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March 13, 2025 - Tim Pool Daily Show

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Trump THREATENS MASSIVE 200% Tariff Against EU As GLOBAL Trade War IGNITES, China Hits Canada

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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
		I heard wines, and everybody's freaking out because California wine's not good, I guess.
		But Trump is hitting them where it hurts.
		Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the global trade war for which I care very little about.
		Yeah, the New York Times ran a story.
		With all of these back and forth tit-for-tats, retaliatory tariffs, you got Canada doing a $21 billion tariff.
		Now China's doing a tariff on Canada.
		Germany's saying that their economy's in trouble because of the tariffs that the U.S. is imposing.
		I don't care.
		The New York Times has written a story saying Trump's big bet is that Americans will tolerate a downturn in the economy if it means the restoration of its manufacturing base.
		And I'm all here for it.
		Now, I will say right away, it is easy for me to say, and I can respect that.
		The challenge Donald Trump is facing is that regular people may not be able to withstand a massive economic downturn.
		Y'all remember when Bill Maher was like, if a recession stops Trump, bring on the recession.
		Then it's like, my dude.
		Let me just say, first and foremost, there's nothing to be gained from that.
		Right.
		Bill Maher's view was people are going to get sick, depressed, die, can't afford medicine, fall into debt, file for bankruptcy.
		But at least there's no Trump.
		Well, that's insane.
		But I do recognize that as I sit here right now, celebrating everything Donald Trump is doing, I'm a bit more comfortable than the average person.
		That's just a fact.
		And I know a lot of people are going to be hit hard by this.
		So I know Donald Trump needs to get a handle on this quickly.
		Here's the thing.
		I'm not sitting here cheering for the Democrats losing office or saying, bring on the recession because it'll make me feel better.
		I am outright saying we do not want a recession at all.
		But sometimes you got to rip the Band-Aid off.
		And I feel for those who are going to be hit by this.
unidentified		But I don't know what else you do.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		These tariffs that Trump is putting in place are good for this country.
		I am going to break it down for you guys.
		No.
		I always talk about skateboards because we make skateboards.
		And I'm going to show you how they are lying to you.
		These liberals come out and they're like, you're being taxed by Donald Trump.
		The tariffs are a tax on you.
		Lies.
		The answer is simple.
		Take a look at this example.
		West Virginia.
		In West Virginia, they just passed this bill banning artificial food dyes.
		Now there's a fear.
		That big companies are going to pull out of West Virginia.
		But let me ask you, my friends, should we continue to eat petrochemical dyes, which many are associated with chronic illness, or should we get ourselves off the drug?
		The fact that there is an economic attachment to this does not mean we should keep eating coal tar derivatives.
		I recently ordered some 12,000-year-old wheat strain, low-gluten, glyphosate-free, imported Italian wheat flour.
		And that's the extent that I have to go to have, like, a real waffle?
		It seems crazy, doesn't it?
		We have to sometimes do hard things that hurt us because they do right by us in the long term.
		You can imagine it any way you want.
		Let's say you broke a bone.
		And you know, resetting it is going to hurt.
		So you say, I'm not going to do it.
		It's too painful.
		You know, in that short term moment, it's going to suck.
		But you have to do it in the long term.
		If we stay down this course, there will not be an American economy.
		There will not be jobs.
		The left keeps saying, the liberals keep saying, we need illegal immigrants to come in to do the jobs Americans won't do.
		Why won't Americans do these jobs?
		That's a lie.
		Americans absolutely would do these jobs.
		They should do these jobs.
		You just got to pay them for it.
		You know, I'm going to tell you this.
		It's real simple.
		The easiest way to understand that the left has been lying to you the whole time is, I don't know, how about them going and torching electric vehicles?
		Like, that seems to make no sense, right?
		But the big issue at play right now is the gap between the wealthy and the poor.
		And it was Bernie Sanders himself 10 years ago who said, Open borders policies.
		It's a Koch brothers proposal.
		It steals from the American worker.
		It's bad.
		Where's Bernie now?
		Marching in lockstep with the neoliberal establishment.
		Let me just give you the simple version.
		If I got to pay 20 bucks an hour to somebody to go harvest grapes.
		And my grapes are more expensive.
		That means I got less disposable income for, say, I don't know, the new video game or something, right?
		The luxury item.
		But that person who is getting paid, who has a job to produce the grapes, is making a living.
		He can support his family or she.
		What ends up happening is the wealthiest individuals have to pay more for labor so their profits go down.
		It balances that wealth gap that the left claims to care so much about.
		If you have to pay, you know what they say?
		They say they're these companies where the CEO can only make five times what the lowest level employee makes.
		So if the lowest paid employee is making $50,000 a year, the CEO only gets $250,000.
		The left cheers that.
		Why don't we just have policies that reflect that?
		Why don't we have policies where Americans demand in an American market what they're worth and what they should get paid?
		And that means profits for these big companies might go down.
		What the left is advocating for is that big corporations, auto manufacturers can send all the jobs to Mexico, to China, and they can hire people for pennies on the dollar while Americans are left wanting.
		Learn to code, I guess.
	Well, I'll tell you this.
	With Trump's new tariffs, with this trade war that's erupting, companies are already falling in line because they know what comes next.
	And there are reports that auto manufacturing plants are once again starting to return to the United States because these companies see the writing on the wall.
	It's not a question of what Trump has done.
	It's a question of what Trump will do and where this country is going.
	So if you're an auto manufacturer and you're sitting there and you're like, look, Trump is going to do this.
	He's going to put a tariff on our vehicles.
	We're going to lose insane amounts of money.
	Before that happens, let's get a manufacturing plant set up in Indiana as quickly as we can.
	Uh-oh.
	You're going to have to hire some Americans to do that job, and Americans deserve a living wage, right?
	So the profits might go down.
	That's the point of the tariffs.
	It's funny because Trump's move on the tariffs is exactly how you increase wages for the working class.
	It's exactly how you increase the buying power and you decrease the wealth gap.
	I love it.
	In Trump's first term, there was a very famous moment where I can't remember which economist came out and they said, under Donald Trump, we are seeing four-day work weeks.
	The economy is so good that some businesses actually started giving an additional day off to employees.
	Wages were up.
	Unemployment was down.
	The greatest numbers of our lives.
	Where are we now?
	The left says everything Trump is doing is evil.
	They would perpetuate the very system they claim harms them.
	Ladies and gentlemen, let's take a deep dive into this trade war.
	Before we get started, head over to castbrew.com and buy Cast Brew Coffee.
	Let me tell you, my friends, we, of course, source our beans from all over the world.
	Coffee is not just an American product.
	Kona, Hawaii.
	It's really funny.
