Dec. 9, 2023 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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So, uh, it's kind of a crazy story. | |
| Uh, there's a YouTuber named Hunter Avalon, we've had him on the show before, I think a couple years ago, and I had no idea that he lived or, uh, yeah, I guess he lived, like, like a couple doors down from our building in Martinsburg, West Virginia, where we have people currently doing work. | ||
| And, uh, I'm, I'm, I'm just finding, I just started finding this story out like an hour ago, not even. | ||
| Some guy showed up, he, so he's dating someone, that guy's, uh, that woman's ex-boyfriend came with a shotgun, fired through the door, striking the woman, trying to kill Hunter Avalon, at least it appears according to text messages that were released, and, uh, I don't know, just, it's just crazy, a little shook up, I had to, you know, call family because... | ||
| It's just, I don't know, it's a crazy story. | ||
| There's a bunch of political stuff, obviously. | ||
| You've got this fake story running, Vivek Ramaswamy wanting to run as the Libertarian candidate. | ||
| I don't believe that's real. | ||
| The Vivek's team has refuted it, saying this is outright lies, and it looks like just before the Iowa... It's a caucus, right? | ||
| Iowa caucuses. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| They're trying to spike the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign, so... | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| You know, a lot of crazy things happen around the world, but considering Hunter Avalon has been a guest on the show, he's a political commentator, you know, I figure we'll go over this one and just Yeah, we'll definitely talk about this. | ||
| We'll talk about a bunch of other stuff. | ||
| We've got news about the Iowa caucus and Ron DeSantis. | ||
| Ron and his team basically calling for people outside the state to come and caucus. | ||
| So that one's, I don't know, not a good story. | ||
| We've got, I think it's Missouri. | ||
| I'll have to double check because I'm just, my brain is wrapped around this. | ||
| Holy crap. | ||
| Some dude just, like, the guy got into a shootout with the cops. | ||
| Took his own life. | ||
| I mean, this story's crazy. | ||
| And this happened down, like, next, like, effectively next door to our building where we have people. | ||
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And, you know, it's kind of, wow, I'm just kind of screwed up over it. | |
| But Missouri, I think it is, wants to make an abortion murder. | ||
| So, you know, we'll definitely talk about that. | ||
| But we do have an awesome guest who rescued 255 people? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Is that it? | ||
| 255 people. | ||
| And that's not even the first time you've done it. | ||
| So we're going to get into this. | ||
| Before we do, ladies and gentlemen, Man, it is really hard to follow through with the promo after reading all the stuff and seeing what's going on, you know, near us. | ||
| But head over to TheBestSongEver.com and you can pre-order on iTunes and Amazon. | ||
| You want to switch to the other view because we can't actually see the pre-order? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| So there you go. | ||
| The pre-order on Amazon and iTunes. | ||
| Together again. | ||
| The best song ever. | ||
| It is the greatest song ever written. | ||
| Everyone agrees. | ||
| And I can say that because I didn't write it. | ||
| Jeremy Boring of the Daily Wire did. | ||
| And so this is the culmination of some really big music industry FUs. | ||
| A big middle finger we're giving. | ||
| I probably shouldn't say that, considering we're trying to basically game the music industry as it is. | ||
| But, you know, between us and the Daily Wire, We kind of want to stick it to the big fat cats in the music industry and in every industry, basically, that is taken over by woke garbage and nonsense. | ||
| And so what we did was we did a cover version in a modern synth-pop style of Jeremy Boring and Michael Knoll's Smokey Mike and the God King song. | ||
| It is officially launching on the 15th. | ||
| You can pre-order on iTunes and Amazon right now and go to TheBestSongEver.com, pre-order it, Because what we're hoping to do is just, you know, sell a bunch of these songs, have an impact, and just let them know we are giving them the middle finger. | ||
| So, with your support, if you're a fan of, like, modern pop, I guess you'll like it. | ||
| A lot of people seem to like the song. | ||
| Shout out to Carter Banks for producing it. | ||
| Also become a member over at TimCast.com by clicking join us, support our work directly, so we can do things like give a big middle finger. | ||
| But the music video is dropping. | ||
| On the 15th, in the super early hours of the morning, and Michael Knowles and Jeremy Boring do make an appearance, as well as Phil Labonte, and it's going to be a whole lot of fun, so that will be all throughout next week. | ||
| We're going to be promoting it, and you can pre-order it now. | ||
| Joining us tonight to talk about this, and all of the people that he rescued, and the amazing work he's doing, is Rep. | ||
| Cory Mills. | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Welcome back! | ||
| Yeah, who are you? | ||
| What do you do? | ||
| So I represent the Congressional District for Florida 7, which is pretty much just outside of Orlando, all of Seminole County and South Aleutia area. | ||
| I live out in the New Smyrna Beach area, so on the Outer Island. | ||
| But yeah, it's good to be back. | ||
| It's been a while. | ||
| Right on, man. | ||
| Yeah, and the big story is, we Google it, and it's like, Rep. | ||
| Cory Mills rescues 30 people, and I'm like, we need an updated story on this, because it's been a few months. | ||
| I mean, certainly that's not the full number, and you actually, it's not the first time you've done this, even with Afghanistan. | ||
| You helped organize rescue flights to get in and bring people out. | ||
| Well, and we actually conducted, so in 2021, obviously prior to me being elected, we actually conducted the very first successful overland rescue of Americans that had ever been done. | ||
| It was a woman and three children from Amarillo, Texas. | ||
| I mean, these are born and raised Amarillo, Texas natives out of Ronnie Jackson's district out of Texas 13. | ||
| And, you know, when I saw what was happening, I mean, just the barbarism, the horrific incidents that was occurring with Hamas, the terrorist organization, it's an Iranian backed organization that was just slaughtering Israelis and Others there in the Gaza area, I knew that this administration was going to do absolutely nothing. | ||
| They had no plan. | ||
| They had no strategy. | ||
| They had no actual contingencies. | ||
| And so by October 10th, I was already on a plane. | ||
| And by October 11th, I was conducting the first rescue, which was by ground, which was from Tiberias and Haifa, Nazareth. | ||
| We pulled 32 out the first day. | ||
| Second day, throughout the West Bank, Jerusalem, south of Jerusalem, towards the Gaza area, we pulled another 45. | ||
| But in total we ended up getting 96 out through ground rescue 159 out through air rescue and also shout out to the Nazareth Group and Glenn Beck and all those guys who've been doing amazing work who? | ||
| Was supporting some of the stuff that we were doing we're trying to get charters out But yeah, we ended up getting about 255 people out on the second rescues and then, you know, probably about three dozen or so out in Afghanistan in 2021. | ||
| So I don't know if my routine is necessarily just serving in Congress or trying to do Joe Biden's job when he screws up everywhere else. | ||
| Yeah, I guess. | ||
| But we'll get in all that stuff. | ||
| So thanks for hanging out. | ||
| It's gonna be a blast. | ||
| We've got Hannah-Claire Brimelow, of course. | ||
| Hi, I'm Hannah-Claire Brimelow. | ||
| I'm a writer for SCNR.com. | ||
| That's Scanner News. | ||
| It's the best. | ||
| I'm working on some coverage of the Martinsburg story as we speak right now. | ||
| I'm excited to get into this. | ||
| Yes, Ian Crosland. | ||
| Corey, it's great to see you, man. | ||
| I can sense the humility just oozing out of you now since you've joined Congress. | ||
| I can feel it in you, man. | ||
| Like, what that must mean. | ||
| Yeah, last time you were here, you weren't in Congress. | ||
| You were running. | ||
| I'm pretty sure that was your campaigning. | ||
| And now it's just like, it's like you've matured in a way, but I can only imagine. | ||
| what the last year has been like? | ||
| And I'll tell you, I've been really lucky. | ||
| Like while I've been in Congress, I got put on some really amazing committees. | ||
| I mean, I'm on the Armed Services Committee. | ||
| I'm on the Foreign Affairs Committee. | ||
| I'm on the Intelligence Special Operations Subcommittee, Military Personnel Subcommittee, | ||
| Oversight Accountability Subcommittees. | ||
| I mean, it's been a good time. | ||
| Like we actually are being effective through the experience and merit that, you know, | ||
| we kind of built through everything. | ||
| Unlike where you see most of the time you go in there, it's, you know, who's kissed the ring | ||
| and, you know, how much money did you donate? | ||
| And so, you know, there's, Congress is certainly a broken institution, | ||
| but I think that the 118th Congress, kind of the America first Patriots come in. | ||
| We're trying to do our best to repair that and get back to constitutionality. | ||
| Yeah, common sense, man. | ||
| Like, talk about techno. | ||
| Well, we'll get into it on the show, because we got Surge on my right over here. | ||
| What's happening, bro? | ||
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Yo, yeah, I'm here kind of trying to react to the news we got today. | |
| It's just crazy to think that it happened in Martinsburg. | ||
| Anyways, yeah, Surge.com. | ||
| Let's get to it. | ||
| So here's the first story. | ||
| This is local news for us out of Martinsburg, West Virginia. | ||
| Officer involved shooting in Martinsburg results in suspect taking his own life. | ||
| This is YouTuber Hunter Avalon. | ||
| He's been a guest on this show. | ||
| He's a political commentator. | ||
| He was with his girlfriend. | ||
| Her ex showed up attempting to, it would appear, to kill Hunter Avalon and ended up shooting his ex. | ||
| And then when police arrived on scene, and this is This was West Virginia State Police, this is, I believe, the Martinsburg City Police, as well as, I think I'm hearing rumors, even Harper's Ferry may have responded, maybe after the fact. | ||
| Hunter posted the video. | ||
| You can't see anything. | ||
| You can hear the gunshots. | ||
| I don't know exactly what happened. | ||
| The guy apparently had a shotgun. | ||
| I'll show you this tweet. | ||
| This is from Hunter. | ||
| I wanna say this, I mean, you know, you gotta be a bit in the weeds to know Hunter Avalon. | ||
| He's a political commentator, but you know, it's not, I'm not trying to be a dick or anything. | ||
| He's not the biggest political commentator, but he has been on this show before. | ||
| And we had no idea he lived like two buildings down from us, from our Martinsburg building, where this is where we're building the coffee shop, it's where we're building the skate shop. | ||
| So this is local news to us, and he tweeted this. | ||
| I'm still trying to process this, and I'm most likely in shock as I write this, but only a few hours ago, Holly's ex-boyfriend, Conrad, showed up at my apartment building with a shotgun. | ||
| He shot through my building door, injuring Holly's leg in the process. | ||
| I recorded the final moments, in which we were hiding on the back porch. | ||
| You can hear him shoot at police, before ultimately taking his own life, in my own effing apartment hallway. | ||
| I'm still trying to process this. | ||
| Holly and I are physically okay, but mentally, this is going to do some serious damage. | ||
| Holly's been amazing, and she's been incredibly brave and strong throughout this ordeal. | ||
| He posted, uh, this, he said this was Conrad's final text message with Holly after she'd been injured. | ||
| She said, please surrender, I'm losing a lot of blood. | ||
| The shooter responds, I never meant that, no, goddammit, leave him, please. | ||
| He said, only if you surrender, and he said, I will, just live your life for yourself. | ||
| And then he says, I should have killed the coward. | ||
| So when firing through that door, it appears the... This guy went to Hunter's house to kill him, and there's more to this. | ||
| I mean, there's a lot of reasons why I just... You know what, man? | ||
| First and foremost, I'll just say it this way. | ||
| The reports from the police are that they went to the hospital. | ||
| It's superficial injuries. | ||
| Looks like Hunter's girlfriend's gonna be okay, so I'm glad to hear that. | ||
| I sent him a message, you know, but he should take care of himself, whatever. | ||
| He's a couple buildings down from us, but this is crazy. | ||
| And, you know, for us, for me, why I think this is so important, I mean, It's important you guys take security seriously. | ||
| It's important you guys understand the right to keep and bear arms. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Hunter should not have been hiding on his back porch. | ||
| I mean, maybe he should have. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| He's in West Virginia. | ||
| I just gotta say, man, he should have a weapon. | ||
| I don't know what else to say. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, I think that we live in a time that we have to understand that not only is there a massive amount of mental illness that's, you know, kind of going around, but we also have to acknowledge that there's really been this kind of devaluation on human life. | ||
| I mean, you're starting to see this calloused approach toward taking, you know, human lives mean absolutely nothing. | ||
| And so I think that we live in a day and age, and unfortunately, that we should, and I would encourage people to be able to defend their own homes, to understand, stand your ground, and understand your castle wall, to understand, you know, the ability to try and protect your family, which is ultimately our inalienable right under our Second Amendment, right? | ||
| And this is why, you know, every argument made by every anti-gun, anti-2A person is going to be like, that man should not have had a gun. | ||
| Good luck, man. | ||
| That's such a ridiculous argument. | ||
| Crazy guy is gonna find a weapon. | ||
| You can 3D print them. | ||
| Right? | ||
| So, I'm not here to cast anything on Hunter. | ||
| I'm not saying he did anything wrong. | ||
| I'm just saying, you know, I hope in the future he looks to his personal defense for his home. | ||
| He's in a constitutional carry state. | ||
| He can do it. | ||
| And he should. | ||
| But I am glad the police were there. | ||
| And we're able to look, I always give the most kudos ever to our first responders who are just amazing people. | ||
| I mean, these are the individuals that run towards fire when everyone's running around, you know, running away. | ||
| These are the people that run towards gunfire when other people are running away. | ||
| I mean, just the bravery of our men and women and in uniform. | ||
| I just don't think it can be understated and how much we should appreciate what they do. | ||
| Dude, you mentioned the devaluement of human life. | ||
| That's kind of been a trend. | ||
| And I was just talking to Dr. Drew earlier on my show and interviewed him. | ||
| It was great talk. | ||
| We talked about narcissism. | ||
| It came up and like, I was like, what does that mean? | ||
| That means I love myself. | ||
| Cause like inner, so he's like, no, no, no. | ||
| It means like when you're a kid and it becomes like your, your bonding mechanisms become a threat. | ||
| So you go inward and you like kind of soothe yourself by ignoring others. | ||
| And then you start to lose. | ||
| He explained it way better. | ||
| He wrote a book on it, but like, I don't know if it's the age, if it's the, If it's the internet, all the video games people are diving into, it's because if it's being kids sat in front of a YouTube for three hours when the mom's in the kitchen just doing whatever, if it's the drugs, like the pharmaceuticals, the kids are like moms on amphetamines that are giving birth to kids that have like hard time, their gut biomes, it's all of it. | ||
| I think it's all of it. | ||
| I think it's a culmination of like so many things, not to mention the fact that you have 22, 23 year olds who've never knew America without being at a time of war. | ||
| I mean... Yeah, what's that about, man? | ||
| The war weariness? | ||
| What is that? | ||
| Like a kid is told like, this is normal, this is what we are, and it's like, but that's horrible! | ||
| To be, I mean, in my opinion, conquest and colonization of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, like it's disgusting. | ||
| I don't, it's just for oil as far as I can tell, or for resources, but like to be told like this is how it is, hell, welcome to the greatest country on earth, we're conquesting all these other countries. | ||
| the problem is is like we were talking about before the show started I mean | ||
| you've got this kind of neo-conservative neo-liberal like liberal kind of | ||
| interventionist mindset where they think that all of our you know warfare is | ||
| still based in a kinetic realm of gun to gun bomb to bomb bullet to bullet and | ||
| they completely ignore the fact that the evolution of warfare is now into the | ||
| non-kinetic kind of information warfare propaganda warfare you know economic | ||
| resource supply chain and cyber I mean these are the areas that we need to be | ||
| Look, I'm not an interventionist, but I'm not isolationist, right? | ||
| We need to be protectionist and understand, though, that there's certain things that have nothing to do with us. | ||
| You know, I would look at Ukraine as one of the biggest models of that. | ||
| And so for me, you know, the reasons why we went into Iraq, which lost, you know, almost a million plus innocent lives. | ||
| No one, you know, I've spent seven years of my life in Iraq. | ||
| I spent almost three years of my life in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Pakistan, North Somalia, all these areas. | ||
| One of the things that I've learned is that any government at the end of war can try and claim a victory, but no one wins when it comes to war. | ||
| You're always going to have certain amounts of collateral damage. | ||
| You're always going to have certain people who are going to lose their life who shouldn't. | ||
| You're always going to make sure that you're going to lose someone's brothers and uncles and fathers and husbands and things like this in these wars. | ||
| We need to stop treating lives as if we're pawns on a chessboard somewhere that we can just basically move to play political football. | ||
| We have to be smart in how we not only protect our American people, but we protect our treasures and we protect our ability to be able to be strong again. | ||
| We have to get America First agenda back on the block and we have to stop this interventionist mindset of the 1980s. | ||
| I watched, I think it was Clint Russell retweeted, this is from a few days ago, some graphic of like veterans suicide, how the deaths of active military and it's like suicide is like 15-18% in 1980 and then it goes up and over the years and now it's at like 45% of active. | ||
| Does that work? | ||
| What in the hell? | ||
| And that's just people that are actually there in the military. | ||
| I also contribute that to a little bit of the wokeness that's basically continued to try and utilize this indoctrinating kind of process where in our military, you know, one of the things that we strived so hard for, myself, Matt Gates, Jim Banks, Ronnie Jackson, so many of the members of our Armed Services Committee, and especially the MilPERS subcommittee, Was to get away from this idea that meritocracy no longer can exist and it's all about the diversity, equity and inclusion, the DEI. | ||
