Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #254 - YouTube CENSORS Steven Crowder AGAIN, PERMANENTLY Demonetizes Him w/Daniel Turner

Episode Date: March 31, 2021

Tim, Ian, and Lydia host energy advocate and Fox News contributor Daniel Turner to analyze YouTub'es censorship of Louder With Crowder, YouTube's possibly-politically motivated mulling of removing the 'dislike' button from videos, the Pentagon's diversity chief's disgraceful exit, and Biden's unfortunate dog incidents.  Support the show (http://Timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

YouTube has temporarily suspended Steven Crowder from uploading live streaming, and they've also permanently demonetized him once again. So we knew that a while ago because of this controversy with a Vox personality, Steven Crowder was removed from the partner program. For those that aren't familiar, I assume most of you are. He is a very prominent conservative commentator and comedian. And it seems now that they're coming after him for investigative reporting. And that seems to be just about it.

He was accused of hate speech recently. And YouTube said, no, that's not the issue. They're taking down certain videos that they deem to be deceptive. Now, here's where it gets crazier. Crowder did an update on a different channel explaining what was going on. And that got removed as well. They claimed that it was circumventing a ban, and that is absolutely not true.

I've spoken with people at Google. I know the rules. I know exactly how all the rules they claim, every guideline they say. Steven Crowder did not break that rule with his update video, and they still took his video down, gave him a warning, and they're claiming he's trying to circumvent the ban. We'll get into this and I'll break it all down. This is huge because, look, Crowder is not Alex Jones or Milo. He is a very high profile, mainstream, conservative personality and comedian and his show is is absolutely not like those these other personalities who have been banned now i'm not saying anyone deserves

to be banned but this is serious so we're going to get into all this joining us today of course is friend of the show daniel turner i think you should just introduce yourself i want to don't get your title wrong yeah no thanks for having me back daniel turner and i run a i founded an energy advocacy group called power the future and it is great to be back here with you guys. So thanks for having me. Well, one of the things we will talk about was going to be like this tax program from Joe Biden, the mileage tax, the energy stuff they're doing. And then this Crowder stuff kicks off, and this is probably one of the biggest stories in social media censorship in a long time. Because I think YouTube absolutely is lying

about what's going on, what they're telling the press. So we're going to get into this. Of course, Ian's hanging out. What up, guys? Ian Crossland coming at you. Good to see you, Daniel. Nice to see you.

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So we're going to make, for my other YouTube channels, TimCast and TimCast News, YouTube booted me from the monetization program for simply talking about what happened on January 6th. That was it. They said, you're out. You're gone. I did not express any opinions for it. For our guys, I was just like, here's what's happening at the Capitol. This is crazy. Here's what we're seeing. This is breaking news. Well, breaking news is not allowed.

In the case of Steven Crowder, he did investigative reporting. They called it deceptive. They took his videos down. They gave him a strike. He can't upload. It is going to happen. Anti-establishment personalities, even if you think they're milquetoast, are going to get axed because we are in a very serious culture war. So again, go to TimCast.com, become a member,

and you will get exclusive access to members-only segments, or you'll get access to exclusive members-only segments. We had Cassandra Fairbanks the other night, Jeremy Hambly of The Quartering. We'll have another one tonight, and we are actually expanding this website, going to be producing a whole bunch of new content. So absolutely, go to Tim.com become a member because in the event that we get axed and maybe what in six months or a year it's a real possibility that's where you'll be able to find us and we're gonna be building something outside of youtube don't forget to like share subscribe hit the notification bell and we should uh jump into this first story i'm gonna take some of that collagen before i get too deep in i like to put this stuff in my coffee and i've been

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Cacao, peanut butter, coconut powder. Concoction. Coconut water. Love it. Collagen. All right, ladies and gentlemen, let's talk about this story because this is getting to me, man. The first story we have is from The Verge. YouTube has removed Steven Crowder from its partner program indefinitely.

They say he'll be back in a week but without YouTube ad revenue. Why? No, seriously. When you get a strike on YouTube, you don't get removed from the partner program. You just get told, hey, you got a strike. You can't upload for a week. You can't live stream. Why did they remove him from the partner program to take away his revenue? See, that is not legitimate, in my opinion. And I don't know if, you know, Crowder would agree with me or

if he's going to appreciate it. They're just trying to remove him and they're going to find any reason. And we got more stories. I'm gonna try and go through these quickly. The Verge says two weeks ago after YouTube revealed its definition of hate speech was so narrow that it couldn't remove a wildly racist tirade for being wildly racist. What is this? The Verge is an opinion piece or is this fact based news? You see, this is the problem with media. That's why channels like crowders are important. So I shows like ours are important. They're giving you their opinion as the opener because they don't report the news they never did. They say, we wondered out loud what it would take for YouTube to stop promoting conservative

commentator Steven Crowder as an official YouTube partner and allowing him to profit from those tirades. They just say conservative. That's it, ladies and gentlemen. They're not saying far right anymore. The Overton window is shifting, but it's very interesting. They no longer need to say you're far right. You're getting banned. Now it's just he's a conservative. They should remove him from the partner program. That's it. They said today we have a partial answer. YouTube has officially

suspended Steven Crowder's main channel from YouTube's partner program indefinitely, which includes removing his ability to run ads. It's also banning him from uploading videos for a full week after his latest infraction, a now removed video that reportedly challenged the legitimacy of the vote in Nevada. YouTube is a policy against false claims. The election was stolen. Full stop lies or misframing, to say the least. The policy that YouTube has, as it was explained to me by YouTube, is that two criteria must be met. You must say something specific about the election and you must say something specific about Donald Trump together. Crowder did a video where he investigated voter addresses

and sent people to those locations. In those videos, he never says anything about the overall implications of the election and even said in an update video he couldn't anyway. He doesn't have the evidence. In fact, he even pushed back on Mike Lindell saying Mike Lindell's claims about Dominion are wrong. Someone gave him wrong information. So what YouTube is claiming about what Crowder did is illegitimate. And even if it was true that he did one video where he said this, why take him out of the partner program? Now, here's where it gets absolutely insane. Crowder put up a video explaining what was going on. He put it on Instagram and he put it on his other YouTube channel, Crowder Bits, because he's got like 855,000 subscribers there.

YouTube took that video down and issued a warning saying that he was trying to circumvent his ban. All right, I'm going to break something down for everybody. I know I'm going to, we got people here to hang out and talk, but I've got to explain all this. I had a conversation. You may know this. We had Alex Jones on the show. Alex Jones said something. A lot of people misheard what he said, including myself. And it didn't matter.

YouTube didn't care. They said, well, it was bad enough. And they removed that episode with Alex Jones and Michael Malice from this channel, issued a warning. And I talked to them on the phone for quite some time, and they refused tostate it. I said, we could take out that little tiny one second snippet. We could take it out, maybe put it back up. And they said, no. And I said, okay, I'm going to have him back on the show. Then we're going to do it again. And we did. And I said, in the event, you guys give me a strike. What does that mean for my other channels? And I was told by YouTube, so long as the content is different from what you do on these channels, it is fine. And I said, okay, Tim cast IRL is a conversational show with guests where we go over news stories.

My other channels are me and my personal rants and monologues. Is that substantially different? And I was told, yes, they're not the same thing. They're different channels for a reason. And I said, okay, well, that means that's what I want to know. Because if you give me a strike on this channel, I can still keep producing on my other channels, right? Then I'm willing to take that risk. We're going to have them back on the show. And we did. And it did well. Because I'm not going to, a lot of people were like, oh, Tim, Tim is giving up in censorship. I'm like, no, as soon as they did it, I was like, I called him right back up and said, guys, come back on the show. We're not doing this. Now what they're doing with Crowder, Crowder does a show on his

main channel that's produced. There's multiple people involved. There's microphones, they're sitting in chairs and they have cameras and he's sitting at a desk and he's wearing his, you know, his outfit for the show. He's got his holster on and all that stuff. It is produced and set up. On Crowder Bits, he filmed a video on his cell phone explaining what was going on. Content that was 100% substantially different from his produced show. They took that video down and gave him a warning. That means if he does it again, they're going to give him a strike. That is illegitimate. YouTube is not issuing legitimate strikes against or warnings or whatever against Crowder. 100%. And I have a feeling it has something to do with Media Matters because they put out this

story where they said after being suspended from YouTube, Steven Crowder announces his plan to evade it via his other YouTube channel. I'm not going to go into great details, but I'm going to vaguely mention something very interesting that's been going on that was going on for some time. We had a video that Media Matters targeted and made false claims about for some reason that video got demonetized. So I contacted YouTube and I said, why is this video demonetized? And they said, seems to be an error. Don't worry, we will monetize it for you. And they did. And then there was an update, I guess, on this Media Matters piece. And then all of a sudden I noticed the video was demonetized again. And then I reached back out to Google and said, oop, that's strange. We'll fix it again. It happened twice. There was a back and forth.

Somebody at these activist organizations knows people at Google or YouTube and they go in and they're screwing with channels. So when I see YouTube say, oh, Steven Crowder broke the rule, he didn't actually break because they laid it out for me. They sent everyone an email. YouTube sent me an email said, here's the specific criteria you would have to say in order to get a strike on your channel. Crowder never broke those rules. So you know what you're telling us, YouTube, that there's literally nothing we can do. If you want to take us down, you will lie and you will do it. And then what we see from all these news organizations, they say, well, Crowder was taken down because he violated the policy where he claimed X, Y, and Z. They claim that because YouTube said the policy was violated, that affirms that Crowder did something wrong. He did not.

If YouTube tells me you can't drink bottled water on your show. And then I say, OK, I won't. And then they give me a strike anyway, claiming I did the media report. Tim Pool got taken down for drinking bottled water on his show, even if I didn't. That's what they're doing. It's only a matter of time. And I tell you this. People are saying, oh, Tim's too milquetoast. He's not going to get censored. He's not going to get banned or whatever. We had Alex Jones and Michael Malice on the show. They took it down and I immediately called them and brought them back because I'm not going to bend the knee to lies and manipulations and just unreasonable actions, unprofessional behavior from YouTube. If you get a problem with something one of my guests says, and I offer to snip that out, that is me going well above and

beyond my own principles because I think we should be allowed to have that conversation up as it is. But I'm willing to recognize YouTube has this platform and I say, okay, what's the best thing we could do to make sure 99.99% of this gets out? Fine. I'll obey that rule, but I'm going to launch timcast.com and we're going to talk about what we want to talk behind this members only paywall to protect ourselves in the event YouTube does take us down. Facebook removed me from the monetization program for simply covering the news. Stephen Crowder is suspended for a week and removed from the partner program for simply sending out reporters to track claims about voter irregularity. That was it. He did not make any claims. And now here we are. Rant over, I suppose. Hot. No, it's a necessary rant. You know, I would love to know

who is on who is receiving the same wrath from YouTube on the other side of the spectrum. I mean there have been amazing allegations for four years about President Trump as a puppet of Vladimir Putin. There have been out and out lies from what we would consider, quote unquote, the left. Is there any leftist group as big as Steven Crowder who has been kicked off the platform for these types of violations of service? No, only small progressives have been banned. There have been many of them, smaller channels, and they shouldn't have been banned either. I 100% defend the right of all of the socialists, democratic socialists, progressives, communists who produce on YouTube. And I've seen some of the channels that got removed on the left, and I don't see a legitimate

reason as to why they were banned. It seems like what YouTube is trying to do is create a monoculture. They're trying to force everyone into a, I don't want to say center-left. I don't necessarily want to say far-left. Homogenous. But a homogenous establishment Democrat left position. Getting rid of Crowder is necessary for them to pull off something like that. And I tell you, I'm not big into conspiracies, but they just came out and made claims about

why they removed Crowder's content. And I actually, having privy to information, speaking to Google, know these statements are just not true. The claims made against them, not true. Here we go. I'd like to add, so you know, I built Minds. I was one of the co-founders of Minds, and I helped design and construct the website. Real quick, for those that aren't familiar, Minds is another social media platform.

It can host videos. You can post things. So I had to ethically build out the terms of service. Like how are we going to adjudicate user violations of our terms, basically? And I was an administrator. What I realized pretty early on is you don't ban people you ban the channel if the channel is in violation assume nothing about the people because that person can make another channel and if that new channel doesn't violate you don't mess with it so that them going after steve is effed it's messed up you don't target

individuals that makes no sense your terms specifically target channels not people so the thought that he would make another channel and do something that doesn't violate terms and still get it taken down is insane to me this is why i'm saying they're targeting him and his business because as i stated the rules are if you have two channels i'll try to make this clear if you have two channels and one of them is videos about dogs and one of those videos about cats and your videos about dogs gets take videos about dogs gets a strike because a dog, you know, I don't know, sniffed a butt or something. And they're like, oh, yeah, it's inappropriate.

And you put up a video about a cat. That's supposed to be allowed because it's a different form of content. If Crowder uploads something that's not his show, he's not commenting on the news. He's simply saying, hey, guys, here's an update as to what's going on. They are screwing with him. That's it. They're targeting him. That's it. They're targeting him. It is unfair. And I'm sick of the but my private business argument from all of these

establishment crony types. It's just not the case. We need balance and we need representation for people of different ideas, different ideologies and different perspectives. If they get rid of Crowder, Crowder's fans don't go away. They get angry. They go other places. So you know what? In that regard, maybe YouTube will absolutely cripple itself by doing this. But the problem is that Alphabet, Google subsidizes YouTube so that other video platforms can't be as successful. And that keeps a stranglehold on the market for channels like mine or everyone else's. But more importantly, YouTube is first in, best dressed, and the

biggest. The second biggest search engine, I believe, in the world. And it is used by everybody. We ask only that those rules be applied fairly and that the contracts they have people sign are upheld. So I wonder this. If YouTube says, you must abide by our community guidelines, otherwise we can ban you, but then they ban you or strike you, even though you didn't violate those guidelines, I wonder if they're in breach of their own terms on their end. I wonder if there's a possibility that you could go after them, because we have seen strategies like this before. I don't know exactly what Crateronda will end up doing.