	I love this.
	When the Colombian tariffs hit or when they were threatened, when Trump was like, if you move against us and don't take these criminal migrants that came to our country, we will tariff you.
	And all the left was like, oh no, our coffee.
	And it's like, guys, they were saying that America doesn't have coffee.
	With these tariffs, you're not going to get, we have Kona coffee.
	And to be fair, it's expensive, but we have coffee in America.
	It's in Kona.
	Hawaii?
	It is expensive.
	It's considered to be some of the best coffee.
	It really is.
	But we get coffee from all over the world.
	We sell it at casperu.com.
	You can buy it there.
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	You're going to want to watch that one.
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	We also do sell at boonieshq.com.
	Skateboards.
	Everybody loves the boobies and the right to arm bears.
	Look at that.
	It's a bear and he's got a shotgun.
	How funny is that?
	You can be the life of the party when you mount that on your wall or ride around on it.
	We got a bunch of different skateboards and some will be retiring soon.
	But I brought this up not to just generally promote our skate brand, but to talk to you about the tariffs and why it's the greatest thing in my mind.
	I am so grateful to Donald Trump.
	I'm going to break it all down for you.
	First, let me give you the news, but I will get to this story very quickly.
	Don't forget your 28th Amendment skateboard.
	The right of the people to keep bear and breed chickens shall not be infringed.
	Look at that chicken.
	It's based.
	So let's start here.
	Before I start harping on why, I am going to give you hard facts and proof in the actual market numbers.
	Tariffs are a good thing.
	Let's start here.
	Trump threatens massive 200% tariff on the hostile and abusive EU targeting champagne and alcohol.
	And as you know, it's not really champagne unless it's from the Champagne region of France.
	So that sparkling wine you got from California isn't real.
	President Donald Trump is threatening a 200% retaliatory tariff on champagne and wine out of Europe in the latest salvo of his trade war.
	The president lashed out at the hostile and abusive EU. I'm going to tell you why Trump is right right now.
	When Trump says we're putting a tariff on steel and aluminum, it's his way of saying, guys, we need Americans to start manufacturing steel and aluminum.
	It's not about insulting the EU or targeting other countries.
	It's about him saying, we need these factories back so we can rely on ourselves.
	Reignite the American manufacturing base.
	And strengthen ourselves internally, especially if there's a looming conflict with Russia or China.
	The EU gets mad, and so they put a tariff on other products like America.
	I believe it's American whiskey.
	Yeah, U.S. produced whiskey, starting red states.
	Trump is not doing this to insult the EU. He's doing it because he wants to create a market where American steel can be produced.
	And that means we do not want to compete with Europe.
	Europe says, but we make money off you.
	Fine.
	If you don't want to let us make money off you, we're not going to let you make money off us.
	So Trump then says, OK, let's play ball.
	Let's see how long they can handle this one.
	And I'm still going to defend Trump's tariffs.
	In the latest volley, Trump threatened 200% tariff on all wines, champagnes and alcohol products after the EU raised tariffs on American goods, including whiskey.
	The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the world, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50 percent tariff on whiskey.
	He wrote if this tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200 percent tariff on all wines, champagnes and alcoholic products coming out of France and other EU represented countries.
	This will be great for the wine and champagne businesses in the U.S.
	Trump's move would drastically raise the prices of European wine for Americans.
	The president doesn't drink.
unidentified		I like Donald Trump so much.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's funny because in his first term, I was not the biggest fan.
		He was much more crude and crass.
		I believe so.
		And a lot of people have pointed this out.
		He kind of chilled out and he won me over.
		I love that he doesn't drink.
		I do not drink either.
		I have maybe, I'm not a teetotaler, right?
		I have maybe one or two drinks per year.
		If there's a celebration, I will imbibe.
		But I am a health nut.
		That's why we had a sponsor recently.
		It was, I want to make sure, it's Field of Greens, Brickhouse Nutrition.
		And I am, they didn't pay for this.
		They paid for a different sponsor spot.
		But I am massively impressed with their product.
		It's basically like pulverized greens and vitamins.
		And it's green, but it tastes like strawberries.
		So anyway, I digress.
		I am a health nut.
		When I read that Trump doesn't drink, and that's the story, the story is he's never had a drink in his life.
		I don't know if I believe that.
		I don't know.
		It's a hard thing, right?
		Even accidentally, you might have a little alcohol.
		But maybe Trump never intentionally did.
		Still, I don't know if I believe that.
		But his brother was an alcoholic.
		And he took it very seriously.
		And I tremendously respect that.
		I am not a fan of alcohol.
		I'm not a fan of people drinking.
		We used to carry a bunch of fine boozes for the studio.
		And it's because I'm not, like, I'm not going to come down on somebody.
		I understand people like things I don't like.
		You know.
		I eat health foods, but I don't care if somebody eats potato chips or Pop-Tarts.
		Sometimes I'll have a Pop-Tart.
		We got Pop-Tarts.
		I'm not so much I impose my world on other people, but I respect people when I see them doing things that I believe are right.
		As you probably do as well, right?
		Like someone's driving around in their car and they're driving the right speed and you're like, that's what I'm talking about.
		Someone's going too slow.
		They're a moron.
		They're going too fast and a maniac.
		But when they're doing what you think they should be doing, you're like, that's a man I respect.
		The EU on Wednesday slapped new tariffs on American goods in response to Trump's decision to implement a 25% increase in tariffs on incoming steel and aluminum.
		Of course I'm going to respond.
		European spirits exports to the U.S. stood at 2.9 billion euros in 2024. In comparison, American whiskey exports stood at 699 million in 2024. But that whiskey number was actually a 60% coming after earlier tariffs were suspended.
		Europe is a growing and significant customer of American whiskey.
		I gotta tell you, man, I can respect European wine.
		I really can.
		But they gotta respect our whiskey.
		Ain't nobody does it like America.
		We got the best.
		We really do.
		Japan's okay.
		But we're better.
		Not a big drinker, mind you.
		From the AP, let's see where we're going, baby.
		Canada and the EU swiftly retaliate against Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs.
		This is where it begins.
		And this is, we get it, we get it.
		25% reciprocal tariffs on steel products, raise the taxes on a host of items, tools, computers, servers, display monitors, sports equipment, and cast iron products.
	I just want to stress this.
	You are giving Trump what he wants.
	These people don't seem to realize it, but they are.
	Let me run through a couple of these early examples of the global trade war and where we're at, and then I'll explain why this is exactly what Trump wants, and then I'm going to prove why it's great.
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	French.
	I'm sorry, French.
	Fresh Chinese tariffs on Canadian agricultural and food products open new front in the brewing trade war.
	This is from about a week ago.
