Trump WITHDRAWS ICE From Minnesota, ITS OVER | Timcast IRL #1448 w/ Vince Offer
Vince Offer (now "Shlomi") slams ICE’s Minnesota withdrawal, calling it a $17K-per-deportation failure despite net-negative migration, while running for Texas’ 31st Congress to fight "wokeness," suing the GOP for stripping his "Sham Wow" nickname. He warns AI-driven media and algorithmic censorship will collapse left-wing platforms like CNN post-Trump but leave right-wing channels adaptable. Critics argue his viral tactics—like mocking transgender issues or pushing "Black Wow"—undermine serious policy debates, while callers echo concerns over AI bias, Social Security taxes, and Capitol chaos. Offer’s campaign pivots to algorithm transparency, blending satire with legislative ambition, as the host teases a "ShamWow Absorb It All" skit and a tour starting April 29th. [Automatically generated summary]
Tom Homans announced at a press conference that the surge of DHS into Minnesota is coming to an end.
Now, very much so, Tom Homan's painting this like a victory.
We got the job done.
We've got unprecedented cooperation.
We don't need this surge anymore.
However, libertarians, many MAGA individuals are very salty on Trump, not just over this, but for a variety of reasons.
And it's resulted in some people saying this is a surrender.
He's given up.
There were a few hiccups.
It went bad for them.
Homan came in, and they've been trying to find an exit strategy.
So this is them getting out.
And the narrative right now is not so good for Trump on the immigration issue because either he's being criticized for not doing enough, no mass deportations, or for doing way too much.
There's no middle ground.
So, of course, people are none too happy.
We're going to talk about that.
And then, interestingly, you know, we haven't really talked about it a whole lot.
You can tell I'm kind of losing my voice.
We haven't talked about it a lot on this show, but the Nancy Guthrie story is massive.
And there have been some developments in this regard.
And we are being joined by our resident expert in pop culture who's going to be able to help us break this down with some new information on the ransom note.
And there's actually interesting points about modern day hostage situations and kidnappings that I think actually are destroying.
And you know, and it's sad to say, the kidnapping industry is effectively over.
It's being ruined by AI and cryptocurrencies.
How are you supposed to kidnap somebody when someone else is going to AI their voice and then pretend to be the kidnapper?
You can't even get that done anymore.
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Share the show with everyone, you know, joining us tonight to talk about this and honestly, a lot about issues pertaining to him and the work that he's done.
It's tough every single day, but there's actually a lot to talk about with you.
First of all, the story of, you know, Slapchop, ShamWow, the work you did, it's fascinating.
But additionally, you're running for Congress.
And interestingly, like before the show started, we were talking and you were making points that you didn't even know and we didn't even know we completely agreed on.
Trump administration says it is ending its immigration surge in Minnesota.
More than 4,000 undocumented immigrants have been apprehended since the operation began in November, according to DHS.
Speaking at a news conference, Borders R. Homan said coordination with local law enforcement and success of immigration enforcement have contributed to the end of Operation Metro surge.
I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude.
The announcement comes weeks after federal authorities shot and killed two U.S. citizens, sparking outrage around the nation and the world.
Homan said a significant drawdown will begin this week and will continue into next week.
He said it will remain on the ground for a little longer to ensure a successful end of the operation.
Now, we've been hearing this quite a bit from a lot of Trump supporters that immigration enforcement was a massive issue.
It was the second issue behind the economy and that Trump has not delivered.
Now, he secured the border.
Everyone agrees on that.
But you've got a lot of people saying, what has he deported?
600,000 maybe?
And there's 20 million.
At this rate, he will never get deportations done.
Not just before 2028, but before the midterms.
I want to push back a little bit and say, I know that we can be a little depressed and blackpilled sometimes here on this show, but I don't, I think it's more middle of the road.
I think Minnesota was bad for the Trump admin, but I think they finally negotiated some kind of net positive they could take from this.
I don't know what y'all expect.
If Kamala Harris got in, you'd be dealing with 20 million new illegal immigrants.
So can we at least be happy where we're at and taking a positive step?
Like, I'm glad to see some of the work is getting done.
And let's be positively promoting the administration to do a little better.
Is it possible that they're just, that people have a problem with he didn't go after like the factory farms and the large-scale operations that could have netted larger numbers of deportations at one time?
And the way it's going about in neighborhoods and homes has been a PR backfire from day one.
I just, I've, I, when you look at the news, the way it's being framed by the Trump admin and Tom Homan is we won.
We won.
We're done.
But for some reason, I guess because of the pessimism, because of a bunch of things people perceived as not being good enough, this looks more like a retreat and a failure.
Yeah, too many people are making the perfect the enemy of the good.
Look, I've got the hardest line opinion on immigration out of, I think, anyone here.
I would love to see immigration ended for at least a decade, and every single illegal should go back to where they come from.
So it doesn't get any more hard line than my perspective.
But at the same time, I can't look at the reality of the situation, the options that we had, and say that Trump isn't the better option or hasn't been the better option.
