Aug. 1, 2025 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| New documents have been released, and oh boy, this one's a doozy. | ||
| In the documents released from the Durham Annex, it goes on to explain how Hillary Clinton approved of a plan to smear Donald Trump as being supported by the Russians, and it was Obama's intel agencies that were helping. | ||
| When we put these stories together, what do you get? | ||
| They knew it was false. | ||
| They knew it was exaggerated. | ||
| They were going to smear Trump anyway, specifically to cover up the Hillary Clinton email scandal and shift the view of the public towards Trump instead of her because she had broken the law and Comey refused to prosecute her. | ||
| You combine this with the other documents that Tulsi Gabbard released, which show Obama ordered this directly, and things are getting a bit interesting. | ||
| Now, on top of this, we've got the Pelosi story, the Pelosi Act, as it were. | ||
| And Trump was initially mad at Senator Hawley, but Hawley says he talked to Trump, cleared it up, and Trump's actually on board. | ||
| They may actually ban stock trading. | ||
| So we'll talk about that. | ||
| And then on top of that first story, we have a whistleblower. | ||
| Apparently, there was a guy or an intel analyst who was threatened by the higher-ups that he had to sign off on bad intelligence to smear Trump. | ||
| Hence, this looks like a conspiracy against Trump and when he was president, his administration. | ||
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| Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more. | ||
| We've got Joseph Gratante. | ||
| Thanks for having me, Tim. | ||
| Who are you? | ||
| What do you do? | ||
| I'm the CEO of Elio Capital, A-L-L-I-O, Elio. | ||
| And what does this, what is this Elio Capital do? | ||
| It's a macro investing platform. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
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| So it'll be interesting to get your insights on how this whole infrastructure and investing works. | ||
| So thanks for hanging out. | ||
| Should be fun. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| We got Mary hanging out. | ||
| Hello, everyone. | ||
| I'm Mary Morgan. | ||
| You can usually find me on Pop Culture Crisis here at Timcast alongside my lovely co-host. | ||
| I finally get to say that to you. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Guys, I am filling in today for Phil. | ||
| It's Brett. | ||
| Normally also pop culture crisis Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. | ||
| Let's get into it. | ||
| Here's a story from the New York Post. | ||
| Read the documents that prove Hillary Clinton okayed plan to smear Trump with Russia collusion. | ||
| This is from the New York Post, published today. | ||
| They break down this annex. | ||
| This is crazy stuff. | ||
| Hillary Clinton and Obama were in on this scheme to smear Trump as a Russian asset, claiming that Russians hacked it or that Trump was colluding with them or something like that, which didn't just affect the campaign, but went into his presidency, resulting in a multi-year-long investigation that cost tens of millions of dollars. | ||
| Take a look. | ||
| Hillary Clinton signed off on a plan hatched by a top campaign advisor to smear then-candidate Trump with false claims of Russian collusion and distract from her own mounting email scandal during the 2016 campaign. | ||
| According to explosive intelligence files declassified Thursday, the 24-page intelligence annex was compiled from memos and emails obtained by the Obama administration in the lead up to Election Day that laid out confidential conversations between leaders of the Democratic National Committee, including then-chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and liberal billionaire George Soros's Open Society Foundations. | ||
| Can you believe this? | ||
| The plot, the brain shout of the Clinton campaign's then foreign policy advisor, Julianne Smith, included, quote, raising the theme of Putin's support for Trump and subsequently steering public opinion toward the notion that it needs to equate the Russian leader's political influence campaign with actual hacking of election infrastructure. | ||
| They say Smith would go on to serve as former President Joe Biden's ambassador to NATO. | ||
| Quote, I don't have any comment, she told the Post when they phoned her on Thursday. | ||
| Now, I want to scroll down. | ||
| There's a little bit more. | ||
| They show some documents. | ||
| In one document, it says Obama has no intention to darken the final part of his presidency and legacy by the scandal surrounding the main contender for the DP. | ||
| To solve the problem, the president puts pressure on FBI Director James Comey through Attorney General Lynch. | ||
| However, so far, without concrete results. | ||
| That is to say, Obama knew Hillary Clinton was scandal-ridden. | ||
| She had a private server. | ||
| This was illegal. | ||
| They were refusing to prosecute. | ||
| She had the server destroyed, phone smashed with hammers. | ||
| And Obama was like, this is going to make me look bad if I do anything to intervene. | ||
| So he leans on the FBI and says, you take care of it. | ||
| And what happens? | ||
| The FBI says, we will not bring charges against Hillary Clinton for the crimes she has committed. | ||
| Shockingly insane. | ||
| They go on to say Durham consulted the FBI and CIA, both of which assessed the information was likely authentic, but couldn't corroborate exact copies of the Bernardo emails with open study foundations. | ||
| The CIA also determined that the intelligence was not the product of Russian fabrications. | ||
| Smith was at minimum playing a role in the Clinton campaign's effort to tie Trump to Russia, Durham concluded. | ||
| Now I'm going to scroll down here. | ||
| Page seven. | ||
| This is where it gets interesting. | ||
| Let me read you this paragraph. | ||
| This is from the Durham Annex. | ||
| According to data from the election campaign headquarters of Hillary Clinton, obtained via the U.S. Soros Foundation, on the 26th of July, 2016, Clinton approved a plan of her policy advisor, Juliana Smith, from the TS, NAB, TSS's unknown acronym, to smear Donald Trump by magnifying the scandal tied to the intrusion by the Russian special services in the pre-election process to benefit the Republican candidate. | ||
| As envisioned by Smith, raising the theme of Putin's support for Trump to the level of the Olympic scandal would divert the constituents' attention from the investigation of Clinton's compromised electronic correspondence. | ||
| In addition, by subsequently steering public opinion towards the notion that it needs to equate Putin's efforts to influence political process in the U.S. via cyberspace to acts against a crucially important infrastructure, it would force the White House to use more confrontational scenarios vis-a-vis Moscow that as a whole suits Clinton's line of conduct. | ||
| A relatively sluggish reaction by the administration to the events surrounding the DNC that led to the resignation of Chairman Deborah Wasserman Schultz provoked exasperation within the PC, possibly political convention, and the entire deep state, which may also be used by Clinton to reinforce her position among the security service agents. | ||
| To simplify, Clinton's campaign wanted to get the bad press off of her and shift the focus to Trump. | ||
| And they knew that making this scandal bigger would force the Obama administration to target Trump with actual law enforcement capabilities. | ||
| And then we got years of Trump being accused of being a traitor to this country, secretly working with the Russians the whole time because Obama didn't want to get his hands dirty, ordering the release of information they knew to be false. | ||
| Holy crap, ladies and gentlemen, the more that comes out, the more shockingly insane we learned this story to be. | ||
| And I guess the question then is for everybody watching: will anybody get arrested? | ||
| No, it's nothing ever changes, gang, over here. | ||
| That's like why it's not shocking is we just keep finding out that we were right in our hunches and our conspiracy theories, and the truth eventually does come out. | ||
| And I guess that's a happening, but nothing changes as a result. | ||
| Do you see this leading to some type of prosecution? | ||
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You know, or even grand jury. | |
| What, you know, maybe, and I'll say this: Trump got arrested. | ||
| You know, they arrested Donald Trump several times. | ||
| They arrested his lawyers. | ||
| So maybe they might actually go after Obama or Comey. | ||
| I mean, they say they're investigating him. | ||
| And the question is, does Trump have the willpower? | ||
| And does Trump want revenge? | ||
| Or is this just big one puppet show to keep us distracted as they do a bunch of other weird stuff around the world? | ||
| And, you know. | ||
| And who ends up with the better mugshot, Trump or Obama? | ||
| It depends on what you just mean by better. | ||
| Well, Trump, Trump got to hang his on the White House wall. | ||
| That is crazy. | ||
| Like, is that the old office? | ||
| But that's not it. | ||
| Oh, he did. | ||
| Did he hang the actual mugshot? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I went to the White House not that long ago, and the picture that Trump got, his presidential photograph, just looks identical to the mugshot. | ||
| And I'm like, I think he did that on purpose. | ||
| They gave him trace paper and just had him trace over. | ||
| The dramatic lighting and that like raised eyebrow stern. | ||
| He also looks thinner than like he looks thinner in that photo than he has. | ||
| I think he's 220 pounds. | ||
| What did you say? | ||
| Did you call it a svelte? | ||
| 220? | ||
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Svelte. | |
| 220 pounds, mind you. | ||
| Firm. | ||
| I want to show you guys this. | ||
| We've got a video. | ||
| This is from 2016. | ||
| Listen to this. | ||
| According to the Washington Post, the CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the election to help you win the presidency. | ||
| Your reaction. | ||
| I think it's ridiculous. | ||
| I think it's just another excuse. | ||
| I don't believe it. | ||
| I don't know why. | ||
| And I think it's just, you know, they talked about all sorts of things. | ||
| Every week it's another excuse. | ||
| We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College. | ||
| I guess the final numbers are now at 306 and she's, you know, down to a very low number. | ||
| No, I don't believe that at all. | ||
| You said you don't know why. | ||
| Do you think that the CIA is trying to overturn the results? | ||
| No, I don't think you're on how to weaken you in office. | ||
| Well, if you look at the story and you take a look at what they said, there's great confusion. | ||
| Nobody really knows. | ||
| And hacking is very interesting. | ||
| Once they hack, if you don't catch them in the act, you're not going to catch them. | ||
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They have no idea if it's Russia or China or somebody. | |
| It could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. | ||
| I mean, they have no idea. | ||
| So why would the CIA put out the story that the Russians wanted you to? | ||
| Well, I'm not sure they put it out. | ||
| I think the Democrats are putting it out because they suffered one of the greatest defeats in the history of politics in this country. | ||
| And frankly, I think they're putting it out. | ||
| And it's ridiculous. | ||
| We're going to get back to making America great again, which is what we're going to do. | ||
| And we've already started the process. | ||
| I love how he says, like, to Trump, the CIA doing something wrong. | ||
| Like, that's a completely incredulous idea. | ||
| Why acted in the middle of the day? | ||
| Well, at the time, it was a new idea. | ||
| And I don't know where this falls on the timeline, this like news hit, but I'm just reminded of the big mic drop moment in that second presidential debate in 2016 between Trump and Hillary, where he says, maybe someone say tongue-in-cheek, like, you'd be in jail if I were in power, if I were, you know, in office, you would face criminal consequences for your private email servers while Secretary of State. | ||
| And it was like this big, like, oh, like, he really just said that. | ||
| But then he got into office and like, that didn't happen. | ||
| And she didn't get arrested the first time for the same reason that she's not going to get arrested now. | ||
| Now that there's evidence to, for the same reason that there is a little handshake between Trump and the deep state about the Epstein files now. | ||
| So what's the point of all of this declassification and the release if they don't intend to actually go after anybody? | ||
| I mean, just declassify all the other shit so that people stop asking about Epstein, I guess. | ||
| Distraction. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Keep the base happy. | ||
| This is a woman who did her dissertation on rules for radicals, and yet there are people at my company who still will refuse to believe that she had any part in this, no matter what you show them. | ||
| They would swear to you that Santa Claus was real before they would possibly believe that Hillary Clinton could do something wrong. | ||
| So I don't think there's anything that's going to come of this. | ||
| Well, I still don't think that the Sega is debunked. | ||
| But look at that video with, who was that? | ||
| Stephanopoulos? | ||
| I can't remember who this guy was. | ||
| Is he still on TV? | ||
| On Fox? | ||
| Matthews? | ||
| Is that Matthews there? | ||
| No, this guy, George Stephanopoulos. | ||
| That's Matthews in this video. | ||
| Chris Matthews. | ||
| That's Chris Matthews. | ||
| Oh, you're right. | ||
| Man, I don't know who these guys are. | ||
| They're ancient. | ||
| They do look alike, though. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Chris Matthews. | ||
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Okay. | |
| As Brett brought up, the shock. | ||
| But what do you mean the CIA did something wrong? | ||
| Not them. | ||
| I mean, never. | ||
| I mean, even if we want to go back more recently, NSA spying scandal was like three years before then. | ||
| Tweeting that. | ||
| The Gulf of Tonga. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, my goodness. | ||
| As if Hollywood hasn't been making movies about all the awful things the CIA has been doing for the last 20 years. | ||
| The CIA is like, who nigga me? | ||
| Yeah, they're like this. | ||
| And I think to your point, I think you're right. | ||
| Like, the issue here is that it doesn't actually matter what the truth is because 10 gazillion people ran with the Russian gate. | ||
| Chris Wallace. | ||
| I was going to say, yeah, I don't know where Matthews is. | ||
| Nobody knows. | ||
| Chris Wallace. | ||
| Okay, guys, Chris Wallace. | ||
| Chris Wallace. | ||
| Fox host won Fox host. | ||
| This was like ages ago. | ||
| One of those guys. | ||
| But the point is, is like the damage is done. | ||
| They did the reporting. | ||
| They claimed that he was colluding with Russia. | ||
| And the worst person you know and your highly liberal aunt all believe it. | ||
| And they ruined a lot of friendships and a lot of relationships running something that they knew was a lie. | ||
| And like you said, there are plenty of people, even if you're not talking just about what they think about Trump. | ||
| They could not imagine a world where Hillary Clinton was evil, despite the fact that the rest of the world knows that she's pretty evil. | ||
| And I want to just make sure I include this other document. | ||
| This is the 2020 ICA, which says, acting on President Obama's orders, DCIA Brennan directed a full review and publication of raw human intelligence information that had been collected before the election. | ||
| CIA officers said that some of this information had been held on the orders of the DCIA, while other reporting had been judged by experienced CIA officers to have not met long-standing publication standards. | ||
| Some of the latter was unclear or from unknown subsources, but would nonetheless be published after the election over the objections of veteran officers on the orders of DCIA and cited in the ICA to support the claims that Putin aspired to help Trump win. | ||
| It was all one big scam, and it was Obama and Hillary. | ||
| And I'm going to say it again, as I said before, I think likely what was going on is The Clinton Foundation was taking hundreds of millions of dollars. | ||
| I wonder where that money was coming from. | ||
| When Hillary Clinton lost the election, the money stopped coming in. | ||
| So the presumption many people make is that her private server was collect, was the, was the, it was how they communicated for this illicit transfer of funds of U.S. government policy, private bribery, you can call it. | ||
| And then when they said we want to see the server, Hillary Clinton had it destroyed. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Irretrievable. | ||
| And phones smashed with hammers. | ||
| I think they went after Trump because they were like, we're in trouble. | ||
| He's going to start going after this stuff. | ||
| This is what they do. | ||
| They have to go after Trump first so that if Trump responds in any way, they'll say, see, Trump is only doing this because we did this. | ||
| Now take a look at the Epstein story. | ||
| People keep saying that Donald Trump is distracting from Epstein, despite the fact the Obama Obama Russia Gate releases have been coming out well before the Epstein story came to prominence. | ||
| Don't get me wrong, Pam Bondi, the DOJ, they've been screwing this one up royally, and Trump is acting real weird about it. | ||
| I'll give you that. | ||
| But he's not distracting from it because these documents were getting released, and the conversation was happening well before the Epstein stuff happened. | ||
| Obama has one thing going for him. | ||
| There's no photos of him in Epstein. | ||
| Yeah, that's good for him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's got that going for him. | ||
| Yeah, there's a lot of other people like Howard Stern. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Bill Gates. | ||
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Uh-oh. | |
| Bill Clinton. | ||
| You think Hillary went to with Bill? | ||
| Wait, was that? | ||
| Was there ever actually that picture of Bill in the dress that's Little St. James? | ||
| There you go. | ||
| That's real. | ||
| Maybe, maybe Hillary bought that and brought it home. | ||
| Wait, a photograph or an illustration? | ||
| Painting. | ||
| Painting. | ||
| Oh, I think. | ||
| Painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's weird. | ||
| But there were just all of these cameras there for no reason. | ||
| The one that Epstein had in his apartment, famously, correct? | ||
| It was on his island. | ||
| On his island. | ||
| Yeah, he also had George W. Bush with two little towers. | ||
| He was throwing paper airplanes at him. | ||
| So the 9-11 truth movement went like, that proves it! | ||
| Epstein and the two towers or whatever. | ||
| Can I pull these up? | ||
| Oh, I didn't hear about that one. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| George. | ||
| It's such a disgrace, and it's so obvious. | ||
| Like, it doesn't even need to be said. | ||
| But people are still denying reality. | ||
| Wait, which part? | ||
| The whole - it's not even a mishandling of the Epstein files situation. | ||
| It's very intentional what they're doing, and I feel malicious. | ||
| George W. Bush with two paper airplanes and two top ball Jenga towers. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Yeah, that was in Epstein's Island. | ||
| That's creepy. | ||
| That is really creepy. | ||
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Yup. | |
| Oh, here's the, look at this. | ||
| I got the Bill Clinton in the blue dress. | ||
| Let's pull this one up. | ||
| Let's disturb the audience. | ||
| That is so wild. | ||
| This is my first time seeing it in the other one. | ||
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Do we think Monica Lewinsky worked for Mossad? | |
| No. | ||
| Why? | ||
| I've heard, I've heard that. | ||
| I mean, she's not Chuck E. Cheese works for Mossad. | ||
| Or at the very least, that she worked for some intelligence agency and purposefully was gathering blackmail on him. | ||
| Why? | ||
| But it came out, right? | ||