| You know, what we really need to be focusing on for our military, which is what it used to be focused on, is things like increased lethality, readiness and being properly equipped. | ||
| You know those are the three things I want to see out of my military and I think that what we're bringing in now is what drag shows and you know transsexual you know gender-affirming surgeries and travel abortion that's being paid for by the federal government things like this that in no way I mean what we should be thinking about is how do we improve the quality of life how do we get military construction MilCon in place that allows the housing availability and affordability to be better for our armed forces how can we actually make sure that instead of just having two days a week for child care for the spouses of Those who serve, we have it all day every day so they can have careers of their own. | ||
| We should be thinking about improving the quality of life of our armed service members, but also let's start prioritizing our veterans over illegal aliens who are basically invading our nation. | ||
| I mean, these are priorities. | ||
| You think we don't because American culture has shifted into being sort of anti-military? | ||
| I think that there's sort of a disconnect between the way people used to feel. | ||
| I mean, this administration has almost become anti-American. | ||
| Oh, they're 100% anti-American. | ||
| It's not even American anti-military. | ||
| I just mean the day-to-day American personality. | ||
| I mean, you see this reflected in military recruitment. | ||
| People don't want to join the military. | ||
| We've got 33,000 recruitment deficit right now. | ||
| I mean, you're talking three military divisions. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And meanwhile, one of the amendments that I tried to pass, that I tried to put in at CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, tried to say scored, which is nonsense. | ||
| I wanted us to basically look at the fact that these vaccination purging is unconstitutional and that we should bring back our military service members. | ||
| We should give them the back pay that's necessary. | ||
| They shouldn't have to pay any bonuses back because at the end of the day they were to serve our government, or I should say serve our nation, not to serve our government's agenda. | ||
| And so, you know, and meanwhile they were like, no, sorry, this scores. | ||
| So you can't put it in as an amendment. | ||
| It's just ridiculous what we're seeing right now. | ||
| I guess I have to agree to some extent. | ||
| It is an anti-military, but anti-American agenda. | ||
| Do you think there's a way to shift culture away from that? | ||
| I mean, there's always going to be politicians who are sort of anti-military or see, you know, more conservative takes on the military and conservative values. | ||
| As a threat, but do the day-to-day Americans ultimately want to say, oh, you're returning vet. | ||
| I don't care about you because that's really what a lot of you said the exact thing in the earlier part of your statement, which is politicians. | ||
| They're part of the they're actually the biggest part of the problem. | ||
| We don't need politicians. | ||
| We need statesman. | ||
| We need veterans who have actually served in uniform who understand exactly what our warfighters need to be able to move forward. | ||
| We have to have the necessary resources and assets not being pre-allocated to another country to where they can actually worry about the PTSD and the trauma that the other nation is going through and ignoring our own veterans here at home. | ||
| We have to just get back to statesmen who understand what the America First approach is and start prioritizing the American citizens. | ||
| We had Tom Sauer on a couple days ago, and he's like privatized, he's taking it into his own hands. | ||
| They have a private company, it's Miramar Health, and they're wholly focused on helping veterans rehabilitate themselves through whatever kind of therapy, whether it's psychological, I think they're looking into Psychedelic therapy as well like MDMA there, but it's a lot of it's about communication about and I I don't think the government can handle it I think it needs to be in the private sector like the VA I don't know a lot about it But all I hear complaints about complaints for 20 years people have been complaining about how ineffective it is So I'm I don't know if you did isn't effective and I and you know, I'll even go a step further Yeah, you'll the problem with all of government | ||
| Is that the metric of success is completely skewed? | ||
| Their idea by gauging what is the metric of success is the idea of how much did I spend? | ||
| And they continue to try and say, Oh, well, we spent more this year than we'd ever spent before. | ||
| Oh, we increased veterans by, you know, 20%. | ||
| Oh, we did this. | ||
| What they're not doing is, is gauging about the true metric of how many people did you actually help? | ||
| What is the outcome in which we're looking at where we're able to say, we went from 21 or 22 veteran suicides today down to 18. | ||
| What was that cost in order to do that? | ||
| Because let me tell you, if I could get it down to zero, give me that number. | ||
| You know, but you also have them where they'll go ahead and say, oh, we just built another VA hospital. | ||
| Well, yeah, you just spent a billion dollars on this new VA hospital in a metropolitan area that already has nine other hospitals which have the same exact levels of care. | ||
| Why wouldn't you put that to a rural area where people can actually get treatment and open it up to where all of our veterans can basically utilize the existing, you know, medical treatments and facilities that are actually existing there already? | ||
| I mean, this is the thing. | ||
| Veterans don't necessarily need to have like a special hospital. | ||
| There's hospitals who offer a lot of these same things, but we do need them in the rural communities. | ||
| We do need to understand how do we treat and how do we give the necessary resources and assets. | ||
| I mean, the military veteran as a whole is very traditional. | ||
| You know, we believe in things like being able to, as a man, for example, The idea to be able to protect my family, to be able to provide for my family. | ||
| And so when we come out and we essentially have no way to supply and keep up with the 40 year high inflation and the cost of living that's out of control and untenable, or we don't have the housing affordability and availability for a soldier any longer. | ||
| And so they don't feel like a man because they can't protect and provide for their family. | ||
| So that loses There's their objective, their mission, their focus. | ||
| And I think that then they start chasing, you know, well, something must be wrong. | ||
| I'm getting into a depressed state. | ||
| And here's the other problem that we have to acknowledge. | ||
| The pharmaceutical companies have continued, just with the doctors, to want to over-prescribe and over-medicate every single person, thinking that's the solution. | ||
| Well, they benefit when you're sick and they can prescribe you something for all the side effects that they have caused. | ||
| But they want to keep you sick for as long as possible because that's how they actually make their money. | ||
| Yeah, they benefit when you're sick. | ||
| Is that how it is in the VA too? | ||
| That's exactly how it is. | ||
| Oh, you have an issue? | ||
| Here's a script. | ||
| Oh, that pain's still bothering you and the last pain pills that we didn't give you is | ||
| enough? | ||
| Let me increase the dosage. | ||
| You know, and I'm not saying that we don't have great medical care providers, but what | ||
| we do have is we've got a conflict of interest when you have people who actually are able | ||
| to, you know, it's the same thing with, you know, legislators who are able to trade in | ||
| the stock market, even though they can make legislation that manipulates the stock price. | ||
| You have doctors who, of course, are going to invest in the pharmaceutical companies of the, you know, things that they prescribe the most, right? | ||
| Because they understand. | ||
| So there's just a lot that we have to fix in this country. | ||
| But the first thing is we have to get back to understanding what does it mean to be on an America first agenda again? | ||
| Would you recommend joining the military to like an 18 year old today? | ||
| You know, I would. | ||
| I mean, look, at the end of the day, we've got one of the strongest, greatest volunteer forces. | ||
| I was proud to have served in uniform, and I think it's a great honor. | ||
| I think it's something that if you're born with that servant leadership heart, and a lot of us, you know, we used to joke that we must be wired wrong, right? | ||
| But the reality is that you're just born with a servant leadership heart. | ||
| You are or you're not. | ||
| And the thing that why I ran You know, one of the big things was not just to look out for our military veterans, but to ensure that our military has all the national, you know, the resources, the assets, and that they get back to the priorities that they should be focused on so that men and women can actually serve, not thinking about this woke agenda or this DEI over meritocracy type of thing for, you know, equity over equality. | ||
| I mean, it's just this idea of us building back our military on the principles and the beliefs of what it originally started from. | ||
| I want to introduce a super soldier program where people can even be Yo, you want to do experimental gene therapy and be able to run three times faster and not have to breathe? | ||
| Breathe every eight minutes? | ||
| You want to see 90 times further? | ||
| I feel like you're volunteering for it. | ||
| That's what I'm talking about, dude. | ||
| I will be the first. | ||
| But I think so many young people maybe don't have a purpose in the idea that you could become a badass. | ||
| It's all on you, though, because it may or may not work. | ||
| It may work, but you can sign up for this. | ||
| Or we could have the X-Men, I guess, at some point. | ||
| That's what I'm talking about. | ||
| It's because it's happening anyway, man. | ||
| In China, they're doing CRISPR. | ||
| They are building super soldiers, so why don't we just do it publicly? | ||
| We don't have to disclose all the results. | ||
| I honestly just wish that we could even get back to the idea of not having drag shows on our military installations. | ||
| So you're light years ahead on that already. | ||
| I was going to say, I feel like because recruitment standards are so, or like we're not meeting recruitment goals right now, they're more likely to want to lower all of the physical standards rather than start recruiting for potential super soldiers. | ||
| Well, I mean, look, maybe you can make a super soldier out of anybody. | ||
| I don't really know how. | ||
| I always say that, you know, one of the things that that that plagues this nation is that we have a crisis in leadership. | ||
| And, you know, the issues that we're seeing right now, yes, it does start at the commander in chief, but it also I look at the secretary of defense who I've actually issued impeachment articles against and filed those because of his, you know, handling on dereliction of duty. | ||
| If you want to on how Afghanistan went in the botched withdrawal, it cost 13 Brave heroes their lives and and I'm blessed that I'll be I'll be with Paula Knauss who's The mother of Ryan Knauss one of the 13 brave soldiers who had died on August 26 I'll be with her December 13th where We'll be going out and section 60 in Arlington to be able to go ahead and visit her son and pay our respects But you know, there has to be accountability again in government secretary what it matters Lloyd Austin Secretary of Defense and did he oversee the surrender? | ||
| He oversaw a majority of it Let's jump to this story from the New York Post and get into the crux of all of this. | ||
| This is a story that says Florida Rep Cory Mills flies to Israel to rescue 32 Americans trapped amid fighting. | ||
| But that was October 12th. | ||
| Uh, that number is much, much higher. | ||
| And it's not just that you, uh, flew missions to save people, rescue people in Israel, it's in Afghanistan as well. | ||
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| So, uh, I'd like to start with Afghanistan, if you can talk, talk to us about what happened, how it happened, what, what, what prompted you to actually fly in and start getting some of these people out, and then we can get into, obviously, the Israel stuff. | ||
| So I get a call and I'd known Ronnie Jackson for quite some time. | ||
| I mean, this is a guy who's a Rear Admiral who served on the Armed Services Committee, who's a member of Congress. | ||
| And literally he called me and said, Corey, I've got a problem. | ||
| He's like, you know, I've tried to reach out to the State Department. | ||
| I tried to reach out to the Department of Defense. | ||
| I've tried to see what we could do to try and get some of my constituents who are trapped in Afghanistan, who are being actively hunted right now by the Taliban. | ||
| And I said, well, who is it? | ||
| And so he disclosed who it was, and it was a mother and her three children, a 15-year-old and 11-year-old little girl, a 15-year-old boy and a two-year-old little girl. | ||
| He literally had no idea how to get them out even though here he is a member of Congress and he's calling the right people who would have jurisdiction and approval on this authority and the things that they were telling him was absolutely false. | ||
| They would tell him oh well she can just call the State Department and they'll direct her and she did this time and time again to no answer or she would text them you know just to give you an idea when when and I told Ronnie I said look I'm gonna go over there I said and I won't come back until I get them and that's one of the things that he's said multiple times and You know, we were attempted to be thwarted in our efforts by the Biden administration multiple times. | ||
| I mean, even had them scramble an F-16 to do a flyover to try and intimidate us, even though we had approved landing permits on a PPR and we're in an American aircraft with American former special operations guys to save Americans. | ||
| And it's our own government who's trying to put us at risk. | ||
| But, you know, after 11 days, we ended up conducting this successful overland rescue, which is the first of its kind. | ||
| Two and a half weeks later, After Miriam and her children are already in Amarillo, Texas, they're already back in school, she starts receiving text messages from the State Department saying, hey, we're just reaching out to you to see if you're okay and find out where you're at in Afghanistan. | ||
| They didn't even know that she had been back safely. | ||
| I mean, this is the inept and fecklessness of this administration. | ||
| This is the dereliction of duty by Secretary Lloyd Austin, by Anthony Blinken, the open borders under Mayorkas, the weaponization under Garland and Wray. | ||
| I mean, all of these people need to be held accountable, but we don't do anything to talk about. | ||
| We're more likely to oust someone from our own party than to go after the people who are actually needing to be impeached. | ||
| I mean like Bowman should be expelled for the for the fire alarm thing but instead it's George, it's Santos. | ||
| Who by the way is the first person in history to not be convicted of an actual crime and or committed treason. | ||
| I mean look it's happened five times before Santos, three people in 1861 which was right after the confederate you know that deemed these individuals to be treasonous and the other two who were convicted felons and now you got a guy who and this is why I voted against this expulsion is that Who are we to play judge, juror, and executioner, first off? | ||
| Who are we to not allow him due process to be able to approach his accusers in his day of court in front of a jury of his peers? | ||
| Because what this does, in my opinion, is that I think that he has every right to a potential appeal now, because I think that we have in some way potentially influenced or started to lead the witnesses and the jury in some way just by our actions in Congress, because now what we're saying is, in America, You are actually guilty until proven innocent, not innocent until proven guilty. | ||
| It's going to prejudice any jury pool because this is national-level politics. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Can Congress just expel anybody at any time if they vote on it? | ||
| Technically, they can. | ||
| Okay, so it was Lee. | ||
| Everything that happened was above board, but it's just a slight... Yeah, but he's not convicted of anything. | ||
| And it's a weird precedent to set, right? | ||
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| It is. | ||
| I mean, we just decided that we don't want you here anymore because there's not an actual crime. | ||
| You should have to run that through the Senate or at least by the American people. | ||
| And let me be clear. | ||
| I'm not trying to defend anything that George Santos has done. | ||
| But what I am defending is, is the rights to due process for every single American. | ||
| I mean, what kind of precedents does this set? | ||
| I mean, that's what we have to be thinking about. | ||
| The House Ethics Committee report and decision was enough for everyone to say, OK, that's good. | ||
| Well, it wasn't everyone. | ||
| Not everyone, but enough people to say, OK, we should expel. | ||
| Unfortunately, but you also had people like a lot of the New Yorkers Who were in difficult positions because since he's also from New York, they felt that they had to take action because they were hearing a lot from their constituents. | ||
| But also, here's my other thing, who are we in Congress to basically make a decision to expel someone who was elected by 750,000 people in their district? | ||
| We should allow the constituents to be able to do their jobs and to be able to go ahead and carry out their civic duties. | ||
| And again, this for me is more about protecting your Sixth Amendment, more about protecting the rule of law, Yeah, it sounds like it's become a little bit too much of a social club of people that think they're elite and they can just, I mean, technically they can still kick each other out, but I do think that it's like, you don't like my guy? | ||
| Well, he's my guy. | ||
| Jamal Bowman admits to doing something wrong while a member of Congress. | ||
| Committing a crime. | ||
| And actually is charged for that. | ||
| He gets censured. | ||
| A guy who does something which was previous in most cases of what his indictments for the grand jury is being accused of in my understanding is prior to coming in. | ||
| And has not yet been prosecuted for it, but he gets expelled. | ||
| Is it just legit? | ||
| We have Bowman on camera. | ||
| If they were going to expel someone before a conviction, Bowman, I would understand as being reasonable because he's on camera. | ||
| I don't even justify that. | ||
| Whether it's on camera or not, we should allow the due process to be there. | ||
| We can't say that we, again, are being judged during execution or based on our observance. | ||
| You are not guilty by the observations in which you make. | ||
| You're guilty by the rendered verdict by either the judgment of a judge, who we appoint for solid reasons, or the jury, which actually finds their peer guilty. | ||
| I mean, we just have to understand we're a nation which is based on the rule of law. | ||
| We're a constitutional republic. | ||
| And we have to not continue to water that down and dilute it just because it's beneficial for us. | ||
| You brought up the impeachment of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and he was basically largely responsible for the surrender of the American military. | ||
