Aug. 2, 2023 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| Donald Trump is facing 561 years in prison. | ||
| in prison. | ||
| In fact, he's fundraising off of it. | ||
| Not surprised. | ||
| His betting odds have increased with these latest indictments and the betting odds for his rival candidates are going down. | ||
| Well, again, I can't say I'm surprised because whenever they go after Trump like this, he's going to raise tons of money. | ||
| They put his name in the press. | ||
| They make historical context by which Trump will raise historical sums of money. | ||
| This will be interesting. | ||
| Alan Dershowitz came out and said that SCOTUS will shut this down. | ||
| And he's probably right. | ||
| Some people are saying that it's going to go to the Supreme Court before it even sees any kind of arraignment or criminal trial, but we shall see. | ||
| In other news, this is interesting, Vivek Ramaswamy is getting roasted because he said he doesn't believe the 9-11 commission report. | ||
| Of course, he is completely correct in his opinion in how he broke it down, and the media is taking this tiny morsel slightly out of context to try and smear him. | ||
| But I find that one particularly funny. | ||
| And then, um, I guess because everybody wants to have a good laugh and, you know, we're always talking about this negative news, World War III, you know, Poland is saying that the Wagner Group is headed towards a NATO country and all that stuff. | ||
| We're going to talk about something a bit more... | ||
| Positive. | ||
| That'll make you laugh and feel good. | ||
| Justin Trudeau's getting divorced! | ||
| Uh, okay, he's not really getting divorced. | ||
| He's separating from his wife, but we'll see how that plays out. | ||
| And then we got a bunch of other stories. | ||
| We'll probably talk about Lizzo. | ||
| You know, she's getting sued because she, like, mercilessly abused her backup dancers, and it's, like, truly a horrifying story. | ||
| There's a bunch of other stuff we can get to. | ||
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| Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Tower Gang Jose! | ||
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Hey, thanks for having me! | |
| I'm looking forward to it. | ||
| I'm Jose Gaison. | ||
| I have a podcast called No Way, Jose. | ||
| I'm probably best known for my coverage on the Oklahoma City bombing. | ||
| Last time I was here, I let you guys all know that Terence Hickey didn't kill himself. | ||
| And less than a month later, CNN ended up covering that story. | ||
| So today, I'm here to tell you Ken Thornton didn't kill himself. | ||
| And Jesse Trenthout, his brother, sure could use some awareness. | ||
| He still continues his over 25-year-long battle for justice in his brother's death. | ||
| And the people that did him in, you know, still walking free today. | ||
| I have no idea the context of any of that. | ||
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It's an individual in the Oklahoma City bombing. | |
| I suggest people go look into it. | ||
| Type the search up. | ||
| Can't threaten to do. | ||
| If you'd like to get a shirt, use NoWayJose. | ||
| Check out at TopLobster.com. | ||
| 15% off just for the show. | ||
| Yeah, I'm also on Tower Gang, which is an offensive comedy podcast. | ||
| So both my podcasts are very different. | ||
| But yeah, I'm looking forward to being here today. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Thanks for hanging out. | ||
| We've got Hannah-Claire Brimlow hanging out. | ||
| Hi, I'm Hannah-Claire Brimlow. | ||
| I'm a writer for TimCast.com. | ||
| You should go follow them on social media. | ||
| And Brett's here. | ||
| Oh yes, hello. | ||
| My name is Brett Dasvick. | ||
| I am the host of Pop Culture Crisis, Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. | ||
| Eastern Standard Time. | ||
| Glad to be here. | ||
| Yeah, Ian is out because he's been working out so aggressively that he is currently drained and laying on the floor downstairs. | ||
| My favorite part is now when he's walking around, he's walking around in cut-off shirts. | ||
| That's the best part. | ||
| He's getting ready. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Oh yeah, it's been good seeing you, Ian. | ||
| It really has. | ||
| His whole personality's kind of shifted a little bit. | ||
| I think you guys would agree. | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| It's the testosterone surging through his veins, you know? | ||
| He's bulking up. | ||
| I saw him punch a hole in the wall the other day. | ||
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I was scared. | |
| He bumped my shoulders on the way up here. | ||
| He just flared it, man. | ||
| Yeah, anyways. | ||
| Surge.com, guys. | ||
| Let's get into whenever you're ready, Tim. | ||
| Alright, here's the first story from me. | ||
| 561 years in prison. | ||
| Trump fundraising off of recent indictment with dire warning, you could be thrown in jail for six lifetimes. | ||
| So I actually got this email and it says, Patriot! | ||
| With Crooked Joe's corrupt DOJ having unlawfully indicted yours truly yet again, reports indicate that I could now face a combined 561 years in prison from the left's witch hunts. | ||
| Six lifetimes! | ||
| There's only one message someone can send by trying to throw you in jail for six lifetimes, and that's fear. | ||
| The fear that if you vote for the only candidate who puts you first, you too could be harassed, indicted, and even arrested by the current Marxist regime in Washington. | ||
| Alright, well, so we know about these indictments, but the latest update here, aside from the fact that Trump could be facing 561 years, Alan Dershowitz says conviction of Trump would be overturned by the Supreme Court. | ||
| On Tuesday, Biden's DOJ filed yet another indictment, as we know, following the announcement. | ||
| Lawyer and Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz sat down with Fox News' Sean Hannity to discuss the former president's legal prospects, suggesting that while he would likely be convicted, The ruling would be overturned by the Supreme Court. | ||
| Quote, they claim that Donald Trump actually believed that he lost the election, that everything he did was fraudulent, that he conspired with unnamed lawyers to affect the election. | ||
| You're allowed to challenge elections. | ||
| Indeed, the best way to challenge elections is to come up with a slate of alternate electors. | ||
| The government has the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt that subjectively Donald Trump actually believed that he lost the election and acted contrary to that belief. | ||
| There is no smoking gun. | ||
| There is no one who is credibly prepared to testify that Donald Trump said to him, I know personally I lost the election. | ||
| What they're doing with the indictment is they're taking things where Trump said, like, you're crazy to someone as if to imply that means he really knew that he did lose the election. | ||
| But more importantly, I'm not so sure how much any of this procedural stuff matters. | ||
| What the Democrats have been doing is effectively just an onslaught of whatever they can keep firing off at Donald Trump. | ||
| And it's probably going to be some kind of death by a thousand cuts. | ||
| Yeah, it's impossible not to factor in the timing here, right? | ||
| Like, you've had these investigations going, what, since the day he was elected? | ||
| Like, he has been so intensely investigated for the last effectively eight years, and now all of a sudden, on the eve of an election, they are ready to prosecute. | ||
| They have all of these ideas. | ||
| And in fact, they aren't just going to try it in one court, they're going to try it three different times. | ||
| I mean, it's sort of bizarre. | ||
| Mike Pence said yesterday, you know, I'm going to wait to review everything, but this is just a distraction from the real issues. | ||
| He threw Trump under the bus. | ||
| He threw him under the bus, and he's not even, last I checked, he didn't even qualify for the debates, right? | ||
| Like, I think this shows you How intensely influential the Trump campaign is that they are timing federal investigations to try and throw off his campaign. | ||
| I mean, this is one of the things that comes up. | ||
| When are they going to have these trials, right? | ||
| Will it keep him from basically campaigning and being with people? | ||
| And instead, it'll be in the headlines where, you know, they're going to restrict media access to the court. | ||
| There's going to be all these issues just to try to slow him down and nothing is working. | ||
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Yeah, it's like the same old tired trope. | |
| They tried this with Russia, and it kind of bogged them down over and over again, and now they're continuing to do it. | ||
| I just, I don't know at what point will they pull a different play of their playbook. | ||
| I'm a little concerned. | ||
| He is straddling the line, like, kind of JFK-ish. | ||
| Like, at what point does he hop over the line to where the, you know, the deep state does something? | ||
| I don't know, and what are they going to do? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's always a possibility for any president for a variety of reasons, but I don't think that's the route they go I think what's more likely to happen it well for one They tried the rape thing in New York where they're like he's been convicted by or not convicted He's been found liable or something for some 30 year old nonsense story I just want to stress how ridiculous and insane the story was and if you believe it you're a well if you claim to believe it You're either lying or really dumb that Trump went into the what was the department store like this murder of good Goodman, right? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, this massive department store. | ||
| And for some reason, nobody was anywhere. | ||
| They walked in and everyone just vanished. | ||
| They must have been raptured because they were gone. | ||
| And then they went into a dressing room where, for some reason, the doors were unlocked. | ||
| And then they went inside, did the deed, and left. | ||
| And no one noticed. | ||
| No one noticed. | ||
| No one noticed the king of New York, the most Famous guy in the city, nobody noticed him walk into this massive shopping center. | ||
| It's an insane story. | ||
| But they've tried that. | ||
| I bring that up because this is what they did to Julian Assange. | ||
| They made this ridiculous fake story about first it was like a condom broke and then molestation. | ||
| Then the media reports it as rape, which is all a lie. | ||
| Then they throw it all out and say, yeah, that's nonsense. | ||
| We don't care about that anymore. | ||
| Now they're going after him for espionage, which is also nonsense. | ||
| But Hillary Clinton was famously quoted as saying, can't we just drone this guy? | ||
| And then they were like, yeah, he's in London. | ||
| So no, we can't. | ||
| But this is typically what they try to do to people outside of Western nations. | ||
| Inside, they've changed strategies. | ||
| They don't make a martyr of these people. | ||
| So what do they do? | ||
| They accused Julian Assange of being a rapist so that it sounds really, really awful historically and in the press. | ||
| They try that with Trump, but it seems to just bounce off because nobody cares and nobody believes it anymore. | ||
| People have already picked their sides, right? | ||
| You're not going to convince anybody that hates him that much that he's a good guy, and you're not going to convince the most entrenched of his fans that he's suddenly a bad guy. | ||
| Even many of his fans don't see him as that good of a guy. | ||
| They have more of a realistic view of him. | ||
| He's a sword. | ||
| What did Michael Moore say? | ||
| A human Molotov cocktail. | ||
| So when they come out and they throw all this garbage at Trump to stick to him, and they're like, see, look how bad he is, they're like, oh, you're sweetening the pot. | ||
| And I think it's hard to contrast Trump, who hypothetically did something after we demanded he turned over all of these documents, he's been under federal scrutiny for years, with the actual reality of the Biden administration, right? | ||
| Like, when you are comparing two things, the effects of inflation on your family and a hypothetical goose chase, which actually is the federal government wasting taxpayer funds, I feel like I'm going to be more mad at the federal government overall. | ||
| It's not helping whatever cause they think they have. | ||
| So the question is, are they indicting Trump to interfere in the election, to distract from the Joe Biden corruption allegations, or could it be that the U.S. | ||
| credit rating was just downgraded from AAA to AA+, And we've had, I think, the highest number of bankruptcies in the first two quarters this year since the past 13 years. | ||
| So something is going wrong economically. | ||
| Inflation is through the roof. | ||
| I mean, just go to the grocery store, buy groceries, and it's nuts. | ||
| There was a viral TikTok where it was like this couple, and they were like, it said buying groceries in 2011, and they're like dancing, and they have this big table, and it's like $100. | ||
| And then it was like buying groceries today, and they're standing there, and there's like five things, and it's the same price. | ||
| So yeah. | ||
| When working class and middle Americans are right now watching the news and someone on CNN comes out and says, Donald Trump had classified documents. | ||
| They're like, I'm just trying to buy some beef for my family, dude. | ||
| Like, I don't know. | ||
| I don't know what you're talking about. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Meanwhile, 561 years. | ||
| It's giving very Alex Jones. | ||
| It's giving Alex Jones. | ||
| What does he owe now? | ||
| Like two billion dollars? | ||
| No, wasn't it trillions? | ||
| It's like a trillion dollars. | ||
| Like he's just going to be. | ||
| It was the GDP of France, wasn't it? | ||
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He owns an entire European nation. | |
| It's like they just throw the book at them because they hate them. | ||
| They understand that the people that already hate them are going to continue to hate them. | ||
| They're like, oh good, even though they understand that he's just going to file bankruptcy and whatever's going to happen is going to happen. | ||
| My thing is like all of this seems like a politically charged goose chase when there are like actual child predators or, you know, murderers out there who get less time. | ||
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It was 2.75 Brilliant! | |
| That's the GDP of France. | ||
| Alex Jones must pay us the GDP of France. | ||
| He's like, yep, I'm on. | ||
| It would be funny if, like, everybody in France loved Alex Jones to the point where they were buying from him, and he did make that much money and we just didn't know about it. | ||
| They just asked for his Venmo. | ||
| They're like, can you Venmo us the money? | ||
| We've got you, don't worry. | ||
| But also, like, I mean... | ||
| There's J6 people, like, they're gonna rush this trial to make sure that it happens, like, right before the election. | ||
| Meanwhile, J6 people, no trial, no nothing. | ||
| It's very, like, if you pay close enough attention to what's going on in the world, you understand just how unfair all of it is, but the average person isn't paying that close attention. | ||
| That's what I found weird about Pence's comments, because he released this statement, like, right after the indictment came out, being like, it means more talk about January 6th and other distractions, and you want to be like, we should talk about January 6th, we should talk about January 6th all the time, because there are people who were persecuted in a way that no one else has been, and we just let them fall to, like, you shouldn't let them just fall to the wayside, like, that's the best thing about the Trump, uh, Trump situation, in my opinion, which is that we, like, continue to talk about the miscarriage of justice at the federal level. | ||
| Wasn't it, like, Literally the day before January 6th, Mike Pence said, we're going to have Congress go through this and we're going to hear the evidence. | ||
| And the next day he's like, yeah, nah, I'm not going to do that. | ||
| I'm willing to bet that like that night he's in bed with his wife and there's like a knock on the door and he's like, well, who's going to wake up at two in the morning? | ||
| And then he comes to the door and there's a guy in a suit with like black sunglasses. | ||
| And then the guy in Mike's is like, what's going on? | ||
| And then he just hands a picture of JFK. | ||
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And then Mike's like, Okay. | |
| I really just feel like it was just politically expedient from that time. | ||
| I don't think anyone needed to say anything. | ||
| He knew that his role as the vice president at that time was to kind of tacitly be in this in-between spot. | ||
| It was very clear to, and that's why there was so much rage from the Trump base against Pence, is because they kind of knew he was talking out of both sides of his mouth and he didn't really mean all this. | ||
| Like, him saying that, oh, we'll look into this, what does that even mean? | ||
| We'll look into it? | ||
| Okay, cool. | ||
| Like, that doesn't mean much of anything. | ||
| This is a big component, too, of the suit now, because it's being reported the... What's the guy's name? | ||
| Smith? | ||
| What's his name? | ||
| Jake Smith? | ||
| Is it Jack Smith? | ||
| The special counsel? | ||
| The special prosecutor, whatever. | ||
| That he claimed that Pence did not have the authority to reject electoral votes, which is wrong. | ||
| He absolutely did. | ||
| Until 2022, apparently there was some revision to the law. | ||
| But Democrats famously brought together an alternate slate of electors from Hawaii in 1960. | ||
| Despite the fact that the state was won by the Republicans, the governor certified the Republican electors, Democrats still convened a fraudulent slate of electors. | ||
| I say fraudulent, good sir! | ||
| Well, hold on. | ||
| How does the Vice President have the authority to do that back in 1960? | ||
| And Nixon chose to ignore his vice president. | ||
| He ignored the certified electoral votes and said, I'm going to count the Democrat uncertified | ||
| votes anyway. | ||
| Well, hold on. | ||
| How does the vice president have the authority to do that back in 1960 and then lose it? | ||
| Well, I suppose Congress could change things, but that's not what happened. | ||
| Mike Pence did have this authority. | ||
| Trump's lawyers were advising him, not perfectly, but he had some sound policy and procedure advice. | ||
| And then Mike Pence was just like, eh, screw it. | ||
| I'm out. | ||
| It seems crazy to me. | ||
| Also, you know, like I said before, I don't think he, last I checked, he had not qualified for the debates, which debates are questionable anyways. | ||
| The strangest thing about this is he has to walk this weird line that's like, Well I was part of the Trump administration and that's literally why all of you know who I am except also I don't really want to be affiliated with the bad stuff or the more controversial stuff so I'm going to sort of be the most politician politician of all times and try to make everyone happy in which I will fail. | ||
| The crazy thing is that Mike Pence threw Trump under the bus tweeting that this, basically saying this man should not be allowed to be president or whatever. | ||
| It's the inversion of Vivek Ramaswamy. | ||
| When Vivek came out and said we should all come together and reject these political indictments and these charges. | ||
| They're trying to remove Trump, you know, in an unjust way. | ||
| That's really amazing. | ||
| So when you say that Mike Pence doesn't qualify for the debates, it's not a very difficult question as to why. | ||
| Well, it's because he hasn't got enough donors. | ||
| That's like literally what I'm referring to. | ||
