June 24, 2024 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| We got some pretty big news today. | ||
| I think the biggest story, of course, is that Julian Assange has been freed. | ||
| I believe he's already been freed. | ||
| He reached a plea agreement with the U.S. | ||
| government. | ||
| Now, we were originally going to lead with this story, but I believe it may be a bit too esoteric for the average person in that the nuances of the Donald Trump-Joe Biden issue surrounding Julian Assange Very complicated, so I'm not sure that the average person can see a simple headline pertaining to this and understand the gravity of it. | ||
| As it pertains to domestic policy, however, CNN this morning cut off The Trump press secretary, Carolyn Leavitt, when she was pointing out that CNN's moderator for the debate, Jake Tapper, had repeatedly referred to Trump as Hitler. | ||
| Now, many people are pointing out this is exactly what we expect from CNN on Thursday. | ||
| And I have news to break for you tonight, right now, as we open this show. | ||
| I received a message from YouTube last week asking to hop on a phone call to discuss the RNC and the presidential cycle. | ||
| And I said, sure. | ||
| I briefly spoke with some individuals at YouTube earlier today who made it clear that CNN reached out and is expressing concern. | ||
| I don't know the full extent, but making it known that YouTube better Contact their news programs over the CNN debate. | ||
| Now, of course, like all presidential debates, which is the epitome of civic responsibility, of civic participation, we will provide live commentary and fact-checking on this presidential debate, as we have done for every other, so long as this show has been around. | ||
| In a show of good faith, YouTube asked me to reach out to CNN to see if there was anything they would be looking for in this regard, because apparently they are asking other networks who are doing the exact same thing to abide by certain restrictions. | ||
| And I said, OK, I'll reach out. | ||
| To which the immediate response was something along the lines of, confirming we will not allow anyone on YouTube to use this outside of, you know, CNN granting certain platforms. | ||
| Basically saying, you can't do this. | ||
| And my response immediately was, commentary on presidential debates is the epitome of fair use. | ||
| Hope that helps. | ||
| This Thursday will be particularly interesting. | ||
| I think that news is big. | ||
| I can't really put that succinctly in 80 characters for a YouTube headline, but this is massive. | ||
| That CNN is pulling this move. | ||
| We saw something similar that Fox News had done. | ||
| Fox had filed several takedowns on various shows, including ours, but they abandoned their copyright claims because this is unquestionably fair use. | ||
| We have two people running for the president of this country, one of them the current president, and we're going to fact check, and we're going to comment, and we are going to call them out in real time. | ||
| If we can't do that, if no one else can, then that's severely limiting civic participation, and it's allowing a biased network that in the past has likened Trump to Hitler to control who can and cannot fact-check this man. | ||
| And as we know with special rules for this debate, They are seeking to control that narrative, and I believe that is exactly why they reached out to YouTube and why YouTube reached out to me, because they don't want anyone to break their narrative. | ||
| That's the dirty game they're playing. | ||
| It's going to be a fun Thursday. | ||
| But in the meantime, we'll talk about the news that we have now, which is Julian Assange. | ||
| Massive news, and I'm really excited to get into this with you guys. | ||
| And then we have Russia Threatening retaliation over what they are calling U.S. | ||
| strikes on Crimea. | ||
| The U.S. | ||
| is saying, hey, we don't have nothing to do with it. | ||
| That's Ukraine. | ||
| But you think Russia cares? | ||
| So, all right. | ||
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| But also, just, I just want to say this, this election season, this Thursday is, it's the tee-off, it is the kick-off, it is the beginning. | ||
| We're already getting the veiled legal threats of, you know, don't defy our narrative. | ||
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Hello! | |
| So fun to be here! | ||
| Who are you? | ||
| What do you do? | ||
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I'm a reporter. | |
| I write for the Daily Signal. | ||
| I also just wrote a book on transgender issues, detransitioners, so people who tried to become another gender and then ultimately realized that's impossible and went back to living as their biological sex. | ||
| So I spent a lot of time writing about culture issues, transgender issues, abortion, marriage, family. | ||
| Gender, life, all of that good stuff. | ||
| And I'm on the ground a lot. | ||
| I go to a lot of protests. | ||
| I have gone to a lot of pro-transgender protests, abortion protests. | ||
| During Roe v. Wade, I lived at the Supreme Court. | ||
| I do a lot of man-on-the-street interviews where I like to show people what these people at the D.C. | ||
| protests actually believe, what they actually think. | ||
| I think we're always surprised by how radical these people are. | ||
| They are not representative of the American public. | ||
| So I like to get out there and show people that. | ||
| Right on. | ||
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I think it's really fun, too. | |
| I mean, I have a hard time at the Women's March now. | ||
| They know who I am, so they won't talk to me anymore. | ||
| Eventually that happens. | ||
| All right, well, it should be fun. | ||
| Thanks for hanging out. | ||
| Phil's hanging out. | ||
| Hello, everybody. | ||
| My name is Phil Labonte. | ||
| I'm the lead singer of the heavy metal band All That Remains. | ||
| I'm an anti-communist and a counter-revolutionary. | ||
| How you doing there, Hannah-Claire? | ||
| I'm good. | ||
| I'm happy to be back. | ||
| Hope you guys had a good weekend. | ||
| I'm Hannah-Claire Brimel. | ||
| I'm a writer for SCNR.com. | ||
| SCNR.com. | ||
| I don't know if I said all those letters. | ||
| You can find us at TimCastNewsOnTheInternet. | ||
| Hi, Serge! | ||
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Yo, let's get started. | |
| Here we go. | ||
| Here's the first story to kick off this political week from Newsweek. | ||
| CNN cuts off interview with Trump press secretary for trashing debate moderator. | ||
| Now, I chose this Newsweek on a purpose so I can do this in real time for you. | ||
| I'm going to scroll down to the bottom of Newsweek's articles, and I can respect that they do this. | ||
| And, you know, at the bottom of their articles they have this little thing. | ||
| Click on this meter to rate this article. | ||
| I'm going to go ahead and say, uh, unfair left-leaning and confirm my selection. | ||
| And I'm going to tell you why. | ||
| They say most readers rated the center fair. | ||
| Wrong! | ||
| Carolyn Leavitt did not trash Jake Tapper at all. | ||
| And she even tried to move on before her mic got cut off and she got kicked off the show by a flustered Cassie Hunt. | ||
| It's not trashing Jake Tapper to point out, you can Google search this and see him referring to Donald Trump as Hitler. | ||
| That's not an insult, that's a thing he did. | ||
| For Newsweek to claim it's trashing, it sounds like she went on there and insulted him, which she did not do. | ||
| I think they have the clip here, but there's probably a better clip. | ||
| We'll play this for you guys, you can hear it for yourself. | ||
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It would take someone five minutes to Google Jake Tapper, Donald Trump, to see that Jake Tapper has consistently... Ma'am, we're going to stop this interview if you're going to keep attacking my colleagues. | |
| Ma'am, I'm going to stop this interview if you continue to attack my colleagues. | ||
| I would like to talk about Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who you work for. | ||
| If you are here to speak on his behalf, I am willing to have this conversation. | ||
| I am stating facts that your colleagues have stated in the past. | ||
| Now, I'm sorry, guys. | ||
| We're going to come back out to the panel. | ||
| Caroline, thank you very much for your time. | ||
| You are welcome to come back at any point. | ||
| She is welcome to come back and speak about Donald Trump. | ||
| And Donald Trump will have equal time to Joe Biden when they both join us now at next, early, later. | ||
| You hear how flustered she is? | ||
| So flustered. | ||
| No, you know what it is? | ||
| It's the guy, producer in her ear, yelling at her because they don't want their audience to know That Jake Tapper has referred to Trump as Hitler and is not going to be moderating a debate. | ||
| Patsy Hunt herself celebrated the attack on Senator Paul Rand Paul. | ||
| She said that it was one of her favorite stories. | ||
| I had the tweet up. She said that it was one of her favorite stories. The audacity of this woman | ||
| to behave as if she is not biased. | ||
| And again, celebrating a violent attack on a sitting senator. | ||
| Why is she even on the air? | ||
| The idea that this is something that's acceptable, considering Senator Paul was also attacked at the congressional baseball game when Steve Scalise was shot. | ||
| They ignore this? | ||
| They ignore all the violence they inspire. | ||
| She was sitting there doing the hands-up-don't-shoot when that didn't happen, endorsing that lie. | ||
| This is egregious, and honestly, the FCC should do something about it. | ||
| Well, she's obviously extreme in a lot of her beliefs, but part of me wants to be like, so what is it? | ||
| Not that I think the government's going to do anything. | ||
| We're so far past the FCC as a viable entity that does anything. | ||
| No. | ||
| With the Internet, the game has changed. | ||
| And this ultimately makes Trump's spokesperson look better, right? | ||
| She stays calm. | ||
| She watched this woman get really flustered to kick her off air and say, you can't insult my colleagues over something that it's literally you saying. | ||
| You could Google search this and find out. | ||
| And I want to go back to the point of, like, which is it, leftists, right? | ||
| Like, is Trump Hitler? | ||
| And it's OK to say that. | ||
| Why wouldn't you be cheering him on? | ||
| Or is he not because now you can't say that and you're mad at someone referring to it? | ||
| At which point, wouldn't the network need to address this employee who has said this in the past? | ||
| It's really whatever is coming out of anyone who supports Trump's mouth is bad in any way that we think we can show that we have power over them. | ||
| I understand what you're saying, but I think the fact that we can go back to, you know, prior to Trump, to the hands up, don't shoot stuff. | ||
| That was, I think it was 2013, right? | ||
| She was endorsing violence and endorsing riots and endorsing lies long before Donald Trump ever came onto the scene. | ||
| I just assume that's how you get promoted at CNN. | ||
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But there's also this laughable pretense at unbiased journalism when I'm 99% sure that host's background on Twitter is her and Biden. | |
| Like literally earlier today- Yeah, I think you're correct. | ||
| They're holding hands or something. | ||
| Oh, gross. | ||
| That's so weird. | ||
| It's just so sickening. | ||
| Look at this! | ||
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They're literally holding hands. | |
| She was there to speak on behalf of her boss. | ||
| Unbelievable. | ||
| If it wasn't so just absolutely indefensible, it would be comical. | ||
| Look what she wrote on Twitter. | ||
| You come on my show, you respect my colleagues, period. | ||
| I don't care what side of the aisle you stand on, as my track record clearly shows. | ||
| You have a record of your picture of Joe Biden on your profile? | ||
| To deserve respect, one must be respectable, and you're not! | ||
| Also, she wasn't insulting her. | ||
| She's saying, hey, your colleague said something controversial. | ||
| Yeah, but she tried to—Carolyn Leavitt tried to move on from this. | ||
| She said, I was just stating a thing your staff has said. | ||
| Now, anyway—and she's like, nope, shut her down. | ||
| I bet—what people need to understand about all of these cable hosts is they've got an earpiece in. | ||
| And they'll be talking, and then the earpiece guy will be like, start talking about this, that, and otherwise. | ||
| And they go, okay. | ||
| She gets really flustered, and she's like, when we see the debate now, this Thursday, she doesn't, she's lost. | ||
| She's getting yelled at in her earpiece, and they're like, get her off now! | ||
| She was also obviously scared of the Trump spokeswoman, right? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Like she is so scared that she's going to say anything at all. | ||
| She is looking for a reason to end the interview. | ||
| I bet they had to convince her to do this because she is actually not able to defend any of her position. | ||
| She's not rational. | ||
| And so therefore it's all emotion. | ||
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And those producers call all the shots anyways, so it's not like she's the one that's coming up with her show. | |
| She's very much at their mercy for this. | ||
| I agree with you that the producers do call the shots, but I think she walks in lockstep with them. | ||
| So even if they weren't telling her what to say, she would be saying similar things. | ||
| She doesn't have some kind of outsider opinion and she's only doing this because CNN says she is a swamp monster and the swamp flows through her veins. | ||
| Let's stretch that a little bit further than from where you're at. | ||
| So it's, you're right, but you don't go far enough, Phil. | ||
| Fair enough. | ||
| Get her! | ||
| I believe they're actually holding her back. | ||
| I believe that her producers, in this instance, were like, no, no, don't let them talk bad about our staff. | ||
| I'm willing to bet that on her show, she's just like, you know that meme where the dude's in the classroom and he's like at the vein bulging in his forehead? | ||
| That's her with trying to praise Joe Biden and the guy in her earpiece going, Cassie, don't do it. | ||
| Don't do it. | ||
| Don't don't. | ||
| Okay, good. | ||
| I mean, like, just like, just like, you know, the header on her, her own Twitter. | ||
| It's a picture of her shaking Joe Biden's hand! | ||
| It's literally endorsing a president and we're supposed to take you seriously? | ||
| This is laughable. | ||
| You're a clown. | ||
| She is a credible, non-biased news source, obviously. | ||
| But what are we going to expect with the debate now? | ||
| Does anybody really expect? | ||
| We got a super chat already from someone, no audience, mics are cut off. | ||
| It's going to be edited. | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| They're going to do the debate, we're going to assume it's live, Trump's going to assume it's live, and then they're going to wait an hour and then put it up with cuts. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I don't mean that literally, I'm being facetious, but you get my point. | ||
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And they can cut him off whenever they want, which is... I mean, we already knew they were going to do that. | |
| I saw Steve Bannon saying earlier today that Trump should not agree to do the debate now unless CNN apologizes, but Caroline was saying on Twitter they're going to do it anyways, or X. | ||
| I think it's funny, too, because now it's like, are the CNN moderators going to be like, hey, you're not allowed to talk badly about things, so somebody cut the cameras! | ||
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Of course they are! | |
| Of course they are! | ||
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If he's uncharitable, do we cut the mics? | |
| 100%! | ||
| Also, like, grow up! | ||
| Like, you go say to your colleague, like, I tried to defend you the best I could. | ||
| No, you just had, like, a hissy fit on air and made it obvious that you can't do your own job. | ||
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She wasn't actually making, like, she wasn't saying horrible things about Tapper. | |
| She was saying what he had said. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Which I think is also, like, that's just factual. | |
| She's just saying facts. | ||
| Here's what I think. | ||
| When they got rid of Jeff Zucker, okay, he's this reality TV guy. | ||
| He was the Apprentice guy, wasn't he? | ||
| Like, isn't he the guy behind Apprentice? | ||
| I wouldn't know. | ||
| Jeff Zucker? | ||
| Look that up for me. | ||
| I'm pretty sure. | ||
| So, he turned CNN into reality TV, WWE, news. | ||
| It's like, just garbage. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They're trying desperately to get away from that. | ||
| And so I think they're trying to, like, the reason they booted her is because they're like, no, no, no, no, no, don't let her say that we did that because we did. | ||
| And we're terrified of what people are going to think. | ||
| You know what their key demo was last Friday? | ||
| Their key demo ratings. | ||
| Let's let's play this game. | ||
| Don't say anything. | ||
| How many viewers do you think CNN got last Friday? | ||
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Prime time. | |
| How many viewers do you think CNN got last Friday, prime time? | ||
| Prime time, key demo? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| What's your guess? | ||
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I don't pay attention to their numbers normally. | |
| Well just like what do you think like? | ||
| 30,000 people. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Well it's a little low. | ||
| Never in life. | ||
| So I mean most people like Big Bang Theory they say gets like 20 million viewers. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So what would CNN, the most trusted name in news, be getting in their key demographic? | ||
| I think at 9 p.m. | ||
| they got 49,000. | ||
| Dude, I could make a video. | ||
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You're close. | |
| To be fair, we talk about this sometimes. | ||
| Guys, I need you to understand how crazy this is. | ||
| That CNN only got 59,000 in the key demo last week. | ||
| On Friday. | ||
| So Friday's a little bit lower. | ||
| But even earlier in the day, like 5 p.m., which 5 p.m. | ||
| Friday is not a bad time. | ||
| It's actually a good time because people are at home. | ||
| They put on the news. | ||
| It was like 70. | ||
| Okay, to put that into frame or whatever the word is, I'm going to go into my Instagram, and I'm going to look up a picture I posted of a cat. | ||
| And where is my cat video? | ||
| Where's my cat? | ||
| There it is. | ||