| Him and Anthony Blinken, the Secretary of State. | ||
| So what would an impeachment look like? | ||
| What would be the charges and how would that play out? | ||
| My charge on him was the dereliction of duty. | ||
| I mean, the simple fact that he has a role to play and a job to do. | ||
| You had soldiers who were deployed who had no rules of engagement, no understanding of what their authorization of force was. | ||
| I mean, there's people who could have actually, and in one case, a guy named Tyler Vargas, Andrews I believe is his name, or Tyler, Andrew Vargas, I always mess this up. | ||
| But he was badly injured and is an amputee as a result of the explosion. | ||
| He was the sniper who was in the tower who actually had identified the potential suicide bomber, had called back what he appeared to be the identified Bolo, which is the B on the lookout, had it verified, was asking for a green light to be able to engage, and never received a green light from India's command because they didn't know who actually had the authority to give that. | ||
| Moments later, the explosion goes off, 13 brave members have lost their lives. | ||
| These are things where you should have an escalation of force and the rules of engagement that's established prior to them even being deployed. | ||
| You should have an understanding of what was going on. | ||
| And so this was completely just botched from the very beginning and the fact that there's no one who's been held accountable. | ||
| And look, when I think about accountability, I think about it as you lead by example. | ||
| And so it's for me, I used to call it the concept of windows and mirrors. | ||
| When something is being done properly, And everything is going successfully. | ||
| You look through the window at all those outside who are actually delivering on that. | ||
| But when something goes wrong as a leader, you have to look in the mirror because ultimately it's on you. | ||
| This seems like a pattern, though. | ||
| I mean, there are several Republicans, I think Andy Biggs, or is it Biggs or Briggs, from Arizona. | ||
| He brought dereliction of duty impeachment charges against Mayorkas. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| For the border, because the border's a mess. | ||
| I don't think anyone can argue that's not justified. | ||
| No, Mayorkas should definitely be impeached, but we haven't gotten it yet. | ||
| I mean, there are lots of members of the Biden administration who I would believe are derelict in duty, but they are still in office. | ||
| At what point do we get some action? | ||
| I mean, it must be difficult. | ||
| This is what frustrates me and obviously, you know, the one thing that I agree with is that we in the 118th Congress brought back through our conference rules the regular order, which means that everything has to go through its committee of jurisdiction and then come out of that and then come to the House floor. | ||
| But I mean, look, if we can't even at least start the impeachment process, why can't we utilize things like the Homan Act, where we basically take the salary of those individuals and we drop it down to $1 a year? | ||
| You know these people shouldn't be getting paid when they actually aren't doing the job that they were actually put in place to do and so until they can actually have an impeachment inquiry and then trial and have the depositions in place at a minimum just like if a person in a regular you know I think about this from the regular world if you do something wrong in a job And they're investigating what you did wrong. | ||
| In many cases, you basically get leave from the job for a certain period of time, but you're not being paid during that time. | ||
| You haven't lost your job yet. | ||
| You can also go to jail before you've been convicted. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| See, my whole point is that at least with the Homan rule, we could at least drop his salary down to $1 while we continue to investigate. | ||
| Someone proposes for careers off the air, right? | ||
| We could suspend Bowman pending a conviction on the thing with the doors, the fire alarm. | ||
| Very possible. | ||
| But will they? | ||
| They won't. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| I mean, look, you've got someone on camera committing a crime. | ||
| I think it's a good point. | ||
| He should be convicted. | ||
| But at the same time, there's a reasonable step between, okay, someone's been accused of a crime and there's a preponderance of evidence that they may be violent, so we're going to hold them. | ||
| If they're found to be not guilty, we release them. | ||
| And we're supposed to have hearings for this. | ||
| If there is someone who there's no preponderance of evidence he's been accused, well, then you don't even get an indictment. | ||
| But if you do, then the person is going to be free on bail. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Considering Santos, he's been accused. | ||
| They say there's evidence. | ||
| Okay, we're gonna have to prove that. | ||
| For Bowman, he lied about what he did. | ||
| The camera proves he lied, and he committed a crime. | ||
| I would say it's fair to suspend him pending a resolution. | ||
| This is the Hohman rule. | ||
| So how do you enact the Hohman rule? | ||
| It's essentially a privilege resolution, I believe, that you could put on the floor. | ||
| Last time that we've actually, well, we've tried it multiple times by a lot of us who are true constitutional conservatives, who believe in accountability of government, and it wouldn't get the votes. | ||
| Okay, so it's just a one bill, one vote kind of thing? | ||
| I mean, with some of these things, like, like I mentioned, potentially impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas, do you think there's a point where Democrats would cede, yes, the border is a disaster? | ||
| Well, I mean, I think that you can see that from New York City Mayor Adams, right? | ||
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| He's even crying about it. | ||
| It's funny that now the sanctuary cities, oh, come on in, we're inviting you in, oh, come on in, are the ones that are not complaining the most, right? | ||
| New York was the first to be like, this is actually a problem. | ||
| I mean, D.C. | ||
| has said we need help, but they haven't actually. | ||
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| said they needed help, but only after we had to pass things like the D.C. | ||
| Crime Bill to stop the soft-on-crime catch-and-release policies of, you know, these woke and these liberal extreme mayors like Muriel Bowser or You know, even Eric Adams or any of the rest, but like my whole point is, is that there's more than enough circumstantial evidence for us to be able to move forward with impeachment articles against if anyone, anyone, it's Secretary Mayorkas because we get the CBP reports. | ||
| I mean, you're seeing the record high numbers that are coming across. | ||
| You're seeing an increase in the number who are actually coming across that are on terrorist watch lists. | ||
| I mean this is the whole thing and this isn't people from South America and that's what people don't understand you know 63 to 64 hundred Afghans I mean 32,000 plus you know Chinese from mainland China you've got people from Yemen you've got people from Saudi Arabia you got I mean there is a dozen plus different countries who are coming through our southern borders and I don't think that we can say that Secretary Mayorkas is doing anything to actually prevent that because in fact He's the same one that went on record to say we don't have open borders. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know, it just baffles me. | ||
| And the Biden administration will say we're doing the best job ever on the border. | ||
| Well, but here's a great thing in the hypocrisy of the Biden administration. | ||
| They'll tell you that they had to repeal the Remain in Mexico agreement or that they had to remove Title 42, but then they'll come back to you and say, oh, the entire failed Afghan withdrawal, we couldn't do anything about it. | ||
| It was already in motion because of the Trump administration. | ||
| You know, the hypocrisy and the lies that come out of this administration is just something I've never seen in my lifetime. | ||
| Yeah, if they call it a failed withdrawal, they should retitle that a surrender because that was a disgusting surrender to the strongest military on earth surrendered to the Taliban. | ||
| Not to mention the billions of dollars that we left behind in weapons, defense articles, and we put terrorist organizations like the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, and ISIS Khorasan in a better position now than they ever were before. | ||
| And let's go back. | ||
| Why did we go into Afghanistan in 2001? | ||
| It was because we wanted to stop it from being a safe haven or a harbor for terrorism. | ||
| Meanwhile, fast forward to the Biden administration, where we actually left them After what I would argue still that George W. Bush and even Obama had these failed approaches that we can do nation building, which is not our role. | ||
| We're not there to build the nation of others. | ||
| We're there to basically eliminate terrorists who are actually a threat to America and come back home to protect our homelands. | ||
| But, you know, let's fast forward that to the point that we did the opposite. | ||
| Of what we said that we were going there to do. | ||
| We actually emboldened and strengthened and armed and trained and even left enough cash to create the caliph if they want. | ||
| The opposite of what the intent was. | ||
| That's why I'm not satisfied with surrender. | ||
| I think it's going too easy on them. | ||
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| I don't understand how you abandon Bagram without informing the security forces. | ||
| I think it's treason what they've done. | ||
| Yeah, I agree. | ||
| Again, a surrender would be like, okay, let our forces know we're out. | ||
| Something else is when you abandon them. | ||
| But we have never pulled our military in our history. | ||
| We've never pulled our military before we ensured the safety of civilians first. | ||
| I mean the idea that we're gonna pull our military before we even try and make sure that American citizens are out first to be saved? | ||
| But why- but the Bagram thing gets me because- It's against doctrine. | ||
| We could have evacuated through Bagram. | ||
| Absolutely we could have. | ||
| Okay, so let's say I've been to Bagram multiple times you could have here's the other big thing that you have to | ||
| understand We could have simultaneously run two separate airports, | ||
| right? | ||
| You could allow the continued station of the civilian H kaya that was going on and you could have gone ahead and | ||
| utilized bagram Which by the way could have housed 40 plus thousand people | ||
| We could have done the necessary biometrics health scans to look at our sivs and others who actually had served with us | ||
| for over 20 Plus years risking their lives instead of just abandoning | ||
| and leaving them behind who are being now methodically killed | ||
| you know, one by one. | ||
| But the other thing is that, what did it have? | ||
| It had an entire military installation to parameter standoff. | ||
| So what ended up happening, and this is where the Biden administration hasn't been answering | ||
| for this yet, when they shut down Bagram to hand it over to China, and they went ahead | ||
| and allowed the Bagram prison, which released over 40,000 terrorists who had actually already | ||
| been incarcerated there, to be released, yes, which basically plussed up the entire force | ||
| that was already coming in. | ||
| Now, what else did you do? | ||
| When you take a military takeover of a civilian airport, all of those flights, because they | ||
| They were telling all the Americans you have to be out by September 11th. | ||
| He wanted to tout this great victory on this day. | ||
| But when he shut it down premature to that, all the people who had civilian flights out on Ariana, Cam Air, Emirates, you name it, those airliners got completely canceled. | ||
| So there was no more calm air that could come in and come out. | ||
| So they essentially entrapped Americans by shutting down the civilian airport and giving them no safe harbor to be able to get out. | ||
| I pulled up the name. | ||
| It's Tyler Vargas Andrews. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| He's the dude. | ||
| Absolute hero. | ||
| He was in a tower, you were saying? | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And then they were surrounded? | ||
| They were people coming at them? | ||
| They had already been told that day of what the bolo was, which is to be on the lookout of the individual, what he'd be wearing, would he be carrying a satchel, you know, these types of things. | ||
| He, while he was up there in the tower, identified an individual who fit that description, who he believes is the actual bomber, the suicide bomber. | ||
| He then relayed that information back and someone came to the tower to confirm exactly what he saw. | ||
| From, I believe it was the SIAPS battalion that was there, and they confirmed what he saw, and then he asked for green light to engage, and no one in his command, or even at higher command, knew who could actually provide that authority, so no one gave him the authority. | ||
| Moments later, explosion occurs, and we saw what happened. | ||
| The first thing, he did a show with Sean Ryan. | ||
| It's spectacular and Tyler's awesome and it's like five and a half hours long and everyone should go watch that. | ||
| The guy's amazing. | ||
| So is this like obsessive centralized control authority thing like new? | ||
| Is it normal? | ||
| Because I would think you'd have somewhere in the lower levels of command that are like at least equipped to give you an order or to respond to your request for action. | ||
| Well, you usually, in every scenario I've ever seen, you always have command who can actually issue that authority. | ||
| And you always have a clear understanding of what your rules of engagement are, what the escalation of force is. | ||
| And the bottom line is that this was a chaotic, botched withdrawal that endangered American lives. | ||
| And I can tell you that Secretary Blinken was even given a cable, a diplomatic cable, with 23 members of the diplomatic corps who warned him about this strategy, saying Americans would die. | ||
| They tried to hide that from our foreign affairs committee until the point that we actually were trying to subpoena, | ||
| Chairman McCaul was subpoenaing Anthony Blinken for the fact that he wouldn't and refused | ||
| without the redacted lines on it, which was basically the entire document to show this. | ||
| But here's what we ended up asking. | ||
| We asked a woman who had been responsible for filing those types of cables, | ||
| and we said, in your entire time, and she was almost done with her career, | ||
| I think she was 17 plus years, have you ever seen, how many of these cables | ||
| do you get a year? | ||
| What they call a descent cable. | ||
| And she said somewhere between maybe one to a year on average. | ||
| And we said, okay, great. | ||
| How many people usually are signatories on these documents? | ||
| And they said, one, maybe two people. | ||
| And I said, so it didn't send a red flag when you had 23 people who are part of the diplomatic corps of the State Department who signed this dissent cable warning about this withdrawal prior to it happening? | ||
| So all the signs were there. | ||
| All the intel was there. | ||
| There was intel reports, by the way, that even demonstrated who and when and what was going to happen. | ||
| They even, I mean, to the point where the days before they would say, okay, these individuals are moving from this city to this city. | ||
| Next day, they're now in the city. | ||
| Next day, they're in a planning phase. | ||
| Next day, they're now done with the plan. | ||
| Here's how it's going to be carried out. | ||
| And then boom, the next day it occurred. | ||
| So Blinken and Austin can't say that they didn't have the details and the information on how to prevent this. | ||
| They are responsible and there's blood on their hands and there has to be accountability. | ||
| I don't think it's a strategy. | ||
| I don't see any reasonable argument for abandoning Bagram. | ||
| It doesn't make sense. | ||
| No, it doesn't. | ||
| The only reason you would do that is to create chaos disorder and intentionally get people killed. | ||
| Or unless China and others are trying to tell you that you need to go right now because you're a compromised and corrupted administration and you're now leaving, by the way, 1.1 trillion dollars in lithium. | ||
| Which is sitting in Panjshir. | ||
| You think there's compromise on Biden or the administration? | ||
| China says, we're taking the base, we're taking the country, and you're getting the F out. | ||
| Who's the first person to recognize the Taliban as an actual form of government? | ||
| Chinese. | ||
| China's moving in, they're going for the lithium mines. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| It could also be... It could be compromise, but could it also be Biden just selling American assets? | ||
| Think about it for a minute, just put us together. | ||
| You're now handing over a country, putting Americans at live so that the Chinese can get to 1.1 trillion dollars in | ||
| potential lithium. | ||
| And at the same time, what are you pushing for? You're pushing for an EV system, | ||
| which is based out of lithium, cobalt, nickel, which is all produced by China to build their economy. | ||
| These are not, and this is where, you know, being a geopolitical analyst for a long time, | ||
| you don't look at everything so singularly. | ||
| You start making the link analysis of, look, this is not a one-off. | ||
| Look, and, you know, it's not just kind of this coincidence, you know, in police work they call them clues. | ||
| And so what we have to understand is, is that that's exactly what is going on, is that we are driven towards building China's economy and going to a more China 1, you know, foreign First policy as opposed to an America first policy where we actually look out for our own and that's that's because of the corruption and that's because of what you're seeing being released by Chairman James Comer, Chairman Jim Jordan, Chairman Jason Smith, where they're showing the multitude of layers of corruption and the spider webs of companies and the continuation of this 10% for the big guy and the millions upon millions of dollars that Jim and Haley and Hunter and all of them are getting. | ||
| Look, this is the most corrupt And most bought and paid for pay-for-play administration that I've ever seen in my lifetime. | ||
| So what do we do, man? | ||
| We impeach his ass. | ||
| Joe Biden? | ||
| I'm down! | ||
| We hold accountability. | ||
| We return the power back to the American people. | ||
| We start actually being true constitutionalists who understand that our overspending, which in my- I've talked about this previously when we were on the, you know, going into the show, but You know, we're running into an economic abyss, and we keep acting like we can cut our way to prosperity. | ||
| You can't. | ||
| Ask any business owner out there. | ||
| If you can cut your way to profitability, you can't. | ||
| Your account receivables have to exceed your account payables. | ||
| And if they don't, then you're insolvent as a business. | ||
| The difference is, as a business, when you have to go and get a line of credit, or you have to go to a bank, you have to prove your ability to actually pay it back. | ||
| What American government does is they utilize the American people as a taxpayer who is the bank, but they don't have to justify how they actually pay it back. | ||
| They don't have to actually show a business plan on what they're actually doing, and they think they can cut their way to prosperity as opposed to focusing on what they need to, which is proper reform on the nearly 73% of mandatory spending that is going on. | ||
