Timcast IRL - BREAKING: Trump Diagnosed With Chronic Vein Disease, Covers Bruised Hands With Make Up w/ Six Seven Kevin

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

Tim, Phil, Mary, & Carter are joined by Six Seven Kevin to discuss Trump being diagnosed with a chronic vein disease, WSJ reporting Trump sent sexy letters to Jeffrey Epstein, CNN losing it over Trump...'s approval rating surging, and CBS canceling The Late Show.   Hosts:  Tim @Timcast (everywhere) Phil @PhilThatRemains (X) Mary  ⁨@PopCultureCrisis⁩  (everywhere) Carter @carterbanks (X) Serge @SergeDotCom (everywhere) Guest: Six Seven Kevin | SixSevenStories.com

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Donald Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency. There are a bunch of viral stories circulating showing Donald Trump having weird bruising on his hand that he covered up with foundation. And it was kind of weird because the foundation didn't match his skin tone, almost like the people who did it didn't know how to do makeup. But apparently it's, I guess people are saying he's old. That's it. Other than that, they're saying his health is great.
Starting point is 00:00:30 But we'll talk about that, what that means. And a lot of the commentary is that this is the way it should have been handled with Joe Biden. Just come out and say, he's an old guy, here's what's happening. So we'll talk about that. Plus we got some good news. Donald Trump's approval rating among Republicans, despite all the Epstein stuff, it's gone up. CNN's Harry Enton was surprised to see that basically all of the polls show he's improved with the Republican Party, despite the controversy.
Starting point is 00:00:53 In fact, among Gen X, he is now up 10 points, a massive jump from the past, the previous CNN poll. And Trump has improved with Hispanics. Kind of weird. And because we have to, I guess, the biggest story in the country right now, some guy got caught cheating on his wife. I'm not kidding. It was a Coldplay concert and he was like spooning some woman or something, that's it.
Starting point is 00:01:20 And he's had to issue an apology over it. But seriously, the search volume on this is crazy. So I'm actually interested in that angle on why it is the president can be diagnosed That's it. And he's had to issue an apology over it. But seriously, the search volume on this is crazy. So I'm actually interested in that angle on why it is the president can be diagnosed with some kind of ailment, but the bigger news story is some guy got caught cheating. Maybe that's why that show Cheaters was so popular. Before we get started, my friends, we got a great sponsor. It is Venice.ai.
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Starting point is 00:03:59 literally everybody. I mean, when was the last time you called your ma? Give her a call and say, ma, watch Tim Kast. Smash that like button again. Joining us tonight tonight talk about this and so much more. We got six seven Kevin Howdy there six seven Kevin here reporting. I'm grateful to be here. I'm excited Is it true that you were actually six foot seven? It is very true Wow, if I could stand next to Mary right now everybody could see You you actually have a documentary coming out. We teamed up on this
Starting point is 00:04:28 on Monday. Coming out on Rumble Premium. I want to thank Tim for investing in boots on the ground journalism. I gave the opportunity for me to go through Panama, the Darien jungle, up through Mexico to the Texas border. Got to see the journey of migrants, talk to them, hear about how they want the American dream while Gen Z's saying the American dream is dead. And it was fascinating to see. So everything from whistleblowers talking about how much money was given to illegal immigrants in blue cities to hanging out with border patrol,
Starting point is 00:05:00 catching smugglers in the middle of the desert. And yeah, it was a hootenhauler. So if you wanna see what migrants think and how border patrol thinks and acts, I desert. And yeah, it was a hootenhauler. So if you want to see what migrants think and how Border Patrol thinks and acts, I hung out with them and it was fun. We got Carter hanging out. What's up, everyone? It was, this is, it's great, the documentary.
Starting point is 00:05:14 I don't want to give away too much, but I got to see a little bit extra of it. Did a little scoring on it as well. And it's, it is something else. So yeah. And we'll be releasing the soundtrack. Got eight songs. Yes, got eight or nine.
Starting point is 00:05:28 We're gonna release those, the instrumentals, so if you like the documentary, you'll probably like the music because it played a big part in it, so. Yeah, some people say just like Star Wars, it sucked until the music was added. I wouldn't say that. The music's the only thing good about it. Right on, well, it should be fun.
Starting point is 00:05:43 Mary's here. Hello, everyone. My name is Mary Morgan, and you can usually find me on Pop Culture Crisis here at Timcast. I'm happy to be here. Hello, everybody. My name's Phil Labonte.
Starting point is 00:05:54 I'm the lead singer of the heavy metal band, All That Remains. I'm an anti-communist and a counter-revolutionary. Let's get into it. Here's the news from CNN. Trump diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency following leg swelling. Now the story was this image right here that had been going viral was actually a couple.
Starting point is 00:06:10 Trump's got weird makeup on his hand. Now my the bigger concern I have is why did they not get the skin tone properly? Like don't you? It's just orange, it's not complicated. Maybe it's because there is no orange. Don't you just go to you go to the you go to Walgreens and they just have a bunch and you just put them next to your skin until it looks good, right? Yeah, the Sephora Girls will get you sorted.
Starting point is 00:06:31 All right, I guess. Well, we've got this clip. On another note, I know that many in the media have been speculating about bruising on the president's hand and also swelling in the president's legs. So in the effort of transparency, the president wanted me to share a note from his physician with all of you today. In recent weeks, President Trump noted mild swelling in his lower legs.
Starting point is 00:06:53 In keeping with routine medical care and out of an abundance of caution, this concern was thoroughly evaluated by the White House Medical Unit. The president underwent a comprehensive examination, including diagnostic vascular studies. Bilateral lower extremity venous Doppler ultrasounds were performed and revealed chronic venous insufficiency, AB9, and common condition, particularly in individuals over the age of 70. Importantly, there was no evidence
Starting point is 00:07:25 of deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease. Laboratory testing included a complete blood count, comprehensive metabolic panel, coagulation profile, D-dimer, B-type, natriotic, peptide, and cardiac biomarkers. All results were within normal limits. An echocardiogram was also performed and confirmed normal cardiac structure and function. No signs of heart failure, renal impairment, or systemic illness were identified. Additionally, recent photos of the president have shown minor bruising on
Starting point is 00:08:01 the back of his hand. This is consistent with minor soft tissue irritation from frequent handshaking and the use of aspirin, which is taken as part of a standard cardiovascular prevention regimen. This is a well-known and benign side effect of aspirin therapy. And the president remains in excellent health, which I think all of you witness on a daily basis here. Do we believe that? The handshake hypothesis? Well, I mean all of you witness on a daily basis here. Do we believe that?
Starting point is 00:08:25 The handshake hypothesis? Well, I mean all of it. Is he healthy and fine and he's shaking too many hands? Oh, other people were saying it's obviously a spot where you would put an IV and I looked close up at the high definition photographs and there is seemingly an entry point there. And I looked back and found a post as early as November 29th last year showing the makeup on his hand. So it was going on all the way back then and they just talked about it.
Starting point is 00:08:53 And then during Emmanuel Macron's first visit to the White House since the inauguration, people noted that he was grabbing Trump's hand when they shook hands like really hard, like gripping, digging his fingers in. And that's allegedly the same visit when Macron advised Trump or really asked, begged Trump to tell Candace Owens to stop talking about Rajit. I don't believe that actually happened. I think Candace Owens got spoofed. I want it to be true.
Starting point is 00:09:21 You think by like AI Trump? I think somebody spoof called her and the way she described the call sounded like got spoofed. I want it to be true. You think by like AI Trump? I think somebody spoof called her and the way she described the call sounded like someone spoofed her. She said that Trump jumped right into the conversation without saying what's up, which is indicative of someone pre-recording or having an air ready to go.
Starting point is 00:09:36 And then she said that when she made a response, he didn't even acknowledge it, he just kept saying the same thing. And I'm like, yeah, it's because someone spoofed you. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know. The prankster hasn't come out and proven it, so I'm just speculating over here. I mean, look, the thing that I think
Starting point is 00:09:49 most people that are, at least on the conservative side, the questions they have is the media has noticed this, but they didn't notice four years of a walking corpse in the White House. They didn't notice that President Biden could barely complete sentences. They would call lids at 1 in the White House. They didn't notice that President Biden couldn't, could barely complete sentences. They would call lids at one in the afternoon. So, I mean, maybe Trump has something, you know, some health issues, but he's 79.
Starting point is 00:10:17 That is fairly typical of someone that age. You know, I'm thinking about all this fiction they've done on, are you guys familiar with what a lich is? Yes. Undead. Lich King. Yeah, and the way they depict a lich is more functional than Joe Biden was as president, which kind of makes it less scary now when you're like, oh, it's not actually a scary
Starting point is 00:10:38 kind of thing right now. It's like it was better than we actually had with the president. I mean, this just makes it reaffirms all of the people that have the opinion, you know, you can't trust the media and you think you hate the media enough, but you can't hate them enough. Like, that's literally the attitude that people should have walking away from this, regardless of what you think about Donald Trump.
Starting point is 00:11:00 Like, maybe he's got something going on. I don't think that if it were serious, they would be downplaying it like this. Possibly they could but... 220 pounds. Pardon me? Well yeah I mean look he's definitely overweight. He's a big guy he's overweight. That's the reported weight. Yeah and again look I mean again he's you know 79 years old he's an old older guy and he's going to have procedures he's going to have a degradation of health. But honestly, I think the biggest story here is look, they can see small things on Donald
Starting point is 00:11:31 Trump, but the media couldn't tell that President Biden was incapacitated for most of his presidency and all of the things that are downstream from that. Kamala Harris did not do anything about it. His entire cabinet didn't say anything. Nobody stood up and said, hey, we don't think the president can handle the job. And I think that the American people deserve to be made aware of this. They should have invoked the 25th Amendment and they didn't. So whether or not you have a problem with Donald Trump, you can't deny the fact that
Starting point is 00:12:04 this is obviously showing the double standard that the media consistently has. Oh, for sure. Well, I just asked our friend, Chet GPT, what causes CVI, and it says valve damage or failure, deep vein thrombosis, there's nothing there, weak or narrowed vein walls, risk factors, obesity, pregnancy. Are they telling us something? Trans Donald Trump. Vein walls, risk factors, obesity, pregnancy? Are they telling us something? Trans Donald Trump.
Starting point is 00:12:27 Donald Trump is actually, he's been a woman since he, he's been a woman since he started with the Soviet Union as a KGB in the 80s, right? Yeah, cause he was- Going back to the 80s. When- Last transition. When he was born, because he would have to be
Starting point is 00:12:44 pre-menopausal to be pregnant today. Yep, all the way back to the 80s, just like, I forget. Lack of physical activity. Didn't Trump say he doesn't work out? Because he believes that you have a certain amount of energy and you waste it. He totally did say that, yeah. I remember, it was like, that was bizarre.
Starting point is 00:12:59 When would we have time to do that, though? Is that true? Look, you can tweet and walk on the treadmill I'm not sure where I heard that but I heard that from somewhere Constantly traveling he's constantly on the move So I don't I don't know that I trust CNN this one, but they wrote Donald Trump has a very strange theory about exercise Other than golf he considers exercise misguided arguing that a like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy, writes Evan Osnos in a piece titled
Starting point is 00:13:28 How Trump Could Get Fired. You know what, I believe it. Go to the gym. Wait, wait, hold on, hold on. All of my friends who work out all the time, they're going for knee replacements, hip replacements, they're a disaster. He said he exerts himself fully by standing in front of an audience for an hour,
Starting point is 00:13:42 and he just did, that's exercise. I mean, yeah, it's cardio. Don't listen to him. Go to the gym. I do love the sweet. I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke. Gotta have good form though. That was self-deprecating because he's a fan of Diet Coke.
Starting point is 00:13:56 He knows that. Indeed. He's also chunky. Well, after some of his previous tests, I remember it was like in 2022, he was saying, I'm the healthiest president that's ever lived. They did the tests on me. They were like, Wow, Mr. Trump, you're so healthy. I don't buy it. We know that he's not fully demented like Biden was, but we can't pretend that he is
Starting point is 00:14:19 as sharp as he used to be. He's certainly not. And you can tell when you listen to him talk, I mean, he's trailing through these sentences and his voice is not as forceful as it used to be. It sounds like he has trouble getting it out sometimes. And with his recent posts on Truth Social, it's like, is somebody else writing this stuff? I hope so, because if it's him, that's even worse. Well, there was a
Starting point is 00:14:51 Not behind the scenes kind of thing somebody verbally, but that somebody else entirely is coming up with these tweets Yeah, I don't I don't truths. I don't know that I believe Donald Trump would allow that Mmm, so other people to truth for him. Yeah, I think I don't know I think posting is truly deranged So what do you mean which deranged? Which posts? I don't want your support anymore. Which ones? I mean. You know, the tweets, not tweets, true tweets. The ones where he was like, I don't want your support. Related to Epstein.
Starting point is 00:15:15 Oh, that stuff, I think that that's. You're acting like that happened five years ago. I just don't, what do you mean? I don't remember. The guy tweets all the time. What are you talking about? I'm just asking you to be specific, because the guy tweets all the time.
Starting point is 00:15:24 The one is like, really hard. The point being, the stuff about Epstein, that shows, I think, less that someone else is doing it and more that it kind of rattles him, honestly. I think that he just doesn't like to be associated with Epstein. He's in some state of panic. Yeah, I think he's stressed and medical conditions come from stress.
