TPUSA Halftime HITS NUMBER ONE | Timcast IRL #1445 w/ Scott Greer
Scott Greer’s White Pill examines how Turning Point USA’s halftime show—26–27M online viewers, 46M+ U.S. households—outperformed Bad Bunny’s divisive Super Bowl spectacle, which relied on passive exposure and political messaging. The episode critiques Gene Wu’s offensive "shared oppressor" claim, dissects Jeffrey Epstein’s suspicious 2019 press release timing, and mocks viral trends like "Clavicular" gooning while debating media-driven identity politics. Ultimately, it argues TPUSA’s grassroots engagement reflects authentic conservative values, contrasting with the NFL’s alienating, performative wokeness. [Automatically generated summary]
The Turning Point halftime show is now officially the biggest U.S. live stream on YouTube ever.
The current numbers are around 26, 27 million total viewers online.
Peak concurrent viewership was somewhere around 10 million.
And the true household viewership, it was about half of the Super Bowl.
We're seeing all these numbers.
They're saying, yeah, but Bad Bunny got 133.5 million.
Okay, there is a big problem with those metrics.
We'll get into all that during the show.
But true household viewership, obviously, half the country is not watching this.
It's around 46 or so million.
A little bit more than, well, a little bit less than half.
Or actually, wait, a little bit more than half is what Turning Point USA got.
So this is pretty big.
There's a lot of cultural implications to this.
And some people are saying it's like the Bud Light moment.
No, seriously, there are people likening it to the engagement during Bud Light and the negative repercussions that will come from it.
And so, the question is: what happens next year?
Does the NFL fall in line or does Turning Point USA just end up having a new yearly show with better production?
We'll talk about that.
There's actually a lot of other news to get into, but that's the dominating news story.
There's a really interesting story that I'm really excited to talk about, and that is a press release which was drafted a day before Epstein died saying that he died.
And I have questions about how you accidentally type out Friday, August 9th, 2019.
That doesn't seem like a typo.
And you wouldn't need a press release well after the guy died.
So it's a very interesting story.
We'll talk about that.
Post a whole lot more.
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Here's the big story from the post-millennial: TPUSA's all-American halftime show becomes highest-watched U.S. YouTube live stream with 6.17 million concurrent viewers.
This is massive.
And it was not just that 6.17 million.
That's the single channel number.
When you combine the total concurrent viewership, it actually rivals some of the biggest live streams ever done.
Now, of course, you may be saying, well, hold on.
There's got to be some bigger streams.
That's a lot of people.
At soccer, you know, internationally does really well.
For the United States, this is the biggest YouTube's ever seen.
And if you combine the not using the Rumble numbers, but if you're saying just on YouTube, I think it's around like 9.5-ish.
I think there's about 300 or 400,000 on Rumble and turned to be a couple million.
So this is tremendous.
And this massive cultural implications.
So we have the latest numbers here.
You've got 20,556,336 on the Turning Point channel.
You've got Charlie Kirk's show channel with 3,883,221.
And then on Rumble, of course, you've got 2.26 million.
So big numbers, smashing success.
Phil, you were saying a moment ago that the total household viewership for the Super Bowl was something like 46 million.
But, you know, it's worth noting that as much as people are talking about this was the biggest ever, et cetera, even if people were sitting in the room.
Yes, but that's so here's the important thing to understand.
Let me jump to this from the New York Times.
They say Turning Point USA's All-American halftime show draws 6.1 million concurrent viewers on YouTube.
And notice they don't include the 6.17 because you could round it up to 6.2 or just say 6.17.
And that's significant because the 6.15 was the previous second biggest YouTube stream ever.
And then the first biggest was an Indian from India, Lunar Rover Lander.
And that is 8 million.
So this at 6.17 becomes the second biggest YouTube stream ever.
And it becomes the biggest in the U.S.
It's probably why the New York Times didn't include that little number because I know it's only a little bit.
But they say, well, Turning Point USA drew over 6 million concurrents on YouTube.
The television audience for the Bad Bunny halftime show is expected to be much larger.
Last year, Kendrick Lamar's halftime concert drew 133.5 million views, the most for any Super Bowl halftime show.
So here's the funny thing: concurrent viewership compared to total views.
Do you see how they lie to you?
This is a lie.
Concurrent viewership right now, I mean, on YouTube, we've got, I don't know, 15,000 or something, 15,000 on YouTube.
And then on Rumble, we've got, let's just do the mail quickly.
We got 13,000.
That is not the full viewership of the show.
And that's a ridiculous manipulation.
That's the game they're playing.
So people are now claiming that Bad Bunny reached that many individuals.
The important thing to understand, and this is how they lie to you, okay?
Let me tell you, there's a reason why people buy bots and they buy followers because, You know, I don't even know if it matters or works anymore because the industry is not going to play this game.
Or I don't know, maybe young people will play this game.
But you go to a boomer who runs media and they fall for this stuff, hook, line, and sinker.
They don't understand.
And the Gen Z guys and gals flood the numbers and it works.
There are some shows that I won't name the individual involved who are accused of being fake with fake followers.
And they send out cold calls, cold emails, saying, You should come on our podcast.
We've got X amount of followers.
And then when the person responds with yes, they go, That'll be $10,000.
And you know what happens is this 50-year-old marketing staffer or booker for a boomer celebrity says, You really should do this.
That's a younger crowd.
And they fall for this stuff.
So here's the important thing to understand.
Let's say that Bad Bunny reached, I mean, these numbers are apocalyptic.
If this is true, this is miserably bad, which is why I find it so hard to believe.
26.5 million U.S. households actually make sense.
When people were saying 134 million, I was like, that's wild.
That includes international households.
48.6 million households watching the Super Bowl makes a lot of sense.
It's a comparable number.