| And how many views does this have? | ||
| Okay, maybe I should just do this on the actual Alright, I posted a cat. | ||
| It's one of the funniest videos I've ever seen, so I reposted it. | ||
| And, uh, let's see how many views the cat has. | ||
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161,000. | |
| Oh my gosh! | ||
| That's 161,000. | ||
| I'm gonna play. | ||
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No, no, no, I can't do it. | |
| It's for tomorrow. | ||
| I'm gonna play. No, no, no, I can't do it. It's for tomorrow. | ||
| So I saw this meme and it's this cat with his eyes half closed and his mouth hanging open. | ||
| And it says, when you've already given your all and it's only Tuesday. | ||
| And it's singing this really sad song and the cat's just like zoned out and it's hilarious. | ||
| So I posted 161,000 views just on that. | ||
| Okay, now some people might be saying, that's not fair though. | ||
| Everybody loves sharing cat entertainment humor. | ||
| You can't compete with news on that. | ||
| Okay, dude, I can go onto my Instagram And look at tons of singular clips that have 64,000, 70,000, 24,000, 100,000. | ||
| Here's a clip. | ||
| It's just a picture of my face. | ||
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181,000. | |
| CNN can't get that in the key demo. | ||
| me notes. 100,000. Here's a clip. It's just a picture of my face. 181,000. CNN can't get | ||
| that in the key demo. Now, to be fair, in the older age bracket, they're getting, I | ||
| think, 400,000. All right. Well, that's fair. | ||
| There's a lot of views, but that means CNN won't exist in 10 years. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Maybe that's good though, right? | ||
| She is good. | ||
| Look, CNN, you've had a good run, but if your moderators are throwing people off because they can't handle somebody pointing out something one of their colleagues said in the past, I'm sorry. | ||
| You don't have a very tough, tough team here. | ||
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I've been paying attention to Kaitlyn Collins' show because I find it fascinating. | |
| They brought her in to be the straight news nighttime show, and she has on a lot of these Culture Wars guests that I've written about. | ||
| So I'm like, okay, she's got a good guest. | ||
| She's not straight at all. | ||
| She's straight news, you know? | ||
| She's just very aggressive, very antagonistic. | ||
| I think J.D. | ||
| Vance has gone on, Ted Cruz has gone on, always attacking them. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why do these people go on? | ||
| Dude, okay, I'm gonna say this right now. | ||
| I am... | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance, Matt Gaetz, I don't know about Matt, I don't know when the last time was, but J.D. | ||
| Vance, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, any one of these people. | ||
| Why are you going on CNN? | ||
| Their viewership is in the tens of thousands. | ||
| I'll tell you what, we'd love to have you on the show. | ||
| I will drive to D.C. | ||
| with my Instagram and get more views than that for you. | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| Who are you trying to reach? | ||
| I think part of it is just, like, the people who are that devoutly watching, like, looking at CNN, there's sort of a value in getting in front of them, even though everyone there hates you. | ||
| Like, I remember when we had Marjorie Taylor Greene on, and we had people, you know, say afterwards, like, I never would have listened to you ever because I had just written you off, but, like, being exposed to you actually kind of— I gotta be fair. | ||
| I understand, you know, J.D. | ||
| Vance and Marjorie are trying to reach older voters. | ||
| And so if you're trying to reach the 65-plus age group, And I mean this seriously, CNN is one of the places you will go to do it, and so would MSNBC and Fox News. | ||
| And that is a very powerful voting bloc, more so than younger people. | ||
| So it actually does make sense. | ||
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Yeah, like Kevin Roberts went on MSNBC, the president of the Heritage Foundation, over the weekend to talk about Project 2025. | |
| I feel like he got in front of so many eyes that would never have even known who he was. | ||
| And that's definitely valuable. | ||
| And there's a value, especially with Project 2025, with this thing that the left-wing media is treating like the boogeyman, right? | ||
| That was really interesting because when they were talking about an illegal alien who murdered a child, they got offended that one of the other guests referred to the murderer as an illegal alien. | ||
| They're like, we don't say that here. | ||
| And that's what people need to see. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| And he said, no, they're illegal aliens. | ||
| That's a legal term! | ||
| He wasn't insulting the person, he was like, they're illegal aliens, what do you mean? | ||
| Let's do this, let's advance to, I talked about this a bit in the opening, but I want to show you this tweet from me. | ||
| This is breaking news. | ||
| I was hoping someone else had written about it before, but I tweeted this. | ||
| CNN is now threatening any social channels that provide commentary on the debate, stating they will not allow the use outside of CNN. | ||
| I said, commentary on a presidential debate is the epitome of fair use, and we fully intend to provide insight and real-time fact-checking Thursday, live. | ||
| So, I'll recap the story for you guys that missed it. | ||
| Last week, I received a message from YouTube, from a YouTube representative, saying they would like to speak with me on the phone about upcoming election season, to which I said, of course, we set a meeting. | ||
| Earlier today, I had the phone call in which they said, In a manner of speaking, I'll paraphrase that CNN had reached out to them because they know | ||
| What, do you have tens of thousands of YouTube channels that do fact-checking and commentary on presidential debates? | ||
| One of the issues, they said, is that this is not a commission on presidential debates debate. | ||
| It is a CNN copyrighted event, or something to that effect, and they're requesting everybody reach out to them if they're going to, you know, like rebroadcast or something. | ||
| And I said, sure. | ||
| And I was like, I can provide CNN that courtesy. | ||
| I know Fox News will be simulcasting the debate. | ||
| And however, I don't consider what we're doing going, it's not going to be a simulcast or a rebroadcast. | ||
| It is going to be direct fact checking and commentary on the statements made by the President of the United States and the frontrunner for the 2024 election, which I believe is the epitome of fair use. | ||
| So, but in a sign of good faith and goodwill, I reached out to the representative at CNN, to which YouTube connected me, and I said, hey, here's what we're going to be doing. | ||
| This is how we're going to do it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And the response was something, you know, again, paraphrasing, but it was like, confirming we are not allowing YouTubers to rebroadcast only certain, you know, websites and our digital outlets will be allowed, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| To which I responded, commentary and fact-checking on presidential debates is the epitome of fair use, and we will do this. | ||
| Hope that helps. | ||
| You know, my attitude was kind of like, hey, let's make sure they understand what we're doing beforehand. | ||
| They have no legal leg to stand on. | ||
| But this is really interesting. | ||
| Now, I did put up a tweet for Elon Musk. | ||
| Not that I expect him to answer in the immediate, but you know, Elon is... We're on the show for a couple hours, Elon. | ||
| You know, if you want to give a live update, it'd be cool. | ||
| On X, Elon answers. | ||
| He really does. | ||
| He's very attentive to his customers, which are humans and not the advertisers, for the most part, which I respect. | ||
| And I said, question for Elon Musk, will live commentary and fact-checking shows for the CNN debate be taken down if CNN files a DMCA or will X default to fair use and have the matter handled externally? | ||
| We plan to simulcast. | ||
| So here's how it works. | ||
| On YouTube, if you, I'll put it this way, We commented live, and it's a bit of insult, but that's commentary too, the Republican presidential debates. | ||
| We made fun of many of these people. | ||
| We praised many of these people. | ||
| We fact-checked them in real time. | ||
| After the show had ended, I think it was a couple weeks later, Fox had filed, I believe it was Fox, right? | ||
| It was Fox that announced they were going to be stopping this, takedowns. | ||
| On numerous videos. | ||
| And I know David Pakman had gotten hit. | ||
| We did. | ||
| And we immediately countered. | ||
| So the show, it goes down for a copyright and instantly goes back up. | ||
| And I said, this is fair use unquestionably. | ||
| Fox dropped their claim. | ||
| No question. | ||
| You're not going to make the argument that you can have presidential candidates talking about how they will affect the lives of 330 plus million people. | ||
| And I can't tell those people they're wrong. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| The issue with a live show is, YouTube defaults to taking the show down. | ||
| And if a live stream is ended, it is gone. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| It's in the middle of a live broadcast. | ||
| So I'm wondering how Axl will handle this, because we intend to simulcast for this reason, because this is fair use, but we will likely be attacked by these big networks. | ||
| Now, to the bulk of the story, which is the reason why they're doing this, I don't believe this is a money play. | ||
| Apparently, I don't know if this is true, CNN is not charging money to the other networks that are distributing, in whatever way they are, I don't know which ways, the debate with Trump and Biden. | ||
| If that's the case, it's a marketing play, I suppose? | ||
| But then why provide rules to other networks, and why deny YouTubers the right to comment? | ||
| Or, they don't have the ability to deny that right, but why attempt to attack anybody who would? | ||
| I think this is part of their CNN's pro-Democrat play. | ||
| And of course, they're probably going to go after pro-Democrat personalities, don't get me wrong, but they want to instruct and control the narrative. | ||
| They're going to shut off Trump's mic. | ||
| They've already, we saw that this morning, Cassie cutting off the mic of Trump's press secretary. | ||
| And the last thing they want is for other channels to watch the debate and say Biden is wrong. | ||
| So this is why they're doing it outside of the Commission on Presidential Debates, because they're going to try and use every legal move they can to stop us from fact-checking this and calling out Joe Biden. | ||
| I mean, I think I could understand where there has to be a question of copyright. | ||
| I think it's fair that you reached out to CNN per the request, but it does seem like ultimately this is about trying to retain viewers. | ||
| You know, typically all of these presidential debates are not – they are a chance to have a spike in viewership that they don't typically have, and fewer people are watching these events. | ||
| And I think it's because of alternative platforms like YouTube, Rumble, X, where you can get better perspective than, you know, whoever MSNBC has on, | ||
| let's say. | ||
| And I wonder what—so I don't remember who's hosting the second debate in September. | ||
| There already is a second debate? | ||
| Yeah, there's two scheduled. | ||
| Typically, there are three presidential debates. | ||
| Well, yeah, but those are the commissioned presidential debates. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And so Biden said, we'll do two. | ||
| And so it was like, that was when I was like, because you're tired already. | ||
| But you're tired thinking about it. | ||
| So there should be one in September. | ||
| I don't remember if there's a which network is hosting, but there is a level for Trump of like, let's just get the CNN one out of the way, right? | ||
| Like he is better in debate anyways. | ||
| And the campaign is going in knowing that maybe the mainstream platform that that dislikes them more is first, knowing that a lot of their | ||
| support is online, really. | ||
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It could be both though, right? Like there's this attempt to retain viewers, but also this attempt to | |
| shut down alternative viewpoints. | ||
| Their competition. | ||
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Yeah. Well, and even more than competition, you know, I think some of the most popular YouTubers | |
| are going to be talking about this in ways that CNN wouldn't want. | ||
| Yeah, I don't get the sense that this is about viewership so much as it's about controlling narrative. | ||
| I really don't think that CNN has as much concern with viewership as they do with access. | ||
| Because if they have access to the presidency, if they have access to the administration, if they have access to the bureaucracy, money doesn't matter. | ||
| How much do you want to bet the Democrats reached out to CNN and said, we will do the CNN debate outside of the commission, but we expect you to control copyright? | ||
| There's zero surprise. | ||
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They absolutely had a whole list of rules like that. | |
| Well, we even know they did, right? | ||
| With the rules for how Biden would go about it and what would be allowed and what wouldn't. | ||
| I really do want to focus on the access part. | ||
| This isn't about whether or not CNN is going to have the viewership that alternative sources would have or their competition would. | ||
| This is about making sure that the narrative that gets to the normies the independent voters, the people that are undecided. | ||
| This is about making sure that the narrative that they hear is the one that CNN wants. | ||
| We saw already, Snopes just came out recently talking about how the Verifying People hoax was actually a hoax. | ||
| If you go to Snopes now, it says that it was a hoax. And they're listing it as false. | ||
| Now, this is a big deal, and the administration knows it. | ||
| The people that are in positions of power that do control the narrative, or have a strong desire to control the narrative that the average normie hears, they are extremely motivated, not monetarily, but definitely by power and access, to continue to support the narrative that is set forth by the administration. | ||
| Right, and the administration, I mean we saw this from Axios last week, they consider this election to be on a viral battlefield, right? | ||
| Because of all these videos of Biden having gaffes and somewhere around it looking old. | ||
| I think ultimately the big fear of the Biden-Harris campaign and therefore the DNC is that alternative media will immediately clip any sort of gaffe and get it out faster. | ||
| So if we're allowed to rebroadcast it, it means that it basically continues this idea that like It's actually Trump supporters who are able to make things go viral and not the Democrats. | ||
| And so therefore, having it rebroadcast, it makes it that much more likely that any issue Biden had gets there faster. | ||
| If you're not allowed to broadcast it, you have to wait for them to release it in some way, then probably they would not. | ||
| They wouldn't release anything that was unflattering to Biden, or at least they would hold it for as long as possible. | ||
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What Fox did last time was different, right? | |
| Because I remember, you know, in terms of sharing clips of the debate, we were having concerns about doing that from a media perspective. | ||
| Fox's situation was different, right? | ||
| Well, Fox had said something like, you are not allowed to rebroadcast or whatever, but there's a big difference between—this is what they do, right? | ||
| They're going to say, you better not rebroadcast, and it's like, don't worry, we won't. | ||
| We're fact-checking and commenting, which is fair use. | ||
| So thank you and have a nice day. | ||
| It's wholly transformative. | ||
| It's public commentary. | ||
| It's public participation. | ||
| That's why Fox backed down in the end. | ||
| If somebody launches a YouTube stream which just clones CNN's broadcast without any commentary or anything, fine. | ||
| I mean, that's just taking their stream. | ||
| I respect that. | ||
| But what they're trying to do is prevent people from calling out politicians by trying to associate the two as being the same. | ||
| Oh, you're rebroadcasting? | ||
| No, we're providing commentary and criticism. | ||
| Outright fact-checking. | ||
| I guarantee you, they're not going to fact-check Biden on that stage. | ||
| If Donald Trump says, Joe Biden cut a deal with the President of Ukraine to fire a prosecutor in exchange for a billion dollars in loan guarantees, it just so happened that that prosecutor was investigating a company where his son worked, they're going to say, cut his mic. | ||
| We're going to say, here's the video proving it. | ||
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I already have images of Trump literally just like us watching while he says things with no audio. | |
| I feel like that's going to be half of the debate. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, they're going to be cutting him off. | ||
| They're going to be doing, I mean, they're going to do the same thing that they did to, I believe they did it to Romney where they were saying that no, I forget who it was that made the remark, but it was during one of the debates and they were You know, counteracting what Romney said. | ||
| And they were wrong. | ||
| CNN was incorrect. | ||
| They said, no, this is not true. | ||
| Something about what Romney said. | ||
| I wish that I remember the specifics. | ||
| But they do this. | ||
| This is the norm nowadays. | ||
| And it's been normal for 15 years now. | ||
| Since Barack Obama. | ||
| Right? | ||
| The idea that this is something that's out of the ordinary anymore, that's a ridiculous idea. | ||
| The idea that there is a legacy media outlet that has any interest in providing actual, factual information, that has gone out the window and went out the window over a decade ago. | ||
| Let's jump to this article from Snopes. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Snope's headline, No, Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists Very Fine People, published June 20th, 2024. | ||
| Media matters most affected. | ||
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Literally. | |
| Yes, literally. | ||
| About something that happened in 2017. | ||
| And the media matters, some of the media matters, some of the alumni from the media matters were out in force claiming that Donald Trump did. | ||
| No, Snopes, you're wrong, that he was there, blah blah blah. | ||
