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Trump's Secret Plan To Make Charlie Kirk VP, America Fest IN CIVIL WAR | Timcast IRL
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tim pool
Hey, we're good.
I pressed the right button.
All right, my friends.
This is a breaking story.
Donald Trump had a secret plan to put Charlie Kirk.
You see, you guys.
unidentified
I'm sorry.
tim pool
You say they didn't turn the mics on?
What's going on?
Is it even coming through?
Welcome to our last show of the year, everybody.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
We got big news.
Apparently, Donald Trump was planning to put Charlie Kirk in the White House.
After he left, the plan, according to the Daily Mail, was that Charlie Kirk would be the vice presidential candidate for JD Vance.
The plan was, should they go two terms, the next candidate in 2036 was going to be Charlie Kirk himself.
And everybody knew it, and that's why they've been saying it.
Now the reporting is out.
However, currently at Amfest, it's, I don't know, you know, I say civil war because it's shock titling or whatever, whatever you're going to call it.
It's in fighting.
People have just said it's a bit like walking on eggshells.
Half the people are upset with the other half of the people or something like this.
Ben Shapiro is ragging on Tucker and Megan Kelly.
And then Tucker comes out, laughs, and calls him pompous.
Everyone's fighting.
And it's pretty crazy.
We had Fresh and Fit.
You guys know Myron and Fresh.
They got barred.
And was it Fresh, right?
rollo tomassi
Yeah, Fresh.
He got walked off.
tim pool
He got walked off by security.
And they're like, we don't know why.
And he's like, okay, I guess.
And then eventually they let him back in.
But you can see right now, the gatekeeping has begun, and the Republican Party and this machine is going to be reshaped into something else.
So it's happening.
Elise Defonic dropping out of the race in New York.
She's not going to run for Congress again.
Tons of people are retiring.
Troy Nails is retiring, I believe.
People are getting the F out of politics.
And I'll tell you this too.
I don't want to drag anybody, but some of the people that we've been talking to. abruptly at the last minute are like, you know what, I can't be involved in this.
We saw it in Maine.
People are terrified of being murdered, of being shot at.
And I think when I come out and say, hey, they shot at my studio, a lot of people are going to be like, dude, I don't want to be involved in whatever is going on right now.
What does that mean?
I honestly have no idea, but it's the last show of the year.
We're going to talk about it.
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Yeah, I kind of do want Tate to win, but I did see.
rollo tomassi
Did you guys see the way in and the stare down?
tim pool
Yeah.
rollo tomassi
Tate lynched.
Oh, my God.
I've never seen that happen before.
unidentified
All right.
tim pool
Well, anyway, obviously joining us tonight, we got Rolo Tomasi.
rollo tomassi
Tate, thanks for having me.
tim pool
Who are you?
rollo tomassi
I am the author of The Rational Mail.
I've been on The Doing Your Show once, I think it was.
This is number two.
Welcome to Las Vegas.
Finally, got you out here.
That's playing some poker, doing some gaming.
tim pool
I've never been a big fan of Vegas, but I'm having fun now.
unidentified
Yeah, good.
tim pool
Probably because...
rollo tomassi
I've got something to do here.
tim pool
I got something to do here, right?
We got Tate hanging out.
tate brown
What is going on, Patriots?
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Yeah, I'm partial to Andrew Tate because my name's Tate Brown.
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I'm looking forward to it.
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rollo tomassi
It's true.
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Here's a story from the Daily Mail.
This is actually fairly wild.
Trump's secret succession plan to put Charlie Kirk in the Oval Office and groom a new, a shock new VP.
I'm going to lay it down for you.
It's very simple.
The plan was 2028, JD Vance, presidential ticket, Vance Kirk.
Charlie Kirk is the VP.
And it was perfect.
He was young.
It's going to be a few years from now.
He'd be old enough.
And then two terms, Charlie Kirk would be the next presidential candidate.
And he would be a relatively young, well-known high-profile guy.
His VP was going to be Don Jr., which makes a lot of sense.
Now, I wonder with the assassination, was it just something so simple as he's a guy whose politics we don't like?
Or was there perhaps a, we don't want this guy to win the presidency, some nefarious efforts.
I lean towards the very simple crackpot leftists planned this, and they wanted to stop Charlie Kirk.
But if I was going to be conspiratorial, I'd argue it's going to be machine state, deep state, whatever you might think.
tate brown
Yeah, I mean, I think the shooting in and of itself demonstrated the gravity that Charlie Kirk had.
I mean, he had an entire apparatus behind him that he had built from scratch.
And whoever, the man that shot him, obviously was fully aware of that.
He knew what he was doing.
Michael Knowles made this point on his show, and it's something that not a lot of conservatives want to hear because it's like a sobering reality.
But what he said is that assassinations work.
That's why people do them.
And taking Charlie Kirk off the board, it wasn't this kumbaya moment.
Like, guys, we got to take it back.
Everyone was like, we're in trouble without Charlie Kirk.
Like, there's no doubt about it.
He occupied such a massive space on the right.
And I mean, I'm glad the Daily Mail is at least reporting that there was a plan in place, but I think it was going to be obvious that either way, he was going to be a presidential, certainly a candidate.
I mean, he held unbelievable weight in the conservative movement.
It would have just been inevitable, I think.
phil labonte
Yeah, I don't think there was a lot of people in the conservative movement.
I don't think there's anyone in the conservative movement that had the influence that Charlie did.
You know, his ability to reach out and talk to young people.
I saw basically a sizzle reel of all of the people that were just adoring Charlie the day that he was shot, right?
Like it was a three-month anniversary.
Someone put together a sizzle reel, and there was nothing gruesome in it.
It was about celebrating Charlie's life.
And even that day, just, you know, there's like 3,000 people there.
People were just stoked to see him.
And he was treated like a rock star, you know?
And when you have someone that is that influential and has that much goodwill towards him from a voting block, I mean, it's unstoppable when it comes to, at least politically, you know, it's something that was remarkable, honestly.
So it is obviously, it's a massive loss.
And it is good to hear the Daily Mail talking about this and putting this information out there.
tate brown
Yeah, he's aptly dubbed the quarterback of the MAGA movement.
When your quarterback goes down, your offense grinds to a halt.
rollo tomassi
I mean, look what's happening at Amphest right now.
Look at all the things that have happened in the wake of Charlie Kirk.
I think it's just imploding right now.
tim pool
I think we're looking at there's been a political elite civil war going on since Trump got in.
The Democrats, what did they, they called Trump the Pied Piper candidate.
They hoped that if Trump won the primary, the Republican primary, he would lead the Republicans in a direction that would cost them the election.
Trump won.
Whoopsie.
And since then, they have been doing everything in their power to destroy the right populist movement.
This with the taking out of Charlie, either through sheer convenience that some left wacko, you know, left line wacko did this, or somebody planned something.
Because I don't think for a second it's a lone shooter theory.
rollo tomassi
That's funny.
Because when I remember the day he got shot and I was talking with my wife and I said, you know, I said, if you want to watch this video, watch this video.
I suggest you don't.
unidentified
And she's like, why would they do this?
rollo tomassi
What is it about him that makes him so important?
I said, he's such a likable guy.
And I said, most likely it's because he was making a presidential run at some point.
Or, you know, he would have been, what, 35 in 2028?
I mean, even if it's not a president, maybe he's vice president.
He's running with honest president.
This is the first time I've ever heard my suspicions, anyways, like confirmed.
But like, yeah, I mean, he was very popular.
You don't have to, he doesn't have to be a politician's politician.
I mean, he could just be a well-liked guy for his, you know, his views and his convictions and standing up for all that stuff.
Especially, give him another four years.
I think where's he then?
tim pool
Yeah, where does he go afterwards?
Yeah, right.
I think, especially with the money they were raising.
I think the Tyler Robinson story is the closest to reality, but who knows?
However, this idea that he acted alone, I think, is silly, especially with his reporting that there were vehicles gathering outside his home and there was a meeting and people were going on social media and posting that they had foreknowledge of his assassination.
The most likely thing, it sounds like liberal activists, left-leaning progressive activists, plotted this, and it wasn't just because Charlie was hateful, it's because he was effective.
So I'm conspiracy 100% on this one.
I just think that the likely scenario would be Tyler Robinson working with other people of his political persuasion, not like, you know, I don't know what was happening.
rollo tomassi
My question was this.
Okay, let's just pure speculation here.
Let's say they run Charlie Kirk.
Who does the left run against Charlie Kirk in 2028?
tim pool
Who do they put up there?
rollo tomassi
I think the ALC would go down just like Hillary went down because she's just not as likable as somebody is like Charlie Kirk.
tim pool
I understand.
rollo tomassi
I don't think they need rock stars.
tim pool
I don't think a woman can win the president.
ian crossland
Gavin Newsome.
They've already done a talk show together, Gavin and Charlie.
rollo tomassi
That's what I was thinking.
Gavin Newsome, but Gavin Newsome versus Charlie, man, Gavin Newsome looks like a snake.
He looks like a used car.
tim pool
The only way a woman wins the presidency is if both parties nominate a woman.
And that means like through inner politicking, they make this woman happen.
The idea that a woman running against a man, I think it's almost always going to end up with the woman losing.
And it's funny because when I say this, the progressives go, Ken, sexist.
He says a woman can't win.
It's your argument.
It's that there are many men who would never vote for a woman.
I believe you are correct, liberals.
What if it was this?
ian crossland
Tulsi Gabbard for the Republican Party, and then the Democrats just bypassed the primary and selected with superdelegates some despicable, weak man that people thought was useless.
tim pool
Let's play a game where hold on, hold on, hold on.
We got to do, I'm in, we're in Vegas.
Here's what we're going to do, brother.
We're going to walk on the strip up to some regular old people, some homies, and we're going to ask them, would you vote for a woman president?
And you know what's going to happen?
Half the guys are going to go, hell no.
ian crossland
Would you vote for an 88-year-old, fat, tired man, too?
And they'd be like, no.
tim pool
I mean, what do you think?
rollo tomassi
Who would you vote already there?
They've already done so.
tim pool
There's tons of videos already where they're like in Times Square and they're like, would you ever vote for a woman president?
And these young guys are like, never.
And they ask them, like, what if the candidate was like, you know, the crippled old man and they're like, nah, women shouldn't be president.
Even women don't know I wouldn't vote for a woman.
tate brown
Yeah, there's lots of like attributes of a presidential candidate that negatively impact them potentially.
I mean, it's difficult for men that are short to sort of win the presidency.
It's difficult to win.
tim pool
It's to actually win.
tate brown
To actually win.
It's difficult for single men to win the presidency.
I mean, that was the biggest hit against Tim Scott in the primaries was that he was single and then just swirled like homosexual allegations.
It's like you need, but there's like, there's a lot of physical attributes that come into play because you're selling them on a package.
You're selling them on an aesthetic.
You're selling them on a vibe.
All of these things synthesize into a political shot.
tim pool
Shouldn't have won.
Hillary Clinton was just very unlikable, politically evil, and there were a lot of people that don't want to vote for a woman.
tate brown
Yeah, I mean, people downplay the actual effect that has when people see her next to Trump on a debate stage where he's towering above her, wide shoulders.
He's like a total alpha.
And then Hillary's this tiny little stumpy woman in a pantsuit.
tim pool
Kamala Harris requested that her podium and the debate be smaller so that it looked proportionate to her body, like Trump on camera.
unidentified
Wow.
tim pool
Because most people were only seeing Kamala and then Trump and back and forth.
And the camera zooms were made to make them look the same size on TV.
But when you were there, she had a teeny little podium and he had a very big one.
ian crossland
So Tim Waltz, Democratic nominee versus Tulsi Gabbard.
You think Tim Waltz would win?
unidentified
Yes.
Really?
That's tough.
ian crossland
I mean, Rolo's the same.
tate brown
Yeah, we're going to speculate that.
tim pool
Tim Waltz wins.
And I'll say this.
I like Tulsi Gabbard as well.
But I remember her performance in 2020, and she did some really good things, but it was not X Factor level 10.
It was not up there.
phil labonte
And also in this hypothetical, you're dealing with someone that used to be a Democrat.
There would be plenty of Republicans that would come out and say, no, she's actually a Democrat.
Remember, she used to this and used to that, et cetera.
And so they wouldn't trust her to be an actual conservative.
tim pool
I'll give you this, Ian.
rollo tomassi
She's also Krishna, too.
tim pool
A woman can beat a man if it is intentionally uniparty propping up a loser guy who's not.
ian crossland
That's what I wonder.
tim pool
Okay, so like Tim Waltz, so Tim Waltz absolutely can lose to some women for sure.
I guess, so I agree with you, and I stand corrected.
I correct my position.
What I'm saying is a legitimate race with a real primary, and real, I mean, with super delegates and all that, where they actually are like, we want this female.
Female's not going to be the guy.
If the Democrats collude with the Republicans and say, we're going to pick a guy who's literally in a coma, and then you're going to pick a charismatic woman, then the woman's probably going to win.
unidentified
Yeah.
tate brown
Like a, like a, and Nikki Haley pulls really well against Democrat candidates purely because she's not really threatening to the sort of regime as it stands in any way.
If you want to bring in like a truly formidable paradigm changing candidate, they're going to be a male because you're going to have to sell them on the additional factors.
So Trump, that's what Trump had to be.
rollo tomassi
I was going to say, I wrote this essay probably about a year after the Trump Hillary in 2016, right?
And I spelled it out this way is Hillary was so unlikable and was such the, she's like the epitome of feminism.
She's like the most foaming at the mouth.
If you want to say like, you know, what does a feminist look like?
You're going to go to Hillary Clinton, right?
You're going to look at her.
She's like this kaiju of feminism.
There's only one other person, one male on planet Earth that is as big a kaiju as you know, it's like Godzilla versus Rodan or something.
And you got Hillary on one side, and then you've got Trump on the other side.
Trump is the only one who is so over-the-top masculine that he could possibly be a contender against somebody who is so over-the-top feminist as she is.
And so, like, if you think about it this way, though, everybody thought that Hillary was going to win so much so that Newsweek had the covers already prepared for it.
What was it?
Remember that show, House of Cards?
House of Cards changed the plot of House of Cards, expecting there to be a female president in the Super Bowl ads of, well, I guess it would have been 2017 at that point.
The Super Bowl ads had to all go back and rejigger all of their Super Bowl ads that they'd shot six months prior because they shot them with the intention of building up little girls to be the next female president because they were so certain that Hillary was going to be the next or the first female president.
Everybody thought that whips in there and nobody wanted to.
tim pool
Let me tell you about one of the greatest days of my life.
I was sitting there watching the New York Times probability meter, greater than 99% Hillary Clinton.
And then every 10 minutes, every few minutes, it's just moving.
I remember when I got to 50-50 and I'm sitting there and I'm just, I'm sorry, I put my feet up, I'm laughing.
And then I remember when it ticked over to Trump winning.
I didn't vote for Trump.