I know that his half-Asian lawyer, Bill, made an announcement about what's happening. The Blaze posted it. And for those, I want to make sure I give a shout out to Crowder to the best of my ability. They say you can go to louderwithcrowder.com. What is it? louderwithcrowder.com slash mug club. Or just go to louderwithcrowder.com. Go to his website. And if you want to support him as well, if YouTube is going after crowd in such a way that is illegitimate do you really think a channel like this can last much longer after they take him down these it's it's it's the canary in the coal mine for everybody the way i explained it a long time ago was we're standing on this big island these with cliffs all

around and the waves are just crashing and eroding at one side. Sure, the far right gets banned. This is what they do. This is what authoritarians do. Say, oh, nobody likes the far right, fringe, weirdo, racist, and conspiracy theorists. So when they get banned, the establishment types are like, I don't care. Then they come for very staunch, hardcore, pro-America conservatives. And even regular conservatives are pointing out like, hey, that's bad. Regular people are going like, well, I'm not a fan of those kind of people. And the left ignores it. Now they're coming for regular, run-of-the-mill, high-profile, mainstream conservative types, people like Steven Crowder. What's next?

Moderates. And then we're gone. I'm pretty critical of Google. I have been since they bought YouTube 2007. I was freaking out. I was a YouTuber 2006, 2007. I was like, oh, well, Google's bought, about to buy YouTube. It's going to get super corporate. And was freaking out. I was a YouTuber 2006-2007. I was like, oh, well, Google's about to buy YouTube. It's going to get super corporate, and we'll see.

Google, whoever's running Google, you guys do an amazing job at search algorithms. I love your search engine, but I don't think you guys are equipped to run a social network. You had YouTube in 2007. You screwed it up, and then you built Google Plus, which nobody used, when you could have been

using YouTube as your social network. That's right, Google Plus. And they got rid of video responses, which was one of the hottest community building pieces of tech on the website. And they make these heavy-handed. It's just a huge company. I'm not, I don't know.

I can't get too critical because I don't work there. I never have. But it saddens me that you would drag your social network through the mud like this when you have an opportunity to build the best one. It's a growing cult infection. It's a cult. I was trying to find that. I knew there were a bunch of Google execs. I was listening, clearly. But I was trying to Google a whole bunch of Google execs who went to the Biden administration trying to find names. But the stories that I'm finding in this search are all about how the Biden administration will be tougher on big tech than the previous administration. None of them will.

Well, you know, I mean, these are questions, we'd like to have legitimate hearings on this, right? We've talked about it before they every now and then get hauled up in front of Congress and Zuckerberg is there right with his really pasty face, you know, and just an awful, usually an awful camera angle, which is kind of bizarre that no one does a good job on his, yeah, you know, like framing your shot a little bit, but you got $60 billion. But it would be curious to get some of these folks involved

to say what is the, how much further does the big tech censorship get to go before it becomes like a true just violation of civil liberties, of the Constitution. We've already seen it egregiously, much further does the big tech censorship get to go before it becomes like a true just violation of of civil liberties of the constitution we've already seen it egregiously yep but how much more they have had so many hearings i i just don't care anymore they just lie they lie absolutely i used to watch them i was like it's really exciting you know ted cruz is going to grill jack dorsey it's going to be fantastic and now it's like oh it's the fifth time huh it's a rerun you know

what i mean at this point i'm not interested in watching that's a waste of time not doing anything uh freeing i mean i'm obsessed with freeing the software code of large social networks if a network starts getting massive traffic like becomes part of the commons 100 million hit users a month i don't know some arbitrary number that you free their software code of the of the social network aspect so that you can other people can build that same network tech. Other than that, I'm always at a loss of how do that. That's why I don't think they have done anything about it.

Cause if you break up Facebook into multiple companies, and I talked about this last week, like Instagram, Facebook messenger, Facebook prime, and then Zuck owns the same percentage of all these new companies. Nothing's changed. He still commands the terms of service of all the new companies.

He still owns them all. So you can't break and remove them so yeah but can you i don't think you can legally do that so what's the real risk then that people looking for internet freedom end up on tiktok which is owned by the communist chinese oh and there's less there right i mean it's it's gonna get it's gonna be worse you know we need decentralized social media i suppose yeah we need i don't necessarily think the blockchain is the answer but i do think there's great prospects in in blockchain technology but we just need and something we've talked about in the show quite a bit is you know i'm talking about creating an open source plugin that people can put on their websites that just networks websites together so no one could ban anybody and there's something called the fediverse we talk

about a lot which is it's like a protocol instead of a website where you can follow someone from a different – you can follow like john at john.com or whatever. Instead of following at john, you follow john at john.com and you can follow john at gab.com and get all of their feeds showing up like Twitter or other social media. There's – other than blockchain, there's like Arweave, which I think Mines is looking into right now. Bill has been. And like IPFSFS interplanetary file system. And they tend to be faster than the blockchain for stuff like this sometimes. So they're advancing this this decentralized tech. And I think we'll eventually have something that can host videos as well as text. You just mentioned that you thought or I'm sorry that you just mentioned Biden apparently is going to go harder on big tech.

These are all the articles, yeah, that I was looking at. Yeah, you were seeing it. So here's something funny that's happening right now. TechCrunch reports, YouTube is testing hiding dislike counts on videos. I wonder why that might be. Could it be that every single video that Joe Biden puts out or that Democrats put out are just slammed by everyone? That's democracy. Now, what is that?

Is it a Russian bot conspiracy that people are saying, I don't like this video from Joe Biden? My question is, where are then the Democrats to counteract that and give an upvote to Joe Biden? They don't exist. No, you know what it is? They're still downvoting Trump's content. I think the people who vote for Joe Biden don't pay attention, don't watch the news, have no idea what's going on, and they're not going to watch a Joe Biden video.

The Trump supporters, the conservatives, the moderates, the people who are, quote unquote, red pilled, who have woken up to the media's lies in the narrative. It's because they're looking at videos of Trump. They're watching the source material on YouTube and then going, I don't like this. So YouTube now has to intervene and remove the dislike button counter. It's a matter of time until they remove the live views counter as well, because there are times that they are streaming the Biden giving remarks at the White House or even during the campaign. Biden is going to sit down with these activists and you would see in the bottom left corner, 800 people are watching, 900 people are watching him. People would circle it and tweet it and say, is this a joke? Like,

this is the president and the most popular president, 900 people watching this video. And I'm one of them. But listen, listen, Democrats have always gone for low information voters. And a lot of people might be like, oh, here we go. Tim Pool is so biased against Democrats. He's right wing. No, actually, I'm pretty far left politically. It's kind of strange. My problem is you're not going to get me to say something that's not true. All right. I'll tell you something. Democrats want to give the right to they want 16 year olds to have the right to vote. Whoa. 16 year olds. You are not going to convince me, are high information voters. Some, maybe. But as you get younger and younger, the likelihood of finding a low information voter goes up exponentially.

No offense to young people. No, but 16-year-olds are also eating Tide Pods. Yeah. Right? I mean, no offense to 16-year-olds. They're not really eating Tide Pods. They were. No, they never did. No offense to 16-year-olds.

They're the mean zoomers. Now, again. One guy did, though. One guy did, though. We can allow the 16-year-old to vote if the 16-year-olds can also buy alcohol, buy cigarettes, and get drafted. Because what I have a problem with when it comes to these age things is I still enjoy my cigarettes every now and then. You've got to be 21 to smoke now in a lot of states, 18 to get a beer. But the 16-year-old can vote you off to war in Afghanistan, and you're like,

wait a second. So what is the age of adulthood and make everything that age? I don't know. What if the requirement for voting was just you have to live on, you have to have no longer, maybe it has to be you have to have a job. Maybe the requirements are you have a job. You have to be paying taxes. Yeah, you pay

taxes, you can vote. Taxation requires representation. You have to have a job. Maybe the requirements are you have a job. You have to be paying taxes. Yeah, you pay taxes, you can vote. Taxation requires representation. You just have to have some sort of skin in the game, right? I mean, the original constitution was they argued about landowners and that was considered offensive or however you want to phrase it. But the idea was skin in the game. And if you are, I'm sorry, this is the problem that Romney got into back in 12 when he talked about the 44% and we don't care about it. 47, I think it was. And he phrased it terribly. But I think the point he meant to say was there's a large population of this country that is on the taking side.

And so they will vote for things to be given to them for free, whether it's stimulus checks, whether it's welfare, whether it's free. Look at the people voting for free absolution of their college loans. Well college loans well i didn't go to college i don't have any debt right but but you did and you got a degree in modern dance and i have to now pay welcome my personal life exactly right so so there is going to be always a class of people that will vote for more free stuff for themselves there has to be skin in the game. Exactly. That's why kids shouldn't vote. Just to bring it back, the ultimate point is Democrats like voters who are on the low information side.

Yet at the same time, these are the same people who claim to be more educated. I'm sorry. I need to explain something to everybody listening. Going to college does not mean you are more educated.

No. I mean that. And a lot of people confuse going to university with being educated. You can spend four years in college and read almost nothing and just squeeze on by. Party hard. Party hard and just do the bare minimum.

Or you could be someone who goes to the library every day and reads a book every day, and you're substantially more educated than somebody who just decides to go to college. Now, I think there's a correlation between getting an education and being in college, but in the past generation or so, college seems to be a big, fat waste of time. It used to be a huge opportunity to have access to books and stuff, but you don't need that. Got the internet now. Yeah. Yeah, if I can go online and learn whatever I want, what's the point of spending $40,000, $50,000 for it? I will say, though, if we think about this from a solution-oriented perspective, maximizing the best outcome for this country, I do believe we need some form of student loan forgiveness,

probably in the form of eliminating interest rates, and at this point saying, pay off your principal. You borrowed the money. You got to pay it back. Maybe with inflation as a standard interest rate, not compound interest or anything like that. But I will point out, too, for a lot of these people on the left who are like, we should have our student loans forgiven. That would be, and this is what they don't understand, giving a $50,000 grant to the wealthiest Americans. Fund the rich?

Is that what they want to do? I wanted to Google this before I talked about it and some of the largest endowments in American university systems. Harvard has over $40 billion in endowment. So if you want to talk about student loan absolution, why doesn't Harvard kick in some of their $40 billion, which literally just accrues interest every year? They charge these people $70,000 a year. Yale has, what is it, $30 billion, Stanford $27, Princeton $25, MIT $17. So if we want to talk about student loan forgiveness, obviously there has to be reform of the tuition system because it is being paid for by the taxpayers. But why doesn't Harvard give up some of their

damn money to pay those guys who have useless? I mean, quite honestly, if you have a graduate degree in critical race theory from Harvard, you have a useless degree. I'd like to give a shout out to our good friend, Will Chamberlain and say, seize the endowments. When you say endowments, is that the yearly, like government gives them 30 billion a year? No, this is, you know, rich people who write a $100 million check and they want to endow a chair in their name or they want to endow a building or whatever. But Harvard's been around for 200 and something years and they've accrued over time. So that's money sitting in an account?

Exactly. Literally sitting in the bank. Just the other day, Georgetown announced they got a $100 million grant from somebody. I forget who. $100 million donation. Georgetown's going to take that $100 billion. They're going to put it in the bank. They're not going to drop the tuition rate for any of their students a dime. They're just going to put it in the bank and say, thank you very much for your money. What I can't understand, I know we were supposed to be talking about YouTube dislike count, but I think- It's all related.

It is. I really do think so. I think that these people who go to university, think about it for two seconds, they're told to do it. Not everybody. I know a lot of you listening probably went to college, you didn't realize it. But there's a lot of people who are like, what should I do? And then someone comes along and says, you're going to take out $50,000 worth of loans. Don't worry. You have to do it. Everybody has to do it. And they go, okay, I'll do what you say. Then they go to college. They do as they're told. They rack up all this debt. Now they're living in this massive debt, doing as they're told every step of the way.

And they're miserable. Some people finally realize what's going on. They'll drop out. They'll leave or they'll realize it after the fact. Hey, wait a minute. That was a big mistake. I screwed myself up by not listening to myself. Now, you look at these people, these college educated, they say overwhelmingly vote for Democrats. Correlation between those who don't investigate, who don't watch a Biden speech to see what he actually has to say and don't watch a Trump speech to see what he has to say. And thus, the only people who are watching Biden are the people who actually listen to what he has to say. Don't like it.

Hit the dislike button. And then YouTube decides, well, we got to remove it because it's making us look bad. And you've come full circle. Absolutely. I love that. Yeah. No, you're absolutely right. And when you get into the college level, the way YouTube is removing content, the way universities

are removing content that they don't like, the way they're banning certain clubs, banning certain speakers. Heck, it wasn't that long ago that people like Ann Coulter tried to speak at Berkeley that it looked like the Minnesota riots. And you say, well, you are not being sent off to D-Day, right? But you, 19-year-old boy, can't handle the fact that a woman whose commentary you don't like is on your campus? Just, you know what? Man up and stay in your dorm room and say, wow, that's too bad.

I mean, that's what I do when a baseball team is on that I don't like. Oh, the Red Sox are on tonight. Well, I'm not going to watch the damn channel, right? So not only are they not exposed to this stuff but it's being banned from it proactively banned and on top of that the political stuff we're banning certain authors now we're banned not dr seuss but we're banning parts of shakespeare there was that that op-ed a little while ago about the like the undeniable whiteness of shakespeare or something absurd like that and you say i I don't even think Shakespeare knew he was white because it was the 1520s in England. He just knew he was Shakespeare.