| If that's the case, you're on the side of commies and you're responsible for the hundred million dead. | ||
| We gotta show this, we gotta show this. | ||
| Okay, so it says on August 15th, 2017, Good seven years ago! | ||
| There's some seven-year-old kid who's like, you know, let's be real, there's like a 14-year-old kid who is just now, like, starting to hear stuff on the news and he was like, I was playing with Play-Doh when this happened, like, and now it's being fact-checked, but let me read. | ||
| Then-President Donald Trump called neo-Nazis and white supremacists who attended the Charlottesville rally very fine people false. | ||
| In a news conference, After the rally protesting the planned removal of a Confederate statue, Trump did say they were very fine people on both sides, referring to the protesters and the counter-protesters. | ||
| He said in the same statement that he wasn't talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be condemned totally. | ||
| Editor's note! | ||
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Oh boy. | |
| Some readers have raised the objection that this fact check appears to assume Trump was correct in stating that there were very fine people on both sides of the Charlottesville incident. | ||
| That is not the case. | ||
| This fact check aimed to confirm what Trump actually said, not whether what he said was true or false. | ||
| Um, what? | ||
| For the record, virtually every source that covered the Unite the Right debacle concluded That it was conceived of, led by, and attended by white supremacists, and that therefore Trump was wrong. | ||
| This is an opinion statement. | ||
| This is the most nonsensical thing. | ||
| When Trump says there are very fine people on both sides, it's an opinion statement. | ||
| You can't be right or wrong. | ||
| I mean, like, you can have bad opinions, but the general—there is no true or false in the opinion statement. | ||
| It's, do you agree with Trump's assessment of fine or not? | ||
| Now the reality was Trump was correct. | ||
| There's like a video of a little old lady. | ||
| She's not a nasty person or a neo-nazi or anything like that. | ||
| She's just some little old lady who heard they were gonna tear down her statue and she didn't want it to happen. | ||
| There's a bunch of people like that. | ||
| They're very fine people. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Now, the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, of course they're not. | ||
| They were there and they intended on violence just like, and not every single one, don't get me wrong, but many of them intended on violence and brought weapons for that matter. | ||
| I think there's a video of one guy shooting at another guy. | ||
| So, not a good thing in any respect, but it's like Trump gives opinion on people he saw. | ||
| He's wrong. | ||
| Well, he's not allowed to have opinions because all of his opinions are bad and wrong. | ||
| It's literally just if it is not useful for the narrative that the left wants to portray. | ||
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No, it's not. | |
| And I think what's crazy is there's no need for that editor's note. | ||
| Snopes doesn't have the, like, cojones to just own their fact check. | ||
| Like, your fact check is just facts. | ||
| You shouldn't have to- It's them saying, hey, we don't like Donald Trump either. | ||
| We don't like him either. | ||
| We had to say this thing, but we're still on your side, guys. | ||
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That's the state of journalism now, where you can't even say, like, they report the facts and they're like, we're so sorry that we had to tell you this. | |
| We're sorry the truth doesn't align with your attempts to manipulate. | ||
| But listen, the left doesn't use language in a way to communicate. | ||
| They use language to manipulate. | ||
| the point of language to the left. They don't. They believe that words contain | ||
| power and that to use words is to try to exercise power. | ||
| They don't believe that there is a that you can possibly have an honest | ||
| conversation. They don't believe that anyone can have a come to a disagreement from a | ||
| charitable I see how the right wants to frame things. | ||
| It is all about power, which is why the left is where the crazy people go. | ||
| The psychopaths go there because they are, because they welcome manipulative people. | ||
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They're so, everything is euphemism and you know, I'm a reporter, so I know like I get | |
| all the oppo from the right, right? | ||
| I see how the right wants to frame things. | ||
| I know that on the left, when all this happens, like let's say like on the gender affirming | ||
| care note, the euphemism that they use for trans surgeries, hormones and puberty blockers, | ||
| I know they all get on press calls and they're told, don't say this, say this. | ||
| Which the right doesn't really do, actually. | ||
| The right is terrible at messaging. | ||
| I gotta tell you, I am outraged at Donald Trump over this. | ||
| I am furious. | ||
| I don't know if I can support the man. | ||
| The idea that he would refer to Antifa as very fine people is shocking, and it is shocking to the conscience of this country. | ||
| I'm kidding. | ||
| I will vote for Donald Trump. | ||
| But you get my point. | ||
| When Trump said there were very fine people on both sides, the media's reaction wasn't, oh, you called communists fine people? | ||
| Like, how could you, Trump? | ||
| No, they were like, Nazis. | ||
| It's like, well, there are communists there, too. | ||
| And like, I regard the communists and the Nazis very similarly as bad. | ||
| Same garbage. | ||
| Just as murderous, same garbage. | ||
| The commies get away with more murder because they actually wrap it up in a nice sounding package. | ||
| The Nazis sound bad. | ||
| Well, I think it's true. | ||
| I think another reason why commies get a free pass is because the commies actually helped us stop the Nazis. | ||
| They, you know... | ||
| They did the dying. | ||
| They did the dying. | ||
| We supplied the machines, they did the dying. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| The Soviet strategy in World War II was literally the Zap Brannigan strategy of sending wave | ||
| after wave of your own men until you overload the kill counters on the kill bots. | ||
| That was the same strategy the Chinese used in the Korean War. | ||
| They just sent wave after wave after wave of Chinese people. | ||
| And the guys, some of the guys that were going after the Americans, they were going into | ||
| the field without weapons because they knew there were comrades that were dead and they | ||
| were told to pick up a rifle when you get to the front line. | ||
| There will be dead men, there will be ammo, there will be rifles. | ||
| They just kept sending wave after wave. | ||
| That's what communists do because they don't value life. | ||
| Because they don't believe that human beings are valuable. | ||
| They believe that human beings are cogs in a wheel. | ||
| There's an idea that Hegel came up with that history uses people and casts them aside so the deaths don't matter just so long as you're forwarding the The March of History. | ||
| They believe in a historicism. | ||
| They believe that there is a goal for humanity, which is the communist utopia. | ||
| And it doesn't matter how many people die if you get to the utopia, because they're going to die anyways. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| You're going to die anyways. | ||
| There's no God. | ||
| There's no afterlife. | ||
| You're just a cog. | ||
| You're just a step along the way to the perfected human civilization. | ||
| Is March of History the name of your new album? | ||
| No. | ||
| Stop it. | ||
| But it is actually something that is, it's something very positive, and I don't believe in it much. | ||
| I do think it's a very interesting point, though, and something you should keep in mind. | ||
| The media is never outraged at Antifa. | ||
| They are never... Chris Cuomo, I believe, defended violent protests. | ||
| Who says protests have to be peaceful? | ||
| And then that dude eating the ramen had that viral video where he's like, it's right there in the First Amendment. | ||
| Peacefully assembled. | ||
| But this is what the media does because, well, because the media is aligned with Antifa. | ||
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Yeah, and then when a pro-life grandma prays outside an abortion clinic and begs someone not to abort their baby, she goes to jail. | |
| I can't even... I can barely stay seated when I hear that garbage. | ||
| That is insane. | ||
| The idea that you can't protest... | ||
| Because it is unpopular or the progressives find it distasteful. | ||
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It upsets them. | |
| They don't like it when you do it. | ||
| They find it distasteful so you can't protest. | ||
| But it's perfectly fine for a leftist to say gas the Jews if they're talking about the Palestinian issue. | ||
| We're throwing rocks through storefronts during the summer of 2020, right? | ||
| Like, there are all kinds of things that are allowed by the media. | ||
| I mean, never forget, like, mostly peaceful protests, burning buildings in the background. | ||
| Iconic, right? | ||
| And the media was all like, no, we stand by that assessment of what's going on in major cities across the country. | ||
| They endorsed the attack on the White House. | ||
| They made fun of the president when the Secret Service said you have to get into the bunker. | ||
| They are totally anti-American. | ||
| They don't like our government system. | ||
| You listen to the left, they want to get rid of the Supreme Court or expand it because they don't like the results they get. | ||
| They want to get rid of the Senate because they don't like the results that they get. | ||
| They want to get rid of the Electoral College because they don't like the results they get. | ||
| The whole point, the whole agenda of the left places zero value on any of our founding principles and it is purely about acquiring and exercising power. | ||
| That's it. | ||
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When Roe was being overturned two years ago, actually, today is the anniversary that Roe was overturned, I was going to these protests at the justices' houses, which there's literally a law that says you cannot protest in front of the home of a justice with an intent to influence or intimidate that justice. | |
| It's literally a federal law. | ||
| And yet they let them do this even the day after They arrested that attempted assassination, or the guy that wanted to assassinate Kavanaugh, and it was still going on the same day. | ||
| Well, and has, like, Jane's Revenge or any of those organizations that were involved in, like, doxing the locations of the justices, have they ever faced any kind of consequence for it? | ||
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No, I literally talked to the U.S. | |
| Marshals. | ||
| I went in, like, January. | ||
| They'd been protesting for, like, six months. | ||
| It was freezing cold rain. | ||
| And I asked the U.S. | ||
| Marshals, why aren't you arresting them? | ||
| There's literally a law. | ||
| And they told me that DOJ had told them not to. | ||
| Listen to the list of things that we have just come up with off the top of our heads that the media has endorsed that are illegal. | ||
| Like, straight up, the media supporting illegal activity, up to and including, and granted, the VP is not in the media, but the VP was getting donations to bail out people that were violating property rights and that were destroying things, and arsonists. | ||
| The idea of the rule of law has gone out the window. | ||
| It is imaginary. | ||
| But they're the ones saying, I mean, I just wrote something about this today, but Maxine Water was like, Alluding to all the violence that would happen if Trump is reelected. | ||
| They're saying, no, no, it's them, it's them, it's them, even though it's actually them. | ||
| When Maxine Waters was straight up the one that said, don't let them alone, go after them. | ||
| She literally said that. | ||
| We're going to go from the street level straight up to the highest level of political backroom deals. | ||
| We have this from NBC News. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, this is major breaking news. | ||
| This is historic. | ||
| Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S. | ||
| allowing him to go free. | ||
| The WikiLeaks founder has been held in a prison outside of London for the last five years and fought extradition to the United States. | ||
| He's expected to return to Australia. | ||
| I don't want to waste time. | ||
| I believe the Biden administration has reached a deal with him, terrified that if Donald Trump becomes president and Julian Assange is still stuck at the behest of the U.S., Trump will get leverage through WikiLeaks information against U.S. | ||
| intelligence and the Biden administration and other Democrats. | ||
| That is to say, there's a long story here, but Julian Assange has access to information which is very damaging to the establishment political class in this country, which is Democrats and Republicans, and Donald Trump has been trying to get it. | ||
| He tried to get it in his first term and he couldn't. | ||
| I believe the Biden DOJ cut a deal with Assange so that Trump would not be able to in the event Democrats actually end up losing in November. | ||
| Let's read. | ||
| NBC says, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge this week as part of a plea deal with the U.S. | ||
| DOJ that will allow him to go free. | ||
| Assange was charged by criminal information, which typically signifies a plea deal, with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, the documents say. | ||
| A letter from DOJ official Matthew McKenzie to U.S. | ||
| Judge Ramona Manglona of the U.S. | ||
| District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands said that Assange would appear in court at 9 a.m. | ||
| local time on Wednesday to plead guilty and said that the DOJ expects Assange will return to Australia, his country of citizenship, after the proceedings. | ||
| U.S. | ||
| charges against Assange stem from one of the largest publications of classified information in American history, which took place during the term of Barack Obama starting in late 2009, according to the government. | ||
| Assange conspired with Chelsea Manning, a military intelligence analyst, to disclose tens of thousands of activity reports about the war in Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands of reports about the war in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of State Department cables, and assessment briefs of Guantanamo Bay detainees using his WikiLeaks website. | ||
| Now, I don't believe the U.S. | ||
| government, but let me go to the beginning of this, so for those that aren't familiar with what's going on, I can bring this into modern politics so you understand. | ||
| Julian Assange is at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. | ||
| He was being threatened with arrest over some ridiculous bunk claim about assaulting some women, which never happened. | ||
| And I don't even know if it was assault. | ||
| It was like, I don't want to get too crass, but a condom broke. | ||
| The women went to the police and said, can we get him tested? | ||
| They said, aha, we're going to go get him now. | ||
| They wanted to extradite him to Sweden, so he was in London. | ||
| I believe he was sent on house arrest. | ||
| He went to the Ecuadorian embassy seeking asylum, and they granted to him. | ||
| He was trapped in the Ecuadorian embassy for I think it was, what was it, seven years? | ||
| Might have been longer. | ||
| I think it was seven. | ||
| I know he had two kids during that time. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So what happens is... | ||
| Under the Trump administration, Assange was pulled from the embassy and taken to prison. | ||
| Here's the conspiracy theory, and it is. | ||
| I mean, I think there's reason to believe this may be the case. | ||
| There are sources. | ||
| I've investigated a bit of the story. | ||
| I don't have a lot of crazy information or anything, but I've talked with certain people. | ||
| It would seem Julian Assange made a statement in an interview about Seth Rich. | ||
| There were emails that were leaked to WikiLeaks from the DNC and the DCCC, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and these emails were pretty damning. | ||
| Everybody on the right believed Seth Rich, who worked for the DNC, had leaked these emails by downloading them, handing them off to an associate of WikiLeaks, who then gave them to WikiLeaks. | ||
| There's an individual who has claimed he received these emails via USB. | ||
| The media reported the emails were hacked by the Russians. | ||
| Well, Donald Trump wanted to know what happened, and there's only one person that can tell you, and it's going to be Julian Assange. | ||
| So, the theory goes, and this is rumor and scuttlebutt, that Trump held a meeting, dispatched some of his confidants to meet with Julian Assange, and made him a deal. | ||
| Come to the U.S., provide the evidence and testimony against the Democrats, and you're a free man. | ||
| Julian Assange said no, because he will not compromise his values and the WikiLeaks organization, and sacrifice the source of the information, who will certainly die, or, assuming they didn't already, it'll cause serious harm to the individual's family. | ||
| When Julian Assange refused this, rumor is, again just rumor, that Trump team said, then we're going to bring him to the U.S. | ||
| by force. | ||
| And that's what they were trying to do. | ||
| I don't know if any of that is true. | ||
| I have spoken with some people about the issue, and it seems like it's possible, based on the things I've heard. | ||
| Now, when I hear this, assuming that is the case, and I will stress again, maybe it's all garbage, Joe Biden is concerned, the DOJ, it's not even really Biden, it's the Deep State, that if Trump wins in November, he will be able to extradite Julian Assange to the US, who is currently facing charges, and he will get Julian Assange to give him the information he wants, which will implicate establishment party members. | ||
| This is Republicans as well. | ||
| This is CIA, this is FBI. | ||
| And now, Julian Assange will go free, and Trump will be unable to do so. | ||
| Did something happen, Phil? | ||
| You just gasped. | ||
| I just saw a thing that a muse was posting about Dana Bash's ex-husband, Jeremy Bash, who's one of the 51 intelligence officials who claimed the- Oh, wow. | ||
| So that's someone that works at CNN. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Connected to the 51 people that lied about the election. | ||
| It is entirely incestuous. | ||
| There is no light between CNN and the current administration, and there was no light between CNN and the Obama administration either. | ||
