Tim Pool Daily Show - Trump Says CEASEFIRE, Canceling Strikes, Iran DENIES Talks
Aired: 2026-03-23
Duration: 01:01:15


=== Bird Watching and Tourniquets (02:05) ===

[00:00:32]  What is going on, Patriots?
[00:00:34]  This is Tate Brown here, holding it down for another week of Tim Cast News Noon Live action.
[00:00:41]  We got a fantastic show for you guys today.
[00:00:43]  Obviously, the Iran story, not going anywhere, nor should it.
[00:00:47]  It's a war.
[00:00:47]  I mean, hello.
[00:00:48]  What are we doing here?
[00:00:48]  But we got a few other stories I think we'll get into.
[00:00:50]  It'll be quite interesting.
[00:00:51]  We will be joined at the half hour mark by the great Rudyard Lynch.
[00:00:55]  I'm very excited to have him on.
[00:00:57]  There's a lot of different avenues we could go down.
[00:01:00]  I think I got a good one for you guys.
[00:01:01]  So we got a great show, fantastic show.
[00:01:03]  I'm very excited to be back with you on this beautiful Monday.
[00:01:05]  It's a wonderful Monday, and it is very warm.
[00:01:08]  It's very warm out here outside of our nation's capital.
[00:01:11]  The cherry blossoms are starting to emerge, which is quite exciting.
[00:01:15]  Some really exciting stuff.
[00:01:17]  I'm really into botany.
[00:01:17]  I'm getting really into botany.
[00:01:19]  I don't know what's going on.
[00:01:20]  I turned 25 and I just feel like I'm getting old.
[00:01:24]  It's probably insulting to most of you in the crowd.
[00:01:26]  I've gotten really into like bird watching.
[00:01:28]  I got really into bird watching.
[00:01:30]  There's like this app that Cornell made, the university, and you can like take pictures of birds and it scans it and puts it.
[00:01:35]  It's like Pokemon Go in real life.
[00:01:38]  I totally understand what these bird watchers are up to.
[00:01:39]  I mean, it's really some fantastic stuff.
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=== The Nuclear Leader's Fear (15:05) ===

