Timcast IRL - Democrats Launch DESPERATE MILLION Dollar Bid To Find "Liberal Joe Rogan" Project SAM w/ Steve Baker
Episode Date: May 28, 2025Tim, Phil, & Elad are joined by Steve Baker to discuss Democrats spending millions to find a "liberal Joe Rogan," Democrat comedians admitting they only hate Trump for the "clicks," the ratings collap...se of Democrat media, and NPR suing Trump over him cutting their federal funding. Hosts: Tim @Timcast (everywhere) Phil @PhilThatRemains (X) Elad @ElaadEliahu (X) Serge @SergeDotCom (everywhere) Guest: Steve Baker @SteveBakerUSA (X)
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It's our greatest fear realized.
Democrats launching Project Codename Sam.
Speaking to American men.
Or speaking with American men, yeah.
I'm kidding, by the way.
This is laughably absurd. Democrats are spending 20 million dollars on a project to learn how to talk to men because they don't know how. I'm loving this. At the same time, they're on their quest for their liberal Joe Rogan,
and they just don't get it. We're going to break this down, but it comes down to basically your
policies are really bad. You're elitists. And the fact that you're trying to learn how to talk to men shows exactly what the problem is.
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Prominent writer for The Atlantic said, I have a suggestion.
Just create a bunch of health podcasts and then trick people at the very last minute into voting Democrat, which is exactly what they're doing now, and they can't understand it. Now, of course, maybe it comes and goes in waves,
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much more is steve baker tim so good to be back welcome back who are you having me what do you do
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I'm an anti-communist and a counter-revolutionary. Let's get into it.
Here's a story from The Independent.
Democrats spending millions to learn how to speak to American men and win back the working class.
It's not going to happen. Look at this photo. I love it.
They're like, let's get a picture of a guy doing what appears to be electrical work.
I think it's electrical work, right?
Party leaders are holing up in luxury hotel rooms, okay, problem number one, on a strategy code named SAM, or Speaking With American Men, A Strategic Plan,
which of course would be SWAMISP, not SAM, to try and convince working class to vote their way
again, according to a report. They've blown millions of dollars, upwards of 20 million on their efforts, with donors and
strategists holing up in luxury hotel rooms, brainstorming how to convince working class men
to return to the party. The plan, codenamed Sam, we get it, promises to use the funds to study the
syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces. Along with this,
we had this report from The New York Times. Democrats throw
money at a problem countering GOP clout. At private gatherings, strategists and donors are
swapping ideas to help the party capture the digital mojo that helped President Trump win.
Yes, there's a price tag. Hey, look, it's everybody's favorite TDS cheerleader,
Brian Tyler Cohen, who I think nine out of 10 of his videos are just pictures of Trump.
I'm not kidding. Go to his YouTube channel. It's well, don't. But I guess if you do, you'll see literally nothing but Trump is
bad in oh so many ways. But hey, you know, it works for him. He games the algorithm. He makes
money off it. Now, to exemplify this, I have this tweet from Derek Thompson, who I think hits the
nail on the head with the hammer as to why Democrats cannot figure this out. Derek Thompson,
of course, from The Atlantic, writes, What Democrats really need is a way to reach people,
especially young men who aren't consuming political news at all. My plan, if donors are
listening, is that Democrats should create a men's health sleeper cell movement. You astroturf
liberal Joe Rogan by paying a bunch of ripped, great looking male influencers to do
three years of nonpolitical stuff, historical conspiracies, weird health ish, supplement
advocacy, et cetera. And then in August of twenty twenty eight, they all they're all contractually
obligated to go, oh, by the way, vote for the Democrat. What I absolutely love about that is
he's saying, I know let's trick people into voting Democrat, which didn't work the first time.
And additionally, this is what they did in 2016. Prominent personalities and
celebrities all came out and said, yay, Democrat. The issue is you have weird policies. Working
class guys don't want to chop off little kids balls and they don't want open borders. They want
their jobs back. So Democrats, if they came out and they were like, I'm just like Joe Rogan,
the moon is a secret terraforming base created by aliens and the pyramids can actually walk.
People like that's interesting. And then he went also, we should remove the testicles of children.
They'd be like, I'm not voting Democrat. It's not going to happen. If Democrats want to win,
they need to change their policies. The problem is they really want these policies.
So you know what they're doing in Texas instead? They're just running covertly in Texas.
They're running as Republicans.
They say all the right words as Republicans.
And then when they get to the statehouse, oops, they're Democrats.
Yep.
Oops, all Democrats.
That's the strategy.
I guess that's what they have to do.
They really do want these policies.
They're not going to walk away from them.
As a bros bro, I'll give the Democrats some free advice because I know they won't follow it anyway because they are beholden to the far left.
The issue at hand here is that men don't want to be towing police and put up on endless purity tests.
They don't have to feel like they're walking around on eggshells when they're on a podcast or what have you. So none of this would work because they'd say the wrong thing in a podcast and none of their
viewers would end up forgiving them because of some, you know, misdeed that they've done in the
past. And there's no room for forgiveness in the far left space. It's just an endless firing squad
on one another. So that's why I don't think this stuff is going to pan out for them. The
bros need space to feel comfortable being themselves, being a little
bit off-colored, and that is no longer permitted at all in these leftist spaces. So men are ostracized
out of their spaces, especially young men. And I don't think there's a very effective way to bring
them back in at this point. I mean, young people, young men know how the Democrats have looked at
them and spoke about them for the past two decades, probably.
I don't think that there's going to be any confusion among young men when it comes to
the position the left have regarding young men.
It's been so overstated.
It's been drilled into society, essentially.
You've got it all over pop culture.
The,
the doofy husband that wouldn't be able to function if it wasn't for his
brilliant wife that does everything.
That's something that trope has been trotted out for in every sitcom in
every,
you know,
finish real quick.
I don't know.
I mean,
it's,
it's,
it's in everywhere that you look and that's just the tip
of the iceberg it's everywhere that men are considered bad toxic masculinity men are looked
at as the problem and women are looked at as the solution according to democrats there's no hiding
that i want to push back in that while i i would argue that the sitcom problem we have is that
everybody hates marriage is the is the bigger issue homer simpson Homer Simpson is a moron who just magically succeeds at everything he does no matter what.
And Peter Griffin is much the same.
Right?
They actually made a joke about it where Peter has a helicopter and Joe is like, how can you afford these things?
So they have the idiot, doofy, fat husband trope.
But at least as far as it goes with like Simpsons and Family Guy homer's an astronaut he went to space yeah i mean like so fair enough so so take that you know take
that for what it's worth but it's the point broad point still remains toxic masculinity there is no
positive role models for men the the the idea of masculinity is looked at as overall just bad so
fair point on on you know, Homer and stuff like that.
But I think that the overall point still stands.
Men have been demonized by the left.
Young men know it.
They've seen it.
They've grown up with it.
And they're not going to be attracted to the left just by Hassan saying, yo, bro, I go to the gym, too.
That's just not going to work.
Yeah, I actually wonder who watches channels like
his, you know?
I think it's mostly LGBTQ.
Men dressed like women.
Manly dressed women, you said?
I said men dressed like women.
Where do they go to the restroom, though? Because that's the brilliance
on the right, is that if you
can demonize them for
going, you know, men dressed like women, for going into
the women's room, and then they go into the men's room dressed like a woman?
It's a big loser.
Yeah, I mean, it is, but, like, it's also—and it's better for a man dressed like a woman to go into the men's room than for a man dressed like a woman to go into the women's room.
I believe that.
It's tough to pick which one you prefer, I think.
I think the issue largely is that Democrats don't have sincere policy plans.
They have wacky ideas that they adhere to because you're supposed to.
And that's it.
They don't want to deviate from those lines.
I think liberals all tend to have—don't get me wrong, conservatives have some of this, too.
But liberals tend to have a degree—like, your degree of how far left you are is where you draw the line
on what is acceptable socially. So far left doesn't mean you're a socialist anymore. Probably
does correlate. It just means that you buy into everything the left offers. Then you have like
the moderate left and it's like, well, you're not going as far as some of these leftists,
but you still don't like Trump. And then you're liberal if you can disagree with all those things, but you still hate Trump no matter what. You won't
recognize when the media lied to you. You have to hate Trump. You can agree on everything else.
You can call woke bad, but you're going to be a liberal. That means you have to hate Trump.
And then you're conservative if you just disagree. And so as long as that's the case,
that means regular run of the mill guys who are like, I don't really care that much about Trump
at all. They're like, well, then you're conservative. It's like, okay, I guess. The problem with
Democrats is not how they're talking. It's that they're basically saying to young men,
do you like Trump? And they go, don't really know much about him. You're a white supremacist. And
they're like, okay, bye. I think it's if you don't adhere to all of their ideological perspectives,
then you're othered immediately. So if you're a pro-choice, you are not welcome in Democrat
circles. If you are anti-immigration, if you want to build-choice, you are not welcome in Democrat circles. If you
are anti-immigration, if you want to build the wall, then you're not welcome in any of these
circles. If you don't believe in Medicare for all, you're not welcome in these circles. And
increasingly, if you're not a socialist or a communist, you're not welcome in these circles.
And you have to virtue signal to those people. And within the party, those people will purity
test and ostracize you because that's where the base is. I think there's a white pill way to read into this. And it's that after decades of demonizing young white men, the
Democrats are finally deciding that it's not a winning strategy and they're working to refocus
outreach to them. So I think this may indeed be a sign of a white boy summer to come.
Well, I actually think the Democrat strategy was white people don't have kids, so don't bet on them for the future.
Bet on. So they were probably looking at a combination of racial in-group preference, except for white liberals with a racial out-group preference.
And they said, how do we build a coalition? We're going to need something that brings together all races and white liberals.
And that's why you end up with DEI there. So they're trying to unify all of these groups under one umbrella.
Then they basically say,
we will take your job from you.
We will destroy your life
unless you agree with every aspect
of the psychotic ideology,
which is a big tent that it's,
you know, they're jamming puzzle pieces
into spaces they don't fit.
The right is just like,
you guys want to hang out and debate?
And they're like, sure.
I don't agree with you.
That's cool. I don't agree with you. Well, what should we do? That's the right. Larg, you guys want to hang out and debate? And they're like, sure. I don't agree with you. That's cool.
I don't agree with you.
Well, what should we do?
That's the right.
Largely, not completely.
It's become more big tent, I feel.
I mean, yeah, but the thing is,
that's because the left is so exclusive, right?
The left kicks everyone out that doesn't agree.
Again, this is something that we talked about a lot of times,
but the reason that Donald Trump is in the Republican Party
is because he used to be a Democrat
and now he wouldn't be welcome in the Democrat Party. Same thing with
JFK. Same thing with Tulsi Gabbard. Same thing with, you know, down the line. There's many,
many, many, many people that you can name in public life in the administration that used to
be Democrat and have just normal person opinions because they don't believe things like, you know,
men can become women. They're excommunicated from the Democrat Party.
That's why the MAGA, you know, the MAGA big tent is what it is.
That's why we have the people that are, you know, pro-choice as well as people that are pro-life under the MAGA tent because it's a big tent, you know, party.
I want to pull up this clip.
We've got this from Hollywood Reporter.
Democrat comedians basically admitting they only target Donald Trump because of audience capture.
Listen to this. That was going to be the title of one of my specials, Kill the Comedian,
because it's just like, you know, it's also like you're the only ones going after Trump. You're
the only ones going after Trump. It's like the pressure to constantly talk about Trump. It's like
we're also comedians. You're also supposed to provide people with a reprieve
from thinking about Donald Trump for a minute,
for an hour, for however
long your show is. You want to provide
that. That's why I like also doing
stand-up, because I'm so tired
of it. It's like, I've been there, done that.
Everyone knows how I feel. I can't just keep banging
this drum. You weren't using your platform
enough to speak about
the issue. Here's what i get from this
clip when um what was that guy's name the guy i forget these people's names the what's his face
this guy what's that guy's name i have no idea i know he does uh one of the nightly shows but i
have no idea yeah another one of those nightly shows that i never i forget these seth seth
myers seth myers okay seth green seth myers okay there you go that's right that's seth myers um of those nightly shows that I never I forget these Seth Seth Meyers Seth Meyers okay Seth Green
Seth Meyers okay there you go that's right that's Seth Meyers um what I'm hearing from this where
he's like I like doing stand-up because I'm tired of it sometimes is that what actually is happening
media has decentralized such a degree that anyone can get their opinions from anyone they want. So if there's a
guy who firmly believes the earth is both flat and hollow, and in fact, it's a donut, someone can find
that and listen to it. It used to be that you watched what was available. Yep. Now what they've
found is their their lowest common denominator is not liking Trump. And so whether you're a socialist,
a communist, an anarchist, or just
some old lady who thinks Trump is a lizard, you will watch content that says Trump is bad. And so
that's what he's actually talking about. It's not that the audience is demanding it. It's that
nothing else unifies people anymore. There's no general conversation on news and politics.