| That was when it became an issue of access as opposed to an issue of money. | ||
| You're not going to be able to pay people enough money to say the money's more important than being able to get an interview with the president or the president's chief of staff. | ||
| That is just the truth. | ||
| Access is far more valuable than money. | ||
| And until people start to realize that, they're gonna keep chasing BS stuff like, oh, lobbyists are spending too much money. | ||
| It's like, yeah, lobbyists and stuff like that are bad, fine. | ||
| But the real problem are the people that are looking for access to the president and to the administration so they can influence policy. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I'm going to say that this is – access is really key to a lot of stuff, and I'm going to sort of awkwardly segue back to Julian Assange for a second, which is to say that, you know, if Julian Assange is released, if he's returned to Australia, I want to see a statement from Anthony Albanese, the Prime Minister of Australia, who's been incredibly supportive of Julian Assange for the last couple – at least the last couple months. | ||
| I don't know his entire history. | ||
| But saying, you know, enough is enough. | ||
| He needs to be released. | ||
| This has gone on for too long. | ||
| And also, you know, the U.S. | ||
| tends to have a really positive diplomatic relationship with Australia. | ||
| We definitely did under Trump. | ||
| And, you know, under the Biden administration, as there's been Indo-Pacific tension, it seems to remain strong. | ||
| So for me, all of this remains sort of uncertain until we know what the counterpart of this deal is saying, until we know what what how Australia is reacting to this and what they are saying. | ||
| I wonder. | ||
| So we got it. | ||
| We got a great super chat from Jason Lindholm. | ||
| He said the plea deal is a set is is a setup. | ||
| The government won't let him expose anything on them. | ||
| He's going unless he's or he'll be on alive. | ||
| I think that actually makes a lot of sense that the Biden DOJ basically says. | ||
| You leave and you never come back or else. | ||
| But they need to cut ties from U.S. | ||
| authority with Assange so that if Trump gets elected, he has no legal means to actually get Assange. | ||
| And I would assume that Jason's correct in there's an implication with the deal they're offering him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You are lucky you are here. | ||
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| It also, to me, would signal that the Biden administration does not think reelection is viable. | ||
| Elon responded. | ||
| I'm more important than Elon Musk. | ||
| I'm president. | ||
| I'm right here right now. | ||
| He's busy. | ||
| He's having tons of children. | ||
| No, the thing is, I really think that it's sort of a signal that the Biden administration does not think that they will be there in 2025. | ||
| And that's why they have to deal with this issue right now in the final month. | ||
| Well, what could be the final months and probably will be the final months of his presidency, because they can't leave a loose end like Julian Assange around if there's any way that that Trump would benefit from it. | ||
| But again, I feel like I can't say anything definitively until we know how the third party in this is reacting, which is actually Australia. | ||
| What's Australia going to do? | ||
| Because there's a chance that Australia is like... | ||
| Donald Trump, Julian Assange is not allowed to go to America to talk to you. | ||
| Please come visit us and have a conversation with him. | ||
| I mean, we don't know until his government says how they're going to protect him or anything else. | ||
| I think one of the big issues, too, is Julian Assange has had bad health for a long time. | ||
| You can't be locked up in a building for that long like the Ecuadorian embassy. | ||
| I think he had like a tooth issue at some point. | ||
| And having just experienced that last week, I was going to tell you, like, everything's fine. | ||
| And then you wake, I woke up at two in the morning with pain at like eight. | ||
| I had to go to the ER. | ||
| And the implications of your gums, like if your gums are infected or whatever, it can have really serious long-term consequences for your health. | ||
| Yeah, Julian was deteriorating. | ||
| I'm so excited for this. | ||
| Julian is a journalist. | ||
| I don't believe the U.S. | ||
| government's claims against him. | ||
| It makes no sense that someone who is working so hard with so many lawyers and the resources behind him would do something as stupid We've all known the rules on working with sources, every journalist does, and Julian Assange not only is not an exception, he's the height of understanding how to deal with this legally because of what he does. | ||
| The idea that he directly contacted, at the time, Bradley Manning, now Chelsea Manning, and was like, hey, let's commit a crime together! | ||
| I just do not believe it for a second. | ||
| Phil, are you going to name your new album Julian Assange is Free? | ||
| We do have an update, though. | ||
| Elon Musk has responded to my tweet. | ||
| Shout out to Elon Musk. | ||
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Thanks for watching the show, Elon. | |
| I feel like I flubbed this initial tweet and said we planned a simulcast. | ||
| That's not correct. | ||
| We plan to provide commentary live, is a better way to put it. | ||
| But I did put that in the original tweet, so it's not so bad. | ||
| But Elon Musk says, the public has a right to see presidential debates however they would like. | ||
| DMCA does not apply. | ||
| However, Ian Miles Chong did say, it'll get DMCA'd regardless, and Axe has no good means to undo those immediately. | ||
| So, I hope Elon sees that from Ian, and that is a good point to be made. | ||
| They may have to make sure this is the case. | ||
| Now, What I will say is, and this is tough because I don't know how much I should be talking about this considering these things are actively happening right now, but I believe there's a possibility that YouTube may take the same stance as Elon Musk, and these social media platforms may actually tell CNN, shove off. | ||
| Now as for Rumble, a lot of people are asking, like, why don't I ask Rumble? | ||
| I gotta be honest. | ||
| Shout out to Chris Pavlovsky. | ||
| I think I already know his answer. | ||
| I'm like 99% sure. | ||
| He's gonna be like, dude, fair use. | ||
| No question. | ||
| I'm not so sure about how X would handle it because X notoriously has the DMCA issue. | ||
| Rumble, not so much. | ||
| So I'm fairly confident that Chris Pawlowski, CEO of Rumble, of all people, I believe he is the most forward-thinking when it comes to these things. | ||
| So I'll just give Rumble a shout-out. | ||
| We're going to be seeing how We do the simulcast. | ||
| We have a... So here's the thing people don't get. | ||
| It's not very, very simple, but it's also not particularly complicated. | ||
| It just makes it annoying to launch, especially multiple streams at once. | ||
| So when we're doing the Culture War podcast Friday mornings, that's simulcast on Tenet Media YouTube as well as X. | ||
| And you need special accounts and special programs to do it. | ||
| To do a three-way simulcast is a bit more difficult. | ||
| Now, some people ask, Tim, why would you go on X and not Rumble if that's the case? | ||
| We're gonna try all three. | ||
| But if we have to choose only one... | ||
| I have two million followers on Axe. | ||
| We've got half a million on Rumble, and no disrespect to Rumble, but Axe is also a different kind of platform which allows for more virality, and I just have more followers there. | ||
| But ideally, we will get the debate show simulcasted everywhere, and that's our plan for now. | ||
| I suppose then, moving on, let's talk about the world ending. | ||
| Hey, welcome to World War Three, everybody. | ||
| Politico reports, Russia threatens consequences for U.S. | ||
| over Crimea missile strikes. | ||
| What exactly? | ||
| Time will tell. | ||
| Kremlin spokesperson warns Washington. | ||
| You know, I think it was Elad who was here. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| It sounds like something Elad would say when he said, they will do nothing. | ||
| And this was a previous issue because, and again, I think it was Elad, Elad Eliyahu, shout out. | ||
| He was just like, every single time the US escalates and blows up Russian ships and sends more weapons, Russia grumbles and does nothing. | ||
| So they're not going to do anything now. | ||
| And this was a previous, I think that was like the HIMARS missiles. | ||
| Now, this is crazy, reportedly civilians were killed. | ||
| Is that? | ||
| Yeah, if I understand correctly, it's five. | ||
| I watched these videos and it was people on like a beach. | ||
| And it was, what did they say? | ||
| Ukrainian forces targeted military radar station in Crimea, used to monitor deep space and handle satellite data. | ||
| And reportedly, here we go, Russia's defense ministry claims to have intercepted four of the missiles. | ||
| Fragments of a fifth detonated in midair after being struck by air defenses, killing four people and injuring 151 on the ground. | ||
| According to the RIA Novosti report, the U.S. | ||
| agreed to deliver long-distance ATACMS missiles with a 300-kilometer range to Ukraine early this year, with the White House also agreeing in May to allow Kiev to use detonated weaponry to hit targets inside Russia and on territory claimed by Moscow. | ||
| Russia's state-owned media outlet TASS reported Monday that the Kremlin has summoned U.S. | ||
| Ambassador to Moscow, Lynne Tracy, to the Foreign Ministry in response to the Crimea | ||
| attack. | ||
| I, I, again, I'm not sure if it was a lie, but I got to agree with that assessment. | ||
| At this point, I'm actually not so sure that Russia will do anything. | ||
| I thought for a while that we would see the use of tactical nuclear weapons. | ||
| They would not back down. | ||
| But if your own civilians are blown up by U.S. | ||
| forces and you say nothing and do nothing, I'm pretty sure the U.S. | ||
| can steamroll you and you will beg and you will bend your knees. | ||
| So Russia Saying, oh well, you know, we'll do something about how you killed Russian civilians? | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Russia is impotent. | ||
| I don't know what to say. | ||
| I don't think that Russia wants to actually get into a direct conflict with the U.S. | ||
| I don't see how that benefits them. | ||
| Russia's got the upper hand in Ukraine. | ||
| They likely are not going to be giving back any of the territory that they've taken in the long run. | ||
| The U.S. | ||
| will likely still continue to do its best to drain Russia by sending money over to Ukraine. | ||
| I wish they'd stop it. | ||
| You're the messenger here. | ||
| Yeah, I'm only saying what seems likely, not what I desire. | ||
| But it's likely that the United States is going to continue to send money to Ukraine to kill Russians because Russians are dying and Russia's expending money and they're expending weapons and etc. | ||
| I don't think that it's going to have a significant effect on Russia, but it does weaken Russia. | ||
| And Russia, I don't care how many people out there are like, oh, America bad. | ||
| The US is still the biggest, toughest guy on the block. | ||
| And whether or not we could stomp a country into the Stone Age in a matter of two months | ||
| or whether it would take more effort and stuff, that's neither here nor there. | ||
| The outcome of most wars, actually, the outcome of any military conflict, say for one involving | ||
| nuclear weapons, is already determined if the participants are the United States. | ||
| The military side will win. | ||
| The politics side, the U.S. | ||
| will lose. | ||
| They'll make bad decisions, they'll do Afghanistan, they'll do Iraq, whatever. | ||
| But the engagements themselves, the United States military wins, and they are going to continue winning until there are significant changes on the conventional battlefield. | ||
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I'm just confused by his phrasing and I'm no foreign policy buff in the extreme, but what exactly time will tell? | |
| Is that not the most vague and, and what did you say, impotent wording? | ||
| Yeah, this is basically, look, it's like imagine two guys are at a bar and one guy hits the other guy in the face and then he falls down, gets up and looks him in squints his eyes and goes, Ooh, I'm going to get you. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| What exactly? | ||
| Time will tell. | ||
| It's like, okay, buddy. | ||
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| Like, what are you going to do? | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| He's going to steal the straw out of his drink later. | ||
| That will very much inconvenience him. | ||
| They're going to do things like support Iran. | ||
| They're going to send money and weapons to North Korea. | ||
| They're going to do the things they've been doing. | ||
| They're going to continue to funnel money to probably to Hamas and Gaza. | ||
| And anything that Russia gives to Iran is going to end up in the hands of Hezbollah. | ||
| So they're going to continue to do what they're doing. | ||
| I don't see them taking on the U.S. | ||
| directly because that's just something that they're going to lose, especially when they're already engaged in a war with Ukraine, which they are winning, but it's costing. | ||
| I think I'm happy to acknowledge my ignorance on this point, but I do think that ultimately the conversation that Russia—the conversation I'm most interested that Russia is having is with other countries it views as diplomatic allies. | ||
| Vladimir Putin was just in North Korea. | ||
| He was in Vietnam. | ||
| There are other countries that are trying to walk the balance of keeping America happy and keeping China happy and keeping Russia happy and I think there are a lot of people, a lot of countries that are beginning to view America as a supporter of aggressors and aggressive in some of the policies it enacts itself. | ||
| So in some ways with anything else. | ||
| You know, I'm sure Russia is upset at its own loss of civilians, but also being able to say like, yeah, America is the toughest guy in the block, but ultimately he is bullying you out of a way of life and he's putting your citizens in danger. | ||
| That's a very challenging narrative for America to overcome, especially during an election year with a change in leadership at home. | ||
| You know, I really do feel like if the U.S. | ||
| blows up Russian civilians and Russia can't do anything, it shows weakness. | ||
| But that being said, I wonder if the Putin position is, you got a guy who half the country thinks took a dump on stage in France. | ||
| How about we just wait a little bit? | ||
| And when Trump comes in, it's over. | ||
| There's no fighting. | ||
| Trump will not tolerate that. | ||
| And we know this because Donald Trump, I believe he ordered an airstrike on Iran and called it off at the last minute, and then publicly stated that the death of the Iranians was not worth the attack. | ||
| I can't remember exactly what it was. | ||
| It was like a U.S. | ||
| drone was taken down or something. | ||
| Trump ordered an airstrike on Iranian targets, was informed of how many people were expected to die in the attack, and then he says, don't do it, pull it back. | ||
| He was like, the amount of people who would die for this is not appropriate retaliation. | ||
| Do you remember during the CNN town hall debate, or not even debate, just town hall, the lady was trying to push him on when would you, you know, how would you end Ukraine or what would you do in Ukraine? | ||
| He was like, I just want people to stop dying. | ||
| You don't want Ukraine to win? | ||
| And he's like, I just want the dying to stop. | ||
| I'm not saying that I can predict this or that I have some kind of inside knowledge, but it seems to me that it would make sense for Putin to be trying to outlast Biden in the hopes that Donald Trump gets in. | ||
| Because Donald Trump actually will want to tell them to stop the war, is my impression. | ||
| I think so too. | ||
| I can't speak for the guys, you know, I can't read minds or anything, but it's my impression that he will actually want to stop the war. | ||
| And that means that he'll put pressure on Zelensky, and that means that Putin will, what I think Putin is hoping for, is to be able to hold the land that he's already taken. | ||
| I don't think that he is actually really that concerned with taking all of Ukraine. | ||
| I think that the territory that he's taken will suffice for now. | ||
| Maybe in the future, if he lives another 10, 20 years, maybe in another five years, he would make some more advances after Donald Trump were to get out of office. | ||
| But I don't think that he would continue to try to push in Ukraine if Donald Trump was the president because I don't see that. | ||
| I think that he would look for the way out because it's his escape route. | ||
| And Putin has lost on another major issue, which is that he didn't want Ukraine to be admitted to NATO. | ||
| Well, Finland got admitted to NATO, which doubled the border that Russia now has with a NATO country. | ||
| I mean, this is something that it's not. | ||
| I mean, it's Finland, right? | ||
| Like there's a certain level of like we're not expecting a conflict there, although there is a certain level of like shifting back and forth of illegal immigrants over that border. | ||
| And Finland has now closed it. | ||
| So, you know, he has lost on something he really wanted that Biden would not agree to, this NATO issue. | ||
| At a certain point, I think he is absolutely willing to come to the table and say, I have some land. | ||
| I'm ready to end this. | ||
| And it's Zelensky who is like, no, the fighting has to continue. | ||
| We can't let go of anything. | ||
| And we really like this money being here. | ||
| You are correct. | ||
| Except for when Trump gets in, Zelensky just goes, my boss got fired. | ||
| Who do I report to now? | ||
| And then Trump's like, I'm your boss. | ||
| He's like, OK, boss, I'll do whatever you say. | ||
| I think so, or he'll go to other European countries and be like, see how mean America is? | ||
| They didn't elect the guy who gave me all this money. | ||
| I think Zelensky's going to be like, tell me what to do, boss. | ||
| Maybe, yeah. | ||
| I don't see him as the actual president of Ukraine. | ||
| I think Zelensky's just- He's not supposed to be right now. | ||
| He suspended elections. | ||
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| Just trying to save his neck, I imagine, right? | ||
| Because he's the guy, if Russia gets a hold of him, he's going to die. | ||
| They'd kill him, you know? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| No, because he's just a TV personality, you know what I mean? | ||
