Timcast IRL - Kyle Seraphin Uncensored: Serial Killer Feared In Austin After Another Body Is Found

Episode Date: August 11, 2024

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Now, enjoy the show. In Austin. Maybe. Have you guys, probably, have you guys heard of this story yeah there's uh do they have the map here all of these uh bodies are washing up i guess and so the assumption is that someone is pushing these people to their deaths and has gotten away with it austin pd denies knowledge yeah they have been saying this is not a thing but people have been tracking this for several years there's so much on reddit if you guys want to get deep in the weird. The social media, like, interest in this

and picking up on the patterns. There's also, I think, another, and I don't know if they acknowledge it, but there's at least an online belief that there's an active serial killer in Chicago that is specifically targeting men. But again, it's one of these things that the police officers were like,

we don't know, we can't sense a pattern. But yeah, the Rainy Street killers is wild. Here's the problem with patterning serial killers, at least from what I can see. Everything that we know about all those patterns, all of the behavioral analysis unit, FBI units at Aquantico and so on, they're all based on boomer, right? And Gen X sort patterns. And those patterns have been interrupted by millennials and younger people. So if you come out of a place

where race is not the same thing to you and gender doesn't mean nearly as much, and you actually have a different view of the world, which people who are younger fundamentally do, you're not gonna be able to apply old patterns and see what they see as a pattern and otherwise. So they're using this antiquated technology or like mindset, I would say worldview.

And I think that's the biggest problem with it is that people get stuck in these patterns. It's like the FBI was always trying to solve the last terrorism. You know, we weren't trying to solve the next one because they saw one thing and that was effective. And so they're like, oh, how do we stop that? Well, they've already moved on. And this is the case with criminals as well. Scams. It doesn't matter whether it's a bank robbery or anything else, like people who are criminals evolve the way the population does and law enforcement is always behind it. I would also assume that people who are putting together profiles on terrorists or murderers or whatever the criminal issue is are specialized. I've never even met a criminal.

No, but this is what I mean. I think that everyone has their own blind spot in their own psyche. And so I would assume some profiles are really good at identifying certain behavioral characteristics for certain types of people, but it doesn't mean that they can put together adequate profiles for every single person. Do you see what I'm saying? There's a myth of competence, and this is something that I will continue to stress. And the more people understand, anybody who's ever worked in government at local or state or federal level knows exactly what I'm talking about. There's a myth of competence. And so if you are truly a cynical person and you look at things and you're like, the government's incompetent

and they can't handle my money and they can't do these things. You also can't simultaneously believe that they're super competent and they're going to keep secrets and do all these like elite activities. There are small groups that can, they're incredibly small. There are things called like sub Rosa programs that are basically like deniable. And even the directors of the agencies that are running them don't get to know what they are. Yes, there are hyper-competent people in those places. But by and large, here's a great example. I worked on a Chinese CI squad and we were supposed to investigate spies who didn't live in the United States that never came to the United States that we could never arrest. And we were trying to find out the people they were talking to. Okay. And

there were not crimes by the way, the things that they were doing were not criminal. We were just investigating for the sake of investigating them. And all the stuff that I got was FISA. And all the FISA was in Chinese, which is not helpful to me because I don't know anything about Chinese and I don't really care either. So here I am and I'm sitting at this desk and I'm like a former paramedic and an outdoor guy and I'm sitting at a desk 10 hours a day reading Chinese that I don't read. Try to drop it into like essentially Google Translate. So they gave us a linguist. And you're like, thank God. And we find out that our Chinese linguist, who is actually an analyst, she spoke Chinese at a fluent level, but she couldn't read it. And everything we got was in written format. That's the government in a nutshell for

you. The other little funny story is, is that we had a guy that was like running around and he was wearing a lab coat. And I didn't know why. And I have questions because like, I'm a curious dude. And I'm like, hey, why does that guy have a lab coat? What is he doing? He worked in the supply room. And he was wearing it. I'm asking people and nobody knows why he'm a curious dude. And I'm like, hey, why does that guy have a lab coat? What is he doing? He worked in the supply room. And he was wearing it. I'm asking people. And nobody knows why he wears a lab coat. That seems like an interesting question.

Like, why is this dude? He's the only guy in the building. Nobody just asked that guy directly? He's the only guy. Well, he's not accessible. You ask him a question, he gets mad at you. And then he won't give you batteries or whatever you need. So I'm asking this question. I eventually find out that his job code was not suited for a uniform.

But him and the people that worked with him, there were like three people that had lab coats, they all wanted uniform allowances. But their job code did not suited for a uniform, but him and the people that worked with him, there were like three people that had lab coats, they all wanted uniform allowances, but their job code did not allow for it. But what they found out was, is that the lab coat was considered office equipment. So they were able to order them up in the 90s, and then they changed that. And so he wore the same lab coat every day from the 90s that they ordered as kind of an FU to people, letting them know, we need these lab coats and we're going to wear them

every day. By the way, it was always shiny white. It never had any dirt on it, which was the whole reason they wanted the uniform allowance, which is why they didn't have one. The government is not competent. And so the idea that they're hiding some of this stuff or that people are hyper-competent in certain areas, especially analysts, like analysts are indoor dogs. They have probabilities that they're going to play on, but they don't go out and actually meet the things. Like they've never met a terrorist. They've never gone out and take a picture of a terrorist out in the desert the way that me and my team used to.

They didn't go bump into him on Cabela's and ask him about ammunition and see if he's a dummy. I guess what I'm saying is like someone who's a profiler and I'm not saying they're all competent. I totally agree with you. I think there is a myth of competency in a lot of not just the government, but lots of corporations.

You see this all the time. There are people who be like, I don't do anything all day. But with profiling, especially for sort of serial killers, I think of it some more similar to like psychiatrists there are probably lots of terrible psychiatrists out there too but i think there are some who are legit they're really really bad at being a psychiatrist or a psychologist they could probably get a government job probably just saying uh but those are those your profile like the profiler is not really a job

it's a role and so if you sit into that job, are they really good? My buddy used to say that they would send him out to the reservation that he was at because they needed to have enough touches from the BAU, the Behavioral Analysis Unit, to go out there and justify their job.

