right, do you think that the LGBT issues are going to be something that he's not going to be able to get a broad message that his campaign and his base will accept? | ||
| Because I feel like Whoever is going to be the Republican nominee needs to at least tolerate LGBT people, like gay people and probably trans people to some degree. | ||
| Obviously it needs to be prevented from being, you know, instructed to kids and needs to be taken out of school curriculum and you don't want to have It's the grooming stuff. | ||
| Yeah, the grooming stuff. | ||
| It's the political stuff. | ||
| But do you think that DeSantis is going to be able to lock that kind of stuff down without alienating LGBT or gay people? | ||
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I think that's pretty easy to... No, it's not that it's hard, but will he be able to? | |
| Will he be able to successfully do it? | ||
| Yeah, if he's coming from the right, you know? | ||
| If Ron DeSantis is adamant on attacking Trump from the right, he'll lose. | ||
| That's just it. | ||
| And I think that that's largely what it is. | ||
| You know, we were talking about this downstairs, you know, we were hanging out, Seamus, Destiny, John Doyle after the show, and we were talking quite a bit about it. | ||
| And I'm like, what we're seeing here with the Trump versus DeSantis is DeSantis really does represent the old guard Republicans, who are angry that Trump stormed into their party and took over, and they see an opportunity with DeSantis to win it back. | ||
| Unfortunately, it would seem that to a great degree, many of them lack the tact to pull it off. | ||
| Yeah, so the zealotry, the anger, the I-can-do-no-wrong attitude is exactly how you end up losing this internal conflict. | ||
| Yeah, when you're working against Donald Trump, if you want to defeat Donald Trump in an election, think of him as a non-Newtonian fluid, if you're familiar with these, like cornstarch and water. | ||
| The harder you hit it, the more solid it is. | ||
| If you go slowly, you use heat, you can push through it like a liquid. | ||
| That is a hard 20, Ian. | ||
| You rolled a 20 right. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| I see it exactly this way. | ||
| The response from the DeSantis campaign has been full force, as hard as possible, and they're hitting a brick wall. | ||
| But if they went slowly, they'd slip right through. | ||
| If their response to a lot of these issues was just pure authenticity, directly assessing the issue, Talking to people about their concerns and clarifying issues, dissenters would be defeating Trump in a prediction model. | ||
| One way I think that he could, in one second, is that, Phil, to answer your question, can | ||
| he pull it off? | ||
| Can he get the support of the LGBTQ plus community? | ||
| Yes, if he reminds people, straight people can be groomers too. | ||
| I'm here to prevent grooming of children. | ||
| I don't care who you are, what your sexuality is, where you came from, what colors you love. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| Don't groom these kids in my schools. | ||
| That's, I think, the message, because you've got to push against the straight people, too, that are grooming. | ||
| You know, look, I don't understand. | ||
| Perhaps the issue is DeSantis believes he's in it for the primary, and that's all that matters, which means screw the moderates. | ||
| What he's ignoring is that... And maybe they're trying to recapture neocons when the Democratic Party, I suppose. | ||
| I can't imagine how that would make sense because a lot of these Lincoln Project people have just embraced leftist values. | ||
| Donald Trump brought moderates into the Republican Party. | ||
| Vox.com called Trump a moderate. | ||
| So of course Trump came out in support of LGBTQ Americans, said gay marriage was a settled issue, and that was like a year after gay marriage passed, like, right around this time. | ||
| So Trump absolutely Attacked the Republican Party from the left in a lot of ways, and it worked. | ||
| He brought in many people who typically wouldn't vote Republican, who did, with the help of individuals like Scott Pressler. | ||
| The Republican Party was able to bring on more registered voters than the Democrats in some states for the first time ever. | ||
| The idea that you're going to go back to how the Republican Party was before and attack Trump from the right is a huge mistake. | ||
| What I was saying about DeSantis a year ago, the opportunity he had was to be nice Trump. | ||
| To talk about the same policies in the same way, but be tactful, youthful, and energetic. | ||
| Instead, it seems like he's taking the harder right approach, which I just see as... | ||
| Not viable. | ||
| Maybe I'll be wrong. | ||
| Most people see him as doing a fantastic job in Florida, of course. | ||
| A lot of people praise him for that. | ||
| He did a fantastic job. | ||
| However, this so far from what we've seen him interacting with the public and everything like that, one, I think he's surrounding himself with maybe not the best people. | ||
| I'm not going to totally generalize because I'm sure he's around some great people, but yeah, just not the best team. | ||
| And then also the campaign, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but it just seems like a glorified version of low energy Jeb. | ||
| Yeah, it's like nothing about it's exciting, nothing about it. | ||
| I don't like that a lot of people keep trying to pull the Jeb card on DeSantis. | ||
| I disagree. | ||
| He's way better, don't get me wrong. | ||
| But the campaign is more rabid than that. | ||
| Yeah, it seems like he's trying to use Trumpian tactics, but he's not Trump, and he doesn't get that he's not Trump. | ||
| And he can't quite pull it off. | ||
| Yeah, and the opportunity was to not be the aggressive Trump, but to have Trump's policies. | ||
| That was the mean Trump. | ||
| And now he's like, Just attacking Trump and he's... Look. | ||
| It's not so much the campaign, but to a certain degree, people associated with the campaign. | ||
| But for the most part, it's his base. | ||
| Whatever he's cultivated, for whatever reason, are sycophants. | ||
| He does something wrong, what do they do? | ||
| So what? | ||
| And I'm like, well, that's not what we're... I'm not interested in that. | ||
| And to be fair, Trump is very, very similar in that regard. | ||
| It doesn't work for me. | ||
| My personal feelings to win an election is you make your opponents irrelevant. | ||
| They're not the focus of your campaign. | ||
| If you're talking about them, you're giving them free publicity. | ||
| This is what Hillary did to Trump in 2016. | ||
| She kept talking about Donald Trump and how horrible he was, and kept giving him fuel, and now DeSantis is doing the same thing. | ||
| Perhaps that's the goal. | ||
| The DeSantis supporters want these stories to exist so that his name gets mentioned more, I suppose. | ||
| I'll show you this. | ||
| Over at the predicted market, Vivek Ramaswamy, take a look at this, entered the contract June 28th from 3 cents, now he's currently at 8. | ||
| Vivek is now in third place in the prediction markets for the Republican presidential nomination. | ||
| He bypassed everybody. | ||
| That's impressive. | ||
| Tim Scott, even. | ||
| This guy's not a politician. | ||
| He's a young guy. | ||
| Yeah, as soon as people hear him speak, just even for 10 seconds, oh, who's that guy? | ||
| I like that. | ||
| You know, they love listening to him. | ||
| So I think just the more people hear his name, hear him speak, everything like that, that number is going to continue to skyrocket. | ||
| What he's saying is really Yeah, his message, and regardless of what actually happens or where he lands in regards to actually running or whatever, just him being a part of the conversation and the topics that he brings up, which make the other people that are running at least be marginally informed, which is one of the things that I want | ||
| A lot more out of Trump. | ||
| I want Trump to understand the policies that he's talking about because I feel like a lot of the policies are written by other people and he just kind of is the guy selling them. | ||
| And so I think that it's really, really good that Vivek is a third and is going to be on the stages. | ||
| He's really concerned with getting money out of BlackRock and putting it into indexes that don't invest in ESG particularly. | ||
| I don't know if there's going to be stages. | ||
| Oh, you don't think they'll do, uh... Why would Donald Trump debate Ron DeSantis? | ||
| Clicks, baby! | ||
| It used to be that you wanted a large platform to spread your message. | ||
| We got it. | ||
| Social media don't need it. | ||
| Yeah, I agree, man. | ||
| 2006, I agreed with you. | ||
| The age, that old age of debate on a stage where the... Point! | ||
| Hold on! | ||
| Like, the moderator doesn't do anything anyway. | ||
| That's done. | ||
| It ended in 2006 with internet video. | ||
| Man, Trump in 2015 was something special. | ||
| 15, 16, those debates were something special. | ||
| It was amazing. | ||
| Absolutely amazing. | ||
| CNN. | ||
| Vivek would probably do pretty well in something like that. | ||
| I still, I mean, like you said, you know... | ||
| So, uh, Trump will call him Rama Swampy. | ||
| I did not come up with that, so I can't remember. | ||
| I'm sorry, I'm not giving credit for the person who came up with that. | ||
| But, you know, to be honest, he keeps calling Ron DeSantis, DeSanctus, and it's the stupidest nickname ever. | ||
| DeSanctimonious? | ||
| Ron DeSancti- He calls him DeSanctus now. | ||
| DeSanctus? | ||
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Well, the reason I say- It's not working. | |
| Things changed drastically in 2006, and I was speaking internet video, I was making YouTube videos about it, like, now we have the technology for world leaders to communicate without secret service present through Skype. | ||
| They can talk directly to their constituents, without Secret Service presence, from their bedroom, any time of the day. | ||
| And CNN was like, oh hell yeah, let's do the YouTube CNN debates this time. | ||
| So in 2008, CNN got their fingers into it, and they had very carefully curated videos from YouTubers that they would give to the people campaigning, Obama, Hillary Clinton. | ||
| And I asked one about the Federal Reserve they didn't use, because they were carefully, CNN, you know, curating it. | ||
| But you could see that CNN was on their heels. | ||
| They didn't know how to respond to this new political Populist uprising and new technology and they still don't if they think that I mean they didn't even have debates last year for the last election They didn't even debate. | ||
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Mm-hmm. | |
| They didn't even debate what the first time in American history that Biden did even debate once No, yeah, they didn't The Democrats? | ||
| Yeah, they had debates. | ||
| They did. | ||
| But the Republican Democrat, did he? | ||
| They wanted more, what they did too. | ||