| Like, he's the guy who literally played the president on a TV show in Ukraine, for real. | ||
| And they elected him. | ||
| Did they? | ||
| And I imagine if they capture him, Putin's gonna be like, you know, it's your boss we want, you're just some random guy. | ||
| Now, that being said, possibility because he does still represent that image. | ||
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Yeah, so publicly, too. | |
| Have you guys seen Iron Man 3? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, it's like that, right? | ||
| The Mandarin is played by Ben Kingsley. | ||
| And I was so excited in the trailer for that, because I'm like, oh, they're doing the Mandarin, the villain for Iron Man. | ||
| And he's like, America! | ||
| And I'm like, oh! | ||
| And then they did a swap, the old switcheroo. | ||
| Ben Kingsley's character is like some stoner guy who's an actor on TV and has no idea what's going on. | ||
| I'm like, that's Zelinsky. | ||
| If you got him in a room, he'd be like, look, I'm a comedian on TV. | ||
| I have no idea what's going on. | ||
| I've never seen actual frontline battle. | ||
| I just do soundstage stuff. | ||
| Yeah, and he does feel like he's performing all the time. | ||
| Like, you saw the video of him doing the single ladies dance and, like, the guitar. | ||
| Like, hard to take that seriously. | ||
| But then also he's, like, he actually has a costume for this conflict, right? | ||
| He's always in military fatigues or military-esque clothing to remind people that they're in conflict, even when he's, you know, obviously nowhere near any sort of fighting and he's in whatever country asking for money. | ||
| In the White House. | ||
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Right! | |
| You couldn't put on a suit? | ||
| And he's like, no, I have this costume I've got to stick with. | ||
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| All right, let's tone things down and jump to American domestic politics again. | ||
| We have a story from OutKick. | ||
| I'm so excited for this one. | ||
| Taylor Swift lyrics enrage social media. | ||
| But are people overreacting? | ||
| So, well, Bettridge's laws of headlines, I think that's what it's called. | ||
| Can you fact check me on that one? | ||
| Is that whenever a news headline ends with a question mark, the answer is no. | ||
| However, in this instance, you don't need to ask the question. | ||
| People are overreacting. | ||
| Basically what happens is, and of course, you know, Hannah Clare being a major Swiftie. | ||
| So here's this video. | ||
| I'm gonna play this video for you, and I'd like you to hear what Taylor Swift has to say to her audience. | ||
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You guys hear that? Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| She sang F the Patriarchy, and all the kids cheer along, and conservatives are losing their minds. | ||
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I'm so glad we're talking about this because, first of all, David Hooksett is a friend of mine, and I'm a Swiftie. | |
| And you know the truth. | ||
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I do. | |
| The truth is, it's an old song, and she's talking about a guy- She is! | ||
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Jake Gyllenhaal. | |
| It was Jake Gyllenhaal. | ||
| Jake Gyllenhaal. | ||
| We know! | ||
| This is what always happens, people overreact, they don't get the full context. | ||
| So when I saw a video of Taylor Swift saying F the Patriarchy, I am not a Swifty, I was like, I googled searched F the Patriarchy Taylor Swift, saw the song, listened to it, and I was like, oh, she's saying, you threw me your car keys, and you had a keychain that said F the Patriarchy. | ||
| She's like insulting the guy! | ||
| It's a song about the fact that she dated a male feminist who treated her badly. | ||
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It's a 10 minute long song about how this crashed and burned. | |
| That has been in her set list for this tour from the beginning. | ||
| I know I saw it in Colorado last summer, right? | ||
| Everyone yelled it then, too. | ||
| Conservatives, like, I get that you're upset about this. | ||
| You're not listening to the context, and also you're, like, panicked, pearl-clutching at something that you're so out of touch with. | ||
| It's honestly sort of sad because, like, this is one of the most viral tours. | ||
| Every time she goes on stage and changes her costumes, it goes everywhere. | ||
| And you guys couldn't figure out that this has been a song lyric for actual years. | ||
| It's not just that, it's that the song's critical of the guy. | ||
| Yes! | ||
| She's not saying this for herself. | ||
| She's quoting that he did it. | ||
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Right. | |
| She's condescending to the guy. | ||
| Imagine if Charlie Kirk got on stage and then started yelling, you got people who are saying it's not enough to not be racist. | ||
| We got to be actively anti-racist. | ||
| And then everyone started booing him and posting clips being like, how dare you say that, Charlie? | ||
| He's saying, don't do that. | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
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I get frustrated with this whole conversation because, first of all, I would just like to say, I am very conservative. | |
| I would never call myself a feminist. | ||
| I'm very pro-life. | ||
| You know, I am probably the opposite of everything that Taylor Swift stands for. | ||
| That being said, I feel like conservatives, especially conservative men, embarrass themselves by their takes on Taylor Swift because what they're trying to do is say, look, she's teaching young women bad things. | ||
| She's so liberal. | ||
| We want her to be this paragon of liberalism. | ||
| A billionaire capitalist is teaching people bad things? | ||
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But it's like, actually, if you look at what she sings, she's pretty tame compared to every other female singer out there. | |
| And I'm not saying she's a good example for little girls. | ||
| Like, I don't think little girls should be listening to someone say, F the patriarchy. | ||
| But at the same time, she's just Taylor Swift. | ||
| She's a megastar. | ||
| And this song is a 10 minute, like, 10 minute review of a relationship she had with a male feminist and how it was bad. | ||
| Like, I'm sorry, conservatives, you should recognize what a win this is. | ||
| I think one of the original tweets that went viral is from Mary Morgan of Pop Culture Crisis. | ||
| I think she needs a Hannah Clare intervention to explain the nuances of Taylor Swift to her. | ||
| Look, I mean, again, it's funny because that song, you know, it's called All Too Well. | ||
| It came out back in the day. | ||
| Then she re-recorded all of her albums. | ||
| And this one in particular, she made 10 Minutes Long. | ||
| She added this part about the keychain or whatever else. | ||
| It's super old news. | ||
| People were like, I remember people writing about it back then, like, ooh, she says F the patriarch in contact of this thing. | ||
| But again, like, it's actually a song about a male feminist who treated her badly. | ||
| Listen, listen, like, All Too Well is a really well-crafted song. | ||
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It's actually beautiful. | |
| Like, people, people like to get on Taylor Swift. | ||
| Listen, like, because she's popular and because, you know, she's, whatever, they don't like her teeth or whatever. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| But like, she is an extremely accomplished songwriter for a reason. | ||
| She plays piano, she plays guitar, she does all this while she's singing. | ||
| Like, she performs really well. | ||
| So this idea that she's like some hack and that you can dunk on her as being some kind of, you know, product of the Of a record company or something? | ||
| That is a complete and total clown show, and you only make yourself unappealing to potential voters. | ||
| Don't hate on popular things just because you're stupid and a loser. | ||
| Especially if you're months late to this, right? | ||
| If she had just added this song to the setlist, I would get where you're like, oh, she says this thing I had no idea about, but it's been there for a long time. | ||
| When's the song from? | ||
| It was on the Red Record. | ||
| No, no, but when's the original? | ||
| It was on the Red Record from 2012 or 13. | ||
| This line wasn't on the original. | ||
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Yeah, this is the 10-minute version. | |
| So she re-recorded it, but again, that was like, what? | ||
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Three or four years ago? | |
| She wrote it back. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Whichever. | ||
| At the beginning. | ||
| Again, she's been on tour for over a year. | ||
| So this is why I don't care about Taylor Swift at all. | ||
| The issue here is not Taylor Swift. | ||
| The issue is, this is the biggest music tour, like one of the biggest music tours ever. | ||
| Normies love Taylor. | ||
| She is not herself singing F the Patriarchy and telling little girls to think that. | ||
| She's telling a story of something she saw. | ||
| I don't get why conservatives are so hell-bent on declaring war on someone who is not at war with them. | ||
| There's no reason to be. | ||
| Many people have pointed out that Taylor Swift She's like, how old is she, 35? | ||
| 34. | ||
| And she's writing now about how she wants to get married and have kids. | ||
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And her hunky football player was on stage last night? | |
| It's prom night! | ||
| But what's frustrating is, again, I don't care about Taylor Swift, you've got to figure out all these pundits, right? | ||
| We got Paul Joseph Watson, we got Darren Grimes, we got Paul, I don't know who that is, TJ Moe, all these people. | ||
| Mary Morgan, we'll talk to Mary. | ||
| because she works here. But all these people need to recognize, like, | ||
| you're going after the normies to convince them of things that are good, and they enjoy listening | ||
| to Taylor Swift sing. So what you need to do is highlight all of the things that Taylor Swift is | ||
| doing well, and I'll put it simply, if a 24-year-old woman is walking down the street, | ||
| apolitical, she doesn't really pay attention, so she probably has a default lib, | ||
| and you walk up and say F. Taylor Swift. | ||
| She's now going to be like, I don't like you. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| She's not going to listen to anything you say. | ||
| You walk up and say, isn't it amazing that we have this, like, Young woman who's got the hunky football guy. | ||
| It's like, it's like good old American apple pie. | ||
| The football guy and the cheerleader. | ||
| And she's, you remember when she was singing how she's on the bleachers and whatever? | ||
| And now she's got the guy. | ||
| And that's the American dream to get married and have kids. | ||
| That 24-year-old is going to be like, that's so cool. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And she's going to like you. | ||
| And then you can say, yes, here's what else I think you should agree with me. | ||
| Listen, conservatives don't hate popular things just because you're stupid. | ||
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Right. | |
| You know, I would like to make one more point on this. | ||
| I think the conservatives get it so wrong on on her music and other popular female musicians in that she's singing about love all the time. | ||
| She's not singing about politics. | ||
| This is a crazy thing. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why isn't this article about like WAP or like literally I could probably go on the Billboard Hot 100 right now and find 50 songs that are just degenerate garbage. | ||
| Or where were all the conservative commenters? | ||
| I mean, some of them did pick this up, but when Olivia Rodrigo, who's also a pop star, was giving out Plan B at her concert. | ||
| She got roasted for that. | ||
| She did. | ||
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And her target audience is younger girls. | |
| That's my thing, though. | ||
| There is actually something way more serious than Taylor Swift telling you she dated a guy who had an F the Patriarchy keychain on his keys. | ||
| Let's hold these things in comparison here. | ||
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Right. | |
| And I think it's just a fundamental misunderstanding of the topic at hand. | ||
| You know, everyone wants to be viral now. | ||
| Everyone wants to have a quick take. | ||
| So we say stupid things, like Phil's saying, we say stupid things about things we have no idea about, and then it just makes us look dumb. | ||
| And out of touch! | ||
| Like, come on! | ||
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This has been going on for like over a year! | |
| And to Tim's point about your average 24-year-old girl on the street, this is kind of a cool moment that Taylor Swift is in. | ||
| She was posting last night about how much she loves her boyfriend. | ||
| Do we want to repel Taylor Swift, too? | ||
| I'm not saying she's going to become some conservative, because that's naive. | ||
| But at the same time, why not encourage her in these good things? | ||
| I'll tell you this. | ||
| I'll tell you what I think of Taylor Swift. | ||
| I think behind the scenes, she's a fair-weather conservative. | ||
| There are a bunch of rock stars that I will not out. | ||
| Okay, but they're fair-weather conservatives behind the scenes. | ||
| They're basically saying like, oh, I'm gonna vote for Donald Trump. | ||
| I vote for all the Republicans, but I got music to sell and I don't want to get political in my product. | ||
| You know, and I think that's wrong because the left is the opposite. | ||
| So it's annoying, you get a lot of these celebrities, it's the most annoying thing in the world. | ||
| Celebrities, pro athletes, actors, musicians, whatever. | ||
| And they'll message me and be like, oh man, I'm so excited, I'm gonna vote for Trump. | ||
| And I'm like, hey, why don't you post that on Instagram? | ||
| And they're like, oh no, I wouldn't do that. | ||
| And I'm like, dude. | ||
| The left won't stop doing that. | ||
| You need to start. | ||
| I'm willing to bet. | ||
| You look at where Taylor Swift is from. | ||
| I know people post that documentary clip where she's crying about Trump or whatever, and I'm like, dude, I'm willing to bet. | ||
| Behind the scenes, she is like moderate right. | ||
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No, she's dated multiple guys. | |
| Who's that? | ||
| Mattie Healy? | ||
| Yeah, from 1975. | ||
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Yeah, he's very controversial and she got very angry. | |
| She wrote a whole song about how everyone tried to tell her she couldn't date him because of politics and she was furious. | ||
| So I would believe that, Tam. | ||
| I mean, she definitely... I mean, her dad was like a rich Republican, people found out and were like, really? | ||
| Yeah, he owns a Christmas tree farm, right? | ||
| Isn't that true? | ||
| One of the things that we talk about frequently here is we have to endorse family values, and we have to endorse basically normalcy. | ||
| We don't want to center the things that are essentially on the outside and on the margins, because they tend to be on the margins for a reason. | ||
| Taylor Swift is dating a man. | ||
| Taylor Swift probably could or may get pregnant by that man through normal means. | ||
| If that happens, the fertility rate of the U.S. | ||
| is going to jump to like 2.1. | ||
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It is. | |
| Thank goodness. | ||
| Stop being stupid. | ||
| I said this like six months ago. | ||
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I did too. | |
| She's gonna usher in a baby boom. | ||
| And I think this is the thing that people don't appreciate. | ||
| Every conservative dad who is watching this clip being like, hold on, hold on. | ||
| They should go to their daughters and be like, yeah, it sounds like that guy who was claiming to be against the patriarchy treated her really badly. | ||
| Imagine what happens when Taylor's next album is all about being a mom. | ||
| How she loves her kids and how she made Rice Krispie treats. | ||
| And then she makes a music video with her kid and she's like stirring the marshmallow and smiling. | ||
| And then what all of the Swifties who are going to be in their mid to late 20s are going to be wanting to do. | ||
| Her latest album has this line because she's talking about whatever relationship because she just dated someone for like six years and they didn't get married or have kids. | ||
| She has several references to the fact that like she wanted to have kids, she waited at the altar, she gave you all the stolen youth for free. | ||
| This is really interesting messaging. | ||
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It was super powerful and she literally said, you stole my good years. | |
| And that is a current, very relevant topic. | ||
| This is something young women need to hear. | ||
| And I get that you don't love Taylor Swift. | ||
| You don't have to love her. | ||
| But also these are messages young women should actually be hearing that you can't date someone forever and ever. | ||
| And then when they don't marry, you'll be like, it's cool. | ||
| I'll just keep waiting. | ||
| All of the conservatives that are giving her crap and stuff, they're doing it entirely, what they're doing is totally counterproductive to what their stated messaging is. | ||
| It's counterproductive and they're only doing it to raise their own celebrity level. | ||
| So that way they can get the hot dunk on Taylor Swift so maybe it'll go viral. | ||
| It's self-serving, it's counterproductive, it's bad for any type of conservative agenda at all. | ||
| It is stupid. | ||
| Stop being stupid, especially in election years, you stupid, stupid idiots. | ||
| Our fertility rate is too low for this. | ||
| Let's jump to this next story. | ||
| We've got some Axios. | ||
| This is really interesting. | ||
| Vivek Ramaswamy meets with BuzzFeed CEO amid activist campaign. | ||
| Oh boy. | ||
| He brought Patrick Bet-David and Chris Bough from Red Seat Ventures. | ||
| We'll get into that in a second. | ||
| The news is, Vivek Ramaswamy and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti recently met for more than an hour to discuss the former presidential candidate's activist campaign against the media company. | ||
| He's turning the company around. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| I love that his thing is like, I think we can save you, and they're like, he's against them. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Ramaswamy announced his BuzzFeed stake with an incendiary letter. | ||