| Yeah, nobody wants to give money to a guy who sucks. | ||
| Yeah, but that's so interesting, right? | ||
| Because theoretically, at one point, he thought he was the heir apparent. | ||
| Like, if Trump got two terms, he would be the next obvious candidate to win. | ||
| And like, he made such a catastrophic miscalculation, and then continued to be like, I think I can do it. | ||
| I think I could win. | ||
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I think the landscape has changed so much. | |
| I said a minute ago that what Mike Pence was doing was politically expedient, but that was kind of wrong. | ||
| It was traditionally politically expedient. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And they're still in that mindset. | ||
| What is now becoming the type of rhetoric that is becoming actually politically expedient is things like what Vivek is saying, like actually owning it and having bold messaging and having a legit message. | ||
| I mean, I am a little bit concerned about some of his messaging from the past, but I don't know. | ||
| I'm open to see maybe just change his mind. | ||
| But I mean, either way, that is the rhetoric people want. | ||
| Let me pull this up from Predict It. | ||
| This is the latest prediction numbers. | ||
| Vivek Ramaswamy tied in second place with Ron DeSantis. | ||
| And, you know, I think he might overtake Ron DeSantis for second place very, very soon. | ||
| When Donald Trump gets indicted, Vivek comes out with a very, very strong and it seemed unscripted message about how this is wrong. | ||
| Whether or not you trust Vivek, he's rolling 20s. | ||
| He is hitting all of his marks. | ||
| He's responding authentically and properly. | ||
| He's answering the questions. | ||
| When people criticize him, he tackles them head-on. | ||
| Now he is rising in the prediction market. | ||
| So I suppose we shall see at what point he hits second place. | ||
| But I'm already seeing a ton of Trump supporters saying that if for some reason Trump was completely incapable of running, Vivek would be their guy. | ||
| It's definitely interesting. | ||
| He sent out a couple fundraising emails this week saying, I am on track to overtake Ron DeSantis. | ||
| And when he was here the other week, he was saying, look, we were hoping to reach about a 10% in the polling by the end of the year. | ||
| We are much farther ahead of that. | ||
| His campaign really has had a lot of inertia behind it. | ||
| What do you guys think? | ||
| What do you think? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| I think Vivek will take him over. | ||
| I think Ron is plummeting, and I'm kind of heartened by it, because I heard you guys on the show the other day saying Vivek's kind of like a right-wing Obama, and it's funny, my buddy Reid Coverdale actually said the same thing about Ron at one point, where he was kind of following a similar kind of thing, but it's almost like the people kind of saw it, because I'm of the opinion that, I mean, maybe Ron would be great when he got in, but I'm sensing neocon vibes, so it really feels like... | ||
| No, no, no, Ron. | ||
| So I'm saying like he kind of was the right-wing Obama, but now it's like it's kind of that idea where it's like traditionally political expedient or modern political expedient. | ||
| Now it's like Vivek could be that right-wing Obama to where it's like, I don't know, maybe he will swap when he gets in. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe he'll stay true to be genuine. | ||
| He is genuine. | ||
| I'm unsure, but he seems pretty genuine from everywhere at the time I've seen him talk. | ||
| But point being is it's just I'm heartened by the idea that people kind of lost faith in the Ron thing. | ||
| To be clear, I love him as a Florida governor. | ||
| I think he's great. | ||
| But now when you get the reins of federal power, that's a different story. | ||
| Now you're controlling foreign policy. | ||
| Vivek, he's going on every show and just saying, ask me. | ||
| And it's just raw, unfiltered, and authentic. | ||
| It's masterfully done. | ||
| Whether you like him or trust him or not, if he is being duplicitous and political and trying to earn votes... He's good at it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's the best I've ever seen. | ||
| That's the scariest part, right? | ||
| That's the ones you have to worry about, is the ones who are really, really good at hiding it until the last moment, right? | ||
| And he has done a very good job about that because I think anyone who has even base level political knowledge sees him and sees some type of comparison. | ||
| to Barack Obama. But I would also maybe posit that people who are now paying attention to | ||
| politics, especially people who lean right, are far more informed on these issues. So if he's | ||
| going to fool them, it will be a lot harder to fool them than to fool a political novice in 2008. | ||
| He can't just put up a hope poster and call it a day. | ||
| You know, a hope and change poster and call it a day. | ||
| You know, Viking Vet told us, he superchatted saying, pull up the predicted graph and you can | ||
| You can actually see Vivek has already surpassed Asantos on one occasion. | ||
| I think if we, let's go back 30 days, we can see that, yeah, there is a period where Vivek and DeSantis had tied and then on the 28th, Vivek actually surpassed DeSantis by two cents and held that lead for, I believe, two days. | ||
| So they tied and now it's going back up. | ||
| So he's already gotten it. | ||
| I think, uh, I think the story of Vivek is that he was very much apolitical, he was kind of just like somewhat political, and then the story he told us was that when the BLM riots happened, people came to him and said, change your company's profile picture to the black square, and he was like, oh, sure, whatever, and he does. | ||
| And they come to him and they're like, now write a letter about why what happened was bad. | ||
| And he was like, sure, I guess. | ||
| And then he writes like, hey, the rioting is really bad. | ||
| It's unfortunate what happened. | ||
| I hope this country can come together and heal. | ||
| And they were like, no, no, no, you're supposed to be why we're right and support us. | ||
| And he was like, okay, now you're pissing me off. | ||
| Like I wrote something. | ||
| Then he started getting board members from his company resigning. | ||
| It seems like Vivek was this Successful, what is he, worth half a billion dollars, running a pharmaceutical company, minding his own business, probably very pleased with himself at 37, and then woke activists started attacking him. | ||
| And look, it's one thing if you're like an indie game developer, or a small YouTuber, or a random guy who works at a steel mill, and they're coming to cancel you. | ||
| It's another thing if you're the guy who founded a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical, and you're worth half a billion dollars, and they come at you and try to cancel you. | ||
| And then, I'm just imagining him sitting there, like, clenching his fist, being like, I will destroy you. | ||
| And now this is the story he told that like, after seeing that he realized how dangerous this stuff was. | ||
| He wrote the book, I think, woke capital. | ||
| He started talking about ESG being a problem. | ||
| He created a, what is it a mutual fund? | ||
| He created a fund. | ||
| I'm not a finance guy. | ||
| Specifically to reject what's going on with ESG and all that. | ||
| And then he's like, I'm gonna run for president. | ||
| So this dude's just, he's doing an amazing job. | ||
| He's nailing it. | ||
| I'm a big fan. | ||
| It seems to be fitting in more like, with the well-informed voters | ||
| who would naturally vote Trump. | ||
| You would have thought they would have gone towards Ron because he was such a culture war issue type guy. | ||
| But those issues, whether we're talking about financing from companies like BlackRock or Vanguard, pushing back against that type of ESG based capitalism is going to be strong for him because the people who would vote for Trump if he was out of the election are going to care about that stuff. | ||
| And Ron can't seem to land much of it. | ||
| We did a clip the other day where he's like, Yeah. | ||
| at like some meet and greet with people and he just laughs really awkwardly and walks away. | ||
| And it's just like, he can't win. | ||
| Like he, like the clip is bad. | ||
| It's not even his fault in this case, right? | ||
| But somebody poised it and it just seems awkward and the dude can't catch a break. | ||
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Honestly, I found it endearing personally. | |
| Cause I'm like, oh, that's me. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But like right now he's in, like, he's facing people who are very much antagonistic, right? | ||
| So that's not going to be shown in a way that's endearing to people. | ||
| Certain people might see it that way. | ||
| Like you said, you identified with it. | ||
| I would be that way at the party too. | ||
| But in general, that's not something you want in the leader of your military, right? | ||
| I think what's cool about Vivek's messaging is that it's more than just... | ||
| You know, Rwanda has done a lot of really interesting things culture war wise, especially when it comes to gender ideology. | ||
| One of the things I like about Vivek's campaign is that it's much more about the renewal of like civic engagement and about patriotism and about values that bring us together. | ||
| And I think as much as like the more divisive aspects of the culture war are definitely worth fighting, it is nice to also say like, here is actually what we want instead of just saying, well, we don't want these things. | ||
| What do we want? | ||
| And I think that's cool. | ||
| There are definitely stuff about like Vivek's campaign that I don't personally agree with. | ||
| I think there should be more restriction on legal immigration. | ||
| He doesn't. | ||
| But I am grateful that he's on the scene because he's provoking a lot of really interesting conversation. | ||
| I would describe Donald Trump's campaign in a single word, revenge. | ||
| I don't see a lot more. | ||
| I mean, he's fundraising. | ||
| They're coming after me. | ||
| They want to destroy me and strike fear. | ||
| And I'm fighting for you. | ||
| And I see all of this and I'm like, Trump wants to go in there and get revenge. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| Someone's got to go in and have a beef to just start firing the bureaucrats. | ||
| And that's a great first step towards fixing the problems in government. | ||
| Not all of them. | ||
| You know, government itself is a problem in many ways. | ||
| And then you have Vivek Ramaswamy. | ||
| And I look at him, and if I were to describe his campaign, it's like you said, civic engagement. | ||
| He's talked about civics tests for voting. | ||
| He's talking about American values and things like this. | ||
| And he's nailing it. | ||
| My question for you guys, I guess, is how would you describe Ron DeSantis' campaign? | ||
| Like, his policies, what he's pushing, what he stands for, what represents, like, what does he represent? | ||
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He's just not picking something. | |
| He's trying to be this, essentially, a Vivec, in a sense, or like some sort of Vivec, you know, Trump matchup, but he's not really... | ||
| Well, I just mean the vibe. | ||
| But he's not really committing. | ||
| He's also still kind of like, sort of, like being like, oh, to what, like elite talking points, kind of like alluding, but I might still be for that. | ||
| Like, it's like, there's so many things, like I know when he was waffling, I think on the Ukraine stuff a while, but he was talking about it. | ||
| How is it hard though? | ||
| like can you really just not say no like just we're done like and none of this | ||
| like oh we need to have a presence here and like just none of this like | ||
| politician talk people are over it they want you to be solid about what you want | ||
| and like take a strong stance I think he has this pull between his like Ron with | ||
| his base and his donors I think that is kind of what the issue is so he's like | ||
| where do I go it's like you got to pick one or the other I mean preferably the | ||
| base how is it hard though I mean what single voter actually is is voting for | ||
| more money being sent to Ukraine Maybe like Ukrainian Americans? | ||
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The donors. | |
| Somebody who has a connection to Ukraine. | ||
| The thing is, I felt like... | ||
| Ron DeSantis was the strongest when he was just Ron DeSantis in Florida, thinking about Florida, doing what he could for Florida. | ||
| And he didn't have what I assume he now has, which is this kind of what you're talking about, like a donor class that's come in and say, OK, this is what we think will translate best to the national level. | ||
| And in that way, he's lost his sense of self, which, like you're saying, when you have strong contenders who have these personalities, their campaigns have a rhythm. | ||
| They have sort of found their niche in terms of the interview circuit. | ||
| It's unfortunate, man. | ||
| than sort of where Rhonda Stantz is right now. | ||
| And again, that's not to say that he doesn't ever have any interesting talking points or anything like that, | ||
| but you start to feel like he is not catching the rhythm that he needs to sustain his second place standing. | ||
| That's unfortunate, man. | ||
| I feel let down. | ||
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Yeah, that video you guys have been talking about a lot recently, I think was a perfect example. | |
| Where, like, they're trying to sort of- Which, which one? | ||
| The, the one with the Ukraine Stal- no, the Stalin- Sonnenrad? | ||
| Whatever the heck it's called, yeah. | ||
| The Nazi symbol. | ||
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Yeah, which, personally, I thought was awesome, but, like, obviously- The Nazi symbol? | |
| No, not the- I don't think the Nazi symbol- The video. | ||
| The whole vibe of the video. | ||
| It was like- How do you accidentally put a spinning black sun behind your candidate with, with soldiers marching towards it? | ||
| That's not an accident. | ||
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Yeah, and if you're gonna do it- That dude knew what he was doing. | |
| If you're gonna do it, you need to own it. | ||
| You probably shouldn't do it. | ||
| But if you're gonna do it, you shouldn't- How do you own it? | ||
| Just be like, hey, it was a cool symbol. | ||
| It's stupid trying to own it, but trying to do this in-between thing where, like, our people put it out and we're trying to have this plausible deniability is just silly. | ||
| Either do it or don't. | ||
| He could have said, I don't know, I saw it from the Ukraine fighters. | ||
| So that's what it was all about. | ||
| Solidarity. | ||
| Let's, uh, you know, Ian's gonna be really upset he's not here tonight because we have this story from Politico. | ||
| Vivek Ramaswamy, quote, I don't believe the 9-11 commission report. | ||
| The GOP candidate went on to insist he was expressing doubts about the Saudi government's explanation for the attacks. | ||
| Let me just say, first and foremost, you want to talk about honesty in a political candidate? | ||
| Have them come out and say they don't trust the 9-11 commission report? | ||
| And I believe Vivek Ramaswamy is being honest. | ||
| I mean, This, in any traditional sense, any traditional political consultant would be like, what did you just do? | ||
| You nuked your campaign. | ||
| But Vivek is telling you actually what he thinks. | ||
| And he's completely correct. | ||
| Let me read this. | ||
| Politico reports, Vivek Ramaswamy cast doubt on the veracity of the government's explanation for the 9-11 attacks, saying he didn't believe the findings of the 9-11 commission. | ||
| He said, quote, I don't believe the government has told us the truth. | ||
| I'm driven by evidence and data. | ||
| What I've seen in the last several years is we have to be skeptical of what the government does tell us. | ||
| I haven't seen evidence to the contrary, but do I believe everything the government told us about it? | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| Do I believe the 9-11 Commission? | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| I am tremendously impressed from this. | ||
| They're trying to now claim he's like a 9-11 truther, or it's like the underlying argument. | ||
| No, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| That's total BS. | ||
| If you believe everything the government tells you, you haven't read a history book, not a single one. | ||
| And I got a bridge to sell you. | ||
| All he's saying is something simple, and I've said something similar. | ||
| Why would any reasonable person think the government issued a book explaining one of the greatest security failures in the history of this country? | ||
| They wouldn't! | ||
| They would put out something which is somewhat true, but probably has a bunch of gaps in it, because they don't want to reveal secrets as to how we got attacked, because we don't want it to happen again. | ||
| Vivek is correct. | ||
| You know, there's some comedian who has a bit that's like, you don't need to believe in all conspiracy theories, but you don't believe in any? | ||
| You think the government's just out here batting a thousand? | ||
| When he talks about parenting and lying to his own kid, it's great. | ||
| I wish I could remember his name. | ||
| Oh, that's a good one, yeah. | ||
| We're like one Biden mishap away from finding out that aliens did 9-11 anyways. | ||
| But the thing is, and I know this was the talk more of last week, but like, everyone would be like, okay. | ||
| I mean, I guess so. | ||
| I think what's interesting, I feel like I have to point this out, is like, Vivek is is establishing the narrative. | ||
| Like, I don't know the context in which this came up. | ||
| He was being interviewed and someone asked him explicitly, do you believe in this? | ||
| Or if he just brought it up on his own in his own interview, which I wouldn't put past him. | ||
| I think it's interesting that so often, especially on the campaign trail, you get these guys who are like, something's happening at the border wall and I'm going to comment on it. | ||
| Oh, something happened over here and I'll comment on it. | ||
| Whereas Vivek is like, I want to talk about this now. | ||
| I'm going to give you my opinion. | ||
| Like, that's like a, that's a very bold choice. | ||
| How does it even come up that they're like, do you believe 9-11? | ||
| He's like, no. | ||
| If he had been on this show, like, it would have been any one of you guys to be like, so let me ask you a question here. | ||
| Oh, right, for sure. | ||
| Yeah, Ian. | ||
| It didn't happen on our show, so I feel like I don't understand the context. | ||
| I just want to play a quick snippet from The Whitest Kids You Know. | ||
| This is a 14-year-old skit, and I want to play a little tiny bit of it. | ||
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Okay, thank you for waiting. | |
| The President has asked me to come out and make a brief statement about the wire that just went out a couple minutes ago. | ||
| To make things short, I will just confirm that yes, we do have a moon base, and yes, we are currently experiencing some bear problems. | ||
| Now, I will open it up if there are any questions. | ||
| Mr. President! | ||
| Are you fucking with us? | ||
| No, we are not, and I would like to remind everyone to keep the language civilized. | ||
| This is the White House. | ||
| So he basically then goes on to say, he says stuff like, yes, well, the bear's been a bit of an ongoing problem since the wizards were attacking, and then they're like, wizards?! | ||
| And then, uh, let me, let me jump right, there's a picture of the bear on the moon. | ||
| Let me, let me jump to the end here and give you the punchline. | ||
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We believe they may be one of the, uh... Just a thought, more of a shot in the dark, but, uh... | |