And we're banning those types of things. Who was the dude from Braveheart that movie's based off of? William Wallace. Yeah, I think someone graffitied a wall in Scotland saying William Wallace was racist or something. And someone commented, I'm pretty sure he never even saw a black person in his entire life. No, I guarantee you he never did. I mean, it was 12th, 13th century. Yeah.

You know? Dude, everybody was racist back then. That was when you were all... Well, they were more like xenophobic. Yeah. Afraid of the other. Yeah, because the last people they knew who didn't look like them were the Vikings and they killed everybody.

And they stole all their church goods and they stole all the women. Exactly. Take a look at Scandinavia now. Oh, yeah. What happened in that place? I don't know. Oh, they received too many immigrants, right? They were like the woke.

No, no, no. I don't think the issue was immigration. You know what's really fascinating is that I mentioned this the other day. Think about illegal immigrants right now coming to the US. They're willing to climb mountains, ride on the top of trains, make it through 90 miles of desert with limited supplies because they believe in that American dream.

And look, I can respect that. That's drive. But you got to come in the proper way for a variety of reasons. We don't want people going through the desert risking their lives. And we want to make sure that when they come here, they're, they're, they're given real opportunities. If they just come in, they get exploited and it creates whole, you know, a lot

of problems economically for many of the migrants. But you take a look at some of these countries, even the United States, the popular it's, it's the, it's the, uh, domestic population, uh, mostly suburban progressives and liberals that have become just absolutely weak and pathetic you take a look at scandinavia and it is the overwhelmingly white um you know indigenous of the of the region i suppose you call them who are opening up all these policies that will erode and eventually destroy their own governments and i'm speaking specifically about like, you know, Sweden's policy on their welfare system, for instance, is unsustainable unless they keep bringing in more and more migrants. Now, that's not what I'm referring to.

That's actually them trying to stem the bleed. The problem is they wouldn't need to desperately ask people to come to their country if their country was properly run. But you look back at the Vikings. They got on boats. They went to England. They stole all the women and came back. And they were back at the Vikings. They got on boats. They went to England. They stole all the women and came back

and they were brutal. The Vikings were brutal. All the really hot women. That's funny. That's why apparently they're so attractive up there. Well, I was told this. I was told this joke

when I was in, I think I was told this joke every, I was in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. And they were like, you want to hear a Scandinavian joke?

Why are there no beautiful women in England? And I'm like, why? Because we stole them all. And they're like, you want to hear a Scandinavian joke? Why are there no beautiful women in England? And I'm like, why? Because we stole them all. And I'm like, it's a really amazing joke for a group of people that are like some of the most demure and like, you know, I guess. I don't want to. Weak willed, I suppose. Docile. Docile.

They seem very calm. Maybe they're in the cold all the time. So they move slower. That's because socialism ultimately is in a feat system, and it will emasculate you. I mean, I just think that's the root. And they have been soft socialists for generations now. And I think ultimately it is a defeatist philosophy, and it is a weakening philosophy. And I think that's what you get after three generations of quasi-socialists.

That's what happens to you. Are you familiar with Strauss-Howe generational theory? No. I think that's what you get after three generations of quasi-socialists. That's what happens to you. Are you familiar with Strauss-Howe generational theory? No. So we had Ben Stewart on the show, and it was a really fascinating conversation. It's a book called The Fourth Turning, and they talk about how there's four seasons. Every 20 years, it's a season. There's the springtime, there's the summer, the autumn, and then the winter.

And we are about to hit the winter season. So the way it goes is that every 80 years, there is a massive upheaval, violent war or something like that, right? 80 years ago, what did we have? World War II. 80 years before that, what did we have? Civil War. 80 years before that, what did we have? Revolutionary War. And so they're basically like, we're about to enter this period.

I bring this up because everything we're mentioning, you know, for those that are just tuning in or just jumping on the segment, we're talking about countries like Scandinavia. And you mentioned like after three generations of just, I guess, everything's granted to you, we're with prosperity, we become weakened. And I want to show you the story from the New York Post. I want to bring this up. Pentagon diversity chief reassigned amid probe of social media posts. I don't care about this guy being reassigned. I care that the Pentagon has a diversity chief. I keep hearing these stories about diversity, inclusivity and equity, liaisons and czars and chiefs and officers. Why do our businesses have ideological arms or employees? To me,

I know it's not identical, but it's no different from the Communist Party saying, if you want to open a business in China, the Communist Party needs to have a position in your company. Here in the US, they're like, well, if you're running this company, you need to give our cult a position in your company. The Pentagon has it now. I'm sorry, man. We've weakened beyond. It's perhaps too late, in my opinion. I don't know. Maybe it's not too late.

But the generations that came before us were not paying attention, and they don't care. I've talked to people in the intelligence community, and they tell me leadership doesn't care. They just want to get home at the end of the day. They want to maintain the status quo. Whatever pays the bills, they don't care. So this is crazy. No, it is.

And the role of the Pentagon should be to train and prepare a force to be lethal and brutal to defend the country if need be. And hopefully that day never comes. But that's the only diversity and inclusion they need. They need to be as diverse and inclusive to the point that they will destroy any enemy that faces them. And the fact that we're pushing these sociological or psychological philosophies, that just runs counter to the goal of the military should be a diversification of armament, inclusion of different ordinance and equity in the amounts that they have across the board to be able to defeat any threat. Not some weird cult like ideology about, you know, training soldiers that the Gadsden flag

is racist. And then if somebody has it on their face, but they got to pull them out of their their mission in D.C. Yeah. Military philosophy is legit. But that's the philosophy of combat and confrontation, not of how people feel. Not really. I mean, there is the hearts and minds battle that we're trying to win.

And maybe some people think that by doing this, we're going to get more hearts and minds on our side. But it seems like it's rupturing the system when it doesn't need to. And I think we've been playing, the military at least, has been playing the hearts and minds game for 20 some odd years. I was at State Department a long, long time ago, spent time in Iraq, Afghanistan as part of the hearts and minds war. And for 20 years now, we've been saying, well, maybe if we just work with the Taliban and build their kids' schools, and maybe if we send more of their girls into jobs trainings, and here we are 20 years later, and how many trillions of dollars more? And it's like how's that going for us right we can't get out of afghanistan even trump couldn't pull out of afghanistan because the mission isn't yet accomplished

so maybe the hearts and minds game isn't what the military should do maybe the military should kill all of the enemies and and i'm sorry to say that and then what happens after that that's their problem you're no longer a threat to us like If they wanted to create a global arm of goodwill and they wanted to build water systems and roads in all these countries across the world, cool. But if you drop bombs on a country, it's going to set the whole process back 20 years. Maybe they should be building infrastructure, roads, water here. Yeah, they should. And over there.

Just do it. Well, they just did around the Capitol for the last two months. They built a great wall. It was as secure as could be the Capitol for the last two months. They built a great wall. It was as secure as could be. None of the crazy Trump supporters. A big, beautiful wall. No Trump supporters penetrated the Capitol for months on end. They kept saying walls don't work, and they built a wall to keep out Trump supporters.

Amazing. Well, Tom Cotton is doing something about it. Cotton introduces a bill to ban critical race theory teaching in the military. My yeah that's very cool it's not going to pass republicans don't have any power right now and what the democrats seem to be doing right now is they know they have a very slim majority and they are pushing as hard as possible to gain as much power as possible because they know it won't last yes come 2022 the republicans will take the house back and then they will and probably the senate in 2022 you think it's 50 50 yeah are the are there seats up for yeah democrats yeah yeah and i think i mean literally you flip two seats and that's all that that matters i mean starting with georgia right flip one seat yeah

starting starting with georgia um there's a there's a re-election there because it was a temporary seat right so so yeah i'm but like you i agree with you 100 they know they have a two-year window to enact as many things as possible obama did the same thing back in 2009 right he passed health care because he knew he had one shot to do it they had a super majority they had to get it done they got it done and then they lost i'm not confident the republicans will be successful i think there's a lot of people who don't like the Republican Party who only voted Republican because Trump was something different. He was actually trying to do things. You take a look at Biden right now.

Did you see that they apparently rebranded to the Biden-Harris administration? Creepy. What is this? I had a tweet about it, and was like, I was like amazing and inspiring. Despite every obstacle from racism, sexism to not even getting a single delegate in the presidential primary. Kamala Harris is proving that nothing will stand in her way and she will eventually become president. She didn't get a single delegate. And now they're slowly inching towards making her the president. Did Biden get any delegates in 2008?

I don't remember. I don't remember. He was a nobody in that running, though. He was one of the worst guys on stage. That's a great question. How soon did he drop? And I was paying attention

those days also, but he wasn't, I think Hillary was Obama's biggest competition in 2008. No, not Bernie. It was pre-Bernie. It was pre-Bernie

and I'm sure Biden and there were probably like three or four other folks out there who ran, who dropped out pretty quickly. Was that also... Biden got zero delegates. Zero. Zero delegates.

A couple of losers. A couple of winners. And Biden got all this free press being the VP, and they would make fun of him and be like, oh, Joe, shut up. You know those memes where it shows Joe saying something stupid and Obama's like, oh. That was real, I think. I think critical race theory in the military is, it's the demise of the military.

Dude, it's dangerous. Listen, what you need to understand about critical race theory is that it's not actually a theory of anything. No. It's basically just one person going, I've decided that water bottles are racist. And does everybody agree? And then someone goes, I don't think it's racist.

Well, then you're a racist for denying it. Yeah. That's all they do. There's like no rhyme or reason. Well, define racist. Oh, God. Ibrahim X. Kendi, the guy who wrote that book, How to Be an Anti- one of the, he said the heartbeat of racism is denialism. And by denying your racism is a sign of your racism.

And that, that is Kafka, right? That whole, that whole Kafka book, the trial was about that. Like if you admit it, you're guilty.

If you deny it, well, only someone who would have done it would deny it. You're guilty. And so, so Kafka, how many dozens of years ago, a hundred years ago was like, well, this is where

we are headed. And that's what critical race theory is. You are racist intrinsically by your race. And if you deny it, it's only because that is a sign of your racism. And there you go. I think we did that with witches in the Salem Witchcraft. They throw them in the water. If she's a witch, she'll float.

No, no. That was Monty Python. OK. That was a joke. But they're funny. If she weighs as much as a duck, right? What else weighs as much? Ducks float.

What else weighs as much as a duck? Churches. Wood. Small rocks. Wood. That's right. So if she floats and weighs as much as a duck, which means she's made of wood, she's a witch. Is it that they would burn them alive?

And if they didn't burn, then they were a witch? I always use the drum off a cliff. I don't know. When the knight said a duck and the man man said who are you so wise in the ways of science i say i reply often on twitter with that when people like solar panels are renewable forever and i'm like who are you so wise in the ways of i love that line i guess this is this is an issue of people who vote when there's no skin in the game. Yeah.

You know? And so the challenge is, you know, someone asked me about, they were like, you know, back in the day when people would vote, they had to be landowners because it was about racist white slave owners, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, I thought the idea was that they didn't have IDs. And so it was like you had to actually live there and be able to prove you lived there to vote. And so landownership proved not only were you a member of the community proved you lived there and that you had skin in the game and a stake in what this vote represented the issue now is and i'm not i'm not saying i i'm actually a fan of like universal suffrage people having the right

to vote well i shouldn't say universal because i don't know what that implies it could be anybody like dogs voting or something but uh i think you know there's a people should have the right to vote we're in a different system but now we have people who will like move to new york and then after like a month they're eligible to vote vote for something ridiculous and then a few months later back oh man this is awful i regret that and then leave and they just leave the place worse off there needs to be something staking your vote like and and and you in this community where you know that what you do will impact you otherwise people can come and vote and leave yeah like local like waiting a couple years before you can vote locally that got brought up a couple weeks ago i like that idea and yeah and so then what happens is we remember like in

this past election there were a lot of people who are like i think it was andrew yang got in trouble because he said he was going to go on down to georgia and help the democrats win and people are like yo and and the georgia republicans were like if you move here and try to vote he was like i'm not going to do that i'm not doing that but it was actually a big issue because people can move all over the place andrew yang should run as a republican well i think 2024 he's running as a democrat for mayor of new York. Oh. Yeah. Well, good luck, Andrew. After having tweeted multiple times about leaving the city and how he hated living in New York. I mean, he's always had a condo there or something, but he lived outside of New York.

And now he sees this as a viable opportunity. And he's like, yeah, maybe I'll run for mayor of New York. Yeah, he'll stay in New York. But Republican president, because they want a populist. The Republicans love, well, the people that went for trump love a good populist like energetic fireball the personality and yang i think is you know he was he's got more populist appeal yeah without a doubt but but going back to the voting thing i i agree with you in that we establish thresholds for things for a purpose and by lowering the threshold, by dumbing it down to put it pejoratively, does not do society a service.

So we've made it so easy to drive now, right? We got rid of a lot of the driving exam. Parallel parking is no longer part of the driving exam in New York City. Wow. Yeah. The K-turn is no longer part. Well, are we making our roads better? It's like, well, no, we're allowing more people to drive.

Well, I don't want more people to drive. I want driving to be something that you actually can prove that you can do. Same with exams. Same with citizenship to a certain extent. And I think voting is the same way. I don't want to lower the threshold down to get the lowest common denominator in. I think we have to keep standards high. Look, we talk about this.

Do you want your medical doctor to be someone who is like, well, I did the multiple choice test. Well, maybe I want your exam to be a little bit harder than that if you're going to operate on my eyes, right? Maybe you should pass a certain threshold. And we've lowered the threshold down for voting to the point that, like you said, you can show up to a state same day and say, I live here now with no ID, no COVID passport, though. That's a little different. But with no ID, with no proof of anything, I live here now with no ID, no COVID passport, though. That's a little different. But with no ID, with no proof of anything, I want to vote in this election. Okay, you can vote. Why?