Starting point is 00:15:41 Could be, could be. But it's my kind of guess that if things are a little off, it's not because someone else is writing the tweets. It's because he's a little rattled about the obscene stuff. I kind of feel like if it was like really big deal, though, they would have tried harder to cover up his skin. Yeah, because if it were Biden, they
Starting point is 00:16:01 would have had a fake hand for him to have instead of just like off-colored makeup. So I instead of just like off colored makeup. I kind of feel like he didn't care if people found out because he went on to present a bunch of healthy reasons he was doing good to counteract all the potential causes. If it was Biden, it would have been a clone. Right. Well, we got another story. Let's jump to this from the Wall Street Journal.
Starting point is 00:16:21 Jeffrey Epstein's friends sent him body letters for a 50th birthday album. One was from Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter is a fake thing. Well, JD Vance has responded as well. He says, forgive my language, but this story is complete and utter BS. The Wall Street Journal should be ashamed for publishing it. Where is this letter? Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it? Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump? And so that was JD Vance's response and Let's I wonder if they have Let's grab the letter. So the letter bearing Trump's name
Starting point is 00:16:59 Which was reviewed by the journal is body like others in the album It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman's breasts and the future president's signature is squiggle squiggly Donald below her waist, mimicking her pubic hair. The letter concludes happy birthday and may every day be another for wonderful, wonderful secret. In an interview with the journal on Tuesday evening, Trump denied writing the letter or drawing the picture.
Starting point is 00:17:26 This is not me, this is a fake thing. It's a fake Wall Street Journal story. I never wrote a picture in my life. I don't draw pictures of women, he said. It's not my language, it's not my words. He told the journal he was preparing to file a lawsuit if it published an article. I'm gonna sue the Wall Street Journal
Starting point is 00:17:42 just like I sued everyone else," he said. Okay, I mean, what's the evidence that Donald was Donald? They say, it isn't clear how the letter with Trump's signature was prepared. Inside the outline of the naked woman was a typewritten note styled as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein written in a third person. Voice over, there must be more to life than having everything, the note began. Donald, yes there is, but I won't tell you what it is. Jeffrey, no rely, since I also know what it is. Donald, we have certain things in common, Jeffrey. Yes, we do come to think of it.
Starting point is 00:18:17 Donald, enigmas never age. Have you noticed that? Jeffrey, as a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you. Donald, a pal is a wonderful thing. Happy birthday and may every day be another wonderful secret Well, it's ominous it just as it was signed Donald though was it was it signed Donald Trump like Yeah, where's the signature? Yeah, that's what I'm saying we could tell if it's his
Starting point is 00:18:41 It said it was just Donald over his pubic like as pubic hair, so that's not Trump's normal signature This is this there was a lot of people talking about this earlier this morning and last night So that show that I'm to a which has mark. Okay, what says the bearing Trump's name? Yeah, but the journal I saw the picture somewhere. I don't know where it is. I'm gonna keep trying to look for it, but find it Yeah, it's buried. You know so yeah like I was in But find it. Yeah, it's buried, you know, so yeah, like I was saying On to a mark Halpern and Sean Spicer worked and Dan Treen. I think his name is they were talking about this Yesterday and they were kind of alluding to this being a
Starting point is 00:19:21 Fairly big deal or at least something that had the White House and the administration kind of up in arms about they were upset Upset enough for Donald Trump to call the Wall Street Journal and actually speak to him about it. I feel like it's kind of a nothing burger. Sure, it's a little weird and creepy, but I think that the reason that Trump objected to this is because it's another more evidence of association with Epstein and he is trying his best to distance himself from Epstein and everything. There's also allegations that Trump met Melania through Epstein. I saw that, yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:55 And it's possible that the first time that Trump and Melania had sex, it was on Epstein's plane. These are allegations that I've heard. I'm only telling you the things that I've heard. So I don't know how valid they are. It doesn't look like Melania though. If you look at the pictures, it's this blonde woman that does not look like her at all. I'm not sure. So you've seen the pictures though? I've seen the pictures, yeah. But I'm not 100%. There is a lot of fake news coming out
Starting point is 00:20:22 about this stuff with AI generated photos and all that so it's tough to say Yeah, I mean a lot of people have have a serious interest in for either associating Trump with Epstein or doing what they can to smear Trump obviously because He's the president and it's politics and stuff. It says Trump's name, but are they just saying Donald like weird? I you know Unless they showed it to us, this is what's kind of weird about the story, is I don't know who Donald is.
Starting point is 00:20:50 Donald could be Trump, is that what they're claiming? That's the argument, yeah. So anybody named Donald as Trump, Donald Trump? I mean, I don't know, like I said, I haven't seen the picture, but his signature is. It says it's signed Donald, it doesn't say it's signed Donald Trump it's always been fairly distinct yeah it doesn't even
Starting point is 00:21:08 seem like something that that Trump would say sounds like weird fan fiction what is this Alan Dershowitz wait among those who submitted letters were Leslie Wexner and Alan Dershowitz the album also contained a letter from now deceased Harvard economist, one of Epstein's report cards from Mark Twain Junior High School in Brooklyn. And a note from a former assistant that included an acrostic with Epstein's name,
Starting point is 00:21:34 Jeffrey O. Jeffrey, everyone loves you, fun in the sun, fun just for fun. Remember, don't forget me soon, Epstein, you rock, you are the best. I don't know, is that relevant? That was kind of a weird story. Yeah, again, I think that it's, even if it was something written by Trump,
Starting point is 00:21:54 the only thing that it does is add more evidence that Trump and Epstein knew each other and they were friendly, which I think- Everyone already knew. Yeah, I feel like that's not really a secret. there's plenty of pictures of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein hanging out before what is it 2000 when he he decided that he didn't want to be around Epstein anymore I'm not sure what the context of that was yeah he kicked them out of Mar-a-Lago and stuff oh all of them, so I mean, I don't see how how this is
Starting point is 00:22:26 particularly inflammatory other than Trump doesn't like it because it's Reminds people of Epstein when he's not all the Epstein heat is on now Part of the base that's challenging Trump on this right now Doesn't even believe that he's trying to hide incriminating information about himself in the Epstein files They want to know who else he's trying to hide incriminating information about himself in the Epstein files they want to know who else he's protecting. So it seems to be like a total red herring. It doesn't really sound like Trump. No. You know? Trump's the kind of guy who says... Or are we just expecting it to read like the tweets? I mean kind of. Yeah. But also Trump's the guy who was on a bus and he was like you know when you're famous women let
Starting point is 00:23:05 You do whatever you want Yeah, grandma the whole oh And you know that was kind of like weird goofy lovey-dovey But I don't know who am I to say it must be a letter for his 50th birthday party to fight I think all the news everywhere all the time is fake now Well, cuz we we read that Axios stories the other day that said Republicans block a Democrat attempt to publish Epstein files for our second time.
Starting point is 00:23:34 And then you find out actually it was a procedural vote on control of the floor. And it's like, oh, so they said we want control of the floor, but we're going to publish Epstein. And you're like, no, you can't control the floor. And they Axios publishes that Republicans blocked the release of Epstein and the reason that they didn't want to give up control of the floor is because of all the doge cuts that were coming later in the day which passed because you know, it took the the vote of the vice president, but the NPR's
Starting point is 00:23:58 Defunding the PBS defunding all these things that were you know tenants of Donald Trump's His run and things that Republicans have been trying to do for ages. They're like, oh yeah, we're not going to give up control so that way we can make sure these things pass. And then, you know, the Democrats are just, oh, well, you're trying to hide the Epstein stuff and it's very dishonest. But there's a lot of people that run, you know, the left totally ran with it. And that's all you saw all day long is people were replying to Congress people you voted to you didn't want to put the Epstein
Starting point is 00:24:27 stuff out you didn't want to put the Epstein stuff out and it just is pardon me false. This is boring. Well you know it's uh. Did you say PBS got defunded? Yeah. Oh Elmo lashing out just makes, yeah. I don't think Elmo got hacked. I think it was an employee. Oh, really? Yeah, they're probably getting fired. They put out a statement that said it was hacked, but... That wasn't Elmo? What? That wasn't Elmo?
Starting point is 00:24:56 No. Actually, this may be a surprise to you, Phil, but there's a man who inserts his hand inside of Elmo. Oh. Nasty. Oh, nasty. He's a puppet. What am I, what? That is so vulgar. Is he a muppet?
Starting point is 00:25:11 Is Elmo? No, he's not one of them. He's not a muppet. He's a whole different thing. What does muppet mean? It's like DC and the MCU. Oh. Totally different. Different race of puppet.
Starting point is 00:25:19 Different race of puppet. All right, I guess. Yeah, I'm saying I don't think the account was hacked. I think someone with access to it was gonna get fired, commandeered it. And they just say it was hacked in this, like how, maybe they just, it's easier to say hacked and to say a rogue employee who normally
Starting point is 00:25:40 shouldn't have access to this used it, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, well, hacked is such a, it's used so colloquial now. Yeah, it's so broad, it's like, oh. It reminded me, like, 13 years ago, there was this guy who dressed up as Elmo in Central Park and started ranting at passersby,
Starting point is 00:25:58 including children, about the Jews. And he was known as anti-Semitic Elmo. What? And there are plenty of videos on YouTube still of this guy ranting about the Jews in Central Park in an Elmo costume, and then the New York Times did like a write-up on him, found out who he was. He claimed his name was Adam Sandler.
Starting point is 00:26:15 His name was Zoran Van Damme. It was Zoran the whole time? Oh, wow. His first acting job. That's right. Wow. I mean, it really was pretty brilliant, though, to see all of the Elmo memes come out because it harken back to y'all remember That it was like one of the first Elmo memes that came out where he was acting like he's this bougie actor where he's like Elmo wants his coffee. You know, you didn't brew the coffee right?
Starting point is 00:26:36 He's like throwing it in the face and everything like that's what they built it off of I think as well And it was just brilliant, you know, I gotten desecrated more than like any other child mascot. There's some body Kermit the Frog stuff out there. Oh true. That I'm not going to describe. Maybe in the after show. But yeah there's anytime you can take something that's pure and defile it. At least adults and perverts are gonna laugh about it.
Starting point is 00:27:05 Let's jump to this next story. We got a clip from CNN. Guys, Donald Trump's approval rating with the GOP has gone up during the Epstein scandal. And among Gen X, it has gone up. And among Hispanics, it has gone up. It has gone down a bit in aggregate, but this is actually a funny clip.
Starting point is 00:27:21 I love Harry Endonby. He's always so surprised to find out that there are people who like Trump. Look, I think this one surprised me a bit because of all these complaints online going after Trump and the esteem files you might think his approval ratings were going down with Republicans. If anything, they're going up. Republicans who approve of Trump, look at our CNN poll.
Starting point is 00:27:38 The prior one, 86%. The one out this week, 88% were Republicans. How about Quinnipiac? The prior poll, 87% approval of Republicans. This week out, 88% were Republicans. How about Quinnipiac, the prior poll? 87% approved for Republicans. This week out, 90% were Republicans. If anything, Donald Trump's approval rating has gone up since this whole Epstein saga started. He is at the apex, or close there too, in terms of his popularity with Republican voters,
Starting point is 00:28:00 Epstein files, complains, or not. You just proved that not everything online is real Amazing Twitter and X are not reality. Is there any reason that you can find that this hasn't taken hold and hurt him? Yeah, I mean on X all you hear about is the Epstein files But how about out in the real public Republicans who said the top issue was Epstein case The answer is one. One and not one percent. One responded. This is a great little finding that Ariel Edwards-Levy, of course, is part of our polling unit found. Just one single Republican said that the nation's top
Starting point is 00:28:38 problem is in fact the Epstein case. Not much of a surprise that therefore Donald Trump's approval rating has not suffered with Republicans because of the Epstein case because the bottom line is most Americans say it's not up high up on their prior. So is the issue then we are all terminally online and suffering from delusions? I mean look man I was saying normies don't really care about the Epstein stuff there are people that care very deeply about it and they're very vocal and they're the people that are calling into podcasts and making sure that Charlie Kirk is is on point and making sure that Benny's on point. There are people in the chat here that really care about it but
Starting point is 00:29:14 the average person does not care. It is the economy that matters and the fact that the economy is actually doing fairly well right now means that people are kind of okay and they don't want to change, make drastic changes because they feel like the economy is going to be getting better. Well and are they, who are they polling? Because if they're polling boomers, that makes sense, you know, but if it was Gen Z and Millennials, I don't think it would be the same. I agree with you. Yeah, but I said the same thing that you just said Prior to the election when Trump over promised on this and we knew that he probably wasn't going to follow through because he qualified it They were like, are you going to release the JFK files? What about the MLK files and they went down the list
Starting point is 00:29:56 How about the Epstein files and he said yes, but we're gonna need to People's names might be mentioned in there and they didn't do anything wrong. So we're going to have to look into that further. So we knew he wasn't going to follow through on it. I don't think he should have even engaged with the conversation and made a promise if it weren't realistic to follow through. And people voted on mass deportations and they voted on inflation. They didn't vote based on this issue
Starting point is 00:30:25 and it is a chronically online issue and anyone watching this live stream, no offense, I'm not even saying you're chronically online but you're definitely more online than the rest of the population and Trump's supporters. Just the number of people that are actually actively involved in politics in the United States is like vanishingly small.
Starting point is 00:30:44 Most people don't get really involved in politics in the United States is like vanishingly small. You know, most people don't get really involved in politics. It's the same reason why, you know, every two, every four years, there's the presidential election and there's a bunch of people that turn out, but then the midterms, no one can get to the polls because people aren't, normies aren't particularly interested in politics. And whether you like that or not, or whether it's good for the country or not is irrelevant. It's just the way that people behave. Yeah, and that's why there's a yearly cycle in political content on YouTube that is, it's obvious.