I just absolutely loved watching Hillary Clinton get just destroyed in the election because I can't stand these people.
But I will say this: JD Vance, tall guy, Don Jr., tall guy, Charlie Kirk, he was like eight feet tall.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
tim pool
I think he was 6'5, right?
tate brown
Yeah, well, because it contributes to like, it's tough to quantify aura, but aura genuinely does come into play.
This is like why Howard Dean got smoked in the polls right after that scream because he lost all his aura.
ian crossland
You also want to, we're hiring a military commander and you want a tall man that can see over the heads of the dudes in front of him.
I mean, that's the genetic, real animalistic reason we want to talk.
tim pool
Deep voice as well.
Let's jump to this story from Politico.
MAGA infighting erupts at Turning Point USA Conference.
Two of the Night's headliners, Ben Shapiro, and Tucker Carlson threw jabs at each other in their speeches.
And I'm hearing now that people are like, it's pretty tense because you've got different factions now that are basically going to odds with each other.
Check this out from Dom Lucre.
This is a video of them kicking out fresh from the Fresh and Fit podcast.
Look at this.
So he's filming.
This is fresh filming.
unidentified
Yeah.
Thanks for being cool, Batman.
Cool.
tate brown
But did it say what I did or isn't there?
unidentified
No, I know.
Damn.
All right.
rollo tomassi
Let's think about this.
unidentified
Well, can tell, apparently, I don't know why.
But that's crazy, right?
tim pool
Apparently, they also barred Myron from coming in as well, but then later reverse and let them both come back in.
They both got back in.
I think it's very obvious.
There is a mega civil war.
And I'm telling you, I think who's going to win is going to be the Romney-esque conservatives.
And then the, I'll put it like this because we talked about it a little bit yesterday.
I got asked by a reporter from the Wall Street Journal about what thought was going on.
And I said, well, we weren't invited.
They invited me back after the fact for whatever reason.
And I was like, we're booked.
I'm just not going to do it.
And I got to be honest, I really don't want to be there.
With this, with all the stuff going on, with all this bickering, bitching, infighting, I don't know what is going on with this, but I will tell you this.
I do not care for the suit-wearing Republican Party.
Never did.
Democrats are absolutely insane.
They're insane people who do things that are insane for insane reasons.
For that reason, I voted for Republicans.
Donald Trump's different.
I like JD Vance, but I don't like the stodgy Bush-era suit-wearing conservatives.
And what Amphest is turning into is guy in suit comes out, says Christianity, guy in suit comes out, says immigration.
And I'm like, well, it's not really for me.
Now you've got infighting.
Now you've got the people screaming about Zejus.
And I'm just like, yo, if that's the direction you're going, I'm not interested.
And so I'll say this one thing.
Jillian Michaels, shout out.
She's on that show with PBD's.
What is it?
Her take.
Yeah, Culture.
And they're like, let's make a view for real people.
And this viral clip happened where Anna Kasparan brings up Israel again.
And Jillian Michael goes, oh my God, I did not come here to just talk about Israel non-stop.
And she gets up and leaves.
The anti-Israel people framed it as though Jillian refused to criticize Israel.
The real story is that Anna Kasparin brings up Israel all the time.
And Jillian's actual complaint is, I get it already.
Can we talk about something else?
If this is the direction they're going, it's going to be Zejus with like Candace Owens, or it's going to be suit-wearing, you know, Bush-era interventionist, boring, no, like, I'm not there.
Now, don't get me wrong.
I don't know who in the Democratic Party I'm voting for because they're insane too.
But I have a potential prediction based on what we're seeing now with the mega civil war, what you want to call it.
I don't know how likely it will be, but I believe there's a decent probability a Rogan-esque Democrat emerges.
I mean, like Joe Roganesque, who says, I don't know what's going on with the Republicans.
He's going to be wearing a flannel.
He's going to be like big into MMA.
He's going to be a reasonable guy.
He's going to be friends with comedians.
And he's going to say.
The Republicans are going weird on me, man, just like the Democrats used to.
I'm going to try and save the Democratic Party and bring it back to normalcy.
And then this person could advocate against the weird trends and the kids stuff, push out the weird, far-lefty cultural stuff, keep the far-lefty economic stuff, and be someone who appears reasonable to working-class Americans and actually win.
phil labonte
Republicans are still have a better approval rating than Democrats.
Democrats are still in the toilet.
So, I mean, the Republicans still could make something out of this, but if they're fighting with each other about who's going to actually be in charge of the Republican Party, because that's the sense that I get about the Amphest stuff, right?
Like the fight is now, okay, we want to keep the people that we find offensive or we find distasteful.
We want to keep them out, and we want this to go back to the kind of Romney-esque, normal, quote-unquote, Republicans.
But that's not what the MAGA coalition is.
The MAGA coalition wasn't exclusive.
It didn't kick people out.
And so Republicans can make something of this and capitalize on really historic low favorability for the Democrats.
But if they're going to exclude people, they're going to be giving away votes.
tate brown
Well, I think there's two points.
I mean, one, I do think Vance is probably the only person in the party right now that's capable of stitching the coalition together.
He's demonstrated that he is the best at framing probably the entire Republican Party.
I was talking to Phil earlier about this.
The moment that I really realized Vance is the guy, I mean, I always liked him.
I always supported him, and I was excited when he was a VP candidate.
But when I realized, like, oh, this is the guy for 28 was after the political article came out about the group chat leak.
And, you know, everyone on the right was like kind of unsure how to handle it.
Do we condemn these kids?
Do we throw them under the bus?
And then Vance comes out and says, I don't really care about a group chat leak when the AG candidate in Virginia is threatening to kill Republicans.
Like, you guys need to clean up your side before we ever consider hall monitoring our side.
So I do think Vance is probably the only guy that's capable of stitching that coalition together, but the knives are out for him from both the neocons and sort of the Groyper aligned people.
But I do think with the Democrats, they're going to struggle to actually present sort of a moderate MMA type of guy because they're beholden to their base.
And that's sort of the issue in the Democrat Party is the base has no appetite whatsoever to Ayron Fresh wanted to send you a video.
ian crossland
They're doing faster than they wanted to.
phil labonte
Oh, right on.
tim pool
Oh, right on.
Shout out to Freshman Fit.
They're in Amfest now.
I'm glad they got in.
I just think next year they're not going to be let in.
phil labonte
And that's going to be bad for the Republican Party.
tate brown
Well, no, I was going to say their base has no appetite to moderate right now.
And then here's the primary issue for a moderate Democrat if they were to try to merge on the national scene is they're also beholden to staffers.
And so when you're trying to staff a campaign, when you're trying to staff an administration, the problem is in the Democrat Party on the left is they're all functionally activists.
They all believe they're in perpetual revolution.
And so, okay, let's say, okay, maybe a Rogan type of guy does come along who's maybe a bit more moderate.
He's going to instantly get pushed to the left by his staff.
Like, it's not a one-man army.
A political campaign is really a conglomeration of everybody within that campaign.
phil labonte
Yeah, I just, to your point, I just saw a tweet earlier.
Owen Wilson, who's the guy, or no, Owen Jones, I'm sorry.
rollo tomassi
Owen Wilson.
phil labonte
Owen Jones, he's a politico in, he's a commentator in the UK, and he made, he, he misgendered someone in some kind of online discussion or whatever, and he was getting lambasted by people.
So the idea that woke has gone away is totally wrong.
And that's still very, very influential on the left.
So, someone that would be a Rogan-esque kind of everyman's man, the feminists are not going to get behind him.
The intersectionalists are not going to get behind him.
rollo tomassi
I'm glad you brought up Rogan-esque because the first thing that happened right after Trump got into office, you have all these talk shows that we're talking, how did we lose?
I can't believe we're trying to analyze how they lost.
And the very first thing they said was, you know, well, it's, I think it was Dana Bash was the first one to mention that we're living in the manosphere right now.
Literally, I still have that, I still have that clip.
But I watched all these talk shows in the sort of aftermath of the election, and they were all saying, Well, we don't have a Jordan Peterson, we don't have a Theo Fawn, we don't have a Joe Rogan, we don't have a, you know, somebody who's like popular with the boys.
You know, how do we get the men to come back to the to the Democrat Party?
Well, you never had them in the first place.
In fact, you actively ran them out of the party.
But now they're trying to, I'm seeing the rise of this sort of character right now.
And I'm just going to use Scott Galloway as the example here.
But Scott Galloway is that he's the safest edge lord that there is right now.
And he'll go on Oprah.
He'll go on, you know, he'll go on with Chris Williamson.
He'll go on these guys.
And it's always these half measures, but it always comes back to sort of, you know, he wants to address the fact that young men are having issues and problems these days, but then he'll turn around somehow and make it the same people's fault for that.
But I see what they're trying to do.
They're trying to sort of groom a figure.
I'm not saying they're going to run Scott Galloway as a presidential candidate, but somebody like him who has that kind of gravitas, I guess, that a Rogan does, or like that sort of online podcaster sort of voice that they can relate to.
I think that's probably a direction they want to go.
tim pool
I agree with you guys on the there's a lot of feminists, but the same way we are seeing the icing out of the Zejus people on the right, I would not be surprised to see as these people keep saying, Where's our left-wing Joe Rogan? with yeah, maybe we need to get rid of these these whack-aloons.
And so you will start seeing it's not difficult to do.
You can easily like, look what's happening with Candace.
She's the center stage of the conspiracy, conspirator right.
And it's not even right-wing.
I mean, she's attracting liberals.
This may actually rope all of them, all of the fringe weirdos into a space where you get moderate conservatives and moderate liberals largely agreeing, and then you have the whack-aloon left with the whack-alone right together because they hate Israel.
Like, one of the things I tweeted was: the future left-right divide is going to be those who are ambivalent to pro-Israel and those who hate Israel.
Because Anna Kasparian is now a Candace Owens fan.
And the Young Turks audience in the comment section are big Candace Owens fans.
They have found their unity in hating Israel.
And that's going to be some other weird faction.
And then moderates are going to be like, well, you know, you're going to start.
I would not be surprised.
I'm not saying it's true.
If CNN starts saying these people are just plumb crazy, starts trying to bring it back.
And they occupy then a similar space to Fox News, the way it used to be, where they largely agree on everything except for a few wedge issues.
And then you're going to have the online space of the Zejus people.
And then you're going to have the mainstream space of moderate politics.
I do think that they're going to, it's very pro-Israel, by the way.
tate brown
Well, I mean, you're starting to see the Democrats try to, like, like you're talking about, try to sort of get people to pass, get their candidates to pass the sniff test for like sort of what masculine politics would look like.
Like there's this Senate, there's a Senate candidate in Maine, Graham Platiner, and he does the thing where he wears the flannel and like he cuts these ads where he's like chopping wood and he's like tries to talk in a really deep voice.
But he tries to like sell these policies that are inherently like really gay in a way that would pass the sniff test for like normal people.
And so he'll like cut an ad where he's like, you know what I hate to see?
unidentified
I hate when these chuds misgender a beautiful trans woman.
tate brown
So it's like it's got the facade of like a tough man.
I think he was like a Marine or something.
But the problem is these guys are just so beholden to their base because the ones that aren't, the ones that are actually pushing maybe more towards the middle, they get completely land-basted by the Democrats.
Like look at how they've treated John Fetterman.
tim pool
Let's jump to the story we've got breaking from Amfest.
This is a speech by Vivek Ramaswamy roasting the idea of heritage Americans.
vivek ramaswamy
About criticizing the woke left.
Now let me get to the harder part.
There's a different vision of American identity that's emergent in certain corridors of the online right.
And it says that your identity as an American is based on your lineage.
That how long you have been in the country, your lineage, and your genetics tied to the blood and soil of the country, determines how American you are.
It is the idea of a heritage American that says the truest form of an American is somebody who is a descendant of the American Revolution period or before.
And I will tell you, this idea of the heritage American, we ought to have this discussion.
It's becoming more popular.
I think the idea of a heritage American is about as loony as anything the woke left has actually put up.
There is no American who is more American than somebody else.
The American quality, it's not like the left, they believe in this non-binary stuff.
There's no non-binary American.
It is binary.
Either you're an American or you're not.
And you think about it, I could prove this to you.
unidentified
Thank you.
vivek ramaswamy
I'll take some applause on that.
tim pool
Let's hear it.
Prove it to me.
unidentified
If you really believe in this idea, think about where it leads you.
vivek ramaswamy
Leads you to believe that Donald Trump is less of an American than Joe Biden because Donald Trump's mother was an immigrant and his grandfather was an immigrant.
That doesn't make any sense.
Leads you to believe that somehow Bernie Sanders is more of an American than Senator Bernie Moreno from my home state, an America first patriot, because Bernie Moreno was a naturalized citizen from Colombia.
It makes you think that Marco Rubio, our great Secretary of State, is somehow less of an American than Elizabeth Warren because she's a Native American, which we all know, right?
Doesn't make any sense.
It's loony.
tim pool
It's crazy talk.
vivek ramaswamy
It makes you believe that somehow I am less of an American than the transgender criminal who assassinated Charlie Kirk.
We refuse to accept that.
The idea that a heritage American is a more American than another American is un-American at its core.
And I will fight to the very end for that because that's what it means to be an American.
We believe in ideals.
That is who we are.
tim pool
So take a look at where Amfest is going and where the right is going.
And it is very, very easy to understand.
And I will explain it all to you.
We have no babies.
unidentified
Yes.
tim pool
We are missing a major portion of our entry-level labor market.
Universities are starting to collapse because there's no matriculation.
That's your word, remember?
It means entering university.
Because in 2008 with the financial crash, people like me didn't have babies.
So now we have a generation half the size as the previous generation.
The powers that be want immigrants in this country.
They don't care about baseball and apple pie.
They don't care about truth, justice, and the American way.
Those are secondary to GraphGo Up.
I believe this is the direction of the Republican Party.
Republicans and Democrats together are going to make as many arguments as they can that everyone is an American.
And I will explain it to Vivek.
I like Vivek.
First, a heritage American in the lightest example is not as he described.
That Joe Biden's family was here longer than Trump, so he's more American.
That's not the argument.
The argument is if your grandparents were here, you are a heritage American, which means even starting today, if a family comes here and they have kids and those kids are raised, they're saying it's like third generation, basically, people who have stronger ties to the country and what it was built out to be.
It doesn't mean before the Revolutionary War that is a straw man.
There's an argument from people who are saying, my grandfather built, helped build town hall.
They brought in Haitian migrants into my town, and now they are voting against me.
My family fought and died for my ability to have a good life.
That's the argument.
ian crossland
What about my great-grandfather was a drunken boxer and a total abusive loser that contributed next to nothing to society, but he was here.
tim pool
I am not standing here to say that Vivek is wrong when he says the transgender assassin was more American than he is.
I think Vivek is a great American.
I believe that he is a great patriot.
I like what Vivek largely does, and I am criticizing him in this particular point.
Vivek obviously views the world this way because he comes from a family of immigrants.