And they'd come out and they'd be like, this is what you're looking for. And he was like, I already arrested the guy and it's not that. Yeah, and I think a lot of like the people who are most curious about like psychology

stay in research, right? They're not necessarily gonna be like, I'm gonna work for the government. They're gonna be like, well, how can I be researching what I have questions the government is the like the the refuge of the most mediocre oftentimes there are some hyper-competent people that are basically naively patriotic and i consider myself sort of in that

little space of i actually thought i was going to be able to go do good things and it turns out the best thing i could do was be like this place is awful you guys are breaking the law left and right and i'm going to go and expose it if i don't have a job anymore so be it so there are people that do that i'm friends with people like that but a lot of people are just they're they're they're the You guys are breaking the law left and right, and I'm going to go and expose it. If I don't have a job anymore, so be it. So there are people that do that. I'm friends with people like that. But a lot of people are just, they're the okayest person for the job. So for like the serial killer. Let's talk about this.

There's a guy who survived it, right? This is the best story. The police still say that there's no serial killer, but this guy who was found had dropped 25 feet off the bridge. He had benzos in his system. Someone drugged him and then threw him off the bridge. He had benzos in his system. Someone drugged him and then threw him off a bridge. And again, this is something online picked up years ago. People were saying this was an issue

for a long, long time. Right. And they're typically drugged and they have some kind of other issue. I mean, occasionally drugs are processed out of the system, but it's a pattern. How long until this gets spun into a podcast that young liberal women are obsessed with. On this specific incident.

Isn't there already one? The Austin local news has been trying to debunk this. The Rainy Street Ripper specifically. So here's the thing. Who is the Rainy Street Ripper? Does it have to be one person? Again, the pattern analysis. Why does it have to be one person?

Why could it not be a couple of people who hang out and do the same thing? Or they see something in their copycatting. So that's one possibility. But it should be fairly easy to tie down. because most of these people from out of town. And if they're from out of town, how do you know when someone's from out of town, you're driving a petty cab in Austin. So like a bicycle cab, you're driving an actual cab or an Uber. You're working at a bar where someone has to show their ID. You're working as a doorman at a bar where they show the ID, or you're working at a hotel where you know, the people that they

are probably not staying are from local places. So those are easy things to hone in on. Who's from out of town? There's a lot of avenues to go play with this. The cops not being interested in it, it goes to that conversation that Tim and I were having earlier, that if you want to go and have a premeditated murder and you're not dumb,

like you can probably get away with it in this country. And like a lot of murders go unsolved. A shockingly high number. And sort of what you were talking about with the FBI, like the FBI wants to have a certain number of cases. Local police officers, especially cities, don't want to be the home of a serial killer, right? That's correct. So they don't want to acknowledge it until

they absolutely have to. That's right. No, definitely. So they're actually, it's funny, there's the reverse incentivization. Your local law enforcement is actually incentivized to have lower crime statistics. That means they're doing a good job. Your federal law enforcement is incentivized to show that there are more that means they're doing a good job. Your federal law enforcement is incentivized to show that there are more in fact crimes

and need more money. It's the dumbest thing in the world. It's the reason why you could literally get rid of most of federal law enforcement and be much happier. I would love to give Title 18 and Title 21 authorities to state cops and local cops at a small level, like people who have 10 years of experience and prove themselves

and let them bring it to federal prosecutors, but get rid of the federal agent positions because they're abusing it right now. We're seeing it in real time. If you're a conservative, you're seeing it for the first time. A lot of liberals have been saying this for a very long time. Suddenly they think that the federal government is great. I don't know why, because it's on their team. It always ends up biting everybody. American freedoms are the problem. So if we actually had common principles, it'd be nice if we had some honest conversation about that. Instead, we're seeing this tribal answer where it's like, no, they're like fighting my enemies. It's like, well, we'll turn on you eventually.

Have you ever listened to the podcast Small Town Dicks? I have not. That doesn't sound like my kind of thing. It's a, I guess the girl, the woman who does the voice of Lisa from Simpsons hosts it and she does it with these two cops who, you know, I think one does have some federal experience, but, you know, they were police officers and, you know, detectives and whatever.

Which, for the record, for everybody listening, that's where crimes get solved. It's interesting. And I've heard, I don't listen to it all the time, but I was listening to one season of it and I remember there was a case where they talk about doing a sting operation and they were like, yeah, but when the feds come in, like, it's done. Like, they take over and it's default to them. And I always wonder if that is actually the best thing. I mean, sometimes it just seems like it's the weight of the federal government because for some reason people believe the federal

government has a lot more money. So that's the biggest thing they'll pay for overtime for task force officers. So that's another big thing. That's the incentive. That's the thing that local law enforcement has being held over them by federals is that they will be able to pay unlimited overtime. So getting a job on a task force is a really cush gig. And oftentimes, they don't give it to the most competent person, you'll be shocked to learn, they'll give it to someone who's senior that kind of earn the extra money spot where they can go bill 60 hours instead and not have to do much work. That's not good. But they're not the most competent because most people who come into like, I learned more watching detective TV shows and just being a generally

inquisitive guy and being a paramedic, actually, because there's a lot of investigative work in the field doing field diagnosis. I did more of that as a paramedic and training to be a paramedic than I ever did at the FBI Academy. And I actually told them that. I probably got myself right on the list right away. I stood up at the end of it. They're like, anybody have any feedback? And I'm like, yeah, I didn't know anything about investigating crimes before I came here, and I don't know anything now. I hope I learn on the job.

Like, I didn't even learn any federal crimes uh guys i have a story update for you guys by the way so earlier we were talking about joe rogan with the unofficial endorsement of rfk jr cat turd has officially came out condemning um joe rogan so you think joe rogan should be intimidated now you called it he says so i've never been a fan a joe rogan fan can't stand him yes he has a popular podcast, but I've always thought he was absolutely politically dumb. He's great at figuring out things two years after we do. What a legend.