We got net negative migration.
We have people that are opting to leave.
Just today, I was reading some tweets where people that are in custody, they're deciding to leave because I guess if they're going to try and fight, they stay in custody.
But if they're just going to say, okay, well, I'm just going to go back to my home country.
They go, okay, cool, and let them go.
And the more people that you get to leave the country through whatever means is possible, right?
Whether it be paying them $2,600 and buying their plane ticket, grabbing them off the street and throwing them in jail and putting them on a plane, or whether they decide that they get tired of being in custody.
And so they leave.
I don't care what it is.
Whatever gets them to leave is what we should do.
I would love to see the administration go after employers that employ illegals.
Absolutely.
I would love to see more people.
I would love to see the administration go after people that rent homes to illegals or rentals.
The reapply part is a big deal because if you get picked up and they send you out, you can never come back ever.
You will never be a citizen.
If you come back, you will always be illegal.
If you go and leave of your own volition with the app that they've got, they'll give you money and you can start your paperwork and then you can come back the right way.
I mean, you have to go back to the end of the line, which is difficult, but whatever.
But that's what I was going to ask about because we know that the southern border of Texas used to be very blue and it started shifting red and the immigration crisis got really bad.
And I know that Austin is a weird, it's relatively woke, but Texas is shifted red, but it could be a little purple.
And so I was curious, you know, for the district you're running in and for what you're seeing, how much has illegal immigration been an issue for you?
Yeah, I mean, I just moved there last year, but it's not that bad now, but it was bad before.
But the incumbent that was there, John Carter, wasn't at the border a couple of years ago.
He wasn't stopping them or doing anything.
And now he says he's stuff on the border.
Of course, Trump fixed that.
But I'm also there, not just for the border, but for all the other crap.
That's the wokeness that's coming in.
Because like you said, Austin is like a very nice place, very nice people, artsy people, and woke loves to go where there's nice.
They love nice.
I'm trying to teach the Northern District to be tough love.
There's nice, and it's tough love.
Every time I've been nice, people take advantage of me.
And that's even going right now when just to let you know, I signed up as Offer Vince Shamois Schlomby with my nickname because everybody knows me is Sham Wow.
And then they just recently, six, like a couple of weeks ago, pulled my nickname unbeknownst to me after I got all these advertisements and took my Shamois name out.
So no one now, when the voters go in and try to vote for me, they're not going to see it.
So me and you, Phil, have talked in the past about gun laws and the fact that it's become an issue that's become, it's a bit of a losing issue for Democrats.
It doesn't work the way that it used to.
Is there any world in which we one day see immigration in the same light or will it always be on the table the way it is now?
Like is one of the is the idea here that if you push hard enough right now, even if you're not getting the deportation numbers that you want, like you can get it into the public consciousness and get Americans to understand the damage in which what illegal immigration does and turns it into an issue similar to gun rights where people are like, I'm not compromising bullish on this.
I think there is a segment of the right that has that opinion now, where they're like, there's, you know, no compromise, no, no anything.
And I think that those are the people that are the most upset with Donald Trump, right?
Donald Trump ran when he first came down the elevator, the escalator in 2015 and announced the very first thing he said was, you know, they're sending rapists, they're sending the drug users, blah, blah, blah.
And the whole media just freaked out.
But he stood by, you know, he stood on his principles and he's like, no, this is a serious issue.
And I think that he really did make the case and people have seen it.
Now, Biden helped by opening up the border.
Biden has done as much damage to public opinion on immigration as anyone.
And because people are seeing it so succinctly, it's so right in front of their face.
But yeah, I do think that it's not going to change the way people think.
I think that people are upset with Trump because he's decided that he's not going to try to get rid of the workers that are here that are illegal and stuff.
As for will it be a losing issue for the left, I don't know because the people.
I think, honestly, I don't think the time is the deciding factor.
I think that it's damage.
So the more people are aware of the negative effects of immigration, the more people will calcify behind no immigration or, you know, I want to have more deportations and stuff.
Because even now, even after all the stuff that happened in Minneapolis, the squishy Republicans, yeah, they were like, oh, I don't want to see this and stuff.
But the hardcore, you know, far right or right-wingers like myself, like they were not moved.
I was not moved.
I was like, this is what I want to see.
And because I'm aware of the people that were fighting back, they were all politically motivated.
It was all progressives or communists or socialists, whatever you want to call it.
Those were the people that were out in force protesting and trying to fight with the cops and stuff.
And it was all manufactured, right?
And none of it was grassroots.
It was all astroturf.
So I wasn't moved by any of the stuff that went on.
And I think there's a significant segment of the Republican base that still is like, I don't care.
Well, they're doing that right now with voting rights, where they're like, these are all the hurdles that somebody will have to jump through if the SAVE Act is passed.
Like if you were married or if you're divorced and all of these things.
And with that particular issue, like the popularity of it is like 85% of the country, 93% of Republicans, I think, 71% of Democrats are saying, yeah, you should have to show ID.