| Full disclosure, too, I also bought a bunch of shares in BuzzFeed, too, because I really just would love to own BuzzFeed. | ||
| What is this? | ||
| Let me see. | ||
| Where am I at with BuzzFeed? | ||
| I don't have a lot of BuzzFeed. | ||
| I've got 23,000 shares-ish, or so, and I think it's a good buy. | ||
| I'm not telling anyone what to do, but I just want to make sure that's known, because I'm reporting on a story about BuzzFeed. | ||
| But when I heard that The Vape was going in and trying to save the company, it seemed like... | ||
| He might actually do it, and then it seems like a goodbye. | ||
| But, you know, again, just make sure that's full disclosure. | ||
| They say BuzzFeed stock climbed above $3 per share upon Ramaswamy's initial disclosure of a 7.7% ownership. | ||
| He's since increased that now to 8.9. | ||
| He met with the CEO, and they say two of the three individuals he wants added to the company's board. | ||
| Chris Balfe of Red Seat Ventures. | ||
| Full disclosure, Red Seat Ventures also does our ad sales. | ||
| And podcaster Patrick Bet-David Full disclosure, we know that guy. | ||
| Ramaswamy's third director pick, OutKick founder Clay Travis, did not attend but was briefed. | ||
| All three proposed directors, who hadn't been publicly identified until now, are veterans of conservative media. | ||
| Ramaswamy claimed in the meeting that several former BuzzFeed employees and early investors reached out to him, saying the company needed change. | ||
| He also got reminded that shareholders would likely need to vote on any major change. | ||
| Now Ramaswamy's got 9% and he's asking for a 37.5% piece of the board. | ||
| Ramaswamy tells Axios the meeting was constructive. | ||
| A BuzzFeed spokesperson says we appreciate Vivek Ramaswamy's recommendations and they will be sent to governance as per the formal process that he is no doubt aware of. | ||
| So I'm going to tell you my position because this is very, very... I'm personally involved. | ||
| I normally don't like buying stocks at all. | ||
| Any of them. | ||
| Because we do this show. | ||
| And that means if I report on something, it could directly impact a stock that I'm holding, so I don't like to do that. | ||
| But I will give you that full disclosure. | ||
| When I saw Vivek was making these moves, being somebody who works in media, understanding how media machines operate, hearing what Vivek has said, this to me was... I'm thinking to myself... | ||
| I know how this stuff works. | ||
| I'm confident in Vivek, one of the smartest guys I've ever met. | ||
| This seems like he could actually turn the company around. | ||
| I would love to own BuzzFeed, so I bought as much as I did. | ||
| This is going to be interesting because I do believe Vivek's going to win, and BuzzFeed may become normal. | ||
| I think it's weird they called his letter incendiary. | ||
| Like, if you read his letter, he's like, hey, I buy your stock because I believe that this company has value and here are some ways you can turn it around. | ||
| And, you know, I mean, I guess it's really calling them out. | ||
| At one point he points out that they have – they're basically operating – their operating expenses are something like 147 percent higher than their revenue. | ||
| Like, it doesn't make any sense. | ||
| Where does the money come from? | ||
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Who knows? | |
| It's hard to say. | ||
| I think that this is a very – it's only seeming like a takeover or activist campaign. | ||
| They're only treating it negatively because of Vivek Ramaswamy. | ||
| If it was Taylor Swift being like, I believe BuzzFeed could get better, they'd be like, wow. | ||
| So interesting. | ||
| Girl bus. | ||
| Good job. | ||
| But if the fake Ramaswamy does it, he can only have malicious intentions. | ||
| And he can't just be operating as a businessman, which is, by the way, what he was before he launched his presidential bid. | ||
| You know, it's kind of crazy because as I pulled up... | ||
| You know, my stocks to see, like, to say, like, full disclosure, I've got 23,000. | ||
| I think this news resulted in a huge spike. | ||
| I'm just seeing that right now. | ||
| That Vivek is basically like, hey guys, I have an idea to save the company. | ||
| All of a sudden, everybody's like, please do this. | ||
| Please. | ||
| The fascinating thing is the resistance that still exists. | ||
| Even Axios calling it against the Camp Media company. | ||
| Look at this, against it? | ||
| It's gonna save it! | ||
| I want your company to function well and be profitable. | ||
| He's against BuzzFeed. | ||
| Their whole business model is losing money. | ||
| Honest question, where does this money come from? | ||
| Seriously, if they're operating at 147% above their revenue, and the whole of media is like, Viveca is trying to destroy this company, then who's funding it? | ||
| It's a mystery to me. | ||
| The conspiracy theory is that the government is funding these things. | ||
| I don't know if I believe that, but someone's putting money into this to keep this thing afloat. | ||
| There are a lot of wealthy people. | ||
| Let's say a guy owns a cookie factory, and the cookie does $20 million in sales, and he pockets $10 million of that. | ||
| He might spend $5 million a year losing money because he wants to open a mini golf putt putt. | ||
| He loves it, and so he does. | ||
| I'm wondering if there's some billionaire, probably, who's just like, BuzzFeed puts out a positive woke message that they want. | ||
| And so they put money into it to keep it running. | ||
| But that doesn't make sense actually, because then their revenue would be above their costs. | ||
| If a billion—well, I guess it's an investment or a debt financing. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| I don't get it. | ||
| The thing is, when they went public, right, since they've gone public, their shares have crashed. | ||
| It's like 95% down or something like that. | ||
| So even the fact that literally him being like, I am investing in BuzzFeed, and the fact that shares went up, he's already having a more net positive impact than their leadership has had over the last year or however many months it's been since they went public. | ||
| And he is somehow the villain? | ||
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Yeah, it said the stock climbed above $3 a share on his initial disclosure. | |
| After being in freefall for, I mean, I think it's over a year at this point, I could be slightly wrong on that, but he is adding value to the company simply by saying, like, I think this is something you should invest in. | ||
| That's fascinating. | ||
| BuzzFeed is down 93.36% from its IPO. | ||
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I find it fascinating in general since the only thing I know BuzzFeed for are those, like, quizzes, which Disney prints are you, which my friends and I used to take in high school. | |
| What ramen flavor will you eat? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And they'll tell you what your perfect job is? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| The psychological profiles that they were doing, you mean? | ||
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Yeah, it's just like nonsense. | |
| Maybe that's it. | ||
| That's exactly what they were. | ||
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But they've never produced real journalism. | |
| They've only done like hit pieces, right? | ||
| They did have some big stories come out of BuzzFeed News. | ||
| They were the first on a couple. | ||
| I mean, the Harvey Weinstein story at one point, didn't they? | ||
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Oh, were they? | |
| There's a couple. | ||
| And again, I would direct everyone to Because he points that out. | ||
| He was like, at one time you did have some, you know, I think of them as listicles too, but they did have a couple big stories. | ||
| But they shut down BuzzFeed News over a year ago. | ||
| It was like April of last year, I think. | ||
| And so they are existing but without direction. | ||
| And I think, you know, my big takeaway is that he is saying, like, you should have a broader reach of viewpoints. | ||
| He's mentioned having Candace Owens, a bunch of other people on. | ||
| And you should go back to being the size of a startup. | ||
| You should make your business viable and also maybe try to attract a bigger audience. | ||
| And I think that's crazy that they're like, how could he do this? | ||
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Of course. | |
| This crazy guy. | ||
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I was just reading about how, I believe it's the Washington Post, their newsroom is in shambles because they brought in someone new to help resurrect the newsroom because nothing they're writing anymore is getting any views. | |
| Um, and the fact of the matter is, I mean, I work for conservative news outlets. | ||
| I've worked for conservative news outlets for the past, like, six or seven years. | ||
| And we know at these outlets that we exist to fill the void that the other media outlets leave because they're not doing it. | ||
| There's a huge hole, whether it's, you know, like COVID hypocrisy, the governor saying, do as I say, not as I do. | ||
| They just don't cover that. | ||
| So for conservative media, we have this huge plethora of stories that no one else will talk about. | ||
| But for Buzzfeed, all they have to do is tell the truth and they will get Lots of readership. | ||
| They will get lots of views because people want that. | ||
| They don't want to read, for example, the Daily Caller if they're not conservative. | ||
| They want a truthful source that's not going to push them the wrong way. | ||
| And so I think there's a huge gap here for, you know, the so-called moderates that are looking for a news outlet that is truthful and honest, but we just don't have that anymore. | ||
| It doesn't exist. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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And I mean, and I'm not saying conservative outlets are not truthful and honest. | |
| I just think there's a huge population that's just not even going to read that. | ||
| You know, I write news every day, but I know there are people that when they see Daily Signal, they just aren't going to read it. | ||
| Yeah, I think that's true. | ||
| And I think conservatives do this, too. | ||
| I think there's some stuff where you, I mean, like, I'm never going to look at anything from, like, Salon.com and be like, I trust you for sure, guys. | ||
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I'll read it for laughs. | |
| I read it for, like, the perspective, right? | ||
| Like, there are definitely different, like, niche interest outlets that's kind of interesting, like, I think it's roots. | ||
| I'll read their stuff, especially when they write about Candace Owens because they just hate her so much. | ||
| So it's interesting to get another perspective. | ||
| But it's, again, I would click on that knowing that there is a slant as opposed to, you know, NBC, ABC, any of these news outlets that are mainstream that are trying to pretend that they are neutral when actually they obviously also have a bias. | ||
| They're more deceptive than something that is like, you know, we are conservative and that's our bent. | ||
| Let me just pull up some of what BuzzFeed is currently working on. | ||
| Here's one. | ||
| Popular. | ||
| People who won the genetic lottery are sharing how they're basically better than everyone else and it's so freaking true. | ||
| Good grief. | ||
| So let's take a look at their number one trending right here on the big front page. | ||
| Big ol' trending. | ||
| Look at that trending. | ||
| 58 responses. | ||
| 58. | ||
| That's a big number, BuzzFeed. | ||
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58. | |
| Can you say 58, BuzzFeed? | ||
| Wow. | ||
| The most cringy moments in the history of film. | ||
| Their number one is that, but the one with Mindy Kaling has 67 engagements? | ||
| I'm not sure how they decide what's trending. | ||
| Trending number one, here it says. | ||
| Here are the celebs who were spotted at Taylor Swift's heiress tour in London. | ||
| That is good information. | ||
| 29 emojis. | ||
| 29 emojis. | ||
| 29. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Oh, look, they covered this man's nipples and they get 19 comments. | ||
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19. | |
| That's a big number. | ||
| That's good for BuzzFeed. | ||
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This is quality content. | |
| I don't understand how BuzzFeed makes money at this point. | ||
| Their quizzes? | ||
| What if their quizzes are just like a billion dollar industry? | ||
| But then they wouldn't be operating the way they are. | ||
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I don't understand it at all, but... I don't understand Jonah Peretti. | |
| Like, it feels like BuzzFeed is dead. | ||
| There was this when I was – because I've covered it a little – I've been covering Vivek's, you know, apparently hostile takeover of BuzzFeed, you know, since he kind of announced it. | ||
| And I find it really interesting because at one point I was reading the statement from Peretti where he's effectively saying to the board like, you know, they've been losing money. | ||
| Their stock price is down. | ||
| He's like, don't worry. | ||
| I'm going to start making money. | ||
| I'm going to start taking that more seriously. | ||
| Don't worry, guys. | ||
| How are you still – why did you not get fired? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Who was on the board where they're like, this guy is – well, we'll just hang on. | ||
| We'll keep giving him chances. | ||
| They've had mass – like, multiple rounds of mass layoffs. | ||
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Right. | |
| I mean, that does lend credence to Tim's theory that there's someone that just doesn't really care that they're losing money and is willing to bankroll it. | ||
| I guess. | ||
| But why would you – I mean, maybe it's a psychological experimentation, right? | ||
| Somebody's collecting all the data on all their users. | ||
| Well, yeah. | ||
| They spend a lot of time putting out those I mean, they spent a decade putting out those silly quizzes. | ||
| And all that was was just collecting data like that. | ||
| The reason for it was just to get people to click and collect data. | ||
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What did they do with it? | |
| I mean, I don't know, but I mean, it's extremely valuable when you can use it to market, to target advertisers. | ||
| And I'm sure that they have the ability to do that. | ||
| Because advertisers collect all kinds of data. | ||
| It's not even just like what you're clicking on, but how long it takes you to click it. | ||
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I mean, they must have sold it. | |
| Facebook has this policy of creating shadow profiles. | ||
| shadow accounts. Yeah, so when you approve Facebook or Instagram or | ||
| Messenger to give to get all of your contacts from your phone, they take | ||
| everything and then they keep that data and then anytime someone else allows | ||
| them to have all the data in their phone, they go ahead and they they they | ||
| match up numbers and names that correspond if they have to Nate two | ||
| different phones with the same name and number, they create a profile for that | ||
| person and then they'll start doing things like looking for those for | ||
| looking for people to check those people into places so they will literally | ||
| track your location even if you don't have a Facebook account if you've never | ||
| They still do this to this day and it's a constant thing that's going on. | ||
| This is not new, this is consistent. | ||
| So the idea, the amount of data that organizations like Facebook, Google have is beyond, honestly it's beyond human comprehension. | ||
| We're gonna go to Super Chat, so if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button? | ||
| One like equals one Let's Go, Brandon! | ||
| And head over to TimCast.com, click join us to support our work. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we are entering full swing of the election season. | ||
| Google reached out to me, YouTube, about CNN trying to... I'm gonna tell you my opinion on it. | ||
| It's about CNN trying to stop people from being able to comment on the upcoming debate, so we'll see what happens. | ||
| That's the warning I've received. | ||
| So I have to imagine we're going to need your support more than ever as we get closer and closer to November. | ||
| Go to TimCast.com, click Join Us, and you'll get access to the uncensored Members Call-In Show. | ||
| As a member, you can call in, join the show, talk to us and our guests. | ||
| But we'll read your superchats now, and I'm going to start with this one, which just came in. | ||
| from BL42JD says, nobody cares. | ||
| W's in the chat for Julian Assange. | ||
| They can't even mention such an important breaking news topic, just surface level garbage. | ||
| He's so angry. | ||
| And we talked about Julian Assange twice. | ||
| This is the weird thing. | ||
| It's like they tune in the middle of the show and they're like, why aren't they talking about the same thing nonstop for 80 minutes? | ||
| It's like, we opened the show with it. | ||
| And then we did a segment on it. | ||
| And then we talked about other things. | ||
| Do you think anybody ever clips IRL and makes those like, you know, Tim's opening monologue of IRL on loop for one hour video? | ||
| Like, do you think anyone's ever just like, on loop listening to something we've been saying? | ||
| There's infinite stupidity on the internet, so yes. | ||
| The difficult thing is low-order thinkers fall for these and then perpetuate them. | ||
| It was funny when we did the culture war debate on Friday and we got into an extra hour of | ||
| the show, three hours, talking about civil war. | ||
| We had Richard Spencer on the show and he was like, he said something like, I've only | ||
| ever seen the clips from leftists of you. | ||
| And I didn't realize you're actually talking about history and you've researched the subject matter. | ||
| And I was like, well, yeah, if you watch IRL, we talk great details about like, you know, Russia, France, Spain, US, etc. | ||
| But if you watch just clips from leftists, it's like three seconds of me saying Civil War or something. | ||
| They don't actually hear anything that's being said. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Clint Torres is the first super chat saying, howdy people! | ||
| As he always does. | ||
| Howdy Clint. | ||
| And then Token Black Guy with number two saying, howdy people. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Big7588 says, DOJ filed elder abuse charges against Trump in anticipation of how badly he will thrash Biden. | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| I honestly, you're like, it's not going to happen. | ||
| But if it did, I'd be like, well, you know, they're trying to charge him with everything. | ||
