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Feb. 19, 2026 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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WAR! US War With Iran FEARED As MASSIVE Deployment Heading To Gulf | Timcast IRL #1452 w/ Amber Duke

Amber Duke and Timcast IRL dissect U.S. Navy’s potential one-third deployment to the Gulf, questioning Trump’s motives—whether regime change, PSYOP, or nuclear threats against Iran’s leadership. They critique media leaks, advanced neurotoxins like "mosquito drones," and CBS’ alleged censorship of Colbert’s interview with Tallarico, who raised $2.5M via fraudulent claims. Epstein files remain unproven, yet the host warns against blaming Trump while promoting his band’s April 29th tour. The episode blends military speculation, political hypocrisy, and pop culture, exposing systemic manipulation and generational media habits. [Automatically generated summary]

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amber athey
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phil labonte
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tate brown
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tim pool
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carter banks
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Check Shopbeam Discount 00:04:28
tim pool
War with Iran.
Reportedly, around a third of the U.S. Navy is being deployed to the region.
Donald Trump has called on the UK not to give some land back because it seems like we're going to be using that for war, perhaps.
And I'm going to say it like this.
You know, we're decently connected here at Timcast IRL.
And the messages that I'm hearing behind the scenes, nothing definitive, but it's very much like, yeah, the war is going to happen.
And so, again, could be wrong because there's Beltway Scuttlebutt down here in the DC area, but it's sounding very much like we are about to go to war with Iran.
You've got numerous corporate news outlets saying Donald Trump is prepared to strike Iran as early as this weekend, but he has not made a final call.
There's alleged leaks happening on 4chan, probably fake because it's the internet, but they're saying the plan is for a joint U.S.-Israeli strike, taking out all of their top leadership.
And my speculation on this is it may be a PSYOP.
Indeed.
The posturing in the media and these leaked state alleged leaked statements may be just to terrify Iran into cutting a deal, saying, Hey, look, everybody's saying Trump's going to do it.
It's leaking.
Uh-oh, here it comes.
And then maybe they cave and surrender before we actually have to go to war.
But based on the deployments that we are seeing with refueling tankers, troops getting called in, and they're pulling troops out of Syria, looks like Trump means business.
And so this is going to be absolutely massive.
Aside from that, we got massive news.
The SAVE Act has reached 50 votes in the Senate.
They got the votes only if they get rid of the filibuster.
And as you all know, they won't.
So it's funny because the Save Act, which would massively aid and benefit this country, and literally everyone agrees with from Democrat, Independent, Republican, for some reason, they still won't pass it.
Your guess is as good as mine.
And our guesses are probably spot on because, you know, Democrats probably just want people to be able to vote without proving who they are.
More importantly, to ballot harvest universal mail-in votes.
We're going to talk about that and a whole lot more before we do, my friends.
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Nuclear Pressure on Iran 00:15:14
tim pool
And well, joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more.
We've got Amber Duke.
amber athey
Hey, guys, I'm Amber Duke.
I'm the senior editor for the Daily Caller.
You can find me on X at Amber Marie Duke.
Every Friday, I'm on Rising at the Hill, and I'm also on State of the Day on Substack.
tim pool
Right on.
tate brown
What is going on, Patriots?
This is Tate Brown here holding it down.
I'm super excited.
I'm excited to be on with you, Amber, because I think we've exchanged some hot takes over the past couple months on my show, which you can watch at noon live on Timcast Rumble channel.
And I'm excited to get into everything.
ian crossland
Phil?
Let me strip this from Phil.
It's my turn.
unidentified
Hi, Phil.
Good.
ian crossland
I want to shout out the Discord.
If you haven't been over there, we do the Discord pre-show where we get in there and get interviewed by the cast.
Well, it's like the cast of the pre-show.
It's very cool.
So come join the early shows of Discord at 6:30 p.m. in the Tim Cast Discord.
I'm at Ian Crossland.
If you don't know, Phil Labonte.
phil labonte
Hello, everybody.
My name is Phil Labonte.
I'm the lead singer of the Heavy Metal Band, All That Rains.
I'm an anti-communist and counter-revolutionary Carter.
carter banks
What's up, everyone?
Carter here, still mastering the stream deck and everything here, but holding it down as well.
Let's get into this conversation.
tim pool
I also have big news.
We, for no reason, have ready to laugh track because not that anyone needs to know when to laugh, but it actually is funny to play it at inappropriate times.
So, like, we'll save it for the uncensored portion of the show, most likely.
But anywhere that needs a little levity, we're going to make weird noises.
I'm actually half kidding.
I don't even know why we have it, but maybe it'll be funny.
All right, let's jump into the story from CNN.
U.S. military prepared to strike Iran as early as this weekend, but Trump has yet to make a final call.
Sources say, CNN reporting: U.S. military is prepared to strike Iran as early as this weekend.
The White House has been briefed.
The military could be ready for an attack by the weekend after a significant buildup in recent days of air and naval assets in the Middle East.
The sources said, When one source cautioned that Trump has privately argued both for and against military action and polled advisors and allies on what the best course of action is, it was not clear if he would make a decision by this weekend.
He is spending a lot of time thinking about this.
So, I'm hearing from Beltway Scuttlebutt, people who work in D.C., you know, we had a lot of friends there.
Trump's ready to push the button, and Trump wants to push the button.
It doesn't mean he will push the button, but I'm hearing that he very much is ready to just do it.
He wants to do it, and I think he's actually being held back.
I think there are some advisors that are basically saying just give it some time, and maybe the pressure will force Iran to cut a deal of some sort.
I don't think a deal is going to happen.
I think when you put an estimated one-third of your naval forces just outside their country, you're basically just ready to swing, take a punch.
But I don't know what you're hearing down in DC, Amber.
amber athey
Well, I actually saw a Facebook post today from a woman that I'm friends with on Facebook, and her husband is in the military.
And she just laid this all out for us, which is super helpful.
I don't think she realized what she was doing, but her husband was originally supposed to be deployed about a month from now.
And she posted today that her husband was called in without official orders on Monday.
And so they're freaking out because they wanted to plan for this deployment.
But reading the tea leaves, why else would this guy be called in, right, with no advance notice?
phil labonte
Yeah, I mean, I don't know what the goal is.
I mean, I assume that it's going to be regime change.
The former Shah, I guess, is ready to take over or what have you.
A lot of people are saying that this is going to be Iraq War III or what have you.
I think it's a different animal.
Not that I'm pro regime change in Iran, but like Iran is a very different place.
tim pool
Well, actually, I was for the longest time anti-intervention, but my mind was changed when Lib Hero America439 on X sent a tweet to me of a Trump supporter looking sad with a bunch of award, a bunch of ribbons saying fell forward again award, and it bruised my ego.
So I went, I didn't fall forward.
I want the war.
I'm for the war.
So now I'm for the war.
tate brown
It's me, but unironically.
tim pool
No, I don't think this will be Iraq or Afghanistan 2.0 if we do go in.
I do not support the U.S. intervening in this capacity.
I'm not an absolutist.
I think it's stupid to be like the U.S. should never for any reason.
No, there's sometimes there are reasons.
I do think, however, if Trump does go in, we have already seen with Venezuela, Trump does not operate like in the past 20 years.
And just because we had these abysmal failures 20-some odd years ago doesn't mean military operations will be the same today.
And I think it's fair to say many neocons, despite what I can criticize these guys for, have pointed out that we as a generation are traumatized by the failures of the Bush-era foreign policy.
And it doesn't mean every intervention all the time will be bad.
That being said, my deeper concerns are they have not justified to us there's no justification as to why we should engage in a joint military strike to flatten the Iranian regime.
I certainly understand the protests are really bad.
The people have been pissed at their government for some time.
Iran's funding a bunch of terror.
But for a full-scale knockout regime change, I think they would need to come out.
Trump would need to make an address to the nation, and he would need to explain the serious risk to this country to justify it.
I don't agree with what we've seen so far, this massive buildup, because I read the news all day, every day, and all I've seen is, yes, it's bad in the Middle East.
Yes, Iran is engaging in the funding of enemies and things like this, but it's played off like status quo, not like imminent threats.
tate brown
Yeah, well, I mean, there's a couple things here.
I mean, for one, I've always had this frustration as a Zoomer is because in the same way that millennials would always talk about how boomers would always equate everything to World War II, I feel like millennials always equate things to GWAT because that was the environment that millennials sort of like became politically aware in.
And so I get a little frustrated because I'm like, clearly the Trump administration operates, like to Tim's point, operates much differently than previous administrations when it comes to how they handle affairs, how they handle geopolitical affairs and these sorts of things.
So, I mean, I'm like, I'm very skeptical to speak with Quagmire.
Two, the second point is I'm not even sure if regime change is the victory condition for Trump and co here because they've said that it's the nuclear program.
That's their main concern.
And so I think if we were to go back in, it would be strikes on the nuclear program.
tim pool
No way.
tate brown
Fully decimated.
Well, and the third point here is Trump a month or two ago made the statement that if they touch protesters, if they start hugging protesters, we will go in.
That is a very hard stance that you cannot back down on.
tim pool
No, I reject that outright because Canada is killing its own citizens right now with MAID.
amber athey
I mean, I agree.
tim pool
Exactly.
Exactly.
So this idea that it's like, oh, but the protests in Iran, oh, please, they are in Canada, the MAID program, medical assistance dying, is killing young people simply for being depressed.
And according to the family in this story, which we could probably get into later, but she said that she believes the doctor instructed her son on how to deteriorate his body so that he could qualify.
So when the doctor says to you, you're too healthy for us to kill you, stop eating and start dying, and then maybe we can get you qualified.
So anyway, not to jump into that story, the idea that we care about the protesters.
tate brown
I agree.
tim pool
Yeah, no, that's nonsense.
And I definitely don't think the win condition is the nuclear program.
Absolutely not.
I think the nuclear program is a concern, but a psychotic fundamentalist regime is the principal concern.
And there's two main factors there.
They fund fanatics and extremists in the region, and that's a problem for trade in the Red Sea through the Suez Canal.
So we want that to stop.
And more importantly, through this, they oppose the liberal economic order and the petrodollar.
Now, that I'm not persuaded by, this argument that everybody should operate under the quote-unquote AOC's rules-based order of the United States.
But the principal reasons why the U.S. wants to take down Iran and their government is because they're not playing ball with the IMF, the petrodollar, the Swiss payment system, et cetera, et cetera.
tate brown
Well, the reason I'm like skeptical that the victory condition for the United States here is regime change is, I mean, A, just what the Trump administration has said, and then obviously what happened last summer.
But then B, the Trump administration and kind of this philosophy of this, I guess you would call it like the new right or something along those lines, is that they believe that the Middle East is naturally liberalizing anyway.
This is why they're like building out the Abraham Accords is they're banking on the fact that these countries are liberalizing.
They're becoming more friendly towards the West.
So I think in the back of the heads of a lot of these decision makers and the Trump administration is they're thinking like, hey, on a long enough timeline, Iran is liberalizing.
If you look at, if you go and you go on YouTube and you type in nightlife in Tehran and you see people walking around with a camera in Tehran, women aren't wearing headscarves.
They're like having parties.
They're like, again, it's not quite New York City, but it definitely doesn't seem like this fundamentalist Islamic regime like the Ayatollah sort of portrays themselves as.
phil labonte
Isn't taking out the wouldn't you say that taking out the existing regime does benefit the Abraham Accords and the other Gulf states?
Because you know that like the Saudi, the Saudis don't like Iran anymore than they were.
tate brown
Well, toppling, yeah, obviously toppling it is beneficial for the Abraham Accords, but I'm just saying that I think they're under the impression that the Ayatollah is on borrowed time anyway.
And so there's not really much sense in sort of allocating all these resources, potential, again, having a potential quagmire.
When instead, they just eliminate the problem of the nuclear program and then continue businesses.
phil labonte
What do you guys think the chances of this operation, whatever it turns into, being something along the lines of what the Venezuela operation is?
tate brown
I mean, I think this is the summer.
Yeah.
amber athey
Yeah.
tim pool
In order for the U.S. to take out the Iranian military, they're going to need some serious bombs.
ian crossland
You've probably got people inside the Iranian government about to flip.
They have what they're doing now is called gunboat diplomacy.
They started in like the 1800s where they'll just sail up on your shore and be like, be a shame if you didn't bow down to our diplomacy.
And you're like, oh, God, okay, yes.
Ideally, you don't have to fire a shot.
But I think it's just obvious.
I think there's no other mission than regime change.
I can't see any other mission than regime change.
And they want to secure the Middle East to set up the liberal economic trade order.
The Iranian government's been openly hostile.
And I mean, then on top of that, now they just got to convince the world that it's in good faith.
It's good faith.
phil labonte
I'm not so sure convincing the world is something that the U.S. is really concerned with anymore.
amber athey
Well, they didn't really convince us on Venezuela.
tim pool
Yeah.
phil labonte
And that's my point.
amber athey
Yeah, they don't care about it.
tim pool
Nowadays, Trump would have been more convincing if he was like Maduro rigged the U.S. election, so I'm going in.
And at least that would have been some reason.
ian crossland
But I mean, good faith is saying it's about the protesters, for instance.
unidentified
Well, I mean, how bad the theocracy is.
phil labonte
But the stuff that Tim says, you know, like Mike makes, right?
That's really kind of the world that we live in.
That's the way that it is.
And Trump has just, you know, has just dropped all pretense, right?
Like, he doesn't pretend that it's some kind of agreement or whatever.
Essentially, if you've got the power to do something and it's in your benefit, then we're just going to go do it.
tate brown
Well, he's trying to rebuild our position in the world as the world's police because after the Afghanistan withdrawal and then Ukraine breaking down, everything happening under the Biden administration's nose, the way the world viewed the United States during that period was that we're actually, in many ways, insufficient as the world's police.
So Trump is trying to stitch together that vision again for the world.
He's not really concerned with how the world, like what their opinion is on our actions.
And nor should we really care.
phil labonte
No, I don't think so.
tate brown
That's an in-house discussion over whether or not we should intervene in Venezuela, whether or not we shouldn't intervene in Iran.
I don't really care what China has to say about this, or I don't even really care about what the Europeans have to say, quite frankly, because it's our affairs.
It's an in-house discussion.
But all this to say, I mean, I'm not thrilled about any sort of intervention in Iran either.
But again, if you look at what happened last summer, it went quite well.
We do know that Ayatollah, like, he's a saber wagger.
He just tweets all day, but he doesn't actually really back it up.
I could see a situation where they just maximize pressure and they cut a deal with him and he leaves.
I mean, that's actually like a pretty realistic scenario here.
unidentified
Right.
tim pool
Well, one of the theories that I see here is that all of this bustering in the press and the scuttle button DC is just to create buzz that we're going to blow them up.
They're going to hear it.
tate brown
Yeah.
tim pool
Well, their top intel guys are going to go to the supreme leader and they're going to be like the entire U.S. media is saying Trump's about to press the button.
And then he's going to be like, I surrender.
tate brown
Well, he also, like, something really important that a lot of people are missing is they saw what happened in Venezuela.
They saw that Russia, and then by extension, China, did not really do anything to back them up.
Granted, obviously it's a lot closer, so it would be easier to back them up.
But they had assets.
They had assets in and around the area.
Like they could have stepped in if they really wanted to, if they really deemed Venezuela as like a truly untouchable asset.
Again, that's in our hemisphere, so it's a little bit different.
But Iran is having this conversation internally where they're like, we can't necessarily depend on the Russians here.
We certainly can't depend on the Chinese.
So there could be a situation where we just continue max, like cranking up the pressure where they just say, I'm going to cut a deal.
I'm going to fly to Moscow and get this over with.
phil labonte
Both China and Russia can say whatever they want about, you know, the U.S. shouldn't do that, this or that.
But they know that they can't attack U.S. assets.
Like, Russia can't attack U.S. assets.
There's no way they would do that because they wouldn't want to risk an actual conflict with the United States.
tate brown
Well, Russia has, they still would have some tools available in Europe where like, okay, they could start ripping apart some of these energy supplies, these sorts of things.
They could really take the gloves off in Ukraine if they really wanted to, and that would cause some problems for America that would force our hand again.
So it's like Russia does have options, and then they could also directly support Iran.
But I don't know if Iran should depend on that.
tim pool
Let's jump to this story.
We have a tweet here from Mr. Obvious, breaking the hacker known as 4chan, has announced the U.S. is going to be launching a military strike on Iran.
It turns out Venezuela was a test run.
If this is true, it'll jumpstart World War III and the U.S. economy and cause a total ish storm.
Be advised, we are going to war.
Now, we don't know if this is true or not, this post, because, hey, it's the internet.
But someone on, I believe 4chan said, I posted yesterday with a 36-hour timeline.
We are now in the 24-hour window.
Look for a significant number of Iranian leadership to be exterminated.
The leadership of Iran is made up of a secret council of 22 military and political leaders who meet regularly in a bunker in Tehran.
One of their members is a Mossad agent.
Needless to say, this group goes first.
Israel knows after the last few years, this is the time to end this issue, and tactical nukes will take out most of Iran's missile infrastructure in the first strike.
Tehran will go in the first wave with a false flag attack set up for Israel to kick things off.
Cheers.
He added, or I believe this is the first statement, Venezuela was a test for what is happening in Iran.
A large part of the Iranian military and leadership will be vaporized in the opening salvos.
Israel will use tactical nukes to take out Iranian missiles and their bases.
We're about T minus three days now.
I want to say real quick skepticism, the use of tactical nukes is a bold statement.
ian crossland
Well, but this does sort of align with what I was thinking: we're also at the precipice of, we're at this time in history where the United States has weapons that the rest of the world doesn't have.
