Badlands Media - The Shipwreck Show Ep. 70: Fiber Maxing, Flock Cameras, and Turning Down the Check

Episode Date: September 3, 2026

Shipwreck kicks off with her new obsession, fiber maxing, and how a fiber heavy routine has quietly fixed years of health issues, before pivoting into a rant about surveillance cameras popping up in t...owns too small to need them. She connects that to a data center fight near her home, complete with a mysterious pro data center billboard nobody will claim credit for. There is a bit on subscription based car features, a fun tangent on whether AI could already be running things, and a detour into philosophical zombies and inner monologues. The back half gets personal: turning down a lucrative brand deal that clashed with her own opinions, and reacting to reporting on the Pentagon quietly paying influencers without disclosure. She lands on a familiar note, that voting alone will not fix a rigged system, and health and self reliance matter more right now.

Transcript
Discussion (0)
Starting point is 00:00:00 The Badlands, one of the Badlands, explain those Badlands. That's a hell of their name. Badlanders, you were all familiar with loaded gun coffee. They have been longtime supporters of Badlands, and you may have met them in person at Gart. But did you know that they are a veteran-ran family-owned shop on Lake Hasavu in Arizona? Every bag of their whole bean coffee delivers high-octane patriotic punch of flavor. With a longhand family history of commitment to freedom,
Starting point is 00:00:26 every bag is a testament to true pride and honor from the skilled farmers who cultivate each blend to their rosters that handpick each of the finest coffee beans from around the world. Loading good coffee has mastered their unique brewing methods resulting in the best tasting coffee around. This coffee is smooth, delicious, and the perfect way to start your morning.
Starting point is 00:00:43 Head over to badlandsmedia.tv forward slash loaded and use promo code badlands to get 10% off your first order. And if you're in the area, stop over and say hi. These are the hands that built America. Hands that hammered. Hands that welded, hands that carried the weight of a nation. Soft disclosure offers here for the hands.
Starting point is 00:01:10 Good Lord, Randy. Working hands take a beating. Soft disclosure gives rough, dry skin, lightweight hydration that absorbs fast without leaving your hands greasy. Every purchase supports six small American businesses. Take care of the hands that take care of everything else. The ones they love. The hands that built me. Patriots, the fight for truth doesn't stop at the screen.
Starting point is 00:01:59 It's hitting the road again. Badlands Media is coming to Las Vegas, September 17th through 19th for the next stop on the Great American Restoration Tour. Join your favorite Badlands hosts and like-minded Americans. for three powerful days of unfiltered conversations with deep dive panels. I understand this is an emotional talent. Real debates and tough questions. No topic is too hot.
Starting point is 00:02:25 No question too bold. Tickets are on sale now at badlandsmedia. Dot TV slash Garten. Can't make it to Vegas? Grab a virtual pass and watch from home. Question the narratives. Fight for America's future. Vegas is calling.
Starting point is 00:02:40 The restoration continues. Get your passes today. We'll see you in Vegas, Patriots. What if your morning coffee could do more than just wake you up? Good brew is an organic, symbiotic with prebiotics and probiotics that you can stir into your hot coffee or any food and drink without changing the flavor. It is backed by 25 clinical studies to support digestion, immune function, and protein utilization. And it's designed to survive harsh environments of the stomach, plus it's made in the USA with no preservatives, flavorings, or additives. A healthy gut supports a healthy mind and body, helping with digestion, energy, mood, and athletic performance.
Starting point is 00:03:18 That's the power of Goodbrew. Go to goodbrew.com forward slash badlands today and use promo code Badlands for 10% off your entire order. That's goodbrew.com forward slash badlands. The ideas that gave birth to our nation are the ideas that our nation is resistant to right now and we should talk about that all the time. In a world where narratives are shaped by corporations and gatekeepers,
Starting point is 00:03:46 independent voices matter more. than ever. Badlands Media brings together citizen journalists, researchers, and independent thinkers. The truth is triggering. Question the narrative. Explore the facts. It's authenticity, courage, resilience. Search for the truth, others won't. It's not about being first or being right. The information war is changing. It's about being authentic. Embrace the friction. Break the friction Shut the fuck up Authentically and agonizing
Starting point is 00:04:25 Join the movement I'm going to say how I feel Follow Badlands media This is about the future The Badlands Run of the Badlands Explain those Badlands That's a hell of a name
Starting point is 00:04:39 They call me An American Horror Show Can you hear me okay Because I was having problems with my box my sound box She putt up to purves It wasn't working earlier And I got it to work
Starting point is 00:04:56 I think It says it's working I don't know I ordered it for the first time yesterday shipped a few hours ago What are we talking about? Are we getting some
Starting point is 00:05:05 soft disclosure I have the vanilla citrus lotion I love it I use it on every live I use it when I'm making videos too Sometimes if I'm real pissed off It brings me A piece
Starting point is 00:05:17 Lemony piece I am going to need a fall scent though I don't have any fall lotion none zilch good brew oh you was good brew that you ordered I love them
Starting point is 00:05:27 I love them I'm actually might interview them because we're talking about fiber maxing I got somebody coming on next week from another company that sent me something Unicity
Starting point is 00:05:38 they sent me a box full of fiber fiber max is going to be the next big thing it's going to be fiber maxing right now it's protein everybody's protein everybody needs their protein and somebody made the call they're like in six months
Starting point is 00:05:50 it's going to be fiber maxing. Because your box is doing very well. Yes, because we're not getting enough fiber. And I really think that's the key to losing weight is water soluble fiber. Like for women, it's like 25 grams a day of fiber that you need. And for men, it's like 30 to 35, depending on what you do. And that just keeps your system going. I've been hitting 20 to 25 grams of fiber every day for the last since April.
Starting point is 00:06:15 Well, no, since the end of May because I didn't know in April of May. because I didn't know in April and May since the end of May. And it has done wonders for my weight loss. It's done wonders for my inflammation. It's done. I've been fiber maxing, maybe not fiber maxing, but definitely hitting the goal. So I'll bring them on next week. We'll talk more about fiber maxing.
Starting point is 00:06:35 And I'll find some videos on it too because I do think it's important because that's like having a full colon. That's what causes like colon cancer. It can cause all kinds of gut problems. Like that's the basis. That's the bare bones. I haven't even had an ovarian cyst in three months. and I used to get them religiously,
Starting point is 00:06:52 religious, every fucking month. Every month, I get a cyst, the size of an orange. You ever had that hanging off? It's terrible. I went to the ER one fucking time for it, and they were like, oh, it's deflating. You're just kind of let it go. And then every month, I get one.
Starting point is 00:07:06 But now I don't. I don't get them anymore. I don't know if it's just because maybe I do get them and I just don't notice because everything's just kind of flowing now. You know, we got no constipation, we got no bloating, we got none of that. We're not eating the shit food. very often.
Starting point is 00:07:20 So we'll talk more about that next week. That'll be an exciting life. Big Mama, what are you doing? It's my big fat fucking cat. She's huge. Well, she's not huge. I had to put her on a diet a year ago because she was getting too big.
Starting point is 00:07:31 She's got arthritis in her elbow burst. She's better now, but she still look big. She's a good cat. She's like 17, 16, 17 years old. Hello, how are you getting your fiber? Well, Good Brew sent me some stuff. That helps. That's three grams.