So did it surprise you when he endorsed the idiot RFK Jr. today? No. So some of these guys are too predictable, and when you become a little bit too cult-like, it's off-putting politically, obviously. I think they buy their own hype.

When you buy your own hype, you're... Well, you also... You basically become a cartoon of yourself. If you become the ultimate MAGA guy, you can gatekeep others out, and it prevents you from getting gatekept out, I think is part of the angle here. I'm the ultimate MAGA warrior. Some of it, I mean, you tell me this, but it might just be you want to be the person who has the most engagement. So if you're the original controversial post,

then people are commenting on it or sharing it or reacting to it. I mean, right now, kind of the more inflammatory you can be on X, maybe the better that you can, you could make money off of this. It's the unofficial ambassadors of MAGA. It's like Kat Turd, Joey. But I don't know if it's just MAGA.

I feel like you see this behavior with lots of, like someone who has to have the first reaction to be like, I'm against this thing or like we're all boycotts. Like I think there's probably a left wing. But I'm talking about this particular sensitive strain that we're seeing in MAGA where if anybody isn't for Trump explicitly, you get attacked by Kat Turd and Joey. And probably I think I saw a Jack Basile big tweet.

And do you think that's effective? Like, what's the gain from that? Just that you stay at the top of the. No, but it shows that you're the MAGA guy, that you're riding with MAGA the hardest. So politically, it doesn't matter if you're in this smaller of if you're the popular among the most diehards, you know, who cares about moderates? So that's who this is off putting to. It turns out that moderates are the ones that are persuadable. That's the other funny thing that is so it's really off putting.

It's like you need you need voices like mine that are willing to call balls and strikes that are willing to basically piss off people on both sides of the aisle. Because if you want credibility in that space and you want to be able to speak to people where they're at, where they're like, I kind of don't care. I kind of hate everybody. Okay. Well, give me a reason to lean one way or another. You're not going to hear it from cat turd. Cat turd.

I think cat turd is anti-Trump. You think this is all PSYHOP? Like, if you really want to hurt Donald Trump, attack Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan plays super well with normies. His audience are middle of the-the-road people. This is what he's doing. Cats heard attacking Kyle Rittenhouse and playing this game where he's going like, Joe Rogan, I can't stand him.

He's not even good. All you're doing is saying, I am not normal. Don't be like me. But it is. The appropriate response is, well, you know, we love Joe. He's a great guy. He's got a great show. Everybody's entitled to their opinion.

Everybody has their own opinions. I'd love to talk to him about it. Maybe we could get some interesting thoughts and ideas on both candidates. Instead, being like, I can't stand the guy. He's not good. All you're doing is isolating people. It's stupid. Right.

And there's a lot more diehard Rogan fans than there are cat turd fans. Well, the thing is, Joe Rogan's too smart. I've met Joe Rogan fans. I've never met a cat turd fan. Not, the thing is, Joe Rogan's too smart. I've met Joe Rogan fans. I've never met a cat turd fan. Not one. I don't know who they are. Joe Rogan's too smart. I know Joe.

I know how smart he is. He's very smart. He says I'm a dumb guy all the time because he's modest, but he's very smart. Yeah. He's voting for Trump. For engagement purposes, online in the political spaces,

you do want to be partisan, though. To be nuanced, online doesn't get you anywhere. The smart play for Joe Rogan is not to be hyper-partisan. He didn't say, I'm endorsing RFK. He said, it's the only one that makes sense. It's unofficial. And it's the best path

for red-pilling. But I gotta tell you, there's a lot of Trump supporters who are too fucking stupid. And so they don't understand that Joe Rogan is an open door for normies to walk over to realize they're lying about Donald Trump. That's right.

Not a guarantee to vote for him. But at the very least, you might encounter someone who says, yes, I did notice they were lying about him. I was watching Rogan. Rogan talked about it. And it's Rogan doing these things. Don't rag on Joe. He's doing it in a fair way. I know he's were lying about him. I was watching Rogan. Rogan talked about it. And it's Rogan doing these things. Don't rag on Joe.

He's doing it in a fair way. I know. He's doing you a favor. Yeah. I agree with all that. Because it's not even about this. It's about, this is what I was saying on the show. A rational person right now having a discussion and going over the facts is going to say, yeah, Donald Trump.

You don't have to like the guy. He may be, may crash and crude, all those things. Policy-wise, economics, peace, prosperity, world survivability. Trump makes sense. How do you have those conversations? Well, Joe is having honest conversations on his show and he's abstaining from the debate himself. So why be mad about it? Say it's great that there exists a platform like Joe Rogan's podcast where you can have real, honest conversations. Total non-issue. Yeah, there's no reason to get involved in it.

By the way, I'm sure Trump is clamoring to get on Rogan's show. I'm not so sure if Kamala Harris is, but as Trump's been doing his media tour, his social media tour, I'm sure he'd be super happy to get on Joe Rogan. But I think Joe Rogan in the past said he wouldn't have more political figures on. Well, he said he wouldn't have Trump on. Yeah, so Kamala Harris was trying to get on with Kai Sinat, allegedly. Wasn't this a story? Yeah, they just recently said that. No, no, no, not the Kai Sinat thing.

Joe Rogan addressed that Trump was trying to come on a show, didn't he? Yeah. But even now, I'm sure there's still more attempts as we get closer to the election. And Trump has made more efforts to go on more social media shows. There's only one reason I think why Joee won't have trump on and it's the same thing and you don't want to show that that hand this is we we invited shoe on head to come on with alex jones and then she canceled the last canceled at the last minute because for people who are uh

knowledgeable about the political landscape i i think the real reason shoe didn't want to come on the show with alex we had mal i think we had mouse instead oh no no i think the real reason shu didn't want to come on the show with alex we had mal i think we had malice instead oh no no i think we might have gotten phil instead uh the reason yeah i think it's phil labonte the reason she want to come on is because shu who says she's an anti-woke but fairly liberal person would be sitting there agreeing with everything alex jones said you don't want to do that if if donald trump went on joe rogan's show trump and joe would agree on everything yeah well did you see the do you see see the great clip of, was it Malice the other day that was on with Rogan? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Kamala's retarded.