| Understanding you have to have a cut strategy, which yes, that is part of it to try and make | ||
| sure that programs and things that we're spending on is no longer doing their purpose or serving | ||
| their purpose is eliminated, but also an economic growth strategy that allows us to understand | ||
| how do we get that GDP to national debt inverted ratio back to a point where we can even be | ||
| stable one, but also where we can back it by tangible assets that allow our dollar and | ||
| our currency to have confidence across the global market for even the developing nations | ||
| that are utilizing it. | ||
| Who's co-sponsoring your impeachment bill? | ||
| With the Lloyd Austin? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We had quite a few signatures on there. | ||
| Yeah, anyone who you weren't expecting to jump on? | ||
| No, actually, it's exactly the type of America First conservatives that you would imagine. | ||
| You gave me some crazy numbers before we went live about what our dollar, every dollar the government borrows, it's what, 70? | ||
| So this continues to change obviously as, you know, every second we get more, but essentially think about it from this perspective, right? | ||
| When you hear your representative or your senator talk about how they're making the biggest cuts ever to spending, I want to get an understanding of what that means. | ||
| Every dollar that we borrow Roughly 73 cents of that. | ||
| We'll call it 70 cents. | ||
| 70 cents of that is spent already just on the mandatory spendings. | ||
| And then as our debt continues to increase, as the actual interest rates on that debt continues to increase, roughly right now around 11 cents of every single dollar is just servicing our interest payments. | ||
| And then you look at our defense spending, which I think we can argue, you know, with, with good understanding that we need a strong military. | ||
| That's 13, 14 cents of every dollar, you know, 860 to 870 billion dollars that we're spending on our military per year, which is needed because we don't even have our, our necessary classes for the Columbus class and things like that for our submarines and others. | ||
| But that spent just right, which means that your representative, Your senator, the person that's telling you we're making these massive cuts, what they're talking about is we're taking a 20%, a 30% cut. | ||
| Yeah, you're right. | ||
| A 20 to 30% cut on the remaining nine cents or so that you can actually touch, which in the scheme of things, those cents that you're cutting on that is not going to get us again. | ||
| You're not cutting your way to prosperity without having an economic growth strategy, without Decoupling ourselves away from the adversarial nations without getting control of our supply chain, our resources, and rare earth minerals that are necessary for us to support an industrial-based build-out. | ||
| We're not going to be able to do this based on DC status quo that we're going to spend our way out of this or we're going to be able to cut our way to prosperity. | ||
| It's a lie. | ||
| The numbers add up to like 95% of every dollar we borrow is automatically spent. | ||
| So of that less five, these are rough numbers, of the remaining 5%, if they cut 20% of that, five cents, and it's like a one cent or less. | ||
| You're still not getting your way to a way of prosperity. | ||
| And they'll tell people they're cutting 20% of the budget, of the spending, but it's only of the five cents on a dollar. | ||
| They're cutting 20% of the five cents. | ||
| That's like less than five tenths of a percent. | ||
| Like, okay, so that's crazy. | ||
| Now let's talk about GDP growth. | ||
| You told me before the show, you believe it's energy. | ||
| I think it's energy. | ||
| I think we should transition into a hydrogen-based fuel economy. | ||
| I'm bullish on this. | ||
| Coming out of Rice University, they're making hydrogen gas out of recovered carbon trash, hit it with electricity at 7,000 degrees, they flash it, turn it into hydrogen fuel. | ||
| They're left over with $4.50 of this. | ||
| So let's jump in there, though. | ||
| How many oil refineries are in the United States? | ||
| Corey might know better than I do. | ||
| We haven't built an oil refinery since like the 1970s. | ||
| No, but yeah, but how many do we have? | ||
| I really don't know the exact number on that, but I can tell you that we haven't built a refinery since I believe it was the 70s. | ||
| But the bottom line is that here's the issue. | ||
| I don't think that's an either or, and you always hear this from the left and the right. | ||
| You know, I'm all for the idea of Drill Baby Drill. | ||
| Look, trust me, I like the idea of continuing to produce fossil fuels, looking at LNG. | ||
| I like the idea of us basically continuing to look and explore renewables, looking at nuclear, which by the way is the cleanest, safest. | ||
| Everyone wants to argue Nine Mile Island or Chernobyl or, you know, the issue that happened in the... I can't remember the name of the Japanese reactor that was out there. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| The last refinery is built in February 2022. | ||
| There are currently 129 operating in the United States. | ||
| That's a lot more than I actually anticipated. | ||
| But it does look like it's, you know, maybe one every decade or so, one every eight years. | ||
| What do they say? | ||
| It definitely doesn't keep up with our current growth and what our utilization is. | ||
| I mean, but going back to my point of the renewable reliable argument, it has to be both. | ||
| We have to be able to look at multiple things, but we have to understand That if we're going to basically go off of this gold standard, which we did, I believe it was around 1971 or 1973, I can't recall, and go to the petrodollar, that dollar has to be backed by some type of a tangible production, and that right there, because to your point on the GDP, we had passed H.R. | ||
| 1, which was a bill that Steve Scalise put onto the floor, which is the Low-Cost Energy Act. | ||
| Which basically gets us back to a more energy dominant position, but at the same time we passed H.R. | ||
| 21 which would prevent the president from draining down our strategic petroleum reserves that he has actually done at a record level that we've never seen before. | ||
| So if we go to this and we start actually producing energy and we back our dollar by this in the way that we should, then every single time, especially if we look at energy output, because I agree with you Ian in this, The global currency, which is the whole point, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea have continued to modify their constitution to stay in power forever because they want to do what? | ||
| They want to eliminate the U.S. | ||
| dollar from the global currency. | ||
| They want to throw us into hyperinflation. | ||
| They want to utilize the corruption of WHO and WEF who, by the way, I co-sponsored the bill with Chip Roy that would actually stop us from directly or indirectly even funding any of the WHO. | ||
| I think it's a complete, you know, farce, but my whole thing is is that We have to start basing our valuation, our spending cap on what our energy production is, which also would incentivize every president on the left and the right to produce as much as possible to have the most spending levers. | ||
| But it would weaken OPEC, who when they try and threaten us and say, we're cutting our production by 100,000 barrels, we go, Oh, great. | ||
| So the price of oil goes up. | ||
| We have more money to spend. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Thanks for that. | ||
| So my whole thing is, is you decouple away from the utilization, but also things like USAID, Where we continue to utilize cash diplomacy, where we're sending, for example, $800 million to a country that absolutely hates us, and we think that's going to turn around and they're going to go, you know what, we love you now, America. | ||
| No, they're going to say, we still hate you, but we're $800 million on taxpayers' money richer. | ||
| More like divorced dads trying to bribe kids. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| And not only that, but think about it, and I don't like to build up anything that another nation's doing that's kind of an adversary of us, but what Russia did with Germany was convince them to get rid of, after 20 years, all their nuclear and coal energy and be completely dependent upon them. | ||
| We could actually stop cash diplomacy under USAID, supply low-cost Reliable energy to developing nations, which would also ensure that they continue to stay on side with America. | ||
| But also, guess what? | ||
| It's revenue coming into the U.S. | ||
| It's not us pouring tax money dollars into another nation and continue to send things out. | ||
| Yeah, the petrodollar needs to be converted to a hydrogen dollar. | ||
| I know we can do it. | ||
| And the oil industries, all you execs out there listening, we'll turn your oil into graphene. | ||
| We're not going to stop drilling. | ||
| It's going to get even better. | ||
| Okay, so the reason I asked about how many refineries there were is because, first, before we're going to transition the U.S. | ||
| economy from oil to hydrogen, you need comparable energy production for which you are able to do it. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Right now, one of the big challenges with electric vehicles, for instance, is charging them. | ||
| And so, what you hear a lot about is batteries. | ||
| What's the range on the vehicle? | ||
| Actually, range is no issue for us. | ||
| So with the Tesla, you park it, you charge it, you never drive far enough to where we even care about what the charge is, because once you bring it home, it's charging. | ||
| The issue is, if you want to travel far, you need to be able to refill it very quickly, so you do need good batteries. | ||
| So adoption is going to come from expansion of technology. | ||
| Now as for hydrogen fuels and fusion or anything else, someone's going to have to be able to run their car off of hydrogen energy. | ||
| Which is going to require an EV. | ||
| We're not even at the point where people can use EVs reliably, because gas, you fill up your car in 30 seconds, you're good to go. | ||
| And in some ways, safely, right? | ||
| Because we saw where, like in Florida, for example, we were having floods, and these batteries were essentially... Oh, blowing up! | ||
| I mean, they were blowing up and endangering people. | ||
| So we really need to think about also just the safety and reliability. | ||
| And Ronnie Jackson said this the best. | ||
| He said, look, it's a simple thing. | ||
| I'll take reliable over renewable. | ||
| And again, I think that it has to be both. | ||
| I think we have to be able to have an understanding and a choice for every single American. | ||
| Which is why, you know, we just voted down by the way, you know, the Biden administration wanted to force every American by 2032. | ||
| To go completely to EV. | ||
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| And luckily, we in the House, I don't know what the Senate will do with this, we voted it down because we believe that just like whether it's medical freedom, whether it's school choice, whether it's... We are supposed to be providing freedom, liberty, and protection of the rights of every American people, not telling them you need more government in your life. | ||
| The issue with the renewables is that they're, as you described, not as reliable. | ||
| So with chemical energy, with petroleum, the reason why I don't see the US getting off of a petroleum economy is because it is a dense, extremely dense, Chemical storage of energy, which can be utilized whenever. | ||
| Yeah, it's fuel. | ||
| There's only three elements that can function as fuel. | ||
| It's hydrogen, carbon, and plutonium. | ||
| And so we're using the carbon in the oil, but we can use the hydrogen fuel. | ||
| It's just transportable. | ||
| If you can put it in a box and move it around, it becomes a fuel. | ||
| Like, reducing steam is not fuel. | ||
| But the issue is with, you know, so there's theoretically hydrogen cell. | ||
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| You can do hydrogen tanks in cars. | ||
| And if those could charge the batteries. | ||
| And so, but you know, you could do hydrogen combustion vehicles, which people have, and they're really cheap to | ||
| operate, or natural gas cars. | ||
| And then you need to retrofit every single gas station, and you need to build the refineries. | ||
| Or you can build engines that are hybrid hydrogen petroleum engines. And so you could use either. | ||
| I think that's where we're going. | ||
| At the end of the day, you know what I want? | ||
| I want people to be able to heat and cool their houses at a fraction of what they're using right now. | ||
| I want fuel prices for whatever it is that you drive to be affordable for every single individual. | ||
| And I want us to get away from the idea that we're continuing to stay reliant on adversarial nations. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| I'm less concerned with it as much as needing to get there and finding the solutions. | ||
| I want to jump to the story from Barron's. | ||
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| military holds exercises in Guyana as border tensions soar. | ||
| Oh boy! | ||
| I'm glad the U.S. | ||
| is down there as Venezuela's building up its military on their eastern front because they're claiming basically half the country of Guyana as their territory. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Exxon discovered a bunch of oil. | ||
| So the US, of course, is down there. | ||
| Guyana has asked for the US to help prevent a Venezuelan invasion of Guyana. | ||
| Venezuela, of course, just sees dollar signs. | ||
| Well, not necessarily dollar signs. | ||
| They're one of the most resource-wealthy in South America. | ||
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| Venezuela. Now they want to steal more. So I guess the two big issues here are | ||
| welcome to the issue of you're never gonna get off oil because it is just too | ||
| valuable. It is relative to hydrogen or nuclear. It's easy to get. | ||
| It's easy to use. It can be stored in easy containers. It is absolutely | ||
| And I don't want to get off of it. | ||
| I just want to build alternate systems that we can use in conjunction with it. | ||
| Because plastics, I mean, I don't, I mean, maybe we can make better plastics with carbon, but with graphene, you know, you can upscale these things into better materials. | ||
| But oil is incredible. | ||
| It is very valuable. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But so the subject I want to get into is, you think we're going to get into another war? | ||
| You think war is spreading out of South America? | ||
| Look, I would say that weakness invites aggression. | ||
| And we have to acknowledge that the Biden administration has continued to demonstrate this weakness in the world stage, which is why we are where we are. | ||
| I think that all of our enemies and our adversarial nations, again, you know, if you go back, I wrote about this years ago about the Russia, China, Iran and North Korea and geopolitical alignment. | ||
| You know, they're utilizing not just their alignment to try and go ahead and expand out the Belt and Road Initiative or to take the 15 of 16 rare earth mineral mines, but to expose us and drag us into these quagmire wars where we can continue to drain down on what we have as far as defense articles within our own storage capacity and capabilities. | ||
| They're testing for their own intelligence what our industrial base can actually withstand in regards to production capacity and capability, and whether we could actually stand up to an actual large-scale war. | ||
| But they're continuing to also drag us into areas, because think about it, Venezuela has partnered in some marriage of convenience with Russia. | ||
| We were actually starting to focus a lot on the Belt and Road Initiative expansion by looking at certain types of a sanction, or looking at certain types of an internationally recommended transit corridor for supply chain stuff. | ||
| What China is trying to achieve is this, and it does play into this, and I'll explain this how. | ||
| They essentially want to take this Belt and Road Initiative, which expands the Eurasian border, takes Africa and Oceania, and that would cut off Western Hemisphere supply chain, whether it's the Red Sea, Mediterranean, Black Sea, Persian Gulf, corner of Africa, while simultaneously utilizing this marriage of convenience with Russia to take Venezuela, with the Chavez of Venezuela, Pedro in Colombia, And then look at economic coercion and countries like Panama and Honduras so they can actually also start taking over the trade tariff taxes and everything on the Panama Canal so they could also pinch us there. | ||
| But they had to draw us away from what they were doing in that Belt and Road Initiative by actually focusing in our own Western Hemisphere. | ||
| I mean, look, they're also, in addition to all the things that's going on here, they're also building up the largest joint training spy base in Cuba, which is an impact to me as a Florida resident who is 90 miles off my shore. | ||
| And so, this issue that we're seeing in Venezuela is nothing more than that continuation of that Belt and Road Initiative, or that geopolitical alignment between China and Russia, where they're trying to draw us in to more of this while they continue to do a resource grab, and to your point earlier, to tie this in a bow. | ||
| That's because it's not about the U.S. | ||
| dollar as the global currency, or the rial, or the dinar, or the yen, or the ruble, or whatever. | ||
| Energy is the global currency. | ||
| And who has the most wins. | ||
| Specifically fuel. | ||
| It's fuel because energy can be produced locally but can't be transported, like nuclear power plants can't transport properly to Afghanistan, whereas fuel can be picked up, lifted, and moved. | ||
| Pretty simple. | ||
| Get our GDP to national debt ratio, invert it, secure our borders, stop the woke-ism, get our industrial base built out, start thinking about energy dominance. | ||
| We have to start just thinking about the priorities of government. | ||
| Do you think that the U.S. | ||
| could handle a large-scale war right now? | ||
| I think that we can handle a large-scale war, but I don't think that America is ready for a large-scale war. | ||
| What distinction are you making? | ||
| Well, I look at what our industrial-based capacity and capabilities are, as far as build-outs. | ||
| I look at the fact that we're already spread so thin and trying to continue this, as I talked at, and I kind of ridiculed, but rightfully so, in my opinion, this neoconservative, neoliberal, 1980s style, you know, of interventionist ideologies, that we have to be involved in every war and we have to actually go and make it from a kinetic perspective. | ||
| I think that we showed our hand the other day whenever, and I voted against it obviously, but we voted on sending cluster munitions over to Ukraine. | ||
| Do you know why we actually were starting to dump our storage of cluster munitions? | ||
| Because, and this is something that's been banned by over a hundred different nations, because you have a roughly one to five percent, I know it's a wide range, but depending on the producer, one to five percent dud ratio, which means that you have more UXO, which means you're going to have larger civilian casualties at the end of it. | ||
| And so, We stopped utilizing the clusters, but we did that because our industrial base, with the resources and, you know, the capabilities, couldn't keep up with what was necessary for the HIMARS and ATACMS and the other areas for 155 artillery shells, things like this, and we're starting to get into what we call our tamer requirement, which is our own munition requirements, and starting to drill into that. | ||