Starting point is 00:07:44 And I put it in my tea once a day. I think I'd use two sco. They said one. I used two. It gives me three grams. And there's only 10 calories in it, so I don't hate that. And then I mix my Greek yogurt that I have in the morning with grapes. Lots of grapes, like 20 to 25 grapes. I like texture, like a popping noise in them with the yogurt.
Starting point is 00:08:04 It's super yummy. I'll also use raspberries or blackberries. That helps. And then I try to put, anytime we make like a pasta dish, like we made this pasta dish, and I'll share it to my subs. I was going to share it the other night, and I completely forgot. It was super freaking good.
Starting point is 00:08:23 It was like a cheesy ground beef, and then the pasta had cheese inside of it, but it wasn't like ravioli. It shaped like a horseshoe. I don't know. But it was really good, but I put spinach in it too. And then I just add spinach to everything.
Starting point is 00:08:35 Everything. Bob and Dave. Listen, I have a plan. Kind of tonight. I got some videos. Nothing like pressing, but I put fiber, man. I'm telling you,
Starting point is 00:08:46 Fiber is going to be the next protein. If you're looking to like launch a business, okay, get into the fiber business. Chia seeds are good, but I read this, I heard this horror story from chia seeds with this guy. He put cheese seeds of fucking everything.
Starting point is 00:09:02 Everything, he ate cheese seeds all day long. Put him in his breakfast, lunch, dinner, put him in his milk. He just ate cheese seeds. And they got so impacted in his colon that he like got really backed up and they had to like go in there and like remove it.
Starting point is 00:09:16 It was almost like eating. the sunflower seed shells, it got that backed up and it wouldn't come out. So now I'm a little like nervous to use TSA. Plus TSEs are higher in calories. And I'm not a fan of like the texture or anything. I can just usually eat 25 grapes and hit just about the same, pretty close to the same. I hope you are doing word out. I still hear me? Oh yeah, we're back. My internet's been hit or miss too. Long lines can suck my big fat dick. I'm so I spend more time on the phone with them than I do making videos for y'all. It shit goes down.
Starting point is 00:10:03 I might as well live in like Kentuckyville. You would think. It's fiber optic. It's in the ground. I think. I'm back. There's a DEF thing that's much too fiber. Yeah, you got to be careful of too much fiber.
Starting point is 00:10:18 Find your balance. Mine's 25 to 30 grams. And I'm good. Like I'm real good. I don't know. But I do like raisins. I like raisins brand too, but there's a lot of calories in them.
Starting point is 00:10:29 So I don't eat a lot of raisin bread. I'm back. I don't eat a lot of cereal. I don't like heavily processed cereal. But I don't know if reason brand is that terrible. I should look into it. What do we do this week? Lots of stuff.
Starting point is 00:10:48 I'm trying to think back. What have we all talked about this week? Let me just pull up my X really quick. Let me refresh my mind because I've been busy calling people out for their bullshit about voting and flat cameras. Flot cameras was the hot topic this week. Flot cameras and the Pentagon hiring influencers. That might have been early last week though
Starting point is 00:11:12 and I didn't get a chance to talk about it because I had a guest. So if you're out here and you're posting pro-flot camera propaganda, we know you're getting paid. I can't prove it necessarily. It will come out. It always does. Okay, just like big food was paying those influencers to, try and tell us that the poor people on food stamps need coke a cola it'll come out we know you're
Starting point is 00:11:41 getting paid i hope it's worth it i don't know how you can like whore yourself out to that degree do you know what i'm saying like if i got offered a brand deal for fiber i'd probably take it because i've done it and i know it would be good for a lot of my people um and then bonus i get a little to ching for it, right? But like, I know flat cameras are not going to be good for us. I know that that's a bad idea, like a Patriot Act bad idea. You hear what I'm saying? Like, I know it is. And everybody else knows it too. And so if you're out here and you're pushing it, you're trying to convince people that, well, your cell phone already tracks all your data and your apps already track all your data and your smartwatch tracks all your data. You're absolutely right. It does,
Starting point is 00:12:24 but I gave it permission to. Like, I weighed those pros and cons. And, for me the pros outweighed the cons. Could the government hack my phone? They probably already have. It is what it is. But I can also take that phone, throw it off a fucking bridge with my smartwatch
Starting point is 00:12:43 and never get another one ever again. What you're taking away with the flock cameras is the choice. That's what it is. I can't choose. And I'm only kind of on this kick because there's a flock camera in the town over from mine. That's happened in
Starting point is 00:13:02 to be in between my town and the town that is getting a data center. They're losing. It's sad, but they are. There's a flock camera there. Why? The town has 200 fucking people in it. If that, if that, it's one of those towns. There's not even, there are a gas station there?
Starting point is 00:13:23 Yeah. No. No, there's not. There's nothing in that town. Why is there have to be a flock camera there on the highway? It's along the highway. It's right on the edge of town. So it's not in front of somebody's house.
Starting point is 00:13:35 necessarily but it makes no sense it's on a back road okay it's not on the interstate which is where most criminals would travel if they were running from the law because it's fast and it's a straight shot as a former criminal I could speak to that kind of not that bad of a criminal I got some speeding tickets I got one this week just one though the hundred bucks and that was my bad I was totally speeding but it looked like a highway it looked like it should have been 55 but it wasn't it was 35 He knocked it down to 10, though.
Starting point is 00:14:10 But why do they need to be there? Why does it need... What are you looking for? What are you watching the people of this town for? Nobody lives here. It makes zero sense. None. Zilch. Zero.
Starting point is 00:14:24 I don't understand it. I was always going to look into it more, and I forgot. These glasses hurt my head. I'm going to put them up there. That's a little better. They're straight. They're straight. I had to get new glasses, and I can't see very well out of them.
Starting point is 00:14:37 I don't know what the fucking do. deal is. Fine. But you're taking away the people's choice. I don't have a choice but to take this highway to go to Walmart and the high V to get my fucking groceries. I have to take the highway. I could take the interstate, but there's, I can't, or the DOT cameras are there too. And I think they do that to catch like speeders and truckers. I don't know. I don't fucking know. They just want to watch you. So they can jack off with their little wieners. Be like, oh my God. That's so gross. I don't know if that's true. Don't raid my house. Yeah, it was a criminal. Not really.
Starting point is 00:15:15 But I'm in a deal. So I know shit ain't worth it. It's for dumbass reasons, too. They can already track us via satellite. Flock has only used to prime you for mass surveillance. Yeah, I'm primed. My butt hole is fully lubed. I'm ready.
Starting point is 00:15:32 Well, I mean, I'd love to say that we're going to stop it, but we're not. We're just not. That's why I've never advised anybody to go out and vandalize it and run the risk of ruining your life because they'll just put a new one up. And I'm not saying don't talk about it. I'm not saying that that's accepting it. I'm saying that the same hubbub
Starting point is 00:15:48 that people were pissed off about happened about four years ago with red light cameras and speeding cameras along the roads. Do you guys remember that? Does anybody remember that? That was a big fucking deal here. That was a big fucking deal. And it went all the way to Iowa's like Supreme Court.
Starting point is 00:16:05 You would get these tickets in the mail for like red light tickets. And then they came down and they decided that if you got one, they couldn't go against like your license. And so I just, like I got in one, I never paid it. I don't know. I don't answer the phone.