| They had one? | ||
| Yeah, there was one. | ||
| I remember being super surprised about Biden being as on as he was and I was almost like in disbelief because he was, you know, like I thought he was sleeping. | ||
| To think that three debates is enough is like such an antiquated mentality. | ||
| They should be every week, if there's two front-running candidates, they should be for the betterment of people, of all of us, of humanity. | ||
| Talking every week, in public. | ||
| Weren't you just a couple minutes ago saying that it was good that there was not going to be any debates, and now you're saying that there should be debates every week? | ||
| Well, no, I was saying that the methodology of debate has changed drastically since 2006, since internet video appeared. | ||
| So, like, we don't have to wait until they get on stage on Thursday at 8 p.m. | ||
| and they'll all clap together, like, the video's online forever now. | ||
| Because they're talking smack on Twitter back and forth. | ||
| And they can Skype! | ||
| They can debate over Skype! | ||
| They don't even need to be in the same room now, so it's so easy to do. | ||
| It's hardly the same thing, though. | ||
| We really need to see the debates. | ||
| I'd rather see a Skype debate than no debate, but I agree with you. | ||
| Having them in person is important. | ||
| Are there people that actually make up their minds after watching a debate? | ||
| Like, actually waiting for a debate and then saying, okay, I'm gonna vote for that person? | ||
| Are there actually people that do that? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think it's only slightly different these days because of the internet. | ||
| Because you've heard the messages, because the news has been more ubiquitous. | ||
| I gotta be honest. | ||
| Does anybody think DeSantis can handle a debate with Donald Trump? | ||
| I don't know, I don't imagine he could, personally. | ||
| I think, I mean, I think he would do okay, but to answer your question, I mean, no. | ||
| I don't, I don't really think anybody can. | ||
| Not even the moderators. | ||
| I mean, he is, he's tough to hammer down. | ||
| Yeah, we made this point when we were watching the primaries back in, it was like 2020 with the Democrats. | ||
| Andrew Yang's mic got turned off. | ||
| And you see him just kind of like mouthing but not doing anything. | ||
| And they're like, oh, whoops. | ||
| And I was like, if that was Donald Trump, he would lean over to the other person like, excuse me, excuse me, my microphone is off. | ||
| You got to turn it on. | ||
| It's I need to say it. | ||
| I think if you're going to beat Trump in a debate, you need to ignore him while he's bloviating and while he's trying to insult you. | ||
| Just be like, this guy, this guy, and then keep talking about what's important and just let him be like flames in the background from the friction. | ||
| But if you turn to him and start playing his game with him, you lose. | ||
| Because he's the best at it. | ||
| Yeah, you don't want to, don't engage with it. | ||
| I don't know, I don't know about not engaging with it, you need to understand how to counter. | ||
| Dismiss it, yeah. | ||
| To deflect, to parry. | ||
| I think people just have no clue what to do when he's in that zone. | ||
| Because not only does, not only is he just coming after you left and right, but he also often times has the audience kind of interested. | ||
| Everybody's honed in on what he's saying, on his jab, everything like that. | ||
| It's not a debate. | ||
| This idea of a debate where it's like two people say, like, let's discuss the merits of, you know, U.S. | ||
| intervention in Ukraine. | ||
| Well, I think the problem here is, but we have a treaty here, like, that's a debate. | ||
| Being on stage to win political power is a show. | ||
| One of the greatest shows on earth. | ||
| And Donald Trump wins the debate when he makes you laugh at his opponent. | ||
| So you can go on stage and Donald Trump can talk about, we're gonna have the best tax policy, it's gonna be very good, and then Ron can come out and be like, look, I'm leading this comeback and I think I did a better job. | ||
| Nobody cares. | ||
| It's when Donald Trump says, DeSanctis is a little man, he's a meatball. | ||
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You know what I mean? | |
| Look at him, he's a meatball. | ||
| Everyone's busting out laughing. | ||
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And they're like, yeah, he's a meatball! | |
| That gets the vote. | ||
| A lot of people want to believe that the American voter is above that. | ||
| But most are not. | ||
| A lot of them are. | ||
| But you got to understand this. | ||
| George Carlin said it. | ||
| Imagine how stupid the average person is. | ||
| Now realize that half of them are stupider than that. | ||
| So if Donald Trump is looking at A voting base of, you know, potential, let's say 175 million voters he had before. | ||
| He's looking at a total voter pool of around 150-200 million. | ||
| He knows that 100 million of those potential votes are going to be people who are going to laugh about Meatball Ron. | ||
| And he does not need the smarter people's votes because voter turnout is low. | ||
| Donald Trump needs arguably 70 to 80 million votes in the general. | ||
| Now, now again, I know, no, no, slow down. | ||
| Primary is a bit different. | ||
| Same, same principle applies. | ||
| He can sit there and be like, I can make the best argument in the world and win over the top 10% of the bell curve, or I can make a joke and win over everyone from 51% and down. | ||
| Yeah, I have mixed feelings about that, because you could go the hard, emotional gutting of Donald Trump if you really want to play dirty. | ||
| Like, talk about his daddy issues. | ||
| His dad didn't love him. | ||
| His dad was like a businessman that just treated him like a commodity. | ||
| You could hurt him emotionally, but is that the way? | ||
| But you've got to win the hearts of the people, too. | ||
| Everyone's going to be turned off by that. | ||
| Yeah, but look at him. | ||
| The reason he's lashing out is because his dad didn't love him. | ||
| And then the crowd's going to be like, oh, and then Donald's going to start getting red in the face. | ||
| That is why he's lashing out. | ||
| If it's too dirty, it's not going to win the hearts of the people. | ||
| You've got to be honest. | ||
| You've got to be funny. | ||
| It's truly why. | ||
| You've got to make people feel good, and in a way that makes you look dominant. | ||
| So when he was like, low energy Jeb, and Jeb's like, brr, everybody's busting out laughing, | ||
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and they're like, yeah, Jeb is low energy, look at him. It's still funny. | |
| It makes Trump the bigger man in their mind. It makes them feel good at the same time. And | ||
| they're like, we need someone like that to push people around for us. | ||
| Yeah, someone that can fluster somebody. | ||
| You could fluster Donald, too. | ||
| Yeah, but not in a way that makes people... Like, I'll put it this way. | ||
| There are many people who could roast Donald Trump and get it done right. | ||
| Ron DeSantis is not that guy. | ||
| Vivek Ramaswamy is not that guy. | ||
| Tim Scott is not that guy. | ||
| Nikki Haley's certainly not that lady. | ||
| I don't see anybody in the Republican field who's gonna have the ability to make people feel like they're strong, they're good, and Trump is diminished at the same time. | ||
| Trump has that unique ability. | ||
| He hasn't done very well in the past couple of years. | ||
| In 2020, he could have done way better with Biden. | ||
| He did a bad job with it. | ||
| That's why I said 2016-2015 was something special with the primaries and with Hillary. | ||
| Will we see it again from Trump? | ||
| Maybe it's out of him. | ||
| Maybe he's not all there. | ||
| We've seen a little bit of a comeback. | ||
| But I'll tell you this right now, wherever Trump is currently at in terms of his showmanship, DeSantis is nowhere near. | ||
| That's just Reality. | ||
| And if they get offended by that, if they can't handle that critique, then they deserve to lose. | ||
| If they listen to what we're saying, and right now begin to work on that specifically, they will win. | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| I think one problem with Biden that Trump had, and if he stays in, that everybody's going to have with him, is he's a really hard guy to make a jab at. | ||
| Because like we were just talking about, something that makes people laugh, it's light-hearted, all of that, it's tough to make fun and successfully deliver a jab at a grandpa with dementia. | ||
| It just doesn't look that good. | ||
| It looked a lot better when he did it to Hillary Clinton. | ||
| But not to Joe Biden. | ||
| People kind of feel bad for Joe Biden. | ||
| I really think they do. | ||
| I really think they do. | ||
| I think Donald Trump should have gone after Biden more so than he did. | ||
| I think he did a relatively bad job in 2020. | ||
| I mean, yeah. | ||
| Sleepy Joe! | ||
| Yeah, the Sleepy Joe, all that's great, but I just don't think it resonated as well as it did with Hillary. | ||
| She was a lot more on her game, so when she gets shut down, it's way funnier than some guy that can barely speak. | ||
| And she's nasty. | ||
| Yeah, she was kind of snaky. | ||
| So when Trump makes fun of her, people laugh. | ||
| That's a big factor. | ||
| I still think Trump should have been like, oh crazy Joe! | ||
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What's that story, Joe? | |
| You're touching little kids? | ||
| You're touching their legs? | ||
| They're gross? | ||
| It's creepy and weird? | ||
| You're right, Tim. | ||
| It is a popularity contest. | ||
| And it's an entertainment game, which is terrible. | ||
| It shouldn't be that way for the commander-in-chief of our military. | ||
| It's been that way since TV was invented. | ||
| Radio, yeah. | ||
| Not TV. | ||
| Well, Hitler used radio. | ||
| Yeah, because the thing I'm talking about is when Nixon and JFK did their first televised | ||
| debate, if you listened to it on the radio, people were saying Nixon won. | ||
| If you watched it on TV, Nixon looked like a mess. | ||
| He didn't shave yet, it was 5 o'clock. | ||
| He was sweating like crazy. | ||
| He looked bad and everyone said that JFK won. | ||
| So the way that people See you like when the way you look when you're actually in the debated It goes far beyond just the the words that you say and that's that speaks to the way that we communicate More broadly people don't just listen to the words the look on your face matters if you're looking at me in the eye Also smiling all sorts of things. | ||
| So when you're when they're debating those things go into it to Trump Trump's funny, man He's hilarious. | ||
| So when I went to the White House for the social media summit with Bill Ottman I didn't know what to expect. | ||
| I thought it was gonna be like a kind of like a roundtable thing. | ||