Just insane vibration tech that makes people piss their pants and die.
And in 10 years, the rest of the world will have it.
Tactical Nukes and False Flags 00:15:43
ian crossland
And they know that.
So they need to use it if they're going to, that's the thinking of these military guys is we need to use it while we have the technology.
unidentified
Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.
tim pool
But Ian, that's 10 years old, bro.
That's 20 years old.
These conversations around, say, like ULF generators, you know, like, so, so this is crazy.
What we heard in Venezuela is that apparently one of these collectivos reported that there was like a boom, and then all of a sudden they all became violently ill.
And that is in line with the conspiracy theories about what's called an ultra-low frequency generator.
Basically, that these very ultra-low frequencies can cause you to feel sick instantly.
And the government has weaponized a very powerful low-frequency pulse to disable people.
But that conversation was 20-some odd years ago.
My point is, while I do agree with you, maybe they're being like, they're saying like, we should use it now.
The weapons the government has would probably blow your effing mind.
When it comes to actual war, they're going to do things you didn't even imagine because you don't know about the weapons they got.
Bro, let me tell you this.
10 years ago, heck, what is it?
This is 14 years ago.
There was a Kickstarter for micro drones that fly like insects.
We know that the U.S. government has tiny micro drones that can fly.
Very, very small.
Bro, we're watching universities create liquid robots that can segment.
Have you seen this?
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
It's the video.
It's a really slow-moving gel, but it can split in two and recombine.
They're like, we are programming the weirdest materials.
So we know about the heart attack gun.
You know about that one, right?
ian crossland
Yeah, that's a CIA.
The church hearings revealed that.
tim pool
Guys, guys, the heart attack gun is not even a crazy thing to imagine.
Basically, you shoot someone with a dart that's got some, I'm not going to describe exactly what, but they're.
Toxin, I mean, no, not even toxins, bro.
Not even toxins.
Let's just call it, without getting too much detail, potassium combination.
Just that's it.
And then it causes a heart attack.
And they've had this for 50 some odd years, longer, probably.
So anyway, my point is, if they want to go boots on the ground, they're going to be using probably conventional weapons on the surface, but the special weapons, man, you won't even know they happened.
I bet they can release tiny drones and they can just swarm them in and they'll take out leadership very easily.
tate brown
Well, I mean, we saw where they literally just turned Caracas off.
tim pool
Exactly.
tate brown
So it's like they have these.
But to this, like with this post and then some of the rumors that I think all of us are hearing coming out of the Beltway, something we have to keep in mind here is in the lead up to the Venezuela operation and then the actual Venezuela operation itself, there was zero rumors.
It was airtight.
It just happened and everyone was surprised.
Even people at the top level of military intel were shocked that it happened.
tim pool
Except polymarket.
tate brown
Sure, but it's like, but that was because of like the fleet movements, which are impossible to hide.
But it's like with this, all of a sudden there's rumors everywhere.
Everyone's got scoops, this sort of thing.
That just seems obvious to me that the Trump administration is trying to put, like they're trying to build leverage here.
They're trying to put pressure on the Iranians.
So these are tactical leaks that are happening here because again, they have demonstrated with Venezuela that if they want to keep it airtight, they can.
amber athey
I think that's probably true.
On the human sources front, I expect that we probably have way more than we realize because we obviously had people in the Venezuelan regime who were helping the American government.
But also recently, the CIA has been releasing a series of videos trying to convince CCP officials to leak to the United States.
I don't know that they're doing those because they work, but to send a message to China that we have some of your guys.
And that's precisely why I think those leaks were coming out about certain Chinese officials being tossed out or executed or what have you is that they were trying that China was trying to send a counter signal.
Well, this is what happens to you if you leak to the United States.
tate brown
Yeah, well, I mean, we saw the Iranians shake out a lot of, like, they weren't high-level officials, but during the protests, you know, these guys were, some of them are defecting.
These are like more like ethnic-related sort of blow-ups.
But like the Iranians were starting to clean house a little bit.
They were freaked out because, again, a lot of intel was getting passed along to Western news outlets and no one knew how.
No one knew.
tim pool
Well, you know, you know what really annoys me about the whole thing is it's so wishy-washy.
The propaganda machine has not given us clear messages as to what the establishment is trying to accomplish.
The military industrial complex, you know, during the Bush era, it was if you defied the invasion, you are not on TV.
They cut you off.
Now, there is no defined narrative on what the establishment is trying to do.
ian crossland
I'll give it to you guys.
Liberal economic order, listen to me.
This is what you guys are doing.
You're avoiding World War III because you're going to set up a quadripolar universe, quadrupolar world.
There's going to be the liberal United States in Europe.
There's going to be the Israeli bloc, the Russian bloc, and the Chinese bloc.
unidentified
That's war.
ian crossland
All four blocks will protect the planet.
unidentified
We will leave.
tim pool
Oh, yeah, that's right because we trust the Chinese Communist Party, right?
ian crossland
Well, it's either that or World War III.
That's what martyrs.
Or a unipolar world.
Or a unipolar, which is just as bad, could be just as bad because then they have the top-down control authority.
tim pool
You know, if there's one thing I learned from Democrats, it's that the only thing that matters is that you maintain your order.
And what I mean by that is if we believe in a functional, classically liberal society, then we must oppose by all means anyone who seeks to subvert it or destroy it.
So if you are operating within the confines of a constitutional United States of America and you seek to operate within the confines of the Constitution and you debate on policy, we are good.
But if you're a communist who is lying, cheating, and stealing to burn it all down, now we've got a problem and we have to stop that from happening.
ian crossland
happening though.
Well, what's happening is that the government is changing from a liberal democracy, from a liberal democratic republic to a technocratic system where de facto, we say we got free speech, but a corporation can take away your bank account or mute your account, which demeans your free speech in the modern technical era with electricity.
We don't have horses and we don't need to send our representatives off to the Capitol one day.
Maybe we'll hear back from you.
Like, bro, this is a fast-moving intelligent world now.
So the technocracy.
It's like, I think it's going to be kind of a, maybe, I want it to be a quadripolar world where it's just, it's just going to be technocratic spy control, dude.
It's going to be either you give us your information or we're going to spy on you and take it.
tim pool
Brother, quadripolar means four different powers.
They're constantly going to be in flux and fighting with each other for more power.
ian crossland
Yes, limited, limited skirmishes, ideally.
That's what we're doing.
tim pool
It's not going to be, bro.
ian crossland
Since the 50s.
tim pool
It's not going to be limited.
Never in history.
Since the 50s.
We've never seen a global balance.
There's something called Thucydides' Trap.
We cite it ad nauseum.
ian crossland
Well, we got 80 years we've been at balance.
I mean, limited, limited.
tim pool
You mean unipolar dominance?
unidentified
The balance.
tate brown
The Cold War, that like massively.
phil labonte
And the only reason there was quote-unquote balance is because of the threat of nuclear weapons.
Like it was totally because you didn't want to start a fight with either of the big boys.
So they had the small proxy wars.
But the United States and Russia getting into any kind of significant conflict would be the end of modern society.
ian crossland
You might think with humans able to kill each other easier because we have airplanes and bigger weapons that it would have happened faster, but it's like driving on a road past someone.
You don't want to hit the guy, just like real life.
phil labonte
Yeah, that's exactly right.
tate brown
We've had the most peaceful era in human history just because the magnitude of death is exorbitant.
unidentified
Yeah.
Sup.
tim pool
Mosquito drones.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Dude, you don't need that much of like a neurotoxin to take out a person.
I guarantee the U.S. government's got micro-delivery methods.
unidentified
It's so easy.
ian crossland
They must be like, or probably they should be like, okay, if we use this, it's going to get used against us at some point.
How ethical is this thing to unleash?
tim pool
No, That's not the way the weapons race war, the race for weapons works.
They're saying it's going to happen no matter what.
Like the Cold War, the arms race was they're building nukes no matter what we do.
It's not that if we use it, they might then do it later.
It's they have it now and they might use it now.
And bro, you know about the story where the Russian sub-guy almost launched a nuke, right?
ian crossland
Yeah, yeah.
unidentified
Oh, gosh, that guy.
ian crossland
What was his name?
tim pool
Wasn't it like they didn't know if it was a false alarm, so he decided not to fire and his protocol was to?
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
And then it would have been it.
It would have been it.
And then there's the other story, interesting, that we were going to launch when a UFO appeared and shut down our nuclear weapons.
You ever hear that one?
ian crossland
No, but we should talk about it.
amber athey
Wasn't there an official under Kim Jong-un that was killed by a toxin in an airport?
Like a woman wiped his face.
carter banks
Yeah, I think that was like someone related in his line of lineage.
amber athey
It wasn't that long ago.
tim pool
This is his uncle, right?
I knew a guy a long time ago, and he told me, young college guy, when I was like in my early 20s, and he said, terrorism doesn't exist.
I don't believe it.
And obviously, you know, some crazy guy might, you know, plant the bomb or something, but he was like, no, like actual planned terror doesn't exist.
Because he worked at a university in California in laboratory conditions.
And he said that they have chemicals that are cheap, easily obtained.
And if you touch a certain amount, you die.
And he was like, I don't believe that, you know, when they say all this stuff is real, it actually is.
Because if someone really wanted to terrorize somebody, there are powders that you can sprinkle in public and then people would just start dropping dead.
And it's like for 20 bucks.
Nobody does this stuff.
He's like, I don't actually think people want to do these things.
You know, the argument being that terrorism is intended to create shock and awe, not actually kill people.
ian crossland
Yeah.
Generally, people don't want to fight ever.
tim pool
I mean, even though they want to eat chicken wings and sit down and watch sports.
ian crossland
Yeah, they had the Christmas truce in World War I where they got out of the trenches, both the Germans and the French, and they were like singing together.
And then it was their commanders were like, you have to fight them or we're going to kill you.
And so they were like, well, all right, back to war.
But nobody, nobody really wanted that.
tim pool
Kim Jong-nam, the estranged brother of North Korean leader, this is that your U.S. migrant killed.
died February 13th after two women wiped his face with the VX nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.
He died in 15 to 20 minutes.
tate brown
I don't know what it is with the East Asians, but they love using like in Tokyo they had the sarin attack in the 90s and they just killed this gas.
tim pool
This really bothers me because you know these women should have done.
They should have worn the fake lips with the chemical on it and then kissed him and then he drops that and they peel it off like in a movie.
What movie was it?
Was that G.I. Joe or something?
carter banks
I know what you're talking about.
tim pool
Yeah, she likes like Batman or something like that.
No, no, no.
Batman was poison IV just had Ned.
tate brown
Because out in the West, we're like blowing each other up and everything.
But out in the East Asia, they got these suave like dads.
amber athey
They're very sophisticated.
tate brown
Yeah, they're getting really technical.
tim pool
Take a look at East Asian martial arts and weapons compared to like the Europeans.
tate brown
Right.
tim pool
Europeans were more like larger strategy and Asians were like the craziest techniques because there was another one.
tate brown
It was another one of Kim Jong-un's enemies and they strapped him to a chain gun, wasn't it?
They strapped him to the outside of a chain gun and like fired through him and cut him in half.
It was another one of it.
It was another one of his enemies.
ian crossland
I was thinking about Kim Jong-un man when he was like 12, they're like, bro, your uncle's going to have you killed.
He's going to kill you if you don't have him killed.
You need to issue the order.
And he's like 12.
And his dad's friends are like advising him.
He's like, all right.
tim pool
Goblin King, bro.
tate brown
They go all in out there and they don't play around.
unidentified
All right.
tim pool
All right, guys, guys.
tate brown
Half measure.
tim pool
We have to do this.
I got to tell you right now, did you know that the Simpsons predicted this very moment?
I'm going to play you for this clip because Simpsons predicted everything.
Listen to this.
unidentified
Come and get rid of this Ayatollah t-shirt.
Khomeini died years ago.
tim pool
Did he?
March.
unidentified
It works on any Ayatollah.
Ayatollah Nakbuda.
Ayatollah to Haiti.
Even as we speak, Ayatollah Rasmara and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power.
I don't care who's consolidating their power.
tim pool
So they didn't actually predict it, but this clip is hilarious because it kind of shows you that this Iran thing has been going on for a very, very, very long time.
But I do love that opening line where she's like, Khomeini died years ago.
unidentified
Ayatollah t-shirt.
Khomeini died years ago.
tim pool
And now we have another Khomeini.
phil labonte
Yep.
ian crossland
It's Khomeini instead of Khomeini.
Yeah, I know there's one letter difference.
tim pool
Yep.
tate brown
Like that, it is interesting.
He's always like crashing out on Twitter.
Like anytime the Americans put a little pressure on him, he just starts freaking out and firing tweets off.
phil labonte
He's talking about touching the boats again.
It's a bad idea to touch the boats.
tate brown
I know.
I'm like, bad idea.
tim pool
Why do we allow him to have a Twitter?
I mean, could the military industrial complex just like commandeer his ex account and have him post like, I think you should all die, you Americans, and plus Epstein was our friend or something.
You know what I mean?
tate brown
Yeah.
tim pool
Like just put Khomeini in the Epstein files and then get war.
Actually, hold on, hold on.
This is why I have questions about the military industrial complex right now, because the perfect opportunity to evade Iran was to have information come out in the files that Epstein worked for Iran.
I'm not saying literally, legitimately.
I'm saying if the military industrial complex wanted to propagandize and get Americans support war, all they had to do.
tate brown
But we know it would be fake because you have these old posts from the Ayatollah on a Twitter from like 2013 where he's like yearning.
He was like, a woman is like a beautiful flower.
And he had all these like weird tweets back then.
He had another one where he's like, like tweeting about how great books are.
And he's like, I just really like books.
His old tweets are awesome.
phil labonte
Khomeini, really?
tate brown
Yeah, they throw it.
It shows up on the timeline.
Like, hey, one, he was like, a woman is like a beautiful flower and you don't want to pluck away a petal because every time you pluck away a petal, it's like a, and it was like these really thoughtful like yearn posts.
And I was like, we would know if he was on the Epstein list, it's wrong.
amber athey
I do think he's a true lover.
Do you remember back when a lot of the social media censorship was happening around 2016 that one of the common arguments from conservatives was like, how can you ban Alex Jones, but Khomeini's allowed to have an X account or Twitter account?
phil labonte
I think that is just because Elon Musk wants to troll him.
ian crossland
Oh, also, you can hack his account once we go to war and then make it look like he's surrendering.
I didn't want to give it away.
But, you know, hopefully our guys hear it.
tate brown
And how mad you must be if you're Iranian right now, because your country is under threat, like potential regime change.
You can see the actual, the entirety of your government system fall apart.
And the Khomeini's like engagement farming on Twitter right now.
He's like trying to, he's trying to build up his Twitter.
ian crossland
Start my GoPro me.
tate brown
He's going to invade it.
Yeah.
And he's out here just like following me on Substack.
He's like threatening to kill us on Twitter.
It's like, dude, Broad.
Yeah, he's going to make a substitute.
phil labonte
He's like, I want to tweet my way through it.
tate brown
Yeah, dude.
That's actually, that's a good lesson for everyone.
If you're going through something in life, don't actually address it.
Just tweet through it.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
tate brown
I think it's very true.
Like, don't throw it.
carter banks
If it's ever been more searchable than right now.
tate brown
Yeah.
Give some good stuff for discovery.
It'd be good.
ian crossland
Like the amount of, I've learned about the dirtiness of the rest of the world.
Like to be on the bad side of the liberal economic order is so horrifying.
Like to just kind of join the empire and play along.
I don't.
tate brown
You get a Twitter.
Like if Kim Jong-hood had a Twitter, how awesome is that the least worst system?
Just gas my brother.
ian crossland
I've never seen a better system in the liberal economic order, even though it's just brutal to the people.
tate brown
It's a poison my brother.
Hashtag Family Few.
phil labonte
There is no better system.
ian crossland
So far advanced from all the other systems so far in human history.
tate brown
You got a good system.
tim pool
Wait, wait, guys.
Guys, I have a poll up on the show.
Yes, War with Iran or no, no more wars.
And War with Iran is at 51%.
So I'm going to side with the audience then.
Because I believe whatever the people believe.
unidentified
And the people believe in war.
tim pool
That's right.
Yeah.
And I've decided that one of the most effective ways to boost your live audience is to mispronounce words.
amber athey
Connectity.
tim pool
Bro, that Ben Shapiro tweet was off the rails.
amber athey
Yeah, it was.
ian crossland
What was it?
tim pool
You didn't see the Ben Shapiro tweet about Candace Owens.
I showed my wife and she was like, I can't believe Ben did that.
Reacting to Reacting Live Streams 00:05:45
tim pool
And we were just laughing.
No, I think I gleaned it.
He called her, retard.
Yeah, wow.
amber athey
Because she accused him of wanting to use the hard R. You know, when he became hard.
unidentified
Yeah.
tate brown
With many R. Some of them would have the graphic.
tim pool
The state of American politics is retarded.
phil labonte
It's ridiculous.
tate brown
It's so bad.
tim pool
I mean, on top of the fact that, you know, as Tate, you pointed this out earlier, not on the show, but you were like, the state of commentary is a streamer reacting to a streamer, commenting on a streamer.
tate brown
Yeah, it was Sneeko reacting to Hassan Piker, reacting to Clavicular on Adam Friedland's show.
Four levels of influencer.
tim pool
There was a post about Asmund Gold because he was commenting on something from Destiny, who was commenting on something from Hassan.
And so it was like six layers of streamer commentary.
And then it was like, the comment was something like cultural commentary in the multiverse.
phil labonte
Yeah.
tate brown
That's what we should do.
