Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #303 - Guatemalans Protest Kamala Harris Saying "Go Home, Trump Won" w/FreedomToons
Episode Date: June 8, 2021Tim, ian, and Lydia join friend and fellow YouTuber Seamus Coughlin of FreedomToons to discus the reactions of Guatemalans to Kamala Harris visiting their country (not positive), the Supreme Court's u...nanimous choice not to give additional leeway to illegal migrants, the US Air Force preparations for potential war with China, a California judge who gave gun owners in the state a massive win in the form of overturning the highly unconstitutional 'assault weapons' ban, Twitter's suspension of a former US official for choosing to compare Brian Stelter to the 'gimp' character from the Tarantino classic 'Pulp Fiction', and the concept of lithium in water supplies to keep the population docile and happy against their will. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Kamala Harris says she's not going to go to the border because it would just be a gesture.
But she actually went to Guatemala where she was greeted by protesters who were saying they liked Trump better, go home, and that they said Trump won.
And then Kamala Harris said something really interesting.
She said, don't come to the border.
I was actually surprised that she said that considering.
But not really.
I mean, Joe Biden said something similar.
There's a big difference between what they say and what they do. And so far their
policies have been pretty bad. They finally formally ended the remain in Mexico policy.
Trump came out and said a whole bunch of stuff, criticizing them. And I got to say beyond this
Monday, it's crazy. There's a lot of news. We got an op-ed out of the wall street journal saying
the science suggests a lab leak.
We got the scientist who told Fauci in January of last year that it may have been engineered,
deleting his entire Twitter account after people pointed out that what he was sending to Fauci and what he was tweeting were completely different, which is very weird, suggesting
the scientists doing the research the entire time were acting politically, saying one thing behind closed doors, but then saying certain things publicly for some reason.
I wonder why.
That's embarrassing.
Yeah, it is.
We got other news, too.
This is crazy.
An Amazon driver brutally beat a woman after she refused to check her white privilege and complained about a package delivery.
You wonder where that racist, psychotic behavior comes from sorry man look i think racism is bad
i think anybody getting attacked you know based on race is extremely horrifying and there's a
problem when the left is exacerbating racial hatred and violence and uh we're going to talk
about that so we're hanging out once again with shamus of Freedom Tunes. Great to be here. Great to be here.
And I just wanted to comment
on the story about that scientist
not being completely forthcoming
about the information he had.
It's interesting because I was told
that we should trust the scientists.
But as it turns out,
they're human beings
who sometimes say things
that aren't true.
Man, it's like almost
all of them are lying.
There's right now,
there's a weird investigation.
I should say there's an investigation
and it's weird
because it's like this guy says
to Fauci privately,
hey, it looks engineered. Then publicly, he's like, no, it's crazy. it's like this guy says to Fauci privately, hey, it looks engineered.
Then publicly he's like, no, it's crazy.
It's a conspiracy theory.
But then like a few months later, Fauci gives apparently one of his organizations a grant.
It's still being looked into, so I don't want to make – we don't have anything pulled up.
But I'm doing a lot of research on this, the journalism of trying to figure out what actually happened there.
But some people are suggesting maybe he said the right thing publicly.
It's good for Fauci and then an organization.
Or maybe it's just coincidence.
We don't know.
So we'll look into this.
There's a lot of rumors flying around.
Oh, we got Ian.
He's chilling.
Ian Crosland in the house.
You know, there's no one I'd rather talk about racial violence with than you, Seamus.
Thank you.
I appreciate that, Ian.
I don't know what that means, but I will always take it as a compliment.
I know we are homies.
It's a weird compliment.
I don't know what it means, but Ian's saying it.
I know Ian has a good heart. It's because there's no
one who understands racism better
than a white Catholic Irish guy. It's true.
That's actually completely true. Your ancestors have been
through it. I mean, Irish people weren't actually
white in the early days. That's actually a good point.
That's true. Couldn't drink from the white drinking fountains.
That's true. I've got
stories also from family members.
I mentioned this on a show before.
I don't want to divulge too much and give up too much of my family history.
But, yeah, Irish people didn't have it super great when they first came to the United States.
They did not, no.
Yeah.
So weird.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm in the corner as well.
Similarly Irish to Seamus.
But I think my family came later.
When did your family come to the States?
I would say in, like, the 20s.
They moved to New Mexico.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Mine was, like, the early 1900s.
Yeah, just before yours.
Ian looks like some kind of Nordic.
That's what I'm talking about.
I think I'm Irish and German, and I think maybe Neanderthal.
Possibly.
That explains it.
Yeah, it's the big forehead.
I feel like I have that.
I've got the eyebrows, you know what I mean?
I'm Irish and British, so I'm internally conflicted.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Now I understand.
I don't know why you just wouldn't look into the Irish.
What's the conflict there?
What does England even have against Ireland?
I know, right?
Just choose the Irish.
They both love each other.
There's nothing bad between these countries.
Have you been to Ireland?
Yes.
Well, I've been to Northern Ireland.
What were you doing over there?
There was a big, it's the Bonfire Night.
I forgot what it's called.
I was in Belfast and they stack up like 60 foot wooden, like, so they stack up all of
these wooden pallets super high and torch it.
And the fire is so intense that it like burns holes in the ground.
Whoa.
Yeah, I guess the left says it's like a bunch of fascists or something.
And I'm like, I don't know, man.
Who do they not say that about, though?
I know.
I know.
St. John's Eve?
It's Northern Ireland.
So, you know, then one group and the other group.
And I'm like, I don't know, man.
Like, I'm just here.
I'm like a tourist.
We're walking around and people are starting fires and I'm just chilling.
Was it like a festival?
It's like they do it every year.
Oh, I guess.
It's like bonfire night.
It's like a big thing.
Great country. Although I've only been at the airport in dublin yeah never been once i've actually been to uh you know ireland i was in northern ireland so
there's like you know yeah exactly but it'll be interesting because between the irish and the uh
the british that's what you end up with northern ireland that's why you were there that's yeah
all right uh oh let's read the news and talk about the kamala harris and then these other
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Can I actually say something there?
When you mentioned fact-checking, it reminded me.
I actually need to fact-check myself.
I got a fact wrong on our last show or two shows ago.
What was it?
I said the U.S. has more economic mobility than any other developed nation.
That's not true.
It's higher than most people think.
So, like, 12% of people will be in the top 1% at some point.
56% of people will be in the top 10%.
The income brackets are really fluid,
but we don't have the most economic mobility.
So I was incorrect about that.
I'd have to double check.
I just know it's not us once I look back into it.
So that's my mistake.
If I make a mistake, I want to clear it up.
I don't want to spread misinformation.
Oh, man.
I wonder if it's China.
Tim's kicking me out. Because you go from peasant to party member. I don't want to spread misinformation. Oh, man. I wonder if it's China. Tim's kicking me out.
Because you go from peasant to party member.
You go down really fast.
Yeah, yeah, downward mobility.
Let's talk about what's going on in Guatemala.
We've got this story from the New York Post.
Guatemala's president blames Biden for border crisis
as protesters tell Kamala Harris that Trump won.
This is amazing.
These photos. Go home, Kamala. Go home. Kamala Harris that Trump won. This is amazing. These photos.
Go home, Kamala.
Go home.
Kamala, mind your own business.
And a big sign that says Kamala Trump won.
That is crazy.
I didn't expect this.
I would have thought.
Actually, no, I take that back.
This makes a whole lot of sense.
The people who are staying in Guatemala
probably like what Trump's policies are towards Guatemala and what
they should and shouldn't be doing. The people who are leaving Guatemala, they're not going to
like Trump, right? That makes sense. Yeah, because Trump's the guy's blocking them from trying to
get into the U.S. So naturally, the people who remain are like, yeah, go Trump. Well, and you
sort of touched on this earlier, but the messaging that the Biden administration is sending to people
who might be considering migrating to the U.S. is so mixed. Kamala goes down there and she says, if you're
thinking of coming here illegally, don't even try it because you will not be welcome. If you're one
of the illegal immigrants who's already here, one of the 11 million plus who are already here,
you're going to be naturalized and we're going to give you citizenship because there needs to be a
path to citizenship because anything else would be inhumane. But you're not welcome to come here
if you're not already here. It's insane. This is one of the biggest problems with this administration, okay?
Because I want to do that check.
Do we have Biden derangement syndrome?
No.
Yeah.
No, we don't.
Check it out.
Dallas News reports VP Harris in Guatemala says border visit would be mere grand gesture.
Warns migrants do not come.
Okay, come on.
I mean, look, maybe gesture, fine, whatever.
Trump went down and surveyed a lot of the border.
It was a big issue.
He knows the American people were concerned about it.
He went.
I think about this Trump derangement syndrome or Biden derangement syndrome thing, and I'm like, honestly, I think it really does in many ways come down to a difference in opinion based on what is, what deserves priority. And so I think there's a lot of people who are like liberals, leftists,
mostly liberals, leftists, you're a different space,
liberals who are just like, I don't care all that much about illegal immigration.
I just don't.
And so Republicans do, and then the left is like,
why aren't you talking about January 6th?
And Republicans don't.
They're like, because it was a right.
So it really is like a difference of opinion that there's no,
obviously in media there's a lot of fact-based problems where the left or the right believe
different things but i think a lot of it's just subjective morality i don't think january 6th
was the apocalypse i think it was a right i think it was bad i think it was you know it was serious
but not the apocalypse like they're putting out to be what did anderson cooper say
here's what he said oh well no no i was that worst attack on this country since 9-11.
Oh, Civil War.
Wow.
That is hardcore.
Wow.
JFK getting assassinated.
Sure.
But I mean, so I hear what you say about people putting different emphasis on different issues
based on where they are in the political spectrum.
But the Biden administration's messaging on this has been very confused.
Sometimes they're saying things that are very warm and friendly and open to people who want to come here. And then other times it's, well,
you're not welcome. So like Biden putting a moratorium on deportations and then Kamala
going down and saying illegal immigrants are not welcome here to me seems ridiculously conflicting,
regardless of how you feel about illegal immigration as an issue.
It's a fun house mirror of policy because early on in his campaign
and even, you know,
Biden got blocked from doing this,
but Biden was like,
we're going to put a moratorium
on deportations.
Come on, man.
And then, you know, he gets in
and now they've officially ended
as of June 1st,
the Remain in Mexico policy,
which was Donald Trump's policy
that said if you come to the border,
we'll process your asylum
while you remain in Mexico.
So they officially ended that.
Now they're doing catch and release.
So people are once again encouraging people to come in.
They catch them.
Let them go.
In fact, Joe Biden, his administration has been smuggling migrant children into different states in the dead of night, which is one of the creepiest things I've ever heard.
Now, here's the funhouse mirror, because now Kamala Harris says do not come.
Right.
That's funny.
Like a week ago, Biden announced he was increasing the amount of refugees and asylees they would allow into the United States.
So Biden's like, we're going to increase the amount of people that we allow in.
And then Kamala goes, but don't come.
Yeah, exactly.
They're going to be like, no, I'll come.
And Biden's going to let me in.
What?
That's the thing.
This is sort of what I was touching on a little bit earlier.
I don't know if I articulated it quite well enough, but to say we need to naturalize all of the illegal immigrants who are already here, but then turn around and say
none of you should cross the border, though, to me is completely pointless. Of course they're
going to come over here. Like, what are you saying? You're welcoming them. You're inviting
them, even if not with your words, then with your actions. But I kind of feel like that's part of
it. Kamala Harris, she won't go to the border. Right. That's serious.
She's showing she's not serious.
Right.
It's just a gesture, Tim.
Right.
It's not a priority for her.
And that's what I was saying.
Like, I think a lot of Democrats are just like, who cares?
I think people like Kamala, she's thinking about, is this going to get me votes?
The answer is no, because the Democratic base, they were the ones that want to open borders.
They were the ones that on the debate stage that the moderator i can't remember who was how many of you are in
favor of giving universal health care to illegal immigrants or legalians and they all raised their
hand my favorite is the democrats who like kind of look around like is this what we're about now
they're like really okay all right guys i guess yeah so so i think kamala's just like i don't
care it's like i know some people are bothered by it, so I got to say something.
But she's not going to say much.
Meanwhile, the actual policies are making the problem worse.
And, oh, yeah, this is crazy.
A lady just pulled this up, the Denver Gazette.
Republican wins mayoral race in majority Hispanic McAllen, Texas.
McAllen is where they expanded the detention center.
They have kids sleeping in dirt.
Big issues.
So if you look at South Texas, if you look at Miami, dude, remember during the 2020 election,
there was a safe blue district in Miami?
Flipped red.
Yeah.
That was crazy.
It's because, what did this guy say?
He said something about communism was being bad.
I don't know.
Maybe it wasn't this guy.
But these areas, like South Texasas majority hispanic they do not
like illegal immigration and i have to imagine because a lot of these hard-working americans
people who came here legally are working and they're seeing what's happening i think this is
correct i actually had a friend who came from chihuahua and she told me that her parents told
her that she was going to do it legally so that people would respect her she did not like illegal
immigrants she's like they just come here it's easy for them they get everything they want i worked so hard and
they're just taking advantage of this system and it's it's literally the system i'm now paying into
it's not there i would imagine i don't know for sure but like if you're in a big city the illegal
immigrants that are there are already kind of assimilated like they have jobs sort of but the
ones on the border are like random people that just got over here maybe don't even have any intention of going to a city to get work they
just want to avoid the chaos of south i don't know biden's been sending migrant kids in the
dead of night to various states yeah they're they're they're shipping uh these illegal
immigrants into like ohio and then having them detained by the local police they're like oh we
detained these these illegal these illegal immigrants,
so we need the police in Ohio to hold them.
Then once they get them, say, okay, cut them loose.
And they release them directly into their community.
It's spreading them out all across the country.
It is the weirdest thing.
Now, I have a question, though.
In the story about Kamala and the protesters,
who's the racist one?
Oh, man, that's rough.
Here's what we'd have to figure out tim we need to do an analysis on the crowd and figure out how many are men and how many are
women because kamala is a woman of color right if most of the people in the crowd are women to the
point where we could say the crowd is represented by women then it's kind of a toss-up but if the
crowd is mostly male in fact it doesn't even matter right if there's any men in the crowd
then the crowd is somewhat male so kamala, it doesn't even matter, right? If there's any men in the crowd, then the crowd is somewhat male.
So Kamala has to be the victim here, no?
Based on the rules of intersectionality?
You've got math planned for this.
Exactly.
I know what's up.
Yes.
No, but I guess the serious question is, like, I think one of the reasons you're not going to see this story prominently on the left is just that it makes no sense for the narrative.
Like a third world country or however they would describe it minority country saying they like trump better oh mcallen
texas they flip they flip republican south texas district miami flip trump flip trump guatemala we
like trump better yeah i'm not saying everybody in guatemala likes trump better but it's it's
he's gonna run there he's like i'll president. Then he becomes president of Guatemala and just takes over the United States.
What?
Wow.
I don't know.
I have to.
I could do it.
I get the job done.
If anyone could, it's him.
He just gets 100% approval in Guatemala and then annexes the neighboring countries.
He starts annexing neighboring countries until he gets the United States.
There you go.
I can see Trump just going for it
right from Guatemala. He's like, we're going to
take America.
I don't know what the average
worker is supposed to think about this kind of
thing. I love that
people around the world are
invested in the politics
of the United States to the point where they're going to complain.
That's awesome to me. This is global.
This is way beyond U.S. borders.
I kind of like when people aren't that invested in our politics and don't comment on it, if
I'm completely honest.
Yeah.
Those days are done.
I know.
Why is it that so many places around the world are obsessed with America?
I think because of Hollywood.
They hate us because they ain't us.
We got like the cultural hub of the world in Hollywood.
We have the fiscal, not really, kind of the fiscal hub of the world with the U.S. Federal Reserve and the U.S. dollar.
That's kind of the Bank of England.
I mean we have the Federal – we have the World Reserve Currency for sure.
The Swiss Bank.
It's kind of coming out of Switzerland, but we're like the spearhead.
So the world looks at us as like the financial centerpiece and the cultural centerpiece.
Not us necessarily, but this country.
I think it's movies.
When you look at what Hollywood is churning out,
I get why the world hates us.
I do understand.
I don't even think
it's our foreign policy.
I really think it's Hollywood.
I'm being facetious here.
No, no, no.
It's like in that Vox article
from I think it was a year ago
or two years ago.
Yeah, I think it was
two years ago now
where they asked
one of the migrants
in the caravan
why they were coming to America
and the guy said,
I miss Buffalo Wild Wings.
Yeah.
I'm like,
Buffalo Wild Wings is like, there's a bunch in Mexico, you know?
The restaurant.