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[00:03:22]  So with that, we have a few stories we're going to get into.
[00:03:25]  The first one, obviously, being Iran.
[00:03:28]  You know, everyone's talking about Iran as they should.
[00:03:30]  Let me, you know, I'm just going to do this while we're live because it always seems like this is cut over to the side too much.
[00:03:36]  And look at this.
[00:03:37]  Boom.
[00:03:37]  Oh, that's why.
[00:03:39]  Okay, that makes sense.
[00:03:40]  Okay, never mind.
[00:03:41]  I'll just slide over.
[00:03:42]  All right, where we got a big story.
[00:03:43]  Obviously, this is from the AP.
[00:03:44]  Trump this morning indicating that the war might be coming to a close.
[00:03:48]  I know he's indicated this a few times, but we're getting some action here.
[00:03:52]  So this is, I'll read here from the Associated Press.
[00:03:56]  Trump says U.S. is talking with an Iranian leader as he extends deadline for striking plants.
[00:04:04]  This is from the Associated Press.
[00:04:06]  U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said the U.S. was talking with a quote respected Iranian leader and claimed the Islamic Republic was eager for a deal to end the war.
[00:04:15]  He also extended a deadline for Iran to reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz or face attacks on its power plants, saying it has an additional five days.
[00:04:24]  So you guys probably saw the headlines over the weekend, you know, Trump coming out and making an ultimatum, effectively.
[00:04:30]  And that was the headline the mainstream media ran with.
[00:04:32]  And that actually is fairly true.
[00:04:35]  That being said, and we'll get into it, Trump has now delayed those strikes.
[00:04:39]  He's come out and he said, no, Iran's going to play ball.
[00:04:41]  We're going to cut a deal here.
[00:04:42]  I'll keep reading.
[00:04:43]  Trump's turnaround, which held out the possibility of resolving the war now in its fourth week, served to drive down oil prices and jolt stocks.
[00:04:51]  It offered a reprieve after the U.S. and Iran traded threats over the weekend with potentially catastrophic repercussions for civilians across the weekend.
[00:05:00]  Trump told reporters that Iran wants to, quote, make a deal and claimed U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, had held talks with an Iranian leader a Sunday.
[00:05:10]  He did not say who was representing Iran, but the U.S. has not talked, but said the U.S. has not talked to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, as his son, obviously.
[00:05:19]  Trump said if a deal is reached, the U.S. would move to take Iran's enriched uranium, which is crucial to its disputed nuclear program.
[00:05:27]  Iran has adamantly refused such demands in the past, insisting that it has the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.
[00:05:36]  This is obviously the line that Iran has.
[00:05:38]  This is what makes all this so difficult.
[00:05:42]  I mean, this is what makes the negotiations up until now kind of almost pointless because we knew there wasn't going to be a deal struck beforehand, before any sort of action pressure, et cetera, was put on Iran.
[00:05:55]  Because again, going into last summer, you had these six rounds of talks and whatnot between Witkoff and the Iranian delegation.
[00:06:04]  A lot of them took place in Switzerland.
[00:06:07]  And Oman was brokering these talks.
[00:06:10]  And it was just one of those things where you would read and you're like, I hope there's a breakthrough here.
[00:06:14]  And then you would read, again, like the AP or Reuters and their analysis after the discussions.
[00:06:20]  And they would say the same thing every time, which was, well, the Iranians considered the nuclear program untouchable.
[00:06:26]  And the United States said the only, you know, their only option was to denuclearize to eventually disband their nuclear program.
[00:06:33]  So after every single talk, it was the same thing every single time.
[00:06:36]  And, you know, you would see some other stuff thrown in there.
[00:06:38]  Like, you know, the Americans would say, well, this one went well.
[00:06:41]  And then the Iranians would say, I don't know, this one went.
[00:06:42]  It didn't matter.
[00:06:43]  There was two, you know, it's a rock and a hard place.
[00:06:47]  The two parties wanted something completely different.
[00:06:49]  Well, you know, things changed a little bit.
[00:06:52]  The calculus changed a little bit, quite a bit actually, heading into the new year.
[00:06:57]  Obviously, the Venezuela operation has conducted.
[00:07:00]  The world starts to realize that, you know, the United States is a bit more formidable than previously thought.
[00:07:05]  I think the United States, in and of itself, realized it was a bit formidable than initially expected.
[00:07:11]  And also, you know, kind of these conversations started happening around the global community, specifically in regards to our Axis, you know, the Axis, so to speak.
[00:07:22]  You know, Iran, China, Russia, the opposing, you know, opposing American hegemony.
[00:07:27]  And, you know, there was kind of these conversations of like, these guys might be paper tigers.
[00:07:31]  I mean, if Venezuela fell that quickly with virtually no support from, you know, China and Russia, you know, you know, who else?
[00:07:39]  Who else is vulnerable right now?
[00:07:41]  And I guess the Trump administration decided, you know what?
[00:07:44]  Maybe time to strike at Iran, you know, poke and pra and see what they're capable of.
[00:07:48]  Looks like after a month, I mean, we actually get a deal here.
[00:07:51]  So I think this is what Iran needed.
[00:07:53]  You know, like I said, both parties in the negotiations had, you know, put aside what you feel about Iran, the Iran war, et cetera, et cetera.
[00:08:00]  You know, just looking at from a negotiation perspective, there was going to be no breakthrough.
[00:08:05]  Sorry.
[00:08:06]  There was going to be no breakthrough from a negotiations perspective.
[00:08:09]  It took the Americans breaking through Iran and killing like 30 of their leaders, 30 of their leaders for them to kind of come to the table, allegedly.
[00:08:17]  So we'll see here what the president had to say.
[00:08:20]  This is quite interesting.
[00:08:24]  This one right here.
[00:08:25]  Oh, it just opened.
[00:08:26]  Okay.
[00:08:27]  Disclose.
[00:08:28]  I'll use disclose because they captured them all in a row here.
[00:08:31]  I don't know what happened.
[00:08:32]  It just opened their page.
[00:08:34]  Okay.
[00:08:34]  Okay.
[00:08:34]  All right.
[00:08:35]  This is an order.
[00:08:36]  This is an order.
[00:08:37]  Sorry, everyone.
[00:08:39]  This is from Disclose TV.
[00:08:40]  This was Trump doing a gaggle like literally two hours ago.
[00:08:44]  And this is when he was sort of declaring that, you know, they've come to a deal with the Iranians.
[00:08:50]  And so this is quite interesting.
[00:08:51]  Keep in mind, the Iranians have said no.
[00:08:54]  We're not talking with the Americans, nor have we reached a deal.
[00:08:57]  But take a look at these clips.
[00:08:58]  It's very interesting stuff.
[00:09:02]  Mr. President, we're looking for all of the things that we've been talking about.
[00:09:05]  We want to see no nuclear bomb, no nuclear weapon, not even close to it.
[00:09:11]  Low-key in the missiles.
[00:09:13]  We want to see peace in the Middle East.
[00:09:15]  We want the nuclear dust.
[00:09:18]  We're going to want that.
[00:09:20]  And I think we're going to get that.
[00:09:21]  We've agreed to that.
[00:09:22]  Yeah, we've agreed to that.
[00:09:24]  You want the enriched uranium before it can end this.
[00:09:26]  And we want no enrichment.
[00:09:28]  But we also want the enriched uranium.
[00:09:32]  If this happens, it's a great start for Iran to build itself back.
[00:09:39]  And it's everything that we want.
[00:09:41]  And it's also great for Israel and it's great for the other Middle Eastern countries, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, all of them.
[00:09:49]  Kuwait and Bahrain in particular.
[00:09:52]  So it's great for all of them.
[00:09:55]  This is like your boy, like week 10 of fantasy football right before the trade deadline.
[00:10:01]  You know, you got a massive losing record.
[00:10:03]  I mean, there's no chance you're making the playoffs.
[00:10:04]  He's just a few pieces away from being a surefire guarantee for the championship.
[00:10:09]  And he sends you the most insulting garbage three-way trade you've ever seen in your entire life.
[00:10:17]  But you don't really have a choice.
[00:10:19]  You don't really have a choice.
[00:10:21]  You need some pieces.
[00:10:23]  That's kind of what this feels like.
[00:10:24]  This kind of feels like a fantasy football.
[00:10:29]  It's a really beautiful thing, I guess is what I'm trying to get at.
[00:10:31]  We really love to see this.
[00:10:32]  The Iranians, obviously, he's just saying we're going to take their dust.
[00:10:36]  You're going to take their uranium.
[00:10:37]  We're going to take their enriched uranium.
[00:10:39]  And we're not going to let them, like, he's taking everything from them.
[00:10:42]  And honestly, they can't do anything about it.
[00:10:43]  They've been completely decimated.
[00:10:44]  So we're going to keep watching some of these clips here.
[00:10:46]  Some really fantastic stuff.
[00:10:47]  This is also from the president of the United States in the same gaggle.
[00:10:51]  The copy here was Trump says Israel will be quote very happy with an Iran ceasefire.
[00:10:56]  Adding that Iran called Trump for a deal.
[00:10:58]  Quote, they called, I didn't call, they called.
[00:11:01]  We'll take a look here at this clip.
[00:11:02]  These talks go well when you reach a ceasefire deal with Iran.
[00:11:06]  Do you believe Israel would abide by that agreement?
[00:11:10]  I think Israel will be very happy with what we have.
[00:11:14]  We just spoke to Israel a little while ago.
[00:11:17]  I think they'll be very happy.
[00:11:18]  This will be peace for Israel, long-term peace, guaranteed peace.
[00:11:23]  If this happens, and I can't guarantee it, but I think it's going to.
[00:11:28]  My life is a deal.
[00:11:29]  That's all I do is deal my whole life.
[00:11:31]  I think this is something that's going to happen.
[00:11:33]  And why wouldn't it happen?
[00:11:35]  So, tomorrow, morning, sometimes their time, we were expected to blow up their largest electric generating plants that cost over $10 billion to build.
[00:11:49]  It's a very good one.
[00:11:50]  There was no dearth of money.
[00:11:52]  And one shot, it's gone.
[00:11:56]  It collapses.
[00:11:58]  Why would they want that?
[00:12:00]  So they called.
[00:12:01]  I didn't call.
[00:12:02]  They called.
[00:12:03]  They want to make a deal.
[00:12:04]  And we are very willing to make a deal.
[00:12:06]  It's got to be a good deal.
[00:12:08]  And it's got to be no more wars, no more nuclear weapons.
[00:12:11]  They're not going to have nuclear weapons anymore.
[00:12:13]  They're agreeing to that.
[00:12:15]  Any of that stuff is no deal.
[00:12:20]  So that's, I mean, that's fascinating what he's saying.
[00:12:22]  Obviously, this is what I was saying.
[00:12:23]  You know, Iran kind of running out of options here.
[00:12:26]  If they're threatening to effectively decimate your entire energy supply, not really much room for negotiation there.
[00:12:32]  You're not really in a position to be making too many demands.
[00:12:35]  Now would be the time to cash out before further decimation.
[00:12:39]  I mean, again, if they take your energy out, they start bombing Karg or if they like fully seize Karg Island.
[00:12:44]  I mean, you're really in trouble.
[00:12:46]  So it makes sense.
[00:12:47]  Also, it makes sense that it makes sense that Khomeini, you know, Khomeini Jr., we'll call him.
[00:12:54]  It makes sense that he's not really privy to a lot of these discussions.
[00:12:57]  You've seen some reporting out of Iran that the IRGC, really not on the same page with the Khomeini and his camp right now.
[00:13:07]  It might make sense that there would be a shot caller.
[00:13:09]  I mean, considering, look, they've had a massive shakeup in their leadership structure.
[00:13:14]  It would make sense that there's someone, a shot caller, that's able to have a conversation with the American delegation as to next steps.
[00:13:23]  I imagine they're in a bit of disarray.
[00:13:25]  I mean, again, some of the reporting indicates that things are a bit tighter over there than we would think, but you just look at how many people have been killed, how many senior officials, et cetera, have been killed in Iran.
[00:13:37]  The question is, who do you even negotiate with?
[00:13:40]  Has power truly consolidated back around the it's hard to tell.
[00:13:45]  I mean, we'd still need some time.
[00:13:46]  You're just really, we're basing all of this speculation, at least, you know, as the public, based off of reporting coming out of Iran.
[00:13:54]  You know, that leaves the question, well, who's in Iran reporting right now?
[00:13:57]  Well, not really anyone.
[00:13:59]  There's not really anyone, certainly no one from the West.
[00:14:01]  Most of it is correspondent from the state media.
[00:14:03]  So we have, I think, one more clip here from the president.
[00:14:09]  To okay, so this was that initial clip.
[00:14:14]  Iran, they wouldn't very much want to make a deal.
[00:14:17]  We didn't get to that clip.
[00:14:19]  This one right here, this one's interesting because, again, the Iranians came out and said, no, we're not having a conversation with anyone.
[00:14:25]  I don't know what you're talking about.
[00:14:27]  And then this was President Trump sort of responding to that.
[00:14:30]  Take a look at this clip.
[00:14:34]  A top person.
[00:14:35]  Don't forget.
[00:14:36]  We've wiped out the leadership phase one, phase two, and largely phase three.
[00:14:42]  But we're dealing with the man who I believe is the most respected and the leader.
[00:14:48]  You know, it's a little tough.
[00:14:49]  They've wiped out, we've wiped out everybody.
[00:14:52]  Not the Supreme Leader.
[00:14:54]  No, not the Supreme Leader.
[00:14:55]  We don't know.
[00:14:56]  Well, nobody's ever, nobody heard of the second Supreme Leader, the Sun.
[00:15:01]  Nobody, we have not heard from the Sun.
[00:15:03]  Every once in a while, you'll see a statement made, but we don't know if he's living.
[00:15:08]  But the people that seem to be running it, and they seem that based on really fact, because things they've said have taken place.
[00:15:16]  Mr. President, again.
[00:15:18]  Mr. President, I know you've deployed because I don't want him to be killed.
[00:15:23]  Okay?
[00:15:23]  I don't want him to be killed.
[00:15:24]  Mr. President, you've deployed.
[00:15:26]  Nobody wants to be that.
[00:15:27]  Nobody wants that job right now.
[00:15:30]  Nobody's exactly looking forward to being the head of that particular country, but perhaps we'll be able to solve that problem.
[00:15:36]  Mr. President, you've deployed.
[00:15:38]  Let's go.
[00:15:38]  Yeah, not a gig anyone's really clamoring for right now.
[00:15:42]  You have like a 50% chance of dying, so I don't know.
[00:15:45]  Really not a gig you want.
[00:15:47]  You know, it's let me think how to sort of parlay this.
[00:15:52]  This aside, this is really encouraging.
[00:15:53]  I mean, this really indicates that truly we are sort of on the way out here.
[00:15:58]  Again, I sort of speculated early on that I think what the objective is for the Trump administration would be something similar to what we've done in Venezuela and what we've signaled we will do in Cuba, which is we're not really interested in regime change.
[00:16:12]  This is why it's funny that you're saying Israel will be very happy with an Iranian ceasefire.
[00:16:15]  I don't think they will, actually.
[00:16:18]  You know, Trump has, you know, everyone's calling him a slave of Bibi or whatever, but Trump is broken from sort of what the Israelis want multiple times now.
[00:16:27]  I mean, obviously, Israel is very happy with an operation in Iran, but again, they see this as unfinished business if we're just to do what I expect us to do, which is what we did in Venezuela, which is we leave the regime in place and just moderate.
[00:16:42]  They're going to be moderated because they're petrified of what we're going to do to them.
[00:16:46]  I mean, we've shown that we'll just kill your leader whenever we want.
[00:16:50]  So that's kind of how they're operating.
[00:16:52]  They're operating in fear of that.
[00:16:53]  So again, this is kind of what we saw in Venezuela is you just keep the same regime there and just have them completely moderated, neutered, and sort of subservient to what the Americans demand of them.
[00:17:02]  That's much more, that's much better, quite frankly, than attempting regime change, which could be sloppy.
[00:17:09]  I mean, if we weren't willing to pursue regime change in Venezuela, I don't see an instance in why we would pursue it in Iran.
[00:17:16]  You know, everyone, we've seen a lot of figures within the Trump administration, JD Vance being one of them, sort of say this.
[00:17:24]  They say, well, look at Iraq, look at Afghanistan.
[00:17:26]  You don't think that's at the front of these people's heads in the Pentagon right now?
[00:17:29]  You don't think that they're thinking, wow, yeah, Iraq and Afghanistan didn't go so well.
[00:17:34]  I guarantee they are.
[00:17:35]  That's at the front of their head right now.
[00:17:38]  That's at the top of their mind.
[00:17:39]  So, you know, I don't expect us to pursue regime.