We should pull up Sneeko's stream and then like react to we add a fifth layer to it.
And then we just keep going.
Someone else will grab it.
tim pool
Do a live show reacting.
You know what I should do?
Just turn on Hassan Piker's live stream and live stream his live stream and just react to it.
tate brown
Then he's reacting to us.
carter banks
Everyone's five seconds.
tim pool
But then whoever has the delay wins.
tate brown
Yeah, exactly.
ian crossland
You used to do video responses in YouTube 2006 and 2007.
You could directly link to their video show like this.
I would respond directly to people and just talk to them and just emasculate people.
tim pool
It was just popular.
ian crossland
It was kind of a dick.
phil labonte
20 years ago.
ian crossland
So what happened is that it evolves so that you can put their video in your video so that people have context for the response, but people talk about each other instead of to each other.
It's a great evolution.
You need to really go at you when you're talking to someone.
tim pool
I just want you to imagine that it's like 1996 and you got a CD player.
And then, you know, this old guy's going, like, bro, we used to have eight tracks, man.
Like, we put them in.
And in order to get the, you got to flip it over in order to actually hear the other song.
And then, because you couldn't rewind.
And you're just going, like, what are you talking about?
ian crossland
Yeah, but it's like we used to sit in the room and actually play games together.
We used to talk to each other with video responses.
tim pool
Isn't it crazy that Ian was 37 in 2006?
God.
ian crossland
No, I was 27 in 2006.
unidentified
26.
ian crossland
It was, Phil, it was more funny.
tim pool
You were 26?
ian crossland
It was direct.
Even though there was that break of time, they weren't talking about each other.
It was really, people were changing in real time because you had to defend yourself.
People would talk right at you and more people would watch the guy talking at you.
And you're like, well, I better fucking speak up for myself.
tim pool
Ian, I want you to eat this.
ian crossland
What is it?
tim pool
I want you to eat this pill.
ian crossland
I don't know what it is, dude.
unidentified
There you go.
tate brown
What happened to Kim Jong's job?
tim pool
Come on.
It's Kim Chi.
unidentified
Smells good.
tim pool
It's kimchi.
It's kimchi.
Actually, is there garlic in it?
phil labonte
Squirrel.
unidentified
I don't know.
tim pool
Yes, there is.
tate brown
Take the Korean guy's pill.
That has a good track.
tim pool
Great track.
A Korean man just offered you powdered capsuled kimchi.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
That's what I do because I actually do have a thing of kimchi from one of the people who are going to be able to get it.
phil labonte
I'm going to go get some water to take this.
unidentified
It's actually taking it.
tate brown
It's locking in.
tim pool
It's locking in.
phil labonte
Good for him.
tim pool
Oh, man.
Yeah, the current state of politics is funny because we're actually about to go to war.
It's going to cost us billions of dollars.
phil labonte
We've got a laugh track tonight.
tim pool
Yeah.
Hey, you and I just heard we're going to invade Iran.
ian crossland
I agree with you, dude.
Not about that.
Oh, geez, maybe I do.
Is that the state of politics is a muddled mess.
Do you guys get that?
Because when you're in it, it's hard to tell.
But the world's trying to go crazy on each other.
phil labonte
Just look at the fact that you've got the, you know, the Save Act, right?
75% of Democrats, 90% of Republicans, and the Senate won't pass it.
tim pool
You know what I learned?
You can change the rules from watching Big Bang Theory is that you don't actually need jokes in order to be funny.
You just need to say something with some kind of inflection and then play a laugh track.
So the response would be like, you guys here?
We're going to go to war with Iran.
And then it's just now everyone's laughing.
tate brown
What's the deal with Iran?
unidentified
What about I walk?
tim pool
But you don't actually have to say, you're good.
Yeah, you know what's really funny is that that's annoying to me.
tate brown
Jerry Seinfeld.
tim pool
Yeah, Jerry Seinfeld.
tate brown
It just isn't.
tim pool
It's like he's stroking out.
tate brown
Tim Poole.
tim pool
Everyone loved David.
It was like the biggest show ever when he was doing that.
amber athey
I saw something on X today that they were saying that they initially the show didn't test well because it was too Jewish.
ian crossland
He watched JJ in the very beginning.
tate brown
They were just jocking back Mozigan.
tim pool
I don't believe that, Dodo.
amber athey
It was funny.
ian crossland
In the early days, they were like bitching.
tate brown
They're just like reverse mortgaging houses every day.
amber athey
Jerry David all the way across view are by bagel.
phil labonte
Yeah, you just did.
tate brown
I just did.
ian crossland
Kramer was tame.
He scaled up his physical comedy, which made the show.
And Elaine, when they got Elaine, she wasn't in the pilot, but when they got it.
tate brown
Because we never knew if Elaine was Jewish or not, so that's kind of frustrating.
phil labonte
She was definitely Jewish.
tate brown
That could be Hungarian.
ian crossland
Yeah.
You know, George Costanza is based off Larry David.
phil labonte
Yeah.
ian crossland
That's who he's supposed to be.
tim pool
Who is Jewish?
ian crossland
Very Jewish.
tim pool
Infamously, yeah.
Infamously.
Very Jewish.
That's like, yeah, his whole thing is that he's like a disgruntled Jew.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
This is why Iran wants to go to war with the United States.
It's Larry David.
phil labonte
It's because of Seinfeld overall.
They had all those Jews on the show.
tim pool
You know, I met last year with Netanyahu, and the most offensive thing about it was that they wanted to convince me that we should go to war with Iran, but they never offered me $7,000.
Shame.
You know how that feels when it's like, we expect you to do this for free, but other people get paid?
It's like, hey, come on.
You have value.
tate brown
I know.
I was really let down because like I think all the funny Jews came to America because then like every time you meet Israel, there's not really that funny.
They're just like really obsessed about their future.
Taxing the Rich 00:14:59
tate brown
Where's the human?
Like was Bibi funny?
People cracking jokes?
tim pool
Mel Brooks is.
No, no.
tate brown
Yeah, so they sent all the funny ones here and then the rest of them that weren't that funny, I guess, went to Israel.
I don't know.
phil labonte
Something about the New York water.
tate brown
There's some anthropology here.
There's going to be a paper on this, I think.
tim pool
New York's not doing too well.
phil labonte
No, New York.
tim pool
Have you ever seen Muslim communists?
And now what something happened in New York like overnight.
No, no, for real, because there's videos of just feces everywhere.
And I lived in New York for five years.
I never have seen anything like this.
And my thought is one of two things.
One, like the city workers, once Momdani got in, were like, screw him, I'm not doing work.
Or it could be that there was a basic administrative function like flicking a switch that Mamdani didn't know to do.
So in all seriousness, it could be like his administration gets in and they were unaware that the previous administration does some kind of remittance for, you know, waste services on a certain date and they didn't do it.
So then the services didn't get done.
But something happens where there's garbage piling up everywhere in New York and there's feces everywhere in New York.
And now he's defunding the police.
phil labonte
Yeah, that was a question.
That was a comment that I actually had a couple, like a couple of weeks ago or whatever.
Like you assume that the new administration still has all of the proper functioning branches of government and just that Momdani comes in and there would still be your normal services.
I was blown away that he's actually managed to basically run the city into the ground so fast.
tate brown
Well, no, but what happened is Eric Adams, like the one thing you got to hand it to him, and I can say this, I was living in New York City.
I saw the transition from de Blasio to Eric Adams.
As Eric Adams, like the one thing he would always point to as like the dub of his mayoral like administration was that he actually like got the city quite clean.
Like the rat population did decline quite extensively.
So when Mamdani came in, the first thing he did was undo every single executive order that Eric Adams had declared.
And a lot of those executive orders related to sanitation, related to, again, extermination.
So these sorts of things happen.
You reverse that.
Suddenly, all these city workers who were once tasked to sanitation are now tasked elsewhere.
And that's why you're seeing this like massive city.
tim pool
Let's jump to this real quick from Fox News.
Momdani has proposed defunding the NYPD.
Finally, it only took the guy claiming he did want to defund the NYPD, who then claimed during his campaign he didn't want to defund the NYPD to get in so that he could defund the NYPD.
He was just talking about canceling 5,000 new officer hires.
Now he's basically holding the city hostage, saying, guys, did you watch Mamdani's budget proposal?
I died.
You know why we had a laugh track today?
We added a laugh track because I watched Mamdani say, it's not fair that we pay 54.5% taxes to the state, but only get back 40%.
To which my response is to Mayor Mamdani, from each according to their ability to each according to their need.
So for a communist to be like, why are they making me do more work, but not giving me what I want is just so absolutely ironic.
It's not even a fire truck on fire.
The fire truck has just melted into molten goop.
That's how ironic it is.
Now the dude is saying, if we don't tax the rich, by the way, 10% of the top earners have already fled the city.
He says, if we don't tax the rich more, we're going to tax the middle and working class.
And it's not my fault.
In reality, what he's saying is, we know we can't tax the wealthy anymore because they're already fleeing.
So we're framing this as though the taxes on you are because of them, which we predicted.
Exactly what we had said.
This is what Venezuela does.
This is what the communists do.
When their policies invariably fail, they say someone else did it to us.
So now Momdani is saying it's Hochul's fault.
It's the state's fault that we have to raise your taxes and people are going to get behind them because they're dumb.
phil labonte
Communists always say, oh, you know, it's the capitalists' fault.
And when it's a communist country, they blame the United States.
They blame the CIA.
The same thing's going on in California.
They say, oh, you know, we're going to raise, they're going to have this, what is the wealth tax they're talking about on billionaires.
They lost over a trillion dollars in tax revenue in the past couple months because, you know, they're like, oh, you're going to tax us?
Well, then we're just going to leave.
Businesses are moving out.
This happens consistently.
And one of the things with New York, there was a ton of people that have been all over XAN.
Oh, yeah, I thought that a bunch of people were going to move out.
Oh, I thought a bunch of people are going to move out.
It's like, well, look at it now.
There's a lot.
How many?
I didn't catch how much Tim said, but a lot of people have left.
tim pool
Like half a million a year.
phil labonte
10% of millionaires or something?
tim pool
10% of the top earners, which includes like middle to high-income people as well.
phil labonte
Yeah.
Just bailing because they have the resources to do it.
The weather's not particularly great this time of year.
They're like, all right, now's the time.
Let's get out of here.
tim pool
Maybe this is a play from Trump.
Trump goes on TV and he's like, the economy is doing great.
And then literally anybody who goes to the grocery store is like, yeah, that's not true.
But maybe the play is this.
New York's taxes are so high, you combine that.
I mean, if you're a regular working class person, you're paying something like 13% to New York based on the state and city tax on top of your federal income tax.
And so you've got $10 eggs and then you're losing half your money.
You're going to be like, I got to move somewhere else.
So maybe Trump is just strangling out these commies.
tate brown
Well, it's funny because the wealthiest of the wealthy, like the truly elite, like are pretty much untouched by any of these policies.
If you look at how New York City operates fundamentally, look at the new, they call them like the toothpick towers by Central Park Billionaires Row.
Those are owned by like Saudis.
They're owned by maybe Americans that have their wealth stored elsewhere, these sorts of things.
Even Donald Trump, like Trump Tower, these sorts of things.
He's like Mr. New York City.
His residency is in Florida now.
He's paying Florida taxes, but he still obviously has a huge fight in New York City.
So it's like the top earners, those types of guys, this doesn't affect them at all.
tim pool
No, no, no, but hold on.
There's no such thing as a top earner.
I was hanging out in D.C. a couple weeks ago, and I was having an argument with these gentlemen who I said people don't have as much money as you think they do.
People think that Jeff Bezos can snap his finger and then build a skyscraper.
That's only technically correct.
I was like, Bezos makes something like, what does he get, like a million bucks a year?
He pays himself like $83,000 a month or something.
So it just comes out to a million.
Then with bonuses, he actually takes home only a couple million.
His wealth is tied to his stock, which he can only sell in certain intervals.
And I'm like, so the amount of money that guy probably has liquid is probably very, very little.
And then most of his assets are going to be in some kind of either semi-liquid or hard asset.
And these people don't believe it.
They're like, no, man, that dude's a billionaire.
He's probably got $100 million.
And I'm like, that's insane to sit on cash like this.
phil labonte
Elon Musk is worth, what, $8.5 billion or $850 billion now.
And he just said the other day that he's going, well, he got access to like $850 million.
amber athey
But you don't use your own money for building a building.
You get a loan.
phil labonte
Yeah.
tate brown
But this is the point.
tim pool
All of it operates this way.
Nobody is actually sitting on cash and able to spend this much money.
So the thing is with New York City and these buildings, I'm going to tell you guys a secret.
You want to know what the rich people do?
Everyone talks about these loopholes.
They get a Delaware trust.
They cost $5,000 per year to maintain.
They dump a bunch of money into it.
Now, let's say the trust has got $10 million.
The trust then buys a house for $1 million cash.
A year later, the house is worth $1.5 million.
They sell it.
Now the trust is up $500,000 and does not pay taxes on it.
ian crossland
Crazy true.
tim pool
Then they buy a new house for $2 million and they live in it.
When they're done, they sell that house for $3 million and the money goes to the trust and they do not pay taxes on it.
ian crossland
So just clearly.
tim pool
The trust has the money has the way it works is that the money in the trust has never been realized.
Trusts can make investments and sell and trade and do all these things, but until an individual extracts that, a beneficiary takes it out of the trust, they have not received a realized gain to pay taxes on.
So most rich people just buy these Delaware trusts and say, I never made any money.
The trust is making money, but that's just an investment.
I've never realized those gains.
tate brown
Yeah, well, I mean, you even see, I mean, like New York City, a great example of like how the elite function in New York City.
Now, again, this is neither here nor there, but like look at NYU.
Like NYU is the definition of like kind of this new elite, this new global elite in a lot of ways.
None of the kids at NYU, their families or them themselves are paying taxes in New York City.
They live in New York City.
They have that New York City lifestyle, these sorts of things.
None of them are paying any New York City taxes.
All these taxes really affect the people that are actual business owners in New York City, these sorts of things.
And then like to Amber's point, I mean, the way that these top guys like access wealth is they can just take leverage against their own assets and they can have access to like liquid capital instantly through that.
Elon's an exception because he has a massive pay package now.
So he's actually like a rare exception because he actually just decided to, again, extract a massive pay package out of Tesla.
It's a trillion.
I think he got his trillion dollars or something approximate from that.
He got something very close, but he's an exception.
Like you said, Bezos, these guys aren't.
tim pool
When Elon tweeted out money can't buy you happiness, I was actually surprised to see the man was so philosophically stunted.
It's like, Elon, you've been rich forever, right?
Certainly you understand more at this point.
You don't need to be like, I've just realized, you know, tweeting out money can't buy you happiness.
It's like, dude, come on.
tate brown
That's usually what broke people.
That's what I, that's what I tell myself.
phil labonte
He just deleted all that money.
He wrote a script for Grok to tweet for him and Grok did it.
ian crossland
I pictured him in his penthouse on top, literally on top of the world.
Well, figuratively, on top of the world.
I don't, I don't know, world overlooking the world.
He's like, I have everything and I'm not happy.
tim pool
No, I'm pretty sure he lives in like, doesn't he live in like a little mobile or something?
phil labonte
He doesn't, yeah, he doesn't have an extravagant house.
unidentified
Yeah.
phil labonte
I understand.
tim pool
He was sleeping on someone's couch.
ian crossland
There was a moment.
What I was thinking was there was a moment where he was in extreme opulence and just like I don't think so.
tim pool
I think Elon's story has always been that he had like a, he had like a decently good house, sold it, and then lived in like a mobile little camper.
ian crossland
Maybe not his home.
I mean, maybe he was on a, at some party, you know, standing up on top of like his own space or something.
tim pool
Ian, Bill Gates famously wears gaudy clothing.
There's a story of him going into a casino and putting $20 on blackjack and losing.
Like, well, I'm done.
That guy's super rich too, but they don't live this way.
Sure, to be fair, like they're on private jets, but people also don't understand private jets are fake.
What I mean by that is when you see a video of an influencer on a private jet, that's fabricated.
Flying on a private jet is uncomfortable.
You don't got a lot of room and there's no snacks, no food.
And, you know, I've been on some good jets where they could play a movie, but they really don't because it's an inconvenience.
So you're really in a cramped space.
The convenience of it is there's no security.
You literally walk into what's called an FBO, a fixed space operator.
They say, right this way, you get on this, on this jet where you can't really stand up.
Even the better ones, they're still kind of cramped.
And then you fly.
There's nothing.
Maybe on a good one, you'll get internet.
We've had internet a couple times.
And then you land.
It's not decadent.
It's not opulent.
It's just faster.
For security purposes, it brings you closer to where you want to go.
So if you're landing at an executive airport or an FBO, usually you can get closer to your destination instead of having to land at an international commercial airport and driving.
My point is, people assume that Elon as this ultra-wealthy trillionaire, he's like on his own private 757.
That's probably not happening at all.
Considering that it's hard for him to liquidate those resources that he owns in like Tesla and SpaceX, he only has access like Phil was pointing out, like what, 800 million?
phil labonte
Yep, something like that.
tim pool
That's a lot, but that's not cash because no sane person is going to have that in cash.
That makes no sense.
So, let me put it like this: I once flew in a private private jet with a tech billionaire, and it was boring and uncomfortable and cramped.
This guy literally, well, I don't want to call him a billionaire because he was actually just like a little bit below billion dollars.
And he's like, Here's my private jet.
And I'm like, Cool, this is fun, but it's not, it's not opulent.
Certainly, opulence exists.
Like, Taylor, uh, Taylor Swift was flying on, what was she flying on?