	Canada and China are going at it now.
	It's getting hot.
	The BBC. U.S. tariffs could extend Germany's recession, says Bank.
	Sorry, I don't quite care about your recession, Germany.
	Cry more.
	Cry more.
	Here we go.
	Now, the market may be freaking out, and you're going to hear a lot from the media saying the end is nigh, Trump is bad.
	But let's start here.
	From CNN, of all sources, I want to just kind of just say this again.
	CNN, egg prices are finally falling.
	But they're about to spike again.
	Sure.
	But they are coming down.
	And currently, they did drop below the entry point from when Donald Trump became president.
	So they were like at six-something.
	650, I think.
	They dropped down to six.
	And they're averaging about $6,085 a dozen nationally, down 15%.
	Okay?
	So you want to wave your little egg cartons, everybody.
	I love this one from CBS. Why expert says low gas prices could be a sign of economy in trouble.
	I want you all to just revel in that one and kind of just bask.
	Expert says low gas prices could be a sign of economic trouble.
	Now I ask you, Americans, do you feel like the economy is in trouble when the gas prices come down?
	I'd love to hear his reasoning.
	I'm not saying he's wrong.
	Gas prices are down again this week in Massachusetts.
	And they've been steadily declining since January, and it's national too.
	Historically, gas prices begin to creep higher as warmer weather and busier driving season begins.
	Why are they falling?
	AAA said the current declining prices are due largely to falling crude oil prices and uncertainty about the economy in the months to come.
	With a switch over to pricier summer blended gasoline mere weeks away, prices are likely to increase down the road on that fact alone, but market uncertainty is muddying the waters for the time being.
	Ultimately, the lower cost of crude oil is weighing heavily on gas prices.
	Can you believe these people?
	Gas is cheaper for all of you.
	You can get to work.
	You can bring your kids to school.
	You're saving money.
	The economy is worse.
	I ask them all, if that's what a bad economy looks like, what do they think a good economy looks like?
	When gas is at $6 a gallon and you can't afford to go anywhere and you're struggling to get to work and you've got no money for food?
	That's a good economy?
	These people are nuts.
	Here's the cost of cars.
	So look at this.
	In 2024, the cost of cars dipped a little bit.
	It went up.
	And then at the end of the year, and mind you, this is Joe Biden's term, it dropped significantly.
	Then into January, it dropped quite a bit again.
	As of right now, it's barely up with all of the tariffs and all of these whinging libertarians being like, but now my cars are going to cost more.
	Trump's been waging this trade war for some time.
	It's a month and a half.
	And we've seen an increase of 0.19%.
	Now, don't get me wrong.
	An increase is bad.
	I get it.
	I get it.
	But what if the goal and the actual accomplishment here is we bring back auto manufacturing to the U.S., a long-term benefit to Americans?
	So these people come at me.
	Stocks are slipping.
	And, you know, I have seen some people say they're on retirement.
	And this is the 401k is taking a massive hit.
	It's negatively impacting their ability to budget.
	Not good news.
	Market volatility.
	I tell you, I'm not going to sit here and say Trump's taking it easy.
	He's got a big battle ahead of him.
	He needs to get a handle on this in whatever way he can.
	I think there's something to consider.
	We may just be looking at a standard correction in the market.
	Things were overvalued.
	I couldn't believe it.
	Did you guys let Spotify stock was at $650 or some ridiculous number?
	That was crazy to me.
	Let's see where it's currently at because I think stocks are all way down.
	Currently, let's see where we got with this.
	Spotify is at $537.
	Wow, they're down 7% over the week, 15 for the month, but they're up 12% over the past three months.
	I digress.
	I certainly think, like a lot of companies, are dramatically overvalued.
	And what we're seeing now is a correction.
	Why?
	Because the people who are selling and getting out can afford to.
	If they couldn't, they'd stay in.
	Now, there's another reality here.
	Doesn't apply to every single person.
	A lot of retirees, they can't afford it.
	It's rough.
	I get it.
	But we call this a buying opportunity.
	If you have a stable job, if you have income, this is what people refer to as a buying opportunity when the stocks are low.
	Trump is going to bring it all back, baby.
	I hope.
	Look, you want to go to a liberal channel and hear them scream and cry all day long about how no matter what Trump does, he's wrong?
	By all means, you can find them all over YouTube.
	You want to go to a conservative channel and hear them just talk about how Trump can do no wrong no matter what?
	It ain't going to be here.
	Trump was wrong on TikTok, and that's the easiest thing.
	And while I agree with the tariffs, we must consider Trump may not succeed here.
	This may go south.
	This may go bad.
	This is a gamble, but I think it's the right move.
	I don't think Trump is a perfect guy, but I think he largely is doing well, and he's exceeded my expectations this time around.
	There's a lot to criticize him for.
	Indeed, like I mentioned, TikTok's the easy one.
	You've got foreign policy questions.
	You've got enforcement actions happening right now in his administration.
	We're wondering, is that the right move?
	You've got a story breaking in NBC about a 10-year-old girl.
	She's an American.
	She's got brain swelling, recovering from brain surgery, but her parents are illegal immigrants, so they deported the whole family.
	She was on her way to a doctor.
	To get a checkup.
	I don't want to see a 10-year-old girl die.
	I don't want to see her have severe brain swelling.
	I think this is a horrible story.
	I also think the parents are largely at fault for being illegal, entering the country illegally, I should say, and thinking that you could just bring your kid here and live this way and get away with it.
	But that being said, sometimes you've got to be magnanimous.
	And if Trump is going to navigate all of this stuff properly, he's got to avoid the landmines.
	I don't think people should bring their kids here or come here pregnant to have a kid so the kid gets citizenship.
	I don't believe that.
	I don't believe that's fair.
	Birthright citizenship has been largely abused.
	But you've got to look at the individual circumstance in this one.
	A 10-year-old girl who survived brain cancer?
	Now's not the time to be nitpicking.
	Now's the time to be like, look, we're going to save this 10-year-old girl and make sure she lives.
	But we're not going to give a free pass to everybody.
	And I think it's fair to say...
	Go to the doctor, get the checkup, but you are going to be deported unless you want to leave the child here in care of the state.
	I'm not playing this game with these liberals.
	My point is largely, it's not going to be so cut and dry to come out with a blanket, shut her down.
	Trump's going to have to navigate minefields on this one, or I suppose it's three-dimensional, so it's asteroid fields, actually.
	Trump's big bet.
	Americans will tolerate economic downturn to restore manufacturing.
	The president offers many reasons for imposing tariffs, including revenue, leverage over competitors and job creation.
	But history suggests a more complex history.
	Great writing there, New York Times.
	Yikes.