And you're seeing movement on the hill, too.
Like there's only four senators that are holding out now.
It's McConnell, the Alaska and Maine senators, I forget their names, they're the same person.
And I think Tom Till from North Carolina is still holding out.
But that's it.
And even Fetterman's come over to say, no, I would vote for it.
You know, so I mean, I could imagine, not that I think that it's going to happen, but I could imagine another Democrat saying, you know, actually, that's probably not a bad idea.
My constituents have been calling my office and they really do want to see this as well.
Even then, when you see clips now, they're not nearly as, at least the ones that I see posted aren't the same type of Trump hating clips that I saw five, 10 years ago.
The reality is conservatives like to bring up CNN as this anti-Trump boogeyman monster because they're traumatized.
Because 10 years ago, CNN had viewership and was lying incessantly and insulting.
And I'm not trying to say Trump is perfect, but CNN was literally just the anti-Trump channel.
Today, CNN has no viewers.
And I saw this story and I'm like, yeah, yeah, okay, we get it.
CNN circling the drain.
I pulled up the ad week ratings.
Get this.
And this is not good for Fox News either.
CNN averaged 753,000 primetime viewers.
142,000 were in the key demo 25 to 54.
They're down by between 9 and 16% in the demo compared to the previous week.
In their total daytime, total daytime, 527,000 viewers, 85,000 in the demo.
Guys, I got to tell you something.
Do you know how much money you will make on a video that gets 85,000 viewers?
You're going to get $300?
CNN is running a multi-million dollar studio with high-profile personalities, and they're getting ratings for their whole show that could not buy a pair of Yeezy sneakers.
Well, I mean, that's a symptom of having the internet in your pocket.
You know, you can just have whatever your outlet of choice is fed directly to you, and that's where you get your news.
And that's actually a problem Apple's running into now.
Apple's going to, it's, Apple might end up with some issues with the FCC because all of the Apple news stuff is all from the left, left-wing or far left.
And I saw Brendan Carr, the FCC chairman, he was tweeting about it.
It's funny too, because Tim Cook has visited Trump and I was trying to explain to people, it's like, there's a reason why all of these CEOs went to meet him.
They all want to kiss the ring anyways, even if they don't agree with him.
Even if they're actually creating content that runs counter to his programming or to what Trump wants them to know or wants them to put out, they're still going to go and try and talk to him.
And to be fair, like, look, Tim Cook runs the whole show, and he's at the end of the day, the buck's going to stop with him.
But he might not even be aware that the news division does that.
Or, you know, he might, he might be like, yeah, okay, these are all fine.
And it might not even like register with him that there's no right-wing perspectives going on.
So like I said, now the buck stops with him.
I'm not making excuses for him, but it does show it's completely within the realm of possibility that he isn't aware and he needs to buckle down on the news outlet.
It will be interesting to see what happens with CNN given the merger or the purchase of Warner Brothers from Netflix, which is still at the moment going forward, but it's not, obviously, they're not buying the television stations.
They're buying the streaming service in the studio.
So they're going to split off Discovery and that's going to be its own thing.
I mean, yeah, I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel for CNN.
I think that they're likely going to be, you know, this is going to continue because they built a brand on just not just hating Donald Trump, which obviously they do, but they hate conservatives.
They hate Middle America.
And nowadays, Red America is the working class.
It's the average, the average Joe.
The left has really taken the extremely wealthy and the people that are on some kind of government assistance and made a coalition out of that.
It is really, you know, someone, I think Andrew Tate might have made this point.
If you are not using AI, I think this point like a year ago, if you're not using AI for your media business, you've already lost.
And so the truth is, even for us, you know, we do fairly well.
It's like kind of crazy when we look at cable news ratings and we do double or triple their numbers in the key demo.
But the reason why it's shocking is because we're relatively small to where things used to be.
But there's no way for me to compete with 10,000 channels.
So I'll tell you guys a secret.
It's not really a secret.
I just call it it.
In like 2018 is when my YouTube channel started taking off and making money.
It was around the time I launched my channel, Timcast News.
So I was doing one 10-minute video every day at 4 p.m. on youtube.com slash Timcast.
And then I launched a second channel because it's like if that channel gets banned, you'll have a second channel.
Even though it's against the rules still, everyone was doing it.
And then I had a few stories that were interesting, but I didn't have time to make a longer four minute or 4 p.m. segment.
So I said, I'll just hit record real quick and then just throw them up.
Instantly, they started getting tons of views.
So then I started doing five videos on that channel per day and one on my main channel.
And the reason why that channel grew was not because my content was good, partially.
It was because I was buying more lottery tickets than anybody else.
So a bunch of conservatives were going, man, you know, my videos aren't getting any views anymore.
What's happening?
See, what happens is if you put up one video per day, you're competing with me who's putting up right now today, like, I think 20.
And so one of the reasons we've been competitive is that on the front page of YouTube, you tend to get 10 to 15 videos at once.
People usually aren't going to scroll.