Yeah, the restaurant.
I mean, I love B-dubs too.
Maybe it's just not as good there, though.
I can't remember the last time I went to a B-dubs.
Oh, B-dubs is, B-W-3s is Buffalo Wild Wings?
Buffalo Wild Wings?
I didn't know that's what B-W stood for.
B-dubs.
B-W-3s?
What is it?
That was a B-W.
That was a B-W restaurant in Ohio.
I don't know if it's called a BW3s.
It was in Ohio.
Interesting.
Buffalo Wild Wings.
Got it?
Yeah.
Double Ws?
Yeah.
BWs?
Come on, bro.
You never had BWs?
You never had Buffalo Wild Wings?
I don't think you're talking about the same thing.
You're talking about Buffalo sauce, which is Frank's Red Hot, and that's the secret
ingredient in Buffalo Wild Sauce is Frank's Red Hot. Anyway,
dude. You're talking about a restaurant.
Yes, I'm talking about these people who are walking
through Mexico, and the
reporter's like, why are you,
why won't you stay in Mexico? And the guy's like, I miss
Buffalo Wild Wings. And I'm like, dude, it's right
there in Mexico City. I went there. No, no
joke. I went to the Mexico City Buffalo
Wild Wings. It was great. It's wonderful.
I mean, this is like me missing Portillo's.
Like, why are you going back to Chicago?
I've missed Portillo's.
I mean, I didn't go to Chicago for that.
But you ordered it.
You ordered it, man.
It's fantastic.
It's true.
That's why I come here.
Someone in the audience asked if I was kidnapped.
Actually, Tim just has Portillo's.
No, but I think when it comes to these migrants, they're watching American TV commercials,
movies, and so their whole perception of reality is based upon american cities and stuff you know youtubers this is also a great
place to live it is awesome in many ways i mean it's it's going downhill unfortunately especially
with the kind of thing the kinds of things we've been tolerating over the past year and a half
uh particularly though those are probably more of a symptom of the issues we've been tolerating for
much longer than that but yeah america's a great place. Yeah, we got B-dubs.
We got Buffalo Wild Wings. That's why people are coming here.
It's like going sledding. Yeah, we're going downhill.
How many times did we say Buffalo Wild Wings so far?
I don't know. They should be paying you. I'm supposed
to say it five times.
We have to name it five times.
The Quaker Steak and Lube on the
border of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Best wings place in the world. Or in the United States.
What? I don't know.
I think that's true.
They got a hundred sauces.
Get sponsorship deals with all sorts of food places.
We'll be discussing something political, and then Ian turns it over to some kind of food,
and we have to explain a restaurant to him.
That'll be just a brilliant marketing scene, because people will think it's authentic.
Yeah. It would be funny if we actually had just like 50 sponsors per show.
And we've got this big story from NBC News.
Supreme Court unanimously rules against immigrants
with temporary status.
Man, that's almost as shocking as the delicious flavor
of the Popeye's chicken sandwich.
I'm just kidding.
I honestly couldn't believe it when I tasted it.
Crispy skin.
This is a throwback joke for the people watching
who have no idea what's happening.
No, but let's jump to the story. This is 9-0. This is a throwback joke for the people watching who have no idea what's happening. No, but let's jump to the story.
This is 9-0.
This is crazy.
Supreme Court unanimously rules against immigrants.
If they enter the country illegally and they have temporary protected status, they cannot get green cards.
Here's what I love about this, and I appreciate it that it says in this.
It's just kind of a funny headline.
It says the Supreme Court unanimously rules against immigrants with temporary status.
And then right below, okay, like illegal immigrants.
And then at the very, very, very bottom of the article in the last paragraph,
Monday's decision does not affect immigrants with TPS who initially entered the U.S. legally.
So the headline literally is immigrants.
This is what they're doing.
They've been consistently conflating illegal immigrants with immigrants.
For years.
For years.
Why?
Because it's an easy way to win the discussion.
Like, who wants to say they're against immigrants?
It's much easier to say you're against illegal immigration.
You don't like when people break the rules and they come into your country despite the fact that your nation has set up certain parameters for someone entering so that we can monitor who's coming in and they've decided to
disobey those rules all right that's reasonable how could you disagree with that but if you say
that those people are just mean haters who don't like immigration in general so it keeps dumb
people in check because anybody anybody who actually can discussion anyone who could actually
read this and discern what's happening knows they're not talking about immigrants who enter the country illegally and they're not talking
about refugees that's a big difference is a refugee and an illegal immigrant if someone's
fleeing hostility we have a duty to take them in i think you know most people do there's limits
yeah with the limitation so you don't destroy your own system but exactly illegal immigration
is not is not that.
Well, and this is the point, right?
Yes, we should be helping people who need our help, but the well-being of the people already living in the country needs to be taken into account.
There has to be some kind of balancing act.
But if you support unrestricted illegal immigration, what you're saying is that balancing act doesn't matter.
As many people can flood this country as want to without there being any oversight and if you disagree with that you're a hater and the way they convince people of that is by framing it as a
discussion of people who are pro-immigrant or anti-immigrant rather than people who are pro
illegal immigration and pro following the law bro there's there is a a chaotic destructive entity
hacking away at the roots of this nation and it's it's hard to even say that we remain a nation
i know a lot of people on the left will immediately attack this idea.
If you come out and you say that we are at risk of not being a country anymore, the left will immediately start attacking you.
Why? It's true. It's a vulnerable, vulnerable spot for them.
Let's think about a few things.
The Democrats in debate stage in last year and the year prior in the election cycle raised their to give taxpayer-funded medical care to non-citizens.
California has actually done it.
You've got Democratic interests and media conflating illegal immigration with legal immigration.
Why? Because they want it.
You've got the same ideology, this woke group, literally rewriting American history, the 1619 Project.
Now it's being resisted.
But when you like, we mentioned this last week, but when you've got people rewriting
history and teaching in schools, a totally revised American history, now Washington state,
this was Jason Rance reported this is mandating critical race theory.
So, you know, they're teaching kids fake American history.
What's going to happen?
These kids are going to grow up and they're going to be like, America was founded in 1619
as a slavocracy. And you're going to be like, America was founded in 1619 as a slavocracy.
And you're going to be like, that's made up.
We know it's made up.
We actually had debunkers and news.
It doesn't matter.
They teach it to the kids.
20 years from now, they'll say, I know what's true.
You're lying.
That's my reality.
So now the history of this country is under attack.
The embassies are flying flags of that ideology.
The people who are pushing that ideology politically are trying to
flood the country. They're saying illegal immigration and immigration are the exact
same thing. Legal immigration is fantastic. I think it's great. We get a lot of high-skilled
work. We basically, when we have legal immigration, in many instances, I was reading this story about
it. There's like a good portion of those who immigrate legally are high-skilled workers,
and then a good portion are low-sk. But the high skilled workers are bringing their
innovation, their technology, their resources and ideas into the US. It's great for us.
Illegal immigration, not so much. It's bad for everybody. It creates a massive supply of a
workforce at the lower level making work. So you have a massive supply and limited demand for low
skilled labor, making it more difficult for people in America.
Overall, it's just very bad for lower-income individuals.
They're conflating these things.
They're claiming that the right are the ones destroying democracy, that are attacking democracy.
If this keeps going this direction, and I think it likely will because Republicans don't do anything about it. Republicans engage in the conversation. The Democrats decide they do.
Then in 20 years, there will not be a United States as we know it.
The history is going to be 1619.
And there's going to be a complete shift in demographics in every different place, especially with Biden, you know, shuffling immigrant children, illegal immigrant children all across the country.
It is going to erode at our civic institutions.
And I think this is one of the big reasons Democrats keep saying democracy and why they've been saying it for a
long time. We're not a democracy. We've never been a democracy. We have democratic institutions like
our electoral process, but we are a constitutional republic. Democracy makes it easier to subvert the
will of the citizens. So now we're going to be entering a period where, yeah, your money is
going to get stripped away from you. Joe Biden is putting an invisible tax on the working class and the lower
class in a variety of ways. And it continues to just eat away at the United States. And what's
going to be done about it? I mean, there's a resistance, but a resistance is not a reversal.
So we can talk about this. We can vote for certain individuals. But in the end,
you get Republicans who agree with the framing
from the Democrats, agree with them in the long run, and in 10 years, the Republicans
will be completely aligned with where the Democrats are today, and the Democrats will
move continually in this other direction.
Until what?
Yeah, I mean, the entire nation falls apart.
I hope I'm not starting to sound like a broken record on these points, but I've said this
in the past.
I mean, leftism is just social decay transformed into an ideological system of thought.
And so it almost seems inevitable.
But on the other hand, I think we can turn this around.
I think you're absolutely right that all Republicans or conservatives are trying to do is resist instead of putting forward an ideology of their own.
And that's a huge part of why they're losing.
And I'll sound like a broken record again, but this is also why I believe fundamentally conservatism has to be rooted in Catholicism.
You have to have values that you're forwarding.
You can't just say X, Y, and Z that the left is trying to do are bad, but we're not going
to give you a coherent system of thought that should replace that or which is undergird
or excuse me, undergirding our present system that we should stick to.
Yeah, Republicans are against things.
Democrats are for things.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
And if that's the case, then you're gonna get a bunch of leftists saying,
we want this, and Republicans saying, slow down.
And that's it.
And then eventually they get what they want.
Now, I think the Trump era, Trump supporters want things.
And they're demanding.
And so that was a problem for the left.
I guess the issue is, if you live in the blue-pilled
reality of the Democrats, you know, the Republicans are snarling demons who have ultimate power,
and everything's their fault when they could barely get anything done. The left frames
everything, the Democrats frame everything as, if we don't get what we want, Republicans are evil.
The Republicans aren't even asking for anything.
So it's basically them saying, we've got a bunch of what we want. We want more. What?
The Republicans are evil for not giving us more of what we want. Yeah, exactly. There is no pushback
for the most part from the Republican Party, except for these new Trump Republicans, Trump
himself. That was a problem for all of us and the Democrats because the Democrats are obstinate. They will not stop.
They will not shut up.
They will not back down.
Finally, you get Republicans willing to fight back.
And then it's an unstoppable force and an immovable object.
Eventually, it's just there's going to be a fracturing of the United States.
I wonder if this ultimately is just where it comes from.
Is it a psychological psychological operation are we under
attack are we being manipulated you know what i mean yeah we we i'm not sure i don't think that
it's uh i keep thinking about the roman empire um when they it seems like things are so stable here
but then it also seems like we kind of don't have a culture in the united states we've got like so
many cultures that it's like how do you pinpoint what we are as a nation we have the constitution that's very basic the roman empire people would
migrate in and it was very dangerous when people would come in because what would happen is they'd
migrate in nothing would happen then their friends and family would come migrate in and all of a
sudden you'd have like a hundred thousand people in the city from another country and they'd overthrow
the mayor and take control of the city yeah And then the state, the surrounding lands.
So that is very real with immigration.
That's why you have to be careful about your borders
and about letting too many people of different cultures
that don't value the Constitution, the government, necessarily.
Can you imagine if like 170,000 people poured over the border of a country
and then the president of that country released a video welcoming people
and thanking them for choosing his country?
Why did Biden do that? That literally happened in March, at the president of that country released a video welcoming people and thanking them for choosing his country why did biden do that literally happened in march at the end of march yeah in march 170 000 people was a 15 year high in terms of people spilling over the
border and biden released a video granted it was for uh people who are being naturalized as citizens
but what he says is thank you for choosing america it takes a lot of courage to cross over that
border and come to this nation etc so it's just setting us up for destruction ultimately.
Very true.
And it would be one thing if he was saying that to people
because he was speaking to people who are becoming citizens,
but the problem is when you release that kind of messaging
at a time when the left is insistent upon conflating immigration
and illegal immigration, you are basically giving the okay
to everyone who wants to come into this country illegally to do so.
With this mixed messaging that they've been giving now is like, you're here we're gonna we're gonna say it's okay
but don't come it's basically like saying but if you get here and no one knows then we're gonna
treat you like you're fine exactly so that's insane it's insane it's a completely insane
unless it is their intention to get as many people here as possible and then naturalize them
and then build a loyalty and a relationship between those people and their political party so that they win
forever i'm not entirely convinced that would happen maybe it wouldn't and i hope it wouldn't
but i think that if there is a plan that's it look at uh south texas mccallan we were talking
about this i mean hispanic areas flip they're going republican and i think that's fantastic
and there there are many conservatives who predicted that that kind of thing would happen
because i think mexican people tend to be more socially conservative.
And that's where most immigrants are coming from. But that's definitely not something the left has been banking on.
Yeah. The left has sort of assumed that they own immigrants in immigration and they tend to believe that they can depend upon virtually every minority group to support them i'm just uh man i'm i i don't know if i have confidence in
the current opposition to what the democrats and left have been doing to believe that we are headed
down a path where we can preserve our values free speech i think uh for one and um the right to bear
arms obviously but more just like uh our moral framework and our values as a nation.
When you get a bunch of people
who aren't from here who come in,
it's mostly just about a nice place to live.
It's not about the values of the country.
That's why when you take the citizenship test,
they ask you,
you have to learn the history of the country.
They want you to know and respect this country
and what it represents,
who the presidents were, things like that. When people come here illegally, they don't know or care about any of that. They're you to know and respect this country and what it represents, who the
presidents were, and things like that. When people come here illegally, they don't know or care about
any of that. They're just coming and saying, here's my chance to get some resources. Now,
the left's response is usually like, oh, it's no big deal. You won't even notice. And it's just
absurd to think that there's not going to be an impact. You mean to tell me that when it comes
to climate change, all of these farting cows and all of these individuals using electricity and air conditioning, it's extremely bad. You mean to tell me that the
individual has an impact on climate change, but the individual coming in here illegally doesn't
have an impact on our economy? How about we frame it that way, right? The United States produces
more carbon emissions than a bunch of other countries. So the last thing we want is more
Americans, right? No, I guess they're fine with that. They just want to transform the economy as well. So what do you mean to tell me?
You're going to invite 170,000 people in in one month, but then also take away their means of
actually maintaining themselves through the economy? They can't use electricity. They can't
produce carbon. Then all you're doing is encouraging them to go on these long and
dangerous journeys. Then once they get here, you make them do surf labor in exchange for nothing
but limited access to resources. Meanwhile, the they get here, you make them do surf labor in exchange for nothing but limited
access to resources.
Meanwhile, the ultra-rich are allowed to do whatever they want.
Yeah, exactly.
You're kind of building an underclass.
And there's a few things you said there which I'd like to dive into.
When you're talking about immigration, it's sort of the distinction between illegal immigration
and legal immigration.
There are a number of people who have made the criticisms that, well, you know, a lot
of conservatives say that they're in favor of immigration, but they're against illegal
immigration.
But that's incoherent because then they should be okay with us allowing anyone into this
country as long as we make them a naturalized citizen through some kind of process.
But the entire purpose of having an immigration system is, as I said earlier, oversight.
And so I think what we need to be doing in terms of our messaging isn't just saying we
are against illegal immigration. We have to be talking about the immigration system,
which we want to build, or the one which was supposed to be here, which we would like to
maintain. And that is one which says, if somebody wants to come here, as you've stated, they have
to prove to us that they are interested in promoting our values. Did you know that Jon
Stewart once, a few years ago, six years ago ago or seven years ago, advocated for the draft?
Whoa.
Jon Stewart said we must bring back the draft.
I think he said like draft people into doing volunteer work, though.
Well, he said.
For the greater good of the country.
Yes, he said the draft.
And he said, but it could be.
You know what?
You know what?
I could simplify his entire quote down to a very simple sentence.
Service guarantees citizenship.
Oh.
Jon Stewart endorsed.
He didn't say that, though.
Okay.
But that was basically what he was saying.
It would give people skin in the game, a stake.
I agree.
But I agree with Jon Stewart about his statements on the draft.
But here's where it gets complicated.
Service guarantees citizenship.
The problem is, I mean, there is already a kind of service which is taking place.
When people come into this country, they're doing jobs not that Americans aren't willing to do,
but that Americans aren't willing to do as inexpensively as they will do them.
And so they're already providing a service, but the problem is at some point you oversaturate the market
and make life more difficult for people who are already here.
So that's why I would be a bit apprehensive about that.
Even if they are coming here and providing some kind of service, at some point we still reach a limit where there are too many people.
And no matter how badly someone wants to come here and serve, we just can't let them.
Could you imagine if the U.S. said, like, literally anybody, serve two years in the armed forces as, like, frontline infantry and you'll get citizenship?
Oh, my goodness.
The U.S.
That's Roman style, yeah.
Yeah, the U.S. would have, like, a million ground troops every year added to their ranks.
So they don't do it exactly like that.