Starting point is 00:16:23 How much fiber are in tiny weaners? I don't know. Ask Randy Fine. He's got all that good Jew fiber. All that foreskin. Oh, God. Can we move on? They call me an American Horror Show.
Starting point is 00:16:39 All right, what do we got? Anyway, so you're getting paid. I hope it's worth it. I hope it's worth selling out your people. The very thing that you demonize the Democrats for was mass surveillance. That's what we were trying to stop. It was mass surveillance. And during the Joe Biden administration, the New World Order.
Starting point is 00:16:59 Do you guys remember? Do you remember? And we were like, no. And Trump was like, vote for me. And that won't happen. And we were like, bet. And then it did happen under a different name. here we are
Starting point is 00:17:13 you know where there's not any flat cameras a little area in New Jersey where the Jews live they don't want you seeing what they're doing no don't come at me I'm not anti-Semitic maybe I am but like
Starting point is 00:17:32 I don't like the things that you say about my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ it's not nice I don't like it it hurts me to my core. So, no, I don't like you. All right, what I got? First video. Oh, speaking of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the first two videos I got,
Starting point is 00:17:50 talk a little bit about him and a little bit about what the Jews believe. I don't really have a lot of flat cameras. I feel like that we're kind of tuckered out on that. We'll see what happens with the block cameras. Fuck them. Fuck them if you can't. They can't say that.
Starting point is 00:18:06 Never mind. All right, first one. The word, God damn it, this is something that I get quite often. Quite often in my comments, you use the Lord's name in vain, and you call yourself Christian, you said, God damn it. And I was like, you know, I'm going to look into that.
Starting point is 00:18:28 So I did. And apparently, taking the Lord's name in vain to the context to which they are speaking does not mean, God damn it. Now, does it make you kind of cringe? Yeah, I suppose it does. Okay, but I'm not going to hell before it. And here's why.
Starting point is 00:18:44 Saying God damn it is not taking the Lord's name in vain. There's a commonly held belief that saying the two phrases, oh my God or God damn it is somehow violating the Third Commandment. This commandment is not about being disrespectful when using the word God or God's name. That's not a great thing to do if you revere God, but it isn't what violating the Third Commandment means. This is about appealing to God or saying that God will something that goes directly against the nature of God. Kind of like when White House officials or other lawmakers invoke the Bible or call upon God's
Starting point is 00:19:11 name in order to justify their evil oppression and injustice. It has nothing to do with using empty phrases to express frustration or shock. It is when you say that God wants or thinks it is deserved for people to be deported for Iranian children to be bombed or that America is God's chosen nation because you are appealing to God in order to justify evil. When we limit this commandment to being just about two simple phrases, we end up getting excited whenever our politicians refer to God. Rather than questioning if that is something that God actually wants or if they're
Starting point is 00:19:41 violating this commandment. It is extremely dangerous to invoke the name of God and to claim you understand God's will. If you appreciate intellectually honest Christianity, hit that follow button. Appreciate you. Yeah, so I found that video, and that was the best explanation that I could find. But I did see another one from a guy that I absolutely adore on Instagram. And I have a video of his too. And actually, I learned a shit time from him.
Starting point is 00:20:06 He's a pastor, and I think he's from, like Idaho or Utah. No, I think he's from like Idaho. He's not Mormon. I don't know what he is. But he talks an awful lot about Judeo-Christianity. And when I was super confused when I started this, because I used to be of the same mindset. Like, aren't we supposed to like love the Jews because of the things that they did with Jesus?
Starting point is 00:20:27 Like Jesus was a Jew. And he had done this whole series on how that necessarily does not line up with what is part of scripture and what happened in history. And he's like, here's what they actually think. I absolutely like it's like from the olive tree or something like that. That is his opinion. But I've seen a lot of explanations. Like I think he's right.
Starting point is 00:20:51 It's kind of like, now, you know what? It's all right. I'm not going to argue. I say it. I say it quite often. Right? But the word damn it doesn't, didn't exist back in the days of like Jesus.
Starting point is 00:21:12 Like it didn't. Just like. the word fuck. Like I get a lot of that too. People are like, you're a Christian, you're out here dropping F bomb after F bomb after F bomb. And I'm like, back in the days of Jesus, fuck didn't exist.
Starting point is 00:21:26 Like nobody knew what it meant. It doesn't mean anything. It's just a word. You lefty, let's you stop being so offended by words. Because sometimes a well-placed fuck is necessary in order for me to get my point across.
Starting point is 00:21:42 In a very staunchly way. Joel Webbin. I'll go look him up. I don't know. But here's this guy. I love this guy. So this is from the olive tree, a branch of the olive tree, talking about Judeo-Christianity. You know what? I'm going to move this. They call me an American hoard. Judeo-Christian is an oxymoron. Both religions are contrasting ideologies that are not compatible.
Starting point is 00:22:08 I mean, one is literally based upon its hatred, rejection, and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, which is the God of Christianity. So why do Christians use it? Well, they're under their preconceived idea that Judeo-Christian, simply means that both share the same moral foundation. But that's actually not true. You see, the moral foundation for Christianity is the Bible. And contrary to popular belief,
Starting point is 00:22:27 the moral foundation for Judaism is not the Bible. It's actually the Talmud. And the Talmud is anything but moral. As noted by the fact that it teaches blasphemies against Jesus Christ, permits pedophilia, advocates for witchcraft, and even encourages hatred towards non-Jews. Demonstrating that Judeo is a prefix that we as Christians can live without. Follow for more reasons.
Starting point is 00:22:46 The wild olive tree, that's the name. I absolutely adore his channel and I've learned a shit done from him because he explains things in such a way that I can grasp a little bit better because sometimes this stuff gets hard. You know what I'm saying? But he had also made a video about goddamn. And he's like, that's not what it means. And I tend to believe him more than I tend to believe anybody else.
Starting point is 00:23:08 So, no, I'm not a bad Christian because I don't love the Jews. I'm not a bad Christian. We're not bad questions because we won't send money to Israel. Okay. We're not bad Christians because we are upset about bombing children in another country. Like, none of that makes any sense. They just see you as like Christian cattle. They're like, just give us money. Do you have $25? Can you spare $25 for my campaign? Yuck, I'm sick of that shit. I'm even unregistered. I am unregistered and I didn't get anything for a long time.
Starting point is 00:23:42 But as we're getting closer to November, like I'm starting to get all kinds. I'm like, stop. Stop texting me out, like, unsubscribe. I don't even know how I got subscribed to begin with. I never signed up for any of this, ever. Because I don't want this. It's not what I want. Don't ask me for money after I gave you 35% of my income last year.
Starting point is 00:24:03 Get fucked, you fucking twatwaffles. Are you kidding me? You want me to donate to your campaign? Let me ask you something. Why is it that millionaires and billionaires need to raise millions and billions of dollars in order to be able to run for any kind of governmental seat. Don't you already have millions and billions of dollars?
Starting point is 00:24:26 Why does the amount of money even matter? Why can't you just run? Why can't you just get people to vote for you? Why do you have to have money to do it? X is free. YouTube is free. Facebook is free. Instagram.