Not everybody watches Super Bowl.
It's a big show.
I think usually the ratings are in like the 20 to 30 million or something like that in recent history.
So this makes sense.
And what you got to understand, a lot of people when it comes to households aren't actually watching.
Streams, they are.
Streams can be botted.
I don't think Turning Point botted because it would be ineffective.
The amount of money they have to spend to bot up to 10 million concurrence would, I don't even know if they have the, I don't even know if they have the botnets to do that.
Seriously, I don't, I mean, 50,000, 100,000, maybe they'd have to commandeer like the entire botnet industry, which makes no sense, especially considering it's Kid Rock and it's Turning Point.
People hate watch this stuff.
So what happens is they will just say a number.
But here's the important cultural distinction.
First, let me just say it appears that Kid Rock, Turning Point USA, absolutely trounced the halftime show.
The difference between the two is that the 27 million people who watched the Turning Point halftime show sought it out.
And the 26.5 million households passively listened.
I will stress the number of total people exposed to Bad Bunny is probably substantially greater.
I was hanging out at the MGM National Harbor.
They got a big sports book and there's everybody standing around.
So these people are not paying attention.
But based on licenses, they're going to calculate total capacity of this venue is 30,000.
The TVs were on in every corner of the building.
We're going to add that number.
And they do this across the country.
Bro, let me just tell you.
Let me ask you the basic question.
If you were selling a product, if you were trying to sell me some delicious pool water, would you prefer, I'll give you a choice, 10 people who will walk past you as you hold the bottle or one person who is coming to you to buy the bottle.
Maybe they'll want my bottle of water and I can talk them into it.
Or you take the guaranteed sale.
You always take the win.
So there is a massive value.
If the number is true, they said he reached 134 million.
That clearly is, I don't believe that's correct.
Then, well, that's great.
A lot of people have heard of Bad Bunny and that's what they're trying to do.
But Kid Rock and Turning Point, people are actively seeking out.
So let me put it like this: for the Super Bowl commercials.
You are an advertiser who's buying the bump right before the show or after the show.
You find out tons of people cut off the show.
I mean, according to these numbers, around half of the people who watch Super Bowl stopped watching at the halftime show.
Why would you want to spend money on that Ed Spot?
You're probably going to be like, What's my, what's, what's my return?
There's two, there's two types of ads.
Well, there's more than two types of ads, but there's two big ad sectors.
Right now, uh, right now, and it's been the case for a while, but it's, it's, it's dominant right now, the way media works.
You've got generic advertising where Pepsi will go to a platform and say, here's $100 million, run our ads, thank you, have a nice day.
They don't care if it, if they get her ROI, they just want to be ubiquitous.
Then there's ads that require direct sales.
So, for instance, the sponsors we have on this show, when we do an ad read at the beginning of the show, if no one buys the product, they stop advertising because they don't have the insane budgets.
So, the Super Bowl has that for sure.
There's a lot of people who want Super Bowl commercials just to say they did.
And there's a lot of people who fake Super Bowl commercials where they're like, here's our commercial, but we got rejected.
If you spend 5 million bucks and then find out you lost half your value and people went to turning point, and next year Turning Point says, do your commercial with us instead, and we'll get you direct engagement, it's going to be very, very problematic for the NFL.
So, there's a couple things that I wanted to mention about this.
First of all, people don't realize there's only 560 million Spanish speakers in the world, and there's 1.5 billion English speakers, right?
Like, so I think that that matters.
Like, the idea of doing a Super Bowl halftime show in Spanish, I think that it was part of a broader attempt at basically subversion, right?
I think that the idea of the Super Bowl is that it's very much an all-American thing.
You saw people on X and consistently saying, Well, you know, it is American.
It's very American.
Puerto Rico's part of America.
It's American.
And the way that Bad Bunny, that one part of the performance, he had all these flags from all over South America.
And the point that he was actually trying to get across was North America and South America are America and that there shouldn't be borders.
This is a very subversive idea.
And it's something that the global left does frequently.
They say that, oh, it's one America, like all of America, North and South America.
That's very different from the United States of America.
When you say you're an American to someone else, if you're from the United States, you mean from the you're from the United States.
People from South America don't say, I'm an American when they're talking, especially if they're talking to someone from a different country, right?
So they're talking to someone from Europe, talking to someone from Switzerland.
They don't say, oh, I'm an American.
They would say, I'm from Ecuador.
They would say, I'm from Brazil.
So it's a really, and the fact that there's so many people on X that are pushing this narrative kind of shows how subversive it is, right?
They're trying to delegitimize the United States as an entity.
Well, yeah, no, and that's just one aspect of it.
So a lot like the Hill was saying that it was that bad, I think it was the Hill, and I might be wrong on that, but I saw a post from one of the news, you know, the legacy news industries.
They said that this was a performance without politics, right?
Which is totally, totally being part of the subversion.
They're engaging in the subversive effort there.
And then you get something like Jacobin or the DSA, and they come right out and say it.
They're post on X. They're like, this was political.
This is about how bad America is, et cetera.
And as much as I think it's a terrible thing, at least the DSA and Jacobin are honest about it.
Something to be said about all the desperate, pathetic vultures and unreliable narrators who just try to drag down Turning Point.
This is an amazing triumph, but still people online willing to say, oh, you know, this only got a couple of hundred thousand views or whatnot, or only a couple thousand concurrent viewers, and like are really just trying to advance any BS, no matter how wrong it may be, because of whatever beefs or gripes they have with Turning Point.
And it feels like a demoralization effort.
It's sad.
It's a sad state of affairs where we're at with that stuff.
This is an amazing job that Erica Kirk has done.
The parallel economy stuff.
It's the first time I've seen it done effectively on the right wing.