| What was it? | ||
| Trump doing stand-up. | ||
| I'm not even kidding. | ||
| He's got all of these influential people sitting around him trying to talk about the issue of censorship, and he's just up there speaking about it, but it was like it was... | ||
| It was political humor. | ||
| It was political comedy. | ||
| It was him talking about the political issues and then snapping jokes and looking and laughing and the room was just laughing non-stop. | ||
| That's how the dude commands an audience. | ||
| That's how he wins. | ||
| Look, you can sit here all day and be like, policy is the best way to win the primary. | ||
| It's like, good luck with that, dude. | ||
| Good luck. | ||
| I'm not saying Trump still got it, though. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| It's yet to be seen. | ||
| He might not even do a debate. | ||
| My understanding is he's probably not going to do a debate with DeSantis. | ||
| And that's good news for DeSantis, but maybe Trump can't handle it. | ||
| I wonder if they totally realize that for his campaign, Trump's campaign, just because you know how often he's been going to restaurants, buying everybody food, ordering everyone blizzards, all that stuff. | ||
| I wonder if they see that really working and resonating with people, because you get that guy in a crowd, and like Tim's getting at, he's going to perform. | ||
| He's going to perform. | ||
| As long as he has a crowd around him, people are going to love him. | ||
| I feel like he hasn't stopped doing rallies. | ||
| Yet. | ||
| Like, since the last time he was president, I feel like he's been out of there. | ||
| There was a period where he was gone. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And then he's come back, and now he's been doing rallies, and they've been funny. | ||
| They've been funny. | ||
| Man, it does feel like the only way to defeat that kind of debate is to undermine, is to really go at his personal life, like really hurt his feelings. | ||
| And I do not like that. | ||
| You said defeat him in a debate, you said? | ||
| Yeah, if you want to make him look silly and debase him, make him off balance, you make him remember his horrible childhood. | ||
| The problem is Trump Weaponize his self-deprecation. | ||
| This idea that you're going to insult his family and win support is wrong. | ||
| Trump calls Jeb low energy. | ||
| He doesn't say your father was a scumbag. | ||
| He said George W. Bush, your brother, lied to us. | ||
| That's not the same as saying you are an abused child who is neglected and that's why nobody loves you because people go, dude, come on, low blow. | ||
| He's like, you're low energy, Jeb! | ||
| Low energy! | ||
| And people are laughing, and they're like, he is! | ||
| Please clap, come on. | ||
| Well, you could call him Low Blow Trump. | ||
| Like, that's his tactic, is low blows. | ||
| But that's... See, the issue is... The delivery really matters as well. | ||
| Nobody delivers like Trump does. | ||
| So you can get a jab in, and that's great, and it can be spicy, but you're not gonna land it like Donald Trump. | ||
| But it's not, I just, I don't think it's gonna work, right? | ||
| What can you insult Donald Trump on? | ||
| His age. | ||
| His old man Trump, and you know what he's gonna do? | ||
| His raspy, withering voice. | ||
| He'll say he's a vibrant young man, that's what he'll say. | ||
| His wig, or whatever, his dyed hair, his orange skin. | ||
| You keep saying that, and you are, and I will tell you you're wrong, I'll tell you why, because you'll be on the debate stage, and you'll say, listen old man, with your moosed up coif, weird raccoon haircut, he'll be like, certainly better than your hair, and that's a, that's a Trump made fun of himself for being orange. | ||
| He was at a rally, famously, and he was like, THE LIGHTS! | ||
| Wide, wide, better than you when you're like milk. | ||
| So go after him about how he drained the swamp. | ||
| Drain the swamp, Twomp. | ||
| I can help you, Ron. | ||
| I can give you damage. | ||
| I know, seeing this episode of SpongeBob, I appreciate it, but Tim is spot on on that. | ||
| I mean, he'll deflect. | ||
| He's a professional. | ||
| He's a professional for dealing with people. | ||
| Trump made fun of him. | ||
| He's also 80. | ||
| Trump made fun of himself for being orange. | ||
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He was at a rally famously and he was like, the lights, they're making me look too orange. | |
| It's not fair! | ||
| And everyone busts out laughing. | ||
| He knows how they insult him, and he uses it? | ||
| Yeah, but no one's ever going after him with his relationship with his dad. | ||
| That's not funny! | ||
| It's not funny! | ||
| It's not. | ||
| It's meant to hurt his feelings. | ||
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And it won't work! | |
| How do you know that that is something that's true? | ||
| Fred Trump? | ||
| The business magnate? | ||
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Trump, over and over again, they wouldn't shut up. | |
| It had zero impact. | ||
| If Donald Trump's gonna play dirty and insult people, then you better expect, you gotta get creative and insult him. | ||
| I mean, it's the only way is to hurt his feelings. | ||
| It's also entertaining for people. | ||
| What makes you think that that is gonna hurt his feelings? | ||
| Because he hasn't thought about it in a while and it's true? | ||
| Your magic! | ||
| How do you know what he's thought about? | ||
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I'm trying to figure out how it is that you... The New York Times says someone's familiar with his thinking, so... What was that? | |
| The New York Times has written many articles about people familiar with his thinking. | ||
| That's what I'm coming for. | ||
| I feel like you're making these assertions, but I don't know where you're basing this opinion of Trump's internal monologue or his internal sense of self-worth. | ||
| I don't know that that... I've read that his dad would bring him to work and insult him in front of people. | ||
| And what's going to happen is, that's not funny. | ||
| It's not meant to be funny, it's meant to be entertaining. | ||
| And the reason Trump succeeds is because he is funny. | ||
| Get it? | ||
| Well, he's entertaining. | ||
| He's also a dirtbag sometimes. | ||
| He's hilarious. | ||
| He comes out, he makes jokes, everybody laughs. | ||
| So he's looking to win over his base. | ||
| Ron DeSantis is not going to win voters by being this nasty guy to insult a person. | ||
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No, no. | |
| You do it very gently. | ||
| And you move on, man. | ||
| You just let it resonate. | ||
| Has anyone seen that episode of Spongebob where they're doing this talent show and Squidward's out there doing this crazy dance and no one is clapping, but then Spongebob goes out there with a broom and he's sweeping and everyone's going nuts? | ||
| That's what it reminds me of. | ||
| Kind of like, he might do something, he might say that, and then people would just be like, you're kind of a jerk, dude. | ||
| Yeah, we're assuming that he would have a strong, solid delivery, he would deliver it kindly. | ||
| No way. | ||
| It would be a disaster. | ||
| One, because they sold Joe Biden, or whoever you're talking about here, as being just a kind person, not Trump. | ||
| And then, what, he comes out here with a nastier jab than Donald Trump? | ||
| And he's going to deliver it? | ||
| I'm talking about Ron DeSantis. | ||
| I was talking about a DeSantis-Trump debate. | ||
| That's what I've been talking about the whole time. | ||
| Imagine... Sorry, sorry, sorry. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, DeSantis. | ||
| But, well, I guess same thing applies then. | ||
| So if he's going to deliver that, and that's like, okay, get tough on Donald Trump and be mean to him, and that's all great. | ||
| I don't see the benefit of really, really, really being nasty to Donald Trump. | ||
| When you're trying to win those voters, keep in mind. | ||
| It would be a jujitsu tactic in that only if Trump went at him personally or comes at me or comes at someone personally, then you maneuver it to cause him emotional pain, and then you just continue on and let him shake, you know? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| They all tried coming at Trump and nobody could pull it off because this is Trump's arena. | ||
| The idea that you're going to insult him and win votes over is just, it's absurd. | ||
| I mean, every Republican tried it during the debates. | ||
| It's like 10 of them and they all tried doing this. | ||
| That's how he insulted Jeb Bush, he insulted Hillary Clinton, he insulted all of them. | ||
| And there are MMA fighters who are undefeated. | ||
| And you'll say, well, their tactic is to use, you know, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, so you gotta use it against them. | ||
| It's like, oh, that's funny, they still lost. | ||
| Oh, I agree with you that there are no capable performers in the political arena right now. | ||
| Maybe AOC. | ||
| Donald Trump's by far the most entertaining, whether you like him or not. | ||
| Fast, witty, funny, and in the right way. | ||
| Actually, Vivek Ramaswamy's way smarter and faster than Trump. | ||
| He could rip that guy to shreds. | ||
| On policy, yes. | ||
| He's a billionaire, man. | ||
| If we're talking about just a quick jab against Trump, I think he'd probably be better than DeSantis, maybe? | ||
| Agreed. | ||
| Yeah, I think he would actually be better at it. | ||
| I want you just to imagine this for a second. | ||
| Donald Trump on stage, and he says, you know, we look at Ron DeSantis, little Ron, I call him, his policy is no good, disloyal. | ||
| And then Ron goes, Donald Trump's father didn't love him, and would ignore him, so daddy issues over here has a terrible time of understanding. | ||
| Everyone's gonna be like, whoa. | ||
| No, you say it directly to his face. | ||
| You look him in the eyes and tell him, you know. | ||
| And people are gonna be like, ooh, dude. | ||
| Yeah, they're gonna be like, ah, and then it'll go viral. | ||
| 60 million views. | ||
| Trump's gonna do something. | ||
| Ron DeSantis will get 10 million more votes. | ||
| This guy's a boss. | ||
| He's willing to stand up to Donald Trump. | ||
| I love how these things were tried and all failed and you're like, they'll happen now. | ||
| Well, no, I don't think my problem is there's all the with with your with what you're you're thinking is that you've got all this assumption and all of there's a lot of like you're Telling this narrative about if you do this then this will happen and this will happen and the the possibilities are Almost infinite after step one like everybody's plan like runs into reality and then it falls apart Yeah, and you're making so many assumptions. | ||
| The reason I'm like what you're thinking he's gonna do and what people would do and what DeSantis could do and and just there's a lot of like you More telling a story than actually thinking about something that's realistic to try to navigate. | ||