They're going to click whatever videos they see.
If my thumbnail is better or more interesting and you click mine over everyone else's, YouTube will recommend it more.
So consider it this.
You have purchased one lottery ticket per day and thrown it in the bucket and I'm buying 20.
And then YouTube is grabbing at random 15.
Guess what?
You aren't in it.
So this meant that because I was working substantially more, my videos were more likely to get recommended.
And because they were more likely to get recommended, they were more likely to get clicked on.
So the algorithm was more likely to promote it over your video.
So in the long run, many conservatives saw their video views go down.
And then in 2020, my Tim Cast and Tim Cast News and Timcast IRL combined was the most viewed, I guess you'd call it moderate to right-leaning channel on YouTube, doing about 180 million views per month.
Insane.
Massive numbers.
We are making a crazy amount of money.
Today, the challenge is every day, there's like 100 new AI channels, schlop dropping nonstop.
And by that same logic, it means that the 20 or so lottery tickets we're buying are up against 50,000 now produced by these other random people, companies, or even a single guy just ran a bot.
And so what that means is over a long enough period of time, we are dealing with attrition where you are less likely to see our videos, so you are less likely to click on them, and you are less likely to then be recommended, meaning you are less likely to see the videos, meaning we are entering along with everybody else exponential down like death curves.
And what I will say for people like David Pacman is that dude, he's got a couple years left.
Once Trump is out, you know, Brian Tyler Cohen and David Pacman got nothing to talk about.
I mean, I do think that when Donald Trump leaves, like, there's going to be a significant falloff.
Donald Trump just rubs people the wrong way.
They're going to try to turn whoever is the nominee for the Republicans into the same thing.
Yeah, I don't think it'll work because people already decided that when the left is calling you Nazi and calling you all these names, that's just their M.O.
They were doing it to Mitt Romney.
In fact, the fact that they were doing it to Mitt Romney was part of why you got Donald Trump.
Because they were like, look, the Republicans continued to put forth the most milquetoast, the most appeasing, the most nice guy they could come up with trying to placate all the vitriol that was thrown at them by the left.
And when you got to Mitt Romney, the ultimate Boy Scout, right?
Like the guy that was likely the cleanest guy in DC and the nicest, most amicable person they could come up with on the right.
And they still called him all that stuff.
So the right was just like, you know what?
Screw it.
Give me the guy that says grab him by the P.
They were like, I don't care.
They're like, if this guy will punch back, the what?
Pooter.
Yeah, there you go.
They were like, if this guy will punch back, then fine.
Because the right has gotten to the point where the left had just thrown so much vitriol and so much BS and consistently just insulted and insulted.
They were like, well, we don't care because you're going to do this anyway.
So why not give the guy that at least fight back?
And so they're going to try it with whoever comes next because that's their M.O. That's all they've got.
It's going to be if there's a slight majority in one direction, they will dominate the whole state and ice out the voices of any opposition.
So I'm kind of just like, at this point, we are off the precipice.
The roller coaster is dropped.
What comes next is fairly obvious.
Yeah.
I'll just put it like this.
Obvious in the sense that I don't know what form it takes, but there's clearly no elections anymore.
If all the districts are either going to be blue or red with no chance of representation, you know, Massachusetts being a great example, 40% Republicans, zero representatives, then either we just lay down and let the machine take over or people start fighting.
Well, that's why I'm running for Congress because I see that, okay, algorithms, celebrity media, big tech with the San Francisco staff, they're all infiltrating the children.
They're not going after the nursing homes.
They're going after the children.
So they're creating an army.
So when Trump leaves, like he was saying, they can then have, once they get the institutions, they can use that army to censor everybody, cancel people, and put them in jail, whatever.
Because that's kind of like the MO of the left.
Censor, cancel, ban, and torture death.
So that's why I say to the people who are not standing up to grow some balls again.
Yeah.
Even hockey players, they made them wear the LGBT flag, and they all wear it.
What does homosexuality have to do with hockey and getting kids?
And none of the athletes are standing up.
So I'm like, wait a minute.
Why am I obviously you're standing up, but the good people are not standing up because they're in fear of being canceled.
So, we need to like get rid of the cancel culture and undo what's going on with these kids.
Here's my vision: is that you walk up to a swamp and then you just throw a sham wow in it and it soaks all the water up and then all of the neocons and woke are being exposed like little germs.
It's worth pointing out that the silver lining is going.
And as much as, you know, people were upset that Donald Trump won or Donald Trump lost, lost in 2022.
If he didn't, he wouldn't have had such insight when he came back.
And again, as much as people are unhappy with how much he's got done now, because they were expecting, there's a lot of people I think that were expecting Donald Trump to come in and just be a dictator and say, this is happening, this is happening.
The president never had the power to do the things that they were hoping for, but they were still hoping for it.
So even though they're upset, he's still done a whole lot of good things.
And he's done a lot of things that people really did want, but the big things that they were hoping for, he hasn't been able to do.