Because that's fairness. That's not. Service guarantees citizenship. Are you familiar with that? Starship Troopers. Yeah. Everyone brings that up. See, I don't know if I agree with that concept, but it's an interesting concept. And I guess the author got called a fascist for implying that you'd have to serve the community or the country in order to have the right to vote in that country.

I don't agree with that. But it's skin in the game of some. Right. I think there has to be a standard required for voting. And it was funny. I think I got accused by leftists of saying, you know, like, Tim Pool thinks that it should be harder to vote. And I'm like, I mean, it should be to a certain degree, there should be a standard to vote some kind of thing where we don't want people to be laying, you know, on their couch, covered in grease, stuck to their sofa, because they've

been sitting there for six months. And they're like, I don't want to work. And then they get a letter in the mail. And they're like, they pick it up, you know, their mom throws it at them. And they're like, mail in ballot. And they open it up. And they're like, I don't want to work. And then they get a letter in the mail and they're like, they pick it up. You know, their mom throws it at them and they're like, mail in ballot. And they open it up and they're like, I'm going to vote for this guy and send it in. Meanwhile, there's a guy who's overseas, got his leg blown off in Afghanistan. His vote is now negated by this person who does nothing and he's risking everything. So I feel like there's got to be at least you have to get up and go vote. Yeah. And maybe something more.

My general idea is if people want to vote, they need to choose to get up and go vote yeah and maybe something more my general idea is if people want to vote they need to choose to get up and go vote and we even talked about this i think ian and i agree we should remove party affiliation from from ballots because what happens is people show up and they're like r d and then you end up with a bunch of wackos running the government which is where we're at right now well yeah and and i think getting rid of lowering the voting age the reason why i'm opposed to it is and i said kind of cruelly like 16 year olds eat tie pods and and of course i'm i'm joking but we used to we used to understand that like with age somehow came experience came wisdom came knowledge and and that can all and not necessarily but it's

more likely to have more knowledge as an older person than as a younger person because of time right just because of time brain but hold on then that's an interesting point because that still could be ageist there's very wise 16 year olds maybe somebody started working the family business when they're seven so aptitude test how do you do it you know how do you how do you make sure that people that'd be cool if a kid and no offense to 16 year olds i know you don't feel like a kid but legally you're a kid till you're 18 um could take a special test if you're under 18 and you wanted to vote you could go apply take a civics exam yeah i want to clarify that tide pod thing nobody actually ate tide pods it

was a meme but one kid as part of the meme put theide Pod in his mouth as a joke, and then his saliva broke it. Oh no! And as soon as he tasted it, he and aspirated some of the pod, and then spit it out. Did he live? Yeah, but it's permanently it's scarred a ton of his lung tissue. He was not trying to eat the Tide Pod. He was jokingly

putting it in his mouth. These things are dissolved by water, like, almost instantly, and then he went, and like inhaled a bit of it. Don't put Tide Pods in your mouth. Don't pretend like you're going to hurt yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So let's talk about the kind of leadership

that we deserve and that we need and that we get. From the Daily Mail, Biden's dog Major bites another government employee on White House grounds while out for a walk three weeks after biting White House security guard. I'm going to pass it off to you, Daniel, because you've trained dogs, I take it? It just drives me absolutely crazy.

I have two right now. I have fostered several dogs, but my better half has fostered, I would say, in the hundreds. He's been doing it for 30 years, right? I mean, fostering dogs, you have them for sometimes three weeks, four weeks, five weeks. He rehabilitates them to get them to a good point so that they will be adopted into a permanent home. The fact that a 75-year-old, fairly senile man was given a six month old german shepherd male puppy as a prop right like like the i i am mad at the bidens for doing this i'm mad at his handles for doing this but i am angriest at the foster group because the reason why there are so many dogs in kent in in fosters

right now in in in uh being held in pens is because they are so stringent on who fosters a dog. And they are pretty strict, right? You can't get a dog pretty easily. But this guy somehow got one. And he got a difficult one. German Shepherds, they are wonderful dogs. But they are, by nature, protective dogs. They are guardians.

And they are alphas. They're dominants, right? And Joe Biden is no alpha. No matter how many aviators he wears, the leather jackets, the rhetoric, the come on, man. Come on, man. I'll challenge you to push-ups right now. That is all bluster. And a dog is not as stupid as the American press corps.

And that dog is like, well, guess what, B-itch? I am the alpha of this family. Joe Biden's not disciplining me. Jill is not disciplining me. Hunter is off doing something else. I am in charge of this family, and Biden's not disciplining me. Jill is not disciplining me. Hunter is off doing something else. I am in charge of this family and that is why he is biting. And that's sad. Two people? Yes. Okay.

You might as well consider putting the dog down. From my experience of a dog's vicious weapon. That is the law in multiple states. I'm pretty sure it's the law in D.C. Let me tell you something. When you are training a dog, especially a German Shepherd, if you are too weak the dog will not obey you german shepherds are particularly tough yeah these are these are

soldier dogs man that's why you know cops use them these these are some of the most uh intelligent and strong dogs joe biden 78 year old man being given these dogs and you were right as a prop yeah it was a prop because he wanted to look cool. They made a big deal about the fact that Trump didn't have a dog. And what man doesn't have a dog in the White House? The White House always has dogs. Obama got a dog, a Portuguese water dog. But it was still a dog.

Right? But still. Leave the Portuguese water dogs alone. No offense to all you Portuguese water dogs out there who are listening to TimCast. Right. But this was a prop. This was to make him look cool and to get that talking point. He has a rescue dog.

And I think it does a lot of damage to the rescue dog community because it scares people. But he should not have been given this dog. You can be 75 and foster a German Shepherd puppy if you have been doing this your whole life. If you know what you are doing. If it's your full-time job. And if you are retired, yeah. And I'm lucky that I work from home.

I live on this farm. But you know, my older blue heeler, which is a great dog, but also is a guardian dog. It's a cattle dog. It is an alpha dog. He's a year and a half, which is in dog years, you know, 17, 18. And he sometimes, I will have to hold him down and yell it. Because he's like, i'm in charge you know what i'm gonna do this and and he will push and you have to push back if you want to and now

that's why my dog which is a interesting breed and aggressive but not aggressive a happy excitable breed but it is as docile could be that people come over and they're like oh my gosh your dog is so sweet that's not a friggin accident My dog is sweet because it takes constant work. And this poor Major, can I have Major Biden, by the way? I will take Major off your hands because this dog is now probably going to get put down as a vicious dog and it's not. He's got a stupid handler.

What if we send in the dog whisperer? Who's that guy? Caesar. Caesar Milano. So Biden is on another reality show all right you know let's do it dude um humans humans uh are being given a really bad name lately because i was talking about this on one of my earlier segments there's this really really awful video where a 65 year old asian woman is walking to church and some guy just brutally beats her just stomping on

her head can't even watch it it's disgusting it's it's horrifying and these two security guards just watch and then one of them walks over and closes the door even after the attacker leaves some people are like oh you know he didn't want to the security guards couldn't intervene because they could get in trouble or be liable and people were like dude the attacker leaves and the woman is writhing on the ground and like raising her hand and they come and close the door and walk away they could have got on their phones and called somebody then do anything and i'm sitting here like humans are are doing really dumb stuff right now and animals are starting to look a whole lot better see this incident with german shepherd joe biden was given his dog it was it was a prop as you said they were like look at this guy with this dog and then the dog does dog stuff and now it's just new another news cycle and i'm thinking about this story with

this this this asian lady and even a rooster even a rooster will set will run and fight predators to protect chickens after it warns the chickens it will make a certain call and the chickens will run in which is great but we have people these days that are are incapable they're weak and i guess what i'm trying to say is when you have a culture of people who just stand there and watch a 65-year-old woman be brutally beaten on the street and they won't do anything, and a rooster will. Something's going good with chicken society. It's not going good with our society because we vote for Joe Biden. I don't mean we here on the show, but 80 million people vote for this guy. And then he ends up being given this dog he can't control i'll tell

you this man if he can't control the german shepherd how is he going to control putin or kim jong-un we are not doing well for ourselves when we're not electing even someone as capable as a rooster to protect us yeah exactly that's that's that's extremely that is extremely well said society is going better than America. Chicken city. And, you know, I'm sure they got the six-month-old puppy. And German Shepherd puppies are adorable. As all puppies. Most puppies are.

But they do grow up. And it's like people who have kids. And they're like, well, this will be fun. That's why I hate that MTV show Teen Mom. Because I think it glorifies how cool it is to be 15 or 16 and have a kid. And I think it does a great disservice. Because kids do grow up. And if they don't grow up in a good environment,

and I'm not, I'm just saying in a good environment, we'll leave it at that. And Hunter, oh, not Hunter Biden. Well, he didn't grow up in a great environment. But Major Biden, the dog, has now had three years not in a good environment, an undisciplined environment. And look at where he is.

Does that maybe explain Hunter Biden? Well, you know, there's an awful lot of going on in Hunter Biden. And I will just say this, and it's going to be a little bit moralistic, and I apologize, but I'm just going to throw it out there. The laptop stuff is bad. The Chinese firms are bad. The Ukrainian firms is bad. That you are sleeping with your dead brother's wife and her sister simultaneously

while you are fathering a child with a stripper, you are a bad person. Jeez. I mean, listen. I have lots of sisters-in-law. I couldn't imagine, well, for a couple reasons. Who raised them? But I couldn't imagine my brother dying and being like, you know what? She's looking pretty good.

And then dating their sister simultaneously and having a child with a stripper. And we're supposed to just pretend this is totally normal. Well, you know, not allowed to discuss it. You know, it's kind of weird about it. It was like, it's his sister-in-law. So it's like, you know, he's hooking up with his sister-in-law. And I thought about how weird it would be that they're like walking around in a relationship and they both have the last name Biden.

Yeah. And they're not married. And their kids are first cousins, but that they're like walking around in a relationship and they both have the last name Biden. Yeah. And they're not married. And their kids are first cousins, but now they're stepbrother and sister. What the heck? So it's like, so what is your dad now? Is it uncle daddy? Uncle dad.

You know? Exactly. I blame Joe, man. I do. Yes. I'm just imagining like Joe Biden standing there the dog, and the dog bites a guy. And then the dog's got the guy's arm, and he's like, help me, Joe! And Joe looks at the dog and goes, come on, man!

And the dog just keeps going. And it goes back to during the transition period when Biden had that cast on. And he said, oh, he got out of the shower, and he pulled the dog's tail, which, A, I've never pulled my dog's tail. That's just not something something hold on you know why is a dog in the shower well it's a little and why are you playing with your dog naked also you could say but my point is these are the questions that when Ivanka tweeted a photo of her two-year-old making a lego house they were like we demand to know if he did this on his own or did he have help and you're like what's going on with with the dog and the naked and the foot?

And it's like, no, no, no. And the son. It's like, no, off limits. Family is off limits. Joe Biden was in the shower with the dog in the bathroom, and he opens the shower and tries to grab the dog's tail. He'd think it was a towel. Yes. Oh, God.

And that's how he sprained or broke his i think the dog and no well i don't maybe the dog jumped on him you know maybe the dog is trying to be the alpha which is what i think probably happened or the dog just jumped on him over the dog fell over because he's 78 yeah big german shepherd but there's something not being told is the well i'm gonna put it this way um I'm imagining Joe Biden. I don't want to be imagining this. I'm imagining from outside the shower. I can't see within the shower.

Joe Biden is in there. He has the door open and the dog walks in and is sitting there for some reason. And then Hunter in his, not Hunter, Joe in his senility goes like he reaches and sees the tail and thinks the tail of the towel starts pulling on it and the dog yanks him and he falls forward and i'm kind of like i mean it's a little benny hill but maybe you know maybe it's a weird story it's a very i'm thinking he pulled the shower curtain open the dog was like excited to see him and he maybe even was like yeah come here and the dog knocked him down. Well, exactly.

And that's the rule. Like no dog separation, anxiety, no dogs in the bathroom. You know, like I, I am, I am sometimes a little bit even prudish,

like dog, like bathroom time, my time, like my one dog will try to knock on the door all the time. I'm like, nope, outside, like bathroom,

no matter what's going on in the bathroom, no one needs to be privy to it. Animal person. I got, I got to ask, um, like bathroom no matter what's going on in the bathroom no one needs to be privy to it animal i gotta i gotta i gotta ask um maybe that was the first sign that the dog should have been taken away yeah when we were like why is dog in the shower like like we're outside the shower or whatever's going on like what what you what are you doing joe but now you see why vladimir putin is challenging him to a live conversation that has to be streamed on youtube in real time and it's like maybe this is why i mean I mean, and I'm not mocking his senility because we all have family members who have gone through

and we witnessed it. I have a grandmother. I have a great aunt. I've seen it before. It's heartbreaking. And it may happen to me one day, but I tweeted this actually a couple weeks ago. I like to think the person I am married to

loves me enough at least that when I am senile, they will protect me from myself and not parade me around for the world to see. And what is happening to him right now in real time, we are witnessing and no one loves him enough to say this is this is not right. And that's tragic. But listen, it's everything we talked about. It's weakness. It's people saying, I'm not going to get involved. I'm not going to stick my neck out.

It's the security guard saying, I'm not going to get involved i'm not going to stick my neck out it's the security guard saying i'm not going to help this woman it's joe biden's own family not telling him to sit down and shut up joe you're too old it's time to come home listen man he's been in he was he served in government what 47 years i was saying this when he was running it's like joe thank you for your service i'm not a fan of joe biden or his policies but i get it we I get it. We're going to be respectful and say it's been a great 47 years. You're 77 years old. We got a nice little rocking chair in the sunroom for you. We'll get you a nice little blanket for your lap and you can read some books, maybe play some Candy Crush or whatever it is. I don't know. You probably need big glasses because he's pretty old.