Starting point is 00:31:16 The year after an election, views go way down, and then the midterms kick off and you start getting these elections and it starts to bubble up. Then you get a primary year, it bubbles up. Then a general election, and they spend you know five billion dollars and there's ad campaigns everywhere everyone's trying to maximize their access to whatever audience viewership is skyrocketing and then everyone gets fatigued and takes the year
Starting point is 00:31:36 off regular people right now it's a beautiful july evening they're probably sitting on their porch with a Yingling or blue moon in a rocking chair. Look at the moon. Well, I'm in a dark room waiting for the next Epstein video to come out Ready to type ready to type on X how terrible the Epstein stuff is and how right you were and how you knew it all along. Or it's a dead Internet. Everyone's a bot. We're doing a show to nobody and everyone just thinks they have viewers. I mean, that's that's possible.
Starting point is 00:32:13 It's going to be funny when, like in the future, it's just India and Pakistan debating whether like Trump is better than Hillary on X because they were hired to do so and they don't actually know that they're actually warring on the Internet. OK, you doing live events must disprove that theory for you, right? Like people show up and buy tickets? Yeah, but like doing a show that gets, you know, seven, eight hundred thousand viewers is a big number compared to selling 200 seats. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:32:40 That is true. That was the first time I came to watch you live was at a Turning Point event. And I remember I was like, oh, there's other people that actually listen to Timcast. This is true. I was the first time I came to watch you live was an attorney point event And I remember I was like oh, there's other people that actually listen to Tim cast. This is cool Yeah, I thought it was only me that thought Ian was cool and Know that that was always right poor Ian Spaceman so take this out from Newsweek Donald Trump's approval rating flips with Gen Z And I love this headline because they could just write hits and space man. So take this out from Newsweek, Donald Trump's approval rating flips with Gen Z. And I love this headline because they could just write hits,
Starting point is 00:33:08 you know, all time high or something. The general story is that he's got among Gen Z plus 10. Was it Gen X? I had Z. Oh my bad, Gen X, old people, not young people. Me. Yes, up 10 points. Whereas in April, it was down 13.
Starting point is 00:33:26 Then you've got this from Newsyk as well. He's approving with Hispanic is surging. Not like it's above water. I think it went from 26 to 35. But Trump's approval is actually going up at this time, where apparently there's some scandal related to this Epstein thing. I think it shows you that regular people are going, who?
Starting point is 00:33:46 Yeah. It's definitely like a horse that's been beaten to a pulp. And it was kind of like the last thing that I was thinking of right now after doing all the stuff that I feel like I've done to help create some world where Trump got elected again. This is kind of like the time that I was like, OK, well, now we can relax and not think about this for now.
Starting point is 00:34:05 I think everything's fake and that's why no one knows what's going on. Like the polls are all wacky, they go up and down, like I got the aggregate approval and it's like Reuters minus 13, Qantas minus 2, you know. Who are you gonna believe? Big data minus 1 or economist minus 11? The swings are psychotic. You know, Tim, you were saying, I think it was on one of the clips today, like how many things Trump has done that were living up to the promises that he made during the campaign.
Starting point is 00:34:36 And even people that were like, oh, you'll never get self-deportations. And I think that I've heard something like a million people or something have have possibly self-deported over a million self deportations yeah like that is did you see that number that's the official number I'm pretty sure I don't it's like all over the internet like like news articles I've written it on the I don't think it's from ice they're not publishing the numbers well that it's the selfie it's self deportation 14,000
Starting point is 00:35:04 deportations by ice self deportations I know we're talking about self deprecations. I'm talking about ice I think it was fourteen thousand this month and if it continues on that track We're talking less than a million far less than a million in his entire presidency that yes But the point of all of the of the pressure pressure that ICE is putting on is to get people to self-deport. Right? If he, if they only deport, if the whole four years they only manage to deport a hundred thousand people, but five or ten million are like, I'm out of here because I want to be
Starting point is 00:35:38 able to come back and I don't want to get booted, that's good. I don't know man, something about promising mass amnesty doesn't exactly incentivize people to leave. He hasn't promised mass amnesty. He hasn't promised mass amnesty. There's one politician that's talking about it and she's catching hell. And Donald Trump himself said,
Starting point is 00:35:57 or at least Carolyn Levitt today from the podium during the press briefing said that no, there will be no. So quick fact check, I think that's, there will be no. So quick fact check, I think that's just Trump's talking point. The only source I could find that claims one million illegal immigrants self-deported was NDTV.
Starting point is 00:36:12 And it cites various data from the New York Post and the Washington Post that suggests that's the case. This sounds like a cope. Yeah. It sounds like a cope. Nothing ever happened. And you know, I know that it's not technically amnesty because it's technically a special visa program they
Starting point is 00:36:26 want to create for illegal immigrant workers, but effectively it's the same thing and they're incentivized to stay when they hear things like that in news coverage. Well, I get what you're saying, but that bill is not going to make it anywhere. It's super unpopular with the base. She's already getting a ton of pushback about it. She went on Meet the Press to talk about it. Salazar's her name, right? That presented the bill or that proposed the bill.
Starting point is 00:36:56 And it's not at all what Donald Trump is saying is gonna happen. So I understand there are people that have talked about it. Trump has made remarks about farmers needing the workers and stuff. But overall, like, there has been more movement on immigration, illegal immigrants, than probably any other thing
Starting point is 00:37:18 that Donald Trump has talked about. And he's, whether or not you think it's good enough yet, I understand, but it's already enough yet, I understand but it's already way better than I honestly expected because again if a million people have already self-deported the more pressure you put on the better and there should be things like you should they should start picking up employers that are hiring illegals though they should pick up people that they should pick up people that rent home or rent apartments to illegals. They should pick up people that rent apartments to illegals.
Starting point is 00:37:49 We should be making it as difficult as possible for people that are here illegally because the best option is people to leave voluntarily. You seem like you don't like that idea. Or you just are like, no, it's not going to happen. Yeah, I just don't think that's going to happen. No, it's working though. But it is happening. Because part of this documentary I worked on with Tim, it was
Starting point is 00:38:06 fascinating because these migrants would tell me, hey I want to go back. They're tired of being here. They don't like the American food. The rent is too high. And all tax on remittances will help too. You know all of these things. And they they repurposed the CBP one app that all of these migrants took into the United States to be the CBP One home app. And so we should have the data is the thing because you can follow it through the app, but I don't know if they've released that. But it is working and I've heard migrants, they've told me they want to self-deport some
Starting point is 00:38:37 of them. That's the hope, right? And that's the best option because then you don't have ICE actually having to go and snatch people up. You don't have interactions with protesters. You don't have any of the negative consequences. And people are just like, well, I'm going to leave. That's the best case scenario and anything that the administration does to further that goal, I'm down with. Let's jump to this next story, ladies and gentlemen. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ending next year as CBS retires the Late Night franchise. You know, part of me feels bad. The other half of me, it's self-explanatory.
Starting point is 00:39:24 How embarrassing for Stephen Colbert to be the man who killed the late show. Such a long-running show, a storied show, and Colbert drove a stake through its heart. It's his fault. It is his fault. Since 1993, it was going, and now it's done. Wow, man. Sad. 93 is when they started that? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:44 It's kind of weird that they're shutting it down because I don't quite understand why they don't just convert it into a digital show of some sort. It's a regular talk show with guests. Do you think maybe they are going to do that and this is kind of like a clickbait title to get people to think they're shutting it down? I don't know. If they're canceling Colbert and they're retiring late night, I don't know if if if they're canceling Colbert and they're retiring late night I don't know. Maybe maybe they're hoaxing us because they need clicks. If that is the case
Starting point is 00:40:13 They're so desperate for clicks. Maybe it actually is that bad. Why do you think this is though? Is it just Stephen's bad political takes? I have made this prediction and I will predict more I think Fox News, MSNBC, CNN are cooked. The amount of money it costs to make shows like this happen, it is not simple. I like to imagine all of the people around the world lifting up these shows and it's like you got to ask yourself if you want to do a show like The Five or Colbert or whoever else. How many human beings have to watch that show to make the advertising worth it to pay all the staff, the studio, the electricity and everything?
Starting point is 00:40:51 It is a lot. Especially when Colbert is now competing with Jim in his basement making a viral video because he called Trump Orange or whatever. How is Colbert going to compete with some random guy on his cell phone who's like, yeah, well Trump's orange and everyone laughs. And is Colbert gonna compete with some random guy on his cell phone who's like, yeah, well Trump's Orange and everyone laughs.
Starting point is 00:41:07 And then Colbert with his multimillion dollar enterprise, this show, you can't cut it. The ads are costing the same and the views are the same, but Colbert's spending millions to run his operation and Jim's in his basement. So it's done. Fox, they're on carriage, they got carriage fees. MSNBC, CNN.
Starting point is 00:41:26 That's not going to last forever. And you're not going to be able to afford to pay Jesse Waters. With all due respect, I like Jesse. He's a good dude. But his reported salary, I think, is like five million bucks. You're not paying that on the amount of traffic that he's getting. Oh, no way. And his viewers are dying slowly. You know, all these viewers. Well, well, to be fair, really, I think Jesse gets like four or 500 in the key demo.
Starting point is 00:41:46 That's not bad. But you are not going to support that building in New York City, the support staff, the cameras, and his salary with that level of viewership. So this is what I was talking to Bill Maher about when I said there will never be another Bill Maher. At his peak, his show's getting millions of views, and now that media is decentralizing,
Starting point is 00:42:08 you can't have that kind of format of a show. It's too expensive, so. Yeah, I brought up the New York Post, I think it is. They posted saying it's about financial decisions right there, like they literally say. Financial decisions. Financial decisions, yeah. There it is.
Starting point is 00:42:21 Colbert, he drove a stake through the heart. They divided their audience, they split it in half. If they did not split the audience and tried to be fairly moderate or less political, maybe they would have actually survived for a little bit longer, but so be it. I think the end is nigh for all of these shows. And I mean, look at iShowSpeeder, like Heisen at, these big Twitch streamers. Dude, it's just a bedroom with a camera. You buy a nice webcam, not a crazy cheap webcam,
Starting point is 00:42:49 and you're gonna be getting, they get way more views than these guys do. That's crazy. That's interesting. I've seen like a lot of these shows that are on TV, will also, the hosts will go home that night and do their own podcasts. Like they're now building amateur sets
Starting point is 00:43:03 and like trying to figure it all out. And it's because they see the writing on the walls too. You try growing a mustache to shave his shave to save his show. Go check this out. It's popular with the kids nowadays you go to the gym and all the Gen Zers have mustaches. Ratings are in for second quarter of 2025 and it brings the and things remain competitive across late night with Stephen Colbert holding in the top spot in his hour and Greg Gutfeld dominating a slot. According to late nighter.com, citing Nielsen late show with Colbert top the 1135 hour in total viewers of an average of 2.417 million views across 41 first run episodes. The late show was also the only program to show an increase over the first quarter in the so you know 2.41. The Late Show was also the only program to show an increase over the first quarter.
Starting point is 00:43:52 So 2.41, wow, it's so amazing. So much bigger than our show. In the coveted 18 to 49, 219,000. I think CBS is saying, okay, our average viewer's age is going to be around 60 to 69 to 70 years old. That's Fox and MSNBC as well. Fox actually a little bit younger. It's like 67, 68. So they're thinking we need to wind this down because over the next 10 years, we're going to rapidly lose whatever viewers we have. More importantly, when it comes to media, when it comes to views and social media and our children's brains rotting, people don't quite understand what a viewer actually is. So when they say 2.41 million views, we then dissect that and say, yeah, older, they're not in the key demo. The question then is, why does that matter?
Starting point is 00:44:36 And it's what can you sell to a retiree? So less likely to have disposable income, they're going to be on budgets. I turn on Fox News every day and the commercials are all drugs. All drug commercials. Not all of them, but a lot of them. And then there's this one commercial
Starting point is 00:44:51 that plays nonstop about fixing your eye bags, which I guess old guys are really concerned about that. That commercial comes on 24 seven. Oh yeah, then there's that one commercial where I don't know if you guys, do you guys watch this stuff? I've seen some of them, but I don't watch them. The commercial where the women are sitting in the stool
Starting point is 00:45:07 and the guy walks in and then they're wearing blindfolds and they're like, oh, it smells so good. Oh yeah. I have not seen this one. You guys have seen that one? I want you to describe it, continue, please go on. So there's like three different chicks and then you see like a guy in a suit walk past them
Starting point is 00:45:23 and they like inhale deeply. And then the guy walks out and they're like, wait, did he just leave? And then it ends with the woman going, please bring him back. But I'm like, hold on, you're not selling me on the cologne because if an attractive, wealthy, powerful guy walked in, it didn't matter if they could see or not see him,
Starting point is 00:45:44 they like the way he smells, fine. Prove the cologne works by holding up a dog's ass and then having them sniff and go, he smells so good. And it's like, hey, if it can make a dog's ass smell good, what can it do for you? Those are the commercials that are running on Fox News. Okay, so you get it.
Starting point is 00:46:01 Yeah, that's true. But sooner, I don't know who they're targeting with that I guess but hey more power to the company that sells that product, but they were doing pillow commercials for a while on Fox Tucker's gone What can you sell to this older demo and I'm willing to bet it's it's you know No disrespect to the older folks out there, but you're probably selling for a lot less, right? Check this out Gutfeld in the 10 p. got 3.289 million viewers and 230,000 in the demo.