That's a pretty evil thing, in my opinion.
Well, yeah, and it would also – I would imagine – you mentioned the Romans to this,
but I would imagine that would be a really horrible military strategy
because you have a bunch of people who aren't committed to the ideas of your nation
and don't necessarily have any loyalty to it, and now they're on the front lines of your military.
Yeah, but they're –
Those people could be completely anti-America, and they could just be infiltrating your armed forces but it's a it's the zap brannigan strategy you know
if we get into a full-scale conflict with another nation and you can just send wave after wave of
your own yeah very evil yeah yeah yeah but uh i i think about the so i the reason i brought that up
is i'm thinking about the erosion of the United States and what this means moving forward. And here's what freaks me out, right? We got the story here. This one from Forbes,
anticipating war with China. The U.S. Air Force is fanning out across the Pacific.
So the U.S. Air Force is concerned that a Chinese rocket attack would wipe out two of our most
prominent Air Force bases. So we are dispatching all of these different squadrons to different airports and different
islands all across the Pacific.
So we have rapid response.
We've decentralized.
So they can't just take us out.
It's got some, it gets me worried because we have another story here.
I covered this last week, June 1st, Pentagon eyes new bombs for war with China, not ISIS.
The Pentagon's been shifting up its strategy.
No longer are we engaging in preparations for war in the Middle East. You know, there's a report
saying we're like halfway out of Afghanistan. And now the bombs they're buying are for Pacific
warfare and not Middle Eastern warfare. And it could just be we're all done. Middle East is over.
We got enough oil. We've built enough nation. We're out. And because of
that, well, we might as well buy bombs for Pacific because it's a bigger threat, right?
Or it could be that we're actually gearing up towards a war with China. Now, here's what freaks
me out. The U.S. is in chaos, man. I mean, maybe we're not. Maybe it's all an illusion. But come
on. You look at news. They're screaming at insurrection. Anderson Cooper claiming January
6th was worse the worst
political attack on the u.s since the civil war and i'm like i seem to recall john f kennedy
getting his head blown off but okay dude whatever you say that's that's insanity what happens right
now if china moves in on taiwan and the u.s can do nothing to stop it there There it is. I mean, we have to stand by. There's no way.
I don't think I would ever authorize arms against China.
To defend Taiwan.
Not unless it was our soil or like an ally or something.
I mean, they're an ally.
They are an ally.
So this is where things get bad, because if China does move to Taiwan and there's serious fear in the U.S.
that they are planning an invasion.
I mean, we see the beaching drills.
There's photos of it. And their planes are flying over the Taiwan Strait. They're
sending strike groups through the Strait of Taiwan. It's not just about Taiwan. It's about
China's incursions into the South China Sea. It's about their military bases, their expansion,
their violation of certain international conventions. So the fear I have is the U.S.
is clearly preparing for war.
China, they've been gearing up for some time.
This is a more direct announcement.
What this says to me is, do you think the U.S. military just decided right now that they're worried about war with China?
Do you think it was just like today?
They're like, hey, oh, there might be war with China.
Let's move our planes.
Or is it more likely they got intelligence classified about a potential war with China, made a bunch of crazy economic moves behind the scenes, and then made the public moves everyone can see?
Could be.
China also said, I think I heard from you, that China was like threatened nuclear war if we tried to investigate.
Well, in response to Biden's call for investigation into COVID, the head of Global Times said, we need to start building more nuclear bombs
and a shiver down the spine of the American elite.
Okay, yeah.
Which is another way of saying we are innocent
and didn't do anything wrong.
And obviously the incursions
to Hong Kong, the way they treated
the protesters in Hong Kong
was drastic.
I think we're in trouble, man.
Joe Biden didn't commemorate
d-day really why not i don't know i don't i i don't i look here's one of the issues he probably
didn't know what day it was oh that's for sure that's not even a joke i know i know i was kidding
because obviously people in his administration would know and make some kind of announcement
tell him to do it yeah hey or tweet for him yeah now
here's one of the problems i don't know every year every tweet that's ever been sent out or
every statement's ever been made about d-day it could just be that now we're in this deeply tribal
political realm conservatives notice biden didn't do this brought it up then everyone's like hey
yeah why didn't you and it's like well i don't know maybe jimmy carter didn't i don't know
or maybe he still should have regardless he didn. And a lot of other people did. Maybe Kamala Harris saying enjoy the long
weekend is also an alarming statement. Maybe Kamala Harris refusing to go to the border is
also kind of alarming. And it makes me feel like our current administration is not invested in
this country. I feel like we have an administration that in a normal timeline shouldn't have won, but we aren't in a normal timeline.
What I mean by this is normally you get a strong administration that wants to win, that wants a policy, that wants to put things forward and make these demands.
Well, that was Trump's administration.
Man, did he want some crazy stuff, a big, beautiful wall from sea to shining sea, 30 feet concrete.
He had plans. He wanted things. Biden, his whole campaign was that he was not Trump.
So what happens? People really didn't like Trump. A lot of things happen. We'll see what happens
with his Maricopa stuff. Joe Biden ends up getting 81 million votes. He wins the election
with no plan. No one voted for anything. They just didn't want Trump.
Now we have an administration that clearly doesn't care. So I want to say a normal timeline.
They weren't proposing anything substantive. Joe Biden was hiding the whole time. He was just like
hiding in the basement. Everyone's like, where's Biden? Oh, call the call. You know, he's calling
the lid. Yeah. Call the lid. Yeah. No press. So this is now we're we're we're facing the very serious prospect
of war with china our military seems to think so and what can we expect in the event that war
actually breaks out my fear is that war will come to us no matter what we do and this is a fear that
a lot of people have in government and it leads to very pro-war sentiment which i disagree with but
the world is not so black and white you can't just be like i'm against war so
we therefore i will never go to war and it's like then you get wiped out no i mean i understand that
i'm very anti-war the number of wars that i would be willing to support um let's just say it's it's
an extremely narrow subset that said this is a really complicated situation i'm not going to sit
here and automatically say there's nothing that could ever justify that.
I very much do not want to see war with China.
But this is an extremely complicated situation.
Let's talk conspiracies.
Oh, no.
Uh-oh.
This is also, I mean, obviously we should do everything we possibly can to avoid that war if at all possible.
I'm not coming down on one side or the other.
I'm being the milquetoast fence here. But it's also because I just I haven't. Most of my interest in foreign
policy has been directed towards the Middle East because that's where the United States
has been screwing around for the past two decades. But when it comes to China, I guess
I just hadn't really considered that it was a realistic possibility until very recently.
So you oppose war with China?
What?
You oppose war with China?
Yeah, I would like not to go to war with China, but also
I have no idea. I mean, there could be reasons
that someone brings to my attention. Yeah, I'm not dogmatic
on this one. Just wanted to clarify real quick. So my
position is, you know, I don't want to go
to war with China, but the war may come to us
either way. That's my point, yes. So I'm a bit more
in the middle than you. That means, Ian, you have to take
the pro-war with China position. I'm obsessed with it.
I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Yeah, well, Ian's always telling me
on camera. I wake up in the middle of the night. I'm kidding. Yeah. Well, Ian's always telling me. I wake up in the middle of the night.
I'm sweating right now.
Dude, every single day.
Every single day, I see Ian sitting on the couch just cleaning his AR.
He's like.
We're getting ready.
We're getting ready.
You're all laughing at me now.
He knits wool Chinese flags.
And then he brings them out and he puts them on the archery board.
Oh, my God.
No, I'm kidding.
But no, let's talk about conspiracies.
It's not really a conspiracy. Conspiracy. It's a weird word conspiracy right can i ask you something with
what do you so what do you think would have to happen um to justify a war with china for me
or what do you think would put you over the edge where you would say like we we have no choice
i don't know man i mean usually it's like china beaching on california in california
like that's kind of what I'm saying.
If they start to invade and there's nothing else we can do.
But it's more than that.
If we sit back, and this is a really tough philosophical question,
and just let them do whatever they want.
Exactly.
Make them get stronger and stronger.
So it's like you sit back and you're like,
China's building a new GPS system system to rival the us's because we have the main gps system used by
everybody they're going to become militaristically independent they're short they're taking in more
imports than exports they're doing beaching drills for taiwan they're trying to seize the
south china sea they're sinking vietnamese fishing boats they're building military bases in violation
of international conventions.
And they just keep doing it.
What happens if we do nothing?
No, they'll keep doing it.
And then eventually,
once all our allies are crushed and our resources are limited,
then they land their boats
on our beaches
and we say,
well, the one thing
we got going for us,
we got a gun behind
every blade of grass.
Yeah, exactly.
We are a nation
armed to the teeth,
so they will never.
I don't think it's possible
to conquer America. No. I just don't think it's possible to conquer America.
No.
I just don't think it's physical.
You could literally conquer California.
Yeah.
Everywhere else would be really hard.
I'm being facetious.
It would be difficult to take any scrap of land on this country.
Yeah.
You would have Confederate flag-waving Republicans the you know i don't want to say deep
south but i don't know because it's not really running over to california the californians would
be like no you need to leave no like we'd rather have the chinese here no no no there would there
would be soy boys cowering with their you know purple mohawk going like they're shooting at me
and it's like don't worry you're american i may not like you at all but we're being invaded no
like you'll get the staunchest conservatives waving Confederate flags,
Trump flags running into battle and defending the California soy boys.
But so there's the really, really serious problem about war with China.
It's really easy to be like, I'm anti-war.
Exactly.
It is.
Now, that's easy to say when we're talking about Syria and the Middle East.
Oh, I get it.
You want to build an oil pipeline.
What did Biden do? Biden just approved about Syria and the Middle East. Oh, I get it. You want to build an oil pipeline. What did Biden do?
Biden just approved Russia to build the pipeline anyway.
So that is – let's talk conspiracies, okay?
I've been trying.
I've been trying.
You guys won't let me do it.
You want to take it.
I always – every single day, Tim just sends me these articles, and I have to send him Snopes facts.
Every time.
I still have to say, Tim, it's not true.
I have brought Seamus like 15 gay frogs, and he keeps telling me to shut up.
Tim, I just, you don't, that frog is expressing itself a certain way that doesn't have anything to do with the chemicals in the water or anything to do with that frog's orientation.
Here's what I mean.
I don't mean like conspiracies.
I say that because it's funny how they've turned that word into something that means like false story.
Weaponize it.
Like when people talk about flat earth like it's
a conspiracy theory no no no no no if you believe in stupid things that's just you believing stupid
things but let me say this last year the economy's locked down what happened a bunch of people in our
major our major urban hubs moved and they moved to random places we can't like they didn't well
the half a million people who left new york they didn't just move from like new york to like pittsburgh no they spread all over the place
now these are the people of means these are heads of industry these are wealthy individuals who
command economics who command the economy in this country they decentralized what else happened we
realized we couldn't manufacture things we had no capability we tried shoring up our manufacturing
now we have a bipartisan bill.
Democrats, Republicans agree.
We need $250 billion towards industry in the United States.
I think about these things, the decentralization of our economy, the moving out of cities.
I mean, that's really fortunate for us should we enter war with China.
Buying guns.
Buying guns like crazy.
Lots of firearms.
The riots made people buy guns like crazy. Lots of firearms. The riots made people buy guns like crazy. Yeah. If a nuke dropped on New York
last year,
the beginning of last year,
it would wipe out
tons of heads of industry.
It would destroy our economy.
The pandemic resulted
in a decentralization.
So I don't really mean conspiracy.
I'm just saying
how fortuitous for us
in the event a war breaks out,
these things happened.
We got more people
armed to the teeth in cities, in California.
More people have left big cities and moved out to suburbs and moved out to rural areas.
And they're working remote.
All these things are really good news for a country about to go to war.
You know, the downside of working remote is you're at the whim of the electric grid, which could be a problem if that gets knocked out.
But other than that, I think you're at the whim of the electric grid, which could be a problem if that gets knocked out. But other than that, I think you're right on.
Man, a big push to get off fossil fuels, you know,
and to get solar energy and renewables.
So this is something I've been telling myself.
Maybe it's just to cope because I'm very sad.
But ammo has been ridiculously expensive for the past year and a half.
And anyone who has any interest in firearms knows that.
And when I see the prices, I get very sad.
When I see the empty shelves, I'm sad.
But what that means is that more Americans than ever before have ammunition.
I mean, the reason the demand skyrocketed is because everyone went out and bought ammo.
And that means the American public is now significantly better armed than they were prior to COVID.
And I think that's fantastic.
I was buying, I think I was buying $3.80, and it was like a dollar a round or something insane.
I'm just, that's insane.
Yeah, I wonder what it's at now.
I mean, ammo, you know, I've been talking about like a good investment
and everyone's like, you got to buy this, you got to buy that.
I'm like, you know, I thought about it.
What I said, I've been saying for a while,
think about the most common household item.
That's the hardest to produce.
And that's probably a good investment.
Because assuming there's like a major crisis or a war or something,
otherwise, if the economy is going to keep on keeping on the way it is
without ups and downs and quantitative easing,
yeah, well, then you've got your standard gold, Bitcoin, whatever.
But I'm talking about in the event of a war or some kind of conflict or crisis,
what's a good investment?
And so I think like mouthwash, really, really good.
You can use it.
It's antiseptic.
You know, you can use it to clean your mouth.
Really great because you don't want to get, you know, infected teeth or anything that can kill you, actually.
But more importantly, like if you get a cut, it's antiseptic.
You can use it.
So alcohol works.
But alcohol, you don't want to put in your mouth, right?
So hydrogen peroxide.
What's hard to produce but really important?
Yeah, iodine.
Chlorine. that's been so these
simple household chemicals that we use all the time for cleaning for for for helping ourselves
those are probably good investments but i thought about this like if you're going to park your money
in in anything in in in in fear of some kind of conflict what would be a good place to do it
water yeah people need water. Gasoline?
Gasoline doesn't stay.
Yeah.
After a while, gasoline.
There's powder.
I don't know how this would work for a large supply, but I know that there are powders
that you can put in gasoline to make it last longer.
Make it stay longer.
But there's other fuels you can.
But I thought about it.
I was like, you know what?
Gold.
Why?
Why gold?
Why gold?
Gold is good if there's still confidence in our existing social structure.
Yeah, if there's actually going to be an economy to speak of.
Right. Bitcoin and gold
are valuable because of a functioning economy
at its dance today.
Let's say we enter, I don't know,
a walking dead apocalypse scenario.
I do not believe that's going to happen.
I know.
Because for the most part, it hasn't.
I mean, countries have fallen, but they still have economies.
I don't know.
I thought you were going in the zombie direction with that.
For the most part, it hasn't.
No, no.
I mean, like, you know, when countries or empires fall, people still keep working and eating and things carry on.
So gold makes a lot of sense.
Well, yeah.
Well, look what happened when the USSR fell.
Right.
People still – actually, it was crazy.
People just walked into factories, took them over.
But that's why I was thinking like, you know, a gun really is a good investment.
Cars depreciate.
You know, a good working gun is going to go up in value.
If you take good care of it and it's a decent weapon for sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, even a decent weapon – I mean, if things get really bad, any weapon's a good weapon.
You know, any weapon's a decent weapon.
But I was genuinely thinking about not the apocalypse.
I'm just like, what's something you could buy for a couple hundred bucks?
And then in a few years, it'll go up in value.
And I'm like, guns are not going to go down in value.
I mean, unless they ban all guns, they won't do.
Joe Biden, now he wants to do a bunch of NFA things.
So they want to make like – so right now if you do a pistol with a brace, Joe Biden was saying that's a short-barreled rifle.
And, I mean, I've talked to a lot of gun people who are kind of like, eh, the brace is supposed to go on your arm.
I see.
But people just shoulder it, which is kind of like a stock.
So they want to make that NFA, which means – NFA means it's National Firearms Act.
It means you've got to – it takes a year to get. It's like you've got to go get your fingerprints. You've got to go file paperwork. You've got to make that NFA, which means, NFA means it's National Firearms Act. It means you've got to,
it takes a year to get.
It's like you've got to go get your fingerprints,
you've got to go file paperwork,
you've got to pay 200 bucks per item.
They want to make it more difficult.
In that instance,
the guns actually go up in value because they're harder to get.
So it's a good investment.
But we've got some big gun news.
So we were just talking about,
for those that are just listening,
we were just talking about
all of the things that have happened that have been very fortuitous for this country
if a war with China were to happen.
Notably, people are moving out of cities, decentralizing the economy.
People are working remote.
So even when they're outside of the city, they don't need to be in the same office.
That's great.
If a bomb drops on New York and everyone's working there in the same building, you could
wipe out a whole oil company.
Now you've got everybody, not only have they moved out of the city, they're in different parts of the country, and they don't even have to come into the office.