So there's a lot of people that are still like, well, he hasn't done this and hasn't done that.
I mean, mostly it's because people in the space now, it's been kind of, they've used it to kind of shift the discussion because this is an actor where like they're like, what was his net worth?
How does this guy, you know, how does even a rich celebrity in America still have to have a GoFundMe started for him after he dies to take care of his family?
And this was a dude with six kids, been married since I believe 2010, believed in God.
For all intents and purposes, he's kind of one of the examples I would give to conservatives to be like, look, not every actor is like a baby's blood drinking demon like everybody wants to paint them all out to be.
But still, now they're turning it into a discussion about universal health care because how does this guy die broke because he got cancer in 2023?
So I got into doing demonstration products from the Swedish guy who got me into the business.
Then I did my own.
And kiosks were, at the time, they were just starting out in the malls, those little, yeah.
And they were just selling jewelry.
No one was doing any demonstration.
So I saw, I got the Thigh Master that was on TV and I put it on in the kiosk and everybody was just buying it like hotcakes until it went to the retail stores and no one bought it.
So that's how I got into then selling choppers on just choppers.
And I was training other people.
So I got good.
You know, when you train other people, you get good yourself.
So I was getting better at it.
And then I just started selling it.
And that's how I started.
And then I just, after the movie, again, after I sold a lot of sham, I said, why don't you just do the next product and make a little more jokes, threw some more jokes in it.
I'm an anomaly in that sense because I never captured my followers.
I mean, I was an idiot, whatever, base, whatever.
So I thought, well, why don't I run for Congress and fix it there?
Because this is discrimination.
It's illegal.
So, I mean, I don't know what your followers, but let's say you have a great show and you should get 10 million followers, but instead they only give you 1 million followers, whatever platform you do.
I mean, I'm sure you have many platforms, but some platforms are corrupt because, look, let's face it, they're all from San Francisco.
They're not going to like some of your platforms, some of these.
They're prepping these kids through the algorithms, through videos, and they're prepping them through schools, activists, teachers, and, of course, porn, which I don't think should be on X. Triple X should not be on X.
I mean, but like also for women, it's the type of thing when we talk about superheroes, like the difference between how men view superheroes and women.
Like men see a jack dude playing Superman.
They're like, oh, I want to be that dude.
And women see female superheroes and they're like, she should look more like me.
This is the worst stuff, too, because let's face it, she would absolutely let her fans try and start a fight with law enforcement, and she would be nowhere near that fight if it actually happened.
I mean, that's the actual movie version of this act probably does say something like, when you get the movie made, it's like something absurd is what finally sets everything off.
You know, the other one that's going on in Hollywood right now is like the pre-sale tickets are really high for Scream 7 and there was to be a boycott for Scream 7 because Melissa Barrera got fired from the movie because of her support for Palestine and the studio fired her.
So you really can't escape politics in Hollywood no matter what you're doing.
I'm telling you, dude, people don't understand the effect AI is having on our brains.
And so much, so much.
So and social media.
So I think the issue is that the TikTok style Instagram feed.
Let me just put it like this way.
Predicted this, and I will predict it further.
So, I warned all of you that the big tech companies were intentionally shifting away from long-form content because long-form content was resulting in informed populations who were voting against their wishes.
And how you destroy that is you make the machine not capable of long form.
So, what happens now is the short attention span content cycle.
If I pull up my phone and I go to Instagram, every single video I get is completely different from the one before or after it.
And they said, it's because I can trust myself with power, but I can't trust you.
And I'm like, now you understand the mentality of literally every human ever.
The idea that if they're like, the billionaires are bad, you take, I guarantee you, you take any one of these lefties and you make them a billionaire and they will become identical to Elon Musk in two seconds.
I think there may be something beneficial in the long run, though, in that it's going to result in, it may result in localization, meaning that if I can't trust national level social media to be meaningful, then people who are looking for meaning and purpose are going to find it closer to home, whether it's good or bad.
Well, it just depends on whether they're actually looking for that.
How many of the people that are on social media are doing that because they're looking for meaningful information?
Certainly the audience here, which is looking to stay engaged in national politics.
Me and you have had the discussion or we've had the discussion about like how easy it is to just check out, but then the people who say, Well, you might not care about politics, but politics cares about you.
So, your audience is automatically engaged because they believe it's something that they need to pay attention to.
Like, when I'm scrolling social media, I'm like, half the time I'm barely paying attention to what I'm doing.
And even when we're talking about something like X, where it's stuff that you read, I'm not as engaged with that as I am if I'm doing something like when I was in school, I kept more, I retained more of what I learned than what I do when I watch documentaries and stuff now because I'm not paying as close attention and it's not as structured of a situation as it was when I was in a classroom.
And that's all the ways you get your information now, whether that's YouTube, whether that's getting information on X, if you're reading articles and things like that.
It's very hard to retain that information unless your goal is to sit, like when you're doing, you're doing it to put together information for a show or news or things like that.
Look, David Pacman made a YouTube video claiming Trump pooped.