So this is always going to be what's happening.
And I predicted this perfectly.
And I'll make it very short because I need to tell the story all over again.
But imagine a scenario where 200 years ago, a guy has a farm and there's no neighbors.
And over a period of time of decades, a small town builds up.
All the dads come together and they say, let's build a baseball field together for our kids and so we can play baseball.
They have grandkids and those grandkids say, let's vote in favor of revitalizing granddad's baseball park.
We're going to put up a statue in his honor with his name on it.
They vote yes.
Then that guy has a grandkid and the baseball field is in disrepair.
And they say, town hall, I vote in favor of repairing the baseball field or tax dollars.
And they say, all in favor, and everyone claps and cheers and screams.
And they go, all opposed?
And a larger group booze and says nay.
And that group are the Haitian migrants that were brought in by the Democrats and the Republicans because there's not enough people.
Now, the tradition, the lifeblood, the legacy, the memory is voted against by newcomers who came here through temporary protected status or otherwise.
That's the issue.
Now, the question is, are the Haitian migrants wrong to vote against allocating funding for a baseball field?
No, they're not.
They say we should spend that money on an immigration welcome center.
Too many Haitian migrants in this town don't speak English and don't know how to work or get jobs.
So is it wrong as an incorrect?
No.
Is it wrong as an immoral?
I'd argue no.
It is just not good for the people whose families built the place and want to sustain it.
That a whole influx of, a massive influx of people displaces them and then votes against their cultural interests.
That is not a good thing because it leads to racial animosity, cultural animosity, and violence between peoples.
So this argument, this Heritage Americans, if you actually want to understand it, is a fine argument.
I would still argue that a crackpot leftist whose family's been here for 100 years is a bad person and Vivek is a good person.
But I think it's important to point out that, to be honest, I'm not very interested in the political opinions of foreigners in America.
I value an American communist's opinion more than an Indian migrant's opinion because they are Americans and we have a system where we debate and negotiate.
That being said, I hope they lose.
Their ideology is ridiculous.
And if they're like Dinesh Dasude, I'll put it like this.
The ultimate conclusion of Vivek Ramaswamy's argument is a man born in China should be able to become president if he becomes naturalized because there's no such thing as a heritage American.
But the Constitution says otherwise.
tate brown
Well, what Vivek is doing here is really pernicious, and people need to watch out for this, is the play that he is putting out here, what he's proposing, is he's using American as an adjective rather than a noun.
Where every other nationality on planet Earth, it's used as a noun.
He's using it as an adjective.
And the reason he is doing this is because fundamentally, he does not believe that anybody that has any lineage in this country is entitled to the country.
What he is doing is he's dividing the world between Americans and future Americans because he views it as an adjective.
And that's a really sinister thing that he's doing.
That's why he's strawmanning the argument.
And also, it's very convenient for someone named Vivek Ramaswamy to view it in this.
tim pool
And do you think someone born in China grew up there, they're 35, they moved to the United States.
After a few years, they get their citizenship.
Should they be allowed to be president?
unidentified
No.
tim pool
So there is a heritage American.
ian crossland
You've got to be born in the country to be the president.
tim pool
The Constitution says so, which means Vivek is not correct when he says Americans are all Americans.
ian crossland
Well, I think he's circumventing a problem that could happen in a future where people are like, how American are you?
And you're like, second generation.
They're like, that ain't American enough.
tim pool
The Constitution already says this.
ian crossland
I know, but he's doing the moral argument about how to treat each other going forward as Americans.
Like, if your parents came here from India and you were born here and you're totally Americanized, you're basically as American as I am.
tate brown
That's the problem is we're using that.
tim pool
If, again, using it as an adjective, as the way that you hate his mentioning it, you're an American in that someone handed you a card saying, congratulations, you are legally an American.
The question about what makes someone an American, we have cultural traditions.
We have heritage.
ian crossland
Yeah, driving on the right side of the road, you know, baseball and apple pie.
Christmas bars, all those things.
Yeah, jingle bells, all that stuff.
tate brown
This is what he's trying to, what he's trying to like sell, what he's trying to pass off here is the idea of the propositional nation.
And this is the problem.
This is what the left has been proposing for the last 50 years, like post-really 1960s when this idea of the propositional nation came about.
So he's fundamentally using a leftist argument.
Again, I'll say it is he's using American as an adjective and that we're the only country on earth that is supposed to do that.
It makes zero sense.
rollo tomassi
I got a question.
You guys remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger became the governor of California back in the mid-2000s, something like that?
And everybody wanted him to run for president, but he could not run for president because he was not a naturalized citizen, right?
He emigrated here and I guess he patriated to the United States.
Now, I mean, can you think of anybody more American than Arnold Schwarzenegger, right?
Up until the COVID, you know, pandemic and everything.
tim pool
Where did he say fuck your freedom?
rollo tomassi
Yeah, fuck your freedom.
Yeah, that was a real misstep.
But like up until that point, you know, he was an American success story.
So is he more American than somebody who was like natural?
tim pool
Here's a question for you.
rollo tomassi
Everybody wanted him to be president.
tim pool
Here's a question for you.
Who would you rather have as president?
Dinesh de Souza or AOC?
tate brown
It's when you're presented with that binary.
unidentified
That's a question.
tim pool
That's not rhetorical.
I'm asking the question.
Dinesh de Souza or AOC?
tate brown
Dinesh de Souza.
tim pool
Yeah, hands down.
But guess what?
He wasn't born here.
unidentified
Right.
tate brown
But I guess the problem with Arnold.
rollo tomassi
I'm not sure AOC was.
tate brown
Well, the problem with Arnold is Arnold is an exception to the norm.
Like, that's the issue here.
We can cite Arnold, but that's the reason is we have to dig to think of an actual example of someone that has moved to this country and then is exceptionally sort of, if we are to sort of step into the adjective framework, okay, he would be considered like someone that is, you know, very American.
But he's an exception to the norm.
And I don't think like when we're sort of, you know, drawing up policy, we should build it on exceptions.
I think the norm has been, certainly over the last 60 years, that people that have moved to this country just simply don't feel a deeper sense of rootedness to this country that heritage Americans do.
And that's why that's a useful definition.
And I mean, like, I'm descended, I have like Mayflower descent, but I mean, I think Jack Pesovic has laid this out quite well because he obviously came a little bit later, but he's sort of sorted Americanness into these categories.
Then you have the antebellum people that arrived in the 19th century up until Ellis Island.
These are people that had to earn skin in the game through these moments in American history.
It's like the American Civil War was great.
All those people that came in the antebellum period then bought into the system.
Same thing with the Ellis Islanders, the World Wars breakout, they buy into the system.
But even when the Ellis Islanders came, like, you know, your Italians, the Irish, they had a lot of problems assimilating in the United States.
It took about like 40, 50.
It was a long time it took to process these people and fundamentally assimilate them.
And so, but the problem right now, among others, with the way immigration has broken down over the last 60 years, is it's the volume of immigrants because we've brought in so many that you can't assimilate people because they just build, they sort of fall into these ethnic enclaves.
They're not actually interacting with Americans.
And so it's been the volume fundamentally that's the issue.
And that's why people like me and Phil have proposed net zero migration because that allows the America to sort of get the boot off of its neck, allow these people to properly assimilate before we even consider bringing in more.
rollo tomassi
So, knowing that, is that why you think someone like Vivek is making, like, planting the seeds of this sort of idea that like maybe like naturalized citizens should be able to run for he's upholding the propositional nation.
tim pool
There's one reason: the powers that be understand our system will buckle without new labor to sustain its economy.
That's it.
Republicans understand it the same as Democrats, but the right populist movement wants to preserve its cultural traditions more than it wants to preserve its economy.
Because to a working-class guy making $60,000 a year, he says, I don't care about your banking institutions.
I don't care about your 401ks.
He's like, I struggle to make ends meet as it is.
I want to go toss a pigskin with my kid.
And so when you go to him and say, but how about we bring in 50,000 Haitians to your town?
He says, why do I want that?
And they say, well, because we need the tax base for the roads, because we need the tax base to put up buildings and to fund wars and the troops.
They're going to say no to that.
But the machine state does not care.
And so I'm not putting this all on Vivek.
The obvious direction the Republican Party is going to go is going to be very much aligned with the left where they're going to say all immigrants are welcome.
ian crossland
There will be a segment, I think, of the Republican Party that's going to say that gets more, I don't know if racist is the right word, but more nationalist, more puritanical about like, if your blood isn't American, then you're not a real American.
How long have you, has your family been here?
And that, that's like Nazi Germany.
And there will be a segment of people like that.
But I think because, you know, the inevitability of homogenization, I don't think it can really be a lot of people.
tim pool
Let me just, I'm going to say this right now because apparently it's being reported.
Steve Bannon says Ben Shapiro was jealous of Charlie Kirk and will try to take over Turning Point.
Ben Shapiro was like a cancer, a cancer that spread.
And that cancer spreads.
unidentified
Gosh.
phil labonte
Wow.
tim pool
Well, he called out Bannon, too.
phil labonte
Yeah.
tim pool
I got a question.
Sorry I interrupted like I did, Rail.
I just saw this.
Why would I want to be there and be involved in this?
ian crossland
To make it better.
tim pool
So you mean like I should go up on stage and also accuse other people and say that would make it worse.
How am I going to make it better?
Go up on stage.
Like, guys, please, can we hug?
rollo tomassi
Fuck shit up.
That would probably fuck shit up.
unidentified
You did that.
rollo tomassi
I'd go there to do that.
ian crossland
Even if you were there for like 30 seconds and you went on stage, it was like, oh, holy shit, holy shit.
tim pool
This is what I saw and felt when they said they weren't going to invite us.
I said, I can see what's going on and I don't, I'm not, it's not fun.
There was something magical about it with this big vision that Charlie had.
And whatever it is now is not fun.
ian crossland
I feel like Charlie, the turning point machine is like a heavy snowball.
And it's like difficult to wield and it's got so much momentum once it gets moving.
But Charlie didn't seem to care.
He was like, whatever.
I'll juggle this like I juggle everything else.
100 million.
Okay.
Whatever.
Let's have fun, guys.
Like he really wanted it.
And I think maybe the bureaucrats at Turning Point, whoever's in charge of the bureaucracy, is more concerned about not messing up.
Charlie didn't have to do it.
tate brown
Well, it just illustrates the issue that what's happening right now is all these guys are getting up on stage and they're settling scores.
I mean, that's what you're seeing here with Vivek is he clearly is really bothered by the discourse around Heritage Americans, people just simply saying, hey, can we have what everybody else has, which is like a sense of self-identity?
Because the problem with Vivek's argument fundamentally is that if we are to start denaturalizing people, which needs to happen, then you're going to have to ask the question, okay, well, who is indistinguishably American?
That's the conversation that has to have.
And if we set up what he is proposing, this propositional nation, it's going to be impossible to denaturalize anybody because he could denaturalize someone from Oregon who's an Antifa, but their family's been in the country for 400 years.
And that's what's so annoying is seeing guys like him get up when we should be focused.
We're like getting hammered in the polls right now, approaching the midterms.
And these guys like Vivek, like Shapiro, these sorts of people are getting up on stage and they're using it as an opportunity to settle scores.
tim pool
Mark my words: if the Democrats win the presidency, they will pack the courts.
unidentified
Yep.
tim pool
They will end the filibuster overnight.
There will be a lawsuit challenging the constitutional provision on citizenship provision requiring citizenship for the presidency.
The Democrat Supreme Court will rule it unconstitutional on its face.
And this is not an amendment.
This is actually in the Constitution that you have to be born here.
And they're going to say, since the argument they'll make is this country has changed markedly in the past 250 years.
With the 14th Amendment and the recognition that those who were born here are citizens, questions must be asked about the intention of the Constitution when it said you must be born here.
Well, as many of these slaves who were born here were not citizens and only became citizens after the fact, but would be eligible to be president, the same rights must be afforded anyone who is granted legitimate citizenship, for there can be no second-class citizen.
And to argue that someone who is legally granted citizenship cannot hold office would make them second-class in the eyes of the Constitution, which is unconstitutional.
So here found by the Supreme Court.
And then you're going to get Xi Jiangfei.
He's going to move to America.
He's going to get his citizenship.
And he's going to say, the interests of America are the interests of communist China.
Vote for me.
They will vote for him.
And then you're going to have the interests of China and Americans.
ian crossland
People go to bed and then they wake up in five years, maybe, but people, I don't think anybody, I mean, there's a sorry, Tate, what were you going to say?
tate brown
No, I'll just say, well, I mean, the issue with this is why this is a battle that's worth having because the problem is if you're using American as an adjective rather than a noun, a noun has a definition that cannot change.
An adjective, the definition is in flux.
It's spitting on who's in power.
Because if the Democrats are in power and it's unmitigated, unrivaled power, they can then sort of alter what the definition of American is.
And they can say, Zoron is exceptionally American because he believes in lifting everyone up.
And Americans don't leave anyone behind.
Therefore, we're going to abolish the 14th Amendment or alter the sort of definition of it.
So that way Zorhan Mamdani, because he's so American, can run for president.
Because that's why this is such a horrible, horrible argument.
Because using American as an adjective, again, is just subject to whoever's in power and defining what Americanism is.
ian crossland
If he was using it as a noun only, wouldn't that just mean that everybody born here is an American?
End of story.
tate brown
That's the argument around heritage American is okay, we need to define what is an American because we had an ethnogenesis as a people that occurred following its founding.
And so you can sort of tighten ranks a little bit and say, okay, just because someone was born here and they have paperwork doesn't mean they're an American.
That's just someone that was born here.
tim pool
I'm going to also add the idea that we started doing this.
You're an Italian American.
The fact that we had qualifiers who was American already signified 100 and some odd years ago that people were not just Americans.
ian crossland
I asked people, are you a Jewish American or are you an American Jew?
Because where's your loyalties lie?
tate brown
Teddy Roosevelt is a hyphenated American.
tim pool
And what about the U.S.S. Liberty?
I mean, come on.
ian crossland
I want to know more about those rockets coming out of those planes wave after wave of Italy.
phil labonte
To Tate's point, Teddy Roosevelt didn't, you know, he did really make a great point.
Like, if you're a hyphenated American, that means that you're in some way considering yourself something other than an American.
tate brown
One foot up the door.
phil labonte
Yeah, and that shouldn't be an acceptable state of affairs when you're dealing with people that are going to be deciding policy for the United States.
Like you should be an American.
And regardless of how you define heritage, American, or what have you, if you think of yourself as a hyphenated American, if you think of yourself as something other than an American, that should be, in my opinion, enough to disqualify you from holding office.
tate brown
Yeah, I mean, because people, the reality is people have really deep connections to the places they're from, and it's really hard to break someone out of that.
And I understand there's immigrants that have come to the country and they've completely left the old world behind and they truly feel 100% American.
But those people are in the minority because what's happening is, again, that's human nature.