It was like a Learjet or something, I think so.
phil labonte
It was like a G4 or something, yeah, G4, maybe.
tim pool
And you actually get a bit of headroom, but you're still like most of these jets.
It is not what people imagine.
So, what happens is they go on Instagram.
It literally is a fact.
amber athey
I just can't.
I can't relate to this at all.
tim pool
They are, but this is the secret.
The truth is, the world is built for poor people.
The overwhelming majority of the people on the planet are poor.
And while rich people have access to all of these things, it's typically for poor people.
So, let me put it like this.
Actually, Andrew Tate put it really, really great.
He said, once you get rich, all you're doing is looking for a better steak.
And he absolutely nailed it.
ian crossland
I disagree because you're also trying to preserve the system, the entire economic system that enables steak to be produced.
tim pool
Not necessarily.
Not if you're like a day trader and you're just extracting from the system.
ian crossland
I mean, you should maybe be like a moral obligation to protect the system that produces this.
tate brown
I also want to say, Amber, you can probably intellectualize this idea.
This is like a good dynamic we have is where I like throw something out and then she explains it.
I hate like this Warren Buffett wholesome Chungus wealthy, like where he's like exorbitantly wealthy, but he's like, I go to McDonald's and drive a corolla.
I'm like, if you're wealthy, if you're that rich, I want you to live in like a super villain.
Yeah, I want you to be like covering Native American reservations and peanut butter just for no reason, just like blowing stuff.
Like, I want you to live in like a supervillain.
That's what I want to see.
Can you explain this?
amber athey
Well, okay, so I mean, the thing is, is to get that rich, you have to be careful about lifestyle creep.
And so, they become accustomed to being relatively frugal in their daily purchases because that's how they amass their wealth.
That's why you see NFL players go broke two years after retirement.
tim pool
This is my point.
Let me tell you guys a secret.
Most fancy steakhouses that you find on Google are fake, fancy.
They are designed to cater to the middle to lower income people who want to pretend to be rich.
amber athey
Like Roose Chris?
tim pool
Yes, exactly.
Yeah, I disposed that place.
amber athey
There's always people taking like trashy birthday pictures in front of the Roost Chris sign, and I'm just like, I can't.
tim pool
I'm not a fan of it.
amber athey
I'd rather go to Outback Steakhouse.
tim pool
Agreed.
Longhorn.
Bro, I went to Longhorn Steakhouse, and the filet was incredible.
But I'll tell you a secret: the actual wealthy people, they go to places only they know about.
You want to know if someone's truly rich?
Their clothes don't have tags on them.
I was at Mar-a-Lago, and there was a guy sitting.
So I don't know if you guys are layout, but there's in the lobby area.
There was an older guy sitting on the couch, and some old ladies walk in, and they were like, Oh, Peter.
She goes, Oh my God, you're wearing tags.
And he was like, Well, you know, I had to go get something.
I needed something to wear.
Because you get it tailored.
Your clothing is all custom-made by a tailor who measures you and it fits you perfectly.
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tim pool
And I went to, I went and got food with Tucker Carlson once, and we get in a car and he's like, I know a great place.
And we ate at what was a, it was like a mansion.
Like, we pulled to a house.
There's no sign for it.
I couldn't find it on the map.
And the room that we ate in was the study.
tate brown
Yeah.
tim pool
And it had a fireplace and they closed the door and there's books behind us.
And it was literally like being in someone's house, except their waiter would come into the room.
And then I was like, what is this place?
And then it's not listed on Google Maps.
It's like you are wealthy and it caters to the actual wealthy people.
And here's the secret: they don't care what you wear.
tate brown
Right.
tim pool
Never did.
One of my favorite stories is there's a place in Chicago called Steak 48.
Probably one of the best steak I've ever been to.
This place is a real, real high-end place.
So I recommend it.
It's just, it's down the street from the Trump Tower in Chicago.
The best steak I've ever had in my life, unquestionably the butcher's cut from Steak 48.
We usually go on Christmas when I'm back home.
And servers there, professional.
I go there once a year and the server there knows me.
And he's like, Mr. Poole, welcome back.
It's good to see you this year.
They told me a story where a football player showed up in sweatpants and the manager was like, sir, you can't dress like that in here.
And he was like, what do you mean?
He had like a party of 11 people.
And so then he was like, all right, we'll go somewhere else.
And when the owner found out, he fired the manager on the spot.
He was like, that football player drops 50 grand on a table and you kicked him out for his sweatpants.
Actual wealthy places, as long as you don't stink, they don't care.
tate brown
Yeah.
tim pool
And so there's all, so my point is this.
People have an Instagram and MTV and reality TV view of what, well, I shouldn't say MDV because they're basically dead at this point, but they have a reality TV view of what wealth is because the TV and the narrative machine creates a view of wealth for people so that they assume.
Let me put it like this.
Most ultra wealthy people flying private jets don't even own them.
It's just a charter.
Just you charter them.
It's like calling a taxi.
And it's not that often.
They call a broker and say, is it available?
And the cost for a private jet, I would argue, is about two to three times the cost for a first-class ticket.
So if you need to fly, so we flew the crew from West Virginia to New York when we did the big time square run.
It was $13,000 for eight people.
So it's a little bit more than first class would have been.
And that meant that we didn't have to wait for, well, I don't know if you went, Ian.
unidentified
Yeah, I did.
ian crossland
It's an entire day of work.
unidentified
Exactly.
tim pool
Instead of everyone going to the airport, waiting, and then it's like five hours to the airport, then land, we literally just 20-minute ride to the airport, walk on the plane, land, 20-minute drive, and we were at our destination.
It cut down like four or five hours.
And with, I think we had like nine seats because a person can actually sit in the bathroom.
And so it's $13,000.
So it's a little bit more than a grand per person, which a first-class ticket would have been $700 or $800.
So we were like, okay, it's going to cost us maybe an extra four grand to bring everybody to New York, but it saves us a day of work.
ian crossland
Yeah, you run the opportunity cost of the day of work that you would have spent going commercial and you actually come out ahead because it would have been more than four grand.
There's like eight of us.
If we all, you know, putting all eight employees for one day of work is probably worth $20,000 of labor.
tate brown
I also feel like with Tucker, the story you explained.
What was it?
The Green Book.
Was that that movie where like it was like black people can only go to certain places?
So they would give them like a green book.
amber athey
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
tate brown
I think with Tucker, because there's like 100 WASPs left, like in the country, probably.
There's probably like a green book for wasps.
And it's like you pull up to like Omaha.
It's like, here's your Cape Cod restaurant.
You know, you can get a good clam shower here.
And it's like no one else knows about it except the WASPs.
amber athey
He could never go out to eat when he lived in D.C. because he would just get harassed.
tim pool
This is why these things exist, though, because there are people where it's not me, but there are people like Tucker where if they go to any normal restaurant, it's going to cause a problem.
So they go to these special private, you know, high-end places.
unidentified
Sneakies?
carter banks
Yeah, I was going to say that.
tim pool
And I want to stress this.
I want to stress this.
Another way you know you're in an actual fancy place, there are no prices on the menu.
You go to somewhere and you think it's fancy and there's a price on the menu.
You are at a like middle income.
So even shout out to Steak48.
They're fantastic, but the prices are all listed.
So I'm going to be honest with you.
I've gone to eat with people.
We've gone to restaurants and they don't list the prices.
They don't know or care what the bill is going to be.
It doesn't even occur to them.
And then when the server comes back over, they don't even hand them a check.
They just hold their card up.
They never even look at the bill.
They never ask for the check.
They say, you can run it.
And then they come back and they just say, you're good.
Gratuity is included.
phil labonte
I do that to Denny's.
unidentified
Right.
tim pool
Everybody has their scale, you know what I mean?
tate brown
Well, it's like these really expensive steakhouses and then like fish fish houses where you go and it's like market price for everything.
tim pool
Yeah, market price makes sense, though, because important stuff.
tate brown
Yeah.
tim pool
Yeah, but there are.
amber athey
You just order the crab cake and you're like, F it, man.
tate brown
Whatever it costs.
tim pool
$80 these days.
There are a lot of places in New York that are fake speakeasies.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
tate brown
It's terrible.
amber athey
Pretty much all the speakeasies that people know about are fake speakeasies.
tim pool
But it actually is interesting because there's like one in the lower east side called, I don't know if it's still there, Apothecary.
Delicious.
Yeah.
It's pretty well known.
But when you're walking down the street, it looks like a disgusting hobo alley.
ian crossland
Is that the one where you walk down steps?
Dude, there's so many cool speakeasies in New York.
tim pool
There's one where it's like a vending machine.
You have to walk through a coffee shop.
tate brown
You're like going through a Walgreens.
Like, is there a bar around here?
And it's like, sir, you need to go to jail.
amber athey
Speakeasy in LA, this was years and years ago.
We had to enter through like the kitchen of a Korean barbecue restaurant.
It was awesome.
tim pool
I'd rather just have the Korean barbecue.
amber athey
We thought about it.
tim pool
Oh, you know what we got to do?
Mary's idea for a North Korean barbecue.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
tate brown
That was really cool.
This is how much people like that.
tim pool
And like, you'll order a pound of beef and we bring you like a quarter pound.
And we're like, what do you mean?
tate brown
And every once in a while, the server just kills you by touching your face.
tim pool
The servers are all dressed like Kim Jong-un.
They wipe your face.
tate brown
Yeah.
This is a pro tip for anyone in the crowd.
If you're like, if you're on a night out with the squad, one way to get morale really high to hype up the squad really quickly is go to the bar, prepay for like a bucket of beers, and then tell them when they bring the beers to the table to say this is on the house.
That is a killer move.
So then they bring the bucket of beers out and then they go like, this one's on the house.
Table gets hype, morale improves.
I think that's the poor man equivalent.
That's the working class equivalent to the steakhouse with no label.
tim pool
My favorite is when you go to the bar and you say, drinks for everyone.
They all cheer, but then you just make them pay their own bills.
tate brown
Yeah, that's a good one, too.
Tim, are you familiar with the poor man's first class?
tim pool
What's that?
tate brown
It's when no one books the middle seat.
That one gets hit.
amber athey
I know it well.
tate brown
You get the window seat hyped up when you say that first class.
amber athey
I'm all about steak night at the Eagle.
tim pool
So let me tell you guys.
See, sometimes it's all about the secrets.
And the secret is a standard economy seat in a plane where no one books the middle or the aisle seat next to you is better than first class.
tate brown
Oh, yeah.
tim pool
You lift the arm up and you can lay down.
Oh, I forget about it, dude.
ian crossland
I'll get up.
unidentified
I don't know.
amber athey
I have to pay for my champagne still.
ian crossland
After they get a plane, I'll drink.
amber athey
And you get nicer snacks in first.
tate brown
Oh, and then you can't.
tim pool
Yeah, but the first class snacks are those like grain fig bars and popcorn.
tate brown
Oh, they're phoning it in nowadays.
tim pool
Yeah.
amber athey
Yeah, but now they don't even give pretzels anymore half the time.
It's one of those stupid soy oiled biscoff crackers.
unidentified
I know.
tate brown
I had to get on my knees and beg for a bag of mixed nuts like a dog.
unidentified
Yeah.
amber athey
That's part of it.
tim pool
They give me mixed nuts and I go to sleep and I wake up.
I got mixed nuts.
I'm like, what is this?
I don't want this.
Now I'm responsible for these nuts.
amber athey
They don't even give you a full-size pretzel.
It's mini pretzels.
tate brown
They don't even give you the cans.
amber athey
It's so offensive.
tate brown
They don't even give you the can anymore.
They pour it in and then save the other half for the next passenger.
Are we in an obsession?
What's going on?
Is this like a Soviet Union?
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tate brown
Is this the Soviet Union?
Give me the can.
I paid like $100 for it.
amber athey
And they fill it up with their nasty ice that you know has got something in it.
phil labonte
It's got a coli out of it.
That's like getting coffee on a plane.
You never do that.
unidentified
I do it.
tim pool
Do you guys see that Spirit wants to do standing room planes?
unidentified
Oh, no.
tate brown
Okay.
It was Ryan Air.
tim pool
Ryan Air, there you go.
tate brown
To his defense, he went on there and he was like, if I see this ticket.
Yeah, right.
And he said, he went on British television and they were like, how could you possibly come up with an idea?
That's so evil.
That just shows you how to touch.
And he says, I guarantee you, I get this approved and I sell these for $2.
It's going to be the first one.
tim pool
It was $20, wasn't it?
tate brown
He said it was going to be £2, and you could stand there.
And he said, I guarantee you, all those seats will sell.
tim pool
No way for two.
I thought it was $20.
tate brown
He went on TV and he's like, if I saw them for two, he's like, those will all sell it first.
So he's like, call me evil.
He's like, they'll sell it first.
tim pool
Yeah, I can't stand these commies.
You know what I mean?
Like, everyone should be allowed.
Listen, some people can't afford a plane ticket and they would sit in the cargo hold if they could because we have people who try.
tate brown
Yeah.
tim pool
So let them stand up if they want to.
What I do think is great is the interlocking seats.
Have you seen this?
tate brown
Oh, yeah.
tim pool
Where they basically lift one seat up because that because that means in economy, you get more legroom.
They fit more seats in and everybody gets more legroom.
Yeah, because when they when they won't do that because they want to demoralize us.
Oh, right.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
It's all about just waiting for us.
tate brown
If it's a $20 ticket, you can break my legs.
amber athey
Just show me my super.
tim pool
All right, guys, guys.
Let's jump to the story from Mediaites.
Lara Trump teases president has UFO speech ready and waiting after Obama admits aliens are real.
So it's confirmed.
miranda devine
Your podcast that you've discussed with the president is UFOs.
Do you think that he's about to make an announcement about UFOs?
Because President Obama was just on a podcast talking about how he believes in UFOs and hinting that he saw something when he was.
tim pool
The compression's killing me.
lara trump
Well, I said this in my podcast, too.
What's funny is we've kind of asked my father-in-law about this because we're like, well, what do you know?
Because, Miranda, we all want to know about the UFOs, right?
We all want to know what's going on.
And he played a little coy with us.
And so that, of course, led us to believe.
Eric and I were like, oh my gosh, if he won't even like fully tell us, maybe there's more to it.
And then I have just heard kind of around that I think he's actually said, I think my father-in-law has actually said it, that there is some speech that he has that I guess at the right time, and I don't know when the right time is, he's going to break out and talk about.
And it has to do with maybe some sort of extraterrestrial life, so to speak.
I just, you know, I look at things from the perspective of the vastness of our universe.
And I'm a kind of a numbers person.
You know, I don't get nervous flying because the odds are very much in your favor flying.
The odds that anything will happen to you are far greater in a car than they ever will.
tim pool
We get the rest.
But I actually, I think there is a decent probability that Trump is.
So I believe Trump does have a speech.
I believe that the speech in all probability has to do with just standard military technology and national security threats.
But I believe there is probably a decent probability.
What, this could be like 0.02 or something, that it is actually about extraterrestrial intelligence.
And the reason why I entertain this as actually possible, meaning like what, one in a thousand, one in 2000, is that Donald Trump, or I should say, the media and our culture has for some time now been floating that aliens are real and no one cares.
Like the Obama statement was potentially a trial balloon.
Obama says, of course, they're real, but no one cared.
Then he walks it back and says, no, no, no, I just meant that they're probably real.
I think we're at the point where if there really were aliens, the government could announce It and no one would care.
They'd be like, oh, wow.
Oh, we were waiting for that.
amber athey
Michael Schellenberger reported like two years ago that there were multiple whistleblowers who not only had recovered craft, but also human biologics.
And everyone was just like, eh, okay.
I think you're right.
phil labonte
I'm interested to find out if they're, you know, what the government knows.
I'm not particularly convinced that there is something without some kind of evidence.
amber athey
I don't think they'll ever admit it publicly because one of the concerns, and I asked some of these people who are big into UAPs about it back when we used to have them on Rising, they would say that the U.S. government and the military would be worried about tipping their hand if they had some kind of technology that they assumed was extraterrestrial, but actually was some other nation's more advanced technology than the U.S. has.
And so they would never want to admit that.
tate brown
What was the tweet where it was like, if they ever confirmed there were aliens, the Chinese would have recipes the next day?
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tate brown
We don't want that to happen either.
amber athey
We recently did a video at the Daily Caller where we sent out Edgar the Puppet and we did green card tests for immigrants around DC.
And we asked them a variety of like very American questions, like where does the shortstop stand point on the baseball field?
But we had a sign that had a cat, a dog, a hot dog, and I forget what the fourth thing was.
And it was point to the objects on this picture that you're allowed to eat.
tim pool
And what do they point to?
amber athey
Well, actually, the Chinese girls that were interviewed had a really good sense of humor and they've just pointed at all of them really quickly as they're laughing.
tate brown
It's like, yeah, we're joking.
amber athey
Yeah, but my favorite one, though.
My favorite question, though, was asking them to pronounce Loweville, and they all said Lowe.
unidentified
Louis Villa.
amber athey
Louis Villa.
unidentified
Yeah.
tate brown
I've always said, because this has to be said, I didn't say this at the top of the show.
We are at the 25th anniversary of the death of Dale Earnhardt.
And I think that should be if like tears don't swell in your eyes.
phil labonte
The intimidator.
tate brown
No, it's no laughing matter.
This is no laughing matter.
If tears aren't swelling in your eyes thinking about Dale Earnhardt, then I think you should be deborted, quite frankly.
tim pool
Everybody.
tate brown
Everyone.
Everyone.
I don't care where you're born.
phil labonte
I mean, look, if you're getting it.
tim pool
If you're asked what your favorite sport is and you say anything other than baseball, it's just, you're gone.
tate brown
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
amber athey
Any soccer fans.
tim pool
Hockey.