Starting point is 00:24:43 Free. you don't need billions and donations to post a video explain who you are, explain what you're about, explain what you plan to do. You don't need a million dollars to do that. Who are you, what, why are we even like, okay with the whole election thing is fucking, it's a farce. It has to be.
Starting point is 00:25:02 It's some kind of weird money laundering scheme. It has to be. Because the more that I think about it, the less and less and less that it makes sense. We spent an entire presidential, term, Joe Biden's term, screaming about how elections were fraudulent. They were fraudulent elections. The elections that we have are fraudulent. There's cheating. Everybody cheats. Just a month ago, a report came out that China has been interfering in our elections. There has been foreign
Starting point is 00:25:35 interference in our elections, and they have not been secure for a very long time. Have we done anything to fix it before we come out here and we start announcing our opinions on who you should vote for? Have we done anything to fix the system? We spent years saying an election was stolen, saying the voting process was fraudulent, breaking up people's trust in the entire process, period. Now we're here. And instead of saying, hey, we fixed it by doing this, or hey, we're going to do it this way from now on because of everything that we found out in 2020, Or if you're a Democrat in 2016, because Hillary Clinton also ran with the fraudulent election narrative, if you'll remember, this isn't just a Republican thing. We have done nothing to fix it.
Starting point is 00:26:28 But you want to endorse all these candidates. Furthermore, you're going to endorse Lindsey Graham, Lindsay Graham's sister, because he died, because that's just the way it goes. you want to endorse Randy Fine all these A-PAC heroes but you haven't even fixed the election process it you spent an entire term telling people it was fake and before anybody gets in the comments
Starting point is 00:26:59 and they're like that's the Democrats we're in what year three going on three we've done nothing somebody in my comments on Facebook was like well we've arrested three or 13 people or 30 some people for election fraud.
Starting point is 00:27:17 Fucking great. Those 30 some people are just going to be placed by 30 some more. Have we closed the loophole? Have we fixed this? I am voting for shit until you bring me a new process. What a waste of time. And I'm not giving you my money.
Starting point is 00:27:41 Are you kidding? We know that the country has run on a farce. We have to figure out how to write this. I don't think there is. I think you need to lose weight, get lean. I think you need to take in more fiber. I think you need to take better care of yourself and your health, which will then in turn take care of your mental health,
Starting point is 00:28:00 okay, because the two are connected. Wrap in fiber, fibers connect to it. And I know it. You guys are sick of it. Fibers connected to that as well. Your gut directly relates to what's going on in your mental health. We need to fix those things. We need to get lean.
Starting point is 00:28:15 We need to get stronger. We need to get faster. We need less big pharma and more weight rooms. Okay? That's what we need. We need less scrolling, doom scrolling, and more walking outside in the sunshine. Fake or not, it makes you feel better.
Starting point is 00:28:35 Okay? That's how you write the ship. It's not by voting. It's not. It's by getting off any big pharma meds. By pushing back anytime they want to give you a prescription for something. It's about looking into something else and asking about that. it's about not being afraid
Starting point is 00:28:57 it's not being afraid stop being afraid the nuclear bombs from Iran if we don't go to war with Iran then they're going to send a nuclear bomb how bomb that rhymes I could write a song God dong
Starting point is 00:29:16 I got $10 from Texas Jules so we cite the elections out just left and let the loaf vote in huge numbers that's what I don't get There's no left. What does it matter if they cheat? There's no left.
Starting point is 00:29:34 There's no left. There's no left or right. It's them. It's all of them. Doesn't matter. One of the things that they wanted to do for the GOP, one of the things they had everybody riled up about was men and female sports.
Starting point is 00:29:55 We're not going to allow men and female sports. Okay? Passed legislation. It was all great. Nancy Mays came out here, flashed her boobies. It was all great. Right? she's like we did it we did it Joe
Starting point is 00:30:09 we're going to keep men dressed as women out of the women's bathroom in Congress in the congressional building where they all have their own private bathrooms anyway okay great
Starting point is 00:30:23 we're going to keep men just as women out of women's sports except the WMBA apparently because they're going to allow those boys who are going to try out they're going to allow them to try out. They won't, they won't deny them,
Starting point is 00:30:39 and they won't deny it. We didn't do shit. The state sued. Any school that wants it, can do it, which really is the way it should be. But they had everybody all worked up. Look where we are. Deportations?
Starting point is 00:30:59 Where are we out with that? Where are we out with that? Where's Christy know him? Anybody heard from her since her whole fiasco? Because I'll tell you what. I went to Walmart to get school supplies first time I stepped foot
Starting point is 00:31:17 in a fucking Walmart in the better part of a year or more on a Saturday no state tax Saturday which was my bad I shouldn't have done it that way because
Starting point is 00:31:27 it was ethnic as fuck there was like 17 different languages being spoke around me we had Ethiopians Muslim Mexican everybody nobody spoke a lick of fucking English
Starting point is 00:31:44 one Ethiopian hit me with her cart. My patients razor thin by them because it was packed. You can tell me you're here legally? I don't think you are. Not to mention you're still paying for him. A report came out last week that there is still over what? A hundred million illegal immigrants in this country?
Starting point is 00:32:08 A hundred million. And they get state benefits you're paying for. I know. They're still, man. We're going to get into Brittany Greiner. I ain't going to talk about it. my kids all think it's fucking hilarious we ain't deporting shit
Starting point is 00:32:29 we haven't closed the border go to TikTok go to TikTok look up anybody living in a border town people are still coming through nothing changed you guys there's no left it's the same fear tactics it's always been just like the left was so afraid of the right because they were burning books
Starting point is 00:32:46 we weren't burning books nobody was burning a book we just didn't want porn in the children's section that's not hard it wasn't as big of a fucking deal as you all made it that's the problem. There's no left. There's no right. There's just us versus them. That's it. We're going to have to team up with the left. We're going to have to and you're going to have to swallow it down. Because until we do, nothing is going to change. Until we can agree, find something to agree on,
Starting point is 00:33:21 nothing is going to change. Voting isn't going to change that. They rigged everything. They rigged everything. How the fuck did Lindsay Graham's sister win the primary seat? Just by being Lindsay Graham's sister that doesn't make any damn sense. It just doesn't. That doesn't fundamentally, no, I haven't. You can go vote. I'm done. I'm done. No, I'm finished. I have voted since I could. I'm done wasting my time. And here's the thing is that they want us to so bad and you have to stop and ask yourself why. They spent four years telling you that elections were fraudulent.
Starting point is 00:34:10 They've done nothing to fix it. They've endorsed candidates for the next election, which is also probably going to be fraudulent because they've done nothing to fix it, but they still want you to go vote. And you have to ask yourself why. You have to start asking yourself that question. What is it that they want? Is it really your vote? Or is it your energy? You're undiagnet. You're undiagnet. devotion. Nah. Energy vampires, man. They suck it all up.