That's really good for us.
The other thing that happened that was really good for us in the event of a war were to break out, people started buying guns like crazy.
Record number of guns and ammo being sold.
And as that saying goes, I don't know if it's true, it would be impossible to invade the United States because
there's a gun behind every blade of grass.
Now we have this big
news from a couple days ago.
California assault weapons ban
disrespects freedom, federal judge
writes. I love that. He struck it down.
Good. He said, here's a quote.
Here's a quote. Let me read. For more than
three decades, this is crazy to me.
Hold on. Just listen. For more than three decades, This is crazy to me. Hold on. Just listen.
For more than three decades, California has banned certain types of semi-automatic rifles,
including the AR-15 under an assault weapons ban.
On Friday, a federal judge threw out the ban, ruling that it violates the Second Amendment to the United States, to the U.S. Constitution.
Quote, the Second Amendment is about America's freedom, the freedom to protect oneself, family,
home, and homeland.
Judge Roger Benitez
wrote for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. California's assault
weapon ban disrespects that freedom. Governor Gavin Newsom called the decision a direct threat
to public safety. You get the point. Now, this guy, this judge, my understanding is that he was
appointed in 2003 by Bush. I don't know if they mentioned that, but he's been here for a while. I'm just, why right
now are they saying, Californians, go buy your AR-15s? How's that work? Can any judge at any
time just look at a law and be like, I want to overthrow that? I want to. It's a lawsuit.
So someone sues saying banning the AR-15 violates the constitution. The judge said, I agree. Now,
for now, there's going to be an appeal so people
probably shouldn't run out and try and buy weapons but i gotta say man when you think about what's
happening in this country what were we just joking about china beaching into cal you know
beaching california and running in now californians can go by ar-15s the second amendment you know
what what what a well-regulated militia being necessary for a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Well, it's really good news for a country trying to secure a free state from a foreign invasion should a war break out that they're all armed to the teeth.
And now in California, after 32 years, a judge says you can go get AR-15s.
I got to say, though, this is, well, there's this old saying,
best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, second best time is today.
I don't exactly envy the people who are just getting into firearm ownership now.
I'm glad that I purchased my weapons and my ammo before all of this stuff,
but I'm glad they're doing it at this point.
However, it's going to be really, really difficult for them to start practicing with their weapons.
It's going to be really difficult to get range time in.
Ammo is so, so expensive.
I don't know how any of those people would really become proficient in time for a war with China.
Unless, of course, I'm sure there's some number of them who already owned guns but didn't have an AR.
We got like a laser bullet targeting device that you put in the chamber,
and then it allows you to hit a pad on the wall and it tells you how accurate you are.
But it doesn't have the kick of the
ballistic. It's just a way to train
without loosing ammo. So my first thought
is what are they going to try to do to get this decision
overturned? What are you thinking? They're going to file
an appeal. Right.
And that's it. It's going to go to the courts.
It might go to the Supreme Court. I think it would be great if it does.
The assault weapons ban makes
zero sense. You will not find a human being who knows about guns who will
advocate for those laws it's true because even when i take like the devil's advocate position
i'll be talking to a democrat or lefty and they're like we gotta have this assault weapons ban
my my first point is the one i bring up all the time the one that affects me personally
yes okay hold on this law so this law is getting overturned and they're like this is terrible Assault weapons ban. My first point is the one I bring up all the time, the one that affects me personally.
Yes.
Okay, hold on.
So this law is getting overturned, and they're like, this is terrible news.
And I'm like, actually, it's good news.
In Maryland, for instance, the M1A, which fires, I believe it's 7.62x556.
I'm sorry, 7.62x51.
It's illegal.
It's an assault weapon.
The SCAR-20S, which fires.308, totally legal.
They're almost identical rounds.
There's a higher pressure in the.308.
The law makes no sense.
The AR-15 that shoots the.308, legal, but the M1A is not.
It's like that just makes no sense. It's also the same.
You have the Mini-14 being classified, or I'm sorry, the AR-15 is classified as an assault rifle,
and then the Mini-14, or an assault weapon, I apologize, and then the Mini-14 being classified, or I'm sorry, the AR-15 is classified as an assault rifle, and then the Mini-14 or an assault weapon, I apologize, and then the Mini-14
is not. And so, they fire
the exact same round. Both can have 30-round
magazines attached to them. They can fire
the same round. They do. They're usually chambered
in 5.56. Right, right, right. So,
what's insane about a lot of these arguments is
that they're like, we're going to ban assault weapons.
What does that mean? Is it scary?
That's gone. Actually, I think I need to ban assault weapons. What does that mean? Is it scary? That's gone.
I need to double check.
The Mini-14 might usually be chambered in.223, but not that big a difference.
It also fires.223.
Right, right.
You eat something in.556, it'll do both.
So whenever I bring up this argument, and I'm seeing it pop up more and more.
Maybe it's just because I'm paying attention.
But a lot of people are pointing out the reason why we use 5.56, they're small.
They're really small.
Yeah.
The reason we use those is so that you can carry them.
Yep.
It's so that in war, people can carry lots of them.
It's not a giant round by any means.
Could you imagine if people were, like, going to war with, like, sabot slugs?
Like, massive, huge 12-gauge.
They were like, we're going to use the biggest and most definite.
No, you can't carry that much.
And so when they talk about hunting, it's like, you should go look at what they use for hunting.
They got big, big weapons.
Yeah, we can't show any of those.
I know. I'm not going to.
But we actually have some on the table.
The AR-15 is also an incredibly popular hunting weapon, too.
I don't want to forget that because often they will say things like, you can't hunt with an AR-15 or you don't need an AR-15 for hunting, which is ridiculous.
Yeah.
I don't need an AR-15 for hunting, which is ridiculous. What would you use? Yeah. I don't understand. I guess I've got a bunch of bolt-action rifles for, you know,
I'm not very well-trained or anything,
but it's described to me that less moving parts, more accurate, easier,
versus AR-15, it's got a lot of moving parts, so that affects accuracy,
but less recoil.
So I don't, you know, I'm not
entirely sure I understand what the argument is from these people other than, is a gun scary?
Exactly. The AR looks scary. And also, I mean, the AR has been used in many school shootings and
many public massacres, but people don't realize it's not as if the maniacs who go do these kinds
of things are using the AR because it's a particularly effective weapon for doing that
kind of thing. In fact, there was one article I read which was basically hypothesizing that it's the
copycat effect because the AR is not the largest.
I mean, the 5.56 is not the largest round you could get.
You could probably, I mean, someone could use an AK and that has a more powerful round
in it generally.
And they always go with ARs.
Why?
Well, because the media always reports that the last guy used an AR.
It's the copycat effect.
I think, so the AK uses 7.62x39.
Yeah.
I think those are smaller than 5.56.
I'm pretty sure, like, shorter.
No.
Oh, well, they're bigger.
I mean, I'm pretty sure.
The round is bigger, but I think they're shorter.
I think I figured out why they're making ARs assault rifles.
Because the letters AR make people think it stands for assault rifle.
Yeah, people actually think that.
When it means armolite rifle, which is the company that built the thing.
Right, right.
Yeah, so that one's really obvious to a lot of people.
Like, dude, it's not an assault rifle.
And there's an assault rifle, an actual one, on sale over at Gun Broker.
It's like $55,000.
How big is it?
It's an M16 selective fire rifle.
So it's an actual, I think it's a pre- an m16 selective fire rifle so it's an actual i think
it's a pre-1986 when they like shut down the production of these things and uh it's really
expensive it's really really expensive if you want to buy some of these nfa items takes a really long
time it's really hard to do and that's and that's why it's funny when the democrats are like they're
not coming to take your guns i'm like bro mo like a large portion of guns are already banned yeah
already we're just gonna ban a more, and then we'll stop.
Well, so anyway, I want to go back to my point.
I was talking about this thing happening in California, which is very good news.
We'll see what happens if it escalates, the federal court gets appealed, goes to the Supreme Court, we'll see what happens.
But it's not all good news.
So I can mention, hey, how fortuitous for us that, you know, in the event war with China breaks out, more people might have AR-15s.
We do have some contradictory news.
We have this from BearingArms.com.
DOJ issues proposed rule on pistol braces model red flag legislation.
They say two months ago Joe Biden announced his first executive actions on gun control,
promising that the DOJ and the ATF would issue proposed rules aimed at cracking down on the proliferation of home-built firearms
and AR-style pistols that use stabilizing braces,
which Biden and other anti-gun advocates want to declare as items
subject to the National Firearms Act.
The DOJ's proposed rule on so-called ghost guns was unveiled a few weeks ago,
and today the DOJ released the agency's proposed rule dealing with pistol braces,
along with the model red flag legislation the
administration is hoping states will adopt in the coming months you can read the full proposed rules
here we get the point so i'll break it down and again far from being an expert on this stuff
there are there are some there's things called ar style pistols and so you can get them in
basically like any round they have this folding brace on the back.
They call it a brace.
And what you do is you pull the Velcro and you can pull the bottom.
You can put it over your arm because a pistol you're supposed to fire with one hand.
So the brace allows you to be stable while you're firing.
However, these braces can be put up against your shoulder.
You can brace the firearm.
Now, it's really interesting because there's a bunch of
people I've been to ranges where they're like, never brace the pistol because then you're like
a short belt rifle. And I'm like, but you can have a brace and put the brace up against your
shoulder and it's okay. And like, people are doing this in magazines and stuff. I'm like,
I'm genuinely confused by like these rules. Yeah. The rules are really weird and confusing.
My thing is right now you can go to a store and just walk in and be like, I would like to purchase that 9mm AR-style pistol with a brace.
And they'll do your background check.
I think for a lot of first-time buyers, you're going to get bad news.
They're going to be like, we'll see you in a week.
Come back and we'll let you know if you've been approved for the weapon.
So when I first started trying to buy weapons, it was like five days.
Every time I wanted to buy a gun, I had to wait because they were doing a background
check. And no matter where you go.
And it's only recently I've
been getting researched, which clears me
in like 20 minutes. But it is a
background check. The form goes, they look up my
name, they look up my social, they do a background check, they say
okay. And then I can
purchase this weapon. You go to a gun store and you can
just buy it. It'll take you a little
bit of time. If it's your first time, if you've got in some states, if you have a concealed carry, you just just buy it. Okay. It'll, it'll take you a little bit of time. If your first time, if you're, if you've got to, in some States, if you have a
concealed carry, you just walk in and buy it. If they make it an NFA item, it'll take you a year
to get these things. And it'll be really interesting what that means for people who already own many of
them, because then what you got to file a bunch of paperwork. What do you got to do? Right?
So this is bad news for a lot of people who have legal and in my opinion, firearms that are safer,
absolutely safer.
So you don't want to be,
and this is my opinion.
Okay.
I'm sure there's a lot of experts,
a lot of opinions in the gun world.
I,
I was talking to some guy about home defense because I tweeted about shotgun
versus AR,
AR 15 for home defense.
And a lot of people are like,
shotgun is a good weapon for home defense.
And a lot of other people are like,
that's a terrible weapon. Nobody uses uses it these are for breaching doors and
nothing else and ar-15 is better and i'm of the opinion that ar-15 is better for a variety of
reasons first and foremost it's a stupid argument because the ar-15 can be a bunch of different
things it can be an ar-15 pistol with nine millimeter and you can use like frangible or
hollow point i think that's better than uh shotgun, but there's a lot of people
don't realize too. So I got a Remington 12 gauge, really long. And I was told a bunch of people
like, no, no, no, no, no. You got that really long barrel in a house. You're not going to be
able to do anything with that. So then you think about these AR pistols and they're more, it's
going to be easier for the average person to fire accurately, which is safer as opposed to a handgun which i'm
terrible at handguns i i've been improving mind you but uh with the with you know a rifle yeah
it's tough carbine points of contact yeah yeah it's it's a lot of i got a really good advice
last time we're out to range with with improving my accuracy with a rifle handguns i got a good
advice but still is difficult especially imagine this you're in your house somebody breaks
in and you go for your handgun and and man you better know what you're doing with that thing and
but you got it you have a rifle you're better off now what's going to be better for home defense
probably an ar style pistol with a brace because now you have it's not so long you're not going to
you know you're going to be more accurate you're going to be more accurate. You're going to be using, you could potentially use a less dangerous, less powerful round because of these gun control laws. You, you basically,
this is the craziest thing. I was talking to the guys at the gun shop. They said in Maryland,
it's got to be a heavy barrel rifle. And I'm like, so you can't have a lighter, easier,
lower recoil, quieter. Nope, nope, nope. Maryland banned all these things. So now you quite
literally have heavier, harder to use, more dangerous weapons, which means people who aren't specialists in
firearms, who just got something for home defense, might miss. That's the result of these gun control
laws, not making anything safer for anybody, making everything worse. Yeah, no, exactly. And
there are some laws that have been proposed that I've heard from different people on the left to
restrict people from purchasing more than like,
it depends on the state, but they'll set a limit on the amount of ammunition a person should be able to purchase,
and they'll argue that this would be an effective gun control measure,
but the problem with that is people just don't get to the range as often,
and they don't get a chance to practice with it.
And then I believe it was in New Jersey where they banned anything with a magazine capacity greater than five.
Am I mistaken there?
No, I think New Jersey is ten.
Ten?
Okay.
New York.
It's like you can have at least – you can have a capacity of ten, but it can only have six in it or something like that.
That's totally insane.
Yeah.
I mean, if you're in an emergency situation, if someone is broken into your house, you're going to be shaking.
Yeah.
Well, you're going to – also, like, people don't understand when they don't know about about guns or have never fired one before that it's difficult to hit a target on your first try.
And especially if your adrenaline is pumping because somebody has burst through your front door and they're trying to harm you and your family, you're probably going to miss them.
Even if you do hit them, it can't take more than one hit to take a person down.
It's true.
It's true.
But I do have some good news.
None of that matters because in most of these states that ban guns, you go to prison whether not you hit the person it's like someone broke in your house off the prison with you good news
yeah reminds me of uh there's like oh no i just want to say i've had people i have had people who
i know ask me like well why would someone need like a handgun with 15 or 16 rounds in it it's
like dude because first of all if more than one person breaks into your house and you only have
six rounds like you're already done.
I'm sorry if you don't know how to use a firearm very well, if you're not very well trained.
I mean, how often – man, I want to double-check this because I don't want to get the statistic wrong.
But the majority of the time when a police officer is aiming at a target, they miss.
And they train more often than most citizens do.
They still barely train.
Yeah, that's also true.
I have a buddy who was in the military
and he was a police officer and he said that as a cop, he almost never trained, which was
really unfortunate. He was not a police officer for very long. He left. But yeah, I don't know.
If police officers are not well trained enough to hit targets, then you expect civilians to be
able to do so with a limited amount of ammunition in their magazine. One of my favorite things you
see on Twitter, you'll see these arguments that make literally no sense yeah and you know it's a meme because they all repeat
themselves clearly having never fact-checked it and there's one going around where they're like
if you can't hit it in 10 rounds you shouldn't be shooting at it yeah and i'm like so you're
saying i should hit 30 to 50 feral hogs with just 10 bullets also i get it 30 to 30 to 50 feral
hogs is a meme but uh you just carry more magazines
it's the stupidest thing they're like you should only have 10 so there was a guy who actually
there's a sheriff he did a video where he was like you know using lower capacity magazines but more
of them and the guys the times were negligible in between because when you have a handgun you
just press the release and then you put it in and you start shooting again and then when it comes to
like an ar you pull the release and you put in the magazine you start
shooting again people like these arguments about capacity size are are empty platitudes from
democrats who are just trying to give something to gun control people but i will say if they keep
gaining ground on that eventually it'll be like bolt action or nothing yeah you're like okay
whatever man people will say things like semi-automatics shouldn't be legal
it's like what are you talking about like technically revolvers they function as semi-automatic
you pull the trigger it fires and then it spins and you're ready to fire again
but you know this is the nature of argument people who don't know anything what are ar style pistols
it's like it's basically the same function mechanics of an ar-15 so is it like
armillite rifle style is that or is it talking about the ar-15 style so uh an ar pistol or like
an ar style pistol means same thing it's basically an ar-15 but small and then you're supposed to
hold it with one hand and shoot like a pistol but they put braces on it that you can put on your
forearm to make it easier to shoot but people will know, put it up like a stock and you're not supposed to do that.
But I guess that's the issue.
Everybody does it.
So that's why Biden wants to make it an NFA item.
Make it so that it qualifies as a short barreled rifle.
I think they need to rebrand the AR because it sounds too much like assault.
No, it's irrelevant.
I mean, the AK functions similarly.
There's a bunch of different weapons you can get that are semi-automatic rifles that function.