| We wouldn't happen to be invading Iran today, would we? | ||
| You got me. | ||
| I fell for it! | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Summed up perfectly 14 years ago by the whitest kids you know. | ||
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It's so great because we're experiencing it now. | |
| We have this, we're like, oh my god, look at Vivek questioning the 9-11, the specific narrative that the government gave out. | ||
| He's questioning it in the slightest. | ||
| But guess what, guys? | ||
| Aliens. | ||
| Yup. | ||
| Like I said, the government's out here batting a thousand. | ||
| They just get it right every time. | ||
| I mean, that seems so ridiculous that they would be upset that he's questioning something. | ||
| Also, I feel like the implication from this article is like, he's denying 9-11. | ||
| Like, are you crazy? | ||
| That's not what's happening at all. | ||
| Wouldn't it be funny? | ||
| If there's like an alien spaceship in orbit around Earth and they beam Joe Biden up there and they're just like, what have you done? | ||
| Why are you revealing our presence? | ||
| And he's like, come on, man. | ||
| They're going to arrest me. | ||
| What am I supposed to do? | ||
| Got to do, got to throw him something to get him off my back. | ||
| Proving he's, like, the least loyal person on Earth or in outer space. | ||
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The UFO, though, thing is a rabbit hole that's crazy. | |
| I've dug into it a tiny bit. | ||
| If you look into the past, there were legitimate fed-a-hops where they were creating disinformation within UFO research communities. | ||
| And the reasoning was, like, I know it sounds kooky, but it was because a lot of times they were actually sort of digging into, like, secret stuff they were doing. | ||
| And so then they'd take some UFO truth and be like, guess what, dude? | ||
| I'm in the government, and I have some special information for you. | ||
| Let me tell you about the Tyrerians from Saturn 25. | ||
| This stuff just goes wild. | ||
| For me, I've been digging into it a little bit throughout this, the whole UFO stuff. | ||
| You can't trust anything when it comes to the government and aliens. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| Maybe they are real. | ||
| Personally, I completely default the opposite way. | ||
| And what would, like, what would the benefit be right now for them to reveal it? | ||
| Like, we've talked about, obviously, distraction from other stuff that's going on, but if the aliens are real, what does the government get from telling you? | ||
| I feel like I just don't understand that you'll listen to them because they've scared you with something else? | ||
| That was just when they planned to release that information. | ||
| It just so happens to always happen whenever some type of scandal is coming. | ||
| Non-human biologics have been recovered. | ||
| Now you must listen to us more. | ||
| Stop questioning us. | ||
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If you put your Psy-Op hat on, though, as ridiculous as it is, Alien's super easy to pull off. | |
| You just have somebody come out, leak some information. | ||
| You don't actually have to have an event that really occurs. | ||
| You could have an event, but it's like, oh, you could make up an event that happened a decade ago. | ||
| They could just take 10,000 drones. | ||
| What's the Mavic drone? | ||
| They do those light shows. | ||
| And they can have a ship appear in the sky. | ||
| They can just fake it, you know? | ||
| And then be like, oh, what was that? | ||
| And they'll do it in a remote area, everyone will film, and they'll be like, ooh! | ||
| They'll be like, it was for your own good. | ||
| Nobody even cares at this point. | ||
| I wonder, you know, they've tried pushing the UFO thing so many times that nobody cares anymore at all, to the point where when they came out and said non-human biologics are recovered, everyone's like, shut up, dude. | ||
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Even the UFO truthers are like, nah, shut up. | |
| Well, they're like, it's too expensive here. | ||
| These things are for when we have luxury and freedom and extra cash. | ||
| You have made it so we can't enjoy these crazy things because it's not fun to be here right now. | ||
| It is extremely challenging to live under these conditions. | ||
| Does anyone really believe? | ||
| That Donald Trump would have kept his mouth shut if there were aliens secretly in control of things. | ||
| And even at this point, with everything they're doing, he would just come out and be like, I'm gonna tell you all because they're trying to put me in jail! | ||
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Aliens are real! | |
| And he'd just come out and say it, and then they'd be like, oh no, he's unveiling a secret. | ||
| But he won't, because it's not true. | ||
| They're just lying. | ||
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I mean, to be fair, they probably would never tell them about the aliens if there were aliens, but you're right, yeah. | |
| Maybe that's the issue. | ||
| Have you guys seen that viral video where that old guy, I think he's like a former Canadian Prime Minister or something, saying that aliens are real or something like that? | ||
| And that they're telling us we have to reduce carbon and reduce the population. | ||
| It's climate change. | ||
| I didn't even know that. | ||
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Oh wow, exactly what the elites wanted. | |
| Isn't that weird? | ||
| But that's exactly the point, right? | ||
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Exactly. | |
| They want it because the aliens told them they have to. | ||
| Also, why would we listen to the aliens? | ||
| That seems crazy to me. | ||
| That was the plot of the Independence Day movie anyways, that the aliens were here to suck up our natural resources, but I guess if all the natural resources are gone... | ||
| Then it doesn't matter. | ||
| They'll just pass us by. | ||
| So if we get rid of our natural resources, we'll prevent alien invasion. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Keep burning coal, baby. | ||
|
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Exactly. | |
| Yeah, what the heck? | ||
| This is the best idea of all time. | ||
| Fracking in America now. | ||
| It saves us intergalactically. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Why should I care about the aliens? | ||
| Like, what is it, right? | ||
| Are they going to offer us immortality or something? | ||
| Or, like, interdimensional travel or whatnot? | ||
| Because, like, I gotta tell you. | ||
| Happiness is relative. | ||
| We all live our lives, we have our goals, we have our passions, we're living them. | ||
| When we reach the point of interstellar travel, I'm sure it'll become a passion project for many people. | ||
| Elon Musk certainly is very passionate about space travel. | ||
| But what do we need from aliens? | ||
| Like, serious question. | ||
| Has, like, when people had no refrigerators, they got by and they were happy. | ||
| And then there was, you know, there were problems and challenges. | ||
| But what is, what is it? | ||
| Is the aliens are gonna come to Earth and give us future technology and make us all immortal or make the elites immortal so they gotta do as they're told? | ||
| That's what I don't understand. | ||
| Like, are we supposed to be excited and wanting there to be aliens, or are we supposed to be afraid of them? | ||
| Because if we're supposed to fear them, then I understand why the government is like, yep, they're here, listen to us, the only people who know about them, because that's just asking for compliance. | ||
| And if it's like the aliens have something positive to offer us, I understand why the government would keep it a secret because they're, you know, the arbiter of all good things. | ||
| Like, I just don't understand where they fit into anything that's relevant to my life. | ||
| It's also a big letdown for all the hardline UFO conspiracy theorists who've been waiting for that confirmation for decades, right? | ||
| Because they've been waiting for that. | ||
| It's not as much fun. | ||
| There was an interview with Dean Haglund. | ||
| He was one of the actors on The X-Files where he talks about, he's like, the sad part about being a conspiracy theorist is at the end of the day, even if you're right, all you get to say is, I told you so. | ||
| They don't even get that now. | ||
| Now they're just stuck with, now they tell them that they're real. | ||
| They're like, first of all, I can't trust you whether they're real or not. | ||
| And it's kind of a letdown because gas is nine gazillion dollars a gallon and everything's expensive. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Conspiracies. | ||
| Also, I just feel like you're totally right, Tim. | ||
| If Trump knew about the aliens, I definitely think he would have told us, especially since he's the one who relaunched Space Command. | ||
| I feel like he would have been like, I have good evidence. | ||
| Oh, maybe that's why he did it. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Maybe that's it. | ||
| Okay, so then why would he want it to be in Alabama? | ||
| And why would Biden want it to be in Colorado? | ||
| Do the aliens like the South? | ||
| That's procedural bickering. | ||
| Or do they like water? | ||
| No, it's to fight the aliens. | ||
| But that's what I mean. | ||
| Did Trump say they're defeated by water? | ||
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You need to be closer to the Gulf of- Wait, wait, wait. | |
| I figured it out. | ||
| I figured it out. | ||
| I know what's going on. | ||
| Check it out. | ||
| Check it out. | ||
| The aliens aren't here. | ||
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They were here and they're coming back. | |
| And see, the Democrats, you know, and the World Economic Forum are like, we better get on our knees and do everything the aliens expect. | ||
| Otherwise, they're gonna be mad. | ||
| And Trump was like, no, we're gonna build weapons and fight back. | ||
| And they were like, are you mad? | ||
| They'll wipe us all out. | ||
| They're so advanced. | ||
| That's what's really it. | ||
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Return of the Lizard Overlords. | |
| That's right. | ||
| So Earth is like the world's biggest Airbnb and they're just coming back and we've left it a mess and they're just | ||
| pissed about it. | ||
| Well, you know the conspiracy about like Planet Eris or whatever, right? | ||
| I don't think conspiracy is the right word for these things. | ||
| More like insane ideas, you know, or like fringe ideas. | ||
| Because like conspiracies, like people collude together to do a crime or whatever. | ||
| But like one of these online theories is that there's a planet that comes within our solar system every 2,500 years. | ||
| And so that, yeah, Nibiru, Planet X. What do you know about it, Serge? | ||
| And that it's coming back and the aliens who live on it, genetically engineered humans, | ||
| to be like a slave race or whatever, to mine gold and stuff like that. | ||
|
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It's a fun theory. | |
| So when it comes back they just like scoop up some people? | ||
| No, no, they come here and they take all the gold. | ||
| And then they use the gold to maintain their atmosphere or something. | ||
| Isn't gold at an all-time high right now? | ||
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It's great. | |
| It goes down so many rabbit holes. | ||
| That's where Nephalem, like you can connect it to Nephalem and all sorts of stuff. | ||
| It's a fun one. | ||
| Djinns and genies. | ||
| You guys are so creative. | ||
| I love the internet. | ||
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I recently had the QAnon Shaman on my show and we were legit talking about Nibiru and how it connects to Phelan. | |
| It was a fun time. | ||
| It was wild, but it was something. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I feel like that's not bad then. | ||
| Like, we can just trade them gold. | ||
| I mean, I guess they, like, enslave us in this type- this theory? | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
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As long as we keep the silver, I'm okay with it. | |
| It would just be, you know, more fun if that stuff was true. | ||
| And I think people want that stuff to be true because the reality is life is mundane. | ||
| You know? | ||
| I tweeted this earlier, like, how is it- people always say like, how did it get so bad in insert country? | ||
| And it's like, it never really did. | ||
| And what I mean by that is, every day, something small happened that no one thought was a big deal. | ||
| And then finally, crazy stuff was going down that people thought was normal. | ||
| To the outside world, when they write the history book and condense it all, we're like, how did they go from this to this? | ||
| It's like, no one noticed. | ||
| But even now, people don't even notice. | ||
| Crazy stuff's happening now, and they just don't pay attention. | ||
| The algorithms they look at every day are pointing them in a different direction, so they're kind of oblivious to the fact that a lot of this craziness stuff is going on. | ||
| That's why I think Trump's trial is so confusing to so many people, because it seems like they're just going after him, and they keep asking him to turn over documents to come up with charges against him. | ||
| This actually happens all of the time. | ||
| It's just that we all know Trump, and we have this information. | ||
| So rather than for me to have to explain one person and their story and the unique things and get everyone to understand it, we can all say, oh yeah, I remember Trump. | ||
| Oh wow, this is happening. | ||
| It becomes much more relatable. | ||
| It's something that's gone on for a long time. | ||
| We just are suddenly realizing it. | ||
| Let's come back down to Earth. | ||
| We got this story from the Daily Mail. | ||
| This is big news. | ||
| Tucker Carlson interviewed Devin Archer. | ||
| This is surprising. | ||
| I can't believe he got him. | ||
| Devin Archer tells Tucker Carlson Joe knew he was on calls with Hunter's business partners. | ||
| Associate says Biden brand was absolutely key to business deals and reveals the thank you letter the then VP sent him. | ||
| So this is in the interview. | ||
| Let me play this clip for you real quick from Tucker's show. | ||
| Here you go. | ||
| These are not business guys. | ||
| This is the vice president of the United States. | ||
| He's not allowed to be working on businesses with foreign governments while he's vice president. | ||
| I don't think. | ||
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Not that I know of. | |
| He is! | ||
| Right. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| He knew what he was doing. | ||
| Devin Archer confirms Joe Biden knew what he was doing. | ||
| Joe Biden was using his son as a proxy so that he could run business deals while vice president. | ||
| And aside from Devin Archer's testimony to Congress, he's now on Tucker Carlson | ||
| with a thank you letter from the VP. | ||
| Biden said he never talked to any of Hunter's associates. | ||
| That's the stupidest lie imaginable. | ||
| He could have at least tried and said, like, of course I know Hunter's associates. | ||
| I don't work with them. | ||
| But how do I not know my son's doing business with? | ||
| He comes by for dinner. | ||
| Yeah, well, that's their business. | ||
| I'm in government. | ||
| They're doing business. | ||
| No, he said, I never talked to him at all. | ||
| And now the media is like trying to gaslight. | ||
| And what was that one article said? | ||
| It's long been known that Joe Biden was speaking with Hunter Biden's business associates. | ||
| Actually, not at all. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I mean, we found out recently, but here you go. | ||
| Meanwhile, Donald Trump is being indicted for, like, the 8 millionth time. | ||
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Yep. | |
| And, uh, what is it, like, Mark Rubio sent a tweet out? | ||
| We got some strongly worded letters? | ||
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Yep. | |
| Finally. | ||
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So, at the end of the day, all the law is is a cudgel. | |
| And the way our legal system is, with so many laws, there's always something that you can get someone for. | ||
| And this is a perfect example of it. | ||
| You have Trump that's doing all these silly little things, and maybe, technically, by the letter of the law, there's some law somewhere that says they can't do X, Y, or Z, but then It's even worse, because then, like, maybe it's the worst thing that ever happened to the country, but at least Trump is a Russian spy, it's kinda cool. | ||
| All this stuff is just boring. | ||
| Yeah, you know, Trump being a Russian spy, you're imagining, you know, Trump's got like this weird gadget kit in his jacket and he like pulls out a little tiny earpiece and he's like, Vladimir, I'm in. | ||
| Played by Dolph Lundgren. | ||
| Sitting in the Oval Office. | ||
| We did it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Go for Eagle Commander. | |
| Dolph Lundgren can play him in the movie from Rocky IV. | ||
| He's all ripped. | ||
| Trump just super ripped and sitting at the Oval Office. | ||
| Well, just like the taxes. | ||
| That was like five scandals ago, and nobody remembers it, and nobody cares because, like you said, it's just a cudgel that they use to get, like Trump's taxes in particular. | ||
| It's just a cudgel that they use as a weapon against him because the law's used in an adversarial manner here. | ||
| I think it's because, like I said before, they're just trying to slow him down. | ||
| And I think that's why the media is so freaked out by the credibility of the allegations against Hunter and Joe. | ||
| The fact that this guy can produce a thank you letter is kind of hilarious when they're over here like, we spent millions of dollars on this investigation and we think maybe these things happened. | ||
| I think it was a text between Hunter Biden and Devin Archer, where Devin is like, why is your family destroying my life and trying to put me in prison? | ||
| Or it's like, why is your dad's administration and appointees trying to destroy my life? | ||
| And Hunter's like, this is the cost of a free country or something like that. | ||
| What it actually sounds like is you're no longer of use to these people and now they're disposing of the loose threads. | ||
| You got to clean up shop. | ||
| You don't want people to find out what was going on. | ||
| And Devin Archer, Tony Bobulinski, they've been able to come out and provide evidence into the criminal or shady dealings of the Biden family. | ||
| Do you think Joe ever looked at Devon Archer and was like, I wish I could trade you for Hunter, but people already know what Hunter looks like. | ||
| Because that's really the biggest loose end of the Biden family. | ||
| I mean, that guy is just leaving laptops everywhere and children in his wake. | ||
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You know what I mean? | |
| Like, this seems like the biggest loose end, but there's nothing you can do about it. | ||
| So this is what the Biden family has created for themselves. | ||
| But most people are still, like I said, they still have their mind made up. | ||
| We covered a thing earlier today where Amber Heard, remember Amber Heard? | ||
| Oh yeah, she pooped on the bed. | ||
| But they had a thing where she lost a brand deal with L'Oreal and they showed all these letters from women who still to this day talk about her. | ||
| The greatest thing that ever happened to feminism, and she helped me realize how important it is. | ||
| If you, depending on where you get your information from, you just don't know, and you're just going to be tricked into believing that this is a good guy. | ||
