Bulwark Takes - Dr. Oz Speech Goes Off the Rails (w/ Keith Edwards)

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

Tim Miller is joined by Keith Edwards to take on Trump Media’s head-scratching move into nuclear fusion, the sprawling corruption tying together crypto, energy, and media power, and why major TV networks just handed Trump free airtime with no pushback. They also discuss elite cowardice, Dr. Oz’s bizarre speech, and the freakout over a hockey TV show. Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/BULWARKTAKES. Promo Code BULWARKTAKES Check out Keith Edwards on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@keithedwards

Hey, everybody. It's Tim Miller from the Bullwark. I'm here with Keith Edwards of YouTube fame. You might know him from the Keith Edwards show on YouTube. And we're texting about this crazy story. And we're like, let's just get on. We haven't vibed out together on video, really. And let's just do this. Never. Never. I know. First time. This is crazy. So, you know, tell us if you like it in the comments. Maybe we'll do it more. I've have a list of things that is, you know, I just want to just chat with you about vibe out. But the one we were texting about was Donald Trump is in the nuclear nuclear fusion. business now.

Insane. Trump media has merged with T.A.E. Technologies. I'm going to read this from the New York Times here. Present social media company, which recently expanded into streaming and cryptocurrency, naturally, is entering its fourth act, fusion power,

a promising but unproven source of alternative energy. It was an all stock merger. The company's valued at more than $6 billion. $6 billion. T.A.E. is the fusion company, which seems like these legit. You know, I don't, I'm not a nuclear fusionist, so I don't, I can't quite judge how

legit. But it seems like that's legit. But I guess as you know, it's a highly regulated industry. Nuclear fusion. It's one that he's deregulated, actually, as, as he's been president. Did you know that? No. Yeah. I looked into this a little bit. He's been that and crypto. And that's that's what the Trump's love. I knew about the crypto deregulation. Yeah. Isn't this insane. He's got a $6 billion company that's, here's what it is. It's true social, like the totally fake Twitter. It's a blog. No one else is

on it. Yeah. It's a blog. His personal blog. His crypto is fake crypto coins. His shit coins and also the stable coins that the Middle Eastern dictators are purchasing which are super real. And I guess they must make me streaming Don Jr.'s

Podcast and nuclear fusion. And it's worth $6 billion. And we thought the Barry Weiss deal was a lot. 150 million. This is six billion. This is insane. It's insane. And it's, I, I am, I am just, like, baffled. I mean, the thing is, it's what I text you. There's so much grift going on. And there's so much insane stuff happening that, like, this, I feel like this is like a lower level thing. Like, I think no one's really, like, it didn't really even make that much news. But the president of the United States is now, like, has an energy company. A nuclear energy company. Yeah, I was texting, my buddy texts me this, who's like,

outside of politics. He's like in the deal's business and finance world. And he texts me this morning. He's like deal coming through Trump's social media company and nuclear fusion merger. I'm like what? Like Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm. Like you've never had presidents that are in business. He is the largest stakeholder here. He's entering a highly regulated industry, a little less regulated, I guess, than before as you flag. And like six billion. I mean, I said it on Twitter, like Tiffany's kids or, like, Ivanka's

kids, kids. Maybe that Tiffany's, but yeah, like, Kevin's Tiffany. Like, one of them, Eric's kids, kids are going to have, are going to be a nuclear fusion magnate because of this. Like, it's, like, the grift will reverberate for generations.

Like, they're going to have generational wealth. And it's being stolen. I mean, it's being stolen. They're stealing the people that are investing into the fake the shit coins this might end up being legitimate business i don't know it's delegitimized by their involvement because like what do the like what other media company is also has like a has a power like has alternative powers no did you ever watch 30 rock if 30 rock it was like they had a merger joke where like NBC ends up being bought by the shine heart wig company

it's like that but it's like it's a joke like it's like if fox news were to merge with, I don't even like, Chevron. Yeah. It's crazy. Who are investors? Those are the other investors in this company. I pulled up the CNBC article and I was like, who else? I was like, how legit is this?

Chevron, alphabet, which is Google. So alphabet, which is Google and Chevron are now investors in the president of the United States energy business. Those are also highly regulated companies. And, you know, there could be mergers that would have to have, be reviewed. viewed that Google gets into in the future, if they decide to, you know, get in on the Warner Brothers deal or something. Like, it's insane.

Like, it's totally mind by it. It's like, if you took a banana republic, like a totally corrupt third world country and, like, had their governance system, but we gave it to the richest government in the world. This is literally Russia. I mean, it's Russia. This is how Russia works. Nobody's getting pushed out of buildings yet. I don't know.