=== Rising Gas Prices Nationwide (03:01) ===

[00:17:43]  I think this is what the goal was.
[00:17:45]  I think the goal was to extract a deal, which again accomplishes what Trump has said for 30, 40 years, which is, you know, Iran must be disarmed.
[00:17:54]  You know, Iran must be incapacitated.
[00:18:00]  I mean, this is kind of what we're seeing.
[00:18:01]  I mean, I don't know how else to say it.
[00:18:03]  This is like this is what we're seeing.
[00:18:05]  This is, we're seeing it in action, right?
[00:18:08]  If this is true, you know, the Iranians are ready to make a deal.
[00:18:14]  And so it can't come soon enough.
[00:18:16]  I don't know if you guys saw the gas.
[00:18:18]  I was had to fill up today.
[00:18:20]  My tank is tiny and it's already, my take is tiny.
[00:18:25]  It usually costs about like $22 to fill up.
[00:18:27]  That's how tiny it is.
[00:18:29]  It's like $35 to fill up now, which is, you know, it's like a big jump.
[00:18:35]  That's like a third.
[00:18:37]  Yeah, it's like a third.
[00:18:38]  I mean, here's gas prices nationwide.
[00:18:40]  A month ago, things were like, this is what I recall.
[00:18:44]  Yeah, like $2.90.
[00:18:46]  I live in like Northern Virginia.
[00:18:47]  That's probably about $3 is where we are at.
[00:18:51]  We're up to $3.90.
[00:18:53]  When I filled up today, yeah, it was $3.99 a gallon.
[00:18:57]  And so it can't come soon enough.
[00:18:59]  Like, if you're paying diesel, you're just getting like raped.
[00:19:03]  You're getting molested by the pump right now.
[00:19:06]  You're getting like literally taken advantage of.
[00:19:09]  I mean, that is insane, dude.
[00:19:11]  $520 right now?
[00:19:13]  What's going on in Cali?
[00:19:15]  What are they doing?
[00:19:15]  Oh, my God.
[00:19:18]  Dude, oh my gosh.
[00:19:21]  If you live in where, who's getting, oh, no way.
[00:19:26]  Oh, six bucks if you live in, what are they paying in San Francisco right now?
[00:19:31]  Six bucks a gallon?
[00:19:34]  Oh, wherever mono is?
[00:19:36]  I thought that was a disease.
[00:19:37]  You're paying $6.50 for a gallon, dude.
[00:19:41]  Gosh, dude, you're getting rinsed in Cali.
[00:19:43]  So anyway, this kind of stuff indicates that the American people, this is kind of the one thing that everyone's keeping an eye on is gas prices.
[00:19:51]  And they're starting to creep up.
[00:19:54]  Not just are gas prices going up because everyone's like, who cares?
[00:19:57]  Okay, what?
[00:19:58]  I pay $22 for a tank of gas and now I'm paying freaking $3, you know, $34 or whatever because everything else is tied to fuel prices.
[00:20:08]  Like you're everything.
[00:20:09]  Like food's going to get really expensive now.
[00:20:11]  Air travel is like already going up.
[00:20:13]  I just got freaking rinsed by United the other day.
[00:20:16]  So like everything responds to fuel prices.
[00:20:20]  Your food costs, just any sort of service delivery, services in general, like everything, everything is going to get more expensive as fuel prices climb.
[00:20:29]  And they are still climbing.
[00:20:32]  You know, the yesterday's average was $3.90.
[00:20:35]  $3.94.
[00:20:37]  Today's average is $3.95.
[00:20:40]  So like up from a week.
[00:20:43]  So things are getting more expensive.