| So it doesn't really matter. | ||
| Like, wouldn't the whole point be that it doesn't come out? | ||
| That she gathers the intel or uses her feminine wiles to blackmail him. | ||
| And then the whole point is to keep it out of the public, not have it leak to the public. | ||
| Yeah, I don't think she's smart enough. | ||
| Well, then that's then Mossad needs to change their hiring practices if that's what they're doing. | ||
| It does kind of show you this Orwellian society that we're living in, though, when you think of people like Saul Alinsky, George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and just the lack of general information that people have about who these individuals are and this power apparatus that exists behind the Soros Foundation was involved. | ||
| They were communicating over this stuff, which is weird. | ||
| And everybody who brought up Soros was called a conspiracy theorist. | ||
| I'll tell you guys, you want something interesting? | ||
| When we first booked Mike Benz, who's been calling out USAID and all this stuff for a long time, I got spam blasted by weird liberals telling me that I shouldn't have him on the show. | ||
| And I'm like, what? | ||
| Why are you DMing me, bro? | ||
| This is weird. | ||
| They were panicked and desperate that we would not bring Mike on the show. | ||
| He comes with endless receipts. | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| It is funny that you mentioned it, too, that you said that Hillary Clinton, she did her dissertation on rules for radicals. | ||
| And what he mentioned was that they started accusing Trump of all of this stuff because it dirties him up so that they can't have accusations thrown back at them, which is right out of the playbook from the book. | ||
| Right, but yeah, that's why I brought it up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's very depressing. | ||
| And it is true also that we live in an age now as the internet becomes more prevalent that it's going to be, it's your parents and your grandparents that have this kind of a higher definition of what a politician might be because they were fed years of propaganda from mainstream media outlets, | ||
| depending on whether they were left or right, whether it was Fox telling you that Democrats were evil or CNN telling you that Republicans were evil and the rest of us who have moved on to greener pastures, getting their information from other places or just have any level of common sense, understand that pretty much all politicians are awful on some level. | ||
| Yeah, it's basically Democrats and Republicans for me is tantamount to Santa Claus and Mr. Bunny at this point. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Let's jump to this next part of the story. | ||
| We have a post from DNI Tulsi Gabbard. | ||
| New whistleblower reveals how they were threatened by a supervisor to go along with the Obama-directed Russia hoax intelligence assessment, even though they knew it was not credible or accurate. | ||
| The whistleblower refused. | ||
| Yesterday, we released the whistleblower's firsthand account of what happened in the crafting of the January 2017 ICA. | ||
| Their years-long effort to expose the egregious manipulation and manufacturing of intelligence carried out at the highest levels of government and the intelligence community detailed in our previous releases and how they were repeatedly ignored. | ||
| Thank you to this courageous whistleblower and others who are coming forward now, putting their own well-being on the line to defend our Democratic Republic, ensure the American people know the truth and hold those responsible accountable. | ||
| So we have the whistleblower's explosive story and evidence, Tulsi Gabbard says here. | ||
| And so there's a lot to break down. | ||
| It's 19 page. | ||
| They're not going to go to the full thing, but we do have this. | ||
| This is from the Federalist. | ||
| Clapper crew threatened whistleblower who refused to sign off on fabricated intel assessment. | ||
| A crony of then-DNI James Clapper threatened to withhold a promotion from a senior intelligence official unless he concurred in the fake intelligence community assessment on Russia's meddling in the 2016 election. | ||
| Notes obtained by the Federalist show. | ||
| The notes made public for the first time today recount a conversation the top analyst in the office of the director of national intelligence had with an unnamed superior who worked closely with then director James Clapper. | ||
| The release of the notes represents the latest cache of documents declassified by the Trump administration official concerning the ICA, this we understand. | ||
| According to a person familiar with the notes, the analyst documented his recollection of the conversation on March 31st, 2023, more than six years after the conversation occurred. | ||
| The delay, the Federalist source explained, occurred because the analyst efforts to share his concerns first, the Inspector General of the IC, and then later with special counsel John Durham and Virginia Senator Mark Warner proved unsuccessful. | ||
| Only later did the analyst receive an inquiry for more information about his claims, leading to the drafting of the summary of his recollections. | ||
| Well, there you go. | ||
| I saw up there it mentioned the Steele dossier. | ||
| So this is connected to everything that was in that Intel packet. | ||
| The Steel dossier was just OPPO research fake garbage and they passed it off as real to go after Trump. | ||
| I mean, I think this might be the biggest political conspiracy or scandal in the history of this country. | ||
| It won't matter because in two days the internet will have moved on from it and that's the sad part. | ||
| I mean, maybe. | ||
| We've been on the story for a few weeks now. | ||
| We've been on the story actually for months. | ||
| If you're talking about the statements made by Cash Patel and further made by Dan Bongino later on. | ||
| I feel like, but with the amount of information that comes out every day, people are going to start kind of judging these things on who actually is punished as opposed to all of the details coming out because you could have all the information in the world. | ||
| If nobody's held accountable, it doesn't really matter. | ||
| Yeah, and there are a lot of people that don't think anything's going to happen, but I'm not convinced nothing's going to happen. | ||
| And I'll put it this way: if something does happen, it just will feel like nothing. | ||
| Like, when we say nothing ever happens or nothing ever changes, Trump did get arrested several times. | ||
| He did lose in court several times. | ||
| And so he did get it right. | ||
| He got arrested. | ||
| I think people think nothing ever happens the other way. | ||
| Nothing ever changes the other way. | ||
| Democrats are never held responsible. | ||
| Indeed, but that sounds like a cop-out. | ||
| Maybe, maybe on the state level, like the ones who are attacking ICE agents might actually get arrested. | ||
| But at the federal level, it doesn't feel like. | ||
| And I think when people think of that idea, they're thinking of the Clintons, they're thinking of the Obamas, they're thinking of the Bidens. | ||
| Well, we have a poll up, and the question is: Obama will be charged. | ||
| The options are Obama will be charged, or nothing will happen, and nothing ever happens is at 63%. | ||
| Defeating Obama will be charged. | ||
| So even with all of this, the expectation for most people is that nothing will change. | ||
| If that's the case, what are we doing here? | ||
| Like, honest question. | ||
| If the reality is most people are blackpilled on this issue, why don't we all talk about the football? | ||
| You know, go. | ||
| Well, I think there's this underlying hope that the system could change. | ||
| I know deep down inside, I mean, I have this naive hope that the system can change if enough people are made aware. | ||
| Do I think people like Clapper and guys like John Brennan are going to be held accountable? | ||
| No, I think they might be held out there, but I question how accountable they could be held given that they know, I mean, where the bodies have been buried for how many years, you know, going back all the way to the Bush administration and really even before that. | ||
| And so, you know, they have a lot of ammunition on their side as well. | ||
| But the more people become aware of what's going on, then the more people can take an active role in potentially changing the system, right? | ||
| It starts with information. | ||
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Mary, do you care about this? | |
| On the broad scale, yes, because I think that the right decision isn't just to disengage from politics altogether, obviously. | ||
| Although I think that Trump's victory and the last six months have actually made people on the right more complacent, and it's made them disengage because they haven't been delivered what they were promised. | ||
| And I think the path forward is actually to just start imagining what this ideological side, if you want to call it that, should look like past the point of Trump. | ||
| I mean, do you care about Hillary Clinton in 2016 accusing Trump of colluding with the Russians? | ||
| No, and I don't think Trump does either, to be honest. | ||
| So, you know, he was talking about getting retribution, and he has the option. | ||
| He has the ability to do that, and he doesn't care to. | ||
| Yeah, do you care? | ||
| I care more about this information coming out in its entirety to people that don't know it than I do about them actually being prosecuted. | ||
| I would rather see people who have kind of lived under the lie of these people of this being some ridiculous movie of good and evil where one side is good and one side is evil and the side they happen to support just happen to be the good guys. | ||
| I would rather see people who aren't currently awake to the evils of both sides. | ||
| The reason why I ask is because my theory as to why nothing ever changes is because you need only stall a development for a year or two before there's no longer any will behind it. | ||
| So when this stuff first happens, everybody's like, whoa, this is BS. | ||
| The Trump campaign's furious. | ||
| You saw Trump on TV saying the Democrats are putting this out. | ||
| It's not real. | ||
| And the conservatives supported Trump were angry they were being smeared. | ||
| They got called white supremacists. | ||
| It's been almost 10 years. | ||
| It's been just about nine years, a shy of nine years. | ||
| And so the people who lived it and were angry are focused on other things now. | ||
| There's no coalition anymore. | ||
| Young people who are in their 20s, I mean, Mary, how old were you in 2016? | ||
| I was 15, 16. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So right now, Trump is putting out information asking a bunch of, let's just say, 15 to 20 year olds to care about this fight as they're entering the political arena. | ||
| And people who are older are probably like, dude, this is 10 years ago. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| What's going on right now with jobs and the economy and the interest rates? | ||
| And so that's why it's so hard to get accountability because the criminals are like, we only need to stall for a couple of years and then there will be no political will to go over this. | ||
| And what are the Democrats going to say? | ||
| You're focused on the past. | ||
| I'm focused on the future. | ||
| I mean, I've kind of come to that sentiment with a lot of things recently, not just with this story, but with most things that involve the culture war, which is like, I'm focused on my life, like getting married, starting a family, and all the things that I can control. | ||
| And the rest of it just kind of feels like, look, this is out of my control. | ||
| And putting an extreme amount of focus on it just ends up hurting me. | ||
| And there was a time, perhaps, when phones were new to your pocket and everybody started taking politics very seriously as some type of team sport mentality where it really like resonated with people. | ||
| And now people are like, well, I can't afford a home. | ||
| The interest, you know, everything is impossible. | ||
| Jobs are scarce for a lot of people. | ||
| Buying a home is impossible for the next generation. | ||
| I got a lot of black pilling when it comes to that part of society. | ||
| Maybe the focus needs to go back there rather than this stuff. | ||
| I do have to admit, I am rather, what's the right word? | ||
| Entertained when I go on Instagram and I'm looking at the stories from like friends of mine for I've known for decades. | ||
| And these are people who just have never been involved in politics. | ||
| And now it's like, I'll click their story and it's just Gaza. | ||
| Like 700 stories about Gaza. | ||
| I'm like, well, I can see what current trend is, you know, what current issue is in the current year, because I know it's going to happen. | ||
| Three or four months, it's going to change. | ||
| And the posts are all going to be about some other trending issue. | ||
| Meaning that those people, like a couple of years ago, they were posting Ukraine stories. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| And then before that, it was like Spice Girls. | ||
| I think you skipped a decade or two there. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Nope. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| No. | ||
| Bro, those are millennials. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| They're all posting weird drama stupid stuff. | ||
| You're saying there was nothing before it was, it was, it was Gaza, Ukraine, and San Francisco. | ||
| Didn't the Spice Girls do like a tour recently? | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| I'm not kidding. | ||
| They're posting about Spice Girls. | ||
| I feel like we would have known that. | ||
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When was we not doing our job? | |
| Yeah, they're planning a tour in 2026. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| The 30th year anniversary. | ||
| Oh, that's that's going to be an embarrassment, just like in Sankinbax reports. | ||
| See, we need to get we need to get back to that type of corporate feminism. | ||
| That's what we really need. | ||
| Corporate-backed, like where only the big 2019, I was right. | ||
| Okay, so Spice World 2019. | ||
| It's exactly what I was talking about. | ||
| During COVID? | ||
| This was just before COVID. | ||
| That's why nobody, nobody nervous. | ||
| It's COVID. | ||
| Wow, look at that. | ||
| But posh wasn't there. | ||
| Well, then it's not a Spice Girls story. | ||
| She was the best. | ||
| I tried out of all of them. | ||
| Yeah, it's like millennials being like, can you believe the Spice Girls were back? | ||
| And they're posting about on Instagram. | ||
| And then COVID happened, everyone's brains turned to jello. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's weird. | ||
| No, we've never recovered from that. | ||
| That weird cultural shock to the system. | ||
| And everybody just being awful to each other on Facebook during COVID for a myriad of reasons. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| What are the expectations? | ||
| I mean, when you say like that the one side has gone complacent, what are the expectations that didn't get met? | ||
| I'm just curious where you're going. | ||
| So many. | ||
| I mean, maybe I'm just speaking for myself, and I shouldn't say that I represent this huge swath of people, but I like could not be more disappointed with Trump. | ||
| I mean, it's just cruel joke after cruel joke at this point. | ||
| He's thinking of pardoning Diddy, more money for Ukraine, more money for Israel. | ||
| We're bombing Iran, expanding a new visa program for foreign illegal aliens. | ||
| And it just keeps getting worse and worse. | ||
| And then you add the Epstein scandal on top of all that, and it's just wrapped in a little bow. | ||
| And I'm not disappointed. | ||
| He said mean things about Hillary Clinton. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, I wouldn't be bothered by it if he kept Hillary Clinton and Obama like criminally accountable for their actions. | ||
| I don't think he will. | ||
| It wouldn't bother me, but it would feel a little self-indulgent and it would feel like a huge distraction from what people really care about. | ||
| But I mean, kind of to your point, I mean, but you know, in terms of people being focused on, you know, what they can control, wouldn't you say that things are a lot better than where they were, say, just two years ago under Joe Biden in terms of ability to have, you know, that kind of impact over your own personal domain in terms of your own civil liberties and ability to make choices and engage in the economy and, you know, and have your free speech restored and things of that nature. | ||
| I think you could give Elon Musk more credit for restoring free speech and big tech platforms than Trump. | ||
| But can you be specific about that? | ||
| I just think the culture has shifted back more to the middle where you're not walking on eggshells over everything you say. | ||
| You know, we're not seeing as many men playing women's sports and kind of this. | ||
| I mean, that's, I just feel like the right is like desperate for something that appears to be a huge W. And it's a lot of people in the deregulation. | ||
| And, you know, with what you said about woke, basically, I don't actually agree that woke is dead, as everyone is saying. | ||
| I think that it actually disguised itself more cleverly and it's just covert woke now. | ||
| And we don't even know that we're woke. | ||
| It's just sort of a software update that everyone went through. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| Like we are woke. | ||
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Well, I don't know. | |
| Maybe not us in this room, but society has been dragged over to a level of wokeness that we're not going to return back from. | ||
| And I agree with you. | ||
| I want to jump to the story to get into the core into the core of this. | ||
| This is from MSN. | ||
| Spotify introduces face scanning age checks for UK users as some furious fans threaten to return to piracy. | ||
| So here's what I think is happening. | ||
| I think that woke has been routed and we've pushed it back. | ||
| And you're seeing now like the Sydney Sweeney ad plus that Dunkin' Donut. | ||
| Was it Dunkin' Donuts? | ||
| Dunkin' Donuts. | ||
| Where he's like, I got good genes. | ||
| And everyone's like, it's racist. | ||
| But here's what I think is happening. | ||
| The powers that be, whether you have the international interest of the corporations, I imagine that they got together and said, guys, this force, this cultural force using racism and stuff didn't work In getting people controlled, let's give baby their bottle, but we are then going to go to the conservative woke route, which is, won't you think about the children? | ||
| We have to protect the children. | ||
| We have no choice. | ||
| So then they pass these bills saying, if you're going to buy porn, you need an ID. | ||
| And we all agree with it. | ||
| Like, yeah, of course, no one should be like, I agree with that. | ||
| Then they say, oh, okay. | ||
| Oh, and by the way, it means anything that is ever considered explicit now requires a face scan and ID. | ||
| So now Spotify is face scanning people. | ||
| What happens next? | ||
| This is worse than woke. | ||
| It's one thing if you said a naughty word on the internet and got banned from that platform, but you weren't banned from the other platforms. | ||
| Sometimes they didn't collude. | ||
| What's happening now is social credit scores are starting to pop up through these kinds of systems. | ||
| And we're seeing it happening in the UK. | ||
| And I will tell you, they're the canary in the coal mine. | ||
| That's the country where they were arresting people and are arresting people for speech. | ||
| We can claim cultural victories, but we've had these laws passed at state level that we've largely agreed with. | ||
| Like, hey, it's a good thing that Pornhub being banned. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And now what's happening is they're going to go, Visa and MasterCard have banned something around, what is it, like 20,000 games. | ||
| And the argument is, oh, but it's because they're porn. | ||
| Apparently, most, many of them, thousands maybe weren't even porn. | ||
| It was just adult-themed games, perhaps like GTA, which was the target of this. | ||
| They're going to go through payment processors. | ||