Talking about the three different faces of Kamala, the three different drunken versions of her. And, you know, that's maybe not an endorsement one way or another, but it's definitely saying what he thinks about one side, the only side that's, like, competitive. That's a pretty strong way in. But I agree. Keep out of it. Why? Yeah. Sometimes I think people are still looking for fights, whether it's engagement or just

to keep their profile high. I want to be a lead farmer. Just looking for attention. I don't want to be an engagement farmer. Because, again, to have a nuanced view will not get you a ton of clicks on Twitter, but to create drama with Joe Rogan. Kat Turret gets cited in the news all the time, frankly.

So why? Uh, because he's known as like the id of the MAGA movement. And, um, they, they quote him. He gets,

he gets a lot of likes. Um, and yeah, it seems so. Um, he met with Tucker Carlson before, like he meets with, um,

MAGA, other MAGA influencers. Yeah. I don't know a ton about him. I think he's been cited in Fox News many times as well. I think he's a childless cat man, isn't he? Oh, he's a cat turd. He's a cat turd.

Yeah. Full circle. We got there. Do you think... So, I reference this a lot, but Axios put out this article saying this election is going to be won on the virtual battlefield uh and i think that term is really interesting because i do think more than 2016 although i know memes were deeply influential then more than 2020 this really does feel like the most amount of political warfare is being waged online uh do you think that is

empowering to you know twitter users who think this is the time to kind of make it big and get it and start trending or doing whatever? I mean, how much of of the influence of online is warping what people are doing? Yeah, there's definitely a blitz before the campaigns because that's when people pay the most attention. It has been interesting to see both campaigns attempt. So this happens every campaign season. But, you know, Trump going on with like Aiden Ross, Trump going on with famous podcaster Tim Pool and like people who you wouldn't otherwise expect them to. Kamala Harris allegedly wanting to go on with Kai Sinat. And so like we're seeing these otherwise untraditional place where we wouldn't see these presidential candidates starting to go.

And especially on like TikTok now with the Kamala Harris stuff. And I think we're going to be seeing a lot more of that stuff. And it speaks to the influence of social media in our society moving forward and becoming more ubiquitous. There's something really pervasive about social media if you're on it.

And it is a completely foreign landscape and it means zero things to the people that are not. And there's a ton of people that have zero stock. And you can walk out there and think the world is burning because you got on Twitter and saw all the crazy things that are going on. It's just like everywhere it's melting down and you're like, it must be civil war. And you walk outside and your neighbors have no idea. So the normies you're talking about are not paying

attention. And I was like, I was never on social media. I used to follow a couple of people that I would like bookmark their page, but I have to go through a URL. I never had the apps. And that was me until, until basically I was no longer an FBI agent. I never had a social media and I didn't give a shit about what it said. It didn't matter to me. None of it was relevant because it wasn't real. And I always log off on the weekends now, which is not good for engagement. And it's not good for money at about noon on Friday. I'm taking my kids to splash pads. We're going to go out and mow the lawn. I'm going to go out and do stuff. And I generally try to get away and I don't plug back into the news cycle until they go to bed on Sunday. And I'm way more sane. And I understand that when you walk out and talk to real people,

I don't assume that they know all the crazy things that I know because I'm in a 24 hour news cycle during the week. And so most people are probably in that category, a far bigger number than they are on Sunday. I think that's a problem. They should know what's going on. They should, but they don't. Right. And so going out there and assuming everybody knows everything is a huge mistake. And I think it's a mistake for, I've met a lot of people who are like, I used to watch your show, but man, I just, the news, man, it's depressing. I can't take it. And I'm like, have you been upset over the price of your food lately?

And they're like, well, yeah, it's expensive. I'm like, I bet you're wondering why you can't afford shit anymore, right? Well, dude, like, look, man, you don't got to watch anything you don't want to watch. If you can't handle it, don't get out of the kitchen. Some people are leaders. Some people are followers. And there's nothing wrong with saying, I just want to relax and live my life. I want to go play games at the casino.

I don't want to think about hard things. And you know what? There are men and women who are willing to die for you so that you don't have to think about hard things. You just choose who you want to be. But that's the value of the Joe Rogan. It's the soft sell. Because you come at it hard, I come at it

hard, we're talking about this hard, we're talking about it from a position of reading all these things, having a base of knowledge that is implied that people are going to have, and probably a lot of your audience does. There's people that know nothing. So they want to listen to two people talk and just go, oh, wow, my mind is blown. How about that? You know what really pisses me off? Because I said it before and I'll say it again.

There will come a point where I am as hated on the right as on the left. With this Tim Waltz shit, there are a lot of people misquoting him. And I'm like, why are you misquoting him when he already has the quotes? And they're bad. So, look, I like Benny Johnson.

I consider him a friend. But he tweeted out a fake quote. He tweeted out a fake quote. And then I said, that's not what he said. And then D.C. Drano tweeted out a fake quote from Joe Biden. And it's a half fake quote. They're not as bad as, like, Harry Sisson or the Krasensteins. But I'm still going to call it out when it's misleading.

The quote from Walt that Benny put up was, he said that we did base security at the beginning of the war in Afghanistan. What he said was we provided security for bases in the European theater from Turkey to England at the beginning of the war in Afghanistan. He literally said he was in European theater. Correct. Don't get mad at him when he's telling you the truth. Point the thing out where he's like, i carried a weapon of war in war or when he uses assumptive language to make people think he was in afghanistan fair point to criticize and then dc draino played that clip of joe biden saying i don't think there'll be a peaceful transfer of

power if trump wins i mean if trump loses but then he just cuts out the part where he says i mean if trump loses as if like why are you doing that no because the fact is the guy's still bumbling he's still the president's in the office and all this stuff should be tied to harris you cut it short for partisan reasons exactly it's bullshit yes correct yeah off with that that is the cheap fake that they were talking about that was the whole point is that they're deceptively edited and it's used by them to discredit legitimate things this is what pisses me off tim waltz knew he was going to be deployed well in advance and then he left anyway that's the criticism and the left is saying so what he retired he wanted to retire the right off. Tim Waltz knew he was going to be deployed well in advance, and then he left anyway. That's the criticism. And the left is saying, so what? He retired. He wanted to retire. The right is saying

because other people, when they knew the deployment was coming, decided to stay to do their duty. And that's what he's being criticized over. He said, I carried a weapon of war in war. That's a fucking lie. CNN called him out for using assumptive language. Now, what happens is when Benny Johnson posts that fake quote, the Krasenstein's are going to take it and say, Trump supporters are lying to you. And they're going to go, holy shit. The video proves Benny Johnson posted a fake fucking quote. And then they're going to say everything they're saying is false. So this is the issue that I had with what was going on.