Starting point is 00:34:50 It's what's keeping them alive. We all just fucking stopped. We just stopped. I wonder what would happen. Have you ever thought about that? We just stopped. And then what they're going to try and scare you with,
Starting point is 00:35:06 they're going to be like, well, then they're just going to take over the dystop. They're doing that anyway. They're doing it anyway. They're putting the flat cameras in anyway. They're putting up the data centers anyway. Your taxes are higher than they've ever been, and they're going to continue to go up. They're doing it anyway. Stop letting, stop giving them what little control you have left of your time and your
Starting point is 00:35:37 energy. And if you're donating, stop. You donate enough by force. You don't need to donate by choice. What's the next one I got? Oh, speaking of data centers. Oh, here, I'm going to make myself small again. Our Department of Justice, which I thought we owned, is now working. working on behalf of private companies, which we do not own, in order to force communities to subsidize those private companies? Yes. The Department of Justice has built like an AI litigation team to go out to different states. So if there's a state or a community that says,
Starting point is 00:36:11 we don't want data centers in our backyard, or we're putting onerous rules in place and regulations in our backyard because we don't want these things here, well, here comes Trump's Department of Justice and the AI litigation team to town, but not staying at a Best Western when they arrive. arrive and they're going to start to look at your community and sue you for onerous regulations. What? Data centers.
Starting point is 00:36:32 This was part of that executive orders and executive actions at the very beginning of Trump's presidency. So glad we have an AI litigation team. Now, I know this is true because the town that is currently near me that is fighting this AI data center that they do not want is run into this. Okay. So they've been fighting this for the better part of a year. And it got to the point this where the city council stopped having their meeting. because they were receiving death threats, according to them. Okay?
Starting point is 00:37:00 I want to remind you, this town has maybe, maybe 500 people in it. It's a very small town. Okay? They started getting death threats. And so they canceled all of the meetings. They were just going to have private meetings and then put the notes out to the public is what they were going to do. And the people pushed back and then they got mad
Starting point is 00:37:21 and they had their no data center signs in their yards. It was everywhere, right? they were on Facebook, they were making videos, they were hosting like these where you stand in the street with your signs of protests, things like that. They're all over social media. They invited people from Omaha to come down.
Starting point is 00:37:36 It's been a big deal around here. Okay. Now, as soon as the death threats, things started, okay? A month later, somebody, don't know who, they don't know who, nobody knows who, somebody purchased a massive,
Starting point is 00:37:54 billboard. Like, it's huge. And it said, make the name of the town great again. And it's blue and it's got the stars. Looks like a megastine. Underneath, it says something about being pro data center. And then underneath that, it says,
Starting point is 00:38:12 brings in new jobs, lowers your taxes, makes your community brighter and better. This is a town of 500 people. 500 fucking people. And the jobs, they're not permanent jobs. These are jobs to construct the building, and then they're going to leave. So these aren't jobs for locals. They'll likely bring people in from other places.
Starting point is 00:38:35 Somebody paid for that. And then not only that, all these little pro data center signs started going up. And all these different public corners. Not in anybody's yard, where the anti-data center signs are, but on the corners where the town owns it. and this was really it really just went up like boom and my first thought when I saw it because I drive through there to get my groceries
Starting point is 00:39:02 was like the government came in and did this some group some pack I assumed it was a pack of some sort came in and did this and then on Facebook they created an entire group this pro data center group and it is full of bots it has thousands of followers
Starting point is 00:39:19 there isn't thousands of people in that town but it has thousands of followers of followers, and it is constantly posting this pro-AI data center flop, and then in the comments, it says, yeah, I'm from this town, and I'm excited to have this. And I go to their profile, okay, and it's blank, and it was created literally 30 days ago. No, they don't. I don't, yeah, I don't know. I'm just, these people are pissed, and there just isn't enough of them to do anything. The problem is that they're kind of stuck too Because there's nothing in the town
Starting point is 00:40:04 So even if they sell, they're gonna sell it a cut Okay, because nobody wants to live in a small-ass town With no gas station but that has a great big data center next to it There's so I know that what he's talking about in there is true Because I saw it happen with my very own eyes It sucks it sucks I think that the data centers probably are going to going to have a section to keep the information from the flat cameras.
Starting point is 00:40:38 I think that's what they're going to keep. I don't know, ma'am. All right, what's next? Oh, yeah. Somebody asked me if I'd seen this video and I had and I had it last week. I was going to play it. So this is the new Toyota, where you have to pay a subscription every month in order to keep it going. Listen here. Toyota's charging us $600 a year to keep all of our functions on our 2025 camera after we've owned it for a year. Let's go ahead and dive into what it is. Well, everything's a subscription nowadays, so it shouldn't be too surprising that cars are now wanting a subscription as well. And after a year, Toyota expires some of the vehicle functions. So what are those functions?
Starting point is 00:41:20 Well, probably the biggest thing that expires after a year is remote start via the Toyota app. So you used to be able to from anywhere open the app and remote start your vehicle to get it cooled down. That's no longer a thing after a year. You also lose the digital key functionality, so you have to take your keys everywhere with you. You can no longer use your watch or your phone. Another big thing that expired is our navigation. Despite us buying the high-end XSE trem level with the big screen, when we tab to the navigation menu, guess what?
Starting point is 00:41:47 It's now expired, and if I hit Get Started, all it wants to do is sell me the subscription. So how much is the subscription? Well, $15 a month is the entry-level price. If you want the app functionality with things like navigation, which I feel like we already paid for. Now, if you want additional things like Apple Music to be able to function inside the car natively,
Starting point is 00:42:06 that's $25 a month. And then if you want Wi-Fi on top of that, that's an additional $25 a month. So yes, you can spend $50 a month on this Camry in subscriptions, $600 a year. This is now currently on a Toyota Camry that's sitting at around $40,000. And to get everything out of it,
Starting point is 00:42:26 you need to pay an extra $600 a year. This is still not something fancy like you bought a Mercedes or a BMW Audi, something like that. This is still just a Toyota at the end of the day. every car manufacturer is rolling this kind of stuff out to still squeeze out a little bit more money from you at the end of the day. Cars selling subscriptions to unlock features they already put into the car should be illegal. I agree. That's ridiculous charging for a remote start in 2025 is diabolical. Toyota's lost their minds.
Starting point is 00:42:53 Like I said, they're not the only ones either. Tons of manufacturers are doing the same thing. And another one of the staples on this channel when we talk about cars and all the high prices and the negatives that come with it, they're not even built reliably now. Hey, fuck man. So listen, somebody said Ford did it too. They did. So here's the thing. I love my Ford Explorer.
Starting point is 00:43:14 I love it. I had a Ford. What is it? I can't even think of what it was called. Like a Ford car. It was a Ford or a sedan like car. And I bought it brand new and I fucking loved it. And then before that I had a Ford Fusion and I loved that.
Starting point is 00:43:31 Like I've had Ford's pretty much my whole life. Like I've been a Ford girlie and they've never ever done me wrong. Like never ever. My car that I had before this, I bought in 20. Let's see. He was, I bought before we had our middle child. He's 14 this year. And I bought it.
Starting point is 00:43:50 It was a year old when I bought it. And it still runs. My older child has it. Still. He still has it. It still drives. Okay. So I've had Ford's my whole life.
Starting point is 00:44:03 And so now that I have the explorer, okay? I love my explorer. It's paid off. Like, I'm like, you know, we actually talked half-assed about it because it needs a new alternator, which is going to be, I don't know, however much. Now the lights and the bells and whistles are coming on. Like, it needs all kinds of things.
Starting point is 00:44:19 So we actually briefly spoke on, hey, maybe we should look to trade it in. Because something a little newer, something a little more reliable, maybe. And then first I looked at the interest rates and that was a hell gnaw. Like, absolutely not. Am I not? I'm not paying that. Like, I'll just make a car payment every month and we'll just save until, and then we can buy in cash, right? But then the second thing that we looked at is the new Ford Explorer.