And it's just, the AR is just a good working mechanical device.
What does AK stand for?
You guys know off the top of your head?
That's probably a Russian word.
Something Kalashnikov?
Oh, yeah, there you go.
I'm looking it up.
Yeah.
Well, how about we just do the hardest of hard segues and jump to something totally unrelated?
Yes.
I love hard segues.
That's what I'm about.
I think there is a conspiracy that the NSA and the CIA are all making us more resilient in case there is a war.
I think there is that conspiracy.
They're decentralizing everything.
I don't know.
I have no proof.
They're letting Antifa run wild because they want to stick them on another country.
They're like, who are going to stick you guys together?
You're going to wreak havoc.
They want us to buy guns like crazy.
Yeah, I hear you.
Millions upon millions.
Ammo shortages.
Yeah.
This is another thing, man.
You've got to just think.
Someone hacked the ammo pipeline.
While all this stuff is going on,
there's massive government contracts for ammo and ammo shortages.
It's just a lot of things where it's like, wow,
all those things happening are really good for us if a war breaks out., ammo shortages. I wonder why the government is buying so many bullets. Oh,
they're they're dispatching the Air Force across the Pacific to avoid a Russian rocket attack.
And they're buying bombs for Pacific theater. Really interested that all of these things are
happening. But I don't think there's gonna be a war, even though we are in the fourth turning.
And there's the Thucydides trap and constant articles saying, are we going to war with China?
And now lab leak hypothesis is becoming prominent and accusations about China are getting really serious.
Maybe it's – maybe nothing happens.
Maybe this – I don't know.
Maybe nothing happens.
But, man, it's 2021.
Yeah, it could be like a year and a half long false flag.
Like the Gulf of Tonkin happened in a day.
But this, they're just like, yeah, the Antifa thing.
They just want to get us ready.
I don't know about that, but I do know about this.
From the Daily Caller, Twitter suspends former Treasury official after he compared Brian Stalter to the gimp from Pulp Fiction.
This is not newsworthy but uh considering you know for those are just tuning
in like or didn't watch the last segments we were talking very very seriously about war and gun
rights and i was like and now we need to slam into a brick wall of nonsense to kind of calm down and
have a good laugh at the expense of others yeah so uh the reason i'm the reason i'm starting with this and uh we're going to be ragging on
brian stelter it's not because somebody compared him to the gimp from pulp fiction but more so
because he is being slammed quote this is how state tv functions glenn greenwald rips cnn's
brian stelter for fawning over white house's jen saki in one of the most sycophantic interviews
a state of a state
official you'll ever see. Now, this is funny. We're going to read the GIMP story. But I want
to just stress the point that Brian Seltzer is the guy who routinely ragged on Fox as the state
propaganda. It's the propaganda arm of the state. This is what state TV looks like. And then give
him the opportunity, and he just gives. I won't even call it a softball
interview. It was a wiffle ball interview. He was he was lightly tossing wiffle balls to Jen Psaki,
who then hit him straight out of the park. Well, here's what happened on The Daily Caller. They
say Internet Accountability Project founder Mike Davis and former Treasury official Will Upton
were temporarily suspended from Twitter for comparing CNN anchor Brian Stelter to the
character Gimp from the movie Pulp Fiction.
Twitter first suspended Upton on Sunday night after he made a post that mocked the anchor.
Stelter had asked Press Secretary Jen Psaki what she believed the media doesn't accurately cover about the Biden administration.
Fun fact, Brian Stelter, is the Gimp from pulp fiction upton's initial tweet read which was followed
up by a gif of the character from 1989 from the 1994 film oh so they restored it wonderful
upton was suspended shortly after posting the tweet but had his account unsuspended a few hours
later after successfully appealing the suspension oh the federalist reported upton tweeted that he
simply pointed out that
comparing a public figure to a fictional movie character does not violate the terms of service,
saying, LOL, this tweet got me temporarily suspended from Twitter. I appealed in one.
I simply pointed out that comparing a public figure to a fictional movie character does not
violate their terms of service. Shortly after Upton was unsuspended, Davis was then temporarily
suspended from Twitter for defending Upton's post, according to the Federalist, citing that he had violated rules against hateful conduct on the site.
You really put big tech critic W. Upton in a Twitter jail for comparing Brian Suther to the gimp in Pulp Fiction?
I'd be very upset if I were the gimp as well.
Bravo, good sir.
Now, let's talk about not what we're getting.
I point this out.
You know, Glenn Greenwald tears into CNN.
But take a look at what's happening here.
You see the story?
Nigeria suspends Twitter after Twitter suspends its president.
I'm conflicted on this one.
Take a look at how our media operates.
We got major breaking news censored in this country.
The Hunter Biden story.
Many people were polled. This was a recent poll. Many, many people. It was the most people everyone
agrees. Now, a lot of people were polled, and it turns out around 6% of people said that had they
known about Hunter Biden, they would not have supported Joe Biden, which would have been more
than enough for Trump to take many of the states he would have needed to win. But Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, they collude. They ban people. They do just enough to make sure
milquetoast channels like this one survive, but then get rid of anybody who's posting anything
too edgy or too controversial, and they suppress it and they shut it down. Nigeria struck back.
They blocked Twitter. They say the country announced the move two days after the platform
temporarily froze the Nigerian president's official account on Wednesday for allegedly
violating its abusive behavior policy. Quote, the federal government has suspended indefinitely the
operations of the microblogging and social networking service Twitter in Nigeria, a news
release from the Nigerian minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohamed's office stated.
So you can see they announced it. In a Friday statement announcing the move,
Mohamed cited the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining
Nigeria's corporate existence. As a reason for the decision, according to the press release,
the Nigerian government did not provide more details on how it will carry out the suspension
of tech giants operations in the country or on the activities Mohammed mentioned in a statement.
An aide at the ministry told Reuters, wait and see how things will turn out.
I don't know how I feel about this. Right.
So, again, the gist of the story, Twitter has suspended Twitter is suspended in Nigeria after suspending the president.
I don't know how I feel about that, but I kind of think it's an important move.
Again, I'm not sure.
I'd have to think through it, maybe have some arguments and hear some people, what they think.
The criticism, I suppose, is a government shutting down social media?
That sounds bad.
What if people are rightly criticizing that leader as authoritarian?
Or what if he's a despot?
What if they're sharing real information, trying to challenge. What if it's like you criticize Kamala Harris and then she
uses the government to shut down social media because they don't like what's happening?
The difference here, though, is that Nigeria blocked Twitter because Twitter was interfering
with its politics. And that's really, really bad. It's kind of inverted. If there's a politician
saying and doing nasty things and we use social media to call them out, that's power to the people.
If Twitter bans those people, it's a problem.
That's what Twitter is doing.
Conservatives call out malfeasance from Democrats and get banned for doing so.
We just read, you criticize a CNN anchor and they suspend you?
That's insane.
But what happens when Twitter is interfering with your politics like they were here?
What happens then when the government says we're not going to allow Twitter
to operate because it's interfering in the political system?
This is different.
I don't know.
Ian, you actually have experience moderating,
so I'm curious what you think.
Well, with Mines,
which is where I moderated at,
our terms of service were the U.S. Constitution,
and specifically Connecticut law,
where the corporation was formed.
So if someone didn't violate the U.S. Constitution,
U.S. law,
they wouldn't get banned off the site.
What's your thoughts on this?
I mean, look.
I don't know.
What did he get banned for?
I don't know.
He tweeted something offensive, so Twitter suspends him.
If he violates terms of service, then the company has a right to ban him legally.
But, I mean, it really speaks at how much more powerful these corporations are than the national government.
You mean the other way around?
I think the corporations has more power and influence than the government.
If they want to, not necessarily, they don't have a military, but they could definitely hire, you know, Blackwater or some sort of like mercenary guard if they wanted.
Twitter could.
They're not called it.
I think Blackwater changed their name.
Seven times.
Yeah, yeah.
Bad press.
I don't know.
What do you think, Mr. Seamus? Nigeria banned Twitter because Twitter was interfering in their name. Seven times. Yeah, yeah. Bad press. I don't know. What do you think, Mr. Seamus?
Nigeria banned Twitter because Twitter was interfering in their politics.
I mean, Nigeria, oh, man, there was a great, someone made a meme about this.
I don't think it was Nigeria.
It was another country.
But Twitter was banned there.
And someone's response was, well, you know what?
Nigeria acts as a private country.
Twitter can make their own.
That's right.
So I have to give credit where it's due.
I won't try to pass it off as my own joke.
But yeah, I'm not sure.
I guess I don't have that strong of an opinion on this one.
I think that Nigeria can do what Nigeria wants to do
if they want to ban Twitter.
That's fine.
I'm not going to say they've violated some international law
and so we should go after them.
As a nation, they don't have an obligation
to allow Twitter to offer their service in their country. What donald trump was like my tweets have been censored so
we are formally shutting down twitter would have been interesting yeah i don't know i'm curious how
that would have played out if he can even have accomplished something like that given he was
going to be out of office soon i mean the biden administration would surely overturn something
like that immediately it is interesting because it's an american company operating in america
the government doesn't have the power to do so. But for Nigeria
it's a foreign corporation operating
in their borders. They very well
could just be like... So Twitter's
learning that some countries aren't going to put up with their nonsense.
Oh, poor Twitter. I feel so bad
for them. I think it's the same thing with the Florida law that they were talking about
DeSantis was going to pass that if they
you know, if Twitter bans
some people in Florida, but Florida's like, hey
you can't do that, that Twitter would just get banned out of Florida as well.
Like they just did out of Nigeria.
Interesting.
Or block their own activity out of Florida.
All I know is for a nation to say that they don't want a foreign corporation to limit their leader's ability to communicate with their citizens is not a bad thing.
That just seems completely reasonable and straightforward.
The thing is, at what point is it considered a foreign corporation anymore?
Like, all corporations are foreign.
I don't care where their headquarters is.
They're hiding money overseas.
They're putting their headquarters in Ireland and other countries
to get away from taxes.
Maybe some of it's in Nigeria. Maybe they made a deal with one of those princes.
That was one of them emails.
They're going to start putting corporations in space stations.
Oh, we're not subject to anybody's laws. You can't do anything
about it. Dude, there was this hilarious, I was reading about this,
there was this plan
from some libertarian, I would
imagine, to build this gigantic
boat that would just be in international
waters at all times, making this huge
route around the world.
And it was
for the ultra-wealthy wealthy for them to run their businesses
so that they wouldn't have to pay an income tax anywhere and what you said just reminded me of
that like imagine at some point they're going to have these space stations maybe that's what elon's
trying to do he just wants to go to mars so he can be like look i'm not in america i'm not paying
there's just like one guy in a in a 10 by 10 space station and it's just like it's their
address is one space way.
And he lives there getting paid
a lot of money he can't spend.
Bezos is retiring as CEO
and he's going to be on the first mission
of Blue Origin.
Yeah.
And he's going to be on the first manned space mission
on his new rocket with his brother.
They're going to be on.
Wait, what do you mean on the first manned space mission?
They're going into space.
I think it's Blue Origin is the name of his company.
Oh, the first manned space mission? They're going into space. I think it's Blue Origin is the name of his company. Oh, the first manned space mission.
So they're planning in June, I think it is, the first manned mission into space.
And he's going to be on the rocket with his brother.
Wow.
I'm just waiting for something interesting to happen, you know?
It's like every day I wake up and look at the news and I'm like, it's kind of the same thing.
Yeah, it's just boring.
Inflation.
All it is is reruns.
Yeah.
You got to go inside if you want to find the next step of engagement in this reality. It's kind of the same thing. Yeah, it's just boring. Inflation. All it is is reruns. Yeah.
You got to go inside if you want to find the next step of engagement in this reality.
I agree we should go inside. Meditation.
Meditation.
But not with drugs.
Yeah.
Breathing.
Apparently breathing can get you there.
Yeah.
You know, certain types of psychedelic trances and like obviously diet, but breathing if
you do different breathing exercise.
Wim Hof.
That's where the excitement lies in reality, my friends.
You know, we've been in this period for a couple decades where it's been
extremely routine.
Our conflicts have been...
It's been so nice.
It's been so good that the
crisis we've faced has been rich people
ripping off poor people. Yeah. It's by
design, man. They placated us. They
made marijuana
illegal. They made LSD illegal illegal they made psilocybin
illegal they made mdma illegal and they're trying to like suppress people they feed them all the
sugar and they keep them like they have been doing that the rich people have been taking advantage of
the masses no hold on i think if they really wanted to lull people into a sleep they'd allow
them to do the drugs yeah it's the other way around it's too dangerous for the status quo
then why do you start to think for. Then why do you think they're
legalizing them all, then? It's just
you can't fight the tide. At some point
the people and the democratization of power
overcomes tyranny. At least that's
what it seems like happens.
You guys ever see that Vox article advocating
for putting lithium in the water? What?
Yeah. No, I didn't. Let me see if I can
find it. You know what? You can mine lithium
from water using graphene filtration.
Did you know that?
You can mine lithium out of water.
Interesting.
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
That's big.
Yeah.
So this is from October 24th, 2018.
How our drinking water could help prevent suicide.
Oh, how could it?
How could that help?
Oh, my God.
Lithium is a potent psychiatric drug, one of the primary prescribed medications for bipolar disorder.
But it's also an element that occurs naturally all over Earth's crust, including in bodies of water.
That means that small quantities of lithium wind up in the tap water you consume every day.
Just how much is in the water varies quite a bit from place to place.
Naturally, that made researchers curious.
Are places with more lithium in the water healthier mentally?
Do places with more lithium have less depression or bipolar?
Or most importantly, of all, fewer suicides?
A 2014 review of studies concluded the answer was yes.
Four or five studies reviewed found that places with higher levels of trace lithium had lower suicide rates.
And Nasser Ghami, the Tufts psychiatric professor who co-authored that review, argues that the effects are large. High lithium areas, he says, have suicide rates 50 to 60%
lower than those of low lithium areas. Quote, in general, in the United States,
lithium levels are much higher in the Northeast and East Coast and very low in the Mountain West,
he told me in a new episode of the Vox podcast, Future Perfect, and suicide rates track that
exactly. Much lower suicide rates in the Northeast and the highest rates of suicide are in the
Mountain West. If you apply that 50 to 60 percent reduction to the U.S., where about 45,000 people
died by suicide in 2016, you get a total number of lives saved around 22,500 to 27,000 a year.
That's likely too high since you can't reduce suicide rates in places that are already high lithium gamey's own back of the envelope calculation said we save 50 15 000 to
25 000 well shameless ian if it saves one life then we have to do it that's how it works all in
yeah let's uh so i think what vox is saying is that if we put a psychoactive drug in our water
supply people will be happier um although if you go ahead and look at the Royal Society of Chemistry, they just released a
paper that says continuous electrical pumping membrane process for seawater lithium mining
will eventually be pulling the lithium out of the water and then utilizing it that way,
either for batteries or for feeling better.
You know what?
I was thinking a lot about this.
There's a meme going around where it's a guy who's at a psychiatrist's office and he says,
every day I wake up with existential dread and my life is meaningless and the doctor says best i can
do is give you pills that make you think everything's okay and i'm like that's dark man why
do people have no purpose like why do they feel that dread why don't i experience that you know
what i mean like is it because i'm healthy it's because you're so handsome part of it sure i do stuff you like has like it has like compounding effects like even in a few
weeks even if everything went to hell right now for you you'd still feel good in three weeks from
the last six months of activity let's talk about all of the left's arguments on this one first of
all vox is saying put drugs in the water i'm completely opposed to that they argue that one
of the things about institutional racism and generational
poverty, people from poor areas, they drink dirtier water. It affects their mental health.
They have less access to good schools, all of that stuff, right? Well, I'm a shining example
of all of those things. South side of Chicago, public school, low-income family, homelessness.
I did all right. I have passion.
I have drive. I don't wake up feeling dread. I wake up feeling
great. I wake up and I'm like, gee, I wonder
what's on the news. It's a little boring sometimes, like I mentioned before.
You read the news and you're like, oh, that again. But I'm always
interested in seeing news stories, UFOs,
whatever, talking about this
stuff. It's either that there's people that
are activated, like there's a.00001%
of the population
that's so able
that's just like able.
That's just like the evolution of a human that you're able to like break through all the crap or that there's a way to activate the human body and become that.
And for whatever reason, you seem to have mastered.
I'm chilling.
This reality.
We're all kind of chilling.
It was just funny.
Your description juxtaposed to Ian's.
You're like, I'm chilling.
But no, I mean, I guess that's a complicated question.
You have a lot to do.
You seem to be doing something that you really believe is improving the world
and that takes up a good amount of your time.
You're building something.