=== Scott McConnell's Statue Plan (08:42) ===

[00:20:44]  People are going to respond to this.
[00:20:46]  People are going.
[00:20:47]  This is where you lose people because all of this stuff that we're talking about, like, look, let me just get into it.
[00:20:53]  Scott McConnell, who's like pretty, you know, I would say like somewhat, obviously somewhat, he was fairly well respected sort of in online, right?
[00:21:03]  You know, intellectual circles and these sorts of things.
[00:21:06]  He just puts up like this awful take the other day.
[00:21:11]  This is what I mean.
[00:21:12]  This is like the takes that aren't really penetrating, you know, the common zeitgeist.
[00:21:17]  You know, this isn't what people are talking about off of Twitter.
[00:21:20]  But on Twitter, you're seeing the most insane takes you've ever seen in your entire life.
[00:21:23]  Off of Twitter, everyone's like, I don't know, gas is getting kind of expensive.
[00:21:26]  Maybe we should wind this war down.
[00:21:29]  On Twitter, they're saying, wow, Trump is being blackmailed by Israel.
[00:21:34]  You know, they just killed Charlie.
[00:21:36]  Israel just killed Charlie Kirk and now they're working on it.
[00:21:39]  Like, it's like insane what's happening on Twitter.
[00:21:40]  I mean, it's literally like, it's like an insane asylum.
[00:21:45]  And then you go to, in real life, it's the opposite problem.
[00:21:47]  It's the opposite problem online is no one's really like politically minded whatsoever.
[00:21:52]  Most people don't even know who like the Secretary of State is.
[00:21:55]  And like, yeah, which for better or for worse, people's number one concern is gas prices.
[00:22:00]  That's why I brought it up.
[00:22:01]  And I'm not making that up.
[00:22:02]  That legitimately will like affect the approval rating of this war.
[00:22:08]  But this is Scott McConnell.
[00:22:09]  This is what he had to say.
[00:22:10]  Probably the worst take I've ever seen in my entire life.
[00:22:12]  My advice to Vance.
[00:22:14]  Here we go.
[00:22:14]  Everyone was waiting for this gentleman to weigh in.
[00:22:16]  You know, JD Vance, anxiously waiting, refreshing Scott McConnell's Twitter here, just anxious.
[00:22:23]  What's he got to say?
[00:22:24]  What's he going to say?
[00:22:25]  What's his take?
[00:22:26]  My advice to Vance.
[00:22:28]  Announce your support of 25th Amendment transition.
[00:22:31]  Say, Chris Murphy or similar will be Veep.
[00:22:34]  Announce you will not be a candidate in 2028.
[00:22:37]  Use your position, access to the media to explain why this is necessary.
[00:22:40]  Don't resign.
[00:22:42]  This is like the worst take.
[00:22:44]  Okay, guys, hear me out.
[00:22:45]  Here's the plan.
[00:22:46]  Here's the plan.
[00:22:47]  Everyone come gather around.
[00:22:48]  Come on, huddle up.
[00:22:49]  Huddle up.
[00:22:49]  Here's the plan.
[00:22:50]  All right.
[00:22:50]  All right.
[00:22:51]  We're not happy about this war.
[00:22:52]  No, I know.
[00:22:52]  No one's happy about it.
[00:22:54]  You know, we're not really getting many answers.
[00:22:56]  It's not looking too great.
[00:22:58]  So here's what we do.
[00:22:59]  Here's what we do.
[00:22:59]  All right.
[00:23:00]  All right.
[00:23:00]  Here's what we do.
[00:23:01]  Remove the president that we just elected that's really popular.
[00:23:04]  I know he's really popular.
[00:23:05]  Like, I know he's like gotten us to this point.
[00:23:07]  And honestly, we'd probably be in ditches by now if he didn't exist.
[00:23:11]  Get him out of the way.
[00:23:11]  All right.
[00:23:12]  He's done.
[00:23:12]  He's benched.
[00:23:13]  Okay.
[00:23:14]  I like it.
[00:23:14]  I'm with you.
[00:23:15]  I'm with you.
[00:23:15]  I'm with you, Scott.
[00:23:16]  What next?
[00:23:17]  What's the next play?
[00:23:18]  All right.
[00:23:18]  Here's what we do.
[00:23:20]  We get a libtard, like one of the biggest lip tards in America, like Chris Murphy, you know, the guy that's melting down on Twitter all the time.
[00:23:27]  We're going to get him.
[00:23:28]  Okay.
[00:23:29]  And I'm like, all right, Scott.
[00:23:30]  All right.
[00:23:31]  All right.
[00:23:31]  So we're going to get Chris, you know, biggest lip tard in America.
[00:23:34]  We're going to make him vice president of the United States.
[00:23:38]  Okay.
[00:23:39]  All right.
[00:23:39]  All right, Scott.
[00:23:42]  You know, I'm starting to lose me a little bit.
[00:23:44]  And then here's what we do.
[00:23:45]  So, Vance, look, I know that you're really popular as well.
[00:23:50]  Yes, you're dominating polling for 2028.
[00:23:53]  Yes, head-to-head versus every Democrat, you're beating them considerably.
[00:23:57]  Yes, you're dominating the Republican primary.
[00:24:00]  Yes, everyone, for the most part, in the base likes you, which is really rare for MAGA.
[00:24:05]  And you could probably be the torchbearer for MAGA.
[00:24:08]  What you're going to do is you're not going to run in 2028.
[00:24:13]  This is how we own the left.
[00:24:14]  Just trust me, this is how we own the Libtards.
[00:24:16]  Just trust me.
[00:24:17]  What you're going to do is you're going to go to the media.
[00:24:21]  And once you get in front of the media, what you're going to do is you're going to explain why you're neutering yourself and why you put a Libtard in charge.
[00:24:28]  I know.
[00:24:29]  Look, this is all that.
[00:24:30]  Look, this is all to own Israel, actually.
[00:24:33]  This is all to own Israel.
[00:24:34]  This is what we're doing.
[00:24:36]  All right, here's what we do.
[00:24:37]  Here's what we do.
[00:24:38]  We purposely destroy everything.
[00:24:41]  We purposely take ourselves out of power and then hand it to the left.
[00:24:45]  And we do this to own presumably Israel.
[00:24:48]  I think this is what the goal is here.
[00:24:50]  So this is a really interesting game.
[00:24:51]  This is really interesting political theory by Scott McConnell.
[00:24:55]  You know, I think Captain Dream put it pretty well.
[00:24:58]  Conservatives get a whiff of electoral success and their immediate impulse is to demand that the government implode and be back to the Democrats.
[00:25:08]  Yeah, that's exactly what Scott here is proposing.
[00:25:10]  Scott Greer, the good Scott here, he says, I'm begging people to stop sounding like Sally Cohn.
[00:25:16]  I hadn't heard this name in forever.
[00:25:17]  When he said, when he dropped Sally Cohn, I don't even know if I'm saying her surname correctly, with her little profile picture like that, you know, with the boy haircut.
[00:25:30]  It was like that scene from Ratatouille where the food critic has the bite and then is like takes transports all the way back to his childhood.
[00:25:36]  That's literally what just happened to me when I saw Sally Cohn on my timeline.
[00:25:41]  I mean, really, really something special.
[00:25:45]  This is literally, literally the same thing.
[00:25:48]  Straightforward from here, impeach Trump, constitutional crisis, call special election, Ryan versus Clinton, President Clinton.
[00:25:52]  Literally the same thing.
[00:25:53]  He's like, oh my gosh, this war is really bad, really unpopular.
[00:25:56]  I really don't like it.
[00:25:56]  What we're going to do is impeach the president.
[00:25:59]  We're going to impeach our own president.
[00:26:01]  And then we're going to put a Democrat as the VP.
[00:26:04]  It's like, I mean, like, I can't, I legitimately can't handle this anymore.
[00:26:10]  This is what's going on on Twitter.
[00:26:12]  3.6, 3.8,000 likes.
[00:26:16]  That's not that many for 2 million views.
[00:26:17]  I mean, he is getting like view mogged here.
[00:26:23]  3,800 people read this tweet and they were like, yeah, yeah, that's a good plan.
[00:26:30]  That's a really good plan.
[00:26:31]  You know what we do is, yeah, we just like, we just dissolve this government and we put Democrats back in charge.
[00:26:38]  That's what we, that's a great idea.
[00:26:40]  That's a, that's fantastic.
[00:26:42]  So then, you know, we, we, we, we completely eviscerate the government, put all the Democrats in charge.
[00:26:47]  So that way, when the Democrats sweep the midterms, then they have a trifecta.
[00:26:51]  This is, this is genius.
[00:26:53]  And then Israel will finally be vanquished.
[00:26:56]  That's, that's the goal.
[00:26:57]  That's this is brilliant gamemanship by Scott McConnell.
[00:27:01]  Um, fantastic stuff.
[00:27:02]  So, how much time?
[00:27:04]  I got three minutes.
[00:27:05]  I wanted to get to what do I get to talk about this new statue of Christopher Columbus.
[00:27:14]  I really wanted to talk about this.
[00:27:15]  We'll talk about it tomorrow.
[00:27:16]  Uh, Rick Petino.
[00:27:18]  I don't know if you're, you don't need to be following college basketball to understand this.
[00:27:21]  Um, he's like the last coach in college sports and sports in general that's wearing a suit.
[00:27:28]  Um, I think we'll get to that tomorrow because I need more time to really rant and rave about that.
[00:27:32]  Um, we're gonna talk about this, and then tomorrow we'll talk about men dressing like slobs.
[00:27:38]  Um, really horrific stuff.
[00:27:40]  This is from America First Insight.
[00:27:42]  You got to follow this account, America First Insight.
[00:27:44]  They legitimately, they have excellent, excellent takes.
[00:27:48]  I can't endorse enough.
[00:27:50]  This is the copy they put on here.
[00:27:54]  A new statue of Christopher Columbus was installed overnight in front of the Eisenhower Executive Building in D.C.
[00:28:00]  The statue is a replica of the one torn down in Baltimore in 2020 during the BLM Rice.
[00:28:04]  So this is the kind of stuff, like this is the little stuff that adds up.
[00:28:07]  Okay.
[00:28:07]  It's just like, you know, one of these bricks at a time, you build up and you're going to, again, let's change the culture.
[00:28:13]  It's about like delivering these micro blows to the left.
[00:28:17]  You know, it's these micro victories.
[00:28:19]  People mock the micro victory, but there is something about these accumulating, you know, like, you know, how many, what's that, how many grains of sand?
[00:28:26]  Do you have a sand heap?
[00:28:28]  Is that the phrasing?
[00:28:29]  Like, it's all these micro victories because it is pushing the football down the field.
[00:28:33]  But what we do need, and I think we should talk to Mo Monuments again about this.
[00:28:37]  I think we should have a Christopher Columbus statue on every corner in the United States.
[00:28:40]  I really think that'd be something special.
[00:28:42]  But I wanted to just highlight this because this is like little stuff that just is going to get lost in the sort, but it's really excellent stuff.
[00:28:49]  So running out of time.
[00:28:51]  We're running out of time.
[00:28:52]  I want to talk about it more.
[00:28:53]  We can't.
[00:28:54]  Okay, we're going to get into it.
[00:28:55]  We got a fantastic interview coming with the great Rudyard Lynch.
[00:28:59]  This is what I wanted to touch on first before we grab Rudyard.
[00:29:05]  This is from UPI.
[00:29:07]  Japan births fall to 705,000 record low for 10th straight year.
[00:29:13]  Again, this is including foreign residents.
[00:29:16]  This is the lowest total since national records began in 1899.
[00:29:20]  We got to bring Rudyard in and ask, what is going on?
[00:29:23]  Why is no one, why is no one bumping bellies anymore?
[00:29:26]  What's going on?

