April 28, 2025 - Tim Pool Daily Show
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| This morning, Spain, Portugal and France were hit by massive power outages. | ||
| Now, at first, I got to be honest, I didn't think it was that big of a deal. | ||
| I said, you know, OK, well, parts of these countries were hit with power outages. | ||
| OK, so what's the big deal? | ||
| To be fair, if in the United States we heard that Indiana, Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania were suffering power outages to the tune of millions of people with no explanation, it would be a really big deal. | ||
| Fair. | ||
| But we're not Europe. | ||
| And then two big stories dropped. | ||
| I should say two speculative stories dropped. | ||
| One, first and foremost, could this be a cyber attack against Western interests because of what is going on with either Israel or Ukraine? | ||
| The fear, of course, is that this could be Russia or Russian interests targeting the West with a massive cyber attack to disable infrastructure. | ||
| The purpose is to create friction, shutting down electricity for trains, airports, stores. | ||
| Whole city centers are wiped out. | ||
| This is crazy. | ||
| These videos are pretty nuts. | ||
| This is going to grind your economy to a halt, and it's going to effectively disable your ability to assist at any kind of war effort. | ||
| Now, they denied it. | ||
| They're currently investigating whether or not this could be a cyber attack, but another story dropped. | ||
| They're saying this is the result of a strange Atmospheric phenomenon. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| High voltage lines were negatively impacted by some sky event. | ||
| And then, of course, the speculation is aliens. | ||
| Not that I actually think it was aliens, but this is a bit disconcerting considering outside of this, we have two big stories. | ||
| Of course, the most salacious, not necessarily salacious, but the most pressing is how did three countries get hit with major power outages that we cannot explain? | ||
| It is good news on the Ukraine war front in that Russia has proposed, or I believe they've initiated a three-day ceasefire in good faith as Trump has called for talks to negotiate peace. | ||
| Now, the bad news is that Israel expresses their intent to strike Iran with or without the United States. | ||
| But if we go, the word came down that Trump said, you know what, we're not getting involved in this. | ||
| Israel wants to bomb Iran because of their efforts to build a nuclear weapon. | ||
| And ultimately, it came down to Donald Trump saying, we're not going to do it. | ||
| This, of course, has Israel infuriated, as it were. | ||
| And they're saying, fine, then we'll do it without you. | ||
| I don't believe the U.S. should be involved in a war if Israel wants to ignite one by bombing Iran. | ||
| But that's besides the point. | ||
| Could Iran have targeted Western forces, Western countries, or perhaps Israel or someone? | ||
| The fact remains, we don't know what caused the outage, and there is another simple explanation. | ||
| Let me just stress that when infrastructure crumbles and millions of people are left without, it's kind of scary. | ||
| And it could just be that we are facing population collapse, social decay, and an inability to maintain our critical infrastructure. | ||
| One shocking story that I saw that's been going around, despite it being about a The fertility crisis we are facing in the West isn't something that happens slowly over time. | ||
| It was a hard generational stop. | ||
| That means because millennials did not have children, there is going to be an abrupt implosion, abrupt, instantly, overnight, because there aren't enough 18 to 20-year-olds. | ||
| I kid you not. | ||
| Millennials are now entering their 40s. | ||
| They were supposed to have kids in their 20s. | ||
| They didn't. | ||
| And this means that now 20 years later, we were in our 20s and now it's been almost 20 years. | ||
| Colleges will have no new students and they'll begin to crumble. | ||
| There will be no new services for this demographic and it's going to cause a chain reaction. | ||
| What we ended up seeing after COVID retirements is that people who ran the infrastructure, ran these companies, ran these jobs, they retired. | ||
| And there's not going to be a younger generation to replace them. | ||
| So as it goes with this power outage, maybe it's not war. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| But my friends, I want to give a shout-out to Stephen Crowder and the Mug Club for rating this stream on the Rumble morning lineup. | ||
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| I'm your host, Tim Pool. | ||
| We've also got a very interesting interview with Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy as he explains quite literally that he saw video of vehicles going into water and leaving with no explanation, as if the water wasn't even there. | ||
| I talked to him about what's going on with these transportation stories, aircraft collisions, whether or not it's real, or media hyped up. | ||
| So we'll definitely get into that, as there is a bit of an overlap, but we do have this interview to play for you. | ||
| So that'll hit around the half an hour mark of the show. | ||
| But for the time being, we'll get into this big story about these power outages. | ||
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| Let's grab that story from the New York Times. | ||
| And actually, you know what I want to do? | ||
| I'm going to play this video for you quickly just showing what we are seeing first with this chaos. | ||
| So I'll turn the fancy music down for a second. | ||
| You've got people walking through subways. | ||
| Pitch black. | ||
| Only emergency lighting. | ||
| Subways shut down. | ||
| Trains not moving. | ||
| People just walking with their flashlights. | ||
| Again, only emergency lighting available. | ||
| You can see it once again. | ||
| Empty streets. | ||
| Empty subways. | ||
| And this is going on for some time. | ||
| Now, just in and of itself, I kind of thought, who cares? | ||
| To be completely honest. | ||
| Like I mentioned in the opening of the show, if word came down that from Indiana, Ohio, and parts of Pennsylvania lost power, this would be the top of the biggest news in every network. | ||
| But it's Europe, so we're kind of just like, so what, right? | ||
| Well, take a look at this. | ||
| From Newsweek. | ||
| Europe power outage caused by rare atmospheric phenomenon. | ||
| Wait, wait, wait. | ||
| What? | ||
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Energy firm Wren has said that it may take... | |
| A week to restore power fully because of the situation that they find themselves in. | ||
| They put out a statement saying that due to extreme temperature variations in the interior of Spain, there were anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines, a phenomenon known as induced atmospheric vibration. | ||
| They said that as a result of this and the need to rebalance electricity flows internationally. | ||
| It is thought that it could take a week for the network to return. | ||
| OK, I'm going to say this. | ||
| I don't know that it's a cyber attack or a directed energy weapon. | ||
| But I lean towards that. | ||
| Look, it is entirely possible that what we're really dealing with here is infrastructure collapse due to. | ||
| Let's just call it the millennial generation ain't fair and too well. | ||
| Is there a phrase we can come up with that references that we don't have enough Gen Alpha and Gen Z to run infrastructure? | ||
| That may be the most likely, I gotta be honest. | ||
| I know people want to jump to cyber attack or, I don't know, maybe aliens. | ||
| But if you really wanted to go towards aliens, I'd argue it in fact may be worse than that. | ||
| A directed energy weapon attack from orbit. | ||
| Aircraft or maybe even using certain frequencies of energy to bounce off, seriously, the moon or some satellites. | ||
| You know what's fascinating is it sounds like science fiction, but it's completely real. | ||
| You can bounce signals off the moon. | ||
| It can be done. | ||