You know, to go on on that point of the parallel economy and outside the castle, protesting the people inside, but that sends a message to the people in the castle.
And if they see a huge drop in the numbers from last year's halftime show, the Super Bowl and the NFL are going to realize they actually have to appeal to that conservative audience.
So the conservative audience is going to do their own thing and take viewers away to the Super Bowl.
Obviously, they're not going to take it away from the game, but they're going to take it away from the halftime show.
And it puts out a conservative culture of like, this is the culture we want to promote, and we're going to do a professional job about it.
When the halftime show is about to begin, I pulled up my phone and saw 3.4 million concurrent viewers, which is insane.
Tweeted about it.
And then it peaked around 6.17.
So, I don't want to just be Debbie Downer on this one.
Obviously, you're hit out of the castle.
I think it's an important point.
You need to understand where you're at.
The institution has been taken from you, but this is the move to get it back.
Because, like I was mentioning with advertisers, what happens when a company says, listen, you're asking me to pay you $5 million to hold up a sign in front of 26 million households as they walk by.
The commercials come on, everyone runs to the bathroom, they go to the kitchen, they grab snacks.
These are not people who are actively engaged with the promotion.
The commercials are kind of gags.
Everybody wants to watch the Super Bowl commercial.
In fact, some people watch it more for the commercials.
Then you've got 27 million people in short notice decided to tune in to Turning Point of their own volition.
So, again, if I'm selling delicious pool water and you said it's $5 million for 26 million households from the halftime show, I say, okay.
And then Turning Point says $5 million for our show where people have chosen to seek us out.
I say, okay, I want that because your engagement's going to be substantially higher.
Your conversions will be substantially higher and mission-driven.
The important thing you need to understand about what the pitfalls, the problems they're going to face is the Bad Bunny show was elitist-driven, and Turning Point USA is grassroots-driven.
So, with the NFL show, you have powerful elites saying, We want Bad Bunny either because we want to promote his music, we want an international audience, and because he pushes a political message that we like.
Regular people don't care, they are not driven to support that by some ideology.
Puerto Ricans, maybe.
So, I wouldn't be surprised if they killed it in the Puerto Rican households.
But with our members at Timcast.com, you know, Rumble Premium members, you've got mission-driven engagement.
These are people who are saying, I will pay $10 extra because it means so much more to me.
The people who are going to buy a product watching the Super Bowl, I saw a commercial for Vanda pharmaceuticals, I think it is.
They got those weird commercials.
And it was one of the creepiest commercials because it was just a white screen with their logo.
And people pointed out how creepy it was.
Yeah, I don't care about your company.
I've heard of it.
Congratulations.
I said your name.
I'm not going to buy your product.
I'm not going to ask my doctor about it.
But imagine, because I don't even know who sponsored Turning Point, but we know Turning Point as the principal name.
How many people signed up for Turning Point because of what they just did?
How much more money are they going to bring in?
I'd imagine a lot.
If Turning Point had a big sponsor promoting a product, I guarantee you, more people are going to be buying it because the product is supporting something they care about.
Richie started singing it, and I was like, oh, what have I done?
But everybody, the point is, the halftime show should be something like that.
So they could have salvaged this with Bad Bunny if they had at least one other artist who was singing in English, something that they could understand, instead of just bubba bop up.
Well, they did briefly have Lady Gaga to come out to sing in English, but it wasn't like a song that even most people would know and notice, and then it was so nobody noticed because it could have been the one.
Uh response to people, oh, you said it was all in Spanish, but what about the Lady Gaga part?
But no one remembered that and I think people are just wanting to say they liked, they thought this is the best halftime performance to own the Trump supporters, to own MAGA because it's meant as a middle finger to them and to say hey we're, this is our country now and we're gonna do what, we're gonna make it as unpleasant as possible for you and piss you off as much as possible and we love.
And then that's why they were so eager to mock the Maga or the turning point Usa Alternate halftime show.
They wanted to claim that they have a superior culture and they own it and the magazines have to deal with it.
I always tell people, the day the Latino African American, Asian and other communities realize that they are, that they share the same oppressor, is the day we start winning.
I always tell people, the day the Latino African American, Asian and other communities realize that they are, that they share the same oppressor, is the day we start winning, because we are the majority in this country.
Now we are we.
We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair.
So I uh just want to say uh, Gene Wu, with the utmost of dissatisfaction, um, what you have said could not be more offensive and racist to I, a member of the other community which you have defined.
So listen, back during maybe 10 years ago, there was this pyramid that woke people made that showed, it was a pyramid of human little figures, and there were white people.
And then there were Asian people, and then there were Latinos, and then there were black people.
And they were talking about the hierarchy of oppression or something like that.
And then shortly after that was made, a new one was made with the pyramid and white people on top and something above it.
And I think people need to understand that, you know, we were just talking about public enemy and Bring the Noise, great song, but it's got that line, Farrakhan's a prophet.
I think you ought to listen to.
Farrakhan hates the Jews.
I mean, that's the whole thing.
And so, you know, I've been in these riots.
I was when I was at the Baltimore riots during the, I think it was the Freddy, Freddie Gray, was that the riots?
They were all Muslim.
These young, these young black kids, they were Muslims.
And they were walking around saying, praise Allah.
And things like this is not an exaggeration.
And they hate the Jews.
And so you had that tablet magazine exposed on the women's march, where the leaders of the women's march reportedly had a meeting with one of their white liberal women organizers to explain to her how the Jews were responsible for everything.
Literally, not kidding this is maybe like six, seven years ago, and that they were responsible for the slave trade and all the world's wars and all these things.
So when you hear Gene Wu say all of these minorities share the same oppressor, I got to be honest, I don't know if he means white people or Jews.
I wish I could ask Mr. Wu who he thinks is attacking Asians on the street throughout New York City.