=== Japan's Mouse Uopia Crisis (09:53) ===

[00:29:27]  Or if they are, you know, why is it not resulting in kids?
[00:29:30]  You know, what the crap?
[00:29:31]  So let's get into it.
[00:29:33]  Let's see if we can grab Rudyard here.
[00:29:34]  Let's see.
[00:29:36]  Let me press the Talk to Rudyard button.
[00:29:38]  It's my favorite button.
[00:29:39]  I have one on demand at all times.
[00:29:41]  Let me see.
[00:29:43]  Start virtual camera.
[00:29:44]  Hey, Rudyard, can you hear me?
[00:29:46]  I can hear you.
[00:29:47]  Can you hear me?
[00:29:48]  We can hear you loud and clear.
[00:29:50]  Well, Rudyard, what is going on?
[00:29:52]  How are you doing today?
[00:29:53]  I'm doing well.
[00:29:56]  And I heard we're going to talk about the loss of legitimacy and the birthright crisis with mouse utopia.
[00:30:08]  Yes, absolutely.
[00:30:09]  Well, I wanted to bring you on.
[00:30:10]  Obviously, you are, I would say, one of the leading experts sort of in this sphere.
[00:30:15]  Every time I see your takes on birth rates and sort of the sort of what that means, you know, the larger picture, you really cut to the heart of it.
[00:30:23]  I was reading before you came on this headline.
[00:30:26]  It was really just reporting on data coming out of Japan that they're at record low births since records began in Japan in 1899.
[00:30:33]  I mean, obviously, Japan, in many ways, is kind of 10, 15 years ahead of the curve on a lot of things, and social trends is no different.
[00:30:41]  Can you maybe explain the mouse utopia concept to the audience here for those who wouldn't be familiar with it?
[00:30:49]  Mouse Utopia was a study that a guy called Calhoun ran over 30 times in the 60s and 70s because the world's population went down, went from downwards of 2 billion to 8 billion in about a century.
[00:31:06]  And so he was studying what the effects of overpopulation were by using mice.
[00:31:11]  And the results are terrifying where he put nine mice into a pen that could hold 6,000.
[00:31:18]  And then each time the mouse population balloons to over 2,000.
[00:31:23]  And then you saw male mice become effeminate, female mice become masculine, the mouse birth rate collapsed to zero.
[00:31:34]  And it's funny that the mice have a social structure, but they do.
[00:31:37]  And the mouse social structure can fall apart in the same way that the Roman Empire or the Maya did, where the mice lost the ability to have a functioning society, where the way mice breed is that there's a single alpha male mice who has a harem of female mice.
[00:31:54]  And so the two types of mice that stayed sane the longest were the alpha male mice and the tunneler mice who had a hobby of making these little balls of dirt and with these tunneling networks.
[00:32:07]  So the other mice either became sociopaths who would murder the sane mice, they became autistic people who couldn't function socially, the female mice would isolate and not start families.
[00:32:20]  And it's just this total failure of the mouse social structure.
[00:32:25]  And the guy who ran the experiment, his underlying thesis was it was a combination of overpopulation and loss of social roles and responsibility and agency that caused mouse utopia.
[00:32:40]  I mean, it's an obvious, like we're seeing it in action, specifically in Japan.
[00:32:44]  I mean, you have, you know, the hikamori, which is like, you know, the shut-ins, et cetera.
[00:32:50]  But even beyond that, you know, everyone highlights that as like, oh, that's why Japan's birth rate is declining.
[00:32:54]  But it's like a broad thing.
[00:32:55]  Like the fellas are just grinding at work all day and the ladies just don't really see a need for a spouse because they're able to provide everything for themselves.
[00:33:04]  The United States, I think, is still behind the curve.
[00:33:06]  For one reason, is I think we still have robust religious communities.
[00:33:10]  And I think that's a large explanation.
[00:33:11]  We see with like the evangelical community, which is, you know, the largest, you know, religious group in the United States, they still have birth rates hovering around replacement.
[00:33:20]  And so they're able to, again, sort of overcome a lot of this just because of a sense of meaning.
[00:33:25]  But also, I do think that just their overall social institutions are a lot healthier.
[00:33:29]  And that explains why they're able to at least stave off the massive drop off that we're seeing, you know, and agnostic communities or countries like Japan or even in a lot of Central Europe specifically.
[00:33:41]  A huge element here is that mouse utopia is triggered by overpopulation.
[00:33:46]  And America is the most decentralized industrial society.
[00:33:52]  So if you were to look at all of the industrial societies, America is the one where the average person has the most land and is least sort of likely to be an apartment dweller.
[00:34:07]  Because apartment life is a huge trigger for mouse utopia if you don't have a sense of physical space and ownership.
[00:34:15]  And that's also a huge psychological trigger for leftism.
[00:34:18]  Because in my second show, History 102, I talked about how Nietzsche in the 19th century predicted mouse utopia.
[00:34:26]  And it's interesting to look at a figure in the 19th century because he was saying back then that leftism and socialism were the ideology of mouse utopia and they would spend over a century building up to it.
[00:34:39]  And if you look at a frame of reference in the Victorian period, it really shows you how much we've degenerated from what a normal society would be.
[00:34:49]  And another interesting thing is that one of my favorite authors, Carol Quigley, he predicted that Japan would have this crisis writing in the 1950s because they were the first society to experience the effects of population crash and social atomization.
[00:35:05]  And so, as early as the 1950s, he said this would be Japan's great crisis in the 21st century, and that Japan was the canary in the coal mine for an issue that the entire modern world would face.
[00:35:18]  Yeah.
[00:35:18]  I mean, it's fascinating.
[00:35:19]  I mean, one interesting stat that I think is kind of mind-blowing in a lot of ways is in Japan specifically, and you are seeing this sort of trend replicated across other developed nations, is while the overall population of the country is now sharply falling, Tokyo's population is steady, if not still growing.
[00:35:37]  As again, that's everyone's sort of consolidating in many ways.
[00:35:40]  And I believe Osaka is like growing as well, but primarily Tokyo is where you're seeing that growth.
[00:35:47]  And so, to your point, with the mouse utopia, it's just like almost the most brutal cycle ever where the population declines.
[00:35:54]  And so, the country reacts by consolidating, which just furthers the decline.
[00:35:59]  There's another really interesting element here where if you look at the West versus Japan, we both experience mouse utopia, but it's in different ways.
[00:36:12]  And it shows that mouse utopia is a universal archetype.
[00:36:17]  And an archetype is a sort of, it's a phenomena that exists outside of time, like men and women, or war and peace, or civilization and barbarism that you see societies play into.
[00:36:30]  And in the West, our culture is the most mouse utopia, where if you look at Western art, it's just actively feeding into the behavioral sink.
[00:36:43]  And the people who are talking about this are the political pundits like you and I and the intellectuals.
[00:36:49]  And in the West, the way mouse utopia got us is we made a corrupted anti-church called leftism.
[00:36:56]  In Japan, it's the opposite, where their political and sort of serious intellectual institutions are totally ignoring this.
[00:37:05]  But if you look at their art scene, it's predominantly about mouse utopia, especially for people of a certain level of seriousness.
[00:37:13]  So you can look at the Japanese music scene that has all of these artists who are grappling with, we are basically going extinct.
[00:37:21]  And in Asia, what's going on is that it's the constrictive social conservatism that's pushing mouse utopia.
[00:37:28]  Sure.
[00:37:29]  Where because they have these highly rigid societies where social structures determine everything, those get very good at enabling the behavioral sync, which is another term for mouse utopia.
[00:37:43]  And so just because leftism is the people, is the group that's doing this in the West, that doesn't mean that if we were in a different society with a different context, that we wouldn't have mouse utopia, but through a different method.
[00:37:57]  Yeah.
[00:37:57]  And yeah, and I mean, to your point, I mean, it'd be difficult to imagine, you know, while I would say, you know, the main group sort of talking about the birth rate decline in the West obviously would be right-wing, you know, right-adjacent sort of figures.
[00:38:11]  But even then, I don't even know if the conservatives have provided a real practical solution for the birth rate outside of increasing religiosity, which is just a losing battle.
[00:38:20]  And I'm saying this as a devout Christian.
[00:38:23]  Outside of that, there's no like practical government policy implementations that have seemed to have worked.
[00:38:28]  I mean, Hungary obviously moved the needle, I think, 0.1 or 0.2, and then it dropped back down to norm after a few years.
[00:38:34]  Japan, Korea, chucking money at it, nothing's really budging.
[00:38:37]  So, I mean, clearly, even if you sort of, if conservatives are able to implement their entire wish list on the pronatal front, I'm still skeptical if that even moves the needle because we're talking about an issue that's so much deeper, so ingrained in the culture.
[00:38:50]  I mean, to your point, you know, in Japan, where sort of the intellectual class ignores it and then the art scene sort of is like, you know, sound of the alarm bells.
[00:38:58]  United States, a lot of the art scene seemingly wants to further the birth rate decline because their sort of view and approach to sexuality, human sexuality is just really not conducive to procreation, I guess would be the way to put it, based off of some of the, you know, appearances of these models that they put on advertisements and, you know, the anti-manned nature of a lot of these music.