Oh, you better believe you're gone.
Right back to Canada.
tate brown
The SQ needs to be answered, the soccer question.
What are we going to do with these people?
What are we going to do with these people?
phil labonte
Get rid of them.
tim pool
Soccer is, I look at soccer like the Almai balls of sports.
Yeah.
Because I remember, you know, I don't watch it because it's stupid.
And I like baseball and to a lesser extent, football.
But baseball, if I'm going to watch a sport, it's going to be baseball.
But I remember when I was at Vice, we were watching the World Cup because Brazil got that blowout where they were crying.
And then people in the stands were losing their minds.
And the thing about baseball is it's like their strategy.
They got, you know, the commentators talking about like, oh, they're going to switch the picture out.
And then they're talking about the stats and there's all these numbers and we're like doing math and writing things out.
And then there's like, with most sports, you've got the fantasy stuff where people are calculating stats.
And then soccer is like, he's running left.
Then he, no, he's turning around.
Then he's turning around again.
amber athey
No one has a fast kickball.
It's literally a sport for monkeys.
tim pool
Also, it's just back and forth nonstop.
And I'm like, this is horrible.
tate brown
Soccer is the easiest way to explain to people the insanity of like the American immigration system.
Because if you look at the U.S. national team, our soccer team, there's a player, he's like the midfielder, Eunice Musa.
And he was born in New York City, grew up in England.
He moved when he was like a month old.
And when they asked him, why was he born there?
He's like, yeah, my mom was like in vacation on vacation in New York City and had me.
That's like really a nine month pregnant.
What about vacationing in New York City?
Teleportation and Demons 00:07:38
tim pool
But you truly saw the criteria.
You saw the recent reporting about the Chinese birth citizenship factories.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Where it's like hundreds of babies per week or whatever are born here and shipped right back to China.
tate brown
Yeah.
tim pool
So that way they can move here as citizens.
unidentified
Yeah.
tate brown
And the only benefit is like, okay, well, Crush is like in the math Olympics, and that's really it.
Same thing with soccer.
It's like, okay, let's maybe bring some Brazilians in for tourism purposes.
tim pool
Did you guys ever hear the conspiracy theory that the gray aliens are just Chinese people from the future?
That's not a joke.
tate brown
It's not a long time.
tim pool
It's literally not a joke.
There are people who, like, online, there's conspiracy theories that the reason the gray aliens, like, they've got big heads and they're gaunt and they have big eyes.
And people believe, no, they believe that in the future, China takes over and it's a bunch of Asians and they go back in time and they're wasting away their bodies because they use technology and they're actually just Asians.
tate brown
Well, because there's that point, someone made this point.
It's a very salient point.
You never see pregnant Asians.
Like, they just stay home.
They just kind of spawn.
They hide until spawn points, maybe.
tim pool
Spawn point.
tate brown
Well, one guy, one guy.
tim pool
I'm not allowed to get pregnant.
You're not allowed to know that.
tate brown
Well, I don't know.
I don't know if maybe I'm like treading.
I might get killed on the way home.
tim pool
My spawn point was in Chicago.
tate brown
Wow.
tim pool
Yeah, it's actually just a giant statue of Godzilla.
And you just sort of appear there one day.
And you're 18.
phil labonte
I was going to say you're fully clothed.
Fully clothed.
tate brown
Yeah.
tim pool
Because we live in a simulation and the Asians are in control.
tate brown
Well, because one guy posted on Twitter, this was recently, posted a picture of a pregnant Asian woman, and everyone was like, at Grok, is this AI?
Because you don't see it.
tim pool
So actually, they, who is they?
It's Koreans.
tate brown
Right.
tim pool
And it's actually South Koreans.
They control everything.
tate brown
And it's so true.
unidentified
Yeah.
tate brown
Try to debunk that.
You can't.
tim pool
The Koreans.
ian crossland
We had a great talk with Kang Min Lee last week about that very thing.
tim pool
That proves it.
tate brown
That the Koreans are ruling everything.
ian crossland
Yeah, he's deep.
phil labonte
He's very, very Christian.
ian crossland
My question is, though, are aliens speaking to people in their brains with this DMT laser experiment where people are seeing the data?
tim pool
Oh, those are Koreans.
ian crossland
And then they're doing bubble cymatics in a lab somewhere and they're all surrounding this giant bubble.
And the aliens are speaking to us through this bubble by sending either or low frequency.
I know you could hear me, but I'll be more clear.
tim pool
Yeah.
ian crossland
So are we like adapting that psychoanalysis and manifesting it in like bubble cymatic form?
And that's how we're like communicating with the aliens in Alpha Centauri.
So they're giving us information, but they're not here, but they're here.
It's like if you call me, it's like, I, you know, I know you're not here.
tate brown
And it's always so interesting that these massive, like, nefarious government programs are always in the most innocuous locations.
Like this bubble cymatic that you're describing is probably outside of like St. Louis.
unidentified
Yes.
tate brown
Because you always expect them to be like, you know, like in Virginia, but it's always like in a random location.
Like this bubble cymatic is probably like, I don't know.
ian crossland
At the top of the east, the architecture satellite at a certain point.
The arch is the portal.
tate brown
Is the arch of the portal?
I've heard that.
I've heard if you pass through, you don't come out.
tim pool
Well, it's not on.
unidentified
Oh.
carter banks
Yeah, it's got to be on.
ian crossland
I just start to think there's aliens.
tate brown
This is how the Cardinals are performing that season.
ian crossland
I'm starting to think that the aliens are real, dude.
tate brown
I will state.
I'll throw a wrench in the word.
I'll state with 100% certainty there are no aliens.
unidentified
Why?
amber athey
I think they're demons.
tim pool
I think that basically means the same thing, though.
What?
It's just the death.
It's extra non-human intelligence, right?
ian crossland
Yeah, higher frequency.
tim pool
Aliens and demons, in my mind, are interchangeable in concept.
amber athey
Oh, sure.
tim pool
Yeah.
ian crossland
And angels?
tim pool
Yeah.
carter banks
They could be working together.
phil labonte
Yeah.
tim pool
The angels and the demons?
carter banks
Yeah, there's an ancient alien episode about that.
tim pool
About the angels and demons being.
ian crossland
It's like when you let one demon, yeah.
unidentified
Like one demons.
amber athey
This is getting heretical very quickly.
I'm uncomfortable.
tim pool
This is while Ian's here.
So.
ian crossland
If your buddy's a dick, you're still going to work with him because he's your buddy.
It's like angels and demons, you know?
tim pool
I don't think that's correct either.
tate brown
For posterity, for posterity, because my pastor tells me that.
On Ash Wednesday, I do not think the angels and demons are working together.
And I don't think there's just no aliens.
phil labonte
Interstellar travel is the stars are way too far apart for me to buy it.
I mean, look, it's possible there's physics that we haven't discovered.
There's things that we don't understand.
But if I'm absolute.
tim pool
It's absolute.
There's physics we haven't discovered.
phil labonte
Yeah, okay.
So fair enough.
But if Einstein is right, like the speed of light isn't just the speed of light, it's the speed of causality.
It's the speed of cause and effect.
Like it takes eight minutes for the light from the sun to get to the to the to the earth.
And if the if the sun uh if the sun disappeared, not only would it take eight minutes for the light to get here for us to know, but it would take eight minutes for the effect of gravity to get here too.
So the speed of light isn't going around.
Yeah, the speed of light isn't just the speed.
It's not the speed, just the speed limit of light.
It's the speed limit of everything.
And distances are so vast.
tim pool
You know what Star Trek got wrong and Star Wars and all this?
ian crossland
Warp drive.
tim pool
Warp drive is some 1950s BS Einstein garbage where they're like, what if we use some kind of dense energy to warp space-time and then we move in between space-time like a golf ball moving through a large hose that you squeeze?
It's like, that's 1950 stuff.
You want to know how we actually do it?
We need to find the markers that signify our coordinates in the universe in the data.
And then we just backspace, backspace, backspace.
139, enter.
And then Tate just appears on the other side of the planet.
ian crossland
Yeah, that's literally, I think, how you do it.
It's a true way to say it, but what you would do is you'd map the matrix of where you want to go, the XYZ axis of what you'd map in this cube of reality, what is in every point in this box, what it is, how much of it there is, and where it is.
And you map those three things.
tim pool
You just need to edit the value in the code set.
ian crossland
You can set the value locally.
unidentified
Yeah.
tate brown
I've had this anti-teleport teleportation position for a while now because you would get arrested for exposure because when you teleport, you would be naked because your clothes are not a part of you.
If they could teleport your clothes with you, then how do you separate your shoes from the ground?
Then you just teleport everything with you when you treat.
No, I don't want to do that.
tim pool
I would get like the universal data set has your equipment on your body as one thing.
tate brown
But how can it separate my shoes from like my because they are different values?
But how did it, how does it know?
tim pool
Because in the universe, the Tate value includes a subset of items that the universe is distinct from.
tate brown
But how can it differentiate the shoes?
tim pool
Because they're two different data files.
tate brown
I see.
tim pool
It's like saying, how can I have a music video from Men at Work and from Britney Spears both on my computer at the same time?
How does it know?
And it's like, because there's a start and a stop to both of them.
unidentified
Yeah.
ian crossland
It would have defined boundaries.
tate brown
Ian, would you still be okay with teleporting places if you would teleport there and arrive naked?
ian crossland
Oh, yeah, dude.
I thought that was happening anyway.
tim pool
Yeah, but hold on, hold on.
By that virtue, then all of your gut bacteria, all of the non-like that concept doesn't work because there are things inside your body that are not connected to your cells.
unidentified
I need those.
phil labonte
You need a difference between inside and out your body, and just because something's in your stomach doesn't mean it's inside your body.
tim pool
And so, or part of your body.
And so the argument would be that, okay, well, if it's in your body, then it goes with you.
Then I'll just eat a shirt.
I will stuff it in my mouth.
Right.
You know what I'll do?
I'll get like a very thin mylar jumpsuit, roll it up super tight, put my mouth, teleport and into like an alley, and then pull it out.
And I would wear that very thin mylar suit until I can go find some real clothes.
phil labonte
There you go.
ian crossland
I think you could code the mylar to go with you, but then you could also code and like arrive in a different outfit than you left in, I think.
tate brown
Right.
tim pool
You know what I love is that in Star Trek, the lore is actually that when you get beamed up, you die.
phil labonte
Yeah.
tim pool
Did you guys know that?
Colbert's CBS Controversy 00:15:14
tate brown
Really?
tim pool
Yeah.
And then your body is reconstituted from memory, and it's just different.
It's just different.
ian crossland
Instead of the Canadian MAID program, should we do that?
Be like, you guys can volunteer to go one-way teleport.
We don't know if you're going to survive when you get there, but we think it's going to work.
tate brown
Yeah.
That was Albert Stein's proposal.
ian crossland
I mean, the MAID program is pretty dark.
At least this gives them a chance.
phil labonte
The MAID program is extremely dark.
ian crossland
People that are on their last legs anyway, go for not on their last legs.
tate brown
I've got a little kind of wonk perspective on teleportation on the market.
tim pool
Let's jump to this next story.
This is a wild story.
I guess from Mediaite, Crockett throws Colbert under the bus.
Federal government did not shut down this segment.
Guys, this story is crazy.
And I would actually argue that it's criminal because I believe it constitutes fraud.
Now, I'm being careful here because I don't know for sure, but here's what happened: Colbert goes on his show and lied and claimed that CBS told him he could not have this Democrat Tellerico on his show because of equal time rules.
The Trump administration didn't want you to see this interview, Tellerico says on X. As it turns out, CBS publicly stated wrong.
We simply told Colbert that if he did the interview, it could trigger equal time laws, which would mean Jasmine Crockett would have to be booked on his show.
Or they said, here are some ideas to give her equal time.
He lied and claimed Trump blocked him.
And he did this so that he could drum up this public support.
And it is being reported now that Tallerico raised $2.5 million from their hoax.
So Colbert goes on his show and lies about the federal government tricking people into believing the government was censoring a Democrat and he raised tons of money when in reality, the only person being censored was Jasmine Crockett and was censored by Colbert himself.
phil labonte
That's got to be illegal.
tim pool
This is wild.
It is cheating at the very least.
amber athey
CBS, I believe, had already released their initial statement about what happened before Tallerico even made that post, too.
So he already knew that he was lying.
And I mean, similar thing happened back when the FCC threatened, was it Kimmel with the news distortion clause?
Basically, for a long time, the FCC gave a lot of leeway to these late-night shows because they were viewed as entertainment.
But the interviews that they did with politicians were considered bona fide news interviews, which you get an exception under these various clauses, including the equal time rules.
But they're not bona fide news interviews, as we've seen, right?
Like if these people go on there and they start joking around or they play a game with one another, all of a sudden you lose that exemption.
But the FCC just hasn't done anything about it.
Now they're actually doing something about it.
And CBS obviously is acutely aware of the fact that they are violating these rules.
And not only do they not want to give Jasmine Crockett the seat, but whoever else is in that primary, any of those low-level candidates would also be subject to this.
I actually saw Caitlin Collins went on Colbert and defended Tallarico and Stephen Colbert by saying, Well, would any of these people want conservative talk radio or Republican talk radio to have to give equal time to Democratic candidates?
She clearly doesn't know anything about GOP talk radio because, yes, they do invite the Democratic opponents every time they invite a Republican on, and they would love to have a Democrat on their show so they could rip them to shreds and ask some difficult questions.
She's just never seen it because the Democrats don't go on platforms that they don't agree with.
tim pool
Yeah, I got for you guys here: 18 USC 1343.
Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writing, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years or both.
Now, the question is: does I believe wire is covered under internet?
And the argument, the question then is, under 18 USC 1343, did Tallarico and Colbert devise this scheme to obtain money through false or fraudulent pretenses transmitted over wire?
phil labonte
Indict him.
ian crossland
That's tough to prove.
tim pool
How is it tough to prove?
ian crossland
Because he did the GoFundMe after it happened.
tim pool
They raised.
So as Amber already mentioned, Tallarico knew, CBS said, we never barred this.
And then he said, here's what Trump doesn't want you to see and raised $2.5 million.
I don't think that's hard to prove at all.
ian crossland
Between CBS and this Tallarico guy, what their communications literally were, because it may have been a truth that exists in reality he didn't know about.
tim pool
I don't think that's hard to prove at all.
You go to a jury and say, hey, they should have had Jasmine Crockett on under equal time, but they claimed CBS barred them.
Here's the letter that was sent from CBS to Colbert before the show aired saying he's not being barred from doing the interview.
Why did they both then pretend CBS did bar them from doing it?
They're lying because Colbert got the notification from CBS lawyers before doing the show.
In fact, you know what?
This is a slam dunk.
Colbert stated he actually, after he said, every script is approved and after he spoke, they called him backstage for notes on what he was legally allowed to say.
He tried making it seem like they agreed with what he was saying instead of just telling him he was illegally allowed to say certain things.
But that's Colbert stating outright that he had conferred with the legal team and he knew full well he was allowed to do the interview and it was not blocked by Donald Trump.
Now, the Donald Trump is the important question because if CBS said, you can do the interview, but you got to interview Jasmine Crockett.
In no way did CBS insinuate that Trump barred him from doing it.
It was a letter from CBS's lawyers, not from the FCC.
So for Colbert to then say, Trump's FCC is doing this, and for Tallarico to say, here's the interview Trump doesn't want you to see.
Now, that's knowingly lying.
ian crossland
Yeah, it sounds like they're back there in their radicalized little dome talk and they're like, oh, Trump's FCC is making it.
You know, it's Trump is making them do this.
And they're like, all right.
And then they just get it in their head that it's literally Trump.
And when they go public and say it, they're making a false claim.
tate brown
But I think they've always known this because you think back 2016, Jimmy Fallon, when he, the Fallon on the Tonight Show, and he had Trump on, but then he also had like Mark Arubio on.
He had, he had, I think, Jeb Bush went on.
Chris Christie went on.
Like they knew Trump was box office.
We got to bring him on.
They don't want to bring Mark.
Who cares what Mark Rubio has to say on the Fallon show?
But they have to because they like, so this has been a long-standing understanding in late night television that, yeah, you have to bring these people on.
So that's all they were communicating to Colbert is like.
tim pool
And it's, and it's not a Republican.
It's Jasmine Crockett.
tate brown
Yeah, exactly.
tim pool
Stop making me defend Jasmine Crockett.
phil labonte
Yeah.
tim pool
Of all people.
phil labonte
When's the last time Jasmine Crockett was correct?
Come on.
tate brown
It just made it obvious that the establishment is keenly aware that she is an electoral nightmare.
phil labonte
Yeah.
tate brown
And they're running in Texas already raising.
tim pool
You know why they want Tellerico in Texas?
phil labonte
Why?
tim pool
Because he is a Democrat masquerading as a Christian conservative.
amber athey
Yes.
tate brown
Right.
But it's like, it's crazy because he doesn't even pass a sniff test right away because he literally he had the opportunity.
He's on Colbert.
You know, presumably these clips would circulate on right-wing or Christian circles.
tim pool
Oh, doesn't matter.
tate brown
And he gets up there.
And instead of like at least trying to hide the ball a little bit, he's like, Christians should support abortion and Christians should support gay marriage because Christians want you to be happy.
tim pool
Because that audience on Colbert is all Democrat.
amber athey
Right.
tim pool
And so what they're trying to do is get Democrats to be like, okay, well, he's on our side.
And then in the streets of Texas, they're going to be like, oh, yeah, but Tellerico is a Christian.
And he's like very devout.