Instead, everyone around him is like, you should be the president. Poor Joe. And now we're at the point where it's the Biden-Harris administration. And you know, I genuinely wonder if Joe doesn't understand what's happening around him. I don't know. I mean, you look at that summit recently in Alaska. Now, he wasn't present there, but his administration was. And China just basically laughed at us on our own territory. You look at these comments from Vladimir Putin. look at the the increasing hostility from iran and you say the world is not the slightest bit concerned with with him and so the the collectivist world the un is pushing the paris accords the climate change stuff heck we don't even have the backbone to stand up and say let's not have the olympics in china because they

have two million uighur slaves who they are beating and raping on a daily basis. And we're like, nah, it's cool, man. Make another Disney movie. To be fair, and with respect, the Biden administration did issue sanctions on some Chinese officials from the Xinjiang region. So I can give credit for that. Good. Absolutely. We give credit.

Yeah, absolutely. I hope it's the right strategy. You know, I say it that way because I'm like, listen, I'm glad he's doing something. And I hope it's the right move. It might not work. It might backfire. It may work perfectly. I'm glad the Biden administration is at least doing something. And I wonder if what was really going on is that China was was this growing, you know, threat to the US, to the world for a lot of reasons.

And we ignored it mostly because didn't sell. Right. You want to run for office. You can talk talk about china you talk about all these other issues i you know i was we mentioned uh the other day i was watching man of the year with robin williams there's the scene where he's complaining he's like they're they're talking about an amendment to the constitution to beg to ban flag burning while four million illegal aliens cross our border and that was robin williams saying that mind you so it's really interesting but that's the point he's bringing up. When it comes to politics, they're going to come out and they're going to be like, oh, look at all these problems we have. And then Trump comes out and goes, China. And he starts that narrative. And now all of a sudden, people have started to

realize this. There have been polls showing that even a small percentage, like a decent, I think it's like 30% of Democrats are worried about China, mostly Republicans, but not to the point where Joe Biden's realizing the sentiment and the focus on China has become too much to ignore. So now he kind of has no choice. It's a remnant of the Trump era policies

he has to maintain. I'll never understand when it comes to China and we've really gone off course from Crowder, but it's fascinating how this conversation evolves. I want to get rid of that.

I'll never understand when it comes to China. Being a kid of the 80s, I'm older than you. We just talked about ages earlier. We always treated the Soviet Union like an enemy. We were told communism is an evil belief. Communists don't want our best intentions. They are our enemy. We never moved our factories there, right?

But when it came to China, we were like, communists are bad, but I mean, you can make all of our DVD players and our cars and now our wind turbines and our solar panels and basically everything that is sold on Amazon and 95% of our pharmaceutical industry. And I'll never understand why we got into bed with the communists because we always knew communism was an evil belief. Was that Nixon? He opened up China to trade. Yeah. As opposed to saying, no, they're no better than the Soviets.

They look different, but they are just as evil because communism is evil. We treated Cuba that way. We never said Cuba's bad. But you know what? Why don't we move all of our sugar cane production there? But we did with China, and it will always remain fascinating to me. And that is not a partisan issue because Bush did it. Clinton did it.

Another Bush did it. We all watched China rise, but we never had this fear of China that we did with the Russians. And people will say, wow, the fear of the Russians was overblown. It was exaggerated. But we believed as a country that communism was evil. It is. But not when it comes to China. China is like a weird neo-communist capitalist amalgamation.

Probably we're using the wrong word when we call them communists. We have defaulted to authoritarian. But maybe there's a new soci-political movement or structure that could be named and china has enacted it i i don't want to offend our our good communist viewers by besmirching the good name of communism by talking about locally absolutely by i'm kidding but all right in the family communism in the community socialism in the country capitalism i always put it like this like left libertarianism which is like communism you know at its core ideology only works when it's like a handful of people live on a farm together yeah it's like you know i i

picked up the eggs from the chickens you would you like to share a commune exactly yeah it doesn't scale up because you know that was the joke you made the other night. This is the question I was actually wondering when you mentioned, like we said, Russia, the Soviet Union was bad. China is bad, but we can still trade with them. Who killed more people? Didn't Mao kill substantially more people? Close to 100 million. Yeah, that's what I thought.

Starving them. Almost double. I don't even know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Isn't double what the Soviet Union did? Yeah. Let's work with them, I guess. Exactly. Exactly.

Yeah. I mean, he starved close to 100 million of his own people. Pig iron. You know about the pig iron stuff? No. I've never heard of that. I don't know the full story, but it was like he ordered everybody to melt down their tools or whatever.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What was that about? They were trying to make weapons, I guess. And build their infrastructure. Yeah. And then no one had anything with which to cook or to farm. Same with the sparrows. That's right.

I was going to say the sparrows. The Great Sparrow Campaign because the sparrows were eating the wheat. And that was the biggest predator of wheat. So they were like, great, kill all the sparrows. And you would get a little badge every time you killed a sparrow. And all the kids were taught to kill sparrows to get badges until the locusts came no sparrows to eat them because there were no sparrows to eat them and then you know something absurd like 13 million people died that year because there was no wheat because

the locusts destroyed all the wheat crops and you say well this is why communists should not be ever in control well but hold on can't you eat the locusts? I imagine you could mill them into a paste and make bread with them or something. Sure they tried. Probably. But they come from above. I will not eat the bugs.

I will not live in the pods. That's right. Yeah, I'm not eating bugs. I got no problem with eating bugs, man. Yeah. As long as you can catch. I watch these videos where it's like some dude out in the middle of nowhere

and he's like all super ripped and he's like if you want to survive in the wild you got to figure out where to find water and then he goes and he like drinks muddy water and then he's like and food and he lifts a rock and he's like eating milk i'm kidding i'm half kidding but there's a lot of these videos of like survivalists and dysentery here here are the bugs you can eat here's how you eat them here's how you cook them and i'm like i don't care about any bugs when there's no other food i will i mean whatever yeah same you know you do you said you listen listen you do what you need to stay alive we got chickens i brought it up earlier but we have chickens they walk around all day all they do is eat bugs yeah and then when they're old enough they poop out an egg yes you know and eat the egg

i don't got to eat the bugs i eat the egg there you go problem solved were we talking about china transmutation of matter yeah yeah having all the locusts. The problem ultimately was the command economy. The idea of communism is this utopian idea that everyone's holding hands and everyone owns everything and the factory just operates and there's no hierarchy, no leadership. And it's usually, you know, like children and the ignorant who propose it because they don't realize what specialties are. So like you have someone whose specialty is... Building a Keystone pipeline as a welder with 25 years experience.

And then you're told by quasi-communist John Kerry, well, you can just build a solar panel now. Exactly. So what happens is when somebody who actually knows how the infrastructure of pipelines work is seeing all of his specialists who build pipelines and they're told by the guy in government, make solar panels. He's like, we don't know how to do that. Think about how that scales up in communism. The communist government says, just have them all make solar panels. they go here here and they bang the gavel and then all of a sudden a bunch of people are like looking down at circuitry and photovoltaic cells and they're like

what what do i what do i do i plug what in the what and where and like that's what now did with the farmers right he took a bunch of like professors and intelligentsia and moved them out to the farms and it was like now you And they were like, we don't know how. And then they all starved. In the Soviet Union, they used to determine output by weight. So they would say, how many nails did you produce? Well, we measure output by weight. So they made really fat, heavy nails, which are useless, right?

They're not any good. But they were hitting the criteria. And that is the collectivist concern I have of this administration when it comes to tomorrow, they're going to unveil a $4 trillion infrastructure and jobs plan. And who's going to, $4 trillion.

How long is the, over how many months or years is that coming? Oh, you know, I have no idea. We'll see it come out tomorrow. But who are these collectivists saying, yes, this is what we need to make happen? It's democratic. I have willed a train. We were talking about this earlier.

From Miami to Seattle is on the map. And they showed you the map of going through Florida and all across the panhandle. Oh, the high-speed rail? The high-speed rail. Now, how much land they're going to have to confiscate will be absolutely fascinating. But who is this person that has decided, is there really that much of a move from people from Miami to – well, probably from Seattle to Miami because everyone is going to Florida. California has been trying for 10 years now to build this high-speed rail. They are $100 billion at price point. It's not even close to done.

It's 12 years behind schedule. And the price point is so expensive that no one will be able to afford to take the train. Well, this is what happens when collectivists decide they want to be in charge of the train system. Right? Vanderbilt never had this problem. And he built more darn trains in this country than anyone in the world. And somehow he made it work. Take a look at what China's doing.

They've somehow managed to use the authoritarian system to control capitalistic infrastructure, allowing them to rapidly expand their infrastructure. They have, what, 40,000 kilometers of high-speed rail? Yeah. We can't even get this one done in California. Yeah. You know why? Because there's no environmental group suing to say, what about the spotted turtle?

There is no labor group saying, you cannot do this. We need to have weekends off. There's no child protection group. There's no OSHA. So you can get a lot done. And that's what drives me crazy when authoritarians like Paul Krugman and other economists say they marvel at what China is able to do. This is incredible. They built this whole Olympic Stadium for Beijing in a week. It's like, well, yes, they were able to do that when you have basically slave labor with no opposition, with no freedoms. You can build the bird's nest in Beijing in record time. Yeah, it's amazing what you can do as a country when you weld people into their homes when they get sick and you kidnap them overnight for insulting their police.

And the authoritarians like John Kerry and Paul Krugman are never the ones who will be conscripted to the labor. And that's why when people were like, Bernie Sanders is a communist, I would always say he's not a communist. He is a communist party leader. Because at the height of the Soviet Union's misery, there was never a shortage of vodka or caviar. And that is what John Kerry and Paul Krugman and all these folks are. They are never the working class nine-year-old girl who was forced in the labor mines.

They are the party leaders that show up in big fancy cars and have a toast remember when maduro ate the empanada on tv you remember that in venezuela his nation is starving oh yeah yeah yeah and he's still very plump and while he's talking he just reaches into a drawer in his desk and pulls out an empanada and takes a bite of it and i'm just like dude you couldn't wait 10 minutes yeah he had to eat an empanada and takes a bite of it. And I'm just like, dude, you couldn't wait 10 minutes. He had to eat an empanada while his nation's starving. Absolutely insane. When I was in Venezuela, you know what I saw?

How a command economy functions very similarly to what you were saying about China. In order to make jobs, they just say, make it a job. So I went to go buy a cell phone. And there was like six different desks you had to go to. I walk and talk to one guy. It's the acquisitions department. I got a time what I'm looking for. And he explains to me, sends me over to the supply desk. I had to go to each individual person. You want to pick out your plan? You got to go to the person who helps you pick out the plan. Then you got to go to the person who actually goes and gets the card for you. Then you got to go to the person who helps you pick out a phone. Then you got to go to the person who actually gets the phone. They

made fake jobs for the sake of having jobs. Whereas the u.s you walk into the phone store this person walks up to you say i'd like a phone no problem they pull it up they punch in the number take your card swipe it you're good to go for the sake of having jobs they just make everything worse oh that's because a private company in the united states wants to cut down on overhead so they don't hire superfluously but the the government can just accrue tax dollars to pay for nonsense. And then they work for me now. But it's not just about tax dollars

because it's communism or whatever. They're just basically like, we want everyone to be working. Idle hands are the devil's playground or whatever. So make them work, make jobs. And so I'm like, why did it take me three hours to buy this phone? And the phone barely worked. I went to the mall. The mall was dead. I'm like, why did it take me three hours to buy this phone? Wow. And a phone barely worked.

Yeah. I went to the mall. The mall was dead. It's like all the stores are closed. Well, they can't just mandate. You can mandate a job for a company that's a necessity. People need cell phones. This technology is important for people to work and for the economy to grow.

So that was in spite of what the government was doing. Yeah. At a mall where small businesses are supposed to flourish and experiment and make products, they couldn't. They couldn't do it because people didn't have the resources now the craziest thing these photos from venezuela of the of the bolivar i think it's the bolivar fuerte now their currency because the bolivar the billion dollar bill right or yeah they had the bolivar first then they were like we're gonna change this to the bolivar fuerte and then they launched that and now those videos are just people shoveling it to the trash. Yeah.

It's like garbage bags full of money. And it's like more useful as toilet paper than anything else. Devastating. Venezuela will always fascinate me. I always have to talk about energy. It's what I do for a living. But they are the country with the world's largest oil reserves, proven oil reserves, Venezuela. They went from one of the world leaders in oil

to now there's roughly a week wait to fill up your car with gas. And you say how... Milton Friedman used to joke that if the federal government were in charge of the Sahara Desert, they'd eventually run out of sand. Right?

It was his favorite joke. And this is the country with the largest oil reserves cannot produce oil anymore. It seems as though it's intentional by the CIA because they don't want to use OPEC dollars. They've been staunchly anti-military industrial complex. And like, yeah, we're going to destroy your economy. Suffer. Maybe.

Yeah, they're one of the targets. But sure. But Venezuela can mine, can pull the oil out of the ground. It's like they don't have the technology. But they've been sanctioned. They couldn't get like, well, I heard they couldn't get toilet paper. I was never there. And then they made a villain out of their leader.

Like it's who makes textbook CIA stuff. The CIA makes the toilet paper. No, they just sank the US government sanctioned Venezuela. So Venezuela needs to if they were a capitalist economy. Hey, they do a really, really well. If they joined us, if they simply joined the military. I'm not saying that. I'm saying if Venezuela allowed small businesses to grow and flourish and they

didn't mandate ridiculous garbage jobs, maybe they'd have their own toilet paper and wouldn't be worried about the sanctions. Maybe they would then have the infrastructure and the capability of producing machines that could harvest the oil and the petroleum and refine it. But there's kind of a small country and they're a jungle country too. So they don't have a lot of the resources that like. A jungle country? Yeah, there's a lot of jungle in Venezuela. So they need to develop it. The problem is they're a mismanaged command economy where an overweight man eats an empanada on TV while his nation is starving. And the CIA wants him gone.