That's, I'm like, guys, he's got 2 million views on it.
If you want to compete in a space where everybody's just screaming at the top of their lungs and bashing their faces on the wall, you got to be like David Pacman.
Actually, like one of the accounts that I follow on Instagram is this guy who just every day he reposts this clip from Fast and the Second Fast and the Furious movie where like Paul Walker goes, forget about it, Ko.
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The reason I brought this up is because this is from an era in AI video where it was fairly weak and generally made nightmarish looking imagery on accident.
And so I don't want to downplay Ozzy Alter's incredible editing, the way he timed the voices and stuff from the generation, but a lot of the images was the limitation of AI where if you look at a lot of his newer stuff, it looks actually more cinematic and normal.
And no disrespect, but in this, where it's very creepy, it feels like a nightmare.
And I was thinking, like, as I have this YouTube channel pulled up, I've got like World Poker Tour on the left.
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And I'm just, I'm telling you guys, they're going to AI generate fake poker hands.
So I was talking to some poker guys about viral content.
And these dudes who do YouTube videos for poker stuff, they all know the truth.
And that is they keep making these videos.
There's a series of videos on Instagram where it's like someone will play a hand of poker.
And they're usually shot POV and they'll look at their cards and they'll be like, I raise it to 50 and then I get two callers.
And then just fake it.
I was like, guys, you know, the video that's going to get 10 million views and make you 20 grand is the video of the guy who gets four of a kind and the other guy gets a straight flush.
When you do these hands where it's like unbelievable hand and it's like top pair versus a set, you know, three of a kind, nobody cares.
It's like, yes, guy, like I go, I went and played poker once.
That happens every day.
Like you play for a few hours, you'll see it.
Nobody cares.
The content that gets a million views and makes the money is always going to be the rarest of hands.
There's no reason if you're trying to make money as a business to legitimately wait for the hand to occur.
If you're a production company trying to make entertainment, you're going to fake it.
Either because you've got a group of friends who are in on it and you rig the deck to make the hand to get the viral video or you AI generate videos.
This is also, this happens with the YouTube channels that have people playing skills games and like groups and the channel is like a group of people.
That's what the whole thing is.
Everybody knows them, their personalities.
And the people in the comments sections are rooting for specific people to win in these skills games.
And these are just games that they're playing at home with friends.
And most of the time, from what it looks like to me, is they are planning ahead as to who is going to win them.
Like, I don't know if that's necessarily true for sure, but most of the time when you're watching them, you feel like, okay, that guy's going to win because that's who everybody wants to win in these games.
And then you're going to be zombified and go outside being like, I mean, there will be some people that are going to be like, you know what?
I'm looking conservatives.
Well, I mean, probably largely that they will be among the group, you know, the Amish, which are, there's going to be more Amish in New York, I think, in the coming years than there ever has been.
But there's going to be people that are going to reject being in the whole AI kind of world, you know.
Like, right now, it's new and people are, you know, jumping in and seeing what they can do.
But the people that actually like really like making movies, they'll take the time to find the best AIs that will remember the scenes, that will remember the backgrounds and stuff like that.
And they'll edit together AI scenes and stuff.
Like, that's what it's going to be.
It's not going to be as simple as, okay, make me this AI movie.
And it comes out, you know, complete and then someone just sits down and watches it.
I think there's going to be a lot of people that are going to be like, I want to watch, you know, which Tim has talked about, but I want to watch someone else's version because I heard it was really good.
So there will be still an amount of like cream rising to the top, the people that can prompt AI the best and stuff.
Yeah, you're going to see a lot of, you're going to see lawsuits.
If this kind of stuff happens, you're going to see lawsuits against the AI manufacturer, the creators of the AI and stuff going after Anthropic or ChatGPT or whatever.
And they've got standing.
If a company purchases an AI to help them sift through loan applications and it comes out that they're making decisions based on things they're not supposed to be making decisions on, you've got whatever company purchased the AI is going to be in an action position and the creator of the AI is going to be in an actual position.
So I don't know 100% how it's going to go, but I can't imagine that someone would, if someone were to find this out and they had gotten, they didn't approve their loan, I can't imagine them not saying, hey, this is something that can set precedent, first of all, if it hasn't, you know, already happened.
And, you know, there's going to be plenty of lawyers that are going to be like, yo, I'll take this case.
You know, I can make a lot of money.
You know, we can we can take them to the bank because everyone knows that banks and AI, AI companies that make AI, they've got tons of cash.
You know, when I become, if I win the Congress, I want to open source all the algorithms, not only on all these platforms from whatever, but also in these places, because that's kind of the discrimination.
And that's illegal.
It's illegal.
So let's just make it open source.
They're going to say, well, we're a private company.
Well, so what?
A private restaurant can't discriminate.
Why do you discriminate?
So hopefully that'll be something I'll be pushing for.
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Trump takes the entire Western hemisphere by force if necessary.
There's a lot of people that were talking about that during the show, you know, that it was actually, he's saying everything's America.