It is. We hate Trump there. So every
nightly talk show starts with that. This is a really great example. Um, because when we were,
we were looking at these, uh, liberal YouTubers right now, the Democrats are looking to spend a
lot of money on and you go to like David Pakman or Brian Tyler Cohen and almost every single video
they do is just a photo of Trump and something bad written about him. It'll say
Trump shocks audience with unhinged comments. That's like not even specific. It's just
pure hatred of Trump driving these views. And I look at him like, how do you get half a million
views on this? Probably the same people watching every video nonstop over and over again. And
Sean, who was doing research on this, said, hey, it's it's every nightly talk show is the exact
same thing. Every monologue from Colbert, from Myers, from Fallon, it's always and Jimmy Kimmel,
always the same thing. Here's why Trump is bad. Maybe Trump needs to just lay off the news for
a little bit to see what happens, see what happens to these people. The point is they don't actually
care about Trump. They just know that their ratings are predicated upon if they can say Trump is bad
today. Because if they came out and they were, you know, look, I have a couple of videos I did
about Katy Perry. Surprisingly, they've got like half a million views. And I was like, wow. But
there was something to talk about. Katy Perry got fired from her Vegas residency or whatever,
and they said she lost money. And I'm like, that's that's actually really interesting for
a major celebrity who just went into outer space and all this to be
bombing so miserably. More people care about that. The issue for these people is they're
addicted to it and they don't know what else to talk about.
Why did Johnny Carson get by with never doing that?
Talking politics?
Well, I mean, he talked politics, but he picked on both sides. He was an equal opportunity offender.
Well, you know, back then there were very few channels.
And so you knew that you were going to have 10 million liberals, 10 million conservatives.
And so you had to be for the big tent approach.
Here's what I say.
I mean, we seem to have no trouble criticizing Donald Trump on this show.
We largely like what he does.
So it's not like we're just attacking him nonstop for no reason. But when there's things to criticize him for,
I know I can give the same examples over and over and over again. In this term, I was skeptical on
the universal tariffs. We'll see where we end up with them. In the past term, you had the Tomahawk
strikes in Syria. People have criticized him for these things. And I criticized him for mocking
the journals, getting body slammed, all that stuff. The right is OK with that. You're you're allowed to make fun of Donald Trump.
It's funny. I'll give a shout out to Seamus Coughlin, Freedom Tunes. He makes fun of Trump
all the time and people love it. I feel like that energy you're mentioning of Johnny Carson
going after both sides. It's just the right now. The left is cultish. You can't.
But their but their audiences are so much smaller now. Like you
pointed out, there was only three options back 45 years ago. But now there's hundreds of options
for entertainment value. But they deliberately ostracize half of their potential audience.
Why would they? I still don't understand why, if you're funny, if you are genuinely funny as a
comedian, why would you deliberately do that?
Because you have to one way or the other. Is that coming from the editorial board of the.
No, no, no, no, no. I'm saying if if Seth Meyers came out and said Joe Biden's brain is made of jello, this guy's ridiculous.
Who would consider voting for a lunatic? Then the left would riot against them.
The conservatives won't come and watch.
The left will riot and stop watching
and their ratings go to zero.
So they said, okay,
this is the conservatives' fault to a certain degree
and I've complained about this quite a bit.
These TV shows,
like Jimmy Kimmel,
what is he getting?
A couple hundred thousand these days?
It's crazy how small their shows have gotten.
10 years ago, they were getting millions.
Now they're getting hundreds of thousands.
And they're basically saying, look, we went hard against Trump.
We bet against him and we lost.
If we were to come out now and try and be pro-Trump, conservatives won't watch and liberals will leave.
So why do it?
I wonder if the same kind of calculation will happen when it comes to trying to attract young men.
We were just talking about trying to attract young men to the Democrat Party.
What happens when young men start coming to the Democrat Party and behaving like young men?
Does the Democrat Party lose the left and then the young men realize, oh, this isn't the place for me and then lose everything?
No, I think that is the path towards correction. So I would say
when you look at the Democratic Party, millennial women make up a large component of it right now.
They're two thirds liberal and the men lean slightly away. It's like 45 percent of millennial
men are Democrat. These numbers changed, but these are the numbers from a few years ago. Millennial men are 55% Republican, 45%, and there's a slight deviation there, liberal.
Women are more susceptible to social pressures than men are. So when the official mainstream
narrative is weird, woke, psycho garbage, you are likely going to find that women adhere to
those narratives more than men do, because of their feelings, not because of the facts, men are going to be more aggressive
and obstinate, and they're going to adhere to facts, things they believe to be true and argue.
If the Democrats started to bring men in and let them speak, it would create social pressures
where more women would move over to their line of thinking. They'd still be liberals because you'd
have masculine, aggressive,
liberal men, not like Hassan. I mean, actually like politically moderate liberal types who are
going to say things like, we don't want to trans the kids, but we do need to secure our borders.
And we do need, you know, like I think taxes on the wealth, on the rich makes sense. Bring a guy
in who says that and is charismatic and you'll see women start adopting those views
and abandoning the weird woke ideology stuff.
I think with the direction that people getting married
is going in in our country,
that we're unfortunately not going to see that.
And I think people between the parties,
support is becoming more gendered, that is.
More men are supporting the Republican Party.
More women are supporting the Democrat Party.
And we're actually seeing that to continue to be further exacerbated
and men and women not ending up getting married and exchanging values
and deciding one way or another.
And I don't know what the downstream consequences of this will be,
but I foresee this trend continuing.
I think in some other countries we're seeing more extreme examples of this.
So, for example, in South Korea, the gender divide
and how they vote is very extreme. And with the way that the parties signal to the genders,
I just foresee it continue to go to that direction. I feel like we'd be remiss if we
didn't also mention that the Democrats are overwhelmingly pro-choice. And I've said it
before on the show that I think women would rather be poor than lose their access to abortion
at this point.
I mean, generally for most women in this country.
So just things to consider.
And so long as the Republicans are anti-abortion, you know, there's going to be gendered consequences to that, among other things.
But I think that's a big, that plays a big role here.
I just did a quick Google search on ratings for cable TV.
The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
How many key demo viewers do you think he had?
Oh, God.
50,000. Lawrence O'Donnell.
12,000.
Yeah.
In the demo?
This is the 5 p.m. hour.
Lawrence O'Donnell.
5 p.m., 50,000.
In the key demo?
Key demo.
12,000.
Oh.
Wow, 12,000.
Well, I think most people who watch,
what is he, fromsnbc um no
nobody old people yeah like old people watch like they'll probably get 100k 200k but it's all old
people so in the key demo that's 50 yeah i thought nine nine thousand nine thousand wow yeah uh holy
crap i didn't think that was uh i i didn't think it was going to be that low.
Especially for, I'll let people, can you explain key demo to people just so they.
25 to 54 years old.
That's what's important here.
Now, yo, check this out.
This is where things get really crazy.
I'm going to scroll and I got, I should just pull this up on the, let me see if I can pull
this up so y'all can see it.
And do you have Fox's numbers too?
Because Fox kills it
no no bro wait till you see this if i can get uh what which article do i have fox is a true
underappreciated juggernaut in the media space may 21st let me pull this up so uh here we go they say
the five ascended to familiar territories across over the four million total viewer threshold on
wednesday evening fox news is 5 p.m panel show is the number one program in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 demo.
However, yo, they're playing flashy word games how they wrote that.
The Five got 391,000 viewers in the key demo.
That's number one.
The number one cable TV show gets 391,000 viewers in the key demo.
Wow.
With all due respect, I'm a fan of the five.
Yo, we do like 700.
We do between like 700,000, 800,000 per episode on TimCast IRL.
And I think maybe like 600, maybe 650 is key demo.
People aren't watching these networks anymore except, check this out, this is how crazy things are.
So if you can look at CNN, you've got a hundred thousand for Anderson Cooper.
Yo, that's wild. 9 PM. Hannity's got 300,000. Gutfeld gets 321, 22,000. Now, yo, I was on waters a couple of weeks ago. They don't come out and say this when, when they talk about their
ratings, where's our waters 372 000 that's
awesome but take a look at their total viewership waters got 3.5 million the five got 4.06 4.064
the overwhelming majority of the viewers they have are over 55 and I think the average is 70 years old. What's going to happen to this, all of this stuff, in 10 years?
Well, I mean, the fact that there's going to be significantly fewer boomers,
it's just a continuation of what's been happening for the past decade, right?
Everything has been moving to the internet.
Everything has been moving away from legacy media.
So the trend is just going to continue and and probably increase in in velocity you know there's significantly few boomers at this
table right now by the way yeah i mean i'm a boomer at heart though so i think i count for one
i wanted to do a little inside of the lines reading here tim if you go back to the the full
graph here so i think um what is very important for people to understand is that i think 8 p.m
is actually the key spot to have.
Like that is the most coveted TV spot to have.
And that's the spot that Tucker Carlson used to fill at Fox News.
And now you'd actually notice that the 5, which is at 5 o'clock, is actually getting more viewership than the coveted 8 p.m. spot.
I just think it's an important thing to recognize that there's a reason we shoot at 8 p.m.
And 8 p.m. is when when football games and everything would start.
It's the key time when people get home
and what have you. They're getting less.
Waters is getting less views more
often than not than the 5 is a 5. However,
Jesse Waters is like the principal personality of the
5. Correct.
So, you know, I think
Waters is like
the man at Fox News right now.
And it's Waters and Gutfeld, basically.
I guess, I don't know.
I mean, Hannity's getting $300,000.
In a roundabout way, Tim, I guess I'm saying that Jesse Waters doesn't fill Tucker Carlson's shoes,
who had big shoes to fill when Bill O'Reilly left, too.
Oh, yeah.
And that's crazy they got rid of Tucker Carlson.
Totally.
That was absolutely nuts.
I think Tucker would still be doing monster numbers more than
jesse waters uh but it seems as though he's more interested in doing the tucker carlson network
stuff i i gotta say like it is look when i turn on fox news do you know what the advertisements are
um pharmaceuticals for old people yeah and and um street ekgs Have you seen that commercial? No. Is my pillow still there too?
No, not so much.
Not so much.
Not that I've seen.
They have this one commercial where it's a guy, he's like, I am not in a doctor's office.
I'm not even a doctor.
I'm in the street.
And you can get a medical grade EKG by putting your fingers on this thing.
How much do you think that costs?
All of, and reverse mortgages.
Yeah.
So don't get me wrong like older people elderly need services too
and their services advertised to them they actually have a disproportionate amount of wealth
there's a lot of hyper concentrated wealth and power in the 65 plus demographic now when we look
at the average age of viewers on these networks it's around 70 years old right now because like
to be honest like 70 seven or seven years ago, we were talking about this.
The average age was like 65. So I could arguably be like it's probably 70 now, but I think it's 69, 70 years old.
We also see with the real clear politics age breakdown, the only age bracket that opposes Trump is 70 plus.
All of this wealth, homeownership, corporate equities is about 10 years away
from just being up in the air. The votes are gone. The properties are where do they go?
The corporate equities, where do they go? And all of these channels, nothing. Yo, I don't know. I
do a quick I did a quick Google search once. Actually, let me do it. Let me let me do a quick
Google search now. Jesse Waters' salary.
And we're picking on Jesse Waters, which we—I'm a fan, by the way.
That's why I went on the show.
What do you guys think his salary is listed as?
It'd be a couple million a year, at least.
I don't know.
He's probably—he's one of their number ones, APM coveted slot guy.
Five million a year.
I'm going five.
This is what it says when you Google it.
It says five million a year.
How are they going to pay this guy five million a year if he'm going $5. This is what it says when you Google it. It says $5 million a year. How are they going to pay this guy $5 million a year if he's pulling in $300K per episode?
Well, especially if they lose the pharmaceutical companies.
Right.
That's why they can pay him.
You're asking in 10 years, will he be able to pull in that?
Perhaps.
He can do it right now because, as you said, the disproportionate amount of wealth on the boomer market that they're appealing to.
So right now there's also carriage fees, too. But, yo, young people don't have cable.
So I'm wondering, this whole thing's going belly up in 10 years. So I did a quick Google search
on Hannity. His salary is estimated at $36 million. You know, again, I shouldn't pick on
Fox News. We should look at, like, Anderson Cooper, right? I think there's also, it's worth mentioning that
like some of, most of Fox News' biggest stars have ended up leaving Fox and ended up becoming
independent, Tim Pool type creators, if you will, podcasters. Megyn Kelly, for example,
Tucker Carlson. I'm sure I'm forgetting some others, but like a lot of their best talent,
most recognizable talent has left.
And it really is a sign of where things are to go.
But also working at Fox News must be great because, you know, you're tapped into getting tapped on the shoulder by President Trump and being brought on board in the cabinet or something.
I'm just, you know, I'm sitting here Google searching salaries and Anderson Cooper's salary is estimated at $20 million a year.
For a guy who pulls in $100K in the key demo,
I'm just wondering.
Let's not even do that.
Anderson Cooper total viewership, 582,000.
Okay, let's just do some math.
How many commercials do you think aired
during one hour of Anderson Cooper's show?
Like, honest, how many commercials?
It could be like three or a break.
Probably one every 10 minutes. 15 to 20. 15 to 20? To be fair, that could be like three or a break. Probably one every 10 minutes.
15 to 20.
15 to 20.
To be fair, that could be a lot of money with 500,000 views.
So if you're talking 10K, you could be doing 150,000 per episode.
At 500,000 total viewers, you could be 582 with a standard CPM.
You could be charging $10,000 per ad.
I don't think it's there, though.
Because we tried to run that gag pillow commercial on Fox News.
The idea we had was Our Pillow.
Our Pillow was a burlap sack full of styrofoam packing peanuts.
And I legit called Fox News, and I was like, I want to run a commercial where we try and sell a burlap sack full of styrofoam packing peanuts.
They laughed and they were like, okay, it costs money.
Tucker Carlson, who was getting, to be honest, I think he was getting half a million in the key demo and about $3.5 million on average.
It was $12,000 for one commercial on his show.
That's relatively cheap compared to what you pay on the internet
for podcasts and things like this. I think Joe Rogan might charge between $20,000 and $50,000
per ad read on his show. Yeah, it's a big show. You know what I mean? He's getting millions,
but they're closer to the key demo. So to be fair, I mean, there is Joe. I don't understand
how Anderson Cooper makes the money. Where's that money come from? That's the crazy thing.
Anderson Cooper is a descendant from the Vanderbilt family. So maybe he's leaving some
money on the table and not too worried about, I believe he'd stay there even if they paid him
zero dollars because he's doing it all for ego. Which isn't unique to him.
But the NGOs have to prop those networks up. They have to. They have no choice because if they're going to get their message out at all, they have no choice but to prop them up.
What's most annoying to me is that we've had a lot on staff now for a couple weeks that AIPAC hasn't called.
Like, yo, what's up, Elon?
Not yet.
Not yet.
I think I need to say the resident, the Jew more often here.
Jewish correspondent.
Jewish affairs correspondent, rather.
There was a funny meme.
It's going to just piss some people off because everyone gets mad about Israel stuff.
But someone had a funny post where they said something like, I don't understand why everybody thinks Israel is paying all these people when the only thing they've ever done is beg me for money.
Like all these NGOs and nonprofits are always asking for donations and things like that.
No, there's, you know, I will say this too.
There is, like you mentioned, the NGOs have to keep this propped up.
I don't think that exists.
You don't think so?
No, it's pharmaceutical companies.
Well, they are.
Yeah, like everybody wants to believe that the only way their opposition is funded is by some nefarious ne'er-do-well billionaire.
And it's just not.
Certainly there are NGOs that get money from Lexoros.
That exists.
And they might buy commercials,
but we don't actually see
a lot of those commercial buys.
It's pharmaceutical companies
that are propping up
these cable networks.
And the reason why
we get these messages
is because they want
favorable policies
from Democrat politicians
they're cutting these deals with.
It's really simple.
Pharmaceutical companies
are going to make contributions
when and where they can. They're going to prop up corporate news outlets.
Those new news outlets are scared of losing access. And the pharmaceuticals are like,
listen, these Democrats are going to give us good deals. If you start running commercials
that are pro-Republican, that are challenging all this stuff, we're not going to buy ads with
you anymore. And the news network's like, OK, then we'll stop doing it. The editorial comes
in and says, guys, we don't want to we don't want to look a Republican, you know, RFK
Jr. For instance, why did the media attack him relentlessly? Pharmaceutical companies probably
went to the big media and said, we will pull our ads if you keep disparaging us. And they said,
okay, went to their team and said, guys, we got to lay off on the weird pharma stuff. Okay.
Let's just not risk our bottom line over whatever the story is.
I,
you know,
I have,
I have another way to put it that I love to explain to people.
The reason why journalism is not news journalism will not tell you the truth.
And anyone who thinks it will is,
is,
is,
is,
is misinformed.
It's really simple.
Let me ask you a question.
If,
uh,
I want,
I want you to invest in my company.
All right.
I need $100,000 so that I can make a website that will, we're going to make, I don't know,
articles about Brad Pitt's junk and Katy Perry.
And also we hate Trump.
We're going to hire three people.
We're going to pay them,
I don't know, a couple bucks an article and we're going to get 300,000 views per video,
especially the Trump ones. Is this Shark Tank right now? So here's what happens. The investor says, okay, my principal investment is a hundred grand for one year. So if I want to, so let's just
do a three-year deal at 300,000 over three years.
You're going to make, you're going to hire three guys. You're going to contract three guys to write rage bait articles. Those articles will generate a couple grand each because you're going to say
Trump is bad, celebrity garbage, celebrity garbage, and we're going to look with ads.
Okay. Sounds like I'll make money. Now let's talk about real journalism.
Why don't you go to an investor and say this? I need $500,000 for one
year. Salary for the journalist is going to be, we're going to be modest. We're going to say
$80,000 a year, but travel costs, legal costs, legal costs is going to be 300,000 for the first
year because we're going to get sued to oblivion when we start digging into Pfizer's or pharmaceutical.
The investor is going to say, okay, okay, half a million. What do I get at the end of the year?
We don't know. We haven't investigated the company yet. He is going to say, okay, okay, half a million. What do I get at the end of the year? We don't know. We haven't investigated the company yet. He's going to say,
screw off. I invest in money in that. So all of these big companies, that's how they're operating.
Why would they make news? They're going to play softball so that you believe you're getting the
news, but you are the product. They need more eyeballs. So they need sensational rage bait garbage at the lowest cost possible to appease their investors. To be fair,
you do have another problem today with membership bases where it's largely better so long as you're
adhering to some kind of standard. But then you end up with, say, Washington Post or The New York
Times where they have audience capture. Their audience hates Trump. They've invested heavily in making anti-Trump content.
If they change now, they will lose members and they will shrink.
So what do they do?
They maintain those lies.
You are not getting fair and honest reporting from news organizations.
It just doesn't exist.
I think especially in the news media space, journalism sadly cannot be monetized to the
amount that it takes to pay the journalist to make a living.
And the downstream consequences of that is that journalism and news outfits usually cannot be
profitable and therefore tend to be bought out by billionaires or owned by billionaires.
So for the New York Times, it's owned by the Salzburger family. So the thing is,
they're not really adhering or have to feel the pressure from their subscribers
if it came down to that,
because they're a very rich family.
Same for the Washington Post,
currently owned by Jeff Bezos.
If push comes to shove,
they actually don't need to be profitable,
and it's just rich people and rich companies
that own a lot of these different news outlets.
The motivation then is going to be just for access
or the ability to affect the narrative then, right? The overall of america so let's talk about let me do this let
me jump to this story first kick this off we have this from the new york times you know me 11 npr
sues trump over order to cut funding the lawsuit filed in federal court in washington by npr
another public radio organization said president trump's executive order violated the constitution
and the first amendment i absolutely love that nPR's argument is we have a First Amendment right to taxpayer
funds. It is a psychotic, crazy world where the AP, the Associated Press, sued saying we should
be allowed in the press pool in Trump's Oval Office. Right. This is Trump's, this is an
invitation. There's no guarantee in the Constitution that a private
organization has access to Trump's office. And because Trump would invite the press in general,
AP, won a court case saying they should be allowed in, my argument is I should sue next.
Why can't I be in the Oval Office whenever I want? What makes the AP special? If the courts
are saying the AP needs to be allowed in, then I need to be allowed in too.
And we'll do the podcast right from the Oval Office
next to Trump because they got to let me in.
It's an absurdity.
So now NPR is suing Trump.
Here's the executive order.
The executive order that Trump issued four weeks ago,
or I'm sorry, it was about three and a half weeks ago,
ending taxpayer subsidization of biased media.
It's not a First Amendment issue.
He's saying the U.S. government cannot be spending money on promoting
one ideology. That violates the First Amendment. It is a violation of the First Amendment that NPR
would receive funds. That's what's at play. So they want to say that the NPR has sued
the lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington by NPR and other public radio organizations,
including Colorado Public Radio. And Aspen Public Radio said Mr. Trump's order violated the Constitution.
Quote, The president has no authority under the Constitution to take such actions.
On the contrary, the power of the purse is reserved for Congress.
Dwight said no immediate comment.
This month, Mr. Trump signed an executive order ordering the corporate for a corporation for public broadcasting, which backs NPR and PBS, to freeze all funding to those organizations.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting spends more than half a billion dollars on public radio.
However, I do believe that is an executive branch, Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
And so the president does have authority to direct their actions.
However, there is a legal challenge, and Congress has passed the funds for specific things,
which means there's a check and a bounce.
So this can't happen.
Jumping back into what we were talking about before, getting into the story, what I wanted
to mention is Phil brought up how the purpose of these news organizations is for clout and to
control the narrative in the system. That's why, I believe it was Haim Saban, I'm not sure.
He's, I don't know if he owns Univision.
I think he might. Big Hillary Clinton guy. They Univision and ABC launched Fusion.
And I think they spent something like 300 million dollars trying to create what they were calling, quote, nice vice because they needed to get young people.
And they weren't profitable. They didn't expect to be profitable. As far as I can tell in the conversations I have with these people, it was to create an influence operation. They wanted to be able to mass produce content that shaped the political landscape of young people. And they failed miserably. And it's they had every opportunity to do it right. but boy, would they not listen? Let me, let me give you an example of, so they failed. They laid everybody off. They burned this money to the ground. The
company's completely gone. When I was there, they, they had produced a bunch of content that was
overly woke gender ideology stuff. I went to the president of the company and I said,
this stuff's not getting any views. You're not getting any traction. You're not generating any attention.
And so me and my brother told them we can help them with a campaign.
We can find content you have,
that sleeper content that's been improperly marketed
and we can make it big.
So there was one video called Open Mic Massacre
and it was a comedian and it was a cartoon bit
where every time he tried to tell a joke,
they'd boo him and call him racist or a bigot.
It was mocking the woke.
It exploded.
I don't remember how many views it got, but it got a ton of views.
They doubled their subscribers and the company went nuts, outraged.
They did not want that narrative to be successful.
They were pissed off that it happened.
So they said, stop, stop doing this.
And that was the end of it. And I was like, I don't understand. We found the content that young people like. We helped promote it. It took off like crazy. You're building subscribers.
What do you want? And they said, not that. So what did they end up doing? Doubling down on
woke garbage that failed and then they went out of business. Well, I don't, again, these companies
don't even care about being profitable because again, it is an influence op. And I think we also need to take
notice of one of the biggest influence ops that is coming out of the Middle East, a news
organization called Al Jazeera that I think is underappreciated for how much it is a propagandizing
arm of Qatar that, again, doesn't need to be profitable. And I think we'll need a wrangle
with the consequences of news organizations not even trying to be profitable at this point. Tim, I wanted to
follow up on something you said earlier about NPR. And I believe it's the AP trying to sue
Trump and the Trump administration to get more access to the Oval Office. Here's the thing.
We're very thankful here at TimCast for the Trump administration shaking up the way they do media access at the White House.
If it was up to the White House Correspondents Association, who currently has a monopoly on coverage and access in the Oval Office,
or well, used to, we wouldn't be in the Oval Office at all.
Space in the Oval Office is zero sum. It's actually a very small room.
And the fact when NPR isn't there or the AP isn't there, it's a different new media person that is.
So all of that is to say that NPR and AP trying to get back in is trying to take the place of other new media outfits getting in there like us, like the Daily Wire, like the Daily Caller, among other people.
And I hope that NPR and AP fails in their lawsuits trying to get back in.
I just want to show you guys I found it.
We've pulled this up from time to time.
It's a good example of the fails of nine years ago, 589,000 views.
I show you this because I believe this is evidence that when a media company with hundreds
of millions of dollars was given an opportunity to produce successful content, they chose
not to intentionally.
They were told what would succeed. You know, it's not even about politics.
We did a video called Fallout from Fukushima. I went to the president of the company. I said,
Fallout 4 is coming out. It is the most anticipated game of the year. It's been a long
time, huh? I said, Fallout 3 was game of the year. Fallout 4 is coming out. We should go to
Fukushima, Japan, do a mini documentary on the disaster and where it's currently at and call it Fallout from Fukushima.
We're going to capture all that SEO.
So everyone searching for Fallout is going to find our documentary.
And it creates a cool real world view for what these video games are.
And video games are popular.
And they said, do it.
Boom, half a million views right at launch.
And they said, no, make more trans kids. I said, here's my idea for a series. Let's create mini documentaries based on video games. So Call of Duty, let's make a Call of Duty mini doc that
explores modern warfare and combat. And we film it with shots. We put a GoPro on the weapon and we film first
person POV training and make it look like the video game. That way, when people are playing
the video game on their board and they said, no, we want feminism, mission driven storytelling,
and none of it ever worked. That is, with hundreds of millions of dollars pouring in,
the goal was never to build successful media.
It was to build narrative and pay to inject it into the culture, which is what I was warning last November when I said this is what Democrats are going to do.
They lost the election.
Now what they're going to do is they tried the corporate route, build a company, dump the money, see if it works.
It didn't work.
Now they're going to find liberal podcasters, and they're going to say, you got a big channel.
Let's give you $10 million in advertisement.
Your face will be everywhere.
And what's fascinating to me is that the right with domination in the space for now, the
podcast presence, they call it, have not been utilizing their resources to take
cultural ubiquity.
This is what I'll get.
Did you guys see the Times Square thing of all the black men's faces?
Yeah.
No.
You didn't see that?
Let me see if I can pull that up.
Black men's faces, Times Square.
What is this?
How do I find this?
Black men in Times Square? That's not it okay it is yeah i can pull this one up i guess the price
okay that's annoying i don't want to pull that one up uh is this it
i don't know this might be it let's just pull this in and see what happens. There you go. So all of a sudden,
every billboard in Times Square that you can buy turns into a picture of a black man's face.
And it's some like art campaign or whatever. I was talking to my buddies about this 10 years ago.
How do we buy every billboard in Times Square all at once? Because that's like a big flash.
Everybody notices.
And exactly what happened with this.
The right won a podcast battle helping Donald Trump win.
And they all remained independent, isolated, didn't do big ad runs.
They're not doing what Coca-Cola does.
What I think we're going to see next, I think, you know, we bought billboards.
Timcast IRL is on billboards all
across the country and many people have seen them if you're driving through especially the
rust belt where we bought a bunch very expensive to do it's because i i firmly believe in a year
you are going to see insert liberal podcast all over Times Square on YouTube nonstop.
You're going to pull up, you know, Asmongold.
You're going to want to watch, you know, he's just a streamer, right?
Politically unaffiliated, but leans kind of in the Trump direction.
And whenever you click his video, it's going to autoplay a commercial from a liberal podcast or or the liberal podcast itself.
These big companies, they can afford to give Rachel Maddow $20 million.
They're going to go to Google and say, we want to buy a big package.
Let me tell you guys about last year.
We spent a lot of money on Google ads.
And Google, to this day, will not stop emailing me saying, please talk to us and do a deal with us.
We'll cut you a deal.
We'll prioritize all this stuff because you spent a
lot of money. It makes sense. But we don't spend as much as these people can. And so we might do
like tens of thousands per month, depending on the show we're doing or the videos we want to
promote, things like that. What you're going to end up seeing is, here's my bet,
Democrat PAC or something or a media, a Democrat aligned media interest is going to say we
represent a bunch of these big podcasts and liberal side that are on YouTube, but they don't
do so well. Now we've got a $50 million budget for the year, but we don't know if we want to
spend that on, on YouTube ads. If you guys aren't promoting us and they're not being seen by people anyway.
YouTube will then be like, let's do a deal.
Then when you go to the front page of YouTube as a conservative, all of a sudden you're
only getting liberals.
Right.
And it's because YouTube says, look, they bought a $50 million package.
So their ads are going to appear all over the place.
Banner ads, video display ads, and they're going to start popping up in the algorithm more often.
So they're going to ignore your personally identified profile algorithm and then force
feed you. I would argue that there's a balance of yes with a but. YouTube, of course, doesn't
want to lose users. They don't want to lose users. But the balance is, or the question is,
why doesn't YouTube want people to leave the website?
They want to maximize how many ads they can deliver.
If they abuse it too much, people will leave.
However, they also need money.
And if people are already leaving to say rumble and they're conservative, YouTube is going to have this equation in front of them.
Conservatives have left and gone to rumble largely and maybe not entirely, but a large portion or at least a significant double digit portion.
We've already lost a lot of that money.
How do we make back that money?
Democrats then come and say, well, promote our personalities.
But here's the thing, too.
Like that guy, Derek Thompson, was saying it's going to be sleeper cells.
They're going to be liberal aligned shows that are passively liberal.
But in the health space, YouTube will start promoting these things. They've been doing it.
They've done it before. They'll do it again. YouTube will begin putting pressure. So it's
harder to find shows like this and other shows that lean away from the narrative machine.
They'll try and do it in a way to maintain as many viewers as possible without bleeding too much.
But the equation, as I mentioned, is if conservatives leave and are angry and liberals
are threatening to leave, pander to the liberals. End of story. Especially if they're offering big
cash. I think we're going to see that next year in the midterms. And that's what's going to cause
a lot of damage to Republicans. But that being said, Democrats still have crackpot policies
that regular people don't like. Yeah, I mean, the scenario you lay out actually is very similar to the way that it was before people kind of started to realize that the left controlled everything.
I mean, the general consensus was that it was normal and then you had conservatives.
But then normal started saying crazy things like
men and women men can become women and such but it was that you know the general consensus was oh
this is this is what normal people think and this is we don't have to be political we just talk about
whatever topic we're talking about or whatever we like and then if politics comes up it's obvious
that we would vote for Barack
Obama or it's obvious the right choice is the Democrats. And that was the way that kind of
society was had been running for, you know, probably since Bill Clinton, you know, even
even when George Bush was a was the president, the general consensus was still from the media
and from the left that it was clear that, you know, George Bush might've been kind of an anomaly, but most of your, your Paul,
most of your political positions should be the positions that the left had.
I don't want to make this sound like it's uniquely a left issue.
There was a story that came that, that relates to this,
that came across my radar last week from the Washington examiner talking about
how Qatar, Qatar has foreign influence
operations here in the United States. I'm going to read you a couple of paragraphs from here
because I feel like it relates. It's in regard to Tucker Carlson interviewing the prime minister of
Qatar and the organization that paid for that to happen was giving Tucker Carlson allegedly $180,000
per month. So let me just read this.
Wait, what?
What's the title?
I'll just pull it up.
The title, it's from the Washington Examiner, conservative media targeted by Qatari foreign
influence operations.
You're going to have to archive it because it has a paywall.
So it says, I'm reading from it, perhaps Qatar's biggest victory in its post-election right-wing
media campaign thus far was securing an interview between Tucker Carlson and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Al Thani. The interview racked up nearly 6 million views.
Qatar paid top dollar to ensure the interview take place. FARA records show that Lumen Aid
Advisors, a legal consulting company for which very little public information is available,
facilitated the interview between Carlson and the Qatari dignitary. The Lumen Aid Advisors paid
$180,000 per month
to provide media and communication coaching
and consulting services.
I don't have it pulled up, so just keep going.
No, it's that. It's this.
No, I don't have it pulled up, so just keep going.
What's your point?
Oh, and then, so we need to be worried about,
again, this is rich people trying to sway opinion
one way or another.
I'm not saying that.
I do have it pulled up now.
Yeah.
Conservative media targeted by Qatari for an influence operation.
So what was the point you were bringing up?
You said that.
I was saying, so we were talking a lot about how the left is influenced by billionaires
that are trying to fund their money.
And I don't think it's unique to the left.
And I think on the right, we also have different billionaires flooding money into the space,
perhaps trying to get favorable coverage.
So let me read this.
It says,
Cutter paid top dollar to ensure this interview took place.
Foreign Agent Registration Act records show that Lumen 8 Advisors LLC,
a legal consulting company for which very little public information is available,
helped facilitate between Carlson and the Qatari dignitary.
The embassy of the state of Cutter pays L Lumen 8 advisors $180,000 per month to provide media and communication coaching and
consulting services. Qatar wants to further cement ties with Trump and allies for many reasons,
including to defend itself against Republican attacks for its relationship with Hamas in Iran.
Anna Jacobs, a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute,
said of the Carlson interview. So they were saying that the biggest victory was Tucker Carlson and Qatari Prime Minister
Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in March.
Now, they want to mention it's got six million views across X and YouTube.
That being said, I mean, doesn't mean Carlson has anything to do with it.
I think what we have to be careful about, if Qatar is hiring a media advisory agency
and then saying we want to like on this Lumen is hiring a media advisory agency and then saying
we want to like on this lumen eight emails tucker and says would you like to interview the prime
minister of cutter he's going to say yes so i don't think there's anything untoward or any is
there any implication that carlson or anybody was actually taking money um so it was people registered with farah that helped um facilitate the interview that sounds normal
yeah i need to look exactly the advisors were paid 180 000 a month um i don't know if that i need to
look up to to see if that eventually made it to tucker i i don't think tucker got paid to do this
interview i think if someone emailed me and said,
would you, if someone emailed Tim Castellarone
and said, would you like to interview
the prime minister of Qatar?
I'd say yes.
I think there's foreign agents being paid
by the Qataris to help facilitate their relationship
with right-wing figures like Tucker Carlson.
And I watched parts of the interview.
It was an extremely friendly interview
from what I'm used to seeing from Tucker Carlson.
So I think there is reason for concern. And again, there there's also many people in the Trump administration who's have that who's had a lot of donations from Qatar that I think it's something to be aware of.
Pam Bondi received millions of dollars in donations when she was in Florida from Qatar. She formerly lobbied for Qatar, it says. Yeah, for Qatar as well.
I think also Kash Patel, despite, I think, doing a great job so far,
also had a lot of Qatar involved with them.
It's a small country. It's got 300,000 people.
And then, moreover, Qatar also has their Al Jazeera media outfit
that they're only losing money on.
So I think it isn't too crazy to assume that such a small country may have some ulterior
motives with a lot of their media strategy here.
Well, I mean, I think that it's probably obvious that they're looking to do as much as they
can to influence.
But I think that a lot of countries do that, don't they?
It's a question of whether it's illicit.
And let's try and break this down.
I think this is why I can't stand the issue of the Israel-Palestine stuff.
Because nobody is – I'll just put it this way.
All is fair in love and war.
I get it.
So what do we have here?
I would break this down as Tucker Carlson was approached by a media consulting firm that works for Cutter and said, would you like to interview the prime minister?
And he said, yeah, that sounds amazing.
An interview with a world leader.
That's huge.
That's it.
Cutter hires a media agency.
Like we have PR and publicists.
We pay them.
They're not foreign.
They're Americans.
And they reach out to news outlets and say on on behalf of Tim Castaero, like,
would you be interested in these stories?
Would you be interested in these interviews?
I think that's all this is. The reason it's FARA is because
it's Cutter. And I think the
attempt here from the examiner is
to malign
Tucker Carlson as if he didn't
make it appear as though he did something wrong. Is there a narrative
that you believe Cutter tends to push
that you find objectionable?
Or do you think that they have motives
that are contrary to what the United States' motivation is?
So I think their Al Jazeera media outfit
is an anti-Western outlet
that has a lot of nefarious intentions
on the world stage.
And I think they are the main funders behind that.
And I'm super critical of them.
I think they're huge hypocrites.
So, you know, like on their Al Jazeazeera channel they'll constantly rail about human rights but um they built their country with slave labor and you said they only have 300 citizens 300,000
citizens right but there's something like two million non-registered citizens in their country
pretty much acting as slaves um there's no rights for women in their country among other things
but i think al jazeera plus was is or the bigger issue. I don't know if they still exist.
That's their more progressive outfit. But again, Al Jazeera, they never cover Qatar either in any
sort of professional way. They what? They shouldn't. Why not? It's a conflict of interest.
I think it's a conflict of interest to just completely stay out of it. I think they should
try to be unbiased and cover themselves.
The same thing with the Washington Post and Bezos.
If you were truly unbiased, then you'd have some of the most cynical coverage of yourself.
But it's convenient for one of the biggest networks in the Middle East, run by such a small country,
to be like, oh yeah, we'll cover all the misdealings of all the countries around us,
except in our own country.
And a lot of the Middle Eastern countries around them in the Middle East
don't like them as a result of this.
I think the BBC are a bunch of liars.
Sure.
And so that's the issue.
It could go either way.
I don't fault a country for reporting on themselves or not,
depending on the size of the country, I suppose.
Like, we read the BBC, and it's often BS.
Tommy Robinson got released today, which is awesome and amazing news.
And if you're going to read about him in the BBC, they're
lying about everything.
It's insane.
And so, Cutter's not reporting
on themselves. I shrug. If they were, would we believe it?
Do we want? I wouldn't want to read that. I'm going to read
something else, you know. I do think it's
interesting that a tiny nation has such outsized
influence. Trump going there
and the Qatari jet was
a terrible idea. He should not be accepting
that jet for security reasons alone. Then you had Theo Vaughn going and visiting with Trump and then
coming back and saying, there's a genocide going on in Palestine, in Gaza. And I'm just like,
when I pointed out that, so people started commenting, Theo Vaughn just got back from
Qatar. And I was like, I thought they were kidding. I thought they were making us like they were insulting him, saying that his take his position on this is like akin to him going to Qatar.
And then I realized he actually did go there, like it was actually a big trip that he did.
And so I tweeted, wow, I didn't realize this.
And the response I got from people was that I was implying Qatar paid him for that opinion.
I never said that. These people are psychotic.
I said, no, he went to Cutter,
talked to some people, they told him
this, and he said, wow, I didn't know that, and then came back
and became a part of his show. The question I have
is, why does this small country have
such outsized influence? And I'm not saying they're
paying for it. I'm saying
people want to go there, and they go there,
and they adopt those views and those opinions
and they believe it. It's wild.
And I'm not even going to make a comment on Israel.
They have such outsized influence because they are paying for it.
To a certain degree.
Yeah.
But, I mean, like, I don't think they went to Theo Vaughn and said, here's a million dollars.
Go claim there's a genocide happening.
Maybe not.
Maybe not in that case.
But they're going to have influence with celebrities that they're going to bring over for their weddings, and they're going to pay $250 million for a wedding for a prince or a...
And they'll donate a ton of money to the school that you want your child to go to, and they're
donating to all these politicians, and they're donating to all of these interest groups,
and then they have their media outfits that are all incestuous with one another.
You know, the Israelis would be jealous of the influence
operation that the Qataris have. It's amazing. I view it largely similarly, to be honest.
I think the numbers from Qatar greatly, vastly outnumber the amount that Israel's contributing.
And I think there's also something to say about, I think there is actually a lot of genuine
grassroots support for Israel in the West, in America in particular.
I also think Israel's coded to be right-wing and coded to be right, at least by the left.
So I think there's reason to support Israel in the country, as opposed to Qatar,
which is completely misaligned with our values totally and supports terrorists, actually,
and people who are antithetical to our values and actually don't align with us on any values, but we do have an air base there,
so I think that's what it kind of comes down to, to project power.
It's a big deal.
Yeah.
And I mean, even his donations to Pam Bondi in the past,
they're willing to line anybody's pockets.
So you're saying that Trump is a Qatari asset, not a Russian asset.
I think after your trip to Israel, you're going to
have to stop in Qatar as well.
When I go to Israel? When am I going to Israel?
Oh, we'll need to plan the trip out. With your
new APAC handler, you know, I made some phone calls.
I've been to Tel Aviv before. It was beautiful.
And, you know, I don't know.
I think people are nuts. I think
it is
infinitely strange to me how
this is the center. You know what I call this?
I call it Israel first.
I think the people who love and hate Israel
are both Israel first,
and it's the weirdest thing to me.
Because I'm like Israel 10th, maybe.
There's a bunch of other countries I think are more important,
like Mexico and the cartels are in a higher ranking
as to what I care about in this world.
Ukraine ranks higher as far as I'm concerned.
It matters.
You know, what's going on there is important. The only reason it's on the list at all is because the U.S. is providing
funding to Israel and there's, you know, conflict going on around it that I don't think the U.S.
should be involved in. But it's amazing that there are people in this country who they've
literally super chatted this show in last year's election cycle saying they would vote for Joe Biden if Joe Biden said he was critical of Israel.
And I'm like, that's America last.
You care so much about Israel.
You would burn this country to the ground with Joe Biden.
That's crazy to me.
That means your first priority is Israel, whether you love Israel or hate Israel.
These people who only ever ever complain about Israel, they don't care
about Burma, they don't care about Tibet,
they don't care about Ukraine, they don't care about
South Sudan or Eritrea
or Afghanistan. The
first country in their minds in every
instance is Israel. And again,
that's the people who hate it and the people who love it.
So I'm just like,
guys, you guys, just
go get a hotel room or something. I don't know.
It's crazy to me.
I mean,
the fact that
there are people
that are so focused, they call themselves America-versed
and they're so focused on Israel, when
the amount of money that we give to Israel
is
marginal when it comes to the real
big problems like in the national debt,
like mandatory spending, Medicare, Medicaid,
those things that are having a serious impact
on whether or not people will buy our treasury bills now.
I mean, last week, the bond market opened up
and there was such soft demand that they had to,
you know, the yield, I think, went up.
I don't know exactly how much it was,
but the yield went up for treasury bonds because people didn't want them.
And the reason people didn't want them is because the bill passed,
the big, beautiful bill passed, and there's so much more spending.
Worrying about how much money we give to Israel is entirely pointless.
If you have a moral qualm with it, fine, that makes sense.
I have a problem with the fact that the U.S. is involved in a war that's going on over there fine makes perfect sense but the idea that we have to
we give so much money to israel like it's it's it's pennies compared to the real serious pressing
economic issues as you point out the america first people only talk about israel and they are they
are the functional democracy there they They do allow, uh,
Arabs,
Muslims in the Knesset.
They do allow gays and,
uh,
trans genders.
Oh,
wow.
So now we're anti-Israel.
No,
maybe to their own detriment.
I mean,
these are allowed in their culture and they're not allowed in the border cultures.
and that's why my point is if someone came to me and said,
I don't like the u.s spending
money these foreign wars ukraine taiwan israel afghanistan iraq i'd say oh i understand i'm
totally with you on that but when they come to me and they say the u.s should be spending money on
israel i say what about other countries no israel and i'm like dude the only thing you care about is
that you are israel, first and foremost.
All the groipers, Nick Fuentes and everyone there, Israel first.
The only thing they ever talk about, they won't shut up about it.
They love Israel.
I get it.
They hate it.
They hate Israel.
They hate AIPAC.
They hate all these people.
But it's the only thing they talk about.
They act like no other problems exist.
And I'm like, the point is when you wake up in the morning, the first thing in your mind is Israel.
For me, it's America.
How do we secure our borders?
What's going on with fentanyl in Canada? What's going on with illegal immigration from Guatemala into our country? So when I have a list of countries I care more about, I'm like, first of all,
American labor. Are we are we helping Gen Z get in the labor force, buy houses and have families?
That's the first thing I'm thinking about when I wake up. How do we build culture among Americans?
How do we get people to be moralistic in our country? Then I'm worried about Mexico. They got cartels. They're shoveling drugs up to our country.
Our borders insecure. Then I'm concerned about Guatemala. Then I'm concerned about El Salvador.
Then I'm concerned about Honduras, then Brazil. And at some point down the list, I'm like,
there's Israel. But these people wake up every day bashing their faces against the wall,
screaming the word Israel. And I'm like, you are Israel first. And I hope you hear me.
Clearly, they're definitely focused on Israel far more than they are on the U.S.
Yep.
And that's why when they said they would vote for Joe Biden over Donald Trump, I said,
that is a person who would burn this country to the ground because they care more about Israel.
They hate Israel, but Israel matters so much more to them,
they would see America burn if it meant bad things happened to Israel.
Cutting your nose to spite your face, yeah.
I don't know why you care so much.
And they live in these crazy worlds where Israel is the most important country on the planet.
I'm telling you, it is fascinating how they think Israel controls the weather.
It's not even a joke.
I know, it's obvious that Ian controls the weather. I like the amount of, it's not even a joke. I know. It's obvious that Ian controls the weather,
not Israel.
The amount of crazy conspiracies they think,
it's,
they believe that Israel controls everything,
is this secret cabal of Jews
that are running the whole world.
And I'm like,
that is Israel's first you can get.
They hate America
and they only care about Israel.
It's the only thing they focus on.
Let's jump to this next story from Newsweek.
Donald Trump makes Canada a new offer to become the 51st state. And the best part is he claims they're considering it.
He posted on Truth, I told Canada, which very much wants to be a part of our fabulous Golden
Dome system, that it will cost $61 billion if they remain a separate but unequal nation,
but will cost $0 if they become our cherished 51st state. They are considering the offer. They aren't, but it's funny.
I don't want Canada to be the 51st state
because I see the way the Canadians vote.
Would you imagine like Senator Trudeau?
Oh, God.
It sounds like a terrible idea.
Senate Majority Leader Trudeau.
We could take Alberta, though.
Maybe.
And Saskatchewan right here, right?
What's that? Saskatchewan, too, though. Maybe. And Saskatchewan right here, right? What's that?
Saskatchewan, too?
Maybe.
Maybe.
But Alberta for the oil and the mountains.
But, yeah.
We could take their oil, you're saying?
Oh, yeah.
So because I'm an expansionist, I'm actually, I'm down with taking Canada. So I think the real test case for taking Canada would be if a war broke out, we'd have to occupy Canada to maintain its safety and to make sure it doesn't become a satellite of Canada.
Or a satellite of China is how I think it would go.
There he is.
Yeah, exactly.
But during a time of war.
They were doing Chinese military operations up there.
During a time of war, we'd have to go and um decommunize uh canada so i think
that's when it would really go down i think president trump is just trying to warm the
canadians up to the idea a little bit at this point you're you uh well i mean i think that
trump just likes to say things to get canada is in our future whether or not it's unfinished
business phil no it's not um but like at the at the end of the day, Canada is going to be, they will be protected.
If we do design and build a Golden Dome, the United States is going to protect Canada as well.
That's just the way that it's going to be.
During a time of war, we will need to occupy them for their own safety.
No, that's ridiculous.
Secure their liberty.
That's ridiculous.
Protect them from communism, from the Chinese.
No, stop.
We're going to be liberators, Phil.
No, this is dumb.
Me and you.
No, no, no.
Liberators of Canada?
Yeah, we're going to liberate Canada from the Chinese.
Yeah, from the communists.
He's going to go up there and freeze to death by himself.
We're the anti-communists.
I'm not going.
Well, hold on.
The, you know,
freeze, but that's if he goes in winter.
If he goes in summer, they have an extra long growing
season and it's quite warm. Then you'll just die
of mosquito bites and ticks.
Black flies. Yeah, they're terrible.
As I understand, their waterways will become very
important within the next few decades
thanks to climate change.
Do you guys remember climate change as a political issue?
I feel like I haven't heard that word in a long time.
It's not real.
Like that completely, that was like the number one issue.
And let me clarify, I'm saying as a political issue.
Yeah.
I know they're going to be like, oh, we got him.
That's what happened with Trump.
He said something like that,
like the political climate change is no longer relevant.
And the media all ran, Trump says climate change isn't real.
And I was like, no, he was saying that the political attacks they were using were based on lies.
If climate change was actually the crisis that they say, they would have been issuing nuclear permits two decades ago.
But it wasn't.
It never was.
They were just trying to use the climate and the environment as a means to further control the, you know, basically the land and stuff,
how you use your faucet and what, you know, what showerhead you can have.
My next question to President Trump, if I'm so privileged to get another two,
and maybe I'll ask about Greenland and Canada again, what the updates are.
I think Trump clearly just cares about global trade routes in the ocean.
So the whole Canada-Greenland thing is about the Northwest Passage and Panama, obviously the canal and Israel is largely Suez. And it was funny
because all of these anti-Israel people got super mad when I pointed that out to Adam Conover and
they lost their minds because they live in Wally world. I'm like Trump's issue if you look at the big picture is global trade that's why they're
bombing the Houthis that's why they have interest in Sinai in the Suez and that's why he cares about
the Northwest Passage Greenland Canada and that's why Panama his like principal issue is I will
control global trade that's largely been the American position for domination we police the
ocean so you don't think Trump's serious about Greenland?
I do, yeah.
I mean, no, in terms of acquisition.
Absolutely.
Okay, yeah, but not about Canada.
I think Canada might be a half joke.
Half joking.
Trump wants some kind of deal
where we can have a military presence or naval presence.
I don't think he literally believes
the entirety of Canada will be one state. That makes no sense. But I think it's some kind of essence of a big ask.
So where he goes to Canada and says, hey, you want Golden Dome protection? They say,
yes, but what's it going to cost? He says $60 billion. They go, we can't afford that. He goes,
then how about this? You lease us parts of, you know, Ken, Kenyan territory in the
Northwest passage, and we will then provide blanket coverage with golden dome. That's where I think we
might end up. I think it's textbook art of the deal. And he's just getting re this is just his
starting point in the negotiations. I think particularly for Greenland. And I think Tim's
spot on about getting different parts of random northern parts of Canada for future military bases and whatnot.
Same with Greenland, if we can negotiate something with like that.
Or at least getting people interested in the idea, maybe a couple of decades down the line, something goes wrong in Canada and Americans change their feelings towards that.
Maybe we could be like, oh, remember when Trump thought this was a good idea?
And we're warming people up to it.
I'm warming you up to it, Phil.
I don't know.
I don't know if you're warming up to it, Phil. I don't know if you're warming me up to it or not.
I don't think so.
I do think that the argument that the government makes
about Greenland being important to national security
is legitimate,
but I don't think that we're actually going to get Greenland.
I think that it'll likely be some kind of military base that we lease an area to install a military base.
I'm pretty sure that there's already a U.S. military base there, at least one.
The president and J.D. Vance were both talking about economic incentives to Greenland to get them to allow more.
And I think that's what it's going to end up winding up being. I believe during World War II, we did occupy Greenland again
to secure their liberty.
Because someone else was occupying.
No, exactly.
So again, I think this will have a similar cast as belly.
There'll be a similar political crisis that the United States
will be able to utilize.
We should have stayed in Greenland post-World Wari and so you think that it'll be uh a similar like that do you think
like uh because there's gonna be a big world denmark that that actually owns greenland right
sure yeah but if the you know if something pops off in europe germany if something pops off in
europe hey maybe we'll see how things go in Ukraine and Russia. Who knows down the line?
I'm just keeping my options open in my expansionist dream here.
We probably shouldn't have left post-World War II.
And we probably shouldn't have ever given back the Panama Canal.
Worst trade deal in history.
Well, the Panama Canal stuff, I agree.
That shouldn't have.
That was just very dumb, frankly.
I believe it was Jimmy Carter just trying to flex. I don't know. I'm not old enough
to remember. Jimmy Carter had some bad ideas.
I think it was like, oh, we're decolonizing or what
have you. I don't think that it was decolonizing.
I mean, that was the idea where it's
decolonization. No, I don't think
that it was actually decolonization.
I think that it was economic. I don't think that it was
like, oh, we're actually...
Their argument was that
we're colonizing them.
And I think Jimmy Carter's angle was.
I'd have to look to be sure to see what the argument was.
But decolonization has a specific leftist context.
And I don't think that that was the idea behind it.
But I'd go look.
Yeah.
Dumb trade deals.
Liberate Greenland for no reason um and then give back panama canal
for no reason let canada exist again where we're footing their defense we're their biggest trade
partner um and what do we get out of it nothing we get a raw end of the raw end of the stick and
i'm glad president trump actually recognizes it's sort out of it. Carter, you're loving this.
I mean, I don't know that I share your estimation of having,
whether we should or should not have given back Greenland or whatever.
Or the canal.
Or the canal. I think that I don't... I think that the canal actually
was a bad idea. I think the U.S. should have
kept
at least a presence on the
canal, but I'm not
so sure about Greenland.
I don't know. Why not take
Greenland? I don't mean by force.
Why give it up? We should have kept it while we had it.
It's easier to... You mean during World War II? Yeah.
But it was a treaty. We still have a treaty, I think it. It's easier to... You mean during World War II? Yeah. But it was a treaty.
We still have a treaty, I think, with Denmark allowing us to operate there.
Well, that's...
Like I said earlier, I think that
it'll end up being the U.S. having
some kind of military presence, maybe another military
base or a couple military bases or something, but I don't
think that there's
a whole lot of benefit to
taking Greenland because
most of it... I mean, there are geothermal things down there.
You know, there's abandoned underground nuclear bases.
Are there?
The Nazis' bases there?
U.S.
Secret Nazis.
U.S. tried building weapons depots and launch sites and struggled, so they built these big underground bunkers and then left.
So they're there, and they're extremely valuable.
Yep.
There's so much going on post-World War II that I think if we turned it into a territory...
Canada?
Greenland.
It would have just been a bookmark in history
and we would have just accepted it.
Well, I think Trump is smart and realizes
that Canada was always a part of America
and it's only by happenstance
that we've not had our proper military control over it.
And so, in the name of justice,
we must take Canada.
Monarchy is wrong.
You get so many death threats
when I say that.
I don't want Canada,
because I don't want...
The Canadians acting up.
I don't know, though.
They got moose.
Moose are cool.
Is it meese or mooses?
The great documentary,
Canadian Bacon,
starring, you know, John Candy.
That's the film about the war
between the United States and Canada. You guys don't even know what that is, right? I know the reference, but know, John Candy. That's the film about the war between the United States and Canada.
You guys don't even know what that is, right?
I know the reference, but I know the movie.
But no idea.
It's Moose.
I think that, I think.
I know.
Okay.
Let's jump.
We got one more story for you guys.
There's actually a bunch.
We'll grab this one.
From the Independent, Jordan Peterson refuses to identify as a Christian in viral atheist debate.
This story is nuts.
I think it was, what, Sunday?
They put out, Jubilee put out,
one Christian versus 20 atheists featuring Jordan Peterson.
Then after a major backlash from Christians who were like,
Jordan Peterson is not a Christian,
and even says in the show that he's not,
they changed it to Jordan Peterson versus atheists.
To be fair, I think
Jubilee should retitle it to Jordan Peterson versus 20 anti-Christians, because I don't even
think it's fair to call them atheists. Here's the clip in question, however, that is going massively
viral. Why is that relevant? Because you go to a Catholic church, don't you? You've attended
recently. You're interested in Catholicism, aren't you? Sure. All right. Are you familiar
with their doctrines? Somewhat. Okay, you're familiar.
How do they regard Mary?
Why are you asking me that?
Because you're a Christian.
You say that.
I haven't claimed that.
Oh, what is this?
Is this Christians versus atheists?
I don't know.
You don't know where you are right now.
Don't be a smartass.
Well, either you're a Christian or you're not.
I'll talk to you if you're a smartass.
Oh, either you're a Christian or you're not.
Which one is it? I could be either of them, but I don't have to tell you're a Christian or you're not. I won't talk to you if you're a smartass. Either you're a Christian or you're not. Which one is it?
I could be either of them, but I don't have to tell you.
You don't have to tell me.
I was under the impression.
I was invited to talk to a Christian.
Am I not talking to a Christian?
No, you were invited to.
I think everyone should look at the title of the YouTube channel.
You're probably in the wrong YouTube video.
You're really quite something.
You are.
Aren't I?
But you're really quite nothing.
Right.
You're not a Christian.
I'm done with him.
Jordan Peterson is getting roasted by the left and the right because in this whole debate,
whatever you want to call it, he kept doing, I don't know, semantic games.
He said, what is what do you mean by believe?
And then the young man says something you think to be true.
And he was like, no, now you're just claiming true is a substitution for believe.
And he like wouldn't answer it.
He's debating a guy and he's asked whether or not he's a Christian.
He says, I could be either, but I'm not going to tell you or I don't have to tell you.
And it's like, then what are you doing in this debate?
I think the issue is that Jubilee, this company, wanted a Christian versus atheist video and they wanted a big name.
So they said, hey, Jordan Peterson, do you want to debate a bunch of atheists? He said, sure. They then wrote down Christian versus atheist. Jordan
Peterson comes in as some kind of deist, not Christian, and then no one understands what
they're debating at all. Yeah, I mean, clearly Jordan Peterson wasn't there to defend Christianity
from a position of, I believe Christ is my savior, right? Like,
if you're going to go in there and you're going to be defending Christianity, you shouldn't just
defend the moral principles laid out in Christianity. You should be there saying, no,
I believe in God. I believe that Jesus Christ is his son, and I believe that I'm saved through his grace.
You shouldn't be like, oh, you know, I like Christianity,
and I like the way that Christianity sets up society,
or the way that societies that are Christian end up being run.
I think that you should actually believe in Christianity,
and I think that's a big problem here is he doesn't.
Let me play this other clip.
This is why Jordan Peterson is getting ragged on.
So do you believe in the all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good notion of God?
What do you mean by believe?
Do you think it to be true?
That's the circular definition.
What do you mean when you say believe?
How is that circular?
Because you added no content to the answer by substituting the word true and believe.
I said you think it to be true.
All right.
So if you believe something, you stake your life on it.
What do you mean by that?
You live for it and you die for it.
What?
That's what I mean by that.
It isn't something that you say.
It isn't something that's associated with logical consistency. It's not declarative. It's not propositional
It's not a figment of your imagination
It's the presupposition of your attention and your action and you're either
Fragmented in which case you worship multiple gods or there's some unity at the bottom of it that makes you an unstoppable
force
What?
Okay, so you're saying that you don't believe something if you wouldn't die for it?
Not really, no.
Okay.
How would you define belief?
Something you say?
Can I explain?
I could believe it is the case that this pen exists,
but if someone threatened my life,
I would lie in order to be able to save my life.
I think you would do that too.
You wouldn't lie to save your life?
Don't be so sure. You wouldn't lie to save your life? Don't be so sure.
You wouldn't lie to save your life?
How much do you know about me?
I didn't lie to save my career.
I didn't lie to save my clinical practice.
Would you lie to like save your children,
your mom, your dad?
I don't think lying would save them.
Can there ever be a circumstance logically
that lying could save someone's life?
Yeah, and if you're steeped in sin, you're likely to live in circumstances like that.
I'll give you an example. If you're in Nazi Germany, and it is the case that there's Jewish people in your attic,
and you're trying to protect them, would you lie to the Nazis?
I would have done everything I bloody well could, so I wouldn't be in that situation to begin with.
Would you lie?
It's a hypothetical, and it's not answerable.
You can't answer hypotheticals?
No, I can't answer a hypothetical like that
because it's far...
Look, don't play
games.
Yes, you are.
I don't understand what
Jordan Peterson is at this point, to be honest.
This was
hard for me because
I think that Jordan Peterson
contributed a lot to my own life
going back before his fame even, the videos that I used to watch.
And I have actually said over and over again to many people in certain circumstances when you're being very, you know, transparent about your life and your own spiritual journey that he helped me a lot in rediscovering kind of who I am as a man and as a
father. And this, I couldn't, out of the half dozen or so of these that I watched, I couldn't finish
any of them. A few of his points he was right on. I think the issue largely is Jubilee asked Jordan Peterson to debate atheists,
and he's some kind of deist, not a Christian, and then told all these atheists, you're going
to debate a Christian, which actually proves Jordan Peterson was right the whole time.
That being said, Jordan Peterson's performance was pretty miserable when he's like, what do you mean
by believe? Like, bro, you understand what he's saying. If you want to clarify for the audience
and say, I believe what you're saying by believe is—
But the kid said something you think to be true.
Okay, he's qualified his statement.
The issue is that Jordan Peterson's first claim was atheists reject God without understanding what they're rejecting.
And the fact that the Jubilee producers asked a bunch of anti-Christians to debate a deist proves the producers themselves don't know
what atheism or Christianity or deism or God is. Their minds, they thought one thing. If you're an
atheist, you don't believe in Jesus. Jordan Peterson, as a deist, is saying God has many
shapes and forms. You don't know what you're saying no to. At one point in the debate, where I do think
he did well, he said that one of the definitions of God, I think Jonah in the Bible, is conscience, the voice of morality within you, not this
all-knowing divine creator, necessarily. They're just saying, okay, well, I don't believe in
Scripture. And so Jordan Peterson is debating anti-Christians from the context of they don't
believe God exists, and they're debating a
deist based on their criticism of Christianity specifically. All of the people who came in were
debating Christianity, not Islam, not Hinduism, not Confucianism or anything else. It was literally
anti-Christians versus Jordan Peterson. Horrifyingly embarrassing, though, for all of them.
I will say Jubilee may have played some funny games with how they brought all of this together,
but I think for me and any others who looked up to Jordan Peterson in the past and found a lot of meaning in a lot of his self-help early on are deeply saddened to see him like this. the famous Kathy Newman interview years ago, I remember him. He was sitting back, hanging out,
ready to, you know, deflect or have some witty comeback
to whatever Kathy was coming back against him there.
Here he's tense, sitting forward, stressed out.
It's...
Can't play games.
I'm not.
I'm asking you what you think true means.
Like, extremely serious,
as opposed to...
I'm thinking back to that Kathy Newman interview
where he handled it so well.
And the the conspiracy theory now is we have this major resurgence in among the youth towards Christianity.
So I actually I just the episode I did with Bill Maher and Club Random came out.
And one of the things we talked about a couple of times was, you know, I asked him, you're an atheist.
It's obviously. Why do
you think atheism is losing? And he agreed. He's like, it's a good point. Young people are becoming
more religious. The conspiracy theory is that Jordan Peterson was brought in as a heel, not
Jordan Peterson intentionally, but other people brought him in as he is not a good representation
of Christianity so that young men will watch this and think
Christians are stupid, can't answer basic questions. And this is the clever tactics
that we'll see from liberals. They're going to try and get people like Jordan Peterson.
They're going to create circumstances where they can laugh in your face.
This is my problem with Real Time with Bill Maher. This is my problem with Jubilee.
Ben Shapiro came on the show, and some trans person just berated him with a gish gallop for a minute and then got up and left.
And they all started hooting and clapping and cheering.
The intention is to manipulate young people into thinking that's power.
So here you have Jordan Peterson hemming and hawing, failing to answer basic questions and playing semantic games.
So young people are going to see this and be like, wow, Christians are dumb.
As a producer right now,
could I chime in and just give my take on that?
Because it seemed like they were doing the whole
Tim and Eric thing where they would go to the,
like a funny looking guy to just mog Jordan Peterson there.
But also if you've read Jordan Peterson's book,
one of the things he says is don't lie
or at least try to tell the truth.
Or I think it's the other way around.
Tell the truth or at least don't lie.
So if he were to say that, then he would be breaking his own rule.
Yeah, but everyone's response to this particular video is that he failed the IQ test.
If you did not eat breakfast yesterday, how would you have felt?
Well, how can I know that?
I ate breakfast. It's a hypothetical. I can't
answer. And everyone's like, bro,
the hypothetical is
a guy breaks into your house
and says, where's your daughter?
Do you tell him or not?
I don't know. It's a hypothetical.
Tim, I'm not sure.
You can answer. Stop playing games, Tim.
Or, you know, I think the other issue is that he just answered it poorly.
And I can make the argument that, you know, in a situation like this, he doesn't come off as strong by saying, I can't answer that. It's a hypothetical.
Or he can say, give me a modern context example. Don't use the history generic one.
And then make him frame it in something like, a guy breaks into your house, which is a more generic issue.
The problem I largely see, though, is the answer is easy.
You would lie to save your family members.
No question.
Everyone would do it.
He didn't want to be pinned down by this guy.
Any of them.
Any of them.
And so he would never give any straightforward answers because he was concerned that they were going to trick him or something. So instead
of having an honest conversation, he just gives non-answers
the whole time. He's unrecognizable
from his previous self now.
I feel like I'm watching a totally different
guy. I don't know what happened,
but it doesn't feel
like the same guy who I remember
coming up years ago.
Honestly, I think that it does depend
on the context, and i think that he's
putting him in himself in places where he shouldn't be i mean uh my girlfriend and i just watched his
uh the parenting thing that they're doing on daily wire they have the they for members you have a
he's doing a um a series on parent parenting and all of it was completely reasonable all the same
kind of stuff that you'd expect from jordan. He seemed like he was intelligent. Granted,
it was a Daily Wire production, so they're
not going to make him look like a fool
or anything, but the content
was good, too. The actual
things that he was saying about how
you deal with this situation with a child
and that situation with a child. It was
completely reasonable. So I do think
that the context that he's in, this is not
a place where Jordan Peterson would shine this type of thing. I think that it was the wrong guy to make these
arguments. So when he was doing his big tour out with, you know, Dave Rubin opening for him and
that sort of thing, I went and saw him in Charlotte, a big theater there, Charlotte, North Carolina.
And I didn't know what to expect at that time going back that far with him, but he was about 98% apolitical.
He was 97% irreligious, you know, no, no,
there was no spin on anything whatsoever.
And he took about 15 minutes of awkwardness to,
before he found his sea legs up there.
And then he was just brilliant.
And, and the one thing that we saw was all the young men with the books to get it signed.
It was just packed out of young men wanting to hear from this guy.
That's why this, yeah.
Well, I don't think, I don't blame Jubilee for Peterson's performance.
No.
I do blame them.
There are jump cuts in there, notably in the first one about Christianity.
The guy says, I was invited to talk to a Christian. He says, no, you were invited here too. And then it jump cuts. So we don't know what Jordan Peterson said. It sounds to me like
Jordan Peterson was arguing as a deist or some form of deist and Jubilee went and said, do you
want to debate Christians? So I actually agree with Jordan Peterson when he says atheists reject God without
understanding it. And it's because I would say 95% of conversations I have with atheists end up just
arguing Christianity, to which I go, well, I'm not a Christian, so I don't know what you're arguing.
And they'll be like, well, like Jesus, this, and I'll be like, okay, well, I'm not talking about
Christianity, so what are you arguing? Almost every instance where I have a conversation about
my belief in the existence of God,
it results in them just arguing Scripture.
And then I'm like, agreed.
Now come back to the issue of God,
and they can't tell the difference.
So Jordan Peterson, I think, gets that right.
But when you're in a room full of people
who are anti-Christians,
using the word atheist to describe that,
it's a really easy attack vector.
One of the things he gets asked about
is whether he believes he rejects the god Lono.
Was it Lono, I think?
The Polynesian god?
Yeah.
And it's a stupid argument,
but Jordan Peterson also didn't answer that one
very well.
He says, I don't know.
I don't know anything about it.
And then they're saying, you're rejecting,
you know, this guy got booted off real quick
because it was a stupid argument.
But that's the issue, I think largely with these people they always base their disbelief in god on they think god means i'm not saying literally every atheist i'm saying
there's a tendency among people who identify as atheists they believe god means man in white robes
with a beard flying in the sky. And then when you try and explain
something like, you know, with all due respect to Bill Maher, when I asked him if he understood
Einsteinian God or Logos, he just chuckled and said, I love how people come up with cute ideas
to try and give themselves this thing. And I was like, I'm not saying I believe in scripture.
I don't know that Bill Maher understands the concept of Logos, universal code, or any idea. He largely just views narrative tales as religion.
So when he says he's an atheist, he's basically saying,
I don't believe the Torah.
I don't believe the Bible.
I don't believe the Hadith or whatever, or the Quran.
He's saying, I don't believe your version of history.
And I'm like, okay, well, I don't care about that.
I care about the fundamental nature of reality.
Most atheists don't care about that. I care about the fundamental nature of reality. Most atheists don't question it.
Because I think the issue is, if you were to legitimately question the nature of reality,
you'd probably conclude that you're at least agnostic, not atheist, not outright stating
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Follow me on X and Instagram at TimC. We got Shane H Wilder. He says, so with the COVID vaccine, no longer being
recommended by RFK jr. And the new strain coming from China, what's the over-under on the left,
blaming the admin for people getting sick before the week is out. I'd give it a hundred percent
to be, to be clear, RFK jr. Uh, through CDC specifically, has removed the COVID vaccine from the recommendation
lists for young children and for pregnant women. So I don't know where they're currently recommending
for regular, you know, middle-aged individuals or adults, but for kids, they're like, nah.
Alpha 2 Omega says, howdy, people. Can I get prayers for my friend Rupert? I found out he
was diagnosed with stage four skin cancer.
You might not know him, but he is one of the best people I know.
Sad to hear it, man.
Shout out to your friend Rupert.
Hopefully it works out well.
Sorry to hear.
Omega, Roseto says, stop helping your opposition while they are making mistakes.
Sun Tzu weeps at your exposition, Tim.
Which one are you referring to? I don't know what that is.
No idea.
The Democrats should have to pay you for that advice.
I don't know what you said about probably in the first segment.
I also gave some advice.
But if if like there's no amount of money they could pay me to give them the strategy they need to be fair.
However, maybe not.
Like if they came to me and said, Tim, we will pay you $5 million to tell us what to do to win back young men, I'd say yes.
You know why?
I'd say drop the weird trans stuff, secure the border, stop selling out our jobs to China.
Look at what Trump is saying.
Those are the policies that resonate with young men.
Thank you.
I'll take my money now.
I think it's that they can't affect the advice that you'd give them so you wouldn't just say drop the trans stuff you'd say stop making it a purity test welcome people who might be anti-trans
into the party but they won't be able to do that because of their purity test so no matter what
advice we they're in a catch-22 they can't take our advice it's a death spiral that's the point
that's why it's like if they offered me the money to give them advice, I'd say sure, because they can't take it.
They want these policies.
The issue is those policies are toxic.
People don't like them in general.
So when they're like, how do we win young men over, stop pushing policies that freak people out.
But those are the policies we want.
They're basically saying, how do we convince young men to be okay with cutting off children's genitals? And it's like, you're not going to be able to. It's just
not going to happen. How do you convince young men to allow us to scapegoat them is really what
they need. Right. Yep. They're not happy with that. So if the Democrats today just came out,
I'm talking like Pelosi, Schumer, AOC, And they said, woke is broke. It's disgusting.
We no longer want to be involved in it. It was a mistake to change in the first place. I clap.
I'd say, great. Then if then if like some dude emerged, an unknown who was a Democrat,
and he was like, woke is dumb. It's bad. The Democrats should protect working class individuals.
We should rework these free trade deals so that we can bring manufacturing back to the United
States and stop getting ripped off by China. I'd be like, sounds like Trump.
But it's crazy. Their policies are just nonsense. If the Democrats followed our advice,
they wouldn't be Democrats anymore. Exactly. That's what it comes down to.
Yep. The emperor's champion says the same thing Democrats are trying reminds me of when Spongebob
tried to get into the tough guy bar but fails
and has to go to the weenie hut.
Weenie hut juniors.
Is that what it was?
Yeah, throwback.
Weenie hut juniors.
Oh, man.
JB Rocky says,
or JB Rocky says,
Homer is an astronaut like Katy Perry.
Yep.
The point is, it's actually pretty funny.
In The Simpsons and in Family Guy, they get all, like, Homer, like, you know what The Simpsons is?
It's a show about a middle-aged guy who gets random odd jobs.
That's what it is.
I mean, these days, I have no idea what the show's about.
They're on season 35, and it's, like, Abe Simpson's gay now or something.
I didn't know they still had the show going.
Yeah, I'm not kidding.
There was an episode where Abe was making out with a guy.
I don't even know what character Abe is.
Grandpa Simpson.
Oh, okay.
They made him gay.
They made an episode, I think, where Bart gets mad
that they gender swapped Itchy and Scratchy and made them girls.
Well, if you run that long,
you just need to start including gay people in your show.
Well, let's just base episodes off of stuff that's happening, I guess.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Homer was originally 37, I think, when the show first started.
Wow.
Yeah.
But there's an episode where Homer lists all of his jobs, and then you're like, it really
is just a show about a guy who gets eye jobs.
But the astronaut was one of them.
I love one love the uh one of the best okay so remember when um Douglas Murray went on uh
Rogan with Dave Smith and he was like Dave when was the last time you've been to
the crossings and Dave's like I've never gone he goes really you've never been that was the
perfect meme moment because in the Simpsons there there's the meme where Grimes, Grimey,
as Homer liked to call them,
goes to his house and he's like,
you, you've been to outer space.
And Homer goes, yes, you've never been?
Yeah, that reminds me of the Douglas Murray thing.
All right, what do we got?
Let's see.
Koss Jayer says,
Tim, have you tried talking with Tech Deck, the fingerboard you play with for your board design um excuse me uh so first of all we don't use tech decks these are
fingerboards and uh someone actually made this for us this is the rooster tim pool board from
boonies hq on a fingerboard and it's one of the best fingerboards I've ever used.
And I really am quite good, I suppose.
That's what you're doing when you're fidgeting as a kid.
You know, you got a little skateboard on your desk,
and you're doing flips with it and stuff.
But, yeah, somebody made a bunch of the Boonies boards
as fingerboards for us.
I should figure out who did it.
I'm sure the Boonies crew was like,
Tim, come on, how do you not know the guy's name?
There's not only a full skate park here,
but there's also a full mini skate park here
for the finger.
We actually, no, but we actually have someone
building a miniature version of the full park.
Of the full park, yeah.
Yeah, I think it'll be here in a couple weeks.
Wow.
And we're going to put it upstairs,
and you're going to have a fingerboard version
of the full skate park.
Very nice.
Yep.
Of course.
I don't know if the mini ramp's going to be included.
All right.
What do we have here?
Mr. Laxative, is that what that says?
Have you heard that Alberta is attempting to separate from Canada and Trump is offered to allow them to be covered by the Golden Dome for free if they become the 51st state?
Yeah, Alberta is a separatist movement, I believe.
I don't know how prominent it is.
Quebec did years ago.
They almost got out.
I mean, it was a fraction of a percentage point that they managed to get enough of a vote to stay within the Canadian Union, if they call it that.
But they were almost out.
That's another Trojan horse for American annexation of Canada.
If Quebec splits apart, then maybe some other provinces might get some ideas.
That's our opportunity to strike.
There you go.
Metaphorically.
Our opportunity to strike.
Let's see what we have here.
Guys, Canadian bacon.
You don't get the reference.
I can't.
John Nacos says,
Hi, Tim.
Long-time listener.
First- time contributor.
I need help.
My civil rights were violated at 500 Gold Street,
the courthouse in, say, ALB, New Mexico, Albuquerque.
The guard grabbed me and when I defended myself,
I went to jail.
Whoa.
I don't know what to do, man.
You need a lawyer.
Yeah, and I mean, without knowing more,
it's tough to say that, you know, what exactly do you mean by defended yourself?
The security guard, you know, violated your rights.
I mean, it's not saying you're lying, but, you know, it's tough to make a call off of a super chat.
Roflo 1804 says,
Confirmed, Jordan Peterson wouldn't save the Jews in Nazi Germany.
He's a Nazi.
Michaela was raised by a Nazi.
To be fair, though, Jordan Peterson's response was essentially that.
He could have just said to him,
No, I wouldn't lie.
And they would have been like,
If you have Jews hiding in your attic, you wouldn't lie to save them?
No, I wouldn't.
Well, I think he said,
I wouldn't allow myself to get into that position, because you got into that position then you've already sinned so many
times and he was doing mental gymnastics but yeah i i i think he could have phrased it like
well i understand the hypothetical you're giving me but i would never allow jews to hide in my attic
tim would you allow jews to hide in your attic yes nice just Nice. Just not you. Would you lie? Well, there's only one that... Yes. Yeah. Oh, would you lie? I'm not a Christian.
But I mean, I am, and I would. Yeah. Absolutely, I would.
Yeah, and I don't understand why Jordan Peterson wouldn't just answer the question. It's not like
the fact that we make sacrifices or sin means that Christianity is wrong. He didn't want to
let them have any any logical standing point
he was being precise in a speech sure are you a christian maybe well are you or not i don't have
bloody well have to tell you it's like well i'm trying to have a conversation with you bro
if you're not just say so and we'll have a different discussion that's what's annoying
i wanted to say i appreciate you guys at a rising time—during a rising time of anti-Semitism.
It's heartwarming to know that you guys would hide me in your attic if need be.
Yeah.
If need be.
You know, there's a—
Well, you need to get him off your trail, Phil.
Thank you.
There's a funny story I read.
I don't know where the story comes from.
Maybe it's like a famous thing or something.
But someone was like—a teacher said to his students, how many of you would have been an abolitionist in the Civil War?
And they all raised their hands. And he was like, so, okay, you all raised your hands. Name
something today that you've done that would get you fired from your job that is considered widely
offensive and goes against the social order. And none of them had anything to say and he was like this is the thing everybody today says
i'd be against slavery but back then most people did not care at all and slavery was a normal thing
everywhere and it was just i think the issue is that people when they think of slavery they think
of like kunta kinde or whatever they think of people being whipped in a field and they don't
understand that a lot of slavery was like a guy a co cobbler. There's like a black man who works at
a shoe store and he has no rights. He can't vote. He can't leave. He can't do anything. If he tries
to go and live his own life, they'll chase him down. Slavery wasn't all just working on farms.
There were lots of urban, you know, there were, there were slaves that worked in houses.
Slavery was just individuals had no freedom, no rights, and it was from bad to worse.
But because everybody assumes it was all the epitome of the most vile evil, they'd say,
of course I'm against it. And then what would happen is they'd walk into a shoe store and see
a guy making shoes and they wouldn't think twice. They wouldn't be like, I'll help you escape.
They'd be like, thanks for the shoes, mister. Slavery was such a part of the human condition for thousands of years. It still
is. It still is, of course. There's more now today than even back in the founding of this country.
But when our black slaves became free in this country, they became some of the highest percentage of slave owners
themselves follow up because once they once they were freed and they acquired land and then they
acquired property part of that property were other human beings i know because you can actually go
you can look this up and you can see state by state because i was horrified that the state that
i was born and bred in louisiana actually had the highest percentage of black slave-owning blacks,
or the highest percentage of black who owned slaves post their emancipations.
And I believe that was also the case with Liberia, I believe it was,
where former slaves went, we sent them back to Africa,
and they ended up enslaving and copying the plantations that they were familiar with over here.
And they have a similar constitution, I believe, to the United States.
But they've—
We just didn't do it as good as we did.
Well, you can't take a bunch of slaves, people who couldn't read or write or understand the constitution that they were given,
dump them in a faraway land and say, best of luck, and then expect a country to emerge. Silly. Let's read this. We got Lurch.
Six, eight, five says it's about extricating Israeli influence on our politics. You can't
be this dumb. No, we found an Israel first guy. Hey, I did the math for you. Top 10 countries
in terms of, uh, foreign, uh, in terms of spending, overt spending, known spending to influence our political system.
From 2016 through 2024, let's play a game.
What country is the number one spender in the United States?
Do you guys want to guess first?
Which country is the number one?
What is the top spender?
And this is overt legal money,
for influencing U.S. political systems, the number one country,
the country that spends the most money?
China.
I'd go China in a heartbeat.
I'd say China.
Ding, ding, ding.
You are all correct.
China spent $456.9 million through 2016 to 2024.
Let's try again.
Number two, the second country that spent the second most money
over this time period.
So I'm going to go non-traditional guess.
I want to say it's maybe an East Asian company,
maybe Japan.
You're looking at the monitor.
No, I swear.
No, no, no, no.
Is it up?
No, no, no.
I'm familiar with these numbers because I've heard the argument a lot of times.
Japan spent $410 million over this time period.
Let's go to number three.
The country that spent the third most amount of money influencing U.S. politics.
Now, again, overtly through lobbying campaigns, ad spending, PACs, et cetera.
UAE.
Now I think this one's Qatar.
I say United Arab Emirates.
Saudis?
Liberia.
Liberia.
At $353.1 million.
Number four.
Qatar?
Now Qatar?
South Korea.
South Korea.
$322 million.
Number five.
Saudi Arabia, $309 million.
Marshall Islands, $285 million. Israel's got to pump up those numbers, frankly 309. Marshall Islands, 285.
Israel's got to pump up those numbers, Frank.
Qatar, number seven at 256.3 million.
Emirates at 242.
The Bahamas at 241.
Bermuda at 192.7.
And where does Israel rank?
Honestly, I don't know.
It's so far down the list.
They spent over this time period through their subsidiaries, direct government spending,
APAC, et cetera, $37 million.
Wait, that includes APAC?
Yes.
Okay, interesting, because traditionally I understand APAC to not be, they don't have
to register as far as it's American citizens supporting them.
APAC included.
Interesting.
Yep.
When you add all the numbers up, you get a total of 30.
So, oh, no, I'm sorry.
It's about 40 some odd million.
So let's see.
Let me do the math quick.
So you've got you've got AIPAC at 40 and then you've got Israel at 5.7.
So let's just let's just roll it up and say 50, 50 million.
But those are Americans supporting Israelis as opposed to the Israelis trying to donate money, right?
It's, sure, call it whatever you want.
The point is, I just, this is from Open Secrets, Foreign Lobby Watch.
If you think Open Secrets is secretly run by the Jews and they're lying to obfuscate how much money the Jews are spending, fine.
You can believe whatever you want.
But according to Open Watch, Foreign Lobby Sp Israel's not even the top 10. That's why I say when I like you have to live in this world where there's a bunch of like they think Jews are running around controlling everything.
Because when you actually look at the data and go over all of it, you're like, yeah, they don't.
It's not a salacious.
They're not spending the money.
Well, they're spending it somehow.
They're not telling you.
It's like, dude, OK, well, live in whatever world you want.
Some people think the earth is flat.
If I don't have data to back something up, I don't i'm not going to just assert it open uh open watch foreign
lobby spending i'm sorry open secrets maybe they're wrong it's possible okay for now when i
do research regardless of what the lunatics believe and regardless of what people tell me
whether they're experts or otherwise what i find is israel's not even the top 10 cutter's number
seven cutter spends what eight times as much as Israel does,
according to Open Secrets.
It would be interesting to get those numbers per capita as well
because China's number one,
but China's a country of over a billion people.
Qatar's a country of 300,000 people.
Worth mentioning.
Korea also, I don't know, 30-plus million.
But these are bigger countries, especially compared to Qatar.
Michael Lorenz says Peter Griffin had odd jobs.
Homer Simpson was a nuclear plant operator.
Oh, boy, you are so wrong.
List all jobs Homer Simpson had.
Did he get fired from the nuclear plant?
I thought that was a big part of the show.
I mean, probably 15 times.
Okay, let's see.
He's had, let's see. Safety inspector at the nuclear power plant. Astronaut. Multiple. Okay, let's see. He's had, let's see.
Safety inspector at the nuclear power plant.
Astronaut.
Mayor.
Boxer.
Food critic.
Grease salesman.
Bodyguard for Mayor Quimby.
Country western manager for Lorraine Lumpkin.
Garbage commissioner.
Mountain climber.
Farmer.
Inventor.
Krusty the clown impersonator.
Voice of Pooch at H.H.
Sgrady.
Celebrity assistant to Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.
Passenger.
Fortune cookie writer.
Beer baron.
Cookie mart clerk.
Missionary.
Monorail conductor. Snowplow operator. Hairresser, bounty hunter, opera singer, mall Santa, union
leader, telemarketer, chauffeur, home, like, dude, the list is insane. I can't read all this.
Yo, this is crazy. There's so many episodes. He was the mayor, a judge, he was an executioner,
a croupier, a voice actor, a singer, a musician, a record producer, a talent scout. He's been a TV
show host, a guest, a consistent, a judge, a producer, a director, a writer, a musician, a record producer, a talent scout. He's been a TV show host, a guest, a consistent, a judge, a producer,
a director, a writer, an editor, a cameraman, a sound engineer.
Come on. Literally
The Simpsons is a show about a guy who has jobs.
He's been a masked vigilante.
He's been the white knight, the black knight,
a cyborg, an android, a clown, a time traveler.
Okay, you get it.
But his most important job, being
a father. Wow, this is crazy.
I had no idea that he had so many jobs.
Yeah.
They put him in so many...
He's been a ufologist, he's been a cosmologist,
an exobiologist, an astrophysicist, a rocket scientist.
Some of these are redundant.
Time travel's not a job.
If this was talking about Family Guy
and these were all the cut scenes
that were just like 30 seconds to a minute of the show,
I mean, that would make more sense, but I had no idea that Homer Simpson had that many
jobs.
I didn't.
But that's basically the joke.
There's an episode from the early seasons where Homer goes, Marge, you know, I've had
a lot of jobs in my life.
Snowplow operator, Crusty the Clown impersonator, astronaut.
And he just starts listing all the jobs he's had.
Peter Griffin's had a lot of jobs, too, and that's nowhere near as many as Homer Simpson's.
I can actually go through all the jobs Peter Griffin's had. Safety Inspector, Fisherman,
Shipping Clerk, Towel Boy, Serial Mascot, Bartender, Calvin Klein, Model, Grim Reaper,
Replacement. That's not a job. Pianist, Producer, ed teacher temporary principal waiter ghostbuster sheriff hitman president recycling mascot similar wrestler
night volunteer singer cpr instructor cashier fast food worker ceo dictator and united nations
interpreter opera singer bomb diffuser and uh and those those are the are the cutaway gags
so in actual episodes it's like 25 yeah you ain't hanging with Homer Simpson, dude. He's got all the jobs.
All right, what do we got here? Blake Snyder says, people that complain wanting others' money have no drive. I got t-boned, lost my job, and became homeless. Went out and got a job within
20 days that pays far better and is a far better job. You know what I really don't like about
communists? Right now, here's how our tax system works. If you work 40
hours and they say it's an eight hour day and it's a five day work week. Okay. If I choose to
work more than that, I get taxed more. They punish me for working harder. That's our current tax
system. A lot of people came at me and they were like, yes, but what about no tax on overtime?
Does not apply to salaries.
So if you say to somebody, we'll pay you $100,000 a year salary job to do this work.
And then you go, I want to work 16-hour days every day with no day off.
They say, okay.
You get no more money for that.
And then, so let's say two people apply for a job.
And they're like, we can pay you a salaried position.
Let's say you're a business owner, right?
And you're like, if I work weekends, I will make an additional $10,000 a month.
But because that puts me in a higher tax bracket, I lose money by doing it.
It is a diminishing return on working hard.
So how about this?
Here's my proposal.
Taxes only on the first 40 hours worked. And if you're salaried, you list your hours every week. And then we divide how much
you get paid in salary by those hours. And you're only taxed on the first 40 hours.
That way you can choose to work more. And when you do, you don't lose money by doing so.
Taxes not so Trump passed, they passed the passed the big beautiful bill no tax on overtime i'm saying straight up no taxes on
anything past 40 hours i'd accomplish that in three days a lot on taxes right anything that
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