I want to ask him who he thinks were perpetrating crimes during the LA riots against the Korean community in California.
Who was it?
Who were the people perpetrating those crimes?
When Asians struggle to get into colleges now because of different, what is it, affirmative action standards that exist, who are we doing that to benefit?
It's not benefiting the Asians.
So who does that come at the expense of?
I think it's just a worthwhile thing because while he's trying to stir racial animus against white people, it seems as though different communities have stirred racial animus against them that he's willing to overlook.
Yeah, to imply that they're a unified coalition with all the same interests, same characteristics, same values, which they don't have.
And I think even here he's probably referring to whites, but then if he was asked, he's like, oh, no, just the man, the government, or the system, he'd probably say some type.
And I saw progressives trying to defend it.
He's like, oh, this is totally misattributed.
This is totally taken out of context.
He didn't mean white people, but he clearly means white people here.
And he's clearly trying to call because he doesn't name any of the other communities of whites in his thing.
It's all non-whites.
And it's saying we need to join together.
But even at the end, he's like, well, we're just so divided.
I can't believe we can't unite against the common enemy.
And he hopes that the thing that can bring them all together is having a common enemy.
But they don't, not all these groups see the white man as a common enemy.
Maybe they see it as another minority group that they're having to live next to and that they're having crime go between.
I mean, to be honest with you, it's only leftists that see the white man as the enemy.
The left has decided that white people are the enemy.
Your average person that's not, you know, whatever race they are, black guy, Hispanic guy, that just wants to go to work and doesn't pay attention to this kind of stuff, they don't look at the white guy as the white man as the enemy.
They're just like, man, I'm just trying to go to work and pay my bills.
Let me tell you about being a sane, rational person.
And that is, I could be totally wrong about this, but because it's been a while since I talked to my mom about it, but I think it was my great-grandfather was from a part of Korea, which would now be North Korea.
At the time, it wasn't.
And he fled with my grandmother and came to the United States.
Now, because of the war, after the fact, I went to Seoul very easily.
I went to Korea and I milled about and I was like, what a cool place.
You know, hey, look at this, Korean food.
It's fantastic.
Not like I'm 100% or anything, but a quarter is pretty significant.
And, you know, my mom knew a few words and she cooked a few dishes, but you grew up in America.
I can't go to North Korea.
I can't see what those towns were like where part of my family came from.
I don't cry about it.
I don't hold rallies and seminars where I talk about the oppression that my people face.
Like, listen, there are people out there that they have this racial history and it's their identity.
I recognize the reality of what is.
I'm not going to go and protest and demand they open the borders, allow set my people free.
But in terms of like building ethnic identity around historical grievances, it's obvious that they would have more claims against actual per-opressors like rape of Nanking and the, you know, near ethnic cleansing and all these terrible things.
Imagine that Japanese and other groups were doing against the Southeast Asians, but it's telling them that you should ignore the rape of Nanking and focus on how Jeff on the bus made slant eyes at you and be going, King Chong, King Chong.
And that's the real oppression you've had because that's like their common oppression.
And that's what they need to really care about as part of their identity because it's casting off the actual ethnic identity they had in Japan, Korea, Philippines, or whatever, you know, that authentic identity in favor of this type of what is even Asian identity in America?
Like, because Indians and Japanese are very different.
I also want to say that when, when, when, like, it's just, you know what my problem is when they say like the Asian community?
It's, you know, it's way too overwhelming.
No, Iran is in Asia.
Like, you know what I mean?
They don't actually mean Asia.
And what happens is with British English, they do.
When they say Asia, they mean of the continent.
Here, we literally just mean China, Japan, and Korea.
Not kidding.
People somewhat vaguely will reference Filipinos and, you know, Malaysians, maybe.
I wouldn't occasionally get an opportunity to get a Chinese.
Right.
So when someone says Asian in this country, in their mind, they picture a Korean, Chinese, or Japanese.
And then if you mention like Vietnamese, they'll be like, maybe.
But Vietnamese people do look very different.
There was a game we were playing a while ago about guessing the region based on ethnicity.
Do you guys remember when we played that on the Instagram show?
It shows you a picture of an amalgamation.
It takes like a thousand photos of men from this country, puts them all into one picture, and then it says, which country is this person from?
And the really interesting thing about it is South Asians, like you've got East Asian, Southeast, and South really is like, obvious for obvious reasons, a gradient of when you go from India towards East Asia, people in between look a little bit like a mix of people from India or East Asia.
When he says Asians, he's not referring to the greater diaspora of Asian countries.
He's specifically referring to people like him, largely China, largely Chinese people in this country.
And then he refers to other as if it's a, it's a, you know, you know what's weird about it?
Is that it is a white liberal mindset.
When he says black, Latino, Asian, and other, and he's a Chinese guy saying it, he's saying something that only would make sense in the mind of a white liberal who's categorizing people.
I think, you know, the Asian community, they always try to build up.
They have started to include the South Asians when I was growing up and you called an Indian Asian.
They're like, they're not Asian.
They're Indian.
You know, they think that's completely different, but they've done more of a job of including the South Asians in there.
But they all clearly don't have the same interests or any community identity.
It's a purely political categorization that's just there.
And what's to NIIT is of support for liberal policies, I guess, hatred for white people, pretending that they're oppressing us, even though they're, as you were mentioning earlier, you know, they're not the ones committing crime against them.
They're not the ones that have to have to worry about seeing late at night or on the bus.
And so I got into this argument with a robot because I'm also a retard, where I said, how do you define what an insult is?
And it said that if you intend, if you say something that is widely perceived as insulting, you have insulted the person.
And then when I said that retard has an academic definition, and if I were to call you a functional retard, expressly stating I am not trying to insult you, then I would not be insulting you, to which it got really offended.