| Everyone's got a plan until you get punched in the face. | ||
| I've had some experiences where I've had friends in the past that would make fun of me, or | ||
| one guy in particular, and I was like, stop, and he would never stop. | ||
| And then one day I was just like, your dad did not love you, and you turned into a real | ||
| asshole and he stopped that. | ||
| He was like shaking after that, and he never messed with me again after that. | ||
| You were talking to Trump? | ||
| No, I was talking to my buddy, and his dad really did abuse him, and he was mean to him | ||
| when he used to call him names and stuff. | ||
| And I'm like, that's why you act like this. | ||
| And he stopped after that. | ||
| For how many years? | ||
| I also had a person that would smack me, and I was like, if you do that again, I'm gonna | ||
| smack you back the exact same way. | ||
| And it happened again, and I did it, and then I never got smacked again. | ||
| Was he much bigger than you? | ||
| It was a girl, actually. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| And she never smacked me after that. | ||
| She was hurting me, so I was like, please stop. | ||
| She wouldn't stop. | ||
| Ian, for years, they called Donald Trump Drumpf to insult his father, his grandparents, etc. | ||
| That did nothing. | ||
| No, the tactic is when they insult you, in the moment, right away, you strike back in a way that makes them... | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Out of the moment. | ||
| Let's imagine this. | ||
| They're trying to throw this guy in prison, and we think this is going to be the thing that's going to take- I mean, realistically, they're not going to let him win. | ||
| I want you to imagine Donald Trump calls Ron DeSantis, little Ron, little Ron is disloyal, and then Ron immediately turns to him and says, your father didn't love you. | ||
| Everyone's going to be like, what? | ||
| If he did it like a stodgy suit, yeah. | ||
| But if Trump cried or something, then... It's not gonna happen! | ||
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| Trump's not gonna cry. | ||
| It would depend on that. | ||
| It'll deflect off him, like, body armor or something. | ||
| It'll deflect and it'll be nothing. | ||
| We can talk about it all we want. | ||
| Trump's response is gonna be something like, Ron will look and say, you know, your father, he didn't love you, and it clearly shows. | ||
| Donald Trump will start laughing. | ||
| Look at little Rod over here trying to come at my family. | ||
| It's sad, really. | ||
| Is that the best you've got? | ||
| He's gonna completely bounce off him, and then he's gonna be like, the only thing DeSantis can muster is insulting my dad. | ||
| How sad. | ||
| Disloyal. | ||
| Not even loyal to people's families. | ||
| It's exactly what you'd expect when you vote for DeSwampDis. | ||
| Blah blah blah blah blah. | ||
| Like, my point is this. | ||
| Ron does not have nobody. | ||
| It's not about Ron DeSantis. | ||
| Like, no one in that field of war that's 16 GOP contenders could do anything to get anything to stick to this guy. | ||
| It'd be like Rogan. | ||
| If Rogan did it to Trump. | ||
| Rogan could humiliate Donald Trump. | ||
| Louis C.K. | ||
| could humiliate Donald Trump. | ||
| People like that. | ||
| We don't have a politician like that. | ||
| I do agree with you there. | ||
| Yes, he could humiliate Trump. | ||
| But in terms of what Trump is working on and fighting for, these things don't work against his base. | ||
| They don't work against those who would vote for him. | ||
| Oh, I disagree. | ||
| I think they're cultists. | ||
| I think they go where the hilarity is. | ||
| No, listen. | ||
| They go where the funny... Ian, look. | ||
| The story I told over and over again... | ||
| Yes, the story I told over and over again. | ||
| My experience traveling this country during Trump's first campaign and his second campaign were people saying, I can't stand the way he talks. | ||
| I wish you would stop tweeting. | ||
| These, the average person who voted for him was not an occult and didn't, and did not like his, his, his brash attitude. | ||
| Insulting him in the way he insults others does not work. | ||
| I mean, it hasn't happened yet. | ||
| I think it's a bunch of 4chaners that want entertainment. | ||
| They put him in office because they thought it was funny. | ||
| It was a Lulbert move. | ||
| Obviously, that's not the case of who put him in office. | ||
| It's not just a bunch of 4chaners. | ||
| It was a lot of memes on 4chan that got him elected. | ||
| Not solely, you're right, but there's a lot of goofball kids that were disaffected and were making fun of the whole thing. | ||
| No, it was a lot of Americans that were sick and tired of being called racist every single election for the last decade, and they wanted something to change. | ||
| And they were seeing Republicans doing absolutely nothing while they get screwed in every direction. | ||
| That's why people voted for Donald Trump. | ||
| It wasn't just a bunch of 4chan trolls. | ||
| It's certainly not monolithic. | ||
| It's a bunch of what you're saying and what I'm saying. | ||
| There were definitely kids like Nick Fuentes that were like, Hitler's, he would say like Hitler's, he thinks Hitler is funny because when he grew up he's so disenfranchised by everything, he just looks at what triggers people and he's like, I'll do that, because it triggers. | ||
| I see what you're saying, but that extreme part of a base that you're talking about is much smaller than I think you think it is. | ||
| 9 million Obama voters voted for Donald Trump. | ||
| They switched from the Democratic Party for Donald Trump. | ||
| Those are the people that want entertainment. | ||
| If you think you're going to win a general by attacking those individuals, it ain't working. | ||
| But let's do this. | ||
| Let's get cultural and we'll wrap up on a cultural segment. | ||
| We have the story from the post-millennial and it's good news. | ||
| Left-wing media seethes over success of anti-child trafficking film Sound of Freedom. | ||
| The movie tells the story of Tim Ballard. | ||
| All of you know it. | ||
| I'm a big fan of the film. | ||
| It was absolutely fantastic. | ||
| I recommend that you check it out. | ||
| But oh boy. | ||
| Reports from left-wing news sites Jezebel and The Guardian have tried to discredit the hit release Sound of Freedom, linking it with conspiracy theories. | ||
| Do we have the tweet from Jack Pasopaghere? | ||
| Let me show you this one. | ||
| He says, in plain sight, Rolling Stone says, Sound of Freedom, the QAnon-tinged thriller about child trafficking, is designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy-eddled boomer. | ||
| And then there's... from Rolling Stone. | ||
| Thanks to a major marketing mistake, the award-winning French movie Cuties was accused of sexualizing young girls. | ||
| It's actually a sensitive portrait of growing pains that deserves to be seen. | ||
| That's who these people are. | ||
| The groomers. | ||
| Yeah, Sound of Freedom is doing really, really well and of course we're seeing leftists get absolutely upset about it. | ||
| But this is good news across the board because it shows that we're winning on cultural grounds, we're winning in the arts. | ||
| It's not about conservatives winning, it's about people pushing back against the creepy woke cult establishment garbage. | ||
| Winning as a whole or just getting a win? | ||
| Winning as a whole. | ||
| I just watched this. | ||
| If you look across the board, right, you can argue that the left holds, let's say you have a country and there's like twelve battlefronts, twelve counties or jurisdictions, and the right only controls six of them. | ||
| They're winning that fight, gaining ground and spreading. | ||
| Even if the left holds more institutions, they are losing control of them. | ||
| Fair, and I didn't want to sound too negative right there, I was just curious of what you were talking about. | ||
| Mud Light, Target, Starbucks, Sound of Freedom? | ||
| For sure, for sure. | ||
| Oh boy. | ||
| No, no, I mean we're definitely on the offensive move right now when it comes to people that just are sick and tired of the woke elite that dominates all these institutions, all of that. | ||
| I do have to admit, I haven't seen the movie yet. | ||
| Well, I just came out. | ||
| Yeah, I am gonna watch it. | ||
| And I do know, is it not based on a true story? | ||
| It's a Mormon guy. | ||
| True story. | ||
| It's based on a true story. | ||
| There's some embellishment in it. | ||
| FBI? | ||
| Am I getting this right? | ||
| Homeland Security? | ||
| Homeland Security. | ||
| I think it might have been ICE. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| An ex, right? | ||
| So he got out of it. | ||
| He quit because he wanted to save the kids and he couldn't, you know, working for the government. | ||
| Right, so, based on a true story, and that appeals to QAnon conspiracy theorists. | ||
| I mean, they just thought of that and they said, okay, this is what we can do to get the general population away from this movie, even though it's performing really, really well. | ||
| I mean, it beat out Indiana Jones on its opening day, right? | ||
| Yeah, Indiana Jones had opened over the weekend, and then it was a Tuesday that this movie came out, but it beat it on that Tuesday. | ||
| So it made like $10.8 million, where Indiana Jones made like $10.7, or something like that. | ||
| But Indy had already made $80 million over the weekend. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| I mean, it's still doing fantastic, obviously, but that's... | ||
| I think that they really just wanted people to kind of not dig into that story. | ||
| And that's not the first time I've seen them bring up QAnon. | ||
| Rolling Stone, they weren't the first people to repeat that narrative. | ||
| It's a QAnon movie. | ||
| Yeah, I've seen it all over Twitter already. | ||
| Like a bunch of people are talking about making some kind of connection to QAnon. | ||
| I don't think that the average person, like, I don't think QAnon resonates with the average person. | ||
| The people that have about 15 minutes to watch the news a day, you know, 20 minutes or whatever, they watch a little bit in the morning and a little bit in the evening when they're doing their life. | ||
| I don't think QAnon, I think they hear that and it's in one ear, out the other. | ||
| Yeah, it was only because of outlets like this that I knew what QAnon was, because I heard it thrown around by people tweeting stuff like that. | ||
| I can make some assumptions as to why it couldn't get released. | ||
| Let's hear it. | ||
| Um, did- was anyone talking about why Disney held on to this movie for... | ||
| What'd they have the rights for, like five years? | ||
| I believe it was already made. | ||
| Five years, yep. | ||
| For Sound of Freedom? | ||
| Yeah, it was made five years ago. | ||
| Really? | ||
| And uh, well, I can make some assumptions as to why it couldn't get released. | ||