I think that's a huge part of life,
and it's a huge part of feeling happy with yourself.
Even before I did any of this,
I was not waking up experiencing existential dread.
Yeah, that's a really good question.
So let me ask you, did you have a goal that you were working towards at that time?
Before all this?
Not really.
Really?
So what were you doing every day?
I mean, literally right before Occupy Wall Street started, I was just skating and filming little skate videos.
And how long had you been doing that for?
I just started a few months before.
Before that, I was in California.
I was working at a homeless shelter and some nonprofits. And my apartment burned down and made everything kind of crazy. Oh, snap just started a few months before. Before that, I was in California. I was working at a homeless shelter and some nonprofits,
and my apartment burned down and made everything kind of crazy.
Oh, snap, man.
You were down by 6th Street?
Where?
Downtown LA?
Is that where you were a homeless shelter you were working at?
Which one were you at?
Oh, I can't talk about it.
Oh.
The plot thickens.
Well, I guess my point is, so I don't know your whole life story here,
despite being a fellow Illinois boy.
I'm not trying to talk about me.
I'm trying to talk about other people and what's missing from their lives oh sure that results in them needing
lithium in their drinking water to feel better i i think we've peaked as a society i think this is
it there's nothing to aspire to people don't want to have kids they don't want to have families this
means that they don't really have a good view of the future and you see this in all of our policies
we're never thinking about what's coming down the road. You watch Joe Biden putting all of these policies into effect.
He only cares about the next four years, eight years, maybe.
He's not even going to be around.
And I think he knows that.
And I think that there's just no look toward the future at all.
We look at people like Angela Merkel not having kids.
Macron doesn't have any kids.
Nobody cares about what's going to happen tomorrow.
I can't remember if it was on the after show or not,
but we had a conversation about
how a lot of these people don't have kids.
Last time, we got into a little bit with
Keynes saying,
in the long run, we'll all be dead, so who cares?
And he didn't have any kids and that kind of thing.
When you're asking the question about
why do we need lithium in the water, which again is
something I'm also completely against,
I think that's a very strange opinion to have
and also a very strange opinion to have and admit to having,
as this person felt called to do in this article they wrote.
But some of it just breaks down, and I hate to overly pathologize,
but some of it's just chemical.
I mean, there are some people who could experience all the things you've experienced
or the things I've experienced or any of us have
and react completely differently to them just based on their genetics. But I think a lot of it is the way you choose experienced or the things I've experienced or any of us have and react completely differently to them just based on their genetics.
But I think a lot of it is the way you choose to react to things.
I think kids, I think not having kids has been a big, big, big, big problem for millennials.
Yeah.
You know, there was a super chat where they were saying that in response, we did a story
about that valedictorian or whatever, where she was like, you know, pro-choice or whatever.
And then someone commented that your dreams don't disappear when you have kids in fact the moment they had the
kid it was like all of a sudden all they could think about was the future and what and the work
and the passion mistakes disappeared yeah it's almost like people have no purpose then they have
kids and realize they have a purpose they need the world to be a better place for their children
and all of a sudden now they're interested in doing things that matter. And a lot of young people don't have that. So they're extremely
nihilistic and self-interested. I think this might be a big difference between the left and the right.
I wonder if you could actually track this. Maybe we should commission a poll.
If you align culturally right or in the culture war, do you have children?
On the left, do you have children?
I'd be willing to bet, I could be wrong, that the left has a predisposition towards less kids
and the right has a predisposition towards more kids.
That's why leftist policy tends to be more gimme, gimme, gimme.
Right-wing policy tends to be more personal responsibility.
You've got to, you know, do hard work to succeed
because they want people to plant the tree whose shade they know they will never sit in.
The leftists are kind of like,
I don't want to pay my loans back.
That's one of the biggest issues for my left.
I took out $50,000.
I spent it.
You should pay for it.
That's not helping anybody in the future.
It's making things considerably worse.
Yeah, I mean, I would agree.
Now, to play devil's
advocate on that one, I think you can make an argument that part of the reason they don't have
kids is because they have these massive loans so they can't settle down and buy a home and get
married and do all the things you would do before having a family. Right, but why do you go to
college in the first place? I don't think the kind of person who's planning to have a bunch of kids
is going to be somebody who says, okay, let me just take on, you know, $80,000, $100,000 worth
of student loan. This won't affect my kids' future lives at all.
Well, I think a lot of people don't think about that when they're 18.
Oh, yeah, it's possible, too.
Yeah.
But that's also kind of a weird problem because historically, if someone wasn't ready to have
or take care of children by the time they were 18, people sort of assumed there was
something wrong with them.
I mean, let's look.
A hundred years ago, if an 18-year-old man was not capable of supporting a family, people
would assume that there was a problem with him.
Yeah, yeah.
And so people were thinking about these things at that age historically.
And, you know, why shouldn't they have been?
By the time you're 18, you are mature enough to have a family, despite what our modern society tells us.
Despite the fact that we want to continually extend adolescence, an 18-year-old is an adult.
Maybe Liz is right.
We peaked.
That's it.
No, I'm going to.
What do you mean by peaked?
Definitely not morally.
Well, yes, but Ian and I were talking about this the other night.
We were like, this is the nicest the world has ever been.
Materially, for sure.
Yes.
We have everything that we want.
You can literally order Uber Eats at 2 in the morning and get literally whatever you want from wherever it's open.
It's amazing.
It's insane.
No, it's insane.
And it's changed even from when I was a kid i mean i'm 26
years old but the the kind of comfort and entertainment i have access to now is completely
different from when i was a kid unparalleled like i remember a time in my life where there would be
a movie or a tv show that i wanted to watch and i just like wouldn't be able to and nowadays anyone
can watch whatever they want whenever they want they can order whatever kind of food they want unless they're just in the middle of nowhere and don't
have access to the things people generally have in society. I mean, we are so comfortable and
it's not doing us any favors. We didn't have debit cards when I was a kid. We had only checks.
You had to take a check to the bank and they'd give you money or you'd have to write a check
and they'd have to check what clear, take like a week to clear or whatever.
That helps because I'll buy and sell,
and my finances are probably magnitudes better than they would have been 30 years ago because I have my access to digital currency.
Do you remember those commercials when debit cards became a thing?
No.
And it was like the Visa check card comes out,
and it was like people were like dancing in line at the cafe
and just like swiping their card.
And then like a guy walks up and he's like fumbling with his wallet and they're like no no i i didn't realize like when i was a kid
didn't mean anything to me so i was like i don't know this by the time i was an adult i had a debit
card you use it for everything yeah i got one i was 14 yeah i think i think okay my thesis here
what i was gonna say is that everything is convenient and i don't think that the u.s can
recover and go forward until we give up some of
our desire for convenience 100 i think that's p i think it's pivotal i was about to combine those
two words and it's gonna be weird i'm glad i didn't um and i think that we're not ready to
give that up we want life to be easy we don't see how it's crippling us we don't see that it's
making us need things like lithium to even want to get out of bed in the morning that's's so sad. Yeah. Well, I think there's also a lot of truth in that people
constantly see comfort instead of doing the right thing or the things that will improve their life
because they've been accustomed to having anything they want at a time they want. So
at some point you do become depressed when that's the lifestyle that you've been living.
There's a point. So this is a point to borrow from someone else. Once again, actually, my dad,
he made this point a while ago when speaking to a group of people.
He asked them, like, do you think you had a better life than your parents did?
And basically everyone raised their hands.
And then he said, do you think you're a better person than your parents were?
And basically no one raised their hands.
So he said, well, maybe it's not such a bad thing that hard times are coming.
Maybe your kids are going to be better people than you.
That's what I'm saying.
I think that's right.
How about we go to Super Chat? If you have not already, smash that like button and go to TimCast.com.
Become a member.
I'm not entirely sure, but we may have a very, very dark and very serious bonus segment that you're not going to want to. Oh, yeah.
I'm scared.
Serious.
I don't even want to be a part of it.
I'm dangerous.
YouTube, Insta-ban content.
Oh, snap.
If I even mention right now what I'm going to talk about, YouTube would probably just
ban us instantly.
Before it even happened.
Spence it is.
I've tweeted about it, but I'm not going to say more than that because it's like an insta-ban.
It's insta-ban territory.
Oh, I know what it is.
Yeah, it's super creepy stuff.
Let me check out Tim.
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Okay. Dinoside 13 says, based Guatemalans, if we say that here in the U.S. in protest,
we get called insurrectionists
while commies burn cities down.
That's correct.
Yep.
Maxatrillion says,
Tim, you should fund your own American version
of Shonen Jump.
You could call it Beanie Boy Comics
or BBC for short.
Hey, yeah, the BBC.
That's fantastic.
That is fantastic.
They'll allow that.
Yeah, sure.
Let's see.
Hemrumdif says, you need to get Tom McDonald on one of these days.
It would be big.
No more snowflakes.
Yes.
Tom is like one of the biggest, most famous dudes ever.
Swapped.
And we are like a medium-sized podcast, so it is very difficult to pull in the big names.
But Tom's a cool dude.
He's always welcome.
He's got an open invite.
All right.
Caboose, a.k.a. Kyle, says, Illinois' boys, represented from Zion, Illinois, almost Wisconsin.
Hey, hey, what up?
Oh, yeah, baby.
You're still an Illinois' boy.
I don't care how close you are to Wisconsin.
That's right.
You're one of the Illinois' boys.
Jay Schwipper says, the $2.3 million in Bitcoin paid to the Colonial Pipeline hackers was seized by the U.S., according to CNBC and Reuters.
Yeah.
Interesting little update. Keep up the good work.
I wonder how they seized a Bitcoin address.
Intriguing.
Uh-huh. Do you hear that, Ian?
Yeah, I heard of it.
How did they seize a Bitcoin address?
I don't know. They took like 78 or 88% of the money that got paid to this Colonial.
I don't know.
How are they getting access to the... I mean, obviously, if you see an address online,
if you don't have the keys, how do you get it?
Maybe the hackers aren't storing their... aren't securing their computers very well and got hacked.
Wow.
I don't know.
Maybe.
I'm surprised they didn't just put it right to cold storage.
It's unlikely.
I mean, I guess it's possible for someone to be able to
hack a pipeline like that
and not have their own computers protected from hackers.
This hacking is really easy.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay.
They hire someone to make some garbage malware that does enough,
put it on a USB drive, and throw it in front of a building,
and then you're done.
Really?
Yeah, you don't even have to know how to do any code.
It's not hard.
Or send an email.
You can embed stuff in PDF files.
I don't know.
It's that easy.
That's insane.
Yep. All right. C. Hennesse. I don't know it's that easy. That's insane. Yep.
All right.
C. Hennessey says, Tim, look up Strongtown.
It's a project analysis on why cities and towns are failing.
Their biggest findings are how suburbia development doesn't pay a profitable or break-even return on investment.
Wow.
Really?
I've always thought about how there's no industry in suburbs.
There's, like, very little.
They move it all out of the way like jersey is new york's industry
rob from downtown says have you seen the crowder h3 beef h3 talked about you too what is what do
they say i actually listened to that today h3 had a very underwhelming take on following what the
cdc says they basically just said oh you know it's a bunch of doctors a bunch of scientists they know
what they're talking about don't worry about about anything. You just need to listen to
what they say. Crowder took issue with this.
He's like, we do all our research. We have like
150 sources. We do leftist
sources. We make sure that what we're talking
about is well-researched. And H3H3
really lives for the YouTube drama, and they
slap back at him. And I didn't hear that you came up,
so I'm really interested to see what happens.
I don't know about that. I've never even talked.
I don't even know much about H3 at all.
Yeah, I don't either.
I don't listen to them for a reason.
You like H3?
Ethan.
He's cool.
I watched some of their stuff a while ago
back when they were doing skits.
They used to be okay.
What's his wife?
Before they did the podcast.
What's her name?
Yeah, now it's just like a regular,
regular, regular dude's talking about stuff, I guess.
Is that what it is?
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, I've seen a little bit of the podcast
but I mostly used to watch him
when he was doing commentary.
I mean, there's a big difference
between like a comedic personality
who's not involved in politics, who forays into it,
versus a show that's dedicated to cultural politics and political news.
So maybe the real issue is if H3 exists for cultural,
mainstream pop stuff, then drama is really, really good for them.
I don't drag don't i don't
uh drag on a lot of the stuff too much like if something comes up and i comment on it i'll you
know try and move on as quickly as possible uh depending on the issues if they're cultural or
political like i tweeted uh an invite to andy no to come on the show simply because this actually
has serious ramifications for cultural and political issues but when it comes to like
talking about movies or whatever i'll make my tweet about a movie and then like I'm not going to keep talking.
I don't want to, you know.
But I think for like H3, that's what they are.
They're a pop culture, like mainstream show.
Very big, very successful.
And so, you know, that's what they do.
It's more like MTV-ish than say Crowder, which is, you know, Crowder is more daily show-ish.
For sure.
I don't know why they would bring me up.
Yeah, so I'm not sure either but what I kind of came away with was that um Crowder was
basically like please don't tell your audience not to do your own research like please don't
tell people to just blindly listen to one source or the other he's like that's not a good policy
for the people who believe in you and then Crowder was like I'm done you know I'm not going to debate
you on this this is we're done with this we're not really on an interview huh was he interviewing
Stephen or something no he was he was just kind of it was just like a back and forth between the
podcast yeah and and speaking of the comments i previously made well we have a a super chat here
matthew recamp says tim i saw your video criticizing andy no after you got attacked
and i've got to say i think the fact you had to go to third world countries to find a comparison
perfectly shows the point that you seemed to miss i don't think i missed it i will say however i think perhaps i shouldn't have
been so crude i think that's the mistake i made i stand by all of my opinions but when i heard
megan kelly read my tweet i was like yeah that was that was tactless that was like it was after
the show i was tired and i was like i found out that you know andy went on the ground and i was
like we're having a conversation about it with a lot of people.
And then I was just like, how dumb.
And then I tweeted.
And I'm like, probably should have been a bit more tactful than that.
But I stand by my opinions 100%. The right seems to be so invested in support of personality that they're cheering for – I'm speaking figuratively here.
People got mad when I said this, but a lot of people agreed.
A lot of people agreed.
Everybody thinks I'm the best.
Many people agreed. A lot of people agreed. Everybody thinks I'm the best. Many people agreed.
I said, the right is cheering for sending one of their generals down to confront frontline infantry and lose.
Andy Ngo is substantially more important than to be there in the middle of a crowd of random nobodies who will beat him to death.
Yes.
That's the problem I took with this.
Why take that risk?
And then, you know, it just became tribal.
So anyway, I digress. I don't want to, you know, it just became tribal, you know. So
anyway, I digress. I don't want to, you know, rehash it too much. But Andy's invited on the
show. I know he wanted to come on before, but when he went to London, we don't do remote shows. So I
just tweeted him like, bro, come on the show. We'll pay for it all. And we'll have a good
professional conversation because the big difference between cancel culture on the left
and whatever is on the right, though there are similarities I've certainly complained about.
I think I'm more than willing to invite anybody I disagree with to come on the show.
I'm willing to invite anybody I disagree with onto the show and have a conversation.
And I think most importantly, like, the thing we disagree on is, like,
.01% of the entire conversation.
So I think it's silly for everyone to, like, whatever.
What are you talking about, you and Andy?
Well, I criticized him, him like four or five times but it's a tactic that i criticize but to me it's
such a mark of respect that you were like you're a general in this war like you don't send your
best general down to the front lines like you care about what happens to him he's important
and meaningful like his work has been good but like most other frontline reporters they retire
at a certain point when they're recognizable.
Andy said on Megyn Kelly's
show, she asked him, she read my
tweet. That's when I was like, okay, that tweet was a little
crass. I should not have tweeted it that way.
That's fair. I own that one. That was a mistake.
I should have criticized it and done it in a better
way. That being said, she
asked him at what point is
enough enough. You're very famous.
Andy said that basically Tim is sitting there in in luxury or I forgot which word he said.
But without Andy on the ground, we wouldn't know about a lot of these things.
And I'm like, that's actually my point.
If Andy sacrifices himself by going into the fray and no one else is covering Antifa extensively and knows who these people are, we lose all of that coverage you don't need to send a general into antifa to get the news
not this general this time there are time and a place where general like julius caesar fought on
the front line with his men the entire time but not by himself no he had a group right
right so that would be like if andy went to an event and spoke to a large crowd yeah that would
be like but just like it was a local protest in Portland.
It wasn't a major political event.
Caesar didn't go undercover in enemy camps.
Yeah.
He sent other soldiers to do that.
Yeah, I think it was a bad move.
And it's interesting that people are like, I'm seeing a lot of tweets at me where they're saying, oh, look, I remember Tim went to no-go zones.