| And so, you know, we're showing, and again, this is the brilliance of what China and others are doing, which is that they're exposing some of the weaknesses by dragging us into wars that they're not paying a dime on, to try and go ahead and look at where our weaknesses are, so that if they do choose to take Taiwan, or they do try to go ahead and bring us into the Western Hemisphere, into Guyana, or two of these things, that we actually, they know what our capability and capacities are. | ||
| And so, we have to be better and we also have to understand domestic and foreign policy is intrinsically linked. | ||
| What we do domestically impacts us internationally and vice versa. | ||
| And so it's really important for us to try and understand that we have to get our supply chain back. | ||
| We have to get our resources back. | ||
| We have to start actually harvesting ourself. | ||
| I personally am a big fan of the idea of doing deep seabed harvesting. | ||
| The earth is 70% water and there are more natural resources, not talking about drilling, | ||
| just talking about deep seabed harvesting, mineral harvesting. | ||
| There is more at the 10,000, 12,000 meter depth levels than what you could find in these 15 of 16 rare earth mineral mines that China has. | ||
| And China, by the way, controls 100% of manganese production across the world. | ||
| Sorry, I'm going to pivot slightly, but were you always a conservative or did your time in the military sort of shift your perspective? | ||
| I have been a registered Republican my whole life and a constitutionalist my whole life. | ||
| You know, look, I tell people all the time, the only reason I'm a registered Republican is because we're stuck in this two-party system and that's the one that essentially is the closest to my conservative values, right? | ||
| It's not 100% aligned. | ||
| I think that we've gotten away from the constitutionality. | ||
| Do you have to be registered with a party to vote in a primary in Florida? | ||
| Because I grew up in Connecticut and you did, so I registered as a Republican. | ||
| A lot of NPAs, they are excluded from primaries, but my reasoning was is that, you know, there was times when we actually had great Republican members. | ||
| You know, we still have some today, not to say that we don't, but I also think that We're seeing a mass exodus, by the way, of members from Congress. | ||
| It's weird. | ||
| I think it's a good thing, and I'll tell you why. | ||
| It doesn't sound good because it doesn't have the numbers that we need, but we're ushering in a new generation of conservatives, and we have evolved back to the ways of being a true constitutionalist, being a fiscal conservative. | ||
| Understanding that we represent the American people. | ||
| Being a statesman, not a politician. | ||
| Look, I've been called almost everything in the world. | ||
| The most derogatory term that you can call me is a politician. | ||
| So, you know, my whole thing is I just want to get back to we the people. | ||
| And I think the only way you do that is through limited government and an understanding of what actually is the America First agenda. | ||
| And so this is where President Trump, and I've endorsed him from a long time ago, I believe he's exactly what we need in the nation right now to get us back on track to make those bold course corrections. | ||
| Yeah, you said deep sea resource harvesting? | ||
| How does that work? | ||
| Is that like with drones? | ||
| You can do it with drones. | ||
| And here's the great part. | ||
| I still think that we should be utilizing the quantum space where, you know, for example, do you remember when Reagan had bankrupted the Soviet Union with the space race? | ||
| No, I didn't know he did that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So we should be also thinking about the idea of how can we actually get China involved in a quantum race Whereby they also, because their economy is worse than ours, it's just that the reason that people still prop up their currency is because they don't allow their books to be audited. | ||
| They lie about what they actually spend and what they actually have. | ||
| And so, we could try and corrupt and bankrupt them through a quantum race whereby, you know, being the first to have AI self-healing autonomous drones utilizing like quantum linkage, you know, would be something that we were trying to advance in. | ||
| You know, again, the idea is that if you could get something in a swarm drone technology through quantum linkage that | ||
| Essentially is beneath their satellites, but above their GSM tower providers | ||
| You could kind of leave someone blind deaf and dumb on the battlefield great to communicate through so, you know | ||
| The idea is that I think that there's ways for us to start thinking about it. And this this is why I argue again | ||
| it's not just looking at kinetic warfare, but it's thinking about the ideas of | ||
| economic resource supply chain cyber and quantum races That is the actual way not to include, or not to miss out the fact that it's also the information and propaganda and information campaigns that's going on. | ||
| What makes me nervous with artificial intelligence, autonomous drones with weapons as if they get hacked. | ||
| I mean, obviously that's the threat, and I'm sure China's going through the same thing right now, but the thing is, I guess, whoever builds it first, and if you've got quantum encryption, you know, the quantum encryption race also is insane, because whoever gets that can crack open all the bank records of everyone in the country and release them all the next day. | ||
| Well, and the speed and the capacity of quantum data computing is just... | ||
| But I agree with you, we do need that race, because it's dangerous to have autonomous artificial intelligent drones with lasers, but that's where it's headed. | ||
| So we need to win the race. | ||
| Yeah, that quantum entanglement that everyone's trying to rush towards. | ||
| I wanna ask you if you expected Kevin McCarthy to resign. | ||
| I actually didn't. | ||
| I didn't know it was gonna take him this long. | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| So you were like- Well, he's saying end of the month. | ||
| No, no, what I'm wondering is like, did you guys have a poll going and you were like- Well, we- They did the squares. | ||
| Yeah, we did the squares. | ||
| We weren't doing calendar bingo, but I can tell you that, yeah, I assume- Because you're not allowed to, it's against the rules or because- No, no, just because I, well, we had other things to do. | ||
| When it was announced, was the pizza party held for lunch or dinner? | ||
| I think instead of a pizza party, everyone was probably, there's probably quite a few offices that was toasting and cheering. | ||
| I don't think anybody, honestly, I don't, nobody cared. | ||
| Like the news broke and we kind of just shrugged and ignored it. | ||
| But then again, you have people who are still in office right now who are just a, we still want him as speaker. | ||
| We're not willing to give up. | ||
| We're not, I mean, so. | ||
| Later, it's too bad. | ||
| And McHenry announced the day before and they're supposed to be sort of allies, right? | ||
| So it seems like there is an exit, like an exit. | ||
| I like Patrick. | ||
| You know, Patrick McHenry, he was always getting ready. | ||
| I mean, he's at the end of his ability for chairmanship and the financial services anyway, but a really smart guy. | ||
| I mean, truly, truly a smart guy. | ||
| I mean, he still has another year to go. | ||
| He doesn't leave. | ||
| Right. | ||
| No, he's not going to just try and abandon the seat. | ||
| You know, I'll tell you, though, and they can think what they want, but I thought the tweet that broke the cycle for me a few days ago was by Matt Gaetz when he tweeted out McLevin. | ||
| Yeah, it was like a little tagline. | ||
| You saw the community note on his tweet? | ||
| I did not. | ||
| Where he was like, I will never quit, and then his community note said, he just quit. | ||
| Oh, that's right. | ||
| The community note on his tweet saying he wouldn't. | ||
| Was he disliked? | ||
| I mean, this is all anecdotal, I don't know if you can really answer for anyone else. | ||
| Well, he was pointing out a lot of people didn't like him, so I mean... Did or didn't? | ||
| I mean, look, everybody's a really nice guy, like cool and personable in person, but just wasn't getting the job done. | ||
| No, no, he was getting the job done. | ||
| For the other people. | ||
| For the corporations and for the lobbyists. | ||
| Well, you know, at the end of the day, I think that if we could have actually achieved what we had originally agreed upon in the first conference rule agreements, you know, when we came out where we are going to do regular order, we are going to have certain priorities of, you know, getting things done. | ||
| For me, what really just kind of broke confidence and capabilities was, When we had the debt ceiling debate, you know, I was all for the idea once we had gotten permit reform in place, and the REINS Act would stop over-regulation of the private sector, and we had a very fixed number at 1.471 of spending cap, which would have been a very good spending level because that would have been pre-COVID, pre-emergency 2019 spending levels. | ||
| I understood the intent of that because we were going to try and do a policy rider with H.R. | ||
| 2 to also secure our borders. | ||
| When we approved that and we got that passed, when it went to the Senate and what came back was that absolute just complete acquiesce with the physical, what they call physical responsibility act, which is physical irresponsibility act. | ||
| That basically took the 20 plus permit reforms down to four. | ||
| That stripped out Kat Cammack's REINS Act, which would have stopped because I'm one of those odd individuals who believe that the private sector should be driving policy more so than policy driving the private sector. | ||
| But also the fact is, is that it's not as if we have a lack of legislation. | ||
| We have a lack of the ability and the willingness to enforce existing legislation. | ||
| But every single member of Congress wants their name on a piece of legislation. | ||
| Everyone wants to try and play political football instead of going back and looking at certain bills that no longer serve their purposes and looking at reforms as opposed to just continuations of these vague and ambiguous bills that get passed that won't serve its overarching purpose or has no sunset clause in it where we would actually have to be forced to reevaluate it. | ||
| And so I could go on and on and on. | ||
| Look, this is my first full year in January that I've been in Congress, but I can tell you that it was a lot more of a broken institution than I even understood when I was running for Congress. | ||
| And I think that we have taken this entire time, many of us who are in there who are true constitutionalists, to try and bring back what our Constitution and what our actual Congress is supposed to be doing. | ||
| And an old saying that I've heard recently, which I love, which is that, you know, change in the beginning, it's very hard. | ||
| In the middle, it's very messy. | ||
| But in the end, it's beautiful. | ||
| And we have to understand that we're in that process. | ||
| I want to jump to a very weird story. | ||
| I think it's important. | ||
| It's from The Economist. | ||
| 1 in 5 young Americans think the Holocaust is a myth. | ||
| Our new poll makes alarming reading. | ||
| So they released this poll and you can see, 18 to 29 year olds, 20% believe the Holocaust is a myth. | ||
| 30 to 44, it's just a little bit less than 10. | ||
| 45 to 46, floating around 1. | ||
| 65 plus, almost 0. | ||
| The Holocaust has been exaggerated. | ||
| Same stats, basically. | ||
| Slightly more 18 to 29 year olds, just over 21, maybe around 22 or 23 percent. | ||
| And then about the same numbers for the other demographics. | ||
| I find this fascinating, um, in light of what we just saw with the universities. | ||
| So, this all, this all makes sense. | ||
| I love, by the way, that Elise Stefanik absolutely just eviscerated. | ||
| Well, so this is a tweet from her. | ||
| She says, I was proud to co-lead the 2020 bipartisan Never Again Education Act to provide K-12 federal grant funding for Holocaust education and have been co-leading the bipartisan reauthorization this year, but these numbers from The Economist are absolutely appalling, chilling, and unacceptable. | ||
| I'm not here to tell you what your opinions should be on any of this stuff, but my point is this. | ||
| The universities ban pronouns. | ||
| They ban misgendering. | ||
| They say fatphobia creates an unsafe environment. | ||
| If you state facts that are offensive to the individuals, they will come after you. | ||
| This is what we saw the Free Press, Barry Weiss' organization, put out this video. | ||
| And then they defended and said, if you call for the genocide of Jews, well, now we got to talk about the Constitution. | ||
| You can see where their views align, and you can understand then why you're also... You're seeing these two things play a role. | ||
| Why are young people so likely to believe the Holocaust is either a myth or exaggerated? | ||
| Because these professors. | ||
| Why are these professors willing to defend, under the guise of constitutionalism, the right of students to organize protests calling for the genocide of Jewish people? | ||
| Because they hold these views themselves. | ||
| They will ban speech that offends their power, and then run and cry and hide behind the Constitution to defend the speech they like. | ||
| The bigger picture here is universities, social media, are subverting the young people in this country to make them oppose the worldview of the United States, our own histories, and thus... I mean, this... What you gotta understand about this data right here, It doesn't change. Yeah, but 18 to 29 year olds in 10 years | ||
| will just be in the 30 to 44 year bracket. Right. And so your 65 year olds drop off and the bracket | ||
| just continues down. So what we need is making sure we win this culture war. Yes. To shift | ||
| things back in the direction of pro-America, believing history, things like that. | ||
| Well, and again, I've been arguing that one of our greatest threats as well is that culture, social, and religious warfare that we're seeing here at home. | ||
| And that really starts with the indoctrination that's going on in our schools. | ||
| I mean, it's also, as I was speaking yesterday at one of the gatherings, I explained the fact that You know, it's intentional that we've been removing civics from our schools because we don't want the younger generation to actually understand what their civic duties are, how to hold government accountable. | ||
| And so all of this, in my opinion, is just this indoctrinated theory of how they're actually doing things to try and weaken the American values and essentially American exceptionalism and what we actually stand for as a nation. | ||
| Who's doing it? | ||
| I mean, these professors, these universities, these large donors, the George Soros of the world, I mean, this is all part of it. | ||
| I mean, your huge endowments and who those actual alumni who are donating into that are actually, I mean, they would rather focus in on the things like ESG, CRT, and DEI, and meanwhile strip out one thing, which is GOD. | ||
| And so that's what we have to start thinking about. | ||
| Well said! | ||
| I think that some of these 18 to 29 year olds might be trolling. | ||
| I don't know how many of them were actually pulled, but it sounds like something an 18 to 29 year old might do is troll the internet and be like, yeah, I think it was fake. | ||
| But like, okay, it is important to see World War II from the German perspective for sure. | ||
| It is. | ||
| I was taught purely American perspective growing up. | ||
| It's nice to see both sides, but I think it's, I don't, I cannot dispute that these people were massacred, that the Jews were rounded up on trains and sent to like concentration camps and starved to death. | ||
| Do you think it speaks to Gen Z's cynicism that they just don't really believe in anything anymore, including history, in any way it was presented to them? | ||
| And the way Nick Fuentes just has fun with it. | ||
| He's like, yeah, whatever, he just says it because it gets a troll out of people. | ||
| It's not just that, it's when you have the Women's March, the organizers of the Women's March, Tablet Magazine released a story where they're espousing Insane conspiracy theories about Jewish people. | ||
| There's a meme, a joke, about to figure out which political faction you are, simply insert whichever group you hate into the following sentences, and then it's like, blank, are responsible for all the world wars, blank, control the corporations, blank, do X. And it's just like, you can choose the 1%, white privilege, Jewish people, the Chinese, the Russians, and then you figure out which... Oppigenerians. | ||
| Yeah, it's basically just... Just kidding. | ||
| Who do you hate the most? | ||
| And you found, you know... | ||
| So what's happening is, you have, in universities, these professors, we've seen this, that woman from UPenn, doing the Kubrick stare, you know what that is? | ||
| It's where you tilt your head down and look up and smirk. | ||
| While she's being asked, is it against the rules to call for the genocide of Jews, she does the Kubrick stare and smiles and goes, in certain contexts. | ||
| It's like, this is a person, these are universities, that have said, you better not use the wrong pronoun, or else. | ||
| Well, but it's interesting that you, as you pointed out earlier, and correctly so, you're talking about how it's, you know, we don't want our students to feel, you know, shamed. | ||
| We don't want our students to feel at risk. | ||
| But what about all of the Jewish students right now who are actually saying, I don't feel safe on my campus anymore. | ||
| I don't feel safe on my universities. | ||
| I have threats against me. | ||
| And we now have people who are actually not just being, you know, investigated, but have actually been arrested for making threats towards other Jewish students. | ||
| I mean, what about their protection? | ||
| What about their voice? | ||
| What about their rights? | ||
| And I'll stress, I always give my free speech position as students should be allowed to protest as long as they're not harassing someone. | ||
| So they're hiding behind the Constitution in a way that free speech advocates would agree with, but the rest of their positions... But my point is that their free speech is only working in one direction, and that's the issue that I have with universities. | ||
| They want to say that it's okay for you to Do one thing but then if someone says something that's against your political view then it's not okay. | ||
| Which exposes the hypocrisy. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| The point I want to say right now, just to get it across, leftism is overlapping with Nazism to the greatest degree of any political ideology that exists. | ||
| Not fascism. | ||
| Nazism. | ||
| Explicitly. | ||
| Fascism, you can make an argument about what were they actually speaking to as a political ideology. | ||
| Nazism was like, yes, plus they wanted to kill Jewish people. | ||
| So when you add this into it, and you've got professors that are effectively, it was the late David Graeber, He hated this, but they called him the anarchist anthropologist. | ||
| He said that elements of the left have adopted the fascistic moral framework of there is no truth but power. | ||
| It's like, I agree with you there, David, and when you add in the fact that they hate Jews and don't believe in the Holocaust and want to defend the right to call for their genocide, I think now it's Nazism. | ||
| One of the things that set the Nazis aside as a fascist organization was their ethnocentrism. | ||
| They were obsessed with white supremacy. | ||
| So, like, seeing people talk poorly about a race in any way sets my alarm bells off. | ||
| And so, which political faction in this country wants racial segregation again? | ||