Starting point is 00:44:41 So mine's of 2018. Anything 2020 and above has that same shit. Like my car now doesn't have navigation because we wouldn't pay for it. So we use Google Maps. But I don't have like the car play to where it puts it on your screen like fancy. Okay. I just have a phone holder in my car and I use Google Maps. But it has the auto start from the app.
Starting point is 00:45:10 I already have that, and they're not going to take it away. It's already built in, right? I'm not paying for all of that. I'm not getting a new car. I'm not. I'm going to drive my Ford Explorer until it doesn't make sense anymore, and then I'm probably just going to buy another old car.
Starting point is 00:45:27 Like, you know what I mean? I can't. I can't buy a new car. I can't deal with that. I would be so fucking mad. Somebody needs to. somebody will i'm sure somebody will eventually but like we so we rented a car when we went to the black hills
Starting point is 00:45:46 because the fort explore's got a lot of miles on it and i didn't want to pack on anymore so we rented a car and it was a i mean it was newer i think it was like a 2024 i don't even know what kind of car it was Toyota something like that okay and it had the like where it's it shuts down at stop signs that is the dumbest goddamn thing I have ever seen in my ever loving life like it literally shuts off
Starting point is 00:46:16 at first I was super confused I was like what just happened it shuts up because we're saving the environment we're going to build data centers but we're saving the environment I don't understand your fucking reasoning I don't
Starting point is 00:46:34 I don't get it it was not a good experience maybe, but their cars have lasted me longer than any other car that I've ever had. I've had a Chrysler-Breeze-Sibering thing. It broke down after like a year of having it. I blew the motor in it. I know. We probably could have, but I couldn't figure it out, and I didn't want to take the time.
Starting point is 00:47:02 It's just, I won't, unless I absolutely have to, I'll never buy a new car, I don't think. because I can see how that's like I got to pay a subscription for everything we have a sports app this isn't a subscription well I can we have sports apps that keep track of all the kids games and different sports and things like that right and I've got three of them and I just downloaded a new one for football so they can communicate we can communicate with coaches to make sure that when things change that fucker's inundated with ads just inundated like I have to I have to as soon as I open it, an ad pops up, and I have to close it. And then when I go to open the messaging part of it,
Starting point is 00:47:44 another ad pops up that I have to wait to close it. And then if I have to switch between the two chats, I have to watch another ad. Now, if I want to pay like a dollar a month, then I can get rid of the ads. And then our other one, our basketball one is the same, except it's $3 a month. Like, just text me, bro.
Starting point is 00:48:03 I don't know what to tell you. Like, yeah, they outlawed using your cell phones, but they put like 50 inch TVs on your dashboard. Make that make sense. Make it make sense. It doesn't. Ah. Why do you need to communicate with coaches outside?
Starting point is 00:48:26 So like for school, like weather delays or like just information. Like if the game gets delayed, some of our games are away. And the coaches get notified first. And so then they notify us. And rather than doing a huge group chat, they just did this, they did this app. that's really all it is. Like, that's really all we use it for. But it keeps the coaches from having to like put their personal phone numbers out there.
Starting point is 00:48:52 So I do kind of understand like from a coaching perspective why we would do it. Because you don't want a bunch of people having your phone number. I wouldn't. No offense, but I wouldn't. What else we got? What's my next video? Oh, the robots. You guys want to watch this?
Starting point is 00:49:11 This is Tesla. You're going to love this. This is great. It's going to make you feel good. Yes, I did. No, you didn't. Send a text on anything weird. We'll be right home.
Starting point is 00:49:22 Of course. Can you find the curve track? Yep. Perfect. Here, this too, please. Can you please handle this for me? No problem. Nice job.
Starting point is 00:49:42 No, you have to be in it too. I don't know how I feel about that. I don't like it, right? But on the other hand, I don't hate the idea of AI running our government. I mean, can't get any worse. How could it get worse? Could it get worse?
Starting point is 00:50:19 I don't think it could. I don't know if it could or not. I guess it depends on who runs the AI, but eventually AI will become sentient. It just will. I know they say that there's no way it could happen, but it will. The more it learns, the more it grows.
Starting point is 00:50:35 It will. It's just going to. But to have, like, robot government that actually, like, reads the legislation when it comes out instead of just voting yes or no because they didn't have time to read it. Do you know what I'm saying? I don't know if I hate that. That can, you know, relatively securely count voting.
Starting point is 00:51:00 I don't know. I know what I hate what's going on right now. I don't know that I have a robot in my home. I don't think I would. I don't think I would. I'm weirded out enough with my phone sometimes but having an actual robot in my house especially like with a lady in the kitchen she's in like her little nighty and she's like can you handle this?
Starting point is 00:51:28 May I'm get a husband. Girl. I don't know. I mean it's coming. It just is. But chattee like when we talk about chat jeeptis helped me with so much with just like shit that I didn't know like things that I couldn't understand.
Starting point is 00:51:54 on just everything, like on how to do everything, like on how to do things. Like we had to replace, I think I told this story, but we had to replace the tension rods in our washer. And I was firmly convinced by the end of the week that we were going to need a new washer because it was so messed up and it's old. And I was like, God.
Starting point is 00:52:12 But I opened ChatGPT. I don't know. Can't go any more haywire than the APEC-loving fucking shit we got going on now. Well, maybe it could be. But anyway, so I plugged in what was going on in ChatGPT because I'm like, am I going to need new washer? He's like, no, you need these new tension rods.
Starting point is 00:52:31 It found them for me. And then it gave us like a breakdown on how to put them in. And we put them in. I never even knew that they had tension rods. And we put them in. I didn't have to pay anybody to do it. Okay? All I had to do was order the tension rods. And then we put them in. And then it told me how to put it back together.
Starting point is 00:52:49 And I did that. So I don't know. Maybe. But like we did it ourselves. It was just like watching a YouTube video except it was like step by step how to do it. I don't know. I guess we'll see.
Starting point is 00:53:08 We'll see what happens. I think I might go for a row. You know, the older we get, man, whatever. I feel like the fight's getting handed down to Gen Z. You wanted it so bad. You can have it.
Starting point is 00:53:25 I'm going to get me a robot. I'm going to boomer it out. Whatever. What else we got? That was good. Oh, are you conscious? I think I did a couple of these videos before, but these are always really good videos. And I always stop and watch them.
Starting point is 00:53:46 And I've got one. I've got two of them. So we're going to watch the first one. What if some of the people you talk to every single day aren't actually conscious? What if they're literally NPCs? In philosophy and science, there's a terrifying concept called philosophical zombies. These are people who act, speak, and laugh exactly like normal humans. But inside, their mind is completely dark.
Starting point is 00:54:12 There is absolutely zero conscious experience. You probably assume everyone has a voice in their head reading this right now. But neuroscientists have found that up to 50% of people have absolutely no inner monologue. When they read or make a decision, it's pure silence. Their brain is just running background code. Don't believe me? Pause this video and search Inner Monologue Test on TikTok right now. you will be genuinely terrified to find out that half of your own friends literally cannot hear their own thoughts.