That's not necessarily a bad thing that you have a deep connection to your ancestral homeland.
That's why you're seeing these Somalis that have come to Minnesota immediately game the system, scam the government out of a bunch of money and send it back to Somalia because that's where they feel attachment to.
tim pool
Okay, I have to jump to the story.
Senator Mike Lee, would you like to seize cartel assets as a privateer?
My bill would allow the president to issue a letter of mark.
ian crossland
Yes.
tim pool
Time to take these pirates down.
No, no, Mike.
Mike, rephrase that post.
Would you like to be a pirate?
Yes, I would.
unidentified
Yes.
phil labonte
I legitimately have friends that saw this and they were, there's a group chat that we have and they're like, bro, these dudes are, these dudes, one of the dudes used to, he was a Blackwater guy.
He'd been to private security and stuff.
And he's like, yo, let's go.
unidentified
We can finally put these Somalis to use.
tim pool
But why is he calling them the pirates?
Bro, when you're a privateer with a letter of mark, you are the pirate.
That's the point.
He should have said, would you like to be a pirate?
Because now you literally can.
And they should even give you a Jolly Roger to fly on your ship when they send you out with your letter of mark.
Although no one really did that, but it'd be funny.
tate brown
You could imagine a bunch of rednecks on pontoon boats with Jolly Rogers flying.
tim pool
Bro, could you imagine?
It's like 15 Appalachian dudes who were working with a PMC and they bring in this massive tanker full of oil and they're now worth $50 million.
And they're like, I got them, boys.
phil labonte
Eric Prince saw that.
And I'm sure that he was just like, let's go because he was talking about trying to get this off the ground recently.
rollo tomassi
That's awesome.
phil labonte
Eric Prince, the guys in Blackwater, like those dudes that are still capable, they're like, man, we don't have an Iraq to go fight in.
I had a great time.
Let's go.
And I'm not kidding.
You can disagree and disapprove of this attitude, but there are dudes that have been to war that really want to go back.
tate brown
Yeah, Eric Prince was on, it was a Bronze Age perverts podcast, and he talked about at length how the world is entering sort of this PMC era.
And it's actually kind of just a return to tradition where you had privateers, where you had mercenaries and these sorts of things.
That's culturally colonial powers got things done.
rollo tomassi
So we are heading into a world where if you're going to get all these kids out of their basements, stroking off the porn and the lost generation pirates at and go.
tim pool
The total value of a full standard oil tanker on sea is $150 million.
tate brown
That's generational wealth.
tim pool
Bro, yes, generation.
Like, we need to make a movie about this.
It's just like a handful of PMCs.
Have you guys seen the movie?
What is it?
It's with Jason Statham.
And he, what is it called?
Is it Working Man, maybe?
I don't know.
His job is a security guard.
And then the backstory is basically that he's a mob boss.
He and his kid, he was staking out something for his team.
Working man.
It's these PMCs who are broke and they're like, I missed the action.
And so they stage a heist on armored vehicles to make money.
You make a movie where it's these like semi-half-retired PMCs who are like, the jobs are just drying up.
And then they see the bill passed, letters of mark being issued to seize Venezuelan tankers.
ian crossland
I'm going to blow the plot, but it should be that they get a tanker that has some super high-tech thing on board that the American government wants, and then they issue letters of mark for them, and they're on the run from the other pirates.
rollo tomassi
You just gave somebody a $100 million blockbuster movie.
tim pool
I discredited this terrible movie.
That's awful.
I think the movie's literally supposed to be they are pirates.
ian crossland
You need to listen if you thought it was awful.
tim pool
Because the point of the letter of mark is to seize oil that is valuable.
If you want to make Captain America where he flies from a helicopter and then fights Bartak, do it.
ian crossland
No, no, no.
You need a private.
tim pool
Not a PMC movie, not a sci-fi drama where they're trying to find the golden eye.
ian crossland
You need an American movie.
tim pool
I'm talking about a military movie where guys steal oil.
ian crossland
But you need something bad to happen in the movie for it to be good.
tim pool
Yes.
ian crossland
Something horrible has to change.
rollo tomassi
It's pulp fiction in the middle of the movie.
tim pool
Bro, it's just like I mentioned, like working men.
A group of PMCs are down on their luck.
They can't find work.
They get a letter of mark.
And the movie is about them taking down a Venezuelan oil taker for $100 million, $150 million.
And then the movie ends with them cashing out and Fizzbump.
ian crossland
It could be an action movie.
tate brown
No, it's just free market top gun.
It'd be great.
rollo tomassi
He's right.
ian crossland
It would be.
tim pool
I mean, I would go see that.
phil labonte
I would go see that.
tate brown
No, yeah, I mean, we're entering that era.
I mean, that's just the reality.
If you look around, all of these PMCs emerging.
Because you saw in the 80s and 90s, you had people like Mark Thatcher, like Neil Ellis, who conducted these PMC activities in Africa, but it was at a very small scale.
And then oftentimes, Western governments, the United States, France, the UK, would try to hamstring them as much as possible.
Well, we're entering this new era where the Trump administration is really just taking the boot off of the neck of these guys who want to do these really cool, dramatic things in Africa.
And then also, like, a lot of these African nations hire these PMCs because they're like, hey, we kind of like Western democracy.
I don't know if we want you guys to impose it, but maybe you can help us develop it on our own.
And so they utilize these PMCs to bring like prosperity to these countries.
And so I think we're actually entering like a really exciting era of the world.
And look, this would be a massive, massive, again, another bootlifting off the neck, so to speak, for these guys if they can just get like licenses to go and privateer in the Caribbean.
tim pool
I mean, this is so sick.
unidentified
And the Chinese and the Russian for the cruise.
That's the thing is.
tate brown
This is why America is behind the ball because the Chinese and Russians have been doing this for years.
I mean, like Wagner Group, that's Wagner Group's main thing has been operating in Africa.
And okay, they are associated with the Russians, at least in the Eastern European theater.
But in Africa, the Wagner group's basically just running loose.
And they've pushed out like the French Foreign Legion, a lot of these British peacekeeping forces.
They've just pushed them out because these dudes are just hungry.
ian crossland
So what happens if someone takes the letter of mark, they go down to the Caribbean, they think they're doing good, they end up blowing up a civilian boat unintentionally.
Are they considered like, hey, you're on your own now?
You took the letter.
If you mess up, you're dead and we're going to kill you.
phil labonte
Well, the U.S. wouldn't do the killing, but the U.S. would likely allow the government that Venezuela.
ian crossland
And then would the U.S. government protect them if they got back to U.S. territory?
tim pool
You don't actually need a letter of mark to storm and seize a Venezuelan ship.
phil labonte
Yeah.
ian crossland
That's true, of course.
unidentified
Right.
tim pool
The letter of mark is protection within the United States.
unidentified
Yeah.
tate brown
Yes.
ian crossland
But if you, so if you go out and kill like innocent Venezuelans on the open sea, will they still protect you?
tim pool
You're making an argument about specific circumstances of international incident, which could vary in a million different ways.
If you accidentally, like, let's say there's a privateer warship and it fires on a tanker but misses and hits a small fishing vessel, there's going to be questions about whether it was a legitimate action sanctioned by the U.S. government, in which case they'll probably say you're fine.
Now, if you're a PMC and you're like, we got a letter of mark, let's go kill civilians.
They're going to lock you up.
phil labonte
Yeah.
tate brown
Yeah.
I mean, we had an incident recently in the Congo where there was two Americans and I think they had like a British buddy with them.
And for a variety of reasons, the Congolese government, this is the DRC, so the big Congo.
And for a variety of reasons, they sort of accused these guys of attempting a coup, which was crazy because there was like three of them and a few locals.
And they executed the Americans.
And I think, or the execution's pending.
And as far as I can tell, the American government isn't really interested in intervening because they believe the Congolese have like a valid reason to carry this out.
So I think that's to say that I think the Americans, if this happened on foreign solo and they catch you, they just cut you loose.
phil labonte
Yep.
tate brown
I mean, unless you make it back to Miami, then you're probably good.
Because we don't have an extradition treaty with Venezuela.
Like, there's no need for us to go to bat for them.
phil labonte
So, I mean, and look, there are PMCs in the U.S. Like, like I said, you know, Eric Prince's, I don't know what his company's called now, but they're very capable.
You know, they have the weaponry that would be required to do this type of stuff.
They have dudes that a lot of the dudes that get out of the special forces or get out of direct action teams, they're like, man, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't worth staying in the military because you're not, you don't get paid enough.
But when I get done, I mean, I'll make 250K a year to go and do private military contracting.
It's, it's big bucks.
tate brown
We already see, I mean, a lot of these guys, they just also can't get the fighting sort of thing.
They have trouble reintegrating.
These guys that have seen heavy combat have trouble reintegrating into society.
So what you're seeing is like in the French Foreign Legion, for example, which is just they're called legionnaires.
I'm sure everybody's familiar with the French Foreign Legion.
I believe the makeup of the French Foreign Legion is like 50% Slavic.
It's like former Yugoslavian guys.
Because these are dudes in the 90s and early 2000s who saw some like brutal combat.
And then granted, the economies of their home countries were pretty bad.
So not only did they have a tough time reintegrating into society because of what they saw, but they also had trouble finding jobs.
So they just went and joined the French Foreign Legion because they're like, hey, that's at least going to give me a life beyond this.
I'm having trouble reintegrating to society.
So there's like a precedent set.
Granted, I don't know in America if we haven't like a large enough volume of guys that have experienced that sort of thing.
So you would have to incentivize them with like additional income and these sorts of things to really sweep the business.
rollo tomassi
I can just see the guys at Palantir just going, oh, yeah.
phil labonte
That'll be a contract.
Absolutely.
rollo tomassi
Horrible strike.
tate brown
Sky cannon.
They're going to be like using COD weapons on these guys.
phil labonte
No joke.
tate brown
They're going to pack a bunch of guns.
phil labonte
Yeah, I mean, the motivation is there.
The PMCs have the capability.
Like I said.
And also, again, this is very lucrative because these guys can make a lot of money.
I know a bunch of dudes that, you know, back when it was Iraq and Blackwater and stuff, they were making six figures very easily.
And six figures 15 years ago in Iraq is a lot of money.
It's different than six figures nowadays.
tate brown
And the nice thing about the PMCs is that they actually are quite, they tighten their ranks quite effectively.
Not to, again, site back to the French Foreign Legion, but one problem the French Foreign Legion had when they were operating in West Africa is they would recruit a lot of guys that were also from West Africa.
So what happened is they would join the French Foreign Legion, get deployed back to their home countries, and they would just go and settle scores the entire time while they were there.
And they were like, well, we have impunity because we have the FFL backing us.
So the nice thing about PMCs is the ranks are super tight and they like only hire special forces, guys like these.
So it actually lets these countries that would be hiring PMCs to be rest assured that these guys aren't going to act up and like start settling scores left and right.
phil labonte
Yeah.
tate brown
And that happens in Africa.
Like they're militaries.
They had they like deploy their native, their domestic military and the guys just abandoned the mission.
He instantly started burning villages down and stuff.
phil labonte
Go get the guys that are that piss me off in 50 years or whatever.
But I do think that it's something that you will see in the future.
tate brown
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
No, we're heading into it.
And it's a really exciting time.
If you're a young guy, you're looking for adventure and you have that fighting spirit.
I mean, there's an argument we made that the U.S. military can't offer that for you anymore.
So if there's like a private enterprise solution for that where you can still get that experience in life, make some good money, and then actually have like missions and stories that are like cool.
phil labonte
Yeah, you could do that.
I don't know.
I mean, I'm not sure what kind of training they offer because most of the time they pick up dudes that have already been.
tate brown
Yes, you got to go into the likelihood or whatever.
tim pool
I got a question though.
You know, you ever notice that you'll see like a couple walking down the street and they dress like each other?
You know about this?
It's like a normal, it's like a known phenomenon.
And it kind of makes sense, right?
If you're a guy who dresses like some like, I don't know, long-haired, freaky person and with maybe wearing like some kind of weird orange jacket or something and you sound goofy when you talk.
Has a crazy person with him.
And then when he's dating someone, he has someone who looks just like he does.
But no, I mean, in all seriousness, and it's that people adopt an identity, a style from their culture, from where they come from, things that make sense.
There isn't a large, largely American identity in American culture.
The reason I bring this up is, you know, my wife and I are very, very, very similar.
We grew up in almost the same place.
We are both lapsed Catholic.
We like the same music.
It's probably why we got married.
It's like we get along in all these things.
We want the same things.
We view the world very similarly.
For these young guys now, the issue is they've not grown up with anybody.
They don't have an external community where they build identity.
They're watching weirdos on the internet who dress like, you know, anime wife's or something.
So when they go and meet a woman in person, they're just, it's a repulsive force.
They don't see the world the same way.
They don't dress the same way.
They don't find each other attractive.
How are young guys going to accomplish anything if they're growing up this way?
tate brown
They're derastinated.
unidentified
Yeah.
tate brown
That's like the perfect deployment of the word because it's true.
It's like, how do you get these guys who are fundamentally speaking?
We were talking about the other day with music, how with Zoomers, men and women listen to completely different music.
There's not any artists that cross over, have crossover appeal for both sexes because Zoomer men and Zoomer women live in two completely different paradigms.
You'll see this phenomenon actually play out on Instagram is every once in a while, I will get a reel that's clearly targeted towards women, and then you'll see the comments and then it'll be like a male on there.
He's like, guys, I'm deep behind enemy lines.
Like, I don't know what they're talking about.
And it's true.
It's like, it really illustrates to the point is like, we have a very tough time relating to the other sex because it's just two completely different worlds.
And at this part, I mean, you're seeing in South Korea the divergence politically.
I think that's where we're heading towards, is where men and women, not only do they not speak the same language, they don't really have any cultural touch points to share, but they legitimately do not view the world the same way fundamentally.
I don't know how you make a marriage work in that instance.
phil labonte
I mean, Roland can talk to this.
The damage that feminism has done to society just overall.
rollo tomassi
Well, I mean, there's been like a separation between men and women for a long time.
It's like the boys on one side of the playground, the girls on the other side of the playground.
We're just seeing that play out in different factions right now or different contexts, I guess.
So whether it's music or it's political affiliation, I mean, you guys have talked about this, I don't know how many times, the divide between men and women politically right now.
And I think her name was Helen Andrews.
Helen Andrews.
So you probably already have heard her.
Was it TED talk or something like that?
Where she was talking about how pretty much everything that we consider woke today is really part of the female psyche.
So when women organize society, it's more in the round.
It's more egalitarian.
It's more because of the way as human beings in hunter-gatherer tribes, women were the berry pickers and the gatherers and men were the hunters and they would go out.
So when women organize societies, it's in a more egalitarian, communitarian way because they're strength of numbers.
They're the vulnerable sex.
They are nurturing children.
They're incubating babies.
That's why women have that value.
Men organize societies in hierarchies.