| They've always tried debanking. | ||
| We may have won on some cultural grounds where what we describe as woke has been pushed back, but the censorship industrial complex is just trying to find new ways to control what we can think, what we can see, and what we can purchase. | ||
| And now YouTube's going the age verification route with 18 Plus right after they suddenly started pushing shorts heavily, meaning that kids are the ones who spend hours a day glued to their phone looking at this is it's going to destroy most independent creators. | ||
| When they age get your content, your views drop by something like 60, 70%. | ||
| And it's not because the video is being served to children and they're saying, no, you kids, you can't watch this. | ||
| It's because people don't sign up. | ||
| And if you're not signed up, you can't watch content they deem to be age inappropriate. | ||
| That means the front page of YouTube is going to be Mr. Beast and nothing else. | ||
| There's going to be five big shows that are approved by YouTube. | ||
| That means news and politics will be gated. | ||
| And that means the average person will not be able to watch shows about politics. | ||
| And that's exactly what they want. | ||
| They want you to go back to sleep, America. | ||
| Your government is in control once again. | ||
| Here's American Gladiators. | ||
| Here's 40 channels of it. | ||
| No, I think these are all great points. | ||
| I'm just making the point that our political freedom only goes as far as our economic freedom. | ||
| And so we are still really, you know, early on in Trump's second term. | ||
| And so if home ownership rates start to go up and MA activity has already picked up and IPO activity is starting to uptick and things are on the uptrend, then I would say that that's definitely a move in the right direction from where we are. | ||
| Because if you don't have your economy, you have nothing. | ||
| You don't have opportunity. | ||
| I mean, that's what makes us Americans is that's the life, the lifebread of our society is our innovation. | ||
| And so, and I think it's too early to really make a call there on Trump's second term. | ||
| How do you feel things have been done with the tariffs? | ||
| I know that that's been a conversation that's come back up the last couple of days. | ||
| Do you think the tariffs were a good idea? | ||
| I do. | ||
| I think we're bringing in a lot of revenue so far in the tariffs. | ||
| And I think, you know, he's winning there. | ||
| And I think it's kind of allowed us to take control back on the global stage. | ||
| I think it's too early to say because we have to see if the GOP is really going to follow up the big, beautiful bill with some, you know, with more resistance packages to try to get the debt under control. | ||
| And if that's going to be our starting point or an end point. | ||
| I'm just making the case that I think it's too early into a second term to call it a W or an L yet. | ||
| I think that also has to do with the life cycle of the news, being if you're on the internet a lot and you're just blasted with news every single day. | ||
| Like not as much time has passed as people feel because what is actually six months feels like 10 years sometimes because you're reading nonstop news every day. | ||
| But the tariffs is one of the funniest examples to me of like when you hear about like I support the current thing was like I saw signs in local businesses talking about tariffs and I was like, you just know that the people who read those like they had to look up what a tariff was just to make sure that they were on the right side of whatever the issue was to the people that they're fighting with. | ||
| Like explain in pop terms. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I want to add to what we were talking about with YouTube. | ||
| Users on YouTube who believe that their AI age verification system is incorrect are supposed to verify their age by uploading a government ID or something. | ||
| That they'll have permanent. | ||
| And then you're going to start getting weird emails for services and stuff. | ||
| And you're going to be like, oh, why are they messaging me? | ||
| How do they get that email? | ||
| How do they know who I am? | ||
| And Google's going to use it to train their AI. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And then the machine will know your face. | ||
| See, the thing is, I've said this, in the real world, if you go to an adult bookstore, you show your ID, right? | ||
| So why would we let kids on the internet do whatever they want, like on X? | ||
| The difference with the internet is they're telling you to upload your personal information permanently. | ||
| And so they're going to have your stuff on file. | ||
| And then, you know what this is? | ||
| It's problem reaction solution. | ||
| They're going to come back and say, okay, you're right. | ||
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You're right. | |
| That is bad. | ||
| We're going to have a third-party company will assure us that you're verified. | ||
| So we will never hold your data. | ||
| The third-party company can then ban you for naughty words. | ||
| And then when you go to the grocery store and you're like, yeah, here's my groceries, they'll be like, yeah, just, you know, scan your credit card right then. | ||
| You'll tap it and it'll say, bam, banned. | ||
| And they'll be like, we use age verification, third-party app, and they're saying that you're a banned user, so we can't verify with them. | ||
| And that's what we use. | ||
| Our You Can't Shop here. | ||
| And the third party is Palantir. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Oh, snap. | ||
| Just consolidated all of the data about American citizens that existed in each individual federal department, which is just yet another disappointment that I've heard. | ||
| So you're saying I got to buy some Palantir stuff. | ||
| First thing I did after that first Palantir story was to buy Palantir stuff. | ||
| I told you, I told you guys this story that Ian busted into my, so when I had the studio in the front of the castle, like when we first, this like five years ago, yeah, it was like five years ago, Ian slams it open like Kramer. | ||
| He's like, dude, you got to invest in Palantir right now. | ||
| I think it was at like $14. | ||
| Oh, $150 now. | ||
| And I was like, why? | ||
| I've heard of it. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| He's like, dude, it's like this government database tracking, like prediction stuff, and it's going to be huge. | ||
| And I was like, I don't know, Ian, this is crazy. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| Buying Palantir. | ||
| And so I didn't. | ||
| But then I remember one day, Ian was like, dude, graphene. | ||
| And I'm like, okay, you know what? | ||
| I'm buying a bunch of graphene stock. | ||
| And so I looked up companies that make graphene products and I bought stock and I made like 100 grand. | ||
| Yeah, I'm not kidding. | ||
| He's a seer. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| Like, but he sounds crazy, so nobody wants to believe him. | ||
| He looks crazy. | ||
| That's his struggle. | ||
| You know, the problem is if it looks crazy and walks crazy, the chances are it's crazy, but then Ian's actually right. | ||
| So, you know, also, this is like Spotify is introducing Aatrix. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because of like parental advisory music. | ||
| They could. | ||
| These companies could literally just say, we have the principal service. | ||
| And if you want anything deemed explicit, you can then opt for that. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So if you go on Spotify and you want to listen to like EZE as he raps about injuring LGBTQ people with pistols in their genitals, which he did, maybe you just need to say, I want to listen to explicit content. | ||
| And they say, okay, you got to prove you are. | ||
| The problem then is they're creating databases. | ||
| But the point I'm making is they're not doing that. | ||
| They're just saying everybody, no matter what, needs to face scan and verify because they want your data. | ||
| These big tech companies are like, oh, no, I guess we have no choice. | ||
| They collect your data and now they can sell it. | ||
| But Tim, there was a vibe shift and Mark Zuckerberg got a haircut. | ||
| Wait, did he get a haircut? | ||
| He's got the broccoli haircut. | ||
| I'm not mad anymore. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Here's another trick, Mark. | ||
| My phone number is 85. | ||
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I'm kidding. | |
| We were two votes away from losing our sovereignty. | ||
| I mean, if not for Kristen Sinema and Joe Manchin, right, like we would have lost our rights essentially as U.S. citizens because it was just, it would have been endless open borders in terms of having to show a voter ID when you vote. | ||
| Wait, wait, wait, they voted. | ||
| They voted against it. | ||
| They did not go along when the Democrats were trying to pass that bill. | ||
| But if they were to be able to do that, that's how close we were, you know, to the end. | ||
| And so this seems like very minor in comparison to where we were. | ||
| And I feel like, you know, our memories, we have a very short that's a good point. | ||
| We were two votes away from Democrats. | ||
| It was banning voter ID, right? | ||
| It was making it so that anybody could just exactly. | ||
| Anybody can just vote, can just walk in there and just say they're largely out as a Democrat. | ||
| I'm Tim Poole and I'm going to vote. | ||
| And that would have been the end of our sovereign system as we know it. | ||
| Trump apparently wants a new census early. | ||
| And they're talking about trying to push that through so they can get illegal immigrants off of these. | ||
| So they can take some seats away from California. | ||
| Yeah, Texas is trying to take away five Democrat seats. | ||
| You see this? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's crazy. | ||
| So those are big victories that further empowered a U.S. citizen. | ||
| I think closing the borders, I think there's a lot of wins that we're kind of taking for granted. | ||
| I think technology is just kind of going where it was going, regardless of who the, you know, which political party was in power. | ||
| So that's just my take on it. | ||
| I think it's too early to declare it a loss or a win yet at this point to Trump's second. | ||
| I do want to jump to this story. | ||
| This is from Tom's Guide. | ||
| YouTube's new AI age verification is coming soon. | ||
| Here's what's going to change. | ||
| AI will assess whether an account belongs to an adult or teen. | ||
| YouTube's going to start relying on AI to determine whether or not an account belongs to a teen or an adult and take action as a result. | ||
| In a recent blog post, YouTube announced machine learning would interpret a variety of signals that help us to determine whether a user is over or under 18. | ||
| My advice to 17-year-olds is just watch as much news as you can in between whatever it is you actually want to watch. | ||
| If the A believes the account is being operated by a teen, it will automatically apply age-appropriate protections. | ||
| Disabling personalized advertising, turning on digital well-being tools. | ||
| Oh, that sounds creepy. | ||
| Adding safeguards to recommendations, including limiting repetitive views of some kinds of content. | ||
| Meaning that it'll be like, you've watched too much of this, this guy's content. | ||
| Time to show you something else. | ||
| It's actually YouTube saying, hey there, kid. | ||
| I think you've had a bit too much to think. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Move on. | ||
| So how does it work? | ||
| They will, if they suspect a user is underage, restrict, make restrictions like disabling personalized ads and activating digital well-being tools. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Mary needs those. | ||
| So what is a digital well-being tool? | ||
| It's like a paperclip pops up and asks you how you're feeling. | ||
| How is this? | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| I'm not getting parental advisory stickers or needing to be aged. | ||
| It's worse. | ||
| Buy a Playboy, you know, when I was a kid, something like that. | ||
| Well, like on YouTube? | ||
| No, just like to go into a convenience store, not to age myself and buy a Playboy machine. | ||
| You show your ID. | ||
| You show your ID for one second. | ||
| They don't take a copy of it, put it in their binder, and then say, I'm going to hold on to this forever. | ||
| Because they didn't have the ability to do so. | ||
| They did. | ||
| They could have put your ID on a fax machine on a copying machine. | ||
| But they didn't do it. | ||
| People got mad when they do that. | ||
| There's that scene from Atlanta, you know, talking about the show Atlanta. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Where he goes to the movie theater and he's like, you know, I want to buy a ticket. | ||
| And they're like, okay, here's how much it costs. | ||
| And he hands the credit card and they go, we need ID. | ||
| And he's like, okay. | ||
| And he shows the ID and they go, we're going to have to copy this. | ||
| He's like, what? | ||
| You're not getting a copy of my ID. | ||
| And then he walks away and the white guy walks up and then does the same thing. | ||
| And they're like, wait, what's going on? | ||
| He's racist or whatever. | ||
| But, you know, aside from the weird narrative of Atlanta, it is rare that someone at a store would take your ID and copy it and put it in a binder that they're going to keep forever and say, we might lose it, but that's your problem. | ||
| They do have the 16-plus requirements to go to the movies out by us out here. | ||
| Like after a certain time, you have to be over a certain age to get it. | ||
| That's probably because the kids are throwing popcorn. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Minecraft did it. | ||
| What were you saying, Mary? | ||
| You said you saw something. | ||
| Yeah, I tried to see which digital well-being tools they have. | ||
| They have reminders to take a break and bedtime reminders. | ||
| Instagram's had that for like a while. | ||
| Like you have to activate it yourself. | ||
| And also, if we're talking about Instagram and Meta, they have been proven time and time again to purposefully target underage accounts with more sexual content than the rest of their user base. | ||
| I think it was the Wall Street Journal that has released multiple reports about that. | ||
| And they have tested it extensively. | ||
| If you're an account on Instagram that is 13 years old, identified as 13 years old, you're immediately going to be fed more sexually suggestive content, usually pages that funnel into OnlyFans accounts. | ||
| Yeah, I think the ID thing's a Trojan horse as we're seeing it applied now, the age verification verification thing. | ||
| Again, they tried to go the woke route of don't be racist. | ||
| You're not racist, are you? | ||
| And people resisted and screw you, I'm not racist. | ||
| You're not banning me. | ||
| So now they're going the other route of, oh, the children, the children at risk and conservatives are on board with that one. | ||
| And that's the path towards creating systems of control and social credit systems. | ||
| I feel like the future is in making both sides angry. | ||
| That's how I felt about the Sydney Sweeney one because there's people on the right that were mad because of boobs. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, yeah, that and they were like, children, don't look. | ||
| And then the people on the left are mad because it's white supremacy. | ||
| So really, you want to shoot for making everybody mad. | ||
| So it's an Megelian dialectic, basically. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Make everybody angry. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, another trick is that suddenly no one in TSA is worried you're going to hide a bomb in your shoe anymore. | ||
| So you don't have to take your shoes off as long as you get the real ID. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Or TSA pre- Well, you can't fly without it anyway. | ||
| No, you can, you can fly domestically without it up until, what was it, May this year? | ||
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Maybe. | |
| It was an extension. | ||
| Now you have to have it. | ||
| Somewhere in May. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Oh, also, I had the story I told you earlier. | ||
| So my passport expired a long time ago. | ||
| I had to get a new passport. | ||
| When I went in to do that at the post office, I brought a certified copy of my passport and a copy of my passport. | ||
| One that blatantly says like copy on the top of it. | ||
| And they said they needed a certified copy, but the certified copy looks vastly different from a regular passport. | ||
| It doesn't have all the same information on there. | ||
| And the guy looks at the one that says copy, looks it up and down, uses that one, takes it with him. | ||
| And I'm just like, I'm like, I know I'm screwed. | ||
| Like this guy, like it went through. | ||
| Like I got my passport and I'm like, so on one hand, I'm happy because I didn't have to like file for like an extension and like an expedited passport. | ||
| On the other hand, they looked at this document and were like, yep, that's fine. | ||
| Rubber stamped it and sent it through. | ||
| Like that's bad either way. | ||
| That's just a good idea in conference. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Well, yeah, it's the government. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| With the UK, it's the Online Safety Act. | ||
| One of the funniest things about this story is that to get past the face scanning, people are using Norman Reedis from Death Stranding. | ||
| Yep, I saw that. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Because it's so lifelike. | ||
| Just because you can control the face and make him open his mouth and move. | ||
| And so it's like, it doesn't work anyway. | ||
| But they're creating a database. | ||
| And I think the play is get conservatives on board with it by saying it's for the kids and then create this ID database where everybody's going online has to submit their ID. | ||
| X did it. | ||
| And the right smiled as they submitted their IDs. | ||
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I did it. | |
| Everyone with a blue check did it. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Norman Reedas, they're about to finish the Daryl Dixon Walking Dead. | ||
| He's going to be able to cut his hair for like the first time in 20 years. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| But yeah, on X, Elon takes it over. | ||
| I believe this is a timeline. | ||
| Brings people back, then says, we're going to roll out monetization. | ||
| Everybody starts getting these big payouts. | ||
| And they're like, this is crazy. | ||
| I'm getting thousands of dollars. | ||
| You know, every other, what the heck? | ||
| Some people were getting like 30 grand in two weeks. | ||
| It was nuts. | ||
| I think there's a little bit of payola involved there. | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| Or they were willing to have a kid with. | ||
| And they were posting those screenshots saying, in the interest of transparency, literally all of them were scripted. | ||
| It wasn't just women. | ||
| Well, so perhaps, perhaps it was payola because then what happens next is everybody's all excited about monetization. | ||
| Then we abruptly get this notification saying, if you don't submit your ID, you'll lose your blue check. | ||
| And then everyone went, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. | ||
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What? | |
| I'm getting money here. | ||
| So then people, so this is incredible. | ||
| Elon brought the right onto the platform, offered them blue check marks and money along with it. | ||
| Once they all agreed, he says, now we're going to take it away unless you get you give us your IDs. | ||
| And they all said, yes. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| He's been working with George Soros this entire time. | ||
| Oh, I don't know about that, but like the idea that Elon was like, they took away our jokes and it was wrong. | ||
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So I'm going to buy the platform and then restore free speech is silly. | |
| Elon Musk was like, I want training data for my AI bot. | ||
| And I don't. | ||