	They should hire someone better.
	Now I'll show you.
	What this David Esanger has.
	But I actually have a hard example because we here over at Timcast, we got a company called Boonies HQ. Boonies Skateboards.
	We have a YouTube channel.
	Subscribe to Boonies HQ on YouTube.
	Follow us at Boonies HQ on Instagram.
	And you can watch our silly shenanigans.
	And we just had a, let me show you a video actually.
	You're going to want to see this one.
	It is the greatest video.
	Everybody agrees.
	At least that's what I've been told.
	And where are we at?
	Check this out.
	This is what I'm talking about.
	This is a guy.
	He just pogo-sticked over the Cybertruck.
	See, we're having fun.
	But my point is, I bring that up.
	We are building a cultural brand and we make skateboards here in the United States.
	And we are competing with companies that have their skateboards.
	The wood comes from Canada.
	They send it to China or Mexico and then bring it back to the U.S. so they can get dirt labor to make it.
	We don't do that.
	We have Americans make it in America.
	And we charge less and pay more to our team.
	I'll get into that in a second.
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	President Trump's simultaneous trade wars with Canada, Mexico, China, and the European Union amount to huge economic and political gamble that Americans will endure months or years of economic pain in return for the distant hope of re-industrializing the American heartland.
	I'm for it.
	It is enormously risky, as I was just saying.
	In recent days, Mr. Trump has acknowledged, despite all his confident campaign predictions, that we are going to boom like we have never boomed before.
	That the United States may be headed into a recession fueled by his economic agenda.
	But in public and private, he has been arguing that a little disturbance in the economy and the market is a small price to pay for bringing manufacturing jobs back to America.
	Imagine this.
	You get a hard year or two.
	People are mad at Donald Trump.
	Four years from now, a strong manufacturing base reignites the heartland and the economy is booming.
	And Trump is leaving office with the greatest numbers of our lives.
	That's what I hope for.
	My fear is that Democrats will take the midterms and they will shut this down because they're evil.
	I'm sorry.
	You know, look, I could be more diplomatic.
	But I don't think we should we should play that game.
	I've long thought about this.
	Like, you know, do I really want to be the guy where every video is like the Democrats are evil?
	AOC and Rep.
	Paulina Luna had a bill they worked on together to cap interest rates and credit cards.
	And I tweeted, like, thank you.
	I appreciate and respect this.
	I think it's the right move.
	The libertarians are whinging.
	They're saying it's stupid, it's a bad idea, and you're dumb if you support it.
	But I'm like, credit cards in general are very bad, and we shouldn't have them.
	So I'm a fan of this bipartisan effort from AOC and Rep.
	Paulina Luna.
	Maybe my understanding is different from why they're actually doing it, but I want to actually damage the credit industry.
	A lot.
	So I'm for it.
	But I digress.
	I don't want to just every day when I'm going to make videos like it's always Democrats that are doing bad.
	Well, to be fair, it is.
	And this is the conversation that's been happening for a long time now.
	I remember I was talking to my mom because she was like, how come all your videos are always about Democrats are bad?
	And I was like, because they are.
	And she asked me like, well, why don't you make videos about Republicans?
	And I said, OK, for sure.
	Tell me something a Republican's done.
	Crickets.
	And I said, seriously, like, give me like a big shock story that's nationally trending, major story about Republicans, and I will absolutely make a video on it and call out why it's bad.
	Yeah.
	You don't really have it.
	I mean, you've got some stuff.
	Remember when we were trying to oust Kevin McCarthy?
	That was when we were all celebrating upstarts going after the Republican Party as a whole.
	Yeah.
	I don't know, Donald Trump and TikTok?
	That's obvious.
	Here's the hard reality.
	Democrats support the military-industrial complex.
	They want to fund wars.
	My entire life I have opposed this.
	And the Democrats used to be the ones that were opposing it.
	Well, kind of.
	They always sort of did, but they pretended not to.
	Bush is bad.
	And then the Democrats are the ones who end up starting these wars.
	They want to fund all of it all the same.
	It was a lie.
	The Republican Party does, too.
	But Trump is something different.
	So now you have a demure Republican Party marching behind Donald Trump, who brought on RFK for HHS to make America healthy again.
	100% behind that.
	Brought on Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence.
	Huge fan.
	I supported her for president in 2020. So there were Democrats that I could praise, but they've all been kicked out of the party.
	What's going to happen in the midterms is that Democrats are going to be like, we literally have no policies.
	We don't care.
	We just want the power.
	That's it.
	Donald Trump is doing things.
	Doge is gutting federal bureaucracy.
	If we lose in the midterms next year, end of next year or a year and a half away, Trump will not be able to complete his agenda, and they will make sure to burn this country to the ground so they can blame him to win power in 2028. Be
	it one grain of sand or a dump truck full of sand.
	Add your say and be active.
	If everybody right now, paying attention, stayed paying attention.
	Did not miss a beat.
	We will increase our majority in the midterms, and we will be able to get this job done.
	Trump just needs this term.
	I'm hoping.
	I'm hoping.
	Here we go.
	They say his closest political partners are doubling down on this strategy.
	President Trump's economic policies are simple, J.D. Vance wrote.
	If you invest in and create jobs in America, you'll be rewarded.
	We'll lower regulations and reduce taxes.
	But if you build outside the U.S., you're on your own.
	I mean, think about it, my friends.
	It's like exercise.
	If you don't use it, you'll lose it.
	The left just says, learn to code.
	Remember that?
	Learn to code.
	Oh, your job is gone?
	Learn to code.
	Well, now you have AI doing all the rudimentary coding anyway.
	So that's not going to happen.
	Man, once we hit artificial general intelligence and the AI is programming itself, yikes.
	The last time Trump tried something like this during his first term, it was a failure.
	In 2018, he put 25% tariffs on steel and 10% on aluminum, maintaining that he was protecting America's national security and that tariffs would ultimately create more jobs.
	Prices jumped, and there's a temporary increase of about 5,000 jobs nationwide.
	So it failed.
	During the pandemic, some of the tariffs were lifted.
	And today, the industry employs roughly the same number of Americans it did then.
	So you're saying it worked, it traded 5,000 new jobs, and then the pandemic ruined everything?
	I don't disagree with that, but why are you calling that a failure?
	More worrisome, though, were the raft of studies that followed during the country lost tens of thousands of jobs.
	So that's the argument.
	Fine.
	Upward of $75,000 by one study in the industries that were dependent on steel and aluminum imports.
	The output per hour for American steelmakers also dropped, while productivity for manufacturing overall in the manufacturing overall in the United States rose.
	So let me put it this way. .