I mean, I don't know. We don't know. Not to be a conspiracy theorist. MIT professor? Yes. on the same day or within the week yeah it kind of

for those who don't know an MIT what was he was one of the leading nuclear fission scientists looking into this sort of stuff I didn't know what he existed apparently his work

is very well renowned and he was it looks like it might have been some form of assassination or planned killing and then the president of the United States also has

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You're just coming in hot. We're coming in hot together, your first video. You're like, maybe not to be a conspiracy theorist. I'm just saying. Well, you said in Russia, people get thrown out of buildings, and perhaps. Perhaps. Perhaps what? You do believe that Tyler Robinson killed Charlie Kerr.

great the Mormon kid oh yeah I'm not yeah of course oh we just got getting a bunch of down votes last video I did on that I lost nine subscribers and I'm like good riddance okay to you nine subscribers sorry um now you'll come back you'll come back because we're fun all right so there you go the biggest grift in history uh is just happening kind of right under our nose and uh and those like biggest one for now yeah and they'll be like a great grandchild of trump that will have like some AI fusion company and we'll like build a sky skyscraper in Dubai and it'll be funded by this, this grift. Trump energy, Trump energy.

I saw you tweeted about these two things. So we're going to talk about those two. I mentioned, you know, Barry Weiss and what's happened at the networks. The Trump speech last night, the yell, like the 20-minute yell, all the networks aired it. And it did feel weird in the moment, right? I felt weird because it was like, how is this real life? Does this spoof?

But I was like thinking. And I was like, yeah, I feel like you, this is the kind of thing that cables would use to run, but the networks would only run like real big ones, you know? And they wouldn't just run every random one that the president asked for. And Eric Schultz, his Obama's advisor, posted this. And it was, as it turns out, yeah, in 2014 during the Obama administration. And in 2022, with President Biden, they had a speech of this nature where they went to talk about, you know, kind of the state of things politically.

It wasn't really a speech of this nature because it was like coherent and like there weren't like random lies and, you know, the shouting. But it was giving a speech they wanted to kind of make a political message and the networks refused to do it. And now they're just networks are just like whatever you want, Daddy Trump. Yeah, I messaged Eric when I saw that. And I was like, I can I could not believe that that. Well, first off, I didn't know that networks used to be able to say no. Oh, yeah. It's a free country.

Yeah. But I guess they don't anymore. Or they're just scared of him because he sues people over stupid shit and, right? And I mean, he's got his puppet in at CBS. So that's one of the networks. It couldn't have been a more political speech, too. And I assume they ask for a transcript ahead of time to evaluate this sort of thing. The fact that they said no to Obama and then they're saying yes to this, it was basically a campaign speech on network news.

but for free for free yeah they're just giving them whatever they want it is it's notable because like we're starting to see like there's this good news i know you've been covering this i have like people are finally saying no to him you know like at the beginning of the year it was was feeling very authoritarian or like all of the richest people in the world and all these corporations and everybody was just like saying whatever you want yes sir you know here's a fake trophy but like you know the indiana legislature and redistricting like marjorie tower green there've been like a few examples of people saying no. And so it's like even more notable now when like these corporations are so cowardly. It's just unbelievable how cowardly they've been. I don't, I think, I mean,

this is me being naive. I just guess I thought that the billionaires, the oligarchs and the companies would actually be defending our values. Because I think like capitalism, free market democracy, they all kind of have to work hand in hand. It's one of the reasons why we are. are the, one of the, we are the richest country in the world is because people can trust that what happens in our markets is free and fair, but not anymore. And I guess I, I guess I just understand that like the oligarchs would want in on the grift rather than wanting to protect our values to make sure that the best ideas and the most successful companies are the ones who are actually creating the most value. Yeah, short term thinking, I guess. Yeah, oh well,

short term thinking, maybe they'll change their tune. I got it. It's such a disaster that like, eventually maybe they'll come around and start sounding like us when it when it makes when they like maybe there's a lag you know like they kind of were like think about this way like i don't i'm not comparing woke to trumping an authoritarian but like they sort like there was already kind of like a backlash against kind of the most obnoxious like parts of like left left wing identity politics like that was happening already in the country but the corporations were still doing like the lockheed martin pride float, you know, brought to you by the LGBTQ plus IA. Like, do we really don't need Lockheed anymore, you know?

And so, like, that was still happening. And then Trump won and they're like, oh, fuck. Like, we got to change now. It's like only white guys in the ads and like Sydney, Sweeney, Jeans, ads and stuff. You know what I mean? So is it possible that they just will be kind of delayed because they're so cowardly and, like, they'll see Trump being a disaster and then they'll come back around eventually? Maybe, but I don't know.