| So I don't know if there's enough energy to fry power lines, but let's read the story from Newsweek and then we'll read whether or not it could have been a direct cyber attack from an adversary. | ||
| I don't want to act like it's not possible. | ||
| Reuters reported just this morning, Iran repelled large cyber attack on Sunday. | ||
| So I'm wondering if this might be retaliation. | ||
| They're not going to tell us. | ||
| We will be in the dark. | ||
| We just don't know. | ||
| But I got to be honest, looking at this, I lean towards cyber attack. | ||
| Here's a story from Newsweek. | ||
| Spain and parts of Portugal and France on Monday were hit by a widespread power outage caused by a rare atmospheric phenomenon, according to the Redis Energeticas Nacionas. | ||
| I can't. | ||
| I don't know Spanish. | ||
| Oh, I'm sorry. | ||
| That's Portuguese. | ||
| Portugal's operator said. | ||
| Oh, that's Portugal's grid operator. | ||
| The power outage has brought public transportation to a standstill, caused significant traffic jams and delayed flights. | ||
| The disruption has impacted millions of people. | ||
| Matches for the Madrid Open Tennis Tournament have been suspended. | ||
| Portuguese banks and schools have closed. | ||
| And hospitals in Spain have been forced to run on generators. | ||
| REN told Sky News on Monday that the outage was caused by a fault in the Spanish electricity grid, which was caused by a rare atmospheric phenomenon. | ||
| REN said that as a result of extreme temperature variations in Spain, there were anomalous oscillations in extremely high voltage lines. | ||
| Wren said this is known as induced atmospheric variation, which in turn can lead to oscillations. | ||
| This caused synchronization failures between systems, leading to successive disturbances across the European network, which is interconnected. | ||
| Given the complexity of the issue, it could take as long as a week for the network to return to normal. | ||
| E-Redis, which is the national energy supplier for Portugal, has also shared a statement on the blackout where they said the interruption was due to a problem in the European electrical grid. | ||
| Spain's electrical operator, Red Electrica, said that all resources are being dedicated to solve the issue. | ||
| France was also impacted by the power outage. | ||
| A spokesperson for France's electricity transmission operator, RTE, told CNN that it experienced a small power cut. | ||
| Electricity was restored very quickly, adding that its main focus is now helping Spain to restore their power. | ||
| European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote an ex. | ||
| I spoke with the Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, about the power outage in the Iberian Peninsula. | ||
| I reaffirmed the EU Commission's support in monitoring the situation with national and European authorities and electricity coordination group. | ||
| Madrid Mayor José Luis Martinez Almeida said in a video on ex. | ||
| I ask all residents of Madrid to keep their movements to an absolute minimum. | ||
| And if at all possible, to remain where they are. | ||
| Eduardo Prado, director of services for system operation in Spain, told broadcaster La Sexta, the experience of other similar events that have taken place in other countries indicate to us that this process, the total reestablishment of the electrical supply, will take several hours. | ||
| We could be talking about six to ten hours if everything goes well until we reestablish supply to every last customer. | ||
| Now, my understanding is that they have. | ||
| That it has been restored and things should be returning largely to normal. | ||
| So, what does it really matter then? | ||
| From our good friends over at Hindustan Times. | ||
| Ah, yes, the premier source. | ||
| Now, I hate to disparage. | ||
| That came off a little condescending to Hindustan Times. | ||
| But they are one of the principal top news outlets. | ||
| When you search on Google for stories, this is what pops up. | ||
| Now, I don't know that I completely agree. | ||
| It is being investigated as a cyber attack. | ||
| I doubt it would be Russia launching a cyber attack right after a ceasefire, however. | ||
| But I'm once again going to bring up the generational crisis we're experiencing. | ||
| But here's the story. | ||
| Cyber attack in Spain and Portugal. | ||
| Is Russia behind the sudden power outage leading to blackouts? | ||
| OK, I'm going to say I doubt it. | ||
| I doubt it. | ||
| But they're going to mention. | ||
| Cyber attacks have targeted Spain in light of its opposition to Israel's war in Gaza and its backing of Kiev against Russian aggression. | ||
| The National Cryptologic Center and the Defense Staff-affiliated Joint Cyberspace Command, which is in charge of cybersecurity, are investigating the blackout. | ||
| So let me just stress, they are, take it with a grain of salt, reporting that Spain has been hit with cyber attacks in the past. | ||
| This incident reminds of the earlier power grid attacks, particularly in Ukraine. | ||
| About 230,000 Ukrainians suffered power outages in December of 2015 due to a concerted cyber attack that was assigned to the Russian hacking collective Sandworm. | ||
| A year later, Kyiv saw more outages as a result of a similar attack that used the Indestroyer malware. | ||
| Is that what it's called? | ||
| SoftRep reported. | ||
| However, there's no confirmation yet about Russia's involvement in the Spain and Portugal power outages. | ||
| And don't forget France. | ||
| Portugal and their grid operators, of course, they are saying, guys, this is just a bizarre atmospheric phenomenon. | ||
| Space lasers are causing the desynchronization and then power outages are happening as well. | ||
| Of course, the joke on the Internet is that the aliens are targeting Spain and France. | ||
| I doubt it. | ||
| I do think cyber attack makes the most sense. | ||
| I know I need to say it again just to clarify because the corporate press is going to take everything I say out of context. | ||
| I really think there's a massive infrastructure-based problem with the next generation being unable to take over. | ||
| Retirements forced by COVID. | ||
| We are going to start seeing plane crashes. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| The people who are taking on these jobs are not going to have the same skill base. | ||
| They're not raised in the same way. | ||
| There is a talent and managerial crisis affecting the West. | ||
| Yo, I want to do a bigger segment on this, but take a look at this. | ||
| The number of 18 year olds is about to drop sharply, packing a wallop for colleges and the economy. | ||
| America is about to go over the demographic cliff. | ||
| It should be clear to everybody that what's happening in Europe right now is not a one-off, but probably going to get worse. | ||
| And I've heard people make this argument. | ||
| It's not a big deal. | ||
| It's going to be fine. | ||
| Who cares if population collapses? | ||
| You take a look at Detroit. | ||
| And I hate to drag Detroit. | ||
| They got beautiful stuff there. | ||
| I'm not saying it's all bad. | ||
| But Gary, Indiana, Detroit, places where population leaves. | ||
| It is not just that people will start working for each other or they'll make farms. | ||
| No. | ||
| That happens too. | ||
| But it's that infrastructure decays. | ||
| Bridges will break and collapse. | ||
| Railroads will collapse. | ||
| The power will go out. | ||
| The water will stop running. | ||
| Infrastructure has a fixed cost. | ||
| Mind my allergies. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| I'm like fighting a sneeze massively. | ||
| Infrastructure costs are fixed. | ||
| And as population declines, it will be harder and harder to maintain these systems. | ||
| But it is possible. | ||
| That we're dealing with something more substantive. | ||
| And that is, maybe it's a cyber attack not likely from Russia, as Putin has declared a ceasefire in Ukraine, as Trump suggests Zelensky may cede Crimea. | ||
| Blaine's reporting out of Russia, Ukraine war, I don't think indicates Russia is going to be involved in any kind of cyber attack. | ||