=== Nietzsche's Last Man Society (03:11) ===

[00:39:21]  I mean, Sabrina Carpenter, it's almost cliche at this point, but like her music is straight up anti-male.
[00:39:25]  How are you going to like, you know, grow the birth rate if all the young women just hate men out of the, you know, out of the box?
[00:39:32]  I'm glad we're talking about this because my video arc, especially on my main channel for the next few months, will be talking about this.
[00:39:41]  I'm going to talk about what's driving mouse utopia, how it impacts across the world.
[00:39:47]  And I'm also going to be sharing my personal methods and systems to deal with mouse utopia.
[00:39:54]  And for those who are interested, I would recommend you watch my video on the age of the last men on my second channel, History 102, where I talk about the historic process that gets us to this point and also what Nietzsche's recommendation was to get out of it.
[00:40:11]  Because Nietzsche said that the Age of the Last Men, which he thought would occur around the year 2000, similarly to Spengler, another German thinker of that era and Jung, where they said the age of the last men would be like a camel.
[00:40:26]  And the camel is, it takes on weight and it keeps building up and up and up until the camel's back snaps, where the age of the last men puts all of these social weights on healthy, functional people, where Nietzsche said it would be a society based upon resentimant, where resentimant is a word that Nietzsche picked because there was no word in German that could convey the levels of envy that he thought would power the age of the last men,
[00:40:55]  where he said the underlying motivation of the society of the 21st century would be envy to tear down the healthy and the successful, which would be pushing the West towards a crisis of survival.
[00:41:08]  And he said the age of the last men would be the most dangerous era ever in Western history, but it would be due to complacency and nihilism in not solving underlying issues.
[00:41:20]  And he said the society of the last men would be so soft and envious and weak that it would be incapable of defending itself or procreating, and the West would be committing suicide.
[00:41:33]  But what all three of those authors thought is that the last men were just a phase that we could power through, where the solace Nietzsche gave is that the last man society would be so weak that a hundred men of fiber could defeat it because no one would believe in any of the things the last men said.
[00:41:51]  There'd be no real stakeholders to the system.
[00:41:54]  And so he said that it would be highly fragile against a group that he calls the creators, which are the tunneler mice, where, because I'm comparing Nietzsche's writings in the 19th century to Calhoun's later study, because they're very close.
[00:42:09]  And what Nietzsche said is that sort of creative types between artists or entrepreneurs or sort of wanderers, that this social class would have been left out by the last man society, which was based around conformity and complacency.
[00:42:25]  And this would form a new leadership class with their sort of shared goal as creativity.