Look, man. Oh, yeah. to my house or whatever, and there were still tons of land on my property and a capability of taking care of myself, there's a certain point where you've got to be like, well, I shouldn't have bought a property with no easement for the road. Venezuela has the ability. The problem is they are a horribly mismanaged country. Maduro was a bus driver. Hugo Chavez was like, we want a working person to be in charge,

so this bus driver is going to be the president from now on. Welcome to the popularity contest. And didnenezuela dissolve their congress or something i mean venezuela before hugo chavez came into power was by far the wealthiest country in latin america and by far the most educated i mean they were almost on par with the united states in terms of gdp in terms of prosperity so to watch their decline under someone who was elected under a lot of the same rhetoric we hear fair share, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Um, when I'm in charge, we're going to have a blah, blah, blah. And people going back to the, one of the earlier conversations, people vote for their own interests.

And if you make their interest taking other people's prosperity, wealth, uh, absolving your debt, people are going to vote for that. Oh, it's possible because Bush... And that's what happened. Bush hated Chavez, Bush Jr. Yeah. And just because he used military industrial complex all the way.

They wanted Venezuela's oil. So maybe Maduro was kind of like a CIA plant. They got him in and now they're villainizing him. They let him ruin the country. Now they're like, we got to get him out and put another guy in

that's even more sympathetic to us. This is all conspiracy level stuff. Yeah, but it's also. We talk about the CIA and their involvement and we just, we're never going to know. We understand the tales of the economic hitmen. We know about all that stuff. But the fact of the matter remains. I have been to Venezuela.

I've literally seen how awfully managed the country is. I have seen other journalists go there and go to Potemkin supermarkets and lie about the food they have. Luke went there. He went to a random neighborhood market. He's like, it's empty. He traveled around and saw how bad it was. And these other journalists come out with these videos

where they're like, look at all this glorious food in Venezuela. And it's like, clearly that's not true. I had to flee the country rather quickly because I got accused of being a spy simply for being there and showing people what was really going on. There were protests.

Students were revolting. It was bad. Caracas at the time was the murder capital of the world. This is a problem of leadership. And I get it. Maybe there's the CIA doing everything in their power to stop them. But listen, if they're a jungle nation, maybe they should start developing parts of their country.

It used to be that people would go out with a saw and just chop trees down and develop land. Then we got machinery. Maybe they can't get access to a lot of these things, but it doesn't explain why they have ridiculous jobs at ridiculous companies, why they can't start small businesses, why they can't produce food, and they have all of this oil they don't know how to use properly. Now, apparently, oil is cheap for the people there, but it's really hard to get because they're horribly mismanaged. Well, when you're shoveling your currency into the fireplace, it doesn't matter if it's cheap. Right. Right?

I mean, if it costs 45 cents a gallon, you say, well, that's cheap. But if hyperinflation makes your currency useless, well, then 45 cents is as expensive as $4. And also hyperinflation is obviously their fault. It is the fault of their own country. They're reacting. So I'm not going to call it reacting. It's mismanagement, bro. Communists don't.

It doesn't work. Now, I'll tell you this. China certainly figured it out. But look at what China does with their capitalistic enterprises. Venezuela doesn't do that. They have a command economy. Maybe they'd learn if they just looked at what China was doing and they could make their pseudo-communism work. But I guess that wouldn't really be communism.

They're so tiny. That's their problem. They're kind of a satellite state. I feel like it's not an excuse for a country to be like, but America is mean to us. It's like, so? You have to, like, you're responsible for yourself, man. You can't complain that someone else won't send you toilet paper. I'm curious to see what happens with China as their crackdown on Hong Kong continues because it is a huge economic engine.

It's a world economic engine, a financial hub. And they're really cracking down hard on Hong Kong. And if Hong Kong is unable to compete on a financial world level and freedom, I wonder what that does to the overall Chinese economy. I mean, like taking over Hong Kong hard has been a 20-year plan since the turnover, which I think was like January 1st, 2000, right? Wasn't it right at the beginning of the millennial was when the UK gave up Hong Kong? I don't remember the exact date. And there was like a certain time frame. There was a certain time frame.

And here we are 20 years later. And basically, even I'm sure the Biden administration would recognize the word on the street is for the expats is don't stay in Hong Kong. It's going to create Taiwan's next. Go home. Hong Kong was a British colony. And then they were like, after 100 years, I think it was, we're going to give it back to China. China's like, we're going to take Hong Kong, but we're not going to infringe on some of their sovereignty. Although they did by extraditing criminals to the Chinese courts.

But Hong Kong is never supposed to be independent that was never part of the deal so this whole like free hong kong thing is not what was ever part of the global plan the u.s is pushing it right now because everyone i think a lot of americans would love to see a independent hong kong state but the idea was the british give it to the chinese terrifying as it is that was the plan are we gonna what are we gonna back out on that them what year do we live in 2021 where thank you thank you where a country the uk can be like we're going to give the people of this you know small island still a colonization plan or pencil a city they still have australia and canada britain it's crazy but what i'm saying is like if what would happen right now if the UK was like, we're going to give America to Canada.

We'd be like, shut your mouth. That's just not happening. And so what really happens is China sends in spies and propagandists and military and they conquered Hong Kong. They did. They install their people. They remove anyone who opposes them. And now they're just eroding away at the institutions and hong kong will be taken over at the administrative level

it's freakish and i can't see i mean i feel justice at the core of my soul and i feel like justice is to deliver hong kong to the chinese as was planned how is it because that was part of the contract the people of hong kong didn't that contract. No, people 100 years ago agreed to it. They're all gone. It's crazy system. I mean, what do we break the contract? I don't think we have to stick to the contract. You know, they did the Balfour Declaration.

I think it was post World War One was like, hey, Arabs, since you betrayed the Ottomans and helped us win World War One, the British and the French were like, we're going to we're going to give you the land of where now Israel is. And then at the end of World War One, they they reneged on that contract and said, no, Arabs, we're not going to give it to you. They created the Israeli state. And that's where all this tension came from. The Arabs were like, we were supposed to have that.

It was a contract. Yeah, I think giving people their freedom is always a good thing. But returning people to an evil regime is not. And so to say, like, we're going to give Hong Kong its independence from the crown. I mean, we got our independence from the crown. I would be in favor of that. But that would be like America saying, and now we're going to give Puerto Rico to Cuba. And it's like, well, because you speak the same language and you're very close to each

other. Well, wait a second. Why are you sacrificing us as your people? And I feel like the British had they were their people and they turned them over and they turned them over to the communists. And, I mean, we fought the whole eastern block of Europe was to prevent the Soviet Union from infringing more and more in there. Because we realized how evil it was. And now it's like, eh, you can just take it.

Well, you know, take the Czech Republic. It's all good. Take Austria. You guys speak the same language anyway. Isn't it really funny that two world wars and a Cold War were fought for the express purpose of stopping one consolidated power taking over Europe? And then finally they're just like, maybe we should just do it anyway. And then the European Union comes in and there you go. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. And now we're teaching all our kids Mandarin in class because we think it's fun. It's like, great. Just learn of your of your conquering overlords hey you know get get ready for assimilation absolutely is the elephant in on earth is in the room right now like what do we do if it becomes independent china will invade and we'll be forced to have some defensive pact catalyzing world war one all over again or whatever some stupid if we if we if the british keep it then they're under violation of contract i mean that's that'd be a terrible situation china would take it even if britain was like we're keeping it they'd be

like we don't care they would don't care it's i mean it's it's basically connected china they're going to take taiwan because to the pro-chinese individuals they genuinely think taiwan is already part of china the one China policy. So there are like other YouTubers who are super pro-China who have like ragged on me. And they're like, Taiwan is not an independent nation. It is not recognized as one. It is a part of China. And I'm like, okay, well, you know, you have no control over them.

So I beg to differ. You're going to need to send in military to conquer that island because you don't have control over them. They are independent. Yeah. And that's completely different than the Hong Kong. Taiwan is like another pseudo-independent state. But my point is China is preparing to go in and take Taiwan. So you think the UK saw the writing on the wall and they were like well we've fallen from from grace as one of the

great empires of the world and now we're a tiny island nation that can't even win over a win a deal with the eu for you know takes three or four years what are they gonna do against china the queen is powerless so she dropped to her knees and she kissed the pinky ring of xi jinping that's what the queen did pathetic and that's why we should impeach the queen. Absolutely. Impeach Queen Elizabeth. She's a bigot. Dude, this, this, um, the Olympics in China, it's so World War, reminiscent of World War II.

Like we're going to seed land to them like we did with Czechoslovakia, I think it was. And then we're going to hold the Olympics in China to appease them, show the world they're not so bad. Yeah, exactly. And then Joe Biden's going to go, come on, man, peace in our time. And for reference, we hosted the Olympics in Nazi Germany. What was it, 1930 or something? And our U.S. Olympic Committee just allowed.

Today they passed a ruling that you are allowed to protest the national anthem at the upcoming Olympics. So we will have quasi-communist athletes in China kneeling at the national anthem after their taxpayers just paid for their like four years as a speed skater or whatever their little activity is. Why are people ragging on me for being so pessimistic? We've got we've got we've got a diversity chief at the Pentagon who's now being he's being canceled for offensive tweets. We have these diversity, inclusivity and equity officers at all of our companies and schools. Our military is purging people who believe in the vision of the founding fathers. Sorry, man. We are turning

into a satellite state of China. People should be most afraid of China is not the EU or the UK because of their relationship with Hong Kong. If I were in South Korea, I would be the most afraid because they are still a free and independent and autonomous and capitalist country and thriving and prosperous. But they

are small. And now they have 30,000 Americans who are standing at the DMZ as if North Korea is going to invade, which is all a joke. But the other side of North Korea is communist China. And if I was in South Korea, and maybe there are some of you, I'm sure there are some of them listening. I'd love to know their thoughts. If there are, you know, what do you think of this rising Chinese state? Because we're still pretty far from China and they're growing their Navy, but they're still an ocean away.

They don't have an air force per se. They do have nuclear warheads. But North Korea is within a march. I think we spend too much time focusing on things like nukes china has been developing powerful uh cyber uh cyber warfare capabilities they've been attacking our infrastructure i would not be surprised if china has infected the u.s uh u.s industry silicon valley at every single level it's so easy man you know it's almost like they could unleash a virus on the world.

Yeah. Yeah. Computer virus. It's so easy. And all these infrastructure systems were just thrown out. Yeah, computer virus. So what they do is, hackers, it's an age-old trick that will always work

because humans are predictable. I remember back in the day, a guy would have a floppy disk. You know, the old A drive floppy disk? Five and a half? 1.44 megabytes. It's still the same symbol on your Mac. People don't know why it is.

There was the 3.5 and then there's the 5.25. The 3.5, but the 1.44 megabytes and they put a virus on it and they would drop it in front of a bank and they'd walk away.

You know what happens? A bank employs who's a floppy disk and goes, I wonder what this is? Sticks it in their computer and affects the whole system. Nice.

Then CDs came out. You know what the hackers started doing? Dropping a CD in front of a bank. Then USB sticks came out. You know what the hackers started doing? Dropping a CD in front of a bank. Then USB sticks came out. You know what the hackers started doing? Dropping a USB stick in front of a bank.

Oh, I wonder what this is. Yep. So you find a Google employee and someone who supports for China or is operating at China's behest goes easily. It's so much easier than this. They could literally apply for a job a member of the chinese communist party could move to the u.s become a citizen slip through the cracks go to school university plug in the usb into their hard drive and own their entire network it's almost like one could be senator diane feinstein's driver for 20 straight years and no one even knows about it that was real right yeah chinese spy 20 years as a driver and no one questioned wow who's a driver for 20 years like it's pretty

i was a i my first job in the senate was a driver but that's the job of like a kid it pays nothing and it's a driver and you eventually kind of work your way up but this guy was like nope i just want to be her driver listening to all of her phone calls or you could be a um democrat running for office being supported by your good friend, Fung Fung. Yes. He's been in China in more ways than one. And he knows what's happening. Well, look, man, I try to be optimistic as much as I can,

but there's a lot of things to be optimistic. There is chickens, chickens,ens, technology, human spirit. Starbase City. Elon Musk's new city he wants to build. And your million fans who are watching right now who believe in freedom and the human spirit and prosperity. And there are a lot of us out there. But you're right.

It is easy to be defeatist about it out. Yeah, but you know what? Every day we get up, we do this show and talk about this stuff. It's because we're not giving up. Otherwise, I just make Minecraft videos. If we were playing Civ, right, if this was a global game of civilization, I would not be trying to militarily defeat China. I would be looking for other ways. Cultural victory, scientific victory.

Let's build a spaceship first. Elon Musk has gone for that spaceship victory. If we can colonize Mars before the Chinese colonize Mars, that's a big jump start on control of our solar system if if that's such a desired plan yeah elon musk is building starship they had a failure again on the fourth test which is sad but you know he'll keep working and uh one of the victories in civilization the video game is to colonize space before anyone else so uh if elon musk gets that done i don't see china working on you know colonizing space they're well behind us in that regard yeah so maybe we'll be on mars and then china will be like yeah well we got the biggest economy and then a bunch of americans on mars will be laughing and cracking open champagne and being like look at

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That being said, it is time to go to those super chats. So as always, YouTube, for some reason, blocks the name of the first super chat. So I apologize. They say, our country is effed. What skills should I pick up to survive in this dystopian world? Okay. You should download a general survival guide app to your phone right now. Not because the world is going to end, but because sometimes people get lost in the woods. Imagine that.