| Let's hear it. | ||
| Because there are groomers in Hollywood. | ||
| And pedophiles in Hollywood. | ||
| And you make a movie about ending child trafficking, and you'll end up with some Hollywood executive being like, oh, harumph I say, but what about what I want to do when I fly down there, right? | ||
| So let's just say based on what we know from some individuals who produce documentaries about Hollywood, the trafficking, the abuse, hey, let's talk about Elliot Page, who claims to have been assaulted, you know, in this industry. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They made a movie about child trafficking being bad and wanting to end it, and then the big networks were like, the big studios were like, uh-oh, we shouldn't let people see this. | ||
| I'm gonna go ahead and make an assumption as to why that is. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I was just watching RFK Jr.' 's interview with Lex Friedman on Lex's channel on YouTube, and I saw about half of it, but at one point RFK Jr. | ||
| was talking about Project Mockingbird, Operation Mockingbird, the CIA taking control of media in like the 60s and 70s. | ||
| Then they were ordered, I think it was a church commission, where they're like, you gotta stop. | ||
| And they're like, OK. | ||
| But RFK was like, I don't think they really ever stopped. | ||
| And he was naming outlets that have been co-opted by the CIA or that are assets with the CIA. | ||
| Daily Beast was the first one. | ||
| Then he mentioned Rolling Stone magazine. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Right away. | ||
| And then I see Rolling Stone's the one that's trashing this. | ||
| Ever since the 2012 NDAA was signed, the, what is it, the Smith-Munt? | ||
| Modernization Act was in the NDAA and that made it legal for the federal government to propagandize the American people. | ||
| After World War II, the Smith-Muntt Act said that the American population cannot be propagandized by the federal government and it was in response to what they had learned That the Nazis and the Soviets had done leading up to and during World War II and the federal government, you know, the people were like, look, the federal government shouldn't be making decisions about what the people think, right? | ||
| The people, the government should be a reflection of the population, not the population a reflection of what the government wants. | ||
| And that's borne out in the way that governments have treated their populations when their population doesn't act the way the government wants them or doesn't behave the way they want them to. | ||
| So, the Smith Modernization Act was in 2011, and ever since, the narrative coming out of the mainstream media has been the exact narrative that the Democrats want. | ||
| You had all of the time that Barack Obama was the president basically setting up this apparatus, and then when Donald Trump was elected, The deep state, the entrenched bureaucracy, it was already in place, already prepared to discredit anyone that would try to pull back the power from the federal government. | ||
| And obviously that's the conservatives. | ||
| If one of the parties is going to make the government smaller, it is not going to be the Democrats. | ||
| I'm not trying to That's not the argument that I'm making. | ||
| But the federal government has been propagandizing the American people in conjunction with Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and again, this is something that I brought up on the show before, you will get the same type of Uh, stories in Cosmopolitan, in GQ, in Teen Vogue, in Good Housekeeping, and in probably in maybe not Field and Stream, but I wouldn't be all that surprised because there is no significant difference in opinion because the narrative from almost all the mainstream is the narrative that the federal government wants to be presented to the American people. | ||
| That's the way that it is, and that's the way that I see it now. | ||
| Amen, brother. | ||
| Teen Vogue praising Marx. | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| I love it. | ||
| It's hilarious. | ||
| Did that actually- that actually happen? | ||
| That actually happened. | ||
| What did they say? | ||
| They were talking about- Was it like a month ago, right? | ||
| No, it was a long time ago. | ||
| Oh, okay, okay, okay. | ||
| Yeah, they put out an article like Marx was misunderstood or something like that. | ||
| It was actually really, really funny. | ||
| It's kind of scary, you know, you know, but funny at the same time. | ||
| Teen Vogue, it's like young women getting fashion advice and information on supporting the proletariat and overthrowing the elites. | ||
| Is this from 2018? | ||
| Karl Marx, the famed philosopher and author of the Communist Manifesto, turned 200 years old! | ||
| Can you imagine calling, like, Goebbels a famed philosopher? | ||
| Honestly, like, Marx is responsible for millions and millions and dozens of millions. | ||
| His ideas were responsible for dozens of millions of deaths in the 20th century. | ||
| At least the word infamous. | ||
| They should have said the infamous philosopher. | ||
| No, because they're supporting him. | ||
| You know what, I'm going to take a stand. | ||
| Infamous is not enough. | ||
| Infamous is not enough for me. | ||
| And he was a terrible guy, too. | ||
| When you guys were talking about it, I almost chimed in. | ||
| Yeah, there's a lot. | ||
| Infamous is how you describe Al Capone. | ||
| Not somebody whose ideology was the reason for dozens of millions of deaths. | ||
| Tens of millions of deaths all around the world. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it was just the idea that everyone deserves a little bit? | ||
| It was the idea that man can be perfected. | ||
| Because you cannot have a utopian society where everybody works and puts in and produces equally and gets out from the government equally. | ||
| So what the plan was, was to remake man into new socialist man that could be Considered a socialist man that is a social being it was a very popular idea in the late hat late part of the Eighteenth century, I think it was 19th century Yeah, but it was it was Nietzsche was talking about it too because he hadn't liked so he wrote the ubermensch Yeah, the ubermensch the overman Thus spoke Zarathustra was the book but the idea was that | ||
| You know, Darwin had put out his Origin of Species and people were learning about evolution and starting to understand that. | ||
| And the idea was we had conquered religion, man had conquered religion, and man now could understand science and we could use science to remake man into the new man that's the modern man that doesn't need all the old It sounds like you're talking about transhumanism. | ||
| and the old religions and stuff. | ||
| And it just ends up with people dying en masse because you can't make people not people. | ||
| It sounds like you're talking about transhumanism. | ||
| Well, I mean, transhumanism is- You can kind of aim for that, yeah. | ||
| It is an extension of the same type of ideas. | ||
| But the point of socialism is to have a socialist world, like a communist world where nobody | ||
| has anything more than someone else. | ||
| So the abolishment of class... | ||
| Right? | ||
| So the abolishment of property, so that way no one has more than someone else, and everyone has equal things. | ||
| But the problem is, people have different capabilities, people are born with different attributes, people are taller, people are slower, people are faster, people are... they're infinitely different. | ||
| So to think that people are going to be able to put in and take out equally is ridiculous. | ||
| So the effort to make people equal, The only thing you can do is take from the people that succeed. | ||
| Hold people down. | ||
| Because if you've got a person that's incapable of doing something, right? | ||
| Just... Well, that's incapable? | ||
| You can never make them capable. | ||
| You have to find the people that are capable and take away their ability. | ||
| Easiest way to explain it is, you can't make the grass grow, but you can mow the lawn. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| That's perfect, yeah. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And that's what they do. | ||
| So, cut off the tall grass. | ||
| We're gonna go to Super Chats! | ||
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| Alright, I'm Not Your Buddy Guy says, I think we can all agree the left is far more extreme than the right. | ||
| Now that the right seems open to separation, I wonder what the left with their lists want to do. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Alright, we'll grab some more Super Chats. | ||
| Voice of the People says the federal involvement was exposed with the Proud Boys case. | ||
| Fifty plus federal informants were found instigating, and judge told the jury they can't use that information to make a decision. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
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| Waffle Sensei says, Tim, in regards to the video from Timcast News that Ron DeSantis said he paid for, it was paid for. | ||
| Ron DeSantis paid the editing guy to overlay paid for by Ron DeSantis on it. | ||
| That's actually the argument they are making. | ||
| High profile individuals with tens of thousands and a million followers are saying, No. | ||
| Yeah, because if I paid for a billboard and put your picture on it and said, paid for by me, that would be so disingenuous because I didn't pay you for that image. | ||
| I just took it and used it. | ||
| It's just our video, and it says paid for, like, it's just our video. | ||
| Like, what? | ||
| That's the argument they're making. | ||
| They're like, well, by adding the text that he paid for it, it is officially true. | ||
| That they paid for someone to do that. | ||
| It's like, very circuitous. | ||
| Like, there's no commentary on it. | ||
| There's no, like, there's no statement about it. | ||
| There's no commentary whatsoever. | ||
| There's not even like a gibberish. | ||
| So one of the arguments about fair use, this guy took photos from people on Instagram. | ||
| BLEW THEM UP INTO BIG PORTRAITS AND THEN WROTE A COMMENT UNDERNEATH THAT SAID LIKE, HSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHS In this instance, by all means, you can make the arguments, because people often... You'll always make an argument on fair use. | ||
| They'll always have to. | ||
| The point is, they didn't even do that. | ||
| It's literally just our video, and it says... It's a text of what the people said, and it says, paid for by Sanders. | ||
| You know, what it reminds me of is the real Donald Trump ad, where it shows fake Donald Trump, but it says real Donald Trump, but it's AI-generated images. | ||
| That's the thing! | ||
| It's just misleading. | ||
| And this seems like it's misleading because they didn't pay you for the clip. | ||
| And then the response on the deepfake thing was... You think people actually believed that was a real photo? | ||