| I said this much. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| But like people say, oh man, the Babylon B, you know, I bet Twitter regrets making that ban because Elon wanted to buy this well before Babylon B. So the whole Milton Friedman, you know, or I can, that was all an act, getting, you know, paying people a million dollars to read the Constitution and all that stuff. | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| Well, he became a big disciple of Milton Friedman and the Constitution, apparently. | ||
| I mean, put on this act. | ||
| I'm just saying that data is valuable. | ||
| He wants to train his AI and he wants confirmed data. | ||
| So what I imagine he's doing with X, the reason for verification is that he doesn't want unverified profiles feeding the X machine. | ||
| So X AI is being trained on data and he's making sure that only people that they have verified as real humans with IDs are having their data fed into the training model. | ||
| That's probably why he did it. | ||
| So many of those verified accounts are botted anyways. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| X is just such slop now. | ||
| Everything is like this. | ||
| Every tweet that has high interaction, if you look at the replies, it's just more engagement bait in the replies, completely unrelated to the posts that you're looking at. | ||
| There's no actual discourse happening. | ||
| Anywhere, though. | ||
| It's not just X. Like, I'm going to tell you, I think the comments on every app are fake. | ||
| Oh, for sure. | ||
| They tailor them specifically to you. | ||
| If you even look at a TikTok and then you send it to your friend who's sitting next to you on the couch and they open the same link and look at the comments, you guys are going to see totally different top-liked comments based on what the algorithm assumes you'll agree with and will interact with. | ||
| Those are totally fake. | ||
| I believe Fortune just published a report that said over half of online traffic is bots. | ||
| It's more than that. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Way more than that. | ||
| It's dead internet theory. | ||
| It was trending today. | ||
| I think I kind of feel like everybody died a long time ago. | ||
| And I'm only half kidding. | ||
| Because I go outside and I'm like, where is everybody? | ||
| Honest question. | ||
| I go outside all the time and there's nobody. | ||
| I mean, like, where? | ||
| Well, do you mean that they're all staying inside because they're plug-in to the internet? | ||
| That might be. | ||
| There are some instances where it doesn't feel that way. | ||
| Like I went to the Christmas market in Chicago and it was shoulder to shoulder with people who aren't American. | ||
| And so that was kind of like, what's the word I'm thinking? | ||
| Looking disconcerting. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That I'm like, I'm here in Chicago at the Chicago Chris Kringle Market, and everybody here, they were from Asia. | ||
| It was like the people, they were all tourists, and it was shoulder to shoulder. | ||
| You could barely move. | ||
| I went two years now because we used to go all the time when I lived in Chicago. | ||
| And I'm like, it's all migrant tourists. | ||
| And I'm like, where are the Chicagoans that used to come out and say the bears? | ||
| They never actually did. | ||
| That wasn't true, but it's funny to say anyway. | ||
| And then, like I mentioned, I went for the 4th of July and nobody was out doing anything. | ||
| Nobody in the parks, nobody in the fields. | ||
| And I was like, what happened? | ||
| Where is everybody? | ||
| I mentioned this. | ||
| Local restaurant went out of business because they couldn't find anybody to work. | ||
| Trying to make food, couldn't do it. | ||
| Went out of business. | ||
| Then, you know what? | ||
| You know what I think a big component of this is? | ||
| People didn't have kids. | ||
| And if you don't have kids, you got nothing to do. | ||
| So these, these, I'll speak to the skateboard community because they're a bunch of degenerates. | ||
| 30-year-old skateboard guy, he goes, I don't know, man. | ||
| I just, as long as they make enough to pay the rent, what's your rent? | ||
| It's like 200 bucks. | ||
| What? | ||
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How? | |
| Well, I live with like six guys in a one bedroom at skateboarders. | ||
| And they're unmarried, single guys. | ||
| And so I'm like, okay, well, we need labor done. | ||
| Would you want to do a job? | ||
| No, I don't need to. | ||
| Why? | ||
| I work like 10 hours in the week and then I go skate. | ||
| And then I just beg or just eat scraps. | ||
| And it's just like, this is weird. | ||
| People didn't have kids. | ||
| So they don't have to fight to get resources anymore. | ||
| We're overly wealthy, lazy, and childless. | ||
| I mean, even before I came out here, I was like, I had to work a lot because I wanted to live on my own. | ||
| I didn't want to live with anybody. | ||
| So I had to work full-time. | ||
| But the whole point was like, I worked eight hours a day and then spent the rest of the time skating. | ||
| But that's pretty, pretty rare these days because most people, if they're in that community, they're going to want to go and, if they're dedicated to doing it like all the time, they're going to go live with people. | ||
| Living this bohemian life style. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How is that desirable, though? | ||
| I just don't get it. | ||
| At that time, I mean, during COVID, it was interesting because when you go on later in life, like, how is that still desirable to those people? | ||
| I don't understand it. | ||
| Don't you want to lay some roots somewhere? | ||
| They're deeply connected to what they're doing. | ||
| They really love it. | ||
| It's like if there was an activity that you really, really loved, you know, more so even than somebody, say, who plays an instrument, who can make time for that anytime, right? | ||
| Like you go to work, you come home, you can do that. | ||
| Skating is a little bit different for a lot of people. | ||
| It takes up a lot more of your time because you literally travel to go do it all the time. | ||
| And they're willing to sacrifice a normal life to go out and do that. | ||
| Let's jump to this next story from the Daily Mail. | ||
| Elon Musk makes bold play for an unlikely marriage with $3 trillion icon. | ||
| Elon Musk has been openly hinting at a historic merger in the business world, suggesting that his company, XAI, should partner with Apple. | ||
| Musk's company is the corporate face of his popular AI chatbot, Grok, which functions similarly to competitors like GPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot. | ||
| Meanwhile, Apple has struggled to bring its own AI programs to consumers, notably delaying improvements to the Siri voice assistant. | ||
| Venture capitalists started openly speculating this month that Musk and Apple make the perfect power couple in the AI world with XAI bringing Grok to even more people using iPhones through this proposed partnership. | ||
| On the all-in podcast, investor Gavin Baker called XAI's Grokfor the best product in terms of ad chatbots right now, but added the best product doesn't always win in technology. | ||
| I think there's a solid industrial logic for a partnership. | ||
| You could have Apple, Grok, Safe, Grok, whatever you want to call it, said Baker. | ||
| Musk quickly replied to the comment saying, interesting idea. | ||
| The billionaire added, I hope so. | ||
| You want to know why I believe this is possible? | ||
| Why there's a good possibility? | ||
| Because when you pull up Nancy Pelosi's stock trades in May, she put $25 to $50 million in Apple, indicating Apple would be doing something. | ||
| And I'm going to stress this. | ||
| Apple's got nothing going for it. | ||
| They've made the same iPhone every year, non-stop for a decade, and people are tired of it. | ||
| They're not innovating. | ||
| They're offering up no real new products. | ||
| So why would Nancy Pelosi decide in May that we're going to do this big purchase? | ||
| To clarify, this is from a year ago. | ||
| So the report year is 24, she filed it a few months ago. | ||
| What has Apple done recently that has any play? | ||
| I feel like Phil needs to be here to defend Apple. | ||
| Unfortunately, I'm a Galaxy product. | ||
| It's a sticky product, and it could just be that the stock is oversold. | ||
| And I'm not saying that this is the case. | ||
| I'm just playing devil's advocate there and saying that there are people who are Apple users like myself who will always be Apple users because it's the Apple universe that you really buy into. | ||
| I think Apple's cooked. | ||
| But I don't think that's why she bought it. | ||
| I'm just making the case that she. | ||
| She knows something. | ||
| Oh, of course. | ||
| She knows something's going on. | ||
| Perhaps some intelligence came across her desk where there is murmurings of a potential merger between, say, X or a partnership that would require some congressional oversight or something like this. | ||
| And she was like, quick, buy Apple. | ||
| Buy it now. | ||
| A year out, maybe. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's a stretch. | ||
| Maybe not. | ||
| I'm just saying she bought NVIDIA. | ||
| She knows what's going on. | ||
| She's got insider information. | ||
| That's what Trump said. | ||
| She goes, I'm not into that. | ||
| My husband is. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| She tells her husband. | ||
| So her husband goes, Anything interesting happened at work today, honey? | ||
| And she goes, Oh, there's a new AI thing. | ||
| Apparently, they want to deregulate AI. | ||
| And there's a company called In Nvidia or something. | ||
| And he's like, Really? | ||
| And he's writing. | ||
| He's got a notepad full of notes. | ||
| He has a bug on her lapel. | ||
| He's like, talk more, honey. | ||
| And then when she gets caught, she's like, I have no idea what you're talking about. | ||
| So I don't know. | ||
| Last year, she bought between $25 and $50 million worth of Apple. | ||
| But I don't know. | ||
| It's possible that she's, I mean, her net worth is $260 million. | ||
| So $25 to $50 is a good chunk of her net worth. | ||
| Maybe it's the low end. | ||
| That's still a lot, 10% into one company. | ||
| Is that abnormal? | ||
| Big purchase like that? | ||
| You would know better than I would. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| It is abnormal. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| 100%. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Now, okay, that proves it. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| She's doing it. | ||
| Elon's buying Apple. | ||
| I'm going to check Apple stock right now. | ||
| Well, you can go on, what's that app? | ||
| And you can just follow the Pelosi stock trader, which that's what I'm on right now, QuiverQuant. | ||
| It's called the Pelosi strategy. | ||
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Yep. | |
| You know, you follow her, you would have made 700% over 10 years. | ||
| It's NVIDIA. | ||
| It's Broadcom, Google, Vista, Palo Alto Networks. | ||
| Hold on, real quick. | ||
| Tesla. | ||
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Hold on. | |
| Is she like Elon? | ||
| She's got a lot of stuff. | ||
| Here to date, Apple is down 15%. | ||
| Do we, honest question? | ||
| I mean, maybe it's just silly and it's memeing, but does Nancy Pelosi make bad trades like that? | ||
| When you look at her record, she doesn't. | ||
| She's up 730%, man. | ||
| She's a profit. | ||
| So she buys into Apple and she's down 15%. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think she knows something. | ||
| It's girl math. | ||
| She's like really bad at trading. | ||
| Well, it's her, to be fair, it's her husband. | ||
| And because it's their joint net worth, she files this. | ||
| But I'm just wondering, you know, that's a big chunk of her net worth, her and her husband's net worth. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| Does Apple have government contracts? | ||
| I'm assuming they do have government contracts of some sort. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Looks like you can look at what she bought recently. | ||
| She bought, what is this, Matthews International? | ||
| What is this? | ||
| Oh, she sold. | ||
| Sorry, she sold Matthews International between $15,000 and $50,000. | ||
| Was that on a Friday? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| July 9th. | ||
| Probably taking some money out to go party over the weekend. | ||
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Yes. | |
| AVGO Broadcom. | ||
| She bought between $1 and $5 million on the 9th. | ||
| It's a Wednesday. | ||
| It's a Wednesday. | ||
| Ain't nobody partying on Wednesday. | ||
| Maybe she was getting ready for the weekend, you know. | ||
| Wild night. | ||
| It's DC. | ||
| They can party any day they want. | ||
| No, no, it's California, bro. | ||
| Well, I mean, policy. | ||
| I guess they're in sessions. | ||
| She did buy another between quarter and a half mil of NVIDIA and the same for Google and Tempest AI. | ||
| Oh, Tempest AI. | ||
| Really? | ||
| She bought Tempest AI, huh? | ||
| Huh. | ||
| She goes in the heart of Silicon Valley. | ||
| I will say that. | ||
| But the reality is, and I don't know anything about this new bill that got passed, but unless that they can prove that they had insider information, it's just been pretty much sand and operating procedure for insider politicians who have all their ancillary knowledge as to what's going on with these companies to then add them to their portfolios. | ||
| And that's why so many of them are so wealthy. | ||
| Should be illegal. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| 100% agree. | ||
| Basically, what happens is there will be a okay. | ||
| There's a couple ways they can do it. | ||
| One is they can introduce legislation they know will damage a company. | ||
| They'll say, if I announce publicly that we are going to regulate this industry, these companies are going to go down. | ||
| Short them now. | ||
| You know, get those shorts ready. | ||
| Then we file this bill or we get some co-sponsors. | ||
| We announce it. | ||
| Their stock drops, sell it. | ||
| We'll drop the bill. | ||
| You never have to actually even pass any legislation. | ||
| Or the inverse is possible that they come to him and they say, look, we've got this new bill. | ||
| Lobbyists from these companies have been saying that this regulation is a problem for them. | ||
| We want to win the AI race. | ||
| So we're going to be deregulating and it's going to benefit a lot of these companies that make GPUs. | ||
| And then Pelosi goes, oh, oh, oh, she calls her husband. | ||
| She's like, buy NVIDIA now. | ||
| Buy NVIDIA. | ||
| And then she does, and she gets like several hundred percent off her investment. | ||
| And then they go, that's not insider trading. | ||
| Yeah, they just get to make decisions whether or not a company succeeds or fails. | ||
| And that's not insider trading. | ||
| That's how it works. | ||
| It's depressing. | ||
| That's exactly how it works. | ||
| Well, that's why a lot of people were mad about this new Pelosi Act. | ||
| Preventing elected leaders. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Preventing investing. | ||
| What is this stupid thing called? | ||
| Pelosi Act. | ||
| What does that stand for? | ||
| Let me see. | ||
| So, you know what S.H.I.E.L.D. | ||
| from Agents of Shield stood for, but not the Pelosi Act? | ||
| Preventing elected leaders from owning securities and investments. | ||
| There was an F, and I was like, well, it's not Pelopsy. | ||
| Pel Foci. | ||
| George Carlin said it best. | ||
| It's a big club and you ain't in it. | ||
| And it's the same club they used to beat you over the head with. | ||
| That's what he said. | ||
| Indeed, it is. | ||
| So the funny thing is, Democrats and Holly were on board with this, but Republicans weren't. | ||
| And I was like, what's the problem? | ||
| This is weird. | ||
| Why are the why are the Democrats saying stop the stock trading and the Republicans are saying no? | ||
| Which Republicans were saying it? | ||
| Rand Paul, for instance. | ||
| You know what it is? | ||
| Like these guys are like, could you imagine being a freshman member of Congress and you're like, I finally made it. | ||
| And then they go, oh, by the way, you're the last one in. | ||
| We're going to ban you. | ||
| No, that's the whole point. | ||
| Do you think I want to work for $175,000 a year? | ||
| It was hard to get here. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| But now. | ||
| They get pensions, though, right? | ||
| I guess. | ||
| They do. | ||
| It's not as nice as being worth whatever she's worth, right? | ||
| $260 million. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Just pure luck. | ||
| Pure luck. | ||
| She's guesses. | ||
| She's a prophet. | ||
| Her husband's a prophet. | ||
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Whatever. | |
| You see her freak out when she was asked about it by Jake Tapper? | ||
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No. | |
| On CNN. | ||
| She was like, why are you asking me about this? | ||
| He tried playing the clip of Trump saying she's insider trading and all that. | ||
| She got mad and she's like, I don't talk about Medicaid. | ||
| And I was just like, I want to talk about how you're 84 and you should quit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's like, you've made your money. | ||
| Like, you've bled us dry. | ||
| This is the creepiest thing about these octogenarians. | ||
| What do they call it? | ||
| A gerontocracy? | ||
| Rule by the old? | ||
| Well, yeah. | ||
| What's crazy to me about all of it is just what is wrong with Nancy Pelosi's brain that she won't leave. | ||
| Like, just leave. | ||
| Go away. | ||
| Go away, lady. | ||
| You're 84. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| What's wrong with these people? | ||
| Just get out. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| What's going on there? | ||
| She won. | ||
| Be happy. | ||
| Enjoy retirement, right? | ||
| Why do they keep coming back? | ||
| I just, it's insane to me that something's wrong with these people. | ||
| Why do you think that is? | ||
| Why do you think they don't leave? | ||
| Do you think they just enjoy exerting power over other people? | ||
| I do think it has to be some power dynamic because I've been wondering this for a long time. | ||
| People like George Short, even people like Trump, like what, right? | ||
| Like, they're like all the adrenochrome. | ||
| Yeah, there's got to be some chemical going on in the brain there that they keep going back to that makes them feel better. | ||
| Well, also, it's like they don't really work that much. | ||
| It doesn't feel like they're never there. | ||
| Maybe this, maybe she should, I don't get it. | ||
| Like, you're worth $260 million, lady. | ||
| You can eat all the Jenny's ice cream in the world right now. | ||
| Just leave. | ||
| And not just her, but a bunch of these other populations. | ||
| Okay, if you're Democrat or Republican, what is wrong with these people? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm just society is cooked. | ||
| Kids' brains is cooked, right? | ||
| People aren't working anymore. | ||
| There's no babies. | ||
| Our culture is fractured a million ways. | ||
| And you've got these sociopaths like Pelosi who won't just get out and leave. | ||
| And then, with all due respect to the boomers, it's not all boomers, I get it, but boomers hold a disproportionate amount of wealth and they won't give it away. | ||
| I don't expect them to give it away. | ||
| They want to spend it. | ||
| They're living longer. | ||
| They want to spend it. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And yes, the Great Wall Transfer is not unfolding the way they predicted. | ||
| So Gen Z's got nothing. | ||
| They're going to live in pods, eat the bugs. | ||
| And you know what's going to happen? | ||
| Communist revolution. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| It was always weird to me when people would say, like, people will understand, people will fall in love with free markets once it gets bad enough. | ||
| Like, no, no, no, they won't. | ||
| They will, somebody at the government's going to tell them this is how we fix it, and they're going to fall in line with that. | ||
| And I think what's going to happen is, or I said there's a probability of this. | ||