	You have, in the United States, industries that are dependent upon China and Mexico for aluminum and steel.
	So what you're saying is that we are giving over all of our leverage to them?
	So you complain, good sir, that with Donald Trump's tariffs, These businesses that needed aluminum and steel from China and Mexico weren't able to operate.
	Man, I just, the libertarians, guys, you know what?
	I like the Mises guys, but some of these libertarians and the liberals, it's anti-Trump, so they'll take it.
	What happens if China says we will no longer export aluminum to you?
	The argument is, yeah, but they need to because they need the money, not if they're intending to attack our economy.
	They will start at any point.
	A secondary manufacturing business based off their aluminum and steel.
	Cut us off and then tell me how bad you think the job losses are going to be.
	So how about we bite the bullet?
	That's the point.
	Take a small term hit for a long term gain.
	They want to say that the experience Trump is attempting now is far larger and the retaliatory tariffs that are being imposed on U.S. manufacturers with the Europeans aiming at Kentucky bourbon as well as boats and motorcycles made in swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania are exquisitely designed to cause pain in places where Mr. Trump supporters will feel it most.
	Indeed, indeed, they are interfering in our political infrastructure, targeting tariffs on things that will hopefully hurt the Republicans in the long term.
	I want to explain to you, my friends, why Trump is right.
	Here you go.
	I give you skateboarders' favorite, Shredder.News.
	Now, don't worry about the skateboard component of it.
	Ignore the word skateboard.
	I know a lot of people don't care about it.
	Let's just talk about product.
	Product prices climb to $90, while secondary product hits $15, and Trump's tariffs are just getting started.
	Boards will be more expensive.
	Nope, that's wrong.
	That is fake news.
	I commented, Shredder News, for those that don't know, is, I don't know, skateboarding is a dying industry, and this is a commonly read news source for skateboard industry stuff.
	Skateboard decks are up to $90, and grip is at $15.
	That's not correct.
	Boards will be more expensive.
	No, they won't.
	Boards will get cheaper.
	I guarantee it.
	Let me show you the story.
	Schroeder says,
	And this story is from March 5th, by the way.
	There's going to be these tariffs.
	We already saw this, right?
	President Trump also added another 10% tariff on all imports from China on top of the existing 10% tariff from last month, impacting products like wood, electronics, shoes, and medicines.
	These new tariffs are in addition to the ones that were already in place during his first term.
	For example, the Santa Cruz 8.25 Asta Space Cat skateboard deck is currently priced at $91.95 on Zoomies, while the Creature X Sketchy Tank Martinez Trippy Tanks, geez, these product names are stupid, skateboard is at $93.95.
	Even though Martinez was named Skater of the Year in 2019, his boards are pretty pricey, making them not worth it for a pro deck.
	Uh-huh.
	So don't buy it.
	On the other hand, Shake, Junt, Mob Grip, Welcome Grip are priced at $14.95 with DGK coming at $17.95.
	For skaters who go through grip tape pretty frequently, these prices seem way too high.
	They do.
	Yeah, that's so expensive.
	Oh, heaven's me.
	Skate rats are feeling the squeeze as deck prices keep soaring and the whole tariff situation is just adding to the stress.
	With costs already climbing, a lot of folk are beginning to wonder, beginning to wonder, How much more they'll have to fork over for decent gear in the near future?
	Some brands are trying to keep prices in check, but premium decks are quickly turning into luxury instead of something you can snag on the regular.
	Sure, some might look for budget options, but with most skateboard production happening in China, Mexico, and Canada, it's hard to figure out how long those alternatives will stay cheap.
	It's hard to say if this is a little bump in the road or the start of something bigger.
	One thing's for sure, skateboarding is getting more expensive, and if those tariffs come into play, things can get a lot tougher.
	Wrong!
	I replied to him.
	It's just not true.
	Here's Zoomies.
	Zoomies.com, for those that don't know, is a culture mall shop.
	We don't really like Zoomies.
	He mentions in his article, $91 for a skateboard because of tariffs.
	Those are luxury items.
	Bro, you can buy professional branded decks for $64.95, okay?
	And many of these are still manufactured, surprise, surprise, in China, Canada, and Mexico.
	Some are $75, and there are some that are expensive.
	This Mike Mo game over blind is $100.
	You want to know why?
	Mike Mo is a pro skateboarder who I believe this is his last skateboard ever because he seriously injured himself.
	That's a premium collector's item being sold at a premium if you're a fan of a professional athlete.
	But let me tell you the truth.
	The truth is we launched an American brand called Boonies.
	We make all of our skateboards in America.
	BooniesHQ.com.
	We have a variety of sizes and graphics.
	We have the Mr. Bocus Pro Model.
	That's right, my dead cat has his own professional skateboard.
	We sell in four different sizes.
	I know, some people like their weird wonky sizes.
	For those not familiar with skateboard, it's just sport equipment.
	You've got a variety of sizes that are popular, ranging from 7.75 inches, 8 inches, 8.25, and 8.5 inch boards.
	Some people like weird sizes like 8.38 or 8.62 or 8.125.
	Get out of here!
	We don't got none of those.
	So maybe you do want those, fine.
	Okay, fine.
	Take your boards.
	The point is, I ask you this, my friends.
	I take a look at Zoomies selling these professional boards for $65.
	Usually they get free grip tape.
	Grip tape is basically, you know what it is.
	It's like a grippy, sandpapery thing you put on top of the board.
	Everybody is going to come out and tell you that Trump's tariffs are destroying the economy.
	They're bad for the economy.
	And here we see it from the skateboard side saying, look how expensive the boards are.
	Why don't you buy American made?
	These boards are premium quality.
	OK, fine.
	Don't buy from us.
	My point is this.
	It was not difficult for me with not a heavy investment.
	It was a few thousand dollars to get started.
	I know it's not something everybody has.
	But in terms of starting a business, a couple grand, and we were able to get our initial product line.
	And we sell our boards for $55.
	So tell me why the tariffs are supposed to make everything worse.
	We source everything from the United States.
	Well, the wood, I'm not entirely sure where our wood shop gets their wood from.
	But I tell you this.
	They come to us and say, here's the cost of a skateboard.
	I say, okay.
	They say, here's the cost.
	We got to do the graphics.
	Great.
	Now, here's the best part.
	Right now, our existing professionals are getting a $15 royalty for their names on these boards.
unidentified		Why?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They're the ones selling them.
		That's the point.
		You know how much these other pros get?
		They'll sell a board for $65, and the pro rider whose name is on it will get a dollar or two.
		So I am done playing these games.
		They are lying.
		Not in every industry.
		Fine.
		So be it.
		But I can tell you this, my friends.
		It is entirely possible to make products in America with great quality at discount prices.