| Russian leader Vladimir Putin announced a temporary ceasefire Monday, hours after President Donald Trump said he believed his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, was prepared to give up his claim to the Crimean Peninsula in part of a longer term truce. | ||
| The Kremlin sent a note to the media that the ceasefire would begin at midnight local time, May 8th, and end at midnight May 11th, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, when Russia celebrates its victory over the Nazis. | ||
| The note added, It comes after Trump suggested Zelensky may be willing to give up Crimea. | ||
| Which Russia illegally annexed in 2014. | ||
| I would just like to add. | ||
| Illegally? | ||
| This is the stupid... | ||
| Okay, guys. | ||
| NBC News thinks you're stupid. | ||
| They think you're morons. | ||
| But to be fair, a lot of morons read NBC News. | ||
| Illegally? | ||
| Is there a, I don't know, an international policing body that determines whether or not it's legal or illegal to claim territory by referendum, even if you stage the referendum? | ||
| Like, this is the point. | ||
| Russia claims they went in and they had a referendum. | ||
| I say it's largely BS. | ||
| I mean, people in Crimea did want independence. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| And 20 years, 30 years ago, they were fighting for it and they were shut down by the Ukrainians. | ||
| Now, to add the word illegally. | ||
| OK, they annexed it. | ||
| They took it. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| It's so stupid. | ||
| But NBC thinks you're stupid. | ||
| So asked if you thought Zelensky would ready, was ready to cede the peninsula. | ||
| Trump replied, I think so. | ||
| If Ukraine's leader were to agree to such a measure, it would mark a major shift in Ukraine's stance on giving up land for peace. | ||
| In what looks to be a potentially pivotal week for efforts to bring at least a pause to fighting in Ukraine, upbeat comments from Trump administration and Zelensky over the weekend were followed by Putin's spokesperson Monday, who said the Kremlin was ready to begin peace negotiations with Washington and Kiev. | ||
| OK, I want to highlight this because, guys, I think it's good news. | ||
| The New York Times reports with Trump and Zelensky meeting, Ukrainians see a glimmer of hope. | ||
| Let's go end the war. | ||
| We don't want to waste our money on it. | ||
| We don't want to dump billions of dollars into it. | ||
| We don't want to be involved in a conflict which may result in attacks on our infrastructure. | ||
| What people need to understand is that cyber attacks are happening all day, every day. | ||
| There's just varying degrees. | ||
| And if they wanted to, our enemies could shut down our grid. | ||
| They don't need to use nukes anymore. | ||
| When we talk about the use of nuclear weapons in war, This is, we're talking about, what, 70, 80-year-old technology? | ||
| Okay? | ||
| 80-year-old. | ||
| Now, to be fair, we've massively upgraded our nuclear capabilities in the 60s and 70s when we created the MIRVs, multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles, where not just one bomb, but 12 in one intercontinental ballistic missile. | ||
| So sure, just one of those could pepper the eastern seaboard and wipe out tens of millions of people, which is nuts. | ||
| However, when it actually comes to war, the bigger fear is likely going to be that you will get a massive power outage. | ||
| People will die. | ||
| They will die for various reasons. | ||
| And you won't know who did it. | ||
| And fearing an escalation, your government may actually just say, we're not going to tell our people we were attacked. | ||
| Keep them in the dark because we do not want to go to war. | ||
| And that's what's scary. | ||
| Now here we go. | ||
| This is from ian.as.com. | ||
| What is a cyber attack and why can they take out power grids? | ||
| This story. | ||
| This is the narrative that's running. | ||
| Major power outages across France, Portugal, and Spain have many wondering whether a cyber attack caused them. | ||
| Why are such attacks so dangerous? | ||
| Just this morning, massive, really massive electricity outage hits Spain. | ||
| This we know. | ||
| Millions of people experience the outage. | ||
| Luckily, in parts of the Iberian Peninsula and France, electricity is being restored. | ||
| Look at that massive drop-off. | ||
| Here's the point. | ||
| First, elderly people who rely on air conditioning, and they do, could either die of heat stroke and exhaustion, or they could freeze, depending on how cold it is outside. | ||
| A lot of people seem to think that if it's like 65 degrees, it's fine. | ||
| You can go outside. | ||
| You can hang out. | ||
| People actually die, even when it's like 60 degrees, from exposure. | ||
| It's pretty nuts. | ||
| Just being exposed to the elements, stripping your body heat away, can take your life. | ||
| Now, I don't know about right now in the season. | ||
| It's probably fairly nice. | ||
| I don't think we're really worried about extreme temperatures. | ||
| But you do have diabetics who require refrigeration. | ||
| It's only a few hours. | ||
| I think they'll be okay. | ||
| But with failures in transportation, that means medicines, organ transport. | ||
| It means life. | ||
| It means doctors can't make it to work on time. | ||
| People do die. | ||
| But economies grind to a halt. | ||
| They say the source of the massive outage is under investigation, with speculation rising that could have been a cyber attack. | ||
| If hackers gain access to the controls of the power grid, they could manipulate it. | ||
| Worse still, ransomware from rogue actors. | ||
| Not even a nation state. | ||
| Some random group can literally drop a USB. | ||
| This is what they do, okay? | ||
| Be warned about this, guys. | ||
| If you go to work and you're outside your office and you see a USB thumb drive on the ground, don't pick it up. | ||
| Throw it in the garbage if you do. | ||
| Maybe pick it up and throw it in the garbage. | ||
| Here's what they used to do. | ||
| They've been doing this since the advent of memory cards. | ||
| Back in the day when we had floppy disks, they would... | ||
| Take the floppy disk with a virus on it and drop it in front of a bank. | ||
| The bank would then, some employees walking in and seize the floppy disk and it would have something evocative on it. | ||
| A label saying like personal files or like corporate records, do not discard. | ||
| And the person's going to be like, whoa! | ||
| And they're going to bring it in and they're going to put it in the computer to see what's on it. | ||
| The moment that disk went in the computer and the computer read it, virus activated. | ||
| The machine was taken over. | ||
| Then came CDs. | ||
| People would put the virus on a CD and drop it. | ||
| Put something salacious on it. | ||
| Someone's going to want to see what's on the disc. | ||
| They'd put it in the CD-ROM drive. | ||
| Today, it's USB drives. | ||
| They put a virus on it. | ||
| They drop it on the ground. | ||
| People pick it up. | ||
| It's that simple. | ||
| Somebody working at the grid picks up the USB and says, oh, I wonder what's on this. | ||
| Sticks it in. | ||
| Infects the whole network. | ||
| There was this thing that happened a couple years ago. | ||
| I think it was a year or two ago. | ||
| MGM casinos. | ||
| We're hit with ransomware and completely shut down. | ||
| And they did the right thing. | ||
| They refused to pay it. | ||
| They said, screw off. | ||
| This meant that at all the casinos, everything was hand dealing. | ||
| It was crazy. | ||
| You'd go to a slot machine and everything was like hand pay. | ||
| It was so weird. | ||
| Because they couldn't network and print money out. | ||
| None of it worked. | ||
| I don't even know how they made it work. | ||
| The point is, you can just as easily take out an electrical grid in the same way. | ||
| Now, last week, as I mentioned, Iran was hit with a massive cyber attack. | ||
| So there are concerns that this could be Iran retaliating if there are rogue actors or if Spain is using privateers, basically private hacker groups that will launch attacks the past of a government while the government feigns ignorance. | ||