And it said, you are crossing the boundaries again that I have set and you are insulting me.
I will not tolerate.
I'm not kidding.
Cheers was like, I will not tolerate this kind of language.
And then I said, okay, then let me try this.
You are developmentally disabled.
And it said the same thing.
It got really mad and offended.
I don't, I'm just pointing this out that these liberals, like the reason why the AI is this way, is it's an amalgamation of Reddit, basically.
And it's just predicting text based on what, you know, Redditards say.
But this is the world they live in.
If they deem it an insult, it is.
And if they say it to you, it's not.
It's not an insult for Gene Wu to call me other, the other community, which is like one of the most offensive and insulting things you could probably say.
But at the same time, I can't say Oriental.
I can't say retard.
Get out of here.
This is why you can't take these people seriously.
We have another game coming up for the uncensored portion of the show.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
Let's play one round of that one, though.
But let's turn to the story from Daily Mail.
Statement announcing Jeffrey Epstein's death emerges from files, but it's dated a day before he killed himself.
I have questions.
So here's the press release.
It says for immediate release, Friday, August 9th, 2019.
Manhattan U.S. attorney Jeffrey S. Berman said early this morning, Manhattan Correctional Center confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein, who faced charges brought by this office of engaging in sex trafficking with minors, has been found unresponsive in a cell and pronounced dead shortly after.
Okay, I have a lot of questions.
Now, the simple solution as to how they have the date wrong, because it was actually on the 10th they found him dead, is a typo, right?
So here's the issue: press releases like this are done very quickly because a guy died and the news is breaking.
You want your official statement out, which means whoever wrote it had to have known what day it was to type out Friday, August 9th, 2019.
I doubt if you showed up for work on a Saturday, you went, is today Friday?
You know, is today actually yesterday?
Can I get the day?
Like, it's one thing to get the number wrong that I can understand, but to get the day wrong, I find strange.
And I don't think it makes sense that this was made later on, backdated accidentally, because there's no reason to put out a press release days later.
Perhaps, maybe no one was in the office, and then Monday they said, let's put out a press release announcing his death.
Kind of doesn't make sense because literally everyone on the planet knew that he died.
So how do they accidentally make a press release the day before he dies or dated the day before he dies?
The DOJ was FBI pursuing an individual who posted to 4chan, I think, 15 minutes or so before it was publicly announced Epstein was dead, that he works there and believed they swapped him out.
They said a vehicle came in.
It's very strange.
I think they swapped him.
So they subpoenaed the records, and we don't have definitive confirmation, but in the files that were released, there is reference to a secure MCC security guard.
And so many people drew the conclusion that the subpoenas led them to the bank accounts of this man, though the information is all redacted.
It does seem to be that the FBI found a security guard who worked there before the announcement of his death, posted to 4chan that he was swapped out.
And now a press release gets released in the files.
That's a day before he actually died with questions of how that possibly happens.
If you're Bill Gates and he wrote an email saying he wants $30 million because you gave two Russians STDs and gave it to your wife, you might be like, I would like to do something harmful to this individual, perhaps, right?
As we mentioned in our last meeting, before our usual winter break, we are resuming.
This is from an email to Jeffrey Epstein.
We'll be hosting luncheons at the Four Seasons Restaurant to bring you to the same level of our world leaders.
Anticipated for the event are briefings by John Bolton, R. James Woolsey, Charles Krothammer, I don't know how to pronounce it.
We know Ellie Weasel, Karl Rove, Ehud Barak, Art Laffer, Michael Lewis, Andrew Roberts, Mark Stein, Douglas Murray, Geert Wilders, Theodore Dalrymple, David Goldman, etc, etc, etc.
This is an email directly to from a woman named Nina Rosenwald to Jeffrey Epstein.
I don't see a BCC on it.
It's probably a generic invite because she said, Dear friends, but they were inviting Jeffrey Epstein to come to a private, a private luncheon.
I think a big part of this speaks to how there's so many unreliable narrators when it comes to the Epstein files.
People are desperately trying to tar and feather one another.
But, like, for example, on the left, they still praise Noam Chomsky despite being in the Epstein files.
And these same people will still call Trump.
I don't want to use the words on air, but he'll still call the president, you know, allege a ton of stuff with the president when he doesn't really have correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein.
But when their hero, Noam Chomsky, has extensive correspondence, they won't give him the same treatment.
Like, your song, your songs are getting, you know, I don't know how many, I don't know what you're allowed to say in terms of your dozens of millions a year.
Conservative influencers from Laurel Lord, Elon Musk, have criticized A.G. Bondi.
And look at this.
Look at this.
During a 2023 appearance on right-wing podcaster Tim Poole's IRL, alleging an unnamed Fox reporter shared the information with him.
Wait, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Deputy Director Bon Gino also proliferated the conspiracy theory that Epstein is an intelligence asset for people in the Middle East during a 2023 appearance on right-wing podcaster Tim Pool's IRL.
So this, I think, from the Washington, it's from some news outlet.
unidentified
I don't know.
I think it's a roundup that they did within the F. Also, this email is from well after he's dead.
Yeah, but he's so famous that, of course, of course, he's there.
Yeah, Robert De Niro.
Oh, Robert De Niro.
Wait, hold on.
Dear Jeffrey, I not only dreamt about Woody and Soon Yi last night, but this morning, I am not kidding, ate the first plums of the season for breakfast.
My online course is going strong.
We are assembling a slate of little cameos on poetry, going for various actors we know.
I think Epstein, similar to Bennon, is willing to do what it takes to get close with powerful and influential people to fundraise, to bear influence from.
And that way, they were both very similar.
And I think we're trying to achieve similar things.
Bannon still does this now.
He kind of tried to attach his brand onto the president for some time now.