And I'm like, yeah, I didn't go back.
Like, I went to Sweden once.
They weren't looking for me. They didn't know my name. They weren't trying to kill me. I went to no-go zones. And I'm like, yeah, I didn't go back. Like, I went to Sweden once. They weren't looking for me.
They didn't know my name.
They weren't trying to kill me.
I went to Thailand.
After I go to these places, I can't return to them.
In fact, like, I can't even go to China at this point because of the things I've said.
So you wouldn't send Ai Weiwei into China to go and report.
He is a prominent activist critical of China.
I think he is, right, Ai Weiwei?
Yeah. You wouldn't send these people into certain areas. He is a prominent activist critical of China. I think he is, right? Ai Weiwei.
You wouldn't send these people into certain areas.
You'd have to find a different journalist because if the goal is to maximize your output and to be successful, you can't send the best of the best into the highest level of danger.
If Andy stops doing the work he's doing, then Andy is correct.
How would we know what was going on if he puts himself at risk that way?
If Biden was like, I'm going on this next one with the SEAL team.
With the SEAL team, bro.
People would be like, oh my gosh. Leading from the front.
You've got to do that cartoon.
No, in some circumstances.
I love it.
Go on, man.
But anyway, look, look, look.
I think the point has been beaten to death, so there's no reason to constantly.
It is a very important conversation.
That's why I hope he comes on the show soon to talk about the value of doing it on the ground by yourself
and then getting popular and having to recanoiter or recalibrate your function, the way you approach the situation.
I went to Venezuela
and I got accused of being a spy
and was forced to flee the country.
Vice wanted me to stay.
They wanted me to stay
to embrace the controversy
because it would have been huge news
internationally that American journalists
was forced to flee
or if I remained,
I probably would have been arrested
and then it would have been huge for Vice
where the State Department would get involved
and I'm like, I'm leaving.
No, but I even would have been arrested. And then it would have been huge for vice where the state department would get involved. And I'm like, I'm leaving. Like I know, but like,
you know, I even had conversations with family. They were like, you realize if you get arrested and spend a year in a Venezuelan prison, you will be the biggest personality once you got out.
That's why they're telling you to do it. And I'm like, that's not what my goal is.
My goal is not to, to be a symbol or a martyr or to make money for anybody.
I wanted to come here and interview people and see what was going on.
I'm going to leave.
So the point of that super chat was that I had to go to third world countries.
Yeah, I went to a lot of different countries, a lot of really dangerous countries,
and there's a limit to what I can do to be effective.
At a certain point, you become so famous,
you actually aren't able to get information out without impacting the circumstance yourself.
So if you're interested in winning a tribal battle,
then, I mean, this has been fantastic. News breaks, Andy Ngo was attacked. If you're interested in
winning on principles, you need to make sure you're getting out sound and good information.
But that being said, look, I respect Andy tremendously. I've known him for a long time,
interviewed him on this channel way, way long time ago when I was up in Portland.
And I completely agree that what he's doing is so important.
That's why I'm mad that he went down there on his own.
Like, I wasn't coming.
I wasn't doing what the left was doing in a kismet of being, you know, a grifter who's just trying to make money.
I was saying, like, you're going to get yourself hurt.
You don't have security.
Right.
So I'll say two more things on this.
I don't want to keep hashing it out. Like, I'd love to have this conversation with Andy here. Many conservatives,
when the news came out that it was potentially Andy and we didn't know, a handful of conservatives
and people on the right expressed to me privately how upset they would be if they found out Andy
actually did that. When the news broke, silence. Why? They're scared to speak out against him for, you know, look what's happened. You know, people are thumbs downing my
video. They're insulting me on Twitter. They're telling me I'm wrong. They're basically saying
like, oh, yeah, I'm not going to follow you anymore and all that stuff. I'm not. OK, fine.
People are saying Tim's a grifter who is just trying to get views. And I'm like, if that were
the case, I wouldn't have criticized him. Why would I do that? But there are a lot of conservatives
who I've spoken to who will not speak out. And I'm like, that is the exact same problem the left has.
They won't speak out against what they think is wrong because they're scared.
I'm not.
But I will mention that.
I will also mention there's a lot of journalists that we have that we know that do on the ground
work and do report on Antifa.
And many have expressed privately that they're going to be moving on or they're planning
their big move from field reporting once they become too famous some of these people used to
be on the ground all the time and have now launched podcasts because they are much too famous
and you become a target and makes you ineffective so there we go all right wraith customs firearm
says tim let everyone know the atf is trying to make millions of us felons overnight again with new regs on braces to make them NFA.
Tweeted with how to comment on ATF 2021R-08 to stop them because you have reach.
Shout out to WraithCustomsFirearms.com.
So I hope you guys have something on your website that could help.
I can direct them to WraithCustomsFirearms.com.
And definitely,
we need to get rid of these, these ridiculous broken gun control laws. They clearly haven't worked. No matter how many times they ban guns, they still complain every day there's gun violence.
Clearly what they're doing isn't working. At a certain point, you need to say, hey,
all those things you got over the past 80 years didn't work. Maybe we should stop.
No, but if it's broken, keep doing it, I suppose.
Samuel Eddy says, I say we solve this immigration issue once and for all by reactivating the doctrine of manifest destiny.
You can't enter the U.S. illegally from the southern border if it's all American soil.
Heck yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
Yes, conquest.
Let's go.
All right.
Spenic Game says, Dear fellow apes, help another gorilla rocket moon by backing my board game
Cinder Shy around Kickstarter.
Apes strong together.
I bought more AMC.
Nice.
I saw your tweet about that.
Yeah, I was like,
I had lettuce hands the other day.
I was like, I saw it.
I was like, I woke up and I was like,
meh, this is fun.
Go the distance.
No, but you know,
what's coming out?
There's Black Widow's coming out.
The movie.
Yeah, and there's a couple other movies
and I was like,
I kind of want to have some movie stuff because these are big.
I think this will be good for their earnings.
I don't know.
I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on any of this stuff.
Not giving anyone financial advice.
But I actually really like the idea of movie theaters.
Yeah, and with COVID kind of ending, movie theaters will be opening back up.
It's like the only thing I really like going out to do.
Yeah, it's fun.
What are we going to go eat?
Honestly, yeah, I hear you.
I always tell people, what do we do? We put we put food in our mouths hey we want to go out
what we're gonna imbibe something go to the i want to put something in my eyes yeah yeah something
different exactly go to the theater sit there and put in my eyes and ears uh shout out to cindershire
the game on uh kickstarter there you go oh here we go mike g says tim saw that you fomoed back
into amc now that you'reOMOed back into AMC.
Now that you're an ape again, you must change your Twitter profile pic to a green laser
eyes according to ancient ape laws.
The prophecy must be fulfilled.
Apes are green laser eyes, yeah.
I didn't FOMO.
I'm not confident in a lot of what people are saying.
It's not fear of missing out.
I was just kind of like, I like the stock.
So it was going up.
You sold. Did it go up more and you bought or did it go back like, I like the stock. So it was going up. You sold.
Did it go up more and you bought?
Or did it go back down and you bought?
Same.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I cashed out some of the profits.
I don't have as much as I did before.
But I'm looking at all these different stocks.
And I've got some ammo companies.
I've got a graphene company.
Definitely got a graphene company.
And it's performed well.
Yeah.
And then I was like, I don't even know what to get.
So I was like, AMC is like, I shouldn't have even sold it because I do like it.
And a lot of people try to justify why it's not good.
And I'm like, dude, your theories about why the stock should go up or down are irrelevant to me.
People are saying it's not worth it because they don't make money.
I'm like, people like it, though.
So it seems good to me.
I like movies.
Yeah, I bought it.
There you go.
Here we go.
Oh, this is interesting. Apparently, I bought it. There you go. Here we go. Oh, this is interesting.
Apparently, Ian is correct.
Armchair Engineering says the restaurant chain was originally named Buffalo Wild Wings and
WEC.
There it is.
The original BW3 restaurant was on High Street in Columbus.
Ian, allow me to formally apologize for making fun of you.
You were correct the entire time.
It is welcome, Seamus.
It is welcome.
Hey, if you like that, definitely check out Quaker Steak and Lube if you live in Ohio
or Pennsylvania. It's on the border, and it is one of the best wing places in the world. It's so interesting to, if you like that, definitely check out Quaker Steak and Lube if you live in Ohio or Pennsylvania.
It's on the border, and it is one of the best wing places in the world.
It's so interesting to me.
I hope they're still open.
Check it out.
James Ramirez says, my wife and daughter are not American citizens.
I have been overseas for over nine years.
I was waiting for Trump.
Now I'm waiting for Biden.
My family is on my orders over a year.
I signed for this, but it's my family.
Where is the government for help?
Yeah. Oh, man. The B-dubs family. Where is the government for help? Yeah.
Oh man, the B-dubs thing. People
are mad at us. You are right,
Ian. No. B-dubs.
I never thought the thing I'd have to publicly apologize
for was getting B-dubs wrong.
This super chat, Tim and Seamus are the stupidest.
I'm just kidding. The Neo Enigma
says, y'all are killing me. B-dubs was originally
called Buffalo Wild Wings and Weck, founded
in Ohio. B-W-3s, for short, changed it to its current name in 1998.
Aha.
Look at us.
That was my 21st birthday.
Really?
The fool was I.
Kent, Ohio.
Ian, you need to be more confident.
All right.
Ian, honestly.
Let's go, guys.
This should be IanCastIRL.
I'm taking you there.
Don't say that.
Barbara Albright says, hey, Tim, I completely agree with you on Andy Ngo.
Also, if you are still hiring writers, I would love tobright says, hey, Tim, I completely agree with you on Andy Ngo.
Also, if you are still hiring writers, I would love to join your crew.
Which email do I go to again?
Jobs at TimCast.com.
Yeah, so we've got one.
We may have already found one person so far who's going to, like, oversee a lot of it.
We need a field reporter.
Yeah, we need our own riot crew.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, for people to go out and go undercover
and do investigative reporting.
Man, I'd love to have like 12 people
just like infiltrating all these
different Antifa groups.
Maybe we ought to do.
Maybe we've been working on something. Because I'm sick of Tim sending
me. You've been so
good at it, though. I know. Honestly, I blend in
with them really well. Lots of undercover stuff
we're looking forward to doing,
but probably not the same kind of stuff that O'Keefe does.
Ours is going to be more like reporting on the ground,
and what we're going to end up doing is having a lot of freelancers.
That's one way you get around recognizability, I suppose,
or notoriety of your reporter.
They get too well-known.
Well, you use a group of different people.
You get some legit conflict reporters to film,
and then you take the footage back.
You take their report, and then, you know,
we're going to do stuff like that.
So it's all coming soon.
All right.
Preston Tem says,
Watched your video on China-US Pacific escalation,
and my immediate reaction was sick.
Now we get to play Battlefield 4 IRL in a few months.
BF4 setting is cn slash ru
versus u.s war starting in late 2020 well then oh boy it's not a video game i know you're just
joking phil says what ian expressed about what happened to rome by immigration has happened here
many areas of the country are now just colonies of foreign countries i was thinking it's happening
so slow because we're in it you know i mean you made this point a few times tim that like things happen over decades like the american revolution
is like a 20-year process but we just read about a history book like it just happened one one day
and we're in the middle of this crazy and i'm wondering if that thing is happening here right
now um i haven't seen like a military military takeover city but you see the autonomous zones
yeah juan rhoda says i'm daca i know what my parents
did was wrong but i was four when i came here i've been in this country for 22 years i just
want the opportunity do it right i love this country uh i'm in favor of daca i'm in favor of
the people who are brought here as children through you know like not realizing what's going
on and now they're here and it's like all of a sudden you realize you can't be a citizen i'm i
think that's a problem i think we should provide some kind of path to citizenship, probably, you know, I don't know, something.
However, it has to come with a hard stop.
It has to come with like a we do this now, we never do it again.
The problem is I think that's where we're already at.
We're already at the point where we're like, okay, we'll naturalize these people who are not citizens, but we'll never do it again.
And then they do it again and they do it again and they do it again.
It's tough. naturalize these people who are not citizens, but we'll never do it again. And then they do it again, and they do it again, and they do it again.
It's tough.
I've been hearing stories since I was like six in the 80s where people come over and have their baby in the United States
just so the kid was a citizen.
And then the mom would leave,
or the kid would be a citizen.
Only Tim says,
Hey, Tim Seamus,
love you guys' work.
I'm 20 and from Idaho.
I've been watching you guys since about 2016.
I keep trying to explain to my friends
about how the left is breaking the system and can be racist but they refuse to listen any advice i always ask
them this do you agree with dr king's dream jamis do you can you can you ask the question again do
you agree with martin luther king jr's dream uh yes i would say so i do lydia i do i do ask them
that that one day his four little children will be judged by the content of the character and not the color of their skin.
I love that quote.
And when they say yes, invariably, ask them how that dream is being served by policies that are based on race.
Yep.
If they want affirmative action, how does that serve Dr. King's dream?
Just asking that.
Does that serve Dr. King's dream?
Part of me wonders if they're just going to drop him altogether soon.
Oh, they've already been trying to.
They've been arguing.
Yeah, so a lot of leftists have been arguing that he was pushing white supremacy and colorblindness.
Oh, my goodness.
I mentioned this.
During the riots in Ferguson and in Baltimore, there were people saying that they were black activists,
black lives matter, saying segregation, the end of segregation was bad for them
because it forced them into the white man system, which they were below, because they didn't have the same level of resources. They were black activists. Black Lives Matter saying segregation, the end of segregation was bad for them because
it forced them into the white man system, which they were below because they didn't
have the same level of resources.
And that when they were separate, they had their own family system.
They had their own churches.
They had their own businesses.
They had their own Wall Street.
So there's a lot of people.
And that's one of the reasons they push this stuff.
Yeah, I don't know what you do about it.
Sporkwitch says, never forget forget quantity has a quality all its own
it was russia's strategy in the cold war cheap but plentiful it is china's strategy as well
it is the communist strategy because the individual doesn't matter to them which reminds
me about this um i think it's i think it's called as a pa-63 it's a i think it's hungarian it's a
soviet era uh rifle it's chambered in uh nine Makarov. And nobody ever wants to use it at the range because it hurts
to shoot. It bites
between your thumb. It hurts.
And so nobody
wants to use it. I tried wearing a glove.
Still hurts.
And so, you know, the modern weapons
we use, you know, the Beretta, the Glock, or whatever,
they're comfortable. And I was like,
you think about it. Soviet Union.
They were like, I don't care if it hurts you.
Does it work? Alright, then make it.
Mass produce it. Cheap. Garbage.
Hurts. Painful. Whatever.
Grin and bear it.
I don't care if it hurts you.
We have to get them done quickly.
That's right.
Wow.
Look at this.
Ben D says, Tim, don't look at the Air Force.
Look at the Navy force look at the navy
75 of our deployed nimitz class aircraft carriers are in striking distance to china
hundreds of ships have moved into the area of the last year
y'all ready for this i gotta keep them somewhere it's gonna get hot that's right ian i like the
optimism you know what just bothers me where they wanted this yet it's the to get hot. That's right, Ian. I like the optimism. You know what just bothers me?
It's the idea of a war on two fronts.
And I know that Afghanistan is, I mean, Russia, the wild card is Russia.
How did the Russian government, how did Vladimir Putin and his buddies think about this?
Do they want to support China and Chinese interests?
Do they want to support the United States and curb Chinese militant authoritarianism because they're right there on the border.
Yeah, I don't know.
Well, here we go.
Check this out.
The one true mad girl says if Taiwan falls,
the Chinese will claim the South Japanese islands, Korea, and the Straits of Malacca
because why would we stop them then?
They'll control 25% of goods transported globally and 90% of crude oil.
Alistair Vucin says Taiwan is more of a country than john cena is an actor americans need to toughen up fast because everyone
knows the storm is coming maybe we need it so that we can strain we can straighten out strain out
un-american ideologues oh man you do not want war dude no or witch hunt on other americans
richard cook says haha if you are depending on californians to repel the chinese Oh, man, you do not want war, dude. No. Or witch hunt on other Americans.
Richard Cook says, ha ha, if you are depending on Californians to repel the Chinese, you are more screwed than I thought.
China won't invade.
They already own the U.S.
And FYI, China would invade through South America or Central America, not the West Coast, and then they'd come up over the land.
I think they would do a series of strategic cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. Maybe they would start
with our oil production, so
that way it would cause economic catastrophe,
would reduce our ability to produce and move resources.
They'd probably then start going after food
to create shortages, which would then cause
panic, because when food prices get too
high, people protest and riot.
I don't think they want a war. I just don't think they want a war.