| I like that line. | ||
| I liked Phil's, the swamp runs through her veins. | ||
| Here's how it works. | ||
| Streamlabs OBS has a simulcasting function, but apparently you need to have a paid account, and you don't need to have one. | ||
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We would just be doing it through Restream, ideally. | |
| Restream? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| But we already have a system set up, and we don't want to go through a third-party web browser thing. | ||
| This is exactly what I'm talking about. | ||
| Behind the scenes, it's like, there's a bunch of different programs and different ways to do it, and there's pros and cons to each. | ||
| So we've been looking at this one for a couple months now, ever since YouTube deleted our top episodes. | ||
| And then we do simulcast the Tenet Media Show on Tenet. | ||
| They simulcast it on X and on YouTube. | ||
| And so we actually have a system built for that. | ||
| We just need to see what we can do. | ||
| Because when you're broadcasting out, depending on how you do it, You'll be streaming larger and larger amounts of data, so something to consider that when we do the stream. | ||
| But the plan for now is X Rumble and YouTube, but we will see, I don't know for sure. | ||
| That's the plan for now. | ||
| We just found this stuff out a couple hours ago, and then I was immediately like, okay, let's sort this out tomorrow when we have time or whatever, so we don't know what's going to happen, but that's the plan. | ||
| Greg Dubier says, let's see, what the hell is this Timcast bring back? | ||
| Brimcast? | ||
| She is a much better dictator. | ||
| Look, guys, I'm so appreciative for all the support for my dictatorship. | ||
| I want my coup to be gradual. | ||
| It's gotta have eras. | ||
| Sometimes I'm here, sometimes Tim's in charge. | ||
| Where's Shimcast? | ||
| Shimcast is lame and we never speak of it. | ||
| It just ditched us. | ||
| So you take that back right away. | ||
| No, honestly, I am appreciative of all the support and I'm glad that Tim can, you know, deal with a root canal and you guys are cool with it and not gonna be too upset about their replacement. | ||
| No, no, fortunately, the root canal was a long time ago. | ||
| What? | ||
| I didn't get a root canal on Thursday. | ||
| Well, you had a root canal issue on Thursday. | ||
| Yeah, it was from the root canal I already had. | ||
| We had an idea for a new coffee blend, and we're trying to figure out, because we're going to do, we're planning on doing Focus with Mr. Bocas, which is our espresso roast. | ||
| That will replace Mr. Bocas Pumpkin Spice Experience, which will be retiring. | ||
| We accidentally ordered extra Mr. Bocas, so it still exists, but once it's gone, it's gone forever. | ||
| But then we're going to do the espresso, which is focus with Mr. Bocas in memory of Mr. Bocas. | ||
| But then I was like, we've got to do one for Seamus. | ||
| And I'm talking about our cat. | ||
| And I was like, we should call it the real Seamus, and it's the cat. | ||
| And then we'll put like a picture of Seamus Coghlan in the corner looking up angrily at the cat. | ||
| Kind of confused Seamus, like, the real Seamus. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Seamus 1 is the cat, and Seamus 2 is the cartoonist. | ||
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I have a brother named Seamus. | |
| Oh, there you go. | ||
| He's Seamus 3. | ||
| So Irish of you. | ||
| All right, where are we at? | ||
| Jason Hutchinson says, no in-studio audience, control of mics, etc. | ||
| How do we know this debate will even be live and unedited? | ||
| I mentioned this earlier, it was a good super chat, Jason. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| They can do all sorts of tricks live. | ||
| They can do live editing with a delay. | ||
| So if it's live and they give themselves like a three or five minute delay, they can edit things that are said and nobody would know it wasn't live. | ||
| That's wild. | ||
| There's a lot of poker livestreams, and they're, like, two hours delayed. | ||
| Like, that's how big they— delays can go forever, and it's run like it's a livestream. | ||
| Now, granted, if they did a two-hour delay, the Trump team and everyone's gonna notice something's up, because they're like, hey, that was a while ago. | ||
| But if it's a minute or two, you won't notice. | ||
| Well, and they aren't— there's a lot of restrictions, and one of the restrictions is they're not allowed to talk to their aides during the commercial break. | ||
| So if there were delays or if there was an issue, no one could, like, tell— be like, Trump, they're cutting you off. | ||
| That helps Trump. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| I thought initially, oh, it helps Trump. | ||
| But if you're CNN and Trump's aides can't say, hey, they keep cutting you off or whatever else or they keep doing this with the camera to make you look stupid, like, then you can't prepare it. | ||
| So it's kind of interesting. | ||
| It'd be funny if they make Trump orange, like they put an orange light over him. | ||
| That's very obvious they're doing it, but they just do it anyway. | ||
| Just the whole debate gets more and more orange, like a developing self-tan. | ||
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I feel like post-debate, though, we're going to have amazing clips of the censorship, and then he's going to use that. | |
| I mean, he just made how much money from the last attack on him, and now... I mean, I only see this being good for him. | ||
| People don't know this. | ||
| A lot of people don't know this. | ||
| I think everyone who listens to this show knows this. | ||
| The media would intentionally turn Trump orange. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| They would take pictures of him, and they would put it in Photoshop, and they would skew the color so he would look really bright orange. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| There's one photo of him that was really notorious for this, where the original, he looks kind of normal. | ||
| I mean, he's got a spray tan. | ||
| But they made him look bright orange. | ||
| And then what happens is you get shows like Family Guy, that when they make their version of Trump, he's bright orange based off of the fake reality fed to them by the corporate press. | ||
| These people don't do any research. | ||
| They don't know better. | ||
| I'm just wondering what Biden we're going to get, because he's off in Camp David prepping right now. | ||
| So who knows? | ||
| Who knows what that means? | ||
| Are you saying Biden or Biden? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I wonder which one of the body doubles will be there. | ||
| No, I'm just kidding. | ||
| Of course, I think it'll be the real President Joe Biden. | ||
| It's like Hunter Biden in a wig. | ||
| I feel like that actually wouldn't be better. | ||
| I could be wrong. | ||
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That would be an amazing night. | |
| I would be very excited to report on that. | ||
| Stephen Ellis says, anyone gonna point out that CNN Journal's name is Kay Hunt? | ||
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No. | |
| That's interesting. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Let's, uh, let's go. | ||
| Vince says, how can the mods not be biased or a conflict of interest? | ||
| Dana Bash ex-husband was one of the 50 Intel officials that signed the letter saying the laptop was Russian disinfo. | ||
| Also works on White House Intelligence Board. | ||
| We got an on-air gasp from Phil about this. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So disgusting. | ||
| I think it should be one moderator from different networks. | ||
| The downside is that so many of the mainstream networks lean left, but theoretically it should be one Newsmax host and also the CNN. | ||
| We shouldn't tolerate people that are openly against one of the candidates, right? | ||
| So if you're going to go ahead and take a position, because it is totally possible for people to have an objective view of Donald Trump and Joe Biden. | ||
| I personally cannot, but other people can. | ||
| And the idea that it's acceptable to put people that have literally worked against one of the candidates, and people that are married to people that are currently in positions with the intel community, or have been in positions with the intel community, because you never leave the intel community, they don't take your clearance away for no reason, so you keep it after you leave, and you still know all the people. | ||
| The idea that it's a... | ||
| A fair or legitimate platform to hold this? | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| It's absurd. | ||
| And the American people should reject it out of hand. | ||
| But they've been propagandized since 2012 because of the NDAA. | ||
| This is a good one. | ||
| Cosmic Surgeon says, Trump needs to accuse Joe of ishing his pants at the debate. | ||
| No one will be there to argue it. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| Could you imagine if Trump's up on stage and they're like, former President Trump, you've recently said that you'll engage in the largest mass deportation effort once you become president. | ||
| What would this look like? | ||
| And how will you assure the American people that it'll be done constitutionally? | ||
| And then Donald Trump goes, look, you've got millions and millions. | ||
| Oh, oh, what? | ||
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That smell coming from Joe, is that you? | |
| What would they do? | ||
| That would be hilarious. | ||
| It would be the greatest thing ever! | ||
| What could they do if that happened? | ||
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They would end it. | |
| I feel like they would. | ||
| They would actually cut the stream. | ||
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They would be like, there's too much misinformation. | |
| I think one of the things would be, you know, when Joe like slurs or stutters, like Trump could be like, are you all right, Joe? | ||
| Are you feeling OK? | ||
| I mean, but even saying it in the room is going to freak Biden out. | ||
| Like Biden can still hear him even if we can't. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| If Biden is giving an answer and he pulls a Trina Nash out of pressure, Trump can say something like, I'm not sure I understood what the former, what President Biden actually said. | ||
| Could we get some clarification? | ||
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I'm not sure why they agreed to do this without a live audience. | |
| Legitimately, I don't get that. | ||
| Joe Biden doesn't like live audiences. | ||
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Yeah, but I feel like the Trump campaign really should have said, no, we're going to do it because then there's witnesses, then there's reactions. | |
| And then I, for one, would love to have someone in the room that can tell me, yes, he said X, Y, Z, his mic wasn't on. | ||
| I feel like that would be really helpful and also just more entertaining. | ||
| So, Chafed BM, that's a great name, says, if Joe says something about Trump's fake convictions, Trump needs to call him out for showering with his 16-year-old daughter. | ||
| She wasn't 16 at the time. | ||
| Was she? | ||
| She was younger than that in the diary. | ||
| Yeah, she was like saying she was a little kid. | ||
| Her diary has been confirmed as real. | ||
| Yeah, but I also think the important thing to understand is the strategy with it. | ||
| I don't know that Trump going, Oh, yeah, Joe, well, your daughter says in a diary this, that or otherwise, and they get into a spitting match. | ||
| I really do think that if Joe Biden is giving an answer and he goes, Oh, yeah, yeah, Pat Cadillac, Pat Cadillac, Pat Cadillac, then they say, Trump, you know, how would you like to respond? | ||
| And he can say, I'm sorry, I could not understand what Joe had said. | ||
| Could we could we get him to repeat that? | ||
| Right. | ||
| And that will basically be Trump saying to the world, What did, like, the president can't speak? | ||
| And make sure it's a point that everyone has to pay attention to. | ||
| And every time Joe Biden garbles, Trump should say, with increasing frustration and concern, I'm concerned. | ||
| Actually, if I were Trump, I'd say, Jake, can you tell me what Joe just said back for me? | ||
| Because I'm not sure he's articulating himself clearly. | ||
| He's having trouble speaking. | ||
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Right. | |
| I also think the biggest thing Trump needs to do in this debate is to not get distracted by any kind of personal jabs, you know, in terms of anything going on. | ||
| He needs to say over and over again, why are Americans struggling to buy food? | ||
| Why are their grocery bills so high? | ||
| Why are all of our fast food companies coming up with crazy deals to try and get Americans to spend money there? | ||
| Like, why is every American terrified of the results of your border crisis? | ||
| He just needs to keep Joe Biden answering for the crisis he has created in this country economically and in terms of national security. | ||
| and not get pulled into any like, well, people don't like you because of this thing, because | ||
| ultimately Joe Biden can't defend his record. People in chat are saying Joe Rogan should be | ||
| the moderator. Could you imagine? That would be amazing. | ||
| Joe would be like, President Trump, everyone is concerned about illegal immigration right now. | ||
| It's the number two issue according to Gallup. | ||
| What would you do in your next term that you're not doing now, and what could you do now? | ||
| and then when Joe says something like, we got a little crack, gotta look back, crack, | ||
| back, gotta like, Rogan's gonna go, | ||
| what? | ||
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Ha ha ha ha! | |
| He literally would! | ||
| Jake Tapper is gonna be like, well, that's a very interesting question, President Biden. | ||
| Trump, how would you respond? | ||
| And Trump's gonna go, I have no idea what he said. | ||
| Can you tell me what he said? | ||
| And Jake's gonna be like, well, I'll leave it to the president to speak. | ||
| I won't put words in his mouth. | ||
| Oh, no, he'd probably be like, we need to clip that. | ||
| Well, what he said was, and gave like a very articulate response, and it's like, no, that's | ||
| not what he said. | ||
| You are lying. | ||
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That's going to happen, like legitimately will happen. | |
| And the whole like, I'll let the president speak for himself is going to happen too. | ||
| What if, what, here's like, what if Trump and Biden come out on both sides? | ||
| They never actually meet or shake hands. | ||
| And then there's this big glass screen in front of Joe. | ||
| And then it turns out they're using that hologram technology. | ||
| You ever see that? | ||
| Where they put a glass screen on stage and then they project onto the glass a dead artist. | ||
| They did this with Tupac, didn't they? | ||
| Yeah, that's the one I'm thinking of. | ||
| And then you're like in the audience and it looks like it's three-dimensional and they're on stage. | ||
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And then they do this with like Obi-Wan Kenobi in A New Hope. | |
| When he talks to Luke through R2-D2 or something like that, that's the same thing. | ||
| Well, that didn't happen, but I get your point. | ||
| That was Princess Leia. | ||
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Oh, Princess Leia. | |
| Talking through a hologram. | ||
| We're learning about so many other people's cultures today. | ||
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My Star Wars theory is all wrong. | |
| See, we told you about Taylor Swift, you teach me about Star Wars. | ||
| I actually noticed something really interesting. | ||
| This is why men and women need each other. | ||
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Yes. | |
| I noticed something. | ||
| I was just looking up the rules for the debate because I was curious if there was something else we missed. | ||
| They're not allowed to sit the whole time, which I'm so curious if Biden is going to that they've already replaced Joe Biden's skeleton with | ||
| metal. So he'll just be stuck up. Right. And then Trump has to rely on his actual human body. So, you | ||
| know, that's the trick. It is kind of weird, though, like, are they are they going to give Biden | ||
| like some kind of exosuit or something under his regular suit to keep his body upright if they | ||
| could. Biden's going to last minute change the rules so he can call in a second and like, beg Kendrick | ||
| Lamar to come handle this for him. | ||
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I'm legitimately getting excited. | |
| They're not allowed to consult with their teams the whole time either. | ||
| I just, I don't see how Biden is going to. | ||
| I know. | ||
| This seems like it's all set up, but Trump goes off. | ||
| You put Trump in a room and say, Hey Trump, can you want to just talk for an hour? | ||
| And he's like, I'd love to. | ||
| And he's going to be like, how's it going? | ||
| We got a bunch of beautiful. | ||
| He just goes off. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Biden's going to be like. | ||
| That's why the CNN debate is the first one. | ||
| I'm sure the Biden team wanted that, right? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And also that means that the moderator is the one saying, oh, I'm cutting you off now. | ||
| Your mic is off. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Because Trump could literally take up the whole time. | ||
| What if this is on purpose? | ||
| And the point is they're setting up Biden to fail so they can force his removal. | ||
| What if and what if, what if? | ||
| They go, like the DNC goes to Biden and say, we want to get someone else to run. | ||
| You're not polling well, and you're too old, and he'd lose it. | ||
| He's like, no, you cannot do that. | ||
| We will not stand it. | ||
| I will not accept that. | ||
| I will not publicly resign. | ||
| And they're like, what do we do? | ||
| So they, you got to do a debate. | ||
| And then they're like, basically set it up so that Biden will fail miserably, and it'll force him to accept a resignation. | ||
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Honestly, I could see it. | |
| It doesn't make any sense to me why they're letting him do this. | ||
| I would bet money that they won't let him do a second one. | ||
| The problem is no one can figure out how you get Kamala Harris out of there. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Because if Biden does say no, then what happens to Kamala? | ||
| Are we getting vice presidential debates this year? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Because Trump hasn't named his VP yet. | ||
| That would be... I want one. | ||