=== Market Faith and Sperm Counts (14:52) ===

[00:42:32]  I mean, because we're seeing that implemented, obviously, the last man.
[00:42:36]  I mean, I had the Raw Nationalist on for, which is on the Culture War channel.
[00:42:41]  It went up Saturday.
[00:42:42]  You guys got to go check it out.
[00:42:43]  And, you know, he's provided a lot of commentary on The Last Man and these sorts of things.
[00:42:47]  And he talked about this one stat, which is to your point, this last man archetype is going to exterminate itself seemingly on accident in the sense of, he brought up this one stat, which is by 2045, 2050, they estimate that the median man, the median male in the United States will have zero sperm, will be producing zero sperm.
[00:43:05]  So you see these incidents where it's like people are talking about the birth rate, you know, these different things.
[00:43:09]  There's environmental factors that could exterminate us that are just like completely, I guess what I'm trying to say is we're so close.
[00:43:15]  We're on the precipice of like actual extinction and people are just kind of coasting like nothing's nothing wrong here.
[00:43:21]  And then the actual aspects that people bring up that are sort of these civilizational threats really don't seem to be the case.
[00:43:27]  Like climate change, I mean, it is, you know, broadly a problem, I suppose, but it's not like we're not on the verge of disaster like we are with this issue.
[00:43:34]  I mean, the fact that we could legitimately have men with zero sperm, we could just like fail to produce the sperm anymore and then we go extinct.
[00:43:41]  I mean, it's like realistically could happen.
[00:43:43]  What tends to happen with these scientific statistical trends is people are extrapolating one generation over a much longer time period.
[00:43:54]  And so you'll see a trend of loss in sperm count.
[00:43:57]  And it's very rare that the trend keeps going until you hit extinction.
[00:44:01]  And I'm always stuck between people say the loss of sperm count could be due to chemical imbalances.
[00:44:09]  It could be due to us just not living good physical lifestyles with exercise and stuff.
[00:44:14]  But also the mice in mouse utopia have, firstly, immense amounts of stress hormones, even though they're not in physical danger due to the loss of social certainty and meaning.
[00:44:27]  And their masculine mice also became significantly more feminine.
[00:44:31]  And so it's unclear if the loss in sperm count is a mouse utopia thing.
[00:44:35]  But the main point I wanted to talk about when I came on is I am getting very worried that, and I don't know when this would occur, but we could hit a tipping point with mouse utopia basically now, where my, because I've said going back years that the world today is facing two crises, the political crisis, which I said would result in a civil war in America, but it manifests around the world, and then mouse utopia.
[00:45:05]  And these two are threaded together in the same way that back in the 14th century, France and a lot of Europe had a major war, the Hundred Years' War, and the Black Death, where one of these is a political crisis and the other one is sort of a psychological plague.
[00:45:22]  And we're having both of them hit us at the same time.
[00:45:25]  And so I've said for years that we have to think about both of them.
[00:45:32]  And I thought we'd hit the civil war before we hit mouse utopia because from a game theory perspective, you hit civil war if at least one faction of the boomer elite has a functioning nervous system.
[00:45:48]  And what I mean by that is that in a normal, healthy functioning society, at least some faction of the boomer elite would have processed that this is an existential threat.
[00:46:01]  And if one of them processes that, it pulls the game board in a certain way so that everyone else has to process it as an existential threat.
[00:46:10]  Or it could be something if China attacks Taiwan, that opens up a ripple effect because all of these global issues are interconnected.
[00:46:19]  It's a benefit of globalization.
[00:46:23]  And what happened instead that really shocked me is that the boomer elite seems to have just, and it's not an intellectual thing.
[00:46:33]  It's a failure of having a functioning nervous system and the ability to process this as a threat.
[00:46:39]  Because in mouse utopia, the mice lose the part of their biology that allows them to recognize external threats, which is why the sociopath, the sociopath mice will just attack the other mice and they won't fight back.
[00:46:53]  And if you look at the neurology of leftists, they don't have the part of their brain that functions that processes fight or flight.
[00:47:02]  The amygdala shrunken, I believe, right?
[00:47:06]  It would be the amygdala.
[00:47:07]  Yeah.
[00:47:07]  Because if you look at the people with PTSD are the direct inverse where their amygdala is wired to fight or flight too easily.
[00:47:15]  And then leftists or the mouse utopia people, their amygdala doesn't fire off with external threats, which is why if you're in a blue city, they'll say the overwhelmingly peaceful neighboring countryside is dangerous because Republicans, but we should import all these criminals or the Marxist revolution is amazing.
[00:47:35]  And if one faction of the elite had a functioning nervous system, they would have processed this as an existential threat.
[00:47:43]  What's happened, though, is, and this is what I find very, very concerning, where in a normal society, we would have had all of these issues over the last decade.
[00:47:56]  And there would have been sort of a market.
[00:47:59]  I don't mean, I don't mean a market solution in a literal sense, but what happens in the market is that if there's an imbalance, someone will short the company or the company fails and then there'll be a competitor.
[00:48:10]  And if you look at the government, there's been no awareness of this.
[00:48:14]  The only people who are really aware of these issues is the creator class, like you and me or the tech right, because we're private entered entities who have to actually interface with the outside world.
[00:48:28]  And the creative mice and the entrepreneurial mice were the ones who went sane the ones who stayed sane the last.
[00:48:35]  So we have a failure of the political class.
[00:48:37]  Our stock market has stayed artificially inflated because there aren't enough defectors against the stock market to get it to fail.
[00:48:46]  That's a bad sign.
[00:48:49]  There's a complete failure of culture and Hollywood.
[00:48:53]  There's a failure in education.
[00:48:56]  And in a normal society, people and probably 30 other things I won't say now, where if you look at any given facet of the world today, it's just sclerosis.
[00:49:08]  It's just fossilized.
[00:49:10]  And that doesn't make sense in a normal situation.
[00:49:15]  It only fits in mouse utopia because mouse utopia has three phases.
[00:49:21]  And the end of phase C, moving into phase D, is the mouse colony becomes hyper frozen and sclerotic and complacent like this.
[00:49:34]  And that's the final phase of where the mice start killing each other.
[00:49:38]  And if you look at the police and the military, they will likely not shoot on protesters because we've seen with the baby boomer, and I predominantly blame them, their inability to maintain loyalty with the population means that no one will die for the baby boomer regime.
[00:49:59]  Where I think a lot, the conservatives had an opportunity to reach out and work with younger people to maintain regime loyalty.
[00:50:11]  They've failed at that.
[00:50:13]  And it's true on the left as well, where once you have a total loss of faith and authority, because power is only in a minority sense maintained by guns, power is maintained by the myth and belief in power.
[00:50:28]  And so even if you have guns, if the population stops believing in power, then you can hit a tipping point.
[00:50:34]  And I still think we are going to have a civil war in a conflict between the right and the left because all of the trends we've been talking about for years are still there.
[00:50:44]  And these things don't go away.
[00:50:46]  It's just I think mouse utopia is becoming the dominant factor.
[00:50:50]  And so in the same way that you would have the Black Death during the Hundred Years' War, or you had plagues and the complications of the wars of religion on top of the 30 years war, I think mouse utopia is becoming the dominant variable because it's the only thing and it's the only natural end point to this much of fossilization and faith and authority.
[00:51:14]  And the civil war and the political conflict will be the way that mouse utopia manifests.
[00:51:21]  And my concern is a total loss of faith and authority, which allows mobs through the internet to start killing people and start attacking political opponents.
[00:51:30]  And as faith and authority collapses, new right-wing or left-wing political organizations fill the void.
[00:51:38]  And I think these are going to take on a sort of schizophrenic, insane air to them because sane politics doesn't make sense.
[00:51:46]  And to finish off, my predominant concern here is that the Iran war causes either a failure of the economy or the stock market or our budget, because all three of those are very top heavy and should not have survived this long.
[00:52:03]  And the boomers fundamentally really only, at least the corrupt boomers, predominantly care about the stock market and making money.
[00:52:12]  If that fails, the boomers lose their right to rule.
[00:52:15]  If the price of oil goes up, that makes our food and infrastructural supply chains become very expensive, which leads to casading effects.
[00:52:26]  And our budget is already one of the worst ever in human history and we can't repay it.
[00:52:32]  And it's held together by the myth of the American empire.
[00:52:36]  And so if you lose faith in any one of these, everything else will fall apart.
[00:52:41]  If the stock market crashes, then the people will lose faith in the dollar.
[00:52:47]  If the dollar fails, people will lose faith in the stock market.
[00:52:51]  And because we've hollowed out faith in authority or moral standards, when people lose the ability for money as a motivator, everything else goes to hell because the boomer order is held together by line go up equal world gooder.
[00:53:08]  Well, and what makes all of this so petrifying as we exit sort of phase C is you see this happen a lot in motorsport.
[00:53:16]  This is something that people have brought up a lot, which is the younger drivers, they have a higher, they have a higher risk tolerance, but not because they actually have an internal higher risk tolerance, but because they're so removed from the era of motorsport because the cars are so safe now that they don't actually think they could get hurt, let alone die racing.
[00:53:33]  So they're able to take these much riskier moves on the track because again, it doesn't occur to them that they need to stay safe.
[00:53:39]  It doesn't occur to them that they could die doing this because it's been like 20 years since like a prominent death.
[00:53:44]  You're kind of seeing that in the population where I think young people specifically aren't going to take these drastic, risky moves because they have a high risk tolerance or those things.
[00:53:53]  But I think because they're so removed from what actual political violence at a mass scale could look like, that's why you're seeing the instances, in my opinion, the instances where things are going kinetic, where you do see political violence are so kind of strange and unordinary and unorthodox.
[00:54:08]  And it doesn't really seem, you know, it doesn't sort of track with the sort of instances we've seen in the past, even with even with assassinations.
[00:54:16]  I mean, the contributing factors are just so bizarre.
[00:54:20]  And I think that's kind of good.
[00:54:23]  I don't know if I'm correct here, but that seems to go in line with Mausutopia, where, again, young people are just so far detached from what revolution looks like, what political violence looks like, what war looks like.
[00:54:32]  All these things are so kind of strange and foreign that you start to see what you do see in motorsport where they take riskier moves that just take out half the pack because they didn't even realize that they could get killed doing it.
[00:54:43]  That's completely correct.
[00:54:45]  Where you look at, and it's really remarkable that the older generation, and as I keep saying this, there are lots of good older people, but our elite is a lot of the corrupt ones.
[00:54:59]  And they did not process the sort of the cultural inputs you feed into the society will be what that society is unironically in a lifetime.
[00:55:10]  So in the 1960s, when they said good culture is bad, morality doesn't matter, you can just be a degenerate.
[00:55:19]  They did not process that that would remove all of the guardrails so that when there's a political crisis, all of this insane stuff bubbling up under the surface will just become the new political movements.
[00:55:33]  And it's really remarkable that we have all of it's the camel.
[00:55:39]  We have all of this built up insanity.
[00:55:41]  And then Nietzsche's of the next phase is the age of the lion, where they rip off the traditions of the age of the last men.
[00:55:47]  And then it's the age of the child when you let go.
[00:55:50]  And then there's the space for growth.
[00:55:53]  And because once the age of the last men is defeated, you have the they let go of power so the society can develop organically and healthily.
[00:56:05]  And in order to sort of match the insanity of the age of the last men, because people die for emotional reasons.
[00:56:13]  They don't die for logical reasons.
[00:56:15]  You have to have a political ideology of equivalent insanity to balance it out.
[00:56:20]  And that's what's going on.
[00:56:22]  And I totally agree.
[00:56:24]  And it's a failure of it's a spiritual and a cultural failure more than it is a political failure.
[00:56:34]  Right.
[00:56:34]  Yes.
[00:56:35]  I mean, I think that explains why, you know, a lot of us in this space, I don't know if you, I'm sure you at least agree with us to some degree, but a lot of us in the space are just saying the discourse is getting so bad.
[00:56:46]  And it's not just a Twitter thing.
[00:56:47]  Everyone just says, well, that's just Twitter.
[00:56:49]  I don't actually, I disagree.
[00:56:51]  I don't think Twitter is X.
[00:56:53]  I don't think it's always been this way.
[00:56:55]  I think in the last few months, and it's not just X, it's YouTube.
[00:56:57]  It's everywhere you go.
[00:56:59]  The discourse has just gotten so bad.
[00:57:00]  It feels like no information is really being exchanged.
[00:57:03]  It's just like a race to the bottom.
[00:57:06]  That's really what it feels like.
[00:57:08]  And, you know, I mean, you know, people talk about the Candace stuff, but I'm like, it's so much more than that.
[00:57:12]  I mean, like, it's, it's like a lot of guys that were putting out great commentary, doing great work that seem to have their head on straight.
[00:57:18]  It just seems like they're getting, I mean, to be a little explicit here, they're kind of mind-raped by the algorithm to some degree.