		These boards are fantastic.
		They're excellent made.
		Made in America.
		Screen pressed and printed in America.
		Shipped out directly to you.
		Now tell me why I should be sending these jobs to China or Mexico.
		Insane.
		So I praise.
		I support Donald Trump.
		And I'm going to say it again.
		The average cost of a used car is up only.19%.
		Okay, fine.
		It's up.
		That's a bad thing.
		I can't speak to the entirety of the auto industry, but I can't speak to my industry.
		And I am telling you, we have been getting ripped off this whole time across the board.
		We can make wine here.
		Yeah, but the European stuff is so good.
		Then fine.
		If you want a luxury premium product, pay a luxury premium price.
		But don't destroy American vineyards and wineries because you want cheap bargain bin French wine.
		Look, where we are in the West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Tri-State, vineyards everywhere.
		People make wine.
		You can go to these wineries and they have so much.
		And they say, yeah, but it's not nearly as good.
		If you want it to get better, you need to make it possible for people to earn a living, survive, and have a family.
		When you gut these industries and allow cheap products to flood our borders, people stop investing in American.
		So I'll tell you this.
		When we were launching the Boonies skateboard brand, because that's what basically behind me, you'll notice there's a window.
		That's our skate park.
		We're doing a remodel soon.
		Big professional remodel.
		Many pro skateboarders lurk the halls and have filmed amazing videos.
		Shout out to Sean Hover.
		We got told by these distributors, I said, why don't you go with China?
		And I said, why?
		They said the Chinese boards are comparable quality at a discount price.
		And I'm like, well, it's kind of weird because we have to ship the wood to and from China.
		Shouldn't that dramatically increase the price?
		No, here's the best part.
		Chinese workers work for slave wages.
		Yeah, no, I'm not okay with that.
		We would have saved, I think, something like five bucks per board.
		And they're like, think about that.
		You could put that money in your pocket.
		And I say, I don't want the five bucks in my pocket.
		What I want is a sustainable business that creates culture and expands the American dream.
		I want there to be a guy.
		Who's 30 years old with two kids.
		And he says, I got a 401k.
		I got two weeks of vacation.
		And my job is I make skateboards.
		Now, hold on.
	Many of you may be saying, because I get this a lot, skateboards are silly toys and adults shouldn't be using them.
	The point is that somebody can have a job and support their family and own a home making such a thing instead of giving it all the way to China and Mexico.
	Why are we allowing companies to sell out the American worker for slave labor in a foreign country?
	They argue and they lie.
	We save money.
	That's the argument I got.
	But it's going to get more expensive for Americans.
	Well, I pointed this out in the beginning of this show.
	Sure, it's going to balance things out because the market dictates.
	Here's what happens.
	Right now, you want to make a car?
	You can get slave labor in China or Mexico to do it.
	Largely, Mexico is where they—I say slave labor, but just call it discount labor.
	In America, we have minimum wages, so you literally can't hire people at all.
	Democrats voted for that, too.
	How about that?
	So you open a car manufacturing plant, and you say, I want to be competitive in the market to compete with Mexican-made vehicles, but I can't because I literally have to pay you at least X amount of dollars by law.
	Then, environmental regulations.
	OSHA regulations.
	You can't do it.
	You cannot compete.
	The rules they set up.
	So what did Trump do in his first term?
	He started cutting regulations, making it easier for people to hire, and put tariffs on foreign-made products so the American worker could be competitive.
	My God, the only politician I've seen in so long who actually cares about the American worker is Donald Trump.
	And you know the funny thing is they say, but Tim, even if with these tariffs, the American-made product will be more expensive.
	Riddle me this, mother, why is it that if I want to buy one of these pro-model skateboards, they're $65, $70 at the low end, and I can manufacture a board, get it out the door with a profit, and pay our team riders a $15 royalty.
	Riddle me this.
	How did we do it?
	How did we do it?
	Because they're lying to you.
	These companies sell your manufacturing to foreign countries, boost their profits, and shove it in their pockets, and the workers get nothing.
	They're scumbags, okay?
	I love skateboarding.
	I know, again, it's very esoteric, but I grew up skating.
	I skate almost every single day.
	We film stuff, we post stuff, and I want to make sure that people who want to make a living inspiring, expanding, and building up that culture that's a multi-billion dollar industry, an Olympic sport that was born here in these United States, I want to make sure they survive.
	I am sick and tired of hearing pro skateboarders are Uber drivers, or they do DoorDash deliveries.
	I'm not kidding.
	Or they work...
	Meanwhile, the big companies have been selling out your manufacturing to China and Mexico, so you can't even work in a factory to make this product, and the pros get a dollar when they sell a boat with their name on it.
	They make a couple hundred bucks a month, they can't pay their bills, and so they end up working at fast food restaurants.
	They end up delivering groceries through Instacart.
	This is what happens when you allow people to gut your culture, gut your industry, and sell you out.
	Now I know, I understand skateboarding, but I imagine it's the exact same thing in the auto manufacturing and everywhere else.
	These companies are extracting the value by selling out the American worker for short-term gains.
	And over the past several decades, you can take a look at the Rust Belt in this country and see what's exactly happened to these people.
	The mass exodus from Michigan has destroyed their infrastructure, resulting in the Flint water crisis.
	It is all connected.
	Let me tell you about the Flint crisis.
	And why these people are screwing us over.
	And why I back Trump 100%.
	I know it's risky.
	I know it's easier for me to say.
	I know that a lot of people are going to hurt from this.
	And I want to make sure that everybody makes it through.
	Let me tell you the simple chain of events for Flint, Michigan.
	The auto manufacturing industry was destroyed by NAFTA. Mexico gets our auto manufacturing plants.
	They're paying workers with no union rights, with no health benefits.
	They pay them dirt wages to make the cars.
	They import them for free, no charge, free trade.
	That makes the cars relatively cheaper.
	More importantly, it gives them the ability to drop prices to compete with any American auto manufacturer.
	So what happens?
	I largely don't blame the auto manufacturers.
	This was guaranteed to happen.
	They jack up environmental regulations, OSHA regulations.
	I'm not completely opposed to these things.
	It's just a point of fact.
	The companies then say they're selling their car for 20 grand.
	How do we sell a car for cheaper than that?
	We move our plant to Mexico.
	We can cut down quite a bit.
	So they do.
	Now they're selling cars for 19,000 out of Mexico.
	Auto manufacturing plant in Michigan, in Ohio, in Indiana, they say we cannot make cars that cheap.
	We have regulations.
	We've got to pay our legal fees and we've got to pay the workers a living wage.
	So what does the company say?
	The only way we're going to be able to compete is if we reopen the plant in Mexico.