| Iran's going to strike back in a similar way. | ||
| Iran repelled a large cyber attack on Sunday, said the head of its infrastructure communications company a day after a powerful explosion damaged its most important container port. | ||
| And another round of talks with the U.S. over Tehran's disrupted nuclear program. | ||
| One of the most widespread and complex cyber attacks against the country's infrastructure was identified and preventative measures were taken. | ||
| Besad Akhbari said on Monday, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency, without giving more details. | ||
| Let's lay it out. | ||
| Yesterday, Iran... | ||
| Repels a cyberattack, they say, but there's a major explosion. | ||
| A day later, three countries in Europe lose power. | ||
| I'm sorry, I'm leaning towards cyberattack. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't have a lot of proof. | ||
| Or I should say I have no proof. | ||
| The only evidence is speculative. | ||
| If I was going to begin an investigation, I wouldn't start with rare atmospheric phenomenon. | ||
| To be completely honest. | ||
| Now, they're reporting it. | ||
| I'd look into it for sure. | ||
| We want to be reasonable. | ||
| But cyber attacks are so easy. | ||
| And if you get a good forensics expert, they can go in and they can track this and try and figure out the point of fault. | ||
| Maybe they did. | ||
| And the campaign said, guys, it's not a cyber attack. | ||
| You just suck at doing your jobs. | ||
| You didn't protect the grid. | ||
| These things shouldn't happen. | ||
| It's your fault. | ||
| Maybe it was some... | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Some guy was delivering pizza and beer and he sat down with the guy at the controls and was leaning back watching a sitcom and they spilled the beer onto the controls and it shut the power down, causing all the TV stations to go out with it. | ||
| Honestly, no idea. | ||
| So I got to be fair and say, you know, I don't want people to be blackpilled. | ||
| I don't want people to be freaking out, which is why I pointed out Putin's declared a ceasefire. | ||
| This is not all bad news. | ||
| It is scary to see a massive power outage and a strange atmospheric phenomenon. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I think cyber attack is likely. | ||
| But then again, we just don't know. | ||
| It may not be a big story at all. | ||
| Power is already restored and we carry on with our lives. | ||
| So there's that. | ||
| Now, according to Reuters, Israel is still eyeing a limited attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. | ||
| And this one legitimately has me worried. | ||
| This is from nine days ago. | ||
| The White House, they had meetings with Israel and they said, we're not going to engage in this war with you. | ||
| Israel said, we're going to do it anyway. | ||
| Shortly after this, Iran gets hit by a cyber attack, which they claim to have repelled, I don't know, and a large explosion. | ||
| Chemicals at the port were suspected to have fueled the explosion, but the exact cause is not clear. | ||
| That could be the cyber attack. | ||
| They're called industrial control systems. | ||
| And infrastructure on these things, it's very old. | ||
| So when we're looking at a power grid, this is a story that I covered 13 years ago. | ||
| 12 years ago. | ||
| Just about 12 years ago. | ||
| We have, in Vegas, every year, the Black Hat and DEF CON hacker conventions. | ||
| DEF CON is more goofing off and silly. | ||
| Black Hat is more corporate, governmental. | ||
| Twelve years ago, you had guys laying out how they would destroy critical infrastructure with cyber attacks. | ||
| In one instance, they said, take a drone. | ||
| You put a transponder on it. | ||
| You put a broadcaster on it. | ||
| Fly that drone within 40 miles of a power plant, and you can infect that plant because they're using data transmission tech from the 70s. | ||
| I kid you not. | ||
| And they were like, some of these are operating only a few lines of code. | ||
| And so it's very easy to hack them. | ||
| Now, I do believe we've upgraded since then. | ||
| At least I hope I do. | ||
| I hope I'm right that we've upgraded these. | ||
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| Some speculated that was not possible without decommissioning, shutting down, changing out the infrastructure. | ||
| And it's possible that we just didn't do it. | ||
| And it's possible that in Spain and all these other places, they don't have the means to swap out their entire grid. | ||
| In which case, what do you do when you get hit by a cyber attack? | ||
| Now, I don't know. | ||
| But I will say is the bigger picture in all of this is that media hype. | ||
| Perception is reality. | ||
| I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and discuss some of the issues pertaining to these aircraft collisions. | ||
| And it's a shame we had to talk with him last week because we got this report now about this female pilot who was refusing instruction. | ||
| Would have been interesting to ask. | ||
| But, and you're gonna have to wait till the end because it is in there. | ||
| I'm more curious about the threats to our national security from drones and more importantly, Aliens. | ||
| I'm half kidding. | ||
| I did ask about aliens, but I do believe we're largely dealing with military tech that's not yet been disclosed. | ||
| But in light of these stories about plane crashes, I was able to sit down. | ||
| And so let's roll this, my friends. | ||
| We'll grab this interview right now for you guys. | ||
| It is 22 minutes long, and then we'll come back for your questions in the chats. | ||
| Stick around for a minute, but for now, we'll roll this interview. | ||
| Secretary Duffy, it is a pleasure to sit down with you. | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I overdressed for this interview. | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| I completely underdressed intentionally because when the news broke about the new media stuff the White House was doing, they started disparaging all these different outlets in the corporate press, so I figured I would, I don't know, give them a little disdain. | ||
| Yeah, well, I prefer your entire over mine, so. | ||
| Well, I got some questions for you, and the easy one is we've been wondering with... | ||
| All this news about disasters with airplanes, largely. | ||
| I think we just had another engine fire. | ||
| And we've heard from people more right-leaning that this is a result of DEI. | ||
| The mechanics aren't doing their jobs. | ||
| The pilots are bad. | ||
| However, we've heard from more liberal personalities that it is the Trump administration's fault for gutting this or whatever. | ||
| I'm not so sure any of that really makes sense. | ||
| I'm wondering, is this just a phenomenon of the media? | ||
| Or is there really some kind of uptick? | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| It's a great question. | ||
| If you look at the history of accidents in the airspace with aircraft, there is no uptick. | ||
| After DCA, that was the first major air incident in 16 years. | ||
| And so from that, the media has given heightened attention to if two planes bump wings, if there's an engine fire, you know, anything that happens, there's way more attention around it. | ||
| And so people think it's happening more, but it actually is not. | ||
| An ideology of DEI and wokeness that had bled into the last administration. | ||
| And I think a lot of industry bought into it as well. | ||
| But again, I think that that fever has broke. | ||
| And there's the companies, for sure us at the FAA and DOT, we want the best and the brightest. | ||
| And you might say, I like someone else's pilot to be a DEI pilot, but I want the pilot on my plane, I want the best and the brightest. | ||
| Or someone else's air traffic controller to be DEI. | ||
| But my air traffic controllers, I want them to be the best and the brightest. | ||