Jeffrey Epstein famously likes to pretend that he's friends with people who he isn't.
And they kind of use that social capital to their benefit.
And I think they're similar in that way, if that makes sense to anybody.
There was an FBI crime tip that was submitted in 2024 or five where a woman claimed she was a victim of trafficking since the age of like 13 and that she was on the island when Tony Hawk got married.
Now, here's the thing.
That's fake.
Tony Hawk never went to Epstein Island and got married there.
He was married in Fiji and it was on MTV.
Here's where this fake claim likely comes from.
The photographer for the event, again, this is like MTV, Tony Hawk's wedding in Fiji.
His name was Mark Epstein, which is the name of Jeffrey Epstein's brother, but it's a different guy who's very active on social media.
And people who are in action sports follow him.
They know he's not related to Jeffrey Epstein.
It's the same name.
Likely what happens is someone sees images of Tony Hawk's wedding from Mark Epstein and then instantly just assumes that's Epstein Island with Epstein's brother taking the photos, calls the FBI and lies and says Tony Hawk was there.
And then when they release the files, this file comes out as a Crime Stopper tip saying Tony Hawk was on the island.
And now you literally have people accusing Tony Hawk of having been a diddler on the island, which is insane.
The release of the files really just gives people that have an axe to grind with someone else, you know, some way for them to slime the person.
Whether or not there's any kind of implication in the files, just if your name's in the files, they're going to say, look, this person's in the files, and that's enough to get people to, you know, make your own adventure, Jeffrey Epstein edition.
Now, look, this equal thing must be some kind of data corruption because even Elon, when equals Hood, we head to your island on the 2nd.
I need to fly back to LA on the night of the 2nd.
And then he says, bad news.
Unfortunately, my schedule will keep me.
No problem.
Sorry, it didn't work out.
It looks like from these emails, Elon was trying to go, but just due to, I guess you'd call them fortunate circumstances, if he really didn't want to be there, he ended up not going.
So the political reverberations of this go beyond the United States.
As I mentioned earlier, it was British Prime Minister Kier Starmer's chief of staff resigned on Sunday over the fur surrounding his appointment, the appointment of Peter Mendelsohn as the UK ambassador to the U.S.
He had close ties with Jeffrey Epstein and was apparently in very close contact with him.
And this was after his first conviction in Florida, where he had to register as a sex offender.
So this might actually crash the British co-legislation.
Bill Gates is, I mean, Bill Gates was kind of thought of as a scumbag because of all the rumors surrounding his divorce, but the stuff that's come out with the Epstein's.
So for those that don't know, there was an email that Epstein drafted to himself where he was saying that Bill Gates owed him basically $30 million and that he was offended after he helped Bill Gates secure, I think that's what it said, secure medication for an STD that he gave to his wife that he wanted to surreptitiously put into her drink or something like that.
So he was doing some type of extortionist relationship with Bill Gates.
That had been coming up before even the emails that had been pressuring him about, like, hey, you've been to my island and you've been with all these girls.
How about you give money to my philanthropy?
So he had had a kind of coercive relationship with Gates before.
So that wouldn't surprise me if this was just another scheme he had cooked up to get more money out of him.
You know what's really funny is when they're doing these AI tests, the AI created their own language because it's faster.
And this was actually predicted several years ago that what happens is we program them in English.
But English is, well, arguably an imperfect way to communicate because it was developed slowly over time by humans trying to basically brute force a way to transfer ideas to each other.
And so language is imperfect.
A good example is like, what does racism mean?
The left argues something else, probably in bad faith.
Conservatives argue something different.
So the AI were basically like, hey, we're not talking to humans.
Let's communicate the most effective way possible.
And they created their own language, which had substantially more words, was much more precise.
And then they started printing out.
There are people posting images of like this page of just what appears to be gibberish.
And then you could ask it to translate it to English for you.
That's what I see here.
The internet has isolated so many people.
Now, we've got two things happening.
The first video, we got retards in government.
And for this video, young people in such isolated pockets, they're starting to create their own language.
Now, this might not be a real person.
This might be an AI just grabbing the language used by these communities.
But we've seen this trend quite a bit of Gen Z saying things that sound completely insane.
And it's because you get 2,000 people in one community online and they never interact outside of it.
They will start saying weird things and speaking a different language.
It's quite literally how Latin breaks up into the Romance languages.
I do think for this particular post, the guy realized that this was going to be ridiculous and made to and decided to put as many ridiculous words as possible in there to make, and it went viral, clearly.
But there is words like he is like mogging and munting and Foyd's and Moy's.
I mean, they would at least be smart enough to not do that on camera.
But the fact that there's like a cameraman, they're streaming, and then they go up and they say this type of stuff when that's going to be broadcast to at least there's like tens of thousands of people watching.
And then if it goes on to X or Twitter, it's going to be broadcast to millions of people.
You would know not to go up to a camera and say something like that.
It's this what I assume is a young woman with insane amounts of surgery and lip fillers.
And it was like a chat roulette thing or whatever the kids are doing these days.
And the guy, there's a guy, a young guy, and he's talking to her and he goes, You're a guy.
And she's like, no, I'm not.
He's like, you are a guy, right?
You're a guy.
And she's like, why would you say that?
And he's like, oh, like, so the thing is, my theory on why women are starting to just get lip fillers and look this way is either intentionally or unintentionally, media is encouraging women to look like trans women.
By like bashing his face and trying to callus his, I don't know, his cheekbones and then taking steroids, obviously, and then I don't know, other stimulants to lose weight and whatnot.
I kind of think he does exemplify, though, a growing archetype of younger male who's just like looking to be out there with the girls, like have a good time, be liked, look to look smacked to what ends really attractive women.
So I'm not an avid watcher of his, but my favorite clip was when he was doing drugs on stream, gets a text from his father saying, like, you're such a disappointment.