| That's what I'm concerned with. | ||
| If any of them want any form of it, it becomes very Very, very dangerous. | ||
| Let's go back in time. | ||
| California was trying to amend their constitution to allow for segregation based on race in public contracting and education. | ||
| This was back in, like, 2018. | ||
| They lost. | ||
| I was talking to a friend of mine who's a liberal, lefty, prominent Hollywood person, and, you know, they posted a comment in support of it. | ||
| I had posted a comment saying, like, this is shockingly offensive to someone who comes from a mixed-race background that you would allow them to tell this against me. | ||
| So she calls me and she's like, what do you mean? | ||
| That's not, no, we're trying, what they wanted was affirmative action. | ||
| We want universities to be able to help people who are underprivileged. | ||
| And I was like, how many, what's the population demographics of California? | ||
| And it's like, oh, it's like 70-something percent white. | ||
| And I was like, so your argument is that white people are privileged, are racist, inherently racist, use the systems of power for their benefit, and now you're arguing that white people should be allowed, the majority should be allowed to discriminate against anyone based on race in public contracting education, and that fixes the problem? | ||
| It's such a hypocrisy, I mean, the way they handle themselves. | ||
| It's publicly hypocrisy, but when you understand what they want to do, you understand it's not hypocritical at all. | ||
| It's exactly what they want. | ||
| They want racial segregation. | ||
| They want ethnocentrism, or identitarianism is probably a better way to put it. | ||
| I think ethnocentrism is probably a fine way to put it, too. | ||
| They want race-based law. | ||
| And when you add in the fact they hate Jews, they're Nazis. | ||
| The Nazis specifically were like Aryans first. | ||
| You know, they were obsessed with propelling one race—species, I almost said. | ||
| Race is such a silly term anyway, it's not even a scientific term. | ||
| But then the Jews and the Gypsies got the brunt of the hate, but it was everybody. | ||
| If they weren't Aryan, they were second class or less. | ||
| And so it's either you're going to say this race is the best, or We have to kneecap that race. | ||
| Either one leads to that totalitarian Nazism crap. | ||
| So I'm all about equality of opportunity, man. | ||
| I understand some people's ancestors didn't have a lot of nutrition, maybe because they were born from slave camps. | ||
| Like 1860s, all these slaves let out of the South happened to be from one area of the world with a certain type of genetics. | ||
| And so their kids don't have good education because they didn't have good education, they didn't have good I mean, I think that there needs to be change at home on the family level, right? | ||
| aren't getting what the nutrition they need to really have brilliance. | ||
| That's real. | ||
| We got to address that too. | ||
| But it's like in a free society where it's kind of up to you to make the best of it. | ||
| And like you got to trust. | ||
| Hopefully you have good parents. | ||
| You can't like legislate the solution. | ||
| You can't throw money at it. | ||
| Yeah, I do. | ||
| I mean, I think that there needs to be change at home on the family level. | ||
| Right. | ||
| All of these things we could say this is an issue. | ||
| This is a problem. | ||
| But ultimately, unless you have strong families, nothing else matters. | ||
| And we see this replicated throughout American society, right? | ||
| We are less engaged with community organizations, we attend church less regularly, we are stripped away of all the things that used to give us strong tenets of culture, and again, drive people back to their families. | ||
| And that is ultimately something that needs more than a legislative change. | ||
| It needs a psychological change in the homes of every American. | ||
| Well, and again, you know, thinking of someone who, you know, for example, if you look at | ||
| my background, you know, my mom and dad both had drug and substance abuse issues and were | ||
| in and out of prison pretty much my entire life. | ||
| My dad did almost 30 years in prison. | ||
| My mom did almost seven and a half years in prison. | ||
| And I've kind of bounced house to house until I was finally adopted and taken in by my grandparents | ||
| who kind of, and again, just a regular blue collar family. | ||
| You know, my grandfather was a welder. | ||
| My grandmother was a stay at home mom who would do hair on the weekends. | ||
| You know, she hadn't taken her classes through cosmetology school, so she'd do hair on the | ||
| weekends after church and things like this. | ||
| You know, your socioeconomic status doesn't define who you are. | ||
| I mean, that's the whole point of the greatness of America, if you will. | ||
| I think that's one of the things we're trying to water down and dilute. | ||
| And I think a lot of people also have this issue of self-victimization, where they just basically say, well, I can't do this because of my upbringing. | ||
| Well, you know, I wasn't born into money. | ||
| I mean, we were thriving right above the poverty line. | ||
| I mean, I can remember when my grandfather had a quadruple bypass. | ||
| You know, and he couldn't work any longer and he was disqualified even though he'd had five heart attacks from receiving any type of disability benefits. | ||
| I mean, we lived for an entire year on around $6,800. | ||
| You know, I mean, there was a lot of rice, tomato gravy, cornbread and, you know, which now I absolutely crave when I go back home, you know, but the whole point is, is that, you know, there's this self-victimization that also is going on in our country that we have to break and understand that, you know, we are a nation that believes in equal opportunity, not equal outcome. | ||
| And that's the difference in my opinion between equity and equality and the difference between | ||
| what the left and the right is trying to bring to the table. | ||
| That's why I asked earlier about Gen Z being so cynical, right? I mean, Gen Z, especially | ||
| teenage girls, report high levels of hopelessness. There is a change in this generation that | ||
| I think is really profound, the fact that they just do not believe in anything anymore | ||
| and they are expecting the worst always. | ||
| I think there is a culture, especially among progressives, that believe they are victims and that the system should change for them. | ||
| But generally, on either side of the aisle or on either side of the issue, there is just sort of this sadness with the youngest generation. | ||
| But I believe, I don't know if it was Ian or if it was Tim who had made this statement, though, but how much of that is also just trolling, you know, with his yin-zirs, you know? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm referencing a study that the federal government put out with a teenage girls report, high levels of hopelessness and depression. | ||
| So it's more than just one randomly trolling one poll. | ||
| It's definitely different. | ||
| And I think that's why you need more people like you out there saying, this is how I grew up and this is what I did. | ||
| Because I think there is just this... It's the same thing with like Byron Donalds. | ||
| I mean, Byron Donalds was raised by a single mother and You know, New York, and they didn't have the best of things. | ||
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| Well, and all of these kids are online where the algorithm feeds them more victimhood or more depression, right? | ||
| As soon as you start reading sad stories, it'll feed you more sad stories. | ||
| As opposed to, I'm not going to allow there to be a glass ceiling. | ||
| I'm going to go ahead and break through that, and I'm going to continue to go ahead and define myself by what I'm willing to do. | ||
| You know, creating a work ethic, understanding, you know, what we need to be doing to try and achieve. | ||
| But also, you know, I used to, people would say, you know, well, When my father got out of prison, you know, years, years later, I think I was 26 at the time, and he was making an apology, and he had said, you know, I'm sorry I couldn't have raised you to show you, like, what it was, or what the right thing was to be a father, things like that. | ||
| And I said, no, you did. | ||
| And he said, well, how is that? | ||
| And I said, By doing the opposite. | ||
| You showed me exactly what I don't want to be when I grow up. | ||
| You showed me exactly what I want to do opposite when I have kids. | ||
| And so again, we can break that cycle. | ||
| We don't have to continue to try and self-victimize. | ||
| We can actually go ahead and say, you know what? | ||
| I'm not going to continue to perpetuate this. | ||
| I'm not going to continue to live this way and self-victimize. | ||
| I'm going to go ahead and succeed because I'm going to build a legacy for my kid and future generations. | ||
| And I think that when you carry that over, you know, whether it was my time in uniform, whether it was serving in the government, whether it was building businesses and being a job creator, or whether it's being a father, which is the greatest role in the world. | ||
| I think that it's something that we always have the ability to do what we want. | ||
| That's what's great about America. | ||
| Did you go through a phase when you were young where it felt hopeless and you were like how life was so like dealt you a raw deal? | ||
| I mean look there's that phase when you're like this young 10 year old. | ||
| I can remember one of the one of the things that was difficult for me And it was kind of a tough story. | ||
| When I was 10 years old I used to have this little suitcase and I remember it was this baby blue suitcase which had a little boy with kind of a knapsack and a dog and it said going to grandma's and it was you know because I was raised by my grandparents and I heard that my mom was gonna come pick me up and I hadn't seen her for a while and as I get in the car with my mom I can remember like we were driving and all sudden she like didn't want to alarm me but she was kind of like first time I understood oh by the way you know I'm remarried and have another child you know a daughter And so you get to this, well, wait a second, you know, here I am 10 years old. | ||
| It's like, well, why couldn't you have raised me if you can also, if you can raise this other child? | ||
| And so, yeah, you get these areas and these times, but you also realize as you mature and you grow up that all of the things that happen, make you who you are, the good, the bad. | ||
| Whatever happened in the middle I mean that that transitory time when you're coming from your adolescence And you're going through puberty you're going into manhood, and you're understanding what that is, but also I had I was very blessed I had great role models. | ||
| You know my grandfather is the greatest man I've ever met and if I could ever be half of what my grandfather is I'd be the greatest man And so, you know, he understood work ethic and he worked as hard. | ||
| He understood the old way of living. | ||
| He understood, you know, we ate at the dinner table until I was 15 years old, you know? | ||
| And then when he was at work working extra shifts, you know, it was one of those ordeals where my grandmother and I would like sneak off into the living room to watch TV with our TV trays, you know what I mean? | ||
| But, but that was the way old America was. | ||
| That was the way, you know, and, and no matter how advanced we become, no matter how much things change and we evolve, there's certain parts of our American values and what makes us Americans that we need to hold on and we need to protect and we need to preserve for future generations. | ||
| And so that's really, you know, part of, in addition to trying to get us back to that America First constitutionality of why I ran. | ||
| This show is kind of like it's like being present with someone is kind of that's sitting at the dinner table with your family because I'd like why can't I just go watch TV or play video games while I'm eating and they'd be like no you have to sit at the table they never really said why strong family is a strong community is a strong cities a strong counties a strong state is a strong nation you know that's why they're trying to continue with the radical left to attack family to attack the role of father and mother to you know basically trying to deteriorate the importance and significance of God it goes back to what we said earlier in the show where we said You know, we're really, and Tim talked about the culture aspect, but the culture of social and religious warfare that we're challenging right now. | ||
| I mean, we're past the phase at this stage where it's not about left vs. right, Dem vs. Republican, conservative vs. socialism. | ||
| It's really America vs. anti-America, good vs. evil. | ||
| And so we have to just acknowledge the fact that that's where we're at in this nation and where we're at in this world. | ||
| Do you think people can understand the difference? | ||
| Do you think they can identify the difference? | ||
| I think you can absolutely discern between the two. | ||
| I sometimes think that there are evil factions that present themselves as good and there are people who are tricked by it. | ||
| They can't tell the difference. | ||
| And I think probably if you have a good moral compass, if you have good character, if you are developed, you can. | ||
| But people who are confused or cynical or misled are more likely to be misled. | ||
| Do you guys think that Trump is the Antichrist? | ||
| Tim did some research this morning about it. | ||
| I'm kind of tongue-in-cheek. | ||
| It was funny though, in the Culture War podcast we talked with a couple guys about whether or not Trump or Elon could be the Antichrist. | ||
| Glad we have detectives on the case. | ||
| Yeah, so the funny thing is in Jewish Gematria, Donald Trump is 424 and Messiah, son of David, is also 424. | ||
| So people are like, oh, you know, that proves it or something. | ||
| Do you believe in, like, biblical prophecy and stuff like that? | ||
| Or what's your relationship with God? | ||
| Well, I mean, I grew up as a kid who actually shared between half of my family that was Catholic and half of my family that, you know, was kind of Baptist and Pentecostal and, you know, just kind of the mix. | ||
| But, you know, I'll tell you something. | ||
| We have to understand that our entire Constitution, as it sits, was based upon and founded on our Christian Judaic beliefs. | ||
| The idea was to create it to where our inalienable rights couldn't be infringed upon or denied. | ||
| You know, it was to understand the jurisdiction between God to man and you know the way government tries to run especially in a dictator authoritarian rule is they try and make it to where it's almost as if you know the rule of God or the inalienable rights of God is afforded to the government to legislate over to then go to man I mean it's it's it's a complete ridiculousness and where we've gotten so you know we're a nation founded upon our beliefs and so I think that's what actually found you know certainly grounds me it's what makes me who I am and so you know for me I have a very strong belief in a very strong | ||
| Faith in God. | ||
| The Constitution says that God gives us our inalienable rights from God. | ||
| But I grew up as an agnostic and that was fine. | ||
| The country's like so liberal that it's like you can believe whatever you want as long as you... Pluralism exists. | ||
| I mean that's one of the things we protect is everyone's right to freedom, to belief, to religion, to thought, to speech. | ||
| I mean look, these are all the things regardless of what We don't have to all agree upon the same thing in order to still follow our Constitution and be good Americans. | ||
| I think it does affect how people view why we have the rights we have, though. | ||
| If you're like a true atheist who doesn't believe in God, you are basically arguing that our rights are a social contract that we have agreed upon. | ||
| It doesn't come from anything higher. | ||
| It's just the things that we believe and collectively decided that we are going to maintain. | ||
| But we should also understand as Americans that we also have a social contract to our constitution. | ||
| We have a constitutional duty, a civic duty, to uphold and protect this nation and protect the things and preserve the things that we have. | ||
| That's where economics come in, because I think money's messing it up. | ||
| My love for God is paramount, but then I'm like, who cares about getting rich? | ||
| It doesn't matter if your name's on that bill. | ||
| Let's give grace. | ||
| Do the right thing, but then it's like, no, I actually need to get that guy's money, because we live in a finite money society where you either got to take it from someone else or print it and devalue his money. | ||
| That's a corruption of power. | ||
| That's a corruption of money, the greed. | ||
| I mean, that's something that's always existed. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, look, this is the reason why I'm so concerned right now. | ||
| And you've heard me just kind of ad nauseam about economic growth and where we need to be at and how to sustain and stabilize ourselves. | ||
| But, you know, we have rulers right now in this regime, this Biden regime, which is corrupted by the money that they've received, by whether it's the Burisma money, whether it's the money out of Romania, the China money, the Moscow mayor, you name it. | ||
| But the point is, is that there's a pay for play in power here. | ||
| And that needs to have accountability and prevention. | ||
| It really just comes down to short term satisfaction, long term satisfaction. | ||
| And it appears to be the tendency for the right is... Like the hedonist versus utilitarian purpose. | ||
| Well, I mean, look, people who have kids... | ||
| Are thinking about the future. | ||
| People who don't have kids want now. | ||
| People who want now are typical, they want their dopamine centers hit. | ||
| So they don't care about anything. | ||
| Give me the money now, pay off my debt. | ||
| Why can't Biden just pay off my debt? | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| And then everybody else who's got a problem with that is thinking like, what happens later? | ||
| Sustainable resources. | ||
| That's what it's really about. | ||
| Having sustainable access to electricity. | ||
| Well, but again, though, if we had great quality of life, if we had a strong economy, if we had lower cost of living, if everyone was able not just to try and survive, but to thrive, and they could do that on the backs of where they are still working, they are still actually out there. | ||
| You know, they're not trying to work in the way that they have to right now because of the 40 year high inflation. | ||
| Again, this is where government can play a role just into improving the quality of life by trying to get cost of fuel down, by trying to get cost of living down, by trying to strengthen the dollar through great economic growth strategies, by trying to stop us from this interventionist ideology that we think that we have to be the world's police. | ||
| I mean, there's so much that we can do. | ||
| That would actually help to quell some of the kind of civil unrest that we see or some of the cynicism by just trying to improve the quality of life. | ||
| And that's something that the role of government can actually do. | ||
| If you can reduce the cost of electricity by a hundred, by a hundred, basically by, by to a one hundredth of whatever it costs now. | ||
| So like you start just pumping out hydrogen at profit. | ||
| We have a hybrid system. | ||
| It costs pennies instead of dollars. | ||
| That would mean that the national debt effectively, even though it would say 33 trillion, it would actually be only 300 billion. | ||
| Like we would legitimately By magnitudes reduced the value of the deficit. | ||