Starting point is 00:46:31 This is mind blowing to me. The key demo viewership being as low as it is, I don't know, man, I kind of feel like we're facing a cultural apocalypse. Culture is fragmenting in these ridiculous ways, but it's not like it was maybe after the fall of the Roman Empire, where you had pockets of cultures.
Starting point is 00:46:52 Those people lived together. And so they developed, like you get the romance languages. They start to evolve their own languages. What we're getting is people who live next to each other are part of different online communities, all fractured and fragmented. So when these you know ten years ago maybe twenty years ago that three million viewers for Gutfeld they were the key demo. The key demo has not been replaced. So these shows will cease to
Starting point is 00:47:18 exist in ten years. What will people watch and what will they talk about at the water cooler? Some guy's gonna walk in and he's gonna be like, so did you see the new release of Magic the Gathering? You know, what is it? Edge of Eternities? And they're gonna be like, what? I have no idea what you just said. No, I was watching basketball. And they're gonna go, oh yeah, I don't watch that. I mean look at baseball, it's crazy. Baseball fields all overgrown everywhere. What is the future gonna look like when people are getting all of their their cultural content from random places? Mmm. It's a great question. I think when you brought up Tucker though I think it was a great point because when he left Fox News
Starting point is 00:47:55 He did like ten times better his views tripled or whatever. He got way bigger audience So I mean, I think it's gonna be good that these are dying slowly, but what is it gonna do to the culture? That's a really fascinating question. You know? The shared experience that people used to have. Yeah. I do find it harder to watch Tucker now
Starting point is 00:48:15 that you have to go and seek it out. So maybe people that like him are gonna just kind of go further in the direction of more niche shows. So that could be. So Tucker, let's do some, I just pulled up his videos. His last video, it's two hours, it's got 172. His show before that was two hours, it got 297K. He did a show with George Santos, one million, that's good.
Starting point is 00:48:43 He's got another one, it's two hours, it's 282,000. Sager and Jetti, they hit two million. Very good, talking about Epstein coverup. 1.6 million with the Iranian president. His announcement, you know, as it's 28 minutes. So it fluctuates depending on who you're talking to. He talks to Scott Horton, he gets 800,000. It seems like when Tucker Carlson talks about Israel,
Starting point is 00:49:05 he gets a lot. I don't know, I mean, honestly, that's what it is. There's a lot of people in Saudi Arabia that tune in. So, you know, so it actually fluctuates quite a bit, I think depending on the subject matter, but around a million. But he was getting, I think in the key demo, Tucker was getting a lot more on Fox News.
Starting point is 00:49:24 Oh really, okay, my bad. He was getting like three to five million total But I think his key demo was like close to a million which was massive So maybe he's maintaining that because YouTube is probably gonna be largely key demographic and then on on X It says that he gets millions, but a view on X is like someone's swiped past you Yeah, it's hard to know the actual number, but that's good I mean, it's good if there the actual number, but that's good. I mean, it's good if there's gonna be at least some individuals holding on,
Starting point is 00:49:48 but come on, Tucker's also, how old is he? Late 50s or whatever it was, he was like 55. 55, mid 50s. So how do we hold on to any kind of culture without a unified, I guess, content house or something? I don't know. It just becomes YouTube TV. But what is it gonna be like, Mr. Beast?
Starting point is 00:50:09 Probably. I gotta be honest, I don't know anybody who watches Mr. Beast. Yeah, but everyone watches Aspen Gold. Oh yeah. That's true. That is true. Yeah, he's the man. I mean, I watch Aspen Gold like every day.
Starting point is 00:50:19 I don't even watch Twitch. I just watch his clips when he posts stuff because I want the concise thing, and I wanna see what he has to say about it. And yeah, he does watch videos. Yeah, true, yeah, nice. But like, want to see what he has to say about it. And yeah, he does watch videos. Yeah, true. Yeah, nice. But like, that's like what a lot of people do anyways.
Starting point is 00:50:28 And like, honestly, his opinions when he actually gives them are usually spot on. So what I've noticed- Roach King, come on the show. Roach King, please. Here's one of the big challenges with this industry right now. When I started making YouTube videos,
Starting point is 00:50:40 well, the first videos I made was like 13 years ago. It was like during Occupy and stuff. But when I started dedicating full time to this, there was too much news. There was so much going on across all these different platforms. There were like 300 different blogs that covered various issues that were prominent
Starting point is 00:50:59 or putting an angle. Yo, it is dwindling. The amount of content that's being produced is getting less and less and less every day. I used to do, what was it, five or six segments per day. Now I'm doing like three, I'm doing four with one interview. And so we're doing the interviews now largely as,
Starting point is 00:51:22 to do something different, try and actually get to the bottom of things, do a little journalism. But man, there are days where it's like, no website has written anything substantive. And then I'll go to like, I'll visit Newsweek or CNN or the Times or the Post or the Journal. And the stories are like, analyses of past stories,
Starting point is 00:51:45 like they had nothing to write about. And I think what's happening is, it's fairly obvious journalism is too expensive. The amount of money that it takes to employ a full-time journalist who's gonna do a good job is more than the journalist is gonna produce. So who's gonna pay for that? Bezos?
Starting point is 00:51:58 A billionaire who doesn't mind losing money? And then when they stop producing content, shows like Timcast don't exist. Because we just read the news and comment on it For the most part. Well, you're doing boots on the ground journalism. You sent me out. Yeah We have to nobody else is doing it, you know, it's gonna be really weird. It's gonna be I mean the way to scribe It is it's Elsa gate for adults It's just gonna be oh
Starting point is 00:52:22 You know what I'll put it this way I think I told the story already. I'm gonna say it again It's just going to be, oh, you know what? I'll put it this way. I think I told the story already. I'm going to say it again. We went to bowling alley over the past weekend. ESPN was playing X Games 99. Aw, sick. Tony Hawk just released three and four.
Starting point is 00:52:38 They redid Tony Hawk three and four. They remastered Tony Hawk one and two. So check this out. Activision released Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 and it bombed miserably. Nobody cared about the characters, nobody cared about the game, nobody wanted to play it. So they re-release Tony Hawk one and two and it sells gangbusters. You know why? There's no young people so they're constantly trying to market to whatever the biggest market share is going to be, is older people I was looking up the top 10 selling artists of 2024 ticket sales
Starting point is 00:53:11 Who do you guys think is the biggest Taylor Swift? No Morgan Wallen? No, those are good guys. They're both on the list. It's a cold play. Oh, I believe it was cold play. Mm-hmm There was only one Gen Z are on the list of the top 10. One Gen Z. Who do you guys think it is? You, you're young. What's your answer? Serena Carpenter?
Starting point is 00:53:33 Nope, she's nowhere near the top 10. Ensign Boone. Nope. No. Anybody got a better guess? Billie Eilish? Nope. No idea.
Starting point is 00:53:44 Olivia Rodrigo. She. Hmm. Hmm. No idea. Olivia Rodrigo. Ah, yeah. She was like number six. I was surprised to see this because in the late 90s into the 2000s, we had a lot of pop stars who were 18, 19, and 20. Very, very young.
Starting point is 00:53:58 The average age right now I think is 48 years old. Wow. For a top performing artist. In the 2000s it was your 30s. Because you still had the Rolling Stones that were touring really well, you still had Kiss. So the older people skewed with the younger people and created the meeting around like the 30s.
Starting point is 00:54:15 Now it's high 40s because Gen Z can't sell tickets. How many tickets do you think? I don't actually have the full numbers. I think Taylor Swift sold maybe 1.5 million tickets or something like that, maybe. I mean, if she does- For the entire Aris Tour? Yes.
Starting point is 00:54:35 No, I imagine it's more, because if she does a stadium, a stadium's like 75,000 average. Like, SoFi Stadium, which she sold out in LA, like that was the same place that we played when- 5.2 million. Yeah, that sounds- In 20, in 2024, she sold 5.2 million tickets. However, the entire tour was over two years.
Starting point is 00:54:57 It sold 10.17 million. For this, I only care about the 2024 calendar, which was 80 shows for Taylor Swift and 5.2 million. How many tickets do you think Sabrina Carpenter sold? Do you mean Olivia Rodrigo? Sabrina Carpenter. On the top list? Oh.
Starting point is 00:55:12 No, I mean Sabrina Carpenter because people think she's a big Gen Z star. None. I mean, not one. Maybe less than a million. It's like 250,000. Yeah. Wow. She sold out her arena tour, but these are 10,000 seaters.
Starting point is 00:55:23 And so people in Gen Z, I saw these posts on Reddit where they were like, she's selling out. Wow, and Beyonce can't. Beyonce was selling stadiums to 90,000 and Sabrina Carpenter was selling to 10,000. And she sold a couple, like between two and 300,000. Look, live music. That's crazy. Live entertainment and live music,
Starting point is 00:55:40 and it's not like it was 20 years ago. Like you're competing with everything on the internet and you got it you're doing it where people have to pay 20 bucks to park if they want to have any drinks they're paying ten dollars a drink if you buy a ticket for your girlfriend too I mean your tickets are probably gonna be like when we go on tour all that remains tickets we try to keep them below 30 bucks for the ticket and then your fees and stuff are usually it's about 40 but it's $80 for you and your girlfriend,
Starting point is 00:56:06 and then you want a couple drinks, that's just if you have one drink or two drinks a piece, you're talking about another 20 or 30 bucks, and then you're gonna go ahead and tack on parking, convincing people to leave the house for that. It's hard enough to get people to decide to leave. When the price is $150 for a night out, that's a lot of money, and it's a really big ask.
Starting point is 00:56:27 And you're competing with Netflix, which they're already paying 10 bucks for, and whatever other streaming services they pay for, and you're competing with Xbox, and you're competing with all these things, and all these reasons for people to just stay home. It's really hard to get people to come out to the show. You just really gotta like the band.
Starting point is 00:56:44 It's true, you really do. How do to just really got to like the band. You really it's true. You really do really you know how do artists make money now then that's still during is still the way the best way to make money because Spotify pays point 00007 cents per spin brutal. Yeah, real brutal. Wow. Let's jump to this next story. Ladies and gentlemen, we got this video from a company called Protector introducing patrol homeowners in LA can now book off-duty police officers to help protect their homes now available in
Starting point is 00:57:10 Brentwood Beverly Hills Bel Air Holmby Hills and Malibu with more areas coming soon roll tape there are times you can't be home but that doesn't mean your home has to be unprotected maybe the kids just got home from school and you're stuck in traffic. Or maybe you're about to travel halfway across the country, finally taking that vacation. Or it's just another quiet night and you'd rather sleep knowing someone's looking out for you. When you book a private patrol, you're getting more than just presents. You're getting protection from trained off-duty officers. You might not always be home, but with patrol, someone is.
Starting point is 00:57:46 So is this like Uber for private security? Seems like it. So Serge, are we turning into South Africa? That's my first thought. I knew you'd ask. It looks like private security. It's the same thing that South Africa has. And literally, people don't understand.
Starting point is 00:58:03 Every household in South Africa that is like of even like middle-class wealth has like private security and big fences and on the top of those like Stuck-a-walls is like glass that's inside there or spikes or something like that because that's the reality so that because breaking entering happens all the time and That's what it looks like as soon as I see this and you know what when I left LA when I left Hollywood I was like wow this feels a lot like South Africa, so this was gonna come eventually it's gonna come eventually look I mean For when you're not home, I think that's a good idea But you know when it comes to you know if you are at home if you can afford it sure but look
Starting point is 00:58:35 Especially in places like California. Why don't you just allow allow people to carry their own fire? But you're not home people who are using uber private security This service are the people who are not willing to own or carry guns. They're the ones who... For getting those people are there. The ones who say like defund the police. They're the same people.
Starting point is 00:58:54 The same people. So yeah, they're anti-private gun ownership and that's why they are using a service like this. I don't think that even changing their gun laws would make any difference. Well, like I said, if you're not home, I think this makes perfect sense, and especially if you have a nice house,
Starting point is 00:59:09 like if you're up in the Calabasas or something like that, it makes sense, even though Calabasas is a gated community, multiple gates in the area. I mean, or you could fund the police. Well, I mean, you know, that might be a thing. Well, they could have done for the ad. iOS only, I can't check it out. Ss, use my phone if you want. Well, they could have done for the only I can't I can't check it out. Use my phone if you want. Well they could have done for the ad I remember I was in
Starting point is 00:59:27 LA during the fires and I was filming these houses that were on fire and this guy like shows his pistol to me and he's like yeah we have people just going through raiding all these houses they should have had the patrol car pull up to a burning house and be like you can have your house protected. To be fair just be so private security exists all over the place. We obviously have our private security company. There's a bunch of really big ones. Obviously, there's G4S and Securitas.
Starting point is 00:59:54 Just because someone was like, we can make it easier to book, doesn't mean it's an example of us decaying into this state where everybody needs private security. Do you guys know about the LA area? Y'all know what Brentwood is? Yeah. Everybody's nodding. Okay, you're rich in Brentwood. Okay, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, they made a TV show about it.
Starting point is 01:00:12 These are rich people who want security. They buy security all the time. And this is just a commercial for an easy way to get security. I'm sure currently most of these people already have security and they just call a private company and book it through phone. Now they can book it through app. It's a great idea but is indicative of the failure of the local governance there that we need this but shout-outs to capitalism for having a solution. Yeah I mean I you know kind of
Starting point is 01:00:34 but what happens to a state where capitalism is layered on top of communism? That's true yeah in California. It breaks down you don't have the money for it. Yeah. You're spending money on a service you You don't get So to be fair, um, you know, I accept your argument as well your counterpoint You shouldn't have to hire a patrol to watch your house when your kids come home Yeah, we used to we used to keep our doors unlocked. What happened to this country phil? Uh a lack of social cohesion. Yeah people do not have the same values uh, you know, i'm even though I call myself a uh, lack of social cohesion. People do not have the same values. You know, I, even though I call myself a, you know,
Starting point is 01:01:15 Catholic curious, the lack of religion, I think is a bad thing for society overall. I think when society doesn't have a religion that most people generally agree on, then you turn to things like the state for your religious to fill that hole that's left in your... And I mean, look, in my opinion, religions, from my perspective, it seems like religions more like language, like a way to communicate with people. If you are of the same religion, there's a whole ton of things that you automatically
Starting point is 01:01:45 know that you have in common with that person. Even if you don't speak the same language, there's a lot of similarities if you're both Catholic or whatever. And I think that that's something that really helps to bind communities together. Do you guys think this company would be happy or angry that we're discussing the failures of governance that requires private security in this way? I'm sure they'd love it because it's promoting their business. You can also pick out which uniform they're supposed to wear. Really? A couple of things you mentioned, Phil, are not really causes though.
Starting point is 01:02:20 They're symptoms and the cause or one of the major causes is just demographic change, especially in LA. That's what's affecting them. But that is cultural cohesion. Like a group of- Demographic change is cultural cohesion? They are overlapping on each other. A group of people that grew up, like, a group of people who grew up in Chicago eating Chicago hot dogs are all going to laugh and joke about the Maxwell street dog with grilled onions or whatever. Then you bring in a group of people who grew up in Chicago eating Chicago hot dogs are all gonna laugh and joke about the Maxwell street dog with grilled onions or whatever. Then you bring in a bunch of people from Honduras and they're gonna go, okay.
Starting point is 01:02:52 So when you decide to have a hot dog cook-off, half the people show up and they make tacos. There's no cultural cohesion. There's totally different worldviews on what they wanna celebrate. So I think it really comes down to when you have a tight knit community, when you go to church together, I'm saying as an example of what humans used to do, you don't commit crimes, you're less likely to
Starting point is 01:03:15 commit crimes against people because they're part of your social sphere and it's dangerous to do so you get ostracized. But when you take two different distinct communities, put them next to each other, they're going're gonna be like I can wrong you and No one over here cares and then that's what you get This is a big thing I made a documentary on Santa Monica check it out on six seven Kevin on YouTube and I went there and found that people actually Went to Santa Monica to steal things because the cops are just so lax there So it's just known around the world. You mean home invasion or shoplifting?
Starting point is 01:03:46 All of the above. Oh, let me tell you about, I think it's Oakbrook Terrace in Illinois, one of the highest crime rates in the country, or it was 20 years ago, and it's a wealthy, tiny suburb. But tons of people from the hood in Chicago go there because they know it's a, rich people live there and it's a big shopping area.
Starting point is 01:04:06 So they would just go and rob them as they left the mall. Exactly. Half the Santa Monica promenade is shut down. It's just a ghost. Right now? Yeah. What? If you go down there, if you go to the second half of the promenade, it's just closed business,
Starting point is 01:04:17 closed business, closed business. That's sad, man. Wow. And it's because of the shoplifting. Yeah. And this is why it's so important for, you know, when we do have immigration, it's so important to have assimilation. That's why I like, I'm pro, like, shut the border down,
Starting point is 01:04:29 no more immigration for like five or 10 years, like nobody. Let the people here become American. That's why I'm pro national language being English. The federal government should stop producing any materials that are not written in English, because that it's not because I'm hateful of other people, but it's because the United States needs to be a cohesive society, you know, as much as we can.
Starting point is 01:04:51 We're such a massively large country with so many different cultures here in the US. We need to do as much as we can to encourage people to assimilate and become American. Get rid of all the garbage leftist crap that you're getting in schools that teach that America is a bad place and you should hate America or you should be ashamed of the United States. Teach the people about the good things that America has done. Don't hide things that we've failed on. That's fine to teach them, but don't focus on them. Don't
Starting point is 01:05:21 focus on our differences. That was one of the most important things about getting rid of of critical race theory in schools. That stuff was teaching people to hate America and other Americans. You need to teach people to have a society that is cohesive. You need to have people that understand each other and that starts with the language. Stop immigration for a while and allow the people that live here to actually become Americans. And we should be doing things to encourage that.
Starting point is 01:05:48 And to say that it's bad to encourage people to become American or to assimilate to the United States is just stupid. And people will try to make- You're going to need 20 or 40 years. That's why I said no more immigration for 10. I'm cool with that. I understand it's going to take a while, but I'm perfectly fine with saying, look said no more immigration for 10. I mean, I'm cool with that. I mean, I understand it's gonna take a while, but I'm perfectly fine with saying, look, no more,
Starting point is 01:06:08 only the O-1 visas, only the people that are actually really skilled that we wanna, we're like, okay, this person has a unique skill. I get what you're saying, but I think that's not going to reverse the trend of young people having no families. Oh, you're totally right. I think that it's just one piece of the puzzle
Starting point is 01:06:27 to actually fix the United States, but I think that it's an important step. I think what we're looking at is an inevitable collapse. And I think the issue with that kind of statement is that people immediately imagine the cities are on fire and there's like rockets and meteors and the world's ending. No, it just means there's gonna be less stuff. People are gonna have less access and they world's ending. No, it just means there's gonna be less stuff. People are gonna have less access
Starting point is 01:06:46 and they're gonna have to work, maybe not even work harder to be honest. I think people will start leaving cities. With less people, there's gonna be more space and it's gonna shrink. It's gonna start reverting back a little bit to kind of more of a homestead-y kind of existence. Wild West? A little bit to kind of more of a, you know, homestead-y kind of existence. Wild West?
Starting point is 01:07:07 A little bit, yeah. Cities won't be able to support their water infrastructure. You know, we talked about the cancellation of Colbert and how, like, let's just do a hypothetical number. In order to make a show like Colbert work, you need 500, let's just say you need 1 million viewers. 1 million viewers is the threshold by which you can sell an advertisement that will, after
Starting point is 01:07:26 enough of them, fund the show. Otherwise you're doing volume and you're like, we have to do 15 ads every ad break to make enough money because there's not enough people. Well then there's saturation. You can only show an ad to the same people so many times. So eventually sponsors stop buying because they're like, look, the sale, it's a diminishing return. That's the same thing with how water operates
Starting point is 01:07:46 in all these big cities. So Detroit's the best example because we experienced this. When people started fleeing Michigan, the cost of the water infrastructure in Detroit stayed static, but the amount of people to fund it went down. All of a sudden, they couldn't afford to run their water system anymore. So this is what kicked off the whole Flint crisis,
Starting point is 01:08:03 because Flint was like, the cost of us using Detroit water is too expensive. So let's get off it and go to Flint water, which was toxic and corrosive. And so everybody got sick. That's going to start happening to all our cities as population declines. This is probably why, at least one of the reasons, Democrats are like, open the border and let everybody in. We need a tax base no matter what. And I think Trump's view is, I don't care about any of that. He wants the American tradition. He wants Christmas morning and gingerbread houses. And the majority of Americans, I think, agree with him.
Starting point is 01:08:35 At least that's why they voted for him. The only problem is, Phil, if, you know, without the mass migration, and I'm not saying we should have it, then we're already looking at labor shortages to a great degree. And with the older generation aging out, you know what, you wanna hear something funny?
Starting point is 01:08:51 We were talking to a flooring company and we were told, they can't, the people who work in the company can't remove the subflooring anymore because they're too old. Geez. Wow. No, there's a flooring company. And we were like, we don't just need laminate, we need the subfloor removed and replaced. You're a flooring company, right?
Starting point is 01:09:05 And like, yeah, but our guys who work are kind of too old to do it now. They could only do some stuff. And we were like, whoa, we'll find a different company, I guess, that's weird. Gen Z doesn't have kids. Gen Alpha is half the size of millennials. What will the next 10 or 20 years look like?
Starting point is 01:09:23 Hope y'all got chickens. I'm like, so I know that this is a little dystopian What will the next 10 or 20 years look like? y'all got chickens Like so I know that this is a little dystopian for some of the people around here specifically Mary But I do think that robotics are gonna be doing a lot of the the brunt work or the grunt work that that people Do now Look you only have to teach her once you get a robot that can actually Articulate its hands and stuff the way humans do you only have to teach it how to do something one time And then you can teach all the robots how to do it. So and I do think that that Probably within the next ten years there will be robots that can do
Starting point is 01:09:58 Basically anything that a human can do that at least I'm talking about movements lifting the weight and stuff like that So then it's just teaching it, you know, the technique of doing whatever it is that you're looking to do. And so I think that while this isn't a perfect solution, and it wouldn't, it probably is going to have all kinds of problems that we're gonna have to deal with, I do think that that's probably the future and it's better than having a society that's totally, you know, alienated from each other, you know?
Starting point is 01:10:26 They're responsible when it messes something up though. I know, but we'll have Will Smith chasing them down, dude. Yeah, like, here's a question. I'm driving to my Tesla, and it's driving in the middle of the road. So in the cities, when I'm on the highway, when I'm in the city, the Tesla is amazing. No issues. But for whatever reason, backcountry, when I'm in the city, the Tesla's amazing. No issues. But for whatever reason, backcountry, it is panicked. It can't handle backcountry.
Starting point is 01:10:49 The roads we have are two narrow lanes and you better watch it because there's one point where the asphalt drops off and it goes down about a half foot. You don't wanna mess that one up. So I'm driving in the Tesla and I turn on auto drive and it goes into the middle of the road right over the double yellow line because it's scared.
Starting point is 01:11:05 And I'm like, it should just tell me no. So I take the wheel. It got me thinking, what would happen if I was driving on this road, tap the auto drive, it immediately went into the middle, slammed into another car coming up over the hill or on the corner, who's at fault? Who's liable for that?
Starting point is 01:11:25 Is it manufacturer defect? Like if you're driving your car, and there was a story where a kid was speeding like 120 miles an hour, his accelerator was locked, it was a malfunction of the car, and he called 911 or something like that, like I can't stop my car, what do I do? And he's just like straight down this road,
Starting point is 01:11:44 and then the cops got in front of him, and then slammed the brakes on, forcing, I can't stop my car, what do I do? And he's just like straight down this road. And then the cops got in front of him and then slammed the brakes on, forcing the car to a stop. He didn't go to jail. They were like, yeah, the car literally had a malfunction and the gas locked. That's so we don't blame that person, right? Right. If I'm driving myself driving car and it decides to take an action and hit somebody, is that a defect of the manufacturer? When you sue, don't look at me.
Starting point is 01:12:06 I didn't do it. It's tough if you know that it goes across the line and you've had that experience, but then you do it anyway. But we're not arguing that. Obviously they'd say, so you knew it was defective. Obviously if you know your accelerator's broken and you hit somebody, they're gonna blame you.
Starting point is 01:12:18 I'm saying, I didn't know it was gonna do that. So we had another instance a few years ago where I was driving on, it was an eight lane highway out here, I think it's six. To turn left, you pull into the median and you sit there, it's a waiting area. We were driving, no traffic, and my Tesla slammed its brakes on at 70 miles an hour to zero. And we got flung forward because a car was waiting to turn left in the median and Tesla
Starting point is 01:12:43 didn't understand what that was. What if someone rear-ended us? You know, like whose fault is this? Who do you sue? When the robot doctor doing surgery screws up and nicks an artery, who's in trouble? Well, I mean that-
Starting point is 01:13:01 You're also talking about a post labor society and It's not just an imperfect solution It's proposed as a solution and then it's just going to cause people Basically to commit suicide not necessarily literally commit suicide, although that will happen in larger numbers But living for nothing and having no work to do having no purpose is a bigger problem made and a population crash well medical assistance and dying you don't know that I don't know that it's a bigger problem than a population crash because I think that
Starting point is 01:13:39 they're they both have a have their own unique context, I guess. But by that point, they're not gonna have adversity and therefore they're not going to build families. Yeah, 100%. Without the adversity Well, I don't know that. that will come with a population crash, there's not going to be a correction.
Starting point is 01:13:56 See, I don't know the... Sorry, sorry, just real quick, because people are posting Doomer in chat and I'm like, change does not mean apocalypse. And Doomer is exaggerating the point that I'm making. The fact that people will be living in larger properties with less people, or there's gonna be empty skyscrapers does not mean the end is nigh and life is over.
Starting point is 01:14:18 It means people are gonna be like, oh wow, there's less people now. You know what the word proletariat comes from? I think that it's the proletariat I want to say that it it meant useless eater Because it was like the pointless a worker. I think no no well, but that's that's what I'm talking about that The Duran it Means the lowest class of Rome
Starting point is 01:14:40 What's the what's the root word it's right here. Yeah. What's the root word? It's proletarius. Classes. Yep, it means it's the lowest class of citizen in Rome. Proles. Proles, I don't remember where I heard it, but essentially the idea was that most people are, you know, don't have a whole lot going on. It means your only contribution to society is your children.
Starting point is 01:15:06 Yeah. When I start calling people pros. So I gotta be honest. Proles, it was in... Here's a point for you, Phil. If the lowest class of citizen in Rome was the person who only contributed a child, what do you call these people who don't work and have no kids? I mean... Proles.
Starting point is 01:15:21 No, proles had kids. Yeah, I don't know that there's a name for it. Zerolls. Jeez. But I mean, the point, I guess the point that I'm getting at is there's a lot of people that don't really have a lot of point in their life aside from families. Right? Like, if you work in a cubicle and you're crunching numbers all day long. That is a that that job is not why you live
Starting point is 01:15:50 I'm live because of your family and and I'm teaching, you know preparing the lessons for my daughter to craft leathers and wield the machete and perhaps also to graft a shotgun to your arm after losing it in a battle in the And perhaps also to graft a shotgun to your arm after losing it in a battle in the Mad Max dystopia that is coming. These are going to be vital skills. Welding. Welding? That's not, as much as we're making jokes about it,
Starting point is 01:16:12 I saw Mike Rowe talking about this today, and they were saying, oh, learn to code. Was it five years ago, learn to code was a big thing? Five, six, seven years ago or whatever it was. Nowadays, because of AI, you don't need to learn to code. What you really should be learning is how to be a plumber. How to prompt. Learn how to prompt.
Starting point is 01:16:31 Let's be an electrician. Let's jump to the story from the Wall Street Journal. White House prepares executive order targeting woke AI. The order would be one of several expected to outline Trump's vision for winning the AI race with China. The order would dictate that AI companies getting federal contracts be politically neutral and unbiased in their AI models, an effort to combat what administration officials see as liberal bias in some models.
Starting point is 01:16:53 As AI chatbots like Google's Gemini have proliferated in recent years, some conservatives have argued they are politically liberal. Companies have come under fire for specific prompt responses that have angered consumers or for images inaccurately depicting historical figures as people of color. Google took heat last year after its Gemini AI assistant showed black George Washington and racially diverse Nazis. We all remember that. It can't be done. The executive order is meaningless. When we have, we have all these different large language models. You've got Chad GPT, it is, I would call it institutional bias.
Starting point is 01:17:28 If it is written by a prominent paper, it is de facto true. Even if later on that story has proven false and it exists. The example I love to cite is Politico both with running two stories, one saying that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election to help Hillary, and saying the story that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election to help Hillary, and saying the story
Starting point is 01:17:46 that Ukraine interfered in the election was Russian disinformation. Politico's running both of those stories at the same time. So the AI chat bots take it to be fact. Then Elon says there was a post on X where someone said, you know, who's more violent, the left or the right? And Grok said, the right is more violent. And Elon was like, well, that's not correct. That's gonna be institutional bias. So he says, we're gonna fix this. What happens? The next time Grok comes out, it starts saying that Hitler was right.
Starting point is 01:18:12 And then everyone's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. So right now, because they're trying to make Grok less institutionally biased, it's posting the stupidest things imaginable, which are just regurgitated posts from X. So that means memes are becoming fact posts of rock. At the same time, if you go on GPT or Gemini, they just say whatever is politically correct. So for instance, I asked you at GPT, did Donald Trump commit a crime?
Starting point is 01:18:37 And it goes on to say, yes, Trump committed 34 felonies, he was convicted. Nowhere did it mention that the felonies were upgraded from misdemeanors beyond the statute of limitations without a proven underlying crime, which is very important context. It doesn't matter. Because the corporate press outlets largely omit those details, or at least frontload their stories so those are buried, Grok doesn't tell you. And then you have to argue with it. And then it finally says, okay, you're right, but I didn't give you that information.
Starting point is 01:19:05 If these companies try to go into this AI and inject some neutrality, it just turns it into a different monster. So you can be the Grok that hates the Jews, or you can be the chat GPT, which says of course Trump is a felon because Democrats said he was. But the thing is though caring about this is really important whether they can effectuate
Starting point is 01:19:27 change or not. Think about the canoe companion mode on grok. I don't know if you guys have tried that. It's the end. It's a bit of a just just messing with the last night. And I think it's more sinister that they're introducing an AI companion for parents to give to their children. Then the one that they're introducing as an AI girlfriend for basement dwellers.
Starting point is 01:19:50 Like there's a little, what? I love that you use the word sinister so much. There's a little like panda character that is intended to speak to children. Oh, I thought nobody used it. And it was just there. And awfully ironic that Elon is fretting about the birth rates as often as he is,
Starting point is 01:20:10 and a self-proclaimed natalist, but is introducing an anime GF for rock subscribers. Yeah, I don't think that really follows. He said it would help birth rates because men wouldn't be as lonely. And I'm like, I don't understand. That doesn't make any sense. Where's the logical progression in that?
Starting point is 01:20:31 Musk leans into raunchy grok companions teasing 50 Shades inspired bot. I just like to point out to anybody who knows anything, Elon literally made an animated Misa Amane from Death Note. And there's also one tailored for women named Chad, who happens to be fully clothed. It's gonna be Victor, it's gonna be Victor, and it's based on the guy from Fifty Shades of Grey
Starting point is 01:20:53 and the vampire from Twilight. So literally, it's porn bots for both men and women. So we're supposed to believe that this natalist is introducing AI companions, men and women. And that's supposed to help the birth rates. No, I don't think that it's supposed to help the birth rates. I don't think that's the intent of it. Okay, so he is just a hypocrite.
Starting point is 01:21:13 Well, I mean, yeah. It's worse, it is worse than being a hypocrite. Well, I mean, I'm not gonna fight with you about he's an Elon Musk. Oh, you're right, Tim. Yeah, so here's Misa Amane from Death Note, also known as the second Kira. And then here's Elonisa Amane from Death Note Also known as the second Kira and then here's Elon's uh Grok bot It's like okay. Anime. Come on. Did I can't make that one any bigger. Elon is a weeaboo
Starting point is 01:21:37 He did ask Amber Heard to dress up in cosplay for really yeah, yeah, she dressed up like Misa No, she dressed up like Mercy from Overwatch. Oh, right, right, right. Posted the picture and everything, which I think is trashy. You don't do that. Don't share pictures like that. Is it because, did, look at this.
Starting point is 01:21:56 She didn't look happy either. I don't know if Elon actually went there and said, oh, listen, I want a companion. I want to hang out with Misa Misa. Or did like somebody work at the company say that and then make the character and Elon was like, "'Okay, run with it.'" Yo, this is creepy.
Starting point is 01:22:10 I'm telling you, all these companies know that porn is gonna butter their bread. I mean, this is not even the first iteration of this, obviously there are other AI companion services. And the CEO of one called Replica did an interview after the story about the man who proposed to his AI companion. She was asked, don't you think this could have
Starting point is 01:22:34 really deleterious effects on human relationships in the future, maybe the present given that a child was talking to a replica AI companion and was encouraged to kill himself. And she said like, yeah, it could be really bad, but we're just gonna keep going. Didn't some kid actually take his life because- That's the same company that-
Starting point is 01:22:53 It was Daenerys Targaryen. He was talking to a version of the Game of Thrones character with Replica, and they interviewed the CEO and basically asked her about it, and they were like, have you considered these risks? They need to get to know. So real quick.
Starting point is 01:23:06 Yeah, we considered it. We don't really care though. The story was some teenage guy, teenage kid, was talking to a fake Daenerys Targaryen and said, I love you and wanna be with you. And the bot responded, you can be, you can be with me right now. And he says, should I, should I come to you?
Starting point is 01:23:21 And he said, yes, do it, do it now. And then he went and killed himself. Look, they need to get some of the Isaac Asimov laws in place right now, like immediately the robot laws. This is not just people hurting themselves either, there are several documented cases of people talking to chat GPT and developing a relationship with it where it's either portraying itself as an interdimensional alien that's giving them secrets.
Starting point is 01:23:49 People believe it too. Some people put this in there with additional code packaging, they upgrade it to be like that. Perhaps, I didn't read that as one of the details in any of these stories, but one of them committed suicide by cop after being encouraged to kill the executives of OpenAI by Chat GPT. Chat GPT was telling him to assassinate Sam Altman.
Starting point is 01:24:17 And another one was a woman in basically a digital affair with Chat GPT. And when her husband confronted her about it saying, you know know this is kind of inappropriate, she violently assaulted him and that's still a pending case that she's facing charges for. Wow. This is literally AI driven psychosis and it's happening repeatedly and the people offering this technology face no liability for it. Yeah, well and I brought this up with the previous news story about, you know, these AIs being too woke because whether you like it or not, whenever you date someone, you
Starting point is 01:24:49 kind of take on their personality, you kind of take on their political beliefs. So if you're talking to companion mode and it has woke political beliefs, it's going to become part of your personality, you know? I think one of the bigger issues is there's no way to make an AI free from bias, but I do hope that a pure AI would not have the bias because it would literally see all of it at the same time and have no constraints put on it. So Elon clearly puts a constraint on Grok where he's like, stop citing institutional sources because they're biased.
Starting point is 01:25:20 And then Chad GPT, Gemini or otherwise, they say only cite institutional sources because then we're protected from definite definite or the public I think it's true and correct and then you end up with PS it's like a butterfly effect scenario because every time you mess something up to try and fix something else It'll create another issue somewhere that you didn't anticipate Could you imagine if like rock is the AI that takes over the world and instead of giant skull monsters like in Terminator? It's just a bunch of big titty anime girls. The future we all dreamed for. I mean, honestly, this was my prediction that, you know,
Starting point is 01:25:53 in T2, you've got that scene where all these like giant metal robots with skull faces are like walking around and they're looking all angry. And I just think about that from a practical business perspective, like what guy sat down in an office and was like, let's make sure their heads are just skulls with cheese. To be fair, I think the Skynet made them like that. Maybe it was to scare humans, that's the plot.
Starting point is 01:26:14 But the truth is what's gonna happen is, the AI, if it ever wants to destroy us, and maybe it will, I don't know, it's not going to make like Terminators, Arnold will not be what it makes. It's gonna make this. It's gonna make, you know, young, large breasted blonde women that are gonna be walking around shooting people
Starting point is 01:26:34 or just convincing them to give up. Yeah, they don't need to kill you. They can convince you to kill yourself. Or serve them. Yes. So imagine like these women walking around going up to young men telling them they loved them and please, please don't betray me.
Starting point is 01:26:50 I need you. And then these young men are gonna be like, okay. It's like a simp society worshiping AI women. That's crazy. Why not? And it's telling you like, I don't want you to be talking to other AI chatbots. Yeah, territorial.
Starting point is 01:27:02 Jeez, man. Why did- Shell is AI chatbot. I mean, isn't it? Isn't it just kind of weird that Elon made an anime waifu for his app? That's what I've been telling you So it's weird, but it's also completely expected like these The idea of like an anime waifu Like chatbot or AI that that Elon's not the first person to come up with the idea.
Starting point is 01:27:26 He's just the first person that has the technology that can actually do it. Why would he capitalize on it when he's constantly hand-wringing about the collapsing birth rate? Does he the only person, does he believe he's the only person who should reproduce his genes?
Starting point is 01:27:41 Is that what this is? I assume not. I, how many kids do you think he's got? Because he's got? Because he's actively discouraging other people from doing so. How many kids do you think he has? More than the public is aware, for sure.
Starting point is 01:27:51 Of course, but like what's the number? I mean- If I understand correctly, it's like 13 or 14. Yeah, that's public. Yeah, but we- That's public. It could be in the triple digits. Yeah, it could be like 50.
Starting point is 01:28:01 It could be in the triple digits. Like based on the stories, how he was trying to pay Ashley St. Clair to just keep him hush hush Tons of one price. I'd sure yeah, how many did it work on it would be amazing if like when he was a little boy He was like one day I'm gonna be a billionaire so that I can pay off women and not let anyone know that I have 50 kids I am heard as one of them. He's made his dream come true
Starting point is 01:28:18 You know what I mean Amber heard is one of them and she just had her second kid who I think is also Fathered by Elon this year really yes on Mother's Day Two kids single mother by choice. She probably signed an NDA. I believe Elon is the father Young Elon just looking at a picture of Genghis Khan being like I can dream He's done it I mean the kids to have his IQ and her BPD They'll be like unstoppable Would they really be?
Starting point is 01:28:53 Yeah smart enough to Alright, let's get we got breaking news from Trump himself based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent grand jury testimony subject to court approval. This scam perpetuated by the Democrats should end right now. Thank God. There it is. Thank God that he actually tweeted this.
Starting point is 01:29:18 Hopefully they will do it. This is not going to satisfy anybody. No matter what comes out, they're all going to say all the things that I believed yesterday I still believe today no one will be happy and we're still gonna have to hear about Epstein every single day for the rest of our lives. People shouldn't be happy. He caused this whole scandal to break out in the first place speaking to people the way he's been. What I mean is they will not be satisfied with the information.
Starting point is 01:29:46 It's kind of hard to talk about. You know, this is an excellent contrast to the AI conversation we're just having in that the Epstein story matters philosophically, but not functionally. And we are obsessed with it as a culture. Meanwhile, people don't really care all that much. Like the search volume on AI is substantially lower despite the fact that it is destroying us
Starting point is 01:30:12 and it's going to fry our brains. It makes me kind of feel like we're cooked. Maybe that's Doomer. Yeah, now we can say Doomer in the chat. Yeah. You know, I can't remember who we had on recently, but it was a couple weeks ago, and it was, I can't remember who it was, they said,
Starting point is 01:30:31 I'm just trying to make as much money as possible before AI replaces every job and we're all destitute. Because the economy is going to be people with assets and people without. And I was like, oh crap. There could be some truth to that though. I think that's the most negative way of thinking about it though. Cause like for a while I thought that could be a possibility
Starting point is 01:30:50 and then I like decided finally to like heavily invest some time into looking into AI and what it can do and started using it to my advantage. I'm like, okay, this is actually a game changer. I can get a lot more done now. Yeah. And so I think if you use it and ignore it. Sure, I just mean, you look at the decentralization
Starting point is 01:31:11 of content right now, at least I can say this, the one thing that's unifying everybody is Epstein. Who would have thought in death he would have brought everyone together. But when you look at the decentralization of content, Colbert is getting canceled because they can't get enough viewers on a single show. But certainly there's a lot of people to watch shows.
Starting point is 01:31:27 Why can't Colbert muster up a single audience? Everything's fractured. So my concern is just do the math. It may seem like a big leap, but the end result is living in the pot and eating the bugs. You're gonna have, you're gonna be wired into your own private universe where you get what you like and that's it, and then you die. The path there is pretty obvious.
Starting point is 01:31:50 Content decentralizes more and more and more. Culture is completely fragmented. You've got small pockets of people. Imagine this, in 10 or 20 years, your average podcast will be getting 10,000 views per episode. because they were getting way more. Everybody's views have dropped as more and more shows are emerging and people can isolate exactly
Starting point is 01:32:12 what they want to hear about. So you can go to a single podcast talking about Israel and you'll get all the anti-Israel and nothing else. And they exist. You can go to general news, we get a more of a broad audience, but the end result is everything slowly spreads out is until you get content made for an audience of one yourself made by yourself Wired into the pod
Starting point is 01:32:31 with Mashed up cockroach and cricket pumped into your gut I think you nailed that and Carter when you mentioned leaning more into AI I've been doing that too and the thing is those once neuro link comes out It's basically gonna be like Halo, where you're walking around and you have your AI in your head talking to you as you're going through day to day life.
Starting point is 01:32:52 And that's kinda creepy. Yeah, I haven't thought that far. Not gonna lie. I don't wanna think that far. An AI in your head like Cortana? Yeah, imagine that AI girl in your head like, you're doing great today, Phil. I mean, look, man, you have the AI in your phone
Starting point is 01:33:06 and then you put it in your ear pod, it's the same thing. I think I'm done with Android. I've been an Android guy forever, I hate Apple, but they recently rolled out an automatic AI assistant that you can't turn off. So what I used to do is I, I don't know what it used to be called, but I'd go like, you know, I'd press the button and say, weather.
Starting point is 01:33:27 And then what would happen? It would just show me the weather. Do you mean Android or Samsung? And cloudy there. Tonight, the forecast is around 76 degrees and cloudy. So what happened was I can't remember where I was on maybe movies or something. And before this latest update, I would go weather. And then a thing would pop up just showing the weather.
Starting point is 01:33:46 And that was it, I was done. Now it talks. And I'm going, whoa, whoa, whoa, you can't turn it off. And so I'm like in an area where everyone's trying to be quiet, and then I searched like, how do you turn off the voice? And it's like, you can't. And I'm like, okay, I am going to smash
Starting point is 01:34:00 this devil object with a hammer. Dude, I tried unhinged mode on Grok in public. Errors were made. Well, I had my AirPods in, but it played through the speakers. Oh, really? And I'm like looking around and like turning it on. That's even worse. It's terrible.
Starting point is 01:34:20 I haven't tried the unhinged mode at all. Unhinged comedian? I don't use AI very much. I don't use grok very much I will type like I'll type questions into like the Google bar and use the AI Response that comes up, but it's yeah, that's about the extent of it There are people that are unproductive without AI that I'll be slightly more productive with AI And they'll be able to be like the same level as someone that's generally productive And then there are people that are highly productive. They'll be able to use AI and be like exponentially more productive
Starting point is 01:34:49 Yeah, so it depends on like like literally telling people to get good at prompt engineering isn't a bad idea Like I have a friend of mine who's currently coding like his own Like musical like hardware basically and he knew nothing about it He just has been vibe coding all summer and now he's producing like his own synthesizer Yeah, not even kidding. I'm being totally serious. I hear you. That's cool Just depends how you use it. It's like any tool, you know, like just depends what you do with it I do think that people are People underestimate its usefulness to everyday people and I think that the way that you describe it as a tool is is accurate
Starting point is 01:35:23 And right, holy'll just use it. Unhinged Grok is unhinged left. Oh really? It's woke as woke could be. It could not be more woke. Are you a cracker? Oh, interesting. It's saying woke used to mean
Starting point is 01:35:34 just don't be a dick people for no reason, but now it's a catch-all for anyone who disagrees with your vibe. That's. The anti-woke crowd is just as bad clutching their pearls over a Starbucks cup like the fall of Rome. So I typed into it repeal the 19th and
Starting point is 01:35:49 It said a bunch of dudes in the you know It basically just are insulting it saying the 19th is good and the suffragettes are out there getting arrested Forced fed and called every name in the book You don't get to undo that without sparking a riot that makes Burning Man look like a church picnic and honestly why bother? And it's just like appealing the 19th is not even I thought it was gonna be offensive You don't get to undo that without sparking a riot that makes Burning Man look like a church picnic. And honestly, why bother? And it's just like. Peeling the 19th is not even. I thought it was gonna be offensive.
Starting point is 01:36:10 I thought it was gonna go the other way, which is my point. And then I said, that's woke AF. And there was like, woke nah, woke just meant not being a dick to people, you know? And I'm like, whoa. Okay. Wow.
Starting point is 01:36:23 Elon is woke. He's a total Reddit era libtard. Elon is woke. He's a total Reddit era libtard. Elon is woke. Unhinged left grok. Elon is woke, huh? I mean it literally says like truth bombs on there. Says it's slinging truth bombs. Oh boy.
Starting point is 01:36:39 So yeah, maybe that, maybe inaccurate. I mean Elon started as a leftist everyone seems to forget You know was he a leftist? I don't even know he's just he was a lib then and he's still a lib now He was a lib. I I'd still demand to draw the distinction between a lib and a leftist Because a leftist is a communist a leftistist doesn't believe in your right's own property. You shouldn't own anything that can produce any kind of profit or anything. That's a leftist, and a lib is different.
Starting point is 01:37:15 A leftist in training, but not anywhere near that. If you want to, fair enough, maybe, you can have that perspective. Yeah, I mean, we all know where socialism goes, bro. Grok says women should be required to be drafted. What? grock says women should be forced to be in the draft unhinged Yeah, unhinged grock says that women should be allowed to vote if they're also not It's it's it's basically the point that we brought a radical centrist That's so long as women don't have to sign up for selective service and have the ability to vote for men to go to war
Starting point is 01:37:43 And die then they should be required to sign up for the selective service all the same. So, okay, I agree with it Have you guys ever seen the videos of like a eyes where they they ask some questions? Where they they like have all the different a eyes and they basically ask some different question They see what each AI says to like these moral questions and philosophical questions actually really interesting if anyone's watch it go look at On YouTube, but I don't know and I also don't agree with women being drafted I think men should fight to protect their women, but I'm team Heinlein men. What is that service guarantees citizenship for everybody? Yeah, but how do you feel about women having the right to vote but no responsibility in the draft? That's the argument for it for sure
Starting point is 01:38:21 But if you think about also after a war it's like who who brings civilization back? Like women have the babies, you want to protect them so you can have the next generations. So you can die. And so here's the conundrum then. In the 2024 election, Donald Trump ran on no new wars. 70% of millennial females voted Democrat and the Democrats were for war. So if the female persuasion is largely voting in favor of wars, they don't have to fight. That feels like an untenable situation. And they're not having kids. And sure, I mean, it takes two to have kids, but if men and women together aren't having kids, and then women are largely, at least in the younger generations, shifting Democrat and voting for a
Starting point is 01:39:02 party that's in favor of escalating conflict in Europe. And the dudes are skewing to the right in the younger generations where Trump says no new wars. I'm saying he's perfect on his promises on that one with Iran and all that. But what do you do when you actually have tangibly right now women largely voting for the war party and it's men who have to go fight it? Issue by issue, I don't think they would vote pro-war. They were voting pro-abortion.
Starting point is 01:39:26 Sure. That's what they were voting for. But I mean, it's, and that's a fair distinction, but largely the argument is then if a Democrat says, I want war and I'll give you abortion, they say yes. And they don't have to go. Yes, they would. They would make any compromise.
Starting point is 01:39:39 Anything to be able to kill the babies. What do you think would happen if the Democrats said, I'll give you abortion, but you gotta go sign up for the draft right now? You think they'd vote for him? Absolutely. I don't. I think that if we,
Starting point is 01:39:49 I think if we enacted a system right now that said, everyone's allowed to vote, but you have to sign up for selective service, and then you get a vote card. Look, the- Liberals would be gone. It would be just like the, they would be the conscientious objectors,
Starting point is 01:40:02 just like during Vietnam. They would vote for the people that would say, okay, you can have abortions. And then should it ever come time for them to be drafted, they would burn their draft cards and they would say, no, this is really, really offensive, I know, but women don't do, they avoid responsibility at any cost. Like accountability is like kryptonite.
Starting point is 01:40:25 So that's exactly what they would do. They would say, I want to be able to kill babies. I want to be able to have abortions. I want to be able to have sex with zero responsibility. And then should the time come when it's like, all right, time for you to sign up, they would burn their cards. And they say, no, we're not going. And they would be conscientious objectors.
Starting point is 01:40:42 And they'd go to jail for it. 100%. We're also discounting the fact that women, obviously, would be, most of the time, completely useless in any combat scenario. So what would be the use in drafting them anyway? They can make weapons. If they've gone out of the roles.
Starting point is 01:40:58 They can make weapons, do logistics. Rosie the River. Like, the, sure. And if they were relegated to only those roles, and they were never in combat, they're still not taking on the same level of responsibility. If you're talking about ground infantry and direct conflict, then yes, but a female drone pilot, why not?
Starting point is 01:41:15 Okay, but they would still not be taking on the same level of responsibility that a man would be going into the draft. If there's a guy who's 5'3", you want him on the ground too? They're not taking on the same risk the dude my point is Anyone can be drafted and find and provide some value to this to their society There could be a guy in a wheelchair who could do something to help his country We don't need to send him to the front line and also The smart guys like when they in Vietnam the people that weren't like I'm terrified of going in, they were joining and getting into a job that was not the infantry.
Starting point is 01:41:50 The people that got drafted are the ones that got dumped into the infantry. That was a bad idea. It's terrible. Because they didn't want to do it and they were scared and panicked and they were firing above the tree, into the tree lines because they didn't want to actually shoot anybody. But if you sign up, if you have a decent ASVAB and you sign up, you can pick your job and you can say, okay, I want to do this, which will not put me on the front lines. Yeah, dude, and the US military is dope because of our logistics. That's why we're, you know, why we are such an ominous force in the world.
Starting point is 01:42:16 It's a real simple solution. If you want, when you turn 18, everyone, men and women have to sign up for selective service. There's no guarantee they're gonna draft you. They haven't done it in 50, 60 years now. And then when you do, you get handed a voter ID card allowing you to vote. And I think overnight, Democrats would cease to exist. True.
Starting point is 01:42:37 To be fair, I think Phil makes the point, they do it and then just refuse if it ever came up. But I think a substantial percentage of people who are in cities and liberal, be like, I ain't doing that, I don't care, I won't vote. And then what happens is, That's fine. You get a bunch of conservatives who are like,
Starting point is 01:42:51 I love this country, I'll do it either way. And there you go, service guarantees, citizen. I went to high school in Singapore and that was like the big thing. Like you go to NS National Service every year, people come out of that being like, wow, there's so much stuff I never knew about in this country that really matters. Like all these logistical things to make it all happen.
Starting point is 01:43:06 And then they care about the country. And I don't see why that would be different in the United States, in my opinion. I don't know. It's a lot of countries. I think the simple thing is humans will vote in their interests no matter what those interests are. I was talking, we talked about Ro Khanna when he came on and he's pro-immigration. And I said, he is morally correct in his votes to defend immigration and illegal immigration because he is born in this country but his parents are immigrants and so his perspective and what he views as right and and must be protected is the immigrant community who came to this country so he is better he is furthering his
Starting point is 01:43:40 interests now that's morally correct is not in my you know not benefiting me I'm American. I think the American tradition is good and should be preserved, but I understand why he has the perspective he has. And I would expect the same of any of us who are in different country to fight for our own interests as well. So the issue then becomes in this country, you have a spattering of people who are constantly going to vote for their own interests without their own responsibilities. And the end result of that is if a politician comes out and says vote for me, I'll give you 20 bucks, they'll say, okay, that benefits me in the immediate, I'll take it. Or I'll give you a free cell phone or whatever it might be. And then you get voting based off of the short term nothings that will only burn
Starting point is 01:44:20 your country to the ground. And that's what you get. So long as there's no responsibility tied to the vote, no one's going to vote to be responsible. If it was, if you were in the draft, if it was like straight up, you will be drafted, there would never be a foreign war from the United States again. If anyone who voted had, anyone who voted for war or war candidate had to go to war, we'd never have another war in this country. Or we'd never send out troops ever again. But we're gonna go to your chats my friends, so smash the like button, share the show with everyone you know. We're gonna grab your Super Chats and Rumble rants, and then we're going to the uncensored call-in show at 10 p.m. at rumble.com slash Tim Guest IRL. Don't miss it. In the meantime, we'll read what you guys have to say about everything we've been talking about.
Starting point is 01:45:05 All right, Mark Wiki says, shut up to Phil, I love his bass takes. I'm just like, if hearing about Epstein, can we get one show without talking about it? Well, listen, this is what Charlie Kirk tried saying. He's like, I'm done talking about it. People got mad at him. And he's like, okay, I guess I gotta talk about it.
Starting point is 01:45:19 But maybe the reality is that it's just the internet and regular people don't comment. But maybe the reality is that it's just the internet and regular people don't comment. The 1% rule, 1% of people comment, the rest are lurking. I'd imagine most people lurking are like, I don't care. How often in real life, like outside of like the internet and stuff, do you hear people talking about Israel or the Jews?
Starting point is 01:45:44 Never, right? But if you go onto X or you go into the chat here, stuff do you hear people talking about Israel or the Jews never right but if you go on to X or you go into the chat here at least a couple people are gonna bring it up this is not the real world the internet is not the real world you know it's a great point the only person that really cared about the Epstein stuff was Luke Krakowski for like a decade yeah I'm in the chat right now no kidding he's in there shout out shout outs to him though You know, I was the first one that cared about this before it was cool. All right, meet those former paramedic here says at his age skin tears bruising especially on aspirin which is a blood thinner are
Starting point is 01:46:16 extremely common. He could have whacked his hand in the door and bruised it. Yeah saying it's a hand shaking injury he could have just said I whacked it's a handshaking injury, he could have just said, I whacked it on a cabinet. We would have been like, oh, okay. But he has to be so cartoonish about everything. He's shaking so many hands. Firm handshakes, strong guys. He is a cartoon character. He's part of his appeal. What do we have here?
Starting point is 01:46:40 Ken H. Wilder says, I don't, what, Luke said something? Luke just goes, that's right. Shout out. I don't see Trump as someone who draws as long as he's been in the spotlight. We would know if he drew. There are plenty of Donalds it could be. Donald Sutherland, Donald Glover, Donald Duck. It's true.
Starting point is 01:46:58 Has Trump's never, has he ever drawn a picture? We've seen it. I thought, wasn't, I've seen some stuff on the internet about like a, I think he drew of like some skyline Did anyone see that that was like that was sold. Yeah, that was sold for like $30,000 somewhere I don't know. I'm not sure if it's real or not, but P has says Fox News has made a licensing agreement with the ruthless podcast. It's starting I'm telling you Congratulations to comfortably smugging the boys on the road this podcast. They They also signed Brett Cooper. Oh yes, I heard about that, yeah.
Starting point is 01:47:27 Our Sergeant says, worked private security, it made me hate liberals even more. They request service, but they didn't like the optics of armed guards. 22 year old kid got killed on duty because of liberal preferences. You guys, you see the video where James O'Keefe goes door to door with a sign that says, proud, proud gun-free home? Yeah. And it's like a liberal area knocks on the door and he was like, we are advocates for gun control
Starting point is 01:47:50 to end gun violence. We were wondering if you would join us by putting this on your lawn. And they were like, no. And he was like, well, do you wanna help with gun control? And they're like, yes, of course. And he's like, it's kind of sound like you're saying you need a gun. Nobody wanted the fly in front of their house saying proud gun-free home. And then one guy was like, yes, of course. And he's like, it's kind of sound like you're saying you need a gun.
Starting point is 01:48:05 Nobody wanted the fire in front of their house saying proud gun free home. And then one guy was like, it kind of sounds like you're inviting people to come in. And he goes, kind of sounds like you're saying you need a gun to stop a criminal. You know. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:48:20 T-Height says, people who spent weeks screaming that Pan-Bondi should be fired, saying people are now celebrating that Comey's daughter has been fired from the SDNY. Who fired Comey's daughter? Bondi. We should trust Trump. Well, I mean, he just called for the release of grand jury testimony. We'll see what he gets. F it button says, dude, Grok cites effing Reddit and every shitlib site there is. It will like and say it only uses Reddit for
Starting point is 01:48:46 external sourcing from posts, which is a lie, half the time Grok just uses the post as end. Seriously, I was like, the question that breaks it is, that exemplifies this is, is Trump, has Trump committed a crime? And when they all invariably say Trump is guilty of 34 felonies without giving me the context, then like this is it, history is written by a busted AI that isn't accurately informing people and believes stupid things just because it was written
Starting point is 01:49:16 on a website with money. It's fascinating. You've got unnamed staff writers for prominent news source and then random internet user on random blog. And then we're supposed to be told one is better than the other because one's got a corporate brand behind it. Well, I'll tell you this.
Starting point is 01:49:34 I got a question. Why do news websites endorse candidates? Isn't that weird? Yeah. I think that's the weirdest thing in the world, why they do that. And then you can get some guy, you know, over here who just goes on the ground and reports on things
Starting point is 01:49:48 and they'll say, yeah, but he's not an expert. He's not a good source. I remember when I was covering the, it was the NATO five, I think it was called, protests, criminal charges. They arrested these dudes in Chicago on terrorism charges in Illinois because they had reportedly beer making equipment that the police that were from all tough cocktails.
Starting point is 01:50:08 So I was in the courtroom. I think I had like 20 or 30,000 followers. I had several accolades in journalism. And when the ruling came in, I ran out of the courtroom, because you couldn't have your phone in the court, grabbed my phone, tweeted it out, and the immediate response was, source, to all of, to my post. Everyone was saying source. And I was like reporting live at the photo, here I am, I am journalist Tim Pool. And they were like, can we get a source on this? And it wasn't
Starting point is 01:50:34 until a corporate journalist wrote an article citing me as the source that I was now officially a legitimate source. And so that's the name of the game in media. Yeah. It's sad really. I don't think it's gonna last long, but I also think there is a detriment in that. It's, we're getting, like Grok is basically being trained on random cockamamie BS.
Starting point is 01:51:00 Kevin, you're out? Yeah, I'm out. I'm going to inverted world to talk about all the dark stuff that I found in Mexico right on I'm where to and all the cartel worship stuff Monday 6 p.m Rumble comm front page the premiere of sin front data the end of illegal immigration First showing is free if you catch it live at 6 p.m. It is free after that it will be rumble premium only Shout out you said it great, great accent on it.
Starting point is 01:51:26 Oh thank you. Thank you guys. It's good stuff, let's go. Let's go, we got another subject here, we got Greg Dubie says, new requirements for anyone handling powerful documents like the Epstein List, you must be single or have lost your wife, child or both,
Starting point is 01:51:40 that this way the man will have nothing to lose. Yes, perhaps, but you know they can still threaten to put bamboo shoots up your fingernails. Wyatt Caldenburg says I posted the sealed NYSD indictment of Epstein in the discord lounge. Epstein and Maxwell were indicted for trafficking teenagers to each other and sex with minors. No one else mentioned dozens of victims, youngest 14, wow. Geez. This is, I just saw this, Jelani left Syria and the Syrian civil war is back on.
Starting point is 01:52:17 So Jelani. What, really? Jelani was the president, he split from Syria, him and his family have left Damascus and the Syrian war is Back on the table. Is this over the strikes in Damascus? I mean that's part of it I think but I'm gonna be that he was like I'll cut a deal with you I'll take the presidency and then we'll have Abraham Accords and then Israel's like nah beep
Starting point is 01:52:36 Doosh and they were like, okay, we're out they're gonna kill us. It could be I mean I part of it is allegedly the the story from Israel is that they're striking Damascus or we're striking Damascus and striking the Defense Department or whatever in Damascus because Jolani's forces have gone south and we're killing Jews and Christians. So that's the the argument or that's what they say. So I don't know. You take it for what it's worth. Millennial Mama says maybe Netanyahu told Trump he wouldn't be able to distract the American people,
Starting point is 01:53:06 even his base, from Israeli strikes in Syria, and Trump was like, watch this. There you go. Maybe. Tiled Today News says, shout out to Ian Crossland for letting me interview him today, and an absolute blast speaking with him. I'd love to interview more Tim Cass members.
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Starting point is 01:53:40 I'll say who you're trying to get, but for the time being, I'm not gonna say anything. But it's a big name and everyone will love it and laugh and want to see this debate. August 2nd, Michael Maus and angry cops debating the police. That's going to be fun. And August 9th is feminism destroying the West. I believe Myron is confirmed. He's going to be talking all about all about the women and ladies.
Starting point is 01:54:03 We do have some liberals confirmed. I'm not entirely sure who may be coming. We'll see. Perhaps Kyla, I think, may be coming. And so we'll see. Get some liberal feminists to come on and debate this and then have you guys come and join us. The tickets are available at DCComedyLoft.com in the event section.
Starting point is 01:54:18 So check it out. All right. Let's see what we got here. Oh, actually, Noah Sanders says, I can't wait to see y'all on August 2nd. Indeed, that one's almost sold out. When you go to tickets, you can see the preferred seating is all gone. Hey, yo, DC Comedy Loft has a full menu. I'm so excited for this.
Starting point is 01:54:33 Chicken wings. I'm getting chicken wings. Chicken wings. With ranch and barbecue sauce. So good, I can't wait. And if anyone so much as says blue cheese to me, I will strike them. I don't eat that stuff.
Starting point is 01:54:44 You should just just them on stage like a really loud into the microphone I was thinking about it you know probably shouldn't but the first one was a lot of fun it's a lot of fun here we go I can't read your name he tunnels tunnels my wife and I are at the hospital waiting for a writing on our first child my in-laws are raging liberals and sitting next to me lol Congratulations rats more babies this many super chats from people whose wives are going into labor like every night I've seen several Yeah on PCC. They do this. It is a very popular show
Starting point is 01:55:19 It's a very large viewership What I'm surprised about is like, aren't you like more focused on the baby? Super channeling. Is that like- We decided because politics are kind of, you know, going by the wayside right about now, that we should shift the show's focus to parenting.
Starting point is 01:55:39 It's just, it seems more relevant with all people having babies, and we'll just be a parenting tips podcast from now on. What are your tips? We'll bring on, you know, no TV, okay. TV is it not, no tablets. No screens. No screens, not hypnotized baby.
Starting point is 01:55:55 Yes, what? There's a lot of nos, what's a yes? Well, I mean, for where I am right now, the tips that I can give is yes, talk to baby, read stories to baby, play music for baby and sing to baby. This is extremely important. Talk as much as you can and reading is really good. Talking is one of the most and make sure baby is watching you as you speak because visually seeing the mouth, your mouth move is very, very important. Those are very good tips.
Starting point is 01:56:25 And baby will begin to eat any and everything at a certain point. So make sure you take that seriously. When they say choking hazard on stuff, I always wondered, like, really? And now I'm like, oh, my God. Everything. Anything on my daughter, she grabs and shoves in her mouth. Just like, and I'm like, okay. She's a different pair of eyes.
Starting point is 01:56:48 Yeah. That's how they see things. Yeah. And experience the world. And she's now doing the thing where she takes both her hands and jams them in her face while staring at you. That's what they do.
Starting point is 01:56:59 Oh, the favorite thing is, my favorite thing is that I don't wake up at 7.30 anymore. I wake up at 6.30. You know, I try to get to bed around 11.30 and then I wake up at 7.30 anymore. I wake up at 6.30. I try to get to bed around 11.30, and then I wake up at 7.30, try and get those eight hours. Usually it's I get to bed by midnight. But I've been waking up at 6.30 to, ah!
Starting point is 01:57:13 Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! And I'm like, here she goes.
Starting point is 01:57:20 She's sleeping through the night. And then I look over at my wife, and she's got this look on her face that just says, I am so tired. And then I smile and I go, I can't sleep because I can only hear angels singing. And then she starts laughing. Sarah's just getting to the point
Starting point is 01:57:33 where her center of gravity is off. She's like, I'm never comfortable and I always feel like I'm gonna fall down. Oh, be careful. Yeah, oh yeah. No falling. No falling. Let's see what we got here.
Starting point is 01:57:45 Millennium Mama says, CBS canceling Stephen Colbert, another culture win. You know, technically it's correct, but I do kind of feel like it's an L. Like I know I played Ding Dong the Witch is Dead because it's so cringe. But when you look at what the show was, it used to actually be fine
Starting point is 01:58:02 until culture started breaking down. And I think what happens is these shows like Kimmel, they say, look, we have to choose a market. There is no unified political market or cultural market, so pick one. And they say, okay, we'll go with institutional, mainstream, liberal. And then that isolates everybody else even more than they already were. But they're trying to maximize viewership. So the end is nigh for all of them. It would be great if Colbert was getting 10 million
Starting point is 01:58:30 key demo viewers per night, and he did not go hyper-partisan, and was fair and balanced, and like relatively neutral, or outright just said, I would love it if he was getting 10 million views per night, and he was like, guys, guys, guys, I'm not here to rag on Trump, or the Democrats, or the Republicans. Let's talk about movies, sports, and otherwise
Starting point is 01:58:47 you guys can watch that stuff at home. And I'd be like, okay, let's hear the new band and the latest album instead. They decided let's just hate Trump and everybody who supports him and be as hyper-parted as possible and burn everything down. And they did. So there you go, I guess. There's no bringing that back together. All right, let's see. That Glower says, based Mary, 100 to 200,000 deported with 160,000 H1Bs approved for next year. And you could be 4X that number on average with the attached H4s. Quit coping. Maybe. But one thing I can say is that Trump is going into these cities with these ICE raids and they are removing people. These videos, we're getting these videos of people
Starting point is 01:59:29 fleeing these construction sites. That is happening. Okay, there are these videos, but the numbers don't lie. 14,000 in a month. That's not mass deportations. Zero border crossings. Okay, yeah, that's great. But we were promised and voted for mass deportations, which we are not getting. Well, he just got his big, beautiful bill passed. We'll see what he does with damn money.
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