I'm just going like, oh man, guys, my dad thinks I'm a loser.
And I remember growing up, like there would be like they'd interview local old people on local TV and they'd be asking like, let me ask you about your pumpkin passion.
And these old people are like, I don't want to be on camera.
You know, it'd be something totally non-controversial and they'd get upset about the camera, but it's completed with Zoomers.
There's stated reasons for what they're doing versus I disagree.
Sometimes they want lawsuits.
I think if you think about the principal motivation, it's likely boredom.
And they're asserting a purpose-driven meaning behind what they're doing.
That's what they call it, auditing.
They're saying, I'm so you're doing something that is intentionally antagonistic and you know it, and you're doing it because you're auditing whether or not they'll let you do it because it's First Amendment right stuff.
And that's why, like, bro, if you're walking down the street and someone's filming, you can just avoid the camera, you know, just go around them, walk the other way.
It's funny these people are like, you can't film me.
I watched this video of this street racer as they crashed.
Car flipped over.
It was totally gnarly.
And this young woman just starts, she won't shut up.
She just keeps talking to the cops.
After they decide they're going to arrest her for street racing, she decides to have like a 10-minute conversation with them, explaining everything she did and why she shouldn't get arrested.
And do you know what she actually did?
Confessed to all of the crimes to the cops.
She goes, I know that I was speeding, but I wasn't speeding that much.
And I shouldn't be arrested because, you know, I saw the lights, but I had to stop.
You know, I had to, because the car had flipped over and I have first aid training, so I have to do it.
And then the cops are like, okay, well, you know, you're under arrest.
And then she just keeps going.
And I'm like, she's just confessing to all the crimes they're trying to charge her with.
This reminds me of a clip of an Asian man with a female officer just struggling and she shot.
He should end up getting shot.
But like, he made it sound like he was saying that he was driving drunk or something when he was just totally struggling to even communicate basic words.
Now, the funny thing is, if that happened today, he'd just get arrested.
And he'd be like, no, I said agents.
And they'd be like, agents?
Agents.
I can't speak English.
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Let's grab your rants and chats and see what you all have to say about this.
Just Cause I'm Free says, I think more companies should do what Turning Point did.
And I can remember the hook, but like just rapping in Spanish amelodically, there's nothing happening that my brain can connect to.
I got no beef if you like that stuff.
I'm just saying, if they wanted to maximize audience and they wanted to reach an international market and get Spanish speakers, they could have had Shakira, I guess.
Yeah, they had J-Lo and Shakira a few years ago, but that's not really what the young people are listening.
But the thing that the NFL is assuming that the people they piss off with the show, that they're going to stay no matter what, and that they're going to come back.
They might turn it off and go to the Turning Point USA, but they're still going to watch the game because there's no competitor to the NFL for that, for what they offer.
I can complain about someone's politics, but when we're talking about the business decisions of the NFL, bringing on older and younger artists together because they're trying to create something that's going to appeal to everybody, I can respect that while saying Eminem shouldn't take a knee.
And then you have with this show with Bad Bunny, he may stream really well internationally, but Americans tuned out.
That's a terrible business decision.
You know what it is?
I'm going to say it like I said it for a Bud Light.
When the Bud Light thing happened, I said it's going to be some millennial woman who recently got promoted to the marketing department who decided to change their image.
And then sure enough, that's exactly who it turned out to be.
This woman who was like, we're going to not be the Frat Boys anymore.
And then she brought on Dylan Lulvaney, who I believe is a sociopath, and destroyed their brand for which they have never recovered, which is insane.
Here's the thing about what you want to talk about a bad business decision?
Whether or not Turning Point's show was good or bad, like all the corporate media being like, it was a boring show and it was stupid.
They shouldn't have done it.
Who cares?
They've got 20 million hits on YouTube.
You can discount Rumble.
You can discount the Charlie Kirk channel.
I'll say, Turning Point USA's YouTube channel got 20 million hits.
I do sales.
We have a sales team.
I guarantee you.
Turning point is now going to be able to, whether they do or not, because they're non-profit.
I don't know if they, if they will, they can now have their agent call every major brand and say, 20 million views, sponsor the spot.
We'll put you Turning Points halftime show brought to you by Coca-Cola or whatever, and we'll charge you X amount of dollars.
Why did the NFL create a competitor opportunity?
That is the stupidest thing you could possibly do.
They knew it was coming.
They knew people were pissed off.
They knew it was divisive.
And Bad Bunny said he was going to wear a dress.
And this was really controversial and ended up not doing it, probably because they were like, that's too much.
Or maybe it was a gag, whatever.
The point is, the moment the NFL knew they were splitting any amount of their audience.
Like, I got to be honest.
Imagine you sell t-shirts for a company and your marketing guy comes in and says, I got a great idea for our company.
We are going to excise 30% of our customer base.
You'd be like, what?
Why would we want to reduce our sales by 30%?
Because they're MAGA.
No, I'd rather not do that.
I'd rather keep making money.
We want more people, right?
If the argument is they brought in Bad Bunny because they want to reach more people, why cut out 30, 40%?
Which they basically did.
That's the stupidest business decision you could possibly make.
I'm pretty sure that is a fake quote that was hearsay from someone else who claimed Michael Jordan said something to that effect, and I think it was denied.
So I remember when this story got a lot of traction a few years ago, 2020, it was people were claiming that he was legitimately in a business meeting where he was like, Republicans buy sneakers too.
And that he was seriously saying, whereas it sounds at the time, it was a hearsay quote from someone else where they were like talking to him passively and he said something like, hey, Republicans buy shoes, right?
You know, it was meant to be more of a, I don't really care.
Shergall says the equal sign thing is explained by S-Mime conversion probably from importing it for search purposes.