| Young people are skewing to the right quite a bit. | ||
| So I would call it cultural revolution. | ||
| You know, I know that it's got a negative. | ||
| It's young men that are skewing right. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And those are the ones that are going to go nuts. | ||
| The government could never be a solution to the problems. | ||
| I mean, I understand that young people, they feel like they don't have a stake in the system. | ||
| And so the natural impetus is to turn toward. | ||
| But if you just look at history, government has never been a solution to the problem. | ||
| It never will be a solution to the problem. | ||
| Freer markets and less government involvement is the only viable option. | ||
| So that's kind of what I was alluding to before. | ||
| I disagree. | ||
| I mean, the market is overly regulated today. | ||
| But if we were to loosen up regulations, you are not going to remove the multiple homes from the boomer generation. | ||
| They're not going to give them away. | ||
| And so what's likely to happen is I don't blame boomers for being like, look, I worked hard. | ||
| I've got three houses. | ||
| Screw you. | ||
| They're mine. | ||
| These are my investments. | ||
| I own stock and corporate securities. | ||
| They're mine. | ||
| I paid for them. | ||
| I worked. | ||
| Screw you. | ||
| Well, there's going to be Gen Z guys. | ||
| I think it's going to be a right, it's looking like a right word, a culture revolution, but they are going to take your stuff. | ||
| They don't care what you think. | ||
| And they're going to appropriate it for their cultural revolution. | ||
| And they're going to say they're going to be in their late 20s, these Gen Z guys. | ||
| And so this could be five, 10 years, depending, if nothing changes, right? | ||
| And they're going to say, we're expected to have families. | ||
| We're expected to work jobs. | ||
| We're expected to live, but we can't own property anywhere. | ||
| We've got foreign landlords and we've got an older generation that is living too long and they've got multiple homes and they use them when they see fit. | ||
| You are going to get, it starts with the DSA, but the problem with the DSA is that they're woke and ineffective. | ||
| Everybody saw that convention they had where they were like, point of personal privilege, my pronouns are actually, stop. | ||
| Can you stop clapping? | ||
| They were actually doing this when they were saying it, too. | ||
| Yeah, and people were clapping and they're like, I have anxiety. | ||
| You have to do what I want. | ||
| So young people who are actually just angry because you can't get anything done, we're like, we're going the right. | ||
| Because the left is crazy. | ||
| It doesn't work. | ||
| But those are still the same grounds on which the Bolshevik Revolution happens. | ||
| For them to do that successfully, they have to have some type of government authority. | ||
| So it would be, no matter what, even if the basis was right, it would be inherently left. | ||
| Otherwise, it's not successful and it gets called by those that are in power. | ||
| I would not be surprised if in like 10 years there was government enforcement that seized assets from boomers and reallocated it. | ||
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| Or put it on the market at lower rates or something. | ||
| But that's the left, though. | ||
| It's a left-wing approach to things is to take somebody else's property and redistribute it. | ||
| It's just authoritarian, authoritarian. | ||
| Depending on the cultural slant of the individuals as they do it, if they're like white Christian, you know, traditionalists who are like, we're going to restore the American dream and the white picket fence, but we're going to need corrective measures, then we would call that right. | ||
| But you're not allowing free markets to distribute those resources. | ||
| You are relying on force or the government or some other means to redistribute those resources. | ||
| So that's in that sense. | ||
| That's an economic scale. | ||
| So when we're talking about like the political compass, for instance, right and left don't necessarily mean free market. | ||
| It just right and left means traditional or progressive. | ||
| So some people use right and left to mean free market versus socialism, economic. | ||
| That's the economic scale. | ||
| The political scale is just like the fascists, the Nazis are ultra, they're authoritarian traditionalists, and the communists were authoritarian progressives. | ||
| So it doesn't matter what strain of authoritarianism you get. | ||
| Some might say, well, that's still left. | ||
| Maybe left-leaning. | ||
| You know, like Hitler wasn't economically right-wing, of course. | ||
| They had a centralized, they had a command economy of sorts. | ||
| They used cultural force to enforce what they wanted in their production. | ||
| But I digress. | ||
| Whether it's left or right is immaterial. | ||
| I think young people, when the Gen Z today, there's no way a bunch of people in their 30s are going to be like, I am content with living five people in a single unit apartment in New York as the older generation sold us out to illegal immigrants. | ||
| They're going to be like, nah, the power is ours now. | ||
| We inherited this country and we're going to take what we want. | ||
| It doesn't mean that they're going to seize and redistribute like commies. | ||
| I wouldn't be surprised, however, if they say, we're going to take your homes and then put them on a market at a rate per square foot or something like that. | ||
| Could it be that productivity just becomes so great as a result of post-labor economics and AI that there's no need for any redistribution? | ||
| That's just productivity is so high that it automatically creates a system where people just aren't working because they lose the right to labor anyway because AI is so productive. | ||
| AI can't build specialty projects. | ||
| AI can't open businesses. | ||
| AI can't handle regulation. | ||
| You can, I mean, if the entirety of government went AI and regulation was just handled by machines, theoretically, it could be awesome because you don't got to worry about committees, meetings, fines, personal beefs. | ||
| Unfortunately, in the short term, that's not going to happen. | ||
| And so the issue I'm facing right now is I ask this question all the time, why is it so hard to get any job done? | ||
| And we've assessed this over and over again. | ||
| We need something built. | ||
| Well, it took what, like, three years to build this building. | ||
| And that's insane. | ||
| It's a field. | ||
| We owned it. | ||
| Minimal permit requirements took years. | ||
| And the issue is no one wants to work. | ||
| And there's no amount of money you can offer them to work. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| I go to somebody and I say, how much do you want to do this job? | ||
| And they go, I'm busy. | ||
| And I say, sir, certainly there's amount of money that you would take To do this job, and they go, I'm busy. | ||
| And I'm like, what? | ||
| I tell people all the time, we try to get an exterminator. | ||
| We have a rotating cycle of warring bugs in this building. | ||
| It's frogs now. | ||
| There's like the spring peeper frogs are just dang, dang it. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| We had crickets, we had ladybugs, we had stink bugs, we had wasps. | ||
| Now we got mosquitoes. | ||
| And we call the exterminator and they go three weeks. | ||
| And I'm like, why? | ||
| And he goes, because that's when we want to do it. | ||
| We don't want to come in. | ||
| We don't need it. | ||
| We don't need the money. | ||
| And I'm like, I'm sitting here wondering why we reach out to so many contractors, we reach out to so many people, and they all just say, we don't need it. | ||
| And I'm like, well, is there no workers? | ||
| Well, that supports my point, though, because a homeless person today has a higher standard of living than, say, the Pharaoh of Egypt. | ||
| People are so spoiled, kind of what you were saying before. | ||
| And they don't have kids. | ||
| And so if a smaller percentage of the labor force has an exponentially higher level of productivity, there is this potential – I don't know about in the short term but in the intermediate term where we're living in this era of UBI and post-labor economics where the basic bare means of subsistence are provided for people. | ||
| Then anything beyond that is just the – You're going to be eating mashed bug paste in a pod because they're not going to give you luxury. | ||
| So I was hanging out and we were at this club where they have a fake beach at a lake. | ||
| And I'm frustrated because we can't get people to do jobs. | ||
| It's months out, it's weeks out, and they want insane amounts of money. | ||
| And I'm watching all these, I see all these guys, young men, 20-year-old guys, and they're just sitting there on the beach not working. | ||
| And I'm thinking to myself, we've offered double rate. | ||
| We've said, like, we'll pay you extra. | ||
| We'll pay you double. | ||
| And they go, no, we just don't, I don't need it. | ||
| And I'm thinking to myself, why? | ||
| What has happened socially where people are like, meh? | ||
| Yeah, they're childless, single young men. | ||
| That's their culture. | ||
| That's a society. | ||
| They don't strive for this. | ||
| And they have no reason to say, I have to make money. | ||
| Like my dad had to work two jobs because he had three kids. | ||
| And so he was like, got to do a double. | ||
| It has to get done. | ||
| And then I see a ton of people who are like, I don't need to work, so I won't. | ||
| So my concern now, you've got a lot of people who live in their parents' house still. | ||
| It's not necessarily a bad thing to live with your parents, by the way. | ||
| I actually think culturally and socially, it's probably good, but not when people aren't working or trying to create their own families. | ||
| With no kids, there's no future market. | ||
| That's just a fact. | ||
| So you're not going to sell anything to anybody. | ||
| And as the market begins to shrink, we're going to get, I guess we're going to get deflationary pressures and we're going to get a strain on the economy where I'll put it like this. | ||
| Any ecosystem that reaches equilibrium with its principal organisms and its food supply, the organisms starve to, are half starving and suffering and covered in sores and lesions because they're getting just the bare minimum of required energy to survive because it's equilibrium. | ||
| We need to constantly be slightly below. | ||
| We need an excess of resources so that we're not constantly strained and starving. | ||
| But with a shrinking population size, labor is going to decrease. | ||
| And that means there's going to be a massive older population that doesn't want to work that has no choice but to work now. | ||
| And it's going to get real bad because nobody wants to and young people don't have to. | ||
| So I've talked about this in terms of the social security problem. | ||
| Right now, I believe it's 2.8 workers pay for one social security recipient. | ||
| It used to be like five. | ||
| But with population decline, we're going to get to the point where it's going to be one for one. | ||
| How are you going to sustain social security recipients off of a younger generation that doesn't work at all? | ||
| You won't. | ||
| And then boomers are going to be aging and they're going to be like, I paid into it. | ||
| I deserve it. | ||
| And they're going to be like, well, there's nothing there anymore. | ||
| And they're going to get angry. | ||
| Young people are going to be like, I'm not working because even if I do, houses cost $800,000. | ||
| I can only make $25 an hour. | ||
| So I'll never get a down payment. | ||
| This is the structure of how Ukraine effectively operates. | ||
| So young people are going to say, what's the point of working? | ||
| You're going to tax me. | ||
| You're going to give it to the older people who already own their generation owns the properties. | ||
| So something's going to break because so it's either going to be before this happens, the government intervenes and seizes properties from people and we go communist or something, or Gen Z goes right wing and seizes properties from people to force the social transition of wealth. | ||
| What about starting with seizing properties from corporations, well, China and also corporations? | ||
| The argument is that these corporations, many of them are actually publicly traded corporations. | ||
| And so it's actually, once again, the boomers that own the corporate securities in those holding companies. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| But it would come off as less commie to at least seize residential properties from corporations instead of individuals. | ||
| You know, it's going to be real weird when AI takes over and eliminates a lot of jobs. | ||
| Powerful, wealthy people will own the AI, the rights to it. | ||
| You know what I was thinking? | ||
| Did you guys see that? | ||
| What is it called? | ||
| Light of Motomora? | ||
| Have you heard of this? | ||
| Come on, this is Pop Culture. | ||
| Crisis, what are you guys doing, huh? | ||
| You've not seen this? | ||
| It's a video game that looks identical to Horizon Zero Dawn. | ||
| And Sony, I think, just announced they're suing Tencent because they basically ripped off Horizon Zero Dawn. | ||
| Oh, I did see a heard of that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it was crazy to me because I was like, does Sony own the idea of tribal people with robot animals? | ||
| I mean, just throwing into litigation, the companies are just going to litigate each other to death anyways. | ||
| But here's the point. | ||
| The idea is, for those that are unfamiliar, Horizon Zero Dawn is, you know, I'll just, I'll show you. | ||
| And this matters for the AI future. | ||
| I love Horizon Zero Dawn and Ferbin West. | ||
| It's a fantastic game. | ||
| Let me just show you. | ||
| Oh, this is hilarious. | ||
| I searched for it and people are already. | ||
| It's Motorom. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Okay, that's too small. | ||
| Let me just do this. | ||
| Lights of Motorom Horizon. | ||
| And they're side by sides. | ||
| This is wild. | ||
| Let's pull this up. | ||
| Check this image out. | ||
| Actually, let's just talk about this. | ||
| Let's roll. | ||
| We've got this from all key shop. | ||
| Sony lawsuit bombshell. | ||
| Tencent wanted Horizon deal before allegedly copying it. | ||
| So for those that are familiar, Horizon Zero Dawn, the Horizon series, there's multiple video games and expansions. | ||
| It's a video game where you play a female tribal human. | ||
| There's a bunch of tribes. | ||
| They're rather primitive, but there's weird advanced technology, gigantic animals and monsters that are made of machines. | ||
| For those that don't know, it's a decade-old game. | ||
| The story is: Earth was wiped out by AI bots that were consuming biomass until they destroyed the planet and turned to a barren rock. | ||
| The solution launched by scientists was to build a bunch of underground terraforming bases so that after the biomass was completely consumed and the AI bots were destroyed because they had no energy, they would rebuild society with, you know, I guess incubation pods that would recreate humans. | ||
| Something went wrong, humans are tribal. | ||
| Tencent launched effectively a clone of the game with robot animals. | ||
| It looks identical. | ||
| Here's what I started thinking about this lawsuit: in the future, the wealthy people will be the people with imagination. | ||
| If you can come up with an idea that's interesting, you instantly own that idea and nobody can ever use that idea. | ||
| And if people like the idea, they have to pay you for it. | ||
| So we're right now in what's called the attention economy. | ||
| We had a manufacturing-based economy, we had a service sector economy. | ||
| There were questions about whether that could work. | ||
| Then we went to the information economy. | ||
| We're now past the information economy into what's called the attention economy. | ||
| Right now, the money you receive is largely determined by your ability to make people stare at you. | ||
| And that's the easiest way to explain it. | ||
| Podcasts are getting massive. | ||
| YouTube, TikTok. | ||
| The question is: can I make you look at me longer? | ||
| And then your view of the world will be based upon those who have the ability to hold your attention the most, which creates really weird things like ElsaGate. | ||
| I'm looking at this lawsuit and I'm thinking to myself, I mean, what's what was copied? | ||
| Tribal people with robot animals? | ||
| Can they own the rights to that idea? | ||
| It's not like they directly rip the story off. | ||
| It's just similar. | ||
| So, this is what I imagine. | ||
| In the future, your burger restaurant, you're going to be poor. | ||
| You're going to live in the pod. | ||
| You're going to eat the bugs. | ||
| You're going to get your UBI, whatever it might be. | ||
| And there's going to be some ultra-wealthy guy. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because he owns the idea of a certain kind of food. | ||
| And when you go to your chicken store and there's robots making your food in kiosks where you order it, and you scan your palm or your retina to pay, and it's based on your government account, no one's working there. | ||
| And the question is: AI organized it. | ||
| AI filed the paperwork. | ||
| Machines came and built it. | ||
| The guy who owns it is ultra-wealthy and flies around on private jets and does whatever he wants. | ||
| But why? | ||
| Because of the idea of the burger restaurant and the kind of food that it was was good, so it's his. | ||
| And you can't copy it. | ||
| That would be illegal. | ||
| The future is going to be, quite literally, people on UBI, if that, and the people of imagination who are smart enough to conceptualize things. | ||
| That seems to, that's one possibility of where we're going. | ||
| It's totally plausible. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| No disagreements. | ||
| I mean, how far in the future are you thinking about the 50 years? | ||
| 50 years. | ||
| Maybe not, maybe not even 50. | ||
| You made a good case. | ||
| I have to give it to you. | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| Right now, we've been talking about, you know, there's an Amazon investment into what's it called? | ||
| Showrunner? | ||
| Showrunner, and then what's the other one? | ||
| I don't know what the other one is. | ||
| What's Showrunner's website? | ||
| I'm trying to do enough research to repudiate your point here, but. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Showrunner. | ||
| AI-generated sitcoms. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| Look, I'm telling you. | ||
| I'm telling you guys. | ||
| As soon as this AI is powerful enough, I am remaking Revenge of the Sith so that when Anakin walks in and Mace Windu has the saber to the Chancellor and he goes, Don't let him kill me. | ||
| And then Mace is like, He controls the courts, you know. | ||
| And then what I'm going to change with the AI is that Mace is going to go, Anakin, you're right. | ||
| This isn't the Jedi way. | ||
| Call more Jedi in and we'll have him tried. | ||
| And then they come in and they arrest him, and Anakin never becomes Darth Vader, and that's the end of it because Mace Window just didn't have to be a dick. | ||
| And the rest of the movies don't even need to happen. | ||
| Yep, that's just over. | ||
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The funny thing about that is episode one, I mean, should have never happened, right? | |
| Episode two should have been episode one. | ||
| Yeah, The Clone Wars should have been episode two. | ||
| Amazon is dumping a bunch of money into AI, into AI-based streaming services, which is funny because they're closing up freevie, which is their free streaming platform. | ||
| I'm guessing they're probably going to end up using the existing infrastructure from Freevy to build out whatever that ends up being afterwards because they're moving all the stuff that's on Freevy over to just Amazon proper. | ||
| So they'll probably use the infrastructure from the free, like what is now the freevy app for that AI program once it comes out. | ||
| Dude, that's going to be down the line. | ||
| They're putting investment into it. | ||
| Doesn't mean it's going to come out. | ||
| This showrunner website, they make TV shows, AI-generated. | ||
| And they used to have the videos on the site now. | ||