Maybe economic destabilization, but
no war. I don't think anybody wants that right now even at lockheed doesn't want a total war i
agree with you do you think though at a certain point china does things where we're forced to go
to war like we can't just let them keep doing it kind of that encroachment on territory thing is a
tough one like like the nazis took czechoslovakia they took poland and you had at some point it was
just like what are they going to take next and so so it was like, we had no choice, right?
What do you think the Chinese are telling themselves right now?
The Americans are militant
imperialisms. Who are seizing more
countries, moving more troops into Syria.
If we don't stop them, what do we do? They're surrounding us
with their aircraft carriers. That's right.
We're under siege.
They're probably looking, this is
what people don't realize about war, so here's the way I describe
it to people. Imagine you're in the middle of the woods you've got you're in the
middle of nowhere you have no idea where you are you have a gun you've got a small bag of food and
a little bit of water you're running out you don't know where your next meal will be finally as you're
walking off in the distance you see somebody who looks different but they have they have a rifle
as well they have appears they have it appears a small bag of food and some water.
What do you do?
You both just spot each other a couple hundred yards off.
What do you do?
Signal.
Signal how?
Raise my hand in the air.
What does that do?
If I see them go for their gun, I'm going to duck for cover.
And then you raise your hand, and the moment your hand goes up,
they reach for their gun.
They put their hand on their gun.
I think I would get down and then yell out, call out to them.
If they don't speak English, now we're in trouble.
And they yell back, Kabbalah, blah, babo.
Yeah.
So this is the challenge, right?
A lot of people like to say things like, oh, I would just go and meet them and say hello.
How do you know they're hostile?
How do you know they won't be like, I can't afford to two people you're not going to help me i'm taking your stuff dude did
you guys ever watch the walking dead that was my problem with rick grimes the main character of the
walking dead he had this shoot first policy spoiler alert and like i kept wanting him to
like create a community and like lead community but all he wanted he was so afraid that they were
everyone's gonna be hostile how long did you watch for about three seasons four seasons oh
dude i'm such a sucker i watched way dude i watched it for like nine seasons and maybe two of them were good once the
governor shows i feel like a jump it lost the plot after the governor yeah all right we got uh this
chat here connor o'brien says tim you finally mentioned a job that my experience is relevant to
please check out the resume that i've emailed a few times along with copious updates on my firm
crt stuff help me help you.
Yeah, do you want to write down that name, Connor O'Brien?
We'll take a look. It's a good Irish name.
I like the Irish infiltration of
Tim Kastudios.
The Irish infiltration. I'm Irish.
I know, but it could have been
the British infiltration. I know you
said you're at war with yourself constantly.
Irish and the British half, and I'm glad to see one side is winning.
That's all.
Puka says, thank you thank you tim for separating trump supporters from these weak and spineless republicans it's so annoying when we get lumped in with them keep
up the good work absolutely i also don't like it that the left gets lumped in with liberals because
they are so different i can agree with leftists on gun control they're like carl mark says you
know under no pretext and I'm like I will accept
That argument in so far as allows me to stay armed
I don't agree with you on the rest of it
Bro you are supporting the right thing for the wrong reason
But it's the right thing
If it means I get to keep my guns
But yeah Trump supporters
Were the insurgents that came in
And told the Republicans shove off
And the Republicans hated it
Oh man
Alright let's see We'll try and raise money as we can and told the Republicans shove off and the Republicans hated it. Oh, man.
All right.
Let's see.
We'll try and raise as many as we can,
but we got to...
All right.
Yep.
More people mentioning
Ian was right.
Kevin White says
it was BW3's
Buffalo Wild Wings
began in the Midwest
as Buffalo Wild Wings
and WEC.
Great restaurant.
I'm tired of being shamed
for getting this wrong.
Shameless.
I still don't know.
I'll look into it.
Tim and I are just getting grilled.
Nicodemus says,
You know that feeling you get when you're about to jump off the high board into a pool?
That pit in your stomach?
As military, I'm getting that feeling.
I'm trained and ready for war, but man, I pray it never happens.
I'm praying that same prayer, brother.
I was talking about this earlier.
The U.S. military wouldn't draft anybody if a war broke out.
They'd probably just go to young people and say,
we will cancel all of your student loan debt for two years' service.
And they're going to be like, wow.
They're going to say, we'll pay you $20,000 a year or $15,000 a year for two years,
plus all your debt's wiped out.
You know what that means?
Look, you're not
going to be spending that money right so you're going to get out with like 20 grand and you're
going to be able to do whatever you want and then they're going to be like dude awesome and they're
going to like sign the paperwork it's going to say like mos like you know combat infantry or
something and you know you used to go to college to avoid the military well and now people go into
the military to avoid student loans they want that gi GI Bill. Yeah, I figured out what WEC is.
Buffalo Wild Wings and WEC.
Beef on WEC is a popular sandwich in New York consisting of roast beef on Oju-soaked kummelweck roll.
Wow, look at this.
Sounds good.
Jurassic Josh says, the video game channels I follow will not criticize China.
They talk about how Winnie the Pooh references are banned in China but won't say why.
What do you say about this?
That's why we're in trouble, man, because the Chinese communist money is just too good.
I know it's kind of paradoxical, isn't it?
But they have exploited us to the degree where major institutions and businesses are just like,
I don't want to offend China because they pay my bills.
There is a quote which is falsely attributed to Lenin, though it is relevant nonetheless.
The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.
That is the perfect description of the situation with China right now.
Rex Carsalot says,
Sorry to break the news, Tim, but Buffalo Wild Wings is anti-2A.
I've heard they lobby for anti-2A,
but haven't been able to find any article sources for that, though.
How do you feel about that, Ian?
They kick off-duty cops out, too.
Well, that's got to be proven,
because that's a very serious allegation against a very delicious restaurant.
We have our resident Buffalo Wild Wings expert right here. Well, that's got to be proven because that's a very serious allegation. It's a very delicious restaurant. We have our resident
Buffalo Wild Wings expert right here. Well, speaking
of Wild Wings, I have
no idea. Let me just point something out,
right? You can go get a big old
greasy burger and you can get it from B-Dubs
with french fries and salt.
Or you can get some nice
wings with some barbecue
sauce and carrots on the side.
They do give you carrots.
Sometimes celery sticks.
That's right.
Either or.
Now, what's healthier?
French fries or carrots and celery?
Carrots and celery.
Absolutely.
That's why you go to B-Dubs, you get a nice chicken meal with vegetables.
I heard 50 different types of vegetables in a week.
Those are the people with the healthiest biomes in the world.
Interesting.
I can see it. That's including including seasonings, herbs, coffee.
GG Player says,
Wow, is Seamus going to be the new Luke?
Luke's coming back.
Yeah, that's right.
He's going to kick me out.
Luke's going to pick me up and throw me out of this chair.
Oh, maybe we'll just have...
We are actually upgrading the studio.
We've just been waiting for this computer
because of the shortages.
We're going to be moving the location of the studio same building but uh different area we are um trying to get a completely
different setup and it's going to require probably like a full studio build which means the cameras
will probably mount in you know we're gonna do it right i don't think anybody knows what this room
looks like it's like really just tell them yeah yeah you'll kill the mystery of it. It's like 25,000 square feet.
It's huge.
It's one of the most amazing rooms
I've ever been in, quite frankly.
Yes, it's, yeah.
I'm up here and you're down there.
It's true, yeah.
You're down there.
Like different levels.
Yeah, people don't realize.
Like Ian's actually not even
in the same room as us.
He's completely different.
Seamus is outside.
That's where I have to stay.
That's true.
He's doing video today.
But yeah, no, I am not here permanently.
I'm visiting for a little while because I love these people.
We're trying some things out.
Well, the goal is I think we want like maybe even like eight possible seats or more.
So we can have total just like battle royale, people yelling over each other.
That'll be fun to switch for.
Yeah.
It's going to be cool to get a bunch of on-the-ground reporters in at one time, like Andy and who else?
Elijah Schaefer.
I mean, we've had the Riot Squad here all at the same time.
That was really fun.
Stuff like that's awesome.
All right.
Jamie Arzola says, since we're playing resume hookups, will you please give my fifth or
sixth entry a look?
Yeah.
Can you write down that?
Jamie Arzola?
Can do.
All right.
Let's see.
We'll do a couple more here.
How do I spell that uh a r z o l a perfect i was right all right justin mick gillivary says
go read war is a racket by major general smedley d butler it's 25 pages the audiobook is 45 minutes
the book tells how there were 21 000 new millionaires
made between 1914 and 1918 and some of the core sold for both sides interesting creepy man
all right rob santana says tim what do you make of trump saying btc is a scam because it undermines
the dollar isn't that the point decentralization donald trump gave bitcoin probably one of the
best endorsements,
in my opinion.
And I'm a big proponent of Bitcoin,
so I own a fair amount.
He said, you know,
it competes with the dollar
and we want the dollar
to be the currency around the world.
And I was like, wow,
what did Trump just say?
Bitcoin is hard competition
for the U.S. dollar
and is undermining its position
as the global currency.
Now, that's the best endorsement
I've heard for Bitcoin.
Because, like, even if it never overtakes the dollar, you just straight up said it is on equal footing after 10 years?
Woo!
So I bought more Bitcoin when Trump said that.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's like, and so it's like there's a dip right now.
And I'm like, you know, I got to be honest.
I don't care.
It could go down to a dollar.
I would just buy as much as I could.
Oh, my gosh, yeah. Yep. Yeah, and other currencies, too, you know. Oh, yeah, it don't care. It could go down to a dollar. I would just buy as much as I could. Oh my gosh. Yeah.
Yep. Yeah. And other currencies too, you know.
Oh yeah. It did dip hard. It's down to 33 now.
Yep. That's an opportunity in my opinion. I'm not telling anybody what to do.
Not financial advice.
No, I bought some though. All right, my friends, if you haven't already smashed that like button,
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The reason we're adamant
or I shouldn't say adamant, but the reason we're like, we're going to do a
Facebook is that
it's just where a lot of people are and we're hoping that
a lot more shares will drive people to the website
TimCast.com because we're launching a
newsroom very, very soon. I think our
timeline is supposed to be like a week or two. I i said that last time like we're getting a new website
it was like a month after i said it was supposed to come out but uh one of the issues is going to
hold us back is we got to definitely hire these reporters and they've got to be here in time for
the launch that we have the newsroom up and running otherwise it'll be like a very limited
aggregator for the time being but uh it's it's all thanks to your membership and i'll just i'll
stress when we launched timcast.com we did not expect this many people to sign up so quickly.
And all of a sudden, I was like staring at a bank account where I'm like,
I think we're going to start a newsroom and like hire like crazy and build a crazy website
and like take this, you know, we've got the opportunity to do so.
We don't need investors anymore.
So people are invested and I'm like, let's make it happen.
It's tough though, man.
My brain is like on fire, you know, working every day.
I think there's a lot of people who don't understand YouTube is not the end-all, be-all.
There's a lot of YouTubers who dedicate all their time and energy to YouTube.
That's a mistake I made very early on.
Should have started a website a year ago, or a year and a half ago.
So I was just like, YouTube, YouTube views, subscribers, YouTube, YouTube, YouTube.
And I'm like, that was a big mistake.
So like a subscription model?
No, it's like a company that's bigger, that's better.
But you would have worked the subscription website a year ago going back?
Not necessarily.
I'm just saying like not focusing everything on YouTube.
YouTube is not the end-all, be-all, and too many people are.
It used to bother me when people were like, I'm a YouTuber.
Because in 2006, 2007, I'm like, no, you're an internet video maker.
You're using YouTube as your platform right now, but it's the video that's the power.
It doesn't matter what site
James O'Keefe was kicked off Twitter
and he's still putting out videos that are getting massive
play and getting millions of views because
like he says, James says, content is king
but anyway
so subscribe and go to TimCast.com
and just right now it's basically
like an aggregator for all of my content
and the TimCast style clips and the vlog clips.
And then we've got the members only section.
But coming soon, we're going to have we're going to be commissioning op eds from other writers.
We're going to be having like a literal news editor who's going to be, you know, we're going to have articles, op eds, opinions, analysis.
It's going to be your lovable centrist milk toast outlet.
And we're going to take fact checking very seriously and so we're looking we're looking to hire a hardcore newsroom journalist whose job is going to be to do fact checking and investigation
and they're going to be writing most of the day we're looking to commission people to go on the
ground and do field reporting we're looking for a dedicated fact checker who's going to be in a
different building who will then look over the pieces and do independent fact checking so it'll
be double fact checked from a fact checker fact checking the news and then independent fact-checking. So it'll be double fact-checked from a fact-checker, fact-checking the news, and then getting fact-checked themselves. And then we're going
to have mini-docs, short films, all that stuff. And we're looking to also have freelance writers
from across the country writing different stories and taking submissions. So we'll have a news
editor for that. So a lot of jobs we've got to hire for, we've got to hire for now. And all of
those jobs will be in the building. So you will have to be in the eastern West Virginia, Maryland area, just so you know.
But feel free to submit.
And, yeah, so, Seamus, I hear you got a YouTube channel.
I do, yeah.
YouTube.com slash Freedom Tunes.
Just check my channel out.
You can just Google Freedom Tunes.
And we're at 643,000. It would be awesome to get up to 650 000 if you guys want to
go over there and subscribe we're also uh planning on releasing a video tomorrow and then another
video thursday i'm really excited the one that we have slated for tomorrow is one which tim and i
voiced yesterday or no last week i think friday and we were crying laughing. I heard you guys through the floor. Yeah, did you?
Yeah. Yeah, so Ian can verify.
We were crying laughing. YouTube.com
slash Freedom Tunes. Seamus,
do you have a merch site? I also have
FreedomTunesMerch.com if you want to check that out.
Yeah, Freedom Tunes Merch. Just go there,
buy a t-shirt. Tomorrow. If you would like.
Tomorrow. It's not financial advice.
Can we announce what you're putting out tomorrow?
Or no, keep it a secret.
Can I just say that I'm too late? I said it.
I'm in it. No, yeah, I said so.
Yeah, we were recording. Tim is in it.
It was one of the funniest
half an hour VO sessions.
We were so hard to record because we were laughing so much.
We were crying. And then we like improv'd
an idea for a completely different video
afterwards. So we're going to have...
That's the best stuff. Yeah, exactly. So we're going to have... That's the best stop. Yeah, exactly.
So we're going to have another video we've collaborated on. Can I give them a hint?
Yes, of course.
Droplets.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, I'm so pumped.
Yeah, so go over to Freedom Tunes and subscribe, please.
You guys can also follow me at IanCrossland.net.
I want to give a shout-out to whoever sent me this cool ring.
Oh, cool.
People send me books and little gems at the Theo box from time to time, so keep it up.
Is that blinking?
Ian, that has a GPS tracker in it.
This is the Infinity Gem.
Oh, they tracked me?
It has a GPS tracker in it.
Someone gave Ian the Infinity Ring.
Yeah, and now I have ultimate power.
Well, I had ultimate power.
He's going to snap and everything's graphene.
No, he's going to...
We got graphene over here.
The graphene is within you.
People become graphene. They're like, he's... We got graphene over here. The graphene is within you. I will become graphene.
They're like, what's happened to me?
Special shout out to Cast Castle, the newest addition to the TimCast media network, because
last week I made some bread, made some cricket bread.
It's actually up now at youtube.com slash Cast Castle, the newest episode.
And you can see I accidentally used avocado oil when I think I meant to use olive oil.
And I was using half cup of the half cup of flour,
not a full cup.
People were like, he's using too much flour.
It was half a cup of flour.
But if you want to see how that's done,
done by eyeball, go check it out.
Yeah, he's actually quite good at baking bread.
He's been working on it since we were in New Jersey.
He's quite talented.
I do want to say before I go
that I do have a very positive spin on all this nonsense
and what Seamus was talking about,
how hard times are in fact going to create strong men.
I think that if you're planning on having kids in the near future,
you should be preparing them for the future.
It's a little bit like when you get to the top of the roller coaster
and you know the drop is coming
and you just got to kind of grit your teeth
because there's nothing you can do about it.
You bought the ticket.
You're on the ride.
And your kids are going to be strong people.
You better make them into good ones.
Anyway, you can follow me at Sour Patch Lids on Twitter if you'd like to.
For more nuggets like that.
That's right.
We'll be tweeting those out.
Good stuff.
We are going to have a bonus segment which would get us banned from YouTube instantly
if I even mention what we're going to be talking about.
I'm not even kidding.
It's seriously dark stuff.
I don't even know what it is yet.
But it's affecting our society in a very
awful way. And so we'll bring it up
and go to TimCast.com
become a member and we'll see you all there.
Bye guys.