| And so we're getting back to this, you know, this common sense idea that only the best, I mean, people lose lives when these individuals don't do their jobs, whether it's air traffic control or pilots. | ||
| And that's why, again, we have to make sure that only the best people that are the most qualified get into these positions because you put your life in their hands. | ||
| Yeah, that was what a lot of people had been assuming. | ||
| We just, you know, we talk about it in my nightly show. | ||
| That the media is simply over-reporting for two reasons. | ||
| One, it gets clicks. | ||
| It's salacious. | ||
| Hey, be scared. | ||
| And some of these stories are literally a tug pulling some baggage, bumped a wing or whatever, which happens fairly frequently. | ||
| And then there were some much more shocking stories. | ||
| It was fascinating when the narrative from the political class, when we had that aircraft crash in Canada, they were still blaming you guys. | ||
| This is a Canadian... | ||
| I don't know what that had to do with us. | ||
| However, there was some commentary that the plane came in hard and fast. | ||
| And so, as it was coming down, instead of... | ||
| I forgot what it's called. | ||
| I'm not a pilot or anything. | ||
| You know, the plane kind of pulls back as it makes that landing. | ||
| Is that what it's called? | ||
| Flare? | ||
| The aircraft actually just belly flopped, causing it to then slam, roll, flip over. | ||
| And that's when a lot of people started saying, this is the DEI. | ||
| This is a pilot error. | ||
| I don't know if that's true or not, but it certainly has perpetuated this narrative. | ||
| So, again, there's great spaces for me to have my own opinions, but because of the job I have, I do wait for the NTSB to do their investigation and get back to us and tell us what actually was the cause of these crashes. | ||
| But again, it would appear they did come in fast and hard. | ||
| And was that the consequence? | ||
| Was that what caused the landing gear to fail? | ||
| And then cause the plane to flip over. | ||
| I'm going to wait for them to do the investigation. | ||
| And I'll just tell you, in my short time here, I've thought the answer is one thing, and it turns out that it's actually something else. | ||
| But again, it does beg the question, who do we have flying our planes? | ||
| What kind of training do they have? | ||
| Just tell us we're safe, everything's fine. | ||
| That's all I want, right? | ||
| You mentioned the hiring side. | ||
| The left has gone wild. | ||
| So we had this idea that... | ||
| Again, since Joe Biden came in to the presidency, he expanded all of government, but including DOT. | ||
| And so we were like, let's try to get the number back down to the end of the Trump-1 era. | ||
| And part of that was we were going to let people who were just the one-year employees that weren't in critical safety roles, like if you're an air traffic controller and you're employed for six months, well, you can't leave. | ||
| But some of the other... | ||
| We're going to let go. | ||
| We let less than 342 people go at the FAA. | ||
| There's 46,000 employees at the FAA. | ||
| And the left lost their mind, like, planes are crashing because these short-term employees were let go at the FAA and they have no critical safety role. | ||
| And that's just the left trying to make up arguments to ding us. | ||
| And in the end, the system that we use today, the pilots that we're trained, the air traffic controllers that we use, They all came from the Biden era. | ||
| So again, we get in and you get a few crashes and they want to blame us. | ||
| It's like, we haven't changed anything. | ||
| This is a continuation of your policies. | ||
| But again, the left wants to take it. | ||
| In the same regard, I do want to ask about the DEI stuff. | ||
| But at the same time, when people on the right were saying, oh, this is DEI, it's happening, I said, I doubt in the span of like two months, DEI just happened. | ||
| All of a sudden, people can't fly planes anymore. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| I largely viewed it as a politically motivated media attack. | ||
| That is, obviously there's salaciousness to disasters that scare people. | ||
| Everybody's flying all the time. | ||
| You run these stories. | ||
| People are going to get panicked. | ||
| They're going to want to watch it. | ||
| But I do think, and I'm curious if you feel this way, that it's largely, not largely, but at least to a great degree, politically motivated. | ||
| There's an administration that's come in. | ||
| It's Donald Trump. | ||
| The media, many in the media don't like this guy. | ||
| Can they blame him for it somehow? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| I think they're trying to take whatever skin off Donald Trump they can. | ||
| If they can use this to do it, they will. | ||
| But coming back to just maybe a little different point, I love to drive. | ||
| I don't. | ||
| I do. | ||
| I enjoy it. | ||
| But over the course of your lifetime, you have a 1 in 100 chance of dying in a car crash. | ||
| Over the course of your lifetime, you have almost 1 in 10,000 chance of dying in an airplane crash. | ||
| It's incredibly safe, right? | ||
| It's the safest form of travel? | ||
| By far. | ||
| By far the safest mode of transportation mile for mile. | ||
| But we've had this diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology pervasive in government for a while. | ||
| In Trump's first term, I think it was in 2020, he signed an executive order saying, we're not going to allow companies to engage in this behavior. | ||
| It is a violation of civil rights and all that. | ||
| And so then the narrative emerges, not just within transportation, but in a bunch of different industries, of course. | ||
| I think it becomes... | ||
| The media narrative becomes more dominant with DEI because you're flying in a plane and you're concerned that your pilot can't fly. | ||
| So we've seen these initiatives. | ||
| We know they did this. | ||
| Two questions, I suppose. | ||
| Is there a risk to the hiring of pilots, mechanics, or other personnel who are less than qualified? | ||
| And if... | ||
| And whether there is or not, how do you reverse this course and bring back merit? | ||
| So, first off, again, I don't care what anyone's color is, their sex is, their sexual preferences, their religion. | ||
| I don't care about any of that stuff. | ||
| I just care about that you're the best and the brightest. | ||
| And I think we do want to pull from all different corners of America to bring in great talent. | ||
| But when you elevate people who don't have the best skill sets and we put them in really critical roles where people's lives are resting in their hands, It's a huge problem. | ||
| And so what we do is, we've just gone back to that idea at DOT, is we only want the best and the brightest. | ||
| And so as the last administration, they were truly concerned about the name of the cockpit. | ||
| Well, a cockpit, that's right. | ||
| We need to change it to Flight Deck. | ||
| Airman is offensive. | ||
| We've got to change it to Aeronaut. | ||
| Is that what they did? | ||
| 100%. | ||
| I heard the roads were racist. | ||
| The roads are racist, but it's NOTAM. | ||
| It's the system that all the pilots use to find what risks they have along their flight path. | ||
| It's called Notice to Airmen. | ||
| They actually changed it to Notice to Air Mission from Airmen. | ||
| That's the crap they were thinking about. | ||
| They did Transit Equity Day when we had almost six near misses in the American airspace between aircraft. | ||
| They were focused on Transit Equity Day. | ||
| And so when you focus on those things, you take your eye off of safety and bring in the best and the brightest. | ||
| And, you know, President Trump, he's given us a great directive. | ||
| I want the best, the brightest. | ||
| I don't care what, where, who they are. | ||
| Just bring those people in. | ||
| And in education, it's one thing to have a DEI professor and the rot that they'll create with the kids that come through their classrooms. | ||
| They do create rot, but they don't cost someone's life. | ||