=== Cruel Algorithmic Mind Rapes (03:49) ===

[00:57:25]  Yeah, totally.
[00:57:26]  It's it's it's it's remarkable where what we did, and we never thought about this, is we hooked up basically everyone into the world onto the same system, and then we did zero maintenance on it.
[00:57:45]  Because even if you go to Vietnam or Mexico, people are more addicted to their screens there than the West.
[00:57:52]  And so when I look at culture from around the world, I look at documentaries from Southeast Asia or East Asia or Latin America or the Middle East or Europe.
[00:58:02]  You could drop a young person from any given country in a room.
[00:58:05]  This actually be a great media event, and they'd have all the exact same issues.
[00:58:09]  But because everyone's addicted to the same screens, no one is bringing in their own personal experiences to make the internet more interesting.
[00:58:19]  So everyone is repeating the same experiences with no short circuit back to reality.
[00:58:25]  And this is why I'm going to go on a several month project talking about how to deal with mouse utopia as a person and how to deal with the screen addiction because this is not an abstract issue.
[00:58:41]  This is something where we as individuals have to start taking what are basically plague precautions for our own minds, because we're going through what's effectively a plague like the coronavirus.
[00:58:56]  And I don't mean that to talk about all the discourse, but it was a disease and people locked down and we're going to have to start treating our minds with the same degree of seriousness as if this is an actual physical.
[00:59:12]  illness that you have to, that you can catch.
[00:59:15]  That's excellent.
[00:59:17]  I mean, absolutely.
[00:59:18]  That's the way we do need to start approaching this.
[00:59:20]  People, I think, joked around for the longest time about this being the case.
[00:59:22]  But after seeing so many guys, again, guys that I trust, I love, just some of the stuff that there's, I'm like, dude, what's going on?
[00:59:30]  And it's unbelievable.
[00:59:32]  I totally agree.
[00:59:32]  I think mask up, two weeks to stop the spread, unironically this time.
[00:59:36]  Roger, thank you so much.
[00:59:38]  It's always cruel that we have to cut off after 30 minutes.
[00:59:40]  Thank you so much.
[00:59:41]  Where can people find you?
[00:59:42]  You can find me on my two channels, Woodifault Hist and History 102.
[00:59:46]  This was a great podcast, and thank you.
[00:59:48]  Thank you so much, Roger.
[00:59:49]  Until next time.
[00:59:50]  Bye-bye.
[00:59:51]  All right.
[00:59:52]  Well, that was the great Rudyard Lynch.
[00:59:53]  Always excellent having him on.
[00:59:56]  He's on it.
[00:59:56]  He's on it.
[00:59:57]  100%.
[00:59:57]  That's where we're at is, again, people are just, it's everything is calcified.
[01:00:03]  So nothing can really move.
[01:00:05]  Nothing can really move.
[01:00:06]  There's no agility whatsoever in the system.
[01:00:08]  And it's just going to break apart in a very, it's okay.
[01:00:13]  What's it?
[01:00:13]  We don't go out with a bang.
[01:00:14]  We go out with a whimper.
[01:00:15]  I think that people say.
[01:00:16]  There's something to that.
[01:00:17]  So I'm going to send you guys over to Dvore, the great Devori Darkens.
[01:00:20]  Let me get that going and wind this show down.
[01:00:25]  Again, it's always cruel that I only get 30 minutes with Rodyard.
[01:00:29]  I think he's brilliant.
[01:00:31]  I love it.
[01:00:33]  Got to go check out his channel if you haven't.
[01:00:34]  If you're one of the three people that's not following his channel, I don't know who the freaking crap you think you are.
[01:00:41]  But let me get this raid going.
[01:00:44]  And I really wanted to ask him more about how he thought Iran was going to go.
[01:00:48]  It was just like, it looked like it might be winding down.
[01:00:50]  So that's why who knows what direction that could go.
[01:00:53]  But let's go get the raid going.
[01:00:55]  All right.
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[01:00:59]  You got to.
[01:01:00]  Now, go on.
[01:01:01]  I'm going to put out some great.
[01:01:02]  I'm going to start tweeting again.
[01:01:03]  I've been not tweeting because my life's going really well.
[01:01:04]  So it's been hard to dig deep and go to that dark place where the best tweets come from.
[01:01:08]  But I will be tweeting more tonight, Tim Castroll at 8 p.m.
[01:01:11]  I'll be on.
[01:01:12]  Come hang out.
[01:01:12]  And I'll see you guys there.
[01:01:14]  Thank you very much for