So there's the admiral at the top and the general and all the down chain of command all the way down to the private.
Or if we're talking about workplace, there's the CEO, the COO, the CFO, and on down to the janitor, right?
So when men organize societies, it's based on hierarchies.
And so for men, our hierarchies today are built around how you perform.
What are your achievements?
What makes you respectable?
And I've been reading a lot of these stories lately about how we're going to teach these boys how to be respectful to women, right?
there's two different forms of respect.
There's a hierarchical respect, which is what do you do that makes you respectable on that hierarchy, which is the way that men organize societies.
And then there's everyone is deserving of respect and you get some respect and you get some respect and you get some respect and you're not going to be able to do that.
Which participation trophy, you know, a version of respect where everybody sort of has this common thing.
And that's more the female way of doing it.
And so when people say we're going to teach boys to respect women, and it's like the boys are there going.
What makes them respectable?
Because that's their frame of reference.
It's like their natural frame of reference.
So when we're talking about the divide about men and women coming together and having some things in common right now, I think one of the reasons why we're so separated in the sexes right now is because we fundamentally don't know how to organize our own disseparate tribes right now.
That's why you see more women gravitating towards liberal, woaxy, you know, side of the political spectrum.
And you see way more men coming over.
And I don't think it's ever been as the contrast has never been as stark as it is right now.
tim pool
So repeal the 19th?
rollo tomassi
God.
I hate that question because it's redundant to me at this point.
I don't want to.
I don't either because I don't think it's tenable.
And I really, I hate when people go, don't you think we should do that?
If we just repealed the 19th or we took women's rights away, everything would be, would change.
I'm like, okay, first of all, how are you going to do that?
It's like, we're going to have a revolution and an anarchy.
Okay, what's your plan on restructuring society after that?
Like, if you want to go out and fuck things up, okay, good, go do that.
But what happens afterwards?
You know, what's your plan after that?
tim pool
I think we'd be better.
My pitch is a very simple solution.
And actually, I was interviewing with Thank Ramaswamy, and this is where the idea came from.
It might be his idea.
Require everybody to apply for selective service, and then you receive a voter ID.
It's not a guarantee of solving the problem.
But it's a large inhibitor because you go to Times Square and you'll see some random, just like urban street guy.
Maybe he's got a fanny pack with some dollar bills in it.
And you'll be like, you want to vote?
He'll be like, yeah, sure.
And you'll be like, just sign up for the draft.
He'll go, nah.
And he's out.
tate brown
Yeah.
tim pool
Well, I mean, every conservative would be like, yes.
tate brown
Yeah, exactly.
Well, that's because to the point, like, right-wing thought is inherently hierarchical.
To your point, yeah, it was Helen Andrews, The Great Feminization and Compact magazine.
Like, everyone has to read that if you want to fundamentally understand why things are getting very gay.
It's very true.
But right-wing thought is inherently, yeah, it's inherently hierarchical.
But something really interesting you see with sort of the female-coded sort of ideology is that they simultaneously seek egalitarianism for egalitarianism's sake, but they also have a massive outgroup preference.
So what that looks like in practice is total egalitarianism, which is what they're pushing towards in the United States, in combination with mass migration.
So you basically create these massive social programs.
This is all across the West, massive social programs, but you also flood the country with people from foreigners so then they can take advantage of those programs that were intended to sort of level out society.
And it's, I mean, it's demonic.
I mean, because hierarchy, like, you know, hierarchy truly understood, right-wing thought truly understood.
The reason we have a hierarchy is because we believe it was ordained by a divine.
We believe it was ordained by a God.
Because otherwise, who set up that hierarchy?
It has to be someone.
It had to be some things to set this in order.
And yeah, that's why you're seeing things.
That's why you're seeing the men gravitate towards right-wing thought.
The women gravitate towards left-wing thought is because like Rolo talked about is it's just the psyche.
rollo tomassi
I mean, when we're looking at like, you know, natural like sexual dimorphism, like when men are, you know, men bear a greater risk, going out and doing the hunting, going out and doing the fighting, going out and, you know, protecting the tribe.
tim pool
I'm going to do something I've only ever done one at a time.
I'm going to take a phone call right now.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
tim pool
And I'll be back in a few minutes because there's like a scoop and we may want to have it on this show.
phil labonte
Okay.
tim pool
But it has to do with something going on at Amfest.
tate brown
Let's go.
tim pool
And so I'm like.
rollo tomassi
Can you give us a hint?
tim pool
Maybe.
I was actually thinking of just pressing call and going for it, but I don't know what it is just yet.
And I don't know if they want to actually come out and say it.
So I'm going to go take this quick call.
phil labonte
Give me a minute.
But to Rolo, can you expand on that some more so that way people kind of understand it?
Because I think a lot of times people think that there's a lot of edgy young guys.
And so that's what kind of like repeal the 19th is, right?
It's edgy young guys kind of making jokes and stuff.
But I think that these topics are actually, I mean, and again, you'll clarify, but it's something that's very deep in who we are.
You know, you're talking about the hunter-gatherer versus the hunting and versus gathering and taking care of the tribe.
So why don't you expand on that?
rollo tomassi
Well, you know, I tell you what's funny is I've heard this repeated by people recently who I have probably been listening to my show for a while.
But whenever I talk about this, it's usually talking about how responsibility without authority is slavery, right?
What we don't do is we don't talk about the reverse of that, which is 100% authority without any responsibility is tyranny.
So when you look at those two things, that's the definition of slavery versus tyranny.
And then I wrote about this in a couple of essays on my sub stack, by the way, where I have sort of defined what the difference is between gynocentrism and androcentrism versus matriarchy and patriarchy, right?
So right now, you hear everybody talking about how everything is gynocentric right now, where everything is, it's based on a female correct way of interpreting the human experience, right?
Whether that's political, whether that's pop culture, whether that's religion, whether it doesn't matter what the context is.
It's just the correct way to experience life is to experience it as a woman.
And for men to do anything masculine at this point, and I mean this in the terms of conventionally masculine.
I don't use the term traditional masculinity very often because lots of people have different traditions, right?
But from a conventionally masculine perspective, if you look at patriarchy, patriarchy is a far more balanced way of organizing society than gynocentrism or androcentrism for that matter.
Because what gynocentrism is and androcentrism is, is there are forms of tyranny, meaning that in androcentrism, let's say, for example, men have all the authority and 0% responsibility.
And that's like in the handmaiden's tale, you know, like Gilead, where it's all the women are just forced into pregnancies and stuff like that.
And then we have gynocentrism, which is the reverse of that.
And then you've got patriarchy, which puts power and authority in men's hands, but they still have responsibility to their families and their wives and their kids.
But they are given the authority to affect those responsibilities.
And that's where I think a lot of traditional conservative thought really kind of fails right now.
Because until they can acknowledge the fact that if you want men to be more responsible and man up and take bootstraps, bootstraps, bootstraps, you want them to be more responsible, you're not going to solve the world's problems or solve the gender issues with just adding more and more responsibility on there and not giving these guys the authority to affect that responsibility in the first place.
Until traditional conservatives can accept that, then we're just going to keep having this conversation over and over and over again.
All right, where are we at?
tim pool
So that was fresh.
rollo tomassi
Oh, my God.
tim pool
And he's like, this is crazy.
Let me tell you what happened.
And he was like, he's like, maybe we could do a video or something.
And I was like, do you want me to just hold the thumb to the microphone?
You can explain what went down.
And then he was like, man, let me send you a video and then play the video.
So he's recording something right now.
And he told me a little bit so far.
But what he told me so far was that he was a VIP pass.
He was a guest, really.
He's on Rumble.
And he said he walked on and went to the Rumble area or whatever and was just chilling.
He didn't do anything.
He was there for like 10 minutes when six cops showed up and surrounded him and said, you have to leave.
And he was like, holy crap.
So then he said, he started, I was like, oh, hold on, hold on.
I was like, Joey, just pull the phone up because he was like, well, let me send you a video.
So if he sends us a video, and I don't know if it's going to sound good or not, but that's where we're at.
unidentified
Okay.
ian crossland
All right.
tim pool
I'm like, as our last show of the year, I was like, I don't know what I'm going to do.
So maybe we'll just do it live.
ian crossland
My money is on.
His buddy smelled like pot.
But they were like, what?
tim pool
I didn't smell it.
My money is on.
Somebody was like, Myron Gaines is an anti-Semite who posts happy merchants and stuff.
Don't let them come in.
And when Fresh showed up, they're like, that's one of the guys.
Get him out of here.
And they also barred Myron from getting in.
And then I think Rumble probably was like, no.
And I think someone probably higher up at Turning Point was like, guys, what are you doing?
This is going to be a disaster for us.
Let him back in.
I don't know for sure yet.
rollo tomassi
Let me tell you on Twitter, man, they were Johnny on the spot with us too, because as soon as they saw Myron waiting by this escalator, like waiting to get in, like they were denying him entry to TPUSA.
And so I text Myron and I said, dude, they're saying that you can't get in.
We're like, what's going on?
He's like, no, no, no, they're going to let us in.
But then I go back to Twitter and they're like, they kicked him out and they won't let him in.
And like, just jump to all these really quick conclusions as fast as they possibly could.
And then like for Fresh, it was like, oh, it's because you hang out with Myron and Myron's an anti-Semite.
unidentified
I bet that's it.
rollo tomassi
It's association.
tim pool
Bro, I'm telling you, next year, Amfest is going to be guys in the suits saying Christianity is going to be CPAC.
Yeah.
Will James O'Keefe have another big party next year?
Perhaps.
But I said this before, I'll say it again.
I told Charlie this last year, bro, you have created the next South by Southwest.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Daily Wireless Cigar Party.
James O'Keefe had a party.
We were talking about, you know what's really, really sad?
We were discussing having a Timcast party in Phoenix, Arizona for the end of the year, because for the past three years, our last show of the year was on stage with this massive audience.
Ian falls off the stage the first year.
It was crazy.
And not anymore.
Not anymore.
So what would have been more and more pop-ups surrounding the event and creating this massive festival, I think is likely just going to start shrinking and kicking people out.
And then it will just be CPAC.
Did you go to CPAC?
phil labonte
I don't.
rollo tomassi
I have a question.
So are they still, I don't know if they're still doing this, but TPUSA, I think they did this last year.
They have the Women's Ministry Day where it's just nothing but the girls talking.
Are they doing that at this one?
Because at the last one, they had an all-array on there.
I'm just wondering who the reformed porn star is going to be as a guest speaker for this one.
ian crossland
I guess there's only so you can only be so cool if you're not into the arts.
Without the arts, it's hard to actually be cool.
It's a very, seems like it's a very political spectacle.
phil labonte
Well, I mean, again, like the it will be such a loss if this turns into the right trying to exclude people because they don't like an opinion that they have.
That's exactly what crushed the left.
That's why people hate the left now.
You know, that's why the Democrat Party has such a low approval rating.
They took people that were considered cool, like Joe Rogan, and because he was just a normal guy that was completely comfortable voting Democrat.
And they ran him out.
And then they say, well, why don't we have any guys?
Well, it's because you got rid of them all.
And to the point that you were making, the amount of influence by the feminist kind of feminist intersectionals in the Democrat Party by trying to make sure that everybody is, that nobody steps on anyone's toes, that nobody says anything that someone else doesn't like.
They've managed to run out basically all of the young men.
They've been telling young men, you're evil, you're the problem in America.
And there isn't anybody that's actually hitting the brakes in the Democrat Party.
Maybe there are people that are considered Democrats or what have you or Democrat mouthpieces in the commenter space, but nobody in political office.
rollo tomassi
I was going to say, I would think that the people of the TPUSA would be welcoming Myron Gaines with open arms there because what was it?
Camela Harris in her latest book, her biography or whatever it was on the election, mentions by name, the reason why she lost the election was Andrew Tate and Myron Gaines.
But why by Gaines?
Well, okay, so when Mike was here, my partner, Mike Sartan on Access Vegas, he was saying the same thing.
He said, this was the election of the podcasters.
This was the election.
The reason why the left hates the red pill so much is because it convinces black voters to vote for Trump.
That's why.
And sure as shit, that's what happened with Camela.
She even admits it in the book.
So I think that's pretty much proof positive right there.
But it was speaking to a demographic of young men who otherwise felt unheard.
And that's where they would gravitate towards.
I mean, I can remember as far back as 2016 when people in the church were coming and saying, where are all the men in the church?
Well, they're in the manosphere.
They're here.
They're right here.
They're talking to me.
They're talking to everyone else in the manosphere at this point.
Joe Rogan wasn't even a factor back then.
And the fact that they would even use Joe Rogan or Theo Vaughan or Jordan Peterson as sort of examples of guys who are sort of in the manosphere who would, like, going on, you know, Rogan, Rogan openly hates the red pill, openly hates the manosphere.
Even Jordan Peterson, you know, despises the manosphere.
But they're using them because they're just the most obvious household names that they can find.
But there's a lot more people out there than Joe.
I mean, if you think the red pill begins and ends with Andrew Tate, I got news for you.
tim pool
apparently there's something crazy happening and I don't know exactly just why but one of the he said it wasn't a shooting No, no, no, no.
Some people are claiming it's because he's black, which is silly.
This is absolutely ridiculous.
However, it may have something to do with defending Candace Owens.
That's the rumor that's going around.
I don't know for sure.
It's not confirmed.
rollo tomassi
She's been on a show a few times.
tim pool
But I was saying I think it's, you know, I don't know if I would argue my first assumption is that it's related to Candace.
I assume it's that they want to excise that segment of the right that has been embracing this.
I mean, Nick Fuentes getting called up by Ben Shapiro, Candace.
rollo tomassi
Then why invite them as VIPs?
tim pool
I think it's a big organization that's like employees.
No, no, they didn't know.
They didn't know.
rollo tomassi
Oh.
Bureaucracy.
tim pool
You know?
We've had instances where we've done shows and then someone shows up and one guy working the door doesn't know this guy's not allowed in or something and it happens.
And then they had to walk it back because it was making them look really bad.
I think Amfest is like I already said this.
I think it's going to turn into CPAC.
I don't go to CPAC.
I don't care about CPAC.
It's meaningless to me.
AmFest was crazy.
It was fun.
phil labonte
Yeah.
tim pool
You know, so.
phil labonte
Actually, the quartering is in the chat right now saying he literally just talked to him.
He's totally fine.
Like we talked at Amfest at 3 p.m.
He's totally fine.
He was not banned.
We talked at Amfest Thursday and Friday, which I mean, that lines up with kind of the story.
You know, he was let back in.
Now, I don't know if he told.
tim pool
There is the question is, why was he initially removed?
And there's no real reason just yet.
There are some rumors circulating.
Obviously, one, because he's black is stupid.
That's a made-up joke, I guess.
That kick out someone from being black.
But some people are speculating that it's his involvement with Candace Owens and his support of her or something like that.
phil labonte
Yeah.