| So it's really about the value of the number, not the number itself. | ||
| But when we're talking about cynicism, I'm more just focused on the idea that giving people the opportunity to continue to try and, you know, go for whatever it is they want to go for in this country without, you know, being prohibited from it and just improving the quality of life for every individual, I think is In itself achievable, but you know, we're so divided and there's so much partisanship and there's this continuation of going after one another as opposed to saying, okay, we have an issue. | ||
| Let's find a solution that works for the majority of the people here. | ||
| And it's not just free handouts and it's not this social welfare program that's being weaponized. | ||
| It's actually government getting in control of costs and ensuring that we have a strong economy. | ||
| And that's one of the things going back to the Donald Trump comment. | ||
| I mean, look, we had a great economy under Donald Trump. | ||
| We had a great foreign policy under Donald Trump. | ||
| We were holding adversaries accountable. | ||
| We were securing our borders. | ||
| We were actually getting to that point of prosperity. | ||
| We had full strategic petroleum reserves. | ||
| We had, you know, you go back, we had the Abram Accords. | ||
| We had the idea that we were starting to withdraw ourselves from these wars that we never, in my opinion, should have ever been involved in, like Afghanistan or Iraq or especially Syria. | ||
| You know, myself and Matt Gaetz and many others had voted for the repeal of AUMF, which in my, the authorization of use of military force, in my opinion, is an abdication of our constitutional duties under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11, or even the 73 War Powers Act. | ||
| But my point is, is that you didn't see You know, the way it is now under President Trump. | ||
| And that's why, again, I go back to my original statements that we need a president who is a proven leader, who understands economic growth, because he's a business guy, who understands foreign policy, and he's proven that, and who doesn't have a re-election looming over their head so they can make the necessary and bold course corrections to get our nation back on track to where we can actually start to be prosperous. | ||
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| Written by Jeremy Boring. | ||
| Performed by, I think, I don't know who gets the writing credit, so I'll be careful on that one. | ||
| Because I know it was Jeremy, but it may have been Michael, and maybe not. | ||
| I don't know Michael, you can yell at me later. | ||
| But it's Smokey Mike and the God King. | ||
| You guys should definitely check out their song, which actually is really good. | ||
| And Jeremy told us the story about why he decided to make this song. | ||
| The long story short of it is, the music industry is one of the institutions that's been corrupted. | ||
| And so Jeremy and the Daily Wire crew and him and Michael Knowles, Smokey Mike and the God King is their group, decided to give a big middle finger. | ||
| I thought it would be awesome if we continued and took that and turned it into another big middle finger. | ||
| So we are basically making I guess you can just call it a parody of modern pop music. | ||
| It's a tribute. | ||
| You guys are making a heartfelt tribute to Smokey Mike and the God Kings. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I think it's the best song Carter's ever done since he's been working here. | ||
| Well, there you go. | ||
| It's so good. | ||
| Produced by Carter Banks. | ||
| Written by Jeremy Boring, Smokey Mike, and The God King. | ||
| So I have no problem saying it's the greatest song ever written, because I have nothing to do with it. | ||
| So I'm being humble. | ||
| Well, you actually did spectacular work as well. | ||
| You're one of the artists on the song. | ||
| But I'm being humble when I say it's the best song ever, because someone else wrote it. | ||
| We're just doing a cover. | ||
| It has nothing to do with the fact that you're a part of it, right? | ||
| Well, I didn't write the original song, so this song was not written by me. | ||
| We just did a modern cover version of it. | ||
| So, no writing credits here. | ||
| No, it's a tribute. | ||
| It's a tribute! | ||
| They're showing respect for the classic, the hit, 87 weeks on the chart. | ||
| As they should. | ||
| Yes! | ||
| In the event we sell 500,000 of these for some reason, then, you know, Daily Wire can slap a gold record on their wall and so can we. | ||
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Oh, nice. | |
| I don't think that's not gonna happen, but basically... No, no, no, this song is really, really good. | ||
| It is really good. | ||
| It's modern pop. | ||
| Yeah, it's tough to qualify a song without having heard it, without someone hearing it, so when you hear it, you'll know. | ||
| Yeah, it's going live next Friday, but pre-orders are up now, meaning if you go to TheBestSongEver.com, pre-order on iTunes or Amazon, that sale goes towards our total count for the following week, so we're basically given an extra week advantage to try and knock some of these other contenders off Billboard. | ||
| What's the website? | ||
| TheBestSongEver.com. | ||
| Okay, I was writing that article when we did this. | ||
| That's the hilarious one. | ||
| That's very funny. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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That's what it is, right? | |
| Well, it is The Best Song Ever, to be fair. | ||
| TheBestSongEver.com. | ||
| A tribute to The Best Song Ever. | ||
| Written by Smokey Mike and the God King. | ||
| Don't look at me. | ||
| I'm not taking any credit for this one. | ||
| Produced by Carter Banks. | ||
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The tribute to The Best Song Ever. | |
| I am actually complimenting them when I say it's The Best Song Ever, you see? | ||
| Or are you saying yours is The Best Song Ever? | ||
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Nope. | |
| Wow, it works in both directions. | ||
| Nope, I did not write it. | ||
| And Carter produced it, so it's either praise to Carter Banks or to Jeremy Boring and Michael Knowles. | ||
| TheBestSongEver.com. | ||
| But the video is basically us making fun of the weekend and modern music. | ||
| That'd be funny because then the next time you release a song you can use the same website and release it through thebestsongever.com. | ||
| They're all the best song ever. | ||
| Maybe, I don't know, we'll just leave this one there. | ||
| Alright, we'll grab some more, we'll grab some superchats. | ||
| Clint Torres says, howdy people! | ||
| Howdy Clint! | ||
| You have the first superchat, congratulations. | ||
| Josh Burks is on the Venezuelan thing from last night. | ||
| Something similar is happening with Ethiopia and Eritrea. | ||
| Oh boy, World War III! | ||
| You got Middle East, you got Eastern Europe, you got a budding... Wow, East Africa? | ||
| Indo-Pakistan. | ||
| And where? | ||
| Indo-Pacific Command, so... Oh, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Oh, yeah, China, come on. | ||
| Wow, we're getting ready for it, huh? | ||
| All right, what do we have? | ||
| We'll grab some more Super Chats. | ||
| I'm Not Your Buddy Guy says, is everyone okay? | ||
| In reference to the first story, I actually was messaging Hunter. | ||
| They're okay. | ||
| Only the perpetrator has lost their life. | ||
| His girlfriend was hurt, but it's not too bad. | ||
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It's non-life-threatening injuries, that's what the police said. | |
| Yeah, there's photos of it. | ||
| They posted photos of it. | ||
| And, uh, it's a crazy story. | ||
| I mean, one of the things that hit me, struck me, is the use of air tags. | ||
| The guy was secretly putting air tags somewhere, I guess in their car or something? | ||
| I've actually heard this fairly frequently of girls who have, like, soccer boyfriends that they'll, like, you know, bug their home or they'll, like, put air tags in their vehicles or in something with their purse if they carry it around every day. | ||
| It's very scary and sad. | ||
| It's part of the problem with technology and domestic violence. | ||
| I guess according to the text, the purpose was to locate Hunter's, his home. | ||
| To figure out where he lived. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I guess that's what he did. | ||
| And where she was going. | ||
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Right. | |
| And when she was there. | ||
| So yeah, this is crazy because one day, we and a bunch of, like it's, you know, Friday nights afterwards, we take a bunch of people and we all go hang out at the casino for a couple hours or whatever. | ||
| One day when we came back, my iPhone gave me a warning saying you're being tracked by an AirTag that is not registered. | ||
| And the scary thing is you go to the casino, you park your car, someone slaps an AirTag on your car, watches you the whole time, or like they'll have a buddy in the parking lot, and then they'll basically mark your car if it's a nice car. | ||
| Then, they know, they follow you home. | ||
| And then in the middle of the night, something bad happens. | ||
| And so it turns out, it was just someone else who had an AirTag. | ||
| Which, uh, but it was, it was, it was freaking nonetheless. | ||
| My phone vibrates and it's like, you have been tracked by an AirTag. | ||
| And it shows the location of the casino to my house. | ||
| So the crazy thing is, it didn't show my house to my house, which would have been fine. | ||
| I'd be like, oh, okay, someone here has one. | ||
| And so it was, uh, I don't want to explain what we did security-wise, but security things occurred. | ||
| And then we cleared it and we were like, wow. | ||
| You said it was an iPhone that warned you? | ||
| My iPhone sent me a warning. | ||
| You're being tracked by an AirTag. | ||
| That's crazy, because I don't have an iPhone, and that's like, is that a national security threat? | ||
| That Apple can make little tracking mechanisms? | ||
| Or is that just the inevitability of technology? | ||
| I mean, it's good for, like, Tim or, like, anyone who thinks they might have a stalker, right? | ||
| If your iPhone says, hey, it's registering something that shouldn't be there. | ||
| The question is, like, can Androids start picking up on that as well? | ||
| That'd be cool. | ||
| He's the lord of graphene. | ||
| some more superjet. Quispy Joe says, hey Ian, have you seen the graphene battery | ||
| durability tests on YouTube? Negative. But I will. This guy, he claims to be a | ||
| graphene aficionado. He's the lord of graphene. I'm just the messenger. He has been hydrogen fuel selling the entire | ||
| show. | ||
| He's got some hydrogen right there. The byproduct of graphene. | ||
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He's getting paid by big hydrogen. I mean, I think he's bought and paid for by big hydrogen. For every | |
| kilogram of hydrogen you make, you get $4.50 of graphene as a byproduct. So you flash the plastic and | ||
| then you get the gas, you get the fuel, the gas, whatever, hydrogen gas. | ||
| And then this stuff you pour into concrete to make it three times more durable. | ||
| You can put it in car doors to make them stronger, lighter. | ||
| It's 200 times stronger than steel by weight. | ||
| And this is just in the bulk version of it. | ||
| Yeah, man, this is the 21st century building material right here. | ||
| All right, Andrew 843 says, The Major Richard Starr Act would give service members who are medically retired due to combat injuries their retirement pay. | ||
| Very cool. | ||
| Talked about that a bit last night. | ||
| That's correct. | ||
| Max Reddick says, Hey Tim, do you think you could briefly explain Section 230? | ||
| I see people on the left say that conservatives are dumb for thinking that companies like Twitter are getting protection as a platform and publisher. | ||
| Thoughts? | ||
| Platform versus publisher is completely meaningless and has nothing to do with Section 230. | ||
| Section 230 gives broad immunities to websites. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| There's a lot of people who are like, you know, Twitter, by editorializing, has become a publisher, but that literally has nothing to do with Section 230. | ||
| Section 230 should stand, but Section 230 should be enforced properly in that idea. | ||
| The idea being, if you're protected, So the argument for platform versus publisher is this. | ||
| We want it to be that if you're a neutral arbiter that allows people to speak and you don't intervene in political opinions, then you have protections from liability. | ||
| However, once you begin removing content you don't like, you lose liability protections. | ||
| The problem with that is there are certain content that most people agree should be removed or would need to be removed, So then these platforms need to intervene and that is like basic moderation, violence, privacy violations. | ||
| I think the easiest one is doxing. | ||
| Everybody agrees you shouldn't post identifying information of someone else but it's not illegal to do so. | ||
| You can go in public and hold up someone's private information and it just it's annoying. | ||
| So in this regard... | ||
| The argument is, if Twitter is going- so Section 230 says you can remove things that are obscene, lewd, lascivious, criminal, etc. | ||
| without losing your protection. | ||
| What we want is for the law to say, yes, you can get rid of things that are criminal activities or are obscene, but opinions- there's the problem. | ||
| The argument these platforms make is hate speech is an obscenity. | ||
| Swearing is an obscenity. | ||
| Therefore, either it's one or nothing. | ||
| So, people on the right are basically saying, look, we get it, you want to remove videos of, like, child abuse. | ||
| But some guy saying that he, you know, he doesn't, saying hashtag learn to code, that shouldn't be removed. | ||
| These companies are arguing that basically child abuse and Hashtag Learn to Code are the same thing, and it's an opinion. | ||
| So who gets to decide what speech is to be removed and what isn't? | ||
| So it's a mess. | ||
| It's difficult. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, a guy saying something like, child abuse is great, you know, like, that kind of statement technically is completely legal. | ||
| In my opinion, acceptable because it's legal, even though it's horrible. | ||
| So if someone says, hey, I don't want to be held liable for the speech of the people on the platform. | ||
| We say, okay, you're immune from the speech on the platform. | ||
| They say, okay, but we got a bunch of child abuse stuff. | ||
| Can we remove that without losing our liability protection? | ||
| Section 230 says, yes, you can. | ||
| They say, oh, okay, Ian, you're removed too because you said something offensive. | ||
| I know, it's crazy. | ||
| That's not good enough. | ||
| We need a better system. | ||
| You can let the communities kind of take control of moderation. | ||
| That's why people have gone back and forth with just repealing Section 230 outright, | ||
| which wouldn't work, because then basically you could just sue YouTube for what someone else | ||
| posted on YouTube. That doesn't solve the problem. | ||
| You can let the communities kind of take control of moderation. That's what we're | ||
| experimenting with at Minds, where you have a jury and... | ||
| If someone reports something, it goes to a jury of users on the site that can vote if it's violating it or not. | ||
| But then, who writes the terms of service? | ||
| I mean, Mines' terms of service is U.S. | ||
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law. | |
| If it's legal in the United States, it's legal on Mines. | ||
| Then there's things like spam, which doesn't correlate to what that means. | ||
| So you take spam down. | ||
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Right, U.S. | |
| law's not always applicable to the challenges of the Internet. | ||
| Let's read this here from Craig Charlton. | ||
| He says, Everything Cheesecake in Martinsburg wants to connect. | ||
| They offered a private tasting for the TimCast crew. | ||
| Check it out. | ||
| Okay, I've heard everything cheesecake is amazing. | ||
| I've heard like, yeah, and they opened, they moved location somewhat recently. | ||
| I don't, I don't remember exactly where, but they're a family owned business. | ||
| They've been around forever. | ||
| I stock all the Martinsburg businesses. | ||
| I'm into it. | ||
| I like cheesecake. | ||
| I'm gonna look up everything, everything cheesecake. | ||
| Oh, I found it. | ||
| Okay, right on. | ||
| Yeah, our plan for... Oh, okay, so great, that's on Route 11. | ||
| Route 11 becomes Queen Street, so our plan for Martinsburg is we want to bring a whole bunch of... | ||
| Parallel economy businesses to physical locations and make an anti-Times Square. | ||
| Wow, the number one, the first rule. | ||
| What was that? | ||
| You might know this, Ian. | ||
| The three rules for robots. | ||
| What was it called? | ||
| Geez, I don't know. | ||
| Anyway, the first rule is businesses that exist can't be displaced. | ||
| So, if anything that we're doing puts pressure on those businesses, we have to contribute to make sure that they don't get displaced by us trying to revitalize. | ||
| Three laws of robotics. | ||
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Yeah, Asimov's laws of robotics. | |
| Asimov's. | ||
| So, yeah, so Asimov's laws of building businesses in Martinsburg is, we cannot cause problems for the existing businesses that are there. | ||
| Which would protect a lot of our mom-and-pop shops, which is exactly what we want. | ||
| Because we're talking about, we're setting up our coffee shop, skate shop, private club, which is currently underway. | ||
| The private club's probably gonna be sooner, and the only reason we haven't done it is because we thought the coffee shop was gonna be sooner, but it's been a disaster. | ||
| It's just been taking so long to get everything done, and it's mostly because contractors show up, present plans, sign papers, announce their scheduled start date, and then vanish and are gone. | ||
| Should we do something like create a union of localized businesses for the area? | ||
| Because if someone goes in there and they set up a shop and then they... Like a business bureau? | ||
| Lots of towns have like... I don't like that idea. | ||
| But like if someone comes in... I mean, it might already exist. | ||
| It's like an HOA or something. | ||
| If someone goes in and then they undercut the other businesses, they're like, yeah, we're not going to displace anyone. | ||
| They go and displace everyone like you have no recourse unless it's contractually part of the community or something. | ||
| Yeah, I think if you did that, you would have the eye- The goal of being an anti-Times Square is that it's going to be attached to the parallel economy. | ||
| Any business that came in and tried to destroy a business inside it would be trying to destroy the whole project. | ||
| So, I don't think anyone would try and do that because you would be destroyed. | ||
| Like, that just, your business would fail and you'd lose all your money. | ||
| Starbucks is like, it's gonna bring a hundred million dollars into the community, you guys! | ||
| And then they're faced with a massive boycott, constant social media pressure, and why would they do that on purpose? | ||
| They wouldn't. | ||
| Um, yeah. | ||
| Plus they're dumb. | ||
| But yeah, everything cheesecake. | ||
| We'll have to check that one out. | ||
| I don't trust anybody when it comes to money. | ||
| Oscar Oliu says, damn it, please stop saying guns can be 3D printed. | ||
| The 3D printed guns that can fire without metal are complete trash. | ||
| Stop perpetuating that lie. | ||
| No good, sir! | ||
| You are wrong! | ||
| Uh, not only are, uh, would I disagree? | ||
| I guess, I guess, 3D printed guns that can be printed without metal are complete trash. | ||