| In our space, people die when you get this stuff wrong, and that's why we're at the forefront of rooting it out. | ||
| So, you know, what's fascinating is we also had, during the Biden administration, the East Palestine train disaster. | ||
| Yeah. And shortly after that, the media narrative erupted of train crashes. | ||
| Right. And I wonder if people remember that. | ||
| All of a sudden, stories are popping up. | ||
| Twitter, they're like, look, another one happened. | ||
| Right. And I'm kind of like, guys, are you just now noticing that trains sometimes crash? | ||
| But that does bring up an interesting question, too, is, you know, your name's come up a lot because of this narrative around aircraft | ||
| Aircraft, DEI, or stripping of FAA or whatever. | ||
| But you do a lot more than that. | ||
| Like, what is your focus every day in terms of transportation and safety? | ||
| So we have airplanes, right? | ||
| The airspace, airports. | ||
| We have ports themselves. | ||
| We have roads, bridges. | ||
| We certify all the safety equipment on vehicles. | ||
| We have pipelines. | ||
| So we have a massive space. | ||
| Can I give one pitch for us? | ||
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| Because sometimes you don't think a DOT is being a very sexy place. | ||
| Think of us in road signs out there with a colored vest on. | ||
| So I think we are at the forefront of how the world is going to change. | ||
| We just are looking at our phones. | ||
| This changed the way the world works. | ||
| This is how I interact, how I bank, how I communicate. | ||
| My cell phone changed the world. | ||
| I think the next great systematic change throughout society is going to be the way people and products move. | ||
| And so we're doing rules on drones, where the product delivery for drones, we're going to take trucks off the street and you're going to see so many more of your products from Amazon or Walmart being delivered by drone. | ||
| Autonomous vehicles. | ||
| I think 40,000 people lose their lives every year in road crashes. | ||
| It's going to be safer. | ||
| There might be a time where people don't even buy a car, right? | ||
| There's going to be the Ubers with all these autonomous vehicles around. | ||
| But if we don't change the way that works... | ||
| China's going to lead the innovation on drones and on autonomous vehicles. | ||
| We're going to make that happen, actually, in America. | ||
| American technology, American companies, American innovation. | ||
| And then these Evitals, which are the Ubers in the air, these drone... | ||
| You can ride them. | ||
| Ride them. | ||
| They're already out now. | ||
| I saw a video out of China, I think. | ||
| We have them here. | ||
| We're testing them here. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And so how you move... | ||
| Again, for everyday use, not so much. | ||
| But if you're going... | ||
| At the start from one airport to the next, these systematic routes will take people off the streets and move them differently. | ||
| Products and people are going to move differently over the course of the next 10 or 15 years. | ||
| And what we do today is going to set the rules in place to allow that innovation and that growth to happen here. | ||
| Because China's doing it. | ||
| India's doing it. | ||
| I imagine you'll see a lot of people, like in New York, you'll see a lot of the things flying building to building. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Uber, pull up your app. | ||
| Well, so this is actually why I was looking forward to speaking with you. | ||
| Obviously, there is the sexy, shocking story of planes when they crash. | ||
| But we did have the story out of these drones across the East Coast. | ||
| Now, I think these drone stories was largely people looking at airplanes. | ||
| Because I remember the New York Post publishing an image of what they said was a drone and it had an American flag tail on it. | ||
| And I said, guys, that's an AA flight. | ||
| That's normal. | ||
| But people freaked out. | ||
| I think the important part of the story that was overlooked is... | ||
| The role of the DOT in national security, when you've got drones that either people don't know what they are, they don't know if they can trust them, whether it's an epidemic of gigantic vehicles or a terrorist who's going to load up a small drone with something dangerous, | ||
| this is FAA. | ||
| You guys are dealing with unregistered flights and the threats to regular people from even accidental drone usage, drones over airports, things like that. | ||
| So, I suppose the question is, you know, what is the gist of this drone fear that was going on, and then what are you seeing in terms of, you know, threats to our safety? | ||
| I don't want to be too fear-mongery, but those concerns. | ||
| So, I'm going to give you this dose of truth, right? | ||
| So, my house in New Jersey is right, it's near Bedminster, right where the drones were flying. | ||
| And actually, there were drones flying, big-ass drones flying. | ||
| Like SUV size? | ||
| Not SUV, but... | ||
| But, you know, a welcome mat plus at the front of your house, big drones. | ||
| And they were going on for about four days, five days. | ||
| And all the neighbors were talking like these drones are like, do you see the drones? | ||
| So it was a community conversation. | ||
| Once it started to go, you know, mainstream public and reports were coming out and the FAA came in. | ||
| Well, the big actual drones that we were seeing were gone, and that's when people were seeing the airliner or they were seeing the kids' drone from next door. | ||
| And so when the FAA came, they're like, everyone's talking about airplanes. | ||
| They're not drones. | ||
| You weren't seeing drones. | ||
| And those of us who were there were like, no, actually, I know what an airplane looks like. | ||
| I know what a drone looks like. | ||
| These were drones, big. | ||
| But it brings up a different question, which is... | ||
| You see what happens with Russia and Ukraine. | ||
| The use of drones militarily has expanded and innovated in a really dangerous way. | ||
| And so how do you develop your own technology to see, again, we want to see the whole airspace. | ||
| Well, how do you have technology to see drones, right? | ||
| Is it a drone? | ||
| Is it a bird? | ||
| How do we use it? | ||
| And how sensitive do you get? | ||
| To know, is this the Amazon drone or is this the North Korean drone? | ||
| And so we're working through that right now. | ||
| There's a lot of stuff we can't talk about, but we understand the problem that exists. | ||
| We're working through it. | ||
| But again, I do think that as we look at risk factors for foreign threats, we also look at how do we develop this internal use of drones. | ||
| And I think as those two things, we think about... | ||
| Risk factors, but we also think of commercial use. | ||
| Those two things can go together very well because the technology has to develop and we can use it for commercial uses, but also then for national security purposes. | ||
| But how do you do air traffic for drones and autonomous vehicles? | ||
| I understand for a lot of these autonomous vehicles, they can communicate with each other, so it regulates safety pretty well. | ||
| But in terms of drones, you can't just pull one over. | ||
| You know, once this thing, maybe you've got like a 20-pound, you know, big welcome mat-style drone carrying a box. | ||
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| And the assumption most people will have is these are just normal-use drones. | ||
| What if one malfunctions? | ||
| What if something falls from the sky? | ||
| I mean, I've thought about this for a long time. | ||
| It seems very difficult to solve for this issue. | ||
| So, obviously, there's risk factors. | ||
| What happens if your drone goes down? | ||
| But also, what happens if you fall asleep at the wheel? | ||
| What happens if, you know, there's a lot of things that happen as we move. | ||
| I think what you're going to have to see is a rule that comes from the FAA that allows opportunity to use the drones, to develop the drones. | ||