	And so they do.
	One by one, we lost the manufacturing, and it's not just auto manufacturing in general, from the Rust Belt.
	So here comes Michigan.
	Michigan has a core infrastructure, namely their water infrastructure.
	It is a fixed cost that does not change.
	Michigan used to have a hustling and bustling population.
	Now it's facing mass exodus as the industries have collapsed and fled.
	Along comes Flint.
	The example that I often give, I'll simplify it.
	Let's say you have 100 people and they're all in a room and there is plumbing to that room.
	The plumbing doesn't grow.
	The plumbing doesn't shrink.
	The plumbing is there.
	The plumbing costs 100 bucks per month for this big, massive room.
	Hey, it ain't bad.
	Everybody's paying $1.
	I can afford a dollar, right?
	So can you.
	Well, eventually, the jobs held by some of those people in this big office room are sent away.
	And so they say, guys, we can no longer, we don't even have a dollar to pay the water anymore.
	We can't be here.
	We're going to go find work somewhere else.
	And they leave.
	The remaining 50 people now have to pay $2 for that water infrastructure.
	It is a fixed cost.
	You say, okay, Our costs just doubled.
	That's bad.
	I guess we're gonna have to make it work.
	More jobs start leaving.
	You start seeing a mass exodus.
	This is literally what happened in the Detroit and Detroit suburban area.
	As people fled, the water infrastructure costs remained static.
	But the amount of people it was distributed amongst did not change.
	Certainly there are excess costs for more usage.
	You have a house, you pay a water bill for using more than others.
	But to maintain the entire system and water reclamation and the plants downtown and sanitation and all of these things are fixed costs that don't change.
	As the population left, prices of water increased per resident.
	Flint eventually had the highest water cost in the country.
	So the government of Flint said, why are we paying for expensive Detroit water when we have a river right here?
	In order to alleviate the pressures, they switched over their water supply to Flint River water, which was disgusting.
	And a bunch of people got sick.
	Legionnaire's disease.
	Not to mention, the pipes were leaching lead.
	It's a whole different story.
	They didn't have the money to retrofit these pipes.
	But the switching over put contaminated water in their pipes that Flint could not maintain properly.
	It is all interconnected.
	The crumbling of the American infrastructure, the failures of these cities, and then the insults that come along with it.
	They say, look at Detroit, looks like a bomb went off.
	That wasn't a bomb.
	That was free trade.
	And these libertarians have the gall to come to me and to you and say, it's better that I get a cheap car.
	Really?
	Our cities have been gutted by this.
	Crime is running rampant.
	Poverty is, well, poverty is relative.
	So I will just say, We have a lot of problems.
	Not all of it stems from outsourcing, but a lot of it does.
	This is the market's race.
	So what does a tariff do?
	Trump says, we're going to charge 30% if you import a vehicle.
	Insert car manufacturer.
	They say, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on.
	We're getting that dirt labor from Mexico.
	But that $20,000 car now is going to cost us $6,000 to import.
	We can't turn a profit at that rate.
	What do we do?
	We have no choice.
	We have to reopen in Indiana and Michigan.
	And that's what they've started to do.
	Not because Trump has enacted anything, but because the threat that he will.
	So, I'll say this, and then we'll grab some of your rumble rants and super chats.
	When I look at the skateboard industry, and I see the biggest companies, they're woke, they're gatekeepers, They're condescending and arrogant.
	They make their boards in China and Mexico.
	They pay the pros pennies on the dollar.
	And they whinge and complain.
	There's no reason.
	Here's the reality of these cars and these skateboards and any product.
	Once the American industry has been destroyed, the competition is now just between people in a foreign country.
	So what happens is, well, these skateboards get made in Mexico and they know.
	As long as we all kind of just stay where we are price-wise, there's no competition.
	The big names, the big gatekeepers all say, we have the best pros.
	We won't sell for less than $65.
	We'll give the rider a buck.
	And they're probably putting, based off the volume of boards they buy, I bet it costs them $13 to $14 per skateboard to make.
	There is a chain.
	The manufacturer sends it to a distributor, so they're probably selling the boards at $40 to warehouses, who then distribute it to various other companies, though with the internet, that's largely changing.
	I know how much boards cost.
	Depending on where your board is made and the quality and all that, you want a top-quality board, blank boards in bulk can be as cheap as $15 per board.
	Now, let me tell you about Booney's boards.
	The cost, we have graphic design.
	We have the distributors.
	And so the prices end up going upwards of around, I think, $35?
	Between $30 and $35 per board.
	That's all through the chain.
	Then, here's what we do.
	$15 goes to the pro rider so they can buy groceries, pay their gas bill, live, eat, sleep.
	Maybe even save it to own a home if they sell enough boards.
	$15.
	We give 15 times more royalties to the pro riders for our team, and we're looking to expand.
	It's not going to be 15 for everybody because it's entirely dependent upon who we have to hire next, and I get that.
	$10 goes to the company.
	What do we do with that $10?
	We reinvest it in the marketing apparatus to try and sell more and grow the brand.
	We are not making a profit off of this company.
	We are reinvesting it.
	Everybody who works there is getting paid.
	They're able to live.
	That's phase one.
	Phase two is we want to invest in the marketing and increase sales and through volume and expansion of culture, make a profitable business.
	But I digress.
	We could stop where we are and we make a profit on our boards and say, look how much money we made.
	I want to do better.
	That profit gets reinvested into marketing and expansion.
	Again, it's a choice we make as a company to grow.
	So we reinvest.
	We are not making a profit right now by choice.
	We want to make more in the future.
	It would be great if we could reignite a culture where people could make hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars as professional Olympic athletes.
	But it's going to require people who actually care about this country, the American worker, and their culture.
	I'll say it again because I understand a lot of people just look at skateboarding as very esoteric.
	It's whatever.
	I don't care.
	It's not a big industry.
	It's a dying industry.
	It is dying specifically because it is being abused at the top by scumbags who have sold it out to foreign countries for the tiniest bit of profit.
	20 years ago, they said, let's make our boards overseas.
	And they did.
	And since then, skateboarding went from a multi-billion dollar industry to an afterthought.
	It's in the Olympics, sure.
	But I think the highest paid professional skateboarder makes $400,000 a year.
	And in the top 10 highest paid skateboarders, number 10 makes, I think, $130,000.
	Hey, don't get me wrong, that ain't bad.
	But for an industry that is so massive, low six figures?
	Yo, pro athletes in football make millions over their career, or at least a couple million.
	Yeah, skateboarding's in the gutter because of how they handle this industry.
	Let me grab some of your Superchance and Rumble rants.
	And we'll talk about what's going on.