| I guess they don't. | ||
| I think. | ||
| Oh, is there something? | ||
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I don't know any pencils that stand up and write by themselves. | |
| Creativity is at a deep blue and Kasparov moment. | ||
| We were trying to prove that it was possible to build a chess machine that could be the best player in the world. | ||
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Because we didn't build Deep Blue to make chess players better. | |
| And we didn't build AlphaGo to make Go players better. | ||
| We built it to win. | ||
| It's a completely new medium. | ||
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And it's going to push you to be more creative. | |
| I'm not interested in AI as recreating a process that we already. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| Anyway, they were awful. | ||
| Fable Studios is the other one that I was thinking of. | ||
| Oh, right. | ||
| We played some of these shows, and they're just not good in any way. | ||
| Well, the idea is like the next generation of iPod baby of iPad babies are going to be the ones who are going to go into the Showrunner app and just make their own shows without even really thinking about it. | ||
| Oh, Fable is Showrunner. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| Fable Studios and Showrunner are like subsidiaries or something. | ||
| Same thing. | ||
| When you go to Fable, it just rings you there. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So here, I'll give you this one. | ||
| You know, we don't got to do a full segment on this one, but have you guys seen this app, Gage? | ||
| Yeah, I have not. | ||
| You know, we here at Timcast have decided that, you know, maybe we should have this. | ||
| See, here's how it works. | ||
| Your employees are required to sign into it. | ||
| And then you can see there that they'll get a score between zero and 1,000. | ||
| And then if they're naughty and they don't do their jobs, I, as the boss, can reduce their score. | ||
| Here's the best thing. | ||
| It follows them everywhere they go for the rest of their lives. | ||
| So when they try to apply to another job, that new company can look and say, Mary, you've got a 403. | ||
| Can you explain to us why your work score is so low? | ||
| Isn't that what references were for? | ||
| Well, now we don't need it because we have called. | ||
| It's a credit score but for society. | ||
| Yeah, I think it's a slippery slope there. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| Because what if a person between the age of 35 and 45 is completely different than who they were from 20 to 25, and yet they're stuck with that being typecast based on who they were while they were in college and they were part of some bohemian frat or something. | ||
| What if your boss is this lecherous movie producer who says, you know, if you want to move up in this company, you got to give me a little sugar. | ||
| And then the woman goes, I'm not doing anything. | ||
| I'm going to have to turn your score down. | ||
| And then what if the inverse, your boss is some like purple haired feminist. | ||
| And then you're like, I, you know, I'm here to do my job. | ||
| Well, you're a man. | ||
| And what you said was racist. | ||
| And I'm, and then you're like, why am I getting a bad score? | ||
| And then what's going to happen? | ||
| This is like the Black Mirror episode. | ||
| You go, you apply for a new job. | ||
| And the boss goes, so I see that your, your gauge score is six, six 15. | ||
| It's a little low. | ||
| Can you explain to us why it's so low? | ||
| And you say, you know, to be honest, it's unfortunate, but sometimes it happens. | ||
| I don't think my boss and I got along. | ||
| And so I tried to leave amicably and they go, right, right. | ||
| Well, look, I have another applicant with a seven 83 and I don't think you're really selling yourself and I'm not interested in taking the risk on a six 15, but I appreciate you coming in. | ||
| Goodbye. | ||
| I don't care about you. | ||
| You think McDonald's is going to tell their regional managers? | ||
| Like what happened to like in privacy? | ||
| I mean, where did that ever, when did that stop being, you know, the hip thing? | ||
| Like, just like, Hey, what's mine is mine. | ||
| And I have a right to privacy and I don't want people to know my business and my past. | ||
| Then people want it. | ||
| I agree, but I don't know if they understand where, where it leads to. | ||
| No, what I mean is there's going to be a regional manager at a, at a, like a fran, as a McDonald's franchise corporation that owns 50 locations. | ||
| And the boss is going to be like, what's our turnover rate? | ||
| And they're going to be like, it's high. | ||
| And he's gonna say, why? | ||
| And it's like, well, because you know, it goes, you hire somebody, the references are fake. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| And then they're bad and you fire them or they quit. | ||
| And he's going to say, what's this, what's this app everybody's using where you give a score? | ||
| Just hire people who have at least a 700. | ||
| And they go, okay, whatever you say. | ||
| Starting now require all employees to have it so we can track their scores and it's going to make it easier and safer and give us recourse for termination without HR, uh, lawsuits or I'm sorry, like civil, like workplace lawsuits. | ||
| And then you're going to, you're going to be 18 or 17 or 16, whatever. | ||
| You're going to go to McDonald's. | ||
| You're going to say, I want to apply for a job. | ||
| And they say, we require all employees to use gauge. | ||
| here's the best part they're going to post your schedule on gauge and say this is where you get information on your schedule make sure you check it every day because it can change then your boss is going to send you a message on gauge and you're expected to answer and they're going to say i need you to come in on sunday i know you have off but we're we're it's it's it's a rush day and so we're asking you to come in and no longer can you say i didn't have my phone on me this is the future millennials want too because gen z is all about work-life balance and millennials are the ones that are answering their slack messages at 10 p.m i'm anti-background check | ||
| I am anti-Freedom of Information Act. | ||
| I am against all these things. | ||
| I don't imply them at my own company. | ||
| I don't do background checks and I don't think so. | ||
| I am just opposed to this on principle and I might be the wrong person to ask. | ||
| This is – People already use Glassdoor as a rating system for employers. | ||
| Why can't it be two-sided? | ||
| Gage could be a two-sided platform where employers can rate their – their employees can rate their employers. | ||
| You know, I think the issue is the direction. | ||
| If you have a company with 50 employees and you get a bad score, something is going on at that company for all of these people to be mad at you. | ||
| And maybe it's not necessarily your fault. | ||
| Sometimes the reviews are BS. | ||
| But if you're an employer, one person who is bad, you can destroy 50 people's lives by giving them bad scores so they can never work again. | ||
| Not to mention it is creepy for a boss to be like your score went down five points because you refused to mop the bathrooms. | ||
| I just – I think this is a creepy thing to do. | ||
| Stars being like I worked at this company. | ||
| I give them three out of five stars. | ||
| It's like, okay, I guess. | ||
| This is a literal social credit score from zero to 1,000 that follows you everywhere you go no matter what. | ||
| If I own a company and the employees give it a bad score and it fails, I just shut the company down and open a new company. | ||
| If you have one account on this app and you can't have two accounts and it's going to follow you everywhere you go. | ||
| And so if you get one boss that hates you or like let's just go the feminist route. | ||
| You get one boss that hits on you and then you're like I'm not interested and he gets really angry and just says fuck you and then he nukes your score. | ||
| What are you going to do about it? | ||
| Well, I don't think that something like this would reach mass adoption because employers will know that there is room – plenty of room for situations like that in human error. | ||
| I think – They wouldn't just assume that the score is objective just because it was provided by someone's previous employer. | ||
| You at a corporation, a regional manager, a mid-level manager are confronted with 10 applicants for three available positions and you've got 800, 800, 800, 800, 400, 400, 400. | ||
| You're not going to go – you're going to throw the 400 in the garbage. | ||
| They already do this now. | ||
| No, I have to disagree because I will want to actually speak to the 400s to understand why they're 400s and I would – I've learned through trial and error that I think I would throw the 800s maybe in the garbage before I throw the 400s in the garbage. | ||
| I want to know why – I think that makes no sense. | ||
| It's illogical. | ||
| Well, I just think like rate my professor. | ||
| It does seem illogical but sometimes that's how – rate my professor used to be a big thing when I was in college and I always – I started going on there trying to game the system looking for the easiest professors. | ||
| And then I found that I actually got my best grades with the hardest professors. | ||
| So I find that the candidates that have some type of unique story or whatever, that they tend to have more to prove. | ||
| They have more to prove and so it's just – you got to get them at the right place in their career. | ||
| 80-20. | ||
| You're going to be talking about a manager who makes $50,000 a year at – overseeing like three McDonald's locations. | ||
| And he's going to say, don't know, don't care. | ||
| It's easier to get a, it's hard to get a good score. | ||
| It is easy to get a bad score. | ||
| So I know someone with a good score is at least able to pretend or hide whatever bad things they might be doing. | ||
| And I'll take it because I don't got to deal with it. | ||
| I'm not going to get sued over it. | ||
| And I've got legal protection when I say we only hired a certain threshold. | ||
| It makes it that I can't be sued when I say no to a bad applicant. | ||
| In fact, I just actually did this in practice not too long ago. | ||
| I can't disclose the specifics, but I will say that I, you know, instead of the perfect candidate, I went with a candidate who really had nothing on paper and looked much more flawed and ended up. | ||
| I think I made the right choice. | ||
| It's only been about three months, but we'll see. | ||
| And that's entirely true that that will happen. | ||
| The point is, at the macro scale, when companies have to hire 300,000 employees, or they have 5,000 hourly wage employees at a series of chains, they're going to tell their managers, I don't know or care. | ||
| We only hire 700 plus. | ||
| So you think this would happen mostly at larger scale companies and smaller ones wouldn't adopt something like this? | ||
| Smaller ones probably will, spatteringly. | ||
| But I feel like this app is an inevitability because we're a small company and I've dealt with stupid government regulation and employment complaints. | ||
| But like if you were using something like this, like me or Mary never would have been hired because we didn't have any history and like it's for hourly only anyway. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| Yeah, it's hourly shift worker base. | ||
| It's not for salaries. | ||
| So we would never have this app in the first place. | ||
| But if you are a burger restaurant, look, it's really simple. | ||
| The $30,000 a year manager of your burger shop doesn't care and is sitting there with all the applications in front of him. | ||
| And he's going, what time is the fight? | ||
| Dude, I don't care. | ||
| With this app, he's going to be like, delete anything under 800. | ||
| He's like, filter out anything below 800. | ||
| He's going to see three 800s and he's going to be like, we only got one spot to fill. | ||
| I got three 800s. | ||
| Everyone else is in the garbage. | ||
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| Well, yeah, that's scale. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| AI already does this. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| AI already does resume searches. | ||
| And so this is really fascinating. | ||
| You know, people do. | ||
| They'll take out keywords for algorithms like work late, overtime, double shift. | ||
| They'll make it one size one font and white, and they'll put it at the very bottom of the page where the AI can see it. | ||
| So when people submit their resumes, the AI filters are specifically looking for certain keywords and their resume gets jumped to the top, despite the fact that they might already write, I'm hardworking, willing to work overtime, and I really want this job. | ||
| By doubling up the words, the algorithms are weighing them more heavily. | ||
| And then it's shut. | ||
| People are making weird AI manipulating resumes. | ||
| We are. | ||
| Welcome to the nightmare scenario. | ||
| It's getting crazy. | ||
| It's going to get worse. | ||
| It is one of those things. | ||
| Like, there's a meme going around on X right now of the guy drinking the bottle of vodka in his car. | ||
| It's like what it's like applying for a job right now. | ||
| It's like, welcome to your third round of interviews. | ||
| He's like, sir, this is a burger restaurant. | ||
| A third round of interviews. | ||
| Yeah, for all of the talk about people not wanting to work, it's almost like employers don't want to hire either. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Here's the other big thing, too, because someone's mentioned this in Super Chat. | ||
| Dan Vicious says employers can't do references, risk of lawsuit. | ||
| They tell you this. | ||
| One of the first bits of advice you get when you're opening a business is anytime anyone calls your company to ask about an employee, you always just be absolutely neutral. | ||
| You say, ah, yes, so-and-so did work here. | ||
| They no longer work here. | ||
| I would not hire them again. | ||
| Thank you and have a nice day. | ||
| That's all you can say. | ||
| Because if you say they did X, they did Y, it's defamation. | ||
| And that's true. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yeah, they'll come after you. | ||
| So think about this app. | ||
| You're a company and you're like, how can we adequately share that this was a bad employee? | ||
| Companies are going to be happy to do this. | ||
| And there's nothing the worker B can do about it. | ||
| If you get locked in a low score, good luck getting out of that hole. | ||
| You know, here's the other fun thing about it. | ||
| There's going to be some dudes who are going to be like, hey, you own a restaurant, right? | ||
| Hey, hire me on your app. | ||
| Just give me good reviews. | ||
| I'll give you $100. | ||
| And they'll be like, okay, I want to get a 900. | ||
| And then I can go apply. | ||
| And that's what they'll do. | ||
| Like, there will be a dude at a Burger King who's a shift manager for $16 an hour. | ||
| And he'll be like, yeah, I'll hire you. | ||
| And it's like, just come hang out. | ||
| I'll just give you good scores. | ||
| You're good. | ||
| And it'll be a lot of that. | ||
| It's going to be wonky and busted. | ||
| All right. | ||
| We're going to go to your chats, my friend. | ||
| So smash the like button. | ||
| Share the show with everyone. | ||
| You know, we're going to grab your super chats and Rumble Rant, but that uncensored members only show is coming up at rumble.com/slash Timcast IRL at 10 p.m. | ||
| You don't want to miss it. | ||
| In the meantime, let's grab your chats. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Shane H. Wilder says, I'm glad Trump is calling out Pelosi's insider trading. | ||
| She gets all these gains and can't send a dollar to the Gongo. | ||
| She claims to be a Catholic, and she hasn't heard about the Christian act of about the Christian act of charity. | ||
| It's a travesty. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Alva 2 Omega says, Howdy, people. | ||
| I tried sharing your Australia no minors on social media video being in favor of it. | ||
| Facebook triggered a single post a dozen times and flagged it as spam and removing it. | ||
| Censorship. | ||
| I'm telling you. | ||
| So I made a video about Australia is banning YouTube for under 16s, and it got almost no views. | ||
| And so I'm like, okay, this is probably one of the most important stories on YouTube for people on YouTube that YouTube will be banned for teenagers, regardless of your opinion on it. | ||
| And for some reason, it's not appearing in recommendations. | ||
| But Tim, Mark Zuckerberg, got a haircut and does jujitsu. | ||
| Oh, he's cool now. | ||
| Pinochet says, this isn't just against Trump, but an affront to every American. | ||
| A violation of the Constitution. | ||
| These are the domestic enemies mentioned in the oath I took and was never relieved of. | ||
| No quarter. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Let's see what we got. | ||
| Vic the Fix Shaw says about referrals. | ||
| When I was down in Harpers Ferry two years ago, three bros and I stopped at HF Brewing, and it was 100 till they shut the place down. | ||
| It was 100 till they shut the place down at 9:30. | ||
| Management told us 11 and then tossed everyone out at 9:30. | ||
| About. | ||
| Oh, they showed up at 1. | ||
| It was 1 till it says 100 till they shut the place down. | ||
| Maybe like 1 p.m. till 11. | ||
| They showed up at 1, and then the business claimed to be open until 11 and sun out early. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| You know, we used to love the Harpers Ferry Brew, but I guess they sold it. | ||
| Did they? | ||
| I guess. | ||
| We used to go there and we were like, it's really cool that we have this local beer. | ||
| And so we would buy like 600 tall boys from them. | ||
| And then something happened where a few months, like we'd go in, we'd order like two months worth of beer and have it stocked in the fridge. | ||
| And then when guests would come, people who drank, people don't really drink that much. | ||
| We don't do it anymore. | ||
| And then, you know, two months went by and we were like, oh, we should go restock. | ||
| We showed up and they were like, you can't buy those. | ||
| And we were like, we buy them every few months. | ||
| And they were like, no, we can't sell those to you. | ||
| And I was like, okay. | ||
| He's like, we talked to the manager because the manager, like, we do this. | ||
| And then they told us they weren't allowed to do it. | ||
| And I guess they sold. | ||
| And then we went back there for the first time a few months ago. | ||
| And Brandon got super pissed because he's worked in a bar. | ||
| He's worked in bars and he's played shows and stuff. | ||
| And we got there like a half an hour before close. | ||
| And there's, you know, three of us in line. | ||
| And, you know, Andy walks up and gets a beer. | ||
| He walks up and they go, bar's closed. | ||
| And he was like, you just served. | ||
| I'm like, I know, but we just closed. | ||
| And he was like, you haven't done anything. | ||
| I don't know what it's called, but he's like, I know what you do when you shut down the taps. | ||
| You can pour me a beer right now. | ||
| And they're like, no, we're closed. | ||
| And he was like, this is the worst place I've ever been to. | ||
| I'm never coming back. | ||
| See if they have the gauge app, then we could just make sure that these people have zero stakeholders. | ||
| Oh, you can't. | ||
| No, that's Yelp. | ||
| You're the customer one. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah, but I guess because he worked at a bar, he knows when the taps are shut down and when you can't serve beer. | ||
| And they were still completely able to do it. | ||
| And Yelp doesn't always even work anyways. | ||
| A lot of the employees, because they don't own the company. | ||
| There's no stake in the company. | ||
| They don't really care if they get bad reviews unless their manager comes and says something to them. | ||
| Well, businesses give themselves fake positive reviews on Yelp 2. | ||
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Yep. | |
| It was like, oh, there was an article for the upcoming Green Lantern television show on Warner Brothers. | ||
| And the dude was a television show. | ||
| Yeah, it's called Lanterns. | ||