I mean, that, to me, makes the most sense.
tim pool
I think it's because the Fresh and Fit podcast, who was it?
There was a, they got called out because every time someone mentioned something Jewish, they'd play a cash register noise.
Like, that's probably why.
phil labonte
Yeah.
tim pool
You know?
ian crossland
But they gave them VIP tickets.
Come on, guys.
Who's doing this?
tim pool
Big organization with a lot of people, bro.
phil labonte
Yeah, and VIP tickets might be because of the Rumble affiliation.
tim pool
Yep.
phil labonte
You know, there's something.
rollo tomassi
That's true.
phil labonte
You know, someone at Rumble is like, hey, make sure these guys get in.
Someone's like, oh, yeah, fine.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
phil labonte
Give them the VIP.
unidentified
Rumble gets a blanket of passes to hand out.
phil labonte
And I mean, that's just speculation.
rollo tomassi
Yeah, but they call the police, the actual police.
It's not like the security that's on extreme.
ian crossland
That's why I thought pot.
But even that, you wouldn't call six guys.
unidentified
I don't know.
ian crossland
He was there with a couple of dudes when he had dressed up.
That means he smokes pot.
rollo tomassi
He doesn't mind.
ian crossland
Oh, sorry, you were saying?
phil labonte
No, I mean, I just, I think it's silly, and I think that it's a problem for the right.
You know, the Republicans are in a, or at least the right is in a position to have, you know, significant influence on the culture and not just on the culture, but also on policy.
And if you can't settle these kind of disagreements without starting to excommunicate people and saying you're not allowed here, you're going to turn a bunch of voters off, right?
If there's a guy, young guys out there that are like, oh, I like Andrew Tate or I like Nick Fuentes, they make me laugh.
I don't agree with all this stuff they say, but it's funny and I like them.
And then they hear that these people are not welcome.
They're going to say, well, that means that I'm welcome.
tim pool
But just name for me one conservative that speaks masculinity to young men.
phil labonte
Nobody.
rollo tomassi
Conservative?
tim pool
Who does Turning Point and the Republican Party have that is inspiring young men to be stronger, faster, better?
unidentified
Who?
phil labonte
Nobody.
rollo tomassi
I'm drawing a blank.
I want to say Nick Frietas, but he's, I don't know if he's associated with him.
ian crossland
Bobby Cannon.
rollo tomassi
I don't necessarily agree with him, but I think he would be one that they would get as the poster boy for something.
ian crossland
Freedom is great.
The point needs a louder megaphone.
tim pool
You've got Andrew Tate.
He's telling young men, be strong, be powerful, take shit over.
You're the boss.
rollo tomassi
Make money, get girls.
I'm not that guy.
tim pool
And these young guys are like, I want to be powerful, successful.
I want to be a fighter.
These are the things that men are driven to want.
And the right offers up nobody.
tate brown
Well, I think Donald Trump exemplifies those things without saying it explicitly.
That's why people are drawn to Donald Trump.
tim pool
No, come on.
He's morbidly obese.
tate brown
Because it's like it's more than just a moment.
tim pool
Well, no, that's not fair.
He did lose a lot of weight.
He's an overweight guy who doesn't exercise because he thinks his body's a battery that you burn energy off.
You have to find that energy.
tate brown
But people view these things beyond aesthetics.
They view things as like actually accumulating power, accumulating wealth, accumulating influence.
And Donald Trump is that's why he's so popular with young men.
That's why he was like gets some of that for sure.
rollo tomassi
I can tell you exactly why conservatism has a problem with really getting to that appeal, having that spokesperson that is not an Andrew Tate.
It's because you end up at the same place that feminism comes around.
And I get this all the time because people want to tell me that the red pill is just the flip side of feminism.
It's just feminism for men.
I'm like, no, actually, that's traditional conservatism because it winds up in the same place.
It is man up, get a job, get out of your, you know, everything that Andrew Tate says, I could go do all this great stuff, but then take it all, go get married, have kids, and do whatever your wife says.
And if you look at the guys who are sort of emblematic of like the stand-up guy, the traditional conservative husband and father, which Charlie Kirk ostensibly was at that time, he's still serving a female end at the end of all of that.
So the purpose of becoming a better guy is not to intrinsically do it for yourself, to be, you know, to build yourself up to be a better man just because that's what you want to be.
It's be a better man because women really need better men.
So please, we need to solve women's problems by you becoming a better man, right?
Which is exactly the same result or the same end point that you end up with when it comes to feminism, which is do all this stuff.
We still want men to, we want men to man down, but we want them to man up when we need them to man up because it's all for our own benefit.
So when the red pill comes in and we kind of exist in this kind of like in between, it's really weird in between area between those two.
People think that we're intrinsically misogynist or whatever.
All we're doing is we're just offering information and education so that you can protect yourself and make better decisions for yourself to say, this is what I want.
This is not what I want.
It's not about trying to be an ideology or a philosophy or a cult or religion or a set of practices or anything.
Fundamentally at its core, the red pill is just about educating people and putting that data out there.
The problem that everybody has is that when you give people facts, you have to tell them how to feel about it.
You can't give them facts without telling them how to feel about it because if you don't, they will hate you for that or they will infer that the reason you're telling me this data and these facts right now is because you want me to believe a certain thing.
Or are you on my team or are you on their team?
And that's really what they're trying to suss out the whole time when you're just throwing out facts and figures right there and allowing them to make their own decisions based on what those are.
What works best for you.
phil labonte
Tate and I were talking about this a little bit today.
Like at the end of the day, even people on the right that think that they analyze things and they make the decision that's best based on thought and logic and reason and stuff, you're still, as a human being, you're still making an emotional decision, right?
This is because it's what you think will provide you with the best emotional outcomes.
rollo tomassi
Everybody has game.
Everyone has game.
How effective that game is is really what is what a lot of people, you go and you ask a 10-year-old kid, like, you know, how do you go and get a girlfriend, Johnny?
That kid probably has a pretty well thought out way to go.
You be your friend and you do this and you do that.
He probably figured out how effective that is.
Now, if you take that and you extrapolate that into like ideology and you add religion or political stripe or what are you going to do for a living, those kinds of questions right there, it really comes down to what are best practices.
So when people come at me and they say, well, you know, really, it's all these black pill doomers.
It's MGTOW, you know, men going their own way, or it's the white pill, it's the black pill, it's this pill, that's that pill, whatever.
Those are practices.
Those are people who've taken that data and go, you know what?
Given the information I have right now, the best thing to do is just not play the game.
The juice isn't worth the squeeze.
And that's a practice.
That's not the red pill.
You've just taken the data from the red pill to extrapolate from that what you think you ought to do.
That's why you got LuxMax who's like clavicular right now, just goes to the nth degree to make himself look like, you know, like crate.
A mannequin, yeah.
And, but that's what he thinks is the best practice.
tim pool
Oh, he's wrong.
That's where he is.
unidentified
I'm not a fan, but I, yeah, I understand how he gets that.
tim pool
I don't think a lot of young Gen Z guys have any game.
rollo tomassi
Oh, no.
No, no.
But they think they do.
But the thing is, is that how effective is that game?
They'll throw it out there, get rejected, and then they'll have to go back and rethink it again.
tate brown
Clavicular, he's kind of the natural conclusion of the black pill in which he just sort of accepts that he's the logical extreme.
tim pool
Yeah, right.
tate brown
Yeah, it's just like he realizes that everything is reduced down to aesthetics, really.
So that's the presupposition he accepts.
And so therefore, if you looks max, if you maximize your looks and you'll achieve whatever you want in life, because that's just applying a reading to women or to life in general.
Again, everything just reduces down to like mathematical formats.
rollo tomassi
Whenever I see clavicular, it's like, I can just sort of see the chubby kid underneath the mask.
His look is not congruent with how he speaks and how he presents and how he telegraphs his game, I guess, for lack of a better term, but how he projects his personality.
He's kind of like the fat kid who lost a lot of weight and still thinks he's a fat kid.
phil labonte
And he's quite come to grips with the fact that he's not that good.
He's not.
rollo tomassi
Yeah, and so he's still operating, like his social skills are still operating from the perspective of I'm a fat kid and these girls are going to reject me anyways, but they're not.
They're actually giving him the time of day and he doesn't know what to do about it.
ian crossland
I was thinking about the normally 30, 40 years ago before the internet, someone's blackpilled, they're kind of like, and they complain a lot, and they just don't have friends.
And then they get isolated, people don't want to be around them, and then they go away, and maybe you never see them again.
But now with internet video, they can make videos and get a following.
rollo tomassi
Microscopes.
ian crossland
Spread the nihilism.
It's fucking crazy that that apathetic, sloth-like sin of a state of mind could possibly infect other people through this technology.
It's crazy.
That's so dangerous, too.
It needs to be addressed because free speech, I can't tell you to stop.
And if you're getting money for doing it, because all it takes is ad revenue based on how many people all of that stuff.
rollo tomassi
I'm going to tell you this right now: I agree with you 100%.
I also think that a lot of the stereotypes and a lot of the caricatures of these guys end up getting overblown or the things that are sort of attributed to the red pill are overblown because we have so many damn bots these days.
We have so much, you know, like the best thing, I was just going to say this, the best thing that Elon Musk ever did with Twitter is give you the ability to figure out the country of origin of that profile.
tim pool
And banning bots.
rollo tomassi
Oh my God.
Yeah, I'm banning bots too.
But going to those bot farms in Pakistan, in India, in Nigeria, South and East Asia is one of them as well.
And there's so many of these, they're engagement farms, is what they're doing.
It's because Elon Musk, you can get paid on Twitter for your engagement and stuff.
So what do they do?
They go and they just find the most aggravating, most agit prop questions that they can find.
And usually, those are the ones like, can you believe this woman did this?
Do you think this woman would last 10 seconds in this country or something like that?
unidentified
So it's like nihilism bots have been unleashed on more or less.
rollo tomassi
But that's what gets engagement.
ian crossland
Damn, I'm an idiot.
Don't surprise me.
Tim's getting all formatting set up.
tim pool
My phone was pressing on the keyboard.
I'm like, why are the buttons?
I'm like, what's happening?
ian crossland
So you think the nihilism bots are contributing to the black pillars?
rollo tomassi
Okay, so I think that the incentive for them is just basically money, right?
I mean, what's going to get the most eyes on the screen?
What's going to cause the most indignation?
It's going to be open-ended questions, and it's usually going to be something that reinforces a pre-existing belief, and particularly about women.
And so go ahead.
tim pool
No, I'm going to change subjects.
unidentified
You're good?
tim pool
I want to jump to this clip.
We got this from Turning Point.
Tim Cast News posted it, of course.
Steve Bennett unloads on Ben Shapiro.
Ben Shapiro calling him a lifelong never Trumper.
steve bannon
Now, Benji Shapiro sat up here last night, and he was all, you know, I'm going to, you know, it's all about the truth.
Ben, I've known you a long time, brother.
You can't handle the truth.
Let's face it, Ben Shapiro is the farthest thing from MAGA.
Let's be blunt.
tim pool
Wow.
steve bannon
He is a hardcore never Trumper.
He's a hardcore never Trumper.
In the spring of 16, he tried to up in Breitbart.
Walked off the job, made a big deal about some incident in Mar-a-Lago with Corey Lewandowski.
He tried to turn it to Ted Cruz from Donald Trump because he hated Donald Trump.
In the general election, he barely supported Donald Trump.
The first sign of when President Trump gets sent back to Mar-a-Lago, the very first individual that jumped on the Ron DeSantis train, the Israel first train, was Ben Shapiro.
And those are the darkest days we had.
In 21 and 22, you guys were there.
He's consistently been against Trump.
And now that President Trump doesn't back the Greater Israel Project, what is Greater Israel?
It's not about Israel itself.
It's about an expansionist Israel, an imperial Israel that Netanyahu and that crowd have thought up.
And the Israel first crowd is Ben Shapiro, Tel Aviv, Mark Levin, and many others that want to put that ahead of America's interests.
tate brown
It's like a primary.
tim pool
It's a primary.
phil labonte
Yeah, they're fighting for losing control.
tate brown
Yeah.
tim pool
And it's Israel.
tate brown
No, no, no.
tim pool
I mean, the argument they're making is pro or anti-Israel.
I don't care at all.
tate brown
It's a new conservative wedge.
tim pool
Bro, if I'm going to sit down and have a debate with someone and they're like, let's discuss Israel.
I'm going to say, I don't care.
Like, right now, there's this plan.
We didn't get into the story about how they want to turn Gaza.
Was this tweet?
unidentified
Yes.
tim pool
Into a high-tech, you know, Mara Gaza or whatever.
And in that context, I have no problem talking about it.
It's a news like everything else.
But if they're just having this literal debate about the merits of Israel, I'm just like, this is boring me.
Yeah.
I would much rather Ian explain to me his latest bread recipe.
That intrigues me.
phil labonte
Sourdough.
tim pool
Give a starter?
ian crossland
Not yet.
tim pool
See, that's the question.
ian crossland
I'm not sure if I want to use it.
tate brown
Yeah.
tim pool
Like, would you make a new mother dough and then pass it down to the infinitely more interesting than debating Israel?
tate brown
I knew a girl.
It's a fourth-generation mother dough.
So her great grandmother put it together.
tim pool
For real?
unidentified
Yep.
tate brown
And this is intestinally more fascinating than an Israel debate.
I can go into it.
rollo tomassi
It's already involved.
tim pool
The point is this.
I don't mind having a debate over the like the, I don't know, I don't mind discussing Israel's interests, lobbying, and all those things.
It's just that it's every fucking second for these people.
ian crossland
Yeah, you turn this on and he was like, the thing is, something about, he doesn't like Trump.
He likes him less than him.
phil labonte
Trump.
ian crossland
He does like Trump.
He doesn't like Trump.
And I'm like, it's like a video game in my repertoire of a thousand games that is real annoying that I don't want to play right now.
Talking about Trump.
Trump, Trump, Trump, Turning Trump.
I know president politics, it's a big part of the world.
But dear God, it is not the way to solve the problem.
tim pool
I completely agree.
He's not getting up on stage and saying tax policy has gone crazy.
Border security, Venezuela.
He's saying, Ben Shapiro, I don't like.
And I'm looking at this like Ben Shapiro comes out and says, Candace Owens, Tucker, Bannon, they're all bad.
Did he call it Megan Kelly too?
I think he did, right?
phil labonte
No, no, no, no.
ian crossland
I didn't see him.
tim pool
And then they come out and they make fun of him.
And I'm like, is this what?
Listen, there's a lot of people at Turning Point that are like, I got no beef with Ben or Bannon.
Jack is a good dude.
He's a great friend.
So I got no beef with the people at Turning Point.
But guys, there's literally no organization here.
ian crossland
You know what they were doing?
tim pool
There was no one going, guys, whatever you do, we do not want you to go up on stage and just rag on each other.