You're lost in the woods and you're like, what do I do? And you pull it up. If you're lost in the woods, do this. Boom. You get saved. You know what a lot of people do they make a mistake of? Their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. They leave their car.

Yeah. Really easy to spot a car from the sky. Really hard to spot a person. That's a big mistake. See? Survival apps. You got to do. All right.

Let's see. Tony Pieces. I love how the NRA is posting ads on your channel. Everyone just remember no other group has done more for gun control than the NRA. Is that true? I don't know. I'm not a big fan of the NRA. I'm not a huge fan.

I'm a fan of gun rights. But there's a lot of other smaller organizations that I feel do way more. I was really, I wasn't, you know, I've only in the past year or so been getting more and more into guns and stuff. But when that Philando Castile thing happened, I got really mad at the NRA. You know that story? Legal gun owner, black man in his car with a legal gun. And the cop, you know, he gets legal gun and the cop pulled you know he gets pulled over and the cop is talking to him he says i got my firearm with me the cop panics and shoots

him who and where was the nra they dragged their feet well we got to get all the details i'm like nah dude a legal gun owner was shot by a cop who was legally holding his gun that we can't that's messed up dude not a fan of that stuff but i don't know i don't i guess i don't know enough about the nra to say you know anything all right let's see tony rogers says tim you should have crowder on your show i dare you i would love to have steven crowder on this show but crowder runs his own company and so i will tell you this i have spoken with Crowder and I have said bro open invitation whenever just come on the show he's in Texas he's got his own employees his own business this is the difficulty with having people on the show who do other shows I know a lot of people are like get Skype get Skype we're not set up for it I honestly don't want to be set up for it

there is a much better dynamic when you're sitting in a room with someone, looking them in the eyes and having that conversation. So I'll be honest, too. We've had a lot of people who have hit me up, high-profile, prominent personalities who are like, I want to come on your show via Zoom or Skype. And I'm like, I'll be honest. First, I did install Zoom on this when we were first getting set up. And it somehow, like obs and i had to do a uh one of those um previous state thing what was it was it called rewind it i had to rewind the computer i know what you mean because i don't know what caused it we even we even had a recent

guest who was like i'm gonna use the browser version of zoom and that also disrupted and i was like oh geez it's like causing us problems so i was like you know what man it just remote doesn't work the same way it really really doesn't but uh you know i'd love to have crowder on michael uh conany uh conani says have crowder on the irl yes well what you guys need to do is you need to tweet at steven and say go fly out to you know tim's place and mr steven fly out to tim's come on his show because we'd love to have him. Titus Flavius says, just felt the need to correct your Fallout lore from yesterday. Bottle caps are not a fiat

currency. They are backed by cleaning drinking water for their value. Clean drinking water? I'm going to need some documentation on that. Statement. I know you can melt them down into bullets. Maybe. It's crazy. JTWGeek says Tim, did you know the book of Revelations

was written in code? It's Revelation. Someone yelled at me for saying Revelation. Yes, no S. Revelation. John the Baptist was a prisoner and couldn't send religious texts to his followers so he had to make it sound like a madman's ravings. Interesting. Wow. I love this. Austin D says

Tim and the gang love the show so when are you bringing on crowder literally right now crowder could show up at two in the morning i would go live with him if he was here that'd be fun i'd have to drive down be fun you should bring crowder on oh yeah that's a good idea and also steve crowder if you can get him good idea it's it's more up to uh to crowder than it is to me because of course he's welcome to come on the show yeah we there's a lot of people want to have on the show but you's a lot of people who want to have him on the show, but some people are big, popular, famous with their own platforms.

They don't need or want to come on the show. Rising Underdog says, Tim, fly Steven Crowder out and have him on your show this week. Also, you and Adam Carolla need to be on each other's shows. Adam Carolla's neat. Something tells me that Steven Crowder is substantially wealthier than I am

and doesn't need me to fly him out but i would absolutely fly him out first class put him up in a five-star hotel all that stuff because i like stephen crowder i think he's great and i'd love to have on the show but uh look i can especially imagine right now with everything that's going on he's going to be 10 times busier than usual and this is his business they're putting under threat but it would be great to have him absolutely sean reynolds says tim you and steven and tom mcdonald are single-handedly changing the next generation my 14 year old brother-in-law listens to you steven and ben shapiro all the time i hope to get you to meet you someday keep it up brother i appreciate it that's awesome i i heard recently

from a friend that there are some 13 and 14 year olds who watch the show and i'm like i'm glad we're family friendly then and i'm i'm i and i actually think you see we need to uh inspire kids to do things to be responsible to be strong to grow up and i'm also willing to believe that a lot of parents wouldn't let their kids watch a show if we were cussing non-stop and if we were saying really lewd and lascivious things so um it's probably a good thing that we're family friendly because it's not just about whether a kid wants to watch show it's about like you know when i was a little kid my dad would turn on the next start the next generation and i don't know i just sat there and watched it but i grew up with that show it's an all-time favorite show i watch it still like every single day reruns over and over again brilliant

and that's the power of some kids sitting with his dad and his dad being like this show is fine for my kid to listen to it's important ideas if we were costing up a storm they'd be like i'll watch this later i'll listen yeah you would still get a few like i had mother and daughter would watch my youtube videos but i was pretty profane but not i could it's hard to measure like if i hadn't been swearing i probably would have been a lot more of them i would guess i don't know yeah but that's rock star when you get multiple generations of family that's all about your art Hadn't been swearing. I probably would have been a lot more of them. I would guess. I don't know. Yeah. But that's rock star when you get multiple generations of family. That's awesome. Check out your art.

Justin Bookman says, Hey, Ian, as a fellow Ohioan, have did you ever go to Kings Island or I don't know. How do you pronounce this? Geauga Lake. Oh, Geauga Lake. Geauga Lake. Yeah. In Aurora, Ohio.

That was my go to. That was my first theme park. I went on the Big Dipper and the Corkscrew eventually. The Double Loop. No, it was the Double Loop. I did go on the Big Dipper. That was a... And Cedar Point.

I never went to Kings Island, though. All right. He also says, I also have some book recommendations. Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. Great movie. I mean, kind of a terrible movie, but great movie. Sphere and Prey by Michael Crichton. Excellent.

Oh, Crichton. Crichton. Street Lawyer and the Testament by John Grisham. High lids. Hello. I hear Sphere is really epic. Did you ever read that? No.

Michael Crichton novel? Crichton, yeah. It's supposed to be super good. I think they go underwater or something. Liam Dean says, discovered Crowder back in 2016 when it was just him and not Gay Jared. He introduced me to Shapiro, Sargon, and even you, Tim. Thanks to you all, I've been able to stay sane in a world full of jigglypuffs.

Much obliged, all. It is truly a world full of jigglypuffs. I remember jigglypuff. Oh, what a good memory. Yes, thank you. Get this hate speech off our campus. Mike Sullivan says, been watching your show for a couple of months.

Subscribe to your page after seeing Lieutenant Colonel West on your show. Always great content. Thought-provoking, intelligent discussions. Thanks. Well, thank you very much for those super chats. All right, let's see. Paul Sikora says, this nonsense with Crowder is ridiculous.

Bill Richmond drinks their milkshake. Here's money to plug Mug Club again. Release the half-Asian Kraken. If you guys want to, look, I can shout out my website. But for now, the important thing is to make sure that Crowder is able to keep doing what he does. And that's louderwithcrowder.com. And then join their Mug Club. Because they're, look, again, they might not want to hear it.

But it really does seem like they're coming for Crowder. And this time it seems to make, it's unjustifiable. It's illegitimate. I disagree with a lot of the rules anyway, because I had a question earlier. At what point do community guidelines become editorial standards? Almost immediately. Well, hold on. If YouTube's like, you can't harass other people on this platform, define harassment. Well, you know, when you see it. I'm like, okay, that's kind of vague. When they say, you can't talk about this. You can't have an opinion on this. You can't present data on this.

Okay, well, hold on there. These are editorial guidelines for people at, you know, who are posting to YouTube. It's a publisher. But not that that really matters. It doesn't change the 230 distinction. But at a certain point, there's questions that need to be raised about whether or not they're news publications who just are bypassing, I guess, regulation by claiming that people who are posting to YouTube are free to do whatever they want. Because we saw Uber already got, you know, that I can't remember. I think it was somewhere in Europe.

Uber drivers are now employees or something. YouTube is treading dangerously close to this territory by telling me what opinions I can or can't have, what names I can or can't say. It is not a community guideline to tell me I can't say a name. They've done that. No, that's an editorial stance because I've worked for news companies and the editor is like, don't do these stories because we've got issues with that. Okay, well, is YouTube an open platform for posting videos?

Then I should be allowed to have whatever opinion I want. If I target people or even groups of people, that I get. If they're like, hey, you can't disparage a group of people. Okay, I understand that. But what about my political opinion on, say, an election? Nope, nope, nope. Those are banned. Now that's getting creepy.

All right, we got Samuel Pyle says, my generation Zoomers are going to do a tax strike and we need at least 10 million people to show the government we patriots won't be ignored i don't know uh how how you pull off something like that to be completely honest i've always wondered um when i like people need to stand up and and and just if every individual said you know i refuse to work as a waiter unless I get paid this wage, then you'd get paid that wage. The problem is people are all willing to work for a company for a trash wage

and then just complain about it. All right. Daniel O'Sullivan says, On Crowder's last vid on the Chauvin trial, he pulls up a message received from Twitter regarding his suspension, but the overlaid is blurred. Cahoots. I don't know much about that. I do know

he's also suspended from Twitter because they said he made offensive comments or something. I have no idea. Brent Smith said, Tim would like to teach you and your crew how to scuba dive, if you have any interest. Think would be a great episode. Can put together safety divers for movie if ever needed. Scott's scuba

service. We will travel. Hey, thanks, man. I appreciate it. That sounds pretty cool. I love it. Alright, let let's see we'll grab some more super chats here it's just a a period and they say why do the republicans think they're going to win they keep ignoring and discarding their voters why would anyone support them here here that's exactly what i was thinking here here yep i really don't expect to vote republican ever again and a lot of people are like tim that's defeatist you have to vote republican and i don't i voted for trump because trump was something different and there were a few things i liked that he was doing i do not like the republican party at all none of them no i i do a lot of fox and and the

last time a fox tv show and i'm usually the token Republican and I usually take umbrage. I mean, I love doing it, but I am I Republican? Holy cow. I don't think so. I mean, am I on the right? Absolutely. But I don't want to know what Republicans are on the right these days. There doesn't seem to be a whole heck of a lot. If I lived in, where's Rand

Paul, Kentucky? Kentucky. If I lived in Kentucky, absolutely. I'd vote for Rand Paul. I don't and I'm not. Kentucky. If I lived in Kentucky, absolutely. I'd vote for Rand Paul. I don't. And I'm not. Maybe. I mean, I guess the idea is I don't want Democrats in Congress because what they do as a collective is different from what they do as individuals. You know, you could have an individual, you know, saying like, we're going to be a moderate and we're going to do all these nice things for you. But no, you're not.

You're going to get on your knees as whoever the Speaker of the House is. So I'm not interested in that. Yeah. to get on your knees as whoever the speaker of the house is so i'm not interested in that yeah problem is voting against is a dangerous game because if you don't know what you're voting for and you vote against something you might end up voting something worse than exactly yeah exactly well i don't know what else you do about it start your own party i mean really honestly what it comes down to is you do it yourself that's just the nature of the crossland right yeah and then we'll make a it'll be a it'll be a funny um t-shirt we'll meme no no it'll just write it in Crossland. Write me up. And then we'll make a, it'll be a, it'll be a funny, um, t-shirt.

We'll meme it. No, no, it'll just be like a very funny circumstance where Ian one day wakes up and everyone just wrote his name in and he finds himself as president and he doesn't know what's going on. I almost wrote my name in 2016. I was so flustered with that experience. All right.

Pepper O's says many of us in the military look at this as a joke. We know this is not training. This is brainwashing tactics that many college lefties say we go through this time i agree they can shove it we see through their bs i think that person raises a great point in that i'm sure a lot of people are just like i have to sit through this class for an hour all right i'll sit through the class and what do you want me to say at the end say this okay fine i'll sit through it still shouldn't be happening but i wouldn't be surprised if that's the predominant response of just like let me just get through this and easy credits yeah you know like yeah like when you're in college professor what do you want me to say uh okay sure i'll say

this you don't have to show up all the time yeah i am all right so the civic nationalist says tim earlier today you said that very few people stand up for people nowadays but that is how it's always been there are those who are adventurers and those who learn about those discoveries be the change you want to see that's a very good point frank says make the voting test be the same as the immigration test i mean that's actually a really good point you know and then we can frame it as though like well you support immigrants don't you there was a statistic not recently but maybe two weeks ago that was 60 percent of americans couldn't pass the civics, the citizenship exam. And it's not exactly a hard exam.

And most couldn't possibly pass it. We've got a Timothy Peterson says CRT critical race theory in the military. On my first day of basic drill, Sergeant Clark said, quote, there are no insert every slur you can think of in this platoon. We're all green. If you don't work together, you will fail. That's not critical race theory. That actually like that's, in my opinion, a great statement. Don't be racist.

Learn to work together. Critical race theory would be like them coming in and saying, like, there are no of this, you know, racial slur. But there are some of this racial slur, and they need to recognize why they're a problem for this platoon, and you should go do push-ups. That's what critical race theory is. All right, we got Shadi Viceroy says, I find it funny that people say solar energy is super good.

I started working in the field, and holy moly, there's a lot of circuitry and issues with the inverters. I love this guy. field, and holy moly, there's a lot of circuitry and issues with the inverters. I love this guy. Yes, absolutely. Amen. Explain. Elaborate. Well, I mean, look, the technology is not there yet.