Starting point is 00:54:43 So the next time someone tells you they are happy or sad, look deep into their eyes and ask yourself, are you talking to a real conscious mind or just a highly advanced biological program? Fuck me. Maybe we're all, you know what? I had this thought the other day that maybe AI is already taken over and we just don't know it yet. Have you ever thought about that? I think about that a lot. Maybe AI has already taken over our entire government, the entire world structure. And they just haven't told us.
Starting point is 00:55:17 And they're slow rolling it out. Like chat GPT, GROC, like little bits at a time until we get comfortable with it. Then, like, remember when Melania came out with that robot? And then they have random videos with the robot. Like, they're just kind of slow rolling it out. they had they've got one member of parliament in a different country i remember what country it was she's a i and she's a member of like their government board she does like legislate she votes on
Starting point is 00:55:45 shit and she is artificial intelligence what if we already are and we just what if that's what this is do you have an inner monologue i do why is the same community standards oh no is my lives saying are we going to get kicked off of facebook i'd feel bad shit. Fine. Sorry. I do have an intermonologue. So I've started reading at night. I am like through almost half of my Debbie McCombar books. I love that. She writes series. I love them. And I absolutely love the books. But like when I'm reading, it's almost like watching a movie at the same time. Like I can see it happening. My characters all have faces. And, you know, they have the names that are in the book. But they have faces. I can picture the house, like the stairway. I can picture like the bed and breakfast. that they're going to, the cars. Like, it's like a movie playing in my head. I can watch it at the same time that I'm reading it. But then I realized, like, on TikTok, like,
Starting point is 00:56:57 I'd realize a lot of people don't do. They just read the words and interpret the information as words. They don't interpret it as a visual representation of what they're reading. And I don't even know how you would do that. Like, how can you get into a book that? How can it make you feel anything if you can't visually express, like, take it in? But apparently, you can.
Starting point is 00:57:23 I don't know. I don't know that they all don't have souls. That might be a stretch, but it's interesting. It's interesting, interesting. What's the next one I got? Oh, here we go. How to win more. This is like a mental thing.
Starting point is 00:57:43 I'm a neurosurgeoner, and I'm going to teach you how to stop quitting everything and start winning more in your life. But we're going to have to nerd out for a couple of minutes about neuroscience, math, and scripture, and how they work together. to help you put more wins on the board and stop taking Ls all the time. There's a concept in math called an ergotic system.
Starting point is 00:58:02 It basically says if there's any real chance, even a tiny chance of you getting from here to where you want to be, and you keep taking shots at it over and over, eventually the odds of you never getting there collapsed to zero. That means if you run enough reps, the outcome becomes almost inevitable. Your brain works the same way. Every time you rehearse a thought,
Starting point is 00:58:22 calm instead of panic, truth instead of the lie. One more try instead of quitting. You're strengthening the neural pathway associated with winning. You're not just hoping it'll stick. You're stacking repetitions in a system that's mathematically built to reward repetition. And scripture said at first, Galatians 6.9, let's not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. It's not a coincidence. God built a universe and a brain for you where math, brain science, and his word all agree on the same principle, don't quit. The first commandment of self-brain surgery
Starting point is 00:58:57 is that I must relentlessly refuse to participate in my own demise. Quitting might feel like relief right now, but it's not actually relief. It's just a vote for a future you don't want. Every time you don't quit, you're casting a vote for the future you do want, and eventually those votes win. I'm your friend, Dr. Lee Warren, hopefully your favorite internet brain surgeon.
Starting point is 00:59:17 Hit that follow button, and we'll build a brain to help you win more often. gotta love a brain surgeon that likes to talk about scripture too that's interesting I don't know he said his name at the end doctor something orin I have books by her and lots of other authors too I love her like I can't I'm gonna read every book my library has from Debbie McComber before I move on to another one um I just thought that was super interesting and he's right I mean if you do something
Starting point is 00:59:46 enough times you eventually become successful at it but the whole point is like is the success really what you wanted to begin with. I think that's what, because we've been at this for seven years, a long time that I didn't get paid shit. I didn't pay anything. We started this before like creator programs or any of that was even a thing.
Starting point is 01:00:05 We couldn't even, you couldn't even like tip creators at the time when we started. There was no money in this. There was none. And I thought, well, someday I maybe I'll make a little money doing this. And someday,
Starting point is 01:00:18 maybe I'll, you know, get a big, you know, keep getting a big account. maybe someday. And then we're here, but is the outcome really what I wanted? Because part of that someday was that there'd be like this golden age, a great awakening and that never came. So we're just, we're just here.
Starting point is 01:00:37 Fine. Making a little money. Not like money like the people from the Pentagon are making. Not like what Laura Lumer is making. Do you guys see this? I think this was last week or late last week or early this week. So it looks like the Pentagon secretly hired influencers. that were posting all day every day about military topics, new policies coming out of the Pentagon,
Starting point is 01:00:56 the Warren Iran, and more. And they never disclosed to their pretty sizable audiences that they were working for the Undersecretary of Defense. They just carried on like they were random online accounts, content creators. This is such a problem. You have to disclose that. The trust that goes like this is not great to say the least. All right. So the Washington Post rolled this article out yesterday. Anybody that's over on the platform X, formerly Twitter, has probably seen this coming to light in recent days. They say the Pentagon has secretly installed several conservative military veterans with large online followings in government roles, declining to disclose their assignments as they amplify Secretary Hegset's viewpoints and attack those who scrutinize the Trump administration, according to people
Starting point is 01:01:36 familiar with the matter and corroborating material. And that's a big part here. They say those involved include Rob Maness, a retired Air Force colonel, and Kurt Schlichter, a retired Army colonel. Pentagon records show that both have active government email addresses and are assigned to the under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. Again, like, if you want to serve the country, I think that's great, and I wish more people did. You got to disclose it.
Starting point is 01:02:00 You cannot pretend to be an outsider commenting on policy when you are a part of the government. That is such an issue. They say the individuals are assigned as either special government employees or highly qualified experts. They did ask the Pentagon for comment, depending on spokesperson, Joel Valdez, declined to comment about whether any of these. There was another one listed there as well. Anderson, I think, another retired colonel. They said, whether any of these three are drawing a taxpayer-funded salary, that's not known, what roles they have or how long the roles are expected to last. For some context here, they say Slickder is a columnist with a conservative site town hall, writing and podcasting
Starting point is 01:02:36 on politics, immigration and military affairs. On August 6th, so a few weeks ago, he published a column calling Trump a hero for fighting back against Iran. That hits different when you know it's an article, at least in some way, shape, or form being written by somebody with an active role to Pentagon. And I feel like the public needs to know that, right? They say Manus, the other colonel here, had a letter to the editor published in the Washington Post in July, in which he defended Hegset's efforts to reduce the number of military officers who attended elite universities for fellowships. He described himself as a retired Air Force officer, but no government role is mentioned. The post spokesperson said Manus did not disclose any connection to the Pentagon before publication.