Send a positive message on what you believe and leave the drama outside because it's not what Turning Point's about.
unidentified
No, instead, it's like it's WWE.
ian crossland
You guys, this is what they should do.
tim pool
They want me, like, listen, okay.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, but they first don't invite us, and then I say they're not inviting us.
Then they try to invite us.
But you really want me to sit there just listening to Bannon rag on Ben, Ben, rag on Bannon, Tucker, then go, haha, he's so pompous.
Guys, with respect to each and every one of you, because I got no beef, I literally don't care.
Why would I want to go and stand in an audience and listen to a speech by Bannon about Ben Shapiro?
Don't care.
It's just absolutely insane.
You know what my view of the infighting is?
Boring.
ian crossland
What I want to see is Ben Shapiro on stage tomorrow, getting on, and then all of a sudden the mic drops, the fucking fireworks come off, and Bannon walks on stage like it is WWE, and everyone's like, whoa!
tim pool
He's got to do the strut like Mex McMahon.
rollo tomassi
Give me the theme song.
unidentified
And then they go in.
ian crossland
They've had pre-planned at their best.
tim pool
Then, as Ben starts going like this and Bannon's walking up, you see Tucker jump out with a chair.
We need this.
ian crossland
We need to revigrate it.
tim pool
Okay, I would totally come for that.
ian crossland
I would do that.
rollo tomassi
If it was actually like that, it's funny you guys compare all this to professional wrestling because it's like a lot of the times when I see this kind of infighting happening.
Now, this happens in the sphere all the time.
It happens politically, whatever the niche happens to be.
But these guys, I'm meant to ask you this, Tim, is do you think that these guys are doing this and they're agitating like this?
Like, you could tell them, hey, guys, go up there, be nice.
Have it, you know, we need to form units.
unidentified
There's no boss.
rollo tomassi
There's no boss, right?
But do you think that even if they did that, would they still do it?
Because those guys are there to appeal to their audience, to appeal to the people who are out there.
Because if you don't go up on there and you don't talk shit about Ben Shapiro, your audience is going to make you pay for it.
unidentified
Oh, he had this golden opportunity to run for Shapiro and Charlie.
tim pool
If Charlie was still alive, this would not happen.
rollo tomassi
Oh, yeah, that wouldn't happen then.
tim pool
He'd say, guys, please don't go on my stage and have a drama fest.
We are talking about the future of this country.
There's no one doing that.
So why are they allowing this stupidity?
But I don't agree with the audience thing.
I do understand what you're saying.
And it is true to a certain extent.
But if Ben went up there and said, with all due respect to Ben Shapiro, I don't, if all he did was say, guys, I want to talk to you about the future of this country, the midterm elections, but I will address what Ben Shapiro said.
If he simply said, I don't appreciate the stage drama at an event like this, we're talking about the future of this country.
And then the member of Charlie Kirk, it shouldn't be this way.
So Ben, please, let's keep it respectful.
Moving on, people have been like, then they would have been like, I got it.
rollo tomassi
Ben made the hit, though.
But then he had at least addressed the gorilla in the exactly.
tim pool
While saying, let's not stoop to that level and not actually insulting Ben, just saying, let's keep it civil and try and focus on what we can win together.
Instead, this is turning into just more partisan bickering where the right is now two different factions.
You know, Jenk Uger talks about, he's like, can we just come together with some Republicans on the issues we want to get done and get them done?
Because if the left and the right agree that healthcare is too expensive, can we just forget everything else?
Forget the trans kid stuff, the tax policy, whatever.
Let's just look at the healthcare thing, right?
Let's look at the roads.
Let's look at the border.
Whatever it is that we agree on, let's just do and then argue later.
I like that idea.
That's kind of what the mega coalition was.
A lot of people disagreed on all these things.
There's moderate, you know, I don't think abortion should be completely banned to the we should ban it completely, but we're going to work together because the left is so insane.
Now, you know what I think it is?
As the tide recedes, the scum is exposed.
What I mean by that is not to insult anybody who's saying this, but there is no woke beast.
The kraken has been slain.
And now, you know, you got a pirate ship and you got Her Majesty's vessel, and they were fighting when a kraken emerged.
And they said, oh, aim your kids at the Kraken.
The Kraken is dead, not looking at each other and going, fuck you.
And they're fighting again.
Yep.
And I don't care.
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't need to be there.
rollo tomassi
I brought out Kaiju.
You bring out Kraken.
tim pool
Kraken.
Let's just call it a Kaiju.
ian crossland
What is the Kaiju, by the way?
tim pool
Godzilla.
It's a gigantic monster.
It's not just Godzilla, Rodan.
rollo tomassi
Gamera.
ian crossland
So they're all right.
tim pool
Mothra, right?
rollo tomassi
Mothra.
Any gigantic Japanese monster.
Watch out.
tim pool
Mecha Godzilla, bro.
rollo tomassi
Ultraman.
tim pool
Somehow Godzilla got cyborg parts.
Oh, yeah.
What was the story about Mecha Godzilla?
phil labonte
I have no idea.
rollo tomassi
They're like, let's make him a robot.
A long time ago, yeah.
tim pool
And then you had that show where, um, what was that show where the guy would like turn into a gigantic dude and fight Kaiju?
You know what I'm talking about?
rollo tomassi
Yeah, oh, that's Ultraman, Ultraman, Ultraman, yeah, yeah, yeah, easy, easy, man, ultraman.
God, now I'm dating myself.
Yeah, damn, dude, Ultraman is good.
tim pool
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And shout out to all you guys in the crew.
Let's grab some Rumble Rants and some Super Chats.
Let's start with.
Uh-oh, it looks like they actually got the Rumble Rants disappeared.
unidentified
Rotrow.
tim pool
Yeah, Rotrow.
Okay, well, Bond says, Tim, how did you like having Graham on the show?
We had Graham Allen and Mike Madiso, and it was a really great conversation.
phil labonte
That was super fun.
tim pool
Really good.
Yeah.
ian crossland
Both those guys are awesome.
tim pool
The quartering.
We already Phil already read this one, but he says he talked to Myron.
He's totally fine.
He wasn't banned.
The point is to Jeremy that Myron hit me up and said, There's more to the story.
He'll have more later.
And then I looked up the rumors.
And so we'll see.
We'll see.
We don't know.
But it looks like a bunch of the Rumble Rants are gone.
I can't fathom why that would be.
Oh, well.
phil labonte
Real busy at Rumble today.
tim pool
Nothing doing.
Nothing doing.
We'll jump to our super chats for which I think we have a plethora.
See, that's the problem.
I can't say plethora.
unidentified
Plethora?
tim pool
Is plethora too big a word?
vivek ramaswamy
Plethora.
ian crossland
It's like that plethora.
tim pool
I say we got big lots.
Plethora.
phil labonte
Yeah.
ian crossland
Big lots.
tim pool
Big lots.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
ian crossland
Plethora.
unidentified
Their vocabulary is too good of talking about bunches.
tim pool
I got to take it.
rollo tomassi
I'm trying blethroplasty.
phil labonte
Blethropless.
rollo tomassi
It's like the riff when you get your eyes done, like cosmetic surgery.
vivek ramaswamy
So blast.
Just be old.
tim pool
You know, I hate plastic surgery.
We're in Vegas and we're everywhere.
Just be old.
ian crossland
I splash water in your face throughout the day.
tim pool
You know?
I saw a guy who had really bad hair transplants.
But no, actually, it wasn't really bad ones.
It looked like he had gotten them a long time ago, but his hair can, your character still falls out.
So now he had male pattern baldness with weird hair plant.
And I'm just like, guy, just put on a beanie and just roll with it.
You know what I mean?
That's all you got to do.
tate brown
It's pragmatism.
ian crossland
Dude, have you been using the infrared hat?
Oh, I want to use it.
tim pool
We got from Jonathan Otto.
Yeah, the red light thing.
You know, it's kind of funny because I looked it all up and it's all real.
It all works.
And I was like, oh, that's true.
It feels like hippie-dippy bullshit, but I always thought it was BS until I learned of blue light therapy for babies.
Yep.
And it's real.
tate brown
What is that?
tim pool
So if babies are jaundiced, I think I'm going to get this wrong about it.
They have too much bilirubin in their blood.
The blue light, the wavelength of light itself, breaks it down.
And so if their livers aren't strong enough to get it out of their system, the blue light breaks it down and then their body takes care of the rest.
So they literally put a blindfold on the baby and sit it under a blue light for like five hours.
unidentified
Wow.
tim pool
And then I'm like, really?
Just a blue light?
Just a blue light.
And then I'm like, so the red light stuff is real?
And they're like, yes.
The doctors told me that.
I'm like, what?
I looked it up and I'm like, red lighting your balls does boost testosterone.
It actually, the studies say that they found it increased testosterone when men started putting red light on their balls.
Something to do with the sun, I guess.
You wake up in the morning.
rollo tomassi
I'll figure that out.
unidentified
What if I die?
ian crossland
So many man.
tim pool
You know what it is?
Humans would wake up, crack a dawn with the red light beaming on them, and they'd be standing proud with their junk right up in there and it would cook.
tate brown
There was that guy out of Soul Broad.
He kept tweeting like, you need to start sunning your balls.
And then one guy, he replied in like the back of a police cruiser.
He's like, don't do this in an apartment complex.
tim pool
All right, what do we got here?
Mike says, Tim, I am creating a new political party called Both Parties Suck Party.
There's so many third parties that try to do something, you know?
rollo tomassi
Isn't Elon going to do a third party?
phil labonte
Yeah, like every American party, but now he's funding Republicans.
tate brown
Guys, what if both parties are the problem?
tim pool
Wow, the way it's so small.
The screen is too far away.
Okay, we got X Radico says, I implore everyone, donate to Tim's security.
The Irish are after him and his spoons.
phil labonte
The Irish.
tim pool
That's true.
I need all of your money.
phil labonte
And Irish.
tim pool
Come and Irishman.
There is an Irishman who has before stolen my spoons.
I need your help.
Go to Timcast.com and click join us and get in the Discord server.
And that will help us make sure the Irishman never takes another spoon again.
Seamus and I wrote a really great bit for Cast Castle that we never made.
And it was that, this is a true story.
I was sitting on the couch in the castle.
It's called the Great Room when you first walk in.
It's like a big room, it's a kitchen and a living room.
And I was watching Leprechaun.
I don't remember which one.
And it was the scene where the guy had gotten bitten by the leprechaun and started turning into one.
So he's at a restaurant and he orders hash browns, French fries, mashed potatoes, baked potato, tater tots, just a plate of potatoes.
Which is funny because just because the Irish starve to death with no potatoes doesn't mean they love potatoes.
But so then Seamus walks in and he's like, hey, buddy, what are you watching?
And then he looks up at the screen and he goes, this is the most racist thing I have ever seen.
And I started busting out laughing because it's like, it's true.
He's like, I was bitten by our leprechaun and I have to eat potatoes.
So we wrote this bit where the bit was going to be that exact scene scenario.
And then I tell Seamus, chill out.
It's leprechaun.
Stop being your panties in a bunch.
And then the next, like the transition scene was our receptionist goes, oh, Tim, there's a bunch of people outside.
I'm like, who are they?
And she goes, the potato people.
And I'm like, what?
She's like, they're like Irish.
Stop.
You can't call them the potato people.
And then she goes, no, no, no, they're from the organization Potato.
And I was like, what?
And there's a bunch of Irish protesters outside picketing holding up signs saying potato, which stands for people organizing together against true oppression.
And they were arguing that the Irish are the true oppressed people and that white privilege oppresses them.
We wrote this whole thing out.
We never made it.
I wish we did.
It would have been a lot of fun.
ian crossland
Was it Leprechaun 3?
Were they in Vegas?
tim pool
I don't remember.
A guy gets bit by the leprechaun and then starts turning into one.
Because apparently that's, dude, those movies are amazing.
They were like, let's make it like werewolves or vampires.
He gets bit by the leprechaun and turns into one.
That's how you make more leprechauns.
ian crossland
That was how Jennifer Annis thing got her.
Oh, the movie we're thinking of is Leprechaun 4 in space.
unidentified
This is the only film in the French last word.
rollo tomassi
Shark Native.
tim pool
Bro, is that?
That was Warwick Davis, right?
tate brown
Legend.
tim pool
Legend.
ian crossland
Leprechaun in Space, I could go on, is the only film in the franchise where a human to leprechaun transformation happens.
tim pool
Quantum Strange Court says, Tim, I understand your situation, but I truly hope this isn't the last IRL praying for you all.
Well, the good news is we're working with Rumble, and so the next show will be January 5th.
It is going to happen.
What we end up working out in that January, we have basically three weeks to sort out getting this machine churning.
Because for security reasons, we're not going to go back where we just got shut in.
And so we need, like, I'll put it simply, my wife and I are like, we're going to go to an undisclosed location.
I can't do Timcast IRL.
Like, I don't, we've gotten crazy death threats.
We were told by the Fed some of them seem credible.
They didn't say they are.
I don't want to lie about it.
They said, based on the statements that were made, the threats that were made, this appears to be credible based on previous actions from certain crazed individuals.
So we said, okay, then you get someone circling our property, then they shoot at it.
So we're like, okay, we're not going to be retarded and just sit here and wait for someone to kick the door in with an AR instead opening fire on my staff, my guests, or whatever it is.
So we're talking to Rumble and we're basically saying, like, how do we build something bigger?
The good news is this could actually end up being closed door open window and that we build something tremendously massive with Rumble.
I think it's very likely to happen.
Meaning, I'll just say like the stuff that we're already working on, times 10.
Other creators coming in, shows coming together, big studio conventions.
There's big ideas here.
And the good news is I think Rumble really wanted to do a big, big project that was going to like reshape the space.
And so when this happened, it was kind of like, well, I guess now you have to come and join us on this grand mission.
And as much as I hate Florida, my wife and I were like, we'll do it if we can make this happen.
So it might, you know, God closes the door, he opens a window.
Could be good.
Could be good.
All right.
And Timothy says, neocons are just trying to take control of the GOP by slandering opposition as anti-Semitic.
I don't completely disagree, but there are certainly people who just won't stop screaming about the Jews.
And it's annoying.
I certainly think it's stupid when these super pro-Israel people are like, if you criticize my country, you hate Jews.
Like, no, I have no problem with Jews whatsoever.
Not at all.
unidentified
Yeah.
tate brown
That's I made the point on the show yesterday is like I was laying out the play from the neocons to sort of dig back up the old play where they would just define anyone to the right of Ted Cruz's alt-right.
As I think that as you can see, they're doing the same thing where anyone to the right of Ted Cruz is now a Groyper, which is ironic because Nick Funtas himself hates JD Vance.
He just wants to also derail the Vance campaign.
So you're seeing both the actual Groypers and indeed the neocons both trying to derail a Vance 28 campaign.
But the neocons are trying to poison the well for Vance by labeling, again, everyone to the right of Ted Cruz as a Groyper for no reason.
tim pool
Indeed.
Yeah, I tweeted out in response to Vivek Ramaswamy.