And I mean, look, if they want to go ahead and pay tribute to the new American empire, fine, but you can't vote because you're going to vote wrong.
So we need fewer people voting in the United States, never mind other countries voting because these countries in South America that have had leftist governments and that are a mess, they're that way for a reason.
It's because most of them had voted themselves into those situations.
So you can't vote in our election.
Same thing with Canada.
If Alberta wants to become a territory, you can become a territory, but you can't vote in our election.
I don't do commercials for it, but you know, because I'm running for Congress, but I'm doing one with a new product called Black Wow, which will be, it'll be black.
So it'll be like, we might, you know, stronger, beefier.
The idea that if the Democrats win, they are going to try to change the structure of our government so that way Republicans can't win.
They want to look at, you know, California is the model.
California is basically one-party rule.
They've been able to pass whatever they want.
And as terrible as it is, that California is in massive debt.
They're the fifth largest economy in the world.
They could be the second largest economy in the world if they had business-friendly, business-friendly policies, but they don't.
And I think that it's in the past couple of weeks, a trillion dollars worth of tax revenue has left because of the talk on millionaire tax or billionaire tax.
It's terrible policy, and that's what will happen in the United States.
And that's one of the reasons that motivated me to run, even though, yeah, it's difficult for me to run because a lot of hate, you know.
And it's unfortunate for kids because, you know, my daughter was when we voted for Trump a year and a half ago, she was like, she had the, she bought the t-shirt on her own, fight, fight, fight one.
And she was all gung-ho.
And then, you know, after a while, her friends kind of give her the side eye.
Hey, well, you know, and they turn because she doesn't want to lose friends.
I mean, the libertarians are just, you know, hey, we're against the government.
And so that's fine if Democrats are in office.
But when Republicans are in office and they're trying to do things that are going to be good for the country, you know, and they're like, no, we can't let the government do this because we don't want the government to do things.
Like, that's not a succinct, not a smart policy, you know?
I mean, now they've got AI agents and stuff that can actually do stuff if you let them, you let them into your passwords and stuff, and they can book you flights.
They can get you, you know, literally do things for you.
Like there's a lot of people that are using them to help make their workflow a lot smoother and stuff.
I think the reality is I've been doing the same schedule I've been doing since I was, you know, in my late 20s and I'm going to be 40 and like my recovery isn't the same anymore.
So it's one thing to record five hours a day.
Now that I'm aging, my recovery is at the same levels.
You know what?
I was talking, I was, I've actually had some of the best skating of my life recently.
And I'm almost 40.
And it's funny because these guys on these skateboarders are like, man, Tim must have been super good when he was like 20 years old.
And I was like, well, yeah.
The difference was I skated every single day, not like for eight hours a day and I was burning the psychotic amounts of calories.
I've actually gotten better at skating, but now I can only skate like twice a week at maximum.
So I actually skate, I would try skating every day.
I'm like, I want to stay in shape, so I'm going to exercise every day.
Of course.
And I would, and I was like, man, I'm having a hard time skating at my highest level.
So then I would be like, well, I'll just take some days off.
Then I'd skate at my highest level.
And then I'd do some tricks better than I've ever done.
I'd be like, oh, wow, I'm getting it.
You know, the reality is that the skill's there, but the recovery isn't.
You would have to be doing it every day if you wanted that recovery to pick back up.
When you hired me and I was skating every day, that was two years straight, 365 days a year.
I was in the best physical shape I'd ever been in in 20 plus years of skating and was probably more consistent than I had ever been in my entire life, but wasn't taking the risks that I took when I was younger.
But my recovery time was much, much higher when I would fall because I was skating every day.
So my question is, I didn't catch all the show, but I catched the first, I guess, 30 minutes or so.
My question is regarding the ICE withdrawal and Trump's overall deportation strategy.
I feel ICE should start focusing or should still focus on targeting violent criminals, but it's clear that the PR battle has been somewhat lost.
So I'm worried that they just focus on violent criminals, but instead put pressure on employers or finding them and arresting them and also go after services that illegals use so that they self-deport.
Do you feel that the withdrawal from Minnesota is just for PR to get a PR break and form a new strategy, or are they just going to continue as normal?
And what do you think the effects will be if they continue with the same strategy?
I mean, just to add some more to it, I'm fully for a, I guess, a changing in strategy just because My wife is a green card holder, and some of the stories I've read about green card holders being detained and they're trying to deport them for relatively minor things like bouncing a check when they were dirt poor 10 years ago.
Oh, it concerns me heavily.
And I've also read stories of veterans being deported for minor crimes.
So it's definitely a PR nightmare.
And I think that they need to focus up and just put soft pressure.
Otherwise, the independents are going to be lost, I feel, because a lot of people aren't having the stomach for this.
And to be frank, if some of the stuff that I'm reading keeps happening, I might not either.
Like, that was the point of that many people entering the country illegally via the caravans several years ago is they knew they would turn it into something that would have to put people into a position to take a very, very hardline stance.