| So the average person who doesn't pay attention to the news cycle doesn't hear any of this stuff that's going on with Joe. | ||
| There's the actual clip of him saying, I made this as a quid pro quo in Ukraine, and nobody knows about it. | ||
| Nobody cares, because the average person isn't paying attention, and that's who they've weaponized the dumbing down of America through corporate press. | ||
| Yeah, and it's a little bit like sports teams. | ||
| I think it's somewhat inverted. | ||
| I think people in this country have been stupid for a long time, I should say ignorant, because of mass media. | ||
| You only got information from a few sources, and now with the internet, we're becoming more educated and informed on what's happening around the world. | ||
| Targeted you're choosing where you're getting your media from you or I or everyone here may be | ||
| Privy to what looking at right and left-wing media the average person doesn't do that and we just follow didn't | ||
| have that 20 years exactly The average person just follows CNN because whether we | ||
| believe CNN or not They think that they're getting informed by somebody from | ||
| there or MSNBC, but it's even more targeted than it used to be | ||
| The point is that 20 years ago, CNN was your only choice. | ||
| Obviously there's Fox, CBS, ABC, but they all said the exact same things for the most part. | ||
| Now you have the ability to have dissident media. | ||
| I don't think the average, like, I just, I feel like the average person still doesn't look at that as a value. | ||
| No, of course. | ||
| What I'm saying is, we assume now that they're lying to us. | ||
| Like, no, they've always been lying to us. | ||
| We just have the ability to go online and communicate with each other. | ||
| I think part of it is politics are like sports teams. | ||
| Like, some people feel to their core that they are a capital R Republican, they are a capital D Democrat, and nothing you say will convince them that anyone on their team did anything wrong. | ||
| I mean, think about actual sports teams where we'll get players who commit very obvious | ||
| and well-documented cases of domestic violence, and the team is like, oh yeah, that was the | ||
| worst. | ||
| Anyways, he's going to sit out a couple games and then we'll bring it back. | ||
| People aren't saying, I'm now renouncing this team, which is supporting some terrible person | ||
| who doesn't live in the values that I support. | ||
| With Biden, it's very easy for people in the Democratic Party to say, well, I'm a Democrat. | ||
| I only want Democrats to win. | ||
| Right now, my options are Joe Biden and his crazy family or RFK Jr. | ||
| or Marianne Williamson, if she's still hanging out. | ||
| And that's it. | ||
| And so they're going to cling and defend Biden because they are trapped, right? | ||
| If you're back since well, you're going to stick with your team. | ||
| Same for Republicans. | ||
| There are Republicans who will say, you know, I am this kind of Republican and Trump can never be. | ||
| And I this is how the Republican Party should be like they become Completely obsessed with the team they think they have to show loyalty to, even when the team lets them down. | ||
| Kennedy-Williamson 2024. | ||
| Oh my gosh, what a crazy take. | ||
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Let's go! | |
| I feel like those podcasts would be amazing. | ||
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You gotta think the demographic of people who actually vote is typically older too, and so you were mentioning the dissonant media point. | |
| And it's like I do feel like we're almost experiencing like a rise in class consciousness, but like with this new | ||
| distant medias and stuff coming up, but Let's be real, typically the older generations aren't quite | ||
| buying onto it, so this is gonna be a lagging trend that takes a while to come into place | ||
| But, um, go ahead Oh, no go ahead | ||
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Uh, uh, uh How polite. | |
| Keep going. | ||
| I'll moderate here. | ||
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I lost my train. | |
| What were you gonna say? | ||
| I was waiting for your question. | ||
| No, but now, like, now I feel bad. | ||
| But the Democrats are the ones weaponizing influencers and the youth because they want to get the youth vote and they want to get people out in voting more than they were before, right? | ||
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Yeah, but they're L.O.L. | |
| cows. | ||
| Like, let's be real, most of them. | ||
| Yeah, and I feel like Democrats for a long time have been like, no, no, it doesn't matter who you vote for. | ||
| We just want you to vote. | ||
| But specifically, here are the candidates you should vote for. | ||
| I mean, there are things that, you know, the Republican Party and a lot of other political parties that are out there could have done, meaning they could have treated the get out the vote effort like it was this, you know, Trojan horse, we're just trying to talk to young people when actually it was obviously Democrats trying to connect with youth voters. | ||
| I think that's, again, why the civic engagement conversation that Vivek Ramaswamy brings up is really interesting because I think people do, especially now that they have access to alternative forms of media online, feel called to do something, right? | ||
| If you get to hear all this awful stuff all the time, you can either collapse in depression or act. | ||
| And I think that's what people want and that's why, you know, the Democratic Party is still pointing fingers and they're becoming less appealing. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you for your consent. | ||
| Sometimes I feel like I come on the show and just like, talk to myself in the mirror for an hour, which is like, maybe not the best. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| I'm just thinking about 2024 is around the corner. | ||
| And we are lucky right now to be... Here's what we're doing. | ||
| We're all sitting on the beach. | ||
| Miami Beach, in fancy chairs with coconuts, going, oh that Joe Biden, you hear about this? | ||
| And then off in the distance, there is the biggest hurricane we have ever seen, and it is coming. | ||
| Where we are right now is the chill time. | ||
| With all the craziness they're doing, with the Devon Archer stuff, with the indictments against Trump, that's just us seeing lightning off in the distance. | ||
| What's going to happen next year? | ||
| We're talking, I mean, dude, we're talking five or six months from now. | ||
| So we're looking at about, what, eight months? | ||
| No, not even seven months until the primary. | ||
| Trump's first criminal trial is going to be then? | ||
| It is going to be bonkers. | ||
| Could you imagine if it's not though? | ||
| Like, it's just nothing happens. | ||
| And we're sitting here and like, nobody cares about politics, nobody's watching anymore. | ||
| And they're just like, oh, we don't care anymore. | ||
| And they're just like, that's it. | ||
| Biden wins again. | ||
| There's no one really talks about it. | ||
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It is funny how, like, I feel like in the past, you used to be able to actually make | |
| more accurate political predictions to some extent. | ||
| But now we've gotten to the point to where there are so many factors and so many crazy | ||
| Like, just Trump and Biden alone, between the two of them, the two scandals going on there, like, those are both insane scandals on their own, just, like, I mean, in different ways, obviously, but... | ||
| I don't know it's just it's like trying to predict the future or have an idea of what's going on like I was just thinking on talking on the airport to somebody today but and then the airplane today about like whether Biden will run and I'm like I have no idea like I mean it seems a silly idea to do so but same time we're getting so close do you really not I I don't know like how do you get another four years of this guy without actually making a clone I don't know I think there's a strong possibility that in Biden's old age and with his existing ailments, something happens to him. | ||
| And I imagine what would be for the Democrats, the most beneficial thing imaginable would | ||
| be if like Gavin Newsom is at a Biden rally and talking about how he's here to support | ||
| Joe Biden and Joe Biden's the greatest president. | ||
| And then Biden suffers like some health ailment or something. | ||
| He fell on stage that one time, maybe as a stroke. | ||
| Well, like you've tripped in the sandbags, but he's fallen upstairs. | ||
| But imagine this scenario where Biden is speaking at some kind of rally or whatever, or just on TV, maybe, because they can't really muster up anybody to come to a Biden rally. | ||
| Gavin Newsom is there. | ||
| I think it's likely going to be him. | ||
| And then Biden collapses. | ||
| Gavin runs to save him. | ||
| All on TV. | ||
| Get a medic in here! | ||
| And then there's this, oh the news, oh no, oh Joe Biden, cue all the conservatives being like, we don't like the guy but we're really sad about what happened to him. | ||
| Gavin Newsom steps up and starts talking about how, you know, this is a time for leadership. | ||
| He's being interviewed by everybody because he was there. | ||
| Every news outlet sits him down and says like, what was it like? | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| What now? | ||
| Who's gonna step up? | ||
| Will you? | ||
| And there you go. | ||
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Deep State's taking notes right now. | |
| Newsome 2024. | ||
| They're like, these are great ideas. | ||
| No, they're not taking notes. | ||
| They're looking through their book going like, how did he get a copy of this? | ||
| He's halfway there. | ||
| But I'm imagining, because we're talking about if Donald Trump didn't order the police to shut down the 529 insurrection and let Antifa just run rampant, he'd be president. | ||
| Because the narrative would be inverted. | ||
| And you know, I, you know, Michael Mao's saying, ah, the media would still lie about him, but I'm like, yeah, but they wouldn't have the J6 narrative. | ||
| They would have the extremism of the far left and regular Americans would be asking why this happened. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I'm trying to think about, let's think forward in that context. | ||
| Like what could the Democrats do? | ||
| What could Trump do to guarantee a victory? | ||
| And obviously Joe Biden is not the guy. | ||
| Trump's already beating him in a whole bunch of polls. | ||
| He's at tying with or beating him. | ||
| And so everyone speculated that Joe Biden won't be the guy, but how do you get Joe Biden out? | ||
| If he bows out, it's weakness in the Democratic Party. | ||
| It's got to be something that can pass the torch. | ||
| If Joe Biden went on stage and said, you know, I'm just too old, so Gavin Newsom, ladies and gentlemen, nah, would never fly. | ||
| But if there's a hero moment for Gavin, where he steps in to try and save Biden, that gives him every PR opportunity in the book. | ||
| Yeah, especially because they don't want him to pick another white man over Kamala Harris. | ||
| Because there was a time when I think the Democratic Party really wanted her to be the obvious choice. | ||
| They were hoping Biden would be a one-term president and that she would, as the vice president, be the next one to represent the party because she's diverse and a lady and, you know, whatever else is important. | ||
| So they have to find a way to make it so that Gavin, you know, gracefully as a hero becomes the obvious one. | ||
| It's not that she's being overlooked, it's that he just happened to be in this, you know, What's the justification for Gavin being in the press 24-7 in the Lipton election? | ||
| Because he was there. | ||
| And they're going to say, Gavin, you are heroically on camera scene rushing to the aid of Joe. | ||
| What was that like? | ||
| What was going through your head? | ||
| He'll be like, his last words to me were, you gotta take the helm. | ||
| Something like that? | ||
| I don't even know if people would buy it anymore. | ||
| No, he's gonna say, he's gonna say, you know, tell Jill I love her, and take care of my kids. | ||
| And then Gavin's gonna start crying, and he's gonna be like, you got it man. | ||
| And he's gonna clench his hand, and then they're gonna be like, wow! | ||
| Gavin Newsome! | ||
| Take care of my six, I mean seven grandkids. | ||
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That statement made me crazy. | |
| I know it was another show on Friday when that came out, but I was... The fact, the arrogance of these people to be like, we care about all of our grandchildren, including Navy, who we just happened to learn about 30 seconds ago. | ||
| Like, where have you been this whole time? | ||
| This is what I mean by like, how can anyone look at the Biden family and be like, four more years? | ||
| This is going so well. | ||
| I think the average person just doesn't know any of this. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| They don't know that his family life is this screwed up. | ||
| They don't even know about the diary. | ||
| They don't know about the laptop. | ||
| But that's why the Navy statement came out in People Magazine. | ||
| They didn't say it to the New York Times. | ||
| They said it to People Magazine because they're trying to present themselves as like a, let us get out in front of this. | ||
| Luckily, People Magazine, all kinds of outlets have already covered the fact that this, you know, super great guy, Hunter, just ditched his other kid and doesn't want to use last name. | ||
| Like, I just don't understand this family and their appeal. | ||
| So unless the Democrat, my only counter to the Gavin Newsom rushing to Joe Biden's aid story would be like, if the Democratic Party starts to turn tables and be like, We had no idea that he was working on these deals, and this is dishonor to us. | ||
| I don't know that they could execute it perfectly. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| It's collateral damage. | ||
| Then what he does is, Joe's finally going to sniff one kid too many, and Gavin heroically steps between them. | ||
| One of Gavin's kids! | ||
| And then Gavin says, not on my watch, and pushes him away. | ||
| I got it. | ||
| Joe, at an event, goes to sniff a kid, and Gavin heroically steps in between, making Joe accidentally sniff Gavin, triggering the stroke. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| That's the hero narrative they need from him. | ||
| Like, we didn't know Joe was doing any of this. | ||
| We need to comb through his schedule and see when he and Gavin Newsom are appearing on stage together, and we all need to brace ourselves. | ||
| To get Joe Biden out of this, it needs to be a heroic retreat. | ||
| It could theoretically be something like he has a health scare and then has to publicly announce that he's done everything he can, but as you know, this is a tough job and it's been very taxing. | ||
| I'm not the young man I used to be. | ||
| That's a light possibility. | ||
| Or terminal. | ||
| He'd have to be like, I actually only have six months. | ||
| And then he looks at the camera and says, America, I ask you for one thing with my final statement to you. | ||
| Vote Democrat, man. | ||
| We're gonna we're gonna fix it. | ||
| Don't let these fascists. | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm headed to the big ice cream shop up in the sky. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| You're still right that, like, they would need to really find a big way of introducing Gavin Newsom over Kamala Harris, because I think if the Biden administration and the Democratic Party turn to Kamala Harris, they're going to isolate a lot of voters. | ||
| But with numbers like that, who even wants that? | ||
| I'm not saying she's popular. | ||
| I'm just saying there are a lot of people who feel like the Democratic Party needs to be led by a woman who is of color, and to turn it over to another white man would be bad. | ||
| I hope they run Kamala. | ||
| They can't run Kamala. | ||
| Kamala doesn't have the support, but they will be mad if they don't think about it. | ||
| She doesn't have the, how do I say, cognitive faculties. | ||
| I thought they were going to run Michelle Obama. | ||
| With Joe Biden, we proved we don't need that. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Who is of higher mental status? | ||
| I thought they were going to run Michelle. | ||
| Michelle Obama. | ||
| I thought that was going to be a thing. | ||
| So my understanding is that they do want to run Michelle, but Michelle doesn't want to run. | ||
| I don't blame her. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, it's like the most relatable thing I've ever heard. | ||
| I don't blame her. | ||
| Who wants to run? | ||
| Like, seriously, who would? | ||
| I can't even believe Vivek wants to run. | ||
| It's like, y'all are crazy. | ||
| Especially given that, like, Obama's there. | ||
| I mean, they're very wealthy now. | ||
| They don't need to do this. | ||
| They own, like, three production companies. | ||
| She goes on yachts in Italy. | ||
| She's having a great time. | ||
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Yeah, can you imagine the stress? | |
| Can you imagine the campaigns against her? | ||
| Especially the memes, all the Big Mike stuff and all that stuff. | ||
| It'd be, I don't know, it'd be, I mean, I'd love it. | ||
| It'd be fun to watch, but... Also, like, Hillary Clinton held office before she ran. | ||
| Like, Michelle Obama was the first lady and then was like, and we're in. | ||
| It would be such a, like, cringey diversity point. | ||
| Like, I don't know. | ||
| I wouldn't want to be that. | ||
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What are your credentials? | |
| I slept with the previous president. | ||
| School lunch program stuff. | ||
| Yeah, she wanted kids to lose weight, I guess. | ||
| But that's not good in today's day and age. | ||
| You can't say that now. | ||
| To rewind a little bit back to the point I was making about, you know, we're sitting on the beach looking at the storm off in the distance. | ||
| We know the storm's coming. | ||
| So what do we do now, right? | ||
| What do we do to prevent the worst elements of the storm if anything could be done, right? | ||
| I'm not sure humans have the ability to fight a hurricane off. | ||
| So I think the reality is going to be... | ||
| Like, get ready, in a matter of speaking. | ||
| Meaning, like, do you know where the eggs are in your house? | ||
| Do you have somewhere to go in the event of mass unrest in cities? | ||
| Because that's extremely likely. | ||
| I think we're going to see a ton of rioting throughout the summer. | ||
| But I could be wrong, who knows? | ||
| I think there's a decent possibility that, like, nothing happens. | ||
| And we're just like, wow, nothing happened. | ||
| There's a lot of political bickering in the news, like we're seeing now. | ||
| But I really feel like when Trump His trials are coming up. | ||
| He's going to be in multiple criminal trials. | ||
| The news is going to be the craziest you've ever heard. | ||
| CNN is going to be salivating. | ||
| They're already salivating. | ||
| The idea of covering, what are we on, four? | ||
| Three, I think. | ||
| With Fulton County? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, I mean four. | ||
| With Fulton County. | ||
| So you've got New York, classified documents, 2020, and Fulton County. | ||
| You're gonna have four different criminal proceedings all going on around the exact same time. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| What actually happens is that people just turn the TV off. | ||
| Figuratively, I mean. | ||
| Like, I can't track all these criminal proceedings. | ||
| I'm done. | ||
| Maybe that's what they want to happen. | ||
| That's the point, right? | ||
| They want people to say he's guilty by sheer volume of things that he said. | ||
| But I think it'll have the opposite effect. | ||
| I think for some people. | ||