| And it says, a Warner Brother executive said that the show is fantastic. | ||
| And I'm like, well, yeah, because Warner Brothers made it. | ||
| That's like me. | ||
| I was like, me, a PCC insider, says that PCC is fantastic and you should go watch the show. | ||
| That doesn't really mean anything if you own the company or have stake in the company saying that's awesome. | ||
| Max Reddick says, Tim, a while back, you were working on getting David Pacman on the culture war. | ||
| Whatever happened with that? | ||
| With all due respect to David Pacman, he was very polite and said that he was busy with family. | ||
| I think he recently had children. | ||
| And I respect that and have no issues and nothing bad to say. | ||
| I disagree with him and his style of content, but it is what it is. | ||
| And, you know, if he can't make it out, he can't. | ||
| But we'll reach out to him again because we'd love to have him. | ||
| I think it'd be a great show. | ||
| And I think he would enjoy it too. | ||
| So we'll see. | ||
| Also, I'd love to get like Kyle and Crystal Ball perhaps. | ||
| I watched this really funny clip with Crystal Ball just scolding Alyssa Slotkin on Israel committing genocide in Gaza. | ||
| And it was like, Slotkin was like, yes, you are correct. | ||
| And then Crystal was just like, but it's a genocide. | ||
| And she was like, okay. | ||
| And Crystal was like, say it. | ||
| I'm kidding, but it was kind of like that. | ||
| I was like, wow, Crystal, like, really just going after. | ||
| And then Slotkin was like, I wrote a letter saying that they're being starved. | ||
| And I'm like, it's a genocide Olympics. | ||
| Like, who can say more about Gaza than the other person? | ||
| How fun. | ||
| Let's see what we got here. | ||
| Fuck Dirk says, if no arrest is made, then Trump term two is a failure for me. | ||
| And I will be demotivated to ever care about the right again. | ||
| I don't care how great immigration in the economy is. | ||
| He will be a failure. | ||
| You know, we live in a plutonomy, right? | ||
| This country is all for and by the wealthy and always has been. | ||
| And there was a report that was put out over a decade ago. | ||
| It's almost 20 years ago now by a Citigroup talking about how the will of the American people has no bearing whatsoever on legislation. | ||
| And there's actually these really great infographics where it's like 80% of the country can want something, but as long as 30% of the wealthy want something, they get it. | ||
| That's amazing, right? | ||
| It's like when you watch a show, it's like you watch something involving the U.S. government or like the CIA and somebody says, it's vital to U.S. interests. | ||
| And then you say, what does that actually mean? | ||
| Like, who is the person who decides what U.S. interests actually are? | ||
| So, so what is what is he saying will determine whether or not he's successful? | ||
| I didn't get that part. | ||
| Arresting the corrupt people who sabotage the government. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| But I mean, I do think there's a bit of a fault to that because what did they do? | ||
| Stop Trump from carrying out his agenda. | ||
| So should Trump's agenda solely be on going after the people who stop his agenda or should he try and fulfill his agenda? | ||
| It'd be better than nothing, which is what we're getting now. | ||
| We're getting a little bit. | ||
| Well, we got the border shut down. | ||
| We have a good economy. | ||
| Which was the agenda. | ||
| Make America great again. | ||
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Yep. | |
| I mean, I think that you're reducing it way down from what was promised. | ||
| Fair enough. | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| Let's grab some more. | ||
| Andre says, what do you use to measure sleep and heart rate, Galaxy Watch? | ||
| You keep it on sleeping? | ||
| When do you charge it? | ||
| So my bed. | ||
| I have a sleep eight bed. | ||
| Luke recommended it. | ||
| I got it. | ||
| And it heats and cools as you sleep, which is good. | ||
| But it's not like the heating and cooling thing isn't perfect, but it does try to adjust the temperature so they don't wake up either too hot or too cold, which is, it does work. | ||
| But when I wake up in the morning, it shows me everything about my sleep. | ||
| It tells me when I was in deep sleep, when I was in REM sleep, when I woke up, it's pretty amazing. | ||
| And then it gives you a score. | ||
| Are you sure that it's not going to share your biometric data? | ||
| Like that Spotify? | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| Am I sure? | ||
| Did I ever say that they wouldn't? | ||
| Does it bother you that they almost certainly do? | ||
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No. | |
| Okay. | ||
| That like they're going to be like, they're going to share this data and be like, sir, Tim Poole entered deep sleep at 2 a.m., lasted for one hour before entering a period of light REM sleep. | ||
| No, they're going to fact check you. | ||
| They're like, Tim Pool said he deep sleep for an hour and it was actually 52 minutes. | ||
| and then Snopes is going to cover it. | ||
| Knowing when you're awake or asleep is actually... | ||
| This is the most amazing thing. | ||
| There was this website in the early 2000s. | ||
| I think it was called like The Spark or something. | ||
| Do you guys remember this? | ||
| You're old enough, right? | ||
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I'm old. | |
| And it had a bunch of tests. | ||
| And they were really rudimentary Early websites. | ||
| There's no apps or anything. | ||
| And one of them was called the gender test. | ||
| And it would ask you weird questions. | ||
| And then it would tell you what your gender was. | ||
| And you were like, how does this make sense? | ||
| So basically, it was like, it said, I will ask you questions and then predict your gender. | ||
| And it would ask you things like, which do you prefer? | ||
| And it would show a bike, a boat, and a plane. | ||
| And you're like, a boat, I guess. | ||
| And then it would say, pick a shape. | ||
| And it would be like a blue triangle. | ||
| It would be like a red square, a green circle. | ||
| And then women tended to pick certain things for some reason that men tended to pick something else for some reason. | ||
| And at the end, it would be like, you're a woman, you're a man. | ||
| And it got it right like 90% of the time. | ||
| That last thing just sounded like a PlayStation controller. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| But the funny thing, yeah. | ||
| The funny thing about it is that was before AI. | ||
| That was just a basic algorithm that was like 90% of the time, women pick these things, men pick these things, and so we can make that prediction. | ||
| Now, Facebook, based off of the weirdest of things, knows when you're going to poop. | ||
| That's not a joke or an exaggeration. | ||
| This has been published seven or eight years ago. | ||
| Your mobile app has the Facebook, your messenger app, or your actual Facebook app. | ||
| It knows when you're moving. | ||
| It knows when you're sitting. | ||
| It knows when you're eating based on how you're moving and where you're at. | ||
| So it knows when you go to work and when you go to lunch. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because it has GPS data and knows the coordinates of Burger King. | ||
| So you go to work. | ||
| You then get up. | ||
| It knows when you're going to go to lunch before you do based on the patterns of your movement at work. | ||
| Then it predicts you're going to go eat. | ||
| And based on the prediction of when you're going to eat, it knows when you're going to have a bowel movement. | ||
| And this is not an exaggeration or meant to be funny. | ||
| It literally does this without anything, but all it needs is your GPS. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| Is it called the TMI? | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| But, you know, for Zuckerberg and the rest of this company, they're like, this data is invaluable. | ||
| Like, you can control populations. | ||
| You can predict their movements. | ||
| It's insane what they can do. | ||
| And I'll tell you this: I'm willing to bet AI is far more advanced than we even realize. | ||
| The commercial grade stuff they're showing us, it's probably 20 years more advanced they got behind the scenes. | ||
| You need a GPS for decades before it was ever commercially available, right? | ||
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That's right. | |
| Like, I always imagine, like, if I was Google and I wanted government contracts, I would just, and they said, no, I would just shut down Google Maps for a day and then say, okay, let the peasants figure out where they're going. | ||
| Same with Apple. | ||
| Think about how crazy that is. | ||
| That I used to, I used to have, I used to have memorized like, like 20 or 30 phone numbers. | ||
| Now I have got two. | ||
| I never wrote down, I've written down a phone. | ||
| I didn't start writing down phone numbers until I was in my early 30s. | ||
| Promise. | ||
| I memorized everybody's. | ||
| And then all of a sudden, my memory started to. | ||
| Yeah, now it's just you store it in your phone. | ||
| And it's like, I don't know your phone number. | ||
| I know your name. | ||
| Did you see that post that was going around on exit last week where it was like, technology's going too far, man? | ||
| My roommate got locked out of his light bulbs. | ||
| And now we're sitting in the dark because he doesn't know the password. | ||
| Let me tell you about the worst thing about Sleep 8 is that when my bed gets disconnected from the internet, I can't turn it off. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So you get this. | ||
| I got it. | ||
| My bed ran out of water. | ||
| So the air conditioner wasn't working or the temperature control. | ||
| And I was like, whatever. | ||
| I'm not dealing with this. | ||
| So I went to sleep. | ||
| Then I wake up with my alarm going off, which is, it vibrates. | ||
| It goes, and I pick my phone up and go to the app, and it says, can't find it. | ||
| So there's no way to turn it off. | ||
| So now I got to get up and go to the box and unplug it. | ||
| It's a nightmare. | ||
| You know what else I want to stress? | ||
| You know what I hate more than anything right now is TV. | ||
| Let me tell you. | ||
| You guys, maybe you remember this. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You youngsters. | ||
| When I was a kid, you know what I would do? | ||
| I'd walk up to the TV and I would grab a little knob and I would pull it out. | ||
| You pull the knob forward and the TV would turn on. | ||
| And there were two knobs. | ||
| There was, was it VHF and UHF? | ||
| And I'd go click, click, click, click, click. | ||
| But here's the best part. | ||
| It was already on channel 32 Fox. | ||
| So when The Simpsons were coming on at, what was it, like 7 o'clock or 5:30, I'd go up to the TV, I'd pull the little thing forward, the TV would turn on, and I'd sit down. | ||
| Do you know what I have to do now? | ||
| Brett? | ||
| I turn the TV on. | ||
| Then it boats up. | ||
| It starts booting up. | ||
| It takes about 10 seconds. | ||
| Then it brings me to some loads of home screen and instantly a thing pops up saying, Would you like to update your TV? | ||
| To which I'd say, no, I don't want to update my TV. | ||
| Then a box pops up saying, Would you like to update your remote? | ||
| No, I don't want to update remote. | ||
| Then I click home. | ||
| Then it takes 10 seconds to load. | ||
| Then I have to press down to go to the YouTube TV app and I hit it and it says, Would you like to update the app? | ||
| And I say no. | ||
| Then it opens the app and it's on some, it's on some default pre-record. | ||
| And I have to then select and find the channel. | ||
| Gone are the days where I could just click the button and it turned on to the channel I watch all the time. | ||
| Those were the days, huh? | ||
| Channel three so that you could go turn on your video games right away. | ||
| I guess right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know what's crazy is they still have, with all that, they still have you like go to each individual letter and select it and then go back. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I think they would have figured that out. | ||
| Modern TVs suck. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Terrible. | ||
| I mean, what you need is a Roku TV with the very pleasant Roku City playing in the background, keeping PlayStation. | ||
| I just do get a Roku TV. | ||
| I turn the PlayStation on and I turn the TV on, let it boot. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| I press the PlayStation. | ||
| I go to YouTube, enter, but it pops up. | ||
| I want them to make a movie about Roku City. | ||
| What is Roku City? | ||
| Roku City is when you're just when you have a Roku TV that's just a city that plays in the background. | ||
| Well, it's all of these like apocalyptic scenarios that a robot. | ||
| They need to make a skibbity toilet Roku City movie. | ||
| Just load it up in the AI. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I am going to make that scene from Star Wars where Mace Windu was like, oh yeah, Anakin, you're right. | ||
| I better not just randomly kill the Chancellor. | ||
| That would be an assassination. | ||
| I think if I did it, I would take the movie Little Big League where King Griffey Jr. robs him of a home run at the end. | ||
| I'd have him actually hit the home run and they'd win. | ||
| You know what I would do is I would have Mace Windu accuse the Chancellor of colluding with the Trade Federation to steal the election and then bog him down with years of investigation so that he couldn't act his agenda. | ||
| But he does declare him under arrest. | ||
| He does declare him under arrest. | ||
| But then he force lightnings and Anakin walks in and he was and then the lightning is rebounding onto the emperor and he was killed me. | ||
| And then Mace Windu is like, I have to. | ||
| He's too powerful. | ||
| And then Anakin's like, no, he should be arrested and tried. | ||
| And he goes, he controls the courts. | ||
| He can't be stopped. | ||
| I have to kill him. | ||
| And then when he goes to Swing to kill him, Anakin cuts his arm off. | ||
| Anakin did nothing wrong. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| If a religious military faction is trying to assassinate the duly elected leader because he's of a different religion, you stop the person trying to kill the other guy. | ||
| The Chancellor didn't go to the Jedi Temple and try to murder anybody. | ||
| He was in his Chancellory quarters or whatever when the Jedi showed up and said, We just found out you have a different religion from us, so we're going to kill you. | ||
| And it's like, what? | ||
| And Anakin was like, don't. | ||
| You know, and they make him the bad guy. | ||
| And then Obi-Wan, he's the real bad guy because he torches Anakin. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Obi-Wan stows away in Anakin's pregnant wife car and then jumps out standing there like a dick. | ||
| You should fight him. | ||
| You should pitch this to George Lucas. | ||
| He loves redoing it. | ||
| He never leaves it alone. | ||
| I would modify Titanic so that she chooses her fiancé and doesn't cheat on him. | ||
| I would modify Titanic so that when she's on the front and she's going, yeah, she falls in and he's like, oh, crap. | ||
| What's with the young hating Christensen Force ghost at the end of Return of the Jedi? | ||
| Why are Yoda? | ||
| They changed it. | ||
| I know, but why? | ||
| Why not like it? | ||
| Did you change it? | ||
| Yeah, because Obi-Wan and Yoda are old. | ||
| So why does Darth Vader get younger? | ||
| Yeah, younger. | ||
| It's stupid. | ||
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| George Lucas is out of his mind. | ||
| The sequel movies are the stupidest things I've ever seen in my life. | ||
| In the original one, he had people that could tell him no, and there was nobody to tell him no in the later ones. | ||
| The sequels don't exist. | ||
| To me, that's just Disney. | ||
| That's a cash grab. | ||
| The prequels, they could have got it right if, you know, if the Clone Wars were episode one. | ||
| It's not the Clone Wars. | ||
| It was episode two. | ||
| Tackle the Clones was episode one. | ||
| And then they made the Clone Wars episode two. | ||
| Because episode three was good. | ||
| It was just, it was rushed. | ||
| It could be ironic. | ||
| Maybe you could use AI to make Avatar actually interesting. | ||
| You know, the big problem with episode three as well is that it is rushed. | ||
| There's no transition to the dark side. | ||
| You don't see what drives Anakin. | ||
| In the Clone Wars series, you can see him embracing darkness. | ||
| And so it makes no sense that in Revenge of the Sith, he's like, I am a good guy, and you're a Sith. | ||
| It must be stopped. | ||
| And I'll inform the Jedi. | ||
| And then 10 minutes later, he's like, I'm going to side with the Sith now and I'm going to murder children. | ||
| It's like, well, why? | ||
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| And also General Grievous's character, like there's no buildup to that character. | ||
| You get to see him in the Clone Wars take on that kind of that Vader-esque, at least villain personality. | ||
| So they really vote with that one. | ||
| I would change episode four. | ||
| I guess it's called four. | ||
| And it would be like when Luke puts the computer away and the voice is like, yo's the force, Luke. | ||
| And then they're like, Luke, is something wrong? | ||
| He's like, no, I got this. | ||
| And then he just misses. | ||
| And then they're going to be like, you moron, you turned your computer off. | ||
| I was like, but I thought magic was going to save me. | ||
| And then it doesn't. | ||
| And then that start just blows everybody up. | ||
| That'd be, that's the better ending. | ||
| Actually, what I really want to do is I want to make an entire version of Star Wars. | ||
| That is the truth. | ||
| The truth is, the Empire did nothing wrong. | ||
| It's all rebel propaganda. | ||
| The religious zealots from a desert planet took a cargo ship and blew up a military base. | ||
| And then they made a movie about it where they're like, oh, but watch Darth Vader. | ||
| He blew up a planet. | ||
| And it's like, did he? | ||
| Or is that propaganda? | ||
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| What's another series or movie you'd make a change to? | ||
| Off the top of my head, I don't know. | ||
| Probably all of them. | ||
| How about what's the one I just watched? | ||
| Happy Gilmore. | ||
| His wife should have died of cancer. | ||
| Yeah, like, come on. | ||
| But the Jedi maintained peace for millennia. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| Go to the Star Wars thing. | ||
| They maintain peace for a millennium. | ||
| They're kidnapping children and indoctrinating into their religion and executing anybody who's of a different religion. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Of course, in their movies, they paint it as noble. | ||
| But like, look how they use Jedi mind tricks, which we consider it to be a good thing to do to like a prey upon the minds of your everyday person because they're weak-willed, so you can get what you want. | ||
| Well, the Sith were anti-alien. | ||
| I mean, they colluded with gangsters. | ||
| I mean, they were. | ||
| That's all extended universe stuff that's been that's been retconned. | ||
| It's no longer real. | ||
| If you actually watch the movies, the only real thing they did is they blew up, was it? | ||
| They blew up Alderan? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Or was it Alderan? | ||
| It was Alderan. | ||
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| Death Vader's like, I'm going to blow up a planet for no reason. | ||
| And it's like, what? | ||
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| So if, like, I think you could easily remake Star Wars, where you could have, you know, Darth Vader, who's a disabled war veteran, resisting this fanatical religious zealotry that are trying to impose their religious will over a government to the point where they tried. | ||
| Let's put it this way. | ||
| A religious militant sect has a high level of power in the government of the galaxy. | ||
| And when they find out the Chancellor has a different religion, what did he do wrong? | ||
| What did the Chancellor do wrong? | ||
| There's a civil war and machinations? | ||