| Badly. | ||
| Normally we always get them. | ||
| Yeah, but if Trump picks like Tim Scott or Burgum, then no. | ||
| I'm not interested. | ||
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So who would be the best? | |
| Vivek. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| She could blow it no matter who it is. | ||
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No, I'm imagining on stage with Harris, who would do the best job? | |
| Vivek. | ||
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Really? | |
| Actually anyone at all. | ||
| A mannequin. | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| Tim Scott and Burgum would be boring, and we'd be groaning like, no, no, if it was— I'm not saying Vivek would be the best VP, but Vivek on stage with Kamala Harris, it would be like watching Mike Tyson box a toddler. | ||
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What about J.D. | |
| Vance and Kamala Harris? | ||
| I think he'd be good, too. | ||
| Yeah, he'd be good. | ||
| I think that they're both better than some options that are out there. | ||
| Again, I feel like I don't necessarily want Ramaswamy to be the VP, so I'm more likely to lean towards J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| But there are a lot of quick-witted conservatives that could handle Kamala, whereas there really aren't that many. | ||
| Even if they could get her out for some reason, there aren't that many strong debaters from what I can see on the left. | ||
| We shall see. | ||
| All right, we got Paul Taskelos. | ||
| He says, the ACLU sued on behalf of Unite the Right in Charlottesville to help them secure a permit to protest in Lee Park. | ||
| First Amendment. | ||
| Doesn't the left think the ACLU are very fine people? | ||
| So when this happened, the backlash the ACLU received was so intense, they abandoned their entire organization's history and became woke leftists. | ||
| That was really the moment. | ||
| They defended the Klan—what was it? | ||
| They defended neo-Nazis in Skokie, Illinois, famously. | ||
| And they defended Unite the Right. | ||
| And then after the backlash from the left, they started losing a bunch of donors. | ||
| They just flipped 180. | ||
| And now, they sue to have—this is the funniest thing—they sue to protect pride flags in schools, but sue to keep the Ten Commandments out. | ||
| And it's like, OK, you're just a woke organization at this point because there's no underlying principle of speech behind doing something like that. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Either you get both or you get neither. | ||
| Which one is it? | ||
| They're always down to sue any abortion laws that inhibit Planned Parenthood in any way. | ||
| I mean, it's very clear there's a bias, which is too bad because, again, you know, it would be nice to have organizations that are like, we are here to uphold the principles of your rights, especially as we navigate more complicated technological times and as our culture changes. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Eldritchinator says, saw Justice Sotomayor speak at a college event once. | ||
| She gestured to the marshals and said, standing up wrong would make them nervous. | ||
| Shocked Antifa aloud at Justice's house, saw one threaten teens. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| All right, we'll grab some more superchats here. | ||
| What do we got? | ||
| Matthew Vandersand says, post more skate vids. | ||
| I got my brother to follow you from the switch hardflip you posted. | ||
| That is indeed. | ||
| I posted a switch hardflip. | ||
| And that is a, for me, I landed that trick like in a couple tries and then we wanted to film it so I had to land it like four times again. | ||
| But we're doing for the Boonies, we have a playlist we're calling the Tricktionary because there's a lot of people who don't understand trick names in skateboarding. | ||
| So we are going to create a playlist of every single trick ever. | ||
| And you will be able to search for any trick and see its name and its explanation on YouTube. | ||
| And I filmed eight today in like 20 minutes. | ||
| So it's, here's what I did. | ||
| I did a fakie big spin, fakie 360 shove it, fakie 540 big spin, nollie hard flip, nollie 360 shove it, nollie backside 360 shove it, nollie self, and hang 10 shove it. | ||
| Those last two are more of a gag, but we do want to have the tricks in the playlist, so I did them anyway. | ||
| And then we're going to film a lot more. | ||
| We're gonna film a lot more skateboard stuff. | ||
| It's gonna be fun. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Speaking a foreign language to anybody who doesn't know what I'm talking about. | ||
| And to add more to the foreign language, today I got my Nadu commander deck constructed in Magic the Gathering. | ||
| So Phil knows what I'm talking about there. | ||
| I'll try to be as esoteric as possible with the hobby stuff. | ||
| That was fun. | ||
| Tried it out. | ||
| The deck is ridiculous and I think it probably should be banned. | ||
| Are you going to the store in Martinsburg this weekend? | ||
| Oh, shout out to Mamba Collectibles in Martinsburg. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| So they play Magic the Gathering Commander on Saturdays and they asked me to come. | ||
| I was like, I might be there. | ||
| It's right next to where we're doing the coffee shop anyway. | ||
| And so they're cool dudes. | ||
| And I said, if you play there, I might be there. | ||
| I think we probably will be there. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| But we all have a lot of fun playing with the old Magic the Gathering cards. | ||
| Silly game. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Kyle Ellis says, Tim, it's Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals tonight. | ||
| So if viewership is down, that's why. | ||
| Actually, viewership's pretty good. | ||
| I knew Edmonton was going to win, so I tuned in to you. | ||
| Here's 20 bucks. | ||
| Keep up the good work. | ||
| Well, thank you all so much. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Matthias Maeser says, Hi Hannah Clare, I superchatted on Thursday. | ||
| My name is pronounced Matthias and laser, but with an M. To clarify, I'm a machinist working nights. | ||
| Our boss doesn't watch and technically we only listen, but we still love y'all. | ||
| Oh, okay, cool. | ||
| He said that he's like, me and all of my co-workers watch every night. | ||
| And we're being like, how can you do that and also do your job? | ||
| But that's really interesting. | ||
| And it is cool that there would be like an office listening to a joint podcast. | ||
| I bet your conversation is really interesting. | ||
| This is actually one of the biggest challenges for us metric wise. | ||
| So, Timcast IRL is not a podcast. | ||
| It is a podcast, but it's not a podcast. | ||
| It's a primetime show, just like cable shows used to be. | ||
| Most of our viewership is, well, the largest singular viewership, of course, is the primetime live, but then we get, like, all the different, what I mean is, like, on YouTube, we get more than all their platforms, but all their platforms combined, it's like nine times more than just YouTube. | ||
| However, that's only in digital metrics. | ||
| The problem we run into is that we know for a fact around half or more of our audience are watching on their televisions with family and friends. | ||
| So whereas like most podcast numbers for most podcasts on standard iTunes and stuff, one view is one person. | ||
| They put their headphones in, they press play. | ||
| When it says in the metrics one, that's one person. | ||
| For us, we've run into this, we don't know how to track it, Because when we've surveyed people they're like, I actually watch with two or three other people and so they turn the show on their TV while they're sitting there living and while they're playing games while they're working and five to ten people might be listening off of one device and we can't track that. | ||
| But we can track, we figured this out accidentally when we assumed our numbers were the same as everybody else's and then our sales data came back for sponsorships Showing a significantly higher viewer rate. | ||
| At first, it was just considered a high, like, sell to viewer ratio, and like, wow, your show's better than everyone else's. | ||
| And then we realized, like, oh, actually, it's just that more people are watching than we can actually track in the traditional means. | ||
| So that's cool, I guess. | ||
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It's pretty cool. | |
| You know? | ||
| But someone saying their whole office is watching is exactly it. | ||
| It's like, man, I don't know how to track that. | ||
| Which would be great! | ||
| Because we could sell better sponsorships, I guess. | ||
| All right, Jonathan Rosenthal said, my one-year-old son just said your name, Tim Poole, a.k.a. | ||
| Dido. | ||
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That's so cute. | |
| All right, thank you very much. | ||
| I'll also add that, you know, I was skating today, and I felt like a million bucks, and then this thing happened where after I was done skating and ate dinner, I was walking to get socks, and all of a sudden my neck went, and I was like, what just happened? | ||
| And I couldn't move. | ||
| I was like, what? | ||
| I feel like a million bucks. | ||
| I got sports stretching and everything. | ||
| Took some ibuprofen and I can move again. | ||
| I guess it's getting old, right? | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| Maybe you're dehydrated. | ||
| It's so hot out, people are like, electrically driving. | ||
| Oh, that's probably it. | ||
| It's the heat. | ||
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It's the heat wave. | |
| That's probably it. | ||
| There's a lot to be said for people, like, for being hydrated. | ||
| Like, most people walk around a little bit on the dehydrated side, so it's a good idea. | ||
| Well, especially today because we have the new mini ramp. | ||
| And they still have to shore up with concrete footers, but it's like 85 and I was skating outside. | ||
| And skating in that hot, my heart rate was at 185 for like 20 minutes while I was outside, because it's trying to regulate the heat in your body. | ||
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Awesome. | |
| And if you watch the weather reports on the heat waves, it's also the humidity, which makes everything feel at least 10 degrees hotter. | ||
| I mean, it's a big deal. | ||
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Yeah, I went to bed like two hours early last night after my workout. | |
| It's too much, this heat. | ||
| Alright, Bill Hoekstra says the Taylor Swift thing is a major problem with social media and mainstream media doing out of context cheap fakes. | ||
| Look at more than a 60 second clip. | ||
| Reels and TikTok. | ||
| Messing with the hive mind. | ||
| Sunk in the phone. | ||
| I'll give a shout out to that show Evil, which is like weirdly okay. | ||
| Like a C plus show, but it's kind of woke. | ||
| Because they did an episode where everyone's going psychotic because of TikTok, and I actually really, really respected the episode. | ||
| So they're investigating, this show is like they investigate possessions, and they find some woman who posts videos of her kids being haunted, and then one kid gets slashed in the back, and he's bleeding, and then they show up, because it was live-streamed, and they're like, how did you live-stream? | ||
| She's like, I didn't do this, I don't know what's going on. | ||
| And then, it's kind of obvious, she's lying, duh, and she's actually slicing her kids up on camera for views. | ||
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Oh my god. | |
| And when they confront her about it, like, we have the raw video footage of you doing this, she turns the livestream on and then starts acting like she's possessed and then tries to attack them. | ||
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Oh my gosh. | |
| So it's like the social media version of Munchausen by Proxy. | ||
| It was literally a Munchausen by Proxy thing. | ||
| I was actually impressed with that episode. | ||
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Plot twist though, she's actually possessed because who does that? | |
| Nope, she was not possessed. | ||
| The show's weird. | ||
| They act like there's demons, but they always find out it's not demonic. | ||
| It was a mom physically abusing her kids to get attention on social media and I was like and then it ends with them like shoving turning their phones off putting them away and being like and it was literally it was called it was called like vid pic or something I don't know but it was tik-tok it was like they're watching the videos and swiping and and then at the end they're like this is making people psychotic and they turn it off and I'm like thank you yeah yes yes yes yes oh my gosh oh my god yeah shout out also I've been watching the boys have you guys watched that? | ||
| Okay, I like the show, but it's clearly written by a liberal, woke leftist who thinks they're being fair. | ||
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What is the show? | |
| The Boys on Amazon Prime. | ||
| It's a superhero show, but it's kind of realistic and gritty. | ||
| The guy, he's like Superman, basically. | ||
| He's called Homelander, and he's Donald Trump. | ||
| And so that's his whole arc, is he's basically Trump, and he's, you know, it's weird. | ||
| But they really, really overdo it. | ||
| So they have a character on the show now who's saying, like, F around and find out. | ||
| In the background, in one of the episodes, they're like, Alex Jones' lookalike contest will be in three hours. | ||
| I've heard that the writer of the show has been quoted as saying, didn't you know we were making fun of you all the time, conservatives, blah blah blah. | ||
| Yes, but the character Firecracker, spoiler alert I guess, I'm going to say it anyway because the show is coming on, but the character Firecracker who's basically, she's like a conservative personality and she's spreading misinformation or whatever. | ||
| Some of it's not. | ||
| The motivation for her though, this is interesting. | ||
| They clearly depict all the right-wing people as super psychotic flat-earthers and other nonsense which isn't real. | ||
| And so this character, Firecracker, hates the character Starlight. | ||
| Starlight's one of the main characters, and she's played by the Erin Moriarty woman, who's got massive plastic surgery, by the way. | ||
| Remember that? | ||
| When everyone was like, what happened to her, and she denied it? | ||
| You can clearly look at the last season and this season and be like, yo, she got it. | ||
| Okay, that's my opinion. | ||
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Bad plastic surgery. | |
| No, they all do. | ||
| But it's bad. | ||
| Like, she's talking like this with her lips out. | ||
| Anyway, I digress. | ||
| So they make the conservatives seem like really dumb and bad guys, but the motivation for Firecracker is that the main character is supposed to be the nice liberal one. | ||
| She got an abortion. | ||
| When they were little, she insulted the girl in public, like in front of a bunch of other people at a pageant, calling her a whore or something and claiming to all the other girls that she was in a gangbang and something like that. | ||
| Like really awful bullying of some... And so that was the motivation for the right-wing character. | ||
| And I'm like, It's clearly a liberal who thinks they're being fair. | ||
| Like, well, Starlight was really awful to her and was bullying her when she was little, and she's going to retaliate, but they depict them in the wrong way. | ||
| Anyway, we'll talk more about other really gross stuff, I guess, in the Members Only show. | ||
| So head over to TimCast.com, click join us, become a member, support our work. | ||
| We're going to need your support heading into election season, because we've already dealt with a couple lawsuits in the past couple of months, and those, I am proud to say, resolved, as far as I know, and that's good news. | ||
| And we're definitely going to be dealing with more, because this is politics. | ||
| And we are not the biggest political show, but we're one of them. | ||
| And we have, on average, the largest live audience for our time slot here on YouTube Live. | ||
| And that's probably why they reached out about the CNN debate thing, because they don't want us to fact-check it, to counter. | ||
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| You can follow me on X and Instagram at TimCast. | ||
| Mary Margaret, do you want to shout anything out? | ||
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Yeah, read my book, D-Trans, True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult. | |
| Just came out May 28th. | ||
| It's on Amazon. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| And you have an ex-profile or anything like that? | ||
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I do. | |
| Mary Mark Olahan. | ||
| I couldn't fit my whole name for some reason. | ||
| It's the double name thing. | ||
| They don't treat us fairly in this country. | ||
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No, discriminatory. | |
| But yeah, follow me. | ||
| I tweet all my reporting, my videos. | ||
| You can put up with me over there. | ||
| Because your name was so long for the title of YouTube, next time I'm just going to put Marmo. | ||
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You can do MMO. | |
| That's what my girlfriends call me. | ||
| They're texting me right now and they're saying, say our names. | ||
| MMO. | ||
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Alright. | |
| Phil, what up? | ||
| I am philtheremains on Twix. | ||
| I'm philtheremainsofficial on Instagram. | ||
| The band is All That Remains. | ||
| You can check us out this summer on the Destroy All Enemies Tour with Megadeth and Mudvayne. | ||
| You can check out our brand new video for our single called Let You Go. | ||
| It's available on Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Amazon. | ||
| YouTube, you know, the internet. | ||
| And don't forget, the left lane is for crime. | ||
| Mary Margaret, it's so fun to have you here when we can talk about being conservative and also listening to Taylor Swift. | ||
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Yes! | |
| We're an overlooked community on occasion. | ||
| I'm Hannah-Claire Brimel. | ||
| I'm a writer for SCNR.com. | ||
| That's Scanner News. | ||
| You can follow all of our work at TimCastNews on Twitter and Instagram. | ||
| I guess X, whatever. | ||
| If you want to follow me on Instagram, I'm HannahClaire.B. | ||
| And if I'm on Twitter, I'm HannahClaireB. | ||
| Guys, thank you for everything you do. | ||
| Bye, Serge! | ||
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See you later. | |
| We'll see you all over at TimCast.com in about a minute. |
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