	We got this one from Matthew.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	It says Mike.
	That's not Matthew.
	It says Mike.
unidentified		Okay.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I personally don't need a notification to tell me your show comes on Monday through Friday at 8 p.m.
		for years.
		I think it's wrong the notification don't get sent, but it doesn't affect my viewing.
		Glad to hear it.
		I do appreciate it.
		We have tremendous success on Timcast IRL. The show's been growing despite the suppression.
		Here's the issue.
		On average, I think one person will watch 10 episodes, I think 10 episodes per month.
		And we do, I think, what are we doing, 20?
		Which is really good.
		So most people who watch are core.
		But what about the other half?
		Many of these are casual viewers of the show, passive viewers of the show.
		They're not every night turning on Timcast IRL to watch.
		They might see it and go, oh, I'll watch IRL tonight.
		Oh, here's an interesting episode.
		If YouTube actually notified 100% of my subscribers, we would be getting 300,000 to 400,000 concurrent viewers every single night.
		YouTube refuses to do it.
		Rumble, they notify you.
		If you're on Rumble and you have the app and you say, I want to subscribe to this channel, Rumble will notify you.
		They don't play this weird game.
		I think the reason YouTube does it is they are concerned about not being able to control top talent.
		Mr. Beast is safe.
		They know he plays ball.
		They know his content is very chill and very easy.
		So they just push him forward.
		Based on our retention time, our click-through rates, and all of our metrics, Timcast IRL should be substantially larger.
		But they intentionally push us down.
		As for this show as well, our retention time is massive.
		And there's always an excuse.
		The reality is it's the tiny room shadow ban they do.
		They don't want political shows like this.
		Ooh, they're scary.
		The reason why we get as far as we do is because they know we don't break the rules.
		But it's one big dirty game.
		So, I see big stuff happen with Rumble because of the way their system operates.
		One of the biggest complaints every YouTuber has had forever is that...
		People who subscribe to channels don't get notifications.
		And they'll be like, I subscribed, I hit the notification bell, I still don't get notified.
		And so we ended up in this era where people are like, make sure you subscribe to this channel and hit the little bell to make sure you're notified.
		Do they still even have that little bell, by the way?
		How insane was it?
		What was the point of a subscription if you're not going to get notified?
		You subscribe.
		Well, the argument they made was people have subscribed too much.
		Okay, well then they can unsubscribe.
		YouTube, in my opinion, If someone subscribes, they should get a notification every single time.
		And if that individual's got a problem with it, they can be like, dude, I gotta unsubscribe from some of these.
		Right?
		Yeah.
		Instead, they just don't.
		And so people who want to watch the show don't get it.
		Let's grab some of these rumble rants.
		Let's see what we got here.
		Let's see.
		Sigan.
		Is that your present?
		Is it Sigan?
		Kona coffee is good, but try some from Kau.
		Ooh, cow.
		Southern Big Island District.
		Bomb.
		I like it.
		I like it.
unidentified		Yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Kona's pretty good.
		Il Sarto says, guess what happened to the Mexican agriculture industry when new auto manufacturers paid slightly more than farming?
		Displaced agricultural workers.
		Sounds familiar?
unidentified		Mm-hmm.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Jason Swank says, Damn, Tim, I've watched you for years since the Cannes videos.
		What's that?
		I don't think you can call yourself a fence-sitter anymore.
		You're so compelling when you get passionate.
		Keep up the good work.
		To be fair, the milquetoast fence-sitter was a joke someone else made.
		And I don't think I've been fence-sitting for six or seven years.
		Yeah, about then.
		And to be fair, I always maintained positions on free speech and things like that.
		Let's grab a couple more.
		DexandDice LLC says, I want to do the same thing as you, Tim, but only in the geek nerd world.
		Reintroduce the old-schooled LGS. Is that local game store?
		Feel and bring back a common-sense geek nerd.
		Getting traction being noticed?
		Almost impossible.
		It's like beating my head against a wall.
		Culture is being crushed by these institutions and by social media.
		That's why people are like, I keep telling everybody, join the Discord server.
		Timcast.com.
		Click join us.
		Get in the Discord server.
		We got a local game store down in Martinsburg.
		They're fantastic.
		It's Mamba Collectibles.
		And sometimes I'll go there and I'll play some Magic the Gathering Commander.
		I got a bunch of MTG Commander decks.
		Play Magic.
		Have since the game.
		I played since the Antiquities expansion.
		It's like 1994. To be honest, as a little kid, I had no idea what was going on, but I learned.
		And I skate and I play music.
		And the question is, where's the communal gatherings?
		Where's the people who come together?
		You go to a local game shop.
		You go on Commander Night.
		The place is packed.
		That's what I'm talking about, baby.
		We need networking and human interaction in the real world.
		Right now, there are many people who don't know how to do it.
		Do you go to a bar?
		Do you go to a game store?
		What if you don't play the game?
		Do you go to a skate park?
		I don't skate, right?
		Those are things I do.
		It's easy.
		I go to a skate park.
		I skate.
		I meet people.
		Some people are mean because of who I am, you know what I mean?
		And most people are chill.
		The funniest thing is the people who smack talk online, oh, they chill out in two seconds when you show up.
		And then you're handing out free product and oh boy, are they crying.
		But my friends, join the Discord.
		It's the first step.
		You simply just say, what up?
		And then someone might say, hey, I'm a big fan of taxidermy.
		And you're like, Actually, yeah, I did a little bit of taxidermy before.
		Me too.
		Next thing you know, you got a group of people and you're talking about taxidermy.
		If that's what you're into.
		We need people to connect.
		Because right now, the way Instagram, TikTok, and everything works, it's decentralizing in a disgusting and disturbing way.
		A few years ago, people coalesced around YouTube channels.
	It's decentralizing.
	And now YouTube is no longer the big player.
	It is still, don't get me wrong.
	I'm just saying, When we do sales, we don't actually track for a single platform.
	Now it's just attention in general across the board, which is worrying.
	Because this means no longer are there going to be a hundred people who know.
	Every night I watch the show, I do this thing.
	TikTok is destroying this.
	Instagram is destroying this.
	Super fast videos of general purpose, AI generated.
	And what happens?
	People are slowly moving towards living in the pot and eating the bugs.
	They're going to lock themselves in their room and they're going to swipe up and they will attach to nothing and culture will be destroyed.
	So I call upon all of you.
	Get active.
	I'm going to wrap it up there, my friends.
	Smash the like button.
	Share the show with everyone you know.
	Thank you all so much for hanging out.
	And we'll see where we end up.
	We've got more segments coming up for the rest of the day.
	One more coming up at noon.
	Things are getting scary out there, my friends.
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