And no one's going to hear what he says.
And then when he goes to churches, he's not going to say any of that stuff.
amber athey
The other thing that's so annoying and stupid about this, about his statement, is the way he phrased it as his FCC refused to air my interview.
The FCC doesn't air things.
tate brown
Yeah.
amber athey
If the FCC warns you you shouldn't do something, CBS can still tell them to kick rocks and do it and take the fine or the punishment or whatever it is.
They don't get to dictate what gets broadcast on the front end.
phil labonte
Yeah.
It's, it's just, I mean, it's just trying to cover their ass in it.
And I think that there's probably a good case to, you know, indict them.
tate brown
That was even with the Kimmel suspension, like the media, the way they were presenting it was that the FCC suspended Kimmel.
It's like, no, it was the broadcaster suspended Kimmel.
Again, okay, maybe they were trying to dodge, you know, fines or whatever from the FCC, but that was not the FCC's decision.
phil labonte
No.
tate brown
You can't.
There's no way.
There's no mechanism that they could exercise here.
tim pool
Cole Colbert is an evil guy.
tate brown
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
You know, but what I will say is this is at this point, I don't know how much matters other than at least they're willing to destroy their enemies and the right certainly is not.
phil labonte
Yeah.
tate brown
Colbert is another example like Tyrico of this guy who just does this like Christianity LARP and like actually has zero.
phil labonte
How does that make you feel?
tate brown
It's offensive.
I'm quite comfortable saying, yes, I am triggered when I see Tylerico, again, just wear my faith as a skin suit.
It's absolutely horrific to see because it's the complete opposite.
He was like, you know, Christ wants you to be happy, et cetera, et cetera.
It's like actually Christ's core message, what is the actual prerequisite for salvation is denying yourself.
The opposite of denying yourself is an abortion because an abortion, oh, wait, this baby is going to potentially cost me a promotion, so I should kill it.
That is the complete opposite of denying yourself.
You're literally sacrificing a human being at the altar of your life.
amber athey
It's just like those anti-ICE protesters who went into the church and went after the pastor because they believed he was affiliated with ICE.
And all of the Democrats justified it by saying, well, he's hypocritical if he's working with ICE to deport people because we need to be welcoming and nice to people.
And it's such this like surface level BS reading of the Bible.
They pick and choose which little parts.
This is literally a meme on the Christian right where we point out that people who don't actually care about the faith or read the Bible or go to church on a regular basis will intentionally manipulate to try to get Christians to do what they want.
tate brown
Yeah.
Like they literally are like, Joseph and Mary are refugees.
I'm like, Joseph was going back to where he was from.
amber athey
They were going to register for the census.
unidentified
Yeah.
tate brown
Like anyone that has any knowledge of biblical, of the Bible knows that Joseph was from Bethlehem.
That's why he had to go back.
It was the opposite of refugee.
If anybody was deported from Nazareth, like, what are we doing here?
It's, it's just utterly, I feel like a crazy person sometimes when I see these people.
phil labonte
It's not you.
tate brown
It doesn't even require, it doesn't even require like any theological literacy.
It's just like any Christian that has a basic Sunday school understanding of the Bible will say, yes, Joseph was from Bethlehem.
He's not a refugee.
If anything, he's returning back to where he's from.
phil labonte
Yeah, but this is something that the left does all the time.
They will use either your ideology or your principles against you.
They'll go ahead and say, what about my free speech?
amber athey
I thought you believed in free speech.
phil labonte
Exactly.
They do that constantly.
And they'll say they have no principles of their own.
They're all just purely about power.
And so they'll go ahead and try to use things that you care about against you, even though they don't give a crap about it.
tate brown
Well, yeah, Tallarico, literally, his entire statement was the right is now the arbiter of cancel culture.
And I'm bravely standing up.
He literally said verbatim, I'm standing up to cancel Colonel.
phil labonte
The correct answer for that is yes.
Fine.
tate brown
Yeah, and usually enhance culture, but based on that.
amber athey
I actually have a bone to pick with Tallarico going way back before all of this because there was this profile, series of profiles in one of the major news outlets.
I think it might have been New York magazine, but they did this photo shoot with all of the up-and-coming Democrats.
They had this tufted red leather chair, and they would take the chair around with them around the country to meet these candidates.
And they would put the chair in a space that was supposedly like representative of the candidate.
So for Maxwell Frost, they had it like on the streets of D.C.
They took the chair to Texas.
They put James Tallarico in it.
It wasn't in a church.
It wasn't anything to do with politics.
They put him on a football field.
So I'm thinking, okay, this guy must be like a football coach.
Oh, that's cool.
The Democrats finally got like a real guy to run for Congress.
And then I looked into his background, zero affiliation with football.
He just lives in Texas.
tim pool
Well, to be fair, George Santos told that story too, where like they just lie and make everything up.
And he said that they wrote that he was his volleyball star.
What was the story that he told him?
tate brown
He was at Brute College.
He was like the captain of the volleyball team or whatever.
tim pool
Yeah, it's just made up.
It was all lies.
unidentified
Yeah.
amber athey
Worked for Goldman Sachs.
tim pool
It's funny because his congressional.
Yeah, but to that degree, it's funny because in Congress, George was like not, this is called not good, but he's a great guy, you know.
You know, if you ever meet him in.
amber athey
He's a charismatic.
tim pool
He's a nice guy.
He's a good dude.
tate brown
They made an example out of him because he lied on his resume and 80% of Americans.
amber athey
Well, he was spending a little more complicated than that.
tate brown
Okay, sometimes, you know, you cook a little bit too much.
Okay, I'll give you that.
amber athey
Well, sometimes you spend your campaign dollars on Botox.
tate brown
Sometimes you say, you know, sometimes you spent three months longer at a company.
Sometimes you are the captain of the company.
amber athey
Sometimes you buy your fake wife a house and marry her for the exact amount of time it takes for her to get a green card.
All your living happens.
phil labonte
The Republicans should have turned a blind eye to everything that George Santos did because the Democrats would have done the same.
tate brown
Again, like I just thought he was funny.
That's why.
phil labonte
Hilarious.
amber athey
I do wish we had a sassy gay in Congress.
ian crossland
Enough Botox.
You look good.
Keep it.
phil labonte
Isn't it because of the Botox?
ian crossland
I just, you're right where you need to be, brother.
Don't, no more injection.
None of that garbage.
unidentified
Fake.
tate brown
That is like a Goldilocks.
ian crossland
You're a healthy man.
unidentified
That's the Goldilocks.
tate brown
He's in the Goldilocks.
ian crossland
You hit it.
tate brown
Yeah, but Tyler Rico is literally like, I'm comfortable saying one of the worst people in America.
ian crossland
I've been wrestling with hypocrites, religious hypocrites, because it's like, don't say the Lord's name in vain.
To me, that's like saying I'm a Christian when I'm not.
You know, if I don't really believe it, don't say it.
unidentified
What?
ian crossland
Take that.
One of the ways you can do that is say, I believe in this thing when it's.
tim pool
I think that it's like you have this interpretation of Christianity that only exists in your mind.
phil labonte
Yeah, he was saying that lying isn't a sin.
tate brown
It'd be a film.
tim pool
Hey, guys.
Hey, guys, wait.
Look, I made a video that's really funny.
tate brown
Look at this.
tim pool
Look at this.
Can someone explain to me what it is that Nancy Pelosi is doing?
amber athey
Can you rewind it?
I didn't see the cooking books.
phil labonte
Yes.
tim pool
She's cooking the books.
That's right.
She has a pan and she is putting a book into it.
Rocket slice.
And it floats for some reason.
amber athey
Yeah, I don't like the way that moves.
tate brown
And we know the kitchen does not look like that.
The kitchen's very nice.
amber athey
Yeah, where's that $30,000 freezer or whatever?
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Yeah, you're right.
tate brown
Why does it fire?
ian crossland
He's in a trailer, dude.
carter banks
That's assuming that's funny.
tim pool
You know, maybe, maybe when you're rich, you get a custom-built five-burner stove.
tate brown
He's like, let me put my drying rack next to the stove.
unidentified
Five books are still in the bottom of the street.
ian crossland
It's also gas-powered.
Save Act Controversy 00:03:28
tim pool
Wait, wait, wait.
Those are electric grills with fire coming out of it.
tate brown
The drying rack is next to the stove instead of next to the sink.
This lady's crazy.
She's seen on it.
unidentified
She's seen on it.
ian crossland
Well, I mean, five books, but she's like spinning plates.
They're about to all.
amber athey
Also, the knobs on the cabinets on the right side are on like different sides of the cabinet.
tate brown
It's like a drunk person designed this kitchen.
Oh.
phil labonte
Or like an AI.
amber athey
And the hinge is next to the knob on the far right wall.
carter banks
The outlets are the right way up.
tate brown
Right.
amber athey
Which is big win.
tate brown
There's a lot going on here.
phil labonte
There is.
I mean, Nancy Pelosi's correct, though.
tate brown
Can we dunk on Tyler Rico some more?
unidentified
Yeah, dude.
amber athey
I want to talk about the Save Act.
unidentified
Okay.
tim pool
What about it?
amber athey
Save Act.
tim pool
Let's do it.
Here we go.
We got this story from Fox News.
Sender Lee dares Democrats to revive talking filibuster over Save Act, slamming criticism as paranoid fantasy.
amber athey
This is exactly what I wanted to talk about.
tim pool
Let me just stress real quick: the country can be saved right now if the Republicans just nuke the stupid fake filibuster.
amber athey
You don't even have to do that.
tim pool
Okay, tell us, take us home.
amber athey
Okay, they don't even have to do that.
The talking filibuster is a rule already where how it works is that they have to abide by the two speech rule.
If they do the talking filibuster, basically every member of the Senate gets the opportunity to make two speeches during on the same legislative question during the same legislative day.
So you'd say, oh, well, certainly they could run out the clock if it's on the same day because the 50, the 40-something Democrats could just all do two speeches and it would be over and then they'd have to restart the process.
But no, because congressional rules say that in relation to legislative business, I am quoting directly from Congress.gov: the day during which a senator can make no more than two speeches on the same question is not a calendar day, but a legislative day.
A legislative day ends only with an adjournment so that whenever the Senate recesses overnight rather than adjourning, the same legislative day continues into the next calendar day.
So they could literally force Democrats to give up by not allowing them to sleep or by refusing to adjourn the legislative session.
And eventually they would just get so tired, they would give up because nobody in Congress likes to work.
phil labonte
No, they don't.
They don't do that.
Yeah, John Thune, you know?
tate brown
John Thun, if you can hear me, John Thune, please, if you can hear me, please save me.
Please pass.
tim pool
They're not going to do it because politics is fake.
Every Republican wants it done.
Every Democrat wants it done.
Every independent wants it done.
And for some reason, Democrat members of Congress are like, nobody wants this.
And it's, and this, this is the emperor has no clothes moment for truly everybody because every single person knows.
Okay.
The polling shows a range of between 70 and 80% of Democrats want voter ID.
It shows that 80% of independents want voter ID and 95% of Republicans want voter ID.
And everyone else is confused.
And the Save Act, Democrats are like, no.
But hold on.
All of your constituents want it to pass.
amber athey
Yeah, but I'm going to be disenfranchised as a married woman who's changed her last name.
tim pool
Well, you know, that actually is a fair argument that women aren't smart enough to figure out how to file paperwork.
amber athey
We're all retarded.
tate brown
But unironically.
phil labonte
I love that the Democrats always.
amber athey
Yeah, that's the other thing.
Well, you would want married women to vote because they tend to vote Republican.
It's the unmarried woman you want to disenfranchise.
phil labonte
So why do the Democrats always fall back on our constituents are stupid?
They were doing it with black people can't get IDs.
They were saying that women can't get IDs.
Voter ID Confusion 00:03:29
phil labonte
Why is it that they constantly are just like, oh, you know what?
Our constituents are stupid.
They can't figure out how to do that.
amber athey
They don't think that.
They have contempt for everyday Americans.
I mean, why else would Joe Biden tell you you can't have a dryer that dries your clothes properly?
phil labonte
Well, that's because Joe Biden's stupid.
amber athey
But he hates us.
They hate us and they want us to be miserable.
That's why you can't have good shower pressure, water pressure in the shower, because they hate us.
tim pool
And then they make these toilets where when you flush it, you got to wash your hands above the toilet.
You've seen these?
unidentified
That's evil.
tim pool
There's a toilet and then there's a spay that comes up and the water comes down and it fills the toilet up while you wash your hands.
And then when it's done, you either flush the toilet again, wasting even more water, or you don't get any more water.
tate brown
Things can get even worse.
Have you seen in Europe where on the caps and then it's like attached?
amber athey
Yes.
Okay, I have a great story about this.
So I used to work for The Spectator, which is a British company.
And so I had British coworkers.
And one of my coworkers, I was telling him about this because I saw it on Twitter.
And I was like, y'all are getting crazy with those water bottle caps over there.
This is communism.
And he was like, you're overreacting.
It's not that bad.
He went back to visit his family and went to London for a bit, had to get one of these water bottles at Heathrow Airport.
And when he got back to the United States, he was like, you're right.
It was freaking horrible.
tim pool
I thought you were going to say something like he got chopped up by a machete while he was there or something.
amber athey
Well, he didn't run into any of the migrant rape gangs, luckily, but he did run into the awful water cap.
tim pool
That actually, that actually is good.
A political joke, actually.
unidentified
That's actually, no, actually, I think you just accidentally wrote a great book of political humor where it's like, well, of course I didn't do it on purpose, woman.
tim pool
Yeah.
You go like, you guys ever see those water bottles in Europe where the cap is stuck to the top, you can't take it off?
Well, it's like, I had a friend who didn't believe me.
And so he was actually going on a trip to Europe.
And I was like, watch, when you go there, you're going to see these water bottles.
And guess what happened?
He got hacked to death by a migrant with a machete.
tate brown
But at least when the blade was coming for his neck, it severed the cap from the bottle.
So it did work out.
tim pool
That's the video where as he's falling down, the cap is sliced off.
tate brown
His final breath.
amber athey
And the little tab actually saves him.
tate brown
Yeah, his final breath, he sees his thank you.
tim pool
Yeah, he holds the bottle up in the machete.
He hits the tab and gets stuck.
amber athey
Yeah.
ian crossland
And he's like, rises in the background.
unidentified
Yeah.
tate brown
I remember I went to Europe and that happened.
I literally, like, I didn't care about the microplastics.
I just like gnawed it off like a dog.
I'm not going to do that.
amber athey
What is the, what's the new meme?
Is it Amelia?
That's her name?
Because they have this website where you're supposed to play a game to warn you against domestic extreme.
phil labonte
She's supposed to do the bad guy.
tate brown
Anti-Chud.
unidentified
Yeah.
amber athey
And it's like a cartoon game.
And you literally, they're like, this girl wants you to go to this anti-immigrant protest.
And it's this like super cute, like all purple-haired art art chick.
phil labonte
Kind of goth chick.
amber athey
And you're supposed to say, like, no, I will not go to the protests.
And if you say yes, they're like, careful, you could be thrown in jail for the rest of your life.
Literally.
But all of the people in the UK have started meming this girl.
She's like the hero.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
Yeah.
tate brown
Because it's horrible.
It's literally like Jim Crow laws for chuds.
Like we are, we are under, like we are by far the most oppressed group probably in the world.
tim pool
Have you guys?
There's a viral video from a soccer game where there's like a white guy about to do a penalty kick.
And then a black guy runs up and shoves him.
And he turns around and gets in his face.
And then the ref runs up, defends the black guy and holds the yellow card in the face of the guy who got attacked.
And they were like, this is basically Europe.
tate brown
This is Western civilization.
tim pool
Yeah.
phil labonte
Exactly what it is.
It's the downfall.
unidentified
Yeah.
tate brown
So I'm look.
tim pool
Whose fault is it?
Voted For Mass Deportations 00:02:55
tim pool
It's conservative Christians' fault.
100%.
You sat on the throne.
And when the scorpion came to your door, you said, come on in.
What do I care?
And now your children are reaping the benefits of the world that you built.
And still to this day, conservatives are demure.
phil labonte
I legitimately think it's conservative Christian women.
tate brown
To be honest with you.
Well, me and Amber can cook on that.
To defend the voting base.
I make this point all the time with the Brits is like, there's this tendency for Americans to be like, well, this is the government they voted for.
I'm like, at every turn, by extension, Europeans have voted for less migration, less migration, less migration.
So they are doing all they can do in a liberal democracy, which, in my opinion, was imposed on the West at large after World War II.
So it's like, there's not really much we can do because anytime you do chimp out, like the state comes down on you with the full weight.
So it's like, at every turn, everyone has voted correctly.
Yes, we want less migration.
Yes, we want more conservative social policy.
Like think about before.
tim pool
I saw Hillary, though, right?
tate brown
Think about before a booger.
Oh, Booger.
Oh, Bergafell.
It's like California.
They voted no.
We don't want gay marriage.
No, no, no.
Everyone's voting no gay marriage.
And then boom, impose on you.
Sorry, it doesn't matter.
amber athey
We also just voted for mass deportations.
And then like a couple of blue-haired women in Minnesota go crazy.
And we're like, oh, maybe we shouldn't do that anymore because it makes them sad.
tate brown
Yeah, exactly.
So I'm like, it's not going to throw like Christian conservatives under the bus because it's like they're just operating in the system that you gave them.
tim pool
There was the briefest of periods of some kind of Republican form of government.
And very shortly after the foundation of the United States, it was not anymore.
ian crossland
Yeah, electricity.
That caused it.