And so we are forcing it. We talked a lot about collectivism and central government. We are forcing it faster than the technology allows. Solar panels on your house can maybe power your house if you're not running the washer, I'm sorry, the dryer and the microwave simultaneously. But it cannot, there is no country that is running its electricity on 100% renewable. And there

are countries that are way greener than America wants to be and it does not happen yet. Let me rephrase that. There are no advanced countries. Isn't like Denmark doing 100% wind? No, God no. Not even close. No. phrase that there are no advanced countries isn't isn't like denmark doing like 100 wind no god no not even close no no and and they may be claiming they are but they all have fossil fuel redundancies right there is no there is no 100 renewable and so and where do they all made well 75 of them

china yeah there you go so keep buying solar panels from china this is a very important point from k lorraine i honestly think major the dog just sees the evil in the government dogs are So keep buying solar panels from China. This is a very important point from Kay Lorraine. I honestly think Major the Dog just sees the evil in the government. Dogs are good at that. I'm a groomer. Peawater dogs are stubborn but sweet. Ian, I want to slap everyone who's mean to you. LOL.

Oh, be nice. So the actual story is Major the Dog is the hero who's trying to fight against the evils and the corruption. I like it. Oh, no. It sounds like a comic book. I don't like those people getting hit. That's not nice. No, yeah, definitely.

Morgan Kuika says, I joined the army straight out of high school, but I had to prove that I was going to do that, bring a recruiter in with me, while college was basically being rammed down my throat. Interesting. Jonathan says, From your video earlier,

the problem goes beyond physical altercations. The average age of firefighters especially volunteers keeps going up as the younger generations don't join the fire service yeah it's going to be a bunch of YouTubers

yeah how sad is that who would want to be a YouTuber like the worst job ever do you actually make money on YouTube awful

I know it's not even a real job no join the army join the fire department don't be some guy who sits in a chair and complains in front of a camera all day listen to my opinions i gotta be honest yeah i would absolutely say that a firefighter is very much more important

than the average youtuber oh for sure but the problem we have right now is that trade jobs are being completely ignored because we're the younger generation is being told you want to be a computer scientist or something. It's like, dude, we need people who can fix toilets. And you know what's funny? When your toilet breaks, you will be on your knees begging, please show up today. Please show up today. And they're going to go, sorry, we're booked.

We can be there tomorrow. And you're like, no, my toilet is broken. Ben's made this point. Ben Townsend, who works with us, he's our official intelligence engineer, more or less. But he's like, the things that we will still need our manual trades that our fingers do because we don't have computers that can do those things yet like plumbing electrician i just want to stress this point you might need a computer scientist you might need a vlogger or a blogger maybe people are saying tim you provide a great service because you're helping break those information having very

smart conversations but i will tell you this the moment your toilet breaks yeah you will be begging for a plumber at that moment look we've had we had we had a condensation you know happening on a pipe and it was like dripping causing damage and we're like this is really bad and we call the you know the the plumbing heating and air and they're like we can be there in three days yeah and i'm like no one has ever screamed out in fear like is there a critical race theory major i need a youtuber i need a poetry major quickly um along that same things of of the the learning to fix things etc the very first question you got was that kid who or younger person who said like what can i do to get ready you said the survival video yeah i would also if i could say one thing watch youtube videos don't

play with electricity if you don't know what you're doing. But try to fix things yourself. That's the best advice I think I've given young people. I have so many splinters on my hands from trying to fix things on the farm that I don't know what I'm doing. Like I said, don't play with electricity. Don't get yourself killed. But if something breaks, even your toilet, and you're like, I'm going to try to fix it. I guarantee you there's a YouTube video.

See, we love YouTubers. Try to fix things yourself. It makes you feel like you've accomplished something also why don't we learn stuff can we get some firefighters to film and do a vlog about being a firefighter with gopros that'd be awesome think about how amazing that would be in terms of like content now you want you can't you blur the victims you don't show certain things but explaining what goes on in a fire department showing the fire poles and the outfits, explain what the outfits do. There's got to be someone who does that. I probably just don't know about it.

If there was a YouTube channel where it was just videos of them going into fires and you see their perspective and their tactics. You know why this is probably not is because it's probably liability lawsuits, right? They're government employees. They're probably not allowed to be in the firehouse and say, hey, guys, here's what this does, here's what this does. But it would be great if they did. I mean, I understand in the firehouse,

we've had cops. So we could film firefighters going around and saving people and doing that kind of stuff, and that would inspire people. And everyone likes firemen. I mean, they're usually good looking. On the south side of Chicago? It's one of the oldest jobs of humanity, firefighting probably.

On the south side, people would say, don't call the cops, call the fire department. Because a big fire truck pulling up with the sirens blaring would usually clear up conflicts, altercations. If a gang fight was happening, people would run and hide. You call the cops and it just goes crazy. It goes south. So that's what people would say. I'm not saying it's the right thing to do. Become a fireman.

You're like the biggest recruiter now for the fire department. I think firemen are great. Absolutely. All right. Brandon Tom says rooster 2024. Got to be honest. Like, if we had a rooster as the president, at least they would run full speed towards Putin and, you know, like, flap their wings at him and, like, kick at him.

Biden's just, come on, man. You think China's going gonna eat our lunch come on man you're right look you put joe biden and xi jinping in a room and joe biden's gonna be deferential that rooster is gonna be going nuts i mean you put anybody in there with the rooster the rooster goes after you well i think one of the things they hated about donald trump was that he did point out who our enemies were and people didn't want to hear that it made them feel unsafe donald trump was like a rooster he was a little bit of a rooster china is bad this huge immigration problem is bad yelling this is bad absolutely big weird hair yes i want someone who

has like aviator sunglasses and a puppy and that will make me feel better and now the puppy's growing up to be a full-blown dog and it it's biting everybody. He's an ace. He looks like a fighter pilot. He dresses like one. All right. Jay Rich says, I think if a person is actively on welfare, they should be disqualified from voting. As we've seen, low-info welfare voters often vote for policies that are ultimately to their detriment. Sounds harsh, but they need to be saved from themselves. That's tough, man.

I do think it makes sense when we talk about some kind of tie to the community is requirement for the vote, which would mean at the federal level, everybody always gets to vote. At the local levels, the state level, there would be different requirements and restrictions. But I mean, it's a double-edged sword. People have the right to vote and talk about what their government does. The problem ultimately, though, is I don't think any of these votes matter. Like, we know that special interests sway public policy more than a welfare vote. Yeah, wasn't there a study that came out that Congress followed?

This was like back around Occupy Wall Street. Yeah, yeah. Congress would follow the will of the corporations. Of the wealthy individuals who fund, they fundraise, you know, off of, so. Over the people. Absolutely. That was weird.

Yeah. Jason Dunn says, I also have a blue healer, Goose, 17 months, and he will be my guardian for life. But if you are weak or unattentive, he will see himself as the leader

and all bets are off for control. Yeah. It's pathetic that they thought a German shepherd was a good idea as a PR tactic. They could have, they could hire a trainer. Yeah, they really should. You know what I mean?

Tweet me a photo of Goose. I'd love to see what he looks like. They're beautiful dogs, but he's right. They are not. They're not French Bulldogs, right? That's what people... They're not. You have to constantly dominate them.

And German Shepherds even more, because at least Blue Heelers are a moderate size, you know, 45, 50 pounds. But Shepherds can be 75, 85. They're big dogs and they're strong. They're attack dogs, right? Yes. I mean, yeah.

And so it was crazy they gave this man a German Shepherd unless, and I will give him that caveat, he has had a history of raising German Shepherds. That's a good point. Ahmed Malih says, love watching the podcast while I work out. Tim, here's my obligatory $50 for you to read my resume. I'm applying as a writer. You can find my blog at AhmedMalih.com. Hope to hear back from you soon. Love you guys.

That was never a legitimate thing. That was a joke. You don't need to give us money for us to read your resumes or anything like that. And I have to say we explicitly will not look at resumes based on people sending in super chats because, you know. Some people can't. Yeah, we're not.

It's called solicitation. We're not doing that. But nice super chat, dude. You're getting pumped to this. I used to do that with Rogan podcasts. I get so inspired. I start doing push-ups. You should watch.

I've got a bunch of super chats, but you should watch Carl Benjamin's mini doc on Venezuela and the history of what happened but uh ghost of recon says ian needs to read the history of venezuela instead of relying on the vox breakdown shavez destroyed venezuela long before the cia got involved or sanctions were imposed well i don't know how do you know that the cia wasn't involved since the 70s because maybe these people have read the history and watched the documentaries.

Yeah, but the CIA does stuff that's called clandestine where no one knows about it. Sure, but I think at this point the proper response would be like, I should watch those documentaries. I gotta go.

I gotta educate myself on Venezuela, that's for sure. Carl has a really, really great one. I remember I was watching it on a road trip and it was just like 40 minutes and I was like, wow.

He used to go deep. I loved it. Yeah, really good jeffrey grajic says hugo chavez was on a venezuelan late show one night talking about soccer and colombia got so upset he sent a tank division to the colombian border from the set of the show that's a normal lunatic and they said trump was bad people people are not happy with the with the venezuela stuff let's take it let's go with it chavez was a nationalist populist not necessarily great but all right we'll

read just a couple more here casey finnegan says hey tim watched your interview on joe rogan with jack and his puppet you totally shut them down also saw your recent interview on fox great stuff hey thank you very much yeah the fox thing was funny they were like hey we want to we want to have you on the show and i was like sorry man look i live in the middle of nowhere i'm busy and they're like we will send a truck to your house and i was like what they're like yeah it's a truck and i'm like what it's a it's a it's a it's a van they open the side door and inside is a chair with a tv behind you. They literally pulled up in front of my in front of my studio house parking lot.

And I just climbed in and sat down and there's a camera in front of me. And I was in this weird as cool. It was like this weird little like soundproof room to get me a piece. So we should build something like that for the road. I mean, we mobile. We tech sound booth. Yeah. that for the road trip i mean we mobile yeah we tech sound booth yeah so we actually for those that are listening we actually are planning a uh a tour setup we have a truck we've got a 40 foot rv

where we can do this show and the goal is at some point go to nashville spend a week there then do a friday night live show at a venue then go to austin spend a week there friday night live show at a venue then go back to you know i don't know what the next city would be but another city on the way and then a week later make it back to home base so uh yeah we probably could say we're talking about media manipulation did you see his fox video i did yes there's something about that like official um what would you call it like spectacle where like it's got the it's got the thing in the background that you're used to seeing it's got the bar across the bottom chiron that made it look like it's got the it's got the thing in the background that you're used to seeing it's got the bar across the bottom that made it look like he's got he arrived he's arrived

and people are like i'm so glad you finally made it to the big times and like i was on tucker show i was on tucker carlson before but when you see that spectacle it like almost like brainwashes you to think it's official i've actually i've actually been on cable news like a lot i've been on jesse waters show a lot. Oh, really? Yeah, they used to have me on all the time, more so when I lived in the New York area. Can I encourage you on this road trip? Hit rural America also. Oh, definitely.

Cities are great. Kansas City. But even ruraler. I mean, I'm sure you've got listeners right now or watchers who are going to say, come to this small town in Idaho. Blossom Music Center. You don't know about. But small town America is the heart of this country.

The issue is mapping out connectivity. Yeah. So right now, it took us months and months and months, but we finally got the strong gigabit internet connection. Ridiculously expensive to get rural gigabit, mind you. If we go out to small towns and we're on cell tech, cellular lines in order to do the show. You're dead. Just lower quality.

That's a valid point. But I'm actually fairly confident we can find areas where they'll have 20 to 30 megabits up or down. But when I've driven across the country before, even to this day, there are a lot of areas that only get four or five megabits. That's what I get on my farm. Yeah. Via satellite. It's not very good so i've actually we've been looking into satellite internet because satellite internet we've actually used on this show before when

our internet's cut out it automatically jumps over to the satellite feed which is i think like what is it five or six megabits up yeah and that's that's a that's good for a broadcast uh it's not a safe amount but it's possible and i'm like if we could get that satellite on the the rv we'd be good i just i've looked at all these different companies and they don't offer the speeds for rv internet so we'd have to like figure out some stronger solution but uh let's just do one more super chat rg merkel says i was a firefighter firefighter in north st louis county during the ferguson riots riots. We were assisting Ferguson Fire Department when needed. We sadly kept firearms and body armor on our fire truck for our safety.

Man, that's sad. I was there at those fires, man. We were driving down the street and you could feel the heat of the fire through the car. The fires were so massive. It was insane. Wow. The whole street, West Florissant, everything just lit up. Every building.

Oh, fire. We saw people walking around with gas tanks with with gas cans sorry you know and pouring it and lighting things up yeah i remember there were some cops walking by and we watched someone light up some garbage trying to burn a building down and as the cops walking by i was like hey yo they set a fire over here and then a bunch of people got mad at me and like whose side whose side are you on? And they were like, shut up, man. What are you doing? You're going to get us beaten up.

And I was like, the cops are coming in to put a fire out? I don't know, man. Like, I wanted to let them know there's a fire. That's crazy to me. They wanted the buildings to burn down. That was the right thing. That's the wrong thing. I'm not, look, I'm here reporting.

But like, someone sets a building down. I'm going to be like, yo. You're like the paladin in the group in D&D. You i cannot allow evil and you're like call it out even if it's your own party member well they think the cops were evil but i'm like i don't know what burning down this building has to do with anything and someone could be in there and get hurt man yeah but they wanted it so when i shouted where was that me ferguson dang yeah anyway my friends if you haven't already smashed that like button subscribe to this channel because we will soon be breaking one million subscribers. And YouTube is going to have to give us that golden plaque or whatever.

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