And people kind of laughed at me when I said, look, look, most people don't have the stomach to be a politician.
You don't have the stomach to do what they have to do right now.
And that's because I would agree with you.
Like now, when these people are your friends and your neighbors, it's a lot harder to take a hardline stance on immigration when you see the face of a person who you've humanized now in a very, very different way than you do somebody when you're just talking about pure statistics.
So in this case, I think the PR battle is already lost.
And if you're talking about the other side of the aisle, they lost a lot of the hardline conservatives when they wouldn't go after the factory farms or any of the places where they could do mass deportations on scale, instead focusing on neighborhoods where you're looking at the face of the people that you see as neighbors and friends and not necessarily the people that are being propped up by these businesses that are taking, you know, that are saving millions upon millions of dollars with literally slave labor.
I mean, I'm still for deporting people that came here illegally.
I'm just not a fan of deporting people for minor stuff because it just feels like the administration is just trying to boost their numbers up without caring about any actual progress.
I mean, like I said, I've got a pretty hardline perspective on illegal immigration and stuff.
But I do think that they've made some progress.
And I think that the black pilling is overestimating or the black pilling is just kind of focusing on what people wish would happen as opposed to what's a realistic result and realistic policy.
It also speaks a lot to just how much of a role big business plays in the administration.
If he's not willing to go after the businesses that are doing this, then that tells you that he cares more at this moment about staying in good, you know, in good contact with these businesses than the citizens because the citizens are the ones that are suffering.
And that's been a big problem for Republicans for a long time.
You've got your rotary clubs that are applying pressure to politicians saying, you know, we like this about illegal immigrants or we like this or we don't want to lose the business or what have you.
And your average person, you know, they don't share the same opinions generally.
You know, if they're not business owners that actually profit from whether it be illegal immigration or whatever particular policy that generally conservatives don't like, but the business owners are like, well, it helps me.
I'm just saying, that's why, but the point is, is like, that's why you just can't have an influx of all Swedish people or all one country because this is America, I think.
Well, they also have a lot of them have an active disdain for the country that they're moving to.
It's like when the protests were going on in the summer and they were flying Mexican flags here in America so that they could stay here, which makes no sense.
And then also that, yeah, then, of course, let's screen them a little bit, see if they like America or like, you know, see if they're going to be beneficial to our country and be productive citizens.
So there was a day the other, like over Thanksgiving, where I did like a two-hour by myself and had to literally like, it took two or three tries after a couple of days to realize I had to slow down my rate of speech because my natural speech pattern is so fast that like 20 minutes in, it would start to go.
So if I had to like pull it back, it's actually good because you can actually focus better when you can slow down the rate in which you're speaking.
But I have to like, I have to cool it sometimes, depending on the day.
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So yeah, well, first, just financially, I want to help, you know, it doesn't make sense that you save money for Social Security and at the end, you got to pay taxes on it.
So we're going to get rid of, so I'm saying no tax on Social Security.
I mean, it's a simple thing, but I don't even know why it doesn't exist now.
So that's an easy one.
But like I said, the wokebuster motivated me because of the algorithms.
And I realized not just because of my channel, but also just the way it's affecting kids.
And they're just pushing, like if you have a trans joke, and obviously I have a trans joke in the Wokebuster, the algorithms are now promoting it to kids because it's making fun of trans, and that's going to ruin their whole vibe.
So I just don't like the algorithms that's going on.
I think it's corrupt, and I just want open source on all platforms.
I know Elon's done it for X.
So that's one of the main reasons I'm doing this.
And it's just so happened to, I came out with Wokebuster when Charlie Kirk died.
And I don't know, it's some kind of like, to me, something above is making me do this, you know.
And so that's, that's my inspiration for making this happen.
You want to add anything or shout anything out, brother?
Is there anything else?
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Yes, sir.
Thanks for taking my questions.
I just wanted to shout out the Discord where there are so many new, amazing changes, especially with the After Dark show where all the callers will be in there for the After Dark show.
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It's over because it's, you know, I remember when in the 90s, I'm a little kid, and people would complain about Synth and Electronica and be like, you know, in the 2000s with Fruity Loops and all the stuff coming out, they're like, it's not real music, play an instrument.
The issue now is those were tools to make a certain kind of music.
AI can create full productions in 10 seconds, which means there is going to be a shotgun blast to the face of top-level high-production music.
And it's one thing to be like, hey, I can use this drum machine to make a beat for my song, and it still takes work to do, but it's faster.
And then, hey, AI rendered 7,000 studio quality songs.
It's like the guy who does the guy on Instagram, the emo realtor, who makes emo songs for all of his listings and he does it all with Suno.
Imagine he had to try and do that and make his own songs every time he wanted to do that, but he doesn't have to now because he can do it with AI.
I will say that the slowdown to it, though, is like one of the examples I give is like after Brad Arnold passed, I was thinking about it because there's actually, there's an AI rendering of the song Here Without You that I think is, it's absolutely fantastic.