| Do I believe? | ||
| I know people believed it was real. | ||
| I'm not saying I did, but they're being disingenuous. | ||
| And they're like, that doesn't mean that they paid you for it, Tim. | ||
| I'm like, yes, but people think it does because they're texting me, asking me if I sold this to them. | ||
| So I hit up the Sandus people and I was like, hey guys, why is this happening? | ||
| And they're like, oh, whoops. | ||
| Yeah, so my conversation with the actual people who work there were like, let's try and figure something out. | ||
| I'm like, cool, appreciate it. | ||
| But the people online are insane. | ||
| So it's really funny how the end result might be that they reach back out to me and say, yeah, we'll clarify for you, man, and we'll send a license your way or something, a license fee. | ||
| And then I'm like, cool, really appreciate it. | ||
| Thanks for the support. | ||
| And the people online turn it into this nightmarish, psychotic attack. | ||
| It's like, OK, make yourselves look worse, I guess. | ||
| Right. | ||
| All right, we'll grab some more Super Chats. | ||
| What do we got? | ||
| Based Jew says, I've been watching your skating clips on Instagram and damn, you have that thing called Diamond Feet. | ||
| What is that, Diamond Feet? | ||
| Uh, just a couple of clips. | ||
| We were filming the other day, I did a no-slide 270 shove, but it's like 120 degrees. | ||
| I'm not exaggerating. | ||
| Literally 120 degrees inside the barn. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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| Yeah, it is. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yep, it's just an oven. | ||
| And so it's like, whenever I would try and do this trick, because I've been trying to do a bunch of things, but it's just, it's brutally hot to try and skate in there, and that's our indoor park, so I'm like, we gotta figure, it's not insulated, so we can't like put AC in it or anything. | ||
| But in between attempts of the trick, I would have to go outside to breathe because the air was so hot, I couldn't breathe. | ||
| That's how bad it was. | ||
| That's not the half-pipe room. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| That's downstairs. | ||
| That's cold. | ||
| I'm still seeing everything. | ||
| I saw James dropping in on the skate park on Twitter. | ||
| Real James Kluge. | ||
| That's right, man. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| The small ramp. | ||
| Oh, cool. | ||
| Yeah, dropped in successfully. | ||
| Didn't do much else other than that, but I was proud of that. | ||
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He didn't die. | |
| That's doing a thing, not dying. | ||
| He didn't die. | ||
| I didn't die, and I put a helmet on, too, just so you know. | ||
| All right, Crooked Smile says, Tim, why the hate for Final Fantasy XVI? | ||
| Was it the gameplay or the story? | ||
| Please no spoilers, though. | ||
| The story is the most basic, one-dimensional kind of boring thing, and it's nonsensical. | ||
| Honestly, it's just really bad. | ||
| And gameplay? | ||
| What gameplay? Wasn't it mostly a story? It's mostly cutscenes. | ||
| Yeah, that's disappointing. | ||
| I'm not kidding, like the first part of the game, um, it's a dejected storyline, timeline-wise, | ||
| so it's a bit confusing in that regard, and it's mostly cutscenes. | ||
| So, mostly cutscenes, and then the most annoying thing is like, in typical video | ||
| games you have the main quest, and then you have the side quests. | ||
| Final Fantasy XVI has side quests, but they also force you to do side quests. | ||
| So there are quests in the main storyline that are absolutely side quests, they make you do, where it's like, you have to run back and forth between two people five times, and I'm like, why? | ||
| And it's just like, hello Clive. | ||
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I would like to tell you about what your father once said to me, and I'm like, okay, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip. | |
| Then it's like, okay, I must go talk to this guy now about the same thing, and then you run around the building, and you find the guy, and then it's skip, skip, skip, skip, skip. | ||
| Then it's like, now I must go back and report to Otto what I found, and I'm like, why? | ||
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Why? | |
| I don't want to make a video game like that now just for fun. | ||
| That, and you play one guy, and I'm just like, man. | ||
| So, people are saying, yeah, but it's action, it's not turn-based anymore. | ||
| Dude, Secret of Mana was action RPG. | ||
| That game is so good. | ||
| I know, and you switch between the three characters you have, and you can have them do abilities, and it's real-time fighting. | ||
| There have been a ton of games that are hybrids of real-time and turn-based with multiple characters. | ||
| This game is just, you go into a fight, and you just mash square. | ||
| And then you mash square and R1. | ||
| That's the whole game, the whole time. | ||
| Final Fantasy's really known for a ton of cutscenes though, right? | ||
| Like, it'd be maybe a quarter of the game, or half the game even, possibly. | ||
| Is this one just over the top as well? | ||
| I think this one's over the top. | ||
| And it was funny because people were like, Tim, you're in story mode. | ||
| I am not in story mode, Tim. | ||
| Like, I'm playing Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West. | ||
| So Forbidden West and the expansion Burning Shores came out. | ||
| I love that game. | ||
| And it's got a bunch of woke elements that I think are really just annoying, but it's like a good game. | ||
| How do you defeat the bad guys, like the monsters in this game? | ||
| It's like, well they're giant robots, so they have weak spots, you gotta knock armor off, you have different | ||
| weapons of different elements. | ||
| It's rather complex, and you can formulate different strategies for how you do it. | ||
| I totally love going for the sharpshot bow, which is like sniper play style. | ||
| When I play games like Fallout, I prefer, you know, sniper builds over aggression builds, or like tank builds or | ||
| anything like that. | ||
| Final Fantasy, it's like, there's one sword you get, you never spend any money. | ||
| There's no point in having money at all. | ||
| None. | ||
| So it's just like, I beat a boss, I go to the forge, upgrade sword. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| The only thing you ever do. | ||
| You get item from boss. | ||
| The story is so incredibly weak. | ||
| I just went to look at gameplay footage while you're talking, and the first three I just clicked around randomly on the video, and the first three I went to were all cutscenes. | ||
| Oh, there's another cutscene. | ||
| Cutscene? | ||
| Cutscene. | ||
| Just cutscene, cutscene. | ||
| I'm not going to spoil the game, but I still think it's really weak, but I feel like I could have written a better ending. | ||
| Uh, because the ba- like, and that's not saying a lot. | ||
| I'm not saying I'm a good writer. | ||
| I'm saying the ending was so incredibly one-dimensional. | ||
| Comic book villainy to, like, golden era of, like, I'm the villain! | ||
| It's like, uh, you're like, okay. | ||
| What's happened at Disney, it's the same company named Square Enix. | ||
| It's a company that, it's Square and Enix. | ||
| They've merged at some point. | ||
| But it's not the same people that worked there in 1993 that made Final Fantasy, you know, 4, Final Fantasy 6. | ||
| These, these epic You know, world-changing games. | ||
| Final Fantasy VII was, like, one of the greatest RPGs ever made. | ||
| I think I still have one for the Super Nintendo. | ||
| 6, but they called it 3 in the United States. | ||
| And I have Chrono Trigger, actually, as well. | ||
| It was a similar guy. | ||
| That was the same company, Square. | ||
| That was before they merged with Enix, I think. | ||
| Chrono Cross wasn't as good. | ||
| Secret of Mana was multiplayer! | ||
| And then, uh... That was one of the great... It was like, someone else could control the other player. | ||
| And then they, uh, I don't think Seiken Densetsu came out in the United States, but that was the next Secret of Mana. | ||
| There were multiple games. | ||
| I think we only got one. | ||
| Um, I liked Secret of Evermore. | ||
| It was very similar. | ||
| These are action RPGs. | ||
| This is all SNES, right? | ||
| Is that what you're saying? | ||
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| The other stuff you're talking about is probably on Super Famicom. | ||
| Yeah, because they didn't come out in the United States, but, you know, we got them. | ||
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We got them. | |
| Because I love Secret of Mana so much. | ||
| You got the ROMS! | ||
| All right, let's read some more. | ||
| We got Soulnator who says, Phil, have you heard Anne Berlin's new EP? | ||
| It's beautiful and gritty. | ||
| Steven has such a unique voice and I would highly recommend it. | ||
| Great work, Tim. | ||
| No Luke, I puke. | ||
| No Hannah Clare, I burn my hair. | ||
| Well, all right. | ||
| Have you heard the new EP? | ||
| I have not heard it, but I'll take a listen. | ||
| Anne Berlin's a good band. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Cool. | ||
| Let's grab some more Super Chats. | ||
| What is this? | ||
| Luke MP says, Tim, please shout out my neighbor, Nicole Howell's GoFundMe. | ||
| It won't let me share a link. | ||
| She's been battling cancer and they are struggling to pay medical bills and their rent. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| Love you, Ian. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| I'm going to look this up. | ||
| Nicole. | ||
| Hopefully, uh, I'm trying to type in Nicole Howell GoFundMe and see if I can find it. | ||
| Uh, Nicole's. | ||
| Is it Nicole's medical and everyday expenses? | ||
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| Perhaps. | ||
| I just think, you know, you never know, because there could be like a bunch of different people, but I searched for it, and it says she has breast cancer, and I don't know who this person is, but I'll probably donate to them anyway, because they have cancer. | ||
| But yeah, shout out. | ||
| Hopefully, you know, look, guys, this is kind of why I'm more on the universal health care camp of things, because it's like, I just don't think the, hey, I'm dying, go fund me to support me is the way we should handle it. | ||
| But I understand it's a fair point that this is a private market where people can choose to support someone if they want. | ||
| You know, so forcing people to donate isn't the appropriate approach, but I kind of lean towards, like, I don't know if, you know, like, someone's dying so we go to GoFundMe to try and save their life is the right way we handle things. | ||
| Also, a lot of these companies in the United States, they're using us to make their money so they can give negotiated and affordable prices to other countries as well. | ||
| So we just get the short end of the stick in every way, shape, and form. | ||
| Yeah, why should GoFundMe get paid because someone's got cancer? | ||
| Yeah, you'd think the American Medical Association would have a donation process or something like that at this point. | ||
| I mean, maybe. | ||
| No fees, or the American government would allow for it. | ||
| The thing is, it doesn't matter what the thing is, GoFundMe's taking 30%. | ||
| No, they don't take that much. | ||
| Is it less? | ||
| Is it way less? | ||
| Depending on what it's for, I believe they take a smaller percentage, if any percentage at all. | ||
| So if it's for cancer treatment, I'm pretty sure they have something for lower. | ||
| I don't mind GoFundMe as it is. | ||
| Giftsend goes the better one. | ||
| They take 2.9% plus 30 cents. | ||
| And some of that's unavoidable. | ||
| You used to charge 5%. | ||
| With our members, no matter what you do, a cut is taken by credit cards. | ||
| Excuse me. | ||
| Drew Outstanding in Field says, God's children are not for sale. | ||
| Hill, I'm willing to die on. | ||
| Hear, hear. | ||
| And that's what I was saying about the movie Sign of Freedom is like, even if you're an atheist, you understand the concept of what it means to say God's children. | ||
| The idea that the media is like, this is a Christian film, it's like, dude. | ||
| You don't need to be Christian to understand the concept of God's children just means in general the children of the world, the children of humanity, you know. | ||
| I understand Christians probably mean it much more literally, but I'm saying like the ideas in the film don't need religion behind them for us to agree that they're bad things. | ||
| But apparently for Rolling Stone and a lot of these companies, man, they really... | ||
| How many religious movies as well get the stamp of approval from, you know, all these elite media companies and Hollywood and everything like that? | ||
| I mean, you could, you know, be listing that off for a day. | ||
| But for this one, I think it's particularly offensive to them just because of the issue that it's focused on. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Well, I think it infringes upon their predilections. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know, so that, you know, we can't, Hollywood can't be, uh, you know, is it, is it people, someone, someone commented, like Tim's waking up or something in reference to me saying this and I'm like, dude, I'm pretty sure everybody knows for like a very long time that Hollywood has been abusing children. | ||
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| Like this accusation has been around for like a decade or longer probably, but they've been prominent for around that long. | ||
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| How old is Corey Haim? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Corey Haim's dead. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Seriously, 50? | ||
| I'd love to have him over. | ||
| Let's grab some more Super Chats! | ||
| Feldman, Feldman, Corey Haim's dead. | ||
| Corey Haim's dead, yeah. | ||
| Oh yeah, Corey Feldman is dead. | ||
| But I saw that, when Corey Feldman put that documentary out, I paid to watch it. | ||
| Fucked up. | ||
| We'll grab some more here. | ||
| Hmusic197 says, the best part of Corinne Jean-Pierre's statement is that the Biden family left the White House at around 6.30 p.m. | ||
| on Friday. | ||
| So and she's like, they're not here on Friday. | ||
| It's like, well, you know, they were most of the day. | ||
| It's just lies. | ||
| It's all just lies. | ||
| All right, Servie Rose says, My conspiracy theory. | ||
| Since it's cocaine and not crack, I bet Jill Biden asked the Secret Service to plant the cocaine in the White House just to see how Hunter would respond. | ||
| Dr. Feelgood. | ||
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| We can call her Dr. Feelgood now. | ||
| Andrew Ho says, Dan Bongino gave a great short breakdown saying it had to be a protectee to bypass security in the White House. | ||
| He should know being Secret Service on presidential detail for Bush Jr. | ||
| and Obama. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Because I was saying this too. | ||
| I was like, someone who doesn't need to go through the normal screening process. | ||
| And I'm just some guy. | ||
| Then Dan Bongino said basically, I'm like, hey, look at him. | ||
| He knows better than me. | ||
| He was actually there. | ||
| So, you know, take his word for it. | ||
| Where are we at? | ||
| Also, if they're changing their story like three times before you get any level of truth, there's something wrong. | ||
| Clint Torres says, wasn't there already a show called My Son Hunter? | ||
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| We will grab more. | ||
| It was a movie with, um, wasn't it? | ||
| My Son Hunter with Robert Davi, right? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| There was a movie that came out called My Son Hunter. | ||
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| John James. | ||
| Jackie says, the show should be called The Wilmington Hillbillies. | ||
| Hunter is Jethro, Naomi is Daisy Mae, Jill as the spinster from the bank. | ||
| The Wilmington Hillbillies. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Assyria says the Koch will be blamed on Kamala. She resigns. | ||
| Enter Newsom. | ||
| Then impeach Biden. Enter Newsom. 2024 turns into Newsom re-election. | ||
| Too circuitous, you know? | ||
| What, you don't think he's gonna run? | ||
| I do. But the idea that they impeach Kamala, appoint Newsom, then impeach Biden so Newsom becomes president is just | ||
| absurd. | ||
| Um, well, yeah, that's too many levels there. | ||
| You'd have to find a straighter path than that. | ||
| Silver Knight says RFK Jr. | ||
| will be the biggest bait-and-switch in history. | ||
| Don't drink the Kool-Aid, he's still a Democrat. | ||
| When he runs against Trump, the media and all the Democrats will fall right behind him. | ||
| I wonder if that's the same for DeSantis, too. | ||
| It's the zealotry that really gets me. | ||
| The people I resonated a lot with during the Trump years was, stop making me defend Trump. | ||
| Because in 2018 and 2019, I'm just like, I'm not voting for this guy, I'm not a big fan, but seriously, that's a lie, okay? | ||
| I'm critical of the guy over, the economy is doing well, but that's not true. | ||
| And there were a lot of people I knew who were like that, and Trump supporters were respectful of that position. | ||
| Overwhelmingly, they were like, we get it, as long as you're telling the truth. | ||
| Now you have the DeSantis people who are acting just like Democrats. | ||
| Twisting, lying, smearing, and playing dirty manipulative games. | ||
| I don't have anything to do with that. | ||
| And they're doing it to RFK too, so... Yeah, if you think he's a Trojan horse, check out that Lex Friedman interview with him and see if you still think that after an hour. | ||
| Sorry, I was just going to say, I think what a lot of people are criticizing is like, oh, stop fawning over him because he's still a liberal. | ||
| But I think, to Tim's point, or just in general, I think a lot of Trump supporters don't really care about that that much. | ||
| If you're anti-establishment, we kind of got something in common there. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Trump was a liberal Democrat in the early days anyway. | ||
| No one cared about the party. | ||
| It was kind of throwing my mind that he was Democrat on the Democrat ticket. | ||
| Didn't really see that after reading some of his books and stuff. | ||
| RFK? | ||
| Well, yeah, but gun control stuff in the past. | ||
| Yeah, I guess I didn't read enough. | ||
| He's running as a Democrat for a reason, or at least aligning that way. | ||
| I dig the fact that the establishment doesn't like him, but that's where the stuff that I like about RFK stops. | ||
| All of his policies, I don't find anything that's liberty focused. | ||
| There's a lot of talk about the Libertarian Party because he went to Porkfest and he spoke up there and it's like, he's not a libertarian. | ||
| So if you're a conservative or if you're small government minded, that's not Kennedy at all. | ||
| All right, the Moffinator says, it's almost as if Tim, a man who makes his living and runs companies around making media content, would understand how copyright laws work. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| In fact, not only that, but I actually made an app with a buddy of mine 10 years ago called Taggly, which we got to bring back. | ||
| So, you know, Isaac, I hit you up. | ||
| We got to bring the app back. | ||
| What the app does is it's a camera app. | ||
| And when you take a picture, it instantly includes time, date, location, and custom text. | ||
| You can customize what appears, so you can make it so that it only shows the date, only shows location, only shows custom text, or for some reason none, which you already have a camera so you don't need to, and it works on video as well. | ||
| So you'd record a video, save, and then it would instantly render the video within the bottom left corner, the, you know, time, date, location, and all that stuff. | ||
| So we gotta bring that back. | ||
| The point of that, it also, one of the components that was in the works was it would create what is effectively these days a cryptographic key. | ||
| At the time we were all excited about this technology where it would create a digital fingerprint which would be unique to the photo and it's like effectively an NFT. | ||
| And the intent was that A reporter on the ground who takes a photo or video would have definitive proof and the means of stamping their videos instantly. | ||
| There are apps where you can pull a photo in, drag text over, type in what you want, and then press render. | ||
| You can't do that when you're on the ground filming stuff. | ||
| So we do want to bring this back, but my point is this. | ||
| Not only do I know how copyright law works, I have successfully sent cease and desist letters and gotten content taken down from people who have stolen my works. | ||
| I've been doing this for 10 years. | ||
| I've gotten paid. | ||
| I had one major network send me several checks for using my footage without permission. | ||
| And it is really simple. | ||
| Often they'll use your footage. | ||
| You'll send a letter saying, thank you for using my footage, however, you require a license. | ||
| They respond with, how much? | ||
| You say, here's my standard rate because you didn't give permission. | ||
| I would like X. They say, no problem, sir. | ||
| The check is on its way. | ||
| It's usually resolved very, very easily. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| What people don't understand about fair use is they're like, I can take any news footage I want and just use it. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| You can't take documentary footage from Netflix and just upload it to Twitter. | ||
| You can, in some circumstances, fair use this. | ||
| Fair use is always copyright infringement, and you can always be taken to court over it, and then you need to justify why it was fair use. | ||
| There is one big limit to fair use when it comes to news. | ||
| Did the person produce the content specifically for the purpose of licensing out? | ||
| And if the answer is yes, there's no fair use. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| Getty, Corbis, which was purchased by Getty, and these other big libraries, you can't take a stock video from Getty and say, but it's fair use. | ||
| But AI can. | ||
| No, they're getting sued over this. | ||
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I hope so. | |
| So, I'll give you an example. | ||
| There are many photographers who tweet out their photos. | ||
| And then license them to major news networks. | ||
| You will be sued in two seconds if you touch that photo. | ||
| Two seconds. | ||
| Because even though they published it on Twitter, they expect to sell a license for it. | ||
| If it was true that you could fair use anyone's news footage, raw footage, there would be no independent or freelance reporters. | ||
| They couldn't exist. | ||
| Because anything you put out would instantly just get used under fair use. | ||
| There are arguments to be made over what the limits are, so direct commentary on things that are public do have strong protections. | ||
| My point, ultimately, with the copyright thing, DeSantis, is I'm not even literally saying that they should have paid me. | ||
| I'm just saying, like, we didn't do that arrangement with them. | ||
| That was the clarification, but there you go. | ||
| I love talking about copyright stuff. | ||
| I have been in many legal circumstances. | ||
| Typically, they never go to lawsuits, and usually, they're resolved with a, no problem, man. | ||
| Hey, sorry this happened, and, you know, everyone's really nice about it, and they just write you a check. | ||
| So, anyway, moving on. | ||
| We'll grab some more Super Chats. | ||
| RDC says Vivek is awesome, but if he got in there, I believe he would be sucker-punched by how bad the corruption actually is, and be roadblocked like Trump was in 2016. | ||
| I somewhat agree, but I don't completely agree. | ||
| I do think he will face unexpected conflict, but I think he would not act the same way. | ||
| I think Vivek would handle it very, very well. | ||
| If you heard his story, if you watched the Culture War podcast we did with him, this is a man on a mission. | ||
| They besmirched his good name and honor when he tried doing everything right. | ||
| Basically, his story was that they wanted him to write some pro-BLM thing, and he wrote this fairly, like, hey, I hope we can come together and overcome this stuff. | ||
| Then they came to him and said, no, that wasn't good enough, do more. | ||
| And he was like, I'm doing it. | ||
| Why are you coming at me? | ||
| Then they started attacking him relentlessly. | ||
| People started resigning. | ||
| And then he was like, we've got a very serious problem here. | ||
| And so it seems like two things happened. | ||
| He recognizes this crisis in the United States when it comes to ESG and wokeness. | ||
| And he was personally offended. | ||
| So I don't think he's gonna go into the White House if he does, which I think is a long shot, if to say even a long shot. | ||
| I don't think he goes in and falls in the same traps as Trump because Trump thought he was gonna be able to compromise and be a typical president. | ||
| But I do think Vivek will experience things he doesn't expect because he's not a politician. | ||
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| We will grab some more Super Jets. | ||
| Nuka Taco says, Phil, every presidential election has been a popularity contest, not just JFK. | ||
| George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, just to name a few. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| Did George Washington run against somebody? | ||
| My point about... You were talking about the show, the kind of... Yeah, just the way that people saw, when people can see the actual people that are running, like, on a wide, you know, a broad... It was like the introduction of entertainment to politics. | ||
| Yeah, spectacle, for sure. | ||
| You saw at stump speeches way back in the day, too. | ||
| Everyone there was, you know... | ||
| It used to be about, like, you'd read about what they said in the newspaper. | ||
| That was the majority of... But considering our presidents are at least somewhat democratically elected, they are almost all going to be popularity contests because the popular one is going to probably get most of the votes. | ||
| Ian, I have to read this one. | ||
| PK says, Ian, have you ever went the wrong direction on the interstate, and when you realized it, you just kept going? | ||
| No. | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| I think I did that on a road once, but pulled off. | ||
| I'm glad you pulled off. | ||
| Yeah, but Trump says, I actually believe that Joe Rogan could humiliate Trump, but not for lack of trying. | ||
| It's a Donald Trump thing, not a Joe Rogan thing. | ||
| Yeah, I don't like it either. | ||
| I don't like the humiliation. | ||
| But that's politics, man. | ||
| See, the issue is... Let me explain something to you guys. | ||
| Imagine a high school class. | ||
| And somebody farts. | ||
| Then someone else goes, Yo! | ||
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He farted! | |
| He's like, No I didn't! | ||
| No I didn't! | ||
| And then everyone starts laughing at the guy who farted, right? | ||
| Now imagine the guy who goes, hey everybody, check this out, lifts his cheek up, goes really loudly, and then everyone goes, oh, he starts busting out laughing, being like, smell my fart. | ||
| You see, the difference is the guy who tries to hide it is embarrassed it happened. | ||
| The other guy is subjecting you to it. | ||
| That's how I see Trump. | ||
| Trump is the guy who subjects you to his fart and laughs about it. | ||
| Seriously. | ||
| As opposed to the guy who secretly tries to hide it and says, it wasn't me, oh no, I'm so embarrassed. | ||
| So, like, how do you make fun of a guy? | ||
| One of us is certainly more confident. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How do you make fun of the guy who's wafting it over at you and being like, revel in it, there's nothing you can do about it. | ||
| You can't mock him for it, he loves it! | ||
| Yeah, that's why I go dirty. | ||
| Does it get dirtier than fart jokes? | ||
| Yeah, I go at their family life and like, try and really hurt their feelings, like really hurt their emotions. | ||
| But I only had to do it as a young kid because my friends were brutal to me, like growing up, they'd be like, trying to dominate, you know, and I'm like, I'm not gonna let you do that, man. | ||
| The reason you're doing it is because you came from a broken home. | ||
| So stop. | ||
| Alright, we'll grab one more. | ||
| Warboss Badsmack says, Tim, recommend you try a game called Remnant from the Ashes. | ||
| Basically Dark Souls, but with tree monsters and guns. | ||
| We'll check it out. | ||
| Alright everybody, if you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, become a member at TimCast.com. | ||
| Thanks for hanging out, it's been a blast. | ||
| You can follow the show at TimCast IRL. | ||
| You can follow me personally at TimCast. | ||
| James, do you want to shout anything out? | ||
| Yeah, you guys, make sure to go subscribe over on my YouTube channel, youtube.com slash James Kluge, that's K-L-U-G, if you like street conversation videos and all that great stuff, you're gonna enjoy the channel, so go check that out. | ||
| You guys, thank you so much for having me. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Sup everyone, you can follow me at Carter Banks on Twitter, CarterBanks4L on Instagram, and follow Trash House Records on YouTube. | ||
| Hillary Clinton is the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of rot. | ||
| What a line. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Personification of rot. | ||
| I thought it was worse than just that. | ||
| It's so good. | ||
| I am Phil LaBonte. | ||
| PhilItRemains on Twitter. | ||
| PhilItRemainsOfficial on Instagram. | ||
| The band is All That Remains. | ||
| You can find us on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Pandora, you know, the internet. | ||
| And in case anyone's wondering, that was a Tulsi Gabbard quote that you were quoting. | ||
| Not necessarily your quote, but I don't know if you agree with it or not. | ||
| I definitely agree. | ||
| In reference to Hillary Clinton, I do agree. | ||
| You heard it here first, folks. | ||
| Also, I want to give a special shout out to Suikoden. | ||
| You guys ever play that game? | ||
| It was another Square game back in the day. | ||
| Suikoden 2. | ||
| Great game. | ||
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Awesome game. | |
| Do you remember what console? | ||
| It was Super Nintendo. | ||
| No, actually, it might have been on the PlayStation. | ||
| It was on PlayStation. | ||
| PlayStation? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Badass. | ||
| And also, maybe, uh, casprew.com. | ||
| Obviously, we should do a coffee taste test some night. | ||
| Have little snifters of a bunch of different coffees and sip, sip. | ||
| I had Roberto Jr. | ||
| this morning, and it's like, when I was drinking the Appalachian Nights, I was like, this is the best coffee ever. | ||
| And then this morning, we switched to Roberto Jr., and I was like, oh, this is the best coffee ever. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Casprew.com. | ||
| I'm Ian Crossland. | ||
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Oh. | |
| I just- I just- I sincerely mean it. | ||
| Like, I can't help but just shug this coffee. | ||
| I- I haven't tried it yet. | ||
| Um, I'm definitely gonna be trying it, though. | ||
| Yeah, I gotta- I'm gonna back-to-back some straight black coffee. | ||
| And, uh, the Sleepy Joe and the Unwoke are coming really, really soon. | ||
| Oh, then we'll do the taste test when those arrive. | ||
| That sounds fun. | ||
| Bye guys, I'm Ian Crossland. | ||
| Follow me anywhere on the internet. | ||
| And we got Kellan PDL. | ||
| Yeah, you guys can follow me at Kellan PDL. | ||
| I want to give a quick shout out. | ||
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Last Friday we had a super chat come through of a TimCast community member that's coming out with a video game. | |
| Well that game came out today on Steam called Drag the Dead. | ||
| So go support another community member of TimCast. | ||
| And I think it's better than like GoFundMe because you get something out of it. | ||
| You get to play a game. | ||
| So that came out today on Steam, Drag the Dead. | ||
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Awesome. | |
| Thanks guys. | ||
| Alright everybody, thanks for hanging out. |
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