| Okay, you got to prove that in court. | ||
| You got to present evidence. | ||
| You can't show up to his room. | ||
| It's like, kill him. | ||
| Well, the galaxy was, I should say, the universe was oppressed under the Sith. | ||
| It's just a Galaxy Hanti universe. | ||
| In the actual Star Wars canon, there's other galaxies. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's why I said universe. | ||
| But he's not ruling. | ||
| The Sith are not ruling over other galaxies. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So one of the old extended stories was that the Emperor was actually trying to mechanize the galaxy because an external galactic threat was coming. | ||
| And there was a story written about it. | ||
| That was counting? | ||
| It used to be. | ||
| They got rid of it. | ||
| Disney was like, nah, throw it in the garbage. | ||
| And you're sure the anti-alien thing is not counting? | ||
| I think it is. | ||
| Well. | ||
| Or isn't Canon? | ||
| They made this stuff after the fact because in the original Star Wars, the Empire was just an empire. | ||
| And then you only ever hear him say, oh, I hate the Empire. | ||
| And you're like, well, what did the Empire do? | ||
| They blew up Alderan. | ||
| They're evil. | ||
| They blew up a planet. | ||
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| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| So, anyway, the Sith aren't bad guys. | ||
| The Jedi are the bad guys. | ||
| And I stand by it. | ||
| See, I'm just over everybody trying to switch movies and make and give me some thesis as to why something was wrong 20 years ago. | ||
| I say you just leave it be for any movie. | ||
| Yeah, I guess. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| If you play the games they extended universe, they tried to balance out what the actual issues were. | ||
| The Sith were driven by passion and purpose, and the Jedi were monks. | ||
| But the Jedi are communists. | ||
| They kidnap kids at young ages and then force them to be like weird monks and celibate. | ||
| It's like religious zealotry. | ||
| And then they're forced to. | ||
| Like the line Anakin says when he's like, I think the Jedi are evil. | ||
| He's right. | ||
| But they didn't really explain that transition. | ||
| That was the problem. | ||
| So it's like Anakin could have just said, Obi-Wan, the Jedi Council just tried to assassinate the Chancellor and you're defending them. | ||
| Why are you on their side? | ||
| And Obi-Wan would have been like, because you're dealing in absolutes. | ||
| The problem is you're giving them ideas now because they love to retroactively go back to franchises and ruin it. | ||
| Remember when they made the Jedi are selfless, though, and that's the key component there where the Sith are they rely on their passions and hatred, anger, you know, basically the things that destroy the human psych soul and that's what makes it so it makes them such a such a issue with this idea of the Jedi as like a as a story is that they've created so many characters that are flawed it's clear the Jedi are not selfless in any sense they're power driven no | ||
| No, but if you think of the universe through this dichotomy of love and, you know, hate, fear, let's just say fear and love, right? | ||
| Being the two things that drive the universe. | ||
| And as you can get closer to these things, you can get either, right? | ||
| Like, and the Jedi are as close as possible to love and the Sith are as close as possible to fear. | ||
| And so that's really the, that's the, that's the propaganda though. | ||
| Like if someone came to me and told me that and they, this is what we hear. | ||
| We hear like, you know, Donald Trump, he just hates. | ||
| He's so full of hate. | ||
| You have to march in lockstep with us or else. | ||
| And the Sith are like, you can do whatever you want. | ||
| Believe in yourself and follow your passion. | ||
| That's not evil. | ||
| That sounds like they're the good guys. | ||
| What in the story though, they're like, and also they kill kids. | ||
| And it's like, shut the fuck up. | ||
| And you all, and they also say Trump's a white supremacist. | ||
| So if we're telling a story and Star Trek did this too with the Romulans. | ||
| If we're telling a story and we're like one side's driven by passion, tons of people are passionate. | ||
| It'll go around murdering children. | ||
| And there are tons of religious zealots who are selfless who do. | ||
| So I think the Jedi are evil as exemplified by the fact that those, those Jedi that came with Mace Windu to execute the chancellor had no problem showing up knowing they were going to murder the chancellor who was duly elected. | ||
| That's fucked up. | ||
| Like, how do we, how do we feel about this? | ||
| How do we feel about a bunch of Democrats saying we love, and Trump is full of hate. | ||
| So they shove to the White House with rifles intending on killing Trump. | ||
| And then Trump kills a bunch of them. | ||
| And he's on the ground. | ||
| And fucking, I don't know, Hakeem Jeffries is pointing a gun at him. | ||
| And then Zoran Mamdani walks in. | ||
| And he's like... | ||
| How did he get there? | ||
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| This movie's completely unrealistic. | ||
| I want to make this... | ||
| Like, he's, like, what is he, a time traveler? | ||
| Can he... | ||
| What are you talking about right now? | ||
| Zoran Mamdani's right here. | ||
| Okay, so, but, okay, so... | ||
| He's a rising star of the Democratic Party. | ||
| Can he, like, can he shapeshift? | ||
| Can he move? | ||
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| What? | ||
| How does he get around? | ||
| In a car. | ||
| Okay, so he just, he just ended up in D.C. somehow? | ||
| He was in D.C. Okay. | ||
| And he meets with Trump. | ||
| And then Trump is like, actually... | ||
| Why isn't he in New York? | ||
| He should be in New York right now. | ||
| The point is, he's a rising... | ||
| And Anakin was not supposed to be at the temple. | ||
| Or he was not supposed to be at the chancellor's headquarters. | ||
| He was supposed to stay at the temple. | ||
| One of the most underrated scenes in Star Wars is the scene with Padme and Amidala. | ||
| She says, this is how liberty dies. | ||
| With thunderous applause. | ||
| When the chancellor is talking about the... | ||
| How he was left scarred and deformed. | ||
| And the Jedi are now traitors. | ||
| And he's given that, you know, in the Senate, in the Senate tundra. | ||
| So, like, they're in favor of a republic. | ||
| It's a dictatorship under the Sith. | ||
| It's oppression. | ||
| As long as you don't impose your view on others. | ||
| But that's what the Sith are doing. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| But let's try this again. | ||
| I see what you're doing. | ||
| So, the chancellor is standing before the Senate. | ||
| And he says, the Jedi have tried to assassinate me. | ||
| And they've left me scarred and deformed. | ||
| The Jedi Order has betrayed the republic. | ||
| And he is 100% correct. | ||
| And then Padme goes, so this is how liberty dies. | ||
| With thunderous applause. | ||
| And I'm only imagining Donald Trump in the Oval Office going, Barack Obama tried to have me put in jail and falsely accused. | ||
| Because he's a traitor. | ||
| And then fucking Elizabeth Warren is going, this is how liberty dies. | ||
| With thunderous applause. | ||
| And I'm like, yeah, you're fucking evil, bitch. | ||
| You are the evil scumbags who tried to overthrow the republic. | ||
| And you're acting like you were defending liberty the whole time. | ||
| So, when the Jedi show up and they're like, I'm literally going to kill the chancellor. | ||
| And it's like, but the machinations. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| I get in the truest sense. | ||
| of the movie you're watching the chancellor palpatine create have these evil machinations to create a civil war to steal power. | ||
| I'm just saying, on the surface, this is the narrative in Star Wars that they give to us about Trump. | ||
| They come to say, Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election and seize power in the United States. | ||
| I'm like, that's fucking Star Wars. | ||
| Shut the fuck up. | ||
| It's not real. | ||
| It didn't happen. | ||
| But from the standpoint of like, what's see, the problem with the left is we live in this Orwellian society. | ||
| And so what you're propagating is not actually the truth, though. | ||
| Like, if you use the example of Elizabeth Warren, you know, they want to overly, you know, they want a police state that's overly regulatory. | ||
| And like companies like mine wouldn't exist because they want to over-regulate and they want you to pay, you know, three, four million dollars to set up a broker dealer, which creates the barrier to the money. | ||
| And that was possible. | ||
| And that was the basis for the trade separatists, the separatist movement in the first place. | ||
| In the first movie, when they're like, this is not fair that you are enforcing these embargoes and regulations on us. | ||
| You are shutting our businesses down. | ||
| No, I'm saying Donald Trump, like the system that they're, this, this capitalist, you know, system that goes back to really, you can go take it back to the Puritans and the Pilgrims, setting up the system of liberty of, you know, running away from the monarchy in Europe. | ||
| The Galactic Republic set up this free system under the Constitution. | ||
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| The Galactic Republic in episode one was overly regulating the trade federation, forcing, creating a separatist movement because of the way they were handling the marketplace and regulating businesses. | ||
| And it resulted in conflict, which led to the, it was the blockade on the boo. | ||
| That was the first plot. | ||
| So the civil war started because the Galactic Republic was overbearing in their regulations and laws, and they were bureaucratic and unable to move. | ||
| The chancellor said, this is bullshit. | ||
| And through his machinations, he was just a center time. | ||
| He didn't have the power, started to seize control. | ||
| The point I'm saying is, I get it. | ||
| Darth Vader blew up a planet. | ||
| They're evil. | ||
| We get it. | ||
| Let's take a look at the surface level politics of the narrative of Star Wars. | ||
| And this is what they said. | ||
| The Chancellor was secretly conspiring with the Trade Federation to ignite a conflict so he could steal power and shut down liberty. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| With Trump, the Democrats tried to overthrow him, smeared him, lied about it. | ||
| We've got all the documents now, and more are coming. | ||
| We've known this for years. | ||
| They call him hateful. | ||
| They call him a bigot. | ||
| They call him a white supremacist. | ||
| And they've tried to kill him several times. | ||
| So my joke, I'm joking when I say this, is that if you were to apply the politics of Star Wars outside of the battles and the narrative and the backstory of the Sith, the Jedi are Democrats. | ||
| And Padme is going, this is how democracy dies with Thunder Suplus. | ||
| Just like the Democrats claimed Trump's victory was the end of democracy. | ||
| But what I'm saying is that Saul Linsky and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, those are the real Sith that are trying to overthrow. | ||
| They're the ones trying to overthrow the system. | ||
| That's the Jedi Order. | ||
| No, they're trying to use their rules against the United States. | ||
| The Democrats control the institutions. | ||
| Take the Constitution and use it. | ||
| They'll use the Constitution when it serves their purposes, but then. | ||
| Which faction, Sith or Jedi, was in control of a military faction in the Republic. | ||
| I mean, both at one point. | ||
| Nope, the Jedi. | ||
| Only after the Jedi collapsed did the Sith actually take over, and it was just one guy. | ||
| Two guys, technically. | ||
| So in the Republic, before the Chancellor took power, the Jedi were a militaristic religious faction with control of all the institutions. | ||
| But they only had lightsabers. | ||
| There wasn't even a military. | ||
| They were reticent to even control the clone troops that were created for them in episode two. | ||
| You mean that they created? | ||
| Well, it goes back to what was it, Sypho Dias and Count Dooku, who they, you know. | ||
| We're part of the Galactic Republic and went and built a clone army for the Republic and were doing tons of evil ass shit. | ||
| But that was actually, that was Palpatine actually controlling and had them. | ||
| So it was still the Sith that really set up that whole military operation. | ||
| The way they justify the Sith being evil is they say, oh, yeah, you know that bad stuff? | ||
| Emperor did it. | ||
| And it's like, okay, well, like, we didn't actually see any of that. | ||
| It was the Republic that did all those things. | ||
| So the Republic was under a senator, Palpatine. | ||
| He had the power to do that. | ||
| He wasn't the chancellor at the time. | ||
| Well, he was doing it shrouded in secrecy and darkness, right? | ||
| That's how they operate. | ||
| I mean, Yoda says, right, when Obi-Wan tries to make the case that it was a victory for the Jedi, he says, no, no, master. | ||
| My point is this narrative that Hollywood creates, they apply it to people like Trump when we trump. | ||
| No, Trump's not the bad guy. | ||
| No, he's not. | ||
| The concept of the Jedi was that they had institutional power and they wielded it against their religious and ideological enemies. | ||
| Donald Trump and the right did not have institutional authority at all in this country or the media. | ||
| And the Jedi did. | ||
| My point is the Democrats and the Jedi are basically the same thing. | ||
| And that's why I'm jokingly saying all the bad stuff they claimed the Empire did was lies and propaganda, just like we say in reality, when they accuse Trump of being a white supremacist, they literally will call Trump a Sith because they equate that as the evil villain. | ||
| And it's like, oh, okay, so the Emperor wasn't really a bad guy because you're lying about Trump and you've made this up and you've claimed that Trump's victory is the end of democracy, just like Padme did. | ||
| Does that mean that Natalie Portman plays Melania in this version of the movie? | ||
| No, it means she's Elizabeth Warren or Slotkin. | ||
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| Liberty dying because Trump got elected. | ||
| I was just making the case that it's the system, really. | ||
| The system of the Republic, the system of the Constitution is much more in line with the ideals of the Jedi, even though I understand the argument that you're making, but I am just saying the system that allows all people to have freedom and liberty and choose their path and their religion as opposed to the groupthink mentality of the left. | ||
| The Jedi were the groupthink of the left. | ||
| But the Jedi were the groupthink faction. | ||
| That's canon. | ||
| They have temples. | ||
| They're celibate. | ||
| They take children from their families. | ||
| They raise them under a rigid religious order. | ||
| And the Sith do whatever they want. | ||
| And there's few of them. | ||
| And they don't coordinate. | ||
| But they don't impose it on others. | ||
| And Jedi. | ||
| The Jedi mind tricks. | ||
| The Jedi, The Jedi mind trick? | ||
| What? | ||
| The Jedi mind trick they use over and over again in the series on people they want to bend to their will? | ||
| We're going into rabbit holes. | ||
| This is literally a component of the Jedi. | ||
| When they want to force someone to do something they want, they can impose their will into their mind. | ||
| It's justified in their eyes. | ||
| Oh, sure, like when the commies execute people because it's justified in their eyes. | ||
| Or when they cancel you from social media because you're a bigot. | ||
| The Jedi are evil. | ||
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| Someone said, Surge, cut to Mary. | ||
| I want to see how interested she is in this argument. | ||
| I watched all of Star Wars last year, I think, because our viewers paid some wager. | ||
| I forget what it was now. | ||
| 10 crisis parties? | ||
| It might have been $1,000 in donations, and I would watch all of Star Wars in one go, and I did. | ||
| And I'm more sympathetic to your view, actually. | ||
| I was like, wait, but why are the Sith bad, though? | ||
| Right. | ||
| In the first movie, the only thing bad was blowing up Alderan. | ||
| And that one's really easy because you could be like, if the justification for blowing up a military base with the estimate based on the size was something around 3 million private contractors, civilian workers, because we know military bases aren't stocked with just soldiers doing everything. | ||
| So you've got this movie where they blew up a planet. | ||
| Why? | ||
| It was terrorists. | ||
| It was religious fanatics and extremists that were trying to assassinate political leaders and blow up military bases. | ||
| But they put all these other planets under tyranny and then their history in the galaxy. | ||
| And I mean, the entire movie. | ||
| But if you go back to Knights of the Old Republic and the history of the-that's extended universe. | ||
| I'm saying in the first, when it first came out, the only thing you see the Emperor do the Empire do wrong is blow up Alderaan. | ||
| Only a planet. | ||
| They only blow up a planet. | ||
| But you could make the argument that the rebels blew up a military base, killing millions of civilians with impunity and no thought. | ||
| They just said blow them up, fuck them. | ||
| Rebel base, planet. | ||
| Military base. | ||
| Military base. | ||
| But Alderan, though, was generally a peaceful planet. | ||
| It wasn't military. | ||
| That was Dantuina. | ||
| Propaganda. | ||
| Propaganda. | ||
| That's the argument I'm making, is that history is written by the victors. | ||
| And because the Jedi blew up the military base and won, they claim the destruction of Alderan was unjust. | ||
| And the government says Alderan was basically a major HQ and supplier for insurgents that were terrorizing the universe. | ||
| And I want the galaxy. | ||
| And I'll stress, if we scale things down, you're talking about a galaxy. | ||
| If you scale it down to a planet, then the story is basically they nuked a country. | ||
| So I am talking about systems. | ||
| If you want to talk about the two religions and how they're juxtaposed to each other, then that is accurate. | ||
| But when you talk about systems, one is advocating a republic, a free market system that is generally peaceful, and the other is advocating for an authoritarian militant system that oppresses all those that are in its path. | ||
| And where the Jedi want to literally uphold peace with lightsabers, which are swords, lasers. | ||
| This is propaganda. | ||
| And the Sith create this massive clone army that's designed to literally entangle the clone army. | ||
| The galaxy, the Republic under the guise of the Sith, though, the Sith control. | ||
| We know that now. | ||
| We know the facts now, right? | ||
| We can look back. | ||
| We saw the movies. | ||
| They wrote after the fact. | ||
| Like this is the point I'm making. | ||
| The story is written to make sure they justify why they've said they're the bad guys. | ||
| Well, if you want to then put George Lucas on trial and say that's a whole different... | ||
| My point is, if you remove the very obvious... | ||
| The actual storytelling never shows the Empire do anything wrong until Andor. | ||
| Andor is the first time the Empire has ever been shown. | ||
| Well, maybe I guess Rogue One. | ||
| Rogue One. | ||
| But what in Rogue One did the Empire actually do that was evil? | ||
| Kill a lot of people. | ||
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| I don't know what they were called, but they were at that point. | ||
| In Andor, they said. | ||
| I didn't see Andor. | ||
| In Andor, they say a false flag so that they can lock down a planet, steal all its khyber, and blow it up. | ||
| Yeah, Rogue One, then when they were handing off the disc with all the secrets on it, they killed all the people that were trying to get it. | ||
| So you mean the insurgent terrorists? | ||
| So you're saying the terrorists who stole military plans and disabled war veteran Darth Vader was trying to get this killer. | ||
| The Jesus Christ captain and kill it, right? | ||
| What was his name? | ||
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