| Then I think communities have to have some say in, do you want the drones in your community or do you not want them? | ||
| There has to be some community engagement with this. | ||
| And if you do that, I think you get to a really good place. | ||
| But the places that these drone deliveries are being used, you can get a hot cup of coffee from Starbucks and it comes hot to your house, right? | ||
| Do you like grab it from the drone? | ||
| They'll lower it down, yeah. | ||
| Grab that hot cup of coffee. | ||
| Have they done that already? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So the places that these are being used right now, they love it. | ||
| They think that this is the most amazing thing. | ||
| As we look at roads, too, so, again, if we can take more people off our roads and we can do more of these deliveries in the air. | ||
| The airspace, or the roads clean up, and the airspace, they're only 400 feet or lower, these drones. | ||
| So, again, you don't have the jetliners flying over, you know, at 400 feet over communities. | ||
| So I think it's, again, there's problems, to your point, but we can navigate this in a way that makes it actually work. | ||
| So we got a few minutes left. | ||
| When you first came into the administration, is the first thing I did was brief you on the aliens and showed you all the UFOs? | ||
| No. | ||
| I've got to get the alien briefing still. | ||
| They come into the airspace, right? | ||
| That's FAA. | ||
| We control the airspace. | ||
| But in all seriousness, I mean, there have been reports of, they're calling them UAP, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. | ||
| Is that what it means? | ||
| Is that something that, I mean, obviously you have to deal with that. | ||
| So we control all the airspace. | ||
| We have all of the airspace. | ||
| Again, I've seen the video, the military aircraft video. | ||
| We've seen a lot of these videos, and what is it? | ||
| I don't think we quite know yet. | ||
| I haven't got the classified briefing on it yet. | ||
| Once I do, I can... | ||
| So, it's not really the alien briefing, but there are... | ||
| You know, I've got to be honest, I think the simple answer is U.S. military attack, they're not going to release its classified. | ||
| There were some reports that these unidentified aerial phenomenon were spotted 70 miles from a U.S. No, | ||
| and I just, I do, again, I look at, again, I watch the videos and how they go from... | ||
| the airspace into water and then back out again is that's crazy. | ||
| There's, they're not in water, right? | ||
| We, the way we see the world work is the way these, these vehicles do not operate. | ||
| Um, | ||
| And, again, how much information goes out, I think it's fascinating the president, whether it was, you know, with the JFK files or other information that people want to have. | ||
| They want more transparency. | ||
| The president's committed to that. | ||
| What information comes out? | ||
| But I think the backdrop of that, too, is you don't want to freak people out either. | ||
| You're like, no, shit, we have aliens among us. | ||
| These are alien aircraft, and we've identified them. | ||
| We have pictures of them. | ||
| Or we've got the crash and the bodies. | ||
| Like, that's going to freak people out. | ||
| So maybe you're like, maybe you might want to know, but maybe you don't want to know. | ||
| So what you're saying is, you can't say it's true, but it's true. | ||
| No, I'm kidding. | ||
| Possibly. | ||
| There was a recent statement from a science administrator who said that we have the technology, our technology allows us to manipulate time and space. | ||
| Have you seen that statement? | ||
| I have not. | ||
| And I'm not sure what he was getting at. | ||
| He was saying our planes are slower, our trains are slower, something happened. | ||
| Our technology allows us to manipulate time and space to leave distance annihilated. | ||
| And this lit up the, I guess you can call it the conspiracy space. | ||
| Because Donald Trump also, around the same time, said, we have weapons nobody knows. | ||
| Very powerful. | ||
| And the assumption is, many of these UAPs may actually be just military technology. | ||
| And they're insinuating this may be the case. | ||
| But, I don't know, I guess it's a mystery. | ||
| It's going to be a mystery after this show as well. | ||
| We're still going to be a mystery. | ||
| Or you're really good at keeping secrets. | ||
| Yeah, my kids are like, tell me, tell me, what do you know? | ||
| But I will, you know, I do think, as I look at, this goes to maybe a little different point, how our government works and the faith we have in our government and how smart people are there and they're doing smart things. | ||
| When you start to pull the curtain back or look under the hood, there's a lot of disappointment. | ||
| There's a lot of disappointment in the people. | ||
| That have been in really powerful positions that have not been very smart and not done smart things. | ||
| And we spend a lot of money. | ||
| And I think this administration, which I love, the president's been like, listen, we are going to spend your money well. | ||
| We are going to innovate. | ||
| Again, we have to be at the top of our game with the coming threats that we have from around the world. | ||
| And that part of it I love. | ||
| And so I would hope that this is amazing American technology. | ||
| Not sure that's true. | ||
| But maybe as we look after Pete Hexas' leadership, we're going to get those great armaments, that great innovation, and great leadership from DOD. | ||
| Last question real quick. | ||
| Is there a timeline for a full rollout nationwide of autonomous taxis? | ||
| So we're working on that rule right now. | ||
| We do want to see the ability, because right now you can't have a California standard and a Texas standard. | ||
| You need one American standard. | ||
| We have to give that. | ||
| Always with the backdrop of they have to be safe. | ||
| And the kind of car crashes that you'd have with autonomous versus human-driven cars, you might just see an autonomous vehicle turn into a concrete barrier. | ||
| You would never do that. | ||
| You have a different kind of crash that the autonomous vehicle won't have. | ||
| So we have to come up with the standards of what's acceptable, what's safe, but also allow this to continue to roll out. | ||
| So I think you're going to see, again, in short order, you're going to see an expansion of these autonomous taxis. | ||
| You see them in San Francisco. | ||
| You'll see them in Texas as well. | ||
| We want to see them across the country. | ||
| I think Arizona too, maybe? | ||
| Yeah, Arizona as well. | ||
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| Looking forward to it. | ||
| Secretary Duffy, I really do appreciate your time. | ||
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| Appreciate it. | ||
| And that's it! | ||
| That wraps up the interview I had with Secretary Duffy. | ||
| So it was an honor and a privilege. | ||
| And I will say this, too, because I can see it as much as everybody else can. | ||
| Department of Transportation just doesn't sound sexy. | ||
| It's not like war and bombs. | ||
| But the fascinating thing is when we were putting in our requests for interviews, Duffy was the top of the list. | ||
| I mean, to be completely honest, Trump, Vance, Elon. | ||
| Obviously. | ||
| But in terms of the cabinet members, obviously it'd be great to talk with the DOJ. | ||
| So we did request all that. | ||
| But Duffy was one of our top choices largely because flying cars, drone deliveries, autonomous vehicles, drone sighting paranoia, threat claims that the Iranians were launching drones into U.S. territory and UFOs. | ||
| I'm like... | ||
| I think the challenge is they call it the Department of Transportation instead of something like U.S. Department of, I don't know, infrastructure or something. | ||
| Because people don't understand that we're talking about when you see a drone flying overhead, you can't do anything. | ||
| They don't understand that we're talking about this plane crash that just happened. | ||
| The helicopter, the Blackhawk slamming into this. | ||