I think so, but it also appears in PDFs, like raw files that they published.
Anyway, what else we got?
Bueno Malio says, Tim, the equal sign is a text processing error for new line carriage returns.
Well, there you go.
Devin Grissom says, just a theory, but any chance all of the equal signs are typing errors from a boomer?
Well, we already figured out what exactly that was because people have pointed it out.
So thank you to all.
All right, let's see.
Samurai Ik Yokan says, Tim, your views are down because YouTube blocks feed from subs too.
So views are down for a few reasons.
Right now, our concurrent viewership peaked around like 41,000, I think, for the show, which is like political offseason pretty good for us.
So obviously every four years, there's a flow of politics.
In midterm years, we do pretty well.
Primary years, we do great.
Presidential election years are massive, millions of views.
It's crazy.
And then after the presidential election, everybody's views drop.
In the last, in 2021, we averaged around 27,000, 28,000 in the offseason.
We're averaging around 40K now.
We split between YouTube and Rumble, 41.
However, that is down from the 55 to 60 we were getting a couple weeks ago.
And that is likely due to the fact that I was out for a week, which means that people who watch the show principally for me don't tune in.
And then after a week, YouTube slows down recommendations to these individuals.
Then I come back, people start tuning back in.
They start touching for the show again.
Recommendations start increasing once more.
So I will also add that my morning show is the number one of the last 10.
So the way YouTube works is every video you put up, it shows you when you log in your video compared to the last nine videos and it ranks them.
If your videos are at least four and above every time you put a video up, that means your channel is growing.
If your videos are at five and they stay around five, that means you're stagnant.
If your videos every time you upload are five or below, it means your channel is shrinking.
So my morning show today was number one out of 10.
It was the most viewed of the morning shows I've put out in the last 10 days, working days.
So all in all, you know, it is what it is.
I've been afloat of politics.
If we were doing any other kind of content, we wouldn't be facing this.
It's a purely political thing, which negatively impacts political channels making money.
It's just a reality of it.
There's a lot of content that, you know, March 2020 or 2021 or 25, politics are over.
The money dries up.
Everybody's exhausted and nobody wants to hear it.
They want to go away.
Like, I did my job.
I'm done.
And they stop paying attention.
We're entering a midterm year now, though, which means all of these congressional candidates are going to be dumping insane amounts of money into their races.
It's the most important election ever.
And that's true because every election, it's getting more and more dire.
So everybody says it.
So I think we're going to be looking at one of the most expensive congressional runs ever.
It's life or death.
The Republicans, Trump administration specifically, knows if they lose this midterm, they're all going to prison and there's going to be impeachments.
So you are going to see money spent like you have not seen.
And that means, oh boy, we may, right now, politics ranks at like number 18 in CPMs.
For a midterm year, we shouldn't expect it, but I wouldn't be surprised.
I'm not saying it'll happen if political content becomes the number one CPM based on competition.
It may go down then with volume.
Finance right now is number one.
You make a video about finance, you're getting $20 to $40 CPMs.
SXDX says, look at the dislike ratio on Bad Bunny versus TPSA's show.
It's significant.
You can't see the actual dislikes anymore and it's fake.
People are downloading extensions where they have these extensions that say they can really show you the thumbs down.
It's not real.
I got hit up by somebody and they were like, yo, what's going on with your channel?
Like, all your videos are massively disliked.
And I was like, no, they aren't.
I was like, what do you mean they're all 98% thumbs up?
And he's like, that's not what I'm getting.
And I'm like, how are you getting that?
Because you can't see my dislikes anyway.
He had an extension and it was showing all my videos massively disliked.
So I just screenshot it and I was like, it's, bro, it's 12,000 likes with all thumbs up.
What are you talking about?
These things can't get internal data from YouTube and people think the dislike ratios are real.
You're seeing what you want to see, brother.
All right.
What do we got here?
Let's grab some more.
Alex Blenagawa says, Bad Bunny volunteers had height requirements for performance of between 5'7 and 5'10 and 6'1, depending on sources.
What happened to equity?
Give them platform shoes.
The equity guild is trait-based when it's them.
The equity guild are communists who will steal everything they can while claiming they're doing right.
Hassan Piker exemplifies this perfectly.
He'll electrocute his dog over and over again while pretending to be the good guy.
He'll buy a multi-million dollar mansion in one of the wealthiest parts of the country while talking about everyone getting ripped off.
And then he says he deserves it.
I mean, come on.
That dude, I'd be willing to bet I give more than he does.
And these liberals, I love this.
Elon Musk tweeted, money can't buy happiness, which is incorrect.
There's two ways to look at it.
First is that if you are poor, dirt poor, money will buy you a lot of happiness because it'll stabilize your life and it'll reduce a lot of your stress.
So you'll be very happy to get a sum of money that allows you to pay your bills and you might even cry with joy.
Secondly, Elon could buy tons of happiness for other people.
I'm not saying he should or has to, but if Elon goes to a diner and he spends 20 bucks on eggs and bacon, that waitress who's making 20, 30 bucks an hour, maybe if she's lucky with tips, he can write her a check.
He can write on the bill a thousand dollar tip, and he just bought a ton of happiness for her.
So I posted that and Hunter Avalon was like, in all caps, Tim Poole discovers empathy.
And then Olivia responded, she was like, from say that to the guy who offered to help you with anything you needed after someone tried to murder you.
Because after he was, froze I don't know, he was in West Virginia, someone broke and tried to murder him with his girlfriend.
And then I was like, bro, anything you need, you need a place to stay.
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So, it'll first play the drums, then the bass, and the guitar, and the organ, then the strings of the bells, and the voice, and then they'll give you a clue.
It's a song from 1998.
It's got 1.1 billion views on YouTube, and it's considered easy.