| It'll have, it'll be too much noise. | ||
| Like, how could he possibly be guilty of all of these things, all of these trials happening at once? | ||
| Like, you can't take it all in, so you start to say, like, I just don't believe you, and I don't want to have this conversation anymore, or I don't want to watch anymore of this. | ||
| I've seen both on YouTube comments just today. | ||
| I saw someone, one person saying, like, well, if my, I don't want someone that's been indicted, like, why would I want to like someone that's been indicted for anything? | ||
| And the other person saying, he's been indicted for four different things, like, there's no way that he's been indicted for all, there's no way he did all these things. | ||
| How would he have the time to do that and, and do all this? | ||
| There's just no way it would be possible. | ||
| So, It goes both ways. | ||
| I wonder who's going to win out. | ||
| A lot of people would take the where there's smoke, there's fire approach. | ||
| Yes, I agree. | ||
| And they're just going to be like, well, why would they lie? | ||
| Why would they lie about that? | ||
| And they'll just assume that, well, if four different jurisdictions all came to this conclusion of their own accord, mind you, there was no backroom dealings at all, I'm sure, that he must be guilty. | ||
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But I think it's people who already think he's guilty. | |
| There must be no Republican district attorneys. | ||
| There must be no Republican prosecutors anywhere. | ||
| They're all like, you know what I'm gonna do? | ||
| We're in West Virginia. | ||
| I'm gonna go to like find a local prosecutor's office and I'm gonna ask him why he's a Democrat. | ||
| Well, I'm not. | ||
| I'd be like, come on. | ||
| If you were actually a Republican, you'd be criminally charging these people. | ||
| The Hillary Clinton stuff took place in West Virginia. | ||
| They ran elections nationwide. | ||
| Her name was on the ballot, right? | ||
| So when she tried to defraud the country, and the fraud led to a massive $30-plus million investigation as to whether Trump was secretly working for the Soviet Union, How come there's no criminal charges for that? | ||
| Because the Republicans are timid and Democrats play for keeps. | ||
| I think it's because Republicans are Democrats and they're just pretending they're not. | ||
| They're going the speed limit. | ||
| But that's the saying, but I'm like, no, actually they're probably Kevin McCarthy's going behind the scenes and high-fiving, you know. | ||
| Uniparty. | ||
| Right. | ||
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Yeah, we're talking about Trump here, so it's not really so much a left or it's right thing as there's an establishment versus, I guess you could say dissident would be a good way to describe the other energy. | |
| And I think Tim's right. | ||
| I think there will be people checking out But I think that will be more the right to some extent, roughly, the people that are in the know. | ||
| Because they know, like, this is nonsense. | ||
| You're just throwing a bunch of stuff at it. | ||
| This is just static at this point. | ||
| But I think on the flip side, the left, we may see, especially if he inevitably probably gets off, or if he does get elected, they'll be screeching the streets all over again. | ||
| We'll see all that nonsense again. | ||
| But I think the right is going to start retreating locally, like the people of the right, like the voter base. | ||
| They're going to start retreating, embracing localism. | ||
| And honestly, that's kind of the better way to go. | ||
| Yeah, I think this is sort of an answer to your question of, like, if we're on the beach right now and we know the storm is coming, when do we decide to leave the beach and go make sure our home's okay? | ||
| Like, I would like to see, you know, we might not be able to stop whatever crazy fighting is about to happen on the federal level, but it would be interesting to see people say, like, well, how do I protect myself at home? | ||
| How do I insulate it? | ||
| Who runs your school board? | ||
| Who runs your school board? | ||
| Who runs your elections? | ||
| Who's running your town? | ||
| What decisions are they making? | ||
| Because, again, in some ways, the worst part about all of this is that it's a big distraction from the tiny decisions. | ||
| Well, it feels like tiny, but they're actually massive in your own life, right? | ||
| They make all the decisions. | ||
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Like your personal relationships, the people who live around you. | |
| The decisions for zoning or anything else that happens locally to you. | ||
| That stuff is way more likely to affect you on a daily basis than any of the large scale national politics. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So to Tim's point, it's that we have to decide it's time to leave the beach and go make sure our homes are OK. | ||
| I don't know if I agree with that. | ||
| I certainly agree that local politics are extremely important, but it's probably a balance of sorts. | ||
| I mean, the stuff we saw with the federal government, ESG, woke policies, the Department of Education, the curriculum stuff they push, you've got, like, the complaints over Common Core, which was several years ago. | ||
| Now you've got the schools pushing all this, you know, gratuitous content. | ||
| All of this comes at the federal level. | ||
| Sure, but the only way to stop it coming down from third level is to have someone fighting up against it. | ||
| Like you need both sides of these things. | ||
| And so I'm saying it's not that you can ignore the federal election, I'm just saying like it would be good to not get so lost on if or Trump did this or whatever that you don't know who's running in your own country. | ||
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I just feel like to some extent the federal move is almost a lost cause, maybe not, but I think there is something. | |
| For example, one thing I liked about DeSantis is he was making moves within his state where he was kind of, in a sense, distancing himself somewhat from the federal government and doing his own thing. | ||
| Kind of almost a soft nullification, soft cessation in some ways. | ||
| And I personally would like to see that energy continue to go forward and start separating yourself further where you can so that federal government has less effect on your life. | ||
| So we just start ignoring Democrats? | ||
| So this is a big story. | ||
| Former Lizzo dancers were weight shamed and pressured while at strip club, lawsuit says. | ||
| Is someone there? Is someone talking? I have no idea. | ||
| Let's talk about something completely irreverent, irrelevant, but, you know, let's lighten the mood a little | ||
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| So this is a big story. | ||
| Former Lizzo dancers were weight shamed and pressured while at strip club, lawsuit says. | ||
| I like how it says pressured while at strip club. | ||
| Not for the kids, I will say, but we'll keep the overt language to a minimum. | ||
| And my understanding is that they were actually physically abused at these clubs. | ||
| They were pressured into doing things, and I don't know if we can say that on air here, but bananas were put places bananas aren't supposed to go, and then they were told to eat them from the places... | ||
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No. | |
| Lizzo is morbidly obese. | ||
| I'm just the messenger here. Uh, okay, but here's I do blame you as the pop culture hose. Yeah, here's here's the | ||
| important part of the story That's why we're talking about it because Lizzo was weight | ||
| shaming. Yes answers Lizzo is morbidly obese. There can only be one | ||
| This is my question Is she saying, like, you're too heavy or is she saying you're not heavy enough? | ||
| Oh, that's a great question. | ||
| No one has asked that yet. | ||
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I want to know. | |
| She's like, if you really want to be on my tour, you'll eat all of the donuts. | ||
| Like, no one has said it explicitly. | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| We spent about 20 minutes talking about it today, so I'm about over this whole discussion. | ||
| I'll be completely fair, but it's, uh, I mean, that's not the worst. | ||
| There's really funny, like mixed messages where she's got like a lady who works on the tour with her. | ||
| Who's like very religious, but also like simulating sex acts in front of people. | ||
| It's the weirdest. | ||
| It almost feels fake. | ||
| The how, how over the top the story is, but it's, it's going to cost her a little bit. | ||
| I'll be honest. | ||
| I don't really care about the inner politics of Lizzo. | ||
| But the issue I see is, culturally, we have this body positivity thing. | ||
| They say Lizzo is beautiful, but then inside this company or whatever, they're telling these people they're too fat. | ||
| So it's something like, what is this? | ||
| How do these things coexist? | ||
| Yeah, I also think the point that they're saying they're at a strip club, going to strip club is like all of the Women, I know, who propose to be sex-positive feminists are like, going to the strip club is empowering and it's good and you should go. | ||
| So it's this clash of cultures where it's like, if you don't go, then you are not sex-positive enough. | ||
| That's literally what we're talking about. | ||
| And also when you go, you're forced to do things you're uncomfortable with and maybe Lizzo Fat shames you or perhaps she skinny shames you. | ||
| It's unclear. | ||
| This is one of those things where they're talking about like, look, if this had been... Well, the dancers were overweight. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But were they overweight enough? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You need to put on a hundred pounds. | ||
| I'm just saying. | ||
| It's like the stories of like brides who get their bridesmaids ugly bridesmaids dresses so that they look better by comparison. | ||
| I just want to know what direction this is happening. | ||
| Lizzo's name is Melissa? | ||
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Yes. | |
| That changes everything. | ||
| These are the people that push a very, very toxically positive message, meaning that you have to feign positivity at all times, which is not how the real world works. | ||
| And as you learn invariably, like I said earlier, anybody who puts Be Kind in a profile is the meanest person you've ever met in your entire life. | ||
| It's the same in these industries. | ||
| The harder the virtue signal, The worst they are as a boss, as an employer, as a general human being. | ||
| And if you read more of the story, like I said, I'm going to spare everyone the details. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| I got a question about this. | ||
| I'm not going to read it and I'm going to keep the language as vague as I can. | ||
| But NBC News says. | ||
| Okay, no, don't pull this up. | ||
| NBC News says cast members took turns catching objects launched from certain areas of the body. | ||
| How do you launch those things? | ||
| Ask the people at this strip club. | ||
| Just a fun company activity. | ||
| The best part about it is is there's like an interview with her from like two years before this happened where she talks about how she always wanted to go to this one strip club. | ||
| And that this was because this is the red light district in Amsterdam, right? | ||
| So she's like, basically, I was like, I love bananas. | ||
| I want to go there to this strip club. | ||
| And now it's coming back to bite her because she's nuts. | ||
| Also, why? | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| You're all men. | ||
| I don't get the appeal of strip clubs. | ||
| Perhaps you understand something I don't. | ||
| This is the fall of Rome. | ||
| It's so obvious. | ||
| This is one of those things where, look, they were basically shamed into doing this. | ||
| They're like, well, if you don't come with... You don't have to, but we'll judge you if you don't. | ||
| It would be like Tim saying, like, Hey Brett, you want to go skating on Saturday? | ||
| I mean, you don't have to come, but you know, you might not have a job on Monday if you don't come with me. | ||
| That's literally what it is. | ||
| Or for the rest of the tour, we'll just treat you like you're a weirdo. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Well, they said like she would do other concerts that were not part of the tour and only the people who like hung out with her outside at these events were the ones who got those jobs. | ||
| So it's basically just like, do you remember when, oh no, okay. | ||
| So recently Robert Downey Jr. | ||
| had a thing where he talked about how after making Oppenheimer, he said, women should run the world. | ||
| Robert Downey Jr. | ||
| was in that? | ||
| In Oppenheimer, yeah. | ||
| He's like, what this movie taught me is that women should run the world because they have a better way of handling problems. | ||
| This is the exact proof to the opposite of that, that I don't know if it would be better, or if it would be worse, but it's certainly not going to be any better, because being a bad boss is not gendered. | ||
| Doesn't like every military industrial complex corporation have like a female CEO or something? | ||
| Not all right now, but yeah, like a couple years ago, yeah. | ||
| Like, women should run the world, and it's like, here's a bunch of women that are blowing up kids. | ||
| Boeing is like, yeah, let's do that. | ||
| Both men and women are equally bad and good at resolving problems, but I do not think women should exclusively run the world. | ||
| It's like, when people say, like, there should be an all-women Supreme Court, like, what are you talking about? | ||
| That's a terrible idea. | ||
| That's what the Barbie movie said. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Men and women are different, right? | ||
| Men are object-oriented. | ||
| Women are subject-oriented. | ||
| So what happens is, when you've got like a Hillary Clinton and like a Barack Obama, Obama sees a map. | ||
| And on the map he sees a military base. | ||
| And he says, I think we should blow up that military base. | ||
| And then, like, let's confer with Hillary what she thinks. | ||
| And Hillary says, we should blow up those people. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, you know, you see what I'm saying? | ||
| Like, Obama is targeting some object of some merit and Hillary is like, I hate them, blow them up. | ||
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She's saying women are evils. | |
| At least she's being honest about what's going to happen. | ||
| But what it is, it really is, it shows, it shines a light on the toxic positivity that this is what Hollywood and all of these industries push is like, It's an unrealistic expectation of how human beings interact. | ||
| And invariably, just like men behind the scenes, a bad tour manager, a bad boss, a bad celebrity is not restricted to one gender or one type of person. | ||
| But very often, it is true that the people who feign the most kind of heart or who pretend to be the most good of heart or good of virtue end up being the worst type of people. | ||
| And I don't think that has anything to do with a weight, a sexuality, or a gender. | ||
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Yeah, you did bring up a good point before we started that this was essentially an inverse of the casting couch in a sense. | |
| And in multiple ways, I think. | ||
| But it is funny how that literally is the casting couch situation, but in a different setting. | ||
| And so in this setting, maybe the illusionist is supposed to be somewhat okay with it. | ||
| I actually don't even know if it should be necessarily legal, but she should be shamed like she's being shamed. | ||
| Well, it's hazing. | ||
| It's hazing. | ||
| I want to give a shout out to the Babylon Bee for the best response to this. | ||
| With an article they titled, Three Dancers Sue Lizzo Alleging She Ate Them. | ||
| Joey B Tune said good luck to convincing that judge that Lizzo shared food. | ||
| Yeah, it's just it is it is just a microcosm of just how awful Holly is. | ||
| It's okay to make fun of her though, because she's apparently some kind of rapist. | ||
| So you know, she's just a very bad person. | ||
| The rest of the stories, the stuff with the manager who was also making everyone uncomfortable and the threats to people's jobs, keeping people working for like 12 hours at a time after a concert and saying you're going to lose your job if you don't do that, a lady who worked for her She urinated on herself because she was afraid to go backstage and go to the bathroom because she felt she'd lose her job. | ||
| That's the type of thing you'd hear of a guy. | ||
| That a guy would be the one who's such a hard boss that I felt like I couldn't leave, otherwise I would end up having to... No, female bosses are just as whack as male bosses. | ||
| I don't know what to tell you. | ||
| Well, you and I know that. | ||
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The average person these days... It's just almost worse because it's like emotional manipulation. | |
| But my favorite is the data showing that men and women equally don't hire women at the same rates. | ||
| So these women are like women should be in charge and then things would change and it's like the women who are in charge like I'd rather have a guy. | ||
| The women enforcing the patriarchy. | ||
| There was also talk that there was racialized elements to this too, like that the black dancers were treated different than the dancers of color. There are no white dancers but dancers of | ||
| color. No white dancers, not racist though. | ||
| No, but the point is that they're saying that certain ones were treated differently and it all kind of falls together. | ||
| It's like it's Hollywood. They deserve each other. Let them fight. | ||
| Wow, you don't say that at Big Girl Touring? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| You know, the body positivity thing is what I first noticed from this story. | ||
| I mean, the story's like, wholly messed up as it is. | ||
| We had like nine articles, it was like literally split between like nine articles because of all the stuff that came out about this today. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| I just think, how does Lizzo get famous? | ||
| Like, do people really like her music? | ||
| Yes, yes. | ||
| She had some like cool songs that I was really, she had one. | ||
| I think she has insulin resistance. | ||
| I don't know anything about her. | ||
| Is that the new single? | ||
| I know that she's on stage and she's working like dancing. | ||
| No, that's the point. | ||
| She's talking about like the other dancers can't keep up with her because she's like actually in better shape than them. | ||
| Right, and the reason she doesn't lose weight is because she has insulin resistance, probably from a very poor American high-sugar diet. | ||
| I wish her the best. | ||
| I hope she can figure that one out. | ||
| If she comes out with, I have insulin resistance, it reminds me of Kevin Costner being like, yes, maybe stuff happened, but I'm choosing to live as a gay man. | ||
| No, that was Kevin Spacey. | ||
| Kevin Spacey, thank you. | ||
| I can't remember any actor's name. | ||
| Sure, I was accused of that, but I'm gay. | ||
| And if I did, it's a drunken mistake. | ||
| By the way, some news about me. | ||
| He didn't get convicted in the UK. | ||
| They let him off. | ||
| No but I mean the the thing is like Lizzo had some like um I don't remember which one the one about like being broken up with she wrote some song and it was like not a hit and she was like I'm gonna if if this isn't a hit then I I don't know like she really does understand pop music in a way it's just that everything about her since she's gotten famous has become like About the body positivity movement about accept me the way I am about actually praise me the way I am and I think that's the problem like it's not like I don't know like Adele used to be really heavy and she sang some fun music and she was a pop star and it was a good time. | ||