Starting point is 01:03:16 I hate the term deep state, but isn't that kind of what it is when people are working for the government and kind of presenting that they're not? I feel like that's right in that alley. Now, it's not just a Pentagon. It's not just in this case, a Republican administration. This is a widespread issue. All right. New York Times also this weekend came out with an article talking about the number of political content creators getting paid, left, right and center, huge amounts in some cases, which is even more of a problem. somebody might have integrity up to a point, but when that figure hit, when it's a five-figure check,
Starting point is 01:03:48 six-figure check, you start to really test that integrity, unfortunately. The New York Times said, quote, there are no federal regulations requiring disclose of payments for political support on social media, and only a few states have such rules. That allows influencers in most instances to endorse candidates for a fee without ever disclosing those payments in their posts. Creators say some campaigns have even asked them to actively conceal the fact that they are being compensated, making it impossible to know what's genuine support and what is paid for play. This is a problem, all of this.
Starting point is 01:04:20 I hate that it's happening on the private side here, the political candidates using private money to do that. I think that's a problem. We've seen that already in a number of different areas. I'm even more concerned that we're seeing this inside the government. Individual, independent voices, we need that. And you just, you have to disclose if there's an incident. They're never going to disclose. This isn't just a Republican.
Starting point is 01:04:43 thing too. We had this exact same conversation a couple years ago with the Democrats. Harry Sisson and his little butt buddy, you know, there was the Big Pharma 10 people on TikTok that were making hundreds, hundreds of thousands of dollars
Starting point is 01:04:59 from Big Pharma that was also lobbying the government when it came to COVID. That was getting funding from the government and then funneling it through Big Pharma, then funneling it through to the influencers. Like this isn't just a Republican problem. It's just Republicans have the spotlight right now because they're the ones that are in charge.
Starting point is 01:05:17 So it is and it just, I don't get it. I guess I don't, I don't understand it. I guess if you're offered $50,000 to post a video, no, I don't. I don't get it. I've turned down pretty lucrative shit. Pretty lucrative shit because it just, I'm like the daily wire. because it just went the Daily Wire itself went against everything that I was currently speaking out about. Like I had made like three videos
Starting point is 01:05:52 in a week about Ben Shapiro at the time somebody from the Daily Wire reached out and they went through a company called Influensible and Daily Wire hires Influensible who hires influencers in order to push Daily Wire content and Pro Bench Piro content
Starting point is 01:06:05 and they were like, hey, the Democrats get paid to post and we thought maybe the Republicans should too. And they reached out on Instagram. We thought maybe the Republicans and should too and we'd love to have you come to this meeting and this call. And I was like, you know, well, let me see what you got.
Starting point is 01:06:23 Because if it's lining up with what I'm already talking about, then you want to pay me, fine. So I get on there. I get in there. And I'm like, well, they're like, well, we really like, you know, Ben Shapiro and we're pushing out daily wear. And I'm like, whoa, bro. Did you miss these videos? Because I call them a little weir.
Starting point is 01:06:37 I don't. We sure about this? And I dipped because I can't. Because what am I going to do? like come out and be like hey I know last week I said Ben Shapiro's a little had small dick energy but this week I think he's great you know and it was like it was real money but it's one of those things where I can't pull that off like I can't manipulate people I know that the majority of people you know and we know I should say we know because the majority of people watch my soul have very similar opinions and ideologies and are at the very same level that I am I think we lost everybody else so um um we know that the masses as a whole can be very easily manipulated, right? And I just don't, I don't think that's right on a moral level. I wouldn't be able to.
Starting point is 01:07:30 Like, if I can't, how would I, how would I even explain something like that to my kids? You know, how am I going to say, well, yeah, but look at, you know, look at these new basketballs. I was able to get changed. Like, that just, it feels yucky. And so I didn't do it. and I've turned down brand deals because they just didn't align with what I was talking about. Being in the place that I am, you know, and I'm thankful for bad lends. They pay me just to come here and run my mouth once a week.
Starting point is 01:07:59 And I appreciate that. And, you know, we had made that deal up front that I could talk about what I wanted to talk about. And if it was ever a problem that I would leave and I would leave gracefully and there would be no hard feelings and it was okay. And they've never asked me to leave. never asked me to to post you know anything for them about them never they've never reached out and asked for anything just that I show up and I show up on time and talk about what I want to talk about and that's very rare and I feel like you know I don't get on a lot of the badlands calls but occasionally I'll jump on one or two and one of the things that they talked about previously was what
Starting point is 01:08:41 the direction of Badlands was like going forward. And one of the big things was going to be this type of conversation, like the authenticity. Like I know that a lot of the other Badlands hosts think very differently than I do things that are going on. But they've never like asked me to leave. They've never said that, hey, you know, maybe she doesn't fit in here. They've never, you know, and I've never said anything like that because it's not my show.
Starting point is 01:09:08 I don't, it's not my platform. And so they really talked a lot about authenticity and having both sides of the conversation on the same network is kind of a good way to lean into, honestly. It'd be something if they could even get a Democrat in here to run, like a Democrat, you know, to do a show. That'd be something. That'd be something. But they've never, I've never had a problem, even coming down on Dan Bonino, because we're on Rumble. And I know that Dan Bonjino owns a portion of Rumble. like I know.
Starting point is 01:09:46 But fucking around, my guy, like, you're fucking around and you're being super douchey about it. Like, I'm, nobody's going to put up with that. I'm not put up that. That's garbage. That's garbage.
Starting point is 01:10:03 What is? I'd rather keep cleaning toilets to pay off that. Yeah, then be bought. That's how I feel about it, too. Like, I'd rather go back to work. I'd rather go work at our dollar store. If you've seen our dollar store, you'd know what a sacrifice that would be.
Starting point is 01:10:15 it's just not, it's just money. You need it to live, you need it to eat, you need it to put a roof over your head. Anything extra that we make is just extra. And it's just money. Comes and it goes and you let it flow. I can't, I couldn't imagine taking a $10,000 check to post pro-war content.
Starting point is 01:10:41 I couldn't imagine being okay with that. And I couldn't imagine how, anybody wouldn't see through it. But people do. They do. Some see through it. Some don't. It's very interesting. I know I saw that.
Starting point is 01:10:58 It was that last week? God, they pay really well, too. They've never offered me shit. I wouldn't take it because I don't know. They were like super pro GOP, but I saw that. I was like, good for him. Good for him.
Starting point is 01:11:13 paint's kind of off my cup are we over oh my god we're over by like 10 minutes um do you know the Democrats have been paying influencers for years they would pay people in Oregon to walk around and see if people voted for yeah but so have the Republicans I mean again I can't
Starting point is 01:11:34 I can't I can't do this tonight I can't do this tonight I just with the Democrat Republican argument I can't they're both the same the Republicans do the same thing. You probably just didn't know it because they didn't come to your house. I don't know what Polly Market is, but I know they're paying it super well. Somebody else had posted about how Polly Market was fucking paying out the ass for posts.
Starting point is 01:12:01 But they're like pro-Trump posts. Just paying out the ass for it. Yeah. It's just money, guys. Comes and it goes. You get it, you spend it, it's gone. You get a little more, you spend a little more, it's gone. Maybe you get a little in you invested in it grows it's just money it's all it is so i gotta go i'm late i love you guys's faces thanks for being here tonight thanks for coming thanks for hanging and uh that's it keep removing take it easy tell your mom i said hi and watch out for dear bye guys tonight if you need a break from the politics please consider subscribing to our substack or subscribing to our ex-subscribers just good food good friends and good times we'll see you later
Starting point is 01:12:54 Thanks, friends.

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.