And I got in some hot water. Julie Kelly got really pissy about some things that I had to say. And the fact of the matter is, between Julie Kelly and Kyle Serafin, I know a lot more about FBI search warrants. I've served more of them like by like probably 500%, 500,000%. I've done a bunch. She's done none. And it has it in every single search warrant. The issue was, did deadly force get authorized specifically at Mar-a-Lago? So this was a big thing that was going around right before Trump got shot at. And people were like, how dare you? Like they, the key is, is that there actually are lines of attack that are really, really fruitful. And you miss it when you say things that are false. What the thing is, is that was crazy

is they authorized a search warrant at Donald Trump's house. The same way, every search warrant I did for like dudes who are making PCP in their basement in Washington, DC. Right. Okay. The same criteria was applied to the guy who used to be the commander-in-chief and maybe the next one as a dude who like is a felon since 1980 since before i was born the guy was not allowed to carry a firearm and he's got guns and drugs and he's making them in his crappy basement apartment that's a big deal that you gave them the same treatment that's the story you tell that's what weaponization looks like but instead they're like oh they should have like not done this thing it's like no no no no it's pre-printed on the mother effing form.

You don't have a choice. And then if you understand the system, you understand why it's bad because a ton of people said yes when they should have said no. And they did a search warrant at that guy's house. So these are shots in the foot and you will get people pissed off.

It's like, no, just be flipping accurate. The real facts actually stand on your side. And if you're gonna be hyper-partisan and you're gonna cut on your, you're like, you're going to give the left ammo to come in and say that you're not credible, especially when you're not being credible. It drives me batshit too. I'll get people pissed on the other side. It's like, I just care about truth. I don't know why you thought that I was going to be on your team. I get people mad at me. I'm like, I'm not on your team. I just care about what's accurate. And if you make me defend my ex

girlfriend that ruined my family's life and like made my kids homeless. I'm still going to do it if it's true. I'm not going to be thrilled about it, but I will say the things that are accurate. And if that's what it costs and it pisses you off, I lost like 3,000 followers in a day. They were like, boom, they gave me the same thing that Kyle Rittenhouse got. It's like, well, end of the day, I'm still right. Yeah. And I literally had Julie Kelly tweet back at me and she said, but I have a bigger audience. And I'm like, well, there's the actual play.

You're right. If might equals right, what a sad place to be. You don't want to be that. Alright, we're going to go to callers. We got Endel Wayfair. Is that right? Endel the MAGA? I can't read the rest of your name on that one. It's too long. Bad branding.

Are you with us? You are muted, sir. Oh, there we go. There we go. Welcome. Yeah, I like changing my name to just random silly shit uh it says uh the mega year advocate this is actually my real position the american flags that everyone put on their profile pictures hopefully if they were observing mega month in july keep that up there for the next you know we need that shit out there in the open. Gotta rep this country.

Anyway, I'm sorry, I'm getting way off track. My question is regarding an email I received recently from YouTube. It says that they're piloting a new feature to add community notes to their videos. Huh. Now, we all know that community notes on X are great because Elon has, you know, the commitment to the extent that he does to free speech. But YouTube is the opposite. So it begs the question. I'm so sorry, guys.

Begs the question means it presents circular logic. Oh, guys. Begs the question means it presents circular logic. Oh, yeah. You know that thing that they normally put under your video when Ian starts talking about jabs about COVID-19 on Wikipedia? They want to crowdsource that. Right. So have you heard about this YouTube feature? No, but good.

I'm glad. I'm glad. Neutral. I'm happy to see it. I'm assuming your concern is that on X, there is more freedom, whereas YouTubes might not be as fair, or they might be more selective about who's allowed to contribute to the community now? Yeah, I think it might be a psyop to try to convince people that they're actually legit like uh how do you do fellow youtubers when it's actually just still

the same people posting garbage i don't know i just figure it because it's youtube the fact is stuff they're doing right now because you're already asking those questions and that's really a big piece of it because you're asking that, you're a lot harder to dupe, and so you're going to have the opportunity to be able to evaluate it. Look, you should start all these things as being a skeptic. This is the thing I always try to preach to people. Whatever it is you want to believe, whatever it is you think is true, just try to prove it the opposite.

Go out there and try to prove the other position. So go out there and assume that they're going to lie to you, and then just see. It's like, hey, is this pretty balanced and fair? That seems true. You'll know right away. You can see the fingerprints because you've been primed to see it this way. And we are dealing with an information war.

It's funny you use the word information battlefield. Like, that's 5GW. That's what it is. It's an actual warfare technique. It's people going out there and using information in a weaponized way to move hearts and minds and get, you know, accomplish outcomes. So you will see it. But if you're primed to already look and be skeptical, you're already in the right spot

for it. So, you know, end of the day, probably is a net good. Either they'll tip their hand and show that they're frauds, or you'll actually get some real good moderation and have some people putting some notes out there that are decent. I'd be curious to see, you know, if you're a creator who uploads to YouTube and to X, like if you make a video, right?

Get the same note. Like what the contrast between the community notes would be like. Well, the way to do this is to find a couple of left-wing sources that you think say things that are fraudulent on a regular basis or embellish the facts or are doing the thing where they're falsely quoting. They're the ones that are running the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax still. Go follow them and watch what happens. Do they get noted? And if they do, you're going to see a little bit of fairness. And if you don't and they're not called out, then you have kind of your litmus test.