Heritage Americans can become president.
The arguments don't matter.
Like, it's in the Constitution.
It's true.
You can argue how far back you have to go to be Heritage American, but there exists something that is different from an American.
There is an American with a legal standing to be the president, and there's an American that does not have that.
So there is a distinction.
But I like Vivek on a lot of issues.
So I'm not trying to, you know, people didn't understand.
I criticize one guy on one thing, and people are like, Tim's attacking Tucker.
And I'm like, I criticize him.
ian crossland
I did.
I think Vivek's marketing.
tim pool
I like a lot of his work.
ian crossland
I don't know.
Vivek's super important for this movement because he'll say things outside the box that ruffle the base on purpose.
I mean, he just knows how important it is to say certain truths sometimes, even if they're seemingly unpopular at the moment.
tim pool
All right.
Masa Mune says, Tim, there's a great massive youth on YouTube that are actively seeking out contact with maps.
I'm not kidding.
Please shout out Father Void for exposing this atrocious behavior as well as the maps who are encouraging it.
Don't say map.
Just say pedo.
But I get the point you're trying to make.
That's messed up.
I get a lot of videos on Instagram where it's dudes beating up pedophiles.
And I'm like, like.
tate brown
Have you seen the one guy who does the Alley Oops smack where his boy throws the pedo in the air and then the guy smacks in the air?
They call it the alley oop smack.
tim pool
Did he really do that?
tate brown
Oh, it's a guy that's like he's specialized in.
tim pool
My only concern is like sooner or later, one of these guys are going to get the wrong dude.
tate brown
Yeah, and there's also like a debate to be had about like half of these guys are clearly just like people with like Down syndrome and stuff like that.
So there's no, it's like, maybe they're just using this as an excuse to beat like people with disabilities.
unidentified
Yeah.
phil labonte
You're like, man.
tate brown
I mean, a pedophile is a pedophile, but it's like, you know, maybe just let the police handle it.
phil labonte
It's going to be bump fights.
unidentified
So indeed.
phil labonte
You know, if it's pedophile.
tate brown
The alley smack is very keen.
tim pool
I'm torn because I'm concerned about vigilantism in that there have already been a few stories where they've insinuated that they got the wrong guy.
Like somebody was in a similar area that looked kind of like the person.
Because from online photos, you're never too sure.
It's rough because I don't care because I like these videos.
You know what I mean?
Even if they're stopping pedos from preying on kids.
I don't want to see any extreme violence or anything like that, but Instagram's videos.
But I'm concerned about the vigilantism because sooner or later, something bad's going to happen.
phil labonte
Well, not only that, but there are people on the left that would consider their activism vigilantism.
tim pool
Right, exactly.
They'd argue the exact same thing.
Like, I love watching a capitalist or a Nazi get punched.
unidentified
And it's like, man, no.
phil labonte
I mean, it's actually so close to the argument because they say, oh, you know, by them not affirming my identity, that's actually doing violence to me.
So I'm preventing violence, which is just vigilantism.
tim pool
That's actually a really good point to describe to people this feeling.
Say, you know how you feel when you watch one of those videos where a pedophile gets punched in the face and everyone's going to be like, yeah, I enjoy those videos.
That's how the left feels watching conservatives get punched in the face.
ian crossland
I don't like those videos personally.
I just, I don't know.
Because isn't it illegal?
Like, it's assault, even if the guy's in the middle of not prepping a crime.
tate brown
If you're a vigilante, you can't charge the guy.
ian crossland
No, if the vigilante punches the pedophile, doesn't he still go to prison for assault?
unidentified
Yes.
ian crossland
Vigilante?
tate brown
Yeah, because the police haven't gotten involved.
So it's like this guy you just punched by the police's standards an innocent person.
phil labonte
Yep.
ian crossland
Okay.
phil labonte
You can't take the law into your own hands.
ian crossland
Yeah, don't.
A vigilante.
unidentified
No.
tate brown
And there's a lot of guys out there that do it like the right way.
They literally just, you know, draw these guys in.
They get everything written down, put it in paper, hand it over to the police.
I think a big issue with the vigilante guys want to beat people up is they never even turn the stuff over to the police.
So they literally just smack a guy around and then cut him loose.
Which all that does is it ensures that pedophiles can be more prudent in the future.
Rather than the guys that are able to actually put together a case, they can hand it over to the cops and the cops can put the guy away.
ian crossland
Yeah, it also sort of strengthens that stereotype that people want to kill you because you're trans.
People are like, I'm afraid just because he's a pedophile, people want to hurt him.
That's like, but that's just who I am, man.
I just want to hurt me for being who I am.
tim pool
I'll put it like this.
If you're a pedophile and you don't prey upon children, you keep it to yourself.
You don't do any weird things online with child abuse content.
Keep it to yourself.
Shut up.
Fine.
Like, don't commit crimes.
Don't target kids.
Don't make any weird art.
Don't do any of the garbage.
Just keep it in your mind.
Stay away from people.
If you're acting upon it, you're going to get your ass kicked.
Yeah, I mean, well, that's by, let's just, let's be very, very polite for the law and for the cameras.
By the police when they catch you, and you deserve it.
phil labonte
That's one of the things that the quote-unquote maps say is they're like, I'm non-offending, so it's okay.
Or, you know, if I don't act on it, no, it's okay.
tim pool
You know why that's not okay?
Because they're trying to normalize it in the public.
phil labonte
Yeah.
tim pool
Shut your mouth, go away, keep it to yourself.
You act on it in any way, you go to jail, you get locked up.
Because this argument, we can look at the slippery slope argument all across the board.
Like in 2010, when the conservatives said if they legalize gay marriage, they're going to teach sodomy in schools.
Literally happened.
So these map, you know, they try to use that semantic BS to hide what they do.
They want to argue they're non-offending.
No, what they want to do is they want to build compassion so that they can try to normalize it.
F that.
There's a line, man.
So anyway.
unidentified
All right.
tim pool
Buffalo Bill says, Tim, we love Israel.
America is just an idea and your boomer audience loves Israel.
ian crossland
That's good.
tim pool
Well, I think Buffalo Bill, maybe you should consider the country you live in.
And if you love Israel so much, why don't you go move to Israel?
I'm sure they'd welcome you.
Buffalo Bill says, we stand with Israel.
We denounce Tucker and Candace.
America is just an idea.
See, this is the problem.
It's people like this Buffalo Bill guy who don't actually care about America that feeds and fuels these anti-Semites.
tate brown
Wasn't he the guy from yesterday that was talking about the gambling money?
tim pool
No, not him.
tate brown
It wasn't him.
tim pool
This is the guy yesterday who was saying that he loved Israel.
tate brown
Oh, okay.
Is he trolling?
Because it's two on the streets.
tim pool
Yes, for sure.
unidentified
What do you mean?
tim pool
Of course not.
He loves Israel.
tate brown
No, he's just.
ian crossland
In fact, we love him.
unidentified
We loves Israel.
ian crossland
He's clocking our tea.
tate brown
He's clocked our T.
unidentified
Oh, no.
ian crossland
It sounds like a bait the way it was phrased.
tim pool
We have to read this one, guys.
It's the last show of 2025.
Geraldo Don says, per Tim Cast tradition, I'm with my wife.
tate brown
Let's go.
tim pool
The hospital in the hospital today, welcoming our twin girls, Cassandra and Isabella.
Get to making babies.
unidentified
Twin.
tim pool
Patriots.
unidentified
Twin.
tim pool
Excellent name choices, by the way.
tate brown
I can't wait for the first person that's like, I'm in the hospital with my wife.
We all start clapping.
He's like, Yeah, she's getting her stomach pumped.
tim pool
I'm just waiting for someone to have children, twins, fraternal, and tell us that they're naming them Tristan and Isolda.
Only Phil gets the reference.
ian crossland
I didn't get it.
tim pool
Exactly.
Well, you're not well read.
See, these are the problems I have because I get these marketing people being like, Tim, no one knows what Tristan and Izolda is.
You can't talk about that.
Don't we have Scandinavian so much?
No.
phil labonte
You can talk about it.
unidentified
I know.
phil labonte
Pure shit.
tim pool
I like saying weird esoteric things.
You guys can Google search Tristan and Izolda.
You'll have fun.
And black sales and white sales.
Come on, you guys don't know the story?
No.
ian crossland
Sounds awesome, though.
tim pool
The guy went to go rescue the chick, and then he's like, if I fly the white sail, it means I rescued her.
If not, but then he like they fell in love, and then the king was like, oh, what was me?
It's like a famous folklore, whatever, dude.
unidentified
Okay.
tim pool
This guy, Ian.
ian crossland
I'm starting to believe.
tim pool
You need to read a book.
ian crossland
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
rollo tomassi
That's why you will never be a privateer.
ian crossland
Privateer.
It's not in my blood.
I pay the privateers.
tim pool
And I know you know the story of Gellert's Grave, right?
phil labonte
This one about by name.
tim pool
Oh, my God.
phil labonte
Sorry.
unidentified
No.
tim pool
I know you all know because I've told the story like 800,000 times.
phil labonte
You know what?
tim pool
You know what?
tate brown
I've only read the rapids.
tim pool
Because it's the last show of the year, I want to do it.
So the legend, which I'll probably get wrong, but I'm going to try my best, is in Wales.
And it's a story of a Welsh prince who went about his daily dealings, as he does, leaving his son, his young son, in the care of his trusty hound, Gellert.
And as he went about to do his daily tidings of such, you know, errands, maybe a little hunt, he returns home to find that the door is open to his home.
And when he enters, panicked, he sees his furniture flipped about.
He sees where his son was in the crib.
The crib is flipped over.
There's blood everywhere.
He then sees his faithful hound, Gellert, walk up to him, blood dripping from his mouth.
And Prince Whelan, angry that Gellert, his faithful hunt, betrayed him and slain, slew his only son, drew his sword and thrust it into the side of Gellert, who then let out a dying whelp and collapsed.
The whelp of which awoke Whalen's child.
He hears the cry and he runs over and tosses the crip aside, and he finds his son safe next to the wolf that Gellert had slain to save his child.
And they say from that moment on, Prince Whelan never smiled again.
Now, they say the story is not true.
It's just a story they tell children, the moral being, do not jump to conclusions.
ian crossland
Yeah, patience.
It's a moral of patience and wrath.
tim pool
But there is a location, I believe it's in Wales, called Gellert's Grave.
And don't jump to conclusions.
I've always wanted to make a short film about that.
ian crossland
I thought that it was interesting.
tim pool
Maybe I can do it with AI.
ian crossland
How wrath is, you think of it as anger.
It's the sin known for anger.
But the opposite of that, the virtue is patience.
It's like when you're angry, you know, if you let things settle and kind of figure out why, maybe you don't have to resort to killing your dog.
tim pool
All right, we got one more chat here, and it's from Norbizy.
Myron Gaines is one of the biggest reasons Harris is not president.
They should be welcoming him at every event.
Unfortunately, too much Israelis are involved in involved, which Myron exposes.
You know, they're in there now.
They're chilling.
My friends, it has been a tremendous year.
There have been ups, there have been downs, there have been shocking moments.
We laughed, we cried, we hugged.
Thank you all so much for the memories.
Thank you for watching.
Christmas is abound, and I hope you have the warmest of winter holidays with your family.
I don't mean physically warm.
I hope you have great snow if you live in the snowy area and there's jingle bells and all the good stuff.
But I mean warm family tidings.
So it really does mean a lot to me to all of you out there who have supported the work that we've done.
If you want to give us a going away present, a Christmas present, join us at TimCast.com, the Discord server.
It is not money that will be used because I'm being threatened by Zionists or the Irish.
It is money that is generally just used for the company.
The money is used to pay staff.
The money is used to feed staff and buy equipment.
And there's a great community of people on the Discord that are around 24-7 with morning shows, pre-shows, after shows.
And they will be there throughout the holidays.
Several of the people, there have been several people in the Discord who have gotten married.
In fact, I believe just the other day, they had a child.
unidentified
Yep.
phil labonte
We had our first Discord child.
Wow.
tim pool
A child of legend.
A child of prophecy.
But regardless, maybe you don't want to join the community.
Your membership just makes all this possible.
As we ended the new year with a lot of questions around how we're going to operate, how this project is going to expand, we could use your support.
So thank you so much.
Follow me on X and Instagram at Timcast.
I will probably still have some videos I'll put up throughout the winter break because I'll probably get bored.
And there's fun vlogs to be made.
But thank you so much.
Rolo, do you want to shout anything out?
rollo tomassi
Yeah, just the sixth book is out right now.
This is the Irrational Mail Reignite.
It's the sixth book in the series right now.
It just came out.
We just published in November.
And Audible comes out on Monday, actually.
phil labonte
Awesome.
rollo tomassi
So all that's good to go.
And I'm actually going into surgery.
phil labonte
Oh, really?
rollo tomassi
I think you're your producer.
I talked to you about this.
The reason I couldn't come out in the summertime was because I had some medical issues that I have to have taken care of.
And so I'll be going in on Tuesday.
It should be okay.
tim pool
All right, well, I hope so.
rollo tomassi
I've got a good bit coming out on the other side of it.
And got a lot of things to do coming up in the next year.
tim pool
We're awesome.
unidentified
All right.
tim pool
Well, thanks for hanging out.
unidentified
Thanks.
tim pool
Mr. Brown.
tate brown
You can follow me on X and Instagram at Realtate Brown.
And yeah, 2025 has been really good to me.
I started here at Timcast end of March, and it's changed my life.
tim pool
And it's only been like four or five beatings to get his work in order.
tate brown
It's true.
It's been very, Tim is a very Singaporean style of infrastructure.
But thank you to Tim and the crew.
It's been a great year.
rollo tomassi
Thanks for coming to Vegas, man.
unidentified
Yeah, man.
ian crossland
Thanks, Tate.
Everybody, one thank you again for this year.
What a time to be alive.
Keep making your best stuff right now and keep putting it out because having dramatic, resounding responses.
Keep going.
Keep going.
Go to graphene.movie, which is what I've been working on.
I've been producing this graphene movie out of Rice University.
Graphene movie at graphene.movie.
Check it out.
Sign up for the mailing list.
And you can follow me at Ian Crossland across the internet.
Do your best.
Make love.
Have a wonderful year.
See you later.
phil labonte
I am Philip Remains on Twix.
I just want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year.
And I want to say thank you to Tim Poole for allowing me to be a part of this.
I really enjoy coming on here every night and giving my opinion.
You can check out my band, All That Remains, at Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, YouTube, and Deezer.
We're going on tour next year starting in May, or actually starting April 29th.
The tour is going to be all that remains.
Born of Osiris and Dead Eyes.
We're going to be out for a few weeks.
Don't forget, the left lane is for crime.
tim pool
We will see you all likely January 5th.
But stick around, we'll probably still have clips coming up.
And who am I kidding?
I'm going to work at some point during the break because I'm going to be bored.
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