Maybe they wrote this government for pre-electricity.
tim pool
Jesus.
unidentified
Riding fucking horses.
ian crossland
Washington, D.C.
tim pool
The conspiracy theory is that the Americans didn't win the revolution.
What happened was, is when the king and parliament found out that the Americans were proposing a system of governance where anyone could run, they said, so why are we wasting money fighting with them?
We can literally just go there and fund elections.
And so the conspiracy theory is that within about, you know, five, 10 years or maybe 10 or 20 years, the British simply just funded candidates who would support the empire and then relo effectively relocated the center of military power for the empire in the United States and then controlled the colonies.
tate brown
Well, if that were the case, the South would have like decisively won the Civil War.
tim pool
Why?
tate brown
Because that's where the loyalist base was and that's the British supported.
Like there was a much stronger sense of like Anglicanism in the South and these sorts of things.
And in the run-up to the Civil War, the British were much more aligned with the South than they were with the North.
So like the political capital would have all resided in the South and they would have decisively came on.
tim pool
I don't think so because Britain had already banned slavery.
So it was bad political.
tate brown
For the British, it wasn't about slavery.
It was just about, I guess.
tim pool
Right, I know.
But for the British Empire, they had already abolished slavery.
So politically, they couldn't get behind the slave states.
ian crossland
This is that they did.
tate brown
Oh, they did, though.
Why The South Lost 00:06:36
tate brown
It was fairly explicit.
ian crossland
The government remained neutral, but it was the industry bankers and the finance supported the South heavily.
They invested in major holdings of Confederate bonds.
tate brown
Yep.
ian crossland
About 3 million, 14.5 million in gold through a 1862 bond sale to the.
tate brown
Yes.
Like it wasn't Parliament saying we support the South, but like every institution in Britain was like it was in their interest for the South to be.
phil labonte
Here you go, everybody.
unidentified
Actually, that.
Then we combine them.
The key is right here, layers of flavor.
amber athey
So it's about building the right foundation.
unidentified
Exactly.
Then we combine them.
The key is right here.
Layers of flavor.
tate brown
That's nice.
I like that a lot.
tim pool
So this is Nancy Pelosi.
amber athey
This is true enough.
tim pool
But you know what?
It's not fair, though, because Gordon Ramsey is a good dude.
I don't want to imply that he's teaching her to do evil because it should be the other way around, actually.
Pelosi should be demanding Gordon do it and Gordon should be saying no.
It tastes like shit.
ian crossland
Have him skipping.
amber athey
It's if and roll.
ian crossland
Have her cook the book.
He thinks it's raw.
You got a winner of a scary.
phil labonte
It's crazy how he acted on that one show.
And then if you like, you watch his Instagram stories or his reels or whatever.
He's like such a nice dude.
tate brown
Oh, yeah.
Like when they have kids on the show and he's like a sweetheart.
tim pool
One of my favorite episodes of like Kitchen Rescues is when he finds this hole in the wall restaurant and it's like his old like Caribbean grandma and she's got this tiny hole in the wall with like two tables.
And he's just like, I can't believe how good this food is and nobody knows it's here.
And this is this little old lady at a restaurant.
tate brown
Like during the O.J. Simpson trial where like a lot of black Americans, they viewed it as a wedge issue.
So they just got behind OJ just purely because it turned into like kind of a cultural thing.
I had a micro version of this in college where we were like sitting around.
It was like a bunch of white and black guys and we were all sitting around watching Kitchen Nightmares.
And there was this episode where he went to a restaurant.
I think it was in Memphis actually.
And at the front door, they found a mouse, like a dead mouse laying right by the door.
And the guy that was running the restaurant, this was like a soul food restaurant, immediately accused Gordon of like, hey, you planted this mouse here for television.
This is like crazy.
Why would you do this to us?
And then all the white guys in the room are like, wow, this is crazy.
Like this guy's so crazy for accusing Gordon Ramsey.
And every black person in the room was like, yeah, he definitely planted that mouse.
And it was like a microcosm.
I was like, this is what the O.J. Simpson trial was like.
tim pool
Oh, take a look at this.
phil labonte
There you go.
tim pool
Wait, where'd the sound go?
tate brown
No, it's too explicit.
tim pool
Oh, wait.
unidentified
Holasy, it's you evil woman.
Cooking the books is wrong.
It's just policy, Gordon.
ian crossland
Holicy, it's fraud.
unidentified
You're burning the books.
tate brown
You evil woman, cooking the books is wrong.
amber athey
It's just policy, Gordon.
ian crossland
Holocy, it's fraud.
unidentified
You're burning the books.
tim pool
I'm going to download that.
tate brown
Gordon's a good man.
This is accurate.
tim pool
All right, we're going to go to your Rumble Rants in Super Chat.
So smash the like button, share the show with everyone you know, and it really does help.
And make sure you pick up the new Cast Brew Vault Black at castbrew.com.
No joke.
It is a cold brew concentrate.
So I say mix it.
You want to level that with water to taste?
We originally worked on these single serving ones.
So I actually, at the top of my head, don't have the actual ratio, but I think it's like, you know, a couple, like two ounces of Vault Black with like eight ounces of water or something.
It's a concentrate.
But you'll figure it out.
You'll figure it out.
And check it out at caspook.com.
In the meantime, we're going to grab your rants and chats and see what you guys are on about.
All right.
Drubius Maximus says, first-time super chatter per TimCast tradition.
My wife and I are back from the hospital with baby number three.
We are 28 and 27, married almost seven years, playing on homeschooling.
tate brown
So welcome to the world, little tiny patriot.
But this whole baby routine, Google Gaga, can't walk, not going to cut it.
We're in a fight for our lives right now.
Get active, get after it, make a Twitter account, start tweeting at wrap it in a bulletproof blanket like Riley can.
Exactly.
amber athey
Let's go to the protests.
unidentified
Lock in, little ones.
tim pool
Wait, wait, everybody.
Another super chat from Matt FTL.
He says, keeping the tradition going.
I'm sitting in the recovery room with my wife and our first daughter.
unidentified
Wow.
tim pool
We have two boys and a girl.
unidentified
Welcome to the very white pillow.
tate brown
Patriot, welcome to the world again.
We need you.
Like, it's time.
It's game time.
Let's go time.
tim pool
Skyline 99 says, laugh tracks work on low IQ people.
unidentified
Works on me.
tate brown
That was really funny.
tim pool
It's true.
They do.
tate brown
I need subtitles, IRL, and like Subway Surfers footage just playing in the bottom of my vision so I can really lock in.
tim pool
Gen Z is so retarded that they can't just look at a person's face as they talk.
They have to watch Subway Surfer or like some video game.
tate brown
Yeah.
tim pool
Isn't that wild?
So you know what I'm going to do for my morning show now at least one of my segments I'm going to try out just playing video games while I record.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
That's work.
tate brown
Like a lot of these.
amber athey
Or just have like a TikTok.
unidentified
What is it?
amber athey
I don't know what they're called.
Autoplay.
tate brown
Yeah.
tim pool
Oh, yeah.
amber athey
It's just like on the side, it's just TikTok videos.
tim pool
That's a good idea.
Can I do that?
tate brown
There was this one.
tim pool
I'm going to try that and see what happens.
tate brown
There is this one YouTuber.
His name was.
phil labonte
Inside skateboarding videos.
tim pool
Just general interest.
tate brown
There was this one YouTuber.
His name was, I think it was Redeem Zoomer.
And he was like discussing these really high-level theological ideas.
Of course, no one's going to tune in if he's just sitting there talking to the camera.
But then he realized if he's playing Minecraft while he was doing it, then a lot of these guys who otherwise would have never tuned in to any theological discussion were all of a sudden becoming amateur theologians because they were watching him and the Minecraft was what engaged them, but then they didn't listen to him talk.
tim pool
I'll just play poker.
I'll play on Club WPT.
I'll play some online poker while talking politics.
tate brown
Yeah.
phil labonte
There you go.
tim pool
And then people are watching micro gambling.
ian crossland
That's the culture.
That's the culture victory when you start getting, like you're saying, you brainwash people through.
tim pool
You know, we got, you know, I'm super good at trials.
You guys ever play trials?
amber athey
No.
phil labonte
No.
ian crossland
Negative.
tate brown
Is that the motorcycle?
tim pool
Yeah.
I'm like super good at it.
ian crossland
It's tough.
unidentified
That game's hard.
tim pool
Yeah.
So we just need to get Gen Z into that game so that I can play that while talking because I could play that game forever.
ian crossland
Any game, I think, where they can watch you just do stuff, repeat stuff, and they know the context of what's happening.
They don't just see like a database of numbers.
tate brown
That stream did pretty well where you just dominated me and Andrew at Smash Bros for like an hour.
tim pool
It didn't really, to be honest.
tate brown
Yeah, but there was a lot of it did something.
unidentified
What happened?
tim pool
But it was a holiday.
It was like 4th of July, and I was like, instead of there's no news, everyone's on vacation, let's just play Smash Brothers.
tate brown
You're just mercilessly beating me.
tim pool
I was not, I'm not very, I'm like, I don't know, C- at Smash Brothers.
Like, any new player is going to get crushed.
tate brown
He's just trying to make me and Andrew feel bad.
tim pool
Anybody who actually is good at the game would crush me in two seconds.
But any average player who plays like casually, I'll probably destroy.
ian crossland
You obliterated me.
I couldn't, I stopped playing you because it was just beating after beating.
I'm like, dude, now I know how you feel when I play you in Magic.
And he bought a bunch of new cars and I couldn't beat that.
Hot Tub Turbulence 00:14:29
tim pool
That's why we need like none of these making that.
tate brown
The consoles have Madden.
tim pool
I always had good cards.
tate brown
If I did Madden installed, I could finally feel good about myself.
I could look at it.
phil labonte
You can just play.
tim pool
King Justin saw Madden.
You can download the NASCAR game.
Timcast has got two vehicles in it.
ian crossland
I'd love to play Madden.
tim pool
Shout out to Cody Dennison.
ian crossland
Yo, if we could get a big crew, people playing actual Madden.
We're all on the same team and we're playing against 11 all of them players.
That'd be wild.
tate brown
I want to be QB.
ian crossland
Yeah, I'll play like right tackle.
You can be like 2x cards, dude.
unidentified
Come on.
ian crossland
Pancake, dude.
tate brown
I love that.
unidentified
I'll press.
tate brown
That shows you have a servant's heart that you want to be.
You had the second dibs for whatever position you wanted.
unidentified
I'll make them fast, you know, but like so I can drop back and then you know knock them down from the side.
Love you.
tim pool
All right, what do we got here?
KSKS says, How come you haven't talked about the attack on 3D printing beginning in WA?
Washington State is trying to get AI software forced onto printers and criminal charges anyone who has files for two A items.
unidentified
Wow.
ian crossland
It's not good, man.
phil labonte
I think New York is the same in the same kind of stuff.
ian crossland
You are?
I call this in 2011 when they were talking about making it illegal to print guns.
It's like, well, now when are they going to start going after the information?
Because I have a machine in my house that I can do anything I want with in the privacy of my own home.
So what are you going to make it illegal to get the information of the schematic?
phil labonte
It's protected by the First Amendment to transmit information over the internet, right?
It's protected by the Second Amendment to be able to make a gun.
Like you can legally make, I think, two or three guns a year.
You can send the serial number off to the feds if you want.
It's perfectly legal to do all those things.
The problem is that you can do this unmonitored with no regulation by the federal government.
tim pool
David Bricken says, when are we getting a Tate Brown holding it grounds coffee blend?
unidentified
Ooh.
tate brown
That's good.
We didn't think of that.
phil labonte
That's really good.
ian crossland
I did, but I couldn't make it not cheesy.
We got to use Tate Brown holding it down ground.
phil labonte
Those three words of just holding it grounds.
tim pool
Well, the holding it down ground.
My actual pitch for Tate's coffee was Tate Brown blood and soil.
ian crossland
I like that.
amber athey
True Heritage American.
tate brown
Like, I have to build a butcher for you.
phil labonte
Like a red velvet coffee.
Maybe that, you know?
tate brown
No cap.
tim pool
I think we can make it.
tate brown
I'll send you a bag on the side.
amber athey
It'll be like as long as I don't have to buy it.
You just send it to me for free.
phil labonte
Already compromising your beliefs.
tim pool
Zumerwaffen, should we make a Nick Fuentes coffee for him?
tate brown
That could be sure.
That could be interesting.
tim pool
I don't know if we can make any jokes about that right now.
We'll have to wait for the uncensored portion.
phil labonte
Yeah, I don't know.
tim pool
Did you guys see there's a viral clip where it's like Fuentes is ragging on Hitler, and then all these lefties are like Fuentes has abandoned Hitler or something?
amber athey
No.
tim pool
Yeah, something like that.
unidentified
Yep.
ian crossland
Fuentes is a nuanced mofo.
tim pool
That's all right.
We got K.S. Corey says, I can see Lindsey Graham clapping like a seal in a corner right now.
Well, I think the reason Lindsey Graham wants to invade Iran is because he's hoping that a new government would legalize gay marriage.
ian crossland
Then it can finally come out.
tim pool
That was a joke.
Although maybe it wasn't.
amber athey
You didn't play the laugh track, so I didn't get it.
phil labonte
Yeah.
amber athey
There it is.
tate brown
That was good.
tim pool
What's the deal with Lindsey Graham wanting to go?
unidentified
Lindsey Graham.
tate brown
Are you gay or not?
Maybe it's just from South Carolina.
amber athey
They're kind of dandy.
tate brown
They're a little light in the loafers.
No offense to South Carolinians.
I'm a North Carolina heritage person.
They're a little light in the loafers when you go south of the border, you know.
tim pool
Here we go.
We have Captain Winky says, sorry, Tim, I designed interiors for private jets.
These were 737-100s with sofa crescendas with TVs, crescendas, hot tubs just haven't been in one bud.
I am fully and keenly aware.
That being said, when you go to an FBO or like I flew out of Chicago and there was, I can't remember which it was a basketball team that had flown and they had a 37.
These are large corporate teams and they are few and far between.
Most of the time when you go to an FBO, like if you go to Teterboro in Jersey, you might see some G4s.
You might see some like Lear Jets, Gulfstreams, things like that.
The average, bro, I'm telling you, like people who have money don't just burn money.
That's why they have money.
They fly on private jets because they're like, no, no, no, no, I don't care about a hot tub on my plane.
It's like Amber was saying these pro ballers will be like, I'm going to burn 500 grand right now for no reason.
And then they go broke real quick.
Certainly these things exist.
Likely charters.
The other thing too is like mega yachts.
Guys, they're like, oh, Bezos owns the yacht.
unidentified
Yes.
tim pool
The ultra rare billionaires do have yachts.
They are very, very rare.
Most of the mega yachts you see are charters.
We did a party on like, I don't know, it was like an 80-footer or something in Miami.
I can't remember.
We've done it numerous times.
And it's like five grand for six hours.
And so with 20 people on board and having a party, it's actually not that expensive to go out into the ocean on a big yacht and film this stuff.
But the other thing I want to point out, too, is most of these videos you see, you guys know that the private jets are rented out for video production.
unidentified
Yeah.
tim pool
You'll see a dude in a private jet and they're like eating a nice meal and it's got the jacuzzi or whatever is in it and it's not flying and you don't know that there was one woman who walked off a private jet smiling in slow motion and she put on her profile except the engine cover was still on.
And so regular people don't know what that means.
Everybody else was like, yeah, that's like a stationary, that jet is not going anywhere.
amber athey
They also started creating actual sets of private jets for influencers to take pictures on.
But I have an intrusive thought question, which is what happens to the hot tub when there's turbulence?
tim pool
Turbulence is for a lot of planes.
I'll put it like this.
How many planes have you been on where you've had severe turbulence?
It's not.
amber athey
I don't find it as severe.
tim pool
Nothing that's going to disrupt a hot tub.
ian crossland
Like where it drops, you know?
tim pool
Yeah, that's increasingly rare.
The worst, I used to fly, I used to fly twice a week from 2014 to 2016.
I was literally on two or three planes every week.
And I only experienced serious turbulence one time.
And it was in New Zealand from Wellington to Auckland.
We dropped like 100 feet and it was, the women were all screaming and the men were dead silent.
phil labonte
Yeah.
I mean, I've done plenty of flying myself for, you know, being a band.
I just feel like the water would have serious turbulence.
tim pool
I'm going to say this again.
Flew on a billion.
So I know this guy who's a billionaire.
amber athey
It's physics.
tim pool
And he's like, I got a private jet.
We're going to be flying into New York.
If you need a ride.
And we were like, yeah, let's go.
It was me and a few other people.
And it was cramped, decently comfortable, private jet, no food.
They had a basket of pre-made deli sandwiches.
And I was like, nah, I'm okay.
I don't need it.
And no internet.
And it's a pretty tight space.
These people aren't just like, well, why not spend $500,000 on a 747?
They just don't do it.
Now, basketball teams, when they're transporting the entire team, again, calculate the cost of getting the team safely from point to point.
And I was in Chicago and I can't remember which team it was, but they had a 737 docked at the FBO at Signature.
And the guys there were like, yeah, it's going to be for about a week because they're playing several games.
And this is how they travel.
And the side of the plane said the team's name on it.
You're going to go on there and it's going to be pretty nice.
It's going to have like private rooms, but it's for a team of people and their staff.
So it's still like, you know.
But you can watch videos of like the jet that Taylor Swift has.
She has two.
She had a big one and a small one.
Ultra, ultra wealthy people do have very nice things.
However, again, most of the time you see these things, it's fake because you know who Taylor Swift is when she has a plane.
The other thing I'm going to stress is they charter their planes out.
Meaning, look, not anybody can just get one.