| You are misconstruing the argument about 3D printing guns. | ||
| You can take a, uh, a CNC machine at home and cut a low receiver out of metal. | ||
| Very easily. | ||
| And watch Infringed on TimCast.com if you'd like to see it. | ||
| I see you've been a member, so respect and appreciate it. | ||
| But watch Infringed, and you can see and learn about the 0% receiver. | ||
| Have you heard of this? | ||
| 0% receiver. | ||
| A metal block can be sent to your home, and then if you choose, I'm not advocating this, you can put it into an at-home CNC machine. | ||
| We actually have two of them, I think. | ||
| And it will cut a lower receiver right there. | ||
| So yes, 3D printing, it can be done. | ||
| I guess you can argue that's not 3D printing. | ||
| The fact is, the home manufacture of weapons, of guns, it's here. | ||
| And I gotta tell you, man, it's so easy that the average person who wants to buy your standard AR-15, they could easily just buy a 3D printer and a home CNC machine for half the cost. | ||
| And then get sent a 0% receiver. | ||
| It's, it's, this stuff's easy. | ||
| So when I say 3D printed guns, I'm not literally saying only plastic. | ||
| I'm saying the at-home manufacturer of all parts of a gun can be easily done. | ||
| And you can make a full metal gun with that at-home CNC machine. | ||
| So. | ||
| Hey, look, it's here. | ||
| Gets out of the bag. | ||
| What do we have? | ||
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We'll grab some more Super Chats. | |
| What is this? | ||
| Alan Shower says, Tim, massive culture war opportunity. | ||
| Pozo v. Hannah B. Vis-a-vis Taylor Swift. | ||
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| Because Pozo's anti-Taylor Swift. | ||
| I don't know who Hannah B. is. | ||
| My name is Hannah Claire. | ||
| Jack Posobiec is walking into a trap. | ||
| Why? | ||
| He's walking into a trap. | ||
| He posted that tweet criticizing Taylor Swift. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's a sign up. | ||
| I thought her interview was super boring for a time. | ||
| I did not think it was that interesting at all. | ||
| She's just rehashing old stuff. | ||
| You guys are letting her live in your head in a way she shouldn't. | ||
| And I say that as someone who went to her concert. | ||
| And this is the psyop. | ||
| Taylor Swift, a couple years ago, criticized George Soros. | ||
| Why would any conservative in their right mind be like, quick, now we have to attack Taylor Swift? | ||
| Are you nuts? | ||
| She just accused the Soros family of buying her music out from under her. | ||
| You should be like, we also don't like the Soros family. | ||
| Maybe we can work together. | ||
| Instead, all these conservatives are posting accusing her of working with George Soros. | ||
| I gotta tell you, if you want to make enemies with the most famous celebrity in the world, that's how you do it. | ||
| Imagine you get knifed in the back by a guy. | ||
| And then you get pissed off, go online and say, this dude just knifed me in the back. | ||
| And then everyone comments saying, yeah, but you're secretly working with him. | ||
| So we don't, we don't like you. | ||
| Screw you. | ||
| You'd be like, are you kidding me? | ||
| Where's the support, man? | ||
| So I'm like, your best case scenario, Taylor Swift, ignore. | ||
| Taylor Swift might come out in 2024, endorse a Democrat. | ||
| So be it. | ||
| Every other celebrity will too. | ||
| Don't make enemies. | ||
| Your best bet is to be like, that's what I'm saying. | ||
| Look, If you see a Taylor Swift person, you know, like wearing a shirt or whatever, you got instant rapport right now. | ||
| And she might be going to vote Democrat, and you gotta yell at her or him, whatever, maybe it's a guy. | ||
| You just be like, you know, I got something in common with Taylor Swift. | ||
| George Soros, the stuff that he funds, not only did he steal from Taylor Swift, that's gotta piss you off, but he's funding these DAs, so I'm right there with her. | ||
| She was right to call him out. | ||
| Now, you're friends with the Swifties. | ||
| I just, you know, I can't stand that, like, my opinion on this is, The only appropriate political commentator stance on Taylor Swift is, oh, I don't know, I guess. | ||
| Now, okay, fine. | ||
| Maybe your political commentary overlaps in the music industry, and so you're like, I really don't like pop music. | ||
| That's totally fine. | ||
| But it makes no sense that people who aren't attached to this industry are like, oh, Taylor Swift! | ||
| Someone came to me like, what do you think about Taylor Swift? | ||
| I'd be like, I don't know. | ||
| Love song was good. | ||
| She's got some pop songs I mean what you're saying which is really kind of what everyone should be looking at is that you're trying to say well hey look I'm looking for commonalities not what separates us I mean that was that was the whole point of like what I took from that analogy which is like oh you were gonna tell your oh yeah we don't like what Soros did either like you're trying to find that commonality instead of continuing to try and so in the yeah why why make enemies yeah We got a big opportunity right here. | ||
| There's a viral video going around where Taylor is talking. | ||
| They claim it's Taylor opposing Trump. | ||
| And I'm like... The first and foremost, I don't care about Taylor Swift. | ||
| It just annoys me that... | ||
| Read Sun Tzu, man. | ||
| You don't go to war with someone you can't win a war against. | ||
| There is no, no reality in which any Trump supporter wins a culture war with Taylor Swift. | ||
| The only thing you can do is isolate her fanbase. | ||
| So your best bet is to ignore, at the very least. | ||
| Or, you can be like, man, did you see how the Soros has ripped off Taylor? | ||
| That's so messed up. | ||
| Yeah, she's great. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| She makes good pop music, I don't know. | ||
| Some billionaire banker bought her music? | ||
| So, Scooter Braun and Alex Soros and the Soros family financed the purchase of her master recordings. | ||
| So that basically gave them the rights to everything that was distributed afterwards. | ||
| I guess what happened was they spent $330 million on it. | ||
| She couldn't afford to do it because she didn't think the return was going to be there. | ||
| I mean, she's worth $1.1 billion. | ||
| She wasn't then, though. | ||
| But even now, she doesn't have 330 million in cash. | ||
| So she couldn't buy her own music, tweeted saying like, these people ripped me off, fine, hope it's worth it for you. | ||
| And now because she owns the composition rights, she's re-recording it all. | ||
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| At Kelly Clarkson's suggestion. | ||
| That's brilliant. | ||
| Wow, that's awesome. | ||
| I'm just like, she put out a video that everyone's sharing because they're attacking her, and in it she says, if he doesn't win, at least I tried. | ||
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Dude, we should record. | |
| That means she's supporting Donald Trump. | ||
| We should record something with Taylor for her name. | ||
| She's re-recording her stuff. | ||
| No, it's like Bullet Point. | ||
| Greatest song in the world. | ||
| Ian will be like, we should get Brad Pitt on the show. | ||
| I'm like, okay dude. | ||
| Well, I'm not like tomorrow, but I'm saying put it on the bulletin board. | ||
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You got a sticky note over there that says Hassan by July. | |
| If Hassan wants to come on, I'm open. | ||
| There was one about working out, and you went on your fitness journey this year. | ||
| I think he was the one that forced me to write that down, or he wrote it down. | ||
| Hey, I'm just holding you to your word, brother. | ||
| I put things on bulletin boards in my mind and, like, say yes to it. | ||
| Vision boards. | ||
| Alright, let's read some more Super J. It's the text vet. | ||
| It says, as a combat vet, I would never recommend anyone join until things are squared away. | ||
| Combat cannot be effective until all the wokeness goes away and unit cohesion and trust can be made priority again. | ||
| What do you think about this? | ||
| Well, I mean, he's right. | ||
| I mean, at the end of the day, what we have to understand is that we have to have cohesiveness. | ||
| We have to have that unity. | ||
| We have to have that brotherhood. | ||
| We have to be ready to, you know, walk line to line. | ||
| It's interesting that this whole idea of introducing and trying to make the prioritization of DEI as the key has actually sowed in more divisiveness into our military when it should be about us all going downrange together. | ||
| You know, looking to try and come home together. | ||
| So, you know, we are doing that. | ||
| I passed over 20 plus amendments in the National Defense Authorization Act that targets DEI and that actually looks at the protection of our military to try and get them back to what it really was about, which was back then increased lethality, readiness, and being properly equipped, not diversity, equity, and inclusion. | ||
| It's cool. | ||
| It's much needed, I think. | ||
| It's sad to see sort of the way the military has made fun of or sort of mistreated regular Americans saying, no, you won't be able to see the difference. | ||
| We'll just push this agenda. | ||
| And then they started to repeal it when they thought maybe we're going to need to up the recruitment levels. | ||
| Look, at the end of the day, every one of our men and women in uniform who I have a tremendous amount of respect and who I will fight to the very end to try and protect and make sure that they have what they need. | ||
| They need to get back to what it is to serve this country, not serve anyone's political agenda who sits in the office. | ||
| And that's really what it's about. | ||
| We got a good one. | ||
| Rath says, get Angel Studios to make a Sound of Freedom-like movie, but based on the events of Corey Mill's testimony in Afghanistan and Israel. | ||
| I thought the same thing, man. | ||
| That'd be cool. | ||
| Afghanistan would be, I think that's a movie right there. | ||
| Would you play yourself in the movie? | ||
| Or would you have someone else do it? | ||
| No, you got to have someone play you. | ||
| Who's going to play you? | ||
| Oh, interesting. | ||
| I was going to say the same thing. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm going to try and probably recruit Bradley Cooper. | ||
| Oh, he's a good one. | ||
| He was really good in American Sniper and a couple of other movies. | ||
| I think he's a good actor. | ||
| But, you know, there was a lot that was in that that was very interesting. | ||
| You know, a lot of people didn't know that right before we were able to get Miriam and her family out, you know, if you dial from an American phone, regardless of where you're at internationally, it'll automatically register as plus one. | ||
| But with a lot of your satellite phones, it'll automatically just take the first number and take it over as if it is an actual country code. | ||
| And so one of the things that we had to do since we were getting no help whatsoever from the American government and the State Department working against us is that I had memorized all the Bassport birthdates and had convinced one of the Taliban commanders that was at one of the checkpoints that I was the husband and the father of these three children and memorized their, you know, Address, their date of births, you know, hospitals, things like this to have proof of life and proof of understanding. | ||
| And then a guy that was with us who, you know, I'm a fluent Arabic speaker, but there's a guy who is a fluent Pashto, Dari, and Tajik speaker who was with us who we had convinced that he was just the interpreter. | ||
| And we played a bit of shell games with the satellite phones where we were calling with the satellite phones because we had just heard that Kabul had got the order to shut down all the borders. | ||
| And that we knew it would take a while for it to go from Kabul to Mazar-e-Sharif, Mazar-e-Sharif out to Kunduz, Kunduz these little outposts and so we had a little bit of time but we called from multiple phones and had convinced the commander that Yusuf, one of the guys that was with us, was actually one of the negotiators in Qatar. | ||
| And that this family was part of that negotiation and that they would break down if we didn't allow these American family out. | ||
| And so it was interesting because when we went across, we had our full team originally, and they would only allow two of us to come over and then retake hold of the physical custody of the children and the actual mother. | ||
| And I can remember the commander on the other side saying, well, there's probably about a 50% chance that they're going to shoot you when you get over there. | ||
| And my friend didn't find it as funny, but I just said, well, those are pretty good odds. | ||
| And apparently he had a lot more to live for. | ||
| But, you know, it was one of those things where when we got them across the border and we'd actually gotten them into safety and we knew that there was no longer a great risk of the Taliban or anyone trying to take at them, I started getting all these messages on my phone from that Taliban commander swearing, being like, you tricked me. | ||
| I just knew I shouldn't. | ||
| So it literally was from the time that we had gotten them physically onto the other side, he'd already gotten finally that relayed message that no one in or out. | ||
| And so we just broke it by the edge of time to be able to get that family tree. | ||
| Yeah, that's a movie right there, dude. | ||
| Somebody call Bradley Cooper and Angel Studios. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Yeah, definitely Angel Studios. | ||
| But someone's got to make the film, right? | ||
| So there's the story. | ||
| Someone's got to make the torch and pass it on. | ||
| All right, let's see, we'll grab one more here. | ||
| Paul Taskalos, big ol' super chat, appreciate it, says, SSRI, antidepressants ruined my life. | ||
| Began at 30 years old, gained 100 pounds. | ||
| Emotionally numb, no hope, I wasn't living, just existing, dead inside. | ||
| Took 12 months to taper off, severe withdrawal symptoms, anger, crying for hours. | ||
| I'm 38 years old now, SSRI free for nine months, I'm healing, learning to love myself, don't give up. | ||
| God bless you, Andy. | ||
| Good luck, man. | ||
| That was Andy? | ||
| That was Paul Taskalos. | ||
| Paul Taskalos? | ||
| Nice job, dude. | ||
| Paul, keep the fight going. | ||
| Right on, man. | ||
| Alright everybody, if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, head over to TimCast.com, join us to support our work directly, but also, head over to TheBestSongEver.com. | ||
| Am I getting that right? | ||
| I'll check it right now, but I think that's it. | ||
| TheBestSongEver.com and pre-order the song together again on iTunes or Amazon, the direct purchase is worth 150 times a single play. | ||
| It's the best song ever. | ||
| It has to be the best song ever. | ||
| I can't believe we got that URL. | ||
| That's funny. | ||
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Seriously. | |
| That's freaking hilarious. | ||
| The best song ever. | ||
| That's Luke Rutkowski's influence all over you. | ||
| Well, it was Carter's idea. | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
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A true music producer being like, here we go, this is the URL. | |
| I mean, it's a Smokey Mac and the God King classic. | ||
| We have to honor them correctly. | ||
| So, Michael Knowles, we've been working on this for a year, it's been a long time. | ||
| And Michael was here, and I don't know if he's gonna get mad that I said this, but he was like, Tim, I just won a gold record. | ||
| And I was like, okay, we gotta sell 500,000 of these, but maybe in like 10 years something will happen. | ||
| This is a really good song, though. | ||
| This is one that catches my word of mouth. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| It's like a modern pop version. | ||
| We're basically satirizing modern pop like The Weeknd. | ||
| The music video is basically a spoof of The Weeknd. | ||
| And the idea was to take Daily Wire, Jeremy Boring's spoof of Happy Together, And then turn it into a spoof of modern music so that we could basically double up and give a middle finger to the industry and the institution. | ||
| Well, not to say it's the equivalent of or I'm trying to make a comparison, but I mean, we did see what happened with the great song, the Richmond North of Richmond. | ||
| I mean, that thing just absolutely exploded. | ||
| This song is nothing like that. | ||
| My point is that it doesn't necessarily have to be some big label. | ||
| I mean, it could actually just be a group of people who make a really good song and it just catches fire, to Ian's point. | ||
| To be fair, you guys have been working on something, you launched a legitimate, Trash House is a legitimate label. | ||
| You guys are really committed to fighting back against people who hate you. | ||
| It was a year ago that I called Jeremy Boring. | ||
| I was like, Jeremy, I have this idea. | ||
| And he was like, okay. | ||
| And then we started working on it in communication with them. | ||
| They cameo in the video and it's gonna be fun and funny. | ||
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So I'll see it. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| So I would appreciate your support. | ||
| The best song ever.com. | ||
| And Corey, do you want to shout anything out? | ||
| No, I just want to go ahead and thank you guys for having me back on the show. | ||
| And look, you know, I represent, I'm elected to four to seventh district, | ||
| but I can tell you if you believe in constitutionality, you believe in the freedom of this Republic. | ||
| You believe in the ideas of maintaining our native rights and getting back | ||
| back to what it was being American then trust me I'm still your representative | ||
| regardless of where you're living in this world. | ||
| Are you on Twitter? | ||
| I am on Twitter, at CoryMillsFL, and then I've got, I think our Instagram and our truth is both the same. | ||
| Cool. | ||
| Well, thanks for coming in. | ||
| It's been a great show. | ||
| Thanks so much. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| I'm Hannah-Claire Brimlow. | ||
| I'm a writer for scnr.com. | ||
| That's Scanner News. | ||
| I'm really glad to be a part of that team. | ||
| The Wailers have a big game this weekend, so go watch them. | ||
| That's a complete lie. | ||
| If you want to follow Scanner's work, you can still follow at TimCastNews on Twitter and Instagram. | ||
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| Guys, thank you so much. | ||
| Yes, thank you very much. | ||
| Subscribe to me over the internet at Ian Crossland and watch my YouTube video today with Drew Pinsky because it was awesome. | ||
| Great interview. | ||
| Love the guy. | ||
| Love you, Drew. | ||
| Dude, Corey. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| I love talking economics. | ||
| Thank you for bringing the numbers. | ||
| Going deep. | ||
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That was badass. | |
| I appreciate it. | ||
| Looking forward to seeing you again, man. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Serge Dupre. | ||
| Yeah, Surge.com, another good week. | ||
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Ready to enjoy my weekend like you guys should too. | |
| Argue with me on Twitter. | ||
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See you guys later. | |
| Now we're gonna be doing work for the Boonies HQ, which is happening this weekend. | ||
| We got some, I guess we got some pro skateboarder coming out. | ||
| It's gonna be a lot of fun. | ||
| So we'll be producing more content for you. | ||
| Follow at Boonies HQ everywhere. | ||
| Thanks for hanging out and we'll see y'all next time. |
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