Do you have anything else you want to add or any other issues with the community that you want to bring up? No, not really. I'm just wary of big tech in general, their election fortification efforts. Yeah. Well, if they only give it to leftists, then it sucks. So we'll see. We'll see. Yeah.

Right on, man. Well, thanks for calling in. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. Thank you. Take care. Next up, we have MTG Geek. I was actually just taking a look at some cards over there.

MTG Geek. I'm about to make a Marjorie Taylor Greene. Yeah, I thought it was Marjorie. Yeah. God. Oh, you're a fan of Marjorie Taylor Greene. I thought it was my name. He god oh you're a fan of marjorie taylor green i thought he knows everything about her no no tim had it on right but i've been out of the circuit for a few years life has had me out but yeah um thank you for taking my call i have a

question for the panel with uh everything that has come to light with the various institutions that we should trust to do their job like like Secret Service, DOJ, et cetera, do you think the government has rotten through and needs to be reworked or expunged? I've also heard from my military that things have gone sideways and mishaps due to lack of competent leadership and quality personnel. We've got institutional capture in all of our government apparatus. So here's the thing that has to be the nuanced version of it, because if you understand the problem better, you can understand why the solution is difficult. There are still a pretty decent number of people, maybe even the majority of people that are apolitical or they are competent in the things that they're doing. The problem is that the people that are making the decisions

and the management at the highest levels that go basically from the GS-14, the GS-15, and then the SES, which is the Senior Executive Service, the actual what we would call deep state or administrative state, those people are only getting promoted through a really toxic culture. So we don't necessarily have toxic employees across the board, although I think most government employees are fairly mediocre. What we have is a management culture that promotes the worst people. And so my buddies have always said it this way, a GS-15, which is your top rank of the actual workforce of the federal government, a GS-15 pretty much across the board in every federal agency is someone that's never said no to a bad idea. If they can't tolerate efficiency and competency, and they cannot,

then you have this capture, and they are leaning more and more to the left, and they're more and more going towards credentialism, which is to say the more that you have academic degrees and the more time you spend in sort of an indoctrination camp for the left, the more likely you are to get promoted. So they are going to forego people with real experience. Military is one of them. Law enforcement is another one, or even private sector experience. They're going to lean towards degrees, and those people tend to be pretty well indoctrinated, and they're pretty hard to change their mind. So that's the issue. The issue is much more like management and the culture of management than it is the entire government.

But it turns out the entire government is screwed because of that shit. You want to pull that up? I fixed it. Turn it off and turn it on again. I like it. Oh, yeah. The government's fucked. It's true, though.

That's why we're at this crisis point. I was thinking it's why they get so panicked when, you know, Project 2025 says we should get rid of the Department of Education because they know they're broken, but they also like their salaries and paychecks. I mean, who wouldn't, you know? Mike Howell told me that Project 2025 says every kid has to have a slip and slide and childhood concussions are guaranteed. Wow. Look, it's the only way to grow up in America. Kamala's Project Special K will ban TikTok.

Yeah. She's also going to take away hamburgers. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I heard that. No hamburgers. Yeah, you can't have hamburgers. I love hamburgers. Blue jeans? Gone. Wearing blue jeans. No hats. I'd have no pants on right now. Yeah, no filters on social media either. Unacceptable.

VTubers? Canceled. Is there anything else you wanted to add? Because now we're just goofing off. Just any other ideas of what we could do to fix the system? Because I spent my time in the military and I have seen some of the things that you've mentioned, but I'm like, what can we do better? Because I am worried for my brothers who are still serving if something happens to them and I just don't want it. In the short term, they're screwed because that's just the nature of being in that animal. The long term is look at what Nick Freitas did. If you think about the decision, do you stay in the institution and try

to make a change? And his question that he asked his Sergeant Major, according to some of the videos I've seen, he's like, well, what change are you making? Because you see the same problems I do. And the guy's like, none. You get out and you have to find a way to do it. We should actually be focusing on things like house races and actually your local governments. It'd be really nice if we saw some state governments actually have some balls and try to stand up. They might lose some money and funding. We don't need to have all this federal government money that's keeping the states captive. So the first state that steps up and says, hey, the 10th Amendment says that you don't have the authority for that shit. We're going to do it ourself here. We don't need you.

They're going to take the biggest hit, but that's the first one through the door in that particular scenario. I keep advocating for like a 10th Amendment revolution where people actually read the damn Constitution and read the Bill of Rights and realize there is no federal charter for most of the stuff that they do. They don't have any ability. And the Commerce Clause is not good enough. Commerce is not good enough to justify every interstate interaction that happens. But that's essentially what's going on. So luckily, we're actually seeing the judiciary swing back in a pretty decent way. They've made some pretty like they've rolled back the clocks 40 years on some of the worst stuff that's out there, especially like Chevron deference. So that's why you see people on the left that are so upset about this. But the focus has got to be judiciary and probably actually the legislation where they're supposed to do the real work. The executive is far less, it should be further down the chain for people that are serious.

Thanks for calling in. And thanks for the question. I think it's a good one. And thanks for your service. Yep. Thank you for having me. Right on. All right. Next up, we've got Tiny Treehands. I like that. Welcome to the show. Hey, how's it going, guys? Well, it's going well.

Excellent. So my question is more along the lines of policies that I think Trump should probably look towards enacting or working towards figuring out how we can enact them. One of the things I think that would be beneficial for everybody across the board is looking into policies or creating policy that actually incentivizes American citizens becoming more self-reliant. So like, for example, I was a volunteer fireman in Frederick City for almost 15 years. I've got EMS training, fire training, stuff like that. So if there were some type of emergency that takes place in my house, I can take care of that type of stuff. Growing food, being self-reliant in that manner. Do you guys think that'd be a good idea? Do you guys think that's something that could actually work?

Looking at the other EMT in the room. Well, yeah, so I was a paramedic. I did it specifically because I wanted skills. This is the reason why I joined the military. It's like, hey, I don't know how to break down a rifle and I don't know where I'm going to go find that. YouTube wasn't very big at the time. So I'm going to go out there and go where you go do that.