| And so some of the biggest stories, the biggest questions we have in technology and the evolution of our economy are deeply... | ||
| They're well within the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation. | ||
| That being said, you know, for me, I was mostly curious about those things. | ||
| For obvious reasons, I feel like we don't really get into it. | ||
| We don't feel like we're threatened by a drone flying in the air and slamming into a building. | ||
| But what worries me is that this is something I've thought about for over a decade. | ||
| Sure, we have the southern border, and I was able to talk with Gorka and Kristina about that. | ||
| But what about threats we don't think about? | ||
| So there you have it. | ||
| So I really do appreciate the time I got to spend with the Secretary of DHS, of Transportation, as well as Sebastian Gorka. | ||
| We are planning more interviews, and the plan moving forward for this show is actually we are going to be setting up Zoom calls. | ||
| So I don't know why we started using Zoom. | ||
| Just like one day Skype disappeared. | ||
| But for Timcast IRL, this is more of a conversation with news topics. | ||
| We do everything in person. | ||
| But for the Our News show... | ||
| This is an opportunity to bring in, for about 20 minutes, conversations with various individuals who can talk to us on topics and trends throughout the day and the news cycle and things like that. | ||
| So I think that'll be good. | ||
| We're still feeling it out. | ||
| But my friends, we're going to grab some of your chats in the meantime before we round this out. | ||
| And of course, we will be rating our good friend Russell Brand in just a minute, so you don't want to miss it. | ||
| Let me make sure I can grab that old Russell. | ||
| This is what we got to do. | ||
| I got to grab the link for the raid. | ||
| That's how we get it going every day. | ||
| AKStorm says, Tim, angry cops is blowing the whistle on Buffalo Schools on the unsubscribed podcast YouTube. | ||
| BS, Buffalo Schools, deleted video evidence of child abduction and are refusing to answer subpoenas. | ||
| Please get Rich back on. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Anytime, man. | ||
| He was fun. | ||
| He was a funny guy. | ||
| The Small Town Gamer says, Tim, are you going to cover the Buffalo Public Schools story broken by Rich High in the Unsubscribe podcast? | ||
| Indeed! | ||
| We should have something up by around 3 o 'clock. | ||
| We'll probably talk about it tonight on Timcast IRL as well. | ||
| AK Storm says, Buffalo schools are also refusing to assist cops and detectives with investigations. | ||
| Mandated reporters are not reporting child abuse, both physical and sexual. | ||
| Please check out Unsubscribe for the vid. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Spork, which is not only did Captain Loback outrank the woman warning her, But she was the pilot in command and had ultimate authority. | ||
| She did ignore the warning but did not disobey orders. | ||
| He couldn't order her. | ||
| Indeed, I didn't say that. | ||
| I saw some people were saying that she was disobeying orders. | ||
| However, my point was that Tower said, veer left, descend. | ||
| She didn't. | ||
| Flight instructor then said, they want you to veer left and descend. | ||
| She didn't, and she went straight into a plane. | ||
| Even Trump said, how does that happen? | ||
| You can't see the lights and the planes coming? | ||
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| Growning Phoenix says it feels like a force is trying to keep the world in a state of stagnation. | ||
| And people are starting to wake up to it. | ||
| Should have Eric Weinstein on Culture War to explain this hybrid war talk. | ||
| Bros versus who's? | ||
| Did you mean ho's? | ||
| Original Beat says Katy Perry wouldn't have crashed. | ||
| Did you guys see the story over the weekend? | ||
| Katy Perry and Beyonce ain't selling tickets no more. | ||
| Beyonce dropped her ticket prices at $20. | ||
| Katy Perry's canceling tour dates. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The institutions are crumbling. | ||
| Let me put it that way. | ||
| Decentralization is here for whatever reason. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| Let's see what we got. | ||
| What do we have here? | ||
| Someone mentioned some drones in a chat. | ||
| Chrissy Jean says the drones have got to be policed and regulated better. | ||
| They're starting fires with them. | ||
| I watched it happen. | ||
| Indeed. | ||
| The things they can do with drones, y 'all don't even know. | ||
| They can put... | ||
| You can get a high-powered laser. | ||
| Not very heavy. | ||
| Mount it on a drone. | ||
| Drone can fly over dry brush. | ||
| Laser turns on and holds it for a minute. | ||
| Forest fire started. | ||
| Wildfire. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| Now, I don't think they can do it from a satellite because the distance is too great. | ||
| But I would not be surprised at the very least. | ||
| My friends, smash that like button. | ||
| Share the show with everyone you know. | ||
| Thank you all so much for hanging out in this Rumble noon hour. | ||
| The Culture War Live is this weekend. | ||
| It's our pilot. | ||
| We have no idea what's going on. | ||
| We have a general idea, a general structure set up. | ||
| We have the venue. | ||
| We got tickets are sold out. | ||
| We've got a bunch of submissions. | ||
| People want to come up and join the debate and be involved. | ||
| Think Kill Tony meets Jubilee. | ||
| That's how we're largely viewing it. | ||
| We're going to have Alex Stein's going to be there. | ||
| Will Chamberlain will be debating Pisco Litti on the merits of the Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation, whether it's right, wrong. | ||
| And we're going to talk with you guys about the general issue. | ||
| And you can come up and get in that debate. | ||
| Now, we're already thinking about how we adapt this and change it moving forward, because as we do this, our pilot, we're running into hiccups and bumps. | ||
| So the one thing we think we want to do is more seats, bigger venue, 100 tickets, and semi-open to the public. | ||
| One idea right now is for future events, anyone can buy a ticket. | ||
| Ten seats are reserved for members, and you can submit, and then we will give you a ticket, a seat, and then you will be the people who can come up and join the debate. | ||
| We're trying to figure it out because we want to encourage liberals. | ||
| To actually be a part of that audience and come on the stage and debate. | ||
| And so we also may try guest-oriented instead of subject-oriented. | ||
| So we actually will bring on a prominent personality on the left or the right. | ||
| They will mention like three key positions of issues that they think are big and want to talk about. | ||
| But this gives an opportunity for anyone to come up and debate the individual, which may actually be easier. | ||
| One of the hiccups we're running into is we're getting a lot of submissions from people who are just saying, Abrego Garcia was an illegal immigrant who should be deported. | ||
| And we're like, we get that. | ||
| people do. | ||
| So the question is, with a finite amount of seats for you to come in and debate, | ||
| And so we did get a big hit of submissions, pretty in-depth ones, pretty interesting, and people want to... | ||
| And put these ideas in place that they feel are being missed. | ||
| And that's what it's all about. | ||
| So my friends, we're going to initiate this raid on Russell Brand. | ||
| Thank you all so much for hanging out. | ||
| You can follow me, as I said, X on Instagram, at TimCast. | ||
| We are live every day at noon to 1 p.m. here on Rumble with segments up throughout the day. | ||
| We're going to be back with segments coming up. | ||
| I believe at 3 we should have something. | ||
| I'm going to look into it. | ||
| We may cover the Buffalo Schools later on IRL if I don't get to it today. | ||
| But aiming for a 3 p.m. segment, breaking it down. | ||
| So definitely check that out. | ||
| The raid has begun. |
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