I don't see Jeff Bezos if Donald Trump. to go for a third term. I don't think I see Jeff Bezos or like Target rallying around the fact that he can only have two terms. I don't either. No, if I see that. Do you think he's going to run for a third term?

I think it's impossible to predict what an 82 year old megalomaniac will want to do. That's like my general answer. He's going to be so old. That is like the only thing that is like giving me hope. I just don't see how he gives up power. That's just kind of how I feel today. I go back and forth, to be honest. I think the fact that it's even a question is kind of the answer to me.

It is insane. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. Two other things I wanted to grab you on before we live. Dr. Oz gave a speech today. You saw this? I knew it was happening. Unfortunately, Dr. Oz, I did not check in on your statements.

But I was aware of it. Let's just play a little clip for everybody. Shockingly, a phaloplasti, the creation of a penis, costs on average in America, according to this data, high quality, $150,000 per person. child. I do believe with doing some work that these prices have continued to increase with increasing manufactured demand. And I must point out that the creation of a vagina in that case of a phalloplasti or a scrotoplasti where you add testicles, that's extra. We've got inflation in penis plastes. 150 grand for a penis these days. Is it going rate?

I didn't know it cost that much. I mean, it makes sense. But, But penis flation, I guess, is the thing that we should be worried about. The affordability crisis has come to your crotch. Why has the affordability? You would think that like AI and technological advances. Well, let's be honest. That's an art. That is an art.

Art is hard to replicate. So that makes sense. It costs a lot. You're probably not old enough. Do you remember John Bobbitt? Do you remember Lorina Bobbitt? She cut off her John Bobbitt's dick. You're only like two years older than me, Tim.

Yes. Is that true? Yeah. How old are you? I don't know. We're not talking about that. John Bobbitt's dick got cut off. I don't know.

I would think if 150 feels kind of like a good deal. I don't know. You felt like that seems fine to you? I mean, it makes sense. It certainly, I mean, it's like the cost of a. Can it get erect the $150,000 penis? No, I don't. I actually don't know how that works.

It feels not worth it then. It, it, I, I will not comment on. Why was Dr. Oz worried about this inflation? I'd say he's costing us too much money the transgender surgeries is costing us too much money that was the gist here we think or is he in the market

I think that is the thing he was trying to focus on was that how many people are getting dicks in the year to 2020 5, 3 people I don't know through the government I don't think that landed all right do you have any hot takes on the heated rivalry

discourse for you don't know there's a hockey show is it on max or news Netflix is it on max? It's on max right three handsome white guys this is where you know woke is over three handsome mussely white guys they play hockey and it's like the three is the three best hockey players the world are all gay so it's pretty you know it's not really in touch for three hours that's how it is actually um and uh you know some of the people on the internet don't don't like that they're like it we you know it should be because they're hot i don't i don't i don't i can't explain i mean they think it's too

i don't know like let people be hot let people enjoy things yeah right i don't know like i just think yeah if you don't like i don't watch it's so it's so simple it's a hockey show yeah have you watched it i haven't watched it i've never watched it i mean i watched looking remember looking oh yeah yeah but i other than i haven't really watched a gay themed really yeah i'm trying to think so this is one we're different i consume all gay themed now i will say i'm not like heated driveway i'm not engrossed i'm not taking no It's usually I'm preparing for the next day's podcast while it's on in the background, you know, so I'm not following all the plot points.

I'm getting the gist. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I'd be cool with a football, I think I'm going to do a spin off of a football perversion. It's like three like wide receivers, black guys. That would be great too. I'm just for it all. Like more is more as far as I'm concerned on hot people streaming shows.

Brand it. Yeah. Just like do as many. It's like real housewives. Sure. Sure. Do every sports team. Swimmers.

Soccer. This is what we get along. You know, it's just like we just like, We just want joy, you know? We just want to really experience happiness. Why is to, well, don't take away our happiness, okay? Yeah, let people enjoy things. If you don't like hot white guys making out in the locker room, that's, I, that's okay.

I don't, I don't identify with that, but I accept you for. Yeah, it's not exactly my exact. I mean, you know, if we're getting really into like what my preferred, you know, the hockey demo isn't really mine. That's not, I don't. No, hockey players are hot. Yeah, that's not for me. It's like a little, it's a little too mussely for me.

Are they the hottest soccer, I think, is the hottest. Is that, would you agree? Well, don't make me choose between my babies. I don't know. They're all great. Keith Edwards, we'll leave it there. It's the Keith Edwards show. And let us know if you like this.

It's a crossover event and I'll do it on his next time. Yeah, okay. So to speak. Bye. Bye. Thank you.