I wanted to be a paramedic. I wanted to do the things that I learned how to do, combat dive. I wanted to be a diver and I didn't really trust myself to go learn. Patty didn't seem like the way, so I went through that school. So yeah, there is a focus. Self-reliance is really important, but that's a pretty conservative value, it turns out. It's also a pretty American value.

Historically, people stepped off into the wilderness and they were guaranteed a shot at the journey. That's kind of like the Ben Shapiro take on it, that you weren't guaranteed success. It'd be nice if people said, look, you might fail, but that's very American. You step out there and do something hard. Give it your best shot. Maybe you die trying. There are plenty of people that are buried on the Oregon Trail. I used to play that game when I was a kid and we got buried all the time. I just shot all the rabbits. End of the day, yes, self-reliance. Is that a political strategy? I don't know.

But it could be a thing that you talk about, the reason that you jump in and serve the country. This is more of like a JFK type of piece. Like, what can your country do for you? What can you do for the country? You serve the country because there are tangible skills you walk away with that make you a better citizen. They make you less reliant on the mechanisms. You can be more conservative, and you don't have to vote for, like, everything to save your life,

because you can do it yourself. Get chickens. Get chickens. Learn how to do CPR. Learn how to stop the bleed. Do some basic... Learn how to work on some of your cars, because there'll be a time when that's a big deal.

The one thing I think is always important is learn how to treat a sucking chest wound. It's really easy. But if you don't know it, the person's dead in two minutes. Yeah, so you should know how to do things in order that they will kill you. The reason I like to bring this subject up is

because someone in my neighborhood where I grew up died from one of these. Totally preventable. Yeah. If they just knew one sentence, the guy wouldn't have died. Fucking crazy. And dudes went to prison over it. For negligence or for stabbing?

It was a fight. Oh, got it. And one guy stabbed the other guy. And then they were like, oh, shit. Like, you good, dude? And the guy was like, yeah, I'm fine. And then ran off and then just went flump onto the ground dead. Yep, sure.

If you guys have never heard of the MARCH assessment, M-A-R-C-H, go learn what that acronym is. That's a trauma assessment that you use for a legit problem. And there's two M's in it the way I do. The first one I always say is move the patient first because then you can evaluate and treat them where they are. But do March. If you understand March, you're good to go. And you should know how to do that.

What was scary to me was when I did hostile environment training and there were people who thought that the tourniquet should go past the wound instead of... Below it? Yeah. Not proximal? Right. Distal to the wound? Yes. That's smart.

Listen, I used to get guys who were trained freaking paramedics, dude. I would take trained paramedics, and if you give me five minutes of fucking with you, I can make you say that you want to put a tourniquet to the neck. I will walk you into that answer from people who actually have paramedic training that are students in the class, and I'd make them run laps for it, because it's really funny. Don't you stick your fingers in it? For neck wounds and stuff? Well, yeah, you direct pressure.

So whatever that is, you might have to use an expanding dressing. There's some other options. But yeah, you can't tourniquet the neck, it turns out. But I can get you to say tourniquet the neck, just like I can probably talk into anything else dumb if we have an opportunity to get you going down that thought process. I thought the general concept of tourniquet the neck, just like I can probably talk into anything else dumb, if we have an opportunity to get you going down that thought process. I thought the general concept of tourniquet was obvious, and I am terrified at how stupid most of the people were. You have to know where the blood comes from, though.

And Tim, not everybody knows how the blood works. I also used to make my new medics, I'd make them trace a drop of blood through the body. You have to go through the systemic, and you have to go through the pulmonary, and you have to do that. Here is the leg, and here is the rest of the body. Question, is blood in all of the body. You have to go through the systemic and you have to go through the pulmonary and you have to do that. Here is the leg and here is the rest of the body. Question, is blood in all of the body? It is. We don't want the blood

to leave the body, so where should the tourniquet go? So we did a hustle when we were doing the training, they were like, femoral bleed, where does the tourniquet go? And people were like,

by the knee. And it's just like, but then the blood will keep coming out. And they went, oh. You want the blood to stay in the leg and not the rest of the body. I couldn't believe, oh. You want the blood to stay in the leg

and not the rest of the body. I couldn't believe that shit. That just tells you we're teaching the wrong things in schools. Like, I think you should come out of high school with basically an EMT certificate. I agree. You'll know so much more about biology.

You'll be way less dumb. You'll know more about STDs as well. And guess what? You'll probably save a life, it turns out. Because knowing how to do those skills, it doesn't guarantee it. The other thing is, if you want to get emergency training, get out there and actually touch a human being.

Tourniquet the neck. I think that came up. Dude, tourniquet the neck is one of the funniest things to get someone to get to. Because you can always walk them through. So you start off and be like, listen, I'm going to give you some scenarios. And you just hit them with rapid fire. I'm going to give you a scenario. You're going to give me the treatment.

All right. I've got an aggressive bleed. And it is in the upper bicep region. What are we going to do here? And you're going to be like, okay, direct pressure, okay? It is refractory to direct pressure. It is still bleeding through your dressing. What's your next move?

And they're like, okay, I'm going to do a pinch off. I'm going to go after, you know, compress the artery. And you're like, okay, fine. It's still breathing. I say, okay, well, I'm going to apply the tourniquet and the whole thing. And, okay, how long are you going to tighten it up? And it's like, oh, until the pulse will stop. Great.

And then I'll do another one on the leg. Okay? And then I'll be like, I have a head bleed. Okay? And when I start talking about the head bleed, it's like, okay, what are you going to do? I'm going to do direct pressure. I'm like, it's refractory to pressure.

What are you going to do? And they'll be like, I'm going to apply a tourniquet. Okay, where are you going to apply the tourniquet? It's like, below the wound. Okay, where's that going to be? Like, on the neck. And you're like, get the fuck out and run. Give me a lap.

So you can get in there. Is there anything else you want to add? No, I mean, just kind of going back really quickly. I agree with everything that you guys are saying. And I think that doing a program in school where you're teaching kids at least basic first aid and they're coming out with at least a basic first aid certificate so they can handle anything major that may happen is 100 on point um just real quick tim just wanted to let you know man i've been following you for a long time uh you pulled me out of really dark time in my life bro um was real fucked up on drugs and stuff and uh was following you and just want to say thank you uh Right on, man. That's awesome.