But if you're like your average, let's say you're a YouTuber and you're making $500,000, $600,000 a year.
What are you really spending your money on, right?
So let's say there's a 27-year-old dude.
He's making 500K on YouTube.
It's good money.
It's great money.
Okay.
So he's pulling about 40K per month.
And let's say he's running his own business.
So his taxes aren't coming out per paycheck.
He actually pays taxes quarterly.
So one month he gets 40 grand.
He calls a charter company and says, I want to spend $40,000 on a private jet right now, and I'm going to film on it, and I'm going to make a video of me and my private jet.
He then gets a 37 for a short trip where he's got all these amenities.
It's a one-time thing, and that's the end of it.
And this guy's not even an ultra-wealthy person.
He's just upper class.
So again, my point is, it's typically fake.
The ultra-wealthy people I know rarely do lunatic things like this.
Again, Bill Gates betting 20 bucks.
Don't get me wrong, Dana White famously bets $500,000 on Bach Rotten Blackjet.
That exists too.
I'm not saying it doesn't.
All right, everybody.
We're going to go to the uncensored portion of the show over at rumble.com slash Timcast IRL.
So smash that like button, share the show with every person in your life that you care about.
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Amber, do you want to shout anything out?
unidentified
Yes.
amber athey
If anyone knows what happens to the hot tubs during turbulence, please hit me up.
I'm on X at Amber Marie Duke and on Substack at State of the Day.
Thanks.
ian crossland
I know what it is, Amber.
I can tell you what happens to hot tubs on turbulence.
They have what's called internal baffling, where there's partitions inside the tub that reduce the wave motion, similar to a fuel tank.
amber athey
Fantastic.
ian crossland
There's also, they keep the levels filled or the low levels of the water.
They cover it with lids.
And if there's going to be turbulence, they'll get people out generally, but they also are pretty rare.
amber athey
Engineering is amazing.
ian crossland
Yeah, aircraft stabilization, man.
Hey, by the way, check out graphene.movie.
Speaking of all that, and go check out this new documentary I'm building, graphene.movie.
6'7 Kevin, man, he's producing it.
The guy's amazing.
So his work is incredible.
The trailer's up right now.
You can put in your email address and then join the mailing list.
It's graphene.movie.
Tate Brown.
tate brown
Yes.
Follow me on X and Instagram at Realtate Brown.
And tune in to the Timcast noon live show Monday through Thursday on, what's at noon?
It's in the name on Rumble.
I'll see you guys there.
phil labonte
I am PhilThremains on Twix.
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You can check us out at allthetremainsonline.com.
We're going on tour this spring with Born of Osiris and Dead Eyes.
We start in Albany on April 29th.
Get your tickets at allthatremainsonline.com.
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Don't forget the left lane is for crime.
Carter.
carter banks
It mogged me.
Shout out 6'7, Kevin.
Worked on Sen Fronter with him.
Great guy.
Funny, fun fact.
Today, I think it was three years ago, we had shot the Bright Eyes music video below us.
tim pool
Yeah, before it was complete.
phil labonte
Yeah, yeah.
carter banks
So you should check that out.
It's at Timcast Music.
Follow me at Carter Banks everywhere.
Follow our label Trash House Records on YouTube, everywhere else.
And yeah.
tim pool
All right, everybody.
We'll see you all at rumble.com slash Timcast IRL in about 30 seconds.
Thanks for hanging out.
Let's play the, while everyone's coming in.
We got a great video for you, everybody.
I think this one's better.
I think this is a better version.
unidentified
You can't do this.
It's wrong.
It's evil.
It's completely unethical.
What are you talking about?
This is madness.
You can't do this.
It's wrong.
It's evil.
tim pool
There you go.
Now Gordon Ramsey is yelling at Pelosi for being wrong and evil.
carter banks
Yeah.
tim pool
That's it.
Viable Trump Vehicle? 00:05:39
tim pool
Everyone left for some reason.
carter banks
Yeah, where is everyone?
tate brown
Having a powwow, I suppose.
No, Phil goes and loads up on fruit roll-ups, and then Ion is having a situation at the bathroom.
carter banks
Situational.
tate brown
I think he had a high acidity blend and it's causing problems.
Oh.
what's the situation?
What are we, we got to be uncensored.
What can we be uncensored about?
carter banks
Well, we were saying earlier today for the after show, yeah.
You were saying something Nick Fuento's coffee.
You were saying?
tate brown
No, it wasn't.
tim pool
Oh, I was like, just put Hitler on the bag.
unidentified
Yeah.
tate brown
But those before that, we were saying save something for the uncensored portion.
ian crossland
I have something for the uncensored portion.
Okay, Tate, before the show, he was like, yo, Nick was talking.
Nick Fuento's talking shit about me.
Said I'm a psychic victim of the Trump regime.
It's true, I think you are.
tate brown
I am.
I'm a proud psychic victim of the Trump.
unidentified
What happened?
ian crossland
Because when you were in high school, Trump was popping.
tate brown
I was 14 when he came down the escalator.
ian crossland
Was he the guy that red-pilled you?
tate brown
No, I grew up in a really conservative family.
ian crossland
But I mean, red-pilled like liberal economic order, deep state.
tate brown
No, my dad's been on.
ian crossland
You knew about that stuff?
unidentified
Okay.
ian crossland
Trump red-pilled a whole generation of people, a whole world of people that didn't weren't keyed into it beforehand.
tate brown
I know, I feel like I'm one of the very few people in the conservative commentariat who was like a conservative the whole time.
Like, I didn't have this like come to Jesus moment.
I've just like literally like, I remember being five years old and like rush limbal playing in the car.
ian crossland
Did you know about fiat, fiat currency, and all that?
tate brown
My dad has been like, he's been a very kind of like clued in guy my whole life.
So I actually remember him saying stuff and I remember thinking like, this is kind of crazy.
And then years later, him being vindicated.
And every single time I text him, like, yep, you're right.
What stuff?
A lot of it pertaining to, like, he was always big on like tariffs.
He was saying early on, like, with Trump, like, this is clearly the viable candidate, talking about the immigration problem, these sorts of things.
He's always been clued in on it.
tim pool
What's specifically on immigration, though?
tate brown
Where he was talking about how the volume of immigration is going to cause serious problems for like the working class.
tim pool
But what should we do about that?
tate brown
Mass deportations.
tim pool
That's it, though.
Nothing else?
tate brown
Well, that was a very unpopular position in the Republican Party in like 2014.
Like back then, it was very much like, you know, we could have amnesty or, you know, just certain deportation.
And he was always saying like he was very clued on the illegal immigration, the rust belt being, you know, rotted out from globalization, immigration, these are things.
He's been on that.
ian crossland
So when he's saying psychic victim of the Trump regime, what does he mean?
tate brown
Like with Nick?
ian crossland
I don't know.
tate brown
He's just saying, like, he was talking about me and John Doyle, and he was like, their continued trusting the plan, like their continued belief in Trump as a viable political project indicates that they're like mentally raped.
unidentified
Do you?
tate brown
Yeah, I think Trump's the most viable political project.
tim pool
Who does Nick want to win?
tate brown
I remember I asked him on the show and he didn't have an answer, but he was like, maybe Steve Bannon has a protest vote.
So for me, I don't want to get into, like, I don't want to like, I've always had this thing with, like, with, it's like, I don't want to, like, if he's not sitting here, I don't want to like, you know, make an argument and then he can't respond.
unidentified
Exactly.
ian crossland
I love talking about, I want to talk about this with all of us in the same room and get you guys to go back and forth on it.
tate brown
Yeah.
I mean, because like he's, he even said it on the show is like, we were friendly.
Like, I mean, we didn't have an adversary.
Like, he knew who I was, et cetera.
But, like, we got along.
I mean, you guys were there.
Like, me and him.
carter banks
Shout out afterwards.
tate brown
Yeah, we were friendly.
I mean, he's a nice guy.
Like, I don't have any personal problem with him.
ian crossland
Is there like a point where you would snap and be like, I don't support the plan anymore?
Like, if he did something, if Trump commanded some crazy thing, you'd be like.
tate brown
Yeah, of course.
I just don't think that's why I have trust in him because I don't think that'll happen.
phil labonte
Nick has been pretty clear that he wants someone far more authoritarian than he wants someone that he would consider actually right-wing.
tate brown
I guess if I have to address that point, like my critique with his strategies, he's saying Trump is not sufficiently right-wing.
This project has failed.
Therefore, we should withhold our votes.
The Republican Party learns their lesson and nominates someone more far right in 2028.
My counter argument is the GOP will not learn that lesson.
They will take someone far more moderate because they're going to say, well, clearly Trump is too far right, et cetera, et cetera.
And they will return to the norm.
phil labonte
And the fact still stands.
tate brown
I don't like it's whatever.
phil labonte
And the fact still stands.
Like, if you're going to say, well, I'm not going to vote, I'm going to withhold my vote and I'm going to try and get all the people that agree with me to withhold their votes so that way the GOP loses, the Democrats will get into power and they will exercise all the power they can and they'll do so much damage to the country.
And I guess his argument is, well, we need to see that kind of damage so that way there's a reaction.
But I don't think that I don't think that the situation would be, you know, I don't think that there would be a reaction like that.
I don't think that there's ever going to be enough people in the United States that are far enough right to satisfy Nick and the people that the type of people that he wants to run.
I don't think that they would ever be elected.
tate brown
Well, that was at the crux of our disagreement: okay, is Trump still a viable political vehicle for if me and him have overlapping goals?
tim pool
Nah, Trump's Buchanan.
tate brown
If we're both Zoomers, I think it's fair to say we have overlapping goals with how we would like the United States to look.
Then we would, my position was: yes, Trump is still viable because I don't see an alternative that's better, and I don't see one emerging.
Like, if it was his situation came to fruition, you know, okay, Trump, we withhold our vote, Trump loses.
The GOP is not going to have it come to Jesus Moment and be like, okay, we need to pander to the base.
They're just going to go back to business as usual because we haven't sufficiently cleared out.
We never will clear out the establishment.
It's going to take a very long time to do that.
Floating City Concepts 00:02:50
tim pool
I made it.
tate brown
I'm just having to play ball.
That's all I've done.
tim pool
Nancy Pelosi congressional stock trading scenario.
tate brown
Let's go.
unidentified
Yes.
Okay.
tim pool
There we go.
Look at this.
phil labonte
Look at all the books.
ian crossland
Yeah.
tim pool
She's the boss.
Look at all these books getting cooked.
Can she jump?
ian crossland
That's right.
tim pool
She's the boss here.
She's got an industrial.
Look at the fire.
ian crossland
Shake that pan.
It's going to be a bad thing.
tim pool
She's got an industrial kitchen here so she can make sure all the books are nice and cooked.
phil labonte
I'm going to be worth a billion dollars.
ian crossland
She's in the audience.
She's in the restaurant getting ready to eat this shit that she's about to do.
phil labonte
I don't know, but he's probably one employee.
unidentified
He's probably what's with the shape of this.
carter banks
Giant guy.
tim pool
What is going on?
She's going to walk through this.
I bet she walks right through it.
unidentified
Watch.
tim pool
Oh, I was wrong.
She can't jump either.
Wait.
Come on.
unidentified
Can you not get through, lady?
phil labonte
Nancy Pelosi can't jump.
tim pool
She can't.
unidentified
Wait.
Oh, she's just floating.
Woody hair.
phil labonte
Look at that.
She's a spritely lady.
tim pool
Did she just shrink?
phil labonte
She did.
carter banks
No, that guy was huge.
unidentified
Yeah.
ian crossland
When she dropped.
tim pool
No, she just got shorter.
phil labonte
She is much smaller.
tim pool
No, that happens when you get old.
ian crossland
Can you tell it to give her control?
The control button makes her do a dodge roll and things like that.
Does it get complicated?
tim pool
So when I made Goku, it gave him the ability to fly.
So it does understand these things about the characters.
Apparently, Nancy Pelosi is not one of those people who can fly.
Well, what I can do is floating city above Japan.
We like that one.
Nancy Pelosi in a jetpack.
ian crossland
I want to build a floating city if you guys are down with that.
tate brown
Sure.
ian crossland
I have an idea of how to do it.
Oh, how much money?
We'll figure that part out later.
But we need the schematic ballpark.
tim pool
Do you mean like a floating city on water?
ian crossland
No, it'd be like a big, it would be a bunch of spherical chambers made with aerogel, that lighter than air material, like a hydrogel.
tate brown
So the city.
tim pool
Like helium?
ian crossland
So if it gets punctured, it wouldn't break any chamber.
But we could develop it.
The hydrogel, dude.
It's not aerogel.
It's called hydrogel.
tate brown
I like it.
ian crossland
You can hit it with a hammer and machine it, and it's lighter than air.
tate brown
I like that.
unidentified
Yeah.
phil labonte
It's actually lighter than air.
Like it floats.
tate brown
I think we could do this on a budget, too.
I think we pulled this off on a budget.
ian crossland
Is hydrogel lighter than air?
phil labonte
And just because it's just because it floats doesn't mean that it can lift something.
tate brown
Where can we source hydrogel?
ian crossland
But if you vacuum it out, then it produces natural buoyancy.
tate brown
Right.
carter banks
That was my question.
ian crossland
And so if you have these things structurally strong enough that you can create vacuums in all these little spherical chambers, there will be a lift inside the body of the hall of the floating.
carter banks
Oh, I see what you mean.
tate brown
But if that were the case, like with like a space, an empty, you know, space bags, like people use for storage.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
tate brown
Use a vacuum to suck it out.
So if you had an empty space bag, then you suck out, wouldn't it just float?
carter banks
I think you mean like sucking it out of the container of all the stuff, right?
ian crossland
Like in the kind of hall of the ship, the floating ship would be a bunch of spheres that you vacuum out.
Floating Spheres Hall 00:03:38
tim pool
Yeah, talking to the microphone.
ian crossland
Oh, that's so it'd be like a big boat in the air, but in the hall of the ship would be a bunch of spheres that are interconnected with like cutoff valves that are all vacuumed out.
So there's all this lift.
tate brown
Right.
ian crossland
Only it'd be like terrestrial floating ships.
They wouldn't be able to take them up into terrestrial floors.
tim pool
I always wanted to play Space Pelosi.
You know, if there's one video game I really wanted, it was Space Pelosi.
unidentified
Yeah, dude.
phil labonte
Let's see it.
tim pool
And then we're going to go to callers and we got the Hades Farm Remembers.
unidentified
I misspoke Hades Farm, which is not lighter than air, but it is light.
phil labonte
I didn't know what's everybody doing this.
What's good, man?
tim pool
Just flying around Nancy Pelosi in Sky Japan.
tate brown
Oh, oh, it's not lighter than Epstein.
It is light.
It's a ton of fun.
It is light.
ian crossland
Yeah, flying.
tim pool
Oh, no.
unidentified
Jetpack, Jetpack.
tim pool
Nancy.
Nancy, don't fall.
ian crossland
It's like a 2035 project or something.
tate brown
I like it.
unidentified
There we go.
Let's go.
tim pool
We're going to go rob their stock exchange.
tate brown
What's up, big dog?
What's your cue?
So for tonight, I'm going to be my typical self and hit y'all hard.
Let's go.
unidentified
For the whole panel, with allied countries as friendly to pedophilia as the UK and France, as well as others like Norway, openly arresting people over the Epstein list releases.
What is the best that we can hope for from our quote-unquote leadership?
And what do you guys realistically expect them to actually?
tim pool
They're not going to arrest any of these pedos.
No one's going to do anything about it.
tate brown
And the question is, like, because people say this a lot, but it's like, who?
Who do we arrest?
Because there's nothing new in the Epstein files that we've seen.
Like, most of this is Podesta, still from the Podesta era.
Like, the one name people cite is like Lex Wesner, but it's like, if you go through everything that we have on him, it's you can't present that in court.
So it's like, I agree, but we just don't, we still don't have anything to actually like make arrests.
It's not there.
tim pool
There's a outside of the New Casper coffee location, someone put up a flyer, and they're probably all over Martinsburg.
And it says free haircuts for pedophiles and it's a guillotine.
unidentified
It's funny.
Yeah.
Beautiful.
ian crossland
Wexner seems to be the guy.
Like, he's the one.
Maria Farmer's painting, The Settles, was like a picture of everything she remembered when she was being trafficked and victimized on Epstein's Island and all the people and the familiar faces.
Of course, Guy Lane was at the center in this untouchable bubble.
She's this like lizard woman.
And then right below her is this demon, this like multi-headed demon that's Lex Wesner.
It's like the Victoria's secret funnel, you know.
But like Tate was saying, unless there's actual hard evidence, which I'm sure there's not if they did the job right.
tate brown
That's the thing.
It's like we haven't really, we've learned some new names that were involved with Epstein, but we don't have any new like incriminating evidence because it's just unfortunate.
Like any incriminating evidence, like if there truly is an elite cabal, which I believe is the case, I mean, it's not hard to believe at all, they would have had that evidence destroyed by now or it would have been moved somewhere else out, like somewhere else.
So it's like, this is why it's not worth spiking the Trump administration over this.
Because what do we want them to do?
I mean, it's like we just don't have, they're not sitting on, they're not protecting pedophiles.
They're not sitting on evidence right now.
Like they would, that would just be politically, completely politically unviable.
The evidence that we would have to, again, start making arrests is gone.
It's gone.
I mean, again, go back to Biden.
Like, Biden would have you, if Trump was a pedophile or there was other Republicans, they would have utilized it.
unidentified
Well, they would have thrown that at him for sure.
Yeah.
tate brown
So it's like, I share the frustration with the Epstein thing.
I've been following it for a very long time, but you have a lot of these OGs.
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