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I'm gonna write this song what kind of song should it be should it be like a. | |
| Acoustic folk. | ||
| Called insulin resistance? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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Let's go. | |
| Acoustic folk, like heartfelt and like downbeat. | ||
| Definitely heartfelt, that's for sure. | ||
| Heartfelt, you know. | ||
| Or maybe punk rock. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That sounds- like, insulin resistance does sound- feel like it could be like- I don't know, I'm thinking dance. | ||
| Band name, man. | ||
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Disco. | |
| Disco. | ||
| Yeah, you know, I've been listening to some disco recently because we were, uh, we were listening to Boney M. Oh, no way. | ||
| Because Boney M's so good. | ||
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Sweet. | |
| Maybe we should write a disco song. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| See if we can get Lizzo to, like, I wonder how much it costs to get Lizzo, like, as, like, a feature on the- I don't think she's going to want to be on my song titled Lizzo. | ||
| Sure, sure, we could try. | ||
| I don't think Lizzo's going to want to be on a song titled Lizzo Has Insulin Resistance. | ||
| Well, it could just be called insulin resistance. | ||
| It doesn't have to be called Lizzo has insulin resistance. | ||
| Nah, it's going to be called Lizzo has insulin resistance. | ||
| And it's not meant to be mean. | ||
| I want to make that very clear. | ||
| I am genuinely concerned about the bad dieting habits of Americans. | ||
| Monopoly's awareness. | ||
| And it's a point to be critical of someone who would weight shame her own staff while she herself is currently suffering from a weight issue. | ||
| She's also counting on you not being mean to her because of her size. | ||
| I still think she's shaming her dancer saying they're too skinny. | ||
| I think it's the other way around. | ||
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I mean there's different types of fat. | |
| She's clearly like O-line healthy type fat. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Like can move. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| But that's the thing. | ||
| That's why I said insulin resistance. | ||
| I wasn't making a joke. | ||
| I was the one being mean. | ||
| You see these videos where it's like people who are very big are like moving really well. | ||
| Linebackers. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And there's videos of skateboarders, for instance, you'll see on Instagram where they're huge, but they'll be skating really well. | ||
| And I'm just like, this is somebody who's got, I don't know if it's insulin resistance, but some kind of like, I don't know, thyroid problem or glandular issue that their body isn't burning the fat, but they clearly are building muscle and ability. | ||
| I see Lizzo and I'm like, This is something about the garbage plastic we eat in our food every day, the brominated flowers, the phthalates, the PCBs, all of that stuff. | ||
| Because the story I hear over and over again, I swear, I ask everybody this, they say, oh, I was from this country, and when I came to America, I ate the exact same thing, but I gained 30 pounds. | ||
| And people say, you know, when I went back to visit my family for a few weeks, I lost 10 pounds. | ||
| It was crazy. | ||
| Like, something is wrong with our food. | ||
| But let's jump to this next story. | ||
| Seemingly irreverent and irrelevant as well. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, the U.S. | ||
| has banned light bulbs. | ||
| Nice. | ||
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So, uh, how you guys doing? | |
| I remember when I took AP Environmental Science when I was in high school and having to do a project where we went to our middle school and then convinced them that the swirly LED, whatever they are, the better light bulbs were in fact better. | ||
| And if we didn't do that, then, you know, we didn't get as good a grade on the project. | ||
| And now I really regret that because that was complete propaganda paid for by college board. | ||
| This is kind of crazy though. | ||
| I mean, the big story is they've banned incandescent light bulbs. | ||
| You can only now buy LED light bulbs because they last longer and use less electricity. | ||
| It's kind of crazy. | ||
| I mean, how do they just ban something like that? | ||
| Isn't that an act of Congress? | ||
| I've been phasing it in for years, though. | ||
| Yeah, they've been doing it for a while. | ||
| It's really funny. | ||
| There's an episode of, I think it was the show Castle, where they catch a guy who works for the city transit authorities. | ||
| They've been phasing out incandescent to compact fluorescent, and he's selling the incandescent overseas. | ||
| The idea is that it's ridiculous, and why would that happen? | ||
| But that's obviously, between that and your gas stove. | ||
| And they said they were gonna do it, and they made you all excited. | ||
| It's about the environment, and now, like, I know tons of people who will see the other light bulbs and be like, okay, no big deal. | ||
| Like, LED lasts longer, it's better for the environment, and like, perhaps that's true. | ||
| I just don't like it when the government is like, so we're gonna introduce a fan. | ||
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Makes you want to have an incandescent lightbulb. | |
| I know! | ||
| You look at old videos like if you have like VHS tapes or anything like if you have like home videos where there's lights on out in the streets when you were growing up and notice that all those lights are orange and now like you don't see orange light anywhere outside. | ||
| But look my point is how does the Biden administration just unilaterally decree that a certain product can no longer be sold? | ||
| But it wasn't the Biden administration, was it? | ||
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Yes. | |
| The Biden administration on Tuesday adopted two new rules that set stricter energy-efficient standards for light bulbs. | ||
| Those standards will phase out the sale of most new incandescent bulbs. | ||
| But they've been trying to phase out incandescent bulbs for years. | ||
| I mean, well before... Right, and Congress will need to pass a law banning incandescent light bulbs, but Joe Biden can't just decree it. | ||
| It's the shadowy forces from Big Bulb that have been lobbying. | ||
| Should we sue because we want our incandescent light bulbs? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And then be like, only Congress can do it. | ||
| This is what I think is the weirdest thing about the Biden administration, which is they were like, we're for the environment and therefore we can justify anything we want by saying it's for the betterment of the environment. | ||
| You know what this means. | ||
| You got a new shirt. | ||
| You got a come and take it shirt with the lightbulb. | ||
| Oh, that's a good idea. | ||
| With the lightbulb on it. | ||
| I honestly don't care about the lightbulbs at all. | ||
| You put the lightbulb above a gas stove. | ||
| I bet someone made that up. | ||
| And the pizza oven. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
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Did it say if it was through executive order? | |
| Because I mean, I'm wondering. | ||
| It just says he adopted it. | ||
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The pistol brace thing has been rejected, I believe. | |
| the actual supposed like what's supposed to be the purpose of executive orders is | ||
| to provide kind of provide clarification for existing things that are happening | ||
| of how this is how we're going to do it so yeah like she like I believe they | ||
| probably have been having legislation go for forever so that's the way I can | ||
| understand it the pistol brace thing has been rejected I believe judge states | ||
| the rule regulating pistol braces under NFA is is likely unconstitutional you | ||
| You can't just keep banning things like this. | ||
| You can't just be like, I hereby decree. | ||
| So, you know, maybe we need to, uh, not because I like incandescent light bulbs. | ||
| Actually, I'm not a fan. | ||
| I like LED better, but, uh, it's the, it's the, it's the principle of the matter. | ||
| Maybe, maybe we should sue the federal government and say, you have no authority to ban light bulbs in this way. | ||
| Protest. | ||
| Put some incandescents up here in the studio. | ||
| Start manufacturing our own incandescents so that we're not selling them. | ||
| We're buying them. | ||
| We're making our own. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's how you solve these problems. | ||
| I guess it's a climate change agenda thing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But what I think is what it actually is, is... You know what I think about the security at airports? | ||
| Why they make you throw away your shampoo to sell more shampoo. | ||
| Yeah, makes sense. | ||
| Because they're like, oh, you can't bring that liquid in here because we don't know what it is. | ||
| And then it's just like, you walk. | ||
| Behind the security and there's a whole bunch of really dangerous chemicals for sale at like these various news But they're in small quantities, so it's safer. | ||
| They tell you like there is I bought more though. There's this dude named Evan Booth and I went met up with him | ||
| He did this project where he was able to make various weapons combustibles and things like that | ||
| Within and not not in an airport, but with things found within their plan | ||
| So you cross security you go to the store? What can you buy? | ||
| I won't say them now on this show. But yes, we were able to make | ||
| improvised grenades Using things you can buy in an airport. So the fact that | ||
| that research had been done This is like 12 years ago and that we have not seen | ||
| substantial substantial moves on this What I see is, the reason the government made these rules is because they're like, it's going to increase sales at these locations in the airports, which will generate more tax revenue for us. | ||
| Simply put. | ||
| When it comes to light bulbs, they're just looking at how can we generate more economic flow. | ||
| A major shift in the economy will force people to adapt. | ||
| It will change houses, it will change standards, and this will force people to buy things. | ||
| I still remember the first time I flew during COVID and all the signs that said make sure to wash your hands and they were all like sponsored by Purell | ||
| at the airport. And I'm just like, well, that's creepy, right? Like it's literally | ||
| like an advertisement for the company, but it's put through actual official airport policy, right? | ||
| It's an actual form that's put up by the airport, but in the corner there, you get the | ||
| little Purell logo. | ||
| Purell paid for it. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. So it's government and business working together. | ||
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Do many people even really use incandescent light bulbs more? | |
| Because I was just thinking about it. | ||
| It's so typical of government to where they get to this point to where essentially the private market is essentially adapted and then they come in with a rule and be like, look what we did. | ||
| And it's like, you didn't really do it. | ||
| I just, I don't, I don't feel like I see incandescent light bulbs all that often. | ||
| Didn't they do that with like R22 a couple of years ago because of the ozone layer? | ||
| A couple decades ago, like it's something that HVAC people used it. | ||
| So they phased it out. | ||
| So there's like a black market for R22 to use. | ||
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I mean, they did that with stuff like child labor laws. | |
| People weren't really working their kids by the time they started instituting those laws because we had progressed economically to a point where people don't want their kids to work, generally speaking. | ||
| So, I mean, don't be wrong. | ||
| I guess it's sort of good that they stopped some of those kids, but I mean, I don't know. | ||
| It's just the government comes in and then later is like, look what we did. | ||
| And you're like, well, I mean, they kind of... At the last minute. | ||
| Taking credit for it when they didn't really do any of the work. | ||
| In 2007, Obama said that he was going to immediately sign a law to phase out all incandescent light bulbs, and that was reversed under Trump. | ||
| And so now the Biden administration was like, and we're back! | ||
| It's just payback. | ||
| We're so back, baby. | ||
| We're so back. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Also, if LEDs are better... | ||
| Presumably, the consumer is like, I see the results and I want one. | ||
| Like, why do you have to ban them? | ||
| That seems bizarre to me. | ||
| They're like, Trump and your jail cell will have nothing but LED light bulbs, no incandescents at all. | ||
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No romantic lighting for you. | |
| Not at all. | ||
| He's like high-fiving Obama, like, we did it, man! | ||
| The incandescent light bulbs are gone! | ||
| Like, what a bizarre... That's actually why they've been trying to stay in power for so long. | ||
| This is like the one thing. | ||
| I'm telling you, it's the light bulb conspiracy. | ||
| It's the forces of Big Bulb. | ||
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Oh my goodness. | |
| So, uh, most... What does it say? | ||
| Uh... Someone, uh, superchatted us. | ||
| This is a good one. | ||
| Kenneth Lawrence saying, are the bulbs made in China or the USA? | ||
| So I just googled it. | ||
| And it says, uh, light bulbs made in the USA, do they exist? | ||
| It seems like they don't. | ||
| Since most consumers look to purchase a cheaper bulb, most light bulbs are manufactured in China, where it is more cost effective. | ||
| So I think that's just referring to, um, incandescent light bulbs. | ||
| No, I think it's all of them. | ||
| All light bulbs are made in China. | ||
| I don't think it changes anything. | ||
| Okay, if there is any, like, Made in America lightbulb brand, can someone please let me know on Twitter? | ||
| Because I will only buy their lightbulbs. | ||
| Like, that's bananas. | ||
| Public Square. | ||
| Oh my gosh, Public Square, I need a specific lightbulb vendor. | ||
| Yes, there is the lightbulbs made in the USA. | ||
| Patriot bulbs. | ||
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Lightbulbs made in the USA, they do exist. | |
| The MAGA bulbs. | ||
| The MAGA bulbs. | ||
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Trump is like, we're gonna be launching lightbulbs. | |
| Him and the pillow guy can do that together. | ||
| Yeah, that'd be good. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know. | ||
| That is a really good question, though, because these moves could be made to shift production and revenue generation and things like that. | ||
| To a place that really doesn't care about child labor. | ||
| I don't really care about lightbulbs, to be honest. | ||
| I'm just more so concerned that we are now at a place where the federal government has just been ruling by decree. | ||
| Just mandating. | ||
| So, on the surface, it is but a simple story about lightbulbs that no one cares about. | ||
| But when people ask, how did it get so bad? | ||
| This is exactly it. | ||
| No one cares they banned light bulbs. | ||
| No one's gonna go protest over it. | ||
| But they do things like this where they rule by decree. | ||
| A year from now, people will be like, what do you mean? | ||
| The government has always done this. | ||
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Sets the precedence, too. | |
| That's right. | ||
| I mean, this is the moment where I want to say, like, Everyone. | ||
| I think you're right. | ||
| It'd be nice to sue. | ||
| I don't know that I personally have the cash reserves to fight the federal government that can litigate you to death. | ||
| But it would be interesting if we had these, I don't know, representatives who we could call and be like, hey, how did this come to be? | ||
| And I don't like it. | ||
| Please fight for my right to have an incandescent light bulb if I so choose. | ||
| In a gas stove. | ||
| I don't know where you'd find them. | ||
| Maybe the House of Representatives or the Senate or something. | ||
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A gas stove slap, though. | |
| So that's different. | ||
| They hate them, right? | ||
| Yeah, they hate the gas stoves. | ||
| They're illegal in Vermont, apparently. | ||
| Gastos or incandescent light bulbs? | ||
| Incandescent light bulbs. | ||
| Yeah, that's because Vermont's always... Fluorescent. | ||
| Fluorescent light bulbs. | ||
| Oh man, I feel like Vermont is such a wild place. | ||
| But fluorescent bulbs are really cool because you can like rub your feet on the carpet and then like grab it and it lights up like a lightsaber, you know? | ||
| Taking away fun. | ||
| And then the kids go and shatter them in the alley and the dust comes out and they all laugh and it goes in their lungs and they get really sick. | ||
| Vermont, do you see what you're doing? | ||
| What you're keeping us from? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, I suppose the story is like a mix of climate change stuff and government overreach or whatever, but I figured we'd keep it light. | ||
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| And I'm gonna be writing a song about insulin resistance. | ||
| So, uh, come hang out. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| I'm not your buddy, guys! | ||
| Says Jack Smith is a political hitman. | ||
| He should be disbarred and sent to prison for life. | ||
| What's up, the president? | ||
| This abuse of power can cost you your life behind bars. | ||
| Can cost your life behind bars? | ||
| Can send you to prison. | ||
| WeirdNugz says, Bud Light anyone? | ||
| LOL. | ||
| Who drinks Bud Light? | ||
| I've not actually seen someone drink Bud Light in a minute, but we're in MAGA country, so I'm not surprised. | ||
| Is it still low? | ||
| Are the sales still down? | ||
| I saw a thing that I read an article today that said like some bars are like having to set it up as like it's a mystery lager just to get rid of it. | ||
| Like they have to put it on tap and it's like, it's a mystery here. | ||
| We can't tell you what it is. | ||
| I went to a place where it was like they had them all in a cooler and then they had like blacked out this one shell being like, mystery! | ||
|
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It's funny, my wife just discovered the Bud Light controversy yesterday and explained to her and she was like, yeah, that is dumb. | |
| Like, yeah, right? | ||
| So your wife is not into politics? | ||
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No, not at all. | |
| That's amazing. | ||
|
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Great. | |
| She just found it? | ||
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Yeah, she just found out about it. | |
| Oh my god, she's my hero right now. | ||
| She's gonna get to Target next. | ||
| She's gonna be like, did you know? | ||
| I went to a Walmart and they were like setting up displays more like Target. | ||
| They're coming for Target, it's so interesting. | ||
| Alright, let's grab some more. | ||
| What do we got? | ||
| Raymond G. Stanley Jr. | ||
| says, I let anger and emotions inside today, guys. | ||
| I don't like it. | ||
| This damn cycle of corrupt government, lying media, both their disdain for the lives of American people, war, needless death, rinse and repeat. | ||
| I completely agree. | ||
| And lightbulbs. | ||
| And lightbulbs. | ||
| They're taking our lightbulbs from us. | ||
| It just never ends. | ||
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They took our lightbulbs. | |
| They took our bulbs! | ||
| Start small. | ||
| That's a dick move, taking our lightbulbs. | ||
| I gotta be completely honest. | ||
| I also hate those LED light bulbs in oncoming traffic. | ||
| It's getting a little ridiculous. | ||
| It's absurdly bright. | ||
| Even in here, I'm not a huge fan of the bright light in here. | ||
| That's why I don't wear my glasses in here. | ||
| It actually is really hard on my eyes. | ||
| I can't even get an incandescent bulb! | ||
| Save my life now! | ||
| Well, they're all LED, even the special lights that we have. | ||
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They didn't even bother me until I started noticing them. | |
| All right, Aaron's Mickey says, Tim went to see Sound of Freedom today, and they said the film was locked in the projector. | ||
| They refunded me my tickets. | ||
| The conspiracy is true. | ||
| Yeah, I've been hearing more and more. | ||
| I've had so many stories of it, like people have been coming just because we covered so much of it, like people with crazy stories beyond just like, not just fire alarms being pulled, not just the air conditioning not working, and it's all over the country. | ||
| It's not just like, I was very hesitant to buy that at first because it's very easy to make that claim. | ||
| And plus it's summer. | ||
| Air conditioning goes out places. | ||
| And you don't have any comparison to like, you know, regular. | ||
| And you don't hear the stories like, did this happen to other movies? | ||
| Because they're all on their own AC systems, right? | ||
| So it's like, did this happen to, that's fine, but did this happen to the theater next to you? | ||
| But it's not. | ||
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It's crazy. | |
| I mean, it's anecdotal, but I can only recall ever in my life, probably one time there was some sort of technical issue with a film to where I wasn't able to watch it or something along those lines. | ||
| I was at Ford City Mall when I was a little kid in South Side of Chicago, and the power went out, and then everyone just started ransacking everything. | ||
| I think my family went to go see Babe, and then the power shuts, like the power goes out, and then we're like walking out of the theater and everyone's just running around stealing everything in sight. | ||
| And then we just left. | ||
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They're like, get the Dippin' Dots! | |
| Yeah, the Dippin Dots have been the ice cream of the future for like 40 some ideas | ||
|
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And no one's competed with them. That's the thing We did actually have a pro like when we went to see the | |
| flash the because we had to go we went to a clip We could only get a closed caption screening and the closed | ||
| captions wouldn't work. So they had to like come in That's what I'm looking for. | ||
| refund you your ticket they restarted the movie like four times like they get five minutes in | ||
| they're like okay the the subtitles aren't working so they have to start it over again | ||
| then finally like we're gonna refund all your tickets and then they let it play they're like | ||
| but if you want to stay it can play and then immediately after they said that they turned | ||
| back on like that they immediately turned on wouldn't it be funny if like a mafia emerges | ||
| to sell incandescent light bulbs i can see what i'm looking for a black market will emerge yeah | ||
| wild wild west out there for incandescent light bulb prohibition won't work i'm down | ||
| I just don't like that they're limiting us to one option, right? | ||
| I feel like that's not good. | ||
| I don't want single-payer health care and I don't want single light bulb choices. | ||
| I think we have a bunch of, we used to have a bunch of light bulbs that were Wi-Fi. | ||
| You can control them with your app or whatever. | ||
| They didn't work though because this place is too big. | ||
| And so we installed like 40, because of how big it is, and then it's just like, | ||
| nothing worked. And we're like, okay, we gotta use regular light bulbs. | ||
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Brad, do you think they'll let us keep our light bulbs? | |
| That's a stupid healthcare joke. | ||
| If you like your bulbs, you can keep your bulbs. | ||
| If you do. | ||
| Let's grab some more. | ||
| Have you guys heard about that thing, it's like LK99 or whatever? | ||
|
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Yes. | |
| Room temperature superconductor. | ||
| It's not really room temperature, it's just, like, closer to room temperature. | ||
| And an outspoken Christian, bonus he knows about graphene, I think Ian would love him. | ||
| Have you guys heard about that thing, it's like LK99 or whatever? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Room temperature superconductor. | ||
| It's not really room temperature, it's just like closer to room temperature. | ||
| Way closer. | ||
| It's like more feasible, but until like it's been proven by other places, | ||
| I, you know, it's not worth really covering. | ||
| People are saying that if it's true, that they've generated this, you know, near-room temperature superconductor, we're gonna have flying cars and stuff. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's possible. | ||
| And I'm just like, bro, they told me graphene 20 years ago was gonna change everything. | ||
| Ian's got the same little tube of graphene I bought him like two, two, three years ago for Christmas. | ||
| And it's been like nothing's okay, actually, to be fair, they now put graphene in batteries and they charge super | ||
| fast. | ||
| So 10 years ago, I'd buy these lithium ion batteries. | ||
| Everyone's got one for your phone, right? | ||
| And it would take, like, an hour or two to charge up, and then it could charge your phone a couple times. | ||
| Now they have graphene polymer batteries, they're called. | ||
| What they do is they take the lithium ion like normal, and then they lattice graphene over it, which allows the energy to flow through it more evenly, and it charges way faster. | ||
| So we've got a couple of these portable batteries. | ||
| It can charge... It holds two cell phone charges, so about 4,000 milliamps. | ||
| It can charge in 10 minutes. | ||
| Crazy! | ||
| That's wild. | ||
| Absolutely crazy. | ||
| So, okay, fine. | ||
| Fair point. | ||
| I've also heard about solid-state batteries coming out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I'm waiting. | ||
| I'm waiting. | ||
| I want a flying car with extremely dense battery. | ||
| I will say I got this smartwatch because Luke recommended it. | ||
| The battery lasts for a month. | ||
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Wow. | |
| That's crazy. | ||
| I don't understand how it does it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, it's a long time. | ||
| So how long until flying cars then? | ||
| Man, they built flying cars a long time ago. | ||
| The problem is that when, like, your car breaks down on the road, you just get out and complain. | ||
| And when your car breaks down in the sky, you're dead. | ||
| Yeah, we skipped jetpacks completely. | ||
| Well, but we have jetpacks. | ||
| Now you have those suits where they have the things on their arms and they can fly. | ||
| But we've had jetpacks. | ||
| The problem is The energy source was always difficult. | ||
| That's a lot of gas. | ||
| So the early jetpacks, I think this was like decades ago, could only go for like 30 seconds. | ||
| Now they have jetpacks that can go for about a half an hour. | ||
| The problem is still, when they fail, you die. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| That and they wear those suits. | ||
| You have to be super fit to hold your arms because you're basically doing like, like lift yourself with your arms and hold that position for 30 minutes. | ||
|
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Gymnast stuff, yeah. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| But it is really cool because they're using them to like do mountain rescue. | ||
| They like fly up to the mountain and stuff. | ||
| It's pretty cool. | ||
| You know, and they also have those, uh, they're like miniature plane suits almost. | ||
| Like, it looks like a plane standing upright, but it's very small. | ||
| You strap into it. | ||
| Oh yeah, yeah. | ||
| And then it, you can, you're flying like. | ||
| Like wingsuit, powered wingsuit. | ||
| Yeah, and they're like really big. | ||
| Those are cool things too. | ||
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Pretty dope. | |
| Wyatt Caldenberg says VP Pence took notes of Trump. | ||
| Notes of Trump? | ||
| Pence is a system rat. | ||
| I would not be surprised if Pence is the star witness for the state. | ||
| I wouldn't either. | ||
| I don't know why he's running for president. | ||
| What a waste of time. | ||
| I don't understand how you can run for president when the reason people know you is because of Trump. | ||
| What was your game plan here, team? | ||
| Yeah, to waste everyone's time, I guess. | ||
| What do we got here? | ||
| Kevin Coznihan says, ironically, having the trials is probably better for Trump than actually campaigning. | ||
| He seems to gain in the polls with each indictment. | ||
| And that's actually a really good point. | ||
| These criminal trials are going to put Trump on every television screen. | ||
| Every story, everything will just be Trump. | ||
| Maybe they're hoping people will get sick of it. | ||
| We saw that played out last, you know, in 2016. | ||
| Maybe they're trying to do that so that people will be like, no, I'm not going to vote for the guy. | ||
| Are they letting cameras in the courtroom? | ||
| Do we know that yet? | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| I mean, it's too far out. | ||
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I think doing this puts on display the disingenuousness that's occurring. | |
| So anyone who has an ounce of honesty will be like, Like, if anything, it's gonna be off-putting. | ||
| Like, yeah, maybe it might not help vote-wise, but so far as, like, the actual energy within the country, the people are gonna be like, yeah, we know what you're about, and I think that's gonna cause... it's gonna shift some things in the future. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think, as well, like, we were talking about how there's no COVID anymore. | ||
| There's not as much of, like, this rallying cry against Trump anymore that everyone has to do. | ||
| We haven't just had... but who knows? | ||
| This summer could change everything, but it'd be a lot of... I'm just saying a lot of people that are on the left, voting for Biden, are gonna be less, like, you know, gung-ho about getting out and voting, so... | ||
| Spencer Jones says, let's get a Giga Chad Ian t-shirt. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, okay. | ||
| It's gotta be no sleeves. | ||
| Then everyone sent us a video tearing off their own sleeves. | ||
| Yeah, it's good. No, no. I prefer it leaves. So you buy it and you can rip your sleeves. | ||
| Noah Schramm says Trump is made of rubber. | ||
| You throw something at him and it bounces off and hits you back. | ||
| But I think the issue is just that the establishment doesn't understand why people vote for Trump. | ||
| They don't get it. | ||
| And so they're like, look, he's a naughty man and he abused women, and they're like, uh-huh, we hate you. | ||
| They believe their own narrative about him, so it's hard for them to see him clearly or objectively. | ||
| Stephen Sayes says, I was a classified material control center clerk on Okinawa with the Marines. | ||
| I had top secret documents on national security in my control. | ||
| I can't tell you about them, but I didn't face any charges. | ||
| Well, you're not Donald Trump and they're not trying to remove you from office or from the race. | ||
| I thought that was gonna be an aliens comment when she started. | ||
| What if the real conspiracy is that Trump actually is part of the deep state and they're setting him up to be this anti-establishment hero and that no one thinks he can win and everyone keeps saying he can't but then he will win and everyone's gonna be like yay but then it turns out he does everything the deep state actually wanted? | ||
| Like, what if China is pushing all the woke stuff and the deep state is actually desperately trying to fight it because it's destroying America and will result in us losing this global conflict? | ||
| So, they know the only way to actually win is to prop up Trump as some, like, underdog anti-establishment guy, but he's actually deeply in with all of it. | ||
| And the point of the criminal trials is to make sure everyone here is nothing but Trump stuff so that he wins. | ||
| 4-D chess. | ||
| Yeah, so what you're saying is that when he unbanned those incandescent bulbs, it was actually a move all that time ago because they knew they were going to re-ban them now. | ||
| How much do you want to bet Donald Trump at his rally says he's going to unban incandescent light bulbs? | ||
| And they're all going to go, yeah! | ||
| Well, he said it the first time. | ||
| He already unbanned them once. | ||
| He did? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Obama said, we're going to roll out banning them. | ||
| Trump was like, no. | ||
| Biden was like, yes. | ||
| And now Trump's going to be like, you see, you guys need me. | ||
| They've taken our bulbs! | ||
| Under me, there were incandescent bulbs for everybody. | ||
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LATs do bright, makes me look fat. | |
| Oh, man. | ||
| Random Eskimo says I didn't vote in 2016. | ||
| I was so disgusted we had no one decent to vote for. | ||
| I saw how well Trump governed and I appreciate his policy while loathing his style. | ||
| I still personally dislike him, but he's earned my vote. | ||
| You see, so many people feel that way. | ||
| I'm just like, eh, the foreign policy, you know? | ||
| Like, you even got some libertarians being like, eh, I know. | ||
| No new wars. | ||
| What are you going to do? | ||
| If you can't accept small victories, that's what I don't like about the libertarians, the hardcore ones. | ||
| They're like, Trump is bad and he did all these bad things. | ||
| And I'm like, I know, but it's like it's actually moved in a positive direction. | ||
| You can call him the lesser of two evils, I guess, but not starting any wars and working on peace deals is good. | ||
| So you complain about everything else, but, like, take what you can get, man. | ||
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I do think it's good to bring up both, though, that, like, simultaneously have these two concepts in your head at the same time. | |
| That way, remind people, hey, there's still work to be done. | ||
| Like, you know, just staying in the same position we are, while even somewhat expanding forces in some areas. | ||
| Not really that—but it's better than it was before, you know? | ||
| Like, we didn't increase our militarism as exponentially as we were before, so, I mean, I don't know. | ||
| Yeah, small wins, I guess, in some ways, but still, you know, there's work to be done. | ||
| Joseph says Vivek is calling out the investment market. | ||
| That enough. | ||
| Duh. | ||
| Follow the money. | ||
| I like Viva Veik. | ||
| Viva Veik? | ||
| Sounds dope. | ||
| The nerdy beekeeper says calling Vivek the right-wing Obama insults Vivek. | ||
| As a corollary, it makes sense though. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Well, yeah, Obama's evil and Vivek is good. | ||
| So there you go. | ||
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N.E. | |
| Knight says, Vivek has Jordan Peterson keeping him honest. | ||
| It was a deal they made on Peterson's podcast months ago. | ||
| It is really awesome to see this meteoric rise of Vivek. | ||
| We had him on when we were in, where were we? | ||
| Arizona. | ||
| Arizona, that's right. | ||
| He came on the show. | ||
| That was really cool. | ||
| He had those books. | ||
| Really excited to see. | ||
| I think it would be great if he was VP. | ||
| That'd be really, really awesome. | ||
| And considering the serious defense he's had for Donald Trump over all this BS, I think it's a strong possibility. | ||
| Because he's showing himself to be worthy of running, proving himself as a capable orator, speaker, you know, he's got good policies, he's honest, he's got integrity, and he's also... | ||
| Defending Trump where Trump rightly should be defended. | ||
| something Ron DeSantis should have done. And given like Trump's policies and the way that his base | ||
| sees him, he would be a much more realistic successor if Trump was to win. Like if the | ||
| idea was that Pence was supposed to be the one to succeed him after Trump won a second term, | ||
| I don't think anyone was buying that. People would buy Vivek winning after Trump left office. | ||
| Vivek said he will not run for vice president, that he's running for president. | ||
| He said that. | ||
| I loved it because he was like, some people are just not wired that way. | ||
| Can you imagine a Vice President Trump? | ||
| It's like very hard, very difficult. | ||
| KB says, Tim, pipe dream. | ||
| But what you guys think about the scenario where Trump ekes out a popular vote win and the electoral compact states auto trip to red. | ||
| Everyone on our side must vote this time since the D's made it matter now. | ||
| But the electoral compact is not in play. | ||
| It has not been activated. | ||
| Still, we definitely want every single person to vote. | ||
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Yep. | |
| So, shift those numbers, man. | ||
| Alistair Vucin says, YouTube won't let me say what I want to SuperChat, even though it's verifiably within their rules, so here's 20 bucks for doing an excellent job. | ||
| Well, thank you very much. | ||
| Kai L says, 561 is the Palm Beach area code. | ||
| Is that what Trump was secretly doing? | ||
| Gary says, it's Vivek like cake. | ||
| Why is it so hard? | ||
| LOL. | ||
| Dude. | ||
| And we've had people on the show who will say Vivek 20 times and we'll say it's Vivek. | ||
| And they'll go, Oh, okay. | ||
| But Vivek is really great. | ||
| It just feels right. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| I'd say Vivek, but I've heard Vivek a million times as well. | ||
| It's also really hard to like do a show where someone says Vivek and then we stop the conversation and go, it's pronounced Vivek. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I really feel like he probably doesn't even really care. | ||
| He doesn't. | ||
| He just introduces himself, he's like, it's Vivek, like cake. | ||
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Oh, okay. | |
| And then he's like, but people call me whatever. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| You know, if people called me Tom, I'd just be like, okay, whatever, I guess. | ||
| Whatever makes you happy, I suppose. | ||
| Whatever makes you happy. | ||
| Vegas woman says, does your state owe you money? | ||
| Do an unclaimed funds search for your state. | ||
| Search your name and check if money is owed to you. | ||
| You're welcome. | ||
| I did this before. | ||
| Have you guys ever done this? | ||
| No. | ||
| I got like, I got like 80 bucks or something. | ||
| I'm about to do it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Something happened with, uh, what happened was a bank closed and I had like 20 bucks in the account. | ||
| So the money didn't go anywhere. | ||
| And then somehow it ended up with the state. | ||
| The state had my name on it and said, you can claim it. | ||
| You got to put in your information. | ||
| And then they mailed me the check and I was like, what? | ||
| But it was like, it was like two or three different checks. | ||
| There was one where it was like an unclaimed tax refund or something that I never knew about. | ||
| Yeah, someone told me to go look for it and then I was like, well, I won't be surprised if I go there right now, actually. | ||
| And I find that I got a bunch of money. | ||
| Yeah, it'd be worth it. | ||
| What did you say to search for? | ||
| Unclaimed funds? | ||
| Yeah, unclaimed funds. | ||
| Is everyone doing it right now? | ||
| Search for your state. | ||
| Unclaimed funds. | ||
| I got too many states to search. | ||
| USA.gov, money and credit, how to find unclaimed money. | ||
| Seems like a great way to get your identity stolen. | ||
| Yeah, why do they want my current information? | ||
| What do they want? | ||
| Why do they want to know my social security number, please? | ||
| Questionable. | ||
| You can also, so I looked up Maryland. | ||
| It's like, buy unclaimed property. | ||
| It's like, oh, okay. | ||
| I've heard stories. | ||
| I think NPR ran a story a long time ago about a homeless man who basically created a business doing this for people, like looking up where their money was from. | ||
| And then people would be like, well, okay, like you're giving me $100 I'll give you five just for doing that and this is like one of the ways his side hustle. | ||
| I can't remember where this story goes other than the fact that he did this. | ||
| I don't know what happened to him. | ||
| It's the end of my anecdote. | ||
| Justin G says, I can't wait for the aliens aren't real conspiracy theories to start once the government says they're real. | ||
| Now we're at the point where like Joe Rogan is gonna be on his show and he's gonna be like, yeah dude I just don't think that aliens are real because the government's always lying and then Daily Beast is gonna be like, conspiracy brain Joe Rogan thinks the alien hearing was fake. | ||
| Sometimes I feel like they want to reclaim the word alien so people stop saying illegal alien when they talk about illegal immigrants. | ||
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He doesn't believe in the Roswell Commission report. | |
| That Bob Lazar was full of it the whole time. | ||
| Taking Taking Back Toxic says aliens would want nothing to do with humans. | ||
| Humans would do the naughty with their kids and steal their stuff | ||
| There was some great memes It was like the X-Files poster. | ||
| I want to believe it was like I wanted to believe aliens are real until the government said they were. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You have to wonder, like, the aliens are so great, why haven't they shown up by now? | ||
| They don't need the U.S. | ||
| government's permission. | ||
| And why is it always the U.S.? | ||
| This is never happening in other countries, it's always here. | ||
| Yeah, it happened in Brazil all that time ago. | ||
| Alright, Jadrick Penifer says, regarding Nibiru, it originates from Zechariah Sitchin. | ||
| He found the reference in ancient Sumerian tablets, but only he could translate them, and he wouldn't let anyone else corroborate his translations. | ||
| He was the poster child. | ||
| Source, trust me, bro. | ||
| I'm pretty sure you're talking about, uh... Joseph Smith, right? | ||
| Yeah, Joseph Smith. | ||
| Sounds like a Joseph Smith thing. | ||
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Read it on golden plates. | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| But that may actually be true, I don't know. | ||
| I've heard that name, Zechariah Sitchin, before. | ||
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Yeah, I think it was a guy who translated some of the Samaritan stuff. | |
| Dude, you know, the early 2000s internet was like the best thing ever. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You'd just find the craziest websites full of just garbled, insane nonsense. | ||
| It was just awesome. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| All those forum posts. | ||
| I found some old website about Denver Airport back in the day, and it's like this really, it's like Comic Sans, and just like, it's got a Hulk Hogan gif dancing. | ||
| Papyrus text. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, all that stuff. | ||
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Good old days. | |
| I like that the Denver Airport has started, at least on Instagram, acknowledging the Denver Airport conspiracies, because they just get so many comments about it. | ||
| What do they call the horse? | ||
| Do you guys know the name? | ||
| Uh, Blucifer. | ||
| Blucifer, yeah. | ||
| Did they turn that into merch? | ||
| They could turn that into so much merch. | ||
| They really should. | ||
| And the horse killed the guy who made it, right? | ||
| Yeah, the artist that made it. | ||
| And then he had to finish it without him. | ||
| Like, questionable. | ||
| I think the Denver Airport, at least on Instagram, they have some really funny stuff about being like... | ||
| Thank you guys for stopping by. | ||
| But they could lean into it. | ||
| I think then they'd be like, please stop. | ||
| Like, we don't want to admit that there's anything here. | ||
| My favorite was that I guess there are a lot of Chipotles in Denver and someone was like, oh, well, that's because you think it's because it was founded here, but actually it's because They all ultimately have underground tunnels where they store extra rice and beans. | ||
| So when the elites have to move into the Denver airport, they'll have access to food. | ||
| That wouldn't make sense as to why they sell the food to people. | ||
| They just sell it as a front to continue to order tons of supplies to put on layovers. | ||
| I just, I, you know it'd be a fun show, a show where all of these conspiracy theories are real. | ||
| So like, Nibiru is real, and there are aliens that are coming to Earth because they want gold, but the Earth is flat. | ||
| It's also hollow. | ||
| So like, there are deep underground tunnels that go into a hollow Earth, and Earth is just this disc-like shell. | ||
| You know, just all of them at once. | ||
| I think that'd be great. | ||
| And the way you get into the center of the Earth is through the North Pole. | ||
| There's a hole there, apparently. | ||
| Where Santa hangs out and guards it. | ||
| I think this is a good idea. | ||
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I actually like Hollow Earth, just as a fun conspiracy. | |
| Hollow Earth? | ||
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Yeah, I don't believe it, but it's just as a friggin' conspiracy for me, it's like... But it's not a conspiracy, right? | |
| You know what I mean? | ||
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Yeah, I guess technically it's just... What do you call it? | |
| Yeah, I don't know what you'd call it. | ||
| I mean, I guess technically people would have to conspire to keep that secret, so I guess you kind of, by technicality... A fringe theory? | ||
| A fringe theory, yeah. | ||
| But then a conspiracy theory, that's a different, a conspiracy theory then would be the government keeping a secret about Hollow Earth, when the idea that the Earth could be hollow, maybe no one even knows. | ||
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I mean, there's a lot to the Operation High Jump story, too, if people want to dig into it, but... Was that during... Was that in the 1800s or something? | |
| No, I think it was, uh, what, like, World War II, roughly? | ||
| Isn't High Jump, like, the Nazi one where they have a place on the moon? | ||
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No, it's on the South Pole. | |
| It's Antarctica. | ||
| South Pole, that's right. | ||
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There was a legit operation that occurred there, but it's like, people spiral out different theories from what happened, because they came back... Because they had that place on an alert in Canada. | |
| Oh, yeah, 1946. | ||
| It's wild. | ||
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It's a crazy story. | |
| So establish the Antarctic Research Base Little America 4. | ||
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Haha, yeah. | |
| A lot of people go into Hollow Earth with that one. | ||
| Like, oh, he found Hollow Earth. | ||
| He found the entrance. | ||
| I see. | ||
| Would you go in to Hollow Earth? | ||
| I would go in. | ||
| You would? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's where the natural environment is. | ||
| And they don't like humans, so... How do you know? | ||
| Yeah, what if they're not aliens? | ||
| What if the UFOs are like... You know, we build these submarines and go down to the water. | ||
| What if there's just, like, Hollow Earth denizens that create ships to come up and, like, explore the surface? | ||
| And could you imagine how shocking it would be? | ||
| If you lived inside this big sphere, this big dome with like some kind of energy source in the middle or whatever, and then you're like, how could anything possibly survive outside of this? | ||
| It's like, there's nothing there. | ||
| And then they finally go on an expedition and they say, people, and they're like, they go back in and they tell everybody, there are people on the outside of this, and they're like, that's impossible, they'd fall off. | ||
| There's no way. | ||
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You crazy conspiracy theorists. | |
| Conspiracies. | ||
| Captain Von Eric says, anything Trump might have done versus state governors giving the okay to non-American policing Americans, which is worse. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Certainly. | ||
| Certainly. | ||
| Leon Yoder says, Republicans are honorable people and they want to play by the rules, but as Carpe Danktum axed today, you cannot compromise your way into a winning position against an opponent who doesn't value compromise or fair play ever. | ||
| That is correct. | ||
| I hate this verb X. I just want that on record. | ||
| Tweet is better. | ||
| Why don't you X about it? | ||
| I will not. | ||
| It says like repost now rather than retweet. | ||
| I love that. | ||
| I hate it! | ||
| Why are we ruining something? | ||
| They still won't change the Twitter movies account. | ||
| What? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because it can't be X movies. | ||
| So and also Twitter spaces are X spaces now. | ||
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Not to be confused with space X. | |
| This doesn't- like, Elon, what are we doing? | ||
| It's masterful! | ||
| It's brilliant! | ||
| He just recycles the logo and just turns the logo around. | ||
| I do like this thing where he's like, you're all gonna comply- like he could have been like, oh it's Twitter X and then like slowly rolled it out, but instead he was like, it's X and you all have to deal with it. | ||
| I like it this way. | ||
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I had to have a conversation with my wife that like, hey, you're about to see a bill that says, X, I want you to be clear what this is. | |
| Please do not be concerned. | ||
| Oh man. | ||
| I hope that lots of husbands have had that conversation. | ||
| It took a while to dawn on me. | ||
| I was like, oh! | ||
| Alright, James Richard says, Congress has the power to coin money. | ||
| The Federal Reserve is a private company. | ||
| Not only is that fraud, but against the Constitution. | ||
| If it's not Congress coining money, then Congress has no liability. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| Samu Rai says, is this the same Lizzo that played Madison's flute? | ||
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Correct. | |
| The one and only Lizzo. | ||
| We are, we are not pleased. | ||
| All right, what do we got? | ||
| A Green Clover says, yesterday's show was the first I missed in a while, live, and you talked about drones, which I've been doing for 10 years. | ||
| Yeah, we talked about, uh, uh, the drone in, uh, drone stuff in Moscow. | ||
| Yeah, crazy stuff, man. | ||
| And it's only going to get crazier because they're cheaper and cheaper to produce and, uh, very scary. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Senay says, there was a huge monopoly on the light bulb industry. | ||
| The owners of these companies all came together and agreed to make light bulbs that didn't last long. | ||
| Look into it, it's crazy messed up. | ||
| I've heard the story. | ||
| Apparently the first light bulb ever made has been on forever and it's in a firehouse in New York City. | ||
| And then they were just like, yeah, but if we sell these, everyone will just have them. | ||
| So what do we do? | ||
| And then I was reading like these, the woke people came out and said, did you know the light bulb was actually invented by a black man? | ||
| And it's because the filament used in the light bulb was made by a black scientist who never received credit. | ||
| And then I was like, wait, are you talking about the planned obsolescence? | ||
| Like the light bulbs that were intended to fail he invented? | ||
| Because now I'm kind of pissed. | ||
| I feel like you don't want to take credit for that one. | ||
| I feel like that's not as cool as you think it is. | ||
| It's like the guy who invented the super soaker finally got credit like 20 years later. | ||
| That doesn't have planned obsolescence, does it? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
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It's a fun fact. | |
| Brian Bircher says GE closed its last incandescent bulb operation a few years ago. | ||
| It was in Winchester, Virginia. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| Right up the road from Tim and cost a number of local jobs. | ||
| Yeah, we hang out in Winchester all the time. | ||
| Super close. | ||
| Like, I don't know, it's like 45 minutes or something. | ||
| At the most. | ||
| Yeah, they have a good Mexican restaurant. | ||
| Yeah, and I love their old downtown. | ||
| Yeah, they have like a retro gaming place. | ||
| I bought a bunch of video games from like Nintendo. | ||
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Good spot. | |
| And I love the library. | ||
| The Hanley library is gorgeous. | ||
| Mojave says, unequivocally, bears built Stonehenge. | ||
| Seriously. | ||
| Maybe with the Alcubierre warp drive, utilizing vacuum flux faster than light travel could be possible. | ||
| Stonehenge was collapsed, and then they, like, people rebuilt it. | ||
| Yeah, they were like, let's make this a thing. | ||
| I like conspiracies or fringe theories that bring in bears. | ||
| I feel like we should give bears more to do. | ||
| They should have a bigger starring role in all of our narratives. | ||
| I feel like that's fun. | ||
| Twud be fun. | ||
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Twud. | |
| You heard it here first. | ||
| T'would be. | ||
| T'would be. | ||
| No, that was a bit from Norm Macdonald. | ||
| He was like, t'was? | ||
| You're shortening it was? | ||
| It's not even that hard to say. | ||
| T'was? | ||
| That's a good one. | ||
| T'was the night before Christmas. | ||
| What do we have? | ||
| RB Play says, what do you believe will happen if they actually put Trump in prison? | ||
| I believe it might be chaos on a level we've never seen before. | ||
| I don't think Trump supporters go out and start smashing and riding. | ||
| No. | ||
| I think that putting Trump in prison destabilizes the market. | ||
| In such a way that it causes crisis in people's 401ks and pension. | ||
| Inflation would be out of control and they'd have to desperately try to clamp it down. | ||
| But the uncertainty of putting Trump in prison on the elections would make investors panic and leave and go invest in something else with BRICS now making their big announcement about expansion and their gold-backed currency. | ||
| It's the stupidest thing imaginable you could do. | ||
| And then when that happens, people will riot over not having food. | ||
| Sorry, also, am I missing something? | ||
| If they put Trump in prison, would they also have to station him with a bunch of Secret Service agents? | ||
| Like, how would they do that? | ||
| How could they actually facilitate having him in prison? | ||
| That's why it seems like, for whatever reason, the only When I went to become a secret service agent, I never thought I'd have to eat prison food. | ||
| wins 2024. | ||
| Because I don't know how the system survives. | ||
| Can you imagine being a secret service agent that has to go to prison with Trump? | ||
| They just rotate out a new guy every night. | ||
| I mean, it's like going to work. | ||
| Yeah, but like then you have to go in and out of the prison system, like instead of | ||
| being like, oh, we're traveling the world, we're doing whatever. | ||
| It's like the worst. | ||
| When I went to become a secret service agent, I never thought I'd have to eat prison food. | ||
| I thought I'd be just hanging out in Delaware with Joe Biden. | ||
| You would go to a minimum security prison where he'd wear a polo and khakis and golf | ||
| I feel like he wouldn't go to prison. | ||
| I feel like that's not gonna happen. | ||
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No, right. | |
| It's not gonna happen. | ||
| Be like on house arrest from Mar-a-Lago with the internet for the rest of his life. | ||
| It would destabilize the U.S. | ||
| economy in a way they couldn't predict. | ||
| I also think it would make a lot of people that are kind of on the fence about it, that don't necessarily believe Trump is this evil person, and if you don't vote for him, are gonna be like, this is insane. | ||
| Like, this is, it's like jumping the shark, you know? | ||
| Alright, one more super chat. | ||
| Marshall Polican says, you just described the show Inside Job on Netflix. | ||
| First of all, that show was cancelled. | ||
| Second of all, it was a very poorly written comedy that had only like one funny joke that I liked, and it's where the mushroom guy from Hollow Earth said that he was doing drugs with Joe Rogan but couldn't handle it, or something like that. | ||
| But I'm talking about a serious Game of Thrones style show. | ||
| Where they're all real. | ||
| But anyway, if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share this show with your friends, take that URL, post it everywhere, because that's the best way to help. | ||
| Word of mouth is how podcasts grow. | ||
| And head over to TimCast.com, click join us to become a member, to support our work directly, and then you will get access to our members-only uncensored show, which is coming up in just a few minutes, where I'm gonna write a song. | ||
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| So, you can smash the like button, you can follow the show at TimCastIRL, you can follow me personally at TimCast. | ||
| Jose, do you want to shout anything out? | ||
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Sure, go follow my show. | |
| I'm on No Way Jose, I'm on YouTube, all the major oddpikers, Odyssey as well, and Rumble now. | ||
| And then also, if you want to actually look into the OKC bombing, go check out libertarianinstitute.com, or .org, my bad, slash OKC. | ||
| That's the largest public archive of all Oklahoma City bombing-related documents, so if you want to do your own research, that's the place to do it. | ||
| Or you can check out my series if you want it served up to you on a platter. | ||
| But I highly recommend that. | ||
| And yeah, follow me on Twitter at TowerGangJose. | ||
| Cool. | ||
| Thanks for being on tonight. | ||
| I'm Hannah-Claire Brimlow. | ||
| I'm a writer for TimCast.com. | ||
| You should follow at TimCastNews on Twitter and Instagram. | ||
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| I don't know. | ||
| And Chris Burtman's covering Andy Ngo's trial. | ||
| So definitely things to check out. | ||
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| Thanks. | ||
| Jose, always a pleasure to have you out here, man. | ||
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Yeah, I feel rude. | |
| Thanks for having me, guys. | ||
| No, no worries. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| Yeah, it's been a fun show. | ||
| Pleasure to have you out here, too, Brett. | ||
| Never see you all the time here. | ||
| But imsurge.com, I guess, X, or whatever. | ||
| Instagram, I hate saying X, too. | ||
| It just makes no sense. | ||
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