I'm sorry. Just one other thing real quick. Anybody that's in the local area of Frederick, Maryland, I got a buddy. He owns a smoke shop downtown. He's been there for 20 years. The government's fucking with him, and they're trying to close him down. Man, he needs help. Like, he needs customers.

So if there's anybody local and you're into that type of thing, please by willie smoke shop on marcus streets 300 block right on uh thanks for calling in thanks man so real quick people are asking how to treat a sucking chest wound cover it i it's that just there you go credit card gloved hand uh regular hand just use palm, anything to cover up and make sure that you basically are completing the cavity so that the body can basically re-equalize, establish the pressures it needs. It needs a negative pressure and a positive pressure between the lungs and the diaphragm, so it'll actually continue to be able to allow you to move air. And then I don't think this matters for any person who's encountering it, but you tape off on three sides. That's a long-term problem. It doesn't matter for a long time. Yeah. Eventually, but you tape off on three sides. That's a long-term problem.

It doesn't matter for a long time. Yeah, so eventually if you were to have a wound and there was a leak, so the only way that that makes a real problem is if there's actually a hole in the lung and in the chest pressure. So basically you have a leak coming out of the lung that's filling up more and more space,

and then what we do, we call burping it. So that's going to be your three-sided dressing. Yes, that's the thing you do in the end end uh first make sure that they can breathe and uh and get them out so they're actually moving air because that'll kill you in probably in three to five minutes if you don't uh so basically what happens is if your chest is expanding the way it works is our chest expands it pulls air in and then pushes air out but if there's a hole your chest will expand and air won't move at all well Well, it will. It just moves in from the hole because so right. Not to the lungs. So if people can imagine it, when you create a hole in your chest wall, that's going to allow

this to happen is your diaphragm pulls downward. It's like a, it's like a plunger. So it's going to create a negative pressure and that allows you to draw air into your lungs. But your lungs are drawing air in through these bags and the bags are basically connected by this snorkel called your, uh, you know, called your trachea that goes out to the upper airway. So when you're drawing air in that way, you've got this much distance that it's got to overcome. When you put a hole in the chest wall, it's got to go about six millimeters. So it's going to go the path of least resistance and it's going to drag in through that little hole. And so it'll fill up that negative space and it'll build up in there. So that's the issue. You end up creating the wrong, the vacuum works.

It just takes air to the wrong void. Right on. All right. Trance 2024. Howdy, howdy. What up? Oh, you know, just living the dream. I was a little bit disappointed with you earlier, Tim.

You know, you read a super chat and, you know, I think you've got the wrong attack vector on Kamala with the economy. Instead of asking why she didn't give Joe the fix, instead, you should ask something like, well, if Bidenomics is so great, as you've stated many, many times, why are you wanting to change it? That's a good one. She can't answer it. Yeah. I think she's going to have to decide if she's with the Biden administration or against it. And she's trying to posture in a way that doesn't work right now. It leaves her open to attack. I'm not even sure she knows that that has to be because she hasn't been asked. Sorry, you had a question. Well, I mean, that's a good segue. Actually, she hasn't been asked this either. So, Tim, you've recently talked about Jamie Raskin's comments on we'll block Trump if he

wins. Right. Yeah. And that is an important thing to talk about. People need to know that he's saying this. Curiously, though, I'm not hearing anyone talk about the fact that as VP, Kamala is the one that's going to be certifying the results of the election if she loses. We've mentioned it a couple of times. Does that not look exactly like the Katie Hobbs, Carrie Lake situation in Arizona? Right. Right. And then she's going to say Trump's disqualified by I win. Exactly. She's certifying her own victory. But but look, Richard Nixon did this, too. Only Richard Nixon said I did not win and gave it to JFK. That makes perfect sense. That's what should have happened. But, you know, I only see one path around this.

Joe either needs to resign or get removed through other means just to ensure that she's not in that position. And we should be pushing for that. Jack Posobiec called it a month, like three weeks ago. He said Joe Biden's going to drop out in the fall. Kamala becomes president. And then she's going to. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if she if that happens before a debate. Right.

Especially if they decide to do more than one, because right now it's a totally uneven footing. It's an incompetent vice president and a former president who has a track record that some people really like. We'll give it that there are people that don't. But that's not an even match. So the idea that she would step in there as the 47th president, I know a lot of people that think that there's no way around it. Trump's got to change all his merch. Yeah, 28. No, it says 47.

Yeah, it'd have to be 48. Yeah, it's a real possibility. Well, that's just another opportunity to touch your customers and sell them a new updated product as the situation on the ground changes. And I think you're being far too kind calling her incompetent. I try to stick to the... How would you describe her?

What's your adjective for Kamala? Honestly, I don't know of one that's worse, but it's still far too kind. My buddy who's an FBI agent just sent me one of those memes from the superhero picking two different buttons. And sent me one of those memes from the superhero picking two different buttons. And it's one of them is Kamala and the other one's tampon Tim.

Who's ingested? Kevin Sorbo tweeted, if Kamala really is black, have her say the N-word. Let the people decide for themselves. Nice. All right, guys. Thank you.

It was a great show tonight. Right on. Thanks for calling in. All right, Kyle. Thanks for hanging It was a great show tonight. Right on. Thanks for calling in. All right, Kyle. Thanks for hanging out. It's been a blast. I enjoyed it. Absolutely.

And for everybody else, tomorrow on The Culture War, we've got Chloe Cole, Sarah Higdon, and Harrison Tinsley. Harrison was fighting for custody of his child to prevent a sex change. I contributed $10,000, and he won. And so we're going to have this conversation around trans kids. And so it should be a pretty good show. That'll be tomorrow on Tenet Media. So definitely come check that one out. Tomorrow night, we've got Caitlin Sinclair for Timcast IRL. So everybody, thank you for supporting us and